In 1887, George came back to Panguitch from Mexico and took Maggie and her son back with him to Mexico, leaving Panguitch in November and arriving in Colonia Juarez on January 1, 1888. For a while she and her son lived in the tithing office in Colonia Juarez, and while still there, her next child, Minerva Elizabeth was born. Shortly thereafter she went with her husband to cook for him and his men while they worked up some farmland that he had purchased in what was known as the “Upper Fields.” He had two pieces of land there and for a while they camped under the trees while he built a one-room frame cabin for her on the upper of these two places, located at the head of the irrigation ditch.

Maggie lived there for a couple of years and her next child, Phoebe Vilate, was born there. Her husband did some trading with his land and acquired about 27 acres together at the lower site. Then he purchased a piece from Joseph Cardon, which had a house on it. He moved Maggie into it, and she lived there the rest of her life. Her last child, Leon Lorenzo, was born there in 1895.

When they first arrived in Mexico, Maggie had very little with which to feed her family. She used cornmeal in many ways, making mush, corn bread, and any other way she could think of, using molasses for sweetening, until her husband, George, finally traded for three cows. Again Maggie went into the dairying business, and with the vegetables from her little garden and the milk, butter and cheese from her dairy, she again was able to set a fine meal before her family.

In a few years she had about 40 cows to milk and take care of. They were all of good stock, and she was careful to breed them well. She gave her family a warm breakfast by candlelight, milked her cows twice daily, made cheese every day, churned butter three times a week, did all her own housework, cooked three hot meals a day, and many times she had two to six or eight extra people to feed.

In 1896, George took a contract on the railroad, building from El Paso, Texas, to Colonia Dublan, Mexico, and Maggie was there cooking in a tent for all his hands, and with Mahala, George’s daughter from his third wife, giving her the much needed help in every way possible. She loved her work and was always jolly and full of fun, keeping everyone happy and contented.