MEMORIES OF CHARLES HENRY JOHN WEST
by Zilnorah Draper Barnett
He and Grandmother visited us many times before they moved to Clearfield. He was a bookkeeper and helped my father George Draper with his bookkeeping. Father hired several men to work in the hay fields and care for cattle so at times needed help with bookkeeping.
Grandfather loved children and used to sing to us. At one time we had a wooden doll and he used to dance this wooden doll on his knee and sing, "Sweet Evalina, Dear Evalina, My love for you shall never, never die."
He taught us to love the common things of life. He had a very sunny disposition. I can never remember seeing him angry.
Grandfather had remarkable eyesight and did not wear glasses. He said he had received his second eyesight.
He could write the Lord's Prayer on a paper the size of a dollar and it was readable. He was a fine penman.
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