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Show Amanda Conk Will Observe Birthday f v i i v V . 1 I V ' f - "V . 1 I several months and her children so weak they had to learn to walk again. For several years thereafter water was hauled to the home in a lumber wagon. Later she made her home in Deseret, where Owen died in 1921. Some years after she married his brother,, William Conk, who died In 1945. Mrs. Conk is the mother of eight children: Mrs. Eva Kerr of Ely, Nevada, Owen LeRoy (deceased), Mrs. Nellie Dean Rowley of Deseret, Deser-et, Henry of Provo, Mrs. Elda Ann Wheeler of Delta, Mrs. Ella Mae Wheeler of Ontario, Oregon, George H. (deceased), Mrs. Mollie Gonder, of Garrison. She is the grandmother grandmoth-er of 33 children and the great grandmother of 20. Her family is devoted to her and bring her great joy. At the present time she resides re-sides in a comfortable and modern home in Delta. Many friends and relatives join in congratulating Mrs. Amanda C. Conk who achieves her 72 birthday birth-day on Nov. 28. She is a granddaughter grand-daughter of Jacob Croft and the only surviving child of George land Letitia Davies Croft, prominent pioneers of Millard county. Mrs. Conk's life has known many joys as well as pathos. Her father died when she was eleven years old.. The following year, during the dreadful black diptheria plague of 1889, her brother, Thomas, her grandfather, Davies, and her mother mot-her died. After their funeral, Aman da's two sisters became ill and died. There being no preventive known at that time, the disease I caused great fear thoughout the community. Streets were roped off around the homes where there was sickness, and clothing and furnishings furnish-ings lall had to be burned. Amanda was left alone to prepare her, sisters sis-ters for burial, which was done during the night in a heavy rain strom with the help of two elder brothers and ia loyal friend, Rich Cropper. She was left the only girl in the family of five children, one responsibility being to care for her ten month old baby brother. broth-er. She was married to Owen J. Conk in 1897 and lived in one room on a farm four and one-half miles southwest of Deseret until after her sixth child was born. Her married life, like her girlhood, saw many hardships. In 1905 a typhoid fever epidemic scourged the family, fam-ily, leaving Amanda bedfast for |