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Their place was up on the bench near the Cemetery, there were many wild flowers, some bluebells. I used to gather them & take them over to my mothers grave. It had a white marble stone with clasped hands. None of our father's sisters lived in Salt Lake City & we only saw them at times. Grandma's hair was a creamy gray not the white that some get. My grandmothers were very nice & wonderful to me whenever my mother's mother Grandma Brown & Aunt Rozelie came to see us they always brought us presents. One time when I went to Little Cottonwood to visit them Aunt Rozelie took me to the house where we lived when mother died. When I got in I could tell her just where every piece of furniture was. She said it was as I remembered it & I could remember her propped up in bed. I was only 1 year & 10 months old when she died, but it all came back to me when I saw the room. When I was 12 years old, when we were moving to Arizona, Grandma, Aunt Rozelie & Uncle Hyrum Lord her husband, brought Aggie, & Lizzie & I big dolls with Bisque heads, wax
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faces & nice hair, the biggest ones we had ever had. I was 12 years old & enjoyed making clothes for them. It was the last time I saw Grandma but I had many good visits years later with Aunt Rozelie. She could tell me so much about their lives that I was glad to hear, Uncle Hyrum Lord was a very fine man. They had 2 children live to be grown that I knew & loved, Dan & Ada, & all of my relatives, I loved the relatives I ever saw.
The last Christmas in SL City was such a happy one, it was the best one I remember, (for our dear momma was buried the day before the next one in St Johns). We lived so near, our tree was in Aggies Grandma's upstair parlor & how it was loaded with lovely things & we enjoyed it so much. Before it had to be taken down, on New Year Day we put a big 1884 up on the top of it. Little did we think it would be our last time together in the City or State, for in the spring in 1884 when they were having so much trouble between Mormons & Mexicans in St Johns, Ariz. the Church called for volunteers to go to settle & help the Mormons.
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