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During that year Juanita finished the seventh grade and entered the eighth. She was still small for her age and unchanged by puberty. Yet her status was changing. Her parents had compounded their family on a regular basis. Mary gave birth to Daisy Ina in September 1907, to Eva in February Page 22 1909, and to Francis Hale in June 1911. The birth of Francis was a genuine initiation for Juanita, who for the first time in her life was asked to assist. Grandmother Mariah Leavitt, very old and decrepit, was in charge.
Water was literally measured by the drop. You must never dip a full cup from the barrel; you should take only a little bit, just what you could drink. If you were handed a full cup you drank what you wanted and gave the rest back for the host to dispose of. Usually he handed it to the next person, or poured it carefully into a bucket kept for waste water, to be given later to the chickens. " 12 Nevertheless, Juanita flourished in the out-of-doors. Her father liked to take Mary and their children along when he went out to look after his cattle.
When she began to collect pioneer diaries in earnest, she also began to preserve a record of her own doings. She wrote sporadic diaries and more consistently saved the letters others wrote her and kept carbon copies of her own letters and manuscripts. The following pages reconstruct Juanita's complicated domestic life in considerable detail. She remained affectionately allied to an enormous host of relatives descended from pioneer stockthe Leavitts, Hafens, Pulsiphers, and Brookses. Her story gives valuable insight into Page 6 that institution for which modern Mormondom is famous, the extended family.
