Cora Lee Johnson, Springville, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 6, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 433 and 434

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CORA LEE JOHNSON MARCH 6, 2002 stopped trying to say slaves, but they kept them right there. And if I understand right, my grandfather, my mother's father, they were paid twenty-five cents a day, the men, and mother said they had several-she called them Aunt Delsey and Aunt Marian, Aunt Lizzie and all like that-they did their washing and they took care of the children and they did the cooking and the cleaning. BEC: COR: BEC: COR: Wow. She said it was altogether a different, different life. I can see how that would be just a drastic change. So of course, Grandmother's cousin's husband, he was a merchant in Canada and his name was Ogilve Chance; his wife was Kate and he had these two daughters, Eve and Regina. And he had a store built, almost immediately, a little mercantile and my grandfather bought land and, of course, they started clearing the land. And he had a lot of boys, half-grown boys. BEC: So they set up farming there? COR: They did. Then later on they bought land in Wolford. That was a small town. I don't suppose it was even a town but it was land there and it was out of Cardston. That again was an LDS community. They had their farm and it bordered the Mennonites farm. So it was the Lee family from Florida and the Mennonites. And they got quite well acquainted with them. But they did well and all of mother's brothers, until the last few years, stayed in Canada. BEC: That is such a drastic change, you wonder if at some point they said, "Why in the world did we do this? Why didn't we stay in Florida?" 7