MY MEMORIES OF ELIZA DANGERFIELD WEST

MY MEMORIES OF ELIZA DANGERFIELD WEST

Zilnorah D. Barnett

(with slight modifications by Hazel West Lewis)

Grandma was received as a member of the Clearfield Ward July 3, 1910 from the Salt Lake Ninth Ward where since Grandfather's death she had been living with her son, Jabez, and family.

In Clearfield she lived in one of the rooms of my parent's home. She had her own bed and stove and loved to fix her own breakfast in her room but always ate her other two meals with our family. She was a dear old soul and I never heard any of us complaining about her living there.

We chatted with her and she told us many experiences of her early life. She was a visiting teacher in the Relief Society in the Clearfield Ward and loved to bear her testimony. I can hear her yet!

Grandma was a strict tithe payer. She even paid tithing on her gifts!

I did her sewing for a few years before she died. She was always so trim and neat. She was very strict about putting her little hats away out of the dust.

She always kept her money in a pocket in her petticoat when traveling. In order to get access to this money she had to lift her skirt.

She made many piecework quilts. She loved to give readings and some of her poetry I still have. She was very entertaining.

Grandma was an excellent practical nurse. Many are the times she nursed members of her family and other people through serious illnesses.

The few days before she died she made thirteen mincemeat pies, which her family ate when they came to her funeral. Delicious pies, I may add. She baked them in her old fashioned stove, which she kept polished so well.

On the morning of her death, December 26,1915, she was all dressed ready for church. She came into the kitchen and said, “Liza, get me a chair.” She was helped to bed and passed quietly away. My sister Annie Draper Ashby Larsen was holding her in her arms.