There were seven childen in family e set out with mother for calfornia. Fred was the baby and was train sick all the way from Niagara falls to the Golden Gate. Lill, the next to youngest hed 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 did not always feel too well hersef.
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 possible light and to have her family approve of us.