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 MALLORY, age 11 HER TWIN SISTERS JESSICA and JILLIAN, age 10, AND MITCHELL, 11 |
and this is something that I would like to share with you.
 "Where we found the children" Aug. 1998 | August 9,1998 What started out as a sunny day, ended as a day I'll never forget. I only got to meet the girls once and that was only an hour or so before I saw them for the last time. The girls and their soon-to-be brother Mitchell, age 11, had stopped by on their way to play. Mitchell had come by to say he was sorry one more time for playing his music too loud a few days ago. I think I said something like "That's ok." And they told me how happy they were to all be together on the weekends. They were happy kids asking me about me and my horse, Charcoal. I remember Mallory was so happy when I told her that she could go to a horse show to see us perform (compete) some day, if their parents said it was ok. Then they were gone, looking for adventure as kids will do on a hot summer day. Later, I remember hearing thunder in the distance, and as always I unplugged everything in the house. Then the rain and lightning started. It wasn't long after it hit, that my daughter drove up honking her horn and crying out that there had been a cave-in at the CLAY PIT about a block-and-a-half from my house, and children were in it. |
My daughter was caring for her children, a four-month-old, and a four-year-old, and could not readily accompany me as I raced to the site. Thinking back now, I only remember running into the storm. I must have abandoned whatever I was doing and just ran for the site, oblivious to everything. It seemed to take an eternity to get there. What I saw that day was something no one should ever have to see. The first thing I saw were the children's parents and my son-in-law frantically digging. I joined in, but we were too late to save the girls; Mallory, Jillian and Jessica.
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MALLORY, age 11
HER TWIN SISTERS
JESSICA and JILLIAN, age 10, AND MITCHELL, 11 
