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Show Appendix 379 a place and built me a house adjoining his own. We lived there that winter and the following spring went to Tintic to keep dairy. We came in and lived through the winter at the home we had built in Payson. We lived there three years keeping dairy. They then took the herd to Fork canyon and I came to reside with Joseph. bought Spanish I kept dairy for my son Joseph several years occasionally spending of 1877 my sister few months with my son Myron at Provo. In Polly died after which my health being poor, I permanently broke up house keeping. Joseph built a house where Polly and I had lived several years, but after her death I felt too lonely and sick to live alone and my sons a families were not willing I should. I have resided in Josephs family 7 years, sometimes spending a few months with Freeman or Myron. In the spring of /82 my son Joseph buried his wife and the following August having no one capable of taking care of his house and little children he married. My age and infirmities rendered me incapable of filling the part: November 28, of the present year, 1884, I was 81 years of age and I enjoy comfortable health but am feeble with the infirmities of age. I have a comfortable home and loving children around me. |
