It was the second day of September 1900, that I, George Sevey, Anna Heder (my intended wife), and my sister, Mahala started for Utah to visit relatives, and to get married. We attended Conference in Salt Lake City, and on the 9th of October, we went through the temple and were sealed.

On the 15th of October, we all went to Panguitch City and remained there until the 11th of December. We returned then to Colonia Chuichupa, our home. We arrived on the 27th day of January 1901, and had a grand reception and party on the 30th. My father-in-law, my wife, and I went to Naco, Sonora, Mexico to work and spent the summer of 1901 there. While there I nearly died from typhoid fever. We returned home in December 1901, and on March 30, 1902, a daughter was born to us, whom we named Georgeana Maude.

The summer of 1902 I worked at the carpenter trade from July to November. My father died on June 22nd and was buried on the 23rd in Colonial Juarez. In 1904, I went to Tombstone, Arizona, and to Bisbee, where I worked at my trade as a carpenter for a year, my wife and family with me. We returned to Chupe (Colonia Chuichupa) in July 1905. When I returned, in July 1906, I was set apart as second counselor in the bishopric, and three years later I was set apart as first counselor to Bishop Benjamin J. Johnson. During these years, we had three more children: Francis, born April 24, 1904, Millard born August 4, 1906, and Lucille, born December 13, 1908. Our third girl was born a couple of years later, on June 25, 1911, but she died in an epidemic of diphtheria six months later.