PEARL SEVEY
Pearl Sevey, the youngest of the fourteen children of George W. Sevy and Phoebe Melinda Butler Sevy, was born 17 October 1878, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, and she was 14 years old when her mother died.

At the time her father went to Mexico with his other two wives, in 1885, to escape persecution for his polygamous marriages, Pearl stayed with her mother, and sisters, Addie and Martha Jane. In the summers they would go to Panguitch Lake and make cheese. Pearl learned to make very good cheese, and all the rest of her life she was an excellent cheese maker. Even at the time of her funeral, those who attended met afterward at the home of her son, and ate some of her delicious cheese.

After the death of her mother, she went to Mexico with her father when he made one of his trips into the states. There she met Hyrum Turley and they were married on 21 February 1896, in Colonia Juarez. When their son Ivan was about six months old, they went to the Manti Temple and were sealed and had their two sons sealed to them.

Pearl had the outstanding characteristics of patience, kindness, and long suffering. At the time of her death, her husband and sons were building her a new home, which she didn't even have the privilege of moving into. She was a hard worker" and she lived the Golden Rule.

She worked in Primary for many years, having been president of the Primary in Woodruff for some time. She was very dependable in this work. She was also a Relief Society Visiting teacher for many years.

Pearl and her husband had a herd of dairy cows in Mexico at the time the rebels forced them to leave. The two oldest boys stayed with their father in the foothills for several days before going to El Paso, where Pearl had taken the younger children. They stayed there for a week or so, then went on to Thatcher, Arizona, for a while, after which they went on to Woodruff, where they spent the remainder of their lives.

The Salvation Army helped the family very much after they were forced out of Mexico. Marion, who was then the baby, was very ill, and Pearl had no money to pay for a doctor. The Salvation Army put her and the baby in the hospital for a while and put the other children in homes to be cared for until the baby was better and the family was able to travel. Pearl never forgot that act of kindness, and was more tolerant of other faiths, as also were her older children, because of this experience.

Eight of her twelve children were born in Old Mexico and four in Woodruff, Arizona. She suffered quite a lot with rheumatism before she died. It was thought she was feeling better the few days before she died. She quilted on Monday but didn't feel very well on Tuesday, but she thought she was coming down with the flu. Wednesday morning she had a heart attack and died before the doctor could get to her side. He said she had a rheumatic heart. She died on 6 April 1938, at Woodruff, Arizona.

This information was compiled by Minerva Sevey Vance & Eileen Sevey Cluff in The Genealogy of the Descendants of George Washington Sevey, courtesy of Norman C. Tanner, page 140. Printed by Robert L. Pellett Medford, Oregon 1965