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Show :MsiE ELIZA i'iSIEEl EARLY FiOIiEEK Biography of Annie Eliza Homer Lemon. Written by her daughter, Eva Lemon Sheen, member ofwthe Sarah Woodruff Camp, (not functioning fun-ctioning at present). Annie Elza Homer Lemon was born Mar. 19, 1843, to Russel King and Annie Eliza Williamson Homer, in Springfield, 111. In 1853 Iher family came across the plains, in mer father's (Capt. R. K. Homer) company Annie, who was only 10, walked most of the way, at times the company, Deng short of teamsters, team-sters, she drove an ox team some of the time. Arriving in Utah they settled in "3 Mile Creek" district; (south east of Salt Lake.) She became acquainted with father, Willis Lemon, and they weremaried in the Endowment House Nov.l, 185V. Of this union were born 7 girls and 3 boys-Mother boys-Mother carded and spun wool and had it made into cloth, from which she made clothes for the family; she also knit all their stockings. Migrating to Smith-field Smith-field in the spring of 1860, they shared in all the hardshps and privations of those early pioneers. While her husband was gone to assist the immigration, her first ohild was born. When living in the fort line and the Indian fight was on, in which the Merril Brothers Bro-thers were wounded, one fatally, she and her sister, Nancy, started to run for the fort; thru excitement, excite-ment, Nancy dropt Iher baby in the ditch, but soon recovered it, the baby none the worse than a thorough wetting. Mother made tallow candles for lights, but some times could do no better than just some grease gre-ase in a dish, with a rag laid in it as a wick; this was called a "bitch light". Mother was a charter member of the Smithfield Relief Society when it was organized organ-ized in May 1868" and a visiting teacher in the same for many years. To go back a little in this history his-tory to the grease and rag lights once Faher and Mother went in the evening to visit some neighbors; neigh-bors; on their way home they saw flickering weired lights thru the windows and ran thinking the house afire, but only found us children up having a good time, for they had put us to bed and loft no lights. They w-ere grateful to find their fright untrue. un-true. Mother was a real home women unaffected and unpretentious, but a kindly neighbor In time of sickness, sick-ness, need, or breavenent, She died' July 8, 1911. at the age of 68 years, and is buried In the Smithfield cemetry Two children child-ren preceded her In death. |