Ogden Daily Standard | 1892-02-24 | Page 3 | Memories of the Old Folks

memories Me morle of the old folks thero there is never a snowstorm but that grandfather or grandmother remembers a worse one away back in the fabulous times of thirty forty or sixty years ago no late springs or early autumn frosts surprise them for they know by long experience that the promises ot of seed time and harvest are sure they are better than town histories for they furnish not only facts but I 1 illustrations ll 11 u ea they are versed in genea genealogies 1 og when a western paper comes home with a marked item telling of the success some boy or girl is achieving 2000 miles away 1 grandfather and grandmother crand mother will tell tel you whether the germ gerni of success came from the smith or jones side of the house the smiths natural aptitude or the jones energy when people wonder why young black with his good home went down hill the old people can show how tho the sins of a man are visited upon those who follow him they remember in what year abiathar Ab lathar perkins was bom and whom Ell eliphalet phalet ross married tor for his first wife they know that dr Pl plumbers Plum mera second wife was a ilowe rowe and not a springer and that she belonged to the miles howes in epsom and not to the eusebius rowe family in sheffield lewiston journal