Emma Almyra Dibble Sedgwick was born 22 April 1879 in Kaysville, (now Syracuse) Utah. She was the eighth of nine children born to Philo Dibble Jr. and Antoinette Cleveland Dibble. A few years later they sold their farm and bought a 160 acre farm in West Layton. They moved into a two-room adobe house and later built four more brick rooms on the house.

They had a well with a hand pump for their water and used candles and kerosene lamps for their light. At that time there would often be Indians roaming through the country begging or stealing most anything they could get, mostly food or clothing. She said she remembered one time when she was about five years old an old Indian came to their door begging for some food. Her mother gave him some flour and then he wanted her father’s hat. He gave it to him, and the Indian took his knife and cut the top of the hat out. Her father asked him why he did that, and he said, "Maybe me be bald headed."

Mother went to the Layton school, graduated from the 8^th grade and went for one year to the Agricultural College in Logan.

She was active in the Church, being a teacher in the Primary and Sunday School.

She would often go to Centerville and visit her sister, Celia Roberts. On one of these visits, she went to a Stake meeting where she met Richard Hall Sedgwick who had recently lost his wife. Then the romance started. They were married 27 October 1909 in the Salt Lake Temple.

They moved into the Sedgwick home in Bountiful. Richard had three sons named Richard, age 8, Joel, age 6, and Howard, age 4. My brother David was born 28 October 1910 and I was born January 1, 1912, so mother had five boys to care for and raise.

On December 5, 1915, my grandfather, Philo Dibble Jr. died at their home in West Layton. All but two of mother’s family had married and moved into homes of their own on land given to them by their father. He also gave mother the old home and 20 acres of land where the house was located.

My grandmother was getting old and had to have someone to care for her so in the Spring of 1917, Mother and Father and all us kids moved to Layton and lived in the old home.

Grandmother died July 6, 1919 and on July 30, 1919 my sister Marie was born. We all grew up and attended the Layton grade school and Davis High School.

Mother and Father worked very hard to provide for the family. Mother taught us the gospel at home and would see to it that we all got to church on Sundays.

By the late 20’s, the three older boys had left home for other work. Joel and Howard to California, and Richard to Logan.

David and I graduated from High School in 1930. I worked the farm for 3 or 4 years. David studied radio.

I left home in 1935, moved to Logan and worked as a bookkeeper and was married in 1937.

David was married in 1938 and lived at home caring for Mother and Dad.

In 1938, Mother was stricken with cancer. She suffered much and passed away November 14, 1939.