Chapter One

LIFE SKETCHES  IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LIFE OF ALICE RANDALL CLARK 

Compiled by her daughters  Rhoda C. Taylor and Maurine c. Wiberg

Alice Randall Clark was born of pioneer parents, Alfred  Randall and Margaret Elizabeth Harley. Alfred and Margaret were  married at winter quarters by President Brigham Young January 31,  1848. Brother Randall had prepared to come to the west with the first company of Saints but a broken leg prevented this move.  Instead he let Brother Heber C. Kimball have his outfit and they waited until the following year, coming to Salt Lake in 1848.  Alice was born in Centerville, Utah, on the 21 of December, 1863; the sixth child in a family of seven children, two boys and  five girls.  The following quotations are taken from Alice Randall's own  autobiography: 

"In my girlhood, or childhood I should say,  I was somewhat of an athlete.  I could run faster,  jump the rope longer than any girl or boy on the  playground and I liked to swing higher.  One large barn had a swing where some would pull ropes to swing us. I was never satisfied until I swang out  far enough to see over the barn.

"Another sport, when a girl, was to climb a high hill east of our home. I would climb higher  than anyone else to get to run down. I had done so  much of that that one time I ran down a board where B. H. Roberts was shingling his house. I knew no fear until I heard him sort of scream. I had to go on then but had to turn to save going into a fence  and ran more than the length of half a block to get  stopped. 

"There is a little item that might give you an  idea of pioneer life: I think one of the earliest recollections I have of anything is one evening I  would sit up until Mother finished a pair of shoes  she was making for me out of old pants so she could

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