Sharon Lynn Winsor

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Arthur married Myrna Whipple on 10 Aug 1946 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. Myrna (daughter of Willard Whipple, Jr and Josephine Merrell) was born on 26 Oct 1927 in Cibecue, Navajo, Arizona, United States; died on 20 Jul 1997 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 14 Apr 2009, ARIZO

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Arthur married Edith Virginia Frances Broyles on 9 Feb 1925 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. Edith was born on 1 Mar 1906 in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States; died on 3 Dec 2005 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States; was buried in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Willard married Josephine Merrell on 10 Jul 1916 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States. Josephine (daughter of Alonzo Joseph Merrell and Nellie Ellsworth) was born on 28 Mar 1896 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States; died on 8 Oct 1981 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States; was buried in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 16 Sep 1897, MANTI

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLARD WHIPPLE

I, Willard Whipple, was born at Provo, Utah, the 16th of March, 1858, t h e son of Edson and Harriet Yeager Whipple. My father was born at Dummer st on, Windham County, Vermont, on the 5th of February 1805. He was the s o n of John and Basmuth Hutchens Whipple who were descendents of early se tt lers in New England.

My mother was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, near to Philadelphi a , Penn. She was born 15 July, 1826, the daughter of John and Ann Hyat t Ye ager who were descendants of the early Dutch settlers in Pennsylvani a .

I first saw the light of day in a large two story adobe house in the nor t hwest room or entry, on the ground floor which mother used as a bedroo m . The house was situated on the south west corner of the first block so ut h of the City Park which was called the West City Square during my res ide nce in Provo. Since, it has been made into a beautiful park called Pi onee r Park. My first recollections are of playing on the streets of Prov o wit h the neighbor children and of going to the fields with my older si ster t o gather wild flowers and pick ground cherries .

I always liked to fish and I got my first fishing thrill when my mothe r b ent a pin for a fishing hook and tied it to a piece of thread for a l in e and a willow stick for a pole. I baited the hook with a grub worm th a t I dug out of our
woodpile. I sat down on the bank of the stream with my bare feet hangi n g into the water and cast the
pin into the stream. In a few minutes I hooked a sucker about twelve o r f ourteen inches long and pulled him out. I jumped
up and ran home as fast as I could to show my mother .

When I got older we would go down to the lake and skate all day long i n t he winter time. Sometimes skating fifteen miles across the lake and b ack . As a barefooted boy I raked hay with a hand rake until I was so tir ed t hat I could hardly walk out of the field. The grain was cut with cra dle s and raked and bound by hand. This was before railroad times in
Utah. All of our imports had to be hauled nearly two thousand miles acro s s the plains by ox team. Dry goods and groceries were very high. Calic o w as fifty cents a yard, sugar fifty cents a pound and other things i n prop ortion. Most of our shoes were made by local shoemakers from leath er tann ed by our local tanners. All of our stocking were made fro m
wool grown, corded, spun and knitted at home. Much of our clothing was p r ovided the same way, woven on hand looms .

I had a narrow escape when 1 was but a lad. Canby Scott and I were herdi n g cows when George Thatcher came running into the field and wanted u s t o hurry over to see the new thresher. We were excited as boys alway s wer e when the thresher came to town. We ran through the fields, forget ting a ll about the cows. Now it happened that my mother had always warne d me t o keep away from a thresher, for she had dreamed once when I was j ust a b aby that I was seriously hurt in one of them .

"Now, come here, fellows," said George. "I want to show you somethin g o n the other side." So we started to scoot acros s
the tumbling rod that ran from the power unit to the machine. I had a bu t ton off of my cuff and as I stepped over the rod ,
my sleeve caught on the rod. As quick as lightning, I was pulled over a n d around the rod. Luckily my clothes gave way, o r
I would have been killed or hurt seriously. As it was I was left naked e x cept for my worn home made straw hat. The rest o f
my clothes were wrapped around the tumbling rod in ribbons. The men stop p ed the machine, took the rags from the rod an d
made me a breach cloth and we went back to our herding .

The school terms were usually three months long. Our studies consiste d o f reading, writing, and arithmetic with a littlegeography. When I wa s old er, I attended the Brigham Young Academy for awhile with Karl G. Ma eser a s a teacher.

I was now past twenty years old and according to law and custom I was o l d enough to go out on my own and assum e
the responsibility of making a living for myself. Farm products were ha r d to sell for cash. Flour was selling for $1.50 pe r
hundred, oats 75¢ per hundred, apples 25¢ a bushel, potatoes 25¢ a bush e l and other products in proportion. Father decide d
to let me take a load of apples and oats and go into Nevada to the mini n g towns and sell the produce and then stay out ther e
if I could get a job. We left 'Provo about the 15th of September 1878 . W e got jobs hauling and cutting cord wood for the mine mills .

On December 2, 1880 I left camp alone with my horse, mule and a dog. I c o vered approximately 700 miles, riding about an averag e
of 35 miles a day and arrived in Provo on the 19th. I found my parents h a d sold their home and property and gone to Arizona ,
leaving on the 8 Oct. 1880. I worked around Provo until 13 May 1882 an d d ecided to follow my parents to Arizona .

At Lee's Backbone, we were following a narrow winding track, the surfa c e of which was at times steep, slick, and almost impassible .
It was hardly wide enough in places for a knife blade to wedge between t h e solid rock and the wagon hubs. Several times we ha d
to unload the sacks of seed and grain because of the steep pitch where t h e mules could not get foot hold on the round slick rocks .
Then we had the task of carrying the bags up the pitch and reloading the m . We had to repeat this ordeal many times before the summi t
was reached. The descent was quite as dangerous. We had to chain all fo u r wheels many times. Even then the wagon would run int o
the heels of the mules, exciting them and increasing the danger. Often w a gon, mules, and all would jog down over the banks o f
rocks four or five feet at a time. Water was the greatest problem. We ar r ived at Adair, Arizona, where our parents had settled on the 9 July 188 2.

Their little fort was used as a public building for many years. In thi s b uilding, the first organization of the Showlow Ward wa s
made 13 May 1884 with Hans Hansen Sr. as Bishop, William Ellsworth as 1 s t counselor and Willard Whipple as second counselor. Ther e
were 135 members of this ward in September of 1884 .

On the 23 Sept 1884 I was married to Emma Melissa Oliver by William Ells w orth, Justice of the Peace.. We were married at Emma's home.That nigh t w e moved into our own home, a two roomed lumber house that 1 had buil t dur ing the summer. Next morning we left to go t o
Woodruff to buy our housekeeping equipment and furniture. The A.C.M.I. s t ore was in Woodruff at that time. We bought a ne w
stove which cost 36 dollars, a bedstead and six chairs, a wash tub, cook i ng utensils and dishes, and a small supply of provisions .
Charles Jarvis, the clerk at the store congratulated us on being abl e t o pay cash for our goods. We lived in this lumber hous e
for about a year and a half. We had to carry water up the cliffs in buck e ts for doing the laundry. While living here our firs t
child wad born Saturday, August 29, 1885 and he died the same day abou t o ne o'clock in the morning. We called him Joseph .

On February 16, 1886 we moved to our homestead about three miles south a n d west of the Whipple ranch. 1 had built a one roo m
log cabin in a clearing in the timber on the homestead and had begun t o f ence the land. All water for household purposes wa s
hauled in wooden barrels by team and wagon, from the river which was abo u t two miles away.. At first all the animals had to b e
driven to the river for water. A little later 1 dug by hand a well thirt y -five feet deep, which helped with water for the stock, but was
too hard for household purposes. Sometimes it would go dry during dry s e asons of the year.

In 1888 Willard began keeping a daily journal. It depicts the hard wor k a nd ingenuity it took to wrest a living from th e
surroundings of those days. It also gives the names of the settlers wh o l ived in the area, shows how the humble homes were hospitabl e
to neighbors and passersby. It shows their faithfulness in attending t o t heir church duties, how simple pleasures were shared and ho w
people responded with love and sympathy in times of sickness and death .

Adair at that time was a part of Apache County, with St. Johns as the co u nty seat. It was necessary to travel there to pay taxe s
or settle legal problems. The Indians were still not considered too frie n dly. They would occasionally drive off cattle or horses ,
and also might kill a beef. Sometimes they wandered into the homes. The i r daughter Lydia tells the following incident which happene d
in 1887:

"Father and mother were living on our homestead, and this autumn afterno o n she had taken me, a baby of six months or so ,
and had gone over the hill to visit her mother. Father was down in the c o rn-crib, which was between two other buildings ,
shucking corn when he heard a gunshot. He stepped out from behind the bu i ldings in time to see an Indian leaving the hous e
with a gun. Father started toward him. The Indian fired another shot a n d then motioned for father to go back. Father kept walkin g
towards him, but the Indian fired another shot and again motioned for fa t her to go back. So he thought it best to obe y
and stepped back between the buildings. The Indian then took the gun a n d crept along the fence until he reached his horse whic h
was tied on the hill, mounted and rode away .

As soon as the Indian was gone, Father went to the field and caught hi s h orse and went for his brother-in-law, Will, and his brother, Edson. T he y traced the Indian until dark and then returned home. The Indian tol d hi s friends in camp that night that he had traded his horse for the gu n, bu t the next morning they discovered that he had both the gun and th e horse . They knew he had stolen the gun, for they had all been a t
father's a few days before and had tried to buy the gun and he had refus e d to sell it. In a few days a couple of the young Indians brought the g u n back to father and apologized for the misdeed. One of the young India n s was Alchesay, who later became chief of the Apache Tribe. He was the i r chief until he died in about 1952 and he was respected by the white p eo ple as well as the Indians."

During the year 1888, Willard tore down some of the buildings on the Whi p ple Ranch and used the material to add two more rooms to hi s
one room log cabin and other buildings .

Willard was a school trustee, a Justice of the Peace, 29 Dec 1894, freig h ted with a 6-horse team, sheep herding after he bought sheep ,
was on the Irrigation Board, ran a general merchandise store, raised mar e s and blooded stallions (a Clydesdale called Prince and on e
called Tobe) and was a counselor in the Bishopric for thirty-four year s , serving under two bishops.

Willard and Emma decided in 1897 that they wanted to go to Utah and be s e aled in the Temple. Accordingly, on the 4 Aug 1897 the y
left horne in a double bed wagon. The wagon had a good canvas cover a n d a chuck box on the back that had a lid to make a table to us e
in preparing meals. They had a four horse team pull the wagon .

Lydia says,"The food tasted so good on the trip. Father did most of th e c ooking over the fire, and food has never in my life taste d
so good as that. There were baking powder biscuits, and dutch oven potat o es seasoned with home grown pork and onions, goo d
gravy that was super. We bought butter and cheese and fruit along the w a y from the farms we passed. After we had been on th e
road for twenty-seven days, we reached Aurora, Utah and visited there f o r several days with our relatives. We also visited i n
Salina and Mr. Pleasant. Father went on the train to Provo and visited h i s relatives and friends while the rest of us staye d
in Mr. Pleasant with Mother's sister Lucinda. When Father return­ed we v i sited in Fairview, had a family picture made and on th e
15 Sep. began the journey home. We drove as far as Manti and were seal e d in the Temple. Mother made white dresses for the girl s
and herself. We got home on the 23 October . "

In Nov 1903, Willard.moved his family to Showlow. There was a good lumb e r building on it. Four large rooms, built in a row wit h a
porch running the full length of the front, painted a dark red outside a n d lath and plaster on the inside comprised their new home .
No barns or sheds. Lydia says," We hauled water from the ditch that w a s a couple of blocks or so north east of us at the foot o f
the rise. We children each had our turn of guiding Old Nig and the liza r d to the ditch many times a week, and filling the barre l
with water and bringing it back to the house. Though this was an improve m ent over what it had been at the ranch, it got monotonou s
to fetch so many turns. Mother made a flower garden now that she had acc e ss to more water."

Bishop Owens decided to donate one room of his large red hay barn to b e r emodeled and used as a church, a school, and a communit y
gathering place, 1904-5. Lydia says, "You could hear the horses in the s t able at the back end of the building munching hay, an d
the barnyard smell permeated the air of the room where we met. Sometim e s the singing of the hens about drowned out the singin g
of our voices."

In 1932 Willard built a new five room house just south of the old hous e . They fixed a pump and piped water into the hous e
and had hot water and a kitchen sink and a bathroom for the first tim e i n their lives. Soon electricity was brought in also .
Sep 23, 1934 they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. All of th e ir children and grandchildren were there and Willard' s
brothers Brigham, Edson, and Hyrum and many of their friends .
It was held in the church-house.

When Willard was eighty years old he still did many chores, and loved ca r ing for the beautiful flowers he had planted in hi s
yard. He was to the very last a member of the irrigation board and al s o a very interested citizen and participant in the othe r
affairs of the community.

The last few years of his life, he and Emma spent the winters in Mesa wo r king in the Temple and visiting-relatives. In 193 6
Willard had two cancers of his face treated in Phoenix. They predicte d h e would not live a year. However, he lived fiv e
years and did not die from the cancers, but suddenly on 5 Apr 1941 .

(Taken from his daily diary published by his daughter s
Lydia Hansen and Alzada Stratton.)

Willard married Emma Melissa Oliver on 23 Sep 1884 in Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States. Emma (daughter of William Temple Oliver and Nancy Frances Lovern) was born on 21 Sep 1867 in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States; died on 29 Aug 1948 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States; was buried on 31 Aug 1948 in Show Low Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY OF EMMA MELISSA OLIVER WHIPPLE

            Emma Melissa Oliver was born 21 September 1867 in Payson, Ut a h, Utah Territory to William Temple and Nancy Francis Lovern Oliver. S h e was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint s o n 5 July 1883 at the age of fifteen.
            Her father came to the Utah Territory in 1850 with the Jam e s Pace Company.  His parents Harrison, age 50, and Hannah Martin Olive r , age 38 came with their family of five children.  William Temple was 1 7 ; Edward McClelland was 24; Lamira Jane was 13; Orra was 12; and Emil y Fr ances was 7. 
            They departed on 11 June 1850 with 255 individuals and 100 w a gons in the company which began its journey from the outfitting post a t K anesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).  They made it to Chimne y Ro ck by 25 July 1850. 
            On 24 August they camped at Devil’s Gate and crossed the Swe e twater the next day.  They camped opposite Fort Bridger on 12 September .   Very interesting was the fact that they traveled alongside a train wh il e they went through Echo Canyon.  They made it into the Salt Lake vall e y 20 to 23 September 1850. 
            Her mother came to Utah with an Unknown Company in 1852.  H e r father was 36;her mother was 36; Benjamin Ellsworth was 14; Nancy Fra nc is was 12; John Norris was 9; Wesley Norton was 4; Lucinda Adalade wa s 2 ; and Josiah was an infant. 
            Her parents were married on 29 March 1856 on Ogden, Weber, U t ah Territory.  Her father was 22 and her mother was 16.  They receive d th eir endowment o 11 September 1857 in the Endowment House in Salt Lak e Cit y, Salt Lake, Utah Territory.  Emma Melissa was the eighth child bo rn t o a family of fourteen, ten girls and four boys. 
                Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Birch Creek,n e ar Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah. Here she spent her childhood days un ti l she was about thirteen when her parents decided to move to Arizona.
            They left Utah 27 October 1880. Grandfather's purpose ingoi n g to Arizona was to see if the climate might help his asthma with whic h h e was badly afflicted. They drove with them about 300 head of cattl e whic h made the trip much slower. They traveled the southern route by K anab, U tah and over the Buckskin Mountains, now known as the Kiabab Fore st, thro ugh the House Rock Valley and on to Lee's Ferry.
            They first lived in Brigham City on the Little Colorado Rive r , arriving there on 16 January 1881. They stayed there a month and the n m oved to Holbrook.  A railroad was being built in Holbrook so they wer e ab le to find a job and stayed there until June.  In June they moved so uth s ixty miles to a little town where Fools Hollow is now. 
            She met Willard at a dance.  She was acquainted with his you n ger brother,Brig.  She had a silk hand­kerchief of his. The night of t h e dance, she walked into the room and seeing a young man standing wit h hi s back to her, thinking it was Brig Whipple, she walked up behind hi m an d rolled up the handkerchief and hit him in the back and said,"Brig , woul d you like to have your handkerchief?" As he turned around she dis covere d that she had thrown the handkerchief to the wrong man. Thus bega n thei r acquaintance and friendship that developed into love and marriag e.
                Their first date was a dance held at the Scott ranch abo u t seven miles up the river. It was Christmas and cold and muddy. Thre e ot her couples accompanied them to the dance. They went in a double be d wago n with four spring seats on it. The wagon was drawn by four horses .  The y courted for about two years before they were married. 
            Emma wore a dress of navy blue brocade, designed with a tig h t basque with puckers up the front. The full skirt was also puckered u p t he front panel. Willard's sister, Ernaline, was married the same nigh t t o Moroni Adair. Both of their mothers were present and Mary Adams , a sist er of Moroni. As wedding presents, Willard and Emma received fro m his mot her a hen and eight chickens, and from her mother a pillow.
            Emma Melissa married Willard Whipple on 23 September 188 4 i n Adair, Navajo, Arizona Territory at the age of 17.  Willard was bor n 1 6 March 1858 in Provo, Utah, Utah Territory to Edson and Harriet Yeag er W hipple.  He was baptized into the Church on 7 August 1884 at the ag e of 2 6.  He was 26 years old when they married. 
            His father came with the Brigham Young Company in 1847.  H e t hen returned and brought his family out with the Wilford Woodruff Com pany .  He was 45 years old, his wife, Mary Ann was 26, and they had on e daugh ter, Mary age 1.  They departed 16 June 1850 with 172 individual s and 4 4 wagons in the company which began its journey from the outfitti ng pos t at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). 
            In early 1850, Church leaders advised emigrants that pione e r companies would travel on anew route on the south side of the Platt e Ri ver. By taking this new route they avoided some river crossings on t he no rth side that had proved dangerous because of high water in the pre viou s year. They also expected to receive additional military protectio n o n a new army supply road. This was a factor in their decision becaus e the y wanted to avoid conflict with the Plains Indians,who had been agi tate d during the 1849 California gold rush. The 200-mile long army roa d conne cted "Old Fort Kearny," located 50 miles below Kanesville on th e Missour i River, to "New Fort Kearny" following the south side of the P latte Rive r to the west.
            The following is from the summary of the Company: “The compa n y was somewhat spread out with the 1st and 2nd Fifties led by Leonard H ar dy and Edson Whipple. Elder Woodruff, traveling with the 1st Fifty, cr oss ed Salt Creek on June 28. After leaving Salt Creek they turned wes t o n a cutoff trail (near present-day Swedesburg, Nebraska). All of th e comp anies except Andrus used this cutoff(which passed near present-da y Davi d City and Bellwood, Nebraska). This cutoff trail, which bypasse d the Cot tonwood/Wahoo Creek drainage, saved them 12 miles.On this short cut route , they reached the Platte about 20 miles west of the regular ro ute take n earlier by Andrus. During this early leg of the journey, a num ber of pe ople died from cholera.  The two divisions reunited on July 7 o n the Plat te.
            They followed the south bank of the Platte River a hundred m i les west past Grand Island, where they joined with the Oregon Trail com in g north from Missouri. At this juncture they continued 15 more miles t o " New Fort Kearny", which they reached on July 15,although army reserve d gr azing rights and companies weren't permitted to camp within a mile o f th e fort. On this day they were visited by a tremendous thunderstorm , and l ightning killed three oxen and one member of the company.They con tinued u p the south side and miraculously escaped any serious accident o r wagon b reakage during an exciting wagon stampede on July 30. The nex t daythey re ached the Upper Crossing of the South Platte (located abou t three miles w est of present-day Brule, Nebraska).
            From Ash Hollow they traveled up the Platte River, arrivin g a t Fort Laramie on August 18. Leaving there, they skirted the Black Hi ll s by taking the river road. They were delayed some days looking for lo s t cattle but reached the Upper Crossing (at present-day Casper,Wyoming ) o n September 3. Along much of the road west from Fort Laramie until th ey r eached the Sweetwater, they found little grass, which caused their c attl e to wander and slowed their pace.
            They reached Devil's Gate on September 8. On September 14 th e y bypassed the established road over the Rocky Ridges by veering to th e n orth through a draw. This variant road, scouted out by J.A. Stratto n an d three other men who were sent out by Brigham Young to locate bette r rou tes and help guide the companies to the Salt Lake Valley, it report edly h ad an abundance of feed and water. Unfortunately, Elder Woodruff f ound n o feed or water and said that companies should not take that road.
            They rejoined the established road just east of Rock Creek . O ne day west of South Pass they met with a war party of 500 Snake Indi ans , but were able to avoid conflict. They crossed the Green River on Se ptem ber 23 and reached Fort Bridger on September 27. Some in the 1st Fif ty be gan murmuring, Elder Woodruff advised that division to move on ahea d of t hem to the valley. Woodruff's Fifty found the road very rough betw een Bi g and Little Mountain but reached Salt Lake on October 14. Death s in th e company numbered at least 17, many from cholera.”
            His family settled in Provo, Utah, Utah Territory. Willard w a s the fifth child o eleven, five girls and six boys, born to Edson an d Ha rriet Yeager Whipple.  Edson had six wives.  Harriet and Mary Ann we re si sters and were married to him on the same day on 4 November 1850 i n Sal t Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory. 
            Willard went to school at the Brigham Young Academy for a wh i le with Karl G. Maeser as a teacher.  In 1880 he left and when to Provo .   He found that his parents had sold their home and gone to Arizona.   H e worked for a while in Provo and then went to Arizona in March of 18 82. 
            Emma and Willard first lived in a two room lumber home tha t h e had built during the summer.  They bought a new stove, a bedstead a nd s ix chairs, a wash tub, cooking utensils and dishes, and a small supp ly o f provisions, and paid cash for all of it.  They lived there for abo u t a year and a half.  Emma and Willard had fourteen children, six girl s a nd eight boys.  Joseph was born 29 August 1885 and died the same day.  Lyd ia Emma was born 16 February 1887; Willard Jr. was born 15 August 18 88; H arriet was born 23 March 1890; Nancy was born 3 June 1892 in Show L ow,Nav ajo, Arizona Territory; Laura Walrade was born 31 May 1895 in Adai r, Nava jo,Arizona and died on pneumonia on 7 June 1897; Oliver was bor n 22 Janua ry 1898 in Adair and died on 30 January 1898. The rest of th e children we re born in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona Territory. 
            Alzada was born 5 April 1899; Anne Julia was born 31 Janua r y 1902; Orson Temple was born 19 May 1904; Charles Chester was born 1 6 Oc tober 1906; Howard Eugene was born 5 January 1909; and twins Milto n Lloy d and Melvin Floyd were born 15 June 1911. 
            Willard and Emma decided in 1897 that they wanted to go to U t ah and be sealed in the Temple. Accordingly, on the 4 Aug 1897 they le f t home in a double bed wagon. The wagon had a good canvas cover and a c hu ck box on the back that had a lid to make a table to use in preparin g mea ls. They had a four horse team pull the wagon. Lydia says,"The foo d taste d so good on the trip. Father did most of the cooking over the fi re, an d food has never in my life tasted so good as that. There were bak ing pow der biscuits, and dutch oven potatoes seasoned with home grown po rk and o nions, good gravy that was super. We bought butter and cheese an d fruit a long the way from the farms we passed.
            She did not have water in the home until the last few year s o f her married life.  She used a wash board most of her life to do th e was hing.  It was only later in years that she had a power washer.  Whe n th e twins were born she became very ill and her life hung in the balan ce fo r days until a doctor was sent for.  Women of the town took care o f her u ntil she gradually got well. She worked as a midwife and a nurs e for th e surrounding area. 
            In 1932 Willard built a new five room house just south of t h e old house. They fixed a pump and piped water into the house and had h o t water and a kitchen sink and a bathroom for the first time in their l iv es. Soon electricity was brought in also. She was lovingly called Au nt Em .  On 23 September 1934 they celebrated their golden wedding annive rsary.   It was the first time that all of Emma’s family had been togethe r for m ore than fifty years. 
            Willard passed away on 5 April 1941 in Show Low, Navajo, Ari z ona at the age of 83 and was buried on 7 April 1941 in Show Low. 
            Emma died on 29 August 1948 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona a t t he age of 80.  She was buried 31 August 1948 in Show Low by Willard.

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• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Oct 1886, SGEOR

Alonzo married Nellie Ellsworth on 26 Apr 1886 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States. Nellie was born on 1 Jun 1866 in Weber, Utah, United States; died on 28 Jun 1928 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States; was buried on 30 Jun 1928 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Oct 1886, SGEOR