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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show son Edward who was just over 3 years of age. He died of Scarlet Fever. He was a very blond, blue-eyed child who liked to do his own special dancing any time he heard music. I remember by brother Darius contracting diphtheria when he was about 10 years or age and passing away. Two days before Darius became suddenly ill, mother heard knocking at a door at the back of our home--a door that was never used. She opened the door and no one was there. The following morning she opened the door again, and there were no footprints in the snow. Mother always felt that this occurrence was a premonition. The illness was so advanced that the doctor could not save his life. The doctor did give my sister and me an inoculation, and we did not become ill with this dreaded disease. Because our house was under quarantine, there could be no public viewing. However, my parents placed Darius in the casket inside the house in front of the large front room window where relatives, friends and church members filed passed outside on the porch and viewed him through the large window. Darius was an extremely ambitious child. He used to wake his mother up in the middle of the night saying "Come on Ma, Let's do the washing!". Darius had quite an active sense of humor. For example, one time a relative of our uncle, who had been living with us for some time, was eating at the kitchen table. Darius, unbeknown to us, tied the man's foot to the table leg, and when he arose to leave the table, he fell to the floor. A number of times I heard my mother say that if she had stopped having children after the five boys, she never would have had her two daughters who were such a joy in her and her husband's lives. I truly believe that the Lord gave my parents two daughters to cushion the loss of the two young sons who died. Also the loss of two adult married sons was a great sorrow to my parents. Horace took ill and in 1933 had to close his auto top shop and came home for his parents to care for him. Dr. J. G. Olson, a heart specialist, and Dr. George W. Fister, a kidney specialist, and a third doctor all arrived at the house at the same time to examine him. Horace had a rare type of heart disease and had a kidney condition called Bright's Disease and pernicious anemia. During the prestigious annual May Surgical Convention in Ogden, several doctors examined Milton and could not decide what his illness was. They suggested that he be examined at the State Tuberculous Hospital in Ogden at 7th Street and Harrison Blvd. Mother and I took him there. From tests it was determined that he had cancer of the lung. My brother, Milton, passed away in 1944. Mother was very sensitive to other people and their problems. Blanche Ewald, a young woman about 20 years of age lived at 10th Street and Kiesel Avenue with her elderly parents. She was impaired by convulsions when a baby, and seemed peculiar to some people. Mother was kind to her, and Blanche would often come up to |