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seldom got snow there. Dad bought a jersey cow and as in this house, but anyway, spring was near, when he rented
usual it was my job to do the milking. She didn’t give very a farm about 7 or 8 miles from there. We moved to this
much milk; we couldn’t get good feed for her. Seems they place, a small house. I don’t know how we managed, but
didn’t raise much feed and hay there then. We fed her cot- we did. The weather was real nice there. Dad put out quite
ton seeds. That part of Arkansas was cotton and rice crops. a large crop and we had alfalfa too. He bought three cows
The children in grade school started to school. Blanche so again I started milking cows. Mother and us “kids” put
and I didn’t get to high school as planned, so we went to out a large garden. We had an organ so I kept up my music
the school and in the eighth grade again to review. Some practice and gave music lessons to four or five pupils that
of the studies were different and interesting. We went to summer. I rode the pony from place to place. I charged 50¢
school six weeks. It had warmed up and it was a beautiful a lesson so I had a little money of my own. I’ve neglected
walk thru woods to school (which was a shortcut). to say Blanche and I took music lessons in our early teens.
By this time, Dad knew this was no country to raise his We got acquainted and went to Sunday School. The folks
family in. So he sold the cow. We packed up once more. always furnished us some kinds of transportation to go. We
He and Cecil went with the stock car and again Mother got to go to Sunday School and play parties that summer, for
and us went by train to Carter, Oklahoma. We stayed in the first time. I was eighteen past by this time. Blanche, Ha-
Oklahoma City four weeks. We stayed at a hotel until the zel and I became interested in the Free Methodist Church
freight train came with Father, Cecil, and the household and were baptized (immersed) the summer of 1915.
goods, horses, etc. It was a couple of days behinds us. We
I later in life was baptized in the LDS Church, January 14,
remained at the hotel until Dad had time to rent a house.
1961. To me this church is the best, far ahead of the other
We moved into this house. There was barn room for the
one.
horses and chickens. We didn’t unpack, only just enough
to get by. No one went to school. I forget how long we lived I played the organ for the church and Sunday School, also
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