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Show to the little log home built by George France. Hortense remembers the shock she suffered when she first beheld their new home. "I was excited about seeing our new Home," she said. "Aunt Louise Call's home looked large and splendid and I was not prepared for the sight that greeted my eyes. The tiny house I was bleak and ramshackle with an unsteady barn standing at one side. Daddy unlocked the side door which opened into the kitchen. There was an eerie hum. I looked at the walls and they were black with flies, all humming away. The furniture excapes me except for an oblong pine table. Before the week was over everything was spotless clean. My cousin, Elma Call, reminded me that during the back-breaking cleaning per¬iod Mother was diligently trying to clean the cream separator. Mother said, "This is the dirtiest, filthiest, oldest, ugliest—-", she hesitated for a moment. Elma said, "…….separator." Mother retorted, "Don't stop me, Elma, I have not run out of adjectives!" Hortense continued her narrative…… We had a cellar where Mother stored her bottled fruit, potatoes and onions that Daddy grew and cheese they made. We picked apricots and dried them on the sloaping roof of the cellar. Mother dried corn served up with cream and to this day I have never tasted anything to compare with that single dish. After the crop of alfalfa was cut Hortense's job was to ride the derrick horse while her father stacked the hay for winter feed. The family had a dog which her father named 'Sooner' because, according to John, the dog would sooner lie in the shade by the kitchen door than help him bring in the cows at milking time. Sooner was soon replaced by a white ram. John and May had first lived in Clearfield after their marriage where all of the children were born. When they left Mountain Green for the last time, they moved to Ogden. Here John operated a Church Welfare Farm for an Ogden LDS Stake. John and May also lived a short time in California where they made a home for LDS Missionaries. The Hatch family was always active in the LDS Church. May had ser-ved as President of the Relief Society and John was always involved in the dramatids of the MIA. —Hortense Hatch Robinson, Las Vegas, Nevada 322 RAY AND HORTENSE H. ROBINSON |
