Ivan Merriman Lewis     his story from 1937 to about 1950     I bought my first car after I came back from my mission in Samoa in 1937. I went to Gallup, New Mexico and bought a Model A Ford Coupe. I took it to St.Johns twice before I got married. The second time I went to Conference. Sunday evening, Daisy and I were sitting on the couch, hand in hand, we had just eaten. Her mother had just gotten up from the table and said, "Are you two getting married?" It had not been so long since I had asked her. Then I said, "Will you marry me?" She said, "Oh, yes." I said, "When?" She said, "How about tomorrow." I said, "Okay." We went from there to the porch to plan it. We got to bed about two A.M. We went up to Jay's and Mable's and got them to come. Then we went to the courthouse and got the license and back home. There were invited: Hugh Richey, who was the Bishop, who performed the ceremony. Vivian Rencher, Tamer Jones, Elizabeth Stradling, Leigh Richey, Luella Richey, Jay Richey, Mabel Richey, Mary Ann Richey, Katie James and more. Tamer Jones and Elizabeth Stradling signed as witnesses. We had ice cream and chocolate cake. We had our picture taken afterwards. Daisy had a bunch of gladiolas flowers. We went back to Ramah, where I found a house south of Bond's store. We stayed at Grandma's house until we found one. It was a two-room house, big enough, and that's all. It had a smoky cook stove and that's all. Golden Farr brought a piano that Daisy had bought. Also some other things. We didn't have a potty outdoors for a little while. The sawmill job at Box S was only part time. And paid $3 per day. I was stacking lumber in the yard. Daisy and I lived for a time in a little lumber shack at the mill. Then came into Ramah where I rented a two-room house from EA. Bond where we lived the summer of 1937 and into the fall. We didn't get to the temple until the fall, 26 October, 1937. When we came back, Hugh Richey, Daisy's brother, offered me a job driving a John Deere tractor pulling a "tumble bug" to build stock tanks east of St. Johns for Jake Barth and others. In March or April of '38 I went to work for Fred Whiting who was building two houses for my wife's mother to rent. Clarence Rencher and myself went to work on them for a couple of months. We were getting paid at Whiting's store in goods and services. One day I needed money for something and had a devil of a time getting it out of Whitings. Then we went back to Ramah in May 1938 and farmed the "Old Lewis Place" (my grandfather's homestead, three miles southeast of Ramah) with my Uncle Gilbert until fall and winter of 1938. Then back to St. Johns where I hauled and cut wood and sold it together with Leigh Richey, until March or April of 1939.     out at the ranch My wife gave birth to a cute little baby girl, April 5, 1939. Dr. Bouldon was down to Grandmother Richey's house tending Daisy when the baby was born in the northwest bedroom.