113. Levinah Emmaline Wilson, my mother Ruth's mother. Widow for 32 years.
Levinah Emmaline Wilson , or “Emm” was born down on “The Muddy”, St. Thomas, Nevada, as it was called, on April 14, 1870. It was covered now Lake Mead. She was born in a dirt floored and dirt roofed house. Her father had been called there to start a saw-mill. She told the story, as it had been told to her, that at her birth it was raining, (a rare thing for that section), and that sisters had to hold pans over the bed to catch the rain water, during her birth process. Only the tops of a few trees used to show through the lake to show where the town had been. It since is uncovered now due to the lake having less water. Her father was George Deliverance Wilson, and her mother was Martha Ann Riste. She was the 7th child out of eleven. There were eight boys and three girls. Aunt Martha was 10 years older than Mother and quite sickly. Aunt Sadie was 8 years younger, so Levinah had brothers both younger and older than she was. When Levinah was about 1 ½ years old t