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Show 38 Uncle Will was a tobacco brown man whose first act each morning was to put on his hat, the second to roll a cigarette and smoke it while he dressed (I was told); the process reversed at night. Both of them knew how to work; they had been taught by an expert, Papa. Uncle George had married quite early and moved off into Emery County. Aunt Mae was married, had two children named Alva and Evan Charlesworth, was divorced and married again, to a gentle, patient man named Jacob Lee, the son of John D. Lee. They lived in LaVerkin near St. George. Uncle Hen and Aunt Eff had married about the same time as Papa and Mama and lived neighbors to us both on the farm and in town. Uncle Joe and Aunt Medie also lived in Joseph and all our families were close as one, helping each other in crops, visiting together and arguing politics. Uncle Joe was a Democrat. Revo got sick in August with dysentery (the women called in cholera marbus, and thought it came from cucumbers). She went from convulsions to weakness, and got so thin Mama had to carry her on a pillow. "Jim Peterson and Brother Jackman (from across the street) administered to her and she was relieved. Ma helped me with her and my sisters, Hannah and Rachel came to visit me. Hannah instructed me how to put her on a liquid diet, which was the first time I had been very conscious of nutrition and regularity in feeding my babies. Revo had started to walk before she took sick, but now she had to learn again. She was frail until she was twelve, and we had her baptized for in the Temple. After that she recovered, " is Mama's account of it. |
