Daisy Blanche Brandon Journal

"I had met Elder Homer and Elder Evans at the home of Sister Ulum's, and when I was ready to go back to my home at Oil Hill (Kansas), it was hot in July and I had a long way to walk walk. As I walked, the thought came to me, 'Well, I am not going to go with another man, until I go with Elder Homer. Then I am going To go with him forever.' That was quite different from my first opinion of him. I thought, why did they send those two ugly Elders out here together? They will never get into any ones home. But they did. Elder Evans was soon transferred, but Elder Homer spent 19 months in that part of the Mission. He came to stay with us before leaving to go home, and I cried all night. 'I would never see him again.' But, my father always said to the missionaries, "Write to us." None of them ever did, until Elder Homer. Elder Homer wrote that he arrived home ok, and Mother said, 'Daisy, you'll have to answer Elder Homer's letter.' So, letters came and went to and from the Brandon and Homer home. I had never opened one of his letters, until my sister Lilly insisted I open one. He asked me to marry him, so I wrote and told him he would have to ask my father. He did. He asked me to come to Idaho, but I insisted he would have to come back to Kansas if he wanted to marry me. He did.

I caught a light case of the measles, but the Dr. said it didn't harm my baby. I was sick all summer, and didn't feel like making any baby clothes. Dr. Rainry said, "That baby has been dead since you had the measles. Its a wonder you didn't die from blood poisoning." The next March I had a similar experience except I didn't lose the baby. A Sister Etaugh, was visiting from Utah. She said she gave blessings in the Temple, and she wanted to give me a blessing. She said my first baby was comming back to get a body and he would be able to sing. She said she could almost hear him singing now. December 21 our baby was born, we named him Benjamin for his grandfather Homer and Franklin for his grandfather Brandon. Ben weighed 9 1/2 pounds at birth. He weighed 19 lbs. when we took him to the temple to be sealed to us. (One year old.) I took him to a doctor and he asked what do you feed this baby? I said, I nurse him. He said wean him and start feeding him at the table. Ben had one tooth at 4 months, two teeth at 5 months and all of them at one year.