Show nt su I 1 oj 0 aza foliga dam 0 O we went with brother branch who lived there you had to tr vel by team and it took about ten days to make the trip which was about miles brother branch was driving mules the wagon was loaded with boxes of goods for the store down there we were g going down a little hill covered wit with vin cig ce e dar trees and it was raining a lit tie tle some indians were A ere coming up the hill you probably know how frightened mules are of indians well just as they got to where we were they raised their blankets over their heads the mules whirl ed and ran into the cedars the tongue of the wagon snapped and lucky for us it did or we would have turned over and we doubt less would have been under the goods boxes we girls walked back to town for help they wound up the tongue and we went on our way rejoicing relo icing this was the summer my broth er frank was killed by the in deans and olive frank s wife was so lonesome she persuaded me to stay until fall abbie abble left for home and I 1 was homesick for the first time frank tousand and wife were going to salt lake city and I 1 got to go home with them I 1 used to go down and stay with my brothers and never again got homesick once I 1 stayed nine months and another time eleven months professor thomas and wife were sent to st george to conduct music he organized a choir and I 1 was a member we gave a concert mrs thomas and I 1 sang a duet she sang soprano and I 1 alto I 1 also sang a duet with the professor the singing les son and I 1 also did a little in home dramatics my brother gor don did also professor thomas and wife boarded with frank the first winter they were there while I 1 was in st george I 1 be came acquainted with caddie ivins and her brother tony president anthony W ivins heber tony caddie and I 1 had many good times together I 1 had another dear girl friend lizzie lizzle riter her mother and my father were cousins her gradd mother was eliza dilworth we all called her aunt liza lizzie always stayed with her grandmother who lived alone and was quite old sometimes I 1 would go and stay there with her she married sey mour B young she is the mother of levi edgar we used to go in a crowd that is several boys and girls together where one went we all went whether to a dance sleigh ride or a picnic they would put a wagon box on the bob sleds put a lot of straw in the wagon box and then we would get in 14 and sit on the straw with our backs to the box and our feet all in the center and sing songs while the sleigh bells jingled those were happy days another happy time I 1 recall was on the first of may the school children boys and girls would go may walking up city creek can yon for flowers and the side hills would be covered with flowers floers of every hue we would take our lunch and put it all together in a large basket which the boys would carry when we had eaten we would then fill the with wild flowers in the evenings we would always have a patty party or dance we girls would make wreaths of flowers and wear them to the dance I 1 dont don t think you youngsters have any better time than we did yes they were hap py days well I 1 guess it is about time I 1 was growing up when I 1 was about nineteen or twenty I 1 went to dances sleighing theatres and places of amusement with the op cosite sex but strange to say I 1 had never fallen in love on one occasion I 1 went to a party with a married man and his first wife in those days they used to have intermission in the middle of the evening so that the patrons could have lunch they would either take it or sometimes go home for lunch on this particular night we went to his home for supper the sec see ond wife had stayed home to pre pare it when we walked in she did not look the happiest person in the world it was not long after that I 1 received a letter from him asking me to marry him I 1 handed the letter to father and he said to me mary I 1 would like you to have a husband of your own when father moved aunt ann into mother mothers s home by the social v r t W 4 4 1 A V 1 1116 6 mary louisa clark hall sarah alfin her sister lived with us sarah and I 1 did most of the house work washing ironing and cleaning we did not have washing cacines in those days sarah would take one tub and a board and I 1 the other I 1 had two brothers three years older than I 1 edwin dilworth we always cal led him dee and gordon who was aunt louisa s child his mother died and mother raised him there was only three month months s difference in their ages the indians used to beg from door to door for food there was an old squaw who was mean if you did not please her she would throw what you gave her back at you or throw it down with a grunt I 1 had no particular love for her one day when we were washing I 1 was hanging out the clothes and she was coming up to the house I 1 told her not to go in the house but she went in anyway I 1 fol lowed her in and caught her at the kitchen door and I 1 bumped her with my knee to the outside she went down the street bumb ling and grumbling something ann said oh mary you will have the whole tribe on us and I 1 said no danger she is too mean to have any friends even among her own tribe another time we were at the breakfast table when a large husky indian brave came in his name was sedo and walked up to the table picked up a knife and drew it across one of the boy s throat ann and the children ran out screaming I 1 ran upstairs and locked myself in this was at the time they were building the salt lake theatre and the workmen came running with buckets think ing the house was on fire they found the old indian laughing papooses heap scared he ile went down the street thinking that he had done something smart my brother samuel went to grantsville Grants ville to live I 1 used to spend quite a lot of time with his fam ily when my future husband came to utah he was on his way to cal and the gold his home was in indiana before he came west to work in montana in the mines like many others he had a cun cur dosity to see what the mormons were like so he came by horse back to salt lake city on his way he stopped at farmington and at tended a meeting the mormons were holding his parents belong to the dunker church and he had been brought up religiously so he prayed that when he found the true church he might know it he said that the mormon sermon had the right ring to it he came on to salt lake and worked for ad am spiers that winter for his board the following winter mr dark clark taught school in the ward then he applied for a school at grantsville Grants ville my brother samuel was one of the school trustees at the time he was accepted and my brother samuel was to take him out to grantsville Grants ville samuel s wagon was standing in the yard he always put his team in father fathers s barns when he came to salt lake I 1 saw a carpet bag in his wagon and asked him who owned it woman s curiosity he told me it was brother darks clarks a young man who was going to teach in grantsville Grants ville I 1 was ironing when someone knocked at the door I 1 turned and a man stood there he ile asked for brother woolley I 1 told him brother woolley was down town but would be back soon and would he come in and sit down I 1 went on with my ironing had I 1 known that was my future hus band I 1 doubt if I 1 could have been beeh so calm and composed he went to grantsville Grants ville and boarded with my brother for the first winter and that is how I 1 got acquainted with him father sold old his home by the sol ral r al hall and bought the gates home on the comer of first south and second east I 1 was married from that house on the alth of july 1870 in the endowment house by darnel daniel H wells that was be fore the temple was built aunt ann gave the family a nice din ner the next day we drove out to the church silk farm we were invited on our way back to stop and have dinner with uncle sam uel and aunt catherine she was a splendid cook and we had a lovely dinner when we went to grantsville Grants ville we stopped at samuels for a short time and then went to housekeeping in a one room log house by the side of their home we lived in the room they had lived in while they built their a dobe house the following sum mer we built the rock house a bout a mile north of samuel samuels s on a piece of land pa had home steadied we moved into the house in the fall and that is where reube was born we lived in the rock house until reube was two years old when reube was a few months old pa went east to bring his mo ther and two brothers out hend ricks and martin pa then built two lumber rooms on the north for his mother and arid brothers mar tin had never been very well as tie he had tuberculosis and after they had been here a few months he died then not long after grand ma s daughter daughters s husband died and grandma felt she ought to go back home to her daughter so pa and oman R robinson an old fri fn end of the family came and took them back reube was two years old the day they left before edwin was born we amov ed to grantsville Grants ville into one room of brother burton burtons s house my sis ter net came to take care of me we were so crowded in one room we could hardly move around and rube used to say did I 1 kep on you coe aunt net we lived there until just before elmer was born when we moved to the brick home on the street above we lived there a while and when elmer was still a baby we moved back to the rock house then before esther came we moved to brother beavie s home where rachel stromberg lives and lived there five years brother beavie boarded with us while we lived in his house Es ther frank and alice were born there lere while we were living in the beavie home the children had the whooping cough frank was a baby four months old he would lose his breath and go blue in the face I 1 had to have reube sit by the cradle while he slept edwin had it so hard that the pupils of his eyes looked as if they were set in blood we had no doctor so we had to do the best we could esther used to say ise dot de ampsey cough then on the farm the other five had it they all had measles mumps chicken pox and scarlet fever except reube he never had the fever As I 1 said there was no doctor close that we wp could call in so we had to get a long with home fremed es and ask the lord to help us he heard our prayers and helped us bring them through he helped us time with out number when we e had sick ness an and d many other times then we bought the farm m which aich was located three miles to the ex south of grantsville Grants ville lather had left me a piece of property which we sold for 2 and with what we sold the rock house for and a few head of stock that we had we baugit the farm there two log rooms and one lum ber room we built three adobe rooms on to the lumber room sam lucille john and gordon were born there alice was three months old when we bought the farm and sixteen years old when we sold it and bought the mcbride place there was one large room in the center and two on the north and two on the south of the large room brother mcbride had two wives and we lived in that the first winter the next spring and summer we tore the old house down and built the new one continued next week |