Version 1.0   10/24/14  Paul Carroll


LEROY EDMOND CARROLL

I was born within 100 feet of where I am now lying, in a one and a half 
stories high log house in Mill Ward, Uintah Col, Utah on Feb. 2, 1893.

My father, Charles Edmond Carroll, went on a mission for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Ireland when I was 2 months old.  My
mother, Ester Ann (Wamsley) Carroll had charge of the home and my two
older sisters, Mary Margaret (Maggie) and Cloie.

My grandfather, Patrick Carroll, was a great comfort and helper to my mother
before his death in April of that same year.  He was a cooper (a barrel
maker) and a wheel right by trade.

On one of my grandfather's visits, he brought a low sturdy rocking chair
without arms, carrying it on his head, to my mother and said, "Now here is
a chair you can rock that boy in without bumping his head."

That chair, now 83 years old, is still in use today.  That is the kind of
builder my grandfather was.

When I was about 10 years old, I described an old mill and a tail race where
my father and others were catching fish to my mother and she was surprised
how accurately I could describe the scene.  She said, "That was in Coalville,
Wyoming.  You were only 3 years old."  That is the first thing I can remember
and I can still see it in my memory today.

The first sound I can remember is the buzz of the planner mill, that too
is a part of my memory.

My next recollection is when I was about 4 or 5 when my father pulled me
and my sisters on a hand sleigh, pulled by a long rope attached to the horn
of the saddle.

Next I remember being playing with my sisters and Aunt Maud (Wamsley) Box.  I
remember sitting very still in a little wagon dressed up like a queen in
their parade.

Next I remember being at my Grandmother's log house on the bank of the Ashley
Creek, just north of where old Fort Thornberg was.  I came out of the house
with a knife and fell off the step and cut my face.  I still have a slight
scar.

I remember now, before school age, marking from the old Mill Ward Church-
house to Sunday School calls work, over to the old log Relief Society house
that stood on the spot where Ed Bodily's home is on now built.  As we
marched we sang songs and one I still remember part of is "Tradition and
Error in Battle Arrayed."

I well remember my first day in school at the old Mill Ward Church house.
I remember how each class marched up to the front of the room and recited 
our lesson off the big paper chart with letters and pictures to teach us
our A.B.C.'s.

May Perry was my first teacher.

In the winter during noon and recess periods, we used to slide down the
hollow bank on tin pans or shovels or anything that we could find.

I remember the big loads of lumber drawn by the ox teams, also the horse
teams that were unloaded in our yard.  And we children used to play for
hours on these large stacks.

My Uncle Will Wamsley lived in a house just west of ours, and one winter
we kids all had the measles.  Mother took us up to Uncle Will's when we
were getting better and Uncle Will made snares out of horse hair.  We
tied these to the stove lid lifter and caught a lot of snow birds and

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Aunt Lucy made a snow bird pie.

Uncle Will was a freighter, and one day while he went to town, Earl and I
heard him say that he must hurry back and grease his wagon to be ready to
leave early the next morning.  So Earl and I decided to help, so we got the
bucket of grease and proceeded to grease the wagon from the rear end to the 
tongue, everywhere we could.

My father was released from his mission because of a heart condition, from
which he suffered for eleven years before his death.  To try to find a
climate that would be better for his condition, he took his family to Arizona
in 1901.

I well remember the trip.  His brother Will went with us to Price.  We took 
the train east and south through New Mexico to Arizonia.  There we lived
for a while with my aunt and uncle, the Hubbards.

That winter we went to school in the Hubbard district.

Uncle Will Wamsley and family, Johnny Wise and Aunt Myrtle had gone there
before us.

One time while swimming in the Gila River, I got into a deep hole and
nearly drowned.  The big boys got me out and rolled me on a log until
they had gotten enough water out of me, so that I could breath again.

I still remember what a peaceful feeling I had after I quit struggling.
I don't think that would be a bad way to die.

In the spring, we moved into a house in Thacher that was owned by one of
mother's cousins, Lydia Merrill.  Then we went to Bisbee where my father
worked, framing timbers in a copper mine.

My playmate there was a Mexican boy, Jose.  He taught me a number of Mexican
words, also how to count in Mexican.  We used to climb the rugged hill-sides
and gather prickly pair apples.

The drinking water was delivered to us in cans, either carried on donkeys
or drawn in carts.

There my oldest sister, Maggie, die and my youngest brother, Free, was born.
That was in September 1902.

My Father and Grandmother Wamsley took Maggie's body to St. David, Arizonia
where she was buried.  Father cam back and we all went there for a short
time then came back to Ashley Valley.

While in Pueblo, Colorado, we saw our first automobile from the window of
the hotel.

Uncle Will Carroll met us at Price with one of father's teams, and we came
home by way of Gate Canyon.  And at Nutter's ranch, I remember seeing the
Pea Fowls.

Next spring, father went to Sweetwater, Wyoming panning gold and doing
carpenter work.  The night before he left for home, he was robbed of $65.00
and came home broke, leading a big bay Outlaw horse he had bought.  The horse
was known as Pedro and he had to be thrown to be packed.  Then when he got
up, he would try his best to buck the pack off.  He was real scared of Indians
and strangers.  I can remember how he would whistle through his nose when
he would smell an Indian.

By the advise of the Dr., father again went to Arizonia and mother and I
put in the garden and raised it.

One day while I was riding Pedro, the cultivating horse, and mother was
holding the cultivator, a stranger came into the garden and Old Pedro raised
his head and whistled.  Mother stepped to his head and held him as the man

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approached.  He said he was the man who sold father old Pedro, and said,
"Woman, that horse will kill you, he is an outlaw."

Mother said it's mean men who make mean horses.  She said, "This horse won't
hurt anyone who is kind to him."

When Uncle Will Wamsley went to Arizonia in 1900, he gave me a little grey
colt that was too young to make the trip as Uncle Will and Company went by
wagon train.  When this colt grew to a three year old, father had the Murray
boys break her for me.  She was well broken and a real cowpony.  My brother
Vet and I rode her bare back so much that we wore the hair off her sides
until it was just as smooth as if it was shaved.

Our seats got so tough, we could ride all day without getting sore.

We would take our milk cows and gather up those of the neighbors who didn't
have boys.  And we drove them up into the hills west of the valley to 
pasture.  Sometimes, we would stay all day with them, but most of the time
we would turn them loose and then go back in the evening and bring them home.

Those who sent their cows with us paid us two and a half cents per day per
cow for herding.

Sometimes the cows would go so far away that we couldn't find them in the
evening.  Then we would have to go back the next morning and hunt.  We used to
call that "laying out."  If the cows "laid out" more than one night, we would
take our dinner the next day and stay with them.

These were gay occasions especially if 4, 6, or 10 boys went along.  We
would slide down steep hills, play 'duck on the rock", "Old Sow", or
chase horses.  Many times we would kill rabbits in the rocks, then build 
a fire and roast them.  When one was killed you would hear everybody yell,
"I speak the small of the back or the hind leg!"  The last one shouting had
to take the front legs and ribs.

We visited many Indian burial grounds.  There we would find arrowheads, beads,
spear points, and pieces of old bucksin.

In the spring, we always gathered lots of wild flowers and put them in our
bridles and on the saddles as well as in our hat bands.

These are times never to be forgotten.  The herders were:  Joe and Ab Price,
Tommy and Horace Caldwell, Carl Richens, Don, Curtis, and Lias Ashley, Roy,
Vet and Orval Carroll, Charley and Emery Johnson, Sabe and Heber Timothy,
Jim and George Fisher, Edwin and Mark Bingham, Ray Reynolds, Willie and
Eddie Thomas, Frank and Nick Killiam, Ray and Wallace Timothy, and Weston
and Orvin Oaks.

The new school house was finished just above the store while we were in
Arizonia.  So when we came home, the higher grades went to the North side of
the ward, where LaMond Caldwell's home is and the lower grades went to the
new building.

When the weather was bad, often I would take Cloe over to the North side and
give some other kids a ride back to the South side.

In a few years, I went to the North side and Cloe went to the Academy in
town.  She and Leona Ashby rode part of the time in a buggy.  Then when the
mud got too bad, they rode the horses.

In as much as the wild horses were had for the catching, it was a great
job for our fathers to keep us from having too many ponys.

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In 1903 Father came back from Arizona discouraged in trying to find a climate
suitable to his condition so he decided to live at home as long as he could.

He established a little meat market where Gusher now stands, and bought
animals here in the valley and killed them to furnish his shop.  It was here
I did my first butchering.  Vet and I often killed the sheep, but Brothers
Jarrell or Thompson killed the beef.

Nichols and Donnosons had a saloon between the meat shop and the boarder of
the Ft. Duchesne Government Post.  Their building was just 5 feet from the
line.  They had the first gramophone in the country and it drew lots of
customers.

One time Father ran out of fresh meat and sold the Indians canned meat, which
they called canned cow.  After buying some of the canned cow they went over
to the saloon door where they could hear the phonograph and they were curious.
They could not see anyone singing and they came back to the shop all excited,
telling Father about the singing coming out of a box.  Father says, "What
do you think of it?" and one said, "You sell us canned cow, so maybe canned
man."

Then in 1904 Father passed on and he had rented the farm to Siney Lewis for
the year.  That next winter was very bad.  We had lots of snow and it was
cold.

As soon as Vet and I got home from school we had to harness a horse and
hitch to the old sleigh with a barrel on and haul our water from the wash
in the field a little over a quarter of a mile.  Sometime when we would get
about up the hill, or nearly to the corral the barrel would tip off and we
would have to go back for more.  This was the only water system.

Then we would have to cut and dig the hay out of the stack for the stock.
It seemed sometimes almost impossible to get the chores all done.  I was
11 and Vet 9.

The next year we rented the farm to Tom Caldwell and Wm Ashby.  They took
care of the field crops and we raised the garden.

In 1905 the Indian Reservation was thrown open for public entry and Mother
drew a number.  She was located on a piece of land, 80 acres big near R.S.
Collett on what is now called Montes Creek, 3/4th mile north of Victory Park,
just west of Indian Bench.

In 1906 Uncle Joe tore down Father's blacksmith shop and I took one load
and he the rest and we set the shop up on Mother's claim as our cabin.  We
took our cows, pigs, and chickens and moved to the ranch.  Vet and I took 
turns riding the old sulky plow to break up the sage brush land in preparation
for a crop.  We worked on the canal to bring water from the Whiterocks
Canyon to our farm.

It took both of us to handle a scraper, but we were allowed a man's wages
as we kept our team up in the circle all day long, and when we would get
home at night we were so tired we could hardly sleep.  The canal went through
a lot of rocky country, and when a scraper hit a rock too big to be picked
up the driver was supposed to roll it out of the ditch.  It always took
both of us to do our bit.

One day after a particularly hard day on the ditch, in the rock, we were
sleeping on a pair of springs on the floor.  Free was 4 years old then and
was sleeping with us.  In one of my nightmares I thought I was lifting on
a rock when I got hold of Free, and I called for Vet to help.  Always ready
to help, he got hold of Free's feet and we threw Free across the room.  It
nearly frightened Mother stiff.  She made Free sleep with her after that.

We moved back home in the fall in time for school and the chores and water
system were much the same as the year before, only we were a year older
and it was a little easier.

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In 1907 we went back to the ranch in the spring, worked on the ditch again
and broke up more land.  The roads were a little better and we fared better,
going back home in the fall for school.

The Indians often stopped at our place.  One day Chief Womroads stopped and
had dinner with us.  He had passed the oat field where the oats were only
about a foot high and headed out.  He said, "What's sa matter oats, seed
come up first."  We had a picture of the good shepherd, Christ with a lamb
in his arms.  I asked if he knew who it was.  He said, "Cutch sorry, don't
know."  Then I explained who it was and asked if he liked Christ.  He
answer, "No like um, he sheep man, no good."  The Indians had trouble
keeping the sheep off their grazing land.

In 1908 we got the ditch past our place so we planted the land we had
broken into oats.  The prairie dogs were so thick we could hardly water
the land as the water was always running into the holes.  We killed hundreds
of them.  The old dog, Tip, would stand by the hole as the water ran in
and as soon as a dog poked his head out the old dog grabbed him, finished.

I worked for Enoch Lybbert that summer pulling the hay up on the stack with
my team.  I received 75 cents per day for me and my team and Cloe helped
in the house.

That fall we had satisfied the requirements of the law, living on the land
for parts of three years, so we proved up on the place and never went back.
Finally sold it to a neighbor, George Dean.

In 1909 I decided to run the farm and in the spring I would get up at
daylight, hitch up the team to the plow and work till school time.
Vet and Orval did the chores.  Then I would ride to the Vernal Uintah 
Academy to school.  As soon as school was out I would dash home and plow
or level, plant or whatever had to be done until dark.  We raised a pretty
good crop that year.

On one Saturday I wanted to get the plowing finished so I borrowed a team
from Uncle Heber and with the old team and colts we had I lined up three
outfits, mine, Vet's and Orval's.  I would just get one outfit going good 
when another would go wrong, a tug broke, a clip came off the single tree
or a wheel come off.  I nearly worked myself to death trying to keep three
outfits going.

Tom Caldwell was working just over the fence and he said, "Well, Roy, I
see you are boring with a big auger today."  We didn't do a lot of plowing
but we had a lot of work.

When fall came we did the harvesting much the same way, early in the morning
and after school.  Never had time to play basket ball or take part in any
activity.  I was a junior that year and I was put on the decoration committee
for the prom.  I did steal enough time to help put up the decorations, but
when it came time for the dance I didn't have 50 cents for a ticket so I
didn't go.

In 1910 I told Mother I wasn't either doing a good job of farming or of
going to school and if she would let me I would stay out this year then go
to Logan to the Agricultural College the next.  That was decided so after
the crops were gathered.

Ray McKee and I fixed up our outfits and went to Dragon to haul gilsonite.
We established one camp on Vac Creek (Evacuation) and the other in Dragon.
We would go from Vac to Bonanza Mine, load our loads and back to Vac.  The
next day we would go to Dragon and unload and back to camp the next day.  A
trip every 3 days.

When we came home from Christmas we wanted to take freight to Vernal.  I
loaded finishing lumber and doors for Ashton Hardware.  I had a lot of
quarter round and it was very hard to keep from slipping out of my binders.
When we camped at Dead Horse Springs rather than loosen my binder I
slept on a big knot of chain on top of a panel door about 6 feet above my
wagon.  I just draped my bed over it.  The wind was howling and it was snowing
with the temperature about 20 below zero.

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I couldn't make my bed on the ground because there was a herd of cattle there.
Just at daylight I got up, got my breakfast and broke camp before sunrise.
I think that was one of the coldest camps I ever had.

Ray and I had a tent on Vac Creek and just a wagon box with a cover for
our bed in Dragon.  We ate most of our meals at the boarding house, especially
when it was stormy, and that was most of the time.

Ray had 4 horses and two wagons, one of his leaders was a big bay cold.
He was a dandy puller but he had a habit of pulling with his front feet
quite under his body.  He was shod with never slip shoes, and the pose
caused him to strike the front of his shoes.  He hit the shoe instead of
the calks and often went down on his nose.  Ray finally put on regular
sharp shoes with the flat calk on the extreme front of the shoe, that worked
much better.

One trip as we were leaving the mine, a miner was leaving the job and we
hauled his bed and box into Dragon.  When we arrived in Dragon he wanted
us to have a drink in the saloon.  When we told him we didn't drink, he said
"I wish I could buy you an ice cream."

We were in Dragon when Uncle John Caldwell's son, Mason was married.  The
miners got a team of mules on a buckboard and met the newlyweds at the
train.  They passed the dining hall and on to the saloon about 1/2 block
further on.  Here they rolled out two barrels of bottled beer, broke them
open and the big time was on.  Ray and I were eating in the big dining hall.
The miners came in with their arms full of bottles to treat the cooks 
and waitresses.  They set bottles clear around our plates and proceeded
to have their fun.  One girl refused to drink so they poured beer all over
her head till she was soaked to her feet.  Big time.

When spring came so did the mud and with big trains of wagons heavily
loaded they cut the ruts so deep there were many holes so bad one team
couldn't get out.  Ray had advantage of me.  He could drop trail then take
his leaders and bring it up and hook on, but when I struck bottom I was
stuck so I would carry the stretcher and chain for Ray.  Then he would hook 
on my outfit and pull me out.

One trip when we came into Dragon, Banks was at the unloading platform,
and he looked at me and said, "Is there anymore mud back there?"  I said,
"No, I have it all on me."

The summer of 1911 was better.  We were big enough now to handle the plows
and other things so we got along nicely.

That fall when I was preparing for school the bishop and neighbors advised
Mother against my going to Logan.  They said I would apostitize.  Mother
had kept us kids all going to church.  I had been President of the Deacon's
Quorum, also of the Teachers and I was now a priest.

Here I would like to tell about our Deacon's Quorum activities.  We had
Deacon's meeting on Saturday night.  One of the presidency with two members
were assigned to come early to chop the kindling wood and carry in the coal
for the next morning.  There were 3 stoves to take care of.  After our
lesson and business was over we all joined in and swept the house and
filled the coal oil lamps for Sunday.

On Sunday morning another member of the presidency and two members rode
to the Church House on our ponys about 8 o'clock and started the first
and dusted the benches and pulpit and organ in preparation for Sunday
School at 10.  We then banked the firest and hurried back home to get ready
for Sunday School.

On Saturdays we nearly always hauled or chopped wood for the church or widows.
In as much as Mother had three boys, we had to take care of that widow along
with helping with the others.

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One day in the late fall while getting a load of cedar wood, I got stuck
in a gulch.  I slipped off my load down behind the team onto the tongue.
One of the horses thought I had come down to paddle her so she jumped,
caught my foot between the double tree and the rack and broke my foot.  I rolled
off onto the ground and sait to Vet, "Don't pick me up, I'm dead."  It
broke the sole of my shoe and my big toe.  I pulled my shoe off, just put
my overshoe on.  I never had it set, so today I have a big toe just like a
sleigh runner, it sticks up on the end.

The first part of Sept, 1911 I left Maeser with Brother Gerber in his wagon
to go to school at Loagan.  Irwin and Stella Gerber, Aurilla McKee, Nora 
Watkins were passengers also.  My ticket was $6.00 and he furnished the food.
We were six days getting to Pleasant Grove.  Here I took the train to Salt
Lake City.  Cloe was taking nurse training at the Holy Cross Hospital.  She
met me at the train and we went to Roy Bentley's apartment.

That night I went with Roy to the Deseret Gym.  he was taking a class in
tumbling and trapese work.  I sure thought he was tops.  He could swing
at arm's length over the horizontal bar, and do flip flops on the swinging
rings.  That was my first glimpse at a real gymnasium.

I arrived in Logan and found room and lodging with Sister Peterson.  The
next day I was among the green ones at the college.  I immediately applied
for work and I was hired, receiving 12 1/2 cents per hour for my spare time,
working at the college dairy barn.  Because of the slow method of travel
and no money I didn't get home for Christmas.  I spent the holidays in
Smithfield.

In the spring I came home by way of Mack, Colorado over the Baxter Pass
and on home on the stage.  Vet and Orval had planted the crop and we
raised a pretty good crop.

During this summer of 1912 Otella Markham came to Vernal to visit her
cousin, Aurilla McKee, who lived 1/4th of a mile west of our home.

We had 6 head of horses we could drive in the buggy, so Vet and I each had
a buggy and horses to change off when we had given one a good chase.

We had an extra pair of shafts for the two of us, and we generally had one
pair at the blacksmith shop as that seemed to be the part of the buggy
we broke most.

On account of farm work and chorse I never could tell when I could get
away so I didn't try to go steady with a girl.  I would just take the one
who wasn't dated, so I had a variety of partners.

For a while Oran Collett and I went with the girls in Naples.  After hauling
tithing hay all one day Oran and I used the same horses and buggies to go
dancing.  After seeing our ladies home to Naples after midnight on Saturday
night, we laid back in the seat, dropped the lines over the dash board and
went to sleep and let the horses go.  When the kids were going to Sunday
School that morning they woke us up.  The horse had gone to the Tithing 
Office to eat hay off the stack as it was closer than going on home to eat.

As the summer went on I got acquainted with this girl visiting our neighbor
and just before she went back home that fall I asked if I could write to
her when I went back to school.

In the fall of 1912 we leased the farm to John Weist, my uncle and Mother,
Vet, Orval, Free, Shirley Daniels and I went over the mountain to Logan
to attend school.  Uncle John put his team on lead of ours and helped us
to the top of Taylor Mountain.  From there on we really enjoyed the trip.
At Mountain View, Wyoming we attended a dance and had a real wild time.
Shirley had his 12 gauge shotgun and Orval had his 22.  They kept us in 
meat all the way.  Orval shot a sage hen on the wing with his 22.  Shirley
got rabbits, ducks around Bear Lake and we found an old ewe and lamb that 
had been left in the mountain.  Shirley got the big lamp.  If he hadn't
perhaps the coyotes would as the sheep were all gone to the winter range.

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We rented an apartment at the bottom of college hill owned by Blumell,
and got our horses in a small pasture there.  Vet and I got a job with the
team on Saturday helping with the crops on the college farm.  When the
harvesting was over we took the team to Smithfield to one of Mother's
uncle's and he wintered them for us.

Mother took some boarders and worked in the Logan Temple.  There was still
some high school work given at the A.C. so all three of we boys registered
there.  After school hours and on Saturdays we helped with the janitor work,
sweeping the gymnasium mostly.  Then Vet got a job in the college
creamery.  We got 15 cents per hour.

Next spring, 1913, I got a job for the summer with John Glenn driving teams
on the dry farm on Blue Creek, 30 miles west of Logan, north of the end of
Great Salt Lake.  I drove 8 horses on a 3 bottom plow.  The field was so
big that I would make 2 rounds in the fore noon and 2 in the after when I
began.  That was my main job all summer, but I hauled water from the big
field ranch 2 miles away in a big wooden tank.  We used 4 horses on that.
There were 36 work horses on this farm.  We never hitched up fewer than
4 for anything.  I also did some veterinary work on the neighboring farms
that summer as I had bought some instruments from the college.

Mother, Cloe and Free drove the team home from Smithfield to Vernal in
company with Walter John Glenn who was coming to Vernal to take over the
job of County Agent.  They stayed in Vernal that summer.

That fall they came back and we rented a larger hourse where Mother again
took roomers.  I again entered the U.S.A.C.  Elsie and Sterling Collett were
among our roomers that year.  We bought our pianto that winter and we surely 
enjoyed it.

In the spring of 1914 we moved back to Vernal.  Vet went home on the train
and stage and got the team and drove them to Logan.  We put all our belongings
in the wagon and went home by way of Salt Lake, and Heber.

We took over the farm and Vet and Orval ran it after I went back to Logan.
They started school in Vernal.

In February, 1915 Orval, Vet and Henry, our cousin, were rabbit hunting in
the hills west of the Maeser Cemetery.  They drove to the gate of the
cemetery and Henry got out to open the gate and knocked the lines out of
Vet's hands.  As he leaned forward to pick up the lines he heard the gun go
off that was between he and Orval.  He turned his head to see Orval slump
in the seat.  He turned the buggy and put the horse on the run to Uncle Joe's
home where there was a phone.  By the time he got there the blood was 
sloshing in the bottom of the buggy.

The doctor arrived in a few minutes and said Orval died instantly, as the
bullet went straight through his heart.

Cloe who was nursing in Idaho and I, who was going to school in Logan, came
home by train and bus for the funeral.  Mother felt so badly that I decided
not to go back to school that year.  Vet was discouraged with the farm
so I stayed and we ran it that summer.

In the fall Vet went to Silver City to work in the mines and I stayed at home.

In 1916 I farmed and became active in the Farm Bureau work.

In 1917 I raised a number of pigs and in late fall we decided to try a
shipment by wagon train.  We built sides on our flat hay racks, ran a
partition through the center each way, making 4 pens so the load could not
shift and tip us over.  I'm not sure I remember all who took loads, but
Joe Carroll, Archie Allen, E.D. Smith from the Sunshine Ranch were among
the company.

My brother, Free, drove the supply wagon.  We had to haul feed as we 
couldn't make Dragon in one day.  We camped at Alhandra the first night
and fed the pigs on the wagons.  We crossed the river on the ice and 
proceeded the next day.  All went well till we were going up the hill out
of White River where Free had to pull his team on lead of mine as the road
was very slick.

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Nearing the top of the hill and a sharp turn to the left, the pigs began
to fight over the partition.  Free with his whip hit a big white sow,
about 450 pounds, and she jumped on the boards and broke them down.  Immediately
the whole load ran to the right side and tipped my load over.  As soon as
the last pig was out the rack righted itself.  I handed Free the lines to
all four and told him to pull the wagon out of the road and go back for his 
wagon.  There were pigs behind and in front of me.  I took my whip and in
a short time had them all headed down the road.  There was about a foot
of snow on the level, so they didn't try to leave the road.

As we went down into Vac Creek, the other wagons passed me, but going up 
hill I could gain on them as the pigs went about as fast up hill as down.

When I got to the next crossing of Vac Creek, which is very alkali, the water
had cut a channel about a foot wide and six inches deep.  This big sow
decided she wouldn't cross it, and the rest marched on.  There my 125 pounts
of determination and 450 pounds of pork had a battle which lasted about an
hour.  Finally I hit her so hard in the head she staggered into the stream 
and came out on the other side.  She repeated this at every crossing which
was 5 times, but by the time we got to the last one she decided I was boss.

But these delays took up the whole afternoon and it was dark when I got to
Dragon.  The men had a ramp laid from the ore loading platform into the cattle
car and with their help the pigs never slacked their pace till they were in 
the car.  All day long it was snowing sometimes hard and other times just a
little.  But it kept storming all night.  A fellow from the hotel looked
into the load on the car and said, "A hog has a lot to live for, doesn't he?"

Earnest Eaton took over the shipment on the railroad, took them to Mack on
the Narrow Gauge then transferred them to the main line.  When the expenses 
were finally figured up here was the result.  The Salt Lake Market was six
cents.  It cost 3 1/2 cents for freight and fee.  Brother I.M. Jones shipped 4
beautiful red hogs that averaged 400 pounds each.  All over 300 pounds were
docked 1/2 cents per pound.  Giving Brother Jones and all other heavy hogs a
profit of 2 cents per pound.

Two other shipments were made that winter but I didn't go along.  They were
a little more successful as the market rose.

With my experience of trailing hogs, Mr. E. D. Smith decided to make a drive
from Jensen.  All wishing to participate had their hogs at the Sunshine Ranch.
This venture was quite successful, but the next year some trucks began
appearing on the roads.

In 1917 I was active in Farm Bureau and 4 H Club work and County Agent called
the dairy men together to order pure bred cattle.  Philly Stringham and I
were assigned to go to Salt Lake, Provo, Ogden, Logan, and Filer, Idaho to
purchase these animals.  Hyrum Calder, Wm Winder, A. Theo. Johnson, Joseph
Hacking, T.J. Caldwell, Don B. Colton and a number of others gave us an
order for stock.  We had received different prices ranging from $50 for 
week old calves to $300 for producing cows.

We left Vernal on the stage to Dragon.  We got as far as Helper that night,
and I was amused at a sign by the toilet saying "Please flush the toilet.
Price needs the water."  At Salt Lake City we stayed over night and
after eating our dinner in a little restaurant, we discovered we didn't have
enough cash to pay for it.  Here I was with thousands of dollars in my bank
account and Philly, owner of big bands of sheep and farms, and I had to
leave him in hock while I went out to find someone who would cash a check
for us.  After searching for a while I met a girl I knew in Logan.  She got
a check cashed at a drugstore and I got Philly out of hock.

We bought a 17 year old bull from Wm Winder in Salt Lake, and some heifers
and Philly got attached to a choice cow, Poplar Farm Kate and he paid $300
for her.  The highest price for any we bought.  But she was a wonderful
cow and Philly said years after she was worth it.  We also bought some from
Smoot Brothers in Provo.  Here I got my best cow, Toronos Kom Blossom.  She
won many prizes in the County Fair.  We then went to Ogden, got some heifers
from the hospital.  It was there I got the highest testing cow I ever owned,
tested 7%.  We then went to Logan, and on up to Filer, Idaho where we bought
some milking shorthorns.

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We shipped these cattle to Cyune Flat, west of Price.  Here we met Charley
Weist with a camp wagon and saddle horses.  We unloaded and started these
purebreds on a 120 mile walk to Vernal.  The old bull had great long horns
and when we met a car or wagon he would stand stock still with his head
erect and they would always turn out around him, but really he was as gentle
as a lamb.  We drove them into Vernal without losing one or without incident.
This was the first big shipment of purebred cattle to come to Vernal, mostly
Jerseys.

That fall, 1917 through the hard work of our bishop, B. O. Colton, the
Maeser Water Company was organized.  The head or intake was in Ashby's field 
near the highway.  It extended east to John Holfeltz and north to the
schoolhouse.  This line was built of wood pipe wrapped with wire.

George Riddle, Chris Johnson, Wm McConkie, and I were among those who
hauled the pipe from Price.  When we were in Price, I called Tell on the
phone.  She was at her brother Stephen's in Spanish Fork.

It commenced to snow on us after we left Price and on one of the short
turns in Gate Canyon, Wm. McConkie's trail wagon tipped over.  We drove on
to a campground and the next day Will and I went back for the wagon, and the
others went on.

War was now on, and Vet had gone from Silver City to Arizona.  He came home
and immediately volunteered.  I was exempted as a food producer and stayed
on the farm.  I raised 52 head of fine lambs that summer and in the fall of
1918 I took my little flock and drove them to Alhandra.  It rained on me
nearly all day.  That night I met Levi and Joe Bodily with their herd.
They expected to have their lambs and ewes separated, but due to the storm
and other things they were still all together.  When my lambs saw the herd
they bolted and ran right into the whole herd.

All the next day was spent in cutting out the lambs, and on account of a
shortage of help I had to hold one bunch out in the hills, so I had no
change to know if I ever got all of my lambs out or not.  The next day we
started for Dragon and the news of the big flu epidemic was on.  When we got
within 10 miles of Dragon so many of the train crew was sick or dead that
the trains couldn't run.  So we held our herds out in the desert.

Every sheep man in the country was there with their herds and not enough 
well railroad men to run the trains.  The superintendent of the railroad
finally brought in the mail train but informed the sheep buyers that it
was impossible to ship the lambs out.  The big buyers got together and
offered 10 cents per head to have the lambs delivered in Mack.  That meant
trailing thousands of lambs over Baxter Pass.  The sheep men got together
and formed groups and large herds were thrown together and started up this
mountain.

I don't remember all who were in our group but I do remember Orson Calder,
Andrew King, Atwood, Jimmy Powell, Bodilys and I.  There may be more.

The first day out from Dragon it began snowing, the higher up the mountain
the deeper the snow.  There were some big herds ahead of us and some behind us.
When we got to the top of the ridge there was about 2 feet of solid snow.
The next 2 days we went a mile a day.  Many of the sheep got snow blind.  My
big lambs being home raised were really tender feeted.  Time after time I
would catch one who couldn't see where he was going, but his nose against one
in head of him and he would follow along.

The last day on top, Wallace Siddoway and Company caught up to us.  They
had a bunch of yearling weathers.  They would put them out in lead and
throw the dogs into them and they would really break trail.  When they
overtook us it looked like they would run right into our herd, so we got 
in head of ours and pushed them out in the brush and let Wallace go by.

Because of their dogging them in the daytime and the coyotes at night,
there were sheep scattered all the way from Dragon to Mack.  It wasn't unusual
to find 4 or 5 dead lambs in a place where the coyotes had found a little
bunch that had got separated.

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Going down the other side was almost as big a job as coming up.
The storm had stopped and the snow was melting, the mud was 
almost knee deep and the hill so slick one could hardly stand up.

When our turn came to corral at Mack there had been a ruling 
made to cast lots for the strays in that herd.

Sterling Bodily was the representative of the Bodily interests.
In drawing for strays I had been lucky and had quite a herd to 
my credit.  But when mine were finally separated being one of the
smallest, I had my 52 head just what my contract called for, so
I gave my strays to Sterling to help compensate for his loss
which was over 100 head.

That was Nov. 11, 1918 and while we were in the bunk house the
news of the Armistice came.  Immediately the group decided to
take the train for Grand Junction.  We were all wearing flu masks.

I think Sterling was the only one who wouldn't go.  On the train
they spread the gossip, the only way to keep from getting the
flu was to use liquor.

In Grand Junction the beer parlors, soda fountans and every
public place had the chairs piled on the tables so no one would
set opposite another, as people were dying by the hundreds
everywhere.  One of our sheep herders was found dead in his bed.

The train men brought a big locomotive into town on the street
car tracks, boys and girls climbed all over it and they tied
the whistle down and rang the bell till it was sure a bedlam.

One drunk with a big piece of sheet metal was banging it on the
pavement, he came up to me and asked "Where is the other side
of this street."  I pointed across, and he said "A fool over
there said it was over here."

We got back to Mack in the early morning.  I believe I was the 
only sobor one on the train, and on the way home I was about
the only one who didn't get the flu.

When I got home I had a letter saying the U of U, as all the
other schools in the state were closing, so I took my team
and went for Mother and Free.

At that time we were pretty badly scattered.  I was in Colorado,
Mother and Free in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cloe in Arizona in the
service on the border of Mexico and Vet in France.

At Christmas we were all together again.  Vet got a furlough as
soon as he arrived in the USA.  Cloe came home and we had a very
happy Christmas.

1919 started out very dry, in so much that there was very little
farming to be done so I took a team and went up on the face of
Diamond Mountain and worked building road, for the county.

I was president of the YMMIA and we had a dance every other Sat.
night.  People were very hard up and sometimes we didn't take
in enough at the door to pay the musicians.

At one of these dances Tell and Effie came with Aurilla and the
other McKees.  I was taking charge of the dance so kept quite
busy but toward the end of the dance I chose Tell for a partner
and we patched up our differences and I took her home, to Uncle
Bill McKee's.

I received a call to go on a mission and I choose Hawaii, and when
I got returns from the Presiding Bishops Office my request was
granted, and I was asked to report at October Conference.

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The ward gave me a farewell party and as I was president of the 
MIA I had to conduct my own party.  The Bishop however made some
announcements and said "As Brother Roy is leaving for his mission
we will have some remarks by Brother J. L. McConkie."

Lester Bingham and Mae took Mother and I in their ford car to
Salt Lake City.  We left early in the morning, after a hard rain.
We got stuck in the wash at the bottom of the sand ridge.  The
bridge was washed out so we had to detour.  We had to wait till
a team came along and helped us out.  It was dark when we got
to the city.

Mother and I went to Conference and thru the Temple.  I got my
endowments, then went thru for my brother, Orval, who had been
killed in 1915.

Mother went home and I got a job with the Banks brothers building
a cement road around the point of the mountain south of Salt Lake
City.  I drove a team of 4 mules on a scraper in the gravel pit
scraping gravel on the chute to run into the crusher.

On weekends I went to Spanish Fork to see Tell, so we decided
to be married on Nov. 17, 1919.  I met Tell at the railroad
station and we went to the City and County building to get our
license.  I was so fussed Tell says that I forgot my own name.

After we were married I went to Spanish Fork and helped Tell's
brothers harvest beets.  This was my first experience at that job,
and it was sure a task, as the beets were covered with snow, and
frozen into the ground.

The Leland Ward gave a farewell party for me and Lorin Rowe who
was leaving at the same time as myself.  I had met Loran at the
U.A.C. so we were at least acquainted.  We had a very enjoyable
time and the people there gave me more money than my own ward.

I left and went to San Francisco where I worked in the mission 
with Irving Bodily.

I was wearing black stockings and my feet got so poisoned,
puffed up I could hardly walk.  The doctor said it was the
color dye from the socks.  As soon as I commenced wearing white
socks my feet got okay.

Here I met Art Wiscomb from Roosevelt.  He was quite a singer,
and we organized a quartet.  I sang tenor and we got a lot of
compliments.

I called at the dock every day or two and there was no vacancies
on the ships.  Finally one fellow didn't show up and I was given
his passage.

It was the ship Mowi which was used as a transport to take
troops overseas and it had not been converted back to a passenger
ship so I had a cot with about 50 others in what they termed the
"bull pen."

First day out I got seasick and stayed that way till within a
day of Honolulu.  Believe me Diamond Head sure looked good to me.
We were held on board about three hours to be inspected then when
I got on the dock I was even sicker than I had been on ship.

Fruit was all I had been able to eat so I thought "I'll buy 25 cents
worth of bananas and lie down on the lawn and eat them.  When I
got my 25 cents worth it was about all I could carry.  I ate all I
could and gave the rest to the kids who were running the park.

The address I had was Box 410, Honolulu so I went to the Post
Office but got little consolation there.  Then I knew the Temple
was at Laie so I asked the station agent how to get there.  he
said I could go as far as Kakuku then about 3 miles to Laie.

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I boarded the train in the evening and arrived in Kahuku after
dark.  I asked for a phone and tried to call the church at Laie.
I felt rather dejected so I asked for a room.  I was ushered
thru a Japanese boarding house where long benches were one each
side of the wooden tables.  Here the Japs sat cross legged on
the benches to the rear where a small room with a bed in it.  I
got into bed and went straight to sleep.

Pres. Smith got word I was in Kahuku, the first missionary to 
arrive there in 6 months.  The missionaries came and searched the
park and station but no one had seen me.  Next morning the sun
came up bright and clear on this beautiful flower bed and I got
my bearings and never was turned around.

The missionaries came in a car and I went to the Mission Home with
them.  Bro. Samuel E. Wooley was still at the plantation, but E.
Wesley Smith had been made Mission President.  It seems to me I
was a sight to behold, as I had been so sick but they gave me
a wonderful welcome.

In the evening after I had gone to sleep a group of Hawaiians
serenaded the Mission Home.  It woke me up and I thought I had
died and I was hearing heavenly music.  A few days after that
Pres. E. Weslie Smith came from Honolulu and assigned me to work
in the temple and assist on the planation as time keeper.  I
was the first missionary to arrive after the war, so the mission
was very short handed.

On my 27th birthday I wrote this in my journal.  "I arose at 5:30,
saddled my horse, helped Bro. Cole get the teams ready to haul
rock.  Rode out in the field a little way, came back to breakfast
with Bro. Wooley.  Then went to the post office, got a new time
book and received instructions from Bro. Bangeter, postmaster
and plantation clerk as to the marks and numbers in my time book.
The laborers were in groups according to nationality, Philipinos,
Protuguese, Japs, Chinese and Hawaiians.  These groups lived in
camps on different parts of the plantation.  I checked with the
Luna or boss of each group who kept the time of his group and I
would mark it down in my book.  As I was coming in I met Bro.
Cole.  He sent me to see how the plowing was coming on and to
direct them to plow in a certain ditch.  Then to check if the rock
haulers were having any trouble.  When I arrived at the place
where they were loading rock, I saw some Philopinos going up
the mountain.  I found they were strikers out stealing pineapples
or anything they could find.

I called them back, then went to tell Bro. Cole.  He sent me right
back to chase them off the plantation, but I guess they saw me
coming and hid, as I couldn't find them.

I rode out again in the afternoon and run upon a horse that had
been sick for a long time.  Bro. Cole sent me to the barn for a
gun and I shot the horse.  On the way back I passed Bro. Plunkett's
home, he called me and I went in and shot a pesky cat for him.
After supper I went to Priesthood meeting where I gave a lesson,
and also led the singing.  I got to bed just after 9:00 p.m."

We had a bunch of small mares on the plantation from which we
raised mules to sell to the Japs and Chinese for cultivation
animals.  I had charge of the mammoth jock that sired these mules.
Feb. 3 I had a lot of experience in this line and got acquainted
with some of the Japs thru handling the mules.

The Japs leased the pinapple fields, and by helping them I was
in their good favor and got many fine pineapples for our missionary
get togethers.

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When we were getting ready for one conference I bought a bunch
of bananas from a Chinese.  I paid 75 cents for a bunch of about 300.

Feb. 2, 1920  Got a letter from Tell and her family all sent
cash birthday present.

Feb. 3, 1920  My first full day in the temple I officiated in
baptisms and confirmation for 107 souls.

Besides my duty as timekeeper I was appointed to ordinance work
in the temple.  My day started at 6:00 a.m.  I checked the
rig teams hauling rock, then made my tour around the plantation
with the time books, back to breakfast, then to the temple till
noon.  One session after noon then changed clothes and back on
"Sawed off and hammered down", my short legged pony to pick up
the time cards and leave them at the office.  Supper, then study
or cottage meetings, study till 9:30 or 10 and sleep till 6 a.m.

The plantation had a herd of small mares they were raising mules
to sell to the Japs and Chinese to cultivate cane and pineapples.
I had charge of the mammoth jack, also the percheon stallion
used on the large mares to produce draft horses.

Mar. 2.  Had my first moonlight swim party.  Fine time.

Mar. 26  Bro Waddops, temple president, told me Pres. Smith
wanted me to come to Honolulu for conference Apr 3 and 4.  Big
rain washed out roads and ditches.  Saw Chinese cleaning mud
from canal with canvas baskets on long poles, carrying them
between two of them over the banks, a back breaking job.

Apr 2  My first trip over to Pali, into town of Honolulu with
Bro. Waddops then out to Waikiki on the street car.  My first
conference.  I gave a talk and got a number of compliments.
Hawaiians are very courteous.

In church Sunday Bro Cole and I blessed a baby whose mother
gave it to her mother, a common practice.  Went with Bro Cole
to Lai Maloo, "lower Laie, got two mules, got rope burns.  The
lariats are made of rawhide.  Next day caught 6 more mules.
Went to a luau and had poi, puaa, "pork" squid and salmon,
chicken, white and sweet potatoes, taro, coconut pudding, pie
and cream.  Visited the sugar factory, and branded mules.

May 16  The Mowries came to the temple.  Their testimony of
their geneology very impressive, cousins to the Hawaiians.  My
first attempt to speak in Hawaiian.

July 8  My first trip up in the mountains - it soaked us with rain
till I could wring water out of my hat.  I was with 4 Hawaiian
cowboys, we chased all day, but got the beef.  I was exhausted.

Sun 10 Conference I spoke in the evening session.

July 21  I went into Honolulu to see a group of the missionaries
embark for home.  Some had been in Hawaii 6 years.  A member of
the Honoluluans greeted me as their new president.  I was news
to me.

President Smith took me in his car to Waikiki and introduced me
to the congregation as their new president.  After meeting at
least 10 people offered to take me into their homes for a week.
Next day my first swim in Waikiki.  I accepted invitation of Bro
John and Ida Lee Kuai.

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My big job in the Waikiki branch was to reorganize 2 MIAs,
2 Sunday Schools and 2 Relief Societies.  My big job was to keep
them all in good graces with each other.

I went to the pier to bid the Moaries Aloha.  The Hawaiians had
a motor launch and we escorted the liner out of the harbor,
going around the ship with many ukelelies and guitars.  Very
impressive.

July 30  Went tracting, then preached my first funeral service.
One of the elders handed me a letter from Ora Markham informing
me I had become a father.

Aug. 6  I visited saints in beautiful Monoa Valley.

Aug 20  Special meeting at the Civic Center.  Senator Reed
Smoot was guest speaker.  He and Pres. Nibley were here to find
out if Laie Plantation was financially beneficial.  Their report
was positive.

Aug 30  Elder Sam Cowley came to Waikiki as my companion.  I
enjoyed him very much.

Sept 2  Elder Cowley and I saw Ralph, Glenna and Florence Cole
and Marium Waddops in charge of Sister Knowlton board the boar
for the States.  Then we were shown on board the English Battleship
Renown on which the Prince of Wales was touring the world.  Elder
Cowley and I then went to the home of Sister DeFreeze and blessed
her baby and gave it the name Marian Haliokiawa DeFreeze.  We
visited a home of Free Thought Christians and found that we are
never sick - we just think we are.

Sept 15  I played a piano solo in Hui Opio, the largest crowd
since I came to Waikiki.

Sept 17  Elders J. F. Smith, W. J. Wright, Arnold Crystal and
I sang a quartet on the YMMIA program.

Oct 2  Elder Smith sent Elder Crystal out to Waikiki to travel
with me and Elder Cowley to go to Awailumi to separate Crystal and
Sister Hammond.  Then Crystal had to go to the doctor and stay at the mission
house.  I was without a companion as I often was.

I took Brother Ani, an elder, with me visiting.  I was called in by Pres.
E. Weslie Smith to arrange an inter-island MIA contest for conference.
Another group of missionaries left for the states.

Oct 9  Our conference began at 2:00 p.m.  The Relief Society session and
Sunday Schools of each branch.  I gave the talk for Waikiki and was sure 
nervous.  At 2 p.m. I took charge of the Hui Opio session.  Everything went off
as planned, quite satisfied.  I had a new companion assigned to me, Elder 
Anderson, who had just arrived.  We went to Waikiki and stayed with Bro. Eli.

Oct 17  Elders Smith, Anderson and I were called by Pres Smith to go to Kalihi
and paint on the newly acquired mission home.

Oct 18  One of the longest Sundays - 8 meetings.

While visiting on Kapuhulu Road I went to the house of some Calvin Sisters.  She
got her bible and I had mine.  We talked and compared scriptures for 2 hours.  
We were discussing baptism and she said she never knew there were such 
scriptures as Romans 6:4 and 5, Matthew 3:16 and that their Priest never told
them of the baptism of Jesus.

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Oct 29  We had a very successful Halloween party in the basement of our chapel.

Oct 30  The Relief Society had an Island song festival.  Girls representing each
island sang and danced and as they performed the people of that island threw
money on the stage.  They netted $37.00

Nov 1  After a long Elders meeting I took my bags and went out to Bro Kaulii's.
When I went into my room, there was a small table with a nice luncheon on it.

Nov 25  Went to Laia with Bro Ah Ki in a nice car to the temple.  72 in session
stayed with Bro Bangeter.

Nov 30  Elder Van Wagner and I visited the penitentiary.  Bro Jonah, the
turnkey, showed us through.  There are 635 prisoners, 300 philopinnos.  Bro
Jonah paid me his tithing.

Dec 4  A large group of Elders and Sisters landed in Honolulu.  I received a
box from the Leland Primary, cake and candy.

Dec 8  A letter from the Maeser Primary with a check for $3.00.

Dec 9  I bought Tell a silk skirt and a pouche for Lee's Christmas.

Dec 23  We had a Christmas party.  It rained hard all day.  We had about 250
in attendance.

Dec 24  We had a party at Awailumi with a Christmas tree.  Sister Smith
entertained.

Dec 25  At 5:30 we got in a car and hurried to Kalihi.  Here we opened our
Christmas packages.  Fine dinner at 2 p.m. and services at 7.  I was the first
speaker.  My subject, "The Plan of Christ's Coming To Earth."  Elder Wright
treated the subject, "The Plan Fulfilled."  Elder Smith took the subject,
"Latterday Work."

Dec 28  Elder Chase and I followed the Waikiki Temple workers to Laia.  
Enjoyed the day very nice.

Dec 29  Another enjoyable day in the temple.

Jan 1 1921  Elder Chase and I attended a Luau with Bro Bridges.

Jan 3  We moved to Bro Jaulii to stay a week.

Jan 4  Visited 13 homes, 3 administrations, 1 funeral and Priesthood meeting.
Walked about 7 miles to Awaialimu, received 4 letters, one from home, 2 from
Tell, and 1 from S. H. Smith containing $5.00.

Jan 14  John LuKuai called us to the hospital where Ida was to be operated 
upon.  We were then called to Sister Bridges to administer to her mother.  It
has rained hard for more than a week.  Roads are flooded and homes in the
lowlands where the houses are mostly on stilts have the lower level more than
knee deep with water.  People go to and from their houses in boats.

Bro Kuaka Pelii, Elder Wright and I prepared a chinese supper for Elder J. F.
Smith's birthday.  My first experience cooking and preparing Chinese food.  It
turned out fine.

Feb 2  A beautiful day at last.  Relief Society meeting at 10 a.m., at 12:30 
p.m. a fine dinner in my honor at Sister Kaulii's.  She made 2 ccakes, a
strawberry short cake and a big cocoanut cake to take home to Auwilumu at
4 o'clock I saw Elder Wright embark for home.

An investigator, Mr. McGuire, invited I and Jim Kaulii to his home.  His
mother had passed away since my last visit.  I explained our belief in the
hearafter.  They were Catholics and the Priest had advised him to make a big
donation to pray for his mother's salvation.  After our visit, he and his
brother were baptized.  He became president of the branch and his brother a
counselor to the Sunday School supt.

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Feb 13  Apostle David O McKay and Hugh Jay Cannon gave very inspirational
talks.  They told of dedicating China for the preaching of the gospel and
that missionaries from Hawaii might be called to that land.

Feb 15  A special meeting of missionaries at Kalihi where the apostles gave
us instructions.  Very interesting.  The Hawaiians gave several musical 
numbers.  Another meeting at Kalihi where the new mission headquarters was
dedicated.  The Hawaiian band played several numbers, very good.

Feb 23  About 65 people gathered at pier 15 when Apostle McKay and Cannon
embarked.  A large group of missionaries and Saints accompanied the ship out of
the harbor in a motor launch.  We circled the ship and sang Hawaiian songs,
finished with Aloha Oiu.

Feb 26  Sister Kaualii was the only LDS member of her family.  The rest were
Calvins.  We Elders called a cab and went to Sister Kaualii's home.  The
Calvins had already arrived and commenced preparation of the Luau.  Here I saw
the whole preparation of the luau.  The hole was dug and iron bars laid over 
the top.  A large fire in the pit and rocks put on the iron bars.  When the
rocks were red hot the pig was killed and washed clean, while it is dripping
wet they threw it on the hot rocks and continuously turn it to keep from 
burning the meat.  When it is very clean, the hot rocks are wrapped in Hawaiian
Tea leaves and put inside the pig.  It is then put in the hot hole with the
sweet potatoes, cocoanut pudding and all the other food and covered first with
a canvas.  Then they throw dirt over it.  The whole feast is cooked in about
six hours.  While it was cooking the pallbearers carried the corpse in the
casket to the grave, about 1/2 mile through brush and rocks to the grave.
They lowered it into the grave where there was 5 inches of water in the 
bottom.  Each one threw a handful of dirt onto the casket.  No rough box nor
vault - just a thin brown casket.  Then they threw in the sand with shovels.  
Elder Chase and I didn't stay for the luau.  We went on with our business.

Mar. 5  I met the Luraline at 7 a.m. with Mary Saunders and Sister Wooley.
They were the first people that I had known before since I left San Francisco.

Mar 7  I went out to Parker Lane where Mary was staying with the Parkers.  I
surely enjoyed the visit with her.

Mar 10  At 7 a.m. I was called to the phone at the house.  Sister McCallum
asked me to take charge of a baby's funeral.  When I arrived at the house I
found the mother was a member of a professional hula club and they were
rehearsing when I got there.  They did stop long enough for me to offer prayer
and make a few remarks.  Then I left.

Mar 13  I witnessed an aristocratic Chinese funeral.  First a brass band, then
the hearse with the pallbearers walking alongside.  Two old couples with black
robes and white head bands, then the mourners all in black with white head
dress, a Chinese band then autos with just a driver to haul the marchers back.
Cars with flowers and decorations for the grave.

Mar 17  Relief Society founders day and the sisters did themselves proud with
a fine program.  I gave a talk on temple work and the president, Sister 
Fernandez commented on it quite at length.

Mar 20  President of the temple, Bro Waddups, Bro Broad and Bro Jonah were the
speakers to the Kalihi Hospital for the Lepers.  We held the meeting out of
doors.  We had the Waikiki choir sing a few numbers, then the inmates had a
chorus and a quartet with guitars.  Very good, some young boys sang.

Mar 30  My last meeting at Waikiki.  Some of the saints said they heard the
rumor that at the April Conference I was to be transferred to another branch
and they all voted to pray that I would remain at Waikiki.

Mar 31  We had a very fine meeting in the temple and visiting old friends.
After the meeting I was the honored guest at Kikukee's for dinner.

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Apr 1  Mission Conference began at 10 a.m.  Missionary elders and sisters
reports 245 present.  2 p.m. another general session with 265 present.
7 p.m. 304 attended.

Apr 2  Another general session at 10 a.m.  Another at 2 p.m. then at 7 p.m.
I was so excited I was almost ready to explode.  The time has arrived that
I had been preparing for for over 2 months.  The inter-island and contest of
MIA first ever to be given and I was responsible.  The judges were all there
and the contestants about as excited as I.  I gave a short talk how every
branch was very cooperative and read the program.  Instrumental quartets
by each branch and solos.  Public speaking, ladies quartets, story telling,
male quartets, instrumental duets, those 14 to 20.  625 present.

I got many compliments and best wishes.  I felt that was one of my greatest
contributions to the mission.  I was appointed to continue the work.  At the
conclusion of the conference the elders received their assignments.  I was
assigned to the Oahu mission, first choice of all conferences.

I left Laie by way of Kahuku on the train, back to Honolulu, then I went to
Relief Society meeting to bid them aloha.  We all shed a few tears and some
one said in the meeting "Some one didn't pray that I come back to Waikiki."

My first home in my new assignment was with Bro and Sister Kelii at Wahiawa.  
I enjoyed my stay with them and visited many branches that were disorganized.
This was to be my biggest responsibility to get these disgruntled branches
reorganized.  It took a lot of patience and skill to get unity established and
have harmony among the members.

Elder Swan was named my companion.  We did a lot of visiting to get people to
attend special meetings.  On one of my trips I met Corney Rudy, her husband
was in the 17th Cavalry Division at Fort Castner.  We accepted the invitation
and enjoyed the visit.

We walked from Castner to Wohaiha, bathed, changed clothes and went to Worilua,
here we experienced Hawaiian hospitality.  At Bro Kauihanui's home they gave
us the only bed in the house and their daughter and husband slept on the floor.
We had plenty of poi and salmon.

Apr 17  Fast Sunday, we left without breakfast and walked to the river.  Took 
a boat inland, then walked thru the cane fields to the church house.  After
church we went to Bro Hoa's home and had a big meal of rice and salmon.  We
done a lot of walking and visiting saints trying to solve their differences
and g back to church.  At Sister Kinolau's we had a wonderful meal of bread
and milk.  It sure tasted good.  Elder Swan and I visited the Maki (sea side)
of the Island, all towns and plantations.  We visited a number of Calvins and
Catholics, held cottage meetings, I spoke in one Calvin Church for an hour
and ten minutes telling the story of Lehi and Hagoth.  They were very
interested.  We traveled quite a lot on the train and ended up in Pearl City
where there were numerous Hawaiian saint families.

May 14  One of many memorable days.  Bro Kilii took us to Wailu where we had a
boat ride up the Muliwai (back water river) then out to the seashore where we
took a ride in a glass bottom boat to see the colored coral reef ledges and
the beautiful colored fish - wonderful.  At 1 p.m. we baptized Sister Sinclair
and Willie Kelii - quite a full day.

May 15  Bro Kalii gave me some letters - one contained pictures of my son and
his mother - wonderful.  We got in the car and went to Castner to a Japanese
Sunday School.  We stood at the door till the Priest finished his reading.
Facing a Buddha statue, his back to us as he read the congregation followed
along also reading aloud.  When he finished he turned and saw us.  He went 
into an adjoining room and brought chairs for us.  The children were all 
seated on small benches.  They sang some songs and a lady played the organ
with one hand.  He then gave me the privilege of speaking to the Sunday School.

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May 18  Before going to Relief Society Bro Kelii gave me a letter from Mother
telling of the financial conditions at home.  I had been expecting that report
by what Mary Saunders told me of the conditions in the valley and what the
papers published.  It made me so sick I couldn't give my talk and when I went
to bed I couldn't sleep.

May 20  I went to Honolulu and Pres Smith was there.  I read him Mother's 
letter and he asked if I would stay until the 1st of July when the temple
vacation began and he could replace me with a temple worker.  I had another
talk with Mary Saunders and she told me how hard times were in Vernal and that
her husband sold the lumber he had to start their new house to get money for
her trip.  I told Bro Kelii of my trouble and he offered to let me have the
money to stay on.  He expressed regret that I should leave.  I went to Pearl
City and held a meeting then back to Uahialia as we crossed the big bridge we
met Bro Kelii in his new Essex car.  We got in with him and went to Wailua to 
a cottage meeting.  36 in attendance.  Two Samoan boys sang and also 4 numbers
by the Hawaiian boys with Ukes and guitars.  A very successful meeting, one
I shall remember.

Sister Clark came to Waihiau to assist me with my Japanese Beehive class.  This
is the first all japanese class ever held in Hawaii.  At 3 o'clock we commenced
our class with 14 full blood Japanese.  I taught them to sing "We are the Bees
of Deseret."  They were very enthusiastic in singing; while we were in session
Pres. Smith, Bro and Sister Ivans, Bro and Sister Grant came.  They 
congratulated us and said we were doing a fine job.

May 29  I boarded a very crowded car to go to Honolulu.  As I entered Sister
Kinolu shouted, oii wai Elder Carroll, good morning and just kept shouting.
Everone looked at me and I felt like a Jap nickle and was glad when the train
started.  In Honolulu I met Bro Kaulia and he had tears in his eyes as he shook
my hand.  He said Elder Carroll, I am going to the temple, thanks to you.  Then
I shook hands with Bro McGuire who said I am glad to be able to call you 
brother and know you are active in the church.  He said it was your testimony
and work, and I sure felt glad.  I said we little know our words and actions
are going to influence others.

June 19  Bro Kalii and Bro Waiuoioli both had been to the temple and they were
helping me in the Pearl City branch.  We held a cottage meeting by invitation
of Bro Lewolo in his home.  He had been a member of the Mormon branch but for
10 years had been helping the Calvins because their congregation had almost
quit coming to their church, but he said I want to be a Mormon again.  The
Preacher of the Calvins at Kalunapuli said if he went back to the Mormons he
would pray his family all to death by priestcraft.  I talked for some time to 
a large crowd seated on the floor in two rooms.  I stood in the door between
the rooms, two of Bro Leiwoloi's daughters with their families were among the
large crowd.  One sat on a chair and held a baby.  It began to scream and its
eyes rolled back and looked like they would pop out of his head.  Some of the
people began to talk and said, "See the spirits are starting here."  Then her
little girl started and went into hysterics and died.  I could feel the spirit
of the devil coming from these people.  The mother's head began to lop over and
by the time I got to her she almost slipped to the floor.  The grandmother
took the baby and Bro Kelii and I got the mother out on the porch and we took
turns administering to her.  I in English and Bro Kelii in Hawaiian.  I was
the only white person there.  When I had finished praying the second time I
suddenly became very angry because I could feel the devil coming from every
one of them it seemed.  I shouted, "Every one of you get out of here."  She
was twisting and wreathing and frothing at the mouth.  I started praying again
and rebuked the evil spirit.  She soon became quiet.  I felt like I had a 
hundred devils on my back.  We then blessed the baby and it became quiet and
the grandmother took it to her house.  We got the mother back into the house
and on a bed in the corner of the room.  She was so weak she could hardly lift
her hand.  It was days before she regained her strength but we never heard
of the Calvin Preacher again.

July 2  The steamship Wilhemina arrived with 960 bags of mail.  I felt sure I
had at least two letters among all that.  I got one from Tell and one from Cloe
with $25.  I opened Tell's with anticipation and when I read "I can't leave
the baby as he is teething and cross and I wouldn't think of bringing him and
traveling alone" I was very disappointed.  I could easily sympathize with her,
because to come all that way then return would be an awful big undertaking.

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July 4  There was a big celebration put on by the army.

July 6  I and Elder Goff left Pearl City, went up Nuuani Valley over the Poli
to Laia.  I bade goodbye to the people of Laie.  We returned by Kahuku and
made a trip entirely around the island.

July 7  We went to Wahiawa to Relief Society and Hui Opio and I made my
farewell speeches there.

July 8  We went to Halieua and took my last swim in the ocean.  Rode in the
glass bottom boat and viewed the multi colored coral reefs, large cliffs and
caves with beautiful colored fish swimming in and out like birds flying in the
sky.  We had dinner on a beautiful open air cafe on top of the hotel 
overlooking the ocean.  Then back to Pearl City.

July 9  I got my packages and suitcases and went with Sister Waiwaioli.  She
called a taxi, a big cadillac.  I rode to Auaiolumi in state.  Here I was
notified of a party at Waikiki in my honor.  About 200 people attended.  The
largest crowd I ever saw in Waikiki.  Pres Smith talked first then I made my
farewell speech.  I went to Sister Fieldgroves for the night after, after
promising to spend the next night at Kulii and the next night at the McGuires.

July 12  We met Pres Smith in the evening.  Elder Swan, Crystal and I were
entertained in Kalilie, church headquarters, by the elders and sisters.  We
received our releases and $30 each to pay bus fare and tickets.

July 13  After breakfast I went to town and got rope to cord my trunk.  I saw
some of my Waikiki friends on the car.  At the pier I was surrounded by old
friends, each with a lei.  I was so completely covered around my neck I
couldn't see out so I stuck up my arms and they were loaded.

Bro Kelii from Waiheaua, Wairuiolis from P.C., a group from Waikiki, Kalihi,
one from Honolulu, the saddest time of my mission.  Then we left our Aloha
and boarded the ship.  We watched old Diamond Head disappear.  Our stomachs
began to stir when we reached the open sea and we decided we had better lie 
down.

July 15  Feel better after a nights sleep.  Walked the deck a little.  Next 2
days about the same.  Most of the time lying down.

July 19  Sea very rought with high waves.  Leland's birthday the sea was so
rough we couldn't come in to dock until 1:30 p.m.  I sent a telegram to Leland.

July 20  Ferry from San Francisco to Oakland, took a train, that had an Elks
Convention contingent hooked behind ours.  The engine was overloaded and just
crawled along till we got to the top of the divide, then into Nevada we made 
up some time.  Then we got to Salt Lake City I hsaved and cleaned up the best
I could, went out to see if anyone was there to meet me but no one to be found.
I tried three times to call Tell, but no results.  I decided no one cared about
me, so I went up town and got a room.  I got an express man to take my 
trunks to the Orem depot.

I went to the church office building to find out what time they opened in the
morning.  I found only the janitor and while talking to him, Pes. Ivans came
by and the janitor stopped him and told him who I was.  I told Pres. Ivans I 
was anxious to go to Spanish Fork in the morning where my wife and son were.
I was a missionary from Hawaii.  He said go right along and just mail Bro.
Reynolds a letter to the First Presidency and I'll see that everything is okay.
I rushed back to the Orem depot but the last car had left and I tried to phone
but no answer.

When I arrived in Spanish Fork Tell was at the station to meet me.  I shall 
not attempt to explain my mixed emotions.

We stayed in Spanish Fork with Tell's mother till after the 24th.  Then we 
loaded the model T and with Nean driving we left for Vernal.  When we go to the
top of the sandridge I said, "Well that hill, the highest you can see this side
of the big mountain, is the valley hill, just over that is Vernal."

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Nean gave a big sigh and said "We never will make it, it is just too far."

When we arrived home, Earl Wamsley and Free were the first ones we saw.  Then
Mother came out of the house.  We unpacked the Ford and established ourselves
in Grandmothers old bedroom which was our abode till we built the little 2 room
log house just north east of our present home.

Free was hauling lumber with the team off Dry Fork Mountain.

I helped harvest the crops and took over the cows.  We became active in the ward
and things were pretty slow for us that following winter.

In 1922 I took over the farm and Free went to the Reservation to run Mother's
place.  He leased a piece of alfalfa ground from George Dean with the thought
to raise seed, but the grasshoppers were so thick that the venture was a 
failure.

I became active in 4H club work through Erastus Peterson, County Agent.  In 1923
the Maeser Calf Club won the prize given by the Uintah State Bank, a bull calf
from LuMar Price's herd in Provo.

Free came over from the ranch and asked me to go back with him to see what the
conditions were.  When we went into the field we counted 27 grasshoppers on one
stalk of alfalfa.  It was evident that they had entirely destroyed his crop.  I
advised him to pull off and lease it to them.  He helped me harvest the crop on
the home place, then he took his team and my saddle horse and he and Howard
went over the mountain to Greenriver.  He sold the horses then hit the rods or
the freight train for Oregon.

The U.B.I.C. had been organized and the 4H Club competed in the program.  The
Maeser Clubs won most of the prizes.  We won the bull calf given by the U.S.
Bank.

In 1923 we had our best year in club work.  The members worked hard and had a
stock judging team, Elver Holfeltz, Ray McConkie and Roy Oaks.  We entered the
state fair contest.  The county gave us $50 for expenses.  I took the team in 
the modle % and Lester and May Bingham took Afton, our most promising club
member and we attended the State Fair.

The Judging team won first place as a team, then each of the boys judged
individual classes and each of them won first place.  Afton Bingham competed
against all comers and was awarded grand champion of the state and was awarded
a trip to Chicago financed by Montgomery Ward with the 4 members entered we
won 5 first places.  We came home highly elated.

In 1924 we had a pig club besides the calf club.  Larson Caldwell and Ralph
Preece of Ashley joined the boys from Maeser and we won the pure bred boar
given by the U.S. Bank.

During this year I went to the mountain and got logs and had my Uncle Heber
Carroll build me a two room log house just west of Mother's house.  We moved
into it, our first home.  I went on putting in logs at the mill to build me a
bigger house.  I also dug a basement with a team and scraper.  This was a big
job, being 33 feet by 28 feet and 5 feet deep.  I worked at it between times
working in the field and on the mountain.  I still kept up with my 4H Club
Work and Church assignments.

The Club bull grew rapidly in both body and temper.  It was almost impossible
to keep him in his pen.  He hated horses and when we let him out of the pen 
for water he would often charge the horses.  We had to use a pitch fork to 
handle him at all.  One day he broke the gate and got out.  I got on Fox,
a 1500 lb work horse to go around him when I caught up to him he charged the
horse and threw him into the air.  I fell off right under them.  One foot 
struck me on the side of the head, knocking me unconscious.  The bull still was
after the horse but he couldn't keep up so he turned to come for me.  I came
to enough to roll under the fence, and he couldn't reach me but I was groggy.
He went back to the corral.  When I got able I found a big club and put him 
back in his pen.

That bruise caused me almost constant head ache and greatly incapacitated me,
but I felt I just had to keep on going.  I had to leave home at 3 a.m. going to
the sawmill in order to get up the face of the mountain before the sun got too
hot for my horses.  It was very hard work in the timber but I knew it had to
be done if I expected to build me a nice house.

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In 1926 my head got so bad I had to go to Dr. Oaks in Provo and have an 
operation.  He took a lot of boney growth out of my sinuses and below my ear.
He said it will be about 3 years before you are able to work.  I advise you
to take a long vacation.

I stayed at Tell's Mother's home and went back and forth to Provo for 
treatments.  I remember one day when I got to the hospital almost too weak to
get out of the car.  I prayed to the Lord.  To my left was the Insane Asylum
and in front of me was the torture of the doctor and I didn't care which way
I went.  But I got better and came home and took care of my cows with the
help of Tell and the little boys. 

In 1926 Mother sold the Reservation place and she bought a 2 door glassed in
Ford Sedan.  It sure was a beauty.  The spring of 1927 she insisted I take the
new car and go to California where Cloe, Vet and Free were.  I got Karl Allen
to run the farm and take care of the cows so with a young baby, Margaret and
the two little boys, Leland and Don, we left for vacation.

Rastus Peterson and his wife visited us quite often before we left they
brought their children to see the farm animals.  On one visit Sister Peterson
made the comment, "Sister Carroll, if I had a husband that looked like yours,
I would think I was almost a widow."   That was in 1927 and here I am writing
this in 1975 and she had been dead 3 months.

In 1929 Carl Richens chose me as a counselor and he was the new bishop.  His
slogan was "I would rather be a bishop only a year and accomplish something
than serve years with nothing to show for it."  So we, Carl Richens, W. E.
Bodily and LeRoy E. Carroll started planning for a new church house.  Our
meetings every few nights often would run till two or three o'clock in the
morning.  We often had Pres Wallace Calder with us.  We rushed the paper work
and commenced gathering funds, so in May we had the ground breaking ceremony
for the new church.  Moroni Gerber and sons built a brick kiln and made the
brick, we purchased the old school house that was built in 1899 and stood
just west of the Maeser Store.  This we tore down.  The young people knocked
the mortar off the bricks and helped load them.  We bought an old saloon
building in Vernal and finally had enough brick.

At the U.B.I.C. the ward was accorded the privilege of conducting the dining
hall.  Bishop Richens and W. E. Bodily collected the food and brought it to
Ft. Duchesne and I and the Pres of the YLMIA, Sister Nellie Colton supervised
the cooking and serving.  We were very successful, making a large contribution
to the financing of the chapel.  It was paid for in full and dedicated to
Apostle Melvin J. Ballard in December of the same year.  We all worked, paid
and sacrificed a great deal but felt well rewarded.  Had it not been built 
that year it would have been very difficult to finance as 1930 began the 
drought and depression.

About this time the Farm Bureau of which I was a director, purchased the old
cement building now used as a garage and gas station.  Don B. Colton was then
a senator and he helped us secure a loan from the Federal Government.

On our vacation, we went first to Los Angeles to my cousin Clair Wamsley's, 
then on to Santa Monica where Cloe lived and worked in Douglas Aircraft as a
nurse.  Free was living there and working in the oil fields.  From there we
visited one of Tell's college friends in San Francisco.  Then on to my brother,
Vet's home in Sabastapool, a chicken raising place near Petaluma, where at
that time it was claimed there were more chickens than anyplace on earth.
Vet was a carpenter and was helping to build a big hatchery.  I went with him
one day and visited a laying portion of the ranch they had 23,000 laying hens.
After a month there, we came back home.  I felt much improved.  Things had 
gone along very well.  Carl had done a wonderful job.

I began hauling my logs and lumber for my house and when I had them on the
ground I contracted with Alvario Campbell to build.  The contract price was
$800.  He was to take all the produce he could use.  I suppose he worked
reasonably fast but Tell was impatient, especially when it began to get cold 
in the fall and he got the roof on and the furnace in the basement.  He was
perfectly comfortable at his work and we were having a hard time keeping warm
in the little 2 room log house with only the kitchen range for heat.

(page 23)

We finally moved into the house on February 2, 1928, the first night Margaret
cried to go back to her bed in the little house, but the rest of us were
thankful for the room and comfort.  Tell often speaks of this house, the one
built on faith.  Had it not been for her check from school teaching, it would
have been impossible to pay for it.  The rate of interest was 1 5/8% for the
Farm Bureau Building.

We put in a chopper and stocked feed and seed, handling the wool pool and for a
time took the farmers eggs and shipped them into Colorado.  We had a contract
with two brothers from Ogden to haul our livestock to Salt Lake and Ogden.

A Theodore Johnson was manager and I with some others ran the business.  Jobs
were scarce and I hired a man to do my farming and I ran the store.  The stock
shipment went well for a number of months, then Arch Allen, Ernest Earon and
others bought small trucks and picked up their neighbors stock, and eventually
made it unprofitable for our haulers, so they pulled out.  The trucking
business since then has grown into a large concern.  Ashtons paid more for the
farmers eggs than we got in Colorado so they broke up that line.  After we
lost our market, Ashtons dropped the price of eggs and our farmers lost their
market because they wouldn't stick together.

In 1931 it was another dry year and in 1932 I planted a piece of alfalfa and
didn't have enough water to mature it.  I planted a piece of corn, but when it
got about 4 feet high because of the drought it stopped growing.  I cut it for
feed and stacked it with what alfalfa I could glean and had a very scarce
supply for my livestock and none for sale.

Pres F. D. Roosevelt, had laws passed forming all those alphabetic 
organizations, having attended the Agricultural College, I was favored by 
being appointed on the cattle killing program.  I was an appraiser.  We paid
$5.00 for calves and up to $20 for grown stock, regardless of condition.  The
program got rid of lots of scrub bulls and diseased cows.  We killed 100,080
head in Uintah and Duchesne County.

After this program I was appointed head draftsman on the AAA program.  In it we
measured all grain and corn ground and the government paid for destroying 1/3rd
of the crop.  After that was over I was appointed crop insurance agent on small
grains.  During this time my brother, Vet, and Howard Ellis, were working
in a gilsonite mine south of Myton.  Their cook quit at the mine so I took
the job cooking till the boss could find a replacement.  I worked for 3 weeks.
This was during the height of the depression and drought so I felt very
fortunate.

My summer pasture was so depleted that I let Mr. Noll who had a ranch on Brush
Creek with more feed, summer my dairy herd for the milk check.  That let me
loose for this other work.  That fall I had very little feed for my cows.
When they returned, I bought straw for $5 a load and put beet molasses on it.
I would fill the manger with straw and the cows would just stand and look at
it until I sprinkled the molasses on it, then they ate it like a kid would
candy.  They didn't give a lot of milk but it saved their lives.

We had a lot of snow that winter and things came back and we had fair crops
in 1934.  But old Cemore Curtis expressed it pretty well when he said, "It's
too bad the depression and hard times had to come at the same time."  Money was
so scarce if you wanted an item you looked around and found who had it then
asked what he needed, then looked to see who had it, then figured you had to
trade to make the deal.  Here is an example.  Will Murray let his boar run with
his sows and he just had pigs all over his farm.  Charley Maughn had a wagon
that Bill wanted for a hay wagon.  He asked Charley if he would trade him the
wagon for pigs.  Charley said he had two wagons so he could spare one and
agreed and Bill said will 15 pigs be too many.

The local banks held mortgages on all the property they would accept and those
who couldn't get local money applied to the Federal Land Bank, and most of these
were well over due.  The agent, Mr. Jensen, came from the headquarters in San
Francisco to settle the claims.  Very few could meet their payments so
foreclosures were many.  Then he would try to find some one to run the 
reclaimed farms and people were so discouraged that farmers who were willing
to try again were almost nonexistant.  So the Land Bank found themselves with
a lot of vacant farms.

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I had a mortgage and hadn't been able to get enough cash to pay the interest
for two years, so when it came my turn to be interviewed, Mr. Jensen said,
Mr. Carroll I have investigated you pretty thoroughly.  I find you don't
smoke, drink, gamble or run unnecessary bills and that you are taking better
care of your farm than many, so if you will stay on your place and pay when
you can, I will add the past interest onto the old note and give you a new
contract.  I accepted and went on, had a little better market and production
so managed to stay solvent, till I went to work in the aircraft industry in
Downey, California.  When I was able to pay off that mortgage, it was one of
the happiest days of my life.

I bought a little bunch of sheep and put them in a co-op herd on the face of
Dry Fork Mountain, the first year with Hall then the next year with the Hubers.
I enlarged my dairy herd and the crops were improving each year as the drought
seemed to be broken.  We didn't make a lot of money but we did manage to pay
all of our bills.

I filed on an enlarged homestead west of the big hill and the boys and I ran
our sheep during the summers.  I took A. Theodore Johnston's sheep and ran
them with mine.

In 1938 Vet took his family to California.  Free was living with Cloe working
in the oil fields.  Vet got a job in the aircraft, so with things being so 
slow here I decided to join them.

In November 1940 just after the election, Orson and Clive Caldwell and I
left for California.  We went to my sister Cloe's home.  Clive and Orson after
looking around Santa Monica went on down to San Diego.  I stayed with Cloe for
a while looking for a job.  Now Free was working at Vultee in Downey, so I went
with him and got a job there.

Tell and the boys took care of the cows and I sold the sheep to Elmer Lind
including my permit.  During the winter we decided to move the family down, so
Tell sold the livestock, horses, pigs and cows and during this time there was
a subdivision of houses being built 2 blocks from the Vultee plant, so I put
in for one of them under construction.

After getting my job I began to look for a place to put a trailer so I could
be by myself.  Bill Beohm had a dairy near the plant.  I called at the dairy
just at milking time.  I asked the milker if I could put my trailer by the
milk house and help with the milking to pay for the trailer space.  He said,
"Do you belong to the union?"  This was my first experience with the union.
He informed me he was just a hired milker and the boss, Bill, was at the house.
Bill saw me coming from the barn and came out to meet me.  When I told him what
I wanted and that I had experience with cows, he agreed to let me park my
trailer by the milk house and plug into his light circuit.

This worked out fine.  I didn't milk often - only when a regular milker was off
but I did help with the feeding.  He had an orange grove and I got what oranges
I wanted.  I also got milk and eggs which I insisted on paying for.  When Don's
school was out at the BYU he came down and stayed with me.  He got a job at a
laundry.

When school was out at home, I went to Utah and loaded our bedding, dishes, and
what house hold goods we could get into our 3/4 ton pickup truck and we moved
to California.

The house I was buying cost $200 down, $35 per month on the $3,500 house.  It
was not finished so we landed at Cloe's house in Santa Monica, and I found a
rental near the beach and Tell, Margaret, Fred and Lucille lived there one
month and then the house was finished.  Tell and the children really enjoyed
their beach house.  There was a band concert every night on the pier and
I don't think Tell missed one.  That is the only month's rent I ever paid during
our life.  We always had a home.

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One of Cloe's friends at Douglas was just getting a divorce, and his wife moved
out of their new home.  I bought the living room and 2 bedroom suites, just
what we needed.  I got them all on our truck when the house was finished.  I
went to the merchants in Los Angeles to buy a frigerator and because I had no
references in California I had to write home to the bank and merchants and get
references.  When I kept up my payments, they wanted to let me have anything
in the store.

I was assigned to the night shift, from 4 p.m. to midnight.  The only ladies in
the plant were stenographers and clerks, less than 10% of the force.  The
majority of the men were from 18 to 30.  I was 47 and bald.  I wore a cap all
the time and I was called Pop.

The L.D.S. organization was a branch of about 75 persons.  We held our meetings
in the woman's club house on Firestone Blvd.  It was so noisy we often had to
stop talking while the big trucks went by, as we couldn't be heard.  We were
welcomed into the branch and soon became one of them and thoroughly enjoyed
everything.

When the war broke out things changed rapidly.  The plant went on 3 shifts a
day and as the draft began the young fellows left in droves.  Some went to
Canada and joined the Canadian Air Force.  As more left they commenced hiring
older men and lots of women.  By the time the war was over I was among the
younger men and there were more than 60% women.

Our home was just 1/2 block west of the Downey Elementary School on Alameda St.
Soon after we were settled in our home, Tell went to the school board and 
applied for a school.  She had taught school in Spanish Fork and in Vernal ever
since we were married also.  She was accepted and commenced teaching when
school opened in the fall.  Fred and Lucille both enrolled there.  After 
teaching a few years she was assigned to be a roving teacher to instruct the
shutins and underprivileged.  She formed many very close friendships both with
the pupils and the parents.  In fact, after Tell had been dead for a year she 
got a Christmas letter from Mrs. Kanard whose two boys Tell had tutored for 2
or more years.  Both boys had died with muscular dystrophy before we left
California.  She didn't know Tell was dead.

I think the greatest pleasure Tell enjoyed during the whole ten years in 
California was her association and membership in a professional woman's singing
chorus, directed by Mrs. McKisson who was a professional leader.  I think she
felt she gained more there than even the selection as president of the Primary.
She also taught different classes in Sunday School and was an officer in
Relief Society.  She was very active and she loved it.

At different times she took boarders.  We never knew just how many were going
to sit down to our table, but she always had plenty of well cooked and served
food.  She drove her own car all around the district which crossed many main
highways.  She had some little troubles but never a bad accident.

While the chapel was under construction different families were assigned to
furnish meals to the workers.  She was assigned a number of times and I was
always proud of what she served.

She so enjoyed her stay in California she was reluctant to leave but she came
willingly after I had been back in Utah for a year.  I had Lewis A. Timothy
bring his big semi-truck and move us back to Utah. 

The Okies and Arkies came to California by the thousands and the housing problem
grew almost overnight.  The houses were all filled up in no time.  Two houses
from us was bought by an Arkie and when the prices of homes went up to
$12,000 he said, "I can't afford a house like this.  I never lived in a house
with a floor in before in my life" so he sold it and had to move his family
into a renovated hen house.

As the war went on and the population grew, our branch grew till a ward was
organized and the need for a church house became necessary so the building
program got under way.  Bill Pierce was made Bishop and the building began.  It
was a great experience.  People who were inactive got to work and we built a
beautiful church house.  A number of people who didn't belong to the church got
the fever and we had lots of help.  Big lights were installed and as soon as the
shift workers were over at 4 p.m. men flocked to the building and mechanics in
every line were there with their tools and the building grew like a mushroom.

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At Vultee we were building trainer planes, and when I started 4 to 10 a day
was the top but during the war we got 50 to 75 per day.  They were flown to
every part of the U.S.A.  In 1943 the air traffic was so great and security
became so great a black out was ordered all along the coast.  We had to have
black curtains on all windows after dark.  Our car headlights were blacked
out on the upper half and search lights were installed from San Diego to
Washington, and air craft batteries were installed so every plane was in 
search lights, passed from one to another as they passed from one section to
another.  One night a strange plane which would not obey the signal flew into
view and immediately the batteries went into action and the lights at the 
plants were all turned out even though the plants were camoflauged by putting
chicken wire covered with chicken feathers entirely over the plant.  The
security gates were all thrown open and we rushed to the bom shelters and I
ran home.

While on my mission a small Chinese girl, Elsie Young, joined the church and
when Pearl Harbor was bombed she was employed by a family to care for their two
children.  They were military personnel.  They sent Elsie and the two children
to the mainland.  When Elsie found that I was living in Downey she called me
up and I invited her to come to our home.  She had left the children with
their grandparents.  Elsie stayed with us for some time and got work at Vultee.
She would get Chinese food and give us a real Chinese dinner, bamboo sprouts,
and all kinds of greens.  Fred called it weeds.  She met a returned missionary
from Hawaii and married him.  He died a few years after and I think she still
lives in Downey.

Although travel was very limited we attended church regularly and found time to
visit the beach and ocean occasionally.  The young people got there often,
attended Sunday School, then on to the beach, back in time for Sacrament
meeting.  Very faithful.

The only activity except our jobs was work at night on the new chapel.  Our
neighbor across the street, Bill and Ida Jackman (she was a member but Bill
was not) he would go with me.  One night as we were laying sheeting, it was
very hard and the nails were limber.  He hit his thumb and jerked up his hand
and looked at me and said, "If I become a Mormon I have got to learn to say
something different than usual."  The membership in the ward increased so
rapidly that within two years we had to divide the ward and build another
church house and Bill was made Bishop of the new ward.

I always had a church job when it didn't interfere with my job at the plant.
During the time of the most intense fighting of the war we were expected to
work over-time, and while gas rationing and compulsory ride sharing, many
times some of the men in my department who lived miles away couldn't take
the overtime.  But as I only lived two blocks away I got all of the overtime I
could stand.  When a rush order came in, and that was most of the time at the
height of the war, I have worked 3 consecutive shifts, 24 hours straight.  It
was good for the pay check but hard on the worker.  We would be served 
sandwiches and drinks in our office.  After being there one year I got one
week off with pay, besides my sick leave.  After two years I got two weeks 
and more.  I always managed to get back to Vernal every year, sometimes alone
and sometimes I brought the family.

In 1944 after school was out I had the Buick overhauled and it was in excellent
condition.  Tell, Margaret, Fred and I left Downey and went through San
Fernando Valley and first visited Kings Canyon Park, through Sequoia, spent
some time looking at the big trees and taking some pictures.  Then back on
the road north to Yosemite Park where we spent some time.  It was very 
beautiful, back to the center of the state and north again to Grants Pass,
Oregon, straight on to Portland where Free and Nona lived.  We rested up there
for two days and saw beautiful rose gardens and other sights.  Free took us
around.  Turned east up the Columbia River on Highway 80 to Boardsman then
south through Pendleton, LeGrande and on to Ontario where Tell's brother lived.
We enjoyed our visit with George, Ann and family for two days.  We went last
into Idaho to Carey and visited two of Tell's sisters and families and stayed
two days there.

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We went east to the Craters of the Moon National Park.  The volcanic lava beds
reminded me of Hawaii.  The next stop was yellowstone Park and here we spent
almost two days watching old Faitful and other geysers and enjoyed the animals
and scenery.  We left the park by the south passage and on to the Grand Teton
National Park, the Switzerland of America - beautiful.  Then through Kemmerer,
stopped off at Lyman but no one home, on to Lone Tree, up Sheep Creek dugway
and onto Manila over Brush Creek Mountain and home.

Here we rested for a few days and Betty Caldwell joined us on our trip back to
Downey.  We were gone three weeks, visited five national parks and four 
families, a wonderful trip and no car trouble nor sickness - very fortunate.

Soon we were back on the job.  Betty got a job as mail girl at Vultee.  She
worked days and I nights.  The government called for all to raise victory
gardens.  Mine was about 25 feet by 75 feet in this space was already my grape
arbor 4 feet wide and 7 feet high and 25 feet long along the west side of the 
lot.  Also one peach tree and one lemon tree.  Any plants that spread out as 
tomatoes and pease were real susceptible to mold and rot due to the moisture.
So I got 6 engine crates 6 ft by 4 ft by 10 inches wide in these I planted
my tomatoes.  One plant in each end of the crate standing on the 10 inch edge,
4 feet high.  As the plants grew I trained them up.  When the fruit came on it
was well off the ground.  We had an abundance of tomatoes for months.  I also
had my peas upon a trellis and they too bore abundantly.  I had also radishes,
lettuce, beans, onions and cucumbers.

The church purchased a cannery in Huntington Park.  The Stake wards were
assigned to pick and process peaches, apricots, pears and plums which were
contracted from large fruit growers.  Also tomatoes.  We filled our store 
houses very well.  I built a small room with shelves in it in the end of my 
garage.  We had fruit left to bring to Utah when we moved home.

Margaret, Lucille and Fred were all taking music, the girls on the piano and
Fred on the trumpet.  It was very inconvenient to practice in the living room,
so I made a music room in one half of our double garage.  I poured a foundation
down the center, put in a floor and walls.  Building material was very scarce
due to the war.  The only flooring I could get was oak, in short pieces, very
dry and hard.  So hard I couldn't drive a nail through it so I had to bore a
hole with a drill for each nail.  This was very slow, but when I had it 
finished it was beautiful.  A room 8 feet wide and 16 feet long.  The piano in
the south end and a folding bed in the north end, the middle door halfway 
this worked much better but when Don came home we needed more room, so I built
a large bedroom on the north west corner of the house.  I did all the work
except the plastering.

We were all busy in the church.  I was appointed class instructor of the Deacons
when I first joined the branch and was made a ward teacher and did that all
the time I was in California.  Fred and Don were also teachers.

I was in the Sunday School superintendency, also chorister in Sunday School
and taught in emergencies.  I was Deacon's supervisor all the time I was in
Cal.

Tell was president of the Primary, Sunday School Teacher, a Relief Society
worker besides teaching school.  She also sang on a ladies chorus.  I think she
enjoyed that most as they had a profficient leader and many professional 
singers.

During the war everything was scarce and Margaret told me on more than one
occasion that first one then another of her girl friends were getting watches
from Sears or some jeweler for $25 or $35.  She wished she had one.  I didn't
make any promises but I went to the purchasing department at the plant and
ordered a ladies Bulova.  When it came it cost me $80.  I took it home and
put it away.  Not long after she was chosen gold and green queen for the ward
MIA.  We bought her a nice dress and when she got all ready for the ball I 
brought out the watch.  You never saw one beam as she did.  She threw her 
arms around my neck and said, "Dad, you never have let me down."  I was 
almost as pleased as she.  She also participated in the declamation
contest of the ward and went on to win in the stake and got a scholarship to
the BYU.  Lucille and Fred were also prominent in the ward.

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Brother Stole, a retired oil and business man came from Phoenix, Ax and settled
in our ward to be with his family.  His son-in-law was in the bishopric and his
daughter was president of the YMMIA.  Brother Stole was the first Stake 
President of the Phoenix Stake.  He often said Brother Carroll, you sure have
a family to be proud of.  Another brother said "Carroll, how is it such an
ordinary old man can have such beautiful girls and fine looking sons."  I
said, "Shucks, there is no use of raising them if you can't improve them."

In 1945 when the war ended, Consolidated had plants in many cities and as the
war contracts were cancelled the plants were closed.  When it came our turn
in Downey to be closed we commenced looking for other jobs while drawing
unemployment compensation.

When the air lift was on in Germany, I got a job at Douglas at Long Beach
repairing wings to be sent to Germany.  That lasted a few months then that
closed.  I went from job to job in Huntington Park and all over.  When I would
apply they would look at my gray hair and shake their heads and say, we want
young men.  Finally I landed a job in Lynwood in a small tractor and feed mill
company.  I was in the paint department.  While here I rode to work with an
old fellow from Pasadena.  He had an orchid green house.  Some one left the
door open at Christmas time and the plants all got chilled so he missed the
Christmas market and when Margaret got married they had recovered and he had
a lot of orchids and no market.  So I bought beautiful orchids at $2.50 each.
All the ladies had orchids.  Aunt Maud said that is the first orchid I ever
had in my life.

Here is Don's contribution to my story.  In September 1, 1940 I left Vernal to 
go to the BYU and spent that year there.  In June 1941 I went to California 
with a fellow I was rooming with and I lived with you in the trailer at Bohems
until Mother and family came in 1941.  I stayed with Aunt Cloe while you
went to Vernal for the family.  Uncle Free helped me get a job in a laundry
where I worked and lived with the family in Venice while the house in Downey
was being finished.  I worked about 2 weeks then Douglas Aircraft called me
soon after I went with the family to Downey.  I worked at Douglas until 
January 1943 then went into the army.  First camp Barkley, Texas for about 3
months then to Camp Beale, California from April to July then to the army 
program  at BYU till March 1944.  From there to Camp Adair 70th Division in
Oregon near Corvallis.  From there to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri in July till
November.  I arrived in Boston on Thanksgiving night.  Left Boston Dec. 5
and landed in Marsailles France on December 14th on thru France traveling on
Christmas day near the city of Strassburg.  From there we ended up on the
Rhine River and stayed there till the war was almost over.  We were about
30 miles east of Frankfurt, Germany on May 9, 1945 when the war ended.  About
this time President Roosevelt died and I think President Grant died also.
We moved about in Western Germany and in August was in Antwerp Belgium.  From
there to Austrai, Salsburg and Vienna until March 1946.  Then home from LeHavre,
France and landed in New York about the last of March.  I was discharged from
Fort Bliss, Texas on April 2 and in Las Angeles April 3.

I got the crucifix for Mrs. Hoehem, while on a leave in Rome, on leave from
Vienna.  I entered the USC September 1946 and graduated January 1949.  Started
work for the State of California immediately and Myrna and I were married Sept
1949.

Tell, and I and Brother and Sister Eastman accompanied Don and Myrna to the
St. George Temple to be married.

Tell and I went with Gordon and Margaret to the Mesa Temple where they were
married.  Gordon built a little garage house in Downey and they lived there
when we came home in 1950.

Leland got out of the army and lived with us in Downey until he was well enough
to go to the BYU.  He got a degree there in music education.  Then he went to
teach school in Greenriver, Utah.  I came home to Utah in the spring of 1950.
I bought a tractor, and implements with it from Mr. Richards and took over my
farming.  The County Assessor resigned to take over the State Liquor Store and
the County Commissioners appointed me to take over his office.  During the
summer I went with State Officials to the mountain range to check the cattle,
we went with the stockmen to Diamond Mountain.  We went to the top of the 
mountain overlooking the split mountain gorge on the Green River, where the
Yampa enters the Green.  Here we could see Steam Boat Rock, a beautiful sight.
The river was so far below it looked just like a green ribbon.

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I took care of my farm and the office all summer and at Christmas time Leland,
Lynn Slaugh and I took the old Chev panel truck that Leland had and went to
California for the holidays.  Leland came back to his school and I stayed on
till spring 1951.  After school was out in California I got L.A. Timothy with
his big semi-truck to get my household goods.  He went home by way of San
Francisco.  Tell, Lucille, and I came home in the car Fred got when he
turned my Buick in.  Fred had gone into the Air Force.

Tell, Lucille, and I were soon busy in the church and the fall harvest was
better than average.

By March 1952 Lucille had a job in Vernal and on St. Patricks Day she played
both prelude and postlude solo on the violin in Relief Society Conference.
On March 23 President Archie Johnson asked me to be the 2nd Counselor to 
Bishop Harvey McKee.  I was set apart May 19th by Albert E. Bowen, then Tell
and I met Horace and Edna Caldwell.  Larson and Lucille were married by Elder
Romney.  We all had supper at the cafe.  June 1st was their reception at the
Maeser Ward Chapel.

December 22 Tell and I left for Sprintfield, Mass to be at Fred's wedding.  At
Rabbit Ear pass it was 35 below zero.  The driver had to have help to shift
gears the oil was so cold.  There was a mistake made in our schedule and at
Chicago we found we were 12 hours behind, so we took a plane to New York, then
the bus from there to Sprintfield.  We got there just in time.  After the
wedding Fred and Shirley went to Miss.  Tell and I went to Niagra Falls.  
Everything was covered with ice from the spray of the falls.  A real fairly
land.  At New York we rode the subway, then the ferry around the Statue of
Liberty.  We got off for a brief rest at Statan Island.  Back home on 
highway 40.  A long, hard trip.

My mother passed away on Feb. 27, 1953.  She had the speaker B.O. Colton
spoken to.  She had the program all outlined.  All I had to do is notify
those on the program.  The weather was stormy and cold.

Tell and I attended conference in Salt Lake City in October.  We brought
Effie home with us.  Nov. 25 we went to Sacramento.  Tell stayed with
Margaret and I came home by way of Fred's.

On March 28, 1954 Bishop McKee, Victor and I were released from the bishopric.
On Nov. 13 Tell and I were called on the Indian Mission.  We labored in the
Gusher branch.  We assisted with the Christmas Program.

Mar. 11, I had a heart attack and the doctor ordered me to bed.  I was
feeding a bunch of steers and hauling the silage from Karl Allens.  I overdone
myself.  I sold the steers to Karl and didn't do much hard work all spring.
I had to hire help.

July 9th  Lucille and her family got home from their mission to Tahiti.  The
19th I got $2381 from our house in Downey, the last payment.  I bought the
house in 1941 for $3,500 and sold it for $9,000.  Oct. 17th I bought my new
Buick.  I got $1100 for my Ford and paid $1,860 cash.

Oct 26  Tell and I left Vernal for California in our new car.  Got in Sacramento
27th at 3:30 p.m.  Margaret's boys and I picked up walnuts on the church farm.
We got 60 pounds of nuts for our work.  Margaret's baby, Karen, was born Nov.
5, all well.  We left Margaret's the 15th and went to Don's.  Left on the 17th
and stopped at Nona's and stayed all night.

Called Cloe and picked up Cloe and Aunt Maud and had a fish dinner at the beach
at Downey we visited old friends then on to Anaheim to Fred's home.  Fred and
I got plants from a nursery.  I bought my hiabiscus among others.  We drove to
San Bernadino that night and left at 3:30 a.m. and drove to Fillmore.  We
were at Spanish Fork before France and Nene were out of bed.  Called Joe and
Stephen after breakfast.  In Provo we bought presents for the children at home
and a dress for Lucille, shirts for Fred and others home at 4:30 p.m.  Very
fine trip.

Dec.  We worked in the mission and at Christmas had a family party at home.
Cloe, Leland, Larson and family and we enjoyed it very much.

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1956  We were working full time as missionaries.  Visited Vet and he looks
bad.  Lucille and Larson visits us quite regularly.

January 23  went to the doctor and he treated my prostate glands.  Larson did
my chorse while I went to bed.  We were transferred to the Randlett branch.

Feb 2 it was 30 below.  Had dinner with Vet and family.  Started plowing.

March 20th to April 1st  Tell and I took charge of Alterra branch.  I led
the singing.  Aug 12 we were transferred to Whiterocks where Wiley and Erma
lived in one room of the church house.  Aug 27 Keith Merkley used a bulldozer
and leveled the south field.  On Nov 25 Tell and I were released from the
Indian Mission.

1957  Mary called and Bishop Evans and I went down.  Vet had a bad pain in his
chest and left arm.  He became quiet and felt better.  Had a wreck one
mile south of Maeser Store, bent fender and bumper, and broke the grill.

On Tells birthday she was really surprised when she got home from school.
Mary had a steak dinner ready.  Vet, Mary, Maurine, Larson, Lucille and girls.
Bought 3/4 ton IH truck without bed for $200.00  I built the bed.  I was on
the TV committee.  We began investigation of sites for the signal location. 
Called help from Salt Lake City and everyone who knew about TV tried all high
hills for reception.  Finally found one on Blue Mountain where we could get
3 channels.  It still serves the valley.  31  -22 degrees this morning.  Cars
won't start.  Larson helped me start the tractor, and we pulled cars.  
Feb 2  Sunny day, but cold.  Mar 1  started hauling manure.  19th drilled
grain.  24th  Vet had another attack.  Harvey McKee and I administered to him
and he was relieved.  Dr. Christian came and gave him a shot.  Apr 7  Tell
and I went to Salt Lake City in the truck.  We went to Effie's apartment.
Leland came in his car.  He and Tell rode in his car and I in the truck to
Gerri's apartment.  Tell and I returned in Leland's car to Effie's apt.
where we stayed the night.  8th  Leland, Gerri and children came in Gerri's 
car.  They were married in the Salt Lake Temple.  Tell and I went thru the
11 o'clock session then to Effie's apartment by bus.  Leland left his car for
us.  We had trouble finding Bruce's home, Gerri's brother's home.  There we
met L.A. Timothy and Inez and a nice crowd of Gerri's friends and relatives.
A nice party and then back to Effie's about 12 p.m.  We came home next day.
13th Cloe left for Cal. on the bus.  Leland and Gerri went back to Salt Lake
City.

19th  Tell bought an apron and a pair of rubber gloves.  I bought 2 quarts of
ice cream and we went to Lucille's for her birthday.  May 1st I was chosen 2nd
counselor to the Stake High Priests.

July 10  Frances Beck called.  Ora had passed away.  Tell left at 8 p.m. on the
bus.  Wet fall but good crops.  Dec. 15 Cloe came on bus, looks good.  We
stopped at Vets and all well.  Cloe and I visited Aunt Nind.  Cloe went back
on 23.  Christmas dinner with Clarence and Elsie, Harold and Melba, Tell and I.
31st picked John A. Hacking up to the cemetery to lay out grave for Sister
Juliette Caldwell.  At Ashby's corner an Indian ran his car into us.  It swung
the car around and John fell out.  It hurt some but not too bad.  Met with
the County Commissioners on the TV.  They levied 3/4 cents for TV and
recreation.

Jan 2 1958  Aunt Ettie Caldwell's funeral.  I gave the invocation.  Joe Price
dismissed.  Lucille and Larson brought the two babies to us.  They went to
Salt Lake City.  I was busy with the TV committee.  Feb 27  Tell's brother
George died this morning.  Tell went to the funeral.  July 29  Leland and
Gerri moved into Nona's house.  Aug 16  Don and family came for a visit.  Leland
and family, Don and Lucille and families all had dinner here.  Wonderful time.
On the 25th we all went to Merkleys Park.  Nov 18 Mary called and said Vet
had had a stroke and was in the hospital.  I went right down and stayed a
while but he was sleeping as the doctor had given him a shot.  Next day he was
no better.  On the 25th after chores I went down.  He was very bad.  Mary
was there.  I went back at 6 p.m.  He was alone and unconscious.  I stayed
till 8 when he passed away.  Mary and Doris came at 8:45.  I came home and
called Cloe.  She couldn't come.  The funeral was on the 24th.  Went to the
temple with Wayne Hulbert.  Dec 9

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Dec 25  Christmas with the whole family.  Kids got lots of toys.  On the 29th
Tell and I, Leland and Larson and families had dinner with Edna and Horace.

Jan. 1 1959  Day started with Tell and I stayed up until 2:30 then up again
at 5:30, chores as usual.  2nd -10 degree this morning.  Everyone having
trouble starting their cars.  The Buick started first try.  7th  Bill Murrays
funeral.  Trouble with prostate glands.  Bought our first TV set - black and
white and cost $275.  First application for Social Security but didn't know
how much I would get.  30  Visited Aunt Nind on her 90th birthday.  Feb 2
feeling better, weigh 150 pounds.  Feb 14 - 11 degrees.  March stormy.
I put a slab of cement under the sheep shed for a shearing floor.  Started
plowing March 27.  Ann was born April 5, 1959.  April 10  I got my first
Social Security check $979.90.  April 15  Dave Roberts pushed over trees
on Leland's house site.  May 5  Milt Hacking dug Leland's basement at $8
per hour.  May 14th  Ground breaking for Steinaker Dam.  May 18  Burke
Evans helped me lay linoleum in the dining room.  20th  tomato plants froze.
May 29th Tell and I went to the temple.  Visited France and Nene, Joe and Iva.
Effie came home with us.  June 5  Leland hauled his first load of rock from
Merkkley's pasture for his foundation.  June 10  Carl Richens funeral.
Started cutting hay June 15th.  Sept 8  Tell and I left Vernal.  Visited
Nene, Ben Stephen, then to Joes where we stayed over night.  Left at 6:30 a.m.
breakfast at Delta, dinner at Eureka, Nv.  Dirty town, poor food.  Stayed at
Carson City all night.  Breakfast at Lake Tahoe.  To margarets at 11:30 a.m.
Sept 10th  visited Sacramento State Fair.  Beautiful flowers.  We attended
church in Sacramento then I went to Don's home in Walnut Creek.  Wonderful
sight.  Cloe and I went to Don's.  He took us to see Aunt Maud and Orel.
On returning Cloe bought a mixer for Tell and I, for our 40th wedding
anniversary, Sept 17th.

Lori, Margaret's second girl was born Sept 18th.  Don and family and Cloe
arrived on the 19th.  Margaret and baby fine.  That evening Don and family
and Cloe returned to Walnut Creek.  On Sept 20 Margaret and baby came home.
Left Margaret's in the morning soon as Don, Tell, Myrna went shopping.
Don and family, Tell and I went to San Francisco and saw South Pacific, a
wonderful show.  Sept 28  Tell and I left Don's and arrived at Cloe's okay.
We visited the begonia gardens again.  From Cloe's we went to Nona's.  
Oct 1st we went to the Los Angeles Temple and got 2 sessions.  Oct 2nd we
went again and got two sessions.  3rd took Cloe to the bus, then Tell and I
went to Anaheim to Fred's home.  Next day he took us to Disneyland.  The most
enjoyable was the trip by boat through Jungle Land.  From Fred's we went to
San Bernadino then on to St. George for the night.  Got two sessions at the
temple.  Was in Spanish Fork at 8:30 a.m.   Had lunch with Nean and Effie
then home at 5:30.  Leland and Gerri had moved into our house.  Wonderful
trip.  Oct 19th  I bought a deep freezer from Presley Timothy in Roosevelt for
$150.  Peck Hall and Chuck Woodward helped me put the freezer on the porch.
On Nov. 1st 1959 Leland and family moved into their new house.   Nov 22
Fred Anderson passed away.  I took charge of the grave.  Dec. 14  Lucille 
Calders funeral.  Dec 25 at Lucilles for waffle breakfast.  Dinner at home
with Leland and Lucille's families.  Very good Christmas, nice and white.

Jan. 1st 1960  Foggy and cold.  Caddy Oaks came in and watched the Rose parade
and football games.  2nd  Larson and Lucille brought the girls to stay while
they went to Salt Lake City.  Very cold -14.  Feb 2 weigh 160 pounds - feel
fine.  Had dinner with Lucille's family.  Cold winter, snowing some.  Mar 7
attended F. H. Smith's funeral.  Mar 14 blizzard worst storm of winter.  
Spring came and farming began in earnest.  Apr 2 sheared my sheep 50 cents
per head.  Apr 11 Wallace Timothy's funeral.  I was a pallbearer.  Tell and I
attended an Easter Pageant where Lucille took the part of Mary Magdalene.
Very good.  May 27  Brother Snow passed away.  Lester Bingham and I went to
Mt. Emmons to Bro Snow's funeral.  June 8  Tell and I went to the Salt Lake
Temple got 3 sessions attended show Ben Hur.  Got 3 names next day.  
June 10th  we met a number of people from home.  We got 3 sessions again.
We had breakfast with Horace and Edna.  Then to Rose Nielsons in Sandy, nice
visit.  Then on to Mary's in Pleasant Grove from there to Spanish Fork.  We
visited Stephen then stayed the night with France and Nean.  Attended Sunday
School in Leland Ward and to Joes and Ivas for dinner back to Neans for 
night.  Visited John and family in the morning, then Uncle Lias and Aunt Rett 
home at 5 p.m.

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June 22 Nona and Edna Kay came to visit us.  June 28  Tell and I got 2 names
in Salt Lake Temple then attended the show Ruth.  Two names next day and back
home.  July 4  Horace and Edna and Iris, Tell, Effie and I went to the 
mountain for a picnic.  July 30  Margaret and family came.  Sunday 31  Leland
and family, Gordon and family, Tell, Effie and I attended church.  Margaret
and Lucille played a piano and organ duet.  Margaret also played a piano solo.
Gordon and I poured cement for the curb west of lawn.  I put all my kids
names in marbles in the cement on August 5, the freezer went out.  Aug 6 Gordon
and family left for California.

Aug 18  Elmer Holfeltz put asphalt on my south lane.  I went to Vernal Cemetery
and selected the type of grave stones for grandfather and grandmother Wamsley.
Elmer brought 8 loads and Glade ran the roller and made a good driveway.  It
cost $150.

Earl and hatty Wamsley came and we went to the cemetery and took pictures of
the stones.  They were well pleased with them.  Aug 29 got 3 names in the
temple but couldn't find Tell's clothes.  30 Large groups at temple, 10
marriages, slow getting out.  Oct 19  The workers finished the siding on 
Nona's house.  I built the big cellar this month.  Nov. 18  Tell and I left
for California by bus in Sacramento at 2:15.  Don met us and took us to his 
new  home.  Very nice.  Cloe came to see us.  Don and I went to P.H.M.
Gordon and boys went pheasant hunting.  We were all at Margerets for a fine
ham dinner.  Don's twins are really something.  Gordon went to work and I
went over to Dons and held one of the twins.  I went to school with Karen.
It was a show and tell morning.  Karen told them I was her granddad.
Nov. Turkey dinner at Margaret's.  Friday Tell, Cloe and I left Margaret's
at 5:15 a.m. arrived at Nona's in L.A. at 3 p.m.  Cloe went to Jennie Reys
and I called Fred.  He came for us and it was raining torrents on the way
home the boys sang their little hearts out.  When we arrived they did their
best to entertain us.  Fred took us to L.A. and we took the bus home.  Larson
met us at the bus and we were soon home.  Nov 30  feel tough.  At the doctor
he gave me a complete checkup.  Said my heart was enlarged, that caused the 
pain in my chest.  Absolutely no snow shoveling.  I was to heed this warning
but if I was careful I might live a long time.  Dec 7  had to take 3 nitro
tablets today, laid on the couch most of the time.  Dec 25  Sunday School
program, saw present at Lucille's the girls and Larson and Lucille came home
with us and we enjoyed them.  31st  Tell and Effie went to the hairdressers.
I feel well except chest pains.  Old year going out on an even note.

Jan 1, 1961  I am grounded because of my heart.  I attended church, no activity.
I weigh 170 pounds and feel better today than for 10 days.  2nd  Watched the
Rose Parade and two football games on TV  Milked 2 cows.  Feel better today.
Took Tell to school then visited with Lucille and girls.

Tell, Gerri, and Effie went to D.U.P.  Margaret called from California.  Kenny
has the measles.  11th  Attended Ernest Caldwells funeral with Harvey and
Harold, learned of Marvin Smith's death.  26th  Got word of Aunt Rett's death.
We went to Spanish Fork to the funeral.  30th Caddie Oaks and I visted Aunt
Nind on her 92nd birthday.  Feb 2  Don't feel as well today as I did in 1960.
I weigh too much 170 pounds.  Leland and Mike do the chorse.  I have trouble
breathing.  Got several books for my birthday.  Lucille and girls brought a
cake and sang Happy Birthday.  Feb 20  I drilled barley in east field, feel
better than for some time.  Mar 1st started irrigating then it snowed on the
5th best snow storm of the year.  Local farm trip, from Vernal to Browns
Bench, Jensen Canal, Bill Karren farm and shop, A. Demar Dudleys Poultry 
plant then Skillet for dinner, Steinaker Reservoir, Hugh Colton's farm then
home.  Leland took me to Myton where I bought alfalfa seed for $35 per hundred.
April 15 George Bowden's funeral.  Apr 1st 4 1/2 inches of snow.  May 1st
attended Annie Dudley's and Rose Roberts funerals.  24th  We were surprised
to meet Joe and Ive in Safeway, they came home with us.  30th Cloe came
and Mary, Maxine, Tell and I decorated graves in Maeser and Vet's grave
in Vernal Cemetery.  June 1st Alice Ashby went to the Salt Lake Temple with
Tell and I.  We stayed at the New Ute Hotel.  2nd Attended 2 sessions, back
home.  July 29  Margaret and family came.  Aug 2 Gordon and boys, Mike,
Kent, Corwin Roberts and I went fishing at Dutch John.  Aug 2nd Don and family
came.  July 8  I got 35 souvenier shirts at the Hobby Shop.  The mothers
fitted all their children and at 7:30 we were all seated according to families
in Leland's house and had our pictures taken by Thorne Studio.  Fred and
family came on the 6th  I paid $20 for 22 shirts.  9th Gordon and family
left for home.  Lucille and Larson went to Montana the rest of us went to
Split Mountain picnic grounds and had lunch and a very enjoyable evening
at our home.  Aug 30  Aunt Nind passed away.  I dedicated the grave.  
Sept 4 Clifton Nickels died.  Nov 27  Tell took me to the bus and I went
to Salt Lake City to the specialist on ear and sinus.  He gave me a
thorough checkup but no assurance of a cure, perhaps help.  Back home.
Don't feel too good.

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Dec 11 Gladys Akhurt funeral and Lesley Andersons in the p.m.  17th Margaret
called and said she had been made president of the ward Relief Society.  
18th Tell took me to the bus at 7:40 a.m.  I was in Salt Lake City by noon.
The doctor plugged my sinuses, sprayed and treated me for 2 hours.  I went to
Horace Caldwells.  Mrs. Joe Sannie came for me and took me to their home and
Joe gave me a real chiroptractor treatment then took me back to Horaces.  Rough
time.  19th Mrs. Sannis came again and Joe gave me another treatment.  On the 
bus next morning I met Harvey Christensen and we rode home together.  Lola
met us and I rode home with them.  I feel better after Joe's treatment.
Christmas breakfast, waffles at Lucilles.  Enjoyed the girls with their dolls,
dinner at our house.  Gerri, Tell and Lucille made a fine dinner.

Jan. 1, 1962 watched Rose parade and football game.  2  Signed up 100 head of
sheep in wool pool, got $2.00 per head.  The weather is beautiful, about 8
inches of snow.  17th  Tell's birthday -7 degrees.  Gerri made cake and I
bought ice cream.  Another 8 inches of snow.  I tried to get scrapper but
no luck.  Jan 29 Walter Wooleys funeral.  I visited with Bill and Margaret
Pierce, Warren Jones and Walter's family.  Feb 2  Bright but not quite so cold.
Weigh 160 pounds sinues better and my prostate haven't bothered me but little
since Sannis treated me.  In fact I feel better than since last fall.  Gerri
brought me a cake, Tell bought ice cream, Leland and Lucille's families came
and a jolly noisy time but was glad when they all went.  Floods reported 
everywhere because of a thaw.  Leland and family went to Jensen to see the
ice jam in Green River.  17th Got word from Don that Susan had leukemia.
We decided to go to California.  26th  We left with Larson and Lucille.  He was
going to a meeting in San Francisco.  We stayed at Dons.  Mar 2  We left for
home, over Donners Pass the snow was about 8 feet deep.  It was 9:30 when
we got to Elko.  March 21  margaret called and told of Susan's passing.  We
decided to go to the funeral.  Gerri took us to the bus.  At Elko they put
chains on the bus, then the bus had a flat tire.  Terrible noise.  Margaret
and Kenny met us at 5 a.m. on the 23rd.  Cloe came and the funeral was at
10:45.  We went to Dons, then to Margarets.  25th Cloe, Tell and I to the
bus and on home.

April 12th  Drilled my wheat.  I sold C.A. Eaton a lot above Leland's for
$1,000, 2/3 of an acre.  Canal full on April 21st.  May 11th Wiley Colletts
funeral.  24th Cloe McConkies funeral.  Pat was born April 23rd.  July 21st
I went with the County agent and group to Logan by way of Coalville.  
Enjoyed tour of campus and got home at 11 p.m.  Tell told me of the hail storm,
crops all look sick.  The squash riddled, ruined.  On July 24th we had a 
local parade.  Address by Wallace F. Bennett, good day.  Aug 4 I bought a pair
of boots at Ashtons (As I copy this in 1976 I still wear them.)

Oct 25th another visit to Joe Sannis, he helps me everytime.  Nov 24 Tell had
her dinner all on the stove when it burned out.  She took it over to Lelands
and Larson and family, Horace and Edna, Leland's family, Tell and I enjoyed
the dinner.

Dec. 11th Another trip to Sannis in Salt Lake City.  I saw Henry Carroll and
wife at Franks.  I stayed the night at Marvin Carroll's.  15th Tell and I went
to Sacramento by bus.  Myrna and twins met us.  We enjoyed a party at 
Margaret's.  Dec. 25  Cloe came and we had Christmas dinner at Margaret's.
26  Margaret got a birthday dinner for she and Don.  Tell and I went with
Cloe.  We visited Oral and Aunt Maud, we stayed in Cloe's trailer.  Cloe took
us to Downey, we visited old friends, attended Sunday School.  We next visited
Knotts Berry Farm.  Here we met Verdin and Marie Johnston, and Vonda Lee 
Travis, then to Fred's home.  Fred took us for a drive around the town,
Cloe went to Jennie Rehys Dec. 31.

Jan 1 1963 Fred took Tell and I up to Vonda Lees where we got into Verdin's car.
We all went to Pasadena and watched the Rose Parade, beautiful.  We went to
Lela Nickells, where we saw May and had a fine dinner in their new home.  Fred
picked us up and we stayed the night with them.  Fred took us to Vonda Lees
on his way to work.  We left for home with Verdin and Marie, ran out of gas
12 miles short of Las Vegas.  We stayed in St. George that night.  Left there
at 5:30 a.m. raining.  Had breakfast at Cedar City and was at Joe Markham's
at 10:30 a.m.  Called at Neans.  No one home.  Vernal at 5:30 p.m.

Heather was born Jan 15 to Lucille.  Pat has the chicken pox.  Feb. 2 feel
fine.  Had ice cream and cake with Lucille and Larson.  Went to the temple
with Harvey McKee and Loran Hatch.  I bought Tell a hair dryer.  Mar 18 
attended Joe Merkleys funeral at 10:30 a.m. and Nora Vernons at 1 p.m.  I asked
myself who will be no. 3, and Elmer called to say Frank dropped dead on the
sidewalk in California.  Apr 1  Cloe called and said Aunt Maud passed away.

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Water prospects bad.  I rented the ward a field and they planted barley and
supplied the water.  I gave them 2/3 of the crop.  On Apr 20 we left Vernal
at 2:15 a.m. for Manti, got two sessions in the temple, back home at 9 p.m.
Hard day.  Jun 11 Tell and I left for the temple in Salt Lake City at Heber
I had a flat on the front wheel.  The jack slipped off the bumper and the 
handle cut my lip.  I went to the doctor and he sewed it up but boy how it
swelled.  The next day I sat in the hotel room with a cold pack on my lip.
Tell went up to the temple.  Home at 9:15 p.m.  Aug 9 Tell and I went with
Leland and family to Flaming Gorge.  We had a boat ride on the lake above the
dam.  Sept 16  Visited the State Fair, arranged a Hawaiian trip at Murdock
Travel Bureau.  Oct 4 sent check for trip, $1230 for two.  Oct 10  Leland
took Tell and I to the bus.  We stayed at the Templ Square Hotel, up at 5 a.m.
met the group at the airport at 6:10.  On plane at 7 a.m. in Frisco at 9:30,
bumpy ride on jet within an hour.  Delightful smooth trip over the ocean.
In Honolulu at 1:30 just 5 1/2 hours.  The group photographer took pictures
and we received leis.  We went to the Monoa Hotel at Waikiki.  A large
banyon tree was directly under our window and the singers sat under it.  Oct 11
after breakfast we were taken on a trip around Oahu, Charley, a Phillopino
was our guide.  First stop was a Buddhist Temple, then the cemetery, 
L.D.S. Mission headquarters, many beautiful homes with pond lilies, over a
bridge.  Lush vegetation everywhere.  Next stop Poli, the old road over the
top has been closed.  We went through a tunnel.  All the open clearings that
were here in 1920 are now mostly settled with houses everywhere.  We ate
luncheon at the Crouching Lion Inn.  From there to Lani Loa reef on a paved
road, just coral when I was there.  On to Laia, visited the college, temple
grounds and drove thru the Polynesian Village where there were last minute
arrangements before the grand opening.  At Cahupu we watched a large crane
unload cane at the sugar mill.  A great change to the method by hand in 1920.
The Halawia Hotel looked deserted as there were almost a continuous line of
dwellings, where only the hotel was before.  We passed the HiLand Dairy,
with hundreds of cows in corrals, not there when I was there before.  The
building lots are selling for $135 per square foot, and almost every available
lot is occupied.  We left the Kai and went inland to the pineapple fields.  The
largest in the world.  We stopped at a stand and bought sliced pineapple for
35 cents per plate.  Passed Scoffield Barracks and Wahiawa, where I have stayed
many times.  Thru the Aie plantation, thru Pearl City on to Waikiki and the
ocean.  About the only natural thing I have seen all day.  I next took a bus 
to the big mall, 17 acres of cement surfaced, in 3 stories high.  Here Sears
have their largest store.  There are car parkings over two levels.  We left
the hotel with Benny driving the limosine.  He was not so informative as
Charley.  Got to Laia just in time for the program.  Met Don Pierce at the
gate.  After the dedication ceremonies we toured the village, met the
Manwarings and at the Tahitian hut we met some of Lucille's and Larson's 
friends who had come here to construct and supervise the Tahitian display.
We bought a box luncheon and got in line for seats at the pageant.  This
was the grandest thing I ever saw.  The large backdrop for the stage was over
450 tons of volcanic rock was erected.  Bro manwaring was the architect and
builder, in front of the stage or place of display of acts was lines of water
pipe instead of a curtain.  They sprouted a sheet of water high into the air 
with colored light turned on to it.  Wonder.  Back at the Moana Hotel we 
heard news of an earthquake in the South Pacific and they were expecting a
tidal wave by 2 a.m. in Hawaii.  At 1:30 the sirens began and the cops with
loud speakers were warning all people in the lowlands to go to higher ground.
The beach and streets were deserted, but at 3 a.m. the all clear was sounded,
the danger over.  13th  Tell and I took a church bus and got off at the L.D.S.
Stake Center where we enjoyed Sunday School, got a ride in a private car back
to the hotel.  After dinner under the banyon tree, room and bed.  Boarded
an interisland plane at Honolulu and landed on Kuai, got our room then went
on a bus tour of the northern part of the island.  Visited the site where
the play South Pacific was filmed, lush vegetation everywhere, back to cocoa
palms hotel for lunch.  Afternoon up Wailua River on a barge to the fern
grotto, a large cave with a spring above the mouth and ferns hanging all the
way to the floor and the water dripping through them.  At the southern end
of the island one man owns 8 square miles of sugar cane, also an island
of 70,000 acres.  He married the owner's daughter and inherited the whole
thing.  After spending the night here, and hearing the local Mormon choir,
very good, we returned to Honolulu.  After breakfast Tell and I went to the
big Sears store, here I bought all the men and boys shirts and Tell bought
dress goods for all the girls and mothers.  We joined a group in a 
drive-it-yourself car and went to Laia.  Had one session in the temple, back
to Waikiki next day we used the same car and toured Diamond Head and Mt.
Tantlus and Honolulu.  At 12:30 we took a bus to Honolulu harbor on a barge
we went to Pearl Harbor, saw the sunken ships, the Arizona has a marker.
We visited.  In the evening we had a ride in an outrigger canoe.  Another
sight seeing trip, punchbowl where 18,000 servicemen are buried, Ernie Pyle
about center.  19th  We went to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for dinner on our
budget ticket at 9:15 came alarm to vacate the hotel in 15 minutes, on account
of a tidal wave

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scare.  As our room at the Moana was on the 4th floor we were considered safe
there, so we immediately walked the two blocks to our hotel.  We missed our
desert, but after we got home to Vernal we received a check from the company
for $12.60.  At 10 p.m. all clear.  We attended church again this time at
Auwaiolimi.  Here we met an Elder Wimmer returning from Japan.  He was a son
of Acel Wimmer from Vernal.  Tell and I took a side trip from the group.
We landed on Mowi for 30 minutes then on to Kona Kuai.  We were taken on a
tour torward the mountain in the p.m. then in the morning we left Kona, the
only place where coffee is grown in Hawaii.  Arriving at the volcano house
over a number of old lava flows and saw many beautiful flowers.  This is
the big island.  At 5,000 feet we were in the rim of the active volcano.
We went down an incline 600 feet to another rim, here 200 feet below the
steam and smoke were erupting in small pits.  The guide said this crust was 
only 50 feet thick to the molton lava.  Back at the volcano House we saw a
film of the live volcano and a lecture by the geologist.  We flew over the
big island and saw the Parker Ranch, 300,000 acres, 2nd largest ranch in the
U.S. possessions which raises Herefords.  Next day back to San Francisco,
4 hours and 26 minutes.  Oct 30 home at 10 p.m.

Done my fall plowing in November on 28th  Had Thanksgiving dinner at Lelands
with Larson & family also.  On Dec 20 I went to Salt Lake City with Lucille and
Larson.  I visited Dr. Young at the Mall.  He took an electrocardiogram test and
said I had had new damage to my heart in Hawaii.  Dec. 22 Tell, Della Anderson,
and I visited the mortuary where Zina Ashby lay.  Took two chiropractor
treatments and felt a little better.  Fin - Christmas.  Took Tell to Dr.
Stringham with a pain in her shoulder, burcitis.

1964 Came in bright and sunny.  I put the turkey on to cook.  Clarence and
Elsie had dinner with us.  On 13th I went with Harvey McKee to the temple.
We got 2 names each.  17 Tell's birthday.  Tell feels much better.  Her
burcitis is better.  Feb 2, I feel fine - had phone calls from Cloe, Don and
Fred, very cold and dry, looks bad for crops.  I put phosphate on strips of
my alfalfa at the rate of 250 and 400 pounds per acre, harrowed and worked
in field.  Apr 20 Lucille had a baby boy this morning.  June 2 Tell and I 
went to the temple, we stayed with Joe and Cristie Smith, enjoyed it very much.
We stayed 2 days.  On June 12 Don and family came and on the 15th Leland,
Don and Lucille famlies, Tell and I had a delightful time at Merkleys Park.
On the 17th we had breakfast at Steinaker picnic tables.  All enjoyed it
immensely.  I signed up for a bus tour of the east for Tell and I and Gerri
took us to the Vernal station on July 23.  Lucille and the girls were there
to see us off.

Our first stop from SLC was Fort Bridger where we joined the other two.  From
there to Little America for lunch, dinner in Cheyenne, chuck wagon style.  I
got a bug at the dinner and was sick all next day, terrible stomachache at
Ogalla, Sheriton Hotel.  Thru Omaha saw buffalo herd.  Got to Chicago at
8:30 p.m.  Stayed at Knickerbocker Hotel.  I laid down in the bus while the
others went shopping.  We enjoyed a boat ride on the lake, next stop Cleveland
then to Kirtland.  Visited the temple.  Heard an interesting lecture on the
building of the temple and the origin of the Reorganized Church.  Next stop
Niagra Falls.  Went thru tunnels and down elevators to the bottom of the falls.
Quite different from the visit at Fred's wedding when everything was covered
with frost and ice.  In the evening they turned colored lights on the falls.
Back to Rochester for the night.  Next day we stopped at Martin Harris's cobble
rock house then to the Sacred Grove and Joseph Smith's home, then to the
pageant, back to Rochester.  We arrived in New York City at 6 p.m.  Parking
space scare.  When we were at the hotel the management said we would have to
share rooms, but by the time things were settled we had a room to ourselves.
Aug 1 At the Fair Grounds at 11:30 a.m. a bus took us on a tour of the fair
grounds.  We visited Chrysler, General Motors, Hollywood, saw Gunsmoke,
Cleopatra and others in the making.  I went up Grayhound Towers 625 feet
by elevator then on upstairs to the top.  Here I looked through binoculars
and located main attractions in New York City.  Tell didn't go up the towers.
Next we visited the Belgium Village then to the L.D.S. Temple display.  We
enjoyed the Elder's lectures and the picture show.  The company we were
with didn't come as intended so we were left alone to get back to the hotel.
A couple from Kaysville directed us to the subway, then an Italian took us
to our hotel.  The group were concerned, but we made it ok.

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Boarded bus at 11 a.m. toured city among other tall buildings we saw we went
up the Empire State Building.  Tell went up to the 84th floor and I went on 
up to the 102 floor, wonderful view.  Next visited China Town, then on to
the fair grounds, visited first the IBM show.  Had to stand in line 1 1/2 
hours to get in for a 15 minute show, beautiful.  Next Walt Disney's this is
a small, small world, boat ride very cute show.  Arch and wife were with us.
Raining, fireworks in a water fountain, colored lights on the water as they
spurted in rhythm to the music of the band, back to hotel on bus.

Left hotel at 12, saw show, Unsinkable Molly Brown, also Rocketts, then a
boat trip thru the Hudson and passed the Statue of Liberty, up east river
thru draw bridges, back down the Hudson to starting point.

4 Lloyd and Bertha Richards, Tell and I visited Macys Store then on to the
fair.  Saw shows at Kodak, GE, Hawaii.  Then the Florida exhibit, snakes,
crocodiles, and pink flamingos.

5 Left New York City at 8 a.m. visited Independance Hall in Philadelphia, saw
the Liberty Bell, sat in seats of the first House of Congress.  Heard a 
lecture.  The room has been recently redecorated with original curtains, cloth
from England.  The seats are exactly as they originally were.  Arrived in
Washington D.C. 4:30 p.m.

6 Toured city and had our pictures taken on the lawn of the capitol then
toured the capitol.  Sen. Moss gave us a welcome in the Senate Chamber.  We
also sat in the gallery of the House.  We went to Mount Vernon and to the
Arlington Cemetery, saw Pres. Kennedy's grave, went to an amphitheater in the
evening.  7  Shopped in the 5 & 10, at 2 p.m. we took a taxi to the Smithsonian
Institute to the Ford Theater, heard the story of Lincoln's assasination.
At Safeways in the evening.  Alma and Mame Preece had ice cream and cantalope
in our room.  8  Left Washington D.C. at 8 a.m. driver got lost and went 50 
miles on the wrong road, back on route landed in Columbus, Ohio at 8 p.m.
9  Bum hotel got good start this morning, but held up 2 hours at an eating
joint, arrived in Springfield, Ill at 7 p.m.

10  In Nauvoo we visted old homes of the saints, Visited Reorganized Chapel,
the temple site and some of the stones of the temple.  Saw the Mansion House,
then toured the city.  The Reorganites own 40 acres on the south side of
Main Street and the Mormons own 800 on the north side, and are acquiring
more at present.  The temple site has been bought from the Catholic Church.
Next we visited Carthage Jail.  Saw the holes in the door where the prophet
was shot and the blood stains on the floor.  We then crossed the Mississippi
and stayed overnight in Missouri.  We visited Independence and saw the Liberty
Jail, stayed some time.  12  From Kansas City, Mo. we made good time and
arrived in Denver at 7:30 p.m.  13  Left Denver 5:30 a.m. and arrived in Vernal
at 1:30 p.m.  Ate dinner with the group at Diamond Hills Cafe.  Gerry, Paul,
Ann and Kathleen picked us up at 3:45.  Home looked good to us.  A letter
from Cloe told of Johnny's sickness.  Had $380 to put back in the bank after
our trip.

14  Got back into farming and selling lambs.  22 Markham reunion in Merkleys
pasture.  Fred Markham, Aunt Mame, Ina and Bill Mangum, Joe and Iva, Gladys
and girls along with local relatives made up the party.  We all enjoyed it.

27  Gerri and Lucille each got an Indian girl in Provo to attend school and
live at their homes.

Oct 9  Smuins installed the gas furnace - no more coal shoveling.

Nov 7  Attended Aunt Annie's funeral.  22 Tell and I went to Bakersfield.  We
visited the new house of Margaret's - beautiful.  Cloe and Johnny came.  Nona
called, Don and family came to dinner, very nice dinner and visit.  27 Fred
and family came.  More turkey dinner, watched football USC and Notre Dame.
28 I went with Gordon to his job.  I saw a pumping project a 48" pipe which
took in 4000 acres of new ground at the 23,000 acre ranch, a Spanish land
grant.  We visited the ranch center, house, shops and warehouse.  Took the
bus for home at 7:30 p.m.  I came home alone, left Tell at Margaret's.  
Dec 5 I met Tell at the bus, we had dinner at Lucille's.  22  Had a steak
dinner with Lucille's family then I tended the babies while she went to the
hairdresser.  24 Family hour at Lucille's, Mohea took charge, very commendable
program.  Opened gifts, delightful evening.

25 Visited Leland's family in the morning.  Tell and I had a stuffed chicken
for dinner.  30 Got supplies for party, then helped Tell ready the house.
At 7:30 Loran and Rhoda came then Harvey and Reva, Harold and wife, Leland and
Gerri, Larson and Lucille.  We played the new game Cloe sent for Christmas.
Tell & Lucille served refreshments.  Lovely time.  31  Leland and Gerri left
early for SLC.  Snow deep, roads slick but open -17 last night.

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Jan 1, 1965  Feel pretty good, weigh 162 pounds.  Tell feels tired, washed
yesterday.  -12 last night.  16" solid snow, looks good for next year.  Stayed
with Lucille's children while they went sleighriding.  I'm doing a lot of
taking care of Leland's boys.  Feb 2, had a call from Fred, talked to his
family.  Feel fine today.  Tell and I attend A.A.R.P. at 7-11 Cafe.  Feb 5
went to Salt Lake with Larson, got the 12:15 session in temple and attended
the Carroll reunion at 7:30 p.m.  The reorganization of the James O'Carroll
family group, stayed over night with marvin Carroll and family.  Marvin
took me to the bus this morning.  Tell met me at the bus.  I took the big 
girls to the show.  Tell stayed with the little ones.  8  I attended 
reservoir meeting with Dee and Ed, Dee was elected for 4 year term and Ray
Nash for 2 year.

March came in cold and windy.  Have the boys picked up Patty (Indian girl of
Leland's) at the Junior High.  I'm busy tending Paul and Pat and painting
and house cleaning.  I got Lucille's girls and brought them to Kathleen's
birthday party.  26 Alice Ashby's funeral at 11 and Lege Jackson's at 2.
30  Sheared my sheep.  April 1  Storming and cold.  France and Nean brought
John's girls left them at Lucille's, France, Nean, Tell and I visited
Clarence and Elsie.  We stopped at Diamond Hills Cafe and had dinner.
8 Sprayed alfalfa with heltechlor.  17  Babe Vernon helped me haul manure.
On the 18 Tell and I went to Lapoint.  I assisted him in speaking at Sacrament
meeting.  19  Harrowed fall plowing, and drilled grain.  Wayne Goodrich plowed
10 acres of my alfalfa, part on Nonas, harrowed, leveled and planted grain -
had tractor trouble.  Cold and windy, finished marking and my crop all
in by May 13th.  Good wet storm .62 best of the year.  20th Water came in
canal.  I have a good stream.  31, Decorated graves then Leland and family,
Larson and family, Tell and I had lunch at Merkleys Park.  The water is
doing well.  June 15 Nona came on bus.  I got her and came to our home.  
16 Nona, Tell and I visited Lucille and family.  19  I left home with Gerri
and children at 6 a.m.  Went to SLC to Dr. Joe Sannis at 2.  Gerri picked up
2 Mexican boys at 6 p.m. and we were back home at 10:30 p.m.  The Mexicans
were exchange students from Mexico.  Jolyn was in Mexico also at their homes.
22 Had a doctor appointment.  Feel better.  25th  Lucille and family visited
us.  Mohea and Linnette stayed all night.  July 1  Another trip to the doctor.
He treated my ears and gave me medicine.  Be back in 1 month.  3rd  Don and
family came.  Helped me haul hay.  I was busy irrigating.  8  Don and family
left for home.  16  Tell and I went to the radio with Lucille and family in
the a.m. then Tell took care of the little ones while Larson, Lucille and
the big girls went back to the evening radio.  Aug 7 went to Dr. Sannis,
pretty rough.  Bought a blue suit at Provo, on to a reunion at Spanish Fork.
We all visited the cemetery, then France and I went to find John, west to
the mountains.  Back home to Vernal on the 9th.  Helped haul the ward hay
with my truck.  Unloaded at Ralph Siddoways.  17  Gordon and family came.  
He and boys went fishing at Flaming Gorge.  I was busy harvesting grain.
Gordon and the boys helped.  21  Gordon and family left and Joe and Iva came.
Short visit.  Still harvesting grain.  Sold some to Harvey McKee.  31 Frost
this morning - still harvesting.

Sept 3 Sold my lambs at $20.75 per cut, wet enough to plow.  16  Storming.
Gertrude Larson came.  Still snowing.  10" of snow in the valley.  Tell and
I took Gertrude to Dinosaur Quarry.  Snow had broken the trees in Jensen.
We stopped at A DeMar Dudleys.  He had baby chicks out in the snow.  We
stopped at Diamond Hills Cafe on the way home.  She showed pictures of
England, Holland, and Russia.  I leased my farm to Jim Jenkins for 1966.  My
taxes this year were $326.60 - paid Oct 3, 1965.  20 Attended Lucy Linds 
funeral.  Nov 1 Tell and I went to the temple for 2 days then to Dr. Sannis,
on to Spanish Fork.  Joe and Iva visited us at neans.  Tell done some
shopping in Provo.  7  Lucille, Larson and family came and we enjoyed the
visit very much.  John McKeachnee and I bought ewes at Deep Creek from Lynn
Martenson.  Next night a dog killed one of the ewes I just bought.  22 Tell
and I left home in the Buick at 6 a.m.  Stayed in St. George at 3:35 p.m.
in North Las Vegas the Buick stopped dead.  I got a ride into town and got
gas but still no start.  A fellow with a lot of garage equipment was at the
car when I returned.  He couldn't get the engine to turn over so he towed us
to a garage.  It was too late to get in.  I got a motel room and we stayed
the night.  At 8:30 a.m. the garage opened and the mechanic began to tear
the engine down.  The more he worked the worse it looked.  Tell called Mary
Lou, a niece of Neans, living in Las Vegas.  Her brother Harvey came and
Tell went with him to Mary Lou's home.  The mechanic found 3 pistons cracked
and valve trouble.  We stayed with Bob and Mary Lou that night.  The trouble
was the springs in the valves had got so hot the spring was taken out and
caused the pistons to stick.  It cost $274.  We left Las Vegas early and got
to Bakersfield at 9:45.  We had quite a time finding Margaret's home. 
27 Don and Myrna and family came and we enjoyed the evening.  28  Women got 
a big ham dinner, Fred and boys and Nona came also Don and Myrna and family.
At 4 Tell and I and Dons family left for Sacramento, arrived about 10 p.m.
28 Don went to work.  Myrna

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and Tell went to the market.  The boys and I joined them at the State Building
and we went sight seeing.  I called Cloe.  She said Johnny didn't feel like
driving.  30 Don, Myrna, Tell and I went to the Oakland Temple.  Cloe and
Johnny were there.  We all went to the top of the temple, and saw the 
beautiful gardens and fine view.  Don and Myrna went home and we left for
Santa Cruz and stayed at a motel.  Cloe and Johnny went home.  Dec. 1 Cloe 
and Johnny took us to the Palmer Hotel for breakfast, bacon and eggs.  We went
for a drive in the canyons and it was beautiful.  Took the bus for Bakersfield
at 10 and we traveled all day through the Salinas Valley.  We had to change
buses 4 times to get to Bakersfield but finally got there at 9 p.m.  Margaret
and Gordon met us at the station and we went to their beautiful 6 bedroom
home.  3  We left Bakersfield at 5 a.m. in a dense fog.  Lucky to get the
right road.  Got to St. George in time to attend the 4:30 session in the
temple.  4  At the temple at 8:30.  Big group from Las Vegas 8th ward, also
a group of boys from Cedar City.  Left St. George at 12:30 and at Neans at
6:30.  5  Tell went to Lucille's for turkey dinner.  I felt rotten - bad 
stomach.  6 Feel fine this morning.  Back to chores and farm work.

Dec 11 Snow this morning very cold.  19  Gerri conducted the Cantana in
Church today.  25 Christmas, visited Leland's family then to Lucille's - all
well and happpy.  31  Killed a big bag ewe, Leland helped.  Good meat.

Jan 1, 1966 2 inches of new snow, both of us feeling fine.  Had dinner with
Lucille and family, Leland and family there also.  Tending boys, most of
the time.  Gerri works half-time but usually works all day long on the days
that she goes.  Leland is school teaching.  16  Gerri took her 3 big children
to SLC to see their dad.  I took care of the other children.  30  A birthday
dinner for me at Leland's.  21 present.  Feb 1 Cards from Cloe, Don and 
Margaret.  2 Feel fine today, weigh 160 pounds, foggy and cold, cleared off
in p.m.  Got a box of chocolates from Margaret.

7  7 inches new snow.  Dee came with his blade and made us some trails.  
10 Attended a week meeting at Roosevelt.  A number of dignatories present.
12  had the second shot given my ewes for abortion.  Cold and stormy about
all I do is chores and tend boys.  March about the same - cold and wet.
25  Jim started to drill the barley.  Apr 1  I kept my sheep pasture, didn't
rent it to Jim.  Marked the pasture and prepared to water it.  16th  Clyde
Hall sheared my sheep.  Leland, Mike and Kent helped as usual.  18th  Snowing,
sheep in corral and shed.  I pulled the ladder off the metal top shed, it
stampeded the sheep.  They tromped 1 ewe to death.  Cold storm.  Apr 30
Landscapers put in a sprinkling system on my front lawn.  Planted and leveled 
it with new soil.  The system cost $275 and leveling and see all together
$330, then $20 for soil.

May 15 Water came in the canal, brim full and some running down the creek.
Got my pasture watered over.  Attended L.P. Christensen's funeral.  Worked
on the stake center, and replanted my frozen garden.  May 30 Caddie Oaks helped
gather funds to buy Grandmother Wamsley a head stone.  I contacted the
grandchildren both at home and in Arizona and Calif.  We got enough to buy
one for both Grandmother and Grandfather.  I helped install them.  We
decorated the graves with flowers.  June 1 Docked the lambs and done more
gardening.  7  I spoke at Ray Gray's funeral.  Had lunch at Iva's.  Clint and
wife, Marvin and wife, & mother with others were there.  County weed sprayers
came and sprayed my spurge with Tordon, $24.00.

June 22 Leland took me to Dr. Hatch in SLC.  He found I had hemmoraged in the
rear of both eye balls due to high blood pressure.  Glasses won't help.  Nona
took the plane at 3 p.m.  July 2  Don and family came and we had a picnic
at Merkleys Park.  3 Dinner at Leland's.  Lucille's family joined us.  
4 Don took the kids to climb the mountain at Merkleys Park.  Fireworks at
Leland's in the evening.  5 Don took the children and I to Flaming Gorge.
Leland came home with us.  7  Family reunion at Merkleys Park.  Don and 
family, France and Nean and John's 2 girls, Joe and Iva and a grandson, the
McKees and many more.  Tell had a very good program prepared.  Lucille's,
Leland's, and Don's children all took part.  France and Nean stayed with us.
John's girls went with Lucille and Don and Myrna stayed with Leland, Joe
and Iva went to Gladys'.  8  Don and family left at 10 a.m.  22  Attended
Beverly William's funeral.  23  John G. Hacking passed away.

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Aug 1 Tell and I went to Harpers Corner with the Senior Citizens.  5 Earl and
Hatty, Iva, Tell and I left for Idaho where Grandmother Wamsley was buried.
Down Sheep Creek on to Lone Tree, Mountain View, had sea burgers at
Randolph, then to Bloomington.  We had quite a time locating the cemetery
then searched for great grandmother's grave.  We finally found a small stone
telling she was the first L.D.S. woman baptized in England.  Later a large
monument had been erected there.  It is a beautiful view of Bear Lake and
countryside.  We then went down Logan Canyon.  The same road Mother and we
boys traveled in 1912.  Toured U.S.U. College campus then on to Brigham
City where we stayed over night.  6  Left Brigham City at 5:30 a.m. thru
SLC and had breakfast in Heber City.  Home at 11 a.m.  Earl and Hatty 
went on to Roosevelt.  9  Dr. Stringham said my blood pressure was down
satisfactorily.  18 Tell and I went on bus to the temple.  Sept 1  Good
rain.  7  Visited Dr. and blood pressure still down.  Lost weight now 171
pounds.  9  Tell took the bus to Spanish Fork.  They set Sept. 24 as the
gathering date.  15  First frost +28 degree.  Oct 3, I went to SLC with the
county agent Broadbent and stayed at the Wilson Hotel.  4  7 a.m. session 
at temple another at 10 and out at noon.  Took a cab to Dr. Hatch's office,
hemmorage abated but cataracts growing.  Appointment Jan 10 at 2.  Home with
Broadbent and 2 Indian boys at 9:45 p.m.

Oct 8  Evan Smith passed away.  11  Joe and France, Nean and Iva came.  Tell
and I joined and went to Evan's funeral.  We had dinner at Diamond Hills
Cafe.  13  Sarah Smith died as Evan's funeral was dismissed.  Had her
service today.  14 Drs appointment - blood pressure 170 over 80 satisfactory.
19 Someone stole all my gas, cans and all.  25  Paid years water tax $164.18;
real estate taxes $321.62  Nov 1 sold my lambs @ 21.10 wt 4945 for 51 head,
net $1007.65  I put $992 in bank.  I have 13 small lambs left.  29  Lucille's
second boy was born.  Dec 6 Been snowing 2 days very wet.  I got on my
tractor and went to the pasture whistle to the sheep and they followed me to
the corral.  12" snow this morning.  9 -10 below last night.  22  Kathleen,
Ann, Paul and Pat came over and we opened Xmas presents.  Leland and Gerri
came later and visited a while.  23  Leland took Tell and I to the bus at
7:30 a.m.  Got to SLC at 12 and left for Cal at 12:40 p.m. in Sacramento
at 2 p.m. on the 24th.  25 Children opened presents.  Don and I went to
Priesthood Meeting.  One man from Montana said he had seen it -50.  The SS
program was beautiful.  27  Cloe and Johnny came and we had a fine visit.
30 Don and family took us to Bakersfield.  Fine visit with the two families.
31 Don and family went home.  Gordon and I went to market.

Jan 1, 1967  Attended OH meeting in Bakersfield.  Tell and I visited Roy
Path, an old friend of Tell's.  He gave us oranges and grapefruit off his
orchard.  2  Watched parade and football games.  Gordon and Margaret and
girls took us to the bus.  We left Bakersfield at 7 on a special bus, 
arrived in Barstow just in time to change from the Greyhound to the
Continental Trailways.  3  Arrived in SLC at 12:40 the driver said this bus
will go on thru Vernal so we left our bags on.  When we got back to the
station we found that bus had gone on to Wyo with our baggage .  At Vernal
the agent called Rock Springs and told them to take our baggage off in Denver
and send it back to Vernal.  Leland and Gerri were there to meet us.  6 Got
our luggage and everything was there, even the oranges.  9  Tell went back
to Peytons -16 last night.  Tell teaches a retarded girl.  Feb 2  Feel fine
this morning 160 pounds.  Cards from Cloe, Don, Leland and Gerri gave me
a 2# box of chocolates.  20  Went to temple with Leland and Gerri.  Had
examination at Miaco for hearing loss.  I stayed at Marion Hotel.
21  I got a hearing aid, back home in p.m.  mar 5 Got 2 hearing aids, noise
awful - don't want 2. 11  Left Vernal at 9:30, stopped in Provo.  Tell done
some shopping, at Neans at 2, felt tough and laid on couch.  At 7 p.m. we
went to the Leland Ward house to Joe and Iva's 50th anniversary.  Crowd began
to come.  Joe and Christy Smith, Joe's three girls, husband and children
were hosts.  Did a fine job.  I learned Marve Bell was made bishop, some of
his ward members were there including Hale Holgate and wife.  We stayed at
Anna Stark's home that night.  12  France came about 7, left there 9 and 
home at 4.  21  Sheared my sheep, paid 55 cents per head.

April 1st wet and cold, but done some gardening.  Continued cold all month.
May was also backward.  June 17 Margaret, Gordon and family came and on the
18th we had Father's Day dinner at Lucille's.  On the 19th Jim Jenkins
started cutting hay, Gordon and boys went fishing at Flaming Gorge.  I took
17 of my grandchildren to the rodeo.  When Gordon and his family went home 
they took Hina and left Karen.  Leland drove the Buick and took his 4 
children, Tell and I to SLC.  At the doctor at 10.  He advised waiting 6
months for an operation.  On the 28th of July I took the flat hay wagon
behind my tractor and took all the children to Safeways and got melons.
Came home and had a real melon bust.  On Aug 5 Don and family came.  He
took all the kids up to Merkleys Park.  We all went to the Dinosaur Quarry.
Many trips - he left for home on the 9th.

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On Sept 1st Leland drove the Buick and Tell, Iva Gray, Gerri and I went to
SLC.  We met Devere Carroll and family and went to one session and then
attended the wedding of Howard and Tammy.  After that there was a wedding
breakfast at a restaurant.  We enjoyed the visit.  Oct 5 Margery Bingham
was killed in an auto accident up the street.  15  Jim Jenkins settled up
for running the land north of the Wash.  21  nean and France came and stayed
all night. They visited then returned home the next day.  18 Attended Arch 
Allen's funeral.  DeLos Reynolds started plowing.  He is going to run my
farm.  Dec. 1, 8" of snow this morning.  Ray McKee's funeral.  Still storming.
14 at Lucille's at 1:30.  She and Larson left at 2 for SLC.  Tell picked
Pat up at 2:30.  15th  Stayed over night with Lucille's children.  Pat
got off bus at Lucille's.  I went home at 3:30 and fed my sheep then went
back and stayed all night.  Tell brought Pat home with her.  Lucille and
Larson came home at 7 p.m.  23 Fred called.  24 Dinner with Lucille.  Cloe
called.  25 Breakfast with Lucille and family.  29  Went shopping, on way
home by way of Larson's my car slid into the bar pit.  Snowing and slick.
Cody Jenkins came along with a truck and pulled the Buick out and brought
it up to Larson's. 

Jan 1 1968
11 Margaret called.  All well.  Leland's kids have the mumps.  17  Tells
birthday she went to Ladies Club with Lucille.  24 Lucille in the hospital
21-22.  She is better.  26  I was Lisa's partner at the Daddy-Daughter party.
Reverse gear went out on Buick.  Calder offered me $200 for it.  Said it would
cost $215 for a new gear.  Gerri called her cousin, Byron Hancock who said
he would fix it for less than $100.  Leland and I took it out, it cost $77.50
- home next day.  Feb 2 feel fine, not 156 lbs.  My ears and eyes are no better.
I can hear in meetings pretty good.  Got a card from Cloe in Hilo.  She and
Johnny and Mary are vacationing in Hawaii.  Pat brought me a card and a dollar
bill from their family and invited me to dinner next Sunday.  Got a card from
Don's family, Lucille's girls called on the phone and sang Happy Birthday.
New bishopric, Thoral Bodily bishop, Glen Vernon 1st and Francis Bowden 2nd
counselors.  Margaret called.  Having trouble with Karen.  March 27 DeLos 
drilled barley.  April 10 Dave Clark sheared my sheep.  May 1 Mrs. Eastman
called from the motel.  Tell and I went down and we went to the Field House.
They enjoyed it very much.  They went on to Sacramento.

Jun 7  Nellie and Jack Quinn came and we went out to the Dinosaur Quarry.
They enjoyed it very much.  8  Margaret and family came.  9 Nelli and Jack
left after lunch at Lucille's.  10  Gordon and family and Lucille and family
went to the Dinosaur Quarry.  I brought Matt home with me.  14  Stayed all
night with Lucille's family.  15 Gordon and family left at 5:30 a.m.  30  Frost.
Aug 20 Put ad in paper to sell my sheep.  Sold young ewes to Howard Williams,
and the rest at the auction sale.  Put my money in the bank on savings
certificates.  Now out of the sheep business.  My pasture is depleted.  
Sept 7  DeLos is planting alfalfa on Nonas and 3 acres of my east field. 
13  Went to High Priest Party, took Tell and 3 widows.  I had hibiscus
blossoms for each.  Oct 17 Nean and France, Merrill and Agnes came in 
France's new Buick.  Clarence & Elsie, Gerri and kids, Lucille and babies 
were here for dinner.  We made plans for a trip to Oregon.  24  I babysat
for Larson and Lucille while they went deer hunting.

Nov 7  Left home for our trip, got to Spanish Fork at 3 p.m.  8  Left at 8
and got in Boise at 5.  Got a motel and called for Anna, but no luck.
9 Tell got in touch with Anna.  We met her at the R.R. station.  Had breakfast
there.  Followed her to her sister's home and then on to her house and had
a nice visit.  On to Lills, visited then on to the cemetery where George
and relatives are buried.  On to Vale, stayed night.  Found the rock gardens
at Bend, beautiful, then to the Reindeer ranch, started raining.  Stopped
at Detroit after dark, rained all night.  11 Breakfast at Mill City, beautiful
forest, on to Salem then to Woodburn, found Gertrude in her new house, not 
straightened.  Just as she moved in.  Had dinner at a cafe then on to Thoras
where we stayed over night.  Saw the A.A.R.P. complex center and community
grounds.  Visited a Catholic Cathedral, then the college campus, next to a
beautiful water fall, back to Thoras for a turkey dinner.  On to Albany at
6 at a motel.  13  Left there at 7 arrived at Don's in Sacramento after 
dark, stormed all day.  Enjoyed visit with Eastmans and Don's family.  Left
Sacramento at 10 to Elko, Nevada.  left at 9 in Provo.  We had a chicken
dinner at a cafe on to Sp Fork on home next day.

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Nov. 27  Thanksgiving dinner with Clarence and Elsie.  Dec 18  Done some temple
work and checked at Dr. Hatch.  Eyes better, hemorage okay.  Come back in 6
months.  23  Mark Hall's Funeral.  24  Dinner at Larson's and Lucille's.
We stayed until dark then Larson took us all in the bus to see the Christmas
lights in town.  25  Stayed in bed till 8, Lucille invited us back for lunch
but we stayed home.  26  Tell washed and I hung the clothes out.  Got a box
of fruit from Knots Berry farm from Fred.  31  Devere, Golda and I worked on
geneology at Iva Grays.

Jan 1, 1969  Feel fine this morning, weight 150 pounds.  Blood pressure
130/80.  Haven't had a nitro pill for months.  I'm sure it is better to lose
weight.  Leland and family got back from a trip to Washington D.C. for
Christmas at Gerri's sister, Joan.  12  Got word Cloe operated on for cancer,
had her breast removed.  17  Tell 77 today.  Mrs. Peyton gave her a birthday
cake.  Lucille and family came and brought cake and ice cream.  Larson came
in a new Buick Skylark.  20  Watched Nixon's inaguration, letter from Cloe.
She is doing fine.  Harvey McKee and I visited Lester in the hospital. 
Operated on for hernia.  Snowed all day.

Feb 2  I was in Cal to visit Cloe.  She has to have 30 x-ray treatments.  Don
and Myrna came for me and I went to Sacramento.  When I got to Donner's Pass
the road was blocked with snow.  Finally the bus came from the east then we
went over the pass in the canyon.  The houses were entired covered with just
tunnels to the doors from the highway.  When we left SLC our bus developed
trouble, we returned and got another.  I rode with a fellow named Riddle, he
told me his grandfather was at Hauns Mill just after the massacre.  He took
a load of wheat to Hauns and he said now that town is completely deserted,
nothing there but weeds and sand.  Leland met me at the bus station in Vernal.
Lots of snow in February.

Mar. 1 Lion today.  3  Mrs. McLean was with Lucille's family tending them 
and she got sick, so I went over and stayed all night.  4 Got the girls off
to school.  Tell came at 9 and I went home and done the chores, then back
to Lucille's.  Tell went home.  25  At the temple and got 10 initiary names
and 2 sessions.

Apr 1 raining but nice day.  8 Gardened all day - real spring.  15  I took
the fence down between pastures and DeLos commenced plowing the pastures.  
25 I with six others went to the temple with Victor Bingham on May 1st.
I worked in the garden and flowers all day.  10  Got a new dress for Tell
at Mode O Day and a corsage at the flower shop.  Marv and Gladys Bell came,
changed their clothes and went to the Square Dancing Convention downtown.
17 Ward Evans called.  Harvey and I rode to Vernal with him, then on to the
bus to the temple - did two sessions.  30  At the cemetery while we decorated
the graves, we met Mary, Horace, and Edna.  I got the stones for our uncles
in the Rock Point cemetery.  June 19  Beth Ann and family came and we enjoyed
visiting with them.  21  I sold my old machinery to Thoral Davis, Rain all day.
July 2 Don and family came and we visited at Lucille's.  5 Took kids on
haywagon and got melons and pop and all went to Merkley's Park.  Fred and
family came at 10.  6  I'm still too hoarse to make a noise.  All the
children had their pictures taken with Tell and I at Leland's.  We enjoyed
it very much.  This is our 50th Anniversary and all the children and
grandchildren came.  We got chairs and tables from the church house and set
them up east of the house and had refreshments outside.  We had a big group
of Tell's relatives and our friends.  A very enjoyable time.  24  Had hotcake
breakfast at Safeway parking lot.  Bart Shaffer and wife called and we
enjoyed the visit.  31  Bought a clothes dryer for Tell.  Aug 6  Don called
and said the cancer had spread all thru Cloe's system.  Sep 11  Pete Boehm
and wife called on us.  He said Bill had cancer in his throat, very bad.
15 Lester Bingham's funeral.  Checked at Dr. Stringham's doing fine.  Oct 1
Talked to Ed Jenkins about renting farm.  He wants everything his way, I
don't do it.  Oct 1 storming, snow on Baldy.  21  Ed and I came to terms
on the farm.  He said he would take it.  23 State Road offered the McCoy
lateral $42,500 to put pipe line back in the field so they could fill the
old lateral ditch in front of our houses and build a new wider road.
Nov  Left Vernal for Sacramento on the bus, raining in Vernal.  Snow in 
Elko put chains on to go over Donner Pass.  Myrna met me in Sacramento at 1,
went with Don and family to ward dinner.  Don and I left Sacramento, lunch at
San Jose, at the hospital at 1.  Cloe looks very bad, in a sitting position
in bed.  She can't move her legs.  In a few minutes Johnny came.  Don and I
helped slide her up on the pillow.  She can use her hands but she talks with
a muffled tongue.  She said, "Bud, I'm a mess."  Cancer all over.  We left
not wanting to tire her and went back to Sacramento.  Nov 9 Don took me to
the bus station.  I left at 2 and at SLC I called Dr. Hatch at his office.
After an examination he said the left eye was worse and set a date of Dec 9
to be operated on.  Went to the temple and did one session.  11  At temple
at 6:30 and met Vernal people after the 10 session, got 2 sessions in the
p.m.  5 in all.  Stayed at Temple View hotel.  Ed was discing, snowed a little

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but Ed commenced plowing.  Dec 9  Leland took Tell and I to the bus.  In SLC
Tell called Joe and Christy Smith.  He met us at the depot and took us to
Hatch's office.  Checked in at the Holy Cross Hospital at 3.  Extensive exams
and put in room at 4:56.  My first night in a real hospital.  At 8 a.m. a
doctor gave me a shot between my eye and ear, then several in my eyeball.
Dr. White assisted Dr. Hatch.  I asked for a sleeping pill but I only got
aspirin.  That night not much pain but told me not to move.  I didn't sleep
at all.  The next night I got a sleeping pill.  Had a good sleep but my eye
was so dry it scratched to open it.  The doctor put eyedrops and ointment in
and it felt better.  13  Dr. Said doing fine.  Tell, Joe and Christy visited
me.  Both Fri and Sat. Nean and France also came.  14  Dr released me with
instructions not to be without the patch or glasses for one minute.  Joe
took me to his home.  We had a nice dinner.  Then Donna and husband came.
We all went to the bus station and stayed till the bus came at 8 p.m.
Leland was at the bus station in Vernal to meet us and soon we were home.
22 Larson and Lucille took me to the doctor's office for a checkup.  Very
satisfactory.  24  About 1" of snow.  Lovely dinner at Lucille's, in the
evening Larson took us all to see the Christmas lights.  25 Christmas day,
beautiful.  I sat on the south side of the haystack and enjoyed it.  Larson
and family, Tell and I had a late dinner at Leland's, very fine.  29  Fred
called.  All well and he had a promotion.  31  Don called about 8 and said
Johnny called and said Cloe had passed away.  There won't be any flowers nor
funeral.  She will be cremated and the ashes put in a Crematorium.  I called
Iva and Devere, and Mary in Pleasant Grove.  Tell and I watched TV and the
old year go out.

January 1, 1970  Tell and I at home.  Leland's family dropped in.  My eye seems
to be doing well.  11 Stake Conference.  W. B. Wallis released and Jack Seitz
was made president.  Garth Batty 1st and Bert Angus second counselor.  
17  Tell's birthday.  Mrs. Peyton and girls come and brought a cake.  20  Leland
took me to the bus.  I took a cab to Dr. Hatch's office.  Doing well.  Charles
and Crystal were there.  They had their operations in Sept.  I got 2 sessions
in the temple and home at 12 a.m.  Leland met me.  Feb 2  Feel fine this
morning.  Weight 150 pounds.  My eyes feel better.  Lucille and Matt
brought me a basket of fruit.  Leland and family came and brought a cake made
by Kathleen.  Card from Don, Lucille and girls came in the evening and sang
Happy Birthday.  Mar 1.  Real Lion - big storm.  4  Cleared and Ed started
drilling barley.  23  Tell and I went to SLC 1 session in temple, Tell got a
dress at ZCMI.  Got prescription for glasses at Dr office.  April 20, Tell,
Iva and I went to temple.  We done the work for Eupheme Hineman.  28  Snowed
all night, very wet.  May 28  Attended graduation of Mohea and Karen.  Bob
Pope brought a Zenith color TV.  30  Put flowers on graves, at Maeser and
Rock Point cemeteries.  Irvin and Aurilla, Horace and Edna visited us.  June 2
Started laying the pipe in the field, as far down as Nona's today.  Hacking
pushed my corral fence over - 50 years of building wrecked in 1/2 hour.  July 
8  Turned water in the pipe line.  Not enough pressure, tank at head has a
baffle that won't allow enough water to fill the pipe.  18 Ed and Morris Vernon
put planks across the canal but couldn't get enough water to fill the pipe.
July 24  Tell, I and Leland's children had hot cake breakfast on the
courthouse grounds.  Lucille's family also.  Big celebration after the parade.
27  Lucille's 3rd boy, Markham Lee was born.  Aug. 18  I went to SLC with
Leland.  He took me to the hospital and they operated on my right eye at 8:30.
23  Supposed to go home today but a hemorage started and a blood clot, so
no go.  Nean and France, Agnes and Merrill came.  29 Tell, Gerri and the boys
came and we left the hospital at 3 p.m. Sep 4, Been in bed for 4 days, better
today.  6 Tell and I attended meeting in 7th ward.  Larson gave the new baby
the name of Markham Lee.  Horace and I stood in the circle.  Sept 15  Tell
took me to the bus.  I went to Dr. Hatch's office.  Report not good, scar in
my right eye.  Oct 2 Visited with Arnold Bangarter, a missionary in Hawaii
some time.  Nice visit, old memories.

Oct. 7  Tell and I were at Lucille's at 1 to take care of the new baby and
others while they went on a trip.  They returned on the 15th.  All well.
Oct 28  Glen Oaks and wife, Iva Gray, Sue Watson, Joseph Bodily, Tell and I
went with Glen on Taylor Mountain.  Visited the Pat Carroll Mill site - only a
road sign marks the place today.  Dec. 2 Garth Batty was at Priesthood
Meeting and informed me I was released as group leader of the High Priests.
Alton Vernon was sustained.  24  Tell and I had dinner at Lucille's then
Larson took us to see the Christmas lights.  Dr. Dan Price got the 1st prize
this year.  25  Tell and I had dinner at Leland's.  31  This has been quite
an eventful year.  On Dec 10 had my left eye operated on, and in the hospital
for 5 days, everything ok, got a corrective lens.  Apr 7 had trouble getting
used to it, but standing still I could see wonderfully well.  May 4 had 4
skin cancers taken off my face, quite an ordeal, burned out with a needle.
June 1 first load of water pipe unloaded in my field.  June 14 Gerri left
for Logan to go to college for the summer.  15th Marvin and Kenny started
tearing down my barn.  8 Turned the first water out of pipe.  Very 
unsatisfactory.  Could not fill our pipe with the way the measuring box was
built.

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Aug 19  Had my right eye operated upon.  On the 23 the doctor said I had a
hemorage and would have to stay longer, disappointed when I went for final
checkup at Dr. Seitz.  Scar from the hemorage on the right eye, it will never
be as good as my left eye.  Dec. Tell and I got flu shots and blood pressure
taken.  Mine 106/70 lowest ever recorded for me.  Tell 130/80 satisfactory
for her.  I planned for months for Tell and I to take a plane trip to
California.  I bought tickets and had reservations on flight 183 on Dec. 23
but on Dec. 22 there was a big storm and the road to SLC was closed so I
had to cancel our trip.

Jan 1, 1971  Disappointed with my eyes, otherwise feel fine.  Weight 152.
Watched the Rose Parade on our color TV.  Feb 2  I feel fine.  My left eye
is 20-20 but my right eye could be better.  My legs are quite stiff.  I 
stumble and have fallen but never broke anything.  Lucky.  Got my drivers
license ok.  Stormy, groundhog, no shadow.  Fred called and said they all
have the flu, one at a time all winter.  Mar 1  harvey Christsen's funeral.
Sold my tractor to Speed Wheeler, and Delos got my feed mangers.  22  Tell
and I stayed with Lucille's small children while they went snowmobiling.
March cold and stormy but Ed was harrowing on the 26th.  Apr 17  Mr. and
Mrs. Eastman came and I went with them to the Dinosaur Quarry.  They were
impressed.  I took Rosey's boys and Paul and Pat to Merkleys Park.  May 7
Lucille called a mare folded, Lucille put iodine on naval, the cold was up
in an hour.  Lucille had to leave.  I stayed with the colt and boys.
Lucille came at 1 p.m.  I brought the boys over to play with Paul and Pat.
May 10  Tell and I went to SLC at Dr. Hatch at 10 a.m.  Left eye ok but
right eye with a scar.  Got a new prescription for lenses.  We stayed at
Marys in P.G.  Mary looks bad and really surprised how Maxine could get into
her wheel chair.  Mary hasn't been able to lift Maxine since her operation.
Went to Spanish Fork.  Nean and France look better than we expected.  Nean
took Agnes to a doctor.  Tell and I went to Joe's, then France took Joe
and Iva, Tell and I to visit John's house since he has remodeled it.  Very
nice.  Stayed the night at Nean's.  At the Hub in Heber Tell visited with Ina.
May 19  Froze tomatos, potatoes, and corn.  28 degrees.  June 1st, replanted
sweet corn.  8  Leland took over the Maeser Store.  July 11 Fred and family
came.  We went to Merkleys Park.  Fred's, Larson's, Tell and I enjoyed
sloppy Joe buns.  The young people played ball and the old people were
entertained by little Mark going from one hole of ashes to another, throwing
them all over himself.  He was as black as a coon.  We had a good visit and
had an enjoyable time.  June 29  We had a real surprise.  nean and France,
Joe and Iva, Joe and Christy and Gertrude, Leland and family, Hina and Glenn,
came to visit.  Leland bought melons and we had a very fine time.  31  Don
and family came.  We enjoyed visiting.  The kids played.  Aug 1 Don and Richard
went to P.H.M. and all went to fast meeting.  Don and I bore our testimonys. 
Tell, Myrna and all the family were there.  Lucille and family joined us and
we all went to Merkleys Park.

Aug 3  I gathered a big sack of sweet corn.  Tell and Myrna made potato salad
and sandwiches.  Leland and family, Lucille and family joined us in a picnic
at Steinaker Reservoir.  Sept 15 Tell and I went with Harry to Vernal, got
the bus for the State Fair with the Senior Citizens.  Had a good time and
got tired but enjoyed it.  Went to the Salt Palace and saw the Ice Follies.
21 Tell and I stayed with Lucille's children while Lucille and Larson took
Hina to St. George and got her enrolled in college.

Dec. 25 Christmas dinner at Leland's.  Tell and I and Lucille's family, raining
hard, good dinner.

January 1, 1972  Don't feel too well this morning.  After my fall on Dec. 30.
Tell is as well as anyone of 80 could expect.  All in all I guess we are 
blessed.  My eyes are ok for reading and sight straight forward but I can't see
sidewise or down.  Very distressing.  An unusual season last year.  9" of
snow in Nov.  In Dec 3 straight days of rain -6 last night, up to +12 today.
Lucille invited us to dinner but I don't feel up to it.  17  Had a home
birthday party for Tell.  Just family, Lucille's and Leland's.  Feb. 2
Feel better this morning, wt 150 lbs.  Am able to read ok and even better
than before.  The nerves in the left side of my face twitch and bother me
but no pain.  Tell went to Relief Society meeting.  I went to Lucille's and
sat with Markham till 4 p.m.  I came home then Lucille and family came at
6 p.m. and brought a birthday cake and ice cream.  Leland and family brought
a ham, and candy.  While everyone was here Fred called and we all said hello
to him.  The rest went home at 8:30 but Gerri stayed till about 11 p.m.
I enjoyed my birthday very much.  Mar 3 I finally got the stockholders on the
pipe line to get the baffle from our intake tank torn off.  We got the
Flint Construction Company to bring a jack hammer and knock the baffle out.
I stayed on the job till it was completed.  It cost $600 to finish the job
but it has proven very satisfactory.  Apr 8  Tell not well.  I took her to
the doctor.  He said she has virus pneumonia.  She can't sleep in bed for
coughing so she sits up in her chair.

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July 14  Leland has been very sick.  He went to the Vets Hospital this
morning.  17  I turned the Buick in.  The reverse gear was gone again.  I got
a 1967 Plymouth from Utah Motor.  Sept 23  Tell and I went with Ward,
Elzada and Burke Evans to the Provo Temple.  Came home by way of Spanish
Fork Canyon.  Oct 12 Stake Presidency were at Sac Meeting.  They released the
old bishopric and installed Norwood Hardy bishop, Wallace Anderson 1st and
Milt Searle 2nd counselors.  14 Gerri got word Leland would be released from
the hospital on the 23rd.  We were real happy.  Dec. 4 Snowing.  14  Ezra
Allen's funeral and the 15 was Ernest McClean's.  25  Snow flurries +10.
Fred sent a box of fruit from Knotts Berry farm.  Don sent us a box of 
assorted cheese.  Leland gave us a bag of groceries.  Lucille gave us a 
beautiful table cloth and napkins.  Margaret sent a beautiful Christmas
message.  It is still hanging over Mother's Chair on the east wall.

Jan 1, 1973  Feel fine this morning.  wt 150  some rhumatics, eyes usual,
sun shining brightly but +10.  Tell and I were home all day, watched parade
and football.  Feb 2 Gained 2 lbs, too much sweets.  I'll take care of that.
Had a call from Don and Margaret.  Lucille's girls sang Happy Birthday and
brought a bucket of fruit.  Fred called in the evening.  The day was complete.
Heard from all.  Fine day.  8 Tommy Caldwell's funeral.  24th Edna Caldwell's
funeral.  Apr 10  Stock holders in the pipeline decided every patron must
have a partial flume.  I ordered them and they were delivered to my home. 
Each one installed their own.  They proved very successful.  June 19  Creek
booming.  Trees blocking the creek and sent water into the canal, breaking it 
at Thomas Caldwell's place.  It washed a deep gash thru his orchard.  A new
cut was made bypassing the break and the water is back in the canal after being
out 3 weeks.  July 17  Tell and I decided to attend Marvin Ricks' wedding.  
Tell insisted I buy a new suit.  I got one at Mr. S, price $110 with 30%
deducted, $80.45.

Lucille drove our car to SLC, boarded plane at 10 a.m., arrived in Sacramento
at 10:25 Cal time.  Lucille made it possible for us to go.  Tickets $189
round trip.  Don was there to meet us.  27  Don, Myrna, Lucille, Tell and I
went to the Oakland Temple.  I was a witness at the wedding and sealing.  We
had fish dinner at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco afterwards.  At the
reception in the ward house where Marvin was a member, we met Gordon, Karen,
Stephen and Kenneth.  Margaret got lost on the way and so she, Lori and
Cynthia were late.  Marvin's crowd from the college and ward were there.  Gail,
Marvin's new wife is a wonderful girl.  We were impressed with her.  28  I
went with Don and family to a track meet where Dick easily won the 1 mile race.
July 29  Tell, Lucille and I went with Myrna to SS.  Dick assisted in
administering and Rodger and Phillip assisted in passing.  I felt very proud.
30  Don and Myrna took Tell, Lucille and I to the plane.  In route I sat
by a boy from Vietnam whose cousin converted him to L.D.S. while in the army.
He seemed very sincere.  We were at Lucille's home at 4 p.m.  Then she
brought us home.  I surely appreciated her excellent help and consideration
on the trip.  31  Edna Kay and family came.  They had supper at Leland's, then
went to Lucille's to sleep in their camper.  Aug 1  We had a picnic at Merkleys
Park.  2  I took Edna Kay and family to Dinosaur Quarry.  They seemed to enjoy
it.  6  Went with Senior Citizens on the bus.  Tell didn't want to go.  When
I got home she told me of France's death.  Tell invited Elsie Palmer to go
with us to the funeral.  We saw Joe, Ive, and their girls also Lynn Markham 
and family.  Enjoyed visiting with all.  18  Attended Jim Nichol's funeral.
20  I went to Browns Park with the Senior Citizens by way of Maybell Colorado.
Sep 25  Tell and I went to the doctor and got flu shots and blood pressure
tests.  Tells 200/100, mine 120/80.  She says she feels quite well.  27  Leland
went back to the hospital for a checkup.  Oct 16 As I went toward the granary,
I went dizzy and fell flat on my face, broke my glasses, cut my head and
passed out.  Leland happened to be close, and he and Tell got me on the couch.
Lucille took me to the hospital.  I awoke about 4 hours after when Dr. Seager
stuck the needle in my head to sew it up.  My rheumatism also had a backset
and I was on the bed for 3 days.  Then Leland got me a 4 legged walker to
help me walk.  I used it for about a week, then I got crutches, and after two
weeks I went on two canes.  I rubbed my kneeds night and morning, and still 
do.  I'm still wobbly.  Dec 24  had a good visit at Lucille's with her family,
Horace, Clive, Ina and their son.  Linette took Tell and I home.  25  We had
dinner with Leland's family, cold and stormy.  We didn't go anywhere else.

January 1, 1974  Feel better but my knees are still pretty bad.  I weigh 154,
too much sweets.  I must lose wt.  I have driven my car twice this week. 
12 Joe Hall passed away.  I also heard of Tommy Hall's death.  Tell, Leland
and I went to Joe Hall's funeral.  I sent flowers to Tommy Hall.  Gerri joined
us at Diamond Hills Cafe.  Tell said this was her birthday dinner.  21 Funeral
service of Arzy Adams' wife.  He preached the sermon and the family furnished
the singing.

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Feb. 2  Stretched my legs down in my bed, not an ache or pain, but my knees
are stiff.  Weight 153, feel fine.  Margaret called wishing me a Happy
Birthday.  We had dinner at Lucille's.  mar 1.  Hico Bell bulldozer pushed
at the banks of the wash, made a roadway straight south of the corral.  Pushed
all the trees and brush over in the wash.  Glenn Kurtz brought a culvert 
made of oil barrels and the bulldozer covered them up.  Ed and his son-in-law
done a lot of scrapping and leveling.  Hico Bell's bill for the bulldozer 
$438.75

Apr 1  Tell and I had dinner at the Golden Age Center, a young fellow from
Norway showed slides of his home and country.  Jun 13 Tell, Leland and I
went to Pleasant Grove for strawberry days.  Leland and Dan parked our car
early along the parade route and came back to Mary's.  At parade time we
went in Dan's car and transferred to ours to watch.  Both of her girls were
in the parade.  After the parade Leland and I went to the market and bought
2 crates of freshly picked berries.  17  I got contact lenses at Dr. Seitz.
Aug 2 I lost my left lens, ordered another soft lens.  I paid $27.50 to
insure further loss.  Jul 14 Fred and Shirley came and were amazed at the
land leveling job.  Jul 26  Don and family came.  We all attended the ward
supper.  Don and family stayed at Leland's.  Tell is not able to wait on
them.  Don went into the field and was delighted with the leveling.  He put
a new wire from the house to the granary for a light.  28  Don's, Leland's,
and Lucille's families, Tell and I went up Dry Fork canyon beyond Dry Fork 
settlement and had a delightful luncheon.  29  I got lens again and had a
time putting them in.

Sep 3  Couldn't see the chart with soft lens, he suggested hard lens.  Oct 1
hard lens back to Dr. Seitz, and gave up wearing them.  Nov 2 Margaret had
her gall bladder removed, feels bad.  22  Tell and I attended Hina's wedding.
Dan Turner and family were there.  Very nice.  Dec. 3  I bought Tell a robe
at Gibsons.  Lucille came and gave her a bath.  10  Tell feels just worn out.
10  Passed  my drivers license test.  23 Lucille brought us a Christmas tree.
Kathleen got trimmings from the basement and decorated it.  Paul and his
Sunday School class sang Christmas carols.  Lucille and family, Thoral
Bodily visited us and brought yellow Chrystantumum.  25  Gerri came and
handed us our presents from the tree.  Tell never left her chair.  26  At
1:30 Tell came into my room and sat down on my bed.  I couldn't get up as she
was on my covers.  I asked her to get up then I slid out on the other side 
and got her warm.  I dropped off to sleep.  I awoke with a start.  She was 
standinb by my bed.  When I got to her she was shaking.  I helped her back
into her bed and turned up the electric blanket.  I tried to lock the dining
room door.  I was afraid she would get up and step on the hot grill.  I
blocked it with a chair, so she would make a noise if she tried to go out.
I watched her till she went to sleep.  Then I went in a few minutes and she
was still sleeping so I went to bed.  I went in again in a few minutes and
found her on her knees, lopped over on the bed.  I tried to lift her but
my legs gave way and we both fell backward onto the floor.  I put a blanket
over her and she lay there like dead.  I called Leland.  He and Kent 
came quickly and lifted her back onto the bed.  She was semi-conscious.  Her
fingernails were blue.  Lucille and Gerri had called Dr. Young in SLC and he
said that she needed oxygen and to take her to the hospital.  I called for
the ambulance and they rushed her to the hospital.  Soon after the doctor
arrived and put her on oxygen and regained consciousness but was very
incoherent in her speech.  She was put on a heart monitor and her beat was
irregular.  During the day Lucille, Leland, and grandchildren took turns
sitting with her and at night Gerri stayed with her in the other bed.  She
was in the intensive care heart monitoring room hooked up all the time.  If
she moved and dislodged the connections the alarm would go off and at times
she had heart problems which set off the alarm.  The nurses were just a little
ways away and someone from the family was always with her to help.  The
doctor said that she was critical.  27  Looks brighter this morning but monitor
very irregular.  I called Don and Margaret and they were ready to come at a
minute's notice.  The doctor came in and Tell asked when she could go home.
He said I think for Valentine's Day.  29  I got to the hospital at 9:30.
Gerri had just left.  She looked and acted much improved.  Mrs. Peyton and
the girls came later.  They seemed to have a nice visit.  She seemed almost
normal.  In the evening the doctor gave her a sedative and she went to sleep.
Lucille came.  Later Gerri came and stayed until 8.  Tell seemed to be
sleeping naturally, but has long periods of sleeplessness during the night
and talks to Gerri for hours.  Reviewing her life, and discussing the
children and grandchildren.

30  As soon as I got my breakfast Leland drove me down to the hospital.  I
don't like what I see.  She looks so tired.  I rubbed her back and she kept
saying, I'm so tired.  I fed her at noon and she didn't eat too much.  She
dropped off groaning and saying I'm so tired.  Leland came for me and I don't
like the way she looks tonight.  31  They moved her from the Intensive care
room where she could have Gerri stay during the night and put her in a 
semi-private room with

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another woman, who is very ill.  Now the visiting is somewhat restricted.
Tell doesn't seem to be in any pain, never has.  Just tired and occasionally
incoherent.  Sleeping more all the time and her restlessness is gone.  Now
she went to sleep.  I called Nean and she said she would be out Thurs. at
2 p.m.  Nona called and was surprised to know of Tell's condition.  I took
a sleeping pill and am going to bed at 10 p.m.

(Gerri's note: Tell went to sleep at about noon and never woke up.  When
Gerri, Leland, Lucille and Larson and others went to see her that evening and
at midnight, she was still sleeping.  Appeared natural.  The nurses said she
was alright, but when she was talked to her speech was very thick and hard to
understand.  More so than it had been.  It was progressively getting worse
for the last 3 days.  The hospital called Lucille and Leland's houses first
to report the death.  Gerri left immediately to see that Tell looked alright
before Leland brought LeRoy down, but it hadn't been necessary as she was
so peaceful looking.  It was about 4:30 a.m.)

January 1, 1975  Just as I got up I had a call from the hospital.  Tell had 
just passed away while sleeping.  Leland took me down immediately before she
was cold.  She just passed away in her sleep.  No signs of struggle.  She
never woke up.  She had a peaceful, sweet look on her face.  I came home
and called the children in Cal. after the waiting at the hospital for the
doctor.  He said that she had died of a heart attack which was without pain.
I called the bishop and got the date for the funeral.  Jan. 4 at 2 p.m.
At 4 p.m. Lucille, Leland and I went to the mortuary and selected the casket
and clothes.  I came home and took another sleeping pill.  I hope it does 
more than the one I took last night.  The custodian of the cemetery got
the location of the grave.  He won't dig it till Fr. morning so the dirt
won't freeze.  3  Don and family, Margaret and girls came late in the evening.
Because of previous deaths we had to postpote Mother's funeral till Sat. at
2 p.m.  i called Victor Bingham in Idaho and told him of Tell's passing.
He said "Bro. Carroll, I promised Sister Carroll, I would speak at her
funeral and if I was in China I would do my best to keep my promise.  I'll
be there."

Fred and family came at the mortuary.  I also saw Mary, Dan and Doris, Iva
and Joe, John Beck & wife, Gladys and Marve, Clarence Palmer offered the
prayer at the mortuary.  Her pallbearers were David, Douglas, Roger, Richard,
Paul and Pat (all Carrolls) and Kent and Mike Smith.  Melba Eaton played the
prelude and postlude.  A quartet consisting of Leland Carroll, Ward Evans,
Thoral Bodily and Loran Richens sang Beautiful Zio Built Above.  Harvey McKee
offered the invocation.  Bishop Norwood Hardy gave the obituary and remarks.
Victor Bingham then told of Tell's long and loving labors as a teacher and
officer in the church.  Very impressive.  Gerald Caldwell, according to
Mother's wish, sang "Going Home."  Tell had also asked Douglas Lawson to
speak to the Hearafter and he did so.  The quartet then sang "I know my
Heavenly Father Knows."  The benediction was by Harold McKee.  There was
a large crowd and many beautiful flowers.  Larson Caldwell dedicated the grave.

Margaret stayed with me two nights and slept in Mother's bed.  Don and family
stayed at Leland's and Fred and family stayed at Lucille's.  On the 5th the
girls went through Mother's dresser drawers and closets, basement which had
trunks, boxes and hangers, etc and divided everything up at my request.  
There were 50 years of fancy work, clothes and belongings accumulated.  I took
Margaret and Cynthia to the airport, as Margaret had to be at work the next
day.  The others left for California by car.  After they all left, I came
back to a lonely house.

Jan. 17  Mother's birthday, a vacant chair.  I sure miss her.  Hina called in
for a few minutes.  Margaret and Fred called, also Don.  All helped.

Jan 24  I sold my hay to Speed Wheeler for $50 a ton.  He gave me $800 down.
25 I went with Larson and family snowmobiling on the mountain.  I sat in the
big camper while they, with a large crowd rode their snowmobiles.  Feb 2 Feel
better today.  Don called, wishing me a happy birthday.  Lucille called, came
and got me for a fine birthday dinner.  19  I have Mark with me today.  Hina
left him.  Horace dropped in, also the home teachers, Ed Bodily and Allen Jones.
Mar. 24 Nona called me from the hotel in Vernal. Asked me to have dinner with
her.  Leland took me down and we visited till 2:30.  She had the house put
in joint tenancy with Edna Kay.  May 2  Don drove his mother-in-law's car to
Provo where she came to visit her two married daughters.  Don came on to
Vernal by bus.  6  Don took me to the cemetery where I received our grave
marker.  We were well pleased with it.  It cost $263.00  8  Don and I visted
Horace Caldwell after shopping at Gibsons.  Don left for Provo at 1:15 p.m.
10  Lynn McKee's funeral.  26  Leland, Paul, Pat and I took flowers to the
cemetery.  Then on to the Rock Point Cemetery to do the same.

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June 12  Leland, Paul, Pat and I left Vernal for California.  Called at
Nean's, then at Joe's but he was in the field.  We went by way of Nephi,
then to Ely, spent the night at Fallon, Nev.  13  Carson City for breakfast.
Visited Virginia City, very interesting.  Simply a tourist city.  Visited
the Bonanza headquarters, Long Branch Saloon, Comstock load headquarters
and many more famous places, and arrived at Don's at 4:30 p.m.  Found all
ready for Donna's wedding.  Margaret called on her way home from work. 
14 Don and boys got chairs from the church house and placed them on the patio.
We were at the chapel at 2:30  Margaret went to Stephen's graduation.  We
all went to the chapel.  I sat in the reserved section with Myrna's mother.
The ceremony was very nice.  We all returned to the patio for the reception.
There was a big crowd.  After lunch or refreshments I went into the house 
and sat on the sofa till the party broke up.  Donna and her husband went
to San Francisco for their honeymoon.  Margaret, Lori and Cynthia came in
time to see them off.  I enjoyed the visit with my 12 grandchildren that
were there.  15th  Don and his 4 boys, Leland and his two and I went to
Priesthood Meeting.  Don went home and got Myrna for S.S.  After Sac. Meeting
I went home with Margaret, Stephen and his girl, Kenny, Lori and Cynthia were
there.  Stephen cooked hamburgers on the grill, then we had ice cream and
cake.  Stephen and his girl, and Kenny left and Lori went to stay with a
girl friend so she could take her drivers test next morning.  Margaret showed
me thru her house.  3 bedrooms, two baths, living room, dining room and
kitchen combined, very roomy.  We visited the horse farm where Cynthia is
working and she rode her horse, a beautiful big gelding straight cross
quarter horse and Arabian.  I called Johnny at Santa Cruz.

17  We, Don, Leland, Paul, Pat and I left Sacramento at 8 a.m.  We were at
Johnny's at 11:15.  He was outside waiting for us.  he surely looks frail
and weak.  Hasn't been away from home for over a year.  He directed us
to the mausoleum where Cloe's remains are.  Don took pictures of the crypts
and I got some post cards of the interior.  I'll put these pictures in my
book of remembrance.  We were in Don's stationwagon.  Leland and Don in the
front seat took turns driving.  I laid down in the middle seat and Paul and
Pat were in the back.  We got to Don's home at 6:30, all tired out.  We
decided to lay over the next day and rest up for the trip home.  Don took
the day off.  19  We left Sacramento at 7:30.  margaret came and picked Don up
just as we left.  We drove to Ely, that day, and on home the next.

24th  I rode in the Senior Citizens bus in the parade.  The Senior Citizens
were admitted free to the rodeo afterwards.  It was a long day and I am tired.

Aug 1  Fred and family brought Douglas's things up to Provo, then they got
a dresser and fruit bottles and some other things in their pickup.  I enjoyed
their visit.

I got electric wire and Don strung it from the house to the grainary,
replacing the old wire.  Leland doesn't look good.  Don, Dick and I had
dinner at Lucille's, baked salmon, one Larson caught while on their trip
to Oregon.

25  Don left at 7 a.m. I surely enjoyed my visit with Don.  Oct  Had dinner
with the Senior Citizens at the Jr. High School then Walkins bus took us
to Josie Morrisses ranch across Green River, a real hide out.

Nov. 27  Had Thanksgiving dinner with Lucille.  Hina and David picked me up
and brought me home.  The girls were home from college.  We had a very good
dinner.

Dec 15  -4 and 4" of snow.  Had Sunday dinner with Leland & family.  17  By
Pat's invitation I gave a talk to his school class on Hawaii.  Both students
and teacher said they enjoyed it.  24  I went with Leland and family to
Lucille's at 6 p.m.  We had a wonderful meal and enjoyed the company, but
I got real tired and was glad to get home.  Lucille gave me a big bag of
groceries and some of the dinner left over.  I gave each of my children $10
and the grandchildren their usual $1.00.  I sent Kenny $25 for his Christmas
as he is on a mission.

25  I was invited to Gerri's for a waffle breakfast and saw the family open
their presents.  I enjoyed it all, especially the waffles.  This is the
first breakfast that I haven't cooked in 2 years.

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January 1, 1976  I feel fine this morning.  My muscles and nerves no worse.
My rheumatism is about the same.  I thank the Lord I am as well as I am.
This has been the longest year of my life.  Today I attended Ed Bodily's
funeral.  Now Loran Hatch and Ray Reynolds are the only two men in the ward
older than I, and neither of them are active in the church so I really feel
old.  It was -10 last night, colest of the year up to date.  The sun is 
shining, and it is beautiful.  Lucille and family left for California on
Dec. 26th and Leland and family for SLC yesterday so I'm the only member of 
the family in the valley.  After breakfast I watched the Cotton Bowl and then
the Rose Parade.  I thought how much Tell enjoyed those parades.  7th  Leland
and family got home at 11:30 p.m.  17th  Nona called Lucille and told her
of Butch's passing.  He died in bed with Edna Kay and she didn't know it.  
29th  I received a card from Fred telling how thru Dougla's influence he
is attending Priesthood meeting with Douglas, and Shirley and David are
attending Sunday School and that he and Douglas are assigned home teachers.
Shirley welcomes the home teachers into their home.  It sure makes me feel
thankful.  I called Margaret and she has been too sick to work.  Feb 1  A
real red letter day.  Priesthood meeting, Sunday School, then fast meeting.
Hina and David had their baby blessed.  Hina asked me to join the prayer
circle, my 3rd great grand child.  Larson was the mouth, and blessed and
named her Davi.  The baby's other grandfather, Dan Turner, and her two great
grandfathers, Horace Caldwell and I were in the circle.  Quite a memorable
occasion.  We all had dinner at Lucille's, along with Leland's family.  Clive
& Ina, Dan & Phyllis Turner, Dan's daughter and others previously mentioned.
Lucille, Larson, Horace and Carmen are getting ready to go to Arizona to a
horse show.

Feb. 2  Groundhog day.  I feel fine and weigh 154 lbs.  Blood pressure 135/70.
The doctor says I'm in fine shape for my age.  Had dinner with the Senior
Citizens at the high school.  Fred and Don called.  Margaret is feeling badly -
she is sick.   5th  About 7" of snow this morning.  Leland is taking Kathleen
to SLC to leave for New Zealand as an exchange student.  The whole family is
going except for Pat who has a basketball game.

15th  Leland drove my car to Pleasant Grove to Mary's birthday party.  I
enjoyed it.  Saw Stephen Perry's wife and Leland Gilman, both lived in Vernal
and were Mary's cousins.  30  I went to Dr. Balka for my rheumatism.  They
took x-rays of my knees, said the left knee has a lot of calcium deposits and
50% of the people with a knee like that would be in a wheel chair.  There is
no cure for rheumatism or arthritis but he was going to saturate my system
with aspirin till I wouldn't feel the pain.  In 6 weeks, I took 1000 aspirin
but it didn't do any good.

Apr 3  Barney Goodman came with a bulldozer and tore down the dam in the wash 
and put it in the pond.  Cost $200.00 including the levining of the stackyard
and pushing over the apple tree.  May 31 A bad wind storm, beat my lilacs
all to pieces.  Lyn McConkie told me to go to the church yard and get the
flowers that I wanted for the graves.  I bought some carnations at the fruit
stand.  Paul and Pat helped me decorate the graves at both places.

June 11  Got a surprise letter from Fred telling of Doug's marriage plans. 
I was invited to the wedding but if I couldn't come they would call on me
on their way to Kansas for the reception there.  This is what they did.

July 6  Wayne Hulbert's funeral.  He died of a heart attack.  Aug 6  Ray
McConkie's funeral.  Aug 11 Douglas & Jan arrived at Lucille's.  She invited
Leland and family and me to dinner.  After the meal Leland and family left
for SLC and Ann boarded the plane for Japan to spend a year as an exchange 
student.

Sept 21.  Allen Jone's funeral.  Dec 11 Kathleen and her fiance, Michael
Palmer, of New Zealand visited with me for over an hour.  I enjoyed them
very much.  I learned more about New Zealand.  Michael went to Provo to
visit his two married sisters and wait for the wedding.  15th  Gerri and
Kathleen went to SLC in her car.  16th  Leland, Paul, Pat and I went to
SLC in my car.  I got a room at the Temple Square Hotel and they went to 
Gerri's mother's.  17  Leland came to the hotel at 8 a.m.  We went to the
temple.  The marriage ceremony was at 10 a.m.  They were married by Elder
Marvin J. Ashton, very impressive, even though I couldn't hear it all.
Elder Ashton and his wife acted as hosts at a buffet luncheon to 50 guests
on the 26th floor of the church office building at noon.  The Ashtons 
were well acquainted with Michael and his family as Michael's father is
President of the Fiji Mission.  Bob Welti, the TV weatherman for KSLTV,
was there with his wife and daughter also.  The daughter had been an exchange
student to New Zealand just before Kathleen and she had visited a lot with
the Palmer family.  I had a chance to visit with both the Weltis and the
Ashtons.  It was a grand affair, quite unusual for me.

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24  Lucille and Leland and family, Michael and Kathleen and I for dinner at
her home.  29  Leland had to report to the Vets Hospital.  Michael and
Kathleen went to Provo with him.  Before Kathleen left, she came over to
bid me goodbye.  We had a little cry.  I said "I'm not sure I'll ever see 
you on this earth again, but I thank the Lord we both believe in a life
hereafter."

31 Leland, Gerri, Paul and Pat left for their trip to Arizona, California
and Mexico with Kathleen and her new husband.  They are taking him to
see the canyons and other places before they leave to return to New Zealand.
They will pick them up in Provo.  Kathleen and Mike will leave on jan. 13
from Los Angeles and the rest will return home then.

Jan. 1, 1977  I feel better this morning than I have for 2 weeks.  I
weigh 154 lbs and my body organs are functioning very satisfactorily.  I
still have and drive my 1967 Plymouth, power mower and tiller, some small
tools, but no livestock.

Feb. 2 Ground Hog day.  I feel fine.  My trip to SLC to the doctor last week
hasn't made any change in my health.  My nerves in my face are still very
disturbing but no pain, so I guess I'll just have to live with it.  I
got cards from Don, Fred and Leland.  Wendy brought Heather and the boys
over and sang, Happy Birthday and she made and brought a beautiful cake.
While they were here Margaret called and said her card would be a day later.
Very nice day.  Mar. 25  Sold the farm to Larson and Lucille.  Sent money
to Don, Margaret & Fred today.  April 16  Don arrived by bus at 9:30 p.m.
Leland and I met him.  April 19  Don and I went to Ray Nash's to transfer
the land.  We worked on the information of water and abstract for 3 hours.
I will pay the taxes and water and keep things up and still till I die
in the house, then it goes to Leland.  I gave the deed to the farm to Larson,
and the deeds to Leland on the house.  21  Leland and I took Don to the bus.
I made checks to Fred, Don and Margaret for the rest and wrote each a letter.
Lucille's portion went with the farm.

June 16  I received Ray Nash's bill and the information that the joint
tenancy had been taken care of.  That all the transactions concerning the 
estate has been completed.  I now have no real estate.  All I have is a 
10 year lease on the house and my bank account.  "Naked I came into this
world, and stripped I go out."

June 20  Paul, Pat and I had Father's Day dinner with Lucille and family.
Very enjoyable.  I got cards from Don, Fred, and a Grandfathers card from
Paul and Pat, Lori, Cynthia.  Lucille gave me a radio and tape recorder and
wants me to record the events of my life.

June 29  I tried recording with Paul's help, but I don't like what I have.
I'll try again.  I took the tape to Lucille's and I'm not satisfied.

Oct 3 Kathleen's baby was born, 9 lbs. 4 oz.  His name is Kenneth Lee
for both of his grandfathers.

Oct. 29  Snow on Baldy (mountain).

Dec. 24  Lucille invited me to her home to dinner and for the family party.
Everyone of her children were there, along with Leland's family, Gerri's
mother, Horace Caldwell, David Turner and Davi.  Dinner was delicious as
usual.  I took part in the singing and read my daily program poem.  My
face gave me a lot of trouble and I was glad when Leland brought me home at
9.  Ed Jenkins brought me a Christmas box.  Thelma fixed it for him.

Dec. 25 Don sent me a box of Sees candy, Gerri sent a dish of popcorn, cakes
and candy.  Lucille gave me a carrying case for tapes.  There was no Priesthood
Meeting nor Sunday School today.  I listened to Christmas programs on the TV.
Kenneth Ricks called me about 1 p.m.  Then Leland called about 2 p.m. but
I told him I didn't care to go to church.  Maybe some of my children in
Cal may call.

Dec 26  I find Leland, Lucille and I each got one thing in common last night.
A cold.  Evidently someone had a cold or was a carrier.

Dec. 28  Fred called tonight.  Said he couldn't get a call through on Christmas.

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January 1, 1978  Just 0 degrees this morning.  I feel pretty good.  I got up
at 6;30 and got ready for Priesthood meeting.  Called Leland at 7:15 but
his ovice was real husky and he said none of them were going to Priesthood.
As I went out to get in my car, I saw that Pat just was going into the house
from putting up my garage door so I could get out.  I went on alone to P.H.M. 
My weight is at 164 and except for my rheumatism and nerves in my face I
feel as good as I can expect.  My thoughts are continuously of the fact that
it is just three years today since God called Tell home, and I go over our
lives since first we met.  I contrast our marriage with all my children
who had receptions and big parties when they were married.  Tell met me alone
at the hotel where my Mother and I stayed.  Tell and I went to the city and
county building, got our marriage license, then my Mother, Lester, and Mae
Bignham accompanied us to the S.L. Temple.  There was not one member of Tell's
family present.  It was almost like an elopement but she was no kid but 28
years of age.  After the wedding Mother and Lester and Mae returned to
Vernal.  Tell and I stayed in the hotel.  Next day we went to Spanish Fork
and we spent our honeymoon at Grandmother Markham's.  We slept on a folding
couch and I worked every day in the field digging beets out of the mud.  One
of the worse jobs I ever had in my life.  Loran Roe was leaving Leland Ward for
a missiong and at the ward farewell party Tell and I were mentioned and 
congratulated.  That is the nearest thing we had to celebrate our marrigae.
But God could not have given me a more loyal and dedicated companion.  She
stuck with me through two real bad sick spells and through the 1930 depression
and never once complained.  Oh!  How I miss her.

Jan 15  Leland drove my car to conference and it is still snowing.  The car
was covered when it was dismissed.  When we got home he got stuck putting the 
car in the garage.  The gear shift went out so the car sat in the driveway.
We had about 5" of snow.  Ed Jenkins cleared the snow the next day and
Leland got the car in low gear and drove it up to the south of my house.  

Jan 18  Took the car to Utah Motor to be fixed.  Had my dinner at the Senior
Citizens.  It was sure worth waiting for.

Feb 2.  0 degrees this morning at 7:30.  Ground hog can see his shadow today.
I feel as well as an 85 year old man should I guess.  I weigh 156.  My
rheumatism is no better and my eyes cause me a lot of dizziness.  I have to 
use my cane all the time to keep from falling.  I feel my equalibrium is
badly impaired.  The nerves in my face give me a lot of discomfort but no
pain.  I guess I am just getting older.  I got birthday cards from Margaret
and Don yesterday and Leland brought me one this morning.  Don Pierce called
on me at 11:30 and we visited for over an hour.  I enjoyed his visit.  He
lives in Orem now.  Leland went with me to Wallace Caldwell's.  I took the
tape recording that I prepared for Fred and played it for them.  They said
they enjoyed it.  It is the same as I sent to Margaret and Don.  Lucille 
called at 6:30 from Scottsdale, Az wishing me a happy birthday.  I got cards
from Gertrude larson, Nean, Mohea and Linette and Mrs. Payton's family.  
Ana Oldham called, then Fred, then Hina, Davi, Heather, Boy, Matt, Mark
and William came.  They brought me a birthday cake.  I had Hina get dishes
and forks and all had a piece of cake.  Paul had a piece of cake, then
helped me clean up.  Now 8:45 Don just called and we had a nice visit.  It
has really been a busy day.

Feb 16  Leland and family and Ken's wife Sally and child went to Mesa, Az
to visit Mike.  21  Leland and family returned.

Feb. 26  I called Margaret.  She seemed more cheerful than I had heard her for
a long time.  She had been feeling bad for a month but had gone to work.  She
really likes her home and is doing much improving.

Mar. 4  I called Margaret.  She had been sick again, and missed one week of
work.

May 27  Margaret arrived on plane at 2 p.m.  We had dinner at Diamond Hills
Cafe.  28  We had dinner with Leland and family.  We visited so long we 
missed Sacrament Meeting.  Lucille and family came in the evening.

May 29  Margaret, Paul and I gathered what flowers we had here and took them
and the Chrysanthemums and artificial flowers to the cemetery.  We also took 
some to the Rock Point Cemetery.  In the p.m. Larson and family took
Margaret with them to their cabin on Diamond Mountain.  Leland and family
went later.  I didn't feel able to go although Lucille and Leland invited
me to ride with them.

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May 30  Leland and family came home from the mountain last night.  This
morning Paul, Pat and I gathered up the flowers at the cemeteries.  Margaret
and Lucille's families came down later.  Margaret and I had hamburgers at the
Drive In in Maeser then went for a drive over the valley.  June 1  We
visited Wallace and Mar Caldwell then Betty and Lynn Mecham.  Margaret
got her suitcases and Leland went with us to the airport.  When she got ready
to go she found she was to go in a little plane.  She was the only
passenger to SL from Vernal.

June 2  Paul and I got some lawn fertilizer and I sprinkled some on my lawn.
June 3 Pat applied the fertilizer.  Paul has gone to Logan with the Boys
State.  Gerri is going to Price this afternoon for a meeting at work.  Leland
will go with her.

June 28  First hiabiscus blossom.

Aug. 13  Pat and David Jones took me to Priesthood Meeting.  At 2 p.m. Pat
called and said that Lucille invited us to dinner.  There was a large crowd
there.  Mohea, friends and relatives to celebreate her going on a mission.
At 4:15 we all went to the Glines Ward Chapel.  I rode with Lucille and family
in the new Cadillac.  The family put on the program the Stake Presidency
were there and all of Mohea's friends.  A very nice program.  They were to
meet at Lucille's for a picnic afterward.  I had Pat bring me home then
they went back.

Aug 14  I commenced house cleaning, in preparation of Don's coming.  I moved
the couch and chairs and vacuumed the rest and washed the big window.  Just
got the furniture put back when Lucille, Fred and Shirley came.  They stayed
about an hour and Fred was still weak from his operation so they went
back to Lucille's.  At 8 p.m. Ann came to tell me that she called her mother
about Paul's operation.  It took about 5 hours, very complicated.  He didn't
do well but now was in the constant care section and the doctor said he
was satisfactory.

Aug 15  Fred and Shirley visited me and Paul's condition is favorable.  16  Fred
and Shirley came at 3:30 and we went from Steinaker Draw to the mouth of
Ashley Canyon noting the building boom.  17  Gerri came home at 2 a.m.  Fred
and Shirley were to leave today.  19 Don and Myrna came, Larson & Lucille
and boys and Heather came, also Leland and Gerri.  21  They all went to the
cabin on Diamond.  22  They got home about noon, then we had a turkey dinner at
Leland's - about 20 of us.  In the evening Leland and Gerri came and stayed
till about 11 p.m.  We enjoyed the visit.  Myrna got wealthy apples off our
tree and made apple pies for the dinner, very nice.  23  Don and Myrna left
about 9:30 for Provo.  24  I have to get into the tub so I called Leland.
He came over while I took my bath.  I got out ok.  25  Leland took me to the
doctor.  I found I have infected kidneys.  I got a prescription.

Nov. 13  The snow is settling and melting.  Two couples are coming this
evening, Arza Adams and Gerald Caldwell and Margaret.  Lucille called during
the day and told me she had been in touch with Fred.  He passed the test for
a real estate broker in SLC and he had business in Denver he had to attend
to but he intended to come to Vernal.  Shirley has been very sick and he
didn't know whether they could come before Christmas.  I really had a good
day and I feel good.

Nov. 15 +10 this morning.  Clear and beautiful.  Leland just dropped in.  he
had been over to L.A. Timothy's and fed his pigs.  Delos is to load them
today and he is to get the rest of my barley Sat. 18th.

Nov. 20  Elmer Lind and Dee Jenkins and their wives joined with me in 
home evening.  I served cider and english cookies, same as last week.  They
stayed till after 9 p.m.

Nov. 21  Lucille called and we had a nice visit.  She said all her girls would
be home for Thanksgiving, and were bringing friends.  She invited me to dinner
but I declined.  I don't enjoy big crowds.  Leland had already invited me
and I accepted his invite.  There won't be as many and anyway I am close
enough when I get bored I can come home.

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Nov. 30  Margaret called and told me about her Thanksgiving party.  She sure
sounded excited.  Marvin and family, Kenny and Shannon, Lori and Cynthia
had friends there, making 14 to dinner.

Dec. 3 About 4 inches of new snow and -30 this morning.  So cold and slick I
never left home all day.  Leland, Gerri and Ann went to SLC, on their way
to NZ.

Dec. 4 Paul called just to check on me.  He and Pat are the only ones home.
Pat had to go to the swimming pool early, but he came back home for Paul
at 8:15 a.m. 

Dec. 7 At 7:30 the wind stopped -20.

Dec. 8  -22 Clear, sun shining beautifully.  Leland and I went to town,
bank and shopping.

Dec. 23  Cleared some.  Leland, Paul, Pat and I went to Lucille's at 4 p.m.
Clive and Ina, the girls and boy friend and the 4 boys enjoyed a ham dinner.
Lucille gave me a beautiful warm shirt.  Don sent me a box of fruit.  Leland
gave me a box of candy and Margaret a tie.

Dec. 24  Leland and the two boys went to Ogden to ski, and for Christmas.
In the evening 3 couples brought a plate of fresh fruit from the Bishopric.
Gerri and Ann are in New Zealand visiting with Kathleen.

Dec. 25  I was alone all day yesterday and today.  Don called in the evening,
then Margaret called.

Dec. 26 -10  I got letters from Margaret and Gertrude Larson.  Aunt Bell
Hacking passed away.  Not a soul came in today.  Really a lonesome 
Christmas holiday.

Dec. 31  Lucille called yesterday and said they were invited to a special
lecture by Cleon Skousen in SLC.  A number of them have colds and the flu
and I don't want to get exposed so I will stay in and not go to church.  
I watched TV.  Leland came over and watched All in the Family.  Archy and
Edith were good as usual.  I sure appreciated his visit.  These are sure
long, lonesome days.  At 5 p.m. it is -15.

Jan. 1, 1979  -20 again.  I feel as good as I can expect.  I am so dizzy
whenever I get around I have to use my cane all of the time to keep my
balance, but my eyes and knees are about the same.  I am very pleased with 
my weight 151 lbs.  I am having trouble controlling my nerves this morning.
It is difficult to write.  I saw 3 football games and 2 parades.  My face
has been very bad today.  A very long, lonesome day.  I hope I don't have to
live many more.

Jan. 15  I had my glasses checked.  I couldn't see the chart at the license
bureau.  Jan 19  I got my new glasses and called at the drivers license and
found I could read the chart 100%.  I took the test and passed 90%.

Jan 26  Leland and Gerri went to SLC Friday.  I haven't been to church for
5 weeks.  Too stormy and slick.  Lucille called last night and said she still
had the flu and I turned down the invitation to dinner.  I don't want to be
exposed if I can help it.

Feb. 2 -15 last night, sun shining at 9 a.m.  I weigh 151.  I feel ok but
don't go into details.  Iva Gray called wishing me a happy birthday.  Hina
and her two babies surprised me with a beautiful birthday cake with
candles.  We had a party on TV trays with cake and milk.  In the evening
Lucille's family came to Leland's and we all had a delicious sloppy Joe lunch
with jello salad, also green salad, etc.  The girls had to go to their jobs
and Larson had business in town, so the rest visited until Larson and Lucille
returned, then we had ice cream and cocanut cake.  Then Gerri showed us
the pictures and material, maps, etc. she saw in New Zealand.  Fred called
and I had a good visit with he and Shirley.  Soon after Don called and we had
a good visit.  A very happy birthday.

Apr 27  Linette's wedding.  Fred and Shirley asked if they could plant a garden
on my place.  I was more than willing.  I sat on a lawn chair and Fred tilled
the garden and raked it.  I instructed the making of the rows.  Fred marked
them and Shirley planted the seed, and I watered with the hoses.  The garden
produced lots of squash.  Shirley and Fred took sacks full to their friends.

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July 26  Robb painted the house.

Aug 8  Wendy and her friend washed my windows and cleaned the woodwork.

Aug 14  Leland took me to market and I got groceries for the homecoming.

Aug 18  Don, Margaret, Karen, Lori, Cynthia came for the homecoming.

Aug 20  Took pictures of Rock Point and Meadow where Patrick Carroll set up
his sawmill, then later 1882 Fort Thornburg was established.  Patrick moved
his sawmill up on Taylor Mountain and built a 1 1/2 story log house on Ed's
homestead in Maeser where Ed, Roy, and Leland have built their homes.  Our
group then went to the park at Remember the Main.  All 5 of my children,
and some of theirs, Edna Kay and family enjoyed the family reunion.

Oct 20 Don, Myrna, Richard and his girl came to Vernal after seeing Phillip
off for his mission to South Africa.  Roger had already gone to Germany.
They stayed 3 days.  Back to normal.  One day no different from the last.

Dec.  I began to plan for a lonely Christmas.  I figured if I couldn't go
anywhere and my children couldn't come here I would have a party by proxy,
pictures.  So I constructed a stage so everyone could be represented and
when I had it completed there were rows and rows of pictures.  A few old
neighbors came in and they thought it quite unique.

Dec. 24  Lucille had their annual Christmas dinner so the family would be
free to do as they choose all day on Christmas.  I enjoyed the meal and 
brought enough left-overs for my dinner on Christmas day.  There was not a 
soul on Christmas Eve to watch me hang up my stocking.  Leland and
family were in SLC.  Fred and Shirley were in Cal.  I had it all to myself.

Jan 1, 1980  The warmest Jan. I ever saw, some snow but not bad.  +80 this
morning.  I received a birthday card from Roger in Germany.  I prize it 
very much.  I also got one from Don and the Lady who brings my lunch from
the Golden Age Center.  I was really surprised.

Feb. 2 Groundhog day, no news on Saturday just cartoons, so I slept in till
8 a.m.  I weigh 150 lbs.  I haven't eaten any pastry, ice cream and only a
little candy since Christmas, as I think that's the reason for the loss.  I
am very handicapped in my hearing, nerves and rheumatism.  I know I have
deteriorated in the last year, but I am grateful to the Lord for what I have.
I have just finished my birthday dinner, 2 Lynn Wilson hot tamales, side
dish canned peas, birthday cake, soda crackers and Lucille's crab apple jelly.
Don called and I enjoyed a visit with him.  Pat brought the mail, a card
from Margaret and one from the High Priests.  At 12:30 it is +15.  Ed Jenkins
came in and visited then Fred and Shirley brought me a card and a 1 lb. bar
of Hershey's chocolate.  They left to attend the wrestling tournament at 4 p.m.
Boy was contending.  At 10 Lucille, Larson, and boys and Heather came.  Boy
had a champion medal and plaque as champ, of 105 lb class.  I heard the 
10:30 news before going to bed.

Feb. 3 TV religious programs.  After breakfast Harvey McKee called a happy
birthday and offered me a ride to church but Gerri said they were going to
Fast meeting and I could go with them.  The bishop announced the move to the
new building on Feb. 17 and then the ward would be divided again, making 4
Maeser Wards.  There were 360 in attendance, 4 babies blessed, many visitors
to attend blessings.  I had dinner with Leland's family.  Kent and family
came in Sat. night.

Feb. 21  Fred has had trouble with his back since his operation over 1 year
ago and has had therapeutic treatments lately.  Then today the doctor sent
him to the L.D.S. Hospital and I haven't heard from him since.  Lucille and
family left on the 27th and said if he was worse they would call.  They are
there to meet Mohea as she comes from her mission.

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Mar. 3 Fast Sunday and our first meeting on the new schedule.  I bore my
testimony and spoke of the new bishop.  He is the eleventh bishop I have 
had since I have lived in the Maeser 1st Ward.

Mar 30  I awoke at 1 a.m. with terrible cramps and rushed to the bathroom
and was sick all over.  I couldn't sleep I was in such pain.  I got up
about every half hour and finally at 5 I put on my robe and got in my chair
but was no better.  At 7:30 I called Leland and told him I couldn't go to
church.  I took aspirin and drunk hot water and about 9:30 I got easier and
finally quit cramping.  I was sick all day.  Leland brought me a lunch at
1 p.m.  I felt better and it was snowing.

Mar. 31  2 inches of snow - looks like Christmas.  I feel better this morning.
This is the worse sick spell I have had in 5 years.  My face and eyes keep
bothering me.  I can't read, only a few minutes at a time.  I am very
miserable.

Apr 20  Don, Myrna, Donna and David came.  We visited Fred and Shirley at their
home.  Fred is better but is wearing a corset to support his back.  We drove
around the valley and returned in time for a turkey dinner at Leland's.  A
number of Gerri's Timothy relatives were there and Bruce gave us a real
pieano concert with some on the guitar, accordian and leland on the trumpet.
Then Pat's girl friend Julie Gardner brought her guitar and amplifier and
with Pat on the bass, and all the others we really had a jam session until 
10 p.m.  Don slept with me and Myrna and Donna slept in the spare bedroom.
David at Leland's.  At 6 a.m. they left for home.  I enjoyed their visit very
much.

Lucille and family attended the wedding of Richard and Linda, also the
reception.  Then they went on a trip to the Caribbean.

Paul and Ann attended the reception in SL then came home for a week end.
I enjoyed them.

May 1st  Clara Hulburt invited me to a Stake Center Senior single citizen's
party.  Leland took me over there and I was the only widower with about 35
widows.  I felt very conspicuous.  We had a fine lunch and I took part on the
program.  I enjoyed it but I don't think I'll attend the next one in two
months.

May 8  Lucille brought Lisa and Stephen, her husband and baby, Linnette and
her baby, and Wendy (Floyd) her husband and their baby to visit me.  Lucille
took my picture holding each of my 3 great grandchildren then we enjoyed
looking at my collection of pictures, books and papers.  I think they all
enjoyed it and I'm sure I did.

May 22  Lucille decided this was the day to keep her promise to take me to
Spanish Fork.  They left me at neans while they went to the temple.  Nean
called Joe and he picked Nean and I up and along with iva we had dinner at
a cafe in Spanish Fork.  Then we went back to Nean's home and visited until
4, then Joe and Iva went home.  I enjoyed their visit very much.  Joe doesn't
look any older than he has for years, but Iva is thinner and looks older.
Nean is in pretty bad shape.  She has to use a 4 legged walker and it is 
very hard for her to get around.  She don't look too bad but she says she
pays $60 a month for medicine.  I appreciated the fact that Lucille took
me out, but I don't plan on another trip.

May 23  I expected to get flowers while out there but Larson and Lucille
thought I could do just as well in Vernal, so we got small plants at the green
thumb nusery and she is going to put them in pots for me.  When I got home
Roy Droddy, Edna Kay's husband, was here.  Lucille had told me that she saw
him at Larson's office and what his mission here was.  Roy said he would
see me again before he returned home, but he had to go to Rangely this
afternoon.

May 24  I have watched for him all day but I guess his business kept him busy.
Mary and Doris came and we had a good visit.  They brought flowers today
even though it was early because they couldn't come next Monday.  Leland and
Gerri went to SLC to see Gerri's mother.  Pat said he would see that I got
to Sacrament meeting tomorrow.  The wind has been fierce all day.

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Sep 13  Iva Gray worked in her yard and went into the house and laid down
on the couch.  When Claudia came she was unconscious.  She died of a heart
attack before they got her to the hospital.  her funeral was on the 17th.
I gave the closing prayer.

Sept 20  harold McKee's wife, Thelda, processed peaches and apples all day
in the evening she said she was very tired and went to bed.  She died of a
heart attack.  Never woke up.  Her funeral was the 24th.

Nov 14 Margaret sent me an amarylla bulb.

Nov 17 +10 this morning.  Sun shining beautifully.

(This is the end of Granddad's writing as of Dec. 18, 1980.  He has not
written much this year.  The next part was written by him this morning though.)

I am truly grateful to my Heavenly Father for my prosperity.  For my 5
wonderful children and their spouses and my 27 grandchildren and to date for
my 15 great grand children and all those yet to come.  I want to bear my
testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.

Thru years of service and study and research I have convinced myself of the
reason God placed us upon this earth and what our responsibilities are
toward him for our existance.

Before a builder starts to erect a building he draws up plans and makes blue
prints and he knows just what that house will look like when it is finished.

The scriptures tell us God created everything spiritually before he created
it temporally.  Even the spirits of our bodies were created and that is why
he said, "I know the end from the beginning."  In the book of Moses,
Chapter 3, verses 5-7, of the Pearl of Great Price, He said, "For this is my
work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."

So if this is God's desire, it should be our goal and desire to follow his
instructions to search the scriptures and learn what God wants us to do
to gain Eternal Life.  Surely God will do nothing except he reveals it to his
servants, the prophets, that includes our living prophet as well as the prophets
of old.

In the beginning God created the spirits of our bodies, all those who have
lived before us and all who will be born after us.  And we were all there when
He said in Abraham 3, chapter 22 to 28 "Now the Lord has shown unto me,
Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among
all these there were many of the noble and great ones;

nd God saw these soulds that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them,
and he said; These I will make my rules; for he stood among those that were
spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me; Abraham, thou
art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.

And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and he said unto those
who were with  him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will
take of these materials, and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell;

And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever
the Lord their God shall command them;

And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; and they who keep
not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those
who keep their first estate;  and they who keep their second estate shall have
glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.

And the Lord said: Whom shall I send?  And one answered like unto the Son of
Man: Here am I, send me.  And another answered, and said: Here am I, send me.
And the Lord said: I will send the first.

And the second was angry, and kept not his first estate; and, at that day,
many followed after him."

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Therefore it is evident that we were valiant or we would not have received
bodies and be here today.  And we know what we have to do to receive and live
in the third estate or eternal life.

Everyone of us that have been baptized of water and of the spirit have
accomplished the first step, for Christ told Nicodemus when he said: "Master,
what must I do to be saved in the Kingdom of God?"  Jesus answered, "Unless
you are born of the water and of the spirit you can't even see the Kingdom
of God."

Thus we must keep the commandments in the Holy Scriptures and work in His
church, while we are growing up and be worthy to go to the Temple and
receive the everlasting covenant, Temple Marriage, and the Sealing of the
family to prepare us for Eternal Life or life hereafter.

And it is my greatest hope and desire that everyone of my posterity will live
lives that entitle them to the third estate or eternal life.

I have in my possession a long list of the great scientists that ever lived
who testify to life eternal, some call it life after life and some life after
death, one great poet said, "Death is not extinguishing the light but is
putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."  When Edison was dying, the
doctor leaned over him and heard him say, "It is very beautiful over there."
I have attached the article which is worthy of reading.

Now I will add one of my favorite poems that I have memorized in memory of
my wonderful wife.

SHOULD YOU GO FIRST

Should you go first and I remain to walk the road alone,
I'll live in memory's garden, dear, with happy days we've known.
In Spring I'll watch for roses red, when fades the lilac blue,
In early Fall when brown leaves call I'll catch a glimpse of you.

Should you go first and I remain for battles to be fought,
Each thing you've touched along the way will be a hallowed spot.
I'll hear your voice, I'll see your smile, though blindly I may grope,
The memory of your helping hand will buoy me on with hope.

Should you go first and I remain to finish with the scroll,
No length'ning shadows shall creep in to make this life seem droll.
We've known so much of happiness, We've had our cup of joy,
And memory is one gift of God that death cannot destroy.

Should you go first and I remain, one thing I'd have you do;
Walk slowly down that long, lone path, for soon I'll follow you.
I'll want to know each step you take that I may walk the same,
For some day down that lonely road You'll hear me call your name.

Let us so live that when our summons comes to join the innumerable caravan
that moves beyond the silent halls of death, we may go not like the quarry
slave, scourged to his dungeon but soothed and sustained like one who wraps
the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
(From the poem, Thanatopsis)

From Adam all thru the ages the oldest member of the generation is by lineage
the Patriarch of that family.  So by tradition, I am the patriarch of the
Patrick Carroll family, and as such, I will give my patriarchal blessing
to every one of my posterity living and those who come after me.

I pray God to grant the blessing of life and happiness and determination to
live lives that will entitle every one to eternal life, that we may be
worthy to join all those loved ones who have gone on before and enjoy
life eternal.

Amen.