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Show I ir feature, will receive a bouquet of flowers as compliments Ttli'o Sp'rinjrvillo Floral, announces Dean Stewart, manager. Each person whose picture appears in the paper in this par-. par-. . . - i . Springville Herald Salutes Older Residents With Picture and Story v J . t- -sr x U x s a. Has 80th Birthday... old, one of the apostles of the LDS church came to Panguitch. During his discourse, he said that they were asking for donations to help build a temple at Manti. As soon as the meeting was out I hurried home and got all the money I had (25 cents) and ran all the way back and gave it to him. He was very kind and told me that I had done all anyone could do. I was very proud to think I was helping to build the Temple. "When I was about seven and Becky twelve, mother went to visit some friends and we girls were alone. Three Navajo Indians came to the door and on into the house. Hannah and I climbed on the bed, and Becky stood beside it. The Indians stood by the fireplace talk-' ing. Finally one said 'Gimme shirt.' Becky" said wre didn't have any. Then they asked for bread. They took mother's scissors, butcher knife and case knives but didn't bother us or anything else. "When I was about three and we ARABS READ GOSEPEL . . . American missionaries sav the best way of reaching Moslems is through printed word. Here two Arabs read the gospel of St. John, printed in their tongue. Editor's note: This is another an-other in a series of "articles and pictures of Springville's older residents, who are being saluted each week in the Herald Her-ald Anvone over 75 years of aee is being so honored. Only a call to the office, phone 57 and a listing of the name and a(re of the resident, is all that j, necessary; we arrange for the rest without charge. AH those who are able are asked to go to Ralph S nelson's nel-son's Studio and have a picture pic-ture taken. There will be no charge. The Herald will take care of that. I Sarah Permelia Lewis Tip-ijetts Tip-ijetts was born to Aaron and Sa'-ah Ann Weeks Lewis in Spring-tov.-n now known as Spring City, a small town in Sanpete County, . April 2, 1872, in a little one room log cabin, where mother used to sit up night after night as she kept watch, too fearful to go to bed because of prowling Indians, -ft was during the Indian : " 1 : . T ' . ... i 5 V - ' 1 ! ' t l . 1 . I 'A :j J Joe, who was about three months old. About half our things were lost in the fire. Searching among the ashes later we found a piece of a china plate that mother had brought with her from England. I have kept the little piece as a keep sake to this day. After the ! fire we moved into St. George. I think it was Aunt Hannah who j took me first to see the temple j there. I thought it was the most 1 beautiful building in the world. I "We lived in a little house about a block away from a family, whose children were quite unruly. Mother j took us for a walk one day the op- j posite way from the home of these , people. She sent sister Becky home ! for some reason and Becky met these boys running out of our house. Smoke was pouring out the door, they had set fire to mother's straw tick on the bed. Becky poured water on it and soon had it out. No damage was done, and I so ended our second experience with fire. j "I was about seven years old ' when we moved from St. George to ! Panguitch. We were very poor at j this time and were able to have j only one pair of shoes a year. We were always afraid of wearing our shoes out too quickly, but oh, how we did want to skate on a pond made by a low place in the road in front of our house. The desire became be-came greater and finally we slipped off our shoes and stockings and skated bare footed. WheYi our feet became so cold we could scarcely stand on them we would run into the house to warm them, then out again. Mother finally made us wear some of father's old worn out boots. They were warmer. "In the winter of '79 the winter win-ter was known as the "Hard Winter," Win-ter," snow was from, two to eight feet deep all over the state. Father Fa-ther was carrying mail at that time from Panguitch to Cannon-ville. Cannon-ville. He wanted to come home for Christmas so he traded routes with another carrier and came home. I can remember him coming on one horse and leading another behind him. The one he was leading had two sacks tied on it, a sack of flour and a Christmas sack. In it was a pair of shoes for each of us, denim for a new dress and yarn to knit us stockings. This is the time I learned learn-ed to sew and knit. Mother was alone so much of the time that she was glad to teach us girls to do things to help pass avay her time. "I was eight years old when I knit myj first pair of stockings. I remember what a terrible time I had to "narrow off" the stocking in order to make the toe. I thought I had to knit unuauslly fast to make it taper off and I was doing my best to knit faster and faster but my stocking ,was just as wide as ever. How mother laughed, then she showed me how to finish it. "I started "working out" as it I was called, for other people when i T mac oVirMif oicrVit irpurc nlrl Aftpr Mrs. Sarah P. L. Tippetts trouble that her first three children child-ren were born. Father was away from home a great deal of the time guarding cattle and fighting Indians. A guard had to be kept on the livestock belonging to the townspeople, else they would be driven off by the Indians. The, men took turns guarding them and thus were away from their homes a great deal. "One of the first things I remember, re-member, is our move to St. George in southern Utah. I was then about six years of age. Previously we had lived in Manti where we moved 8, 1895 of pneumonia. He was sick only eighteen hours. Father doctored doc-tored him but was unable to do anything for him. Alva was out on the desert herding sheep. I washed the baby and laid him out myself. He was a beautiful child and so large for his age that no one would believe he was less than a year old. He was buried in Panguitch as the snow was so deep it was impossible impos-sible to cross the divide between i Panguitch and Tropic. I was 'living 'liv-ing with mother in Panguitch, while my husband, Alva was out with the sheep. "In the fall of 1906, we moved to Lake Shore, We had two wagons wag-ons and two teams and I drove one and Alva the other. It took us about six days to make the trip and we were glad to get settled again I didn't like it in Lake Shore but became reconciled. About six weeks after we moved there our son Wilbur was killed in a runaway accident. "In 1914, we moved to Benjamin where we observed our golden wedding wed-ding anniversary October 30, 1941, with a supper in the Benjamin hall. "After the death of Mr. Tippetts October 23, 1944, I moved to Springville, first to an apartment and later in my own home on 120 East Eighth South." Mrs. Tippetts is the mother of seven sons and daughters five of whom are living: Mrs. Vida Lun-dell Lun-dell of Benjamin; Mrs. Elva Fullmer Full-mer of Spanish Fork; Mrs. Luella Wilson of Springville; Orlan A. Tippetts of Benjamin; Vernal S. Tippetts, Salt Lake City. There are also 27 grandchildren- and 18 great-grandchildren. She has always al-ways been active in LDS church work in the various places and wards in which she has lived, serving ser-ving in the Relief Society, as a Sunday School teacher for some 46 years, she sang in various ward lived m Spring City, Uncle Albert, father's brother, was down near Richfield. He was acting as guard for Marys vale Canyon and while on duty some ambushed Indians shot him and another man. Such stories added to our fear of the Indians. "When I was a little girl of about eight years, my sister worked work-ed for some people that lived out of Panguitch. I went to visit her for about two weeks and while I was there,. Alva Tippetts came to stay with his uncle who lived in the neighborhood. We all went to pick buffalo berries and he broke down the bushes so we could pick them more easily. "When I met him again in Tropic, I was about eighteen. He said he had met me before. I didn't remember rem-ember until he told me about the berries. He also told me, he had told his folks that he had met a little black eyed girl that he was goine to marry when he grew up. "He was surprised and so was I when I moved to his home-town. We went together about two years and then we were married on Oct. 30. 1891 at my home in Tropic. Father officiated. I worked hard to make a bowery out of willows to serve the wedding wed-ding dinner under. I had a white dotted muslin dress that I had made special for the occassion. I always loved it. Later, I made it over into a baby dress, in which to have my babies blessed: I still have it. "All the flowers I had was a little spray of wild roses for my hair and one for Alva's button hole. I always considered the wild rose one of my favorite flowers. On one of Alva's last trips to Sal-ina Sal-ina I told him to seie what he could find for flowers. He was able to get a beautiful spray of artificial wild roses. But on the way home he was caught in the rain and most of them were spoiled. when I was about two years old. We stayed for about three years then moved to Joseph City, commonly com-monly called "Joe Town" in Sevier County. We stayed there about eleven months then journeyed on south to St. George. "One of my earliest memories of St. George was a hike up Ensign En-sign Hill, a beautiful hill north of town. There was a large pond and a fig orchard. "Wo lived on the outskirts of town about three miles west of what was known as "Mesquite Flat." Our house was of the humblest hum-blest type, being what was commonly com-monly called a "willow house." The floor was dirt and the walls and roof were made of willows. "We had a terrible fright while living in our willow home. One morning, Aunt Hannah made up a large fire to cook breakfast and sparks from the fire ignited the willows. Father was away at the time, leaving mother and Aunt ; Hannah with us children. Were it 1 not for some boys camped nearby, j who saw the fire and hurried over ! to help carry our household things out, we would not have been able i to save much.- ' "I was still in bed when it start -: ed so all I had on was a little night I gown and all that was saved of my clothes was a little blue lawn dress. I can remember them taking tak-ing me along the fence and having me sit there and hold the baby, choirs. Mrs. Tippetts is comfortably located lo-cated in her little home and spends much time crocheting and visiting with her family. She is looking forward to seeing her many relatives and friends at an open-house arranged by her childi-en on Sunday, April 6, at her home marking her 80th birthday. .that, I provided for myself almost entirely. Father would buy me a pair of shoes now and then for I received as wages only fifty cents a week and quite often I would have to take it in produce. "About this time, I went to school what was known as one term, six to twelve weeks. Mother taught the school in her home. We were taught to read and write, add and multiply. After this one session, I wasn't able to attend school again until I was twelve years old. Then I went for three terms.v This was the end of my school career as I was never able to go again. Many were the times I cried and wished I might go to school all the time and see what they did there. The last thing I learned there was long division. I liked school very much and especially espec-ially enjoyed reading. I was several sev-eral years ahead of the children my age for this reason. Panguitch was the only place I attended school. "One of my first testimonies of the value of praver occurred when "We received our endowments later in the Manti temple November, Novem-ber, 1891 when Alva took a load of wool to Salina. We went from there to Manti by horse, and wagon. It took us at least ten days to make the trip to the, temple. On the way back we were caught in a snow storm at Panguitch. We camped just under a hill. While Alva went after wool, I found a sunny place on the south side of a tree. I had been shaking and was terribly cold but began to feel warmer. When he came back and saw me he made me go with him after the next arm load because he was afraid I was freezing. I probably was because I had chilled and was unable to get warm until the next day. "We brought a one room log house across the creek from my folks. We lived there about three years. Our first baby, Sarah Vida, was born there May 24, 1893. Our next baby Jos. Aaron was born while we still lived there. He was born Aug. 25, 1894 and died Jan. ! I was about twelve. I was working at that time for a lady on a cattle I ranch out side of Panguitch. It j was my duty to herd the calves out i on the bench, but I had to take knitting along so as not to be idle while herding them. While chasing the calves one day, I lost one of my needles. I was a little frightened fright-ened as the lady I worked for was very strict and I was afraid to go home without the needle. I searched every where while I watched the calves, but was unable un-able to find the needle. Finally, I knelt and prayed that I might find the needle. When I finished I got up and walked straight to a little white sage brush about 30 feet away and stooping over it, I saw my needle, standing straight up. It is needless to say how happy and grateful I was when I saw it and went home with a much lighter heart. 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