Vera history written by sister

The following is an excerpt from the document, "History of Leroy and Vera J. Taylor Huber" found in the genealogy albums of Della/Gene Nyberg in May 2012 (author and date written is unmentioned, but I'm assuming Della wrote it.)

"...Vera was born February 3, 1908 to Roy and Roxa Althea Andersen Taylor at Chester, Utah.  She was the eighth of twelve children, six boys and six girls.  The brothers and sisters are Zelma, Cora, Earldean, Roy, Rex, Leslie, Sherman, Ralph, Della, Doris, and Martin.

When she was born one of the family had whooping cough and when she was about two weeks old she also took the disease.  Zelma related this story about her father.  Vera was very sick and the parents were afraid she would never survive the disease.  One night they were working with her and her mother went to the kitchen for medicine.  He father sat up in bed and prayed for her and from that time she began to get better.

When she was six years old she had the misfortune of being badly burned with hot scalding water.  She still has the scars from the burn on her neck and shoulder.

The eventful day of October 24, 1915, was when the family left Sanpete headed for the Uintah Basin.  They arrived at Hayden, Utah, November 5, where they stayed until the next spring.  They then moved to Lapoint where she has resided for the remainder of her life.

She attended school at Lapoint and later stayed with her sister, Cora, and attended high school at Kaysville.  The school at Lapoint was a one room building with a curtain pulled through the center for a partition.  It was very noisy and it was difficult trying to study.  The church meetings were also held in this same building for awhile.

There were five families around their neighborhood and each had large families.  The children rode horses to school and there was always a big group of kids night and morning.  They were always racing and learned to ride horses well.  It was cold in the winter, but they dressed warm and didn’t mind the cold weather.

On September 2, 1916, Vera was baptized in a pond on the old C.A. Thompson place by Mr. Thompson.  The following day she was confirmed by Jacob Lybberts.

The family lived close to Clear Creek and during the summer they went swimming nearly every day.  All the neighbor children would join in and all had a good time.  In the winter they went skating and sleigh riding..."