| Show oddly-shaped ones that couldnbe cut topattern fitting them as best they could be turned and adjusted The result was known as Crazy Patch In spite of no set pattern the effect was often pretty and always interesting Hence these little conglomerates of mine are taken out of the piece sack of memories Small pieces of cloth were gathered over the last hundred years forCrazy Patch put together without pattern texture color or design Some pieces are tragic some are humorous all are true and hope fully all are interesting They are stitched together with the thread of Ri was five years old Her family had recently come to Sterling but time and the needle of Tove they felt at home Aunt Maria Tived there and her daughter Inez several years older than Ri took her under her wing playing with her and taking her every place she went One day Inez along with another girl her age came to take Ri wildflower picking Rimother had washed her bonnet that morning and it was dry but not ironed better by sad experience Ri couldngo without One day when she took at play her mother had sewed her bonnet her her bonnet she had learned bonnet off while out to her hair Brigham Young told the mothers of Zion in Dixie heads covered to shield them from the hot sun Dixie Ribonnet wasslat bonnet--the kind between the two thicknessess of the bonnet and were inserted to hold the bonnet stiff After all hadn to keep their childrenAnd Rifolks were from where slats were sewed small flat smooth sticks Rimother wasnhome Inez couldnfind the slats so she put case knives in the slats to keep the bonnet off Riface and they went on their way Then there was that day when Ri had gone with Inez and friends forswim in the creek When they started home they noticedbig smoke The nearer they got to town the bigger the fire looked Then came Inezbrother running and crying Ma and the baby are in the grainery and it is burning Aunt Maria draped her own body over her baby trying to shield him from the fire They found her so in the charred remains Whatsomber piece indeed to sew in The date on the stone in the Manti Cemetary gives the dayJuly 1879 These stories were told to me by my mother Mary Maria Terry Hurst who until she was grown went by the name of Ri taken from Maria Maria Terry Funk and her Sterling history also baby deaths are common knowledge in early The Fairview Co-op was started prior to 1875 It was sometimes called the United Order In 1880 the Co-op building was erected It was 5532 feet outside 22 feet high from lower floor to the wquare two stories high It was built of sale room 3020 inside nicely painted and finished rock withstone front |
