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What
did Margaret Ellen Black Rowley do that went over and beyond normal service?
a.
Gave all her money to a neighbor in
need
b.
Gave away all her food to a neighbor
in need
c.
Visit teach while having contractions
d.
Acted as midwife and delivered her
neighbors baby while she was having her own contractions
Yesterday’s answer:
C Sold it at the Tithing office price, but
gave it free to widows
From
the life of Thomas Grover: After his
return he again settled in Farmington. The year of the grasshopper depredation
he had plowed his land in the fall and during a warm spell in February he
planted his wheat. It came on early and was ready for harvesting before the
grasshoppers got so bad, while the late grain was nearly all eaten by them.
That
season he harvested seven hundred bushels of wheat which would have brought
five dollars a bushel on the public market, but Brother Grover loaned and sold
every bushel of it, except enough for his own family, for the tithing office
price of two dollars a bushel.
At
this time Sister Brown, a widow, sent her boy to ask Brother Grover to sell her
a little flour just a few pounds. Brother Grover sent his son to fill a grain
sack full of flour and put it on the boys’ wagon. The flustered youth asked how
much a whole sack of four would cost, adding that he had only a little money,
to which Brother Grover replied, “I do not sell flour to widows and fatherless
children.” As the sack was placed upon the wagon the happy boy drove away in
tears.
Andrew
Jenson, L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia,
(Salt Lake City, Andrew Jensen Memorial Association, 1936), 4:140.
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