Belated Mother's Day

So, we all know how puntcually challenged I am when it comes to Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holiday's etc...I'm alway full of good intentions but somehow time always seems to have the upper hand with me and I'm continually playing "catch up"...so a belated "Happy Mother's Day" to all the Mom's out there in Bloggerland. I have a journal of quotes, letters, scripture, poetry and the like that I have kept for about 20 years and every now and then I get it out and glance through it. I had it out a couple of weeks ago and found this poem written by my great-great Grandmother, Mary Turpin Bennion. She wrote it in honor of her mother Elizabeth when Elizabeth passed away. She titled it:

"In Memory of My Mother Died" December 22, 1863.

Dear Mother thou art dear to me

Though thou art gone to rest

And thy advice so good and true

Is a comfort in my breast.

Dear Mother when I think on thee

And words thou hast said

I feel that they are good and true

and blessings on my head.

And when I look on this dark world

And think it a trouble here to dwell,

I know thy gentle voice would say

"Do right and all is well"

I ever shall remember Mother

The day when last we met

When you clasped me to your bossom

With kind words I can't forget.

When you looked upon me then

'Twas with a mothers love

You prayed for God to bless me

with wisdom from above.

Thou tauth my infant lips to pray

And always love the truth

Thou watched or'e me in infancy

and guarded me in youth.

Mother why should I mourn for you

When thou art gone to rest

Far from this wide and wicked world

Thou dwellest with the blest

And when my days on earth are past

And my work is finished here

O, may I dwell with thee at last

And those I love so dear.

I wonder what Mary would think of her poetry being posted on a blog nearly 150 years after she wrote it!! Times change but our feelings for our mothers seem to be the same.

The picture I'm posting with this (sorry it's not the greatest reproduction but I was in a hurry AND I did it without Gracie's help!!) is of Mary Bennion and three of her grandsons Jack, Milton and Paul. Milton is my grandfather and is the boy with his arm around Mary and he was about 2yrs old . I love is picture...its not often at that time that you saw much affection in photographs, so I love it that my grandfather has his arm around her.

And just another family tidbit, Mary is also great-grandmother to President Henry B. Eyring.