Tuesday, May 3, 2022

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Companion

 My Third-Great-Grandfather, Matthew Bristow Wheelwright (1828-1891) served two missions to his native Great Britain. On his second, at age 58, he had a companion by the name of  Mayhew Calley (1857-1934). Elder Calley, graduate of Brigham Young Academy, had left his young family and his post as Iron County School Superintendent to serve a mission in the land where his parents had been born. On Thursday, December 9, 1886, they planned to walk to Hopewell from their lodgings in Hereford.