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Show 161 in very bad health, and seldom spoke, yet she often gave expression to deep drawn sighs. The three daughters assisted the father in making biscuit, cakes, etc. Golightly was a well informed man, he had been a deist, a methodist, and was now a Mormon from conviction. I think I may say, that he firmly believed in the tenets of Mormonism, and in the many conversations I had with him, I inferred that his conduct was actuated by principle. He was an active member of a musical association, and performed well on the Kent bugle. It was on an occasion when his professional services were required to attend the funeral procession of Brother Willard Richards, editor of the " Deseret News," that I happening in to partake of my usual lunch, I found the old lady sitting in her accustomed place, alone, and she appeared very much depressed ; I asked her the cause of her sighs, etc., when she related to me the following incidents in her life. She was a native of Scotland, and had been married to her husband for a quarter of a century-had borne him twelve children, four of whom were still living. Her husband followed the trade of baker, in Edinburgh, where they lived very happily. She possessed in her own right the snug little house in which they carried on business; they owed no one, and were well to do in the world. One night her old man went to hear some strange Mormon missionaries preach ; from that hour her troubles commenced, and they had steadily increased up to the present time. Golightly becoming indoctrinated with the principles of Joseph Smith, had been baptized. In vain he tried to make his wife change her faith, presbyterian, in |