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Authors: Linda Weaver Clarke

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Authors Notes

 

The inspiration for this story came from my
own mother’s experience. Her girlfriend told my mother that she was
being way too picky and her expectations were too high. My mother,
Milred Gough Weaver, was an accomplished pianist. She was a
spiritual person with certain standards for a husband and first
impressions were important to her. Her girlfriend said that she
knew a good-looking twenty nine year old farmer, Marcus Gilbert
Weaver. My mother told me that through letters she was able to get
to know my father’s soul and his innermost feelings. They wrote for
several months and gradually fell in love. After realizing their
feelings for one another, they decided it was time to meet. The
second time they met, he proposed. The third time they met was on
their wedding day.

To help create this story, I actually used a
few of my father’s letters. They were so romantic and I couldn’t
help it. I love his letters and treasure them.

My grandmother,
Olive
Weaver,
took a Nurses Training Course at the
hospital and also attended the University of Utah around the time
this story takes place. She helped her sister’s son recover
from
diphtheria when other doctors had given up. She also
had a beautiful alto voice and sang with great feeling. We lived
next door to her and my mother often told me how she could hear my
grandmother sing as she picked her raspberries and how her voice
rang with beauty. Between 1904 and 1910, she sang in the famous
Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In 1910, at the age of thirty, she finally
found the man of her “dreams.”

My great grandmother, Frances Davies, saved a
man’s life who had been gored by a bull. Every detail was recorded
in her biography and I used it for my story. The man lived for many
years afterwards.

Mrs. O’Grady and the overalls in the soup was
taken from the old traditional Irish song, “Who Threw the Overalls
in Mistress Murphy’s Chowder?”

 

 

ABOUT AUTHOR

 

Linda Weaver Clarke travels throughout the
United States, teaching a “Family Legacy Workshop,” encouraging
others to write their family history and autobiography. She is the
mother of six daughters and has several grandchildren.

Clarke is the author of the historical sweet
romance series, “A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho,” which includes
the following novels:
Melinda and the Wild West
(2006) - an
awarding winning novel,
Edith and the Mysterious Stranger
(2008),
Jenny’s Dream
(2009),
Sarah’s Special Gift
(2009), and
Elena, Woman of Courage
(2009). The Adventures
of John and Julia Evans includes
Anasazi Intrigue
(2010),
Mayan Intrigue
(2010),
Montezuma Intrigue
(2011), and
Desert
Intrigue
(2012). She has also written two
non-fiction e-books:
Writing Your Family Legacy
(2011) and
Reflections of the Heart
(2011).

To learn more, visit
www.lindaweaverclarke.com
.

 

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