Journal number four

I hope I remember where I was one the last entery. After we left Masa Arizona we went to Huricain for six months this is where I go going to the LDS Church. I think I was in the last year of primary. I was really liking it. I didn't at this time go to church yet because I didn't have anybody to encurage me yet. I do remember that I liked school. I would never miss school because I liked it so well . I guess I say this because I see some of my grandkids making some excuse to not to have to go to school. I can remember that I had kids teese me and throw rocks at me when I was going to school in Short Creek Arizona but that didn't make me not like school. I remember one year when we were going to school in Short Creek I was picked to run the arrons for the teacher and I had to go a long ways because we hat to go clear across the creek where it was in the Utah side of the town that is called Hills Dail now. I even remember when we would go out to recess and the kids would not let me play on the slide or the swings but I didn't want to stay home from school . I guess I am saying you need to forget these things and simply go to school. Now getting back to Huricain. Like I said we stayed there six months. We then moved to Salt Lake City. I don't remember the address but I think it was Lindin Av but not sure . I don't remember how long we stayed there it was probably a year. Then we moved to another house and was there for about three years. These were all in the same arrea. This was the house we lived when Dad came home one nnight and told us that we needed to go the Elco Nevada because the law was going to come and take us away from him. That night we packed the car us and left. There was six of us kids and they had the car packed up to almost the top of the car and us kids layed acrossed the top of all the cloths and beding . We were scared because of just what had happened to us when they had the raid that summer. We were there for half of the summer while Dad devorsed aunt Esther which was Dads second wife and Married Mom legeal. Then Dad thinking that he was still in the llime light of the law took us to Mexico where Dads sister-in-law liked. I am not really sure how she was really related to us but that is as close as I can come. We stayed there for the rest of the summer. Dad wanted to leave me down there but I was a little scared because an old man was looking at me and I didn't know what was going on. I was interested in a younger boy and I liked he really a lot but I was more scared of this older man and I would not stay down there even though we didn't have much room . We come back to the house that we were living in when he came that night and took us to Nevada. Dad told us kids that we should stay home from school but I told Mom thad I was not staying home from school because I liked school so well.

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I don't know if I posted the last one. It was the beginning of my journal. I was talking about the year l953 when they had a raid in Short Creek Arizona. We lived there at the time. It was a experience I would not ever want to experience again. I was ll years old at the time. We as a family were taken down to Masa Arizona in buses and were put into homes as families and I think we were put into probable the best family. It was an older couple and they had a 18 year old girl still at home. It was really funny the things us as kids liked to eat we had never had catchup or botten bread before. We liked catchup sandwiches the best. They treated us really good . We could have just about anything we wanted. Which was not very heard to please us because we had had none of the things that they had so anything was good to us. This is one of the things I remember that I did that was not really funny at the time but the 18 year old was a little on the heavy side and I was sitting by her on a bench and I just made a simple statement I said look at how much room you take and I said I don't take as much room as you do. I don't think that is very funny now . I think it was roud. She took it really good though. These people were very good people though. They drank coffee but they didn't try to give it to us.
Some of the other families were not quite as lucky as we were. I remember the ones that my sister Esther got were not as lucky because they would try and give coffee to her kids and other things not bad things but it was things that st didn't want her kids to eat. Esther was put into different families because of that but my Mom and us kids we left into the same families all the time we were down there. We were also taken to parks about once a week so we were able to associate with some of the others. We as a family were not members of the church that lived down there but my parents believed a lot like they did but we didn't join their church. We pretty much stayed to our self. We were down there all summer and we started school down there. They even let our Dad come visit us. He wasn't home when they raded the town. Dad was on a ranch im Arizona some where so he wasn't taken to jail as the rest of the men were. They were taken to Knogman to jail. We were on e of the first to get let go because we promises to not go back to Short Creek and live we ending up in Salt Lake we just went back long enough toget our cloths and a few things. I' ll tell you about that later. April 14, 1009

Blog number 5

I want to tell you what it was like to be a family of plural wives. It at the time I was living in it was the same as normal but now as I look back it was really different. The age I really remember it being was when I was in the fifth grade and I was living in the basement of my uncle who was the leader of the group in what is now called Colorado City and I remember my uncle taking one of his step daughters to wife and I was so shocked because she was only two years older then I and I was only 11years old. I knew then that I didn't like that idea because I was not ready for being a mother. I was still playing with dolls. This was in latter part of 1953. The reason I remember this year is because it was that summer when they had the BIG Reade in Short Creek Arizona,We were living there at the time on the Reade.
We lived in a basement house which only had one bedroom and a kitchen, living room , we as kids slept out side in old cars that had the seats taken out with mattresses in there , that is if we were lucky. One night about midnight we were woken up with sirens coming from both ends of town. Where the police were coming to take over the town. I remember my brother Sherrell was out in one of the cars and this scared him so bad he jumped up and latterly flew in too my parents bedroom. I was sleeping on a mattress outside on the ground and that scared me so bad also. I can remember hearing somebody running down the street calling for everybody to head for the hills. I remember Mom and Esther, my oldest sister trying to match their kids up as twins because her older kids and moms youngest ones were the same age. That sounds pretty funny but my sister was married when she was only 14 years old. This is the part of plural marriage that I didn't like. This makes it so you don't have a chance to be children especially the girls. Esthers first two children died shortly after they were born because he body was not ready to carry babies. My sister, Esther had 14 children. She was not able to have fun in her life. She couldn't play with dolls or go out and play ball or any thing like that she was taking care of her little babies and cleaning house. I have always felt sorry for her. This is why I am really glad I chose the way of life did.Well I better get on with my story. These are a few things I remember of the Reade. When the police came into Short Creek they took over the school building and fixed to they could take us down there and fix us meals but mom would not take us down there we stayed home and ate.

Blog four April 7, 2009

Just let you know what is going to in my life. Today Delma Paxman called me up to let me know the Gregor Bushar passed away this morning at 3:00 A:M . I wasn't really shocked because he as been bed ridden for atleast a month. His furnal will be this saterday at 1:oo.
This morning I was talking with Dean befor Delma called up and I seen another side of Dean. I don't know how to explain it to you but he seemed to be a sad side. He has always made you think that he didn't care about things like this but he really does. I decided I needed to be more kind to him .
I am going to talked about what I am doing . I am trying to get a quilt for each one of my grand kids. I have one for each of my older ones and now am down to my younger ones. Last year I didn't get it done until just befor Christmas and I said that I wasn't going to do that this year so I am trying to get them done befor the summer is here. I probable won't get them down befor sept. but I will get them befor thanksgiveing or they won't get done. I have atleast five to go. I'll do what ever I have left next year.
I am going to try to get on here every day from now on. I won't do too much but I will give you a little update. I am going to try to get a little of my history on here. I have been going to try to get this done for a long time. Well take care and I'll see you next time. Love Ann