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Show 108 time, Maggie has left, Ellis is crushed, the family has been uprooted, and business relations with his father are severed. A fact not necessarily corollary is that, though neither Milford nor Ellis may know it, there will be no more wives brought into the family. Ellis prays to be able to "impart cheerfulness" and asks that "the spirit of light" may influence her every thought, word, and action. Without explanation, Maggie's name reappears on the family roster, and life in the Milford Shipp family flows along with scarcely a ripple until, on April 17th, Ellis, Maggie, Lizzie, and their little ones accompany Milford to the Sugar House Ward where, after preaching, Milford meets "a Brother Archer whose companion had lately departed to another land" and who is thinking of selling his old homestead. The next day "Milford went to the Sugar House Ward to see if he could get some land on which to raise tomatoes and other vegetables. When he returned, he had bought "a fine little farm of ten acres, a house and splendid orchard for twelve hundred dollars..." [$1,200-Really!] The "girls" were loathe to leave the city but Ellis, after some deliberation, putting the needs of her sons before her personal desires, threw in with it, as did Mary. April 18th ...We were charmed, delighted with the place. The house was small, but the outside attractions compensated for all architectural deficiencies. To the left in a miniature grove of cottonwoods is a spring of the clearest and coldest water which nine years in the Eleventh Ward has fully prepared us to enjoy and appreciate. All that nature could supply, here for the perfecting of a beautiful home. True, it will require much energy and labor, but with the blessing of God I feel equal to the task. We returned home in a |