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To: SunkenCiv
In the 1840’s and 1850’s when my family went West things were different.

For example, everyone walked, none of this family ridding on the drivers seat thing. If a woman had a kid, maybe for a while, then back on your hooves with the kid.

Also no horses, oxen were the thing, horses and plains forage didn't mix.

At last Zion, dad built the house, foraged for wood, cleared the land, while mom did every thing else, garden, clothes, kids, cooking.

My GGrand Mother walked to Utah at the age of three, her mother died before the trip and her father during (along with 139 others). She was going to be given to some people heading to the Oregon some cousins, not uncommon at the time adopted her.

She helped settle two towns, had 11 kids that lived, delivered 220+ kids as a midwife, along with keeping house, doing a garden, washing clothes, and church stuff.

Not bad for a +/- 5 foot Scot, lived to be 86.

31 posted on 12/03/2017 12:40:15 PM PST by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: Little Bill
That's a great account! My great-grands worked and toiled, really put me to shame. But that's the natural consequence, the legacy, of their hard work. Thank you, all my ancestors.

32 posted on 12/04/2017 3:27:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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