Mama's Checkbook

Checkbooks tell a story.

In Mama’s handwriting:

Check #129

Dated December 5, 1930

To Dr. Norris

$40.00

assumably for the birth of my sister, Lucy.

Mama wrote:

“Dr. Norris really got worried

and figured if he saved the mother

he’d be doing good.

So we were very thankful

when the mother and baby

both got along all right.”

No hospital.

She was born in the Adams home in Kanab.

This year on November 16

she turns 80 years old.

Lucy, Shirley, and maybe Lynn James

Lucy

Lucy, turning 80 this year.

What does it cost to have a baby today?

Tell me.