Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24
VETERAN MORMON
PROUD OF FAMILY.
W. D. HENDRICKS LISTS FOR
MER BATTLE FIELD
Couple Have Distinction Of Being
Parents of Triplets, Two Of
Whom Have Had Ten
Children Each
Now who Saws race suicide?

Now who says race suicide?
This does not worry Mr.. and Mrs. w.
D. Hendricks of Utah. They are the
proud parents Of seventeen children,
including one set of triplets, theli
grandchildren numbering half hun
dred. Mr.. Hendricks is not a polyga-
mist.
Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks are here
from Richmond, Utah, for the winter
to avoid the cold weather there. They
are at the Alamo, 219 North Olive
street
Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks were born
and bred in the faith of the Latter
Day Saints and have adhered to that
religion to their ripe old age OF n and
60 years. respectively.
Regarding his early history Mr.. Hen
tricks said
"I enlisted in the Mexican war In
command of Col. Philip St George
Cook, and was among the 500 soldiers
who came to Los Angeles and built
Fort Moore, which, they tell me, was
ocated near where the Broadway tun-
mel now Is, but everything is SC
changed that I have not been able to
exactly locate It. And such change!
At that time there were less than 500
people, mostly Mexicans, in Los An
talking a little of the mines in this
northern part of the state, which min
ing prospects led to the great craze of
40. We were here until 1S47, when we
were discharged, and l returned to my
home in Utah"
Fights With Indians
In answer to question regarding
the early days among the Indians ol
Tt,N. Iii,
1--WE were forced to continually f1ght
with the Indians to protect our stock,
and in so doing our lives were always
in great danger. While many of this
-neakthieves used bows and arrows,
they had become quite proficient in the
use of guns and ammunition. We had
some pretty hot fights in that country,
when we could catch enough OF th'
rascals together in the open, where
we could direct our shooting to good
effect But in the open the Indians
were a set of towards, their main forte
being in shooting from ambush"
When his attention was called to his
family Mr., Hendricks looked up and
smiled, showing a countenance fraught
with genality combined with the stur-
dy characteristics of a man who had
fought and nobly won the battles OF
life, He then turned to his wife, an ex-
ample or FEMININE character, ana al =
fectionately said:
There is the devoted mother of four
teen children and / am proud of hel
and our family. Three other children,
were born to my first wife, who died,
making me the father of seventeen
children. My wife here can give you
as good an account of the children and
grandchildren as 1 can"
Mrs. Hendricks modestly proclaimed
her position as a mother and grand
mother and said:
Proud of Family
"While it is against natural inclina-
tons to be placed before the public, ]
can say that L am proud of what we
have been able to do in raising our
family. All of our children are alive
excepting two.
"The only unmarried one is q daugh-
ter, Is years old, who is at home. We
have one set of triplets and two of
our daughters had ten children each,
and all the others had large families,
making the whole number so large that
it is almost beyond my reckoning.
"Some of our friends advised us tC
apply for a government pension, but
we have always been hard working
people and saving of our means and
have felt more Independent without
anv government aid in that waV"