(An excerpt from the history of Judson Isaac Tolman.)
In Marion, I met again the young girl who had first attracted my attention when at school in Tooele, she corrected the teacher as to her name as before referred to. She had come with her family to the Oakley valley the year before we came, and their home was just one mile from ours. When we now met, she was just 13 years old, which was 3 years younger than I, our birthdays coming on the same day of the month, Jan 21st. I began taking her out right away and we courted for 5 years before we felt old enough to be married. When the time arrived, which we had set, we went in two covered wagons, Emerett and I, Dan Gorringe, his sweetheart, and his mother, to Logan, Utah to be married in the Temple. I shall never forget the time we had on the way. Dan’s mother was a little old English lady, who pronounced all her words in the quaint English style, to our amusement, and which caused her to almost lose her patience at times, but which all added to our good time.
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