The third child was a boy, Joy. He and Aunt Daisy lived in Glendive, Montana. They had no children. We visited them also in 1920. I don’t know what he did for a living.
My mother was next and then Uncle Charles. I think he was fairly close to her in age. He and his wife lived in North Dakota and they had two daughters.
I don’t know how much younger than my mother Aunt Mabel was but in old pictures of the family when my mother was a young lady, Aunt Mabel appeared to be a teenager. Aunt Mabel was married to another one of my Uncle Ed’s, Ed Moor. He was a great favorite, too. In 1920 they lived in Salem Springs, Iowa which was very near LeRoy and we saw quite a bit of them. She had five children but two of them died while they were still children. The oldest was Vernita, who was older than me. She still lives in Des Moines and has a large family. She is widowed. There is a boy eight or so younger than me who now lives in California. He was very smart and so were his children (Mom kept track of them). The youngest of Aunt Mabel’s children was Beth. By WWII she was widowed and she and Beth came out to California to work and thus were close again to my mother and Aunt Anna who was also widowed and living there. So in later years the three sisters were near each other again!
The youngest child in my mother’s family was Wilber. He came along lat like Edee and was much petted and favored especially by Mom and Aunt Mabel. In 1920 he and his family lived on a farm in Iowa not too far from Aunt Mabel Moor. We visited them also and had the fun farm experiences there! His wife was named Mabel, too, and she, Aunt Mable and Mom were very good friends. They had five children and even tho’ Uncle Wilber died when he was still in his thirties, Aunt Mabel Howe and her children have remained very close to Aunt Mabel Moor and I still exchange Christmas cards with one of those cousins.
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