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SENT FROM RICHARD HIATT COLO
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Sent by George Hiatt. D/o Ettore E. Morandini and Marcella Stefani.
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D/o Nathan Mortimor and Sarah Baker
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Sent by Laska Potter. D/o Edwards Pitcher and Mary Ann Eldridge.
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Sent by A. Boyd Nielsen and Velta Cleverley. D/o Arthur Morrison Rawson and Margaret Angeline Pace.
I was born in Ogden City, Utah on 14 Oct 1861. My parents were Arthur
Morrison Rawson and Margaret Angeline Pace.
I was about one year old when we left Ogden and went to Harmony, Iron,
Utah. We lived there for several years. My sister Annie was born there on 20
Jan 1864 and on 4 April 1867, my sister Millie was born. I can remember when
Millie was a baby about having a big flood, Pa was away from home and Ma took
the baby with her and went to visit a neighbor and while she was gone, it
started to rain, and it just poured down.
The water began to come in the house, my sister Lizzie and me put
everything on the bed that we could lift, then we all got on the bed out of the water. When Pa and Ma came home, we had to wade through the water to a big hill.
After the water had gone down, we went back to the house. The water had
washed the chimney out and about a foot of mud was on the floor. It drowned
all of our chickens and a little calf.
We didn't stay there long after that. My Uncle Frank came down with a team and wagon and helped us move back to Ogden.
While we were crossing Provo Bench, a strange man came up to talk with the men. He rode quite a ways with Pa and told him lots of things. Then he got out to walk and the man just stepped behind the wagon and disappeared. We supposed that he was one of the three Nephites.
We went to my Grandpa Rawson's first. I don't remember how long we stayed there but, my sister Millie was just a baby when we moved to a place called Harrisville, about seven miles northwest of Ogden. Pa took him up a little piece of land and built a one room log house on it.
I was baptized in the year 1869 in Harrisville, Utah by my uncle, Daniel
Berry Rawson, and he confirmed me the same time.
My Uncle Daniel has a molasses mill that was run by a big water Wheel. We used to go watch him, and he would give us the skimming from the molasses to make candy.
I can remember the first railroad that came through there. There were lots of tramps there and they used to scare us nearly to death sometimes. Way in the night they would come to our place, and there were lots of Indians wasn't anyone home but us four girls. They said they were hungry. Sister Lizzie gave them some bread, they pulled her out of the door and scared her nearly to death. Then how they did laugh. They weren't hungry, they just wanted to scare us.
We had a little bunch of sheep, in the spring they would shear these sheep, then we would wash the wool and take it to the carding machine and have it made into rolls. Ma would spin these rolls into yarn, then Grandma Rawson would weave the rolls into year and into cloth for our dresses. Then Lizzie and me would spin all the yarn to make our stockings. We only had three months of school a year. My first teachers name was Stephen Wilson and our next teacher was his mother, and they were both good teachers.
Then we sold our place and bought another on west of our old one. I was
about fifteen years old when I worked for Grandma Rawson one summer. We used
to have lots of snow in the winter time. We could get a crowd of young people and go sleigh riding. We sure had lots of good times.
I was seventeen years old in October, then on 13 Feb 1879, I was married to Reuben Hiatt in the old Endowment House in Salt Lake City. The first year we were married, we lived on William Owen's place, then the next year we farmed our own land down by Plane City.
Margaret, our first baby, was born on 7 Jan 1880. We stayed there two
years, then Ellen was born on 1 Dec 1881. We stayed there that year, then in
1882, we went to Pleasant Valley and worked at the saw mill that summer. That winter we lived in Jim Taylor's house and Mary Jane was born 24 Dec 1883.
When Mary Jane was a baby, we moved up to Egin Beach. We had one hundred
and sixty acres of land and lived on John Fisher's place that summer while we
built our log house. We moved in it for winter. We had lived on our place
about one year. Then on 26 Jan, our first son was born in 1886, he never lived quite a year. He died on 28 Nov that same year, 1886.
The Brighton Ward was organized on 19 May 1886 and Reuben was put in as
Bishop. Robert Greenwood and Richard Hensely were his counselors.
I was first Counselor in the Relief Society the same time. They
re-organized the Relief Society and then I was put in as a teach and was a
teacher until I left there.
We had five more children born in the old log house, then we sold that
place and went to Nibley Oregon in the year of 1902. We was only there a
little while when little Pearl died.
Then on 24 April 1903, Viola was born, she was bout four years old when we
left there and went to Union on a large ranch. We moved to Union Town, then I was a Relief Society teacher there.
I also worked in the religion class. Then on 2 Feb 1906,
rheumatic heart. Then we sold our place and went to Nampa and lived there
about two years.
In the fall of 1910, we came to Rupert, Idaho. There was just a branch
here then. We held church in the Saints then.
When the ward was organized here, I was First Counselor to Mrs.
Woodfinden. We worked in the Relief Society about four years.
When I was in the Relief Society, the first bulletins came out, then they started the magazine and I have taken it ever since, only about one year. I have been Relief Society teacher altogether forty years.
In the year of 1920, I was left a widow. We moved into town and have lived here for thirteen years.
I have had ten children, forty-secen grandchildren and twelve
great-grandchildren. Four of my children have died.
I will be seventy-four years old my next birthday on 14 Oct 1935.
B-New Harmony, Iron Co. ward rec F # 6425 Pg 276
Bap-Early Union Ore ward rec F #20327
E-End H rec F #25165 pt 28 pg32 Mar. sealing redone 10 Jun 1976 CFI batch
M183402, Ser 0726
D-cert from State of Idaho File #152387