Named after her fathers mother. Martha could remember when she was a little girl of going to a campaign meeting for Abraham Lincoln, and her father holding her on his shoulder so she could watch the torch light parade pass along the street to the place of the meeting, where they were campaigning for Lincoln for President.
As a little girl she had real curly black hair. She was very seriously ill at one time; her fever was so high she was delirious and she said she saw strange things. Every time she was very sick, after that she could see the things she saw then. One thing was that it seemed like peoples heads were sticking out of the wall all around the room, up by the ceiling. After this illness her pretty hair came out; it was black but not so curly when it came in again.
Their home in Michigan was on Mud Street (and I have been told that it still has this name.) She well remembered of her father coming up the stairs to kiss the children good-bye when he left to come west with some of his brothers-in-law, George and Charles Conrad, in the year 1864.
While her father was away. the relatives and others were opposed to the new religion. They and the lodge people which her father belonged to were going to protect his children by not letting them come to Utah. Mother was now about 13 years old, so all preparations were kept quiet. One night the brother Miles took the family and some belongings to Detroit (I was told it was in the night). They left Detroit for Utah in the fall of 1870 and traveled by train to Florence or Omaha, Nebraska. Here they met an emigrant train with Frank Hyde as captain of the company of saints to bring them on to Salt Lake. The train was not comfortable as it is now and it was a long hard trip. They brought most of the food they would need and mother said she surely did get tired of boiled eggs.
They arrived in Salt Lake in October 1870 and after a few days their Uncle Charles Conrad met them and brought them by wagon to Provo, Utah. That winter they lived with their grandmother Sarah Bitely Conrad.
Martha married John Mills and raised her children and some of her grandchildren after the death of her daughter Sarah. Her husbands family stayed with them often and she always provided a home for them. No one was ever turned away. There was always someone other than the family living at their house.
Martha's sister, Ettie, and her family moved to Canada. Ettie made trips back and forth for some years staying in her sisters home in Provo. About 1915 she had a stroke and could never talk afterwards, and she and her husband, David, came during the winters and stayed with Martha and John. Martha loved having them, but was so sorry she couldn't converse with her. Uncle Martin Mills was there for a time with his two sons John M. and Joseph.
As a little girl she had real curly black hair. She was very seriously ill at one time; her fever was so high she was delirious and she said she saw strange things. Every time she was very sick, after that she could see the things she saw then. One thing was that it seemed like peoples heads were sticking out of the wall all around the room, up by the ceiling. After this illness her pretty hair came out; it was black but not so curly when it came in again.
Their home in Michigan was on Mud Street (and I have been told that it still has this name.) She well remembered of her father coming up the stairs to kiss the children good-bye when he left to come west with some of his brothers-in-law, George and Charles Conrad, in the year 1864.
While her father was away. the relatives and others were opposed to the new religion. They and the lodge people which her father belonged to were going to protect his children by not letting them come to Utah. Mother was now about 13 years old, so all preparations were kept quiet. One night the brother Miles took the family and some belongings to Detroit (I was told it was in the night). They left Detroit for Utah in the fall of 1870 and traveled by train to Florence or Omaha, Nebraska. Here they met an emigrant train with Frank Hyde as captain of the company of saints to bring them on to Salt Lake. The train was not comfortable as it is now and it was a long hard trip. They brought most of the food they would need and mother said she surely did get tired of boiled eggs.
They arrived in Salt Lake in October 1870 and after a few days their Uncle Charles Conrad met them and brought them by wagon to Provo, Utah. That winter they lived with their grandmother Sarah Bitely Conrad.
Martha married John Mills and raised her children and some of her grandchildren after the death of her daughter Sarah. Her husbands family stayed with them often and she always provided a home for them. No one was ever turned away. There was always someone other than the family living at their house.
Martha's sister, Ettie, and her family moved to Canada. Ettie made trips back and forth for some years staying in her sisters home in Provo. About 1915 she had a stroke and could never talk afterwards, and she and her husband, David, came during the winters and stayed with Martha and John. Martha loved having them, but was so sorry she couldn't converse with her. Uncle Martin Mills was there for a time with his two sons John M. and Joseph.
Named after her fathers mother. Martha could remember when she was a little girl of going to a campaign meeting for Abraham Lincoln, and her father holding her on his shoulder so she could watch the torch light parade pass along the street to the place of the meeting, where they were campaigning for Lincoln for President.
As a little girl she had real curly black hair. She was very seriously ill at one time; her fever was so high she was delirious and she said she saw strange things. Every time she was very sick, after that she could see the things she saw then. One thing was that it seemed like peoples heads were sticking out of the wall all around the room, up by the ceiling. After this illness her pretty hair came out; it was black but not so curly when it came in again.
Their home in Michigan was on Mud Street (and I have been told that it still has this name.) She well remembered of her father coming up the stairs to kiss the children good-bye when he left to come west with some of his brothers-in-law, George and Charles Conrad, in the year 1864.
While her father was away. the relatives and others were opposed to the new religion. They and the lodge people which her father belonged to were going to protect his children by not letting them come to Utah. Mother was now about 13 years old, so all preparations were kept quiet. One night the brother Miles took the family and some belongings to Detroit (I was told it was in the night). They left Detroit for Utah in the fall of 1870 and traveled by train to Florence or Omaha, Nebraska. Here they met an emigrant train with Frank Hyde as captain of the company of saints to bring them on to Salt Lake. The train was not comfortable as it is now and it was a long hard trip. They brought most of the food they would need and mother said she surely did get tired of boiled eggs.
They arrived in Salt Lake in October 1870 and after a few days their Uncle Charles Conrad met them and brought them by wagon to Provo, Utah. That winter they lived with their grandmother Sarah Bitely Conrad.
Martha married John Mills and raised her children and some of her grandchildren after the death of her daughter Sarah. Her husbands family stayed with them often and she always provided a home for them. No one was ever turned away. There was always someone other than the family living at their house.
Martha's sister, Ettie, and her family moved to Canada. Ettie made trips back and forth for some years staying in her sisters home in Provo. About 1915 she had a stroke and could never talk afterwards, and she and her husband, David, came during the winters and stayed with Martha and John. Martha loved having them, but was so sorry she couldn't converse with her. Uncle Martin Mills was there for a time with his two sons John M. and Joseph.
As a little girl she had real curly black hair. She was very seriously ill at one time; her fever was so high she was delirious and she said she saw strange things. Every time she was very sick, after that she could see the things she saw then. One thing was that it seemed like peoples heads were sticking out of the wall all around the room, up by the ceiling. After this illness her pretty hair came out; it was black but not so curly when it came in again.
Their home in Michigan was on Mud Street (and I have been told that it still has this name.) She well remembered of her father coming up the stairs to kiss the children good-bye when he left to come west with some of his brothers-in-law, George and Charles Conrad, in the year 1864.
While her father was away. the relatives and others were opposed to the new religion. They and the lodge people which her father belonged to were going to protect his children by not letting them come to Utah. Mother was now about 13 years old, so all preparations were kept quiet. One night the brother Miles took the family and some belongings to Detroit (I was told it was in the night). They left Detroit for Utah in the fall of 1870 and traveled by train to Florence or Omaha, Nebraska. Here they met an emigrant train with Frank Hyde as captain of the company of saints to bring them on to Salt Lake. The train was not comfortable as it is now and it was a long hard trip. They brought most of the food they would need and mother said she surely did get tired of boiled eggs.
They arrived in Salt Lake in October 1870 and after a few days their Uncle Charles Conrad met them and brought them by wagon to Provo, Utah. That winter they lived with their grandmother Sarah Bitely Conrad.
Martha married John Mills and raised her children and some of her grandchildren after the death of her daughter Sarah. Her husbands family stayed with them often and she always provided a home for them. No one was ever turned away. There was always someone other than the family living at their house.
Martha's sister, Ettie, and her family moved to Canada. Ettie made trips back and forth for some years staying in her sisters home in Provo. About 1915 she had a stroke and could never talk afterwards, and she and her husband, David, came during the winters and stayed with Martha and John. Martha loved having them, but was so sorry she couldn't converse with her. Uncle Martin Mills was there for a time with his two sons John M. and Joseph.
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