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It was Signe who made my wedding dress. I had nothing to buy it with &
Moroni gave me five dollars to buy it. Alice Platt was engaged to Benjamin, Moroni's brother. Alice & I had our dresses alike & we all traveled to St. George five hundred miles to be married in the Temple. Before I was married, Mother Richey & Moroni's sister Ruth took me to Richville with them. That summer we made quilts for me & how I did enjoy the beautiful farm & being with Moroni day after day. He was tending the crop & milking cows while Benjamin was away freighting with their teams for money for the trip to St. George. It was a lovely trip riding beside my sweetheart day after day, camping out. I always enjoyed the scenery while traveling. Alice & I slept in one wagon, Moroni & Ben in the other. Moroni tended the horses, Benjamin did the cooking. When we arrived in St. George on Tuesday, it was a beautiful City after being so long on the road. When I first caught sight of the Temple so white in the green setting of the City I was thrilled. We stayed with Brother & Sister Long they were Alice's brother's
wife's parents. Alice grew up in St. George, Moroni & Benjamin in Washington five miles east of St. George. So they were all well acquainted for it was only 4 years since the Richeys
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Moroni, in 1888, was 39.
I was 16 when married after we were married & visited in St.George we went to Washington the Richey's old home & got some things they had left with their Aunt Jane they brought a five gallon can of honey & got provisions for our home trip we were 5 weeks going & coming home.
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had moved to Arizona. The old friends had parties for us, Wednesday the 12th of September 1888 Moroni & I were married for Time & Eternity in the St. George Temple. He was so kind & considerate of me & how very thankful I was for I was so young & no mother to tell me what married life & raising a family was like, But Mother Richey was a lovely mother to me. I hope I have been as good to my sons wives as she was to me. She helped me in every way.
Moroni had his homestead house & furniture ready for us on his side of the river where the springs were. The others got their water from the ditch that was taken from the river to water the farm land.
We lived at the farm. It was called Walnut Grove then, there was a grove of Walnut trees in the upper or South end of the Valey & a few trees of them on Moroni's part of the farm. He had homesteaded the west side of the Little Colorado River, Benjamin homesteaded the east side of the river. The West side had springs all along the hillside below the mesa of Volanic Rock that ran along the length of the place. The springs made the hillside green.
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