Written by Georgia (Todd) Lambeth.

This is the story of Georgia Bell Clark Lambeth, Todd, as she was called, after a C.C.C. fellow she went with. She was born February 22, 1921 to James Laycock Clark and Sarah Isabelle Smith Clark in Cedar City, Utah.

"Mother told me she used to have to keep my hair cut short. It was so thick that it made sores behind my ears. She said my brother Milt's first wife would take me to keep me all day and when she would bring me home I would have lace on my dress and slip. One day they had me sitting on the fence, a lady came walking by and said, What a cute doll."

"Mother said I had a straw hat that had tassels on it, and had a big hole on the top so Dad took me to town to buy me a new hat, but I would take it off and put the old one back on. I finally wore it after the old one was completely worn out.

"One time we were going up to the mountains; we usually went up every year when school let out as Father had to work up there building fences or roads. We walked much of the way as the horses had a big load of supplies to pull up the steep road. Some people came by in an old Model A Ford. They stopped and a lady gave us some oranges. I was afraid and ran around and hid. I remember a waterfall going over the road. Brother Harold and I would walk under it. We could gather enough wild raspberries for our dinner, also fish along the road side stream. I got so I hated to see school let out because we had to go to the mountains and stay all summer. It could really rain up here. We would go from one tree to another, we just moved out from underneath a big pine, when lightning hit it and split it down the middle. Boy, we never stopped running until we got to camp.

"We had various ways for entertainment. We would hitch up Horned Toads, like horses, and have pulling matches with them, using match boxes with dirt in.

"I remember once I went over to Beaver with Milt and Viola to get some tires for their car. Then Main Street was just a rock road.

"I remember when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, we used to have what they called May Day. They would braid the May Pole. I was a blue bird on time. Mother and Aunt Lila made my costume. The held this play at the college every year. I would come flying down off a hill.

"I was in the Band. Had white pants and shirt with red stripes down the sides. I remember in school we would have dance reviews. We went to Parowan with it once. We tapped to "Dark Town Strutters Ball".

"Our class was really small. We used to take walks. Had one boy that took seizures that would really scare us.

"I remember one day we had to march in a parade down town. I had just got my Vaccination for Small Pox, and my arm was really sore and I had a temperature, so I ran out by the bank and came home. Another time I got sick and asked the teacher if I could go home. She let me go and I got sick twice before I got home. Dr. Graff was there going over mother, she was carrying Marie then. I laid on the bed out side. I was so sick. She saw me and asked what I was doing home. I told her I was sick. The Doctor went over me and said I had Scarlet Fever. So they telephoned the school and had all the kids go home. Opal Gellespie would bring my lessons over and lay in bed with me so she would get it, but she never did. I remember we had Whooping Cough. Pat and Dee lived with us. We were all so sick.

"We used to herd the cows down in a field and we had to stay all day to keep them out of the corn. We had a swimming hole over by the cemetery called the Red Flume.

"I remember on Christmas we all went down to Dixie to Aunt Lule's place. We used to play games at night. All the kids in the neighborhood would gather. We would play Run Sheep Run and Ball until it got too dark to see. I remember one year in school I won the Marble and Jack Tournament.

"I remember once a man on a farm said we could all have a pig if we could catch them. So we all did. I caught a little black and white one. I raised him and sold him for $10.00 and bought me a Red Knit Dress.

"I remember when we had to dress for gymnasium in school I would always leave my coat on. The boys would chase me around to take my coat off. I didn't think they should see your legs.

"One Christmas we got the same doll with new clothes on. Dad didn't have any work. We had candles on our tree and only lit them twice. Mother and Dad would put a hanky on the tree for Nieces and our Cousins.

"I went to St. George to a dance one time. Dad told me I couldn't go, I went any way. Pauline Butcher and I were in a wreck and I broke my arm. I was in the hospital down there all night and half the next day. Harold came and got me. I was so afraid to get in a car. He only went about 20 miles an hour. The Doctor down there made me promise never to go any where when my parents told me not to go. I had to wear a cast on my arm. Albert would write my letters for me. I was working for Dr. Graff. Albert would come up and we would go to the movies. Fonda Beckstead and I got Albert and Dorothy going together. I remember when they got engaged I really felt bad because I knew we wouldn't do any more things together.

"We used to take a bunch of people down to Kanarraville to the dances in Delbert Woolsey's truck. Sarah, Stella and Bill would make us come home with them.

"One time there was a band that played on the stage at the show house. The next night we invited them all up to May's flat for a cook out. It was a lot of fun.

"In the winter we would take turns and go to one another's homes and have pot luck, then go sleigh riding or tobogganing.

"One year Carole Davenport's folks were going to Colorado to work. Pat and I wanted to go. Sister Almary said as soon as we got the roof of their house painted we could go. Mother already said I could go. We hurried and got the painting done and went with them. We worked in the lettuce fields in Del Monte. We used to go to the dances way out of town and the rest rooms were way out in the Sage Brush. Betty, a girl that lived there, and I went out and it was so dark. When we got back our legs were so scratched. We slept over to Betty's and the next morning her mother put Mentholatum all over my legs and face.

"I met Cobe before I went over there. He didn't want me to go over there. Pat and I wanted to go to Kanarraville to the dance. We were sitting in Harry's Cafe. Cobe came in and we started to talk to him. He said he was going to the dance if we wanted to go, so we went. Pat ended up with him. Then after the dance she came home with someone else. I came back with Cobe. He asked me if I wanted to go on the mountain, so I went home and changed my clothes. He made me drive. I didn't know how to drive very good. I hit a big rock, Cobe was asleep. He jumped up and said he would drive.

"We went together for about a year, then got married on June 1, 1945 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pat went with us. Cobe was working for Doug Clark so we bought a trailer and moved it to the mountain. Doug's daughter Virginia and I went riding horses every day. I used to ride with Doug's boys checking the fences and such. It snowed early the one year so I was brought out early and Cobe and the rest had to come out on horses.

"In 1947 Dick was born. He was a fat cute baby. Then in 1948 Scott was born. The day I came home with Scott, Dick had the measles. Scott didn't get them. We used to take the kids fishing and had much fun with them.

"I was able to get Cobe started to church, so we went to the St. George Temple and got married and had our children sealed to us. We also had a little girl. She died at birth.

"Our lives were quite happy. We went to church all the time. We took the kids to California, to the Rose Bowl Parade with Thello and his family, then to Phoenix, Arizona, to the horse races.

"I taught Cub Scouts for 5 years, and was PTA President. I also went to Provo with all the Presidents when they first started Cub Scouts. Corrine and I had 20 in our Pack; it started with Dick and Fred. We won a lot of rewards that year. I got a special award for doing a good job. I am a Relief Society Visiting Teacher, I got to the Temple often.

"Cobe had passed away on November 20, 1982. I have missed him so much. The first two years were rough, but getting over it a little bit now. I hope to be with him again some time.

"I love my grandchildren so much. Dick has two boys; Kurt 18, Kyle 16, and a little girl Kristin 6. Scott has two girls; Jackie 9, Lindsay 4, and one boy Jared 7. I just live for these people.