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Show 89 such places as the Hawaiian Islands. Apparently Ellis does not elect to accept her father's invitation for, on May 15, all of the family heads south except Ellis and Lizzie. Considerations of health are the cause of Ellis' not going. The choice of Lizzie as the one to remain with her may be accounted for in the fact that Lizzie's first baby, John, is only five months 3 old. Milford takes six-year-old Bard, leaving Richie, nearly four, and year-old Anna. Neither of the two mothers can know that little John will die in August and Anna in September. But the family will return prior to the passing of either infant. A telegram from Milford on June 24, five weeks after the family's departure, indicates that they will be on their way home the next day and are to arrive in four weeks. If the journey south was equally long, the mission itself has been of short duration-a mere week or so. No explanation is given, but a family yarn attributed to Lizzie offers some clue as to what happened. Some validity can be attached to the account for, while Lizzie was not in the party, her own parents were. The Arizona mission (which was mysteriously so abbreviated) was to help establish a community. Milford took the Hillstead family, hoping to get them started there. "An incident on the way down rather dampened his ardor and [cast some doubt over the] advisability of taking the Hi 11 steads." Brother Hillstead was a quiet, somewhat intractable man and when, at a point where a deep river was to be crossed and the teams needed to be driven into it and encouraged to swim, Milford instructed his father-in-law as to how it was |