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Show Utah Historic Records Survey 1936 Federal Writers' Projects 1'/PA. Mabel Jarvis, St.George, Utah. PIOl'.'ilEER PJ!RS011JAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH NJUJOM:AS LAVINA. GIBSON ANDRUS, ST. G ,QRGE , UTAH, WIF OF C.API'AJN J .Al\lliS DDRUS • ....••.•• When I called on :M.anomas Lavina Gibson Andrus·, ft.Aunt Nome.tt to most of us Dixie f'olk, she was busily washing the breakfast dishes, and gave little evidence of her ninety-f'our years, or of her total blindness, :t'rom which incapa.ci ty she has suffered since 192.2. She resides with her grandaughter Mrs. Caddie .Andrus Graff' and family, rather, they live with her in the. home built for her by her late husband in the early Nineteen hundr eds, and ) with which she became f'amiliar bef'ore being deprived of her sight. This home is located on •irst South Street, midway between l'irst and Seonnd West, and is just a block west of the Publie Square on which are located the Woodward School, County Libr ary, St.G-eorge Stake Tabernacle, Dixie College Gymaasium and General Building and the r ecently erected Amusement Hall and open air pavillion. "Aunt llome1t1 is a very small woman and is growing just a trif'le f'rail. Her voice is not as vibrant as it once was, but her mind is clear and her hearing. remarkably keen. Having previously obtained enough items from her life history for a local news.paper writeup, going over her remembrances again and in somewhat greater detail was a genuine pleasure f'or me and seemingly for he.r. We spent a most affable two hours. 1\/Ianomas, Lavina Gibson Andrus was. born in :Monroe County, Mississippi, .March 10th, 1842, the daughter of George Washington &id Mary Ann Sparks Gibson, she being the tenth of eleven children, She has no record of the actual town in which she was born, knowing only the county and state. As she recalla they were. in a farming district apart from ac.tual towns. -1- |
