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Show .. ,11 ' - . ~ f ..... • • m:v step-nether died. I wor ked in the ?roolen mills there too wit rather and hen la t or I came back to Ogden a nd went to work n the F'nrr' s woo le L nil 1 :a e;a n . I was sick though for about three months .. I went to school in. nrdand before we came to Utnh and when I s tayed at err' s and Horrock ' s I attended school int e 3rd · ~rd Dls ·riot school on Gr!'\nt Avenue . F. A. Br own was the tea o· er . There vms plent, o work in thoi,o earl ·, days because we dirln' t have any of the c o~venienc ~ t ~at w ve today . 7e had to make our o rm soap, cEi-ndles d stare • \;e couldn ' t nm t o t he store for ave:rythi:ng li ke we can today. ~hen we didn 't have a start to make bread we had to bakf'l sslt rising bread . We vmuld dry reache s a d fr it and take i t to oodnansee ' s store \"Mioh was 1ocatec w .ere t e telep one buildi E 1s now e.nd tr•ere we exeha nged it for ot r suppU.es. We braided wet s t raw a d would wee.ve tl-\e stra. ds to_,ether to ma e our ha.ts . 'fa also sewed man,r ca.rp~t rags to a no t hing of n:-aking a ll our Cll,'l1Tl clothes . We had l ots of good tmes t hou h w:ith eand'.',' pull i ._; s , qu i. ti g boes spellin , natehes. Isaac ClArk eond icted the spelli n atches in the lit tle roek school house e t 1'ound Fort e.n t hey were l ots of r, n • here wer e ma.n~r Indio. s f?, round Emd t e ca .e e g · nr bu , t he 1r never h.e. r med us ~lthough when we wer e living i n. St. Geor e , YJash i gton ounty , 11t a , an I dia.n came right into our house , sw:i ngin a b g 1m ife. v were e.11 scared to death, I :uess he was dr u k and I do~t know how we ever sea.pod witl our H ves, but fath 13r ta lke nice to h i ·. and he fi r1e.ll l eft . I ,vas a l"ia:vs see.rod of the ricHe.n "' thou gh . I was married on June 22, 1882, in t he En doWl'.:'.l.a.nt House in Salt Lake ":ity, to J amo · Br5.[ r,s . He was fort'erl'i from Darwin, La ncashire En~l~n . IT~ was a farner an after we wore ,a r r3en we~ ved t o : is fan:, so th of the ol d ~ d is... 'n1.ve r si t 7 gr ou nds or on the s outh be n in gden. '!'his was suoh e. prott l ocat'i.o f:tnd m nv tj r:es ild |
