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My Father died in 1900 leaving Aunt Harriet with Ida, Welcome & John. I loved my father very much & missed him & I was so sorry for Aunt Harriet being left alone.
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again after some time. I always kept such close watch of my children knowing where they were & what they were doing. When others came to play I kept them close by. My children never went to play away from home long at a time & always came home on time. I never trusted children who could come & stay for hours or all day. My children were too precious so I kept track of them. I felt they were a precious trust the Lord had given to me. Moroni felt the same & talked the gospel in our home. He had such a good memory & watched world affairs, believing the gospel & telling it to us. I know little ones understand young, I used to read the Book of Mormon to Lou when she was 5 years old about the great & wonderful blessings of the Lord. When the tears would come into her eyes, I knew she felt the spirit of the Lord as I did. Our baby Emily Elizabeth was born 26 June 1900 in St.Johns Ariz. Moroni was always so thankful as I was & would come & kneel by the bed & look at Baby & I like we were so wonderful. We would thank the Lord for our baby & for each other that once more a little one had been given into our charge. We felt so deeply the responsibility of training them aright. We moved back to the farm again as
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We had moved over to be with close neighbors, from the spring that was on Moroni's homestead when Elinor was suffering so much. Then after years we moved back where we could raise a garden. We had plenty of water the year around in the ditch for gardens & house use but dry years there was none.
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soon as I was able. Bessie, we called our little girl & she was such a darling & comfort to us. she had such bad cramps as others had colic, but she out grew them. While she was still a baby, her first summer, my Dear Sister came to see me it was so wonderful to have her visit me, we lived so far apart. She had a baby Norman some older than Bessie. She always brought me clothes & nice things for the children. She had sent me a package of white goods with lace & embroidery for me to make up for my baby clothes. It was so wonderful for me & made Forest & Hugh white blouses with embroidery around the big collars as they wore them then. As I didn't need so many clothes for Bessie, I had some left over of what I had for the others baby clothes. Lizzie stayed about 2 weeks while Bessie was a baby. Water was so scarce in the ditch Moroni made a
sled for a water barrel & got it often from the Spring on our land across the river, hitching a horse to the sled. He had done that so long that we decided to move over to the Spring onto our own place. He scraped a level place on a sloping hillside for a house where the big spring could run by the house, that running water so fresh with watercress
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