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Show MORE SORROW John K and Elvina were expecting their first baby in early 1910, and the girls were excited about the prospects of a baby in the family. Elvina had not felt well and was under the watchful care of the town doctor. But when the baby was stillborn on February 26th, Elvina lost her life due to uremic poison, according to the doctor. Again John K moved in an unreal world of shock. Would he ever become accustomed to the periodic need of facing the awful truth of tragedy in his family? Even when he saw the remains of Elvina and her baby laid near those of Vearl and Katie in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery he found it hard to accept reality on that dreary -winter day. Virgie Rosenlof was helping in the home when Elvina died. She agreed to stay on for a month while John K found a more permanent replacement. He was unable to find anyone during that time so he grasped at a straw and wrote a letter-destination, McGill, Nevada. VIRGINIA In her decision to resume assistance to her dead sister's household and children, Virginia proved her extreme family loyalty. No one had been as close to Katie as she when her sister's babies were born. And no one knew as well the heavy demands made on a woman in the home of a sheepman. Since she had not married and was twenty-four years of age, 104 |
