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you and I doing the will of God and our faith in him and each other.  Come on, dear, and let's begin today.  Time is precious and not any to lose.  We have lost years and years by not understanding our duties and trusting fully on the greatness and power of our Creator.  Come, come, do not delay a single day.  But follow Jesus, who leads the way and makes night bright as day.
"Now, Darling, no matter where you go I shall follow you my loving Luie.  Please do not pass this call up and  think I am imagining things as this is a call to us to begin to follow our blessed Savior and Redeemer, who gave his life that we might live and follow him to that great beyond, where all is shining bright, no sickness, pain or  sorrow, but all peace and joy.  Why not earn the prize, Pet?  It is ours just for the doing and the following of the plan laid out for us.  Why not go?  We can do just as well as others.  We have no peace or happiness this way.  Why not change and do our full duty and reap the joys of  Life?  It is ours.  Can't you see the point, Sweetheart?  Sure you can and my prayer is God be with you till we meet again and forever after.  I am yours and you are mine.  We can do our duty and not one will be left behind.  Sweet, Sweet hour of Prayer."

James Uriah told her that the reason he wrote so strongly was that they didn't have time to talk when she visited.  He acknowledged "we have had no happiness in life so far" and encouraged a new beginning.  "I know you won't there understand me, But you ask our Heavenly Father and he will show you all."  "I have thoroughly made up my mind to serve our Redeemer and intend to get well and get out of here soon as possible."

Remembering their Wedding Day
Then he hearkened back to their wedding day.  "Come to me with that sweet and pure love you had for me when you joined me at Price, Utah.  Oh, the sweet sweet recall of that time and you.  How my heart beat with love and pride.  And next day when you became my loving and true bride, sweetheart, oh sweetheart.  Can you love and trust me in the future as that time?  "My heart is just as true now as then and more so, dearest.."

Pearleau Marries
Pearleau, also known as Pete,  had married sometime during the 1930's, to a woman named Emma, but this marriage was doomed to failure, as she talked him into breaking laws  and they were on the run.  When she could not control her temper and was physically abusive, he eventually fled to be with his family.

Darral Also Marries
Darral fell deeply in love with a woman he met in Oklahoma, Agnes.  He brought her to Arizona and they were married May 15, 1936.  They were never blessed with children during their 17 years of marriage before her tragic death.  He then married twice again, no children.

A Life of Pain and Illness
On March 16, 1937, James Uriah was denied pay while in the hospital having suffered a fall while working for the CCC, according to Captain Woods, War Dept., Fallon, NV.
On April 13, 1937, he was Still at Letterman General Hospital.  Maud had written that she was ill, which broke his heart.  His side was giving him grief, but the doctors hadn't decided what to do for it, yet.  He wasn't sure whether he would be cleared for the old age pension he had applied for.  Maud was having a hard time making ends meet and he commiserated on their poverty and suffering.
He also realized many around him were so much worse off and he spent time teaching "a lot of these sick here that's seeking for light and truth and they seem to be very thankful to be taught the ways of the Savior."  He asked Maud to come visit if she could ever get the time or money and felt up to the trip from Oakland to San Francisco.  He had a friend in the hospital, Raymond Lurbe, who was extremely ill, being treated with x-ray, and who wanted to take James and his family sight seeing when he got better. 
Wrote James, "Although I get the blues at times, I look at Lurbe and feel like I am well blessed having a true darling forever while he hasn't anyone here or hereafter to look to.  Oh, isn't that terrible Pet?  And he doesn't understand and won't listen to me when I try to explain the gospel.  Well, if you feel like you all could write him and tell him some jokes it would cheer him up a deal, and Leona ought to tell him how she likes her gift and that will cheer him a deal.  See he has helped a lot of people and they don't appreciate it and that makes him feel bad.  Besides, he is one that likes praise, I can see that.  But people should be thankful when one just gives freely to help them."

Lavonda Marries Again
Around 1932, Lavonda had married Art Truman, on a date we do not know, with whom she had no children.  She left him when she discovered he could not father children.  He had hopes of their reuniting, but she met a man at the CCC camp and became pregnant .  She married Charles (Chuck) Eades at an 11pm shotgun wedding on May 4, 1937 in Fallon, Nevada.  Two months later she gave birth to a girl named June, in Oakland, California.  She eventually had 5 children, and several husbands.

Their Place in Fallon Burns
On May 24, 1937, James Uriah wrote "from the shade of the elm tree on Lyle's ranch in Fallon Nev."  He was feeling rocky.  Then he described the ruins of their house in Fallon, which had burned while they were gone.
"Well we went over to our place also yesterday and I tell you it is a heart rendering sight to see the ruins.  The trees are nearly all burned up and the ruins of the house and its contents lying in ashes.  O, so many things, dishes, knives, spoons by the dozens.  Separator, stove, phonograph and o so many things lying in heaps.  Beds and springs, oh it just made me sick and then the chicken run torn down and fence and gates. 
"I tell you darling that Chuck [Charles Eades, Lavonda's husband] sure ruined our little home, plowed up the chicken run land and creek when it was softened wet and left it all in humps and bumps with fence and gates all torn down so stock can go all over the place at will and garden land plowed and left same way as other, never touched after plowed and everything drying up for water.
"And it is all his fault the house burned as it was one of his old drunken pals that had been on drunken sprees there with him and went there to have another spree with him not knowing Chuck had left so was waiting for him to come home, got out of whisky and walked to town leaving his horse and outfit there near the house and he was getting very not and Mr. Higgins and Mrs. Blair cut horses loose and turned them in the pasture.  And they said they had not seen anyone else there but old Tom V. and sure it was him that caused the fire. 
"But [he] did not have the slightest idea that he set a fire, just thought it caught from a match he draft after lighting his pipe as said he seemed real nice and considerate when not drinking.  Said he and Chuck had been on several drunks together there and he felt at home there, so you see how things have MORE

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