Page 47 Orren moved to Omaha where he completed his Doctor of Medicine work. From there they moved to Manning, Iowa where he and his brother, Merlin, practiced together. His brother died and Dr. Orren built a Memorial Hospital in memory of his brother. They had five children, vera, Merlin, Louise, Lester and Clara. Edna was an ardent housekeeper and home maker, and her home was her hobby. She was a great worker in Eastern Star and other clubs. She and her family have always contributed, in a great measure, to the social and church life of the town of Manning. She now lives alone in her lovely home, her husband. Dr. Uyatt, having passed away a number of years ago, and her children are scattered from Iowa to the western States of Colorado and California, with her daughter Clara and family the only ones remaining in the home town. She had Mother and Father there a great deal and they both passed away while in her home, The 13 years Father and Mother lived on the farm in Thayer County, Nebraska were mostly difficult ones. There were the drought years, the illness and death of Frank but with all in some ways happy ones. The friends made there continued to be dear ones for the rest of their lives, Milo and Emily witter were married and took over the farm and Father and Mother moved to University Place, Lincoln, where they lived their remaining days. They bought a very nice house. I was very glad they made the change for Mother had all the conviences of a modern home. Father had beautiful grounds and gardens. After his busy farm life I think he had hardly enough to do. He kept the street clean in front of the house and often would go to the farm to help with the work there. Now he used a riding plow instead of the hard way of the walking plow. They joined the Methodist Church and had all the benefits of very cultured community contacts. Father joined the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) and mother joined the w.R.C. which was the woman's Relief Corps, the auxiliary of the GS.A.R. They enjoyed these organizations very much and met many new friends. Edna was married to Orren Uyatt, a medical student at wesleyan who afterward continued his studies at Omaha Medical School and who with his brother. Merlin, also a physician, established a practice at Manning, Iowa where they very sucessfully built a clinic and hospital. During the flu epidemic of 1919 his brother, Merlin, had the dread disease and died from overwork caring for their patients. Dr. Orren built a Memorial Hospital in Manning, in honor of his brother Merlin, which he and his son Merlin, who also became a physician, operated successfully. On October 2, 1918 Father and Mother celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Clara was at home and managed affairs in a great way. She rented the Hospital in University Place, which was not in use. She hired the ladies of the Presbyterian Church there to put on the two meals, dinner and supper, for the 80 relatives that had gathered for the occasion. There was a reception in the afternoon for the old soldiers and their wives of the G.A.R. and the U.R.C. In the evening for the relatives, friends and neighbors. It was a very lovely affair and long remembered by all that were there. Of course there were side lights that made it all the more interesting. One was the appearance of Billy (william Oliver Hall) after the dinner while we were all at the table, who was our second grandchild and the only great-grand-child present. A number of letters were read from those that were not present. At this time and during world war I a good many food staples were rationed. I had a recipe for a yellow cake called Sunshine cate-e, which I thought would be a saving of sugar and flour as possible. I volunteered to send the recipe and gave it to Marshall to mail but he being a very. very busy man with all the responsibility of Page 48 the big" hardware store, forgot to mail it. That was my mistake, of course, and when I arrived in Lincoln, the day before the affair, they had just received the recipe, well, the long and short of it, when supper was over Amy and I baked the cakes for the dinner. It was late when we were through and after being on the train all of the night before we were both tired, we had been joking about what we might do and as this was a hospital and Dr. Orren seemed to know where to find things came across a straight jacket. So what did all the crowd do but barge into the room and put the straight jacket on me. It was awful and I hope I never see the day when anyone might have to be put in one of those things, I acted the part and fortunately did not lose my temper although I felt like it and they all had fun. Amy said she would have been very angry if they had done that to her. A cousin, Ed Lotspeich, Uncle Lyman's son, had been married recently and someone found some weevily rice with which they showered them. He didn't like it much which seemed to make it more fun. Lester, Edna's small son 3 years old, went to the front of the church at supper time as we were waiting for supper and with a hymn book was starting the singing. Someone, probably someone not so young, gave hirri a hat and he went about taking up a collection. He certainly made quite a hit. The next day people were going home and as this was just the begining of the terrible flu epidemic, some became very ill before they got home. By this time there were 16 grandchildren and 2 great-grand children. My Marshall and family with Ethel and Gladys and Ethel's son Billy and Gladys' daughter Lucille. Amy and John and their 4 sons; Max, James, Franklin and Herbert and their adopted daughter Eunice. Then Milo and Emily and their 2 sons and 2 daughters; Don and Amy, Harold and Evelyn. Edna and Orren and their & children; Dr. Merlin, Clara, vera Louise and Lester. All of these were at the Golden wedding. The summer Father was 80 years old he and Mother visited us in Ft Collins. we had a young cherry orchard, 23 acres, in which the weeds were getting the start of us. Every working day for a month I drove the Ford run-about the 4 miles taking him to the orchard. In that time he cut down with a hoe every weed in the orchard, when Father had finished the hoeing of the orchard he announced "Now that job is done we will be going home tomorrow as we have bean here a month". On that evening quite late Dr. Uyatt, Edna and their family arrived. Father then decided they would stay a few days longer. He had wanted very much to go to the cabin and suggested that we take the run-about and take Mother and he would go on the stage, but I had not driven through the Big Narrows so I was afraid to do that. Marshall was away from home and up at the Michigan Camp on Cameron Pass. Some time after this Marshall called me from the camp telling me to meet him at the cabin but I could not do it. when he came down some other way he insisted I go back with him and that I would drive. I said, "But how will I get back"? He said, "You will drive back and alone", which I did, and after that drove through the Big Narrows many times even taking the grandchildren with me. with his implicit faith in me I had confidence in myself. Father and Mother had their trip to the cabin after all. we had a real family party there, with Dr. and Edna and their families, Ethel and Jack and their family, Gladys and Fred and their family, Jack's mother, Mrs. Maynard, Marshall and I making 21 of us. we rented the Dunn cabin and with our two cabins we had plenty of room. Dr wyatt wanted to know if he could get to the Michigan Camp with his car. The road was terrible with lots of stumps and rocks and was not even a good wagon road. Cars had been over among them, including our Ford runabout, and he insisted on going. So on this Sunday morning the men prepared to go when Mother asked me if Father was going. I said he could not stand such a rough trip and she said "He would be very Page 49 much disappointed". Marshall said it would be a very hard trip and to a 11,000 foot elevation but he could go if he wanted to. And so Father went and walked the 1'i miles along the ditch bank where the car could not go. He came back in good shape and so delighted that he had made the trip with the "boys", we have his picture taken with the boys on Cameron Pass. That was one of his great days I am sure. On that same week we drove to Estes Park and up to the snow and he and Mother enjoyed that trip so much too. when Mother was about 80 she fell in the house and broke her hip. For several days she did not know it was broken but when it caused her so much pain she was taken to the hospital where, when x-rayed, it was found to be broken. She stayed in the hospital for 6 weeks and really enjoyed it as she did not have much pain and the nurses made quite a fuss over her. Then was brought home and stayed in bed for some time, cared for by Marion, our cousin Albert's daughter, who lived in Lincoln. Soon she got about very well, but from that time on she used crutches. In 1924 Father became ill with hardening of the arteries which affected one of his feet. This was most terribly painful and he suffered for 6 weeks when death relived him. Dr. Orren was very wonderful, coming to Lincoln often and doing everything he could to relieve him. Finally he took him in his car to Manning and give him sedatives to deaden the pain. He lived a short time but was under sedatives most of the time. In his last minutes he sprang from the bed and said "My son, My son", we wondered if he had a vision of seeing Frank in his passing into glory. The funeral service at Edna's house was very beautiful and Edna and Orren did everything that any one could do. His body was taken to University Place and a service was held there in his home church after which he was taken to beautiful Uynka cemetary. His was a good life and he was always found at every church service. He was a great reader and enjoyed the benefits of the public library there. He enjoyed going to Uesleyan University, which was near their house, and very often went to the concerts and other musical affairs at the University, He had wonderful vision and scarcely used glasses. In the later days he found he could not remember books that he was reading so read Dickens and others that he had read before and enjoyed. The Bible was one of his favorite books always, Mother and Clara went on living in the home place. Clara being very busy in business life was not at home very much but usually had some one with Mother so she would not be alone. Mother made a trip to Ft Collins in 1926. Alva Lotspeich, her nephew, was in Lincoln and brought her to Scotts Bluff where Ethel met her with her car. She was there about fc weeks and while I lived upstairs in an apartment, she was always ready to make the stairs. I took her for a ride every day and went to church and to my Fortnightly club and to get apples and the orchard etc., and she seemed to enjoy it very much. Mother could use her eyes then but later could not see very much and sometimes not at all on account of cataracts on her eyes. while there she embroidered pillow cases for each one of we girls for Xmas coming. She read a good deal and enjoyed telling me in detail the stories she read. She recited to me a little poem she had memorized from the S.S.Paper. She went back to Lincoln by herself on the train and all the families came to Denver to see her off. I gave the porter a dollar which she thought terrible, but he cared for her very well indeed. when she was here Marshall was reading aloud "wells History" and she was much interested and did not want to miss any of it. Mother, after losing her eyesight, hemmed kitchen towels. The hem was turned and pressed. The material was furnished to the blind and when finished the person doing the work was paid 9^ apiece. Mother did these very well and occupied some of the time. In 1931 Mother went to Edna's Page 50 home for a visit. while there she became ill and was very much of a care for Edna. I went there in November and helped as much as I could. Mother had a light cerebral hemorrhage and would be more or less irrational a good deal of the time. She would think she was on the farm in Nebraska and was driving the team of horses, Mary and Joe, which she often did. She would be better for a few days and then have another attack. At times I would read the Bible to her and saying the words of some text she would say it with me, and at one time she said "Those are precious words". Mother was brought up in a very religious home, and she and Father did their best to make their home the same and their teaching was accepted by all of their children. Mother told me that at one time when they lived on the farm in Nebraska and the hot wind and the drought made everything look bad she felt very discouraged. She had done a big washing and was hanging out the clothes. I am sure she had been praying for she heard a voice speak to her saying, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world". She said from that time on, no matter what happened, her faith was strenghtened and she was comforted and knew everything would be all right in the end. I helped Edna with the care of Mother for 6 weeks when she went into a coma for several days. She slept quietly away and died January 15, 1932. As with Father, a beautiful ceremony was held at the very lovely mortuary in Manning, Iowa. Mother looked beautiful and again there was a funeral in the church at University Place M. E. Church, and Mother was laid to rest beside Father in the lovely Uyuka cemetary in Lincoln, Nebraska. Edna and Orren were so wonderful to Mother and Father, caring for them very often in illness in their house for which we all were very grateful and for which we surely thank them. ETHEL MARGUERITE MOORE was born October 19, 1892 on a Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in woodbine, Iowa. She weighed 7)2 pounds and was a beautiful child, being plump and had dark hair and brown eyes. For a few days she did not seem very happy and cried a good deal. After awhile she got settled down and a better baby could not have been found. She grew fast and we thought she was very smart. At ten months old she was walking and then soon after that began to say words and chattered all the time in a lingo all her own. when she was 23 months old a sister arrived to keep her company. For some time she was not sure she liked her very well, but in time she was almost a little mother to her. They had a small wagon in which Ethel hauled Gladys about. One day I found her going calmly along on the edge of a high bank above a little stream back of the house. It would have been quite a fall if the wagon had gone off, Ethel was very adventurous, climbing to the top of a ladder which leaned against the house where her father had been painting. Another time, when 3, she climbed on some lumber and from there onto the barn where I found her astride of the peak. After a good deal of coaxing and urging I got her down. when about 3 we visited my Father's farm at Hubble, Nebraska. They were wanting her to stay a while after I went home. Father had several horses that they used in the fields and after coming in from work they turned them into a pasture where they could get water and grass, while we were still at the supper table we looked out and saw Ethel with a big stick driving the horses into the pasture. They usually set the dog on the horses to drive them out and they would run and kick. But this time they were going along peacefully. Father said "No, I had better take her home", which I did of course, One time when she was about 6 or 7 we were again at Father's farm. One day we went for an all day visit with one of Mother's good friends. They had an old horse and told Ethel she might ride her all she wanted too, not thinking she would want to ride Page 51 all day which she did. The old mare must have been worn out. But the next morning she could scarcely move and cried with pain as she was so sore with so much riding. She finally got up and was not so bad off. She went to a kindergarten, which was a private school. She liked it very much. Her Father and I visited the school one guest day and were much amused at her very energetic performance when she said this; I put my right hand out I put my left hand out I give myself a shake shake shake And turn my buddy about All of which she did in a vary vigorous manner. She moved to Ft Collins on April 19, 1904 with her parents where she entered Remington School. Later she went to Laurel Street School which was a new building and through the 8th grade there. Then later to High School on Meldrum Street where she graduated May 29, 1910. She was ill a good deal and lost one year of High School. That building later became a Junior High School when a new High School was built on Remington Street. She decided that she wanted to work and worked in a photograph gallery and then in a book store, when Ethel was 13 she spent the summer at Father's farm at Hubble, Nebraska, She kept them frightened with her antics. She climbed to the top of the windmill tower and sat there and sang. Her Uncle Milo let her drive the team of horses when they went to town. I think she was rather lonely but had a really good time. She took the examination for a job in the Post Office and passed with highest grade. She worked for several years as General Delivery Clerk. It was as good an education, in a way, then going to college. In 1915 she and Gladys went to the San Francisco world Fair, she paying Glady's way. They visited their Father's sisters and other relatives at Marshfield, Oregon. They had a lot of experiences taking the stage from Roseburg to Marshfield as there was no railroad thru there then. They had a wonderful trip, On May 24, 1916 Ethel was married to Oliver wendell Hall who was a partner with his brother, Sigourney, with the Ford Motor Co. A son, Robert Oliver was born to them March 17, 1917. He was not strong and lived only 2 days. Another son, William Oliver Hall was born July 30, 1918. In October when Billy, as we called him, was 2 months old Ethel took him to Lincoln, Nebraska for Father's and Mother's golden wedding anniversary. Billy was the only great-grandchild there and was made much over. In September 1918 Oliver joined the Automotive Department in the U.S.Service. He came to Denver and while there had the Influenza, He was very ill and while not fully recovered was sent to Raritan, New Jersey in the Ordinance Department. He had not recovered from his illness which had affected his heart and he passed away on January 13, 1919. He was a fine young man and the soldier who accompanied his body to Ft. Collins said "He was a perfect gentleman". Ethel lived at home at 212 west Laurel Street until July 31, 1920 when was married to Edward Jackson Maynard who was Assistant Profesor of Animal Investigation at the State Agriculture College at Ft, Collins, Colorado. On May 16, 1921 John Marshall Maynard was born. On January 29, 1923 Edward Burton Maynard was born, and on June 6, 1924 Virginia Jane Maynard was born. For a while Page 52 after Ethel and Jack were married they lived in a suburban home south of Ft. Collins and later moved to 212 west Laurel, Then to a smaller home at 645 Uhedbee Street. At this latter home the three boys, with neighbor boys, dug caves in the back yard, made boats and were very busy indeed. In 1931 they moved to Logan, Utah where Jack was head of the Department of Animal Investigation and later was appointed Dean of Agriculture and Forestry. They liked Logan and its people very muich and had many fine friends among the Mormon people as the town was 97% of that religion. In 1936 they moved to Billings, Montana where Jack took a position with the Great western Sugar Co, as Specialist in By-Products. They liked Billings very much and enjoyed the social and religious life of the community. Ethel did Jack's secreterial work and was in his office from September to April each year. while there Bill went to College in Bozeman and Missoula and then to an Aviation School in California from which he graduated. John, after finishing High School, joined the Marines where he remained 6 years. Burton finished High School and then went to Missoula to the State University then into the Army. Virginia went to Ft Collins for her last year in High School graduating from there and then went to California to work in Douglas Aircraft and Lockheed Aircraft. In August 1945 they were transferred by the Great western Sugar Co. to Denver, Colorado where Jack was made Feeding Specialist with the Company where they live at 2372 South High Street. They are rose enthusiasts and grow beautiful blooms and have taken many ribbons at the Rose Shows, Burton was married to Jane wheat on July 2, 1945 at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco, It was a military wedding and very impressive. They now have 2 children, Lesley Ann and John. Bill was married to Jean webster on September 2, 1947 at warren Methodist Church. They now, at this date, February 1955, 3 children, Steven, Nancy and Barbara. They live in Lakewood, Colorado. Virginia was married November 24, 1948 to John Magraw at warren Methodist Church in Denver. They have 3 children, Mary, Linda and Patricia. They live in Carlsbad, New Mexico. John is a Mining Engineer working in the potash mines near Carlsbad. John Marshall Maynard and Joyce Shively were married August 19, 1951 in Bozeman, Montana. At the time he was working for Cudahy Packing Co and they went there to live. They have one son, Scott, who was born May 22, 1952. Ethel is very much interested in art work and has had a good deal of primary instruction at the Opportunity School. GLADYS LUCILLE MOORE was born in woodbine, Iowa on September 16, 1894 at 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning. She weighed 7i; pounds and had a mite of very dark hair which most all came out and left her without much hair at all, when it grew out it was very dark and curled in ringlets all over her head. She had very blue eyes and was quite the Irish type which well she might be as her great-grandfather Town was born in Ireland. I'm sure the words of the birthday rhyme are true of her. "The child that is born on the Sabbath day is biyth and bonny and good and gay". She was such a happy baby and was joy to all of us. when she was so little and sitting on the floor she would try to catch the sunbeams and when she would be playing about and I would turn to smile at her she would say "Laugh to me again mamma". She was rather slow about walking and talking, and when she did talk she had a little lingo all her own saying "wattah", "buttah" and so many words as if she had been born in the South or in the East. Gladys was a rather nervous child and by the doctor's advise she did not enter school Page 53 until she was seven. Her childhood was the happy childhood of a real girl, full of intense activity and overflowing with the energy and irrepressible activity which characterized her all of her life. Her grace and simple Christian faith mingled with her rich fun and overflowing joy always, when she was a little thing she seemed to have a sense of the infinite, not given even to most of us. She was always sweet tempered, but one day she became quite angry and crying she went to the window and slapped her little hand on the window and said "Go away God". She went to first grade to Mrs. Riddell who was a German woman, and soon all the little tots were aping her dialect as near as they could but they lost as soon as they went to the next grade, In April, 1904 we moved to Ft. Collins, Colorado and here was a new environment. Gladys was homesick for her little friends she had had in woodbine. It was some time before she became adjusted to the new place. There was nothing dull or commonplace about Gladys. No one who ever came in contact with her can ever forget the laughter- loving girl who brightened with her wit and fun the lives of all she associated with. Her laugh was different from any one else. One of the ladies living on College Ave,, Mrs. Gillis, the U.N.Presbyterian preacher's wife said "I heard Gladys laughing as she came home from the dance last night". She always loved her Sunday School and church and was the most faithful. She worked in the Primary department of the Sunday School. As she had taken lessons on the piano they asked her to play the organ. She had never seen an organ, I suppose, and she came home in tears because it did not sound right. I called a friend that owned an organ and in the afternoon Gladys went to her house and had some instruction. In 1906 we bought a piano so that Ethel and Gladys could take music lessons. Gladys was not a natural musician but she loved it and worked hard to succeed. She was very timid and found it difficult to appear at College Chapel as she did when taking lessons of Mrs. (?) who was the college instructor. Later she had a class at the college which paid for her own lessons. She went through High School and graduated May 29, 1914. From there she went to college at A & M in Ft, Collins majoring in music. She took the Home EC course and French. In 1915 she and Ethel went to California to attend the world's Fair, Six girls planned to go and they all had a wonderful time. Ethel was working in the Post Office at that time and paid Gladys" way. The girls went through Salt Lake and on to Oregon where they visited their Father's sisters and families and had a grand time there, while in California their friend Hazel walker and her mother entertained them royally. In Gladys's last year in college she took vocal lessons of Mr. (?) who was voice teacher at the college. She was in the glee club which took a trip through the state. She sang low alto in a quartet. Gladys was baptized and joined the church on Easter Sunday 1905. She played the piano for the morning service at the Christian Church. Gladys had many friends as she grew from girlhood to womanhood. In fact everyone that knew her was her friend. Her boy friends were numerous, when she was a freshman in High School a boy who was a senior sat behind her in study hall. He admired her beautiful hair and was quite attracted to her. He said to one of his older girl friends that "If Gladys was a little older he would like to date her". The girl friend said "She will grow up" and she did and Fred Law, who was the senior, married her on October 11, 1916. Gladys had a nice home wedding wearing the lovely Page 54 wedding" dress that Ethel had worn at her wedding on May 16 of the same year. It was white satin with net. Her wedding suit was brown broadcloth with velvet trim and brass accessories. She and Fred went to live on Fred's father's farm near the small town of Severance, 2 miles away, and the larger town of Windsor, 6 miles away. They were 14 miles from Ft. Collins. She had hardly ever been on a farm but was a good sport and went at the work bravely. She was afraid of a chicken but as time went on she was setting hens, raising turkeys, making garden etc. Before her marriage she had learned to make bread and now she was making bread, churning butter, separating milk and cooking for 3 men, Fred, his brother George, and their father, Mr. Law. This was really a good bit of work for a young girl who had a comparative easy life in town. Fred had bought for her a very fine piano, which was her pride and joy. Mothers in the neighborhood were asking her to give music lessons to their children but Fred objected saying she did not need to, I told him I thought it would be a good incentive for her to keep up with her music and so he consented. She now had several pupils and she enjoyed the contact of pupils and mothers. She joined the woman's Club of Severance and became a valued member. On July 6, 1917 Lucille Helen Law was born in Ft. Collins at Mrs. Powers' private hospital. She was a darling and healthy little girl and brought a lot of joy to her parents, grandparents and friends. On March 5, 1919 Robert Moore Law was born in Ft. Collins at Ethel's home with Mrs. Powers as nurse. He was not a strong baby and was rather thin. He seemed to be well but in September of that year he became ill of malnutrition. Dr Sadler, in Ft, Collins, advised taking him to the Childrens Hospital in Denver, He did not improve, and Dr. Amesse, a very fine children's physician in Denver, advised a wet nurse as the only possible hope for saving his life. He found for her a colored woman who came with her little black Marguerite to Ft. Collins. After 3 months with this treatment he was very gradually brought back to health. This was a very serious time for Gladys and for all of us and probably broke her down more than we knew. when Lucille and Bob were older Gladys took them to church and Sunday School in Windsor. About this time she joined P.E.O, in Windsor and she and Fred went into the Eastern Star at Windsor also. There were two terrible hail storms while they lived on the farm near Severance. At the time of one of them Gladys saw the storm coming and hurried to get the car into the shelter which was some distance from the house. By the time she got the car into the garage the storm was so terrible she could not get back to the house for some time, and she was frantic for fear the children, who were just little tots, would try to follow her. when the storm broke and she could return to the house she found them crying with fright and had found their coats and were trying to get the door open. In 1924 Fred decided to leave the farm and work for the Great western Sugar Co. as a field man and move to Kersey, a small town 6 miles from Greely. Gladys was delighted to know she was to have a dining room and electricity and be able to use her pretty dishes and electric gadgets. The neighbors and friends gave them a grand surprise going away party and gave them an electric waffle iron and electric coffee maker. Gladys was very happy in their new home and while not having such heavy farm work to do she was very busy. She continued to give music lessons in Kersey and joined the Page 55 Woman's Club also. The school was very near and the children went 2 blocks to school instead of 2 miles. She worked hard in this as well as the small church. In school work she was president of the P.T.A. and played the piano for the school contests. In the church she took charge of the music, playing the piano, helped with the children's summer Bible School, taus'ht Sunday School class and did everything she could. At first a student pastor studying in Greely had charge of the church and lived there. He graduated, then a student from Iliff School of Theology came from Denver for the Sunday morning service. Gladys was very anxious to have a resident preacher and asked her father if he would ask the District Superintendent if he could send them a preacher to live there. So Big John wood, a retired preacher, about 80 years old, came there and lived at the small hotel. He was a very large man and very stooped but was the sweetest person one could imagine. He could play the paino, sing and preach and soon won the hearts or everyone in the small town. This little church was the only one in town and was well filled every Sunday. A Catholic woman sent flowers every Sunday in the summer. After a time the Reverand John Uood became more frail and had to give up his work- there but his influence was long felt. They all loved him, especially the children. In 1930 Gladys became pregnant and in February 1931 became very ill with uremic poisoning. She was in the hospital in Greely a few days and her baby was prematurly born and lived but a few hours. She was terribly ill for some time. The poison in her system affected her eyes and she was unable to see to feed herself. She gradually became better but it was some time before she could read or sew. During all this time Fred was her faithful attendant doing everything he could possibly do. In beptember the same year she became very ill with a very sore and swollen throat. The Dr. from Greeley came and called it (?) and lanced her throat on Sunday. Then on Monday they called it diptheria and quarantined the house. Her own Doctor was out of town. I was terribly worried but the Doctor said I was unduly alarmed. The Doctors afterward agreed it was strep throat but lancing had let the poison into thp blood stream. On Sunday night she called Fred and me into the room and said let us have a little service like the Seth Parker program. These were Sunday night service on the radio and she had sent for their song book and she would play and the children would sing these songs. Fred and I knelt by the bed and Lucille and Bob just outside of the door as they were not allowed in the room and we all prayed, she leading us but we felt then she would not be with us long. I demanded a nurse and on Tuesday, Just as she was leaving us, a nurse and oxygen tank arrived. It we had had penicillin then she would probably have been saved, but I do not think it had been discovered yet. On Tuesday she seemed much worse. The children were at home and I was trying to get some washing done as they would not let anyone come in. Bobbie was walking and Lucille who could not stay away. Bobbie said "Oh Grandma come quick". I saw her in Fred's arms and she was putting her dear fingers over Fred's eyes and then her lovely spirit had departed from her beautiful body. She passed away on September 15 just one day before her 37th birthday, Scarcely any one in Kersey knew of her illness and as one Doctor had pronounced it diptheria but in a short time I think every one in Kersey was standing along the fence at the side of the house weeping with us as everybody was her friend. On Thursday we laid her away but our hearts were borken but she is still with us in loving memory. Ethel and I went back to the house and did everything we could but Page 56 every thing in the house was in perfect order and everything in place except a few garments on the machine which, she had left to mend that she had ironed the day before she had taken sick. Lucille said "Grandma, can you stay with us a little while? I can do everything except iron Daddy's shirts and I can learn to do that". I stayed a few days and then Grandma Law came and kept house for them for four years which was so wonderful for all of them. It was grand for Bob and Lucille in the formative period of their lives, also for Fred who was always devoted to Gladys and also to his Mother. Dr. Lory, President ot the College, and Mrs. Lory placed her name on the Memorial at the College and in a note said "The name of no sweeter personality will ever be placed on this Memorial". January 1, 1955 I am bringing this little history of my family to a close. I am now 83 years of age and I began this 13 years ago. I do not know why I have been so long at it but it was not easy to write what might or might not be interesting to those coming along after us. I hope you who read may not find it too dull. It was the life as I remember it of an ordinary family of that day. Not so ordinary perhaps for I think our parents were much above those of the families in the neighborhood in which we lived. The upbringing of Father and Mother was more cultured than those living near us although they were good and valuable neighbors. As I close this record as I remember it I can say life has been good to me. I had a wonderful husband, two lovely daughters, six grandchildren and, to date, eleven great-grandchildren. I have been privilged to live in Colorado, some of the time in the high mountains. I have had the privilege also of seeing many of nature's grand scenery and the beauty of the land and sea. God bless all of my beloved and many friends. Jennie A. Moore