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Show The sweetened condensed milk served a welcome purpose in providing energy, but it proved to be low in some necessary nutrients and the tiny body failed to receive sufficient minerals. As a result, Aleen was unable to walk until she was three years old, because of rickets, and it was then necessary for her to wear steel braces fitted to her legs from the hips down to where sturdy shoes were attached. Anna Maria lived in Provo Bench (.Orem) at the time she took the baby to live with her and her second husband John R. Clinger. They were rearing his orphaned niece, Ellen, a few years older than Aleen. A year later they moved to Freedom in Sanpete County, and built a house on property Ann Maria had inherited from her father, William Lathrop Draper. Aleen was to live with them until she was three and a half years old. Meanwhile, John K's oldest daughter, Pearl, was a lone child at home, being cared for by Virgina, Katie's young sister. There were always plenty of adults around the house including the young Madsen brothers who rotated their turns at the sheep camp. Besides cooking and keeping house there were very large washings and ironings, and much bottling to be done of fruit and pickles for herd use-so a woman's work in that household was hard work. Had it not been for Virginia's sustained interest in her dead sister's child and home it would have been far more difficult for John K to have maintained his home. 83 |