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Bessie fell from a Seesaw while they were playing at Aunt Harriet's. She was five years old & so patient as Dr.Woolford fixed her arm. That Summer Aunt Harriet moved with her people to Idaho. Bessie's arm healed pretty well. Then as Lizzie & Norman were here with us, in jumping Bessie fell & bent her arm where it was broke. Dr. straightened it & it grew straight. We enjoyed Lizzie's visits. Norman was her only child by Lee Henderson, then later she had Sidney. Her visits were a bright time in my life. We were motherless girls & always clung to each other, writing often & keeping track of each other. After our father died & before, Aunt Harriet tried to win our love. She could see she made a big mistake in not being friendly with us, but Lizzie nor I held hard feelings toward her. We had been homeless so much that we just made the best of it. She buried her oldest daughter Sylvia when she was the age Lizzie was when she & Lizzie could not get along. When Sylvia died, she asked our forgiveness & said, "can you girls ever forgive me for not being better to you?" We told her we had forgiven her & never had held hard feelings toward her. I know she grieved about it & the last time I saw her she said, "can you girls ever forgive me?" I took her in my arms as I had many times before & told her we did not hold hard feelings. She had endeared herself to us by her kindness & showed us she loved us. I want my children & grandchildren to know I can & do forgive. That is the only way we can be happy or that the
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Lord will forgive us. We must forgive & not hold hard feelings for it will turn us astray if we do. When winter came Moroni came home to St.Johns. It was good to have him home. He was not well all winter. When spring came Moroni spent most of his time at the farm plowing & milking cows & would always bring big cans of milk with him when he came to town to see us. We moved back to the farm before school was out in Spring to plant crops & garden. When Hugh was about eight & we moved back, the first night he said "I don't like this house, it hasn't any pictures on the walls & curtains at the windows," but I soon got them. I always made it as nice as I could. We always enjoyed our children & their cute sayings. They keep people young & happy with their laughter & sweetness. I often wished I could remember more of my children's cute sayings. Hugh used to say as he hugged us, "I love fazzer & mozer." We enjoyed them all so much. When we were expecting Jay, born May the 8th, 1908 in St.Johns, Lou had been working out & bought wallpaper. While she was cleaning the old house in town she stayed at AuntEm's. She made it so nice for us. There was an old fireplace that couldn't be used. she tore it down & threw it out a back window & worked so hard to make the house comfortable. She & the boys, as they were older & worked for others, helped us so much. Hugh bought a Cream separator that was such a wonderful help, Lou one time paid taxes with what she had earned, Forest & Hugh took |
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