I am not sure just when Aunt Lizzle gave up her W.C.T.U. work and came to set up a home for Grandpa but it must have been not long after step-Grandma Moore died. I am almost sure it was not what Aunt Lizzle might have wanted to do for she was a person who was very active and was always doing something for others. She felt It was her duty to make a home for Grandpa. I must say that Aunt Lizzie made it possible for Papa to go back to Japan after little jean and her mother died within a month of each other. Papa must have faced a bleak future. He told me once that Grandpa wanted to adopt me his legal child, or offered to do this to help Papa so he could go back to Japan. I guess Papa felt he could not just could not leave me and go back without anyone, Aunt Lizzie had promised my mother that she would look after me so in the end things worked out, Papa was able to return to Japan as Aunt Lizzie agreed to go out with him to look after me. I am not sure that Aunt Lizzie was actually engaged to a man; no one ever said, but I do feel sure she an understanding with someone. Once having made a promise to my mother she went through with it at whatever it may have cost her in heartache. Aunt Lizzie was a most attractive person when she was young and I am sure she had plenty of offers of marriage, some even after she came to make a home for Grandpa. It seems that Aunt Lizzie was always the one who stepped in to help any of the connection when in need, When Aunt Mary died, Aunt Lizzie looked after Mary Tom for a number of years. I just cannot tell how much of her own life she gave up to take care of me, so I felt I owed her a debt of love I could never repay. When she used to sting me at times with her criticisms, I tried to remember how much of herself she had given to help me and Grandpa. I was only too glad to try to see that she got to ride almost every Sunday when she spent the last five Years of her life down at Salem Home. Aunt Lizzie helped me financially with the education of my children and I am sure she helped all of her nieces and nephews as far as they needed help, We should let the many fine things she did cover up her, at times, caustic remarks.
Aunt Lizzie and Grandpa gave we and my friends a very fine house party with Aunt Mary and Uncle Lynn's help. Uncle Lynn had come to Taylorsville to be the pastor of the church there. This house party followed my graduation from, Davidson. Jim Brown, my room mate at Davidson, and a classmate, Lloyd Smith, and Will Golden, fellow students at D. C. also came. Eleanor Reid and Marie McKinley, cousins on my mother's side, and Ida Moore and Kathleen Alexander, cousins on the Moore side, were among the number there. It is hard to believe that In that day without many