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Vivian married a good boy Clarence Rencher, Leigh was married to Luella Knudson in 1923, my cousin Susies daughter who lived in Bluewater. All of us who could went to see them married. They lived in Holbrook. Luella's mother said to me 'Be good to my only girl' & I have tried to be good to my sons' wives & I have enjoyed them. Mable being a motherless girl has been very close & I have tried to be a mother to them all, they are very dear to me.
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High School. Forest & Lou stayed at the Stradling's & went to High School one winter. Hugh, Lou and Bessie were all married so fast. When Josephine was preparing to marry I had such a sadness I couldn't talk about her marrying without tears. Forest tried to comfort me saying Golden was a good boy but the sad feeling was always there. So she & Golden were married, the same day he & May at Neilson's, Josephine & Golden at our home. We always had an especially fine wedding with friends & relatives. We had dinner at Neilson's & supper at ours, the day Forest & Josephine were married. Leigh stayed on at the farm to help until Jay was older, Leigh going away on jobs to help at times, (very glad for the jobs) stayed on at the farm till we decided it was too hard. Leigh went off to work in 1922. Jay freighted to help us, he drove a truck for Hugh at times. Hugh was the first one here to get freight to supply the stores by truck. It had always been brought in from Holbrook by teams before. There were soon others trucking freight. Jay finally bought him a truck, there was hay & wool to freight. Jay's truck caught fire between here & Holbrook & burned but he
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bought another. At one time he wanted to go off to study to be an Air Pilot but it was when his father was down in bed & I felt so alone. I couldn't get out & work to help mothers with new young babies or do housework for our neighbor Louise Udall, as we had done, so I talked to Jay & persuaded him to stay while his father was so helpless. I hated to see him give up his hope of flying but he got to be a pilot later & I was glad he finally got his desire. Moroni was able to cut wood all the first summer, the year we put up 600 quarts of fruit. Ben & Liza bought a home in town with fruit on the lot. They gave us fallen fruit (two pages over to continue)
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As I was a counselor to Sady Hamblin who was Stake Primary President, before we moved from the farm, it was my turn to go to Primary Conference for the June Conference in 1924. Moroni needed to have some sealing done on the Richey line. Forest & May took Lou & Roy, Leigh & Luella hadnt had their sealings so Forest fixed his truck for Moroni & I with very comfortable seats in the back. Leigh fixed for Roy & Lou to go with him & we all went to St. George Temple together, did all the sealings & they all came back home. I went on to Salt Lake City to spend a month with my sister Lizzie & visit
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