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Show burried in his mother's arms in the Peterson Cemetery. In desperation, Howard Horsefield appealed to some fine people to take his children until he could get on his feet. Charlotte went with her aunt to Denver but later returned to be adopted by Lucinda V. Robinson. Sophia was but a few days old when Heber and Nodie Robinson took her as their own. Nodie was expecting a baby in a few months, Irene (Dot) who was born, 23 June 1893. Being the same age, Irene and Sophia played a lot together as they grew up at 'the home on the hill.' One day Samuel Horsefield, Sophia's father, came and got her, took her home to Peterson. Some time later Heber Robinson noticed her at the Fingle Bohman Store, unkempt and ragged. He put her in his wagon and took her home to Mountain Green again. Samuel complained but the officer refused to return her because she was not cared for and didn't want to return. Heber and Nodie later moved to Morgan where Sophia went to school. Later they moved to Layton where she continued her schooling. She became acquainted with the Elison family there and went to work for them in their home, while in her late teens, so she could buy some clothes and things she wanted. Sophia's greatest love was dancing and loved to dress up and go to dances with her parents to church spon¬sored dances. At the age of 22 she met and married Edward Josiah Spackman, 8 April 1915. Bernice Robinson Day recalls how much they all missed her when she went with her husband to make a home in Pingree, Idaho (near Idaho Falls). They raised potatoes as a main crop, and a family of five children as a bumper crop. The potato crop paid them $75,000 in a very short time. They paid for their farm and built a com-fortable home near the banks of the great Snake River. Ed and Sophia had two girls, Cleo and Mary, and three sons, Eugene and Lee and Elmer. All married and have families of their own. Sophia and Ed were always active in the L.D.S. Church and so were their children. Sophia attended Robinson reunions regularly and made it a point to renew her acquaintances with her family. Sophia lost her husband years before she died, 22 July 1984, and was burried at Pingree beside her husband. She had become a loving daughter to Heber and Nodie Robinson, She had only one half sister, Charlotte Simmons Robinson, whom she loved and visited often. She wal loved by many. 220 |