Tryphena

Tryphena was a peacemaker, selfless and always doing things for her family. She was born In her parents house in Mapleton Utah She was a Daughter of James and Ellenor Amilia Warren Gallup. She lived her life with a reverence for Jesus and his church. She found great joy and self esteem in her church service and was very proud of her children and their accomplishments. as shown in this autobiography below. The author has changed a few words and added annotation for clarity.

The Story of My Life

by Tryphena Gallup Ostler

I was born in Mapleton, Utah January 29 1894. I was educated in the public school of Mapleton until I was through the eighth grade. Then I went to Spanish Fork to live with my sister, Mrs. James Bowen, and while I was living there I attended the Spanish Fork High School for two years.

When I was small there weren't many automobiles. On one day, my father took a covered wagon and a crowd of young folks and we all went to Utah Lake and spent a week. We had a glorious time while we were there.

My mother wanted we children home with her so she planned many parties for us. We had candy pulls, made popcorn balls, chicken roasts, and many other parties. She surely was a wonderful pal. My best girl pals were Hannah Allen and Hilda peterson.

While I was living in Spanish Fork going to high school, Rosalie Boyak was my best friend although I had many other friends and pals at this time. It was while we two were chumming together that we met the two brothers who later became our husbands.

The two boys were Springville boys and they would come to see us in a buggy and often we would go to Springville to see plays in the old opera house. I remember especially one play and it was "The Girl From Japan" this appealed to me.

At this time I worked in the third ward primary at Spanish Fork under sister Rowe as President. Lily Antoine and I taught the Kindergarten. Each week we met at one of the officers or teachers places and had a social and planned our next weeks work. These were surely a pleasure for me.

In 1911 I went back to Mapleton to get a marriage license as I was going to be married in a few weeks. I went to Bishop William T. Tew SR for a recommend to be married and imagine my joy when he put his arm around me and gave me his blessing telling me he knew I wouldn't marry without going to the temple.

I married Lavell Ostler February 15 1911 in the Salt Lake Temple. Since that time we have made our home in Mapleton, Price, Consumers, and Springville and have good friends in all the places and have had good times together.

While I was in Price, I worked again in the Primary as teacher of the "Missionary Girls" with Zina Johnston as the teacher of the group. We went on hikes and had parties while I was teaching this group.

When we moved to Consumers I worked in the Sunday School for a year under Brother Peter Tolboe. First as Secretary then owing to most of the men having to work Sunday, I was chosen as second assistant in the sunday school and I acted in this capacity for about a year. Then I moved back to price. I lived there for about a year then I moved back to consumers into an apartment house and Brother Talboe asked me to act again as first assistant. Shortly after that I was chosen to work in the Relief Society as second councelor. We had about 35 members of the Relief Society at that time.

It's interesting to note that the reason that most of the men were working on sunday is because they were miners working long hours daily.

On April 1, 1929 we moved to Springville and the the Primary officers and teachers gave me a gift of an overnight bag and two beautiful vases.

Since I have come to Springville I have worked as a Relief Society Teacher and I love the work and surely do appreciate the lovely meetings that we have.

My parents names are Mr. an Mrs. James Gallup and my mother is a daughter of Amos S. Warren. My father is the son of Luke Gallup.

Of my marriage to Lavell Ostler I can only say we have lived in love and unity with both our sorrows and joys. We have had four children, three boys and one girl, all of which we take great joy and delight in. Their names are Arthur Lavell, Gerald Avon, Norma Fern, Valaeo Allen Ostler.

I hope we can raise our children up honorably to be a great comfort and joy to us and be able to live our lives in love, peace, and unity to the end and be able to go back to our father in heaven with full faith in the gospel for this is our greatest desire to save our children and ourselves in the kingdom of God.

The above was written in 1933. Tryphena died shortly before her birthday in January 1947 after a battle with a heart ailment that caused her to temporarily move to lower altitudes. Her desire to see her children grown and married was fulfilled. She lived at a time when People made do with what they had and if they didn't have they did without. It wasn't easy during the deppresion but she brought her children through it and gave her children a work ethic and taught them to be responsible and kind.