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| Birth: | 10 Sep 1866 in Minersville, Beaver, UT |
| Death: | 28 Jul 1903 in Central, Graham, Az |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | Samuel Lewis b. 27 Oct 1829 in , Simpson, Kentucky |
| Mother: | Sarah Jane HUNTSMAN b. 5 Apr 1834 in Steuben Co., IN |
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| Burial: 1 Aug 1903 Thatcher, Graham, Az |
| Ancestral File #: 4G81-3K |
| LDS Baptism: 1 Jul 1877 |
| LDS Endowment: 13 Oct 1880 |
| LDS Sealing Child: 30 Jan 1931 ARIZO |
| Changed: 19 Nov 2002 00:00:00 |
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| Francis Winfred Moody (Husband) b. 26 Aug 1858 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT
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| Marriage: | 7 Nov 1882 in St. George, Wshngtn, UT |
| LDS Sealing Spouse: | 7 Nov 1882 |
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 Francis Winfred Moody b. 21 Sep 1883 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- Samuel Lewis Moody b. 12 Dec 1884 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- Edward Moody b. 16 Sep 1886 in Thatcher, Grhm, Az
- Ida Katurah Moody b. 8 Jan 1888 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- Unice Moody b. 25 Apr 1889 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- John Monroe Moody b. 28 Jun 1890 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- Glenna Moody b. 7 Dec 1892 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- June Moody b. 9 Jun 1895 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
 Elizabeth Moody b. 5 Dec 1896 in Thatcher, Graham, Az, USA
- Joseph Rulen Moody b. 7 Nov 1899 in Thatcher, Graham, Az
- Melinda Moody
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Individual:
! STORY OF MALINDA GIMLIN LEWIS
AS TOLD BY HER CHILDREN, EDWARD, IDA AND JUNE MOODY.
Malinda Gimlin Lewis was born 10 Sep 1866, in Minersville Utah. Her parents were Samue l Lewis and Sarah Jane Huntsman.
Not much is known of the doings in the childhood days of Malinda we will tell tell a fe w incidents of her early life as she has told it to her children.
June Moody, daughter of Malinda says, "As I remember mother she was slender built had bl ue grey eyes, dark brown hair which hung to her waist and she could even sit on it. I remember combing her hair many times, it was beautiful when it hung over her shoulders, or done up in a big bob at the back of her head. I always thought my mother was a beautiful woman. I never remember of her ever scolding me but once, she had made Glenna and I a pretty white dress for the 4th of July. We wore those dresses to church on Sunday and were to change them in the afternoon to keep them lovely for a celebration the next day. We went home with some of our cousins after church and wore the dresses all day. Naturally getting them messed up for the 4th and mother scolded us for not changing them properly. Mother had a beautiful voice voice she could sing so clear and high. I did love to hear her sing."
Back to Utah-Mother said when they lived in Panguitch it was so cold they had to chop th rough three feet of ice to get water for the cattle to drink, and cut out the tree tops to feed them. While the family was eating breakfast one morning. Brother Trajo knocked at the door and was let in. Father asked him how he was. Trajo said "I don't know, my horse all die my cow all die, got two wagon, guess they no die, sell one to get a little mut, to get a little grease, to make a little gravy, maybe so maybe so no. I don't know"
It is told of Aunt Keturah that once when she road a horse down town and got home she wa s so cold she couldent get off her horse, without help, and the reins were frozen in her fingers and they had to be pried out, it was so bitter cold. The family always said Panguitch was the coldest spot on earth, and they were thinking of selling out and moving to a warmer climate.
When mother was a girl she and some neighbor children went swimming in a lake, she sudde nly began to sink as it was very deep, having been taught to prey , she began to prey to the Lord for help.she was inspired to hold her hands close to her sides and stiffen her body, as she did so her body shot up to the surface and she was saved from drowning. It might not work for others but it worked for her.
In December our family decided to sell our home and move to Arizona, it was almost tragi c to part with home and friends so dear. but it was done and in the latter part of December when everything was disposed of and wagons packed and everything in readiness they said their goodbys and started south, snow was deep and so cold but they dident mind that. It was a long hard journey but our parents were used to hardships an so they took it all in its stride. All their earthly goods were packed in two strong wagons, one pulled by a team of horses the other by ox team with brother Oliver the driver, the other boys walking most of the way driving the live stock, It tells of the trouble getting over the river at Lees Ferry and hardships along the way, so it will be omitted here.
The Lewis family was given a corner lot in Pima to make their home, and at first they li ved in wagon boxes and sheds made of willows later log houses were built and the family was more comfortable. It was while here the children went to school and attended church and other organizations.
April 8 1881 being Founders Day in this small town of Pima, it being the date of the fir st families to enter this town, and it was celebrated in good old fashioned way by a gettogather with sports and games with a big program. Now this happened in April,and on May 1st the people cellebrated May Day on May 1st at this time they had a queen and maids and they ruled the day,Sarah Weech was crowned queen and Malinda Lewis was one of the maids,these girls were all dressed in white and of corse were the prettiest girls in town,or at least one young fellow that though so,this young man was Winfred Moody,when he first set eyes on Malinda he fell for her,he took her to several dances,and socials,and finely took her to his home to meet his parents,by car?no by buggy?no , she got up behind him on a horse and they went riding to his home in fine style.This May Day was held in a cottonwood grove just east of the town of Pima,a pretty spot covered with grass and so shady.It was the first May Day party ever held in the Gila valley,and these two young people always remembered when their life together first began.Malinda was fifteen years old( she was too young to be going out boys but they dident think so) Winfred was proud to introduce his girlfriend to his Pa and Ma. This romance continued for a long time Malinda and Winfred both joined the choir and enjoyed the practices very much as both were good singers,and there wasent too much entertainment in those days,Malinda's sister Laura also joined and the girls both had beautiful voices so these went to school that winter sang in the choir and during this time the romance between Winfred and Malinda ripened into something stronger and when Malinda's lover ask for her hand she gave it freely.
Now history says this Pima choir was preparing songs and music for the Latter Day Sain t Conference which was to be held in Snowflake,in october 1882this being the headquarters of the Stake at this time,she sister Laura was in love with the choir leader and both she and her sister Malinda were going to make this trip to help sing,and then go on to St. George to be married in the Temple there.and about the first of September this party of singers were ready to make the trip by team and wagon that long trip back to Utah in the fall.
After the conference was over most of the choir members returned home,and a number of th em made the trip on to St. George. The roads werent too good the weather cold and they had some worries but the trip was made safely,and these couples were married and sealed in the Temple for time and all eternity, Mother was sick most all the way she had chills and fever,the elders would administer to her and she would rest fine for awhile then she would be worseagain it was to bad to spoil their fun like that,all the way,Grandma was along she helped what she could but it seemed these chills had to run their course and after they reached St. George they had to wait a week before Malinda was able to go through the Temple,by the way mother already had her endowments when she was 14 years old and father had his so all they had to do was go and be sealed. There was J.K. Rogers taking two girls to have sealed to him, Eli Dodge to marry Amanda Reynolds and several others who went with this group on to St. George to be married in the Temple. After it was all over they returned home but not all together, our group stopped at night along the way with friends who lived on ranches along the road people they had known while they lived in Utah, they were always welcome, stayed nights with them ate with them and were given horse feed, and the evenings were spent in singing and dancing. And thus late in December they all returned home safely.
Now our parents are back in the Gila Valley the next thing was to build a home. Histor y says Pa and Ma built a little shack on his homestead. Winfred had taken up some land, and the job now was to clear it and get it ready for farming, there was a little spring of water about 100 yards from the shack.Grandfather had died about three years before and left father 20 acres of land as his part of the family estate.
During these years three children had blessed the home of this coupleand father was tryi ng hard to get his land in condition to make a living on. One day while he was at work down below the house a neighbor came riding up his horse only had a loop on its nose and he was bareheaded, and riding on a high loop, he told mother she better get oput of here quick saying the indians are coming they are just over the hill. Mother said, "How can I get out of here with with these two babies?" he said "I dont know but you better hurry they have have just killed a man in Bare Spring Flat about 15 miles from here, "Mother said if they were chasing him on a horse, how could she get out two babies and another coming expect to stay alive for long?" Mother went into the shack and under the bed, the little boys began to cry for water and she herself could spit cotton she was so thirsty, and in the afternoon late here came a dust stormand it took the roof off the shack and she was looking for indians all that time but none came, and as it neared sundown she could see indians sillouetted on the crest of the hillsor raises above the shack. It turned out to be roses and their flowers looked so much like feathers. Father had been late getting home that night and found his family in a state of confusion. as the storm blowed off timbers which hit little Winnie and hurt him badly, and they were all so thirsty and afraid to go for water. They were very glad when father came home to share their troubles. It was learned that Brother Frank Thirston had been killed out in the Bare Springs Flat about 15 miles away.
Mother had three boys then a girl, and after they began to grow bigger father took the t wo older ones to help him and the two younger ones were left at home to help mother. these two were Ed and Ida, they helped in the house and did chores each helping the other with outside work and house work. Ed Moody said one morning he got up real early saw a wild cat taking their only chicken from the coop old tom the dog right after it. "Well" he said; that night I waited till late to get the firewood in for night and as I carried it around the corner of the coop, Sam was there playing a trick on me as I rounded the corner he jumped out on all fours and yelled BOO at me. Well I thought that it was the wild cat so I dropped wood right on him and ran for the house, and under the bed I went, screaming bloody murder, mother was disgusted trying to find out what the trouble was, Sam came in bawling , saying Ed had dumped a whole armload wood on top of him and he dident like it. Soon mother saw the funny side of it and advised him not to scare his brother like that , and not to act like a wild cat again.
Mother had a little girl named Eunice and a boy named Johnnie, these two were both take n from us. When our little Johnnie died, father was somewhere between home and Globe, on the freight road, mother sent him word by the stage line, he got the word at San Carlos in the evening, that he road a mile about 45-50 miles home he dident dare to stay on the road as it was very dangerous while the indians were roving the country, he took to the brush lands and over trackless wastes, but it was the safest way home getting here in time to take over the responsibilities and burial of our precious baby.
Dad was on the freight road a long time, and one time the renegade indians had left th e reservation and were doing all the damage they could. Mother was at home alone with us small children and was always nervous and upset always afraid the indians might come and kill us all. One night she got up out of bed after midnight, took us children barefooted and started for grandmothers home more than a mile away, she too was afraid to travel the road but took to the brushes others did and when she got to where the music hall now stands on the College grounds in Thatcher, she encountered a bed of rattle snakes, it seemed there was a thousand of them but suppose there was only about a dozen anyway, even one of them would have been terrible that time of night or morning and so dark, Mother like a real mother said a prayer, asking for help from on High, and got it, she took the baby in her arms told the other children to walk behind her and walked through that infested spot in safety, reaching her mother's home which was just south of the Thatcher church house, Of course mother aroused the family Grandmother was scared when she saw mother looking so white and nervous, she told her her story and they were soon safe and resting. One of the great lessons mother taught us was to pray whenever we needed help (and here is another great lesson, besides praying when we need help is to pray always and thank the Lord every day for all our blessings then when we need help we have a little bank account to draw from, If we only pray when we want something we are very poor children indeed)
We mothers children marvel at the accomplishments of our little mother.If anybody was i n need mother was there if she knew about it, Mallard Preston when his mother died said my mother went there and did sewing for him and his brothers and sisters, how she maid pants shirts and dresses, helped them a lot. and she also helped the Carlson children when their mother died. Andy was just a little fellow, once he started down the road, mother ask him where he was going, O he said "I am going down the road to see what I can see, then see if I cansee it, always seeing for the humorous side," "It always helps to bear your burdens" mother would say.
In the year father and Sam started freifhting from Naco and Canneneia in Mexico. Winni e got work in Clifton, that left me to run the farm, dad had put in 20 acres of Lucern and some grain, it only got about a foot high when the drowth hit it and it dried uop. but lots of food there. One day as the lod wood burning train came rumbling through some sparks from the engine settled in the dry pasture and set it on fire and burned the whole field. Mother and I were up town we saw the big smoke, later saw it was our field on fire we were just heartsick, but the Rail Road never gave us a penny for our loss.
Mother had to be a farmer and handyman in every way, and those wash days---We had to dra w water from a 40 foot well heat it over a wood fire, then wash scrub and boil the clothes, such a job, scrub on a washboard with homemade soap, We had an old washer that turned a wheel back and forth over and over againand How I grumbled and fussed because I had to do the work. I was so honery and gripped so much. I know mother would rather have done it herself but it was us kids who needed the work and the responsibility. O if mother could have lived to enjoy some of the modern help we have today, and we should be more appreciative of our parents and what they have done for us.
On the morning of July 28 1903, mother was very sick I was sent to get the Elders, whe n I got back I was met at the bedroom door I was met by a Relief Society Sister and she said "Ed you will have to hurry your mother has been waiting for you, she cant hold out much longer, so I rushed in kneeled by her bed but was so full I could say nothing, she put her hand on my broe and said "Ed you have always been a good boy to me then her hand dropped and she was gone, she had already said goodby to the other children, and was only waiting for me to come so she could go for she was called home, and in those few seconds there flashed thru my mind a thousand ways in which I had been unkind, I went out on the porch and there was my five year old sister her three year old brother in her arms and both sobbing their little hearts out. So I took them both in my arms and resolved to be a good brother and help dad all I could as he had a great responsibility now more than ever. I have seen and heard of motherless children, but you can never realize what it is to be without a mothertil you lose your own. And the dear little helpless babe, after the funeral was over and we were back home, everything seemed so strange, couldent help but feel that mother would come walking thru the door, and I am sure she was worrying about us and the dear little babe who needed her care so badly. Surely she lingered close by and with us guiding us from pitfallsas best we would listen to her influence. The little babe dident have the best of care, we dident know anything about baby formulas, sanatation and sterelized bottles and baby care so Ida did the best she could at carring for it but it dident do very well, and finely Aunt Keturah came from Mexico and took over the care of this precious little bundle of humanity. and she did a good part by it. I still think it was mother's spirit urging our Aunt to come care for this our dear baby sister. And so time went on and we had to adjust to a new kind of life.
Of course in mother's life she couldent have accomplished so much without the help of po or old dad. with all the sorrows and tragedys mother went thru,we could hear her sing and see her sweet smile, how their children will never know. Take me for instance: When I was three years old I got a butcher knife from the table, mother called me but instead of stopping I ran faster and fell on the back doorstep, the knife ran into my left temple cutting a great gash and it bleed profusily, mother dident know how to stop it, so she tried ashes then flour, but with the help of sister Barney and several hours work it was finely stopped. I lost a lot of blood.
When I was about five years old my brothers Winnie and Sam were going over to our neighb ors the prices to return some borrowed matches, Cousin Arthur went with them and I bawled to go so I went and after returning the matches we all went up to see grandmother, as we started home a man by the name of Swanger came along offering us a ride, they all climbed but me and and the man said "Are you all in? someone said "yes so he started out, I was climbing on the wheel and the wagon ran over me, I was carried home with a broken hip. Dr. Rosebeck set it, and as there was no plaster to be had for a cast, I was wrapped in a sheet and someone had to be by me for thirty daysand nites to keep me quiet while my hip healed.
Once we had smallpox and scarlet fever, and had to be quarrenteened, still my parents fo und time to help their neighbors five miles away. Once mother went to Central to help with the sick, and dad was to come take her home, she got tired waiting and walked home thru a thicket of battomoney where the hobos were very bad, father was just starting after her when she came walking in.
Cousin Ed said "Mother taught me this little poem; as he was always asking when his birt hday was, an how old he would be. "I will be four years old the 16 of September, and mother will make me a cake if I can remember, and told me if I would tell you today, with little cousin Arthur I might go and play,I love my grandma and like to get her wood, she always tells me thank youmom, and gives me something good."
Reception honoring Winfred Moody and his bride Malinda Lewis.
Comment; this should have been given on the first page but was missed. After our parents retu rned from St. George When they were married their folks at home gage them a lovely reception, in fact it was the very first one ever given in the Gila Valley, a great crowd of relatives and friends gathered to wish them well and to enjoy the evening of fun, They danced, had singing and speech making, songs like, The little brown church in the Vale, The Old Oken Bucket, Juanita, and many of the old ballads were sung, and stump speeches were the order of the day. Ida says "At this party her parents received many lovely and usefull gifts. Grandfather Moody Grandfather Moody gave them a credit card for $100 dollars on the store, and I remember two large pictures whitch hung on the walls one especially was a picture of the Niagra Falls, dont remember who gave it to them.
Along with all their trials they had to endure, mother tells of going to plays, Theaters , an outstanding one was "Ten Nights in a Bar Room", and many others famous at that time, they had many dances, quiltings, candy pullings, and hay rack ridesnearly all their fun was combined with work of some kind.
Mother was a student of a nursing class held in Thatcher, it was sponsored by the Mormo n church, the St. Joseph Stake, directing the work here. Our Mother joined this class, and continued the studies till she completed the courseand received her diploma. She was a big help among her friends and neighbors, always ready to help the sickand it seemed there was always plenty of sickness at that time. Rulen was the baby then and Ida was the baby tender, she would take the baby to mother about twice a day, while at school to be nursed, then bring him back home till mother returned.
Here are some comments from the little sister June, "I remember; My sister Ida took car e of us children when mother was away helping the sick. When Winnie was down with typhoid fever, so awfully sick mother sent me to stay with Aunt Susie Claridge with my grandmother Moody, I watched her put my clothes away in a drawer. I got so homesick that once when every one was away I took out my clothes and walked home. I must have been about five years old and walked a mile to my home. Mother dident schold me she just put her arms around me and loved me, I was a home girl I tell you Home sickness is the worst sickness there is. I remember when Winnie was sick and they gave him Eagle Brand milk it is so sweet and ood, once I said "Mother I wish I was sick so I could have some of that milk. Mother said "Dear you don't to get sick to get some of that milk so she gave me some. Mother had a beautiful Alapaca dress long sleeves, skirt and high neck, she wore it to church, she was a good seamstress, very tidy and proud, she held her head high and she had beautiful hands, she was very kind and gentle. Our cousin Arthut Lewis stayed with us a lot even till my mother died later he went to Mexico and lived with Aunt Keturah Baker. When mother was so sick they took Rulenand me to Aunt Lulas, and we werent home when mother passed. I can never forget the terrible loss I felt, I used to cry myself to sleep and have bad dreams, when it would thunder and rain I would think about mother up there in that big hole and I was afraid she would get cold. I would go to other homes and see the girls with mothers and feel so bad because I dident have one. Altho father was so good to us and he took mother's place and did the best he could not even he could take mother's place. Later I realized how he missed her also. We stayed with grandma for some time after mother left usthen we settled down at home I was 11 years and Glenna was 13, she did the washing and ironing while I did the cooking, we had to bake bread and it was a hard job for girls so young. We did a lot of singing, at home father would card on the old organ and we sing the different parts, he used to play, O My Father, After mother passed away I couldent stand to hear that song, I tore the page out of the hymn book, they practiced it one Sunday in Sunday School, I got to crying and had to leave, Elizabeth Pace saw me leave came and talked to me till I got control of myself. Glenna did our sewing she made us both just alike people sometimes thot we were twins.
CONCLUSION
Winfred Moody was president of the High Priests Quorum, of the St. Joseph Stake, and Bro ther Cheny was one of his councilers, Well Brother Cheny died and of (course) father had to go to the funeral, he dident tell mother because he dident want to worry her, but we children knew about it, About 2 P.M.mother went into a coma, father was sent for and when he returned she felt better so he told her where he had been. "Yes she told him I knew where you were, I was there also, and I saw several people there who have been gone over there a long time, "then she told him the names of the speakers there and the songs they sang, for she heard and saw the whole funeral service. To me this was a great testimony that there is a great hereafter, and that our loved ones are often allowed to visit us here.
Quote from Ida's story. "The next day I was alone in the house , and Mother called me t o her bedside and said", Ida I must go and leave all of you soon,and you will have to take over the responsibility of being a mother to your brothers and sisters, especially to the little baby. I became frightened and ran out into the orchard and prayed for someone to come to help us, soon Aunt Lizzie was at the door, she said, "How is your mother?" I have the Relief Society sisters at my house quilting and had dinner ready to serve, A voice said to me "Go to Malinda" I said to myself that I would go as soon I got the dinner over with, Again the voice said "Go to Malinda" I ask one of the ladies to serve dinner and here I am, I never waited to hear more, I ran to the orchard again and thanked my Heavenly Father for answering my second prayer. and this is another wonderful Testimony to me that the Lord hears and answers PRAYERS.
Brother Ed quotes; Anyway we all grew up, married, made homes of our own and raised ou r families as best we knew how, Perhaps we have regrets for things we left undone thru the years, and perhaps we did things we shouldent have done. but such is life and thru the teachings of our dear parents, we have tried hard to bring up our children so that our parents behind the veil will be proud of their grandchildren, who have been taught to be noble and honorable.
Now we are getting older than our mother was when she passed on. I was only fourteen yea rs old when mother died just knew her that long; I wish I could put love and honor into my children as mother did with hers, it is hard to realize that mother accomplished so much in such a short life. Today her little babe she left is sisty two years old, a lovely woman, It wont be long now till we will all be with mother and father again. in a family group "Over There" I am seventy eight now and I hope I am ready to go home when my call comes.
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