Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp Biographies, Walker to Watt

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( a.. ~ one having died bBfore , and the elde s t but fourteen and the youngest twin boys of but two years of age at the time of their mother's death . Alice was the mother of the following ch.ldren : Thomas Edgar Walker , al Alice Maud Walker Millard, Frank Lest e r \Jalker , Fred Clyde '.Nalker , 0 A-rthur Eugene alker , Homer Chase Walker, Joseph Jobn1 !alker, and 0::: ~ ayrum Alfred alker . z< With the help of her girls and with faith in God Mary Ann did much t-oo for these children . She spent the l atter years of her life with her own 0... ~ CXl 0 0::: < 0 z < t­en children . As she lived and v i s i ted with them she sewed for and counsel-led her grandchildren . She cut qnd sewed li ttle dresses , underwear , shirts etc . until her d eath . She adapted herself to the conditions of each home and to the families with w om she lived and the young and old r emembered h e r as t.Li ttl e Grandmother Walker'tr and she was loved where-ever she went . ~henever people asked her how she felt usually her a n-swer was that she was feeling fine . She was cheerful and uncomplaini ng , enjoyed her food and was go6d company . Her grandchildren remember how she came to visit wit her little white p eppermints and peppermint s tick candy which she so often earr i ed in the pockets of her black sateen tie aprons hand i ng out a piece here and there and very often at that . She carried her little strapped, gray suitcase ~nd also ~bundle or two of bther necessities . Her small bla ck bonnets were quaint and she looked every inch the fine l ittle woman tha t she was without pretense and void of conceit--charming and womanly . He r sk rts were usually b l ack and ful l, her waists white and clean with a tie at the neck of white net or lace . She also wore dresses of shiny black silk throughout . For every day her clothing was more plain and ~ f calico, sateen and ete. and was of a variety of colors suiting her eye s and skin . As stated above she left all her family in England when she willingly and gladly came to America and she did not see any of them again . · h is , it seems , was partly made up to her during her later years by hav ng he r 13