Lorania Nelson's name is also spelled Loraina and Lorana. She is the daughter of Price Williams Nelson and Lydia Ann Lake Nelson. "When Lorania was five years old her father was called to help settle the Muddy Basin. Life was very hard and in a few years the government of Nevada levied such high taxes on the people that they could not endure it, so they were released to go where they thought they could do the best. The Nelson family moved to Glendale, Utah, then Moencopi, an Indian Fort in Ariz., then moved to a little town called Pine Creek, Ariz. The morning Lorania's family left for Pine Creek, Lorania was married to Joseph Lehi Foutz July 3, 1878, at Moencopi, Yavapai County, Arizona. The young married couple then went on the long journey by team and wagon to St. George to be married in the Mormon Temple. Upon returning they continued to live at Moencopi until their third child was born. Life at Moencopi was lonely and difficult so they moved to Tuba City, Ariz. Four more children were born there." Her husband, Joseph Lehi, was tending the sheep for the settlers in tuba City. He was found wandering the desert incoherent and acting strangly; Lorana thought her husband had gone insane and consequent-ly he was sent to the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, separating them. (Several years later he diagnosed as suffering from a severe sun stroke.) Lorania had no way to support and feed her little children. "The U.S. government wanted the town of Tuba for headquarters for the Indian Reservation, so the people not having deeds for their places had to move out and take just what they could get for their improvements. Lorania's family had drifted to Oaxaca and Sonora, Mexico, so she sold her property and took her four boys and two girls to Mexico to join them. After living in Oaxaca for a while, they moved to Garcia where her sons, Joseph Lehi and David, could work in a saw mill her brother owned. In Garcia, Lorania became Bishop John Thomas Whetten's third wife. She did not live with the other families, but lived in her own home. Being very independent and a hard worker, she had her own garden, cow, pig, and chickens. In 1912,the Mexican Revolution started and Poncho Villa chased all the LDS people from the colonies out of Mexico. She went with her son, William and his family to Gridley, California where her daughter, Effie lived. When her William died, she continued to live with William's wife, Belle. In 1916, they returned to Mexico when the Revolution was over. Lorania moved to Colonia Juarez, where the Stake Academy was located. She enjoyed a little four room home with a garden and orchard. She kept a boarding house for students from the mountain towns of Pacheco, Garcia, and Chuichupa. After saving her money for several years, she sold her home and moved to Pima, Arizona, where she lived for eight years with her son Joseph and his family. Later she moved to St. George, Utah, to be near her daughter, Pearl. She developed a cancer on her nose which was treated by a cancer specialist in California." Returning to St. George she remained there until she passed away and was buried in the St. George Cemetery. Excerpts from the "Sketch of Lorania Nelson Foutz" by her daughter, Pearl Foutz Stocks. By Nancy Foutz R.