Dr. Alice Jeanette Tippets
by Rebecca T. Hall
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Alice Jeanette Tippets was born March 15, 1844, at Liberty, Missouri. She was the oldest child of William Plummer Tippets and Sophia Burnham Mead.
Her parents had been acquainted for many years; each had lost a spouse. Joseph Smith joined them in marriage and held a reception for them at his house. At the time of their marriage, they were living in Independence, Missouri. Alice Jeanette was three months old when the Prophet and his brother were martyred.
Her parents later gathered with the Saints in Council Bluffs (then called Kanesville) and on July 4, 1850, left with the Captain Hunt Company for the valley of the Great Salt Lake, arriving around the middle of October. Although she was only six years old at the time, Jeanette walked most of the way. Her job was to help with the younger children of the family. She wore a dress, the skirt of which was made from the cover of an umbrella.
Jeanette chose an honest and honorable companion, a dis-tant cousin, Joseph Mahonri Tippets. They were married on 1 January 1860 at Perry, Utah.
While she was yet a very young woman, Jeanette became interested in comforting and caring for the sick. She gained a special knowledge of simple remedies and was called upon countless times to aid those who were sick or in distress. When-ever she entered a home of sorrow a feeling of hope and well-being came with her.
She was living at Brigham City at the time she was called to study in the school of medicine and surgery. Alice Jeanette Tippets was one of the women chosen to take this training and graduated with the Dr. Ellis R. Shipp class of 1883-84. She moved to Bear Lake County in 1887, settling about three miles south and east of the settlement called Twin Creeks or Georgetown, Idaho and was the only doctor there for many years.
Although her training was meager, Dr. Jeanette was often called upon to perform what at that time was considered almost miraculous works. At one time two of her grandchildren had been sent out to cut kindling. As boys will, they began to play around daringly with the ax. One of them, who was barefoot at the time, had two of his toes cut completely off. Witnesses say they were not hanging by the skin at all, but lying on the ground.
Dr. Jeanette came quickly from the house, picked up the severed toes, and with someone holding the screaming child steady, she bound the toes back into place, where, contrary to all medical theory, they grew back, and are still part of the foot of that no longer young man. (1967) A tomato can was fastened over the foot to protect it while the toes grew back on.
Another instance was of William McCammon who was a young married man at the time. He was thrown from his horse; his foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged for quite some distance, his scalp was torn from his head until he was almost scalped. Dr. Jeanette sewed it back on and he was soon as good as new.
The Tippetts family lived at the mouth of Three Mile Can-yon for a number of years; after which, Alice Jeanette and her family moved into the settlement of Georgetown, (named after George Q. Cannon who had visited there for a time along with President Brigham Young.) During the time they lived in Three Mile she owned and operated a small grocery and clothing store. These families also built a schoolhouse. The teacher was Jeanette Sorensen (Nettie), who was Jeanette's oldest grand-child.
In the little store, which was in a small log building just a few steps from the house, Jeanette kept dry goods, children's shoes, and always a few buckets of candy. The grandchildren loved to go to the store with Grandma. Most of the customers were relatives and friends living in the vicinity.
In 1889 Dr. Jeanette was persuaded to move into the larger settlement because her help was so often needed and the snow fell to great depth in the winter. It was at times almost impossible to get through the roads. When the snow was deep, four or five men would take teams of horses to open the road, each team taking their turn in the lead to "wallow" the snow, the other horses following to pack the snow so a sleigh could get through.
Loving her work as she did, and having such success, her service was soon much in demand. So she traveled all over the county wherever she was needed. She took care of hundreds and hundreds of confinement cases during her ministrations of twenty-seven years in that locality. The last case she attended was the birth of a great-granddaughter born April 20, 1914. She died in October of that same year. Besides confinements she was called upon to treat broken bones, burns, cuts, and in fact, injuries and disease of every kind, until men doctors moved into the larger settlements and relieved her of this kind of work.
August 7, 1902 Alice Jeanette was made president of the Relief Society. At that time it fell to the lot of the Sisters of the Relief Society to do all kinds of service in the interest of the com-munity, from caring for the sick and needy to preparing the dead for burial, making the burial clothes, etc. After the harvest in the fall the women would go into the grain fields to glean the wheat. The wheat was stored in a small granary, which was built on skids so it could be moved to the Relief Society Presi-dent's home. Many would borrow seed grain in the spring for planting and pay it back in the fall with interest.
A few days before her death she made this statement "I know if my Heavenly Father is pleased with my work, as I have done it, He will take me without my lingering and suf-fering." A few days later, while she was eating her supper, she fell asleep. She decided she was more sleepy than hungry and was helped to her bed, where she went to sleep and gently and peacefully passed on. She died as calmly as a baby going to sleep without any sign of suffering — a testimony to the truth-fulness of the Gospel she believed in.
[Photo] Alice Jeanette Tippets, seated extreme right, with her class, on the occasion of their graduation from Medical and Surgical school, Salt Lake City, 1884. (center seated) Dr. Ellis R. Shipp, their instructor.
Alice Jeannette Tippets Tippets
Born 15 March 1844 in Liberty, Missouri, Died 18 October 1914 in Georgetown, Idaho
Parents: William Plummer Tippets, Sophia Burnham Mead
Pioneer - Arrived In Valley 13 October 1850/Edward Hunt Wagon Train Company
Married Joseph Mahonri Tippets (3rd Cousin) 1 January 1860
He died 1 October 1910 – Georgetown, Idaho
Children: Alice Rosalie Tippets 16 Jan 1861
Joseph William Tippets 29 Jan 1863
Eliza Rebecca Tippets 13 Jan 1865
Mary Ellen Tippets 5 May 1866
Harrison Plummer Tippets 18 Oct 1868
Dr. Alice Jeannette Tippets (Tippetts) was born 15 March 1844 at Liberty, Missouri. Her father was William Plummer Tippets. Her mother was Sophia Burnham Mead. The Prophet Joseph Smith married them. Alice Jeannette was three months old when the Prophet was martyred.
On July 4, 1850, her parents, with other Saints at Council Bluffs, left for the Salt Lake Valley with the Captain Edward Hunt Company. Jeannette was 6 years old and walked most of the way. She wore a dress made from the cover of an umbrella. She had the job of caring for younger children.
They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley mid October. Their first home was in Salt Lake City. In 1853 her parents moved to Three Mile Creek, Box Elder County (later called Perry). They were among the first settlers there. Here she grew up learning to work hard. At the age of 16, she married her third cousin, Joseph Mahonri Tippets, 1 January 1860. They were later sealed in the Endowment House on 28 October 1865. Their humble home was the gathering place for many friends and relatives.
She was a little above average in height, with a sturdy build. She was a beautiful woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. Jeannette became the mother to three girls and two boys, one girl dying in infancy. She had 49 grandchildren.
While very young, she became interested in caring for the sick. She gained a special knowledge of simple remedies. She was often called to help the sick and needy. She and her husband were living in Brigham City in 1883 when she received the call to go to a school of medicine and surgery. She spent a year in Salt Lake City attending classes. She graduated with the Dr. Ellis Shipp Class in 1884. She was 40 years old. She traveled through much of Box Elder County caring for the sick and delivering many babies.
In 1887 Joseph and Dr. Jeannette moved to Three Mile Canyon, Idaho, near Georgetown. Her son Joey took his family there to homestead some property. In his early twenties he had been shot in the chest and had an open draining wound. Jeannette felt it necessary to stay close to help doctor him. He lived to have 14 children, dying when his youngest was 5 years of age. Close to her home here, she operated a dry goods store. She had children's clothes and shoes, and supplies. Children loved her buckets of candy.
She was the only doctor in the Bear Lake County area. Dr. Tippets traveled through sleet and snow in sleigh to take care of sick people when called. At one time her grandson Aaron Tippets was chopping wood and cut off two toes. Dr. Jeannette went to the wood pile, found the toes, cleaned them up and sewed them back on the child's foot. She then placed a tomato can over the foot to act as a cast. A few years later this same child cut two fingers off. These, too, were sewed back on by Dr. Tippets. Aaron lived to his eighties, walked with no limp, and could do most everything with his hands.
Another time, William McCommon was thrown off his horse and dragged with one foot in the stirrup. His scalp was almost completely torn from his head. Dr. Tippets was called, and she sewed it back so that no ill effects resulted.
On August 2, 1902 she was called to be Relief Society President. It was her task to prepare the dead for burial. She helped make burial clothes and drape the churches for funerals. She still cared for the sick and needy. At harvest time Jeannette helped other women of the area glean the wheat fields for wheat to store in a granary in skids in her yard. Wheat was for the needy and for seed in the spring. She served in the Relief Society until February 21, 1909. Her counselors were Erma W. Clark and Anselina Hayes, with Enez Thorton Hoff as secretary.
During her life she set many broken bones, helped heal the sick and delivered over 2,000 babies. She never charged more than $10. Often she received produce, and sometimes nothing. She never refused to help when needed.
She had a strong testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel. She always asked for God's help in her helping the ill people, a very humble person.
Dr. Alice Jeannette Tippets died 18 October 1914 at the home of her daughter Mary Sorensen in Georgetown, Idaho.
Alice Jeanette Tippets was born 15 March 1844, at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. She was the daughter of William Plummer Tippets and Sophia Burnham Mead. Her father was born in Gratton, Hillsboro, New York. Being that he lived in New York at the time of Joseph Smith, it was not unusual that he should be very interested in Joseph and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. His family bought one of the first books to be offered for sale, and they all joined the Church and followed the Prophet wherever he went. When the Prophet called for volunteers to go with him to redeem Zion, William, then age 22, was one to go.
The first of this company left Kirtland on the 1st of May (1834) and on the 5th, Joseph Smith and the remainder of the company left. The journey of Zion’s Camp took them through Dayton, Indianopolis, Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois and across the Mississippi River into Missouri.
The men were tired and some of them with unruly tempers - so much so that the Lord revealed to Joseph that if the men did not repent and humble themselves, a scourge would come among them and they would die like sheep with the rot. Yet some of them refused to listen.
In June of 1834, while they were camped at Clay County, they were threatened by a mob, but were saved by a bad electric storm that came up.
While the camp was on Fishing River on the borders of Jackson County, Missouri, the word of the Lord came to Joseph (D&C 105) stating that it was not required of them to continue on the journey for the redemption of Zion. They had been required to come thus far "for a trial of their faith." They are not ready to be redeemed, and they have not yet learned to be obedient, but the Elders are to be endowed from power on High in the House of the Lord at Kirtland, be taught more perfectly in doctrine, and have experience and better knowledge of their duties before Zion could be redeemed. This was one reason for the building of the temple in Kirtland.
23 June 1834 - The camp continued to march and the next day arrived near the home of Algernon Gilbert on Rush Creek where the camp disbanded and separated into small groups to quiet the feelings of the people and of the brethren who were residing in Clay County.
As soon as they arrived on Rush Creek, the cholera broke out. The victims were seized so quickly and powerfully that some of them died within a few minutes after the attack. Out of 68 attacked, 14 died.
Agreeable to the revelation given in Kirtland, on the 3rd of July, 1834, a high council of the Church in Missouri was organized.
Six days later the Prophet started back to Kirtland with some of the brethren. They had not redeemed Zion but they had done all that had been required of them. Their faith had been tried, experience had been gained by which men could be chosen for responsible positions in the Church in days to come and the men were now prepared to start to prepare the entire Church to head West.
In July 1834, soon after Zion’s Camp arrived in Kirtland, the Prophet Joseph arranged for a wedding and married William P. Tippets to his cousin, Carolyn Tippets. A year later the Tippets brothers were called into a council meeting by the Prophet and he gave them a blessing and instructed them to go to Clay County and to take with them their parents, brothers, and sisters. They started on the 24th of September. The following June, Carolyn died in childbirth. Some years later he married Jeanette Stebbens. He was very much in love with her but she too died very soon after their marriage.
January 1, 1842, he married Sophia Burnham Mead, who was the mother of his nine children: Alice Jeanette being the first, with six sisters to follow, then two sons. Emma Ann, born January 1846, married William Perry. Mary Ellen, born December 1848, married Hyrum Tippets. Eliza Abigail, born January 1850, married Brigham Tippets. Rebecca Moon, born 2 January 1852. Delia Sophia, born 28 March 1854, married Hyrum Dudley. Carolyn Matilda, born 18 December 1856. William Plummer, Jr., born 1858 and Walter Henry, born March 1860, married Maria Ann Stokes.
Alice Jeanette, being the first daughter, was named after her father's second wife, who was also a very dear friend to Alice's mother. Alice Jeanette was three months old when the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were martyred.
July 4, 1850 - The family left Council Bluffs with the Captain Hunt Company band of emigrants for the Great Salt Lake Valley, arriving about the middle of October. Although she was only six years old at the time, she walked most of the way. On this trip she wore a dress, the skirt of which was made form the cover of an umbrella.
She remembered many incidents of this trip, but to her the most outstanding was one day when they had stopped close to a grove of trees for their noonday meal. At the edge of the grove was a large tree with outspreading branches standing away from the other trees. The children were all sent to play there while the parents were busy. A sudden storm came up and a voice seemed to be telling Jeanette to take the children back to the wagon. As they reached the wagon the next flash of lightning hit the tree, slivering it to matchwood.
When Alice Jeanette was 16, she married Joseph Mahonri Tippets, her third cousin. They lived at Perry, Utah. Her father was the first man to turn water onto the land for irrigation. They were the first to settle Perry.
Joseph Mahonri was born in Clinton County, Missouri, 25 September 1838. He was the son of Joseph Harrison Tippets and Rosalia Elvira Perry of Lewis, Essex County, New York. They were among the Saints that were driven from their homes at the time of Joseph Mahonri's birth. He was, no doubt, born in a covered wagon. He had one sister born nine months later. His mother died the following year and her sister, Amanda Melvina, married Joseph Harrison to care for his children.
Alice Jeanette always had a soothing touch and a comforting word for the sick and was chosen to attend the school of medicine, which was in process of being opened in Salt Lake City.
It was on July 15, 1873, that President Brigham Young requested Relief Society Presidents throughout the Church to appoint three women from each ward to study hygiene and nursing and proposed that the students be supported by their wards during the time of study.
Soon after this a class of obstetrics was organized by Dr. Mary H. Barker. Private classes were given by Utah woman physicians over a period of approximately 50 years after 1877, principally by Dr. Romania B. Pratt Penrose, Dr. Ellis Shipp, and Dr. Margaret Roberts.
These classes were for women during a shortage of male doctors. Alice Jeanette Tippets was one of the women chosen to take this training. She graduated from the school of medicine and surgery in 1885. She moved to Georgetown, Bear Lake, Idaho in 1887 and was the only doctor in Bear Lake County for a number of years.
Although her training had taken but a year, and would be considered meager now, Dr. Tippets (or "Dr. Alice Jeanette" as she was called by those who knew her), was often called upon to perform what was, at the time, almost miraculous works on ill and broken human beings.
At one time, two of her grandsons were cutting kindling wood and as boys will, they began playing around daringly with the axe. One of them Aaron, who was barefoot, cut two of his toes completely off. The boy was taken to the house, leaving the toes on the ground. Alice Jeanette came quickly from the house, picked up the severed toes, washed them off, and holding the screaming child still, she sewed and bound the toes back in place. A bent tomato can was used over the foot for a cast to protect it while the toes knit back together. Contrary to all medical theory, they grew back perfectly. Later on this same boy got two of his fingers cut off. Alice Jeanette was living at the time one and a half miles away and the boy's father had to drive with team and buggy after her. During that time his mother put the fingers back in place and held them there until Alice Jeanette arrived to sew them in place again. Today, 1960, he still has them although a scar is left to tell the tale. He still uses them.
Many years later, long after Alice Jeanette had died, one of her granddaughters, Alice T. Black, happened to be near when a neighbor, Lottie Bacon, accidentally cut off her thumb just below the top of the nail. Remembering the time her brother's toes had been saved, Alice persuaded them to bind the thumb back on in the same manner and it too was saved.
Once William McCammon (who was a young man at the time) was thrown from his horse. His foot was somehow caught in the stirrup and he was dragged for quite some distance before the horse could be stopped. His scalp was torn almost off his head. Dr. Alice Jeanette was called and she sewed it back so that no ill effects resulted from it.
(The following incident was taken from the journal of Alice Jeanette's husband, Joseph Mahonri Tippets, and recorded by him at the time it happened.)
It was Sunday, August 30, 1893 (before Alice Jeanette had finished her training). We were living in Brigham City, Utah at the time. Our son, Joey and cousin, Sammy Smith, had come home from the canyon the day before at about noon, and had gone over to Bear River at Corinne, hunting ducks. I had told them many times not to hunt on Sunday and yet I don't feel free of blame. They came into the shop where I was busy and talked about going, no doubt for the purpose of obtaining my sanction, but I was worried over my work and didn't take much notice of them.
I went down to the field and didn't get back for several hours and they had gone while I was away. I went to church in the afternoon but was called out at about 3 o'clock and told that Joey had been accidentally shot in the breast and was perhaps even then dead. "My son, dead, and killed in such a way?" I could not bear the thought. I started out to meet them with fear and trembling. When I saw them coming Joey was sitting up on the wagon seat. He was covered with a blanket so I could not see his face. It was raining.
When we got home and I did see his face, my heart almost stopped beating. The deathly pallor, the sunken eyes, and haggard look, brought the realization of the seriousness of it upon me again with redoubled force.
I was aroused by the cries of his mother, "Oh, Joey," the words were wrung from her heart. We carried him in the house, the blood streaming all the way. The first words he said were, "Administer to me, can't you please." We did as he asked and he felt easier.
The shot had entered about midway between the right nipple and the breastbone, passing through the right lung and lodging under the shoulder blade close to the skin. He had bled until his clothes were soaked and was still bleeding very fast. He had been holding his hand over the wound to stop the blood, and keep the wind from drawing in and out as he breathed. The cavity would fill up and when he coughed or moved it would gush out.
We telegraphed to Ogden for a doctor but it was about ten o'clock at night before he came. When the doctor examined him he said there could be nothing done for him. He left some Morphine to last a few hours and said he could not possibly live longer than that.
So his mother took care of him. She picked the shot out of his back and closed the wound as nearly as she could, keeping it dressed. We administered to him several times, calling in some of the Elders of the Church to assist. After three or four days the fever left and he began to regain a little strength.
Joey got well but the wound in his chest never completely healed. He was twenty years old when this happened. He died twenty-eight years later of pneumonia and other complications, at Georgetown, Bear Lake County, Idaho.
Dr. Alice Jeanette Tippets was always just called "Granma" by all her many grandchildren. We never knew she was a doctor. We just took for granted that whenever anyone was sick or hurt the thing to do was call for Granma. We had no telephones yet, so a quick trip by horse and buggy would always bring her, and she always knew just what to do.
My father, Joseph William Tippets, was the oldest son of Dr. Alice Jeanette and Joseph Mahonri Tippets. He married Ellen (Nell) Rosenbaum. They had 7 sons and 7 daughters, ages from 3 to about 23 at the time my oldest brother Maurice was married.
The following year the first grandchild to my parents was born and we children were all very excited when we heard the news. My three little sisters were Rhea, age 3, Jeanette, age 5, and Kate, age 7. Rhea was first to speak. She said, "Oh, Ma can't be a Granma. She don't have any little black bag to carry with her." "Oh yes she does," said Jeanette, "and I know right where it is and I know where we can get some bottles of medicine to put in it" She hurriedly ran into the bedroom bringing out a little bag and went to the cupboard, taking out bottles of extracts, liniment, etc. and started putting them in the bag. Kate said, "No, them won't do. That ain't the ones Granma uses." Then mother and father came home. Mother explained to them that all Granmas don't carry a little black bag. It was only our Granma because she is a doctor.
Rhea also took for granted the Granma had little babies in the little black bag because each time she visited a sick woman she left her a new baby. One time we all went to see Aunt Eliza and her new baby. The baby was in a little box sitting on the table. Mother lifted Rhea up to look inside at the baby, lying so still. She said to mother, "The baby doesn't move, why does it lay so still?" Mother said, "Shhhh," and whispered, "The baby is dead."
That night is was Rhea's turn to stay with Granma and she was very anxious. She had something she wanted to tell her. When they were alone she said, "Granma, I don't like you, because you brought Aunt Eliza a dead baby," and Rhea was crying. Granma picked her up in her arms and she cried too as she explained to her that she did not bring a dead baby to Aunt Eliza. The babies are sent from God and she only assisted Aunt Eliza when she was sick. The baby died before it was born because it was too early for it to be born yet.
A horse fell on my brother Claud while working in the field for Uncle Harrison, who picked him up and held him in his arms and brought him home to my mother. Telling her his leg was broken; he would go and get Granma. When she came she found the bone splintered and poking out through the flesh. She said, "I will have to give him some Laudanum," then she picked the pieces of splintered bone out while father made a splint. She set the leg and it healed perfectly.
Granma couldn't be everywhere. She couldn't be with my brother William when he walked across the railroad tracks in McCammon, Idaho. He didn't see the train in time and his foot slipped when he did see it and he fell across the tracks. The train passed over his body, cutting it in two. Sam Locks identified the body and sent for father, who with the help of others, brought it home to Granma, wrapped in a quilt There at her home it was prepared for burial and he was laid to rest in the Georgetown cemetery. He was 23 years of age, had been married two months. At that time there were no undertakers in the little community where we lived.
Granma was called one morning to go to the home of Emily Rolph, a widow woman, with a little baby. The baby was dead. The mother had accidentally laid on the baby during her sleep, crushing it to death. Granma took Mrs. Rolph home to live with her. Mrs. Rolph lived there until Granma's own mother became old and unable to stay alone, then the town built Emily Rolph a little log cabin at the back end of the church house. Granma gave her a carpet loom and taught her how to weave carpet. She made her own living that way as long as she lived.
Jedediah M. Tippets was six years of age when his stepmother, who was a sister to his own mother, was accidentally killed, leaving a family of nine children. He was a half-brother-in-law to Alice Jeanette. He lived with them until he married and went to a home of his own.
Granma was very fond of sharing of her home with others. She raised her eldest grandchild, Jeanette Sorensen-Pecora, now of Boise. She raised my sister, Fannie. They lived one and one-half miles from my father's home. We went to see Granma every day after school and waited there until father called for us.
Granma also took into her home a young orphan boy, Frank Pecora, an Italian, who had come from Italy with his father and three brothers. They were musicians and played string instruments. They entertained at beer parlors and lunch houses where the freighters stopped to eat and feed their horses when driving through. They were stopped at Denver, Colorado when it was mostly sagebrush territory. Frank was only 7 years old, and was left to amuse himself while his father and brothers played cards and gambled. Some of the men had sent little Frank to town on an errand. When he returned, he was alone. He never found his father and brothers again. He stayed in one of the freight wagons on its way to Utah and rode into Utah with Granma's brother. He allowed Frank to stay at his house. The boy didn't even know his own name except that he was called Frank.
Some years later, one of the men passing through Utah saw the boy and stopped to talk to him. He told him what his real name was and that some gangsters had killed his father and brothers and their bodies were hidden in the shack where they played cards. They were robbed of all they owned. This record is on file at the library in Denver. Frank Pecora married Jeanette Sorensen. Their families are now living in Boise and are all honorable men and women.
Dr. Alice Jeanette was mother to five children: Joseph, Harrison, Mary (who married Hans Sorensen), Alice (who married Chris Sorensen) (Hans and Chris were brothers), and one other daughter that died while a baby.
During the time that she practiced medicine, she traveled all over wherever she was needed. She brought more than 2,000 babies into the world.
People came for her any time during the day or night and if it was winter and snow on the ground, which it was eight months out of the year in Bear Lake, and if she had been up the night before, she would take quilts with her and a pillow and make a bed in the bottom of the sleigh, which was always filled with clean straw, and she would sleep until she got to her ailing patient She would be refreshed and ready for whatever she was required to do. She never charged more than $10 for any case. Many times she never got paid at all, but she never refused to go when anyone needed help.
Alice Jeanette was very sympathetic and understanding. She was a good doctor and midwife. She was very successful in her confinement cases. She attracted attention by her strength of character.
She was a beautiful woman. Alice Jeanette was a little above average in height and sturdily built. She had the ability to console in distress and she didn't put the most important values on material things. She once made the statement "You don't feel bad to wear old clothes as long as you have better ones at home."
Her large family of descendants who hope to be worthy to follow the fine example she set for them honors the memory of Dr. Alice Jeanette Tippets.
In 1910 her husband became very sick and she cared for him until his death on October 1, 1910.
Joseph, their son, became ill in August 1911 while assisting his sons to put up hay. Granma took him to her house and cared for him until he died, 18 August 1911, at his mother's house in Georgetown, Idaho. His wife was with him at the time of his death, as well as other members of the family.
Dr. Alice Jeanette died at the home of her daughter, Mary Sorensen, at Georgetown. She knew her death was near. When my husband and I called to see her, a short time after we were married, she was ill and lying in bed, propped up reading a paper. My husband asked her if she would come and wait on his wife when their first baby was born. We were living in Burley at the time. She said, "Yes, if I am here I will." She died 18 October 1914, just two months before my baby was born.
Written by Ellen Tippets Prescott with information from a book on Idaho history by Rebecca Hall, my sister. Also assisting were my sisters Alice and Louisa; brothers Maurice, Aaron and Claud; my cousin, Nettie Pecora; Inez Hoff and Walter E. Clark, also from church history and as I remember seeing her.