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Show 25 I detail Mama's and Papa's wedding considerably because twenty-five years later, to the day, at noon, my husband and I were married, also by a bishop (my father), after a mix-up with temple recommends. To a man who had smoked. My parents-to-be didn't go directly to Joseph and the farm, but lived with his mother for four months, divided the house for another six months. Joe gave them five hens and a rooster, and Mama raised sixty chickens from them. "On November 9, 1900, we moved to our farm home over on the river, and on Sunday, December 9, 1900, at three o'clock in the afternoon" John Eldon was born, with the midwife, Mrs. Gay and Aunt Medie (Almeda) in attendance. Grandma Rawlinson came then, to take care of Mama during her "confinement. " Grandma commuted between her daughters and the wives of her sons for this purpose most of her life, and they kept her busy. She was clean and capable and Mama could always rest easy that the baby would have expert care when she got there. Grandma was ahead of her time: she believed in bathing both babies and mothers. They were comfortably fixed by now. Besides the Dinwoody furniture there were white bedspreads, hand-made quilts and embroidered pillow shams, starched stiff enough to stand by themselves. Mama would have been caught dead before she left a window uncurtained, so there were lace curtains starched to points. Braided rugs were on the scoured to whiteness pine floors, cushions for the chairs, a high chair for Eldon, which I inherited. |