Temperance Wall

TEMPERANCE WALL BOREN

Temperance Wall was born October 8, 1865 at Wallsburg in the Old Fort near Spring Creek. She was the youngest daughter of William Madison and Elizabeth Penrod Wall. Her father died when she was four years old. She helped her mother glean wheat and helped tend the sheep. Then she picked wool for her mother to spin yarn for their stockings.

When she was older she worked at a place near Charleston for fifty cents a week. She worked until she got enough to buy calico material for a new dress.

When she was eighteen years old she was married to William Jasper Boren Jr. in Salt Lake City Endowment House, September 6, 1883. They lived on a farm in Wallsburg all their lives. They milked cows, and Mother made butter and cheese, for which she couldn't beat. She had two different butter molds to print the butter with. She sold her cheese and butter and eggs to John Greer. He took them to Park City and sold them there.

She was a good nurse, also a good cook. She liked to sew and make quilts. She was a good Latter-day Saint; she was a Relief Society Teacher for years.

They were blessed with a family of ten children; Malinda, William, Archie, Maude who died Jan 17, 1913, Ray who died Nov. 2, 1939, Ellis, Polly, Ethel died July 18, 1952. Eldwin died Jan 6, 1949, and Areva.  Temperance died December 6, 1949, she was laid to rest in the Wallsburg Cemetery.

Written by Melinda Boren Ford.