Saturday, August 8, 2009

Aunt Ruth's Book, Frank's Autobiography, page 4, paragraph 5

When father left for his mission on November 8, 1894, just before Christmas, Uncle Edward Follett came from Pima and took us to stay awhile with mother’s folks. We started out with two big three year old colts and two work horses of ours in addition to Uncle’s team. When we neared Florence, one of the colts gave out and we had to sell her to a rancher for $4.00 and three bales of hay. Soon one of the mares in the team gave out. We tied her to the back of the wagon. She got so tired that she fell and broke her neck. This made mother feel very bad to lose these two animals. The rest of the trip was made safely. A few days after we arrived at Uncle Ed’s, our colt was found dead. This left us with only two horses.

1 comment:

M. Ellsworth said...

Curious about Uncle Edward Follett and the family in Pima, I searched for them in 1900. Several Follett families were there, but not Edward. I wonder if it was a middle name.