of a prominent family. For a designed, Heavenly purpose which was soon to the realized, our father refused offered official propositions, both Church and civic. The restored gospel found him ready to receive it. Our grandmother Madeleine Ricca Combe (maternal) had three brothers. One occupied the position of Secretary of State. The next held the rank of Major General and Master of Arms as the Champion fencer of the Military Commissioned Officers. The third brother was an expert penman and master tailor. My memory take me back to when I was a year and a half old. I usually went to meet my grandfather (who was returning with the milk) to get my drink of new milk. When I was two years old, my mother took us to her Uncle Thomas Combe's residence where others mothers convened with their children to have them vaccinated. I stood the ordeal without a whimperto the surprise of all the crowd. When I was four years of age, I remember the first day I went to school. I was dressed in a zephyr gingham dress (striped blue and red), and I wore a tuskan straw hat with black velvet streamers. I remember all the furnishing of the schoolroom and the benevolent, elderly schoolmaster. When I was eight years old, my mother sent me to my Uncle Stephen Combe who was ill with chills and fever. I nursed and took care of him, and I knitted a half dozen stocking feet in one day. When I was nine years of age I was sent to the city of Turin (about fifty miles away from home) to be governess to a boy eight and a girl five years of age. I was educated in the common Protestant school until I was thirteen years of age. At this age I was fully qualified to enter the Seminary boarding School for girls. The board of trustees had promised my father that I was entitled to free tuition as reward for meritorious deportment in high school, but I was refused admission because I was a Mormon. This was the most grievous and hard to bear disappointment of my girlhood days, for my aspirations were to become a schoolteacher. Yet, my aspirations were realized differently that I anticipated; for I have been a teacher in the Relief Society for forty-seven years and a Sunday School Teacher for over twenty-five years. My aim and object has ever been to serve in any capacity the authorities directed, to never resign any office except when requested by authority in order to be appointed to another office, and to discharge the duties of every office to the best of my ability. My motto has ever been and is now to seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all needful blessing shall be added. Now at the age of seventy-six, I am happy to state that I have never had the services of a doctor (except midwives) for myself and family. My faith in God has been my temporal and spiritual salvation so far, and I hope this faith continues the same the remainder of my earthly career. My desire has ever been to rear uprightly my family of one son and six daughters, and I have