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Flake Journal Number of Pages: 278 ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p001.jpg) JOURNAL LUCY HANNAH WHITE FLAKE VOL. 1 1842–AUG. 20 1894 MSS SC 13 ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p003.jpg) Lucy H Flakes Journal Snowflake Apache County Arizona March 1 1894 Lucy Hannah White Flake was Born Knox County Illinoise in the year 1842 Aug 23 My parents names Samuel Den is and Mary Hannah White Grand parents on Fathers side John Griggs White and Lucy Bailey (great Grandparents) J[---] John White and Jemima Griggs born 6 miles from Boston in the year 1765 my Grandmothers parents was Samuel Bailey and Mary Carter Born 1790 Connecticut My Mothers Parents Samuel and Mary Burton Grand Mothe[-] name was Shirley my Father was Born Parishvill York state March 9th 1818 Mother Born wain County york state Aug 31 1818. My parents was drove from place to place they embraced the gospell of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints before I was born my first recolection is of Nauvoo remember dome things about the Temple my Father took me by the hand and led me up the stares to the top it was butifull my Mother took me to see the Profet Joseph after he was murders my parents were a mong the last to leave Nauvoo he stayed and helped the rest off an account of my yuth dont remember the sufferings we crossed the Plains in 1850 I was eight years on the plains we arived in Salt Lake City the last day of Augest it looked butifull with its nice stacks of Wheat and Hay corn and vegetables my Mother wept for Joy as her people came out before us I said Mother why do you cry you was so anxious to come and why do you cry could not understand it we remained there ten days with Mothers People during this time Grand Father White Grandma Uncle Joel a mile ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p004.jpg) wife came we traveled across the plains in a small comp any we had a very good trip no deaths my Father took the mountain feavor before we got in the valley we eat our last provisions in the mornings and got in some time in the day after visiting our relitives ten days my Father, Grand Father White, and Uncle Joel with thir famileys left Salt Lake and moved on South 35 miles camped at a butifull spring one mile from the Jordan River that place is now called Lehi we spent the winter there built log houses in the shape of a fort a number of famileys came and located thire David Savage my Fathers sisters Husband also came and lived thire my Grand Father Died that Winter the familey all felt thankfull that he lived to get valleys for he had had poor helth for a num ber of years the next spring 1851 we had a town site survayed off higher up near where the road now runs and we moved there the People comenced to build houses fence thir lots and built a meeting and school house My Father built two log rooms a little distance apart and afterwa rds closed it in and made another room we felt thankfull and happy in our new home we did not have much to eat but we always had bread the tenth of September my brother Charles was born I went with my Father to Salt Lake to October Conferance we was organized in a Ward with David Evens for Bishop L. H. Hatch first councler and Uncle David Savage second councler that Winter my school days comenced in this year we got our first Deseret news I was so glad and wanted my Father to reed every word [corner torn] so I could here it My Father was a Farmer but he ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p005.jpg) made som wooden lasts and by Mother showing him ma de us all shoes he brought sole lether from the states and picked up old Boots on the Plains with that he made us all shoes then worked for the neighbors Mothers Father was a shoe maker by trade she had lined and bound shoes for him so she was a great help to Father in the year of 1852 we continued to enjoy the blessing of God we felt so glad there was none to hurt or make trouble for us we enjoyed peace helth and the blessings of God about June of this year I was Baptised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints by Brother Jehial Macconnal and confirmed at same time and place by home do not know Charles Hopkins was made President of this Ward my Father was counciler to him my Father was farmer by trade he was very honest hard working and rligous My Mother was a school teacher before she was Married she was quite old before she was Married She is what I would call a moddle women I was the oldest child she taught me my letters out of the Bible as had no school 1853 found us doing well and continualy rejoicing and improvei ng our homes in July the Indians was hostile and we were councilled to move into a fort this time we was moved a cross the crick wich was called dry creek fifteen or twenty of the Brethern worked togather our houses were all logs they woul d tair down and move one house and put it up and the people move in that same day so they built a fort in a few days every one was liveing in it that year we raised good crops and the people was doing well our relitives used to come from Salt Lake and visit us and we visited them in turn we felt thankfull we were liveing so near hedquarters Father alw ays attended the conferances that October my Father came home and told Mother he was called to move South three Hundred mile ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p006.jpg) Mother felt dredful bad for she had been seperated from her people so much and now We were settled so near them she thought it was cruel she had to go a way so far on 14 of October we had another Brother born George Burton White the 7 No vember we started to go where we were called Ceder City Iron County uncel Joel White and Uncle David Savage Grandma White went also we were three weeks on the Road and very cold wether our wagons was made into a correll every night and the men stood gard every percaution was taken on acount of Indians miny more was also called there was a large company went when we did to strengthen Parawan and Cedar as the Indians was hostile we arived ther before Christmas all the people liveing there nearley was from the old world old Country people we had not been used to them and they were very poor for clothing and food there we had poverty to condtend with again we longed for Lehi again as the People here were so different from what we were used to when they talked to us we could not understand half they said Oh I was homesick but we were called and had to make the best of it Father bought a place and we comenced a gain but every thing was so differant in the winter of 1854 went to school again the house where the school was taught had no floor or window logs with holes boared in and legs put in was our seets sister Day taught our school when it was not to cold we had the door open in summ er we did not have school as every one had to work so our schoo- ling was megar we got sheep and I learned to spin and continued to spin for years This place was famous for its coal mines there was considerable Iron made there we contin to live in March 1856 another Brother was born Hyrum Albert White Nov 4 of that year Elisha Groves gave me my first Patrical Blessing which I truley felt very thankfull for as I always ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p007.jpg) loved my Hevenly Father was alway religious dont know how or when I lernt to pray and it seemed to me my pra irs was always answered when praying for any certain thing so I was Happy indeed in these earley days things went slow every one had to work there was very little time for plesure in the Winter Season we danced then we enjoyed it we had no Sunday schools no May rides we celebrated fourth Twenty fourth and hung up our stockings on Christmas while we were small in the Winter of this year and spring of 1857 the Reformation commenced we were called on to repent from all our sins if we had stole or injured ay body we had to make it right then we ware catticised then rebaptised for our sins I was then fourteen was baptised in February the chun ks of ice was running in the Mill race where we was baptized these were very inthuseastick times many confessions were made in February of 1858 a young man by the name of William Jurden Flake came to Cedar City for that was the name of our setlment I will give a sketch of his History his Fathers name was James Madison Flake his Mothers name Agness Love he was born in North Carolina 1839 July 3 his Grandfather on his side Jourden and Elizabeth his Grandparents on Mothers side Werer William and Agness Love his parents left NC when he was 2 years old and moved to Misissippia they lived there three years joined the church of Jesus Christ of laterday saints then they moved to Nauvoo there his parents got their Patirachel blessings. in forty eight 1848 his parents crossed the plains he was eight years old on the plains and was baptised in Horn River he walked most all the way and drove cows his Father was Capton of two companys across the plains he was well off and helped many poor people to Utah they sent thir nigger man with the Pioneers with one span of mule ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p008.jpg) and buggy in when they came in the valley they settled on Cotton Wood near Salt Lake city. 1850 his Father went to californa in company with Brother George Q Cannon and many others he went to look at the country they had a very hard trip Suffered dredf uley for watter when they got in the lower part of Californa Apostles Manusy M Symon and Charles Rich were in the upper part of Californa. Brother Flake with a numb- er of others thought to continue thir journey till they reeched the Twelve While on that journey he was thrown from a mule and was killed he just said Brethren lay hand on me and died they thought his neck was broke they rapt him in a blanket and buried him he was a very faithfull man and had many noble qualities every one that knew him loved him he was so good in the spring of 1851 Sister Flake with her Familey which consisted of one Daugther two sons one we have mentioned the other Charles Lane Flake born in Mississippia Aug 31 1842 and a negro girl went to California with a great many of her Suthern fiends also Apostles Lyman and Rich with thir famileys while on the journey out there they suffered very much for watter and many of thir stock died when they got there they bought Sanbornedo Ranch which cost 77000 dollars then they commenced to mak e homes and thir first school was taught under trees Sister Flake had plenty of means and got a long nicely they first a fort then built in a town after ward it was a nice warm country every thing they planted grew so nice and they enjoyed themselves very nicely Sister Flake Died February 15 1855 she had the consumption was sick five months the night before she pass ed a way she called William her Eldest son and told him how she wanted him to do she wanted him to set a worthy exam ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p009.jpg) before his Brother and Sister she being some where about six years old her name was Sarah they had four boys die in thir infancy she talked a long time to her children giving them good advice telling them she was soon going to leave them - after she got through talk ing to them she told them to go to bead William was then fifteen years old he beged her to let him sit up with her but she said if they sit up she could not sleep and she wanted to sleep and when she needed them she would call them a bout five she called them and in one moment she was gon she left her children in the care of Amasy M Lyman they lived there five years in the fall of 57 Johnsons Army was on this way out to Utah to kill all the Mormons the Saints in California was then called back to Utah Sister Flake was a staunch good woman and a Noble Mother her son Charles Love dide when he was 22 twenty two years old un married it was thought tobaco caused his death thir mother told them if they used it they would die young because her people all died young that used it did no t agree with thir constitutions I have told you William Jorden Flake came to Cedar City the last of February 1858 My Father and Uncle Joel White was called to go out to Californa and also Uncle David Savage to bring back the poor that were there they made this young mans acquaintence they said he was such a good stedy young man While all the others were so Wild and rude they had much to say of this young mans good qualites and good behaveyour I said I want to see this young man when he comes they came in a bout two weeks a hed of him he was driveing a large band of Horses they got thin and he had to wait till they reuited up his first evening he was in Ceader Uncle Joel invited him several other my self included to go and spend the evening we all liked his aperance very much ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p010.jpg) I neglected to give my parents ages and also an acount of my Brothers and sisters my Father Samuel D White was born March 9th 1818 my Mother Mary H White born August 31th 1818 my oldest Brother Samuel Orson was born Hancock Co Illinoise Dec 17 1844 Mary Elizebeth born Gardengrove Ioway Nov 7. 1846 William Henry White born Ioway Feb 22 1848 Charles Denis White born Sep 10 1851 Lehi Utah County George Burton born Oct 14 1853 Hyrum Albert born March 22 1856 Iron County Cedar City UT Melissa Burton July 31 1858 Ceder City Iron county UT Thressa Isabella born July 18 1861 born Beaver City Bever County UT William Flake remained in Cedar City and we became acquainted in due time he offered his hand in Marage My Parents being Willing we were Married Dec 30 1858 by Apostal Amasy M Lyman at my Fathers House had a Wedding Apostle Lyman gave us very good council told us how to treat each other called us children he was 19 in July myself 16 in Aug he said we was not set in our way like we would be if we were older he used most all the evening talking and counciling it was very plesant indeed William was still working for Brother Lyman we went ther to live we stayed there three weeks then a part of his family Moved to Beaver we went with them in May 1859 my parents moved to Beaver the fourt of June we had what we called May ride the first May ride I was ever at we had a nice time William continued to work for Apostal Lyman till October I lived with my People in Oct Apostal Lyman asked William if he dident want to go to him self he told him yes so he told William he was at liberty the latter had bought a log House so we went to Housekeeping about the middle of October we had verry little to keep house with but we were just as happy as could be we loved each other and loved our home and felt truly thankfull my Parents lived close by and greatly asisted us his Parents was well off but it did us ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p011.jpg) no good so we commenced from the bottom to clime up the ladder eight 8 of November we was bless with our first born a son James Madison he was a nice large babe in due time he was blest by Apostle Lyman baby grew was helthy and so good Beaver was then a new place plinty of work to do our nearest store or place to buy goods was Salt Lake City 220 miles a way I lernt to spin when a small girl my Grandma White lived close to me (Father and William got a loom together) and she learned my sister Mary and myself to weve cloth so we got a long nicely 1860 Father Went a cross the Plains back to Omaha for Millstones for S P Hait the first millstones in Miflerd Coun ty was brought across the Plains by him Uncle David Savage also went to bring back poor saints they each one married wimen that came out in the same company that fall Father returned home safe and well and we felt very thankfull we had another Son born in 1861 January 20 William Melvin he seemed a fine helthy child was blessed by my Father he was called away March 20 of same year I can say his death was the frist trial of my faith it seemed my prairs had alway been answered before but in his sickness it seemed like my prairs did no good but still I kept trying to get my Hevenly Father to here me kept Praying but it seemed he could not here me William was not rligous being brought up in California after he was twelve and haveing no father to teach him this was some what of a trial to me but I loved him and prayed for him in secret I would often pleade with him to pray in the Family but he would not when the Teachers would ask him if he tended prairs in his family he would say no they would talk to him he would say he was going to be religous when he got old that spring after our baby died he made several trips to Salt Lake with freight in July he went to freighting on the western mail line from Camp Floid ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p012.jpg) away out west halling grain for horse feed so I was lonely and had plenty of time to pray as I was anxious for my husbands welfare used to pray for the time to come for us to be worthy to go and get our endowments that fall my Father and Mother was going to Salt Lake to conferance they knew I was lonely as it had been nearly three months since I had saw William so Father asked me to go to conferance with them I wrote to my Husband to meet us in Salt Lake as we were coming to Conferance he came and we attend ed all the meetings after Conferance was over our Bishop J J Farnsworth came to my Husband and said Brother William I want you and your wife to come to the endument House and have your Enduments he was so surprised he knew not what to say if the Bishop had told him he wanted him to go to Eng- land he could not felt more surprised he tried to get excused said he did not think himself worthy but the Bishop would not let him off so he came and told me I thanked my Hevenly Father knew it was in answer to prair that night I was so thankfull hardley slept the 9th October 1861 we recieved that great blessing and was seled for time and all Eternity we visited our relitives for I have a great meny in Salt Lake then I returned home with my Parents my Husband went back to his work he came home on Christmas day being six months from home it had been lonely but my little son James was a great comfort to me in 1862 my husband farmed we moved three miles from home milked cows made butter and Chees and that seemed the happest summer of my life my husband raised a good crop and every night he was home that seemed so good for most all the time he had been gon from home since our marriage for he had to work at any thing he could to make a living in September we moved home. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p013.jpg) 18th October we had another son born to us Charles Love now we was happy indeed with another sweet babe to cheer us when babe was two months my Husband concluded to go to Californa for a load of goods for a murchant as that was all the work they could do in the Winter time that would pay. the night before he started I tried to get him to pray he would not but promised he would if he ever got home again the Winter was long and very cold but our Hevenly Father blessed my self and babys and also my Husband he returned in March of 1863 the first night I told him of his promis he knelt down and praid his first prair I ever herd him pray and I was thankfull and happy to know he was trying to do his duty a little better that sumer my Father was called to go a cross the Plains and be Capton of a company of Saints that summer my Husband farme d and worked in the Canyon getting out poles so he was home part of the time Father rturned home in the fall all right that winter William went to Californa for goods he loded for a Murcha nt in Salt Lake City I knew when he got home he would have to go on to Salt Lake with his goods so when he was coming back a Brother Oakden and wife was going down to St George he asked me to go with my two little boys and meet my Husban d so I went we arived there most a week before he did but as I had meny Friends and aquaintences there spent the time very plesantley when he came he was greatley pleased to see us and as a man liveing there was takeing Likenesses he had ours taken James and him Charles and me togather the first time mine was ever taken it was such a treat we went on home with the train of wagons when we got to Beaver he stayed over night and went on with the train he was gon three weeks and when he was in a few rods of home our Bishop Farnsworth met him and told him he ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p014.jpg) wanted him to go back a cross the Plains to bring back a load of poor saints so in about three weeks he had to start East we done the best we could my Father and Mother was so kind and good to me My oldest Brother went back a cross the plains too William wrote several letters he sent me a Photo of himself he came home the last of September well and harty and we was so thankfull he had been a way so much after he came home he moved the log house we was liveing in back in the lot and commenced a doba house the 27 of October we was blest with ano- ther son makeing our fourth son we felt very thank full for this precious gift My eldest Brother name was Samuel Orson so we named our baby for him we was onely permited to keep this Precious tresure a short time as he Died 21 of December my faith was not so much shaken this time but felt my troub les was more then almost any one else My mothers children were all liveing we got two rooms of our new house done so we moved in that winter then it was two years before we got any more done to it 1865 dawned upon us my husband tended a Sheep hurd hired a man to hurd our oldest son James was now old enough to go to school William went back wards and forward from home to his sheep hurd and broke horses to work for five dollars a peace so he was home part of his time I had wool to wash and pick and get redy fo the carding mechiene then spin color and were so I was never idle prehaps there has meny import nt things passed from my mind as that time I am now wr iting about is over thurty years agoe we were then an isolated people never saw or hurd much of the World but lived in the old fash ioned way and lived happy in the spring 1866 William thoug- ht we had better move to pine Creek 20 miles a way and farm and his sheep would do better so in the spring April we moved and the snow was very deep we made a Shelter ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p015.jpg) and camped out till we could get a log house built to move in we worked hard got a house built and moved in we had very cold time but when we got in the house we was thankfull William put in a cropp we had a neighbor and was getting a long nicely the Indians comenced to be hostile and we was told to move home the last of July so William moved the children and me home he went back and tended his sheep and farm till fall then he mo ved his sheep in and comenced work on the house and got the other two rooms so we could live in them My Father was called in the spring of this year to go and bring another company across the [-] Plains but his helth was so poor he could not go James was Baptised by John Nelson 1865 confirmed by John Murdock he was President of the Stake I have made a little mista ke said we stayed at home in sixty five and William had a sheep herd he had the sheep all right but we went to pine creek moved in sixty five instid of sixty six 1866 February 16 our first daughter was born she was blessed by my Father Mary Agness we was very thankfull for a Daughter as we had had four sons My olest sister was Married she had a son a few days older then our Daughter she called him Samuel Denis after Father William stayed home seeing after his sheep and doing other work I was spining and weeveing in the fall we went to Salt Lake to conferance had a good confera nce and a good visit with our relitives returned home all right brought Grand Ma White home with us Fathers Mother for a visit Sister Woodhouse with her Daughter about sixteen years old had no home so we took them to live with us so we had a large family the young girl spun and I wove sister Woodhou se done the cooking and most of the work 1867 dawned upon us found us well and happy trying to do the best we could William still had the sheep herd we moved on in the same rutean of labor not much change Sister Woodhouse went ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p016.jpg) a way in the spring but her Daughter lived with us in the fall she was Married to my eldest Brother Samuel Orson they went to Salt Lake and was Married in the Indument house Grand Ma went home so we just had our own family too boys and our baby girl I am writing this from memory and no dout meny important things are forgoten in March 6 1868 we had another son born we named him Osmer Denis he weighed twelve pound when born Father was fifty on the 9th three days after he was born Father blest him on that day we had a family liveing in part of our house then they lived there some time the little acts of kindness are not remembered by me in a way we could write them down but they were not a few in the fall of this year William concluded to take another Wife I was quite willing We all went to conferance in October and the 9th of Oct Prudence Kartchner was sealed to him I was there Sister E R Snow asked me was I willing said yes she asked do you think you can live in that princip al I said am quite willing to try my Mother and sister live in it and I think can do as much as them and besides I wanted my Husband to go into that principal before I was old because I think it right she said my reward would be great because I was willing and she said Sister you never shall get old and she gave me a great blessing and every time she saw me that day she blest me Father and Mother went to conferance Father had had very poor helth for several years and when he went to conferance he took cold and had to take his bed my eldest sister Mary had Married A M Musser and lived in Silt Lake so we was all at her home we stayed a few days Father did not get any better he said we had better start home as could do more good at home helping the boys my brother to dig potatoes and take care of the crop we started ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p017.jpg) home on the 18 of October he passed away Samuel Denis White he was baptised in the Church of Jesus Christ of latterday Saints by Moses Smith in 1844 he was sent to the state of new york to preach the gospell and after the Profet was killed he was called home to Nauvoo he performed meny short mishons and always on hand to do every thing required of him during his last sickness President D H Wells and F D. Richar ds George q Cannon Uncle R J Burton H Little and other visited and frequently administered to him but it seemed he was wanted on the other side although onely a little past fifty his lungs had been ailing for five years thus we were called to morn the loss of our Dear Father we were all sorry and felt it more then we could stand we arived home found all well at home we lived the best we knew how our home was a happy home Mother returned found all well she was a very senciable Women and knew how to raise her children she haveing three Married left six at home she had considerable property they did nicely the Relief Society was then organized we joined that winter I was put in teacher I felt my great weekness in this posision but after haveing labored in this capasity greatly enjoyed my labors 1869 we were getting a long nicely this spring I was called to labor in the Sundy school as teacher also set apart for this labor wich I enjoyed very much Beaver was now building up some nice Brick Meeting house being built the People was getting better off getting more around them the People now commenced talking of Building a factory I beleave they commenced this spring to build it March 13 1870 another Daughter was born to us we named her Lucy Jane she was blest but dont know who by time passed on we were blest with helth I dont remember any thing of importance hapened this year 1871 things moved on a bout the same the Factory was built William done lots of work on it and had a large share in it ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p018.jpg) When done this done a way with the spining and weveing our son Charles Love was baptised this year June 25 by George Adair confermed July 6 by Sidney Farmer this was the first child born under the covenent he is a nice smart child 1871 this summer my Brother George had poor helth it continyed to be poor all summer in the fall he wanted Mother and me to go to St George with him he thought the trip and the fruit would do him good but it did not it was Aug and the wether was so warm the trip was very hard on all of us my baby Lucy Jane took the chicken pox and was very sick we got home safe and was very glad to get back he continued to get weeker and weeker in the morning on the last day of August he Died he was 18 years old the first child Mother ever lost he was a noble boy so good and truthfull in 1872 28 of July my baby Jane we called her fell in a kittle of soap or turned it over on her she was dredfuley burned so bad it was eleven days before she could be dressed it was a dredfull bad it was wonderfull that she lived but constant care and much faith she lived on the 12 of september ber another son was born he was born before his time this great care was to much for me night and day we called him Wilford Jourden was blessed by his Father he lived twelve days Died sep 24 so we laid three little baby boys in Beaver Grave yard and hope to be worthy to rais them where there is no sin I think my Brother William H White went to salt lake this fall and was Married in the Indument House all my Brothers and Sisters was Married ther but my youngest Brother he was Married in the St George Temple I was the onely child married at home the council had not been given for the young to go to the Indument House in the fall of 71 after my Brother Died Uncle Robert J Burton sent for Mother to come up to salt lake and go on a trip East with Aunt Rebeca Janes her sister and his sister so mother concluded to go I went as far as Salt Lake ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p019.jpg) with her my youngest sister also went my Brother Charles took us up there we made our home with sister Mary mother started east I stay ed three weeks then William came after me Theressa my youngest sister was to remain with Mary till Mothers return before she came Thressa took very sick they wrote to Mother to hury home as cold wether was coming they did not tell of the sickness but she got so bad they feared she could not live till Mother came but through prair and faith they kept her till Mother came she came just dusk and Thressa Died before morning November 28 72 she was a lovely child 11 years old so sweet and always such a comfort for beyound her years Mothers trouble all came at once Fathers Death Brother and sister in little more then two years In the Winter of 1873 William was called with three others from Beaver to go and help explore Arizona the company consisted of thirteen they were bless and set apart for that Mishon he was gon seven weeks had a hard cold trip they did not find any thing or place that look ed like a settlement could be made there he returned home in 1874 in January found all well at home the twelfth of Aprial 74 we went in the United Order put in all our property William was asined the stable to take care of for his part comenced 23 of Aprial continued to look after stable for two years took Prudence with him to spend the summer in the fall they moved home in November William was called to go down to st George with some beef cattle and stay and work my helth was dredfull poor but he went I continued to get worse and worse till my people wrote for him to come home they wrote twice he did not come then they sent a dispatch he came I very low for three weeks my children had to be kept away from home it seemed the other World was as plain to my view as this my suffering was great but the work that I came to do was not finished and God in his Mercy spared my life it was no earth ley power my friends said I was living Merical I hope to do my work honorably and good and gain the reward of the faithfull ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p020.jpg) I was sick a long time gained very slowly William and Pruden moved on a ranch three miles from town just as soon as I could walk around a little I was four months never washed dishes or swept the floor and felt so dispondent it seemed it was hard work to live our son Charles Love was now going to school also James when his Father could spare him the summer came and passed my helth improved very slow in the fall William had a brick house or two room s below and two above he got floors doors and windows in so we mov ed in that Winter my helth improved a little faster when the weth er got cool Aprial 16 1875 we had another son born to us ive called him George Burton after my Brother he was blest but dont remember by who he was a butifull child and we was than- kfull for him as we had lost our youngest and Jane was five years old Mary Agness was Baptised by William Jones and confirm- ed by President John Murdock my baby was quite delicate this was very hard on me as we had lost three we had very hard work to keep him when two months old he came very near dying he was so low he could not swallow we praid and administered to him all night the next morning he could swillow and graduley got better of that spell time went on 1876 William gave up the stalk the Order broke up he commenced to work on his farm fencing and built another house a large sawed log house the farm was about three miles from town he was fixing it up nice fence ing it off in fields and pastures when it was all fenced it was nice I moved down there in February of 1877 we had a fine large house we had geese ducks hogs chickens horses and cows we thought we was fixed for life or nearly so the St George Temple was to be Dedicated the sixth of Aprial Conferance was going to be held there William took Prudence and went I could not go my little George was quite poorley and some one had to stay at home so there was no chance for me to go and while they was ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p021.jpg) gon he was dredful sick he came near dying at that Conferance William was called to go to Arizona in the fall they gave us six months [--] to get redy to go Oh the thought of leaveing my poor Widowed Mother who had stood over me night and day in my dredfull sickness and never gave me up when all others did it was cruel it seemed to me and William said he had rather go to England he felt dredfull bad but we was called and there was no other way we had to begin to make peperatio ns to go James was now 18 he was keeping company with a girl he got Married we was prepareing all summer the 19 of Augest another Daughter was born to me she was born just sun rise Sunday Morning it was the day President Young Preeched his last surmon Mother Called her Roberta after uncle Robert Burton when she was nearly two months old William rebaptised his family as we wished to go and work in the Temple and it was coun cil for all to get baptised before going my babe was two months old on the 19th and we started on the twentyeth 20 of October to St George to work in the Temple for Williams dead relitives we worked there one week I was also adopted to my Father and Mother her and my eldest Brother ware ther also working and stood proxy for my youngest sister this labor was a great comfort to us my sweet little babe was in the Temple Sister July Suliven took care of her we recieved our second Washings and anointing they said as we were coming a way so far we could recieve them but they never had given them to any one so young we also recie ved them for Williams Father and Mother it seemed like we were in Heven sure when we were working in that Holey place but when we get out Satan dubles his forse on a person trying to make up for the good one recieves but we must be more prairfu ll and try harder to over come him Well we got redy for our trip as fast as we could we sold our farm for four thousan nd dollars $4000 we fitted up five wagons our City lot we ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p022.jpg) sold for twelve hundred dollars it had adoba and a brick house the Brick was new and too lots one was fruit trees all over it people have to take what they can get when they move Well we left our home on the nineteenth of November went and stayed all night with Mother my baby just three months old she was quite sick that evening the Teachers came to Mothers that evening I felt so discouraged I asked them to administer to my baby they did so it incouraged me they talked to us a long time and when they left I felt beter it was so late in the season and my baby so young was dreadfull uneasy for fear I would loose her we had a stove fixed up in the wagon had a carpet over the wagon then a cover had projections on the wagon bed and had thing fixed up the best we could we had lots of stalk to drive and we tra vled very slow we had a very hard trip our two oldest Daughters took the diptheria when we had been on the road about two weeks they had it dreadfull bad and we never had seen a case of it before we did the best we could and the Lord herd our pra irs and spared thir lives the Winter was dreadfull cold cold colder then it had been for years there was a great meny on the road an William most every familey some he let have oxen some horses to work Prudence had three very bad spells of sickness we had five men besides our own family to do for most all the work fell to me I stood and washed clothes when the snow was very deep all day there was a child about five 11 years old died in the company they called on me to wash it the watter would freeze as quick as it touched the child it was the first time I ever washed the dead our stalk was so poor we had to leave them we left one hired man and our son Charles with them this with all our other troubles leaveing him seemed like it would break my hart it was a sad time but we had to leave him more then one hundred miles from habitation ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p023.jpg) of any kind 1878 we traveled on the best we could on new years day the frost was so thick in the air we could hardley see the lead horses on our wagons William and our boys except James had to go horse back to drive stalk and horses one day we only travel ed one mile it was so cold William was afraid they would perish we camped at the Red falls of the little Colorado on the tenth the mor ning of the eleventh of January James wife gave birth to a son they called it William Jorden after it Grand Father after this was all over and so much anxiety and care and leveing Charles hard work and const ant strain on my nerves and strength I took down sick and was several days could not get out of bed we traveled on 15 of January we reeched the first settlements on the little Colorado Brigham City & sunset the People here were living in the United Order and was eat- ing at one table it looked very strange to me I was now able to be around a little some of the People invited us into their houses one room with bed and a chair or two and afew clothes was all they had in their house it looked strange to us we stayed here 5 days resting and for the Brethern to make up thir mind where to go the 20 was sunday we went to meeting was invited to eat at the big table and did so the next day we started on went twenty miles up the little Colorado there concluded to make a home put all we had in the United Order and comenced to work the men went to work on a dam after building two rooms one to eat in one smaller to cook in in May we went back to sunset to Conferance after Conferance William star ted back after the stalk and Charles we could not write to him nor him to us in June they got back to us Charles was all right and so glad to see us and we was thankfull to see him while we was gon to conferance our little George took sick we had all the children with us but he comenc ed to cough and was not well When William got back ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p024.jpg) he was discouraged they had built fine dams and just as they thought the watter would run out a way would go the dam a little freshet would come and the dam would g like a spider web he told the people he was going to hunt anoth er place we were eating up and wareing out all we had som was tried with this and said he was going to postitise he went george was sick some times he seemed better some times worse I did all I could with medicen and also with faith my prairs did not seem to be herd but several times each day I went a way from my wagon in secret and prayed our wag ons was our home often had the Elders administer but it seemed they had no faith I was sad indeed away from home and kin dred and my Husband a way my Dear sons James and Charles was willing to do all they could and for a long time I did not blow out the candle at night and the boys would tell me when I wanted them they would stay with me I was so tired out they did stay with me on e at a time through the night on the morni- ng of July 6th 78 I was so deep in sorrow it seemed I could not bare it any longer I went out in some brush out of site and asked my Father in Heven to take him home for I could not bare it any longer my burden was hevier than I could bare that prair was simple but from my hart I went to him he breathed a few times and passed a way so sweetly my own hands made his clothes dressed him fixed some paint and painted his coffin in one hour after he passed away his Father came had been gon three weeks had not herd fro- m us or us from him I truly was thankfull when he came the next day we took him to the nearest settlment and that was St Joseph five miles from where we was and buried him William drew out of the Order and started on the 19 of July to move to a place called Siver Creek where we arrived on ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p025.jpg) July 21 it was a butiful place he had to buy this place it was a ranch he bargoned for it while he was a way he had to pay Twelve thousand dollars $1200 for this place he had three years to pay it in he had to pay five hundred as soon as he got there we felt truley thankfull for the nice clear watter the hills was all covered with green grass every thing looked like we was welcome here the man that owned the ranch was James Stinson he was so kind and good to us helped us in many ways there was three famileys came here with us he gave them work to do others came soon and we had quite a camp there was four adoby rooms up and covered we mooved right in William went off a great distance 100 miles for lumber we had not been here long when it commenced to rain and it rained 26 days before it cleared off and stoped for good William was obliged to go back to Utah for more stalk I was so home sick he said I could go with him and take all the children for he would have to take all the boys but James he would have to stay and take care of things at home we started fifteenth September we took a load of wool we were just our own familey we had such a nice trip the grass was so nice there had been so much rain we met Brother Erastus Snow a few miles below Brigham City he a number of Bret hern with him when he met us he said Brother Flake I want you to report what you have been doing out in this country William got up on his carrage steps and told him all after he got through he blessed William said ever one but his Wife tryed to dis-courage him he told Bro Snow a dream he had when he felt troubled he thought he met President Young and told him about buying this place he thought Presiden Young ran his hand in his pocket as if to pull out money he said Bro Young I dont want money I want to know if I done right then he woke up Bro Snow said that was all ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p026.jpg) the council you kneed William said now Brother Snow I can pay for the place I want you to organize us and tell us how to work in the order or how Bro Snow said the Lord dont care how meny tables you set he said wold you make a good Bishop he said no sir Bro Snow said who do you want for Bishop William said John Hunt he said Who would you like for President Jessey N Smith or Brother Hinkley they were both in his carrage Bro Snow sent some grapes and Apples in our wagon for the children he blest William over and over bid us good bye and went on we felt so thankfull to know the step he had taken was aproved of We went on to Utah had a good trip found my people all well and so thankful see us we was there six weeks we left our Daughter Jane with Mother she was eight years old we came home had very good luck considering we had so much stalk to drive we had to travel slow we got home the day before Christmas found Jamses familey all well also Prudence in the fall of 78 and spri ng of 79 the Brethern commenced to fence as the land was cultivated without fence before. more people came every few days and when we got home there was quite a large setlment with quite a number of log houses Bro Snow came up here had the Place surveyed named it Snowflake called John Hunt for Bishop and William Flake first councilor and John Kartchner second coun Jeb Smith President J H Hatch first councilor O Mann second councilor Snowflake was now our home the Win ters here are mild the men can work all winter we now comenced to fence and fix for liveing we were all very buisy every one had all they could do 1879 the 8 of May our second Grand Son was born Charles Albert Flalk blest by his grandpa ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p027.jpg) the 21 of May Prudences first child was born Sarah Emma she had been in the family over ten years we began to feel more at home now Brother Hunt and Bro Minerley had moved thir famileys here and Sister Hunt is one of the best wiming in the world and they have such nice familey 8 children Daughters grown Sis Minerley is so good we have good people here President Smith has come with Part of his familey in June 1879 we had our first conferance here last part we had no meeting House and it was held in our House President Woodruff was here preached a number of times he Ordained William High Preast 28 of June 1879 he gave the people great incouragement William went back to Utah and got stalk and promised sheep in thre years for them so he had to go to work and trade for sheep in order to meet this debt. in this same year he made a pur chis in Nutrioso gave three Hundred hed of stalk this was the first purchis Made by Mormons he also made the first purchis in Springervill made by our People he paid forty cows Brother Woodruff asked me if William wasent impoversing his own family by purching so meny places he had also made the first purches at consho I said the Lord has blessed us so since we came here I dared not complain I said he wants to do all the good he can this was in a privet conversa tion President Woodruff said Sister Flake I will take super with you if you will have bred and milk then he said to Brother Flake you have done enough buying up country we dont want you to distress your self before he left our house that evening he asked William if he got in a pinch if he would lend him 100 hed of cows on the St Johns purchis which he did there was ten or twelve famileys that came the same fall we moved here some came with us they were Mormons from the suthern states they had come all the way by team some had come from the state of George been traveling thirteen months they were very ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p028.jpg) poor hardley had any thing we had to devide with them had to take sacks and cut up for panteloons they was destitut but we did the best we could and our Hevenly Father blest us William had made so meny purches the result was he had to go to Utah for more stalk myself and children was so much help the fall before he said we could go again we start ed 28 of Augest went to st Joseph stayed there two days for con- ferance then went on James and his familey went also I was very anxious about Jane but she was all right our peo- ple was well and glad to see us this time William took the Coop herd of Beaver Brought all the stalk they could find we stayed in Beaver five weeks and all started home we had lots of cattle and a lots of men to drive them it was a long tedio us trip but we all arived home safe a few days before Christm- as we were thankfull indeed 1880 the 12 day of July the Releaf Society was Oganized Wilmerth East President of stake Emma Smith and Louis Hunt councilors Mary J West ward President Lucy H Flake and Margret J Kartchner councilors the Relief was organized at conferance July 21 1880 JoelWhite Flake was born my first baby since we left Utah we had just been here two years that day we was thankfull for another son he was a fine large helthy babe Apostle Lyman came to our September Conferance he asked us in the morning of the day day he was going to leave here to let our son Charles go with him to Provo to school as we had such poor chance for the last three winters we had been on the road and what school there was here was poor he was now past seventeen his Father said he could go and William was going as far as the Black falls wit h Apostle Lyman so I had to stay from Meeting and fix his clothes so he could the notice was so short it seemed ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p029.jpg) like my hart would brake and William going at the sam time it was dredfull Brother Lyman took him to Provo and put him in school with his own son Merion there is only a few months differance in the boys Charles is a little the oldest William and Bro Lyman used to be like Brothers William is six month the oldest Charles wrote to us every week and we paid his schooling and expenses he lernt fast he got ther Nov 18 1881 the Brethern donated money and William bought a sawmill from Apostel Erastus Snow it belonged to the Church they sent it out for Brigham City and sunset he paid 25 hund red dollars for the mill our people went after it over a hundred miles to what is called sunset derrie in March of this year 7th of March William came home from Holsbrook and brought Aunt Mary Savage My Fathers Sister I was indeed rejoiced to see her for dident have any relitives out here save my husband and children and my rltives ar numerous and she is a noble good honest Laterday Saint she is 68 years old the 30 of this month has had nine childrn all groon but her youngest girl in this year the Rail Road was being built and times was quite lively 1882 in July of this year William went back to Utah on buisness he said he would bring Mother home with him if she would come but the wether was so warm she could not think of coming he arived home 27 of August I was so disipo inted that she did not come they wrote she could not come but we did not get the letter October 15th of this year our oldest Daug hter Mary started back to St. George with Theadore W Turley to get Married they was Married in Temple November 1th the 19th of October Mother came with M J Shepard he came to see after the coop stalk William had in his care they sold the stalk for money and settled up and Bro Shepard went home we did not know Mother was coming and it was such a surpr ise they wrote she was coming but she got here before the letter ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p030.jpg) 28 of December 1882 John Taylor Flake was born the Lord saw fit to bless us with another son we felt truly thankfull he was blest by Bishop John Hunt Feb 1 1883 Mother stayed four Months with us then returned home with Bishop Hunt and wife sister Lois Hunt she was such a good woman they had a nice trip we felt so blest to have Mother with us at this time in May 20 of this year our son Charles came home and stayed till September 18 but Oh the parting it was dredfull it alm ost breaks our hearts to be seperated so much from our dear children in thease earley days all the travel stoped with us every one herd of Flake Mormon or out sider the first cort held in this county was held in this room my self and Daugh ters done the cooking for them and waited upon them we now had a constant stream of travel from California from ever- ywhere to look at the country we had Twenty too men at one time from Californy eat super and Breakfast and we never charged any one if they gave us any thing it was all right if not it was all right when we had conferance here we have had seven wagon loads stop here and thir teams to feed so we have done a great amount of good and as bad as we hated to come I now beleave the Lord wanted us here Aprial 5 1883 our Dear Son Charles Lane Flake was called on a mishon to Misisippia had to start on the 10th with out seeing us but we felt thankfull that he was worthy to be called to spred the truth he is Noble and I hope he will be blest my prars will asend to our Hevenly Father in his behalf W J Flake was arested for Poligamy Sep 15 1884 by Marshel Danier and taken to Prescot the Marshel sent him word two weeks before he came he was coming in order that he might leave the country after aresting him the Mars hel told him he could be at Holebrook next day at two oclock ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p031.jpg) 14 left William to come next day when he came William asked him in to dinner I felt so bad I left the room would not see him after dinner he went back to Halebrook next morning earley William started for Holebrook got there in time the Marshel treated him very good took him to Prescot William gave lands then came home and stayed till November 11th then went back with six other poligmy brethern had thir trial was convicted William and Brother Shawson pled guilty they got six months in yuma and six Hundred dollars fine Detroit House of corection for three years and a half William had so many friends they labored with him for some time to get him to plead guilty he was sentenced 5 of December he was well treated after they had been there they showed them great respect William cam home 11 of June he was very fleshy and looked well he was greatly blessed he got letters from dozens of people both Brethern and sisters he kept a journal while in the pen which is very interesting he came home horse back next morning was Conferance Uncle Joel and Aunt Francis and a number of thir children had come to Conferance Osmer was now sixteen and larger then his Father he had bought him a new pair of pants for Conferance then he had to go over to St John on business and did get back till after his Father came next morning William went to fix up for Meeting he had got so fat so he had to ware Osmers Pants Osmer came home on Sunday at noon thinking he could go to meeting but his Father had on his Pants and the store was closed we had lots of fun with William getting so fat he could not ware his clothes his birth day 3 July and the Releaf Society got up a grand surprise they was three weeks getting it up sent invertations to all the setlments around had such nice picknick esays songs speeches a sketch of his life every thing so nice and had it in the Stake House at the first top of the Bell all the People went with thir food at the second top the Bishop Was to come and bring Brother Flake with him when they when they steped on the steps the band comenced to play and all the People was there you never saw a purson so surprised in your life it was Just grand all the parts was so good and the picknick was so good also the musick ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p032.jpg) the Brethern had no Idea they would be convicted because they was all charge d with marrying their wives in 74 and they had all been married from fifteen to twenty years they hired their lawyers William did not want to hire any lawyers but it was council it cost him fifteen hundred dollars and seven month away from home it just about broke us up when we got it all paid. When we receved a letter telling he was convicted it loked dark to us Charles on a mishon his Father in Prison as soon as the other Brethern heard of these men going to prison they just started for Mexico every one but Woodruff Freeman he was all the Poligmis that stayed a at home eight or ten men went and took part or all of their famileys and that made it seem lonely in a little place a bout forty five famileys 1885 Charles was released and came home 25 February we then felt thakfull to our Hevenly Father for bringing him home safe to us he brought Sister young blood and four child ren home with him she was a widdow a good laterday saint the 7 and 8 of March was our conferance there was a great meny came from St Johns we was all one stake then we had a pretty good conferance although lonely our President and Bishop both gon Brothers John H Willis was called to take charge of the ward on the nin th about ten oclock Sister Lois Hunt was found almost burnt to death she was in the house a lone and was sweeping the floor and took a fit and fell in the fire when one of he little daughters ran in the house her clothes was most all burnt off this was the most dep loriable sight I ever witnessed in my life it was hart rendering such a good Woman to have to suffer such a death she lived till four oclock the girl ran right here for us Charles ran and I ran to we got there the first ones the Brethern was working on the ditch they all quit work most all the sisters came the sisters stayed right with her doing all they could the Brethern went in another room and prayed for her the sisters we took off her clothes laid her on a bed made her as comfortable as we could then we formed a surkle around her bed and prayed when one would pray she ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p033.jpg) 15 Sisters I want a drink we would give her a drink then she would say go on now she would say amen every time then want turning or a drink she would say dont pray for me to live and be a criple for I would be if I live she would say John John why cant you be here you have been home most all of your life and now have to be a way from me oh it was awful all the skin came off her hands and face Just as soon as Bishop Hunt herd it he came home. she was prayd for all the time she did live and perhaps if she had not been praid for so much she might have suffered for days the Lord was kind in releaseing her Well it was a dark and lonely time indeed it seemed we had all we could stand I have told you William came home in time for our next Conferance things began to brighten up Charles went to work holled of some old tumbled down adoby houses and planted our lots to gardens he blistered his hands the first day he worked he made a nice garden he raised enough beens to last several years that Augest after he got home he took ChristaBell Hunt back to St George and they ware Married (September 16 1885 they visited in Utah then returned home) they were Married in the Temple in St George When we was called to this country I did not think there was any person that I ever saw but when we got to sunset we met Lot Smith whome we was acquainted with meny years Henry M Tanner Brother John Rushman who I went to shool with in my early youth next his Wife Louis we also wen t to school to gather we next met Eliza Tanner her and Hus- band was from Beaver we knew thet they were out here but we did not know we would see them but we stoped with in five miles of them when we first came out here next met Lorenzo [-] Hatch and we continued to meet friend and became more satisfysed with the country 1886 the first of July Osmer started back to Utah to go to school we moved up in the forrest to the saw mill ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p034.jpg) where we spent the summer William was runing the saw mill and my self and Familey went to be with him the 24 <86> of July Charles first son was born he called him Merion Lyman to show his great friend ship for that good man who was his great Friend the 28 of July we had a Daughter born a butifull child it was my last and th urteenth 13 child we called her Melissa after my sister she was Born at Pinedale the place is now called just a little over one year after My Husband came from Prison oh how happy we was for this butifull child we was now paid for all our trials of the Prison and seperation in August 29 we moved home to Snowflake we was thankfull to get home on the 28 of October our sweet babe was taken a way the Lord knew what was best for us she was sick three weeks every thin g was don that could be done but she did not come to stay was just three months old so pure and sweet the 3 of August sister [---] Adeline Freeman My nearest neighbor when at hom [-]e had a baby boy and Died just after its birth my Husband came down to Snowflake he brought the baby up for me to nurse it was just one week younger then mine so I nursed them both when my babe took sick they kept thir baby a way then I had so much milk my brests gathered and broke for the first time it seemed so bad to loose my sweet babe then to have to suffer so much Osmer went to school in Beaver that winter in the spring of 1887 he came home in Augest of that year James was called on a Mishon to Europe he had to go to Utah by tea m so my self and Jane Roberta Joel and John went with him he had a Daughter born last day of Augest we started September 10th leaveing his babe ten days old his Wife and six children we had a very hard trip it rained nearley all the way on w we was twenty days going to Beaver it was dredfull mudy ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p035.jpg) we got in Bever 29 September found all well Mother had money saved up for me to go to Salt Lake to Conferance on the Cars the terminous was thirty miles from Bever James Mother and myself went that was the first time I was ever on the cars we went to Conferance visited our relitives stayed in Salt Lake eight days then I had to part with my Dear son he to go across the Ocian in a strange land with all strangers to him I to return home he took mother and myself down to the Depo helped us on the cars took us by the hand but our thou was to deep for words no sound was herd I think that was the greate st trial of our lives it seemed more then we could bare for the time we was all willing for him to go and preach this gospell and think think it an honor for any man to be called to this important Posision but the parting at such times is dredfull we arived safe at Milford found my oldest brother Orson there redy to take us home to Beaver when we got there found all well as I left four children there we continued to visit our relitives and friends the 18 of October Osmer arived from Snowflake he came to drive our team home we remained in Beaver till 8 of Novemb- er we bid our Dear Mother and all our relitives good by and started for St George we visited our friends on the way down there we arived there found our friends glad to see us we worked in the Temple three days too for my Great Grandmothers and one for President Woodruffs relitives our Daughter Lucy Jane was Married in the Temple 17 November 1887 to Peter C Wood we started home next day 18 we traveled with Brother Welcom Chatman he had been back to get married on third of December we got home found all well. that winter Osmer taught schooll in snowflake we was thankfull to get home and find all well James little boy samuel had been very sick but was most well as soon as I could I wrote to James and when ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p036.jpg) we recieved a letter from him we was very thankfull indeed after he got there he wrote home every week such good humble letters and I wrote often to him and in couraged him all I could he said my letters was a great comfort to him I told him would do all I could for his familey in seeing after them in his absence which I tried to do June 1888 Counciler L H Hatch was up to conferance he gave my Husband and my self Patriarchal Blessings which I will record here. Brother William in the name of the lord gesus Christ and by the athority of the holy preasthood I have placed my hands upon your head and seel upon you a Patrircal Blessing be comforted therefoure for the Lord is well pleased with the integrity of thy hart His eye has been upon you your gardian Aingle has watched over you and presurved you from the hand of the distroyar even death your Father obtained prommises concerning you His prairs have been answered and you have been spaired to rais up his name and from hence fourth your whole life shall be devoted for the spred of truth and the building up of Zion and to council and advise your brethern and to give sucor and suport to your Sons and Daughters for behold thou art of Ephraim and I seel upon your head all the Blessings of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and for your obediance and sacrifise you shall be rewarded an hundred fold and come up to your exaltation Of your increece there shall be no end I seel upon your head the spirit of prophecy and discernment and say unto you be of good cheer for your name is cronicalled as being a pioneer in opening up the resorses of this Deseret land you have been inspired. the Aingles have been on your right and on your left you shall be prospered and your flocks in your basket and in your store ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p037.jpg) and shall live to see Zion free and accomplish a great and good work in your day and your name shall be honored with the leaders of Isreal and your posterity shall cary forward the work of redemption. For you came upon the earth to become a Saivour unto many of your departed dead I seel these with all your former blessings upon your ordinations and indewments that you may make your calling and election sure through faithfullness through Jesus Christe Amen Recorded Book A Page 395 1888 Dear Sister Lucy in the name of Jesus of Nazereth I have placed my hands by the authority of the Holy preasthood upon your head and seal upon you a Patriarchal and a Fathers blessing lift up your head and rjoice for your a mother of Sons and Daughters to whome has been commi tted many choice gifts and are called unto high callings and to be the companion of Brother Flake with whome you have labored and recieved many choice blessings washings and annointings your prairs have been hurd you have been guided by the inspiration of the all mighty Continue to sustain your Husband Exercise your faith in behalf of your sons and Daughters and your name shall be held in honorable rememberance through all generations The Aingle of death has been turned aside and your life spared to be a witness of the good thing of God your words and admonitions to your Sisters shall be a sorse a sorse of strength and concilation to them your hospatality and kindness to the survents of God has entitled you to great blessings the prairs of the Widows and Fatherless have asended in your behalf you coven nented in the spirit world to come to this earth in this dispensation to take part in the great pioneer ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p038.jpg) work to be the Mother Prophets and chosen men who shall bare the Priesthood honor Your guarden angle has watched over you from your cradle to this day Your name is also recorded in the Lambs Book of life continue in humility and it never shall be blotted out You are through the loins of Ephraim and I seel upon you all the blessings of the new and everlasting covenent you shall live as long as life is desireable and you shall be coequal with your Husband in all the ordences to prepare you as a Saviour for the redemption of your dead It is the will of the Lord that you shall reed your Blessings with a prairful heart and with great humility and your mind never shall be darkened and you shall be exalted as a Queen and Preastess in connectio- n with your Husband and come fourth in the morn ing of the first Reserection I seel these Blessings with your former Blessings in the name of Jesus Christ amen C. L Flake scribe Recorded by Osmer D Flake book A page <396> this blessing was a great comfort to me the spirit that acompneyed it rested upon me for days it surley was a feast to my mind and every time I reed it it inspi res me with new courage to go on in this great and glorious work Charles got the mail contract through this country in order to pay his drivers he bought a few gods and built a little room for store he was greatly blessed in all his labors James was feeling well in his mishonary labors he writes nice letters we are all trying to do the best we can Jameses familey get along nicely in July 12 88 the Relief Society celebrated the anerversity of the organization in Snowflake I was called on to write a peace which I will copy here ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p039.jpg) Dear sisters of the commity I feel to thank you for your kindness to me in ofering me some of this valuable time and by the help of our Hevenly Father will try to use a little it is eight years since we were organized then we started out with faith in God to do our duty and we have been learning a little here and there and improving a little as we go I think it better to go slow and set good examples and learn to do the duties first there are great labor for us as Mothers to perform in teaching our children to be honest virtious and upright in all things this is our duty every day we have the same lessons to teach but if we make a sucess of this great will be our reward but if we fail we will feel like we have lived in vain this is a great and glori ous work we are ingaged in it is worth all our time there is so muc h for us to learn and the time is short we hardley comence to learn in this Probation but if faithfull here we will go on progressing in this great work worlds without end and may this be our happy lot is my desire ever praying for the Lord to bless us all amen 23 of Augest was my 46 birthday quite a number of my frien ds got up a program brought thir dinner and spent the day with us will just write program Singing Aunt Mary Savage praid singing Remarks by Emma Smith Resatation Jane Flake Remarks Jane Freeman instremental music Bell Flake " " Jannine Smyth essa Aunt Mary Savage Reeding Mary J " " Susan Youngblood Minerley song Laura Wood " " Martha Straton Reeding Hapalane Sandford Resitation Mary J West Essa Prudence Flake Resitation Jannet Smith Resitation Lucy Lundquest Aunt Marys Daughter my cousi n Remarks by Lucy H Flake that day my Husband broug ht a boy home with a hole shot through his heal he was a pentite boy but we took care of him he got well and went home we went on after a little and finis our program Nancy Mary Larry and Jane gave me a picture of mottoes ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p040.jpg) 88 December my Brother came out to see us and on buisness he spent Christma with us we had just got our house plas tered when he came had not quite got it cleaned up he spent two weeks with us we had a time visiting with him it was my Brother Charles D White he is now president of Beaver stake February 4 1889 Peter Wood started from here to go to Mexico that is Janes Husband so she had to leave us 89 in May 5 Janes first baby was born a boy when he was three months old she had a gathered brest and they was afraid it was a cancer so he sent her home to us on the cars to have it doctered but it proved onely a gathered brest she came home Augest 29 we had not herd from her for a long time the first thing we knew she came home we was thankfull to see her again Our Conferance held 3 september in St Joseph my Husband Aunt Mary and my self went we had a very good time returned home found all well Janes brest greatly improved our Son James labored in Scotland the first year in England the next he greatly enjoyed his labors he kept a journal he was released and returned home Oct 25 88 we sent some means and he furnished the rest brought a young girl with him November 8 James 30 years of age we cooked him a birthday dinner at my house we ivited Bishop Hunts familey his youngest Daughter by his wife Lois was fourteen the same day her name is Lois we had a splendid time we was so thankfull our son was home and had fill- ed an honorable mishon he found all his familey well he saw considerable of the old world he went to paris to the great Escabition alas there is meny changes one gives us joy another sorrow Jane started for her home in Mexico November 25 with her baby 7 months old she was sound and well but oh the thought of he going so far away from us ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p041.jpg) January 1890 dawned upon us with all its joy and plesure sorrow and care Osmer returned home 9 of April ninth from school in Provo where he went in Augest he went back in company with Bishop Hunt he improved very fast in his studys while he was gone my Husband went down to Glia and Fraited all winter he arived home May day well and harty Charles took James in with him in the mail buisness he kept increeseing his store and took mail for four years more he was greatley blessed in his labors he greatley asisted the poor and the widows the third of July is my Husband birthday we had a family dinner and some invitd friends we alway get him up a dinner we had a very nice time That day David Savage was killed by a Mexican in the night his Brothering law came and called my Husband out and said David was killed in the afternoon My Husband Charles Osmer and my self all went up Where he lived eighteen miles a bove here we stayed till after the Funeral he had a wife five children two dead thre liveing he was Aunt Marys onely son forty years old his wife gave birth to a little girl sveral months after he was killed poor Aunt Mary had been very sick for a long time we did not think she would ever get better but she was getting better when this hapened it almost killed her Uncle David Died in 86 and she was a poor Widow but noble and good Our Daughter Mary and her Husband Theodore Turley move d up on Sholow whare our boys kept station to keep store and take care of the station they have had five chil- dren two are dead three treing My Husband went down on Salt River on buisness and put in crop it was a long winter him gon and Mary and her familey gon all my children went to school but Osmer ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p042.jpg) March 11th 1891 Osmer was Married to Elsey Owens of Woodruff he was Married at Charles house by Bishop Hunt we had a Weding this is the first one of our Familey that married at home all went to the Temple he went to the Manti Temple afterwards and tendid Salt Lake Conferance his Father was still on Salt River he came home in May he rented a farm down there and put in crop got my cousin will Burton to take care of it my Husband stayed at home looking after sta lk going on drives Osmer went down to Salt River in July horse back to bring up some horses he had some very large cans made and filled with Preserves and brought them home packed them on horse they was very nice the 27 of Augest we started down to dry fruit Bishop Hunt his Daughter Lois my Husband my self Roberto Joel and John we had a nice trip arived there Sep 4th my Mother youngest brother and his familey live there we went to dry fruit we dried a fine lot my Husband took a job braking wild horses we stay till third december we started home we had a very hard trip got caught in a big snow storm was lost three days but got home all well on 20 December just in time to get fixed to cook a Christmas Dinner as was alway my coustom we all enjoyed the dinner and the plesure of all being to gather once more which was always a great comfort to us January 1892 took New Years Dinner at James all the familey wich we all enjoyed very much In the spring May we moved on our farm one mile from home it is a plesant place nice in summer July Charles comence to build a large brick store on our block or the Flake block he kept lots of men at work as he was in a hury to get it done as the Store he has was so small he promissed Bell he would go to Salt Lake to ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p043.jpg) conferance but he got so buisy he wanted to put it off but Bell thought she could not go the next fall she did not feel satisfyed to give it up so they went they left thir two oldest children with me her sister Anney took care of the babe James second son is deaf and dum they took him with them and put him in the deaf mute school they had a splendid trip they went on the Cars Bell saw meny butifull sites as it was her first trip on the cars when they got home found all well they to hury up the new store we moved home in October the store is two storys high the uper room a large dancing hall December <92> eight my Dear Son Charles was murdered or fately shot Charles recieved a telegram asking him to arest a bad man just came to our town he red the telegram to James he said all right they went Charles went home got his pistol went to the place where the fellow was stoping got in conversation with him James came up said to the stranger I have arthority to erest you the fellow steped back James caught his arms behind him he pulled out his pistol shot over his sholder shot James through left ear filled his eye and cheek with powder then turned on Charles shot one bullet through left side of his neck as his bullet struck Charles one from James pistle struck him it sounded like one shot James shot two bullets in him he stagered as the first one struck him and the other struck him before he fell then James raised Charles head on his arm put his thumb in the place to stop the blood said to him Dear brother you are going have you any thing to say Charles opened his eyes and smiled so sweet but never moved his lips it was quite a little while before any one came he laid Charles down and told some one to go after the Elders to administer ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p044.jpg) to him the Bishop Hunt went adminestere to him then came and told us the brethern put Charles on a door and took him home on the same block he lived one hour and half or too hours but never spoke he did not suffer any pain all the time he lived the people Brethern and sisters was praying for him to live Poor James he was covered with blood and did not know where he was shot till they took Charles hom then he went to examening himself a great meny men said great eredit was do James for his shooting some said it did not look posiable one eye full of powder and shoot as he did but he was asisted by a power from on high James is very cool and has great nearve the fellow was nineteen had killed seven men before the last offence had held up seven men and robed a bank had killed his brother when he was thirteen years old could shot with both hands was a splendid shot he was killed dead thir feet lay together James said it seemed half hour before any one came there he was did not want to leave his brother it was just dinner time people was eating thir dinner it is no use to try to tell of our sorrow how our harts did ache no one but our Hevenly Father will ever know we could not eat or sleep poor James would stand by his Brother and say oh if you could have lived and me been taken he would be so glad it almost killed him his injurys were very bad but hart trouble was worse he said if I could give that poor fellow his life back how gladley he would do it he said he thought he would be the last man that would shed another mans blood but if he had not killed the fellow his own life would ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p045.jpg) have been taken and meny more he was well mounted had two belts of catridges and every thing in order we felt to acknolege the hand of God in spare ing James life Bell was so noble she said if any one had to go it was better for Charles to go he died thurs- day two oclock we kept him till Saturday night most sundown & he never turned one night no bad smell he was just as White and pure as could be I dont think there was one drop of blood left in him his funeral was in the Stake house every thing good was said of him all the People morned the schools was stoped all the work was stoped the poor Indians came to see him and shed tears all morned Out sider and Morman no other person would not be missed more or caused more sorrow then did his death Mr C E Cooley sent a very feeling telegram to us expressing his sympathy Brother and Sister Bushman both sent letters of sympathy Uncle R J Burton wrote a butifull letter we got letters from meny friend and kinsfolks and fro m California I will copy part of Brother Lymans letter Dear Brother and Sister We are all broke up over the terable calamity that has come upon your familey in the voi lent death of your devoted Son Charles L it dont seem posiable that it can be true He was good enough to die but oh I cant see how you can reconcile your selves to such a loss my hart bleeds for you and his loveing wife and tinder children and for Bishop Hunt and familey It is a serious loss to your ward and stake This is is a serious shock to James who is woonded left alone in buisness afairs Pleas give my love and blessing to every member of both famileys I love you and condole with with you all in your sad bereaveme nt The Lord only can make up to you this great loss ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p046.jpg) I am pleased I saw Charles and his wife here last October I am now writing at Merion juniurs and have just been looking over the pictures of Charles and his wife and two child ren and Bells two sisters Charles has finished his work his earthley work has fought the good fight and kept the faith has erned eternal life Our sorrow is not for him but those left behind . . . . God bless you all for ever Francis M Lyman P s you have the hart felt sympathy of the first Pres- idancy and Twelve who have sorrowed over your trouble this day and offer you thir blessings F M L James was almost beside him self till we got this letter he could not rest night or day he suffered great pain all the time he seemed heeled after we got this letter the next morning after the shooting James said if ever he prayed in his life he praid last night for the poor man he had killed he said I paied as humble a prair as he knew how to for the sins he had commited Osmer recieved thir Mail and wrote letters clirked in the store and done most all the buisness for a long time James was not able the Plasters was plastering thir store room they Just finished at noon was eatting thir dinner herd the shooting that morning Bell went to the store Charles had her go over to the new store and climb up a ladder to see the uper room he was anxious about the new house he could hardley sleep he told her how he was going to have it fixed and that was thir last talk the last time I saw him just before he went to arest the man he was carrying a hod of mud on his sholder I said poor boy he is willing to do anything that is honor- able to get his store done that was the last mud put on the looer part ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p047.jpg) the poor man alway told his wife he would not live long he wanted to make her as comfortable as he could while he did live he built a butifull brick House the finest in this place and furni- shed it nicely a butifull organ a very nice large barn and every thing one could wish all this besides his store when he came home from his mishon seven years befor he did not have a dollar all this he had made and made it honestley but he was very saving wrote nights when other people slept he had a great head for buisness but we feel his work was done and our Father wanted him there if it had not been so he could have prevented it if the shot had been one half inch farther to the left it would have saved his life and we know our Hevenly Father is able to do all things and he would not permit a wicked man to kill a good man if he had not wanted it so Bell was a noble senciable women she done so bravely the Lord has comforted our harts My Dear Sister Mary wrote me a butifull letter siad there was onely one place to go for comfort and said you have found that place long a goe she is such a deer sweet woma n in January they moved the goods in the new store it seeme d so lonely in the old store with out Charles the new store is so nice large and comfortable the Hall above is very nice they use it for dancing and Theators we feel to acknowledg the hand of God in it but it is hard he was thirty years old so hansom young and pure as a babe tended his pra irs was one of the High council filled all his Mishonary apointments had been ward clirk for a long time just been released he sent great deal of money to mishonarys and asisted in all church afairs donations of all kinds but he was wanted where he could do a greater work left three children one girl two boys his second child died when two years old Little Grace a bitiful child ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p048.jpg) 1893 found us sad and sorryfull and our Dear Husband and Father started 29 of December for the Glia on buisness we had no christmas dinner this time but feel to try and reconcile ourselves to the will of god it was lonely for us all we tried to comfort each other the last of February my Husband came home said we would go to Utah to the Dedication and we would have to go by team as we could not raise the money we got redy started eight of march Friday morning went to Wood ruff next day went to st Joseph stayed all night with Broth and sister Tanner next day sunday spent the day with Broth and sister Bushman next morning started on our journey Brother Tanner his wife Emma and babe and son Thomas went with us Brother Flake Joel and John and sister Lars in and myself made up the company we had a very cold hard trip it snowed and blowed and was very bad we got in Bever 29 found our People all well and looking for us we stayed three days changed our clothes and washed and ironed and mended and visited Aprial 2th Sunday in company with my people we went to Milfor 35 miles next morning seven oclock took the cares got in salt Lake 9 oclock at night took street Cars went to my Dear sister Mary Mussers she was expecting us had her table set for our suppers she was so glad to see us once more next morning we took street cars went to the Tabernacle to conferance as soon as we got in the Tabernical I saw Uncle Joel he got up gave me his seet by Aunt Francis he went with my Husband and found another seet they took me to dinner with them my Husband wanted to see the Apostles and did not go with us my Uncles family was stopping at the Thithing Ofice we there met meny Friend I had not seen sice a girl we went back to meeting when meeting was out I could not find any one that was going to my sisters so I took the street care and went ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p049.jpg) when I got there my son James had come on the cars was so glad to see him the next morning all went to Conferance after meeting found Barney Greenwood and wife they took me to lunch stand for dinner we had good visit there was so meny they held meeting in the asembley Hall we went there Apostal Lyman Presided it is grand after being absent from Salt Lake so meny years to go to that Grand Tabernical and here that great Organ it brings tears of joy to my eyes after meeting I was alone again but went down to my sisters my Husband came we ate super then went to the Rileaf Society meeting in social Hall Aprial 6th at ten my Husband went to the Great council meeting we fasted my husband James and me I went in my sisters bath room had a butifull bath put clean clothes on preparitory to go to the Temple at Twelve o clock after we got redy my oldest Brother Orsom James and mysel f visited the deef and dumb mute skool whare James son Albert goes to school the superentendant and his wife were very kind to us the wind blew fearefuley and while we was there it comen- ced to rain trees were blown down in great numbers small houses turned over one child blown a way and killed cars blown of the track it had been perdicted the Devil would howel and shure enough he did after it quit raining a little we went to the Temple we had to wait out the wall near two hours it com enced to snow just as hard as it could snow and Hundreds of people standing there in the snow wating for the doors to be opened Arizona and Beaver went in at the same time with meny out lying wards of my People that was there was my Husband oldest son James my sixth son Joel My Mother Orsan my Oldest Brother his two oldest daughters his wife is dead my Brother William and Wife my Brother Charles and Wife and my self were all there also prudence and the old lady that went with us all my brothers but one he was in England ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p050.jpg) on a mishon I was thankfull that we could all go in together the Temple was grand and butifull its discriptio has been given to meny time for me to discribe it or even try but it is beond discription butifull in every part that evening we went to the Chldrns Consurt where Twelve Hundred children sang in consirt it was grand indeed they each one had flages when they sang all moved at once I think it the nicest of the kind I ever saw Aprial 7th we went down to Uncle B J Burtons and visited all day 8th took dinner with Cousin Thressa Hill in afternoon Mother Brothers sister sisterinlaws my sons and my self all visited our Fathers and sister Thressas Graves the grave yard is a butiful place grand in deed at seven my Husband and James and Prudence went in the great New Temple to do some work Prudence went to be blessed for her helth my Husband James and myself dressed in Temple clothes James and his next Brother was adopted to us President Joseph F. Smyth oficiating when he got through he said Brother James your names will go down on the great record as the first work in this new Temple then he said isent that nice Brother Flake yor names will go on in the record as the first work done in this Temple that is a great credit to you Brother F D Ritchards [---] Lyman was there and two or three more of the Twelve was there if we had not been very deer Friend of Brother Lyman we could not got this great blessing but through him we got it after we put our clothes on Brother J smith took us in several differant rooms showed us around and explained many things to us Brother Lyman blessed Prudence gave my Husband James and my self Temple cards to go again next morning Sunday 9th in after noon went to Uncle R J Burtons had been fasting all day Florance and Mary ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p051.jpg) Burton my brother Orson and his Daughters were going down to Aunt Sarah Burtons she lived on the farm visited her a spell they found out I had fasted she made me go in the butry and eat. her son Edward gave me his photo we went back to Uncles stayed a while then took street car went to Marys Aprial 10 went and visited Aunt Melissa and Aunt Hally after dinner went to see Aunt Betsy she is ninty years old and is liveing all a lone William S Burton Died in Scotland on a mishon 1851 she never had no children has lived a lone most all the time since she is nearly blind and so cripled she can hardly get a cross the house a little girl carres in and brings her watter buys her bread for her and does a few chores & Aunt Betsy is so independent she will not live with any of the relatio ns they go and see her and help her I made her bed up good she was so pleased to see us my Husband and me she gave one a large picture with ten photos of the Burton familey when young ladys and young men it is betiful the tree of life in the center We enjoyed our selves emencely while in the City spent one evening with Fell Gymons mother and Oldest son Marion Guner and Wife they was so glad to see us we could harley part with them there was never such a time for hand shaleen and greeting and meeting old Friends in this world before or since as at that Conferance every one had to talk of Charles wich kept the sorrow fresh in our harts all the time but ther never was a sweet with out a bitter taken all things togeth er we had a good time Aprial 11th seven o clock in the morning we bid dear Sister and her Husband and children good by and took street car for depo Brother Fell Syman was on the street car he paid our fair and bid us good by and blessed us James took leave of ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p052.jpg) us as he would leave next day Prudence and him went all the way on the cars home we had a good time on the cars visiting with our rlitives also also wihh friends we arived home on the 12 of Aprial it snowed on us most all the say from Milford to beaver and was dred-ful cold we found all well when we got back we left our little John he had rather stay with his cousins then go with us all my Brothers left their childrn but they got a long first clogs we cont inued to visit on 18th of Aprial we started home we dared not stay any longer for fear the Big colorado would be so high we could not cross it we came home in fifteen days found all well we left Roberta to home going to school Osmer and his Wife came and stayed with her also my Lous in Harrison T White was ording here Brother Henry M Tanner also came home with he left his Wife Emma with her people to stay all summer the Wind blew all the time coming home one half day the wind blew so hard we just had to stop our teams for fear the wagons would tip over we was in Beaver one Sunday My Brother Charles White Aprial 16 had a family dinner after dinner we had our Patiracal blessing by Patriarch Danuel Tular Brother William Jordon son of ephram I seel upon thy head a Patrical Blessing Thy name is written in the Lambs Book of life a celestal crown was prepared for thee before the corner stone of this Earth was laid thou hast had many trials but they was comparative light unto thee becaus in them all thou hast seen the ivisiable hand of our Father in Heaven Thou hast acknoledg his in calling thy dear beloved son to labor in a higher sphear Thy posterity shall be very numerous among them will be Apostles seers and revelators also mnis ters to the house of Isreal and strong pillars in Zion ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p053.jpg) Through thee and thy posterity thine Ancesters will be redeem ed back to the early ages of the world Nothing that would be for thy good shall be with held from thee Thou shall have power to heal the sick even an increese of that power with which thou wast 25 born into the world none of the spiritual gifts will be with held from thee when wisdom would dictate thir use The blessings of the earth shall be increesed unto thee becaus thou hast trusted thy Father and administered to the wants of the poor with a liberal hand as thy years increese so shall thy joy in creese in the Lord in a simple and easy way thou shalt obtain thy Genealogy to a numerous host Thou wast ordained before the foundation of the world to the Holy Melchisedec Priest- hood and to many blessings which thou art now enjoying the Hevens are full of blessings for thee to be bestowed in every time of need Thou shalt live as long as life is desirable meet the Saviour when he comes to rain on the earth and dwell with him I seel thee up unto Eternal life with thy posterity with thy adopted ones who will be very numerous this I do with all the blessings that pertain to the first Reserection with an eternal increese in the name of Jesus amen Blessing no 239 Page 226 Sister Lucy Hannah Flake I lay my hands upon thy head and seal upon the a Patriar cal or Fathers blessing Thy linage is of the house of Ephram and thy life has been hid with Christ our Redeemer to come forth in the dispensation of the fullness of time and in conn iction with thy companion preside over a numerous host a crown also awaits thee to rule and rain as a Queen and Preastess forever Because of the goodness of thine heart good shall be awarded thee an hundred fold for every kind act and comforting word administered to those who needed aid and comfort Thou will be numbered with those to ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p054.jpg) to when it will be said I was hungry and ye fed me I morned and ye did comfort me and in menny ways thou hast done good by which thou hast laid up tresures in Heaven Thy posterity will be united with thee and stand with thee in the great familey union with thousands upon thousands of thine ancesters in the Resur rection of the just Thou hast been willing to forsake all for the sake fo the gospell The labors of thy martyerd son will add to thy glory a thousand fold Thou shall be a leeding among thy sisters and the wisdom of thy councills shall be a proverbe in Isreal Thou shall continue to comfort thy sisters in distress Thou shall also have power to heal the sick in thy family also to wash anoint and lay hands upon thine afflic ted sisters and in the name of Jesus restore them unto perfect helth Thou shalt live to acomplish all that was designed by our Heavenly Father in thy coming into this world no good thing shall be withheld from thee whether spiritual or temperal I seel the up unto Eternal life to come forth in the morning of the first Resurrection and in conection with thy companion rule and reign in the house of Isreal forever in the name of Jesus amen Blesing 241 Book B I neglected to record Joel and Johns baptism and confer mation Joe Baptised July 21 in Silver Creek Snowflake Apa cha County Arizona Joel White Flake baptised by W. J. Flake the day he was eight years old 1888 and confermed the same day by John H Willis John Taylor Flake Baptised by J H Willis ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p055.jpg) we arived Home May first 1893 the people was celebrateing May doy in the Flake Hall it was not meny minutes before all our children was here to see us we was thankefull to find them all well and to get home again they was all glad to see us we enjoyed ourselves emenceley all the time we were in the stlmew ts we made the best posiable useof our time was on the mast all the time visiting on the cars every where we visited on the road traveling by team we had prairs twice a day all the time rain or shine Brother Henry M Tanner is a splendid man to travel with lively and javel We moved on our farm eight of May it is plesant to live there in the summer the third day of July we had a birth day dinner to Osmers House for his Father all the Family was there our Daughter Jane came home on a visit July 16 with three children we moved in town last of October glad to get home We had a splendid Christmas Dinner at our house had all our children and Grand children that are a live together perhaps will never see that day again as Jane will go to her home in Mexico we also had quite a number of incited gests January 1 1894 Apostal young and Wife Abby President Smyth two of his Wives Emma S and Emma Z took dinner with us New Years day we had a good visit also Brigham Purkins eat dinner with us it was a nive day we enjoyed it very much the last of February Brother Andrew Jenson Chirch Historian came here to snow flake for church history he in couraged every one to write a jurnal I had wished a great meny times in the last twelve years that I had comenced to write a jurnal he incouraged it so strong that I have made this feeble effort my Husband will be 55 years old the third of July I am 52 we had thirteen children and 25 grandchildren my Husba nd 20 children we have passed through some trials ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p056.jpg) The Lord has blest us in all our trials and we dont feel to complain we have had meny times of rejoiceing in this country Uncle Robert J Burton has visited us twice his oldest son William was with him the last time Brother Masar has visited us gave us so much good instruction Bro Claff and Dalton came out here in the intrest of the young men and held a number of muting we have had quit a number of the Apostles out here all these times have been times of rejoiceing to us it always has seemed lonely to me out in this country Brother Jenson is a good man and we did enjoy his society very much he was here to our conference last of February the evening conferanced closed the sisters of the Relief Society got up a surprise for him it was just butifull he enjoyed it very muter the sisters in this place have been greatley blessed they have build two halls the first we gave to the Brethern for the Acada mey the next a brick it cast us a bout seven hundred dollars and twenty six for the ground it is built on we have the deed for it once twenty six of the sisters comenced a fast for Sister Lucricia Owens and fasted three days twelve sisters held out to the end I was one of that number we have had many fast meetings for the sick in all parts of the country 30 of March 94 Aunt Mary Savages relitives in Snow flake took our Provisions and went to her House she was seventy gears old that Aoy we ate an early supper with her there was forty of her rlitives there that day after supper we had a program and had a nice time she got some presents 20 and 27 of May we had our stake conference Bros Bushman and Farmer was up here we did not have any of the Apostles with us but we had a good meny visiters and had a good time ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p057.jpg) June fourth 1894 we moved on our farm my Husband bought from Brother Fish it is on the main roode there is considera ble travel and it is very plesant place to live < > Bell Flake Roberta Flake Harison White and a good many others started today on a fishing excursion Bell left her three eldest children with us This is the 10 of June Sister West came to see us this afterno on brought her children we had a plesant visit while she was here the people that went a fishing came home I neglected to mention May first was celebrated here I did not go as I had just hatched out 100 chicks in the incubator that after noon Mary came down from Shalow and brought Jane and her children they had been up there on a visit they came home feeling well there was a party that evening I went a spell my three Daughters and three Daughters inlaw was all there but we dont know wheather we will ever see them all at a party again or not June 13 Jane and her chil dren started for her home in Mexico today Harison White took her to Holebrook where she will take the cares at our last conferance 27 and 28 of May the Brethern of the Presideny told the Relief Society President Emma S Smith to call an officers meeting and see how many sisters wanted a carding mesheen all the Sisters at this meeting but three wanted the carding mesheen Sisters Sarah Driggs Mary J West and my self we wanted a factory Stake Preside nt Smith thinks we will have to be contented with carding masheen he thinks means is to scarse to get a factory the Brethern put it in the sisters hands to rais means for this mechieen they put me in as one of the comit this is the 25 of June I have been to Sunday School every Sunday this month and performed all my parts the first day of July we will have a Sunday School review ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p058.jpg) July 1 1894 Sunday we had Sunday School all day in snowflake it was review July 3 was my Husbands birth day he was fifty five 55 years old we went down in town and eat dinner with our eldest Daughter Mary Turley James Nancy Elsie all eat dinner there Thadore had a lame leg the Fourth we celebrated in town I ate dinner with Bell and her familey There is a strike all over the United States there has been no mail for two weeks no one knows the outcome July 7th Telegram says Fifty men killed today in Chicago July 8th went to sun day School and meeting Bishop Hunt reed dispatches in meeting Brother Freeman and President Smith Preech ed home industry and the unseteled state of things in the world said mens harts was beginning to fail them said all we had to do was to live faithfull and the Lord wou ld take care of us if we live right we have nothing to fear the Mail is coming again it was stoped ten days July 12 94 our Relief society was oganized fourteen years agoe today we celebrated it with a good meeting such a good humble spirrit was there all felt so well and than kfull it was an enjoyable time long to be remembered July 21 this is Joels Burthday he is fourteen today we killed a chicken and made nudles my Husband came home from saw mill all right with a load of lumber July 24 it is fourty seven years today since the Pioneers came to Salt Lake it is a day we always hail with delight we had a good celebration every thing went off nice no one to hurt or harm us and no accident July 29 Sunday went to Sunday School and meeting we are liveing on our Farm it is quite a plesant place one and half mile from town on the main roade our house had three roomes in it we have just had another room built ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p059.jpg) Augest 1894 the second went to fast meeting in afternoon went to Sisters meeting thurd my dear Aunt Mary came and visited us her daughter & Daughter in law also came with her fourth Sister West <28> over came and stayed a few hours took dinner with us Marying Lymon Flake was baptised Augest second by Brother Larson and confirmed by his Grand Father Bishop Hunt Merion is my Son Charles oldest son Augest fifth this is our Ward conferance it rained most all night it was the nicest rain this summer it rained mo st all day but we went to conferance had a good time Bishop Hunt called on me to report the Releaf Society which I did the best I could as it is very hard for me to preform any publick duty Well this Journal is most full this is very poor paper I have had comfort in writeing this have ejoyed much of the Spirrit of God while writing it has brought meny things to my mind of the past Augest sixth recieved a good letter from my deer Mother she was well Augest 11th we had Sunday School Conferance today Brother George Rennales and Brother George Godard came from Salt Lake to attend this conferance we had such good teaching they both have the way to interrest the children as well as the large ones Brother Godard sang two nice songs we also had evening meeting he sang another song Brother Henry Tanner came home with us and stayed all night Sunday morning our Conferance continued Brother Godard assked all und er twenty five that did not drink tea coffee drink Whiskey or beer to stand up and all over twenty five that did not use it to stand up and then he asked ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F1_p060.jpg) all that did use it to stand up or if they would try and quit it stand up there was a great number stood up I with the rest Brother Godard said the time would soon come when every one would have to quit the use of these things Augest 12 Bell Flake came and brought her children and stayed all day with me she is so good and noble and her baby Charles is so pretty and sweet he is like his Father was when he was a baby Augest 13 Elsie came and spent the day with us brought her two children she is so good but so afflicted poor women I hope her helth will impro ve Augest 15 Theodore Turley and Mary came up and stayed a while we are all well and thankfull Aug 16 went to the Relief Society meetin Sister West came up here and took me home with her it was Suseys birth day she was seven years old I took dinner with Sister Wests familey then her and myself went to meeting we had a lecture read on faith read and a letter from Sister Straton She is in Utah it was a very good letter after meetin ng we stayed and had a prair meeting asking our Heven ly Father to open up the way for us to get meens to buy a Factory August 17 this is Theadore Turleys burth day he is 31 to day [-] 18 Brother and the boys are baling hay today I made two pair of garments for brother Curby Aug 19th Roberta is seventeen today we all went to Sunday School but William he stayed and took care of things John came home and all went to mee ting but him Aug 20 William comenced a brick house for Prudence Brother Curby is mason he is getting a long fine Well this ends this Book I hope to do better in my next Lucy H Flake ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p001.jpg) JOURNAL LUCY HANNAH WHITE FLAKE VOL. 2 AUG.23 1894–DEC.31 1897 MSS SC 13 ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p003.jpg) Continuation of my jurnel Lucy H Flake Snowflake August 23 ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p005.jpg) journal Augest 23 1894 Snowflake Apache Co Arizona This is my fifty second burthday my children cooked dinner and brought up to me two Daughters three Daughtering laws three sons one son in law twenty grand children and Dear old Aunt Mary Savage we had a butifull dinner and enjoyed it first class every one so plesant Osmer was not here as he was unavoideabley absent and Jane in Old Mexico I am thankfull to My Hevenly Father for the love and respect of my Dear Children and that he gave us such good children the men folks left thir work and came one mile and half to eat dinner with us 25 this is our quarterley Conferance it commence d to day William Roberta and Joel have gon to town John and myself remain on the farm this evening the Young Ladys Mutual gave a free entertainment for all over fourteen in Flake Brothers Hall we all went but John he was not old enough Osmer came home this evening he was there after the entertainment was out Osme insis ted on his Father my self Mary Theodore Roberta and Joel going to his house he then cut a large watter melon and we had a good feast when we got home it was nearley Twelve oclock 26 we all went to conferance to day our instr uctions was very good on the Word of Wisdom Education and trying to be self sustaining trying to make every thing we can I ate dinner With Osmer and Elsie 27 all went to meeting to day but Joel had a very exelent time went and took Dinner with Bell it is her Birthday she is thurty years old she is feeling well but the children have sore eyes 28 last night our conferance closed for three months Sister Walker a dear old Lady eighty one years old came and spent the day with me she is a good women William is in town tending mason 29 I went to Snowflake with William he to tend mason I to quilt for sister Curby we came home at noon expected the Thrashers but they did not come so I went to work and collared a quilt lineing Aug 30 went to Relief Society meeting there was twenty sisters present had an excelent meeting we voted to hold a fast and prair meeting next thursday for a sister Williams also voted to [---] beens for time of fammin 31 Mother is 78 years old to day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p006.jpg) September 1 1894 Saturday had company all day in the evening Lois Hunt came and stayed all night Sunday 2 we went to sunday school William stayed to home and took care of things we teachers met at nine oclock and had a prair meeting before sunday school I ate dinner with Eloie William came down and we all went to meeting President Smith used most of the time it is very cool feels like frost 3 Monday William and John have gon out to hunt horses Sister Braidy came and spent the foornoon 4 tuesday William and John went and hunted horses I put on a quilt and quilted half of it Roberta went to town 5 Wensday William Worked on the resorvoy Joel and John went out on the range to meet Osmer with stalk I finished my quilt 6 thursday fasted and went to Sisters meeting 7 Friday my eyes was so sore could not do any thing 8 Saturday my eyes are better have been ride- ing around in the Garrage William is working on the reso- rvoy Sunday 9th My self Roberta Joel and John went to Sunday school Fast Sunday was Nickle Sunday the Primary department gave three dollars in Nickles Monday 10th James Nettie and Lewis Hunt started for the fiar in new Mexico Williams was scrapeing on his fish pond Joel Comenced to cat corn to day I have ben reeding and knilling and others choores this has been a fine day but we are haveing cold nights we got a letter from our Daughter Jane they were all well 11 Tuesday I went to Lucy Lunquists my cousins to a quilt ing William worked on the fish pond 12 Wensday we washed cut corn and collored black the wind blows very hard 13 Thursday William and John went after stalk the wind blows dredfull to day it looks like storming 14 it is very nice today Williams and John came home this morning all right the afternoon I went down in the field and gathered beens and wild hops the largest ever saw 15 Saturday went to town and stayed till after dinner saw my Daughter and Daughter inlaws and the Grandchildren it is a very nice day last night there was quite a hard frost killed the beens and vines the Grandchildren are well but have the sore eyes ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p007.jpg) September 16 Sunday September 16th did not go to Sunday School to day the children went we all went to meeting but John James Nellie and Lois came home this morning from the fair 19 Monday Mary came up and took dinne with us brought all her children and stayed the afternoon with us Tuesday 18 I went and spent the afternoon with Sister Sarah West Sister West called for me to go to Taylor to see old Grandma Hunt Wensday 19 we are washing been cutting off corn to dry William Osmer and Joel are branding stalk. They branded 56 hed today thursday 20 went to sister meeting there were 22 sisters there I quilted also grated off corn for starch Friday 21 My husband went off to day after stalk to be gon six days Roberta went to Snowflake to help Mary for two days Saturday 22 all geting along nicely boys are halling corn wether very nice Sunday 23 all well all went to Sunday school but John he had to stay at home and see after cows and home Monday 24 all well went to Snowflake took Roberta to young ladys meeting and I pulled the carage bed full of beens and John geathered the citren Tuesday 25 Brother Louis came here this morning to work for us I went to Snowflake and pulled more beens Osmer and Elsie and thir children came up a few minutes Wensday 26 we are all well I am working at the beens Sister West just came up and brought some green tomatoes for me to make sweet pickles William came home all right brought some cows and beef stear Thursday 27 I went to Sisters meeting and presided we had a splendid meetin 20 sisters was there it seemes like our meetings are better all the time since we commenced to reed the Lectures on faith President Giny Young counciled the sisters throught the Church to reed them when I got home Osmer was killing a beef it was very fat Elsie was there also with her babys it rained a little and it was plesant for them to go home Friday 28 made my sweet pickle the men folks fished with thir new sain and caught three Hundred at one hall they caught a dredful lot of them William took most of them down to Snowflake and distribited them with all our folkes and meny of the neighbors James sent East and got the new sain forty foot long and six foot wide it is nice Saturday 29 William halled Prudence a load of wood I [-] ed the the ducks cleaned the cellar out cleaned the [---] and [---] ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p008.jpg) October 1894 October Sunday 30 the wind blew fearfull all day we all stayed home but Joel he went to sunday school then came home we reed the papers all day October Monday I went to Snowflake to day and made soap and picked up beens where they had scattered out the men folks are getting up thir last croop of hay for this year this is a very plesent day Tuesday 2 Stayed home Mary and Elsie came up left thir chil dren white they went to Shumway it is a nice day and all is well the men folkes are halling hay and cutting sugar cain Wensday 3 we are all well this is another nice day Bell came up and brought her children and spent the day James Nancy and Louis Hunt came up and spent the part of the foornoon fishing we had a very plesant day visiting together Thursday 4 this is Fast day William and me fasted and went to fast meeting had a very good meeting uncommon good one such a good spirrit there the sisters had a good testimoney meeting in the afternoon twenty two presant I presided as Sister West was absent it is a nice day and all is well Friday 5 I went earley this morning to Snowflake and gathered beens till noon then went this evening and finished then came home and went to a Political meeting in Snowflake it was very good a nice speech the moon shone and it was a plesant ride we all went but Joel Saturday 6 I stayed at home and made Apple presurves William and Joel worked on the reservoy John hording cows Roberta is in Snowflake the wind is blowing today Sunday 7 went to sunday school all but William Roberta and me went to Haps and Louis Hunts to dinner William came to meeting Monday & I churned cooked and done the house work in the evening took some Butter down for Tithing Brought Roberta home from young Ladys meeting Tuesday 9 done house work went to see Sister Payner in the after noon she has a young baby Mary Nancy Bell and Elsie all came a few minutes William and the boys are halling thir crop Wensday 10 wrote a letter to mother done many choors we are all well wether nice Theadore Turley eat dinner with us ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p009.jpg) October 1894 Thursday 11 Went to Snowflake with cousin Joseph White met James he asked me to cook for his hired men that commenced work on the Reservoy he has to work out three hundred dollars on the land purchis his Father has to work out eleven hundred dollars on the land purchis I told him I would went to Sisters meeting then Bell brought me home in her buggy Friday 12 I cut out four shirts got dinner and made William a shurt him and Joel are working on the reservoy Harison is halling cain for feed Saturday 13 wether fine all well men working on reservoy Sunday 14 all went to Sunday School but William he stayed at home Joel came home when Sunday School was out and William went to meeting the preeching was keeping the Sabath day holey I took dinner at Osmers house Monday 15 all well wether fine men folks are all eatting and halling brush for rip raping I have baked yeast bread and salt risen bread got dinner done differant kind of work Tuesday 16 all well the men folks are all scrapeing to day wether fine a Democrat Meeting to night ex Governer Murphy took up most of the time he wants the people to send him to the Legislator Wensday 17 Mary came yesterday and brought her children and stayed all day to day have been thros hing beens and am very tired Thursday 18 all well the wind is blowing very hard I did not go to meeting this evening it sprinkled a little Friday 19 the men are still working on the resorvoy but looks very stormey it commenced raining in the night and rained considerable Saturday 20 the men tried to work on the resorvoy but it was so wet they had to quit and go home two days more will finish James part of the work Sunday 21 went to Sunday School my self Roberta and Joel John took care of the cows and William came to meeting we recieved a Photo from Brothers Dalton and Cluff they were out here as misho narys in 93 they were very nice men Monday 22 the storm has cleared off and it is nice to day William is lodeing hay and fixing Harrison off to Apache to take a load of hay we had a very good meeting yesterday there was there was six out sidirs there ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p010.jpg) October 1894 Tuesday 23 all well a very nice day a few clouds floating around Harrison got an earley start for apacha William worked on reservoy in fore noon Went to Snowflake in after noon Joel helped Osmer hall hay Bell came up with her children they were all well did not stay long Wedensday 24 all well it was very cloudy this morning it rained this afternoon William worked on reservoy this fore noon this aftern- oon set postes there has quite a number of people going back to Utah some to stay some to visit Thursday 25 all well wether quite nice today a little cloudy this afternoon I could not go to the sisters meeting and could not go last week becaus the men folks are so buisy with thir teams William and Joel are working on resorvoy Friday 26 My little Granddaughter Lucy Turley was quite sick I went down and stayed all day and night it rained nearley all day and all night Saturday 27 came home she was much better I found all well at home Bell brought me home in her cart Sunday 28 it was very cold William and myself stayed home in the foornoon the children all went to Sunday school in the afternoon we all went to meeting had splendid meeting Monday 29 the Wind did not blow and we had a nice day Aunt Mary came home with us Sunday evening and we had a good visit Monday and Harison and the others came home William and our Sons ware branding and work- ing with wild horses all day Tuesday 30 to day went to Snowflake took Aunt Mary home and made ten boxes of lye into soap for Sister West it is a butifull day and we are all well William and the boys continued working with the horses The Demecrats are around lecteneering for ofice holdings meetings also the Republicans they are quite enthu syastick but my polisy is to vote for the best men also that is Williams mind he thinks our people had not ought to take sides Wednesday 31 all well a nice day President Sm- ith got home last evening in good helth and spirrits he had a good trip saw a number of my rlitives enjoyed the conferance very much Harrison White and others that were with him came home the storm has cleared off and the wether is very butifull this closes october ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p011.jpg) November 1894 Thursday 1 William and myself and John fasted and went to Fast meeting President Smith occupyed most all the time giveing in conferance rport it was very good we ate dinner with James and his familey after which William and John came home I went to the sisters meeting there was 32 sisters in the opening of the meeting we had prair cirkle for a few that were sick sis Jennet Smith took up the rest of the time she had been to conferance Friday 2 all well Joel worked on reservoy William roade around Saturday 3 this morning William went out to hunt for a cow Joel worked on reservoy about ten oclock a very bad accident hapened a young man from Taylor was on his way to Snow flake horse back when he got most here his horse raired up and fell with the young man and hurt him so bad he never moved a stranger was close by he turned him over thought him dead came to our house and asked for the men folks said there was a dead man up there in the road he wante d some one to identify him Roberta said she would go when she got there it was Joseph Hancock he was breathing when she got there but was bleeding dredfulley from his nose mouth and ears Louis and John Hunt came a long the men put him in thir wagon and took him home to Taylor where he lived he died a bout six o clock that evening he never knew what hurt him Sunday 4 a nice day William myself and the boys went to Snowflake Roberta stayed home all day in the morning went to prair meeting with the rest of the sisters 6 in our department then went to Sunday School then after school had Teachers meeting after that was out visited a sick babe Nettie Hunt went with me then we went to Bells ate dinner then went to meeting President Smith ocupied the time after Meeting Aunt Mary came home with us Monday 5 at ten oclock we went to the young mans funarl he was to have been Married to day at two o clock insted he was intered at two clock the Preeching was so comforting the meeting was long then all went the residence and viewed the corps which looked very nice his scull was brook Just at the Back of his neck but his face was not hurt he looked very natural all the Brethern gave him such a good name all spoke in his prair he leaves [-] [---] and sisters ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p012.jpg) Nov 1894 Tuesday 6 this is election day school started yesterday Roberta and John started Lucy Lusquist my cousin and her five little girls came and spent the day with us Joel worked on the reservoy Wednsday 7 a plesant day and all well William and Joel are working on reservoy Harrison White has hired out to James to work for him it seems lonely when Roberta goes to school it leeves me a lone to do all the work This evening we Brother Flake and me ware called to attend the funeral of Charley Savages baby it was burnt three weeks a goe and never got over it died from the effect it was bured in the Snowflake grave yard it was two years old Julia Savage came home from the grave yard and stayed all night Thursday 8 I could not go to the sisters meeting all well a nice day this evening some people came and stayed all night Friday 9th all well fine day Mary and Nancy Lucy Lunquist and a number of others came up brought molases candy and thir children and William and them went and fished Sister Rebeca Hall stayed all night Saturday 10 a nice day all well Sister Hall got William to bless her baby before she started home Sunday 11 I did not go to Sunday School the children all went William and myself went to meeting then attended the funeral of Elis Stratton baby boy it was five months old Monday 12 all a nice day William has gon to Snowflake to work on the meeting house I have churned collored and done much other labor to day Tuesday 13 all well a nice day Joel started to school this morning William is working on the Resorboy this evening we went to Bishop Hunts and spent the evening his sister Jane has come from Califor nia after her Mother we spent a very plesant evening with them Wednesday 14 I washed to day the first washing for the family have done for some time a nice day and all well Thursday 15 it looks a little cloudy to day and the wind blows I am so buisy dont know what to do first did not get to go to meeting a gain to day Friday 16 all well looks very stormey Saturday 17 storm cleered of William has worked on reservoy ever since monday Sunday 18 all went to Sunday School but William he came to meeting it is a nice day Bishop Hunt said he hoped we would have our next meeting in the meeting house as it is almost finished Monday 19 William is working on ditch to day all well a nice day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p013.jpg) Nov 1894 Tuesday 20 all well a nice day Sister Bushman and her Daughter Lois came and spent the day with me she is an old friend of mine we were play fellows in child hood Wednsday 21 all well I washed again William has worked three days on ditch and I am going to write a letter to my Deer Mother the wind blows now Thursday 22 William worked all day cleaning out the meeting house for conferance we are all well wether fine Friday 23 William and Osmer are working on the resor voy a nice day and all well I put on my wollen under clothes to day Saturday 24 a nice day and all well William and Joel worked on Reservoy and John helped them Roberta and myself went to Primary Conferance in the forenoon then she came home in the after noon I went to sisters meeting or conferance I ate diner with Mary and Theode and thir children Sunday 25 all went to conferance but John I ate dinner with James and his familey saw quite a number from other parts of the ward Monday 26 we all went to conferance but Joel some one has to stay and take care of things William and myself ate dinner with Osmers familey it is just the nicest wether in any one ever saw we are havein good instructions and injoying ourselves Tuesday 27 all well wether fine conferance over William is wor king on reservoy children gon to school Wednsday 28 all well wind is blowing looks like storm Osmer and Alif Larson ate dinner with us James men comenced working on reservoy they bord with us this afternoon I wrote a letter to my Daughter Lucy Jane in Mexico William and hired man worked on reservoy Thursday 29 all well This is thanksgiven day the wind is blowing there was no school this afternoon so we washed the men folks are all working on reservoy Friday 30 this is the last day of november and the wind blows quite hard we are all well and thankfull for all the privelages we enjoy Mary with her two little boys came and stayed all day with us we had a good visit James hired men will finish his part of the reservoy to night makeing four hundred dollars he has worked out December 1 all well the wind is blowing harder then ever this morning William Joel and hired man all working on reservoy John and Osmer gon after a beef Sunday 2 all well wind stoped blowing but quite coold all went to town but William I went to a little prair meeti ng in the morning then we all went to Sunday school then after Sunday school we had teachers meeting William came to meeting ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p014.jpg) December 1894 Monday 3 all well had a very coold night but today is very nice Elsie came and spent the day with us and brought her children Bell and Mary came and brought thir children and stayed a little while I churned baked bread tried out greese and done general house work the men worked on reservoy the children have gon to conjoint meeting Tuesday 4 all well a nice day Bell brought her children and stayed all day with us Milo Webb was passing I called him in to eat dinner with us Osmer was helping his Father on the reservoy he was here to dinner Wednesday 5 the wind is blowing and it looks like a storm am washing and coloring William is working o reservoy Osmer went to the saw- mill for lumber Thursday 6 all well wind still blowing it stormed last night some I had company Maggy White and her daughter Friday 7 the wind is blowing very hard Osmer got back last night and helped his Father this forenoon on reservoy and ate dinner with us it is very cold and cloudy and stormes in the mountains Saturday 8 all well it is very cold wind blows hard it is two years to day since our deer son Charles was killed it is a lonely day for us Osmer ate dinner with us William and the boys worked on reservoy Sunday 9 all went to town but Roberta and Joel it snowed last night it is very cold when we got to the Post office we met Mary with a letter from Mary Ann Farnsworth my Neice telling me my Dear Mother had passed a way she Died at her home in Beaver December 2 six oclock Monday Morning she passed a way with out a strugle sat up in bed fifteen minutes before and ate a little then laid down and went to rest she was one of Gods noblest Daughters pure as could be Noble in all her acts in life my pen is to feble to tell of her goodness but her work is well done she was 76 the last day of last Augest if I could only make the record she has oh how thankfull would be my Father had four Wives besides my Mother there was thirteen children Mother had five sons and four Daughters one son and two Daughters past a way before her Monday 10 I feel blue and sad to day William is working on reservoy children all gon to school the wether is stormy and cloudy snowed a little Tuesday 11th all well sun shines nice I feel better Osmer is helping his Father today on reservoy we sold three dozen chick ens this evening for nine dollars and half sold ducks for 2 dollars ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p015.jpg) December 1894 Wednesday 12 we are all well William and Osmer is working on reservoy I wrote a letter to my neice Mary Ann Farnsworth also Alice White it is still cold and stormey yet Thursday 13 all well cold and stormy William and Osmer still working on reservoy Friday 14 rained most all night all well Roberta and myself went down home to clean up preparetory to moveing it rained most all foornoon Saturday 15 we moved Home to day had good luck it did not storm any we got fixed up quite well and feel thankful Sunday 16 all well went to Sunday School and they gave me a class of little boys and girls to get a part for the Sunday School rview for the first Sunday in January we all went to meeting the wind blew quite cold Monday 17 all well we just hurd of Sister Hulets Death she was President Smiths Daughter died at one oclock this morning she had been sick two weeks Tuesday 18 we went to sister Hulets funerall at ten oclock to day the instru ctions was very good and comforting she was good and pure and many good things was said of her the Relief Society and young Ladys all marched behind the Pall berers to the Grave yard and back it looked very nice there was a large turn out for she was loved by all her spirit was so gentle Wednesday 19 all well it rained some in the night it is cloudy and thretning most all the time we are so buisy since we came home getting fixed up Thursday 20 to day was set for all the sisters in this stake to fast and Pray for Sister Johnson she has a tumer in her brest in Snowflake 21 sisters met at ten oclock we held meeting two hours then adjurned till one then sent for President Smith Jhon H Willis James M Flake to come and administer to her and they stayed to the afternoon Meeting we had a good time and enjoyed much of the good spirit Friday 21 all well William is still working on reservoy and fish pond I spent most all day fixing a window and putting in glass I have worked very hard ever since we moved down Saturday 22 all well no snow yet but cloudy and looks like snow all the time Sunday 23 all well we all went to sunday school but William we are very buisy prepare ing for a review of sunday school we all went to meeting and in the evening we had a gathering for John Freeman & Amos Rodgers they are going on mishons Mon 24 we put dow our carpets and made mince meat and fryed cakes and prepared for christmas Tuesday 25 christmas day the fam iley of Flakes took thir dinner over to Mary Turleys and all eat together 32 persons we had a very nice dinner and all enjoyed it Wednsday 26 all well I went and spent the day with Sister Minerley Sister West went also William came and took dinner Thursday 27 we washed and cooked all well Friday 28 to day my youngest son John is twelve years old we inv ited company and had a good time Saturday 29 all well I wrote to my sister Mary and prepared food for sunday William I worked on reservoy also the boys Sunday 30 thirty six years agoe to day we were Married had our children all [---] to supper ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p016.jpg) January 1895 1 this is Tuesday New years day ware all well and feel thankful that our Hevenly Father has spared our Lives through the past year we invited Aunt Mary and Lucy Tunquist and Sister Johnson and Merior to eat dinner also some of the Grandchi- ldren had a nice time we got a letter from Mary Ann telling how my Deer Mother was laid a way she was dressed in linnin her coffin was white and every thing about her was the very best said she looked just butifull I know she was a modle woman pure and Noble was kind to every person was indeed a friend to all William worked on the reservoy all day he has been doing eleven hundred dollars worth of work on the reservoy he had till Christmast to get it done but did not get throug it hangs on he almost finished to day Wednsday 2 all well William and the boys have gon to work on reservoy in the fore- noon done meny chores after dinner went in the barn and husked corn in the evening we all went to the entertainment got up by the young mens and young Ladys asociation William did not go Bro Gardner sent for him to come and see him he is quite sick so he went and stayed till after we got home wether butifull now Thursday 3 all well this is fast day we all fasted and went to meeting had very good instructions part of the sisters fasted till five oclock was in meeting between three and four hours it was President Emma Smiths fifty ninth birth day Eleven Sisters came from Taylor to our meeting we had a splendid time the wether was so nice Friday 4 all well our neighbors lost a babe we went to the Funearl William was called to take charge of the funeral serimoneys we had remarks that was very comforting indeed in the afternoon I read a good surmond from President Woodruff then shucked corn in the afternoo Saturday 5 all well it is quite cold windy and cloudy I sold ten pound of butter this morning 25 cents per pound William and Joel are working on fish pond John and myself are husking corn Sunday 6 all well it is windy and cold all went to the sunday school review it lasted all day the children performed thir parts well Monday 7 all well wether fine William has gon to a watter meeting the men are plowing have plowed all Winter there has been no cold wether considering the time of year it seemes like October I have husked corn all after noon I got my chicken money and gave fifty cents for President Youngs Monument one Dollar for the factory they are going to biuld here two dollars for the [---] two doll ars for me one dress patron the rest used in the familey William finished his eleven Hundred dollars on the Reservoy ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p017.jpg) Tuesday 8 we are all well and it is a butifull day Aunt Mary and myself went and 13 spent this day with Jennet Smith and her Mother had a very plesant time Wednsday 9 the wether is so nice I washed in foornoon in the afternoon went to see Sister Johnson she has a dredfull brest it is a tumer or cansor she has sent for a Dockter to come perhap he will take it off William ripraping his fish pond this week Thursday 10 all well and the wether so nice the birds are singing so nice I went to Sisters meeting it was a working meeting also went with Sister West to council with the Bishop Friday 11 all well wether so nice went to Teachers meeting this after noon Saturday 12 all well wether fine Aunt Mary and myself went to the gristmill I was teamster took two sacks of corn and got it ground and brought it home this evening went to the Theator James Osmer Bell Roberta and Samey all had parts they done well Sunday 13 we went to Sunday School and meeting all well and a nice day Monday 14 all well wind is blowing and it looks like a storm I mended a coat for sameys and cut out two more Elsie brought her children and stayed all day with us Tuesday 15 all well Aunt Mary and myself went and spent the day with Sister Emma Smith it rained several good shours Wednsday 16 quite cold and windy all day I worked on my coats William did not go to work to day he stayed in town and tended to buisness Thursday 17 I fasted to day and went to meeting eighteen sister also fasted and prayed for Sister Johnson it blew fearful all day till most night then it rained hard for a little while Friday 18 all well the wind blows Sister Frisby came to help me make a new dress William did not go to work to day it was so mudy Roberta has gon to Taylor to act in Theator I finished my coats Saturday 19 all well the wind blew all night it is cold and stormey at one o clock I went to a class of Sunday Schoo Teachers the class was orgenized Roberta for secretary it will meet every thursday evening for the purpose of instructing the Teachers Brother Flake worked on his fishpond Sunday Morning 20 it commenced to snow just before we got up I did not go to Sunday school went up and saw sister Johnson promised her the sisters would have fast meeting in the morning went to meeting then called on brother Copland and Sister Minerly Brother Flake called on Bro Gardner and went and layed hands on Sister Johnson she is going to have an operation performed on her brest in the morning we will fast and pray while it is being done 21 the Docter did not get his cloriform so cant preform the operation till tomorrow the sisters fasted and went to the Hall then adjurned till tomorrow Tuesday 22 the Sisters held their meeting and fasted the Docter preformed the operation and did it successfulley Sister Johnson is doing nicely ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p018.jpg) Wednsday 23 myself and another sister set up with Sister Johnson all night and she is doing nicely I feel dredfull bad with out any sleep Thursday 24 I feel a little better to day William did not work yesterday it is quite cold the last few days he went this afternoon to work on his fish pond there is sisters meeting this afternoon and the Sunday School meet or the Teachers meet this evening we are going to be instructed by persons that have been to Provo to school Friday 25 we are all well it is quite nice to day I went to the Teachers meeting had a good meeting Saturday 26 Aunt Mary and myself went with William to the fish place and spent the day with Maggy White the sun shone nice Sunday 27 all well wether fine we all went to Sunday School but William after dinner I went and spent the after noon with Sister Johnson in the evening the boyes and me went to Bells and spent the evening Monday 28 all well it snowed last night about four inches William stayed home to day Mary and Theodore went to Holebrook and left thir children here Wednsday 29 quite cool and and cloudy William did not work to day we are all well to day I am mending and doing house work Mary came Thursday home this evening and took the children it seemed lonely 31 it is quite nice we have had several cold nights and it has cleared off I spent this forenoon with Sister Johnson this afternoon went to sisters Meeting there was over thirty sisters there had a good meeting after meeting Sisters West and Willis and My self stayed and had a prair meeting in the evening we went to Sundy School class and we were given a Permit I will here insurt it as I recieved it Snowflake Jan 31st 1895 Sister Lucy H Flake you have been suggested and excepted as a mishonary to attend the sundy School Normel Class (held in Snowflake) To recieve the instructions there in given with the view that you will under the direction of the local Authorities asist in teaching the Sunday School in this Stak of Zion Should there be no reesenable objection to hinder you from excepting this Call there will be no further notifucation needed You will be expected to present yoursef at the regular sesion of said Normel class Jessey N Smith President of Stake this ends January I have been very buisy this month visiting the sick and lendng Meetings and doing all kinds of house work this has been a nice day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p019.jpg) February 1895 1th the wether is butifull we are all well William is halling fenceing I husked corn all the afternoon Roberta has stoped going to school Saturday 2th we are all well the wether is fine we have had a very nice winter William is halling fencing again James and Osmer killed two large hogs for us for us this forenoon this afternoon Roberta John and myself husked corn and finished it all I feel so glad it is all done Sunday 3 all well a very nice day this is our ward conferance we had two meetings very good instructions was given us Bell and her children came and took supper with Monday 4 all well a nice day have been very buisy trying out lard cleaning pigs head and feet we killed our hogs last Saturday I got fifty pounds of Sugar to day and made vinegar pies this evening went to meeting Tuesday 5 all well it is a nice day William is still holing fencing he with the help of James and Osmer hitched a wild mule in his team to work to day I went and spent the day or most of the day with Bell and her familey Wednsday 6th all well William has gon to harrow in Wheet it is a fine day we are all well went and sent the afternoon with Elsie Thursday 7 we are all well this is Fast day and we have all fasted and all went to meeting Sister Sarah Webb came home and ate dinner with us and her and me went to the Sisters meeting there was 44 sisters to our meeting after meeting I went and called on Sister Cross she is sick William was called to admisister to Bro Gardner in the evening Joel Roberta and myself went to Normel class Friday 8 we are all well it is a fine day this after noon quite a number of our Familey went to Taylor Mary Nancy and myself went in one buggy we went to attend the funarl of Letty Hall she was almost Twelve years old was sick nearly five weeks with Lung trouble while I was up there called on Mother Walker she gave me some madory Saturday 9th all well William and the boys have gon to help Osmer put in Wheat and the wind is blowing very hard I have been cooking mending and straitning up things prepareing for Sunday but it is a dredfull day Sunday 10th we are all well it snowed a little in the night the wind does not blow so hard to day I fasted and went to a little meeting at nine then went to Sunday School after ss Teachers meeting then came home ate dinner went to afternoon meeting Monday 11th all well but cold I comenced to preserve citron William is working on the farm Tuesday 12th we are all well the Wether is quite cold and thretens to storm William is halling fenceing I made another batch of preserves Elsie came and spent the day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p020.jpg) Feb 1895 Wednsday 13th we are well it is very cold and snowed some in the night and snowed part of the time to day William stayed at home to day Bell and her children came and spent the day with us I am makeing preserves yet Thursday 14th we are all well it is very cold and stormey I went to Sisters meeting Sister Ramsey came and took dinner with us and we went to meeting together William halled fencing and brought home a load of wood Roberta and Joel and myself went to the normel class this evening Friday 15th we are all well it is cold the north wind is blowing William has gon to work halling fenceing I went and called on Sister Bell Webb this afternoon also called on Lucy Lunquist and Aunt Mary they are all quite poorley Saturday 16th it is still very cold William did not go to work to day I finished makeing preserves made one batch for Nancy one for Bell and one for me this evening we all the flakes took our provision over to Mary Turleys and eat supper together it is her burthday she is Twenty nine to day Sunday 17th we are all well it is very cold yet we all went to Sunday School but William then we went to meeting then came home and spent the rest of the day reedin Monday 18th we are all well it is not quite so cold William and Harrison have gon in the field to scrape and level land I had a special invitation to go to the yound Ladys meeting and went we had an excelent meeting then a pass around there was a large burth day cake to day was Pheba Kartchner and Lottie Webb birthday Tuesday 19 the Wether is nicer now we are all well William is working in the field I went up with him and spent the day with the sister Bradeys they was glad to see me they are lonely up there Wednsday 20 we are all well the wether is nice William is still working in the field I went and spent the day with Maggy White She is feeling quite well Thursday 21 all well William is helping put in wheat to day I washed a little this forenoon the Bishop came at noon or me to go and see his girl that was sick I went from there went to the stake- House to help put down the carpet we carpeted all the steps Friday 22 we are all well it is a fine day tomorrow is conferance and we are dredfull buisy prepareing William is putting in Wheat to day Saturday 23 the wether is fine this morning is young mens conf erance this afternoon young Ladys we all went it was a good time Sunday 24 all well wether fine Brother Kemp is staying with us we all went to Conferance had very good meetings it seems good to meet so meny good friends in the evening we had sisters meeting Monday 25 all well went to conferance this afternoon William and James started to Holebrook for wire to fence with ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p021.jpg) after the conferance adjurned a meeting was called to organise a board for a Wellen factory we are trying to raise means to send for a factory five men and two women was put on this bord as the sisters had done the most towards raiseing the means we hope and pray our Hevenly Father will asist us in this good cause Tuesday <26> we felt tired and give out I went and spent the afternoon with Elsie it is a cold day there is much sickness with the children Wednsday 27th all well but dredfull cold Mary came and spent the day with us we are well Marys children is ailing also Elsies children Thursday 28th it is quite nice we expected William and James home last night but they did not come they came to day all well high watter prevent Friday March 1 we are all well Roberta and Harrison has gon to St Johns to conferance yesterday (I asisted to wash and bless Sister Webb also Lucy Lunquist baby is very sick I asisted in holding a prair curkle for it also asisted in administering to it went to sisters meeting in the afternoon went to Normel Class at night) to day I churned done up the work then called on the sick William was called to go and administer to the sick he has gon to the farm to work this evening I set too hens with duck eggs Saturday 2th we are all well it is cold and cloudy William is scrapeing Joel is diging past holes John is wattering wheet my labors or meny called on the sick done up my work nice for Sunday Shelled corn for meal and done meny chores visted Sister Johnson she is getting a long nicely Sunday 3th all well I fasted and went to a little prair meeting then went to Sunday School came home found a letter from Sister Mary she writes her Son Joseph is called on a mishon to the Suthern States her family is well after dinner I sat down to answer it then went to meeting in the evening wrote a gain the wind blew very hard in the afternoon Monday 4 all well the wether is nicer this morning took care of Bells children she went to St Johns to conferance Mary came and stayed the afternoon with us Aunt Mary came over and stayed some time I have been smokeing meet to day and done meny other things set another hen on duck eggs after got my work done up in the evening I went and saw Mary and her children then called in Elsies and stage a few moments then came home William was in bed Wednsday 6th this is a nice warm day we are all well this is Osmers birth day he is 26 he has gon to Holebrook for flour after I got my work done I went and called on the sick Brother Lundquist came here he was quite poorley and I insisted on his staying and eat dinner with me which he did he seemed to enjoy it so well he has to cook his own food ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p022.jpg) March 1895 Thursday 7th this is fast day we all fasted and went to fast meeting Aunt Mary came home and eat dinner with us at two oclock her and me went to Relief Society meeting had a good meeting I invited Sister Lollie Webb home with me after supper we went to the Normal class Friday 8th all well a nice day we washed in afternoon two oclock I went to Relief society Teachers meeting had an excellnt meeting after meeting Aunt Mary and my self went and visited George Gordner he has been sick a long time we found him feeling first rate he is gaining fast Saturday 9th we are all quite well this is a nice day William is working on the farm every day we have been very buisy taken up carpet [---] preparing our food for sunday. this evening the children of the Prim ary had an entertainment five cent a peace for every one that went it was very good indeed for such small children they made over eleven dollars $11 they want to buy books with this means Sunday 10th we are all well this is a fine day we went to sunday school and Teachers meetings came home eat dinner then went to meeti ng after meeting I wrote a letter to Mary Ann Farnsworth my neice in the evening went to Bells and stayed the evening there Joel came over to we had a plesant time then came home and went to bed Monday 11th we are all well the wether is nice Osmer has been married four years to day and Elsie is cooking a weding supper William and my self are invited we went Roberta Joel and John also went in the eveni ng there was a gathering with a pass around the supper was very nice we had a nice time songs and peases and lively conversation Tuesday 12th every thing is all right it looks like a storm I am inv ited to a surpris for a poor Widow Sister Linsey we are all going to take her a presant I went to the surprise and took her an apron and some factory she quite a number of presants we had a pass around and a good meeting all felt well and she was made happy Wendsday 13 this is Janes birthday she is Twenty five years old Aunt Mary came over and took dinner with us the wind blew so dredful hard my eyes is dredfull bad with the carciplous and I stayed in the house all day I forgot to say we all went to the Decons surpris Tuesday evening the Young Ladeys surprised then William and myself were invited gets they had a very nice pickenick sangs musick rsitations and speeches it was nice ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p023.jpg) Tuesday 14 my eyes are a little better it blow so fearfull hard William did not go to work it sprinkles a little but blows to hard to rain I went to the sisters meeting in the afternoon and went to Normal class at night Friday the 15th wind still blows but not so hard but very cold William has gon to the field took John with him in the afternoon I went down to Sister Ramseys Lucy Lunquists baby was worse she sent for Sister Ramsey to go over she asked me to go With her we found the baby very bad it very cold and cloudy Saturday 16 we are al well the wind dont blow so hard to day William took Roberta Joel and John to farm to plant garden I stayed at home to do the work Sunday 17th all well it is cloudy and cold wind blows went to Sunday school had James and Nancy Elsie and Osmer came and eat dinner and all went to meeting the Wind blows very hard after meeting several of the sisters invited me to go to pinedale to a surprise I told them I did not think I could go Bell asked me to go with her and Anney and Hap in Brother Hunts carrage I said will ask my Husband and I came home and asked our folks they said I could go just as well as not so the girls came after me early Monday morning 18 the wind blew very hard and so cold we got there at one oclock warmed eat a lunch combed our hair and then repaired to the meeting house where the people were setting tables and prepareing for a big supper every body most in pine dale most turned out the surprise was for Olivea Stratton they brought her in a wagon she was pleased and surprised to see so many Snowflake people as there was four Wagons and Carrages there we had a very nice supper then after it was cleared away we had an entertainment it comenced just beofre five and lasted till dark it was very nice we enjoyed ourselves first class we had more invirtations then we could fill after breakfast the wind changed and was in our faces all the way home Tuesday 19th we arived home one oclock found all well recieved a letter from Jane they were all well and we was glad to here from them today it is Aunt Sarah Driggs birthday and Jan invited to eay birthday supper to her house the sisters are trying to surprise her I went the supper was at four it was butifull supp er just grand in the evening the people were all invited to the stake House there they had an intertainment it was nice and good lasted till after ten oclock Wednsday 20 the wind does not blow so hard today I am feeling quite poorly to day Joel and John are hunting horses to day Thursday 21th am feeling better today worked hard all the forenoon this after noon went to the Relief society meeting we had a good meeting this evening we go to the Normel class ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p024.jpg) March 1895 Thursday 7th this is fast day we all fasted and went to fast meeting Aunt Mary came home and eate dinner with us at two oclock her and me went to Relief Society meeting had a good meeting I invited Sister Lollie Webb home with me after supper we went to the Normal class Friday 8th all well a nice day we washed in afternoon two oclock I went to Relief society Teachers meeting had an excellent meeting after meeting Aunt Mary and my self went and visited George Gardner he has been sick a long time we found him feeling first rate he is gaining fast Saturday 9th we are all quite well this is a nice day William is working on the farm every day we have been very buisy taken up carpet oron[--] prepareing our food for sunday. this evening the children of the Prim ary had an entertainment five cent a peace for every one that went it was very good indeed for such small children they made over eleven dollars $11 they want to buy books with this means Sunday 10th we are all well this is a fine day we went to sunday school and Teachers meetings came home eat dinner then went to meeti ng after meeting I wrote a letter to Mary Ann Farnsworth my Neice in the evening went to Bells and stayed the evening there Joel came over to we had a plesant time then came home and went to bed Monday 11th we are all well the wether is nice Osmer has been Married four years to day and Elsie is cooking a weding supper William and my self are invited we went Roberta Joel and John also went in the eveni ng there was a gathering with a pass around the supper was very nice we had a nice time songs and peases and lively conversation Tuesday 12th every thing is all right it looks like a storm I am inv ited to a surpris for a poor Widow Sister Linsey we are all going to take her a presant I went to the surprise and took her an apron and some factory she quite a number of presants we had a pass around and a good meeting all felt well and she was made happy Wendsday 13 this is Janes birthday she is twenty five years old Aunt Mary came over and took dinner with us the wind blew so dredful hard my eyes is dredfull bad with the cariciplous and I stayed in the house all day I forgot to say we all went to the Decons surpris Tuesday evening the Young Ladeys surprised them William and myself were invited gests they had a very nice pickenick songs musick rsitations and speeches it was nice ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p025.jpg) Thursday 14 my eyes are a little better it blow so fearfull hard William did not go to work it sprinkles a little but blows to hard to rain I went to the sisters meeting in the afternoon and went to Normal class at night Friday the 15th wind still blows but not so hard but very cold William has gon to the field took John with him in the afternoon I went down to Sister Ramseys Lucy Lunquists baby was worse she sent for sister Ramsey to go over she asked me to go With her we found the baby very bad it very cold and cloudy Saturday 16 we are all well the wind dont blow so hard to day William took Roberta Joel and John to farm to plant garden I stayed at home to do the work Sunday 17th all well it is cloudy and cold wind blows went to Sunday school had James and Nancy Elsie and Osmer came and eat dinner and all went to meeting the Wind blows very hard after meeting several of the sisters invited me to go to pine dale to a surprise I told them I did not think I could go Bell asked me to go with her and Anney and Hap in Brother Hunts carrage I said will ask my Husband I said I could go just as well as not so the girls came after me early Monday morning 18 the wind blew very hard and and so cold we got there at one oclock warmed eat a lunch combed our hair and then repaired to the meeting House where the people were setting Tables and prepareing for a big supper every body most in pine dale most turned out the surprise was for Olivea Stratton they brought her in a wagon she was pleased and surprised to see so meny snowflake people as there was four wagons and carrages there we had a very nice supper then after it was cleared away we had an entertainment it comenced just before five and lasted till dark it was very nice we enjoyed ourselves first class we had more invirtations then we could fill after breakfast the wind changed and was in our faces all the way home Tuesday 19th we arived home one oclock found all well recieved a letter from Jane they were all well and we was glad to here from them to day it is Aunt Sarah Driggs birthday and Jan invited to eat birthday supper to her house the sisters are trying to surprise her I went the supper was at four it was a butifull supp er just grand in the evening the people were all invited to the stake House there they had an intertainment it was nice and good lasted till after ten oclock Wednesday 20 the wind does not blow so hard to day I am feeling quite poorly today Joel and John are hunting horses to day Thursday 21th am feeling better to day worked hard all the forenoon this afternoon went to the Relief society meeting we had a good meeting this evening we go to the Normel class ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p026.jpg) Friday 22 I dont feel well to day the wind blows and it seems cold William is working on the farm every day scrapeing and makeing ditches Aunt Mary came and took dinner with us Saturday 23 I feel better to day all the folks have gon to make garden but me I will clean and cook for Sunday the day is fine Sunday 24 this is a nice day I did not go to Sunday school my eyes are so bad Mary and her children Bell and her children and Nettie came by inv itation and eat dinner with us after dinner we went to meeting after meeting the Teachers men Teachers came and stayed till dark Monday 25 this is a butifull day I made myself two pairs garments it seems like spring has come it is so fine my eyes are very bad yet Tuesday 26 it is very nice the fruit trees are blameing out we are all well but my eyes I went and visited the district school this after noon too departments Joels and Johns Sister Ramsey went with me after school we called on Sister Emma Smyth a little while she was so glad to see us and the wether so fine it seemed nice to be out Wednsday 27 it was fine this morning but the wind came up and it blows quite hard in the afternoon Elsie and me called on Sister Minerley and spent the afternoon we found her in good spirrits Thursday 28 the wind is blowing very hard and it looks like a storm Sister West asked me to go and preside at the Sisters meeting I felt it quite a task to go the wind was blowing so hard but I went and seven good sisters came we visited and worked at carpet rages at night I went to the Normel class Friday 29 I was sick all last night and was very sick all day friday did not eat one bite nor drink and was sick all night Saturday 30 was a little better in the morning but worse in the evening was bad all night Mary came over Sunday Mornning and turned my bed around combed my hed made me some stro ng sling and told me to go to bed I did when I got up felt better this closes the month of March this months has not been uncommon bad for wind I have had much plesure with my Sisters in meetings and invited parties and have had the privelage of visiting my children and Grand children but next month we must moove to the Farm then these nice times will end for we will have to stay more at home I dont care much a bout going but alway try to make dutity a plesure it is plesant there but lonely but we must make the best of that and never complain ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p027.jpg) Aprial 1895 Monday 1th I feel better this morning but very week the wether is fine William is still working on the ditches he goes every day but Sundays he has taken both boys out of school he had so much work to do he needed thir hellp Tuesday 2th I feel better but cough very much Joel has gon to pine dale to take off cattle Nancy is real sick quite bad off hard cough and pain in her shoulder it hirts her so to cough we are trying meny things to help her Wednsday 3 Nancy is still very sick I am trying to do what I can for her but feel so week and tired I have not got well my self yet but feel thankfull I am better Thursday 4 Nancy is no better and the wind is blowing dredfull this afternoon she was unconsious I went and stayed till bed time done all I could Friday 5 Nancy is worse it seems strange she gets no better We have the Elders quite often but she dont get better the Wind blows the hardest to day we ever had it blow and from the north Nancy is so nervious very nurvious I dont think ever saw any person so bad before we think the wind makes her worse and it is dredfull cold Nancy talks at randum a great deal Saturday 6 James sent for me at three this Morning she is graduely getting weeker she has dredfull hard work to swallow she never shut her eyes all day yesterday or last night just kept them wide open all the time she dont seem to know us and cant talk at eleven oclock we washed her and changed her clothes fixed her bed and made her more comfortable but she graduley grew weeker and twenty minutes past three her gentle spirit took its flight she is called to the better world she is all right she has done her work and done it well but the Poor Husband and nine Motherless children it seems so pitifull Sunday 7th this is a sorryfull day the familey all eat here every thing seems so strange to think Nancy was snatched a way so suden Monday 8th this is the day for the Funarl the children are all to fix and decay has set in I went put on her apron and cap and girdle and saw he put in the coffin and the lid fasened down then we came to dinner then fixed for the Furneral there were a great meny there quite a number from Taylor it is a nice day but all seems like a Tuesday I did not mention the speakers at the funeral President Smith Pall Smith Woodruff Freeman Bishop Decker and Bishop Hunt and William all spoke well of the departed one thir remarks was comforting and good Bro Ramsey also spoke when meeting was out we went to the Grave yard Brother Minerley offered the deddicatory prair at the grave ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p028.jpg) 22 Tuesday 9th I cleaned the cupbords washed dishes and fixed dinner to James House there as a mumber of girls here washing up the dirty clothes Mary Bell and Elsie are all here at work every thing needs cleanning we have had dredfull wind storms and every thing is dirty Wensday 10 we are cleaning ironing we cleaned the store this morning I stay there at James all the time but nights the children are not very well and it keeps me buisy cooking takeing care of the children and there is a great care but if God will give me Wisdom and strength I will try and do my best Thursday 11th we are doing the best we can we find so much to do we dont find time to pray the baby seem quite poorley she is teething the little thing is sixteen months old and so small Nellie is very small too Friday 12th we are all [---] well but plenty to do mending and fixing up the childrens clothes and careing for ther wants Saturday 13 I came home after breakfast churned picked the ducks and fed pigs and chickens then went back and worked Sunday 14 the wind is fearfull to bad to go to Sunday school or meeting so I just set down and wrote to Sister Mary and Mary a Farnsworth my Neice it is just the dredfulest day you ever I did not go to Sunday school or meeting just stayed at home it is three Sundays since I have been to Sunday School or Sunday meeting Monday 15 we are all pretty well My familey moved to the farm today I helped them pack up after they were gon I took up the carpets and swept up the floors and stratened up thing then went down to James am staying with them Tuesday 16th yesterday was quite nice also today is nice helped to quilt some cooked dinner done meny kinds of work I sleep up- stairs in Osmers House Elsie said I was welcome to come there she had a spair bed it is a butifull place to sleep Wednsday 17th Elsie took her horse and buggy and took me up to the farm to spend the day it was a nice day they are fixed very comfortable up there it looked home like we came home in the evening Thursday 18th we are all pretty well the wether is fine Wished some clothes this forenoon helped get dinner and went to the sisters meeting in afternoon after meeting called on Sister Kartchner she has been very sick she is improveing then called on Sister Johnson she is worse quite bad it seem like she can live long we Sister West and me decided to have a fast and prair meeting in the morning at nine o clock I came home to James helped to Iron get supper and other choares I am very buisy all the time there is plenty of work ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p029.jpg) Friday <19> I fasted and went to meeting the meeting was held for sister John son poor sole she is a great sfferer after there was seventeen sisters fasted and went to meeting in our first circle we all prayed around our prairs was for sister Johnson only then we rested praid all a round for all that was sick we had a good time after meeting was out we went to Sarah Freemans had prair and administered to her she is quite sick there is lots of sick in our settlement then we went home Aunt Mary went and took dinner with me Saturday 20we are quite well it is nice to day we are bery buisy doing all kinds of work James is getting his new House plastered now and it looks like a storm Sunday 21th I went to sunday school and Meetin and enjoyed it very much Sister Hall invited us all over to her house (she is nancys mother) for dinner Aunt Mary invited me over to sleep with her wich I did Monday 22 we are all well it is a butifull day we are going to have my cousin and Mary Ann Heeps and her Husband and Children come and take Dinner with us just before twelve Aunt Mary took dredfully sick she is very bad with pain and sick stumick I stayed most all night with her has a high feavor Tuesday 23 all well the wether is nice we made twelve boxes of lye into soap today Aunt Mary is quite easy but has much feavor yet I am working all the time it keeps me very buisy to keep things strate Friday 24 Wednesday 24 we are all well Aunt Mary is no better it is nice to day am cording bats for a quilt and all doing the best we can Thursday 25 it is a nice day we are washing went to Sisters meeting in afternoon Aunt Mary is still quite sick and we had a prair circle for Friday 26 we are all quite well but very buisy Aunt Mary is no better we got a letter from Jane she has another son born 13th of this month she wrote when it was six days old that is doing real nice Saturday 27 we are all well Aunt Mary is no better she wants the Teachers and officers of the Relief society to have a prair meeting for her which we did I wrote a letter to her eldest Daughter of her sick– ness also took silk and linnin to Ema A Smiths to make her a Temple apron I set up part of the night with her Sunday 28 we are all well Aunt Mary seems better I went to Sunday School and meeting the wind blew dredfull I was invited to Bro [---] Smith birth day after meeting I went we had a very nice time the House was full every one in the House was called on to speek they also had a nice picknick it was all very good Monday 29 all well the wind blows quite hard to day I dont see any change in Aunt Mary we are very buisy there is so much to do Tuesday 30 all well the wind is blowing yet it thretens to rain and it did rain a very nice rain this closes trial with all ist cares and sorrows and joys and blessings ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p030.jpg) May 1895 Wednsday 1th we are all well the snowflake people are celebrating May day had a program met at ten dureing the exercises young men was called on to asist the young Ladys braid the May-pole there were onely six that would go so they called on Brother Copeland 79 years of age Pall Smith 75 years William and Brothers Minerley and Frisby it made lots of fun it all went off nice Aunt Mary dont get better I am makeing soap on may day I think some of going home to morrow or up to the farm where the folks are liveing Thursday 2 we are all well the wind blows quite hard to day I fasted and went to fast meeting William also came down to meeting he is working on the farm all the time I did not go to the farm it was so windy and went to the sisters meeting Aunt Mary is sick yet Friday 3 we are all well this is quite nice to day to recieved a letter from Jane she has another son born thirteenth of Aprial Saturday 4 we are well I recieved a letter from my sister Mary she sent me her photo also her son Joseph Wife and babe he has just gon on a mishon they are good photoes. also got a letter from Mary A Farnsworth it cheers me up to get letters from my rlitives they are all well and in good spirits they wrote letters of consolation Sunday 5th we are well this is a nice morning I went at 9 o clock to prair meeting for the Teachers of primary then went to sunday school and in afternoon went to meeting Brother Hatch preached a good sermon to us after meeting came home to the farm things are growing some now Monday 6 all well a nice warm day I wrote too more letter one to Mary and one to Mary Ann her Husband is sending us the Beaver papers Utonion it is so good in him to be so kind it brings us news from there Tuesday 7 I wrote a letter to Jane William started to apache with a load of hay it is getting so warm it seemes like we will melt Roberta is washing in the afternoon I went over and called on Louis Smith she has a baby boy she is quite smart Wednsday 8th we are all well I washed a lot of flannel clothes and done a hard days work the wind blew and some clouds flying around Thursday 9 all well the wind is blowing very hard to day and it is quite cloudy it looks like it would rain and we need rain very bad Friday 10 we are white washing this is a nice day and we worked very hard our room looks nice but it takes hard work to make thing nice Saturday 11 all well it is a nice day we are cleanin our bedsteds with terperptine to kill the bed bugs they are so thick it seemes like there is plenty of work to keep them down ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p031.jpg) Sunday 12 all well a nice day Roberta is all the one that went to the Sunday school we had no team here and she walked I done considerable reeding which I enjoyed very much Osmer and familey called also James came up here a teaching Willia came and stayed and made quite a visit Monday 13 all well wether fine we feel all right when the wether is nice William came home this afternoon well and harty had a good trip Tuesday 14 all well Bell sent her cart after me I went down and spent the day with James children called and saw Aunt Mary she thinks she is better also called and saw sister Johnson she grows worse all the time Mary brought me home in her buggy it has been a nice day Wednsday 15 we are all well it is a fine day I went and droped sweet corn in the garden for William while he plowed there is much said of womens rights I dont beleave in equal rights I would like the Franchise but feel willing for the men to kill the snakes build the bridges and smoothe down the high places and hold the offices I would like to see womens rights respected and held sacrid at all times and in all places Sister Johnson passed quietly a way half past six this after noon I went right down and stayed all night and helped to dress her it seemed so good to have her out of her suffering Thursday 16 I came home this morning in his buggy the funarl will be at two oclock this afternoon Roberta and her pa went the wind is blowing hard Friday 17 we are all well William started to Apache with another load of hay it threatens to rain every day but dont come yet Saturday 18 we are well the wind is blowing very hard my cousin Franciss Menear and her Husband and Several children came up to visit us from St Johns they took supper with us and stayed all night Sunday 19 our Cousins took breakfast with us the wind blows hard it is thundering and looks like rain I have no way to go to Sunday school and cant leave the place a lone the boys are wattering it makes it so bad to have to stay from Sunday and meeting Roberta went she walked it is too far for me to walk I called over to see Lois Smith this afternoon it comenced to rain when I was coming home and we had quite a shower made every thing look nice Monday 20 our Cousin Brother Maneer sent his wagon and horses up for Maggy and me to come to town and spend the day we went visited with Aunt Mary she is better we took dinner with Sister Ramsey had a very plesant time Tuesday 21 we are well the wind still blows I am makeing John a pair of pants the boys are wattering Roberta is gon and I am a lone every thing would be still if the wind did not blow ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p032.jpg) Wedensday 22 we are well Mr Burk stayed here last night he and Joel fixed the wind mill to day it has been broak for a year and we had to pump all our watter ever since we lived here it just runs fine we Just feel so thankfull it is such a help we use so much Watter and it looks nice to see it run Well I have comenced to card wool to make Joey a mattress it will be quite a job Thursday 23 we had a butifull shower of rain yesterday and some to day I am carding wool to day all is well Friday 24 all is nice with us am still carding William came home this evening he went to Apache with hay was gon eight days had good luck brought two loads of lumber home Saturday 25 we are well this is a nice day and I finished Joeys bed but worked very hard and was glad to get it done I sold six hens and one rooster for two dollars cash which will come in good Sunday 26 all well I went to sunday school and meeting sold butter one dollar cash that is good Luck for me after meeting James and Walter came here teaching I went home with James and slept at Elsies Osmer has gon to Holebrook Monday 27 the wind blue yesterday and today it blows worse we made carpet and put in one bed room cleaned the bedsteds in and varnished two moved them in the new House William is working on the farm pulling in croop watterring and makeing ditches it keeps him and Joel very buisy John hurding cows Tuesday 28 I did not get to go home last night and the wind is dredfull came home after dinner William came down Willey hitch ed up a team and took us home it is said to be the worst day we have had it blew of bushels of fruit just whiped it off while I was down in town spent my money bought gingham dreess patrs a pair cloth shoes a coal oil can full of oil some demins Joey paid me two dollars for makeing her bed and spent it all Wedensday 29 it is dreadful cold snowed a spell this morning Joel is working on ditch Will White comenced to work for us this morning the wind still blows and the wind is so cold Thursday 30 William is dredfull discouraged there has been frost for two nights the Wind is dredfull to day it seems the wind and frost will kill every thing this spring Saturday 31 the Wind still blows this is six days this ends May I have made a pair of pants for George White to day planted some beans and patched to morrow conferance will comence I hope we will have a good time ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p033.jpg) June 1895 Saturday 1 we are well the wind is still blowin it has blew six nights and seven days our quarterley conferance comenced to day I had given up going the wind was so bad but Mary came after me at noon and went down to sisters conferance there was a few sisters there but we had good instructions I stayed and went to the Theator after it was out I came home the actors done well it was quite good Sunday 2th all well went to conferance in Morning and afternoon went to James for dinner after meeting called on Aunt Mary she is getting well we came home in the evening went back to meeting again preasthood and sisters meeting Monday 3 I stayed home to day and kept things strait the rest went to Conferance I dont feel very well to day the wind blows less it blows some but not hard I wrote a letter to Jane today our Conferance is to be held at Woodruff next time that will be a change for the people Tuesday 4 I dont feel very well I rode over to sister Parmers this afternoon stayed a little while then came home William is in town all day attending buisness meetings the wind does not blow much to day Wednsday 5 I picked the ducks this morning knit and sewed and wrote a letter William and Joel is makeing wire fence Thursday 6th William and myself fasted and went to meeting after fast meeting Sisters West Willis and my self went to Sisters Hall and held a prair meeting after which we ate a lunch then had sisters meeting had a good meeting then Mary took her bug gy and brought me home the wind blows but not so hard Friday 7 all well William wattered and I asisted him some knit and done many other chores it is quite nice to day Saturday 8 I went to town and spent the day with James childre helping them to clean up and fix for Sunday Osmer brought me Sunday 9 Went to sunday school and meeting ate dinner With Mary and Thede and went over to see Bell and her children Monday 10 washed some then choored a round and worked on my new gingham dress the wind still blows but the wether is fine Tuesday 11 this is Election day the Normal class is getting up a surpris for Brother and Sister Losa Rodgers Sister Emma Smith Sister West and Clara Rodgers came and took dinner and Spent a few hours with me then they invited me to go with them we went right home with Sister Clarra Rodgers and there they had all the tables set out in her door y ard ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p034.jpg) too long Tables and a splendid supper on them it was a com pleet surpris to them after supper Sammey Smith brought me home in the same carrage I went in it is President Smiths carrage it rides nice we had a nice time a lively conversat ion and every thing went off nice there is an entertainment in the Stake house (William was to the supper also James) this evening in continuation of the surprise I will not go the nights are to short for me to sit up late William came home He did not stay Wedensday all well Roberta started for White River a fishing this morning Yesterday was Election day to elect county oficers and determain where the New county Seet will be it was kind of holoday all around Thirsday 13 all well the wind dont blow much to day William is rideing on the range to day hunting horses I done up my work then weeded in the garden in the afternoon in the after noon sewed Friday 14 all well the wind blows hard to day Holebrook got the county seet that is what the Mormon people wanted William went out to hunt for cows but did not find any Saturday 15 all well William went out on the range again to hunt the wind blows very hard to day Marion came up and stayed two hours and eate dinner with me it seemes dreary when the wind blows and every thing is makeing a rockit Sunday 16 all well John and myself went to sunday school Joel had to watter William had to go to the round up but came home in time to go to meeting I came home when school was out to watch the place the wind blows very hard today I read in my journal most all the afternoon it is discourageing the wind blows In reading my journal we find we have had meny trials and sorrows but the Lord has greatley blessed us I have traveled the roade nine times beteen here and Beaver it is four hun dred miles and a very hard roade to travel there is so little watter wood and grass William has traveled it thirteen times my thoughts have ran over the past and I think of our dear Nancy she was taken from us like a flash and why was it we cant understand there seemes to be a mistery a bout these things but our Hevenly Father doeth all things well but we in our weekness are not permited to know the cause she was young and seemed helthy and tough she had straugled to help to get a House built where she could be comfortable but she was wanted on the other side and we have to do the best we can ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p035.jpg) Monday 17 all well William and Joel went to hunt up Coop stalk the people are going to break up the herd and sell the stalk William is the superentenda nt and it is his place to get them up the wether is nice not much wind I hoed a few weeds wattered some plants knit read went to town got peper salt soda lye in all seventy cents I brought home wool to make James a mattress and Mary gave me some Tomatoe plants Lucy Turley came home with me Tuesday 18 a nice day very little wind I washed the wool for the mattress (last night was cold but to day is very warm) I made the Tick for the mattress and went and set out Tomatoes it seems good to have so little wind Wednsday 19 we are well I went and weeded in the garden all the forenoon Roberta came home from her fishing trip but did not bring a fish in the evening we both went and weeded it is a nice day and we feel thankfull Thursday 20we were just commenced to wash when Word came that Apostal Young Brigham Young was in Snowflake and was going to preech at eleven o clock so we just put the washing a way and all went down to meeting we had good preeching if we only could remember and put it in practice Brother Young shook hands with us Roberta and me seemed so glad to see us it seemed so good to see him and here his voice again he inquired after the familey he said Uncle R T Burton sent his best regard to us Friday 21 all well we washed and weeded and worked hard the wind blows I had to wast the wool all over it was not clean Saturday 22 we are doing the best we can churning Ironing cleaning it has tried hard to rain to day but did not succeed Sunday 23 we all went to sunday school or all that was at home Brother Flake and Joel are on the round up after cattle we also went to meeting after sundown Brother Flake and Joel came home all rite Monday 24 Brother Flake and Joel started for Holebrook this morning Roberta and myself white washed too rooms and cleaned the windows & doors and one floor we worked very hard and was very tired Tuesday 25 all well I comenced to pick the wool for the mattress and picked hard all day it is cloudy and looks like rain Wednsday 26 all well I worked with the wool all day Joel came home to night Maggy Kartchner came and stayed all night with her two Thursday 27 worked at the wool this forenoon then went down town to sisters meeting we had a splendid meeting the sisters bore meny good testimoneys we sewed carpet rags for Sister Minerley Friday 28 it rained this morning one hour a nice stidy rain I finished the mattress and helped watter the garden Brother Flake came home Saturday 29 I weeded in the garden all this foornoon then made a shirt for Joel Sunday 30 all went to sunday school but Brother Flake this ends June ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p036.jpg) July 1895 Monday 1 we are all well William is makeing a rack is going to hall hay today I went and weeded in the garden and feell dredfull tired the wether is very warm we have had a few showers but need more so bad Tuesday 2 we are going to have a familey Dinner to morrow it is Brother Flakes birthday he is fifty six years old and I cooked most all day we are well him and the boys are halling hay Wednsday 3 Brother Flake wants us to go town and have our Dinner as he will be halling hay down there so we went down earley and took our food Roberta and me we went to Bells we had most every thing cooked we had a nice time I will try and write the bill of fair chickens nudles caned Samon peas goosberies aples and apple pie cakes cheese butter fresh peaches grapes and Tomates just from Californa we also had beans and pork and butifull light bread it was just as nice a dinner as any one would wish to sit down to Mary and Bell Made the birthday cake it was very large and so good and covered with candy it was a buty there was forty- one of us eat dinner we had a very nice time James and Bill made Brother Flak presant of a pair of fine shoes Thursday 4 this is a National Holaday the Band and cair came and serenaded us we fasted and all went to fast meeting at ten oclock then William and myself ate dinner with Elsie Osmer was gon half past one we went to the celebration it lasted till three we went to Marys Bell and her eat the birthday cake made lemmon- ade and passed cake and Lemmonade around we stayed there a some time then Elsie asked me to go and ride she hitched corney to the buggy and we rode round some time then I asked her to bring me home which she did William and John came home after dark Joel and Roberta stayed to the dance Friday 5 all well Elsie brought her children came and spent the day Maggy came over and we had a good visit I cut William out some shurts and made them William and the boys are holling hay Saturday 6 all well I went and worked in the Garden some time then went dow to James and helped the little girls with thair work they have so much to do it is hard on Thressa Elsie brought me home in her buggy she expects to move to Holebrook then it will seem lonely the wether is very warm ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p037.jpg) Sunday 7 all well to day is sundy school Review all day we all went down it was very nice in the forenoon but in the after noon it was so warm the children got restless I ate dinner with Elsie Osmer has not got home yet she had fresh peaches bottled up for dinner she was glad to have me come she is lonesome the sun shines warm enough to melt a person Monday 8 all well it is a nice day William is fixing fence the boys are howing I wrote a letter to Janci we havent had a letter from her for a long time Tuesday 9th all well a nice day I peaced a quilt lineing in fore noon in afternoon put the quilt on and quilted part of it Maggy Whie and her Daughter came in and help ed us the quilt is for James it is very warm and the flyes are bad Wednsday 10 I wattered and worked in the garden this foornoon and in the afternoon quilted just as hard as I could and got the quilt of after sundown Thursday 11 all well it is a little cooler this morning and seemes nice I am going to Sister Parmers to spend the day I went and a nice visit Friday 12 This is the anervesey of the Organization of the Releaf Society in Snowflake it has been fifteen years since it was Organized With Sister West President myself first counclear which posision we have been permited to fill by the Blessing of our Heavenly Father to day we celebrate the occasion at two o clock We had a nice time Sister West was presented with a nice quilt by the young Lades they got peaces of every ones nicests dresses wasted and worked each persons enishels or name on these peaces also flowers or leaves it was in the form of brick work it is very nice indeed we all went but William I did not feel very well and at night was very sick with sick headac he it rained on us going down and think that one reason I was sick Saturday 13 I feel so bad can hardley sit up in the afternoon James Mary Elsie Bell Lois and Louis Hunt and and a lot of their childre came up to fish they fished in all the ponds caught quite a lot and it seemed nice to have them come up Sunday 14 I feel better we all went to town but Roberta she stayed and kept the ranch the boys and me went to Sunday school it was a Aunt Mary came home with us at night William was chosen on the commity for the Twenty fourth 24 of July to get up to exercise for that day Aunt Mary has been sick for a long time is much Monday 15 Aunt Mary is injoying her self Marion and Marshell came up to spend the day in the afternoon Lucy Lunquis and her children and Sister Ramsey then Elsie and Bell and a number of others came there was lots of people here all the afternoon Tuesday 16 all well Roberta took Aunt Mary home William fixed up the wind mill a goin it was broke all last summer we are thankfull to have it fixed ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p038.jpg) Wednesday 17 Osmer and Elsie are going to move to Holebrook. to day they came up last night and wanted Roberta to go and help them get fixed up she was putting the clothes to soak she got up earley and washed till half-past nine O Clock then she went I finished the washing Joel went with them to drive the cow and calf William has gon to the saw mill John and me are alone Thursday 18 we are all right I got up earley helped John milk got breakfast then done up the work and went to ironing in the afternoon went to town but did not get there in time for sister meeting went to the store done some tradeing then Belle brought brought me home in the cart William came home from the mill had good luck brought cow and calf Friday 19 all well I was most all the foornoon doing up my work this was churning day and had peas to shell William and me ate dinner a lane there was a mechien agent fixing my mechine (sewing mechien) he ate supper and breakfast here this is Samuel Flakes birthday he is ten him and Merion came up to eat birth day dinner with us it was most four when they came but I gave them thir dinner all right William is wattering this afternoon it seems like every thing will dry up no rain get to do any good wind blows and sun hot Saturday 20 all well Joel came home last night tomorrow is his birth day I have been cooking all the forenoon with take the food down to Marys in the morning and have a family dinner I do all kinds of work and feel dredfull tired the flies are dredfull bad Sunday-21 Joel is fifteen to day we went to Sunday School then went to Marys and had a family dinner every thing went off nice then after dinner went to meeting William presided Monday 22 all well we had a shower Saturday night it cooled the air and seemes nice I churned done up the work then cut out shirts for the boys and sewed on them William went to town in the foornoon then in after noon and James sent me a spring mattress it is a nice one Tuesday 23 tomorrow we celebrat we hope to have a good time I washed my head this morning for the first time in several years I hope I will not take cold William and Joel are fencing Wednesday 24 this morning at half past six we all started out in our covered wagons as though we were crossing the ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p039.jpg) plains we all got in a train then go dow to the publick s[-]y square and corre lled cooked Breakfast then they called us to prair Brother West was the chaplain he praid then we went to our own wagons and ate breakfast at eight we broke camp we had a very good time I beleave all enjoyed it at ten we met and had the exercises speeches songs music resitations and so forth the best thing of all was we had no accidents hapen I was hapily surpris ed in seeing Osmer and Elsie and children they having come up to the celebration they brought me a butifull large ripe yellow pach the familey was all invited to Marys to dinner and that was very ejoyable then I went to the childrens dance then to see the raceing and in a short time come home it sprinkled a little Thursday 25 we stratened up our House (Roberta came home Tuesday evening) Mary came and her children afterwards Bell and her children and James they came to fish and William and me went with them caught a lot of fish then came home and there was a lot of company here they stayed all night Friday 26 our company went home this morning William had a very large House moved here this morning for a barn they moved it hoole I got breakfast done up the work Roberta washed I picked the ducks got dinner and wrote to Mary Ann my Neace this afternoon it is raining Saturday 27 we was very buisy in the forenoon churning cleaning and doing up our work I was invited to go to Sarah Webbs to asist in setting her and her sister Morthy apart for this confinement we went and had a very plesant time we had a nice rain just noon Sunday 28 all went to Sunday school but William he stayed home to watch the place Joel came home at noon and his pa went down to meeting we had a good surmon from brother Farley they are going back to Utah they dont know when they will come back Monday 29 all well Roberta is helping Mary I done the work got dinner in the afternoon went to town with William and gathered carbs and got a mess of beans and got a bottle of Lemman Monday 30 Tuesday 30 done up the work got dinner riped old clothes and cut carpet rags William and the boys wattered I got a letter from Alice White also her Photo Wedensday 31 churned done the work sewed cut crpet rag es William took the hired man out in the cedars to cut pickets this afternoon the sister Teacher came to visit me this is the Last day of July we had the best rain this afternoon we have had this summer ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p040.jpg) Augest 1895 Thursday 1th We fasted this morning I met at nine oclock with nineteen other sisters to pray for Sister Celia Owen then went to fast meeting after fast meeting was out we sisters went back to the Sisters Hall and continued our prair meeting we had very good fast meeting also a good testimony meeting at the Sisters Hall in the afternoon William went to fast meeting then came home Mary brought me home in her buggy I sold butter and eggs seventy five 75 cents worth this morning will try and keep an acount how much I sell this month Friday 2th all well Roberta washed I churned done up the work went out in the garden dug a mess of potatoes cleaned them it was cloudy and cool I went out in the garden and weeded till dinner time then rested went and weeded all I could stand Saturday 3 went out in the garden as soon as breakfast and worked all I could stand all day it was nice and cool William was after a load of fencing he halled too load last week Sunday 4 all went to sunday school but William I took Mary some butter then went to teachers meeting then to sunday school and when I got back to Marys she had a son born half past ten weighed ten and half pounds and she was just a smart as could be looked so nice babe so fat and nice the first day of this month she and another Women wove 31 yards of carpet and the second day they put in 20 yards and wove that her Loom is a fly shuttle Roberta is staying with her Monday 5 I done up the work then Wrote a letter to Alice White in afternoon cut arpet rages and done other work Tuesday churned then went to Town and look Mary some butter she is feeling first class Aunt Mary came home with me just after dinner we had a fearfull storm hail and rain I never saw such large hail it broke thre large pains of glass out of our window striped all the leaves off the corn beat the onons tops all of thrashed he wheat and oats out damaged our crops hundreds of dollars it looks gloomy Wedensday 7 I washed and got a long nicely William and the boys are working at a barn it is two wet to do any other work Thursday 8 churned got dinner done the work in the afternono afternoon went to Town took Aunt Mary home and went to Sisters meet ing found Mary very smart Sister West insisted on my goin g to Teachers meeting on Friday as they had buisness to attend to ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p041.jpg) Friday 9th done my iorning and the other work in afternoon went to the Teachers meeting with Sister Parmer we had a long meetin after it was out Sarah Hunt said if I would go home with her she would give me a mess of apples so I went she gave them to me als a mess of green corn the first we have had this season Belle brought me home in her cart it looked dredfuley like it would rain but it did not Saturday 10th all well the men folks are still working on the barn yesterd day they turned the cows and Horses on the crop to eat it was not worth cutting it looks stormey most all the time but dont storm much Sunday 11th all well went to Sunday school and meeting got one dollor for butter and got me a black bunting dress it rained to day Monday 12 all well this morning I drank bitter tea as I was bilious it puked and purged me I was dredfull sick I had Maggy White here working on my new dress and had other company and was so sick had to get dinner Tuesday 13 churned put clothes to soak got dinner worked on my dress Sister Minerley came up in afternoon and stayed a spell she is getting better it rained after dinner Wedensday 14 I washed cleaned two doors cleaned kitchen floor done up all the work and got done at two Osmer came ate dinner and stayed a while he has started back William is halling wheet to day the storm wasted it so bad Thursday 15 all well I ironed this foornoon then after dinner worked on a quilt the folks are still halling wheat the rain seemes to have cleared up but the flies are very bad indeed Friday 16 I have been cleaning and cooking tomorrow is our Sunday School Conferance it will last Saturday and Sunday Saturday 17 Brother Godard and Brother Maeser have come to attend our Conferance we had a good time much of the Spirit of God was with us it is the greatest comfort we can have to have our brethern come and visit us from Salt Lake this is Theadore Turley burth day I ate dinner with them he is thirty the Wether is so nice every thing nice Sunday 18 we all went to conferance had a splendid time such good preaching they make our duties so plain to us Osmer and Elsie came up to conferance Osmer brought a very large wattermellon it came from California he invited Brother Godard and Maesor and most of the familey there to eat mellon it was so nice ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p042.jpg) Monday 19 this is Roberta birthday she is eighteen years old to day Elsie came home with us last night Roberta came home to day she has been working for Mary Elsie stayed all day Mary came up a few minutes he babe was two weeks old yesterday Tuesday 20 I am going down to stay a few days with James children while he goes to Apache William has gon on the range to hunt horses our dear old Uncle Joel and Aunt Francis have come back to sell out thir home and move to Utah William came home to night with the horses and ate supper here at James I have ben very hard to work all day cleaning the children got thir house very dirty through conferance Uncle Joel and Aunt Francis came down this evening will stay all night with us Wedensday <21> Uncle Joels folkes got started home and we washed till after sundown then changed our dresses and went to Meeting the Relief society called a meeting and invited Brothers Maesor and Godard to speek to them they spoke so good it seemed the best meeting we had William had thrashed his grain in town and he was there I was so glad for it was such a good meeting Thursday 22 we cleaned up and stratened up all the foornoon in the afternoon went to Sisters meeting Friday 23 to day is my burth day fifty three I helped the girls do up the work James came Home last night in the night I got dinner after dinner the girls went to Iorning I went in the bed room to patch about three oclock here came 25 sisters with thir pick nick that they left in the kitchen then came in to see me after talking a little while they all went up stares in one of the large rooms there we had a good meeting many words of prais was said in my behalf and Words of incouragement I will Try and write thir names aunt Mary Savage Elesa Rodgers Fanney Willis and others I will rite [Column 1] M J West Emma Smith Sarah Driggs Polly Elswork Sarah Hunt May Larson Anna Kartchner Adlad Fish [Column 2] Clara Rodgers Mary Turley Belle Flake Elsie Flake Roberta Flake Thressa Flake Nellie Smith M J Ramsey [Column 3] Julia West a sentiment Snowflake AZ august 23 1895 Mrs Lucy H Flake My dearest sister Togather we have labored Togather we have toiled we have shared each others sorrows and enjoyed each each others plesures. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p043.jpg) The best wishes of my hart are for you upon this day May hevens choisest blessings be placed upon your way and may our labors be near to gather in the world to come affictinately Mary J West Saturday 24 James brought me home this morning found all well went to work and made Jam and Jolley out of Plums the flies are very bad also bed bugs I am quite tired Sunday 25 Joel stayed home to day this is our Ward conferance Bishop Hunt invited the Leeding Sisters on the stand we went Monday 26 William started for Holebrook this morning to get a load of fruit this afternoon we had the Thrasher got the rest of our thrashing done it rained a little this after noon Tuesday 27 this is Bells birth day she came up Ida Udell and Mary and all brought thir children there was 20 of us we had a nice time Belle was 31 years old we had a nice dinner Wedensday 28 we are all well I have been writeing a letter to Jane it is a tong time since we herd from her the wind Wind blows and it is so cloudy it looks like a storm Thursday 29 all well William came home all right will stay home to day I made pies picked fourteen ducks done mending braided rags for rug the wind blows and looks like rain Friday 30 William has started for apache with his load I was thinking of going to Woodruff to our quarterley confe rance but gave it up thought I had better stay at home I went to colloring green and red for carpet rags and quilts Joel has gon to conferance lots of people have gon. Saturday 31 all well I cut carpet rags and sewed on a rug for Thressa every thing is peace and quiet at home Cousins Harrisan and William White are both going to get Married next Friday sep 6 we epect lots of our kinsfolks over to the Wedding there has been considerable happen in this month the Hail storm took all our beans mellons squash pumpkins corn and cain but no life was taken and we feel thankfull for that there has been three conferances in this month and a great a mount of good teaching given to the people if we could onely remember what we here but we are forgetfull or then Tempral thing croud out the Spiritual things we feel anxious to remember all the good but it goes from us and we have to be told over and over the wether is very warm but the wind blows every day and it looks like rain well this ends Augest 1895 ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p044.jpg) September 1895 Sunday 1 I did not go to Town John had to watter and I did not feel well so I stayed to hoame to reed and rest Roberta went Monday 2 all well this morning we churned then I collored [---] then picked wool for Robertas mattress done a good day work and feel well satisfyed I have most all the milking to do while Joel is gon this has been a butifull day Tuesday 3 all well we washed picked wool and done many choores Joel came home it is a nice day there is to be a Wedding or too Wedensday 4 we finished the mattress cleaned windows and flores we are expecting a good miny of our relitives from St Johns for the wedding so we are preparing Cousin Harrison White is to Marry Rachel Copland and William White Mary ret Oakley they will have a nice time Sister Webb came and made me a visit to day Sarah Webb and her children William came home to night he had good luck Thursday 5 William and my self fasted and went to fast mee ting Sister West invited me Home with her to dinner I went then we attended the sisters meeting had a good meeting a letter was red from Grandma Hunt she is ninty this month she is well and full of the gospell Uncle Joel and Francis Cousins Francis Clarra John and Wife and children have all come over to the wedding Uncle Joel aunt Francis John and his family all staying here to night I was gon till sundown had a change Friday 6 this is the wedding day it is a lovely day so nice William caught fish I have been cooking and choreing all John and his familey are here we are haveing a nice visit Saturday the boys was married about eight o clock last night and had a nice party they had a two large wedding cakes they was cut and passed around the dance was inter sperced with songs and ressertations it was nice indeed William came home about ten o clock I came home with John and his Wife after twelve the new married people got quite a number of presants and all went off fine Sunday we are invited to Marys for dinner the flakes and Whites I went to Sunday school and meeting counted forty four of our kins folks that was at the wedding ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p045.jpg) Mary had a nice dinner there was near fifty to the dinner I am sure then after going home we went back and spent the evening to gather Monday 9th all well I have promised James would go and keep house for him while he goes to the fair then keep on perhaps all winter while th children go to school I hope my helth will permit there will be lots of care and lots of work but they are good children Tuesday 10 William was called on to go to Holebrook for Jury man he started this morning at five the wether is nice I am trying to peace up old pants into a quilt I want to do lots of work this week Sister Linsey came and spent the day with me in the evening John and me took her home Wedensday 11 we went down in the field and picked all the peaches we had two buckets fall the boys was taken them after we came home I went and spent the day with sister Webb Thursday 12 John and me are a lone as Roberta stayes in town most all the time I made tomato preserves feed pigs milk cows wash dishes sweep try to sew a little it takes all the ven that a crown awated me in heaven and meny more precious thing after that we ate dinner then hurryed off to meeting we had an excellent meeting meny precious things were said the speakers Brothers Minerley Walter Smith Osmer J H Willis in the evening I went to an officers meeting of the Sisters we had a good time Monday 24 all well there is a cold north wind I am cleaning up today for Conferance it will be the first and second of march Tuesday 25 I went up to the farm with William and John they to scrape and me to wash it was a nice day William goes every day to scrape he has taken John out of school to help him with his work Wedensday 26 all well James wanted me to go and help them to day did I go and sleep with Elsie nights she is not very well and Osmer is gon Thirsday 27 all well I have been cleaning and fixing for Conferance and just finished my last quilt that is just got it bound just got a letter from Jane they are doing quite well Friday 28 I am feeling tired and give out but went to work cooking for conferance made pie and cake and cooked dinner Brother M E Well was here to dinner William did not go to work he attended two meetings and cleaned out the Stake House for conferance Roberta Bashey Smith and Nettie Hunt have been studying for some time to pass examination the second of March last night Sisters West and Rodgers and myself was invited to a little prair meeting we all bore our testimoney then knelt down and all prayed around the Girls wanted help from our Hevenly Father in passing that exscamination after that we anointed and Blest each other Nettie Hunt anointed me and Bashey Smith Blest me I aninted Bahey Smith and Blest Nettie Hunt and we truley had a time of rejoicing long to be remembered Saturday 29 this morning conferance comences I went to two meetings and had lots of company this is leep year and to night the girls have a leep year dance after my evenings work was done I went with two other sisters to call on sister Oakley after wards went to the dance a little while then came home made two beds and went to bed but did not get much sleep the wind blew hard all night this ends february ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p070.jpg) March 1896 Sunday 1th we went to meeting this morning had a good meet- ing Brother Freeman from St John occupyed the time in afternoon Sister West and me went and spent the time meeting lasted with May Larson her baby died this morning eleven day sold this evening I feel nearly sick did not go sisters meeting Monday 2 the wind blows all the time days and part of the time nights and I feel nearley sick went to bouth meetings to day but did not go to the lecture at night by brother Hatch Tuesday 3 William and John started this morning for apache with a load of fraight as he was all loaded up last week it seemed to bad for them to go when it is so disegreeable Robirta got home Nellie and Bashey but they did not has the wind was so cold they nearly perished Wedensday & last night the wind blew all night and it snowed and was a drefull night we feel dredfull sorry for William and John I stayed at home all day and often engaged in prair for them and others that was out in the storm Thirsday this is fast day we are going to meeting it snowed a little more last night but the sun is shineing now after fast meeting belle asked me to go home to dinner with her I did after dinner we went to Sisters Meeting both meetings was very good after dark I was righting to Jane William and John came home all the company unloaded and came home we was glad they came Friday 6 this is a nice day we are washing this is Osmers birth day 28 years old I called in to see them Elsie is not feeling very well I called in to see Aunt Mary she is not feeling very well Saturday 7 all well a very nice day Joel and John have gon to school hall a load of wood William has gon to a trial William James and me went to Osmers and spent the evening had a plesant time I went and got breakfast for them this morning and washed the dishes Elsie feels a little better Sunday 8 all well went to sunday school Joey Hunt and Zina Freeman came and eat dinner with us all went to meeting Brothers seeg Miller and Ramsey took up the time and preeched by the power and spirit of God it has been a very nice day and I feel thankfull Monday 9 all well William and John are fixing to start for apache again aunt Mary came and spent the day with us ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p071.jpg) Tuesday 10 all well William and John have started for apache this morning the Wind blows cold from the North I went and spent most of the day with Sarah Hunt we had a good visit she was so pleased to have me come Wedens 11th Mary is quite was last night is better now Sister West sent me word last evening to go with her and visit the schools which we did and had a nice time spoke in both Nettie and Brother Seeg Millers department it has been a very nice day just fine Thirsday 12 Mary is better this has been such a nice day Aunt Mary slept with me last night I am preparing to move next week if all is well Friday 13 all well a nice morning Aunt Mary came and stayed again last night Today my Daughter Jane is 26 years old and so far away it seems quite sad V Saturday 14 we are enjoying pretty fair helth and the wether is nice I am pre pareing to move I went to primary to day we think the children are doing better Sunday 15 we went to sunday school I wrote a letter to my sister Mary Musser the went to Meeting after meeting went to Belle and Sisters West Minerley Mar Larson Francis Willis all had our picture taken to-gether as we had all been sister Wests councillers I was always her first counclar the others <2> counclers we had a good meeting President Smith and Bishop Hunt ocupyed the time they had been to St Johns to Conferance Monday 16 it is winday I stayed home in the foornoon in the afternoon called on Elsie Aunt Mary and Mary Turley I was makeing a meshean co for Theressa and finished it it is nice Tuesday 17 went to Sister Ramseys to a quilting it has been a dreaf- ull day so much dust and wind one can hardly travel the street Wedensday 18 this is such a nice day no wind we washed and much oth er work John came home from Apache Brother Flake went back with the load he he unloaded two weeks a goe the roads are quite good now Thirsday 19 all well a nice day wahe some sockes and don many choors in afternoon went to sisters meeting there was a very large asembley of sisters it was Sister Driggs birth day she was sixty four the sisters spoke words of incouragement to her Friday 20 all well Elsie came and spent the day it is a nice day Saturday 21 all well the boys went up to the farm to plant trees the wind blows and it is cloudy looks like a storm Sunday 22 the wind blows and it is very cloudy I fasted and all went to sunday school we had a very nice sunday school in the Primary department they keep better order then they used to we went to meeting after meeting rode up to the ranch farm with Brother Whipple familey to hunt some bitter [---] for them ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p072.jpg) Monday 23 all well William came home from Apache last night and I was so glad to see him he had been gon 12 days this is a butifull day and we are moveing to the farm we got nicely moved I went down late in the evening and caught the chickens Brother Whipple brought them up and I stayed all night with Elsie she is very poorley now and Theodore Turley is very sick I got up at three in the night to see how he was he was resting tolabely well but he was so week Tuesday 24 Elsie rested better last night then she has for a long time Belle brought me up here before breakfast we churned cleaned the caukbord washed most every thing in the dish line and baked a large pan of Mica to white wash Wedensday 25 we got up earley Roberta got breakfast I went to mixing the white wash after breakfast we went to work in earnest we white washed two rooms ever head and walls cleaned one floore and all the other wood work in both rooms I went to town took carpet up off the floor Brother Flake and John got the straw then came home and put down one carpet all this done in one day Thirsday 26 all well John started to Holebrooke to day with John Hall for freight the wind is blowing dredfull it has blew three days very hard Monday was a nice day but it has been bad ever since we have got the other carpet down and all fixed up Friday 27 all well but the wind blows dredfull night and day we cant wash this week we cant do any work but set work Saturday 28 oh the wind it blew all night it has blowed five days and three nights we here Elsie has a boy that is good Sunday 29 all well it rained last night this morning it is snow- ing and quite cold it quit snowing and we all went to town went to sunday school then called in and saw Elsie she is doing nicely with her baby boy went and took dinner with Belle and her Dear children we went to meeting President Smith Preeched and it was a splendid surmond oh if we could onely remember it Sister Ramsey and my self went to Marys from there called on Sister Oakley then went to sis Ramseys eat supper and went to sisters meeting had a good time Went to Marys and stayed all night breakf. Monday 30 came home this morning found John he came home last night Tuesday 31 this is a very cold day the wind blows from the north John and Brother Flake has gone to pinedale to drive off stalk The Sherif came and took Harry Whipple the insane boy off this morning this ends ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p073.jpg) April 1 1896 Wedensday 1 This is a bitter cold day and it frooze hard last night March came in like a lion and it is going out cold and winday William and John have came home Thirsday 2 all well Brother Flake my self and the Whipples all went to fast meeting and fasted I ate dinner with Belle and her children called on Aunt Mary she feels pretty well called on Elsie she is doing nicely then went to the sisters meeting our Bishop was there and a large turnout of sisters had a good meeting then came home Friday 3 all well I washed flannel clothes in the foorenoon in afternoon mended clothes and was very tired Brother Flake workedon his fish pond John also Saturday 4 Roberta is in town I done up the work got dinner all the grandchildre came up because it was Easter day and eat dinner after dinner I picked the ducks the children stayed all the afternoon and had a good time Sunday 5 all well went to sunday school went to Osmers eat dinner went over to see sister Oakley she is very bad wished the sisters to hold a prair meeting after the other meeting which we did then came home and Brother Whipple came over and invited me over to Easter Supper Bro Flake had not got home when he came he had to eat his supper with Amasy Willisis family we spent the evening over to Bro Whipples there was others we had songs and hyms sung and plesant conversation Monday 6 I went with John to Taylor and came rite back yesterday was nice but the wind blows hard to day Bro Flake and John are working on the fish ponds to day it is quite plesant to day Tuesday 7 all well William and John are working on a ditch I went to Town with Bro Whipple got lye and Blueing then came home I neglected to mention we got Janes Photoes her four children and Bother and Sister Wood they came last Thirsday they are so natural it seems like they were rite here Wedensday 8 all well this is a nice day Brother Flake and John are makeing we are washing it seems so nice no wind Thirsday 9 all well but the wind blows quite hard Marys down in town took them went with Sister Willis then went to the Sisters meeting Maryon brought me home in his mothers cart Friday this beats all the days for wind we have had this spring every thing covered with sand we had Mother Whipple and Sarah and her children here spending the day with us it was so bad we could hardley eat ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p074.jpg) Saturday 11 all well Roberta is washing for Mary I churned washed the dishes cleaned the cellar out cleaned all day till three o clock every thing just burried in sand it blows yet but not so bad it looks like a storm that would do lots of good Sunday 12 oh so cold and windy last night it snowed a little the wind blows hard from the west and very cold we have to keep a good fire to keep warm Brother Flake has gon to Taylor as home mishonary to preach I stayed at home our teams have all gon to Apacha with freight Brother Whipple look them Mother Whipple and Sarah and her children are here with me all reeding Monday 13 all well a nice day while yesterday it was so cold we had to keep a good fire all day last evening I recieved a letter from Sisters Felt and [---] in answer to one Bashey Smith wrote in regard to primary work we was so glad to get it Sister Francis Willis has moved and here I went over and read it to her the wind blows quite hard this afternoon I have read in the Book of Mormon and knit on a chair cushon William went to town this foornoon and read the papers this afternoon it is cold and cloudy this evening Tuesday 14 the wind it blows night and day it is just fearfull the sand drifts like snow I made a pair of drawers for Lois Flake read some and patched and after dinner knit on my cushion John is herding cows William is reeding. it seems lonely and dreary when the wind blows Wedensday 15 the wind blew hard all night and all day Brother Flake and John started for Holebrook this mor ning for freight I spent most of this day over to sister Whipples knitting on my chair cushon eat dinner there Thirsday 16 all well but the wind gets worse and worse night and day I finished my chair cushon I felt so sorry for Brother Flake and John that was out in the dredfull wind and dirt Friday 17 it snowed a little last night the wind blew all night but it dont blow quite as hard as it did yesterday but is dredfull cold Saturday 18 Brother Flake and John came home this morning the wind was so bad Thrsday they laid up all day and could not travel the wind blows very little to day which is so nice I cleaned up all the rooms and had a bath and am going to town to hear a Lady from Kansus who is going to give us a few lectures on Woman suffrag I went this afternoon then came home ate supper Joel milked the cows we done the choors and went back to a reception given in honor of Mrs Johns her speech was nice and the reception was very good musick reedings essays Roberta had a resertation ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p075.jpg) Sunday 19 to day is fearfull the wind blows so bad we went to sunday school had a good school the children was quite good I met with my counclers of the primary to Bells house we made a program for our next conferance the last of May Bell prepared dinner for us we ate with them then went to meeting President Smith Preeched a gospell surmon took up Monday 20 this morning Brother Flake and John started for apache I went to town to here Mrs Johns lecture she done nice and organized a club 11 members joined after meeting we took Mrs Johns to [---] Hall she was so pleased with it Mrs John bade me good bye and gave me a nice sweet kiss then I came home Tuesday 21 I went to town with Brother Whipple came home and brought aunt Mary to make us a visit it was nice no wind but as soon as we got home about half past nine the wind comenced to blow and blew all day I cut scraps for a rug Wedensday 22 to day the wind is worse than yesterday Aunt Mary reeds and Roberta and me work on rugs Thirsday 23 I feel nearley sick to day Aunt Mary went home this morning Belle came up and brought her children and stayed a stayed and made a little visit I feel better Friday 24 the wind still blows I am working on a rug and reeding it seems lonely Roberta and me are all that are home Saturday 25 all well the wind dont blow quite so hard to day Belle is going to take Sister Willis Basha Smith and my self to Shumway to atend primary we went and had a good time when we got home Brother Flake had got home Sunday 26 we went to sunday school ate dinner with Mary and her family went to meeting then went to sisters officers meeting had a good time Monday 27 it blows hard and is dredfull cold I spent most time reeding Tuesday 28 Mary Thead and thair children came and spent the day with us Brother Flake and John are working on the farm Wedensday 29 we are all well the wind still blows I worked on a rug William scraped this foarnoon this after noon the wind was so bad he did not work it seemes strange the wind blows so much this spring Thirsday 30 all well the wind still blows Brother Flake is plowin the garden to day I have been eatting out quilt blocks reed a surmon of Brother Woodruffs this ends this month and I dont beleave there has been one day that the wind did not blow it has damaged the crops and covered them with sand filled up the ditches and made it very unplesant but our Hevenly Father knows what this wind is for ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p076.jpg) May 1896 Friday 1 all well and thankfull we have lived to see another May day the children are all off on a ride Brother Flake was going to town and came right back he asked me to go so I went brought James two youngest children home with me the wind did not blow till nearley noon I worked on my quilt blocks Saturday 2 all well a nice foore noon Prudences Girls came up and stayed most all day in afternoon Sister Teachers came to see us people that live up here there is seven famileys live up here this summer I sewed and read some got a nice letter from my Sister Mary Sunday all well we went to Sunday school and meeting after meeting was out the Sisters had a prair meeting for the sick I ate dinner with Osmer and Elsie I wayed George Melvin Flake he is five weeks old and ways fourteen pound has gained seven pound he grows so fast Monday all well after my dishes was washed I went out and helped John plant some but I am so tired can hardley sit up Roberta is working for James now William went to town on some buisness Osmer Elsie and thir children came and stayed a while I was peacing blocks the wind dont blow quite so hard to day Tuesday 5 I washed and it is a dredfull day I could not hang out one peace had to put them in watter also peaced on blocks Wedensday 6 wind very bad could ot hang out my clothes yet read and cut out blocks for a quilt Thirsday 7 the wind is dredfull Brother Flake and John had to go to Holebrook for freight the Whipples have gon to St Johns I am al a lone cut out blocks this morning put out my clothes to dry but the wind was This is fast day and I could not go brother Flake took all the [---] Friday 8 it does not blow quite so hard today I read and worked on a rug I am on the farm all a lone but am not afraid Saturday 9 the wind blows very hard to day I have churn ed and choored around been very buisy Sunday 9 Brother Flake and John got home yesterday evening all right We went to sunday school and meeting eat dinner to James house the wind blows very hard in the evening it was very cold we suffered with the cold coming home Monday 10 Brother Flake and John started for Apache this morning with freight and the wind blows very hard I am on the place all a lone it seemes like this country was going to all blow a way ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p077.jpg) Tuesday 12 Sister Clara Rodgers sent Sister Willis and myself an invertation yesterday to come to her house and sew carpet rags she sent her son with the carrage after as we went had a plesant day the wind has changed in the north Wedensday 13 I washed to day and got my clothes dry the wind did not blow very hard I am all a lone it seemes bad to stay a lone this afternoon I reed and mended Thirsday 14 I washed some flannel clothes and done my Ironing reed some and mended James Osmer Belle Willey Thressa Samey Marion Joel Lois Hunt Lewis Johnson and perhaps others are going to Flagstaff to a wild beast show all start in the morning Brother Flake is sending Joel he thinks it will incourage him he does all in his power to try and make something out of his boys I dont write how I have to run after cows and calves and chickens and feed pigs but all this is in the program no one to do choar Joel works on ditches when he is home from school this is the last week of school the wing changed in the South to day and blew all the afternoon Bell sent her three youngest Friday 15 well the folks are off for Flagstaff and the wind blows fearfull the sand almost blinds one the children cant go out to play Saturday 16 I will just write my morning chores get up turn out my chickens draw a pail of watter take it over to Brother Whipples chickens let them out then draw watter watter hot beds make a fire put potatoes to cook then brush and sweep half inch of dust off floor and every thing feed three litters of chickens then mix bisquits get breakfast milk besides work in the house and this morning had to go half mile after calves this is the way of life on the farm for the last ten days Snday 17 Brother Flake and John came home last night to day John stayed home and the rest of us went to town I went to Sunday school and meeting Brother Segg Miller preached his fare well surmond he leaves for his home this week he is a fine young man and liked by all Monday 18 Mary Thede and Elsie and thir children came up and spent the day Joel came home last night at eleven o clock and this morning Bells children went home Merion came up to invite us down to anentertainment for Brother Seggmitter we went and it was very nice singing peaces Music and pass o roun candy and nuts Tuesday 19 to day went to town at seven o clock to help make carpet and curtains for James new house Wedensday 20 I feel most sick to day dont feel like doing any thing we got a letter from Mary Ann Sunday night and will try and answer it the wind blows as usual Thirsday 21 I washed and am very tired it seemes like I cant hardley sit up read and peaced quilt blocks it hasent blown very hard to day Brother Flake is working on the farm this week ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p078.jpg) Friday 22 this foorenoon was just lovely the wind didnot blow this afternoon it blows but not very hard Osmer and Elsie and thir children came up a spell and stayed some time Joel came home has been on a round up ever since Tuesday came in for more horses is going back I ironed and mended read some and peaced bloc Saturday 23 I cleaned and got dinner Brother and Sister Minerley came her to visit and he fixed the windmill so it would pump it has not pumped this spring he got it to pump I am very glad I was sewing shoes this after noon I have got up 48 forty eight little chicks hatched it takes time to feed and watter them and then my house plants to take care off I have meny ways to take up my time Sunday 24 I went to sunday school then came home to stay on the farm and let all the rest go to meeting and wrote a letter to Uncle Charles Monday 25 all well we Brother Flake and myself went to town to a funarel Vilot Pearces baby we had exilent instruction by President Smith in afternoon Sister Willis and myself went to Taylor to atend a primary had a very good time Tuesday 26 I feel tired and bad today choored around ram after cows Brother Flake and John both went to town and the cows kept getting in the field Wedensday 27 I washed this fournoon then went to town with Brother Flake in the after noon when I got down there went to work fixing over a dress for conferance Belle brought me home at night Thirsday 28 I washed some flannels Ironed sodered pans and sewes some Joel came home from the roundup I feel so tired I set a duck yester Friday 29 we have had such nice wether for a few days but to day the wind blows I churned and tried to clean up for conferance it comences to morrow morning Brother Masor is coming to conferance I hope we may have a good time Saturday 30 our conferance comenced to day Brother Masor was disapointed and did not get here we had sunday school in the forenoon and relief society in afternoon and primary also the Lord blest us and we had a good time our parts was rend ered nicely and we felt thankfull to our Hevenly Father Sunday 31 Brother Masor came last night we had sunday school conferance this morning Brother Masor took up most of the time in after noon general conferance and a good spirit prevailed ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p079.jpg) June 1896 Monday 1 our conferance continues Brother Masor gave us such a good surmon if we could onely remember but we are so forgetfull we have to be told so often our conferance is ended next time it will be held in St Joseph we have had a good time and hope it will benifit us there was lots of people here Tuesday 2th I felt very tired and my back aches very much to day but I have my work to do in the evening Brother Flake Joel and myself went to town to conjoint Meeting Brother Masor spoke a peace every thing went off Wedensday 3th I feel better and done the washing this fournoon in afternoo- n read and sewed and knit Brother Flake went to look after stalk Thirsday 4 Brother Flake and John went to look after stalk again I fasted and drove my own team to meeting Osmers son George Melvin Flake was blessed by Bishop Hunt we had good meeting President Smith gives his choicest surmons in fast meetings two children blest four confirmed and five bottles of oil consicrated I ate dinner with Roberta and James children then went to the sisters meeting there was 36 sisters there sixteen Testimoneys born and a prair meeting or cirkle for the sick we had a splendid time myself and counclers intend to go to woodruff to morrow in the intrest of the primary and next day go to St Joseph Friday 5th Myself Sister Willis Belle Flake and Basheba Smith we started for woodruff nine oclock in the morning arived in Woodruff a little after three rested a little went to meeting at four Bell stayed all night with Mary Gardner President of Primary in that place visited with the sisters answered questions and encouraged them they have a nice primary there they was very glad to see us Saturday 6 erley in the morning we started for St Joseph arived in Hole brook a little after eleven stayed there a little while saw Osmer and James off for Phenix they are delegates to Democratic convention we ate a lunch then started for St Joseph where we arived half past three at four went to Primary there was twenty Girls and one boy stoped to Bishop Bushmans they was looking for us Sunday 7 was Brother Bushmans birthday 53 years old Sister Wills and myself went to sunday school they had a nice S S the superentendant called on both of us to make some remarks in the S S which we did in the afternoon we went to meeting Bishop Bushman called myself and Sister Willis to speak again five in the evening we started for Holebrook in order to get home next day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p080.jpg) Sunday 8 we got to Holebrook just after sun down we slept in Osmers bed got up in the morning and started just sun rise with out breakfast and eat a lunch on the road we got to Snowflake two o clock in afternoon haveing had a good time and feeling thankfull to our Hevenly Father for his protecting Brother Flake stayed home while we was gon Tuesday 9th the wether is very warm now. Brother Flake and the boys are planting and wattering I have baked a large bat ch of light bread got dinner and been very busy when I got home there was a letter here from Mary Ann for me she said my peopl in Beaver was all well Wednesday 10 all well I washed this forenoon this afternoon knit and read mended some the wether is very warm now Thirsday 11 Brother Flake and Joel started for Holebrook this morning loaded with wool for James I helped John plant some wattermellon seed corn and squash he churned for me I done up my work and scrubed kitchen floor and read some and answered Mary Ann Friday 12 John and me milked the cows then I got breakfast done up the work picked the Ducks and Ironed and after dinner don the mending my head ached and dont feel very well Saturday 13 the lolks Brother Flake and Jack did not get home till nearly dark John and me went down and weeded in the garden for two hours towards evening I went again and worked again Sunday <14> we went to S S after it was out went to Teachers meeting went and took dinner with James and his family Then went to meeting James gone on account of his Salt River trip in meeting being called upon said it was fearfull warm down there Osmer and him brought up fresh fruit peaches apricots pairs and figs the family with Bishop Hunt and wife and Bro Ramsey and wife were invited to James to eat fruit we had a nice time they also passed cake and Lemonade Monday 15 all well but wether dredfull warm Brother Flake fixing up things so he can take his load on in the morning I churned and done up the work got dinner and choored around Tuesday 16 Brother Flake and Joel got off abought eigh o clock then we John and me went down and worked in the garden in afternoon comenced to join Bells quilt it is very warm wednesday 17 washed this foornoon and sewed an quilt and weeded in the garden James Osmer and family and Roberta all started this morning a fishing ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p081.jpg) Thirsday 18 our Grand son Albert has got home from school came on 15th has been gon most too years he has grown considerable I churned and got dinner done up the work made yeast I feel quite used up work to hard Friday 19 to day I ironed cleened up all the rooms redy for sunday because tomorrow we have the watter on the garden and I will have to help John he cant herd his cows and do the wattering a lone I finished joining Beels quilt Saturday 20 we got up before it was hardly light John went to his wattering I milked and got breakfast then looked after the cows and helped watter we got done at one oclock we ate dinner then I set down and read some time then had my bath comb my hair and comenced my work makeing quilt lineing Sunday 21 this is a nice sabath morning we milked got breakfast done up our choars we had no team John went to the neighbors to see if I could get a chance to go to sunday school but could not so I walked and stood it very well ate dinner with James children went to meeting and Marion and Albert Brought me home cart Monday 22 William and Joel got home last night today I corded bats for the quilt and put the quilt up churned and made cake Tuesday 23 I invited all my neighbors up here to help me quilt we got it done Osmer Elsie Roberta and James all came home they all went to White River to fish and caught a good many Wedensday 24 I bound the quilt and William and Joel started to Holebrook for freight I went as far as town and took the quilt home to Belle and Roberta came home with me Albert brought is home She has been staying with James family since May 7th Thirsday 25 to day I have made me an apron and bonnet and this afternoon it has rained the first for a long time Friday 26 we washed and churned had a nice day Brother Flake and Joel came home this evening Tomorrow my self and counclers and Bashey Smith will start for pine Top to organize Primarys Saturday 27 half past eight Sister Willis Bell Bashey Smith and my self started for pinetop went to Snowflake stoped two hours to Brother Braidys then went on arived at pinetop just after sun down stoped to Brother Halls (ten oclock next morning) Sunday 28 we organized a Primary Bishop Hanson and John Hall set them apart after meeting went back to Brother Halls eat dinner then started for Brother Hansons place at two oclock organized there then drove over to the Elsworth setlment and stayed all night Monday 29 we organized at Elsworth ten oclock in the morning then went to Sholow and organized a primary there at four and stayed Tuesday 30 came home got home 12 oclock found all well ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p082.jpg) July 1896 Wedensday 1th all well I helped Brother Flake in the garden so much to day I am very tired every thing is growing nicely Thirsday 2 to day is Fast day Brother Flake and my self went to fast meeting I took Tithing Butter was invited to Brother Ramseys to dinner after dinner Sister Romsey and me went to Sisters meeting had two good meetings I spoke in both meetings Brother Flake presided in fast meeting and he spoke splendid Friday 3th today is Brother Flakes Birthday 57 years old in the afternoon all the children but james and Thodore came up Osmer made ice creem and the girls made cake I made cake we had ice creem cake and lemonade it was very nice we ate and drank an chatted after we all got through we went down to the fish pond there sang a hymn had prair and baptised and confirmed Lucy Turley Bro Flake baptised Osmer praid and confirmed her then came back to the house stayed a spell Mary and Belle and thir children went home and Osmer and his Father killed a beef and it was very fat I helped clean the [---] Saturday 4 I got up at four and comenced to try out lattow and got it all tryed out before we went to the celebration we had a nice cool day it rained too or three showers all the amusements went off quiet and nice we came home Brother Flake helped me Sunday 5 went to sunday school ate dinner with mary went to meeting came home as soon as meeting was out and had a nice rain it rained a little on us before we got Monday 6 I went to town and made ten boxes of lye into soap John took me down and came after me Tuesday 7 I stayed home to day and done the work got dinn er and done many other things Wedensday 8 I made a cheese cheese to day the first in six years Brother Minerley made me a small hoop so I can make cheese as long as I want to Brother Flake is scrapeing on his farm it thretens to rain every day but dont come much Thirsday 9 We made a cheese and Roberta washed this after noon the wind blows and it is very cloudy we all work very hard there is so much to do our garden looks nice ther is weeds to how cows to herd and fencing and scrapeing to ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p083.jpg) Friday 10th I made a cheese Roberta Ironed about eleven o clock Osmer Elsie and thir children came up Osmer took the [---] out where his Father and the boys was at work and they caught fish Joel brought two large carp to the hourse and I cooked them for dinner it dont seem like fish ever tasted so good as they did Osmer said he had not ejoyed a meal so well in a month after they went home Roberta and myself went to town and I cut out the soap and come strate home and when we got home Mary and her children was here and it comenced to rain after the shower was over they went home Saturday 11 I churned done up the work nice for sunday and got dinner this afternoon howed some Brother Flake is not feeling very well to day Roberta is in Town today it is raining now we havent had much rain just Sunday 12 I went to Sunday then after it was out went to Teachers meeting then went to Bells she was sick I fixed her some dinner then ate a bite with the children then went to meeting after meeting came Monday 13 we had quite a rain last night it rained so we gave the calves the milk so we could not make cheese to day Tuesday 14 Sister Whipple came last night after dark to visit us we are makeing cheese to day and cording bats to quilt Wedensday 15 we made a cheese Roberta washed I put on the quilt it is her quilt and we quilted considerable I went in the garden and helped Brother Flake plant cabbage he is working in the garden this week John took Sister Whipple up to Sholow Thirsday 16 we made a cheese and quilted we are haveing lots of rain Friday 17 I made a cheese coked dinner baked a large batch of bread and mended some John came home yesterday all right Joel has gon to the saw mill for lumber I got a letter from Jane Saturday 18 we churned Ironed and finished the quilt after dinner James Osmer Elsie and Two of James children two of Bells and Osmers children came up to fish they caught a lot cleaned them and when they went home I went with them and bought John a pair of shoes Belle brought me home a bout sundown Joel got home after dark Sunday 19 to day is Ward conferance Brother Flake though t some one ought to stay and take care of things I stayed so I have reed and reed and tried to rest as I work to hard Monday 20 all well Roberta stayed in town I helped milk got breakfast made a cheese skimed all the milk cleaned all the pans churned riped up an old pair of pants washed them got dinner then in afternoon done a good lot of men ding and this is a sample of how I work got a letter from Mary ann ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p084.jpg) Tuesday 21 it is eighteen years to day since we moved to Snowflake it was then onely a ranch here has been great changes since the Joel is sixteen to day Brother Flake and me went to town a few minutes and we bought him a suit of clothes the first suit he ever had he came home from sawmill Wednesday 22 Roberta came home last night to day we washed cleaned and Ironed had a nice shower of rain Thirsday 23 all well we churned made a cheese Osmer and his family came up and we all went and fished and I did some sewing I have been makeing John a pair of pants our of Osmer Friday 24 Brother Flake and myself was to represent croasing the plains he put on a cover on his waggons and tied on his flow and got other things a hoe and shovel and flail I had my knitting and we headed the procession afterward the marching was over we went to the meeting house where we had an excelant good time there seemed to be such a good spirrit and ever thing went off so nice every part was prformed then we went to Marys to dinner in the afternoon the sisters was called to gether to hold a prair meetins for Sister Rettie Hanson who is very sick after meeting was out came home and brought Aunt Mary homem with us it was dark when we got home Saturday 25 all well Brother Flake and the boys caught fish I churned Mary Theade and all thir children came up and fishes also Emma Le Smith we set out in the shade and cleaned them Sunday 26 we went to town Aunt Mary went home the boys and me went to Sunday school sister West sent me several invations to go to her house to dinner I went after dinner we went to meeting after meeting we went to the sisters oficers meeting we had a good time and prayed for the Sick after meeting came home and helped milk Monday 27 churned made cheese and worked very hard Tuesday 28 Made cheese and after dinner went over to Sister Francis Willis she is quite sick I feel sorry for her Wedensday 29 We made another cheese Roberta came home brought a postal card saying Uncle Charles Barton Died last Sunday night he had a cancer in his stuma che and suffered dredfully I am glad he is at rest Thirsday 30 I went to town and attended the Sisters meetig Friday 31 Osmer and his familey came up ate dinner with us then went and fished Mary and her familey came and fished ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p085.jpg) Augest 1896 Saturday 1 I dont feel very well made my fifteenth cheese to day Brother Flake is wattering he scrapes and works in the garden and does other choars Sunday 2 we went to sunday school also to meeting and took dinner with James familey we had a fine rain at noon Monday 3 we made a cheese and done a lot of washing blankets and flanner and collored clothes William took me over to see Sister Willis she is very sick this evening we had a hard shower Tuesday 4 I made my seventeeth cheese last night I went and stayed all night with Sister Willis she is dredfull bad the flies are so bad Wedensday 5 I made a cheese then went to shumway to attend primary meeting I got Sister Decker to go with me had a very good time held a prair meeting in the primary for Sister Willis Belle and her children have gon to round [---] to visit Ida Thirsday 6 this is fast day Brother Flake John and myself went to fast meeti ng we fasted I took dinner with Mary and her familey wrote a letter to cousin Will Burton of Masa and went to the sisters meeting Friday 7 I made cheese and we churned I dont feel very well Sister Willis is better the wether is cooler now the flies are so bad Saturday 8 all well made a cheese and recieved a letter from Mary G oliver Presdent of Primary at Sholow I read the letter and answered it to day is nice I feel better been ironing and mendeing Sunday 9th John and me went to sunday school then when it was out I went to teachers meeting when that was out we got aunt Mary Savage and came home ate some dinner then all but John went to Taylor to Frank Allens Funeral and we did not get home till sundown Brother Flake and myself done the milking Monday 10 I made cheese we churned and got dinner in the evening killed a beef was hard at work all day Tuesday 11 made cheese the Sister Teachers came to visit us in afternoon reade some Brother Lymans surmond and Bro Jensons letter and done some sewing it has been very warm now it loks Wedensday 12 I made cheese Roberta washed in afternoon I went to town got me a pair of shoes I had shares in loop store they gave me privelage to draw it out I got sugar soda peach will draw it as we need it just stayed a few moments came Thirsday 13 I made up my mind not to make cheese we churned ironed cleaned the floor Mary came up with her children ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p086.jpg) just as we got dinner here came Osmer Elsie and thir children so there was a merry crowd of us we had a good time Mary wanted to go back to sisters meeting and wanted me to go with her so I went Osmers folks was not going to stay long so it was all right we had a short visit and went to the sisters meeting there was a large meeting Friday 14 we made cheese and churned we have made seventeen pounds of butter and five cheese this week when we make a cheese Brother Whipple wife and Mother an children came about ten oclock we had a good visit they are going back to Mexico Saturday 15 made a cheese Grand ma Whipple wanted me to go to Sister Wests to spend the day they took her down then came back after me as I could not leave my cheese Roberta was in town then came back and took me down we had a very plesant visit Sister West went with me to primary meeting in the evening Brother and Sister Whipple came after us and Grand ma Whipple stayed all night I came home and helped milk Sunday 16 we went to sunday school then went to marys and she was prepareing a birthday dinner for Theodore he is thirty three years old tomorrow but she knew she could not get us all togath on Monday so she thought she would have it to day she had a splendid dinner I dont know how she could get so many diffr ant kinds of food it was butifull she went to sunday school it was a surprise on Theodore she made most of her peperations on Saturday then she went to sunday school so he would not mistrust any thing I dont see how she done so much after dinner we went to meeting then came home a little time after we got home it rained fearfull and we could not milk till nine o clock it rained most all night Monday 17 we churned and washed Roberta came home last night I wrote a letter to mary ann Farnsworth we have had a very hard rain this afternoon Sister Willis is still sick but is getting better now she is staying in town Tuesday 18 we churned made cheese and collored some yarn also scoured out yard I feel better to day then then I have for some time Roberta went to town about eleven o clock the [---] folks went and helped Bro Cooper all day I was here a lone Wedensday 19 made a cheese this morning and ironed this after noon patched went to the garden helped Brother Flake dig potatoes and pick peas today Roberta is nine- teen years old there has been many changes in these nineteen ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p087.jpg) years we was liveing in Utah then had never seen this country was called the spring before she was born we was told we could have six months to get redy in we started to move the day she was three months old and I have traveled that hard roode nine times it wonderfull how I have stood so much hard ships and hard work the Lord has blessed Thirsday 20 all well Roberta made a cheese to day and I corded bats for her a quilt. this evening I went to town and took a cheese and four pounds of butter to the Tithing it has been nice today Friday 21 this morning Brother Flake went to the saw mill up to pine dale my self and Bashey Smith went we went in the buggy and John drove for us Brother Flake went for lumber and we went to the Primary to visit with them we had a nice meeting with them after meeting went over to Bishop Petersons and stayed all night called on the sisters over there and made short visits Sister Peaterson asked Brother Flake over to breakfast he came we started home about eight o clock got home at one we fixed some dinner Osmer and Elsie and thir children we ate dinner and comenced to quilt on Robertas this is Saturday 22 I am mixing to day with yesterday we got the quilt out Brother Flake came home and brought a five gallon can of honey we cooked corn and got supper after supper Osmer Elsie Bashey and the children went home we feel thankfull for the Plesant time we had Sunday 23 to day Brothe Flake has a mishonary apointment to preech to Juniper he went early this morning we helped milk got breakfast done up part of the work then went to sunday school was invited to James to dinner called and saw Sister Willis she is improveing called and visited Aunt Mary went to meeting with her after meeting Sister May Larson invited me to go home with her to eat watter mellons as it was my birthday to day I am fifty four 54 years old the mellons was ripe and very nice John came after me when we got through eating [---] mellons we came home John and me he went and got the cows and we milked I milked eight we done our choors Monday 24 we got up early Joel milked two cows I milked eight ate breakfast made a cheese churned done up all the work and moped the kitchen floor the boys was batting hay Brother Flake got home all right Tuesday 25 all well made a cheese John and myself washed a twenty five pound of wool then got dinner done up the work Went to town Brother Flake went too ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p088.jpg) We took James a cheese and took four pound of butter down I bought thred one gallon coal oil and a stew pan the children was all well I got such a good letter from my oldest Brother I was so glad to get it the spirrit of the letter was very good he wrote about my factory pay and sent me a statement of my Diveden it is two Hundred dollars Wedensday 26 we made a cheese and washed and Ironed a lot of collord clothes I am intending to go to St Joseph to conferance if nothing hapens to pervent Brother Flake Roberta and John will stay at home James is going Joel and Emma Purl and baby Roberta is fixing to go back to Utah this fall and is buisy fixing has to stay in town to sew as our mechien is out of fix Thirsday 27 we made a cheese and churned Theodore and Mary and thir children came up took dinner and made quite a visit I am all redy to start for conferance in the morn Friday 28 all well I turned another cheese and about nine o clock we started for conferance myself Joel Emma Pirl and the baby Osmer also went we had a nice day we stoped at noon and had dinner the sun never shone on us all day it was so plesant we went to Holebrook and stayed all night in the House Osmer had rented there was a crowd of snowflake people stayed there Osmer slept on the flore and let me sleep in his bed. Saturday 29 we went on to Brother Tanners took dinner in afternoon went to meeting it was young Jodys conferance after meeting went to Brother Tanners had a nice time eating mel Sunday 20 all well went to conferance had good meeting went to Sister Emma Tanners to Dinner also had all the mellons we could eat went to conferance had more good instructio ns after conferance was out all the primary oficers met by request of myself to Sariah Bushmans for meeting there was five Presidents there and a number of others oficers we had a good time much good councill was given after meeting was out went back to Brother Tanners Monday went to conferance a gain went and took dinner with Brother and Sister Bushmans folks had a nice visit went to meeting after which conferance ajurned for three months ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p089.jpg) September 1896 Tuesday 1 this morning we bid our friend Brother Tanners family good by and took our homeward journey we had a splendid conferance and a nice good time visiting and eating mellons we arived home safeley a little after sun- down and found all well at home all of which we felt Truly thankfull for Wedensday 2 we are now throug makeing cheese Roberta made the last one yesterday Makeing thirty eight we churned washed and cleened and worked hard all day Roberta went to town this afternoon I am feeling better and it is a plesure to work Thirsday 3 all well this is fast day Brother Flake Joel and my self went to fast meeting and came home as soon as it was and went to work there is so much work I dont know what to do first Friday 4 Brother Floake has gon to the sawmill I churned Ironed cleaned and mended the wether is very warm Saturday 5 I churned Roberta came home we sewed and mended and done meny choores in afternoon Brother Flake came home Sunday 6 Roberta and myself went to sunday school John is not at home he went off on the third with Luis Johnson to hunt horses and has not got back we all went to meeting Brother Flake asisted the Bishop to ordain some young men to the Elders corum after meeting Brother Flake and Thodore Turley started for Holebrook after flour James had a car load come in and they went to bring it up it was late when they started Brother Flake thinks Roberta better get married before they start for Utah and they have consented she will marry Joseph Ramsey they will probaly mary next Wedensday Monday 7 all well have churned washed made yeast and sewed we have had a nice day been very buisy Tuesday 8 Ironed baked cakes Roberta Iorned most all day in the evening went to town to George Ramsey and Mary Gard eners wedding I churned made button holes in bask and sewed bottons on and done meny other choores Brother Flak came home after dark it rained and we had to milk in the rain Wedensday 9 all well but so stormy I killed a hen stuffed and baked it for Roberta to take on the road they will marry this evening and start in the morning the rain is just boreing down ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p090.jpg) Thirsday Roberta was Married last night James house was the place in his nice parler Bishop Hunt Married them the family was all there that were at home Osmer and Belle was absent Elsie has started for Utah to visit her Parents she started Tuesday Osmer is going to Winsislow with her Joseph Ramsey is going to drive her team to Fillmore in Utah Osmer will go after her when she gets ready to come home the streets in Town are ancle deep in mud and watter Friday Roberta did not start yesterday as they expected it was so mudy but they started to day it seemes so lonely I can hardley endure it some times it seemes like I cant stand it but we poor mortles have meny things to endure that makes our harts ache if it was not for the consolation we get in prair we could not stand our trials but our Hevenly Father is so mercifull we dont have to call on him in vain Brother Flake and Joel have gon to the saw mill for lumber Belle got home today she has been to Round valley to visit Ida been gon over five weeks I have been cutting corn to dry today and working very hard I have not saw Roberta since the night she was married it has been very mudy and she had all her things in Town and so she did not come up Saturday 12 I have churned and cleened and choored all day Brother Flake and Joel got home after dark Sunday 13 I fasted went to sunday school after it was out went up and saw sister West we went up stares and had secret prair together she is quite poorley in helth we was invited to marys for dinner Brother Turley was there on a visit we had a good visit with him Brother Flake and me we came home done our choores eat supper and Read Monday 14 I washed we churned and cleaned the floor and had company for dinner and went to town and traded in the store bought cloth for thre bed ticke Tuesday 15 churned Ironed wrote a letter to Sister Mary had company James children was all here but Willey Wednesday 16 done up my work picked wool and had company all day sister Anney kartchner was here with all her familey they helped me pick wool we had a string of people here all day and to supper at night ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p091.jpg) Thirsday 17 I churned wrote a letter to my Brother Orson White and done up my work Brother Flake has gon to Holebrooke for a load of flower it is cloudy to day and looks like rain I am all alone to day I must quit writing an get my wool finished for my matress yesterday our Grandson Albert started for Salt Lake City with Bishop Hunt he is going again to the Deaf mute school where hes been for a number of years I picked my ducks to day it is lonely for me when a lone Friday 18 I finished picking my wool last night before going to bed I cut out the lick and was makeing it when Belle and her children came to spend the day with me we finished the tick and she helped me tie the bed I was so glad to see her it is so lonely we got the bed all done and I was so thankfull to get it done Belle gave me courage with her nice quiet way and her comforting words for I am sorley tried with the way Joel acts I pray all the time that he will change and do better Saturday 19 we churned done up the work made yeast went in the garden picked beens cucumbers and tomatoes feel very dull and bad to day it looks like rain all the time is very cloudy Sunday 20 we went to sunday school John and myself we have 100 one hundred names enroled on our books of Primary children I was invited to diner to Sister Wests I went they had saved a watter mellon for me we [---] ate dinner and went to meeting Monday 21 we churned and washed Osmer came and took dinner with us John and me after I got done washing Osmer took me to town to trade and brought me back Tuesday 22 we churned and Ironed and made a batch of preserves we made twenty too pounds of butter last week I sewed on Johns shirte and feel like I had done two good days work we got a letter from Roberta to day they were gettin a long nicely it is raining this evening very hard I am feeling better since I went to conferance Wedensday 23 I done up my work and sewed on the shirts it has cleared off the wether is nice again this evening Phebe Webb sent for me to go to her House I went about nine o clock she gave birth to a Thirsday 24 I cleaned the boys bedsted it was alive with bugs in the afternoon I sewed on the shirts Friday 25 we churned cleaned my bedsted and finish ed the shirts I have washed Ironed and made five shirts this week and done all my work ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p092.jpg) Saturday 26 Brother Flake and the boys have gon to thrash I made cake yeast done up the work cleaned two floors and made two pairs of drawers then went to Town this evening saw mary and James and Thede and part of the children Osmer came from apache where he had been to a sale and brought us a mechiene to cut hash with We had twenty fine bushels of wheat for our share we had the land rented out we will have a nice lot of malases Sunday 27 John and me went to sunday school after it was out we had a prair meeting or Sister Meriar Smith and myself each praid before we left the house after that went to Bells for dinner Osmer and John was there also some of the sisters to come with me to her house and have a little meeting she wanted a blessing from the sisters after meeting was officers meeting we went and after it was out three sisters of us President Emma Smith Sister Romesey and myself we had a good time Brother Flake came home and left me and Belle brought me home Mary got a letter from Roberta they crossed the bay Colorado 20 by moon light was all well and getting a long fine Monday 28 we churned nine pound of butter fixed pickles and made could slaw done up the work put away sunday Tuesday 29 washed done up the work James to Mary Mattie Smith after my work was done I went down to see her She is a good Girl and I am so well pleased with the choice he has made she talkes of staying up there and going to school this Winter but is not certain yet Wedensday 30 we churned Ironed made preserves Brother Flake has gon to take James to Holebrook I am feeling quite poorley I work to hard there is so much to do all the time and I cant nglect my house work and I get so worn out can hardley go We are expecting two new Teachers here this week perh aps they will come with Brother Flake to morrow they are coming to teach our school this winter they came from Utah we hope for as good a school as we had last winter this ends this eventfull month the reason I call it eventfull is because so meny have gon to get married ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p093.jpg) October 1896 Thirsday 1th I feel better to day have not been on my feet so much did not have to churn have been mending since I done up my work this is fast day but Brother Flake is gon and no team so I had to stay home as I do other days that makes me feel sorry Friday 2 Brother Flake came home last night I churned got dinner done up my work and went to Town with Brother Flake saw the children a few minutes then came home Saturday 3 I done up my work picked beans husked corn made candy out of molases and had my bath it is a nice warm day Sunday 4 we went to sunday school review it lasted all day Joel and John have gon we churned done up the work got dinner in afternoon went to Town with Brother Flake and stayed till most dark Tuesday 6 all well I done up my work nice got dinner in afternoon Sister West Larson and Hunt came and spent the afternoon with me Nelen kartchner is here working for us he asked me to go sufferage meeting with him so I went Joel went too Wedensday 7 I washed got dinner over went and spent the afternoon with Sister amey kartchner in the evening her Brother Flake the boys and me went to a political meeting Osmer was there he is getting a long nicely Thirsday 8 all well I churned ironed made chou chou done up all the work in the afternoon picked woll for matress Friday 9 all well Brother Flake is choring round these days I made tomato preserves and finished my second mattress and comenced picking wool for James one Lois Smith came helped me all day the wether is nice Saturday 10 all well the girls washed the wool for James mattress and part of it is so dirty I have to wash it over I sent for Jane to come and help me she came we churned washed the wool and cleaned I dont know how it is I have to work so hard all the time there is no place to stop Sunday 11 all well we went to sunday school after that was out we had Teachers Meeting then I went to Lucy Lunquists to dinner then went to meeting our new Teachers preeched school Teachers Brother Hues and Bigloe they are very small men ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p094.jpg) Monday 12 all well we done up the work then picked wool for James Mattress sister amey karthner came and spent the day with us Brother Flake is staying around home thrashing beens and tending the cows and choreing a round Tuesday 13 all well we churned done up the work and got dinn er sister Phebe Webb came and spent the day with us after dinner Mary came up and brought Aunt Mary with her they spent the after noon with us when Joel came home from school he brought me a letter from Jane she was well Wedensday 14 all well I washed this forenoon this afternoon I picked wool as hard as I could Sister Willis came and spent the afternoon with me we had a good visit she is a good Thirsday 15 I picked wool all day in the evening went to town and came right home went to get darning needle and yard to tie Friday 16 last night we had our first frost to do any harm I churned ironed and tied my mattress it is James Mattress and gathered all my tomatoes. Brother Flake has been seperat ing horses all day it has been a nice day Saturday 17 all well there is a Primary Fair in Taylor to day we are invited to go Belle and Bashey came and ate dinner with me then we went to Sister Willises and got her and all went to the fair it was quite good this is the first one since we was put in this passion it done very well indeed Sunday 18 John and me went to sunday school Brother Flake to Adair to preach this is my Dear Sun Charles birthday he would of been thirty five <34> years old to day if he was a live Monday 19 Brother Flake came home earley this morning I was sent for to go to town as Sister Pruits little boy Died last night I went and stayed till after the funeral it was most dark when we got home Brother was there to he ate his supper and started for Holebrook he is on the Jurers Cort is in cession James got home last night Tuesday 20 just as soon as we ate breakfast I went out and husked corn till twelve o clock then came in ate my dinner fixed the churn washed up my dishes made sweet cake churned then sliced up tomatoes and onions for sweet pickles and put my clothes to soak and I am tired I milk four cows night and morning when Brother Flake is gon this has been a nice day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p095.jpg) Wedensday 21 I washed made sweet pickles Belle sent her Marshall and Charley to stay with me while she goes to plesant valley for an out Thirsday 22 it rained most all night to day I spent most of the time writeing Mattie and Roberta both wrote me the letters came Monday evening and to day I have written to Mattie and Mary a Farnsworth this evening I made ketchup Belle came for her children she did not go it is good she did not for it is so stormey it would be unplesant Friday 23 made sweet pickles this is my second batch ironed and worked all day in the evening I went with Lois and Walter Smith to a political meeting it rained on us going down Saturday 24 churned steimed milk done up my work mended some read some it is a nice day looks like it had cleared off I have not milked since it commenced to rain have got cold dont feel Sunday 25 Brother Flake got home last night after dark all right I went to sunday school it was Nickle day our department got four dollars and fifty sixty cents there was meny of the children that did not come I ate dinner With James and had a good talk asking about our relitives in Salt Lake after meeting was out the Sisters had officers meeting and had a good time it was after dark when I got home I drove my own team Brother Flake was home when I got Monday 26 I washed Brother Flake plowed after I got done washing stratened up all three of the rooms made beds put away sunday clothes and I was tired Tuesday 27 I ironed and mended to day and the Wind has blew dredfull all day Brother Flake tried to holl hay Wedensday 28 our first snow this fall came last night it snowed most all night to day I done up my work got dinner Osmer and Mr Jackson ate dinner with us Brother Flake is home to day I knit sewed and [-] I have been reeding it has been very Well Thirsday 29 this morning went to town took tithing butter traded some ate dinner with Thede and Mary went to sisters meeting and brought wool home to make James another mattress Friday 30 I washed wool for the mattress it took me all day till after sun down at night to wash it it is the dirtiest wool I ever saw then had beds to make dishes to wash other Saturday 31 Brother Flake has gon on a mishonary trip to Pinetop we churned baked pie and cake cleaned doores and floore in kitchen and was on my feet till tong after dark ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p096.jpg) October 1896 sunday 1 went to sunday school it is a nice day Osmer and me ate dinner with Belle and Nettie went to meeting Osmer was called on to preach he is a fine speeker after meeting came home milked and done up our choores then went to spend the evening with Theodore Turley he is going to start on a mishon to the Southern States in a few days and the Sisters had a farewell for him speeches songs music and one resitation it was nice all talked very good Monday 2 this is a fine day all a long on the farm Osmer is going when Theadore goes as far as Salt Lake he will visit there and bring Elsie and the children home by team I have been choreing around most all day scoring the beds putting a way sunday clothes been reeding some Tuesday 3 Brother Flake came home last evening all right we got a letter from Mary Ann Farnsworth I done up my work in the afternon Brother Flake went to town I went with him this is Election Wedensday 4 some of the children in town have the measles and Theodore Turley starts on his mishon in the morning so we went to town and stayed all day Thirsday 5 this is fast day Brother Flake went to meeting I did not go the wind blows very hard to day got dinner and sewed on Bro Flakes garments and wrote a letter to my sister Mary Masser Friday 6 all well I washed to day school is dismissed one week becaus so meny children have the meassels Brother Flake and the boys are hallin cabbage and burying them for winter this afternoon cut out a bed to make another for James I made the tick then picked wool this is fine day Saturday 7 ironed cooked dinner picked wool Bro Flake and the boys halled carrots to town prepareing to move Sunday 8 went to sunday school and meeting ate dinner with Mary it has been a nice day all well Osmer and Theodore left Holebrook thirsday Osmer is going after Elsie he will go to Salt Lake and visit my sister Mary and other relitives then go to Fillmore where his wife is Monday 9 I picked wool all day all the time I could get Tuesday 10 this morning we had twenty six pans of milk in the cellar that is lots for this time of the years Brother Flake and Joel have gon to hunt cattle will be gon two days I got all the wool picked and in the tick ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p097.jpg) 91 Wedensday 11 I washed this foore noon will try and finish the bed this afternoon it looks very stormey Thirsday 12 I done my house work I finished my bed or mattres Roberta came home about Twelve o clock also Joe Ramsey they was well and hapy I went down to Marys after dark met Roberta and Joe there we had a good visit together she told all about her trip Friday 13 we are all well the weather is fine it cleared off without a storm I done up my work and got dinner then went and gathered beens two hours then went to town and Roberta helped me and we put the carpet down in front room Brother talks some of moveing to morrow him and the boys and Nolen kartchner are very buisy fixing thir fish ponds Saturday 14 I went and gathered beens these beens was an shores and the people did not gather them all so I finished this foor noon after dinner Bro Flake took a load of things I went with him we unloaded and came right back and went to lod eing up and it was after dark when we got to town Sunday 15 we went to Robertas house for breakfast then went to sunday school then went to Sarah Freemans she had a sick baby went to meeting after meeting the Sisters had a prair meeting I went after that went and set up till two o clock the baby is very sick Monday 16 we left our things on the wagon this morning we unloaded our wagons Roberta came and helped me put down carpet in kitchen clean cubbords and helps me till too o clock then I comenced to churn and churned till dark Tuedday 17 the baby that was sick died I went to the funeral in afternoon done all I could to get thing cleaned and in place it is very hard work to move and get fixed up Wedensday 18 hard to work all day and have got things pretty well fixed to night and feel so thankfull Thirsday 19 chored around in afternoon went to sisters meeting in the evening went to a prair meeting to prepare ourselves for conferance Friday 20 continued to fix and straten up things and go to see the sick there is a great meny sick with the Measels Saturday 21 done my work churned and was prepareing to go to primary when I was invited to a prair meeting for the sick I went after it was out went and called on some of the sick the wether is very nice indeed ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p098.jpg) Sunday 22 we went to sunday school had a very nice time we brought Lindy Scat home from sunday school to dinner after dinner we went to meeting we ate a watter mellon today Monday 23 I thought I was going to do a good days work to day but James came for me to go and stay with his children they have the meassles I went combed them all good chored a round done some mending and soap Tuesday 24 I went to James a gain to day looked after the children made som Pillows and worked all day felt dizzy but kept on to work Roberta is coming to stay with the children Brother Flake goes up to the farm most every day to day he went out on the rainge and found a cow and calf we will milk her the wether is fine Wedensday 25 in the morning I tryed three times to get up but was so very sick could not set up sick to my stum ick and dizzy could hardly open my eyes and such a head ache in the evening had James and Brother Flake administer to me was dredfull sick all night Thirsday 26 I got up this morning set up a few minutes then went to bed then got up a gain and kept going to bed and getting up and just staggered as I tryed to walk Friday 27 I got up this morning went staggerin a round and got breakfast I kept working made squash pies and worked all day it seemed astonishing to think of my working all day but I did to morrow is conferance Primary conferan ce in the morning I praid to my Father in heven to make me able to go to conferance and do my part and he certainly did heal me Sister Linsey came and churnd Saturday 28 Mary Larson came and took me to Taylor that is where the conferance is this fall I called the conferance to order the choiar sand we asked President Ritchards to open by prair then sang and went on with the parts and reports after we were through we asked Presi dent Smith Hatch and Ritchards to speak they did we had a splendid time Sunday 29 we had sunday school ate dinner and went to Taylor conferance comenced at two o clock I forgot to say sisters confer ance yesterday afternoon Monday 30 morning went to Taylor to conferance had a good conferance this even ing conferance adjurned for three months ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p099.jpg) December 189[-] Tuesday 1 James came this Morning and wanted me to go and stay with the children I went and combed the children made beds done up the work in bed rooms and mended stockings Wedensday 2 I brought the children home to day we are invited to Presidents Smiths it is his birth day 62 years old they said come at one o clock we went and had a fine time Roberta came and stayed with the children it was a fine time indeed every one of his children Grand children and wives all spoke or sang or had a resertation a very nice pass a round at five and plenty of it it was a very enjoyable time it seemed like a glimps of heaven all felt so well every one of the visiters was called on to speak and all responded Brother Flake came home before it was out I came home with Brother Tanner it was nearley Twelve o clock when we got home it was good to be there Thirsday 3 I brought the children home a gain to day We have to churn make chou chou and a great a mount of other work to do Tomorrow my self and counclers want to go to woodruff in the intrest of the Primary Friday 4 myself and couclers and Pookey Smith went to woodruff and visited the Primary they people seemed very glad to see us both large and small we held meeting had a good time and enjoyed the good Saturday 5 We bade the people of Woodruff and came home we had very plesant wether found all well went we got homeSunday 6 to day is our general fast the President of this church of Laturday Saints have changed our fast day to sunday we are required to fast till after meeting in the afternoon this is the first sunday we think it a good change for none need work Monday 7 I feel bad the way Joel acts he ahs quit going to sunday school and meeting and smokes I feel like I could not endureit to day washed and spent part of the day in prair Roberta is doing my washing ever since she came home but I had some thing that I wanted to wash so I washed them Ironed and made a cushon for the rocking chair then went to conjoint meeting Tuesday 8 I dont feel very well but there is so much work to do one has to work if we do feel bad I have been mending most all day it is four years to day since our son Charles was killed ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p100.jpg) John was ordained a Deacon to night by his Father Dec 8th Wedensday 9 I feel a little better to day I went to my Dear sister west and spent the afternoon we had a good talk and sister Larson came up and Sister Emma Smith and we four offered up our prairs to gather before we left to come oh what comfort in going and spending a short time with her Thirsday 10 we are haveing fine weather and look for Osmer soon Belle is not well got cold on her lungs this afternoon is sisters meeting I want to go Brother Flake is moveing a house to day for Sister Linsey has a lot of Brethering helping him our school teachers went to Holebrook to pass Examination but failed and have to go home so there is no school this week I went to sisters meeting quilted and sewed rags and bore testimony Friday 11 I done my choores fixed a dress over for Lane and most made a shirt for Brother Flake it is a nice day Saturday 12 got up earley made a fire brought in some corn to shell to take to mill shelled a little time then got Breakfast churned Lucy Flake helped me we done up the work shelled corn Sister Lannen came and helped us shell corn we got most a sack full John and Brother Flake helped some at one o clock Sister Willis John Lane and my self started to Shumway to attend a primary we got there on time held meeting chose some new oficers John got the corn ground then came home when we got home it was most dark I made a fire made mush out of the new meal baked thirteen pies cleaned a chicken washed dishes made button holes and sewed buttons on Brother Flakes shirt then had my bath cleaned the floor and hearth then went to bed it was nearley eleven Sunday 13 I invited Roberta and Joe Mary and her familey to eat dinner with us went to sunday school came home and made nudles and fixed dinner we had a nice dinner pie pudding and cake chicken potatoes pickles preserves chou chou and sweet pickles after dinner went to meeting had a very good meeting Brother Hues spoke and sevral others Ray Tanner spoke we have been looking for Osmer and his familey for several days but not come yet the wether is fine sun shines bright Monday 14 I have been makeing chair cushings Brother Flake has been makeing or moveing a house for Sister Linsey he been working five days on it ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p101.jpg) Osmer came home they was all well Elsie is looking quite fleshey for her he brought my dividen on the Factory there was fifty eight dollars coming to me he got three pounds of yarn and the rest cloth and one pair of blankets it is all so nice Tuesday 15 I done up my work then cut out a flannel bask and worked on it in the evening went to sufferage club the first I have been to for several months after it was out went to a reception for our Teachers they could not pass examination and they will go home Wedensday 16 washed a few thing Osmer and his pa killed a beef for us to day I cleaned the entrills and tried out the tallow and was on my feet all day Belle is quite sick yet she coughs so bad Thirsday 17 worked in my kitchen all the forenoon after dinner called to see Joseph West he was very glad to see me his mother wished me to have the Sisters have a prair circle for him he got home last Sunday night he is very low and week yet I went to the sisters meeting and we called a prair circle for him the wether is nice now Friday 18 to we cook for a party Brother Flake promised the men and boys that worked on Sisters Linseys House or halled wood for the should a dance and Picknick we the sisters have to prepare it to day Roberta helped me we choped suit and mince meet and fixed it and done the cooking we had to do then went to the dance had a good dance Saturday 19 choped or ground so cage meet John helped me then done up the work got dinner over chored a round and at four o cl ock went to primary it was cold but had a good time Sunday 20 went to sunday school had over seventy children ther they have all got over the Meassles now and come to sunday school again we went to meeting Elder Wasdon came home with Joseph West to wait on him adressed the saints his remarks was just fine he seemes so good Sister West was to meeting she wished a few of the Sisters to have a prair circle for Joseph as he seemed so week We did there was seven good faith full sisters there we had a good time Monday 21 I done up my work as quick as I could cut a pair of pants for Brother Flake he has gon up to the farm to scrape I finished the pants before I went to bed and had a lot of company come to stay all night it was very late when we went Tuesday 22 Brother Flake went to scrape a gain I comenced on Joels pants after got my work done up but did not get them quite done as we was invited to sister West to show honor to Brother Wasden for his kindness to Joseph West we had a very nice time. Music songs and speeches all good ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p102.jpg) Wedensday 23 Brother Flake gon to scrape Osmer killed our hogs too I was very buisy could not sew much but worked some on Johns pants salted the meet and tried out the greese Thirsday 24 Brother Flake worked on the house for Sister Linsey Sister Laning helped me this forenoon we churned made or choped saucauge meet cleaned pig feet got dinner then sewed a little while then made pie squash and mince finished Joel pants for him to ware to the dance the made a batch of fried cake when I got throug we heard Apostal Young was going to preech in the morning ten o clock it was near ley nine o clock then so I went to work and made Brother Flake a shurt before I went to bed it was nearley one o clock when I went Friday 25 christmas we got breakfast over then went to meeting Apostal Young preeched a fine good surmond we are invited to Marys for supper we went to Marys for supper I went to the dance and stayed till after ten oclock Brother Flake stayed with Amy Belle while the girls went to the dance Saturday 26 I chored around the House all day put up window curtains hung up Pictures five o clock went to Marys to supp er after supper went to a Musical entertainment to James House there was a nice company there and plenty of Sunday 27 Went to Sunday School had a nice time the Two Miss Moreheads was there they furnished the exercise for the school we went to meeting President Smith took up most of the time after meeting went to see Belle she is still quite poorley coughs very bad yet the wether is nice Monday 28 John is fourteen to day I have been cooking and prepareing for company Aunt Mary came and eat dinner with John and me Bro Flake is scrapeing to day Tuesday 29 it is cloudy and looks like snow the company came Aunt Mary Belle James brought her in the cart all raped up the Miss Moreheads Merian and Louis Bushman Ellen Smith Elsie and Mary we had a nice visit and it has snowed quite a nice snow and is snowing now Wedensday 30 I cleaned the pigs heads and cooked them made head cheese and comenced makeing Johns coat and done house Thirsday 31 I washed a few things John churned I finished his coat and done up my work all good and nice this is the last day of this year I feel thankfull all things are as well with us as they air there is meny trials but our Hevenly Father gives us strength to stand them I pray we may always have strength to stand our trials ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p103.jpg) January 1897 Friday 1 this is new years day it snowed some last night and the ground is covered with snow every thing is peace and love so far to day this morning I got up made the fire had my secret prair and read a [---] some time before any one else got up then got breakfast Brother Flake went off after breakfast and hasent come back yet he is loafing this last summer we made three hunderd and thirty five pounds of butter this surley is doeing well we paid thirty three lbs for Tithing two chickens and counted my eggs it is two oclock Brother Flake has come to dinner it is cloudy part of the day and has snowed some I set down this afternoon and wrote a letter to Theodore Turley Saturday 2 done up my work darned and sewed and was very buisy all day about five <5> o clock in the evening I was doing my choores and Love came screeming and said little Lois was burnt I ran so hard as I could and oh what a site the dear little child was so dredfully badley burnt she could not live she was very bad she lived eleven hours and passed a way she was in dredfu ll agony for a bout two hours then she went to sleep and never woke up passed a way so quiet just breathed easeier and easier till her breath was gon the baby was up stares with Thressa she was cold and Thressa told her to go and warm and the poor child went in the room whare the fire was and the next thing Thressa knew she herd her screemind and ran and the deer little thing was all in ablaze and Thressa was all in excitement she grab ed her and put out the fire and her hands are frightfully burnt very deep and very bad it seemes a merical how any one would have the forttude to keep fighting fire till their hands would nearley be burnt off oh it was dredful to think of the baby died nearley four in the morning of the third Brother Flake and Mary and me stayed all night Thressa was delearious for hours it seemes to sad to think of such an axident to such deer children Sunday <3> I stayed to James all day we all felt very sad but the Lords will be done we had the baby administered to four or five times also Thressa and ten sisters met and had a prair circle and all was done that could be done for thir comfort but after all our darling babe had to go she was the sunshine of that home so sweet and smart and good oh how hard Monday 4 went down to James in the morning we made the clothes the funeral will be at one oclock thressa is very bad suffers very much Osmer was here when babe died had ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p104.jpg) it is dredfull cold today I did not go to the funeral we are doing all we can for Thressa poor child her suffering is great it seemes pitifull she cant help her self any Tuesday 5 got breakfast went to James and stayed all day a gain have stayed there all the time days since the accident Thressas hands are improveing and she sleeps good and is doing as well as she can Wedensday 6 Mary is staying with Thressa I am home to do up my work to day will stay with Thressa to morrow we got a letter from Jane she has got well and is feeling nicely James got a dispatch from Mattie and she is coming home will come next Saturday to day is very nice but last night was dredfull cold it has froze in the kitchen nights all this week We got a letter from Jane to day Thirsday 7 I went and stayed with Thressa till one o clock she rested quite good to day am staying with her her hands hurt her quite bad Mattie is comeing We are cleaning up and prepareing for her coming Friday 8 Mary is staying with Thressa I am home to day Sister Laming is helping me churn and boil over beef brion we chur ned six pounds of butter and was dredfull buisy all day and went and set up till one with Thressa Mattie came home after dark Thressa rested very poorley she was in much pain Saturday 9 Roberta came and stayed part of the day with Thressa I came home and cooked pies and light bread Brother Flake has been working on his fish ponds for three it has snowed and rained part of the day Sunday 10 I went to sunday school and meeting we had a very good surmond from George Crosby he lived in Springervill went back and went to school his remarks was fine it comenced to rain at four and is still raining Thressa is doing nicely we are all well I got a letter from Aunt Mariah Burton and wrote one to Jane Monday 11 I was sick in bed all day with a bilious spell and sick head ache had feavor all all night sunday night Tuesday 12 am better but my back is dredfull lame got brea kfast and done up my work got dinner and sewed some Roberta came down Brother Flake is [---]eing now it rains part of the time and is dredfull muddy Wedensday 13 I went and saw Thressas hands dressed this morning they are improveing so fast Mary came and spent the day with me and reed two of Theadores Letters he is doing first class ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p105.jpg) Thirsday 14 I washed two aprons and some socks and got my work done and went to Bells and visited her till two oclock then went to Sisters meeting it is very muddy there was sixteen sisters ther I made me an apron while was to Bells Friday 15 all well it rained all night and this morning It comenced to snow and snowed fast till two oclock I mad eleven pies and cooked meet and beens and sewed or mended and read some has been a lone all day pa has been loafing Satday 16 it was very cold and disagreeable we churned our squash was spoiling and I pealed nine put some up to dry sent some to James folks and cooked two kelles full for squash butter and went to primary meeting Sunday 17 we went to Sunday school had a good time we stayed after it was out and made a program for three months but did not go to meeting felt poorley and it was so cold Monday 18 am going to have company tomorrow and am prep areing to day Osmer gave me a turkey will have it tomorrow the wind has blown cold all day and has snowed some Tuesday 19 well the company came Aunt Mary Belle Nettie and Lois and thir cousins Bill of pair stuffed and baked Turkey spare rib pie suit pudding mince pie creem cake fruit perserves pickles cheese warm buiscuits butter chouchou cold beef that is all I think it has been a very nice day but very muddy we had a very nice time all my children was here James Mattie Mary Osmer Elsie and Roberta Wedensday 20 I done up my house work all nice and cut out a vest for Joel after dinner went over to Elsies and sewed on it the days are very plesant now the snow is going off nice Thirsday 21 I finished the rest done the work in after noon went to the Sisters meeting it is dredfull muddy Friday 22 washed a little got dinner was very buisy all the foornoon went over to Elsies and she helped me on my new flannel dress we got it cut out and sewed some on it Saturday 23 we churned made pies done up the work nice and went to Robertas and visited her she has things nice Sunday 24 went to sunday school it is very muddy this is Ward conferance went to meting we will have a meeting this Monday 26 I fasted and spent part of the forenoon in Prair it is cloudy and looks like another storm this afternoon went down and mended for James family Thressa hand are improveing very fast Osmer had her go to his house for dinner to day that was a nice change for her three weeks is a long time to be shut up in one room Tuesday 27 it is cold it tried to snow but it seemed to coold wrote a letter to Cousin Abba Va[---]t in California in afternoon sewed on my dress Brother Flake worked on his barn to day fixing it ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p106.jpg) Wedensday 27 I choored around all the four noon got dinner in after noon finished my dress Elsie helped me Brother Flake went and worked on his barn it is the Barn up on the farm it is warm and cloudy it looks like it will sorm som Thirsday 28 it comenced snowing in the night and kept on till after nine oclock Brothe Flake is home to day in the afternoon I went to the sisters Meeting it was very muddy there was very few out Friday 29 Theressa is able to walk around we invited her to come and spend the day with us she came we had a pleasent time Saturday 30 we churned baked light bread had a bath went to primary spoke to the children tried to encourag them to keep order Sunday 31 we went to Sunday school had a very good time Superentendant West also superentendant Larson visited our sunday school they was much pleased with our labors felt thankfull we were doing so well went to meeting Brother Joseph A West gave us a splend id surmon took up all the time it was a gospell surmon it was as good as it could be he preeched the gospell and proved it by the Bible it is a great comfort to have our Mormon boys go on mishons and qulify them selves for the masters use we sisters had oficers meeting in the evening there was seventeen present February 1897 Monday 1 this is Elsies birthday we had a birthday dinner I went earley and helped her we had most all the familey there had two Turkeys cooked one stuffed and baked the other stewed with nudles had a very good dinner inded Tuesday 2 have made mince pies and squash butter and cleened up the house and been on my feet all day Tomorrow we expect to have our deear Sister West Brother West and Joseph West come and take supper with us and spend the evening it is cloudy and sprinkles once in a white Brother Flake is up to the farm to work he came home we ate supper Mary Roberta and Joseph Ramsey was ther Nolen Kartchner Emma Perl Withwerth and babe was all here to supper after supper the girls washed the dishes we were all invited up to Belles to a birth- day entertainment we went a bout eight oclock they had singing and Music Ice creem and cake we had a nice time Thirsday 4 this is Sisters Testimoney meeting I went and visited two sick persons suned my quilts choored a round in after noon went to sisters meeting had a good time ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p107.jpg) February 1897 Friday 5 to day has been could and windy I put my beds out a spell to freshen up I went and set with sister Oakley a little time she has been sick a long time Thressa came and stayed with me ate dinner also Elsie and her children came over and spent some time with us Thressa can feed her self now Saturday 6 done up my work baked light bread and cake and went to the primary we had a nice time the children was quite still and all went off nice Sunday 7 today is a general fast day for all the church we went to sunday school after it was out we the oficers of the primary deportment had a prair meeting then we went to teachers meeting in the other department then when it was out came home went to meeting came home ate supper Roberta and Joseph spent the day with us Monday 8 I went to primary in Taylor went in the mor ning and spent the day up there called on Grandmother Walker spent one hour or too with her ate dinner with Sister Parmers folkes then went to primary had a good time with the children Thressa and Emma went with me Tuesday 9 I went and spent the day with Roberta and Joseph the wind blew and it snowed and was cold Mary came up in a afternoon we came home and it was snowing Wedensday 10 to day I stay at home done my work made a new bedtic k and put the feathers in I saved some of these feathers over five years agoe when I was down on the Salt River from Geese Thirsday 11 aunt Mary Savage came and spent and spent the foornoon in after noon I went to sisters meeting after meeting was most out Meriar Smith came into the meeting and wanted the sisters to have a prair circle for her Brother Wickfiff Bushman we met while we were praying the word came he had passed a way he was a good youn g man we feel very sorry for his parents and friends Friday 12 all well the wind blows very cold it is quite cloudy I wrote a letter to Mary Ann it seemes dismel when so cloudy Saturday 13 it a deep snow in the night it is nice and still now I went to the primary we praid for Sister Fish by request Sunday 14 went to sunday schooll and meeting Aunt Mary is sick I went and set up till one oclock in the night Monday 15 I washed a little collored a little mended cot carpet rags and read some the snow is melting and it is dredfull muddy ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p108.jpg) Tuesday 16 this is Mary Turleys 31 birthday the familey is planning a surpris for her Aunt Mary is quite sick we got a letter from Jane she is enjoying splended helth they are all in good helth Wedensday 17 the wind blows and it looks like a storm the Flake familey went to Marys last night took picknick porch corn and candy made out of molasses had music and games recitations and had a nice time Brother Flake is working on the farm or resivoures whinever it is fit fixing up his ponds to save watter Aunt Mary is better Thirsday 18 all well Brother Flake sowed his wheat to day it is very windy I went to Sisters Meeting Mary and Roberta went with me we had eleven Sisters there had some good reeding by Roberta I planted patunies to day ared my bed reed some and chored around Aunt Mary is better I went to see her Friday 19 it blew all night in afternoon it comenced to snow and and snowed part of the night we never had such nice wet weather Saturday 20 it has snowed most all day the sun would sine and still it snows I have been makeing brian for beef and finis hed bradeing a rug yesterday was fixing over a bask Brother Flake could not work to day Sunday 21 we went to Sunday School it was so dredfull muddy I did not go to meeting but stayed home and read the papers Monday 22 I cooked beef and choped it made mince meet for pie cleaned cupburd and done meny choores was tired Tuesday 23 I washed some cleaned the other cubbord and done other cleaning Brother Flake worked on reservoy two days week Wedensday 24 I cleaned and worked till four o clock then went over to Bells and got Sister Greear and Daughter and grand- daughter to come home with me and took supper then we all went to an entertainment for the Teachers that have come to attend the Teachers institute we had a nice time Thirsday 25 the Teachers Instatute comenced to day I got dinner had company and went to the institute in afternoon Sister Green and Daughter stayed all night ate supper and breakfast Friday 26 I got dinner cooked all day forenoon had company and went in after noon to institute had a nice time Saturday 27 we had lots of company last night got breakfast went to instutite at eight o clock when it was out came home and done up work went to conferance in after noon we went to Theater at night Sunday 28 went to meeting in after noon sunday school in morning went to sisters meeting at night had a butifull meeting ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p109.jpg) March 1897 Mondy 1 We went to Conferance all day have had an excelant Conferance and a good visit with my Dear Friend Sister Griear she is a Deer good Sister I have loved her for meny years she has stayed here nights most of the time my Cousin Mary Ann Heeps has come over from st Johns Aunt Mary is quite poorley yet I went and saw her this morning Joseph West lectured on the first principles of the gospell this evening we all went it was fine very good indeed he made it so plain Tuesday 2 Sister Greer paid me seven dollars for a pair of white blankets that I got from the Beaver Factory she started home this morning John Hall paid me two dollars and half for butter that they owed me it has been a nice day this afternoon Elsie Thressa and me went and spent three or four hours with Mrs Longmore had a nice time Brother Flake and Joel putting Mary Anns letter came yesterday Mary myself and Joel want to go to st Johns to conferance Brother Flake says we can go Wedensday 3 all well Brother Flake is working on the farm also Joel it has rained this afternoon I have been smokeing beef makeing pie and cake done up the work cleaned Joel clothes and mended them have been hard at work all day Thirsday 4 it rained and snowed a great part of the night and we have give up going to st Johns to conferance and set the Incubator this afer noon I went to a Lecture for woman onely a Doctor Wicks from California also went at night and heard Phonograph music for the first time in my life it is very nice Friday 5 Brother Flake went to work to day also Joel it was too mudy yesterday I went to another Lecture this afternoon I mended s[-]cks put meet to smoke and choored a round Saturday 6 we boilt our [-]rian made b[-]t cold slaw out of cabbage cooked dinner choored around and mended and and so forth Sunday 7 this is fast day for all the Church of Laturday Saints they have changed it our fast meeting to Sunday I went to Sunday School then Teachers meeting then came home the wind blew so hard I did not go to meeting and wrote to Mary Ann Monday 8 Brother Flake is working on the farm I have been chooring around and mending and tending to the Incubator Tuesday 9 Elsis and her children Roberta and Thressa came and spent the day I sent for Mary Mattie and James to come and eat dinner with us we had a nice time togather ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p110.jpg) Wedensday 10 yesterday was a nice day Sister Hapaloney came and invited Brother Flake and me to go over to Brother Hunts Bishop Hunts to spend the evening it was his birthday he was 64 Brother Flake did not go he was so tired we had a nice time songs music speeche and conver sation they had pop corn sweet corn parched Molases candy and a passaround cake and pie to day I washed a little done up my work nice read some and worked on my rug this is Thressas birthday she is sixteen her and Mattie are spending the day with Roberta Thirsday 11 all well the wind blows to day Brother Flake and Joel have gon to the farm to put in wheat I went to sisters Meeting Joseph A West Lectured for the sisters it was grand he speeks Friday 12 I am smokeing meet looking after the incubator have reed some to day got dinner and choored a round that takes lots of time We have heard Apostals John H Smith and Heber J Grant will be here in a few days to preech to us that will be so nice Sautrday 13 I churned and choored a round till too o clock then went up to the farm and got some pickles or cucumber and looked a round came back just as we got home the primary Bell rang for meeting I hurryed up got read and went when I came home Mary sent for me to come over there to a rag bee after dark I went and stayed till ten o clock Sunday 14 I went to sunday school and meeting the Apostles will be here to morrow evening to preech to us this is a very nice day Tomorrow Mary Elsie and me are invited to Sister Minerlys to spend the day with that poor Dear Sister so afflicted Monday 15 all well men folks putting in wheat we went to Sister Minerleys and had a plesant time I came home twice to see to the Incubator and went back the Apostles came and preeched this evening it was very good to see them and here them preech it was mostley on our home duties they will preech twice to morrow it seemes so grand to sit and listen to them Tuesday 16 we all went to meeting twice and had a splendid time they spoke on charity and virtue and meny good things it rained last night and was dredfull muddy this morning but drying up fast Wedensday 17 the men folks are working in the field I churned done up my work and helped John get shucks to put in the bed and reed some and mended some the days are getting longer Thirsday 18 I have been coloring log wood colored for myself Roberta and Mattie and Mary it rained and snowed a little last night I am very tired worked so hard and the wind blew so cold all day I had good luck with my coloring ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p111.jpg) Friday 19 it is dredfull cold this morning the wind blew all night I feel tired and bad this morning the wind still blows I have been mending cooking dinner and choreing a round it takes so meny steps to do my work Saturday 20 Brother Flake and Joel went to the farm to work it was so windy they decided not to work Brother Flake went up the Big reservoy to look at it and found the bank caveing in and the watter just ready to run over he got on his horse ang came to town for men to help him fix it they worked most all day holling straw and dirt Brother Flake jumped right into the watter and worked there tramping the straw into the watter he was wet for three or four hours the great big waves would dash all over them when he came home so wet I was dredfull uneasy for fear it would make him sick a man fifty seven years old but it did not seem to hirt him ang Roberta sent me word to come to her house to night to a rag bee to sew rags I sent her word I could not go and leave the Incubator it is by far the windays day this spring I sent her word to bring her rags here and have her bee here so she came and brought her Rags and had the sewing here all the Flake Girles and women was here but Elsie and Mattie we sewed a nice lot there was a house full of us every thing went off nice and plesant Sunday 21 I went to sunday school but thought best to stay home and see to the Incubator we had another fearfull day yesterday if the reservoy bank had broke yesterday it would have washed a way all our wheat to day there is just a little wind but so cold it is freezeing all day Monday 22 the wind has been in the west not hard but cold the sun shon nice but oh so cold I done up my work and mended a coat reed some and worked on quilt blocks school is out Brother Flake and the boys went to the farm and worked all day we feel thankfull for this day all are good Tuesday 23 all well the men folks went to the farm to work I churned and done up my work got dinner Elsie and her children were here to dinner my chickings have comenced to hatch this is a butifull day Wedensday 24 all well men gon to thee farm a gain Roberta and Joe ate dinner with me the chickens are hatching lively my Dear Sister West came and spent the afternoon with me and we called on aunt Mary she is getting better now Brother William Johnston is staying with us he is on his way to Ut[-]ah Thirsday 25 I washed to day the chickens are still hatching out lots hatched during the night I worked very hard to day and am very tired the men folks are working in the Field Friday 26 the chickens are all hatched that will hatch [-] hatched one hundred and four one died now we have one hundred and thre[-] that is not a very good turnout so meny full grow[-]n chicks died in the shell but we dont know the coss I ironed and done meny other things worked hard all day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p112.jpg) Saturday 27 Brother Flake has gon to Woodruff whome misho nary we are having very nice weather for a few days. I have taken cold and dont feel very well my little chicks are doing fine been mending and darning and reed some but feel very miserable Sunday 28 I went to sunday school had a nice time the children was quite good to day my eyes are quite week with the bad cold I have we went to meeting Brother John Freeman just came home from a mishon he preeched us a fine surmon it was very good we premoted four children in a higher grade to day Monday 29 it has been very cold and windy all day and stor med some I churned done up the work got dinner mended and wrote two letters one to Mary Ann we got one from her last week they were all well Tuesday 30 it is very cold and I feel very bad most sick I done my work and tended to the chickens it is so cold we cannot put the chickens out yesterday nor to day and they make quite a fuss the wether is fearfull cold I knit and read some but my eyes hurt so bad I cant reed much Wedensday 31 this is a fine day we put the chickens out this morning I made a batch of soap and baked pies cook ed dinner and worked very hard feel better to day Aprial 1897 Thirsday 1 I washed some for Brother Johnston done up my work in afternoon went to the sisters meeting it was a Testimony meeting there was 21 sisters and all bore thir Testimoney we had a very good meeting Last Tuesday Brother Flake moved the girls up to the farm the girls say they dont want to live there if I do so I will stay here at home in Town it will be lonely but will do the best I can live in Town that is no hardship but living a lone is no pleasant thing for me to have my Husband and sons gon Friday 2 the wind blows very cold to day it looks like a storm I churned this morning and mended and knit Brother Johnston started this morning he is going to st Joseph he is on his way to Utah to work in the Temple I hope he will go safe my Dear Sister West sent to ask me to go with her to visit our Bishop and Bell sent me an invation to go to the Slite of hand performance she would pay my way after we got through at the Bishops I went to the performance it was very good for the fund there is many things to take peoples money and perhaps it will get worse we cant tell how thing will go ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p113.jpg) Aprial 1897 Saturday 3 this has been a nice day Dear Aunt Mary came and spent the day with me she is improving at four I went to the Primary and this evening I am all alone the folks are all to the farm Sunday 4 I went to sunday school after it was out us four Teachers Lois Hunt Roberta and Emma and myself had a prair circle then we went to the school house where we had officers meeting after that was out the oficers of the Primary had a prair meeting it was out half past one then I came home seen to my chickens and went to meeting Brother Flake was here and went with me When we were coming home Osmer asked us to go to their house to supper which we did then Brother Flake went back to the farm the boys stayed all night with me Monday 5 it is a butiful day the cold in my head is dredfull bad four hours last night I did not sleep it seemed like I would chok my cold was so bad and my eyes is just dredfull bad cannot reed I took care of the chickens feed the pigs and knit Tuesday 6 my eyes seem worse it is a lonely day after dinner I was invited to go to a prair meeting for Elder Joseph A West his very sick again we went fifteen sisters we had a blessed time had three prair circles then the stster Emma Smith anointed me all the sisters put their hands on me Sister May Larson blessed me Sister West Sister Larson and Emma L Smith were all blessed our Dear Nancy died two years ago to day meny changed since then in our little town. Sister Linsey Moved in her house to day that Brother Flake was instrumental in building for I feel glad she has a home of her own Wedensday 7 this is a dredfull day the wind blows very bad so much dust you can hardly see and my eyes are very much worse Thirsday 8 today is nice my eyes are better I went to sisters meetin g from there went and called on Sister West Joseph A West is very bad yet she was very glad to see me Friday 9 my eyes are very bad the wind is blowing all I can do is knit and do my choores Milk and feed the cow and feed the chickens my eyes are too bad to sew or reed and I am lonely Saturday 10 it is a nice day I beleave my eyes are a little better but so very week the time seemes long When one is a lone Sunday 11 I went to sunday school and meeting Brother Flake came down to meeting Roberta and Joe came here after meeting ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p114.jpg) Monday 12 this is a nice day my eyes are improveing slowly my chickens are doing well I have had thre hens hatch 32 chickens Tuesday 13 this is a butifull day last night a man preeched here an sugar beet culture for the people to big and see if the sugar beet will do well in this soil as they want to establish a sugar factory in this Teritory Roberta invited me to her hour for dinner I went I ment to say I went to the meeting Brother Flake and Joel was both there the man offered to give seed to any persons or as many as wanted to try to raise beets Wedensday 14 John brought me some line from Pine-dale yesterday afternoon and to day Sister Linsey has been helping me white wash we got the large room done we done a fine days work Thirsday 15 I took up the carpet in the kitchen and moved out all the things I could in the forenoon in after noon went to the sisters meeting my eyes are improveing Friday 16 we white washed the kitchen and got it all cleaned I am very tired but the rooms look nice my chickens are doing nicely and grow so fast the wether is so fine now Saturday 17 I churned this morning but feel so tired Brother Flake came down a few minutes this afternoon I made a shirt for Joel it so nice and warm fruit trees are in bloom now Sunday 18 this is a nice day I went to Sunday School and we had a nice school also went to meeting Brother Flake and Joel came down and ate dinner with me also Roberta Monday 19 Joel stayed all night in afternoon Brother Flake came home and said he did not go to ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p115.jpg) Thirsday 22 Joel came home last night stayed all night eate break fast cut some wood then started off to hunt work said he wanted to go and work a month then he would come home I hope he will come home then and feel satisfyed it is a great sorrow to me for him to be away Friday 23 the wind blew hard yesterday and to day harder and it seemes so lonely aunt Mary came and spent the day with me and she went home then came back and stayed all night with me she is much company for me she expects to remain there the rest of her days Satuday 24 there is not mutch wind to day my eyes are better now and I can reed and that is a great blessing for the last two days I have been working or knitting on a chair tidy besides taking care of my chickens and reeding some Sunday 25 went to sunday school and meeting got two letters one from Mary Ann and the other from Lula Green Ritchards on primary buisness after meeting I invited my councilars home with me to here the letter and talk over primary buisnes Brother Flake was home mishonary to Taylor to day the wind blows some Monday 26 last night the wind blew it thundered and lightning and was dredfull boisterous and kept me from sleeping to day I have batted three pounds of cotton for a quilt for Roberta it looks like rain dut dont rain Tuesday 27 I wrote a letter to Mary Ann in after noon worked on Bells quilt I got a letter from Joel a good letter he is harding sheep for James he is feeling quite well Wedensday 28 Roberta came here and quilted her quilt I helped her all day we got it done I want to quilt Bells this week if I can John came down last night and to night to stay all night it has been a nice day to day the trees are leaveing out and are in fall bloom I work to hard am tired all the time but if I dont work I would study till I would go crazy so it seems I have to work in order to keep from doing worse Thirsday 29 I put Bells quilt on this morning Roberta came and helped me put it on and helped me quilt till three oclock Mary came and helped till nearley twelve John came and stayed last night again the wether is fine and my chickens are growing nice Friday 30 I made a mistake it was Friday I put the quilt on for Belle Thirsday I finished setting it to gather went to sisters meeting came home and made the lining for the quilt Saturday I will finish it if nothing happens I have my cow to milk and feed and all my choores to do so I am kept buisy this closes Aprial ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p116.jpg) May 1897 Saturday 1 this is a fine day I got a letter from Abbie Van Fleet a cousin of mine we wrote to each other for years then we moved out here we have not wrote to each other for twenty years or more Roberta came this morning and we finished the quilt and I took it home Bell paid me two dollars for my work Sunday 2 second This morning I went to sunday school came home fed my chickens went to sunday school teachers meeting when that was out went to primary oficers meeting when that was out came home the Bell rang for afternoon meeting my head ached so bad I did not go we fasted Brother Flake came to meeting he fasted it was jeneral fast day for all the church we ate at four then at six I went to an oficers meeting for the ward the sisters called on me to take charge of the meeting I did we had a splendid time all felt to rejoice in the good work and the good spirit was pored out upon us we feel thankfull for these priveliages we enjoy it is our happiest times Monday 3 I wrote a letter to Abba Van Fleet in California was reeding knitting and other choores the weather is fine Tuesday 4 made nine boxes of lye into soap and cut out and portley made a shurt for John Wedensday 5 Aunt Mary came and spent the day with me I got dinner and sent over for Elsie and her children to come and eat dinner with us she came I mended knit and read some it is fine day Lois Hunt and Joseph A West were married to day Thirsday 6 I cut out my soap this morning it is nice I finis hed Johns shirt and read a surmond from George Q Cannon this forenoon this afternoon went to testimony meeting of the sisters we had a good time every sister in meeting bore thir testimoney Joel came home today Friday 7 I made twelve boxes of lye into soap to day for Brother Ballard and have a lot more to make Joel went off again to day oh if he would onely stay to home and be a good contented boy how happy I would be Saturday 8 I made soap ten boxes of ly to day the Incubator hes been set nineteen days to day and one chicken is hatched I am lonely and try to work to pass of the time ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p117.jpg) Sunday 9 we went to Sunday School Lacy John and me Lucy stays with me most of the time for company it has been very warm to day I also went to meetting Monday 10 I got up very early this morning Made nine boxes of lye into soap I have made thirty one boxes of lye into soap for Brother Ballard went to the store got factory shrunk it Ironed it cut out a pair of garments and got them almost made put away most of my flann el clothes and tended the incubator and hatched ever one hundre d 100 chickens I feel like I had done a good days work the Lord has blessed me this day with a potion of his good Spirrit Tuesday 11 Brother Ballard came this morning and got the rest of his soap and paid me two dollars and 25 cents for makeing it I got a letter from Joel he is working for John Hall I answered it and sent his clothes I put all my quilts out and sund them finish ed my garments and mended and cleaned Marys dress Wedensday 12 I hatched one hundred and thirty chickens 130 that is the best we have ever done we took the Incubator out this morning Elsie came and spent the day and made soap we sent for Mary to come and eat dinner with us I was altering over a dress Thirsday 13 we are haveing nice weather and my chicks are doing fine went to Sisters working meeting and sewed and carded bats Friday 14 I wrote a letter made button holes and sewed buttons on Thressa dress read some knit some five oclock Brother Flake came down and we went to Brother Wests to the infare there was a large crowd at sundown all stood out in the dooryard and had our pictures taken sweet Lois was dressed in white silk white kid shoes and looked noble and good Brother Flake went back to the farm just dark I stayed till after ten the supp er was fine we stood up and eate the first time I can remember since I was groan it was just grand every kind of food one could think of Saturday 15 this morning we start for st Joseph this evening we came to Brother Farmers it was a long drive and we were very tired we spent a plesant evening retired to rest next sunday 16 morning went to sunday school ate dinner with Brother Bushmans family went to meeting then had primary meeting ate supper with Bro Bushmans and stayed there all night spent the evening counciling with promary oficers had a plesant time althou it was very dusty Monday 17 started early from St Joseph came to woodruff held primary meeting at four stayed all night had a plesant time Tuesday 18 came home the wind blew quite bad but got home safe and found all well at home expect to leave in the morning for pine top ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F2_p118.jpg) Wedensday 19 to day met with the Primary in Pinedale had a nice time the children was pleased to meet us after meeting we went over to Bishop Petersons and stayed all night Thirsday 20 Went to Lindon and organized a primary went to Adair and ate our lunch gave out an apointment to meet them Saturday morning went on to Elsworth gave out another apoint- ment then went to Pine top met Joel coming home we stayed all night With Brother Halls people Osmer is there working for Bother Hall they were glad to see us and was very kind to us Friday 21 I was very sick for a few hours the Sisters held Primary I was not able to go they had a nice time a little after two we started for Elsworth where we had an apo- intment to hold Primary at six we we got there 25 minutes to six but no person came so we could not hold meeting we stayed with Sister Elsworth all night Saturday 22 we went over to Adair and held primary at ten oclock the Sisters and children seemed pleased to see us we called at the grist mill on Shumway and had a talk with the President then came home got home after sundown tired and worn out but thankfull to get home Sunday 23 went to my sunday school class they were pleased to see me also went to meeting Joel and John went to meeting Brother Flake was wattering and did not come down Monday 24 Roberta came down and brought her dirty dirty clothes and we washed a two weeks wash She kept house for me while I was gon after we were through washing she went home and I cleaned my cupbord and stratened up the front room that took all day it seemes nice to think I can do so much hard work Tuesday 25 We washed cover lid blankets sheet garments dress and other flannel clothes Love helped me and she cleaned the floor after we were done I sewed in afternoon Wedensday 26 we made vinegar Iorned reed patched and done many other chores I feel very thankfull to my Hevenly Father for the helth and strength he gives me day by day Thirsday 27 been sewing kniting wrote to Jane wrote to Brother Johnston in Rama it has been a nice day the roseys are in bloom and everything looks nice got a letter from Brother Johnston to day and feel very thankfull for the blessing we have I often think we dont apreciate the blessings we have every day of our lives but feel to thank our Hevenly Father all the t down and mended all day have been lame in my back and hips for a month I want to rest my self and try and get better Brother Flake went to Holebrook on buisness the wether is nice nights cold Tuesday 6th Osmer has been gon one year to day I went to Cary Richards baby funeral to day churned and wrote to Osmer this afternoon I want to mention some thing that hapened at Presidents Smiths birthday Brother [-] H Hatch took from his pocket a nice white silk Hankerchief and blest it in the name of the Lord and presented it to Brother Smith that was the first time I ever witnessed any thing of that kind President Smith has 41 children one hundred and 2[-] grand children and three great grand children makeing him quite a posterity Wedensday 7th washed to day after I got through went over to Marys a for a little time came home cut out a bask and basted it up in the evening and Brother Flake came home a bout eight o clock at night all right but cold Thirsday 8th ironed cleaned up my rooms nice got dinner at two oclock went to sisters meeting 23 sisters there we had two letters read that had been written to send to mishonarys Roberta wrote one they were very good all the sisters that was there had the privelage to sign thir names to the letters they will reech thir destination for christmas with a presant in of a dollar for the Elder Friday 9th it comenced to snow at five o clock last night and has snowed all day some time fast and some times slow it is getting quite deep now baked twelve pies done up my work and sewed darned and knit Saturday 10th it still snows I kit Lowel Turley a pair of mittens and done house work Sunday 11th the snow is little over a foot deep the sun shines nice to day but cold it snowed most of the time for two days and nights I have not been to the chicken coop for three days I did not go to Sunday school or meeting to day just stayed home and read a good part of the time the sun shines so nice Monday 12th they mesured the snow on James House and it was fifteen inches deep I mended Joels coat and vest read and knit some it is very cold Tuesday 13th churned and knit it is very cold can hardley keep warm Wedensday 14th washed knit and read in the evening the snow is meting some Thirsday 15th cleaned pig feet got dinner went to sisters meeting we had an excelent meeting we had six more letters read that had been written for to send the mishonary Brethern they were butifull letters we all had the privelage of sinaing our names to them ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p032.jpg) Friday all well it looks like more storm done up my work cleaned pig heel got dinner over then Went to Robertas and stayed two or three hours we the the oficers in the primary department of the Sunday school are going to have A Christmas Tree for our department on Christmas eave I went to talk of it Saturday 17th was very buisy making head cheese ironing stewing squash and makeing squash butter and pies in the evening was invited to Jennet Smiths birth day Brother Flake and me we went had a very plesant time they passed pie and cake cold boiled pork with mustard on and light breed later passed candy and nuts and after words apples they had songs speaches and story telling it was very nice and the company was nice she was so fifty years old Sunday 18th went to Sunday school and meeting twice it was ward conferance and there was meeting in the evening we had several visiters Monday 19th the snow is going off very fast I washed to day after I was done event and saw Aunt Mary and Lucy Lunquist she has another baby girl Tuesday 20th had company last night and this morning got a letter from Osmer an Sunday oh the comfort they bring to me I answered his letter Wedensday 21th done up my work and chored a round in after noon cut out a pair of drowers and made them last evening Brother Flake and me was invited over to Belles to Ice creem supper We Went had a nice time Thirsday 22th churned got dinner done up my work and went to sisters meeting had a good meeting quite a numb of sisters was there and four letters was read from our Friday 23th I made seventeen pies done up all my work nice and went over to Bells for a cupple of hours came home and fixed cushion for rocking chair and 11 oclock I must go to bead Brother Flake been in bed two hours to morrow we have our Christmas Saturday 24th Well we done up our work and went to the Stake Hous to prepare for the Christmas Tree at three o clock the children and their Parents came We had the children have a program they performed thir parts nicely and they got mony presants and all seemed much pleased Sunday 25 well this is Christmas a gain one year agoe to day my Dear child Roberta put this choice journal on the Christmas Tree for me and to day she had all the familey to dinner I went to Sunday school came home and wrote to Alice White went to meeting and was choose one of the cooks for the old Folks dinner next Tuesday after meeting went to Robertias all the Flakes and Ramseys to dinner and spent the evening had a plesant time she had rest Turkey a butifull Monday 26th I washed ironed some chair tidys and baked mince pie and one done meny other things white washed the fire place was an rng fat till nine Tuesday 27th I went and helped cook the old Folks dinner it was butifully good Wedensday 28 I invited President Smith and Wives Bishop Hunt and wins Belle Nettie Aunt Mary Francis Willis Sister Ramsey Sis Driggs and Daughter Sis Dolt on James Mattie Elsie Mary and Roberta there was 25 in we had a butifull dinner and all went of nice everyone enjoyed them selves first class and a nice day John is section to day and growing my baby will soon be a man I hope a good one Thirsday 29th I ironed churned got dinner done up my Work we and sewed on Shirt Friday 30th to day we have been married forty years James w going to give a dinner in honor of that event James invited nice company there was about 40 with out grand children we had a nice dinner after all had ate James called on President Smith to dedicate his house he offered a good prair ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p033.jpg) Sunday 1th I had no space to write of the last day of the year Saturday I finished shoe and a sock it was a nice day it was the last day in the wed in the month and in the year to day is the first day in the week month and year we all fasted I went to Sunday school teachers meeting for the sunday school prair meeting for the primary and sunday school officers from there to the publick fast meeting these days are happy days for me came home got supper had company in the evening we went to conjoint meeting Monday 2th to day I washed the men killed two hogs we got a letter from Osmer at four o clock I went to young Ladys meeting Brother Flake was there we have two Mishonarys from Masa Brothers Vance and school they were to young Lady meeting by invatation we had an excellent meeting Tuesday 3th cleaned two pigs cooked them and mode head cheese done my ironing and God and John ground the sausage meet Brother Flake went with James to hunt horses got home all right Wedensday 4th I cooked cake and fries cleaned my rooms all up nice we invited our grand children there was seventeen they sang songs spoke peaces and we passed around cheese pie and cake they enjoyed it very much We have had fire die fire in old Mexico two in Utah and fire that was to small to come Making thirty four in all I got a nice letter from Osmer the second and answered it to day he sent all his Brothe rs a Testiment Joels and Johns came on his birth day they are nice pocket Testiments Thirsday 5th the Wether is fine snow gowing off nice I went to Sisters Meeting Osmer Wrote such a nice long letter to the Relief Society in answer to the one they wrote him it was read in to day it was very good fire leaves wrote on both sides we had testimony meeting it was just fine 27 Sisters presant Friday 6th churned made pie for the picknick for the wood dance it is a nice day Elsie and her children came and spent the day with us I got a letter from George White nephyew Saturday 7th got dinner done my work sewed some Brother Flake went with other men to look for a place to make a dam in Silver Creek it is cloudy looks like a storm Sunday 8th when we started to Sunday School it comenced to snow it snowed out fast I did not go to meeting stayed home to read am so far behind in reading I also wrote a letter to my Nephyew Samuel O White who is on a Mishan in North Carolina he is a fine young man My oldest Brothers eldest son Monday 9th it is very stormy I eat out a vest and sewed knit and read some Tuesday 10th it snowed some I sewed made canker medican for Regnel done my work cooking bed makeing seeping and so on Wedensday 11th it keeps so stormey I dred to wash got dinner made jelley Cake baked rabbit and pork ribs with stuffing and sewed and mended Thirsday 12th when I got up it was snowing very fast it cleared off at ten o clock and I washed some and went to Sisters Meeting two o clock We got a good letter from Collie Robison yesterday Friday 13th washed again the wether is getting better after I got through went to James stayed a little while then came home and churned all is well Saturday 14th I made pie ironed then went to see Aunt Mary she is not very well came home and mended and read some ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p034.jpg) Sunday 15 we we went to Sunday school had a nice time the children was good it is quite nice the sun is shineing nicely We are all well. in looking over old not book I see I was put in Teacher in the Sunday school June 5th 1887 in the snowflake Ward and set apart in Meeting to this noble work which I feel is a great honnor Monday 16th all well to day done my usual work make deds cook sweep straten up my home mended some and melted snow to wash with got a letter from Osmer Tuesday 17th washed to day after I got my washing done and my house stratened up I went to Docter Reed and an old peace of a tooth pulled that was akeing Wedensday 18th Belle and little Morley came and spent the day with me Brother Flake and Joel went to work an the new Dam in Silver Creek they are going to build to take watter out on the fields it is very foggy Thirsday 19th got breakfast and put up two seprate dinners as they work in differ- ant places Joel cuts brush Brother Flake halls rock they have to go eigth oclock so it keeps me buisy done up My Work in after noon went to Sisters Meeting there was twenty four as mudys as it is Friday 20th ironed after the men got off to thir work done up my work thin went to see my counclers a bout some Primary buisness after dinner Roberta and me went up to the to see a women that lives in our house Saturday 21th got the menfolks off to thir work John went also I churned made Mince pies raked up money and sent for the [---] was on my feet all day Sunday 22th went to Sunday school when I was comeing home was called in John Freemans to see a sick child came home got dinner over went to Meeting after Meeting was out promised to go and set up with Sister Jammi ma Smith as she has fell and hert her self and is helpless Thressa went to she suffered dredfull we stayed till nearley two oclock I asked the Lord to releave her from her suffering it seemed to hard she was deleorious with Monday 23th I dont feel very bright to day done a lot of mending in the evening the Mishonarys that are in our midst came and stayed all night Tuesday 24th Sister Jamima Smith died last evening some where nine oclock I thankfull to here the news I washed and am dredfull tired Wedensday 25th the funarl will will be at one oclock to day the sun shines but it is dredfull cold I went to the funarl President Smith Preeched the funarl Surmond Bishop Decker was called on to speek Sister Emma Smith Sister West and myself I felt honored with this privelage well we had a nice time such a good spirit she was a noble Woman we all feel thankfull she has gon to her rest after bring so long the Mishion arys held a meeting to Joseph Ramseys house this evening we had company here for supper and after supper we all went to the meeting but Brother Flake Thirsday 26th the men folks work on the dam all the week but Sunday I done my house work and ironing went to sisters meeting 20 sisters there were all telling of Sisters Jamima Smiths virtues we had a very good time Friday 27th I baked twelve pies done up my work then after dinner Mary took me up to see the dam we had another good meeting at James there were four Mishonary there they called an Goal is to speek and be done fime it was the first time he ever spoke where there were Sisters ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p035.jpg) Saturday 28 this is a nice day it is thawing fast done up my work baked light bread went over to Aunt Mary in afternoon in the evening the Mishonarys had a prair meeting up to Joseph Ramseys I went we had a nice time meny testimoney born Sunday 29th we went to Sunday school and the Mishonary came to our department went to meeting in the evening the Mishonarys had another Prair Meeting to Brother WEests the House was just croaded there were much of the good spirit there we had an excellent time Mast every young man bore his testimoney and part of the Girls Monday 30th Brother Flake went to work on the Dam again I boilt over pork brian and mel ted snow to wash with it is nice and warm now I got a letter from S O White my nephyew Tuesday 31th I washed done up my work and was so tired could hardly it up the wind blows some to day the men folks are working on the Dam it looks like a storm February 1899 Wedensday 1th all well the menfolks are working on the Dam I done up my work ironed then Went to Sister Wests we went up stores in a quiet little room and had such a good prair meeting oh we take so much comfort togather she is so good and nice Thirsday 2th cleaned pigs head and cooked it made head cheese and went to sisters meeting we got a good letter from Osmer last evening went to Bells to a rag tocking the wind blew very hard and again to day and part of the time it snows just as fast as it can come down Brother Flake and Joel did not work on the Dam Friday 3th it is feafull cold the men folks could not work to day my head aches I dont feel well I hope the wether will soon get warmer it seems dismal Saturday 4th the men folks went to work an the Dam I done up my work mend ed at two o clock went to a meeting to Sister Wet and officers Meeting meeting for the Stake it is going to be a standing apointment for the Stake officers the last Saturday in every month we had a choise good time councling to gather and also had a prair circle or all praid Sunday 5th I left home ten o clock and came home four oclock was in Meeting and sunday school all that time that is the way some of us sisters pass every fast day and how sacred this fast days are Monday 6th it was so cold Brother Flake and Jack did not work to day Sister Ramsey invited me to her house to take dinner with the Mishonarys I done up my work and went had a plesant time last night and to night I have wrote to Osmer Tuesday 7th the menfolkes are working on the Dam I went and helped Roberta quilt it is much warmer then it was yesterday Wedensday 8th I was hed ironed churned and cleaned up my rooms Sister Ramsey and Ralph and me intend starting to St John in the morning I want to go and get teeth she to visit Thirsday 9th myself Sister Ramsey and Ralph started for St Johns we arived in Camshaw after sundown I found a harty welcome with Sister Bard and her familey after supper we had butifull musick on violins and Peanno and good visit we set up very late and chatted Friday 10th we started from Choncho 9 oclock next we arived in St Johns 1 oclock to his office next morning ten oclock ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p036.jpg) Sunday 11th I went over to Brother Garvians office he said it would be much better to have my lower teeth pulled and have new ones top and bottom said I would not be satisfied if I did not have them all out we had quite a talk I said would wait till I got home he said he would come over here and pull them for my Cousin Clara Tompson invited us to dinner we went at four oclock we attended primary meeting there was a nice lot of children there we were invited to Maggy Rights to breakfast she is my Cousins Daughter after breakfast we went to sunday school when sunday school was out we made several calls and went to meeting after meeting we was invited to a gathering of my kindfoltes and a few neighbors we had a nice supper and sent a very pleasant evening music singing and visiting Monday 13th we made up our mind to start home we were invited to breakfast to another Cousins Sophrona Harris we went I wrote a short letter to G H Heep on a mishon in England one oclock we started for home two of our second cousins came home to have a little visit we came to cancho and stayed with Sister Bard as she did not want me to go any where else they are so kind Tuesday 14th we started nine oclock but did not get home till dark one of our Horses got a nail stuck in his foot was lame and we had to travel slow found all well at home had a very plesant time I have four own cousins in St Johns too cous ins Husband on mishons was very thankfull to get home Wedensday 15th I have been very buisy all day cleaning up my home got dinner and baked twelve pie out of squash am very tired the wether nice Thirsday 16th I washed went to sisters meeting came home took up a peace of carpet scrubbed a peace of floor washed up dishes done up my work nice then went to Robertias to spend the evening as this is Marys 33 birthday we took our picknick and went there to honor her as it is her birthday Friday 17th I asked Roberta the two cousins that came Home with me also Mattie to come and help me pick wool for a mattress we picked the wool and made the mattress in the evening went to see Dear Sister West a bout Woman suffer ferage we went to see Sister Smith we talked to President Smith and concluded to send James as Delegate to help get the Bill on Woman Sufferage through the House he started to day one oclock I pray God will bless him Saturday 18th Brother Flake is working for James herding sheep that have little lambs I have been very buisy all day but quit and went to Primary Sunday 19th I went to Sunday school seven sisters fasted I with the rest after Sunday school we had a prair meeting for Jamesis benefit we had a good time we came home ate dinner then went to general meeti ng where that was out was invited to go to a little meeting to Mattie Flakes then came home eat supper and spent the evening reeding Monday 20th washed flannel clothes ironed them was buisy all day Tuesday 21th washed cotton clothes in after noon done some sewing and was hard to work all day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p037.jpg) Wednesday 22th we are all well the wether is very nice Brother Flake is still with the sheep I done my ironing and wrote two letters to Tuby City to Primary Girls Thirsday 23th churned and done some cooking and cleaning for Conferance it is windy and cold Friday 24th I baked a lot of nice light bread made a lot of cake cook a kettle of beans made a lot of apple pie in the evening a load of my kinsfolks came from St Johns for conferance Saturday 25th this is Sunday school conferance I went and brought home a lot more people to dinner we had a good meeting went again in after noon had another good meeting Sunday 26th went again to sunday school conferance our class sang a song we brought home a lot more company there is a great meny young people here to conferance we went a gain in after noon Brother Flake went to all the meetings but too Monday 27th this is stake conferance we had the best of instructions in all the meet ings it seemed better than any conferance we have had Brothers Masor and Nutte[-] came here this morning and ate Breakfast with us they are so good and pure we enjoyed the visit with them we invited Joe and Roberta and Elsie it was nice they seemed to enjoy themselves thir instructions has been so good we had five maricrapie Stake to this conferance they spake very good indeed this evening Conferance closed we had a reception for the mishonarys that had labored with our young people this winter it was first class just good could be Tuesday 28th our conferance people are all going home this morning we have had lots of company all this Conferance and fill very thankfull for the good instructions we received this morning eight oclock I sit down and had all my lower teeth pulled twelve in all am with out a tooth in my mouth March 1 1899 Wednesday 1th I suffered very much yesterday with my mouth hed and all but feel better to day we got a letter from Osmer last night I wrote him a long letter to day eight pages I feel week not able to do much Thirsday 2th I feel a little better to day Roberta done up my work Tuesday and took my clothes home to wash I wrote one letter to Callie Boberson and started one to Samuel White my Nephew he in Tennesee on mishon Friday 3th Dear Aunt Mary and sister Lannin came and spent the day with me I done my work and made a pair of drawers for Joel and wether is nice Saturday 4th this morning when I had breakfast nearley reddy James sent for me I went down eight oclock Mattie gave birth to Daughter it wayed seven pound so fat all was rigt I came home nearley noon done up my work finished my letter to Samuel had my bath to morrow is fastday Sunday 5th Igo ten oclock in morning to sunday school then teachers meeting then a prair meeting for Primary and Sunday school oficer[-] then to the general meeting when that is out come home and eat Monday 6th this is Osmers 31 birthday I wrote to my sister Mary Musser and to Charles White my brother I set up last night till two oclock this morning I think with Matties baby it did not want to sleep I think that is good for a person fifty sic years of age I did not get more then two hours of sleep all night have wrote two letters knit and read some done up my work good and nice it has been a nice day I got a letter from my Daughter Jane they are all well ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p038.jpg) Tuesday 7 I washed some flannel clothes done up the work in afternoon went and spent the afternoon with Belle she was pleased we had a plesant time Wedensday 8 I done the rest of my washing it is a very nice day I cleened up my rooms nice and went and stayed with Mattie an hour she is doing nicely Thirsday 9th the wind blows very hard I chored a round in after noon went to sisters Meeting 28 sisters in attendance had a Brother Lobarson visiting us he gave us a good surmond he is a mishonary from Masa he is going home now Friday 10th I done my ironing and churned and mended a coat Saturday 11th baked cake and light bread done up my work nice finished an under shirt made a pair of drawers and went to Primary meeting with the children Sunday 12th went to sunday school and meeting and read considerable Monday 13th Brother Flake is still hearding the sheep after I washed my dishes went up to Robertias she was sick yesterday I helped her till eleven o clock then came home made beds and done up my work after dinner cut out a shirt and made it the wind blew fearfull all day Tuesday 14th to day is nice washed and went and spent the afternoon with Sister Reed we intend moving up on the farm next week perhaps to morrow will go and white wash and cleen Wedensday 15th Joel took me up to the Farm he white washed one room and I cleaned the kitchen and the doors and windows in the other room Thirsday 16th Brother Flake is going to take care of the sheep all sumer Ironed made pies in afternoon went to sisters meeting Friday 17th to day the sisters celebrate the organization of the Relief Society we went at two oclock the wind blew very hard onely a slim atendance there consert given by the sisters in the evening I was very sick in the evening and could not Saturday 18 we went up to the farm Joel and me he white washed I cleened Sunday 19th I feel very tired but went to sunday school and meeting tomorrow we intend moeveing if nothing prevents more then we know of Monday 20th we most of our things and the wind blew very bad Sister Cooper helped me we took our carpets up moved them and put got the bedste- ds up beds made stove put up dishes in cupbord and went and got the chick ens when we got home it was a way after dart but was glad we got a long well Tuesday 21th I have been all day fiting things in thair places my eyes are bad am very tired there is so much to do and the wind blows all the time Wedensday 22 Brother Flake hired Harbet Cooper to herd the sheep he can tend to other work now Joel went to white wash our home in town Brother Peterson and Wife is going to live there this summer I went and helped him move the Pictures and fix the white wash and asist him all I could Thirsday 23th my eyes is worse then ever to day I went to talk with mr Reed he said I had the Catuerh feaver and he gav me medicen to use am almos sick can hardley do my work the wind is so disagreeable Friday 24th Brother Flake killed a beef last evening it is nice meet I feel so poorley and my eyes hurt so cant reed or sew it looks like storm we are fixed comfortable up here but my eyes make me feel very bad ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p039.jpg) Saturday 25th my eyes is a bout the same we jurked a lot of our beef this morning I fuss around most all the time the wether is cold and it seemes gloomey Sunday 26th the Wind blew the hardest it has this spring Brother Flake and me both stayed to home all day he read I read a little but my eyes was to bad to read much Monday 27th I finished one of Brother Flakes mittings and comenced the other got dinner and done my other work Roberta came up with her baby and stayed all night Tuesday 28th Roberta left her baby and went to Holebrook Belle Emma James and quite a few others went to a theater th men folks are making garden John is hurding sheep that Brother Flake was hearding Brother Buckler is working for us Wedensday 29 the wind blows a hard as it did sunday it blew hard all last night my eyes are no better the baby is quite good he is company for me I dont know wheather the folks will get home or it like they cant travel Thirsday 30th after Breakfast Roberta came they got in town twelve o clock at night this morning she walked up and helped me wash after dinner we went to sisters meeting she stayed home and I came home this is a nice day Friday 30th Ironed and churned this has been quite a nice day my eyes are better I feel very thankfull hope they will continue this ends March 99 Aprial 1899 Saturday 1th done some washing got dinner then went to town to an oficers meeting came home most dark had company Brother Chatman got supper done up work Sunday 2th this is fast day went to sunday school then sunday school teachers meeting then prair meeting for Sunday School and primary officers meeting then to jeneral meeting never came out of meeting till four James asked Brother Flake Bro Chatmen and me to supper before we eat we had a special Prair for Albert he is going through an operation to have his eyes stratened after supper we came home it was very cold all day the wind blew Monday 3 I went to town got lileys to set on each side of the walk this is quite a nice day warm and the wind dont blow Tuesday 4th I washed most all day it blew and rained and was cold and disagreeable it so bad to have so much wind cold and bad Wedensday 5 the wind blows very cold I done my ironing wrote a letter to Osmer it was hard work to think of any thing to write Thirsday 6th my eyes are wors perhaps writing made them wors in after noon Went to Sisters Testimoney meeting Sister West read a very good letter from Osmer there were thirteen testimoney born had a very good meeting Friday 7th wrote a note to a friend cleaned pig feet got dinner done mending Brother Flake are companions togather Home Mishonarys they go to Morrow on thir first trip they say Belle and me can go with them Saturday 8th after dinner Sister West Brother Flake Bell and myself started to Pine- dale and got there just Sundown found the people glad to see us Sunday 9th after Breakfast drove over and called on the Bishop Peaterson talked with him a few minutes went to sunday school we were all called on to speak we went to Bishops to dinner then went to meeting Brother Flake spoke ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p040.jpg) Aprial First then Sister West spoke they both spoke so good then the Bishop called on me I responded then we proceeded to organize a pirmary Sister Josephene Brewer was called and set apart as President after meeting we started home got home eight o clock Monday 10th we found things all right wehn we got home we had a plesant time while we were gon but to day the wind blows and it is cloudy I wrote a letter to Jane Tuesday 11th we are all well John Hall his Wife and four children came made us a little visit and [-]ate dinner with us the wind dont blow so hard to day Wedensday 12th I washed the wind belw very hard we had company I dont feel very Thirsday 13th done up work cleaned kitchen floor made pie and after went to sisters meeting it is a nice day I bougth screen to make some screen doors as I never had any I want things plesant and nice if possable it seemes we have worked hard and we ought to have some comforts in our declining years Friday 15 done my ironing and other work and was dredfull tired Saturday 15 baked light bread stratened up the rooms and done a lot of mend ing Brother Flake is herding the sheep to day the boys are in town this is the last day of school and they are haveing a gay time it is a butifull day Sunday 16th We are having a dredfull wind to day I went to Sunday School took eleven schollars up to the other department and permoted them went to Sister Linseys and took dinner went to meeting then came Monday 17th I dont feel well had a very bad head ache all night did not sleep till after 12 o clock cleaned a chicken churned done up my work and got dinner it dont do any good for me to feel bad I have to work Tuesday 18th I feel better to day piaced and made a chair coushin and got dinner and done my work the men are making ditches Wedensday 19 the men are wattering I washed in the evening Sister Gilley White and Silvia Gilly White and three children came and stayed all night Thirsday [--]th we had a very cold night our company went home this mor ning Joel went to Helebrook with hay I done my ironing Brother Flake wattered and John herded the sheep a strong wind in the north very cold Friday 21th this is a nice morning I washed some flannel clothes got dinner read soem and peaced a cushion and mended some Saturday 22th this is a nice day the men folks have set out a nice lot of trees I collored some done up my work got dinner and finished my cushions made three and read some and chored a roung Sunday 23th went to sunday school and meeting ate dinner With Belle and Mattie Sister West May [---]son the sind blew very hard Monday 24th I churned done up my work nice got a letter from Mary Ann wrote part of a letter to her the wind blows it seems dismel Tuesday 25th I washed the wind is fearfull finished My letter I did not go to town all week and Friday and Saturday the blew worse then ever Sunday 30 went to sunday school and meeting ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p041.jpg) May 1899 Monday 1th we have heard of months comeing in like a Lion if this month did not come in like a Lion I dont think one ever did it dont seem like we ever had any worse day I picknick for a for a Relief society dance but I could not go it was to bad wind Tuesday 2th I churned and spent the rest of the foornoon cleaning out the sand it was dredfull to day the wind blows a little it snowed last night I dont remember that it ever snowed here that time of the year but it dredfull cold wether for May I recieved a letter from Osmer and one from Callie Roberson I answered Osmers to day they came on sunday and one from Brother Coles he is Osmers companion Wedensday 3th Brother Flake and me went to the Funeral of Brother Strattons baby he went on a mishon a short time agoe we came home as soon as it was over I wrote to Brother Coles and recieved a letter from Samuel O White I comenced to write to him the wether is much nicer than last week but the nights are cold Thirsday 4th I was washing and Roberta came she took right hold and helped me till we were done then eat dinner with us and walked down town to sisters meeting I dont hardley ever get to go as the men folks are useing the team she left Ridgenel here and John took him home in the everning I finished Samuels letter it has been a nice day and all is well it seemes so nice not windy Friday 5th I done my ironing and just as I was fixing dinner my Dear Friend Sister West came and stayed till six o clock we had such a good visit talking over our past life and labors to gather We have been one for 20 years Sunday 7th Brother Flake and the boys are all wattering and cant go to town I got a chance to go with a man passing went to Sunday school then Teachers Meeting then prair meeting then General meeting and bore my testimoney Monday 8th I got no chance to come home so had to stay all night I slept to Elsies I ate supper with Emma and Perl and the little girls we had a nice visit in the morning went to Robertas eat breakfast came home with Theade and Mary they have gon to apache and left Ormus and Lowell here I was choreing around most all day baked a nice batch of light bread Tuesday 9th the little boys churned for me I washed a lot of flannel clothes made beds and done up the work and feel very tired Wedensday 10 after I got my work done up I made too pairs of garments all but marking and strings I put them a way I painted windows painted two and felt very tired and have to milk the boys are both gon Thirsday 11th washed to day made beds cleaned up my rooms and finished painting the two windows this is a nice day and all is well Friday 12th done my ironing then swept the walls to get the dust off cleaned up every thing nice mended Johns pants and had headache so bad had Saturday 13 the boys Ormus and Lowell churned for me I made pie and done up my work marked and finished the garments John and me went to town to do some earents then came home most all the Grand children have the mumps the wind blows to day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p042.jpg) Sunday 14th went to Sunday School after it was out went to Sister Willis met her and Bashaby to talk about Primary Conferance which comes the forth 4 of June after a plesant talk ate dinner with them and went to meeting Monday 15th the wind blows very hard done up my work read and sewed carpet Tuesday 16th the wind blows hard done up my work mended and read all day Wedensday 17th washed this foornoon Sister Willis went to Shumway to visit the Primary Thirsday 18th ironed this forenoon chored a round last sunday James gave me an invation to come to his house to supper this evening at six he wanted his pa to come but he did not go we had a butifull supper all the Sunday school ofi cers ware invited after supper was over we had meeting all went off nice for supper we had potatoes fish chicken light bread butter cheese custard pie lemonade crackers oranges tomatoes ice creem every thing was very nice Friday 19th the wind has blowed all this week to day is worse then ever I cut out two shirts for Brother Flake got the mechine work all done on them Saturday 20 churned cleaned off sand every thing is covered got dinner made cake the wind is from the North and dont blow so hard Sunday 21th went to Sunday school after it was out the boys or Joel hitched the Horses on the buggy I went and got Sister West and came home her and Brot her Flake has to go to Taylor as home Mishonar to day we fixed dinner ate then went to Taylor had a good meeting we called on Sister Walker she is nearley eighty six years old and does her own work she was glad to see us we came home Sister West stayed till five o clock them went to Town with our old friend Brother Bushman Monday 22th been painting and baked light bread brushed Sunday clothes put them away and mended some it is a nice day Tuesday 23th the menfolks hitched the Horses to the buggy I went to town got elsie and her children and brought them up and Roberta and sister Ramsey came we had a good visit in the evening I took them home Wedensday 24 to day I washed and churned and was dredfull tired Thirsday 25th I was so tired I could not iron I had to lay down a little while then got up Aunt Mary came and spent the day with me I was so pleased to see her she is so interresting in conversation Friday 26th I washed my flannell dresses and other flannel clothes ironed them cleaned floor baked light bread and done all my work Saturday 27th the wind has blew every day this week I ironed and churned mended and done all my work next Saturday is primary Conferance Sunday 28th went to sunday school had a nice time Brother Porter from St Joseph Stake visited us and made some good remarks after it was out I went up to the other Sunday school after it was out Sister West and me went to the Stake House and both praid that we would have strength given us for the conferance I went took dinner with Mary Monday 29th washed Belle and sister Willis came and took me to Taylor to attend Primary we had a nice time this will be our last trip together as Belle wish es to be released from this Posision ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p043.jpg) June 1th 1899 Thirsday 1th June is coming in like a Lyon cold and dredfull winday I done up my work read and wrote three letters one to Jane in Mexico two to Beaver Utah Friday 2th I cooked breakfast done up my work it is very windy I read and sewed Brother Flake has gon to town it is very cold and looks like a storm Saturday 3th we had Primary Conferance it seemes to me it was the best we have had I felt greatley blessed and do thank my Hevenly Father for his blessings I brought Sister Lily White home with me when I got home churned and [--] killed chickens to take to town to cook this has been a nice day but cold it rained in the night thirsday night and sprinkled most all fore noon we had Releaf society this after noon after meeting we had a good Shower Sunday 4th went to Sunday School 9 oclock when that was out meeting took up when that meeting was out the Sister officers had prair meeting when that was out we went to conferance we were ocupied from nine till 4 then went to Marys Roberta and Joe Pa and me and eat supper then came Monday 5th we all went to Conferance when the forenoon meeting was out Sister Standford went to see a destis that came in town a few days a goe we wanted new teeth he said in the evening afternoon when meeting was out he would take my impression Joe invited Brother Flake and me to dinner so I went and she was there after dinner we all went to meeting our conferance ended we had a splended time then I went and had the impression taken then drove the team home and found all right Brother Flake and John came home and left me it looks like rain Tuesday 6th I went to town and had my teeth fit made soap the wether is getting John took me to town and came after me after sundown Wedensday 7th the wind blows I washed and had company Brother Flake works on the farm in the morning drives off the cows at night goes after them Thirsday 8th churned cleaned out cellar ironed mended and read some it nice Friday 9th cleaned kitchen floor and backed light bread in afternoon Sister Standford called for me I went to town with her she got the impression for her teeth I got my new teeth they are very nice teeth they dont hurt my mouth but feel awfull strong when I try to eat Saturday 10th this is a nice day Brother Flake and John are wattering my work is house work sweeping cleaning gitting dinner and soon wrote a letter to Francis Maneer in St Johns my cousin Sunday 11th I went to sunday school John could not go as they are wattering after sundy school was out I called on two sisters then went to meeting got a very good letter from Osmer my Head ached and I came home Monday 12th Lucy Flake came home with me we churned I dont some washing Marion Marshell and Charles Flake came up it was charles birthday he is six years old I went to work made a cake and fixed dinner William and Theressa came and ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p044.jpg) Ate dinner two so we had quite a birthday dinner three o clock Sister Francis Willis called for me to go to Taylor as we had to go there and reorganis the Primary the Primary President being taken in the Presidancy of the Stake We had a good meeting and chose a new president and others oficers the wether is getting very warm now but so dry Joel came in off the Rail Road for Mary to go out and cook for the boys she thinks of going Tuesday 13th I washed again and mended all the after noon for Mary it is dredfull windy Wedensday 14th I ironed then wrote to Osmer and mended and read some Thirsday 15th as my washing and ironing was done thought would go to Town and help Mary she is going on the Rail Road we could not have our own team so we thought to go with some one passing by at last Mary and Joel came up with her chickens she is going to leave them with us we went back with them it was two o clock when we got there I cut out my soap been made on sixth and never had the chance to cut it out then went and sewed and mended for Mary stayed and helped her till bedtime the folks did not come after me and did not get any chance to come home so went and with Elsie all night Friday 16th I borrowed the money from Belle and paid for my teeth after breakfast John came after me Lucy and me came home churned and done up the work got dinner and chored a round Saturday 17th after we got part of our work done up we took a walk over to Sister Sumways the men folks had gon a Fishing we stayed there a little time and came home with men folks on the wagon got dinner done up with our work good for Sunday and read it is very Warm and sultry Sunday 18th John Lucy and me went to Sunday School Mary and Joel and her children got started early yesterday morning when we got to Town we herd Brother Lundquist was dead we went to meating the Funeral was at five we stayed and went to that then Brother Flake and me came home we had so many choors to do it was nine o clock when we got done Monday 19th it is very warm it seemed like I could not do my work Sister Shumway called for me to go to Taylor to Primary they had a surpris for Sister Decker I went it was very nice they had nice Picknick songs and resertations after it was out had a nice visit with the Standford Girls used to be then came home Tuesday 20th I churned done up my work made a pair of drawers for John and made me a new apron and put my clothes to soak Brother Flake qureyed rock yesterday to day he read and rested Wedensday 21th I washed four o clock went to Town to get some screen doo rs I have ben having made I bought the screen and got them made a surpris to Brother Flake they are the first we ever had he is working at the rock querry again to day the rock is to put on the Dam Thirsday 22th done my ironing to day and mending Brother Flake is working on the rock again James got home from Kansus City last evening all right it looks very much like rain this evening oh it would do so much good every thing is so dry ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p045.jpg) Friday 23th we have had several nice showers to day I worked on my rag and read Brother Flake went to town John is scrapeing moss out of the ditch Saturday 24th we churned done up the work nicely read worked on rag got a letter from Jane she has had another baby born dead makeing two she was gettin a long quite well Sunday 25th John and me went to Sunday school we both ate dinner with Joe and Roberta went to meeting James asked his Pa and Ma to supper we went and had a nice time Belle and Bashey were there they had fresh beef it was nice Monday 26th churned done up my work then took my wool Mattress to peases and worked on that I felt almost sick the wether is so warm and to much work Tuesday 27th Brother Flake and John are wattering they let me have the team and buggy and go after Elsie and her children to come and spend the day then Roberta came we had a good visit it was after sundown when I took them home and it was long after dark when I got home Wedensday 28th washed in afternoon worked on mattress Thirsday 29th churned and worked on mattress picking or carding wool Friday 30th ironed finished my mattress and cut John out too shirts July 1899 Saturday 1th churned and made John a shirt and read some Brother Flake has been reeding and choreing a round thre or four day Sunday 2th John and me went to Sunday shool this is fast day after Sunday school was out I went to my other meeling then to the Publick Meeting then ate supper with Emma and the girls I bore my Testimony in Meeting but made a very poor out and feel very sorry to morrow is Brother Flakes birth day he will be sixty Roberta has invited us all the familey to her House to eat dinner and has a program aranged Monday 3th we went to Robertays at noon dinner was soon redy and it was fine very good and nice every one helped with the dinner after dinner was cleared a way we had the program Essays church songs and musick oh it was all so good just first class James Matta William and Thressa all wrote Essays Belle played Gutar he children sang and recited Elsie and Zina sang Ada and Love sang William played Acordian Thressa read the essays all went off so nice onely three children out of thirteen presant all the Grand children had parts same two or three all enjoyed them-selves fine there was such a good humble spirit love and union prevailed a time long to be remembered there was so much food left that we were all invited to come back on the forth and eat dinner to gather a gain Tuesday 4th we all went to the celebration it was nice after it was out all the familey but James port went to Robertas and eat dinner Brother and Sister Owens was there by invitation. we had a good dinner a plesant little visit at three o clock we came home Brother Flake and me I wrote a letter to Osmer and churned ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p046.jpg) Wedensday it is warm and cloudy to day Brother Flake and John are down in town to day fixing the Barn to hall hay I feel very week and bad to day part of the time I lay down I wrote letters to Mary and Joel Thirsday 6th churned made John a shirt went out in evening to see the men fish Sister cooper came up to see them fish came back cleaned fish I feel better then yesterday I went to milk my Dear Friend Sister West came Edward his wife Mary and Susey they came in and stayed a little time and promised to come back and take dinner with us to morrow Friday 7th I had not washed so had to wash Sister West left Susey with me to help me we got the washing done and dinner all redy when they came Sister West did not come Edward his wife Mary West Roberta and Redginal they enjoyed thir dinner very much and we had a nice visit I feel so much better then I did am thankfull Saturday 8th we done up our work nice churned and had a bath sewed some carpet rags and read and talked susie is good company Sunday 9th we went to sunday school then went to aunt Marys stayed a little time then called on Dellie Smith ate dinner with her went to meeting was called on a committy to help get up enter tainment for Brother Ballard as he is soon going on a mishon we called at Brother Petersons for sister West as she was there Brother Peterson made us stay and eat ice creem and cake James Flake May Larson Sister West and my self wore on the committy the ice creem was fine and the cake was grand we took Susy home Etna Cooper come home with to live with with us just after it comenced to rain and rained all night we could not milk our cows it was a nice rain and very badley needed Monday 10th we churned washed some beding and was quite bussy Sister West and her familey called a little while invited us to her House to a big supper next Wedensday evening Tuesday 11th we washed and I wrote three letters and went and watched Brother Flake and John fish and helped clean the fish and milked four cows made mush and salted all the fish Wedensday 12 we churned made ten quarts of currents in jelley Brother Flake gave up going to the reception Sister West sent thir team after me and I went Brother Flake sent the fish to her I fried them and helped her in the kitchen for some time the supper was grand every thing one could think of even to Oranges and Ice creem and ice watter we all had our photoes taken Brother Peterson took them Thirsday 13th I stayed all night Sister West sent me home this morning we done our ironing and mending it has rained on a mount every thing is soaked good shurley the grass will grow now Friday 14th we done up our work I worked on my rug got letters from Mary and Joel they were all well I answered them all is right ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p047.jpg) Saturday 15th we churned one of our cows was down and so poor they had to kill her I made cake and finished my rug made out of old stockings an it is a buty it takes Brother Flake most all the time choreing a round as John is working on the Brickyard Sunday 16th we went to sunday shool Brother Ballard spent the time with us gave us his farewell speach for he starts on a mishon 25 of this month after school I called on several ate dinner with Sister Francis Willis my councler went to meeting President Smith occupied the time him and Bishop Hunt wer called to Salt Lake to a very importent meeting President Smith was given his report Monday 17th we churned collored quilt lineing made yeast wrote two letters and done many other chores and read some we have had quite a rain I feel chilley Tuesday 18th we washed after noon foure o clock we went and picked wild currents Wesday 19th churned ironed in after noon went and picked currents it did not rain Thirsday 20th we picked over our currents stewed and bottled them and made jolley it rained very hard John was very sick last night Friday 21th we put on a quilt and quilted all day it rained a nice shower Saturday 22th we finisshed the quilt John is better he went to work this morning Brother Flake spends all his time feeding pigs reeding and looking after his cows Sunday 23 John and me went to Sunday school Marion Flake invited me and left an invatation for his Grand pa to come and eat birthday dinner with them he was thirteen we went had a nice dinner we had a good meeting then came home and wrote to Joel and Mary Monday 24 I churned done up my work Brother Flake and me went to the celebration when we got there met Lucy Flake she said John Hall was dead we went to the gathering and when it was out James said he was going up to pinetop I said I would like to g with him Thressa and John Freeman went also it was two oclock when we started we had a very plesant ride when we got to Adair the mail carier said the Hall People would be down in the night so we remained to Brother Braidys till they came it was three oclock we started home a bout ten oclock we went to Taylor where we saw him nicely laid a way another good man has gon he was truley good and will be greatly missed to all This is Tuesday 25 to morrow we Sisters Willis and Decker expect to start on a mishonary trip to St Joseph if all is well Wedensday 26th we sisters went to woodruff when we got to the Colorado it was up or there was so much watter we were afraid to try to cross so we satid an hour or two a good Mexican came a long and drove our Carrage a cross when we got to woodruff it was to late to have meeting we stoped with Brother Owens family Thirsday <27> we went to St Joseph and held meeting with Primary and also with the officers had a very plesant time all glad to see us Friday 28th went back to woodruff found mishonarys from Glia held a very good meeting with the Primary at night attended a meeting Saturday 29 we had to stay all day the River was so high had a nice time President Hatch gave the [---] mishonarys President Andrew Kimble Enoch Masar Heber Larson he gave them good Patriarchel Blessings I was there it was nice ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p048.jpg) Sunday 30 this morning the Woodruff brethern helped us Sisters across the River they also helped the mishonarys across we got to snowflake a little after twelve and went to meeting the Brethern from Glia preched in after noon and at night we went Brother Flake came after it was out we came home Monday 31th at home found every thing in good condishon this afternoon went to Taylor to here the Brethern from Glia Preech in the morning they leave us they are certainly fine Prechers I dont tire of hereing them Tuesday 1th Augest 1th 1899 every thing is fine we have been very buisy chooring since we got home felt thankfull to our Hevenly Father for his protection Wedensday 2th we churned and washed and had company I wrote to Osmer yesterday got a letter from Mary and Calley Roberson also from Joel Thirsday 3th we ironed I feel very tired to day done lots of mending we have company all the time the Dentis and wife and Brother are here have here over a week a good meny coming to get work don Friday 4th all well we made Etner some clothes got a letter from Samuel O White on a mishon in Tennessee my Nephyew he is doing nicely Saturday 5th we churned done up our work made apple dumple ing for dinner three o clock Etner went to Primary I came home let her stay all night the wether is nice but flies are bad Sunday 6th this is fast day John and me went to town I went to sunday school then Teachers meeting Aunt Mary sent for me I went to see her then went to afternoon meeting when that was out went to a prair meeting when that was out came to [---] Emmas and eat my first meal to day then came home Monday 7th Brother Windsor showed me how to make a cheese on a new plan it is a great improvement Tuesday 8th I made a cheese just like Brother Winsor and wrote a letter to Mary yesterday wrote to Joel Brother Winsor the Dentis and wife all left this afternoon and we are alone Wedensday 9th we churned and washed I finished a Tidy I have been kniting for a birth day presant Elner and me cleaned a lot of weeds out of the yard Brother Flake was hunting stalk Thirsday 10 made cheese again Etner ironed I feel tired and wore out Friday 11th we made cheese churned cleaned our bedstids and changed our beds around read some the wether is very warm Saturday 12th made cheese cooked dinner and done our work up good Sunday 13th we went to Town was to late for sunday school we ate dinner with Elsie she read a good letter from Osmer she is feeling quite well we went to meeting had an excelent meeting and came home found all in good shape changed our cloth and got redy to milk Monday 14th we made cheese and churned got dinner then went to Lily Pormers and spent the after noon it is a nice walk Tuesday 15th washed and churned the men folkes caught a nice lot of fish read some in evening ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p049.jpg) Wednesday 16th we made cheese and ironed had green corn for dinner the first out of our patch also fish stewed apples dutch cheese light bread and butter this afternoon [---] a letter to Jola Buckler I got one from her and a Photo of her and him and thir children Thirsday 17 I made cheese and two letters and done other chores the wind blows hard Friday 18th made cheese and Etner and me helped John weade in the mellon patch Saturday 19th this is Robertas birthday Joel came home from the Rail Road last night I am so glad to have him home again he went to town and bought Roberta up to spend the day she came we had a good visit cooked a hen and had green corn and a nice dinner Sunday 20th went to sunday school and meeting ate dinner with Elsie after meeting came home Brother Flake went to shumway to Preach home mishonary Monday 21 my eyes are quite sore I wrote too letters Brother Flake is after stalk Tuesday 22th Dear old Jurnal tomorrow is my birth day to day we washed sewed carpet rags inafternoon Cousin John White came from St Johns hunting Horses we had a nice visit the wind blows all the time it sounds like fall Wednesday 23th we got out work done up nice got our ironing done Roberta came up walked, brought Reginald in his buggy I comenced a letter to Osmer wrote one page then visited with Roberta she brought me a nice presant a head rest it is very nice Brother Flake came to dinner we fix ed dinner ate it a bout two o clock a crowd came I will try and write thaer names President Smith Agusta Smith Baushey Deaney Mattie and thir two youngest girls Sister West may Larson and her three youngest children Belle and all her children Marion [-]da Marshell and Charley Sister Caroline Hall Elsie and Adia Louey George and Grace James Theressa Love Lucy Ires Nettie Samuel Daney Agust Marian Johnson all these came to Honor me on my birthday Sister West brought me a nice bottle of honey Belle two nice large bowls to plant flowers in these ware birth day presants from my Dear ones Roberta made Candy baked cake James made Lemonade and they had a cake and lemonade then Brother Flake took us all down to fish all went of very nice every one seemed to have a splendid time all wished me meny more happy years it is nice to be remember ed but I dont feel like I was worthy of so much respect Thirsday 24th we made cheese and finished Osmers letter me eyes are very sore to day and I feel so tired can hardley keep up Friday 25th made cheese and mended a lot of socks for James family Brother Flake had gon to Hal[-]brook Joel and John White went to hunt horses and have not come back yet they went day before yesterday Saturday 26th we made cheese and done up our work nice made pie and had a nath and finished my tidy or michien cover it a long time comenced Sunday 27th went to sunday school then sent to Aunt Mary to see her then we went to Minney Strattons as her little boy invited me to go then called on Roberta then went to Aunt Sarah Driggs and we went to meeting together it sprinkled a little while we were in meeting after meeting we went to Bells it is her birthday 35 years old and just as sweet and pretty as ever we could not stay long had to come home Brother Flake was ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p050.jpg) Monday 28 we made cheese and cut off corn to dry and I comenced a tidy for rocking chair for a birth day presant for Mary West it rained some Tuesday 29 made cheese and cutt of corn to dry it like work work all the time Wedensday 30th we washed just as we were finishing Aunt Mary and Lucy Lundquist came and all her children to spend the afternoon with us Brother Flake had been in town he came when they did we had not had any dinner so we went to work and cooked earley supper James came up too we had a plesant time every time Aunt Mary comes we fear it will be her last Thirsday 31th made cheese ironed made corn starch and had company almost night it rained the hardest it has this summer here our company stayed all night a bout eight oclock we went out and milked it had stoped raining but was very dark Brother Flake had gon to Adair he stayed all night Friday 1th September 1899 Brother Flake came home to day we let Etner Cooper make the cheese to day to learn to make cheese we eat another cheese and it was fine Saturday 2th Brother Flake has gone to Woodruff to Conferance we made cheese done up our work and had a bath it is very warm Sunday 3th there is not team harness or buggy so I could not go to sunday school or meeting so I am home all day Joel and Cousin John White came they found the lost horses and he ate dinner and started home we are all well Joel went to meeting said most all the People has gon to conferance this is fast day Monday 4th we made cheese then cut corn to dry while I was bui sy cutting corn off the cobs here came a wagon load Mattie Marior Thressa Love Lucy Irus Nellie Samey Daniel [---]y and Luella Hall they brought Ice sugar eggs milk crackers and freezer and made icecream James came Joel Etner and me were here we had such a nice time Ella Robersos was here it was such a nice surpris to me to have them all come and spend a hours Tuesday 5th we made cheese Brother Flake got home I cleaned my bedsted and stratened and swept all the rooms and knit some Joe brought Regey up on his back (Joe rode the Bicle) and let him stay all day with me he is delited to get up here. Wedensday 6th we washed and I painted two of the screen doors Thirsday 7th we made cheese ironed and painted some Friday 8th after makeing cheese and getting dinner over Brother Flake took us to town I wanted to see the sisters a bout going to Pine top next monday Iwent to Elsies saw her a few minutes we did not stay long came home I painted a little Saturday 9th Etner stayed home to day I made cheese done up all the work nice painted three dores was on my feet all day Sunday 10th we went to Sunday school went home with Sister West she treated me to Wattermetton we had a nice time and went to meeting then came home ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p051.jpg) Monday 11 Dear Jurnal I have made up my mind to go to Pinetop started to lay went to Pinedale had meeting with primary stayed all night with Bishop Petersons Tuesday 12 we went to Bishop Hansons had a good talk with him he said the People was so dissatis pyed he did not think it would do any good to try and have any primary and when the People got settled and wanted a Primary asociation they would send us word we bade them and by and went and stayed with Rabecca Hall and Family all night Wednesday 13th ate breakfast with Mother and Father Hall and stayed with them till teb oclock then came to July Savages ate dinner visited them a little time then went and visited a poor sick woman Sister Oliver then Spent the night with Brother Brodys family and had a very plesant time Thirsday 14th this morning came home we went to Sister Deckers and eate dinner then came home found all well Roberta came and kept house for me and made cheese Estner got home sick and quit she went home Friday evening and did not come back I forgot to mention my travling companions Sister Decker Ellen Adair we had a very plesant time all seemed pleased to see us and wanted us to stay longer Friday 15th I made cheese and washed got done five oclock mixed bread and helped milk it has blown very hard to day Saturday 16th made cheese churned Bro Flake churned in afternoon ironed it has been a nice day been a lone most all day Sunday 17th our cows did not come last night when we got them and got them milked it was to late for Sunday school we went to meeting Monday 18th made cheese and preserves finished painting my doors and wrote a letter to Osmer it has been a lovely day Tuesday 19th churned made cheese cake preserved wattermelon rine and started a letter to Mary and received a letter from her to day Joel started to school to day it is very nice wether the nights cool Wedensday 20th made squash pie baked light bread done up my work then done my washing and finished Marys letter all well Thirsday 21th made cheese and preserves and done meny choores Friday 22th Brother Flake and John started to Apache this morning with Beef Stears James spent them I collored churned done up my work cut out pants and vest for Joel worked a little at them Saturday 23 I made my last cheese for this year makeing 32 ironed and mended and worked a little on vest Sunday 24th Joel went to town and stayed all night left me a lone all night there is no work horses here so I had to stay a way from sunday school and meeting this gives me a good chance to reede Monday 25th Mariah Johnson is staying with me the wether is fine we churned done up my work nice and finished Joels vest my poor old sewing machine is nearly wore out and all my sewing I have to do by hand Tuesday 26th Mariah went home this morning I mended all day Brother Flake and John came home nearly dark to night ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p052.jpg) Wedensday 27th I inteded to go and spend the day with sister West the Dear Freind of mine but had to stay at home and cook for the Thrashers cleaned my kitchen floor cleaned fish made cake and cooked a nice supper for them the wether fine and all well Thirsday 28 we cooked breakfast for Thrashers they finished in one hour then Brother Flake hitched up the horses or mules and lit me go and spend the day with Dead sister West Roberta went with me and we sewed all day Sister West wants me sell her sewing mechien I think I will buy it it looks as good as new one it seemed hard to say good bye Friday 29th I was in much pain all night but had to churn and wash when I got done could hardley hold up and layed on the bed most all the afternoon and had a hot feavor and it lasted most all night I have to much hard work to do and work to hard Saturday 30 I got up and was trying to prepare break fast when Sister Willis and Basheby came to take me to Shumway to meet with the Primary I ate some breakfast and went we went for Sist Decker we all went and had a nice time tryed to do good and returned safely and filt another duty had been preformed Sunday Sunday October 1th 1899 John took me to Sunday school we got there earley I called on Aunt Mary Savage then went to Sunday school when it was out went to Teachers Meeting when it was out went to Sister Wests House She had gon it seemed so sad to have her go I stayed a time with her little Neices then went to meeting Brother Flake ate supper with Elsie after supper Joel hitched up the team we went and got the Sewing Mechien I pay her nineteen dollars and seventy five but it seemes almost as good as a new one Monday 2th churned brushed and cleened and put a way the sunday clothes done up all the work nice swept made beds and mended Brother Flake and John went to Pine dale Tuesday 3th washed made tomato Preserves wrote a letter to my Brother Charles and read some Brother Flake and John Wedensday 4th ironed and mended it has been raining some Thirsday 5th cut out a vest for John and sewed a little on my new mechien late in after noon went to town to see if Mary and Theade and thir children had got home but they had not come stayed a few minutes then came home Friday 6 got a letter from Mary Ann from Beaver finished the vest for John yesterday and today has been fine Saturday 7th Theades folks came home last night and Theade and Mary came up this after noon and stayed till dark and took her chickens home I churned washed three peaces and ironed them and chored a round all day ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p053.jpg) Sunday 8th Brother Flake was summons to Holebrook to attend cort and had to go to day Joel and me went to Sunday school John stayed home to tend to things I went to meeting we had such a good meeting after meeting Joel brought me home Monday 9th I wrote a letter to Beaver to Mary A Farnsworth then worked on a pair of pants the wind blows it seemes lonesome up here now Tuesd[-] 10th finished the pants and wrote a letter to Ida Buckler the wind blows dredfull Wedensday 11th we got a letter from Osmer last night his helth is good now the wind blows very hard and cold and it rains part of the time I wrote to Osmer and knit sewed read Thirsday 12th it is very cold I wrote a note to Brother Flake this morning asking him to get me a pair of shoes as it is storming and I need them very much I knit and sewed carpet rags and read some it is lonely when it is such stormy wether Friday 13th made tomato preserves churned sewed carpet rags it is very cold Saturday 14th made chou chou sewed carpet rags it is stormy and cold Sunday 15th Brother Flake got home last night after dark I was so glad we had good luck with the stalk did not loose any two of the sows had pigs while he was gon he got me a nice pair of shoes that I asked him to get they are easy on my feet Monday 16th we churned I dont up my work good this afternoon Sisters Bashaby Smith and Willis and myself went to Taylor and met with primary there were onely a few children but we had a good meting Tuesday 17th washed to day it is very nice wether last saturday night ther was a heavy frost the first this fall we never had such nice fall before Wedensday 18 ironed mended and cut out two pairs of garments for me and sewed some on them helped John milk this has been a nice day Thirsday 19th cleaned my cubbord and all my dishes and packed my glass dishes Brother Flake talks a little of moveing then churned and finished the mechien work on my garments James came up to see us Friday 20th marked my garmets and wrote to Samuel D White my Nephyew Saturday 21th cleaned kitchen floor done up my work and sewed carpet rags Sunday 22 Joel John and me all went to sunday school I took dinner with Sister Dollie Smith I went to see her to get her to asist us in the Primary department of Sundy school she was willing went to meeting called and saw Mary a little time ther John brought me Monday 23th churned nine pound of butter brushed the sunday cloth es and put them a way made beds and after all the work done up knit the wind has comenced to blow and looks like storm Brother Flake and James been gathering up yearlings to ship off they came and eat dinner they have over one hundred Brother Flake will go as far as Holebrook with James then go on to Winsislow on buisness then back to st Joseph and preech to them he is home Mishonery there next Sunday Tuesday 24 James and Brother Flake started this morning I chored a round and knit and read cooked dinner Wedensday 25th I went to town and got Elsie and her children brought them up to spend the day we had a plesant time I knit ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p054.jpg) Thirsday 26 we had company Albert and Josep Bruer and Wife and little boy stayed all night with us Joseph is blind it seemes so sad for one so young I churned ironed mended and knit it is very cold last night was the coldest this fall I want to move home this house is very cold Friday 27th we are glad to see the sun shine so nice and warm I knit all the time I could get Brother Flake has not come home yet he will preach in St Joseph to morrow he is home mishonary there then he will come home Saturday 28th done up my work baked light bread mended and cleaned a coat for Joel had my bath and finished Brother Flakes socks Sunday 29th am on the Farm a lone the wind blows and it is cloudy and looks like it might rain any minute I wrote a letter to my Dear Friend Sister West it seemes lonely without her the rest of the day I can reade Monday 30th done up my work and sewed carpet rags wind blew dredfull Brother Flake came home just night was so glad he came Tuesday 31th done up my work cut out two shirts for John and done all the mechien work on them got dinner Mary and Theodore were here to dinner we talk of moving to morrow if it dont storm November 1899 Wedensday 1th we moved our cows pigs chickens and most of our house hold things We had a very nice day Roberta put down my carpet in front room I got a letter from Mary ann it was after seven when we got here with the chickens we ate supper or bread and milk the boys milked the cows and we fixed our beds on the carpet and went to bed all tired Thirsday 9th Theode and Roberta came and helped us get the stove and cupbord in and put in thair place I cooked breakfast by the fire place in afternoon went to sisters meeting had not been there for a long time it seemed nice Friday 3th after breakfast varnished all the wood work that took me till noon done up my dishes and meny chores and just might put down my kitchen carpet Love came and black ed the stove Brother Flake has gon to Adare for James Saturday 4th got a letter from Osmer he is enjoying good helth am getting my house pretty well fixed up and feel very thank- full this is the dearest spot on earth for me is my home Sunday 5 this is our blessed fast day went sunday school then Teachers meeting came home Brother Flake was home and James and Mattie was here I brought Sister Willis home with me we got a circular from Salt Lake yesterday with istru ction from Sister Tilley Freese for the Primary she is Presiden over all the Primary we are very glad to get instructions we all went to meeting James invited us to his house to supper after we were through supper we ate wattermellon it was very nice we had an excellent meeting much good councill given ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p055.jpg) Monday 6 Osmer has been gon on his mishon 22 months to day I been choreing most all day Sisters Willis and Decker came and we had a councle meeting in behalf of primary it takes so long to get thing fixed in thir place Tuesday 7 I washed aunt mary came and spent the day I had a large washing it took me all day Wedensday 8 this is James Birth day he is forty I am invited there to dinner I went we had a good dinner and watter mellon after dinner Brother Flake could not be there as he had to go on the range after Horses I churned six pound butter Thirsday 9 ironed and went to sisters meeting called to see Mario Rodgers he is very Friday 10 I dont feel well done up my work and was sick the rest of the day Saturday 11 I felt better this evening we churned five pound of butter to day Brother Flake has been after horses they are getting up horses to brand the wether is fine Sunday 12th went to sunday school and meeting all well we had home mishonarys Monday 13th we had Brother and Sister Owens and Elsie and her children here to supper was on my feet all day putting things in order it takes so long Tuesday 14th I washed the wind comenced to blow and in the night it rained Wedensday 15th churned six pound butter done up my work went to see the sick came home done my ironing mixed light bread pealed potatoes washed dishes it was nine oclock when I get redy to sit down Thirsday 16th done up my work and went to Sisters meeting done some Friday 17 made a large batch of pies out of squash Brother Flake went to Sholow for James on buisness will come home to day Samuel Smith has returned home from his mishon on acount of sicknes to night the Sunday school gives him a reception tomorrow morning the Stake Officers of the Primary are requested to fast and hold a special meeting with the Primary we recieved instructions from Salt Lake to fast and hold special meetings to teach them the law of tithing Saturday 18th we fasted and went to Primary we had a good time all seemed to enjoy it a good spirit was there and meny good instructions given Sunday 19th went to sunday school had a chicken killed and had a good dinner invited Thressa and Love to eat dinner with us and they did Monday 20th Brother Flake went with James to seperate sheep he is going to take some mutton sheep to Winsislow for James I done up my work brushed and put away sunday clothes went to officers meeting at four o clock in afternoon we wanted to pray for strength for our coming Conferance we will have Primary and Relief society Conferance December 2 and we feel our great weekness in these duties Tuesday 21th washed and cooked for Brother Flake to go away Wedensday 22th ironed churned Brother Flake went earley this morning he took John with him I went to Roberties a little while Thirsday 23th it stormed last night and is cold I took down all the Pictures and cleaned them and cleaned my rooms up nice cooked and prepared for Brother and sister Thurmon and his sister they came ate supper and spent the evening it was plesa 24 Friday I went to Sister Wolfards and herd the Peanno played ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p056.jpg) very nicely Brother Bard from Erastus is staying here he invited me to go he played he plays nicely came home mended and read some Saturday 25 Sister Willis my councler in primary and me fasted and went to Taylor to attend a special meeting of the Primary and had a fine meeting and ate Dinner with Sister Decker my other councler we also had a special prair meeting and a spiritual feast then came home Sunday 26th a nice day went to sunday school and meeting we had the children rehars thir parts we are goin to have an entertainment by the Primary children on Thanksgiven evening and charge ten cents a peace and buy tags with the means and get up a christmas tree Monday 27th churned and chored a round all day Brother Flake got home this evening he is feeling all right had a good trip Tuesday 28th I washed and choped Tomatoes cabage and onions to make chou chou the wether is fine and plenty of work to do Wedensday 29 Brother Flake went to Sholow yesterday I made my chou chou and irone and chored all day it seemes there is so much Thirsday 30th Brother Flake came home last night to day is Thank given day we went to meetin came home got dinner and went to the Hall and herd the children recite thir parts then in the eve ning we had the Entertainment it went off all right we made six dollars and 25 cents the children spoke thir parts very well Friday 31th we killed a hog I cooked made a large pan of rice Pudding made cake stewed fruit baked 21 twenty one pies and worked very hard all day had company come to conferance Saturday December 1899 Today we had Primary conferance in the foornoon and Reli ef conferance in afternoon I invited all the Primary officers home to dinner with us we had a plesant time Dear Journel I made a mistake but the best of People makes mistakes Sunday 3th I went to sunday school nine oclock it is fast day I stay ed to meeting at noon came home did not go... after noon stay ed home and fixed supper we had President Lorenzo Hatch and wife Bishop Bushman and wife and to or three others we had a plesant time and all went to night meeting they called for a donation for Joseph Bruer who is blind fifty two dollars and seventy five cents was donated the wether is fine Monday 4 went to meeting twice had a splendid conferance Tuesday 5 to day all the conferance people are going home Brother Tanner stayed with us he started at six this morning I churned and made sacage and wrote a letter to Osme I got one from Wedensday 6th washed to day it looks like a storm Thursday 7th I worked so hard yesterday am sick to day Brother Flake was wayed to day and his wait it 181 pound he never wayed so much but once be fore and that was fifteen years a goe ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p057.jpg) Friday 8th am better done my ironing and some sewing cut out a shirt for Brother Flake Joel has gon to Holebrook and John has gon to Pinedale for lumber so we are here a lone Roberta and Redgenal spent the day with us the wind blows and it will storm December 20th Dear journel since I wrote last I have been very sick took sick on the ninth of this month had been feeling very bad for a week was very sick James brought the Docter the first time we ever had a Docter in our House I got worse and worse till the Twelfth that morning I changed for the better but was very week but have been improveing slowly last monday it snowed and rained I got a nice letter from my Dear Friend sister West to day she writes a good letter says they are all well Brother Flake and John went to Holebrook yesterday took beef cattle will back a load of goods for James Thirsday 21th I feel better this evening Aunt Mary Savage came and spent the day with me she is aways such a comfort to me her memory is fine she brought a lettr from my sister Mary Musser I was so glad to here from her also one from my cousin Mary Heep I got a letter from Osmer he is well and feeling well Brother Flake and John came home this evening this has been a very nice day Friday 22 am better swept both floors and chored a round the house most all day the wether is fine sun shines butifull we have concluded to have a christmas Dinner here at our Home for the Familey I hope it will be nice Saturday 23th I made some pies ironed a little cooked beets done up my work and finished Joel mittens knit them this week and Reyinold a pair of stockings I think that is good for a person that is called sick Sunday 24 to day is ward conferance I went this afternoon and got so tired Roberta and Joe and Sister Willis were here for dinner President Hatch was here to supper after they went to meeting mixed a batch of light bread and made and baked some cakes then read for Joel he stayed home Monday 25th this christmas day we had a familey Dinner it was nice we invited Bro and Sister Ramsey we enjoyed it find and the Dinner nice it has been very warm to day now it looks like storm it is cloudy Tuesday 26th I done up my chores and wrote two letters Osmer and S O White my Nephyew Brother Flake and the boys have gon in the field to work the wether is just like may it is so warm it dont seem like Christmas Brother Flake and are in vited to the old Folks dinner to morrow at one one oclock to Elis Strattons Wedensday 27th we went to the Dinner had a very plesant time all the mishonary wives and all the widdows were invited had butifull Dinner songs music speeches and a very sociable time the wether butifull in evening all were invited to theater we went Thirsday 28 John is seventeen to day Anabell six Relief society gave an entertainment Friday 29 we made pies and Love ironed for me read and knit Saturday 30th churned done up my work had a bath and done some mending Sunday 31th I went to sunday school this is the first time since conferance I invited Samuel Smith and John Rodgers home with me they came and we had good visit and went to meeting this closes this year with all its cares and sorrows and its joys we will say good bye ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p058.jpg) Jan 31 1900 How shall I begin? By saying that my beloved mother has left the remainder of her beautiful life's story to be finished by her erring daughter. And I earnestly pray His guiding spirit to be around me while I am thus engages, that it may be ac- ceptable to Him, and also to my dear mother. As she has already written she was very ill at the beginning of last month, but became well enough to enjoy with us the joys of the holidays, but shortly afterward she again was taken very sick with the same pomplaint and after suffering untold agony her beautiful spirit left this vale of tears at 7 P.M. Sat. Jan. 27" The Doctor did all in his powers; she was administered to repeatedly, while the prayers of her family and the comunity ascended unceasingly to the throne of grace, and every thing that could be done was attended to by loving hands. But her work was completed, and Our Father took her home to Himself where there are no sorrows, sin or care. And my great desire is that we may every one live to be worthy to be received by our angel mother when our task is accomplished. The clothes were made by Amelia C. Frost, Nellie M. Smith, Elizabeth Lindsey Elizabeth Kartcher Elsie and Mary. And I never saw nicer clothes they were so prettily and neatly made. Emma L. Smith made the slippers, the stockings were given to her many years ago by grandpa Hansley, she had her apron and cap made and the linen on hand for hers and Pa's clothes, The coffin was made by Father Ramsay and Joe, and trimmed by Joe and Mother". The funeral took place at the Stake House at 2 P.M. Jan. 29" There was the largest assembly I ever saw at a funeral. The Choir sang from pg. 231 in the Hymn Book ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p059.jpg) Prayer offered by Paul Smith. Singing from pg. 58. Pres. Smith preached the funeral sermon. Read from the 42 Sec. of the Doc. and Cov. also from the 28 Chap of 3 Nephi. Bishop Hunt spoke of the goodness of my mother. Singing, Sweet Hour of prayer. Benediction by Father Ramsay. The congregation viewed the remains. The Primary Dept. presented a lovely wreath of white flowers and green leaves. The corpse was carried on a pall by John A. Freeman, Lewis Hunt, Francis Hulet Niels S. Hanson, Walter Smith, Wilford Freeman, Hyrum Smith, Lewis Freeman Holister Rogers and Iro Willis, preceeded by the Priesthood, and followed by the family Pa and Annebelle at the head. Then came the Primary Dept. the first Intermediate, then the Second then the Theological. The primary carried a banner [Illustration of a banner that reads: We Honor Our Noble Leader] They very touchingly sang "Did you think to pray. The Dedicatory Prayer was offered by J.H. Willis. Jos. Cooper H.B. Smith, Owen Freeman Davis Rogers and Byrtle Kartchener dug the grave. It was the largest funeral procession I ever saw. People came from Pinedale Taylor and Woodruff ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p060.jpg) Some Time. Sometime when all life's lessons have been learned And sun and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgement here have spurned, The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet, Will flash before us out of life's dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue, And we shall see how all God's plans were right, And how what seemed reproof was love most true. And we shall see, while we frown and sigh, God's plans go on as best for you and me. How when we called, He heeded not our cry, Because His wisdom to the end could see. And e'en as prudent parents disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now Life's sweetest things because it seemeth good. And if, sometimes, commingled with life's wine We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink, Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine, Pours out this portion for our lips to drink. And if some friend we love is lying low Where human kisses cannot reach his face, Oh! do not blame the loving Father so, But bear your sorrow with obedient grace. And you shall shortly know that lengthened breath, Is not the sweetest gift God sends His friend And that, sometimes, the sable pall of death Conceals the fairest boon His love can send. If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within and all God's workings see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife And for each mystery find a key. But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart; God's plans like lillies, pure and white unfold We must not tear the close shut leaves apart— Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. And if, through patient toil, we reach the land Where tired feet with sandals loose may rest, When we shall clearly know and understand I think that we will say that "God knew best." ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p061.jpg) Extracts from a letter from Mary J. R. West to May H. Larson dated Salt Lake City Jan 30"1900 'We have heard several times that sister Flake was not well but when Annie said in her letter that their play was put off on account of her serious illness and told us how bad she was I felt like a bolt of electricity had struck me, and I can hardly think of anything else. Oh! we have been together so much I can almost feel her by my side, encouraging me on to good works. She always called me the comforter, but not so—she never knew how much comfort and support she was to me— we have prayed in tears—when none but the Lord knew, for our thoughtless children until I love every one of hers next to my own, I felt like I was encircled by a bond of gold when she was near me. I knew she was as true a friend to me as was my own sainted mother. I trust your prayers will prevail, why I would gladly have joined in them, even as far away if I had only known. But if her work is unfinished she will yet live. Yet I thought for several months before I left that she was not so ambitious for the future as she used to be and she told me once that sometimes she wanted to see Charley so bad she could hardly endure it. Do please write to me at once dear sister and let me know how she is. But sad forebodings hover about me and I almost hear her saying, dear- est friend my work on earth is ended.' ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p063.jpg) Snowflake July 5" 1914 Father's 75" birthday is just passed and as he takes such comfort is this precious journal of my Angel Mother I thought it fitting to write in here the original poems and songs that were rendered on that joyous occasion. It was held in the Social Hall at noon 86 members of the family and Uncle John, Aunt Sarah and Aunt Hap Hunt all sat down to one long table, loaded down with good things to eat. On the stage were bright rugs and easels with the enlarged pictures of Father in the center Mother, Charley and Molly on his right and Auntie and Elsie on his left, while beautiful roses in vases were artistically placed about. The program was very successfully carried out. I will enclose a printed one here. Song Hurrah for Grandpa. Tune "In our lovely Desert." Boys. Oh, my heart is filled with joy, I'm so glad that I'm a boy, So that when I get to be a great big man I can be like grandpa, too, I don't know what I would do. If I were a girl that never can. Chorus for all. Hip, Hurrah for Dearest Grandpa, He's the finest in the land I just hope that I can be Just as noble and as good and great and grand. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p064.jpg) Girls. Huh! I'm sure I'd rather be Just a little girl like me, So that I can wait upon my Grandpa, dear. Who would cook the pies and cakes To feed all these hungry Flakes And prepare this spread his birthday now to cheer. Chorus. Boys. Oh, of course that's very fine, But I want no girl in mine, For I want to ride and rope and be like him Or like Uncle Frank Mc.Laws, Uncle John or Jode or Os, Uncle Billy, Tead, Joe, Jack or Rens or Jim. Chorus. Girls. Well I'm content to be a girl Like Aunt Roberta, Em, Win or Pearl, Ann or Carrie, Elsie, Mattie, Ethel, Belle, So we all should happy be As from envy we are free And should each one strive to do our duties well. Roberta Flake Clayton Recited by Joseph Freeman Composed by Emma. In a financial way Grandpa is a stay, He's right in the way, Of men who will not pay. Where would they get the dough— That's what I'd like to know To build Stake Houses, Academies and so and so If it wasn't for Grandpa's go and get it. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p065.jpg) Song sung by Endora, Martha and Gladys. Tune: Lorena. Way down in North Carolina, Just seventy-five years ago, Grandpa came from his bright home in heaven And his Father who loved him so. To live in this world of sorrow To battle with trials and sin To prove himself true and faithful And an endless reward to win. Chorus. Oh, Grandpa, dearest Grandpa, May you love long and happy be Oh, Grandpa, dearest Grandpa Is the dearest wish of we three. Oh, how thankful are we for our Grandpa In whose honor we're met here today To show him how much we love him, And remember his seventy-fifth birthday. Oh may he live long here among us And help us God's will to obey Be blessed with joy and pleasure, We his grandchildren ever will pray. Roberta Flake Clayton. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p066.jpg) Sung by Roberta Clayton, Roberta Turley Augusta Flake, and Dora Freeman. Tune:—Angeline 1" Oh happy are the hearts to-day Of all who are assembled here, To show what pleasure and delight, We feel to meet our Grandpa dear, Chorus: Oh Grandpa Flake we love you so We hope that you'll no sorrow know, But live to help us on our way And many years with us to stay. 2" Of all the days in all the year When all the Flakes should happy be, I think it is July the 3" When Grandpa's birthday comes you see. 3" If we could count the deeds he's done To cheer the lonely, help the oppressed We'd have a book completely filled Of names of those whom he has blest. Chorus to last verse Now may we all strive hard to be, As good and kind and true as he, So that when our mission here is o'er We'll all meet on the other shore. R.F.C. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p067.jpg) Reginald's Recitation. There's a saying old but it is true That you are known by the deeds you do. In beginning your life you can choose your fate Be mean and low or be good and great. Can have life and health or be sick and weak In fact can have just about what you seek. So when his mother called her boys to her side, And told them just how all her people had died While yet they were young because they'd not striven To keep the laws of health that to man has been given And that he must keep well, for the great names of Flake, Depended on him so an effort must make. As he eat there in silence he promised he would And everyone knows that he has made good. Let us follow the example of our grandfather dear Choose the path that is right and climb up- ward each year. Do the deeds that be nearest true & God for the rest If we do our parte well like Grandpa we'll be blest. R.F.G. Recited by Francis Mc.Laws. This world has many noblemen Whom great sacrifices make, And as you name them one by one Just mention Grandpa Flake. And don't forget how years ago In obedience to command, He left his dear old Beaver home, And journeyed to their land. He deemed no sacrifice too great When the call came from on high Tho the parting from his loved ones there might mean a last good-by. But the Father mindful of His own, watched o'er the chosen few; And brought them safe to this fair land To build homes for me and you. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p068.jpg) So let us all with one accord Their last days happy make; All honor to the pioneers, Three cheers for Grandpa Flake. R.F.C. Donald's Recitation. In North Carolina's sunny clime, 'Twas on a pleasant July day, In eighteen-hundred-thirty-nine, To earth our Grandpa came to stay. While he was yet a little boy, I think he was just four years old His parents left their southern home For Nauvoo bound to join the fold. But e'er they'd live there very long, Their foes would give them little rest So they were forced to leave their all, And journey on toward the west. And Grandpa then a boy of eight, To drive the cows walked all the way; O'er trackless plains he toiled along, Menanced by Indians night and day. From that time on his lot's been cast Where brave men have been needed most, To conquer enemies kill the snakes And fight the redmen's savage host. His leaders knew what e'er they asked, Whether great or small that he would do Because they'd tried him oftentimes And to every trust he'd proven true. So when the time had come for men, To settle Arizona's land, As a pioneer they sent him out Together with a little band. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p069.jpg) And you all know the story true Of the struggle e'en for bread to live But just as long as he had a crust To others he would freely give. To wayward boys he's been a friend, Helped many a one to get a start, The widow and the orphan, too, Can tell of the goodness of his heart. "We live by deeds and not by years" Somebody said, long long ago. Were that the case with Grandpa Flake He's lived two hundred years or so. R.F.C. Composed and sung by Nellie and Iris Tune—Valley of Custer. On the third of July seventy-five years ago From the mansions of glory, to a home here below Grandpa came as a martyr to trial and sin And thro kind deeds and works many friends he did win. Chorus. We love our dear Grandpa in whose honor we've His brave deeds and daring we'll never forget, May he live long among us and help us to be, As true to each calling and faithful as he. From Nauvoo he traveled to a home in the west. To a home in dear Utah to find peace and rest. But of his brave deeds his leaders knew best and sent him to Arizona the home he made blest. Chorus. He bought little Snowflake and here made a home, For many friendless wanderers who were weary and lone. His good deeds are so many we cannot tell all But his grandchildren love him both great and the small. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p070.jpg) Joseph Freemans, recitation In a finincial way, Grandpa is a stay Roe's right in the way, of men who will not pay Now where would they get the doe, Is what I'd like to know. To build Stake houses Academics & So & So If it was not for Grandpa's Go ([-] get it) John's recitation. Perhaps we grandchildren don't know But the folks say 'tis so That Grandpa a hotel, used to keep To both rich & poor, Who came to his door For shelter and to eat and sleep A Hotel without pay. Well that's not the We do now-a-day. When the books open wide These words we'll read inside To Grandpa's credit And 'Twas Jesus who said it I was hungry and ye fed me Thirsty and ye gave me to drink ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p072.jpg) Jno. A. Freeman's (Jun) Recitation. Perhaps we grand children don't know But the folks say 'tis so That Grandpa a hotel used to keep A hotel without pay Well that's not the way We do now-a day When the books open wide These words we'll read inside To Grand pa's credit And 'twas Jesus who said it I was hungry and ye fed me Thirsty and ye gave me to drink. E. F. ----- new page (MSS_SC_13_F3_p075.jpg) Snow Flake, Aug. 12"1932 In this book—made sacred, sacred by the handwriting of my angel Mother, I think it only fitting to record that, which must be one of the greatest events that can come to anyone—the coming of a lover for whom one has waited almost a life time. Thirty two years almost eight months ago Mother o' mine answered the call of the Father to labor in a higher sphere, Auntie had been called a few years before, as all these years my beloved Father has gone along alone. At the time of Mother's going he said "I am ready to go now" but the Heavenly Father in his wisdom and his goodness left him with his children to comfort and bless us until last Wed. night Aug. 10" at 10 minutes after 10