| Show EPHRAIM BEAUTIFUL Ruth Peterson OCEAN WILLOWS Christiansen Mayfield Utah Non-Professional Division First Place Anecdote One hot July day Roger and Susan ToverTlane when Roger exlaimed whatgrand entrance they give to friendly arms This first extending joyful Ocean utterance Willow Early in the in I11inois The daughter and she familypleading Utah to Tive with married of reared pioneer A11 came to strolling These lovely Ehpraim Tike to all impressed Susan to down trees warm relate how the Ephraim days of Mormonism Nelson family lived missionaries converted Sarah their lovely soon joined the Church In spite of her she felt she must leave them and go to the Saints She crossed the plains nine children and endured all the hardships life throuah her soul were all welcome were the years there had been for I11inois and her loved ones grown she decided to go back to great longing When her the place in children of her birth forvisit After spendinamonth there it was time to return home Early in the morning she went to view her mothergrave for the last time Standing beneathlarae Ocean Willow she felt she must take some of the beauty and sacredness of this spot with her to her home in the West Picking some fresh twigs from the trees and wraoping them in her tear-wet handkerchief she said goodbye forever to that hallowed place She kept them wrapped indamp cloth and on reaching home planted the seedlings around her yard They grew rapidly and were Soon Tittle shoots were given to friends and in all stood welcome Source parts the of test to the of town time And still so today extend admired by all were growing these warm trees and having friendly all Related by word of mouth Personal journals down through the posterity |
