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Elden Lavern Stewart (a source)
We are grateful to Elden Stewart for providing some of our biographies.
Ida Roxanna Bushman Anderson is Elden's great
aunt. Elden is the son of Nancy Charlotte Bushman Stewart and Angus Lamoni Stewart
(stepson of Evan J. Ruesch or Rousch.) Nancy is the daughter of Jacob
Isaac Bushman and Effie May Bills. Jacob is the son of Jacob and
Charlotte Turley Bushman. See The Theodore Turley Family Book,
pp. 506-508 for information on Elden's family.
As a Seventy, Elden was called to a Stake mission, and helped bring some 12 or more
converts to the Gospel.. He has served in the Bishopric and Stake Presidency, and is now
Second Counselor to the High Priests in his Tooele, Utah Quorum. He works in the cheese
factory at Deseret Industries in Salt Lake City every Wednesday, which he says is
"most rewarding."
When Elden was asked to participate in a sacrament meeting for some rest home residents,
he "wondered what I would talk about." "Then," he says, "I
remembered some events at the rest home and things that had happened in my life. I thought
about Aunt Ida when she was old and told me when I was on the Lord's errand I could do
whatever was needed. Things just popped into my mind and it wasn't long until those old
ladies all had tears in their eyes. I didn't hesitate once and put all the emphasis in the
right place like that of the old rocker in the story." It wasn't long before he was
requested to tell his story in different settings.
"My Aunt Ida somewhat raised me," says Elden, "and always made sure I had
money and went to school. She gave me odd jobs to earn the money and always met me at her
gate as I came home from school. She always told me to make something of myself. So you
see, it was easy to write a poem and story about her."
Regarding his Grandfather Bushman, he says, "For weeks I felt the promptings to write
about Grandfather Bushman and so I started visiting my Uncle LaMar and Aunt Fern Bushman
[to learn more about him].
Elden completed his Master's Degree on the History of the Utah Indians. He taught fourteen
years, the last two teaching Indians. He had 12 Indians, grades 2-7 in a room 12' x 12'.
For about a year he taught English to 16 adults from six different countries. At the
present time he is participating in genealogical research and is hoping to complete temple
work for the more than 2,000 names from his father's and mother's lines he has located,
with the help of a professional genealogist.
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