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James Richey is my husband Moroni Richeys
father they knew each other in Manti. from the 13 Ward S. L. City 1884
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he cut stone all the time it was being built my father cut stone for it but not steady as grandfather & uncle Joseph his oldest son did I remember taking my fathers dinner many times & seeing he & Grandfather & Uncle Joseph cutting those beautiful points around the Sun stones they were so perfect Grandfather was President of the Stake at Manti & James Richey was one of his counselors then my father & James Richey met in St. Johns when they had been so far separated. The Richeys & will Sherwood were bringing a sawmill to Ariz. when Apostle Snow called them to bring it just as near to St. Johns as possibel to build up the place & my father was called to come help settle St. Johns. Father got to haul lumber to St. Johns for lumber from the sawmill & built a 2 roomed house on main St. with the lumber he earned meanwhile the Harrises who had a shingle mill in the mountain let us live in their house during the summer, someone loaned us a cow to milk & Sister Bjorkman let us milk it in their corral but the other cows did not like the strange cow & one time while mamma was milking a cow hooked her & she was very sick Uncle Hyrum fathers brother moved to St. Johns during the summer, Mamma was sick so long she knew she could not
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live & she did not want Aggie to go back to her aunt & Grandmother to grow up in Salt Lake City & Bro & Sister Willard Farr Adopted her & promised if they ever went back to visit their people they would take Aggie to visit her grandmother & aunt. We had many good friends by then & many helped & were very kind during mammas sickness it was a terrible trial to us when mamma died she was buried the day before Christmas Bro & Sister Farr took us home from the funeral & did all they could to make things pleasant for us, the Farrs made a good home for Aggie her mother didnt want her to go back to Salt Lake City to live & she knew if Aggie stayed with our father that her Aunt & grandmother would get her Sister Farr promised to take Aggie to see her Aunt & Grandmother if they ever went to Utah & they did but they & Aggie made such a fuss about her going back with Sister Farr that they knew Aggie would never be happy again with them so they left her with her Aunt & Grandmother I felt like I had lost a sister for I loved her but not with the strong love I had for my own sister Lizzie who was younger than I. Our father hauled wood & went into the hills being gone overnight he hated to leave us girls alone so he found families where we could help tend children & have a home he bought our clothes & came to see us often, one summer he was digging a well at home so we lived at home with him.
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