There were seven children in the family when we set out with mother of California.
Fred was the baby and was train sick all the way from Niagara Falls to the Golden Gate.
Lill, the next to youngest had broken a bone in her foot three weeks before and had to stay in her berth. Mother was expecting another baby in three months and didn’t always feel too well herself.
The chance to return with her children to her parents home meant more to Mother
Than any of us realized and she was anxious to show us off in the best possible light and to have her family approve of us.