DON MEETS LEAH by Leah Story   This is a real life story written by the youngest child (Leah) in her family about her brother, Don (Uncle Don) as though she was there.   CLICK FOR LEAH'S TABLE OF CONTENTS CLICK FOR MY STORY BLOG HOME PAGE NEXT PAGE

A farmer by the name of Oren Puffer lived on a ranch at a little place called North Creek. North creek was about ten miles from a little town called Beaver, in southern Utah. He was married to a lady named Eliza Ellen, but no one called her that. Everyone called her Nell. They had six living children. Their first child, Carl, only lived about three months. Their two oldest ones, both girls, then they had another boy. The girls names were Stella and Rose. The boy they named Oren Teasdale, but everyone called him Ornie or Oren T. The next child was a girl that they named Jeannette, but called Jenny. Then they had another girl, the first blue-eyed child in the family. Her name was Hazel. She had golden curls and everyone adored her, but when she was three years old, she got sick and went to live with her Heavenly Father and her brother Carl. But before she left them, another baby boy was born. They named him Frederick Joseph, but they called him Ted or Teddy. About three years later another boy was born, they named him Donald, but they called him Don or Donny. When Don was about three years old, Stella got married. When he was about four years old Rose (his favorite playmate) got married. Then when he was six years old he went to the little yellow school house and started in the first grade. He liked school and learned to read and write and to do arithmetic very quickly. When Don was seven years old his sister Jenny went over through the Crosby field to get him to come see his new baby sister, born February 17, 1914. Jenny told him that she had big blue eyes and was a doll! Well Don was anxious to see her, so he ran ahead of his sister. He clutched his school reader under his arm and ran so fast his coat tail floated straight out behind him. He ran into the house where Mama was and climbed up on the bed to get a good look at his new baby sister. He was so excited! He teeterted up and down and said, "Shall I jump on her?" Mama was a very understanding mother so she knew he didn't really intend to jump on her, but was just all so excited. So she said to him, "Why don't you go sit in Mama's rocking chair, so Rose can put her in your lap and you can rock the chair and love her. Well that is just what Don did, and he loved her ever after! NEXT PAGE