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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 98: December 17, 1936
Ann AH sharp could not quite credit it when the midwife told her sorrowfully that the new life had gone back into Eternity whence it had come but a few hours since.
Hannah lay weak and dazed and hopeless in her bed, showing little improvement. 011 the ninth day the Bishop came and finding John absent, informed his wife that the pair of them had been call ed by President Brigham Young to go 011 a mission to Dixie to help settle the Muddy River country, in Southern Nevada. Hannah fainted. It was no use telling her that two of President Young's daughters, and other fine people were answering the call and would be in the company. It was 110 comfort to be told that only the brave and the capable were summoned to such responsibilities. To leave the home of her dreams, the fresh-smelling creeks, the healthy blossoming young trees of her orchard, and the grave of her little baby whom she cherished as if yet in life, knowing that forever and forever the child was hers I To exchange this for the Muddy, 400 miles away in a blistering alkali desert She was not brave and capable enough for that.
Yet when the company of three score families left a few weeks later, John Sharp helped his wife to step on the hub of the wheel, and to mount the high spring seat of the covered wagon. Taking the lines, he drove away for a month's trek through desolate country. Hannah turned and fr om under the fan like fr ill of her shaker bonnet gravely watched her family waving her good bye as long as they were in sight.
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