Person:Dora Pierce (3)

    I was a very blessed child being born into a home where love was it's very foundation. My parents loved eachother dearly and each of us children. We knew nothing but love and kindness all of our lives. We have always been a very close family. We always were welcome to bring our friends home which we did often and they were always treated so they wanted to come back. All the kids our age used to gather at our home for parties both summer and winter. Most every summer we had city cousins staying with us off and on all summer.
    We always had fun Chrismas'. We had so much fun going up on the hill in back of our home and getting a tree. Us kids alsays did it then we would decorate it. Mother felt that was our privilege and we did enjoy it. We didn't have any boughten decorations, we always made everything we ;put on it. Looking back on it I'm sure it wasn't the best looking, but at the time we sure thought so. We always made paper chains, strings of popcorn stars, santa's, paper stockings and everything else a kid, or six kids, could think of. Mother and Father always acted like it was beautiful.
     We never had much money, so as children we had to create our own things to play with. Therefore, everyone was always involved and it really helped us to grow close together. We depended on eachother for our entertainment.

We had a canal close to us where we spent a lot of time in the summer swimming.

    We always had a lot of company. Our aunts and uncles came to our home a lot so we got to play with and learn to love our cousins.

My childhood was very happy, for the spirit of love and peace reigned in our home.

    I was the second child born to my mother and father. They had two boys and four girls. My parents had been to the temple before I was born, and this was always such a comfort to me through my childhood days, because as a child my mother was ill a lot and I always felt that if any thing happened to her we would still be together as a family someday. This security I thank my parents for from the bottom of my heart.
     About the first thing in my life I remember was a real serious illness I had when I was four years old. The thing which impressed me about this was the pills the Dr. gave my mother to have me take. For the life of me I couldn't get those pills to go down no matter how far back on my tongue I put them. They would roll around in my mouth untill all the sweet was off and nothing but bitter was left. In fact they would be practically melted before I could get them down. Well I got wise to that old stuff, so I would hold them in my mouth until my mother left the room, oh I was sly. I even swallowed so she would think they were down, then she left and I would put them behind the bed. I didn't think about the day when she would find them. Anyway after she did find them and made sure I swallowed them I got better faster.
      My parents both have beautiful voices. I think one of the highlights of my childhood days was to listen to them sing together.