Show il ilk Z k 0 r ilk 1 4 ir 50 inu rt IN e 11 WO mrs sarah ann haws still Is able to turn out a very pretty of needlework and finds that 87 years Is not too big a handicap in keeping active making the best of what corner conics sums up the philosophy of mrs sarah haws in a little white house across from central scho school 01 sit sits an all elderly lady when you go in she may be sewing crocheting or even making quilts she will greet vou with a cheerful voice and a firm handshake that belies belles her 87 years mrs sarah ann haws was born in ih prove provo sept 24 1868 at the age of 13 her family was called by provo 2nd and ward of the church with two other families to settle the area of st johns in arizona married at 17 of the seven years that mrs haws spent in st johns three were part of her married life which she commenced at the age of 17 the couple returned to provo where they lived tor for just one year and then came to the vernal area arear in 1890 where mrs haws has lived ever since mrs haws and her husband tobe to be traveled by team front st johns to st georgette be married in the temple there five wagons made the three week trip three couple were on the way to remarried be married and the other wagons carried people already married who were acting as chaperons chaperones chape rons mrs haws said mid that the journey now would take just one day in an automobile she smiled at her memories of them sitting round the camp fire at night singing and ind telling stories td the young people today that would seem a strange way of spending a honeymoon she said although eh h w were married nov 13 1885 the weather in southern utah was still warm she remembered 30 yan years on farm for 30 years the family lived on a farm in naples and since 1920 mrs haws has lived at her present location when mrs haws flaws came here in 1890 she said she could remember a little general store on the vernal bank corner also a cooperative general store at the present penney location she told of a saloon being operated on the cobblerock cobb lerock service station corner and thought that was about all the buildings there were at that time after she bad had been in vernal for several years mrs haws recalled the advent of the radio there were little rubber tubes that you put in your ears she said tn ton children 11 1 I have raised ten children and they are all married and living in homes of their thelt awni own she khe said with an expression of graU gratitude tude mrs haws had three rons sons serving in the first world war and seven grandsons in world war 11 II airs mrs haws disclosed that she never had a washing machine until all her children were grown 1 I scrubbed all the washing out or on an old time ume washboard she sak sait her first and laii iasi children were girls and as thi I 1 were eight boys in between they had to be girls for the purpose of laundry and housework mrs haws recalled with a smile her fathers name was william willlam and her mothers sophia bush her father came to utah in 1856 and her mother a year later not knowing each other at that time both converts to the new latter day saint faith from england bringing her thought up to the present time mrs haws said she thought that television wasa but some of the programs were a bad influence on the children they do not realize it is a story and try to act bitout with dire results mrs haws believed homebody 1 I traveled much in fact ive never beun out of 0 the state since J moved back to utah ive ridden the train from price to provo but all the train riding I 1 have done I 1 dont ever want to go up in an airplane I 1 guess im just a homebody mrs haws confided while mr and mrs haws were working in the manti temple 21 years ago mr haws passed away we are a very united faro fain uy lly every day some bf my children come to visit ine me and lust just loday t thre ot them were in here hem my children are taking pretty good care of me mrs an expression press n of happiness sons sorts and daughters mrs haws ari are mrs mina strong springville Spring ville lewi pwen n A alvan vin and asael askel haws c caples oa 4 tipples Ti ples aples morris and vernal sterling haws provo marlow haws orero orem and andi mrs mm lucy Neil sort manz manti mrs haws also boasts 42 grandchildren 25 children and agop two great great it ft off life IS alto ao make poke the best of what comes ana gryto to be no bother to any one As mrs haws still docs does her own housework she can feet sure that she Is no bother at all but that in fact it is a pleasure to be in her presence |