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Show Biography of Sylvester Low Jr. May 22, 1933, Harvey Cole, Treasureton, Idaho and Jennie Viola Gustaveson, Treasureton, Idaho. Oct. 11, 1933, Alvin Dawson Atkinson, Treasureton, Idaho and Doras Sarit, Treasureton, Idaho. Sept. 5, 1934, Lloyd Donald Allen, Hyrum, and Grace Forrester, For-rester, Smithfield. Sept. 5, 1935, Archie J. Clay-pool, Clay-pool, Smithfield, and Gladys Morse, Logan. Oct. 2, 1935, Archie Low, Smithfield and Oreta Morrell, Logan. June 16, 1928, Oral J. Low, Salt Lake City, and Marjorie Bunnell, Salt Lake City. Dec. 15, 1938, Wilbur J. Green, Salt Lake City, and Bertha Ber-tha Anderson, Cardston, Canada. Oct. 19, 1931, Arthur Dowe and Marietta", Pocatello, and Mae Peterson, Marietta, Pocatello. While serving as bishop of SinitMeli1 Second ward, the period per-iod of depression engulfed the country. We saw some drastic changes In the economic system affecting the Church as well as government, chief of which was employmept, care of poor and needy, aged, dependants and W. P. A., social welfare, old age pensions, workmen's compensation, compensa-tion, was the outgrowth to meet the new problem. Pictures of loads of wood at the tabernacle shows how we cut expenses of ward maintenance. December 22, 1932 marked the 70tU milestone of my life, an occasion I consider one of the happy ones. Family and friends did honor to me that has spurred spur-red me on to better things. I append two tributes that I ap- predate most dearly, Dr. Rees and Ed Tuttle. Nov. 13, 191S' I married Margaret Mar-garet Smith Griffiths, my neighbor, neigh-bor, a very happy and" concenial union, which we enjoyed together for nearly 20 years. She was very devoted to me and gave me much support In all my callings and endeavors. Never In all that time did we have any misunderstandings misunder-standings that interfered with our pleasant relationship. A perfect per-fect arrangement of which we had mutually agreed upon before be-fore we were married, that we Continued on page four (HERE'S MORE ABOUT) Sylvester Low Jr. (Continued from Pago One) would hold sacred our covanents l and obligations to our former ' companions to whom we had I been staled for time and eternLjy and that our union was only for : time. We covenanted and agreed ! that we would have no claims on each others personal interests or possessions ei;her before or after I death. I havo won the love and , i respect of her children for whine . 1 1 am thankful, and I feel that she passed to the ereat bevond. had frequently been in our home came and administered to the child, and then left. The wife and I were left alone the babe on her lap. his eyes set. features drawn wi-.h tho look of death upon his face. I was kneeling by i.,t sMe I know wo were boih fearing each breath would be the l:.st and a prayer in our hearts for God to spare our child. When the door was suddenly opened, and in came Brother Collett ex claiming, "Something told me to come back and give the baby another blessing." He laid his hands upon his head and rebuked rebuk-ed the disease in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of the priesthood pronounced the blessings of life, health and strength to fill Its place, as he removed his hands, the baby looked up into his face and imiled Instantly healed. Brother Collett remarked, there every -hing will be alright, I can go lome now in peace. One of the public duties I have been called upon to perform was ;hat of preparing the dead for lurial. Appointed by the bishop if the ward until 1910 or there ibout, there were no professional indertakers. The preparation of he bodies of the dead, making )f burial clothes was the duty if the ones called to that work ill priesthood. I do not know low many of the dead I have 1 erved, but upwards of 100 or lore. Early in the history of our lommunities, it was customary d volunteer to dig the graves ratis. I have assisted in dig-Ing dig-Ing scores of them.. I feel and know that my life as been preserved on several :casions. Once while working at te Bmithfield dairy, coming ome from WarK one evening. iHlnp in a wap-nn with MVillmm knowing my children loved her and was grateful for her devotion devo-tion to me. She died April 12, 1938. I want to relate some incidents . that has occurred in my life, j that has given me a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel, ( and the power of the priesthood. ( On one occasion when Lillian j was about eight or nine years, old, she had pneumonia. We had j been doctoring her as best we ( knew how but she was growing j worse and was very serious. We ( sent for my brother James to 2 come and administer to her. II ( annolnted her, he sealed the an- ( nointing as we took our hands t from her head, she apparently c went into a coma. My brother! said maybe you had better send j. for a doctor. There was none s nearer than Logan or Richmond E Dr. Adamson of Richmond was c called, there being no telephones tl it was necessary to .send a mes-'g senger. William Pilkington drove g my horse and buggy to bring him. It. was a very dark night, raining very hard. It took two 0I hours to go and come. During tt that time she lay so quiet that, ft we despaired her life. I met the ri over and thus he finally pushed me under the fence, by which time help arrived and he was driven away. The year 1939 Social Welfare work was organized by the church, I served as ward work i lirector, putting over two priest-hood priest-hood projects, one by the high j priest group, built the steel wire fence at the Soft Ball park I ting $59.00 for the Prgoram. The second project ! a rehabilitation project by V the priesthood of the wartj k , polfing a total expenditure , $650.00 labor and casn re,', 831 man hours of labor, 1 $2 50 cash, accomplished ' I, working days. , A. Noble and Heber Smith. A hunter riding behind the wagon carelessly discharged a .22 guage rifle; the bullet passed through the rim of my hat bo close to my head - that a burning sensation sensa-tion ' over by ear caused a. shiver o run through my body; until I removed my hat and seen the bullet hole I thought I was hit. Anothor time I was attacked by a bull out in the pasture, bunted mauled and trampleds : escaping with two ribs cracked and my clothing torn Into shreds. Fortunately For-tunately the ground was soft and the bull had no "horns, and I had presence of mind each time he lunged at me to roll doctor at the door of the room and informed bim of the condition. condi-tion. He took one look and said: 'For God sake let her sleep". It then dawned on us that our prayers pray-ers had been answered immediately. immedi-ately. She slept for 12 hours and when she awoke there was no fever or distress, and her recovery re-covery was rapid. Our oldest son Charles when a baby two years old, was very sick with brain fever. Sister Mary Ann Hlllyard, a kindly and good woman who nursed- and , doctored sick children, called by the Relief Society to minister to ; the sick, attended him. Under her care he grew worse. She labored night and day doing all i her power. Finally, she said we w.ould have to' have other help. Brother' Daniel Colletit who 'J |