1947 (Sunday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) attended Sunday School and I went to Sacrament Meeting. One of the men who had been among those who took the trek across the plains, following the course taken by the pioneers, was the speaker in our ward and he gave a very nice description on their trip mentioning each place where the pioneers had stopped, told of the wonderful welcome given then by the people at Nauvoo and in each of the other places. When he mentioned Mt. Pisgah, my thoughts went back to my great-grandmother, Mary Lamont Sperry, who is buried there and at Winter Quarters to her husband, Joy Sperry and their son Aaron (Aaron George Sperry) who are buried there. It brought a feeling of sadness to me when I pictured in my mind some of the hardships they must have passed through. It was at Winter Quarters that Joy Sperry called his four children (John Wesley, Mary Ann, Elizabeth Lamont, Sarah, William Lamont, Charles or Harrison, Sr. – Not sure which of his 4 surviving children besides Charles) to his side and begged them to promise him they would go on to the valley of the Mountains, Grandfather (Charles Sperry), later said “I’m very thankful we kept our promise.”
When Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Edna (Edna Viola Nelson) returned home from Pleasant Grove, in the evening, they saw a little wagon in their roadway belonging to a little neighbor boy. He stopped the car and, picking up the wagon, took it on the lawn by their house, glancing at the window, he saw that the blind was on fire. A closer look showed that the mattress of the bed was on fire and the little boy and a tiny girl was in the bed. A young girl was in another room tending a crippled child and hadn’t noticed the children take the matches when they went to bed. Another few minutes and those children may have been burned, how lucky that the little boy left his wagon in the driveway and that Earl and Edna came home just when they did.
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