Mother was a great lover of flowers, and in the year 1925 she took first prize for having the largest variety of flowers in blossom at one time in Morgan County for which she received some choice tulip bulbs. She took first prize also for having the best vegetable garden of any woman in Morgan County in the year 1914. She was a Relief Society Visiting Teacher in North Morgan for several years and was treasurer of the Relief Society for 30 years. She was a courageous little woman who cared for the sick and those in need. In 1927 father had a paralytic stroke which left half of his body paralyzed. For three long years mother patiently waited on him day and night doing everything possible to make him comfortable. In the summer of 1930 my father and mother received a lovely pair of wool blankets for being the oldest living couple in Morgan County. Father died on the 5th of November of that year. Mother's faith promoting incidents are numerous. Her health was not at all what it should be and at one time she was very sick. She had faith that if she would fast and go to Fast Meeting and be administered to she would be blessed. The Fast Meetings in those days were held on Thursday morning once a month at 11 o'clock. This Thursday morning was very stormy and prevented her from going. She was so disappointed that she cried. Shortly after mother had gone to bed that night three women clothed in white apparel appeared in the door way, came to her bed, placed their hands upon her head and blessed her. She could feel their Heavenly influence although she did not hear them speak. The next morning she felt perfectly well and went about her work singing songs of praise to her Heavenly Father. At another time when my little brother Lloyd was two months old he was very sick. After two weeks of suffering his eyes became glassy, his mouth opened and there was a look of death on his face. Mother was very frightened and asked father to bring the Elders quickly. While they were administering to him his little mouth closed with a crash and he fell into a snoring —36— sleep. He slept for two hours and when he awoke he was very hungry. He was instantly healed at this time. When he was one year and five months old he became very sick again. In the meantime we had moved to the tunnels near the Slide as father had been sent there as watchman. It was a lonely out of the way place and no medical help could be obtained. Mother suggested the family fast and pray in his behalf. Every member of the family fasted and at five o'clock that night we all knelt around his bedside and offered a prayer to the Lord in his behalf. He began to recover that very hour and enjoyed perfect health until the following summer when he contracted whooping cough and pneumonia. For seven weeks he was very sick. The folks had scarcely any rest. Then he seemed much better and asked father and mother to take him to bed with them and they did. At five o'clock in the morning he asked mother to get up with him. Mother was going cjuietly out of the room so not to disturb father when she heard a voice say, "We have spared your child's life for one more year, but he must go now." Mother said, 'Thanks for his company for the year he has been spared," yet she did not realize he was going to die. He seemed much better, and asked mother to dress him which she did. He then asked me to get him something to eat. I spread him a piece of bread and butter and as he took the first bite his little head dropped and he was gone. I ran in the bedroom and told father and he told me to run to the neighbors for help. Father was so excited he asked them to administer to him. My brother came back to life and as he opened his eyes he said, "I want to go, I want to go." Mother asked him where he wanted to go and he said, "Angel Land." He asked my sister to sing for him and she sang "Baby Is Going to Bye Lo Land," one of his favorite songs. He went into convulsions and for eight long days he suffered terribly. When they realized what was happening they dedicated him to the Lord and we were all very thankful to our Heavenly Father that the little fellow's suffering was ended. —37—