Bertha Stone Reeder

“My father had two cows and one had a calf and he gave it to the three of us children. And he took care of it and raised it until it was a year old. So we called it Annie Rooney, and that calf followed us around all over and it seemed like such a pet, we just loved it. It would come and nuzzle his nose against us. . . . We went [to my grandmother’s] home for my grandmother’s birthday and my father sold the calf to the butcher. When we came home we were heartbroken because of the loss of this calf. So then my father put us around the table and gave each one of us a third of the money for the calf. After he had given it to us then he said, ‘Now the Lord gave you Annie Rooney, and you have to give back the Lord the tenth that he asked for.’ So he took the tenth out for each one of us and then he sent it to the bishop in Corinne [Utah]. That was the first tithing I ever paid and I’ve paid tithing ever since.”