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Show Oldest Resident of County Honored on 94th Birthday Mrs. Manomas L. G. Andrus, oldest resident of Washington county, celebrated her ninety-! fourth birthday last Tuesday. Over Ov-er 100 friends and relatives called call-ed to honor her at a tea given at the home of Mrs. Vilate Wadsworth. Wads-worth. , Although she has been blind for twelve years her mind is bright and her health good. She is active ac-tive and enjoys helping about the home. She is a constant attendant attend-ant at the temple, attending several sev-eral sessions a week and is a I regular attendant at church meetings. meet-ings. .The tea in her honor was given by her daughters, Mrs. Vilate .Wadsworth and Mrs. pearl Morns. The' tea .was from two until six and in the evening relatives honored hon-ored her. She is the daughter of George Washington and Mary Ann Gibson. Gib-son. Her parents started across the plains with the first company of L.D.S. emigrants in 1847, but because of the illness of her father fath-er they were forced to spend the winter in Pueblo, Colo., coming on to .Salt Lake valley in 1848. She remembers her girlhood experiences ex-periences vividly. "As a young woman I worked for President Young," she said. "I did not have to do cooking, but just did housework for his wife, Zina. They lived in the Beehive house." Her husband. James Andrus, had charge of the Canaan herd. He was also in charge of the local military organization and participated parti-cipated in all the raids against the Indians. At one time she was left at the herd with only one hired man and her 18-month-old baby for company, her home, a covered wagon boy. About sunset some 80 Navajo warriors rorje to the camp and demanded food. She had the hired man give them a sack of flour and a beef, and 'she sat in the wagon holding her child all night, while they feasted and danced. At another time she was forced to leave her home in Grafton because be-cause of Indian raids, and move to Rockville. The house she had expected to get was occupied, so she lived in a cow shed. Her babies had scarlet fever at the time and both died as a result of the exposure. She is the mother of 13 children, child-ren, five of whom are living. They are: A. B., M. W., Charles, Mrs. Vilate Wadsworth and Mrs. Pearl Morris, all of St. George. She has 28 grandchildren and 21 grcut-grandchildren. |