6. "They are closing my book"
"They are closing my book" -- by Ruth Allen Miles. Today is a story from my mother's journal -- on pages 246-248 in the book of my ancestor's lives. It is one of my very favorite stories of her life!--- "Two main tragedies happened during my last year at Dixie, both involving my mother, (Levinah Emeline Wilson Allen). Just before Thanksgiving mother (Levinah) was alone and either fell or perhaps fainted and fell between the stove and the wall. (Remember this was a coal stove.) On the stove was a pot of boiling beans which tipped over and dripped over her, burning her badly, particularly around the breast area of her body. Oh, the agony she went through with this! She was still under treatment and wearing bandages for this when in March she was going to Panguitch with some Temple workers and a newly returned missionary who had come to St. George to visit his sister. They were in a wreck and mother was the sole survivor . With a broke...