Righteous Pride

Yesterday a commemoration for John Rowe Moyle, my 4th  great grandfather,  was held in Alpine, Ut to celebrate his 200th birth year.   The city of Alpine let the descendants walk as the grand marshalls in their City Days parade yesterday!   It felt a little strange to be walking/ waving at people  while in a parade because of a relation   . . . but oh well, I loved it . . . righteous pride:).

I'm not sure who was in charge of the Moyle reunion . . . but a lot of organizing was done.  They had t-shirts made, organized a choir, made plans for us to be in the parade, held a commemoration, and had scavenger hunt in Salt Lake, and maybe a few other things.  It would have been nice to be able to do all of it . . . but the parade was all that happened for us.

JOHN  ROWE MOYLE - Excerpt from "Every Window, Every Spire"

for the Commemoration of 100 years of the Salt Lake Temple, Ensign March 1993

"Another Saint who sacrificed much during this period was John Rowe Moyle, an excellent stonemason from England.  It was Brother Moyle's custom to work on his farm in Alpine, Utah, only on Friday night and all day Saturday.  Then each Monday morning he walked from home back to Salt Lake City to work until Friday on the Temple.  Following an accident, Brother Moyle's leg was removed in an excruciating operation.  While recovering, he made himself a wooden peg leg and walked around his farm on the stump until the was able to stand the pain. Eventually, he walked to Salt Lake City - a distance of more than twenty miles - to begin his labors at the temple again.  According to a story told by his family, John Moyle "climbed up the scaffolding on the east side of the Temple and carved 'Holiness to the Lord', as his contribution to the temple building."

Helen Carlisle Norberg 2nd Great Granddaughter