| Show 20 to Mt Pleasant their home and we would stop in Moroni to visit my husbandparents as well The boy told me that he had graduated from BYU and then had taught English in North Sanpete High School He told me his name was Thomas Doxey He then asked me ifhadchance to read the History of Mt Pleasant by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf She used her fatherjournal for the information He said he had helped Hilda with the research and getting it all together in proper English and to proofread for her He worked with her at night for the three years that he was there He told me he was then drafted into the army My parents were there to meet us at the depot As we were riding home told them about the young manhad met on the train He had said that he helped write the History of Mt Pleasant asked them if they had bought one and Mother said she had When we reached the house looked at her book and sure enough Thomas Doxey was named in the credits looked through the book and saidwanted to buy one This unusual meeting was too much for family and friends to believe Astold each one about talking to the young man on the train trip to Utah they couldnbelieve me received similar responses from my husband and friends in Cheyenne whentold them about the book and the young man Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction They didnbelieve me Out of those thousands of young service men who were sent by trains to their destinations Many times have lost his life in him thathave the unbelievable story have made an effort to locate him but he may the war would like to have been able to tell book and thatlove telling people this They didnbelieve me but he would know |
