In the fall of the year, some of the presidents of the Church and apostles would stop over night at Moccasin on their way to St. George from Kanab. How we would clean the house for their coming and all the yards outside. We would bring flowers in the house and have everything spic and span, even the children. We would make good things to eat - it was an exciting time.
President Joseph F. Smith had a long, white beard, was tall and nice looking. President Heber J. Grant held a meeting and sang for us. He said a person could do anything he made his mind up to do, if he persisted long enough. Apostle Richard R. Lyman had the biggest feet I ever saw and could eat the most watermelon. He was a large man. Apostle Francis M. Lyman blessed and named my brother, Gilbert Giles Heaton, the third of September 1900 at Moccasin in our dining room. Got him off to a good start in life.
We always saved our largest and best melons for the visiting authorities coming in the fall of the year. One time our neighbor from Two Mile, Andrew Lamb, Uncle Ed Lamb's brother, came to Moccasin and on his way out he passed the melon patch. It was a great temptation to see those big melons. So our biggest melons went along home with Andrew and the Apostles had second best. However, he was kind enough to save the seed and send to us for planting the coming spring.
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