Copied from Francom & Cottle Family History, 1794-1991.

[pg 95]

[Mary Rosetta Wadsworth, born in 1863] remembers as a small girl how the Indians used to come around the neighborhood [Mountain Green] asking for food. Her father always fed them to keep from having trouble with them. One day her brother was sick when the Indians came, so they left without asking for anything thinking the child might have a contagious disease. The winters were very cold and the snow so deep they could ride over the fences on sleighs. She was always glad when summer came. They used to pick serviceberries by the basket, that was all the fruit they had. Her father brought a load of wood down to Farmington one time and traded it for some clingstone peaches, this was the first fruit they had ever tasted. Her mother preserved some of them in molasses and they were delicious. She with neighbor girls, used to walk three miles to a little store in Peterson with a bucket of eggs to trade for groceries and calico.