MY NAME --- 2-6-10

ONE MORE LITTLE THING TO ADD. AFTER READING THE STUFF IN THE TABLET I HAVE WRITEN MOST OF IT BEFORE SO WILL JUST ADD WHAT I MAY HAVE MISSED.
WHEN ASK ABOUT WHY MY NAME WAS PICKED MOM ALWAYS SAID SHE LIKE IT SO I GOT THAT NAME. I GUESS THAT WAS REASON ENOUGH. JUST TO SHOW HOW NAMES CAN BE PICKED THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF THE DAY.SUSAN CALLED ME AWHILE AGO TO TELL ME JOE AND SARA HAVE THEIR BABY BOY BORN YESTERDAY. SUSAN ASK JOE WHAT HIS NAME WOULD BE AND JOE SAID WE DON'T KNOW YET THE SUPER BOWL HASN'T BEEN WON. SO DEPENDING ON THE OUT COME IT WILL BE DREW ARE PAYTON FOR THE WINNING QUARTERBACK. NOW THATS THE WAY TO PICK YOUR BABY'S NAME BORN IN FEB CLOSE TO THE BIG GAME AND A BOY YET!!!

I WAS BLESSED BY BISHOP E.P. PETERSON IN THE TWIN GROVES LDS CHURCH HOUSE- AND THE YELLOWSTONE STAKE [WHICH NEITHER NO LONGER EXITS.] THERE IS A TWIN GROVES WARD BUT THEY MEET IN ST. ANTHONY NOW.

MY FATHER JOHN WILLIAM FARRIMOND WAS BORN AUGUST 11, 1881 AT WHAT HE ALWAYS SAID WAS INCE NEAR WIGAN, LANCASHIRE ENGLAND. HE CAME WITH HIS FAMILY AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF NINE MONTH TO THE U.S.A. HIS FAMILY CONSISTED OF JAMES FARRIMOND, MARGARET BARTON FARRIMOND AND SISTERS ANNE, JANE AND LEAH. THEY SETTLED IN KAYSVILLE UTAH AS THAT IS WHERE MY GREAT GRANDFATHER BARTON LIVED. THEY MOVED IN WITH HIM TILL GRANDPA GOT A PLACE OF HIS OWN. I REMEMBER AUNT LEAH SAYING THAT "GRANDPA BARTON WAS DANG MEAN". I THINK HOW CROWDED THEY WERE IN THAT VERY SMALL HOUSE AND MY GRAND MOTHER HAD SOME PHYSICAL HANDICAPS WHICH LIKELY KEPT HER FROM KEEPING THINGS IN ORDER.. I'M NOT SURE JUST WHAT BUT THINK THAT MAY BE WHY SHE DIED AT A RATHER YOUNG AGE. SHE IS BURIED IN KAYSVILLE,UTAH. AUNT LEAH TOLD US THAT SHE PROMISED MOTHER SHE WOULD TAKE CARE OF DADDY AND JACK AS THEY CALLED MY DAD. SHE DID THE BEST SHE COULD I THINK AS SHE WAS MARRIED AND MAYBE HAD HER CHILDREN BY THEN ARE AT LEAST ONE. LITTLE ALICE DIED AT A YOUNG AGE AND SHE HAD VERNON AND RAMONA.
MOM WAS BORN IN WILLIAMSON,{NOW VIDOR} ORANGE COUNTY TEXAS OCT. SEVENTH,1896 TO WILLIAM CHESTER BAKER {KNOWN AS CHET} AND LUCETTIA WILLIAMSON BAKER. SHE WAS ONE OF NINE CHILDREN TWO OF HER SIBBLINGS DIED AS YOUNG CHILDREN. SHE WAS GIVEN THE NAME MILLIE BAKER. DAD FOUND HER WHILE ON HIS MISSION AND AFTER HIS MISSION HE RETURNED TO TEXAS TO COURT AND MARRY HER SO THAT IS HOW MY STORY REALLY BEGAN.
MY FOLKS MOVED TO OGDEN BECAUSE DADS ASTHMA WAS EASIER FOR HIM TO BREATHE AND THEY COULD WORK AT THE D.I. TO SUPPORT THEM SELVES. I THINK ABOUT WHEN RAMONA PUT AUNT LEAH IN THE NURSING HOME NOW KNOWN AS THE GOOD SAMARITAN. SHE ASK ME IF I'D CHECK ON 'MAMA' A FEW TIMES A WEEK SINCE SHE LIVED IN TWIN GROVES AND COULDN'T GET DOWN HERE EVERYDAY. I'D GO OVER AFTER WORKING AT THE OLD LDS HOSPITAL AND CHECK TO SEE HOW THINGS WAS GOING. WHEN I TOLD THE FOLKS SHE WAS THERE THEY DROVE THEM SELVES UP TO SEE HER. MOM CRIED AND SAID "OH HOW I WISH WE LIVED IN ST. ANTHONY SO I COULD TAKE LEAH HOME AND CARE FOR HER IN HER LAST DAYS ON EARTH". MOM LIKELY WASN'T IN THAT GOOD OF HEALTH HER SELF FOR CARING FOR SOME ELSE BUT SHE WOULD HAVE DONE IT.