In the winter of 1895, John went on a trip to the LDS colonies in Mexico. He came home all enthused about moving to Mexico. In June 1896, we moved, taking all our possessions, which could be moved, including a sawmill and all equipment in chartered railroad cars. We finally settled in the little colony of Chuichupa. However, we stayed a few days in Colonia Juarez to get supplies and food and then went on to the mountains. We traveled up very steep and rough dugways. The roads were very rough. In placed we had to stop and work on them before we could go on. We traveled several days, and finally arrived in Chuichupa on the 15th of June 1896.

We had been in Mexico a year or two when our next baby was born on July 29, 1897 and we named her Lillian Juanita. Our two youngest boys, too, were born in Mexico. George Roland, was born on February 7, 1900, and Stanley Marius was born February 12, 1908.

In 1902 we moved again, this time down to the valley colony of Dublan where we lived until the rebels drove us out in 1912.

From Mexico, in 1912, we moved back to the United States and settled for a short time in Tucson, Arizona. From there we went to Gilbert, Arizona, in 1914, and on to Mesa that fall. In 1919, late in the fall, we went back to Gilbert, remaining there for about five years, when we returned to Mesa for our last big move. We lived in several places in Mesa, finally moving into a small home near our son Roland and his family. We were living in this little home when John died, after a number of years of much pain and rheumatism in his body, on November 6, 1940.

Editor’s note: Anna Jorgena Christina (Madsen) Heder died on June 9, 1955 in Mesa, Arizona at the age of 91.