| Show Wm Lathrop DOC Draper prominent man whom the ity of Draper was named for seemed to be the He was older than she and fell in rost persistent love with her dark beauty her beautiful singing voice and her vibrant and never-ending enthusiasm faith in the gospel They married had several husky sons and daughters andvery busy life of service to the They sang together church musically and otherwise and duets quartets choruses Anna body in she could sew was such as exquisite things lovely She dressed mensuits demand for every program dancing they called it and choirs and her beauty and quartets double as even She tailored beautifully and was Her specialty was in then step-dancing As she hurried to the large Chautauqua tent where the programs were all held she caught her foot on an exposed above-ground tree root and fell very hard and was hurt very badly She managed to limp into the tent went up on the stage of wooden planks covered with old carpets did the numbers with her family sang with her then did three dances shebeen asked to husband do and also responded to several encores The whole As she left the stage she collapsed crowd was in shock and amazed sorrow when they found out she had danced withbroken hip She never danced or walked again and was to take care of herself the rest of her life to brushfly from her face Her daughter my mothermother and my grandmother Anna Maria Draper Whitlock cared for her the rest of her life 80 years of age with this good care 74 She unable even tenderly lived past |
