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Show 186 of young womanhood, three years after her mother's marriage to B. H. Roberts. She was, of course, Milford's daughter. Could this untimely loss have been an added impetus to Maggie in her strong desire to bear a child with Roberts during her early years with him? At Margaret's Salt Lake funeral, President George Albert Smith, speaking for the Friendship Circle, said of her: "As a friend she loved her friends and was staunch and true. As a teacher she was unexcelled and her influence was magnetic. As a mother to missionaries, a helpmeet to her husband [and] an organizer she was indispensable. As a Latter-day Saint her faith was unquestioned; as a comforter, adviser and counselor to the erring one and in time of trial and trouble, she was an inspiration."16 |
