This was written in the Spring of 1959—dictated by Laura, and compiled by Ellen Silver (wife of LeGrande). Laura was 79 years old. Laura would go on to live another 25 years to the age of 105.

I was born the 30th of January, 1880, in Farmington, Davis County, Utah, the ninth child of ten children of my Mother, Susan Leggett Clark and my Father, Ezra Thompson Clark. There was one boy, Seymour Thompson Clark, three girls, Annie Vilate, Sarah Lovina, and Susan Alice Bell Clark, and then four boys, John Alexander, Eugene Henry, Nathan George and Marian Franklin Clark (who died as an infant).