Mary

About the Book

Mary and her children left England in 1862. She was to join her husband in Utah as soon as she could get there. She would have put it off longer because it was such a hard trip for her. But he worte to her and told her that he was thinking of taking another wife. She didn’t tell the children this, but she sold everything and they left. She was so surprised that she couldn’t imagine it and she hurried as fast as she could to protect their family. John was only teasing her because he wanted her there with him, but she didn’t know this. But that only made her more worried than anything he had previous told her. It had hurt. After many months of worrying and traveling, they arrived in Salt Lake. John had long since forgotten what he had told her and was surprised when she told him about it. He hadn’t wanted Mary to worry so, but she was not forgiving. Until she had been called to a next door neighbors house to treat a man who later that night had died from a heart attack. She was so stricken that she rushed home at once to tell John that she forgave him and that things were to be as usual. They later moved to Huntsville which was named after a Captain Hunter who had been a sea captain. Brigham Young asked her if she would be the doctor of that community. She was glad to do it and she served that place until she died.

About the Author

Frances Helmold was born in Monterey Park in Los Angeles County in 1928. When she was six months old, the family moved to Heyburn, Idaho. Her mother was born there and her father was from Burley, Idaho. When she was only eight years old, her Mother died of an infection. They didn’t have any medicine at that time, but the doctor in Burley had heard of a new drug called Sulfa. He called Chicago and asked them to send it which they did. But a late spring storm came up and the plane had to land and wait it out. By the time he got to Burley, it was too late. Frances was raised on the farm of her Grandmother and Grandfather in Heyburn. But then her father got remarried and took the children with him. Later they moved to Portland, Oregon. She always felt like a lost little girl and then she moved back to Burley. When she was eighteen, she married. She stuck it out for nineteen years. Now, Frances is seventy seven years old. She is married again to the most wonderful man in the world.