told her if she would hold it in her hand under water it would turn into pretty beads. She tried it and burned her hand badly. Mother was a great lover of onions and as they had but few in the garden grandmother told her to leave them alone. Mother broke off a top and ate it. Grandmother smelled her breath and asked her why she did that. She told her she had not eaten a single onion—just the top of one. She almost drowned at one time and was saved by her mother. As she grew older she became a good swimmer and at one time saved her sister Agnes from drowning. Salt Lake City was the closest trading place for supplies and they would take their butter and eggs to buy them. On one occasion when her parents were in Salt Lake shopping her brother George and mother traded work. The first work she did was sawing wood and sawed the end of her thumb off. Mother picked the thumb up, bound it tight and it grew back in but left a scar, and then her brother had the house work to do as well as the outside chores. They were only allowed one pair of shoes each year and one year just as she got her new pair, she dropped one of them in a canal while she was crossing a plank and it floated away so she had to wear an old shoe with the new one the rest of the year. In the fall of the year she gleaned wheat and would select the best of the straws and make fancy straw hats to wear. Grandfather kept a small bunch of sheep. Mother has sheared sheep, washed the wool and got it ready for carding, after which she made it into rolls, spun it and wove it into yarn and cloth which they used for clothes and stockings for the family. Mother was a very fast knitter and at the time of World War 1 she knit sixty-six pairs of men's socks, five sweaters and thirteen blocks for shoulder blankets. She could weave carpets, make tallow candles—in fact she was skillful at all kinds of work. She always scrubbed her kitchen floor with sand. A neighbor once said her floor was clean enough to eat on it. She was very particular with her housework and it was her —34— job to scour all the kettles, pans, knives and forks each Saturday besides other important duties. She helped in the fields at harvest time. They would make lye from wood ashes, starch from potatoes, molasses from beets, and preserve carrots with molasses for fruit. Her father and brother trained to help fight Indians in the Black Hawk War so it left her with all the outside work to do. She was baptised and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Smith Thurston, Sept. 12, 1861. She was always willing to help in any way she could and was a Sunday School teacher, also a member of the choir. She taught school the year before she was married and was asked to teach after, but thought her home more important. At one time she was going to Salt Lake City to work but her brother William was struck with lightning and was burned badly so she waited until he was better and then went with the neighbors up Hardscrabble Canyon to work and it was there she met my father Benjamin Franklin Smith for the first time. On one occasion they were sent to Morgan for supplies and a load of straw. Mother was afraid to ride on the straw so she and Ben walked all the way back, a distance of nine miles to camp. The next morning there were huge bear tracks along the road the way they came. They fell in love with each other and were married in the Endowment House at Salt Lake City, Jan. 26, 1874. Their first home was at North Morgan at which place they resided the remainder of their lives. Ten children were born to them, seven boys and three girls. Their names were Mary Ann Elizabeth, George Washington, Mina May, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Conrod, Harriet Cordelia, William Moroni, Walter Simmons, Lloyd and Archie. Mother crocheted lace, knit stockings and mittens to help support the family. Father's wages were less than $40.00 per month, so they had to plan as how was best to support their family. In 1895 she visited with her sister Julia Walker on Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake. Antelopes were scarce there but buffalo, coyotes and snakes were numerous. —35—