1857 - 1935

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• Birth	16 Aug 1857	Pleasant Grove,Utah,Utah
  Gender	Female
  Died	2 Feb 1935	Preston,Franklin,Idaho
  Buried	6 Feb 1935	Ogden Cemetery,Ogden,Weber,Utah
  Person ID	I84955	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	26 Oct 2005 00:00:00
  Father	William Riley HOWARD (FISK), b. 15 Mar 1828, Chautauga,Chautauqua,New York
  Mother	Tirza Permelia Or Pamelia WARNER, b. 1 Aug 1835, Alabama,Genesee,New York
  Family ID	F37142	Group Sheet
  Family	Joseph BELNAP
  Married	26 Apr 1875	Salt Lake,Salt Lake,Utah
  Family ID	F37117	Group Sheet

• Notes

  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. The original baptism appears to be in 1867. Was Minerva rebaptized 4 Aug. 1874, endowed 10 Aug 1874 and then had the endowment redone 26 April 1875? "Manerva Pamilla Howard Fisk Belnap (Wife of Joseph Belnap) Manerva Pamilla (sic) Howard Fisk was born at Battle Creek or what is now known as Pleasant Grove, Utah, on August 16, 1856. Her parents were William Riley (Howard) Fisk and Tirzah Pamilla Warner. Manerva was the third child in a family of ten. Her home, as a child, in pleasant Grove was marked with the tomahawk of the Indians and the bullet holes of both white men and Indians, and sometimes her playmates were Indian children. Her education in schools was very meager, as her parents followed seasonal work and the schools were few and far apart in those times. Her next home was in Pleasant View, a small settlement just north and east of Ogden, Utah. Later, her family moved to Hooper and it was there that Manerva met Joseph Belnap. They were married on April 26, 1875, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of twelve children, seven girls and five boys. Their first home was in Hooper, Utah, and there Manerva was active in the Relief Society and was one of the first presidents of the Hooper Y.W.M.I.A. In the year 1883, her husband was called to serve on a mission in the Southern States Mission and Manerva was left to care for five small children, one of them being born after her husband's departure. She spent many long and lonely nights during these two years. Joseph had moved his family nearer to the center of town before he left and often Manerva could hear her father playing his fiddle for the dances in the nearby amusement hall. To Manerva, who had dancing feet, this made her loneliness harder to bear. Upon Joseph's return, they moved to Ogden, where her husband was a Deputy Sheriff. It was following this move to Ogden that they lost a son, Gilbert Riley, from pneumonia and this was the first great sorrow to come to Manerva and Joseph. The summer of 1901, the family spent in Hillard, Wyoming, ;where ;Manerva ran a boarding house and here the finest meals in the world could be had for almost nothing. In 1905 they moved to Preston, Idaho, where her husband Joseph opened up and operated a lumber yard with his brother Hyrum Belnap et al. While living in Preston Manerva worked in the Relief Society. Manerva lost her husband during the flu epidemic when this dreaded plague caused his death on April 1, 1922. She died on Gebruary 2, 1935, at Preston, Idaho, and was buried in the Ogden Cemetery in Ogden, Utah. Manerva loved to live and every day was a new challenge for her. Her correspondence with her children when they were away from home was always filled with love, hope and religion. Her home was her castle and she made it a wonderful hom, though humble. Over her living room door was a sign "Home Sweet Home." "