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Show 260 some, such as that of Joseph F. Smith, where there was a high level of parental interest and husbandly concern that "drove all darkness out of doors." Truman G. Madsen provides the following glimpses of Brigham Henry Roberts, another man of Milford's time whose life in 3 many respects paralleled that of Shipp. Our particular interest in B. H. Roberts centers on the fact that Maggie, upon leaving Milford, joined his family in 1890. Roberts' two other wives with their 15 children suffered from the protracted absences of their husband and father, both in lack of the moral support implicit in physical proximity and in financial hardship, even though, like Milford, Roberts did his level best to provide for his considerable family. He built, with his own hands, two solid but unostentatious homes a block apart in Centerville for Louisa and Celia. They had orchards and land for crops, trees, flowers, and hedges-all of which he maintained, with the children being taught to help "as soon as they were able to walk." They no doubt had to take over as they grew older and their father's absences grew longer. When Margaret joined the family, she had her own clinic in Salt Lake and lived in the city in a two-story frame house, built by Roberts, one mile east of his office. Two of Louisa's children lived at Margaret's place while attending high school in the city. No doubt Maggie's own Shipp children lived there in their season. Madsen characterized the three homes in this way: Louisa's the more palatial, Celia's the more secure, and Margaret's the "most |
