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...PICTURE A-2 (5).. .FRANKLIN ROSA BUILT THE BARN AND THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS. THE HOME HAD A PORCH, AN ENTRY ROOM AND KITCHEN AND FRONT ROOM ALL IN ONE AND FROM THERE AN ARCHWAY INTO A LARGE LIVING ROOM AND THEN A BEDROOM. THEN THEY ADDED ON THE BACK PART OF THE HOUSE AND IT WAS USED FOR BEDROOMS. THE OUTHOUSE WAS OUT WEST OF THE HOUSE BY THE TREES.(Q)
I WENT THERE ONE DAY AND GRANDMA, SARAH ELLEN, ASKED ME IF I WANTED A PIECE OF CAKE. I SAID "I DON'T CARE." SHE SAID "IF YOU DON'T CARE, I DON'T EITHER.'' I DIDN'T GET ANYTHING. FROM THEN ON IF SHE ASKED ME IF I WANTED SOMETHING, I SAID "YES!"(PPP)
NO MATTER WHAT, GRANDMA, SARAH ELLEN, ALWAYS SEEMED TO WANT HER OWN WAY. WHENEVER FRANK WILBER DID SOMETHING SPECIAL, IF SHE DECIDED IT WAS BETTER THAN HERS, THEN SHE MUST HAVE IT. NO MATTER WHERE FRANK WILBUR WAS, IF ANYTHING WAS WRONG, SHE WOULD SEND FOR HIM TO COME HOME. HE WAS ONLY ABLE TO STAY AT BRIGHAM YOUNG ACADEMY FOR THREE MONTH8 WHEN HE WAS CALLED HOME BECAUSE OF ILLNESS AND HIS MISSION WAS ALSO CUT SHORT FOR THE SAME REASON. FRANKLIN ROSA AND FRANK WILBUR ALWAYS GAVE IN TO HER.(VVVVV)
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FRANKLIN AND HIS SON FRANK WILBUR WERE IN THE SHEEP BUSINESS AND WERE VERY PROFITABLE. THEY WERE COMFORTABLE WHERE MATERIAL THINGS WERE CONCERNED. THEY WINTERED THEIR SHEEP IN NEVADA. ONE YEAR, BEFORE MOVING THE SHEEP, THERE WAS AN EARLY BLIZZARD AND BLEW ALL THE LITTLE LAMBS UNDER THE BARN. MOST COULD NOT BE GOTTEN OUT. THEY LOST HUNDREDS OF SHEEP THAT YEAR.(H6)
JANICE WAS RAISED BY HER GRANDPARENTS, FRANKLIN ROSA AND SARAH ELLEN, AS THEIR OWN DAUGHTER WHILE HER DAD FRANK WILBUR WAS ON HIS MISSION AND HER MOTHER GRACE WORKED TO HELP WITH HIS SUPPORT. WHEN LUCILLE WAS BORN GRACE HAD COMPLICATIONS AND GRANDMA SARAH ELLEN TOOK CARE OF LUCILLE FOR SIX MONTHS WHILE GRACE RECUPERATED .
IN 1911 FRANK WILBUR BACON PURCHASED C-8. FRANKLIN ROSA AND SARAH ELLEN, FRANK'S PARENTS, WANTED FRANK TO TRADE HOMES WITH THEM BECAUSE SARAH ELLEN WAS TIRED LIVING OUT ON THE RANCH. SO THAT IS WHAT THEY DID. THEY TRADED HOMES.(H6)
IN THE SUMMER BLUEBELLS AND BUTTERCUPS AND LARKSPURS GREW ALONG THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. IN THE WINTER WHEN THE SNOW WAS CRUSTED WE WALKED OVER THE TOPS OF THE FENCES THROUGH THE FIELDS. THIS WAS A QUARTER MILE SHORTER THAN GOING AROUND THE LONG WAY TO GO TO SCHOOL.(H6)
WHEN THE WEATHER WAS BAD WE SOMETIMES RODE TO SCHOOL WITH THE SMIT BOYS (A-l) WHO LIVED DOWN THE LANE A MILE FURTHER WEST. MOST OF THE TIME IT WAS IN A FLAT-BOTTOMED TOBOGGAN WITH ONE HORSE PULLING IT. (H6)