I was born, 20th of January, 1886, in a log house at Malad City, Oneida County, Idaho. 

My father, Henry Mitchell Bolingbroke, was born April 25, 1850, at Warwickshire, England. His father’s name, Thomas John Bolingbroke, born March 4, 1812, his mother, Mary Ann Mitchell. 

My mother, Mary Elizabeth Lusk born May 7, 1855, Pleasant Grove, Utah, her father’s name was John Winters Lusk. Her mother was Esther Catherine Park. 

I was blessed on March 4, 1886, by my father, Henry Mitchell Bolingbroke, at Malad First Ward, Malad Stake. I was baptized July 14, 1894, by father, Henry Bolingbroke, in Devil Creek, at Malad First Ward, Malad Stake. I was confirmed, July 15, 1894, by John Reynolds. Patriarchal Blessing September 1, 1918, at Malad City, Idaho, by William H. Gibbs. 

I started school at the age of 7 years, my first teacher was Mable Waylett, others were Samuel Davis, Edward Colton, Edwin Jones, John O. Thomas, Thomas D. Jones, R. N. Hill and Esther Evans Davis. We had no school building when I first went to school. It was held in the old church log house that stood on the north of the First Ward lot. After that we went to school in the Vestry in the Old Tabernacle and then in the Reorganized Church and the Old Opera House. Later I went to school in the Primary Building where I finished the eighth grade with Esther Evans Davis as teacher and Steven L. Richards as Superintendent. 

My Church Activities  

I was secretary of the Primary Association to President Sarah C. Reynolds for 5 years from 1899 until 1904 and treasurer in the Y.L.M.I.A., October 1908 at the same time to President Mary Ellen Evans. I held these offices until I was married. Then I was called into, Relief Society as a visiting teacher in 1911, which I held for several years. Then I was called by Sister Eliza Dredge, who was President of the Relief Society, with Sisters Annie Dives and Louisa Jones as her counselors, and on September 11, 1921 was set apart as assistant secretary and treasurer in the Relief Society to President Elizabeth A. Jones, by Bishop John G. Evans, with Sisters Nellie Castleton and Annie Williams as her counselors. 

I held this position for a year, then on February 17, 1925, I was set apart as assistant Secretary and Treasurer in the Relief Society to President Flora Kohler by Bishop Thomas D. Evans, with Catherine Daniels and Matilda Price as Counselors. I also held this position with Sister Elizabeth (Bessie) Jones as President until the wards were divided. Then I was set apart as secretary and treasurer to Mary D. Crowther, July 14, 1935, Bishop Owen Howard, which I held until 1938 when I was released on account of ill health, but I was appointed over the visiting teachers on November 29, 1938. 

In the Summer of 1902, I worked for Sister Eliza Dredge, wife of Bishop Jesse H. Dredge. They then lived on the farm now owned by William Howard, south of Malad. In those days the only way we had to come to town to a dance or other amusements was to ride a horse. My cousin, Martha Jones, whose parents were neighbors to the Dredges, and I came to town. We rode a horse to the dance and it was that night that I met Gomer Hughes, whom I later married on December 21, 1904, in the Logan Temple. We lived in Samaria, Idaho for 14 months when we bought a home in Malad, which I still own. Gomer bought a farm from Daniel Thomas which joined his brother, James Hughes’ farm. We owned it for a few years and then sold it to Jack Hughes, a cousin of Gomer. I was the mother of eight children, two sons and six daughters, all of whom are still living and I also have nine grandchildren, three boys and six girls. My husband died November 29, 1940, after suffering for two years after having a stroke.