pendence, Idaho, where the youngest child, Ann Eliza, was born in August 1894. Phoebe Zellnora Spaulding was visiting in Uintah when she died 24 May 1908. Her body was returned to Independence where it was met by a neighbor driving a team of white horses on a white topped buggy. She was buried in the Burton Cemetery. Ira Stephen lived with his children until his death. A grandson said of him, "Granpa Steve didn't make much money during his life and didn't provide many luxur¬ies, but he was a very good man and did the best he could." Ira Stephen Spaulding died in 1916 and was buried beside Phoebe Zellnora in the little cemetery at Burton, Idaho. T. Leonard Smith, Rexburg, Idaho 1912 George Kippen, youngest son of James and Catherine Watson Kippen, was born 19 October 1878, in Woods Cross, Davis County. He was 11 years younger than his brother, Robert. He grew up in Woods Cross and worked on the Kippen hold¬ings in Morgan County. As a young man he was blinded by an ex¬plosion while working at the Bingham Copper Mines. Because of this accident he received a small monthly pension which he managed to live on. Most of the time George boarded in Salt Lake City with a Mrs. Bertha Anderson, a kindly woman who was very good to him. Summers were spent on the ranch with his brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Ileen Kippen. Margaret Warner Ranson remembers him as a quiet and kindly man with a sense of humor. Many times she guided his steps to Peterson where he would pick up the mail. Along the way he would joke with her and recite one special poem which he loved. It was called 'Lasca.' George never married but lived out his life with no sight to see the beauties of the world. He was fitted with one glass eye but the other eye was not replaced because tiny particles of rock kept working to the surface, but he never complained. George Watson Kippen died in December of 1940. He was buried in the family buriel plot in Centerville. Margaret Warner Ranson GEORGE KIPPEN 173