| AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARGARET FOUTZ CONTINUED |
| I am now in my seventy-sixth year; the mother of twelve children, fifty-two grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren; have witnessed the growth of our American Government under that inspired document the Constitution of the United States, and have rejoiced under the wise administration of pure and good laws and also have I witnessed law set at defiance, and mobocratic violence run rampant; Yea. verily, when the wicked rule the people mourn. How near the hour glass of my time is run, I cannot say. But one thing I can say, I have ever been true to the laws of my country, true to my Lord and His holy cause, true to my companion, and expect ere long to meet him in the glorious resurrection of the just, when nothing shall hurt or mar in all the holy mountains, where we can build and inhabit and enjoy the society or our children and our children't shilcren unmolested, where pain and death shall have no reighn, and sorrow is done away; which is the earnest desire of my heart in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. MARGARET FOUTZ PLEASANT GROVE CITY DEC. 28, 1876 |