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Show Jodat lAJomen SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1 1 1M 1 MmWuJ1 z 1971 - i? 1 By SADIE GREENIIALGH Six wonderful ladies reside at Nephi, all over 90 years of age. Their eyes still sparkle, their memories are very keen, a sense of numor still remains with each of them. All but the two eldest still care for themselves and four of them still live alone. They can each give a good accounting of the time they have spent here and the space that has been alloted to them. An easy, carefree life is not the thing that has ; preserved them so well. One of the things they have in common is the humble way they each started married life; most in but two rooms. Each baked her own bread, churned butter, scrubbed clothes on the wash board, heated flat irons on the top of the stove, made her own soap, heated water on top of the stove, enjoyed a bath once a week (in a tin tub) cleaned soot and ashes from a wood and coal stove, kept the chimneys of the coal-olamps shiny, knew how to salt down a pork and make a mustard plaster and had her babies in her own home and each of them had but one husband. il They have all been very patriotic and love their country. The flag and the Star Spangled Banner are something sacred and each of them (See LIVES FILLED, p. 24) Lucy Carter, when she announced her engagement to Barton Brough'in 1910. 1. 2. Mrs. Alice McCune who has enjoyed a century of graceful living. 3. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Burton as they began married life in 1903. 4. Mrs. C. W. (Laura) Morgan, a past president of Utah,State Service Star Legion. 5. Mrs. Gideon (Elsie) Sidwell, who still keeps a lovely garden. and Mrs. Hyrum Broadhead, when she was young matron in W02. 6. Mr. Page 21 |
