< VOLUME 13 *** Memorial Day Issue 2009, from 4975 Clearcreek Valley Road, W ooster, Ohio 44691-8508 *** #1 > Greetings once more from the Buckeye State of do with the ancestral home of the Robey family in Ohio. I am again using a new computer for this time . It seems Frank Robie stumbled into this news due to two reasons. First is because of serious health article and passed it along. problems with our middle boy, Tom Sines, who owns “Castle Donington hit the news! a moderate sized trucking company here in Wooster A wild west party at Castle Donington brought out the and was in need of help to keep it afloat in about mid local cops and a helicopter backup when residents January. We spent about 3 months finding out just how reported seeing GUNS! This brought out the local hectic retirement can be. I needed this computer for cops. Embarresed police found only plastic toy six our office at the company and Staples came up with shooters among the guests dressed as cowboys and the deal of the decade on price, so I jumped. indians.” After 3 months the health of the company did a lot Lamped from the May 2009 issue of American of improvement and Tom’s seemed improved so we Hunter, page 22. Frank Robie came home. My new computer system came along and I would think that the majority of you readers out got hooked into my home network along with one of there know by now about Castle Donington from all the older ones previously shelved. The second reason the past mentioning in our little newsletter but just in jumped up when I discovered that my former 3 year case you’re a “newbie” I give a brief explanation. I am old flagship of the fleet had developed a very serious borrowing much of this from Don’s family website at bellyache and is partially in the dumper. Thank the http://www.geocities.com/robyfamily which should be Lord for my home network or this issue would be a visited for family history in England for sure. total build from scratch situation. As it is, many hours This is a picture of the Key of work on a mailing list vaporized. If Bill doesn’t do House from Don’s site to give a new one there may still be a problem. you a small sample of the This new machine, a Compaq Presario, SR5710F many really informative things is blessed with Windows Vista® software and I went to be found there. One thing is for the upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate any a three page real estate list for time enhancement. I figured since I was learning all the sale of the house. over again, I might as well make it exciting. Well now, This is a photo of the Roby Key House in Castle that is a mild description of what is taking place. It is Donington, England that we think was taken in about somewhat the same but a whole lot different. I will be 1890. This photo is in the possession (in 16 x 20 inch still learning into my 80s I’m sure. The beyond that size) of Clinton Robie of Savona, NY. Clinton Robie wrinkle is that a lot of prior to Vista® software doesn’t sent Bill Robey this copy after Bill had expressed an work right with it. In fact it even refuses to load and interest when he visited with him earlier this year. run sometimes, right or otherwise. Clinton Robie said the picture has been in his family for many years. As for the aforementioned “wild west party” Don and I were hinted to by Bill that perhaps we could do some searching for more information and I confess to Bill sent an e-mail to Don and myself that had to total failure for anything along those lines. It almost

-1- seems that the last ten years or so interest by their US Now that all that is said I’ll move on to Berkey wayward cousins has stirred up a little reciprocal look stuff. My publisher of Berkey information has been for toward our side of the pond so to speak. the most part Ruth Berkey Riechley of Arlington, VA and knowing she was having health problems and with my new computer to play with I decided to check on her. Well guess what. Ruth Berkey Reichley, 91, a retired teacher and office worker, died after a heart I find that experience enhancement (sometimes attack Aug. 20,(2005) at Virginia Hospital Center in called old age) leads a person to view the daily life Arlington. She had lived in Arlington since 1948. occurrences from a little different perspective. Rather Mrs. Reichley, a native of Homestead, PA, than an attitude of ho hum I now find myself going graduated from Chatham College in Pittsburgh and oops a lot more. A recent obituary in the local paper then taught music in area schools before World War II. caused a spark in my genealogy burner unit and the During the war, she worked with the American Red pilot light re-lit. This guy named William Allen Lint Cross, serving in England, Germany & West Virginia. was born in Baltic on May 30, 1922 and died Apr. 30, She taught science at Arlington County's Thomas 2009. He resided in Baltic, OH and Jefferson Junior High School for one school year, in was a distant cousin. We had met him 1948. After raising her children, she returned to work in about 1997 and spent a few hours in as an office employee at Great Eastern Sign & Design his driveway in Baltic OH. He was in in McLean for three years until 1978. possession of an old family Bible of Mrs. Reichley was a deacon of Little Falls the Lint family that was printed in Presbyterian Church, past president of Planned German in the 1700s in Philadelphia. Parenthood of Arlington and past president of I am connected to that particular Associated Alumnae Clubs of Washington. family of Lints in 3 different ways. The earliest birth Her husband, Norman P. Reichley, died in 1979. entry in that Bible is Daniel Lint, b.16 Jan 1803. There you have another oops in my life. I am now Daniel was born in Somerset County Pennsylvania and faced with trying to track down the keeper of the had 14 children by 3 marriages. Ten were from his Berkey Book files so I can help get a bit of that third wife, Catherine Klingaman, and my connections straightened out. There are a few errors that I am aware are by that route. of not the least of which is the total absence of my My 3rd great-grandfather, William Berkey, born family. And wouldn’t you just know that as I was August 15, 1799, built the 1st house in Baltic in 1848. doing a little review in my well used copy of second I’m not sure just when Daniel Lint came to town but edition containing 48 lines of Berkeys, I see on page 3 his family played a very prominent part in the growth Mary Berkey married to David Lint and her brother of the area. Three of Daniel’s offspring were directly Rev. Jacob Berkey married to Sarah Lint (different connected to my family. one). Like I said I guess things happen that way. His son John D. Lint was married to Margaret Hoobler. Her brother, Francis Hoobler was married to Sarah Jane Lint who was one of Daniel’s daughters. Francis & Sarah were parents of my grandmother, Minnie. Sarah’s sister, Delilah, was the mother of John I guess I was aware of all this good stuff but like I Wesley Lint who married Clara Berkey, daughter of said, experience enhancement tends to make people William H. Berkey, my 2nd great-grandfather, who was take a little different view of things. Made me decide the mother of my grandfather, Willis Berkey. I guess to call my cousin in Florida, George Lint to catch him I’ll leave it to your imagination how the family names up a little bit on what all is happening in Ohio. This all work out here. It always makes me blush a little. includes the fact that we are living here again. Last Sometimes things just happen that way I suppose. contact I had with him we were living in Naples, FL. I got his answering machine and left a message. I was afraid it was oops time again. George lives in the

-2- summer in Germany and winters in Niceville, FL. I left and February 1846. a message and hoped for the best. Well miracle of all Jeremiah was baptised into the Mormon church in miracles, In about a week, George called from the name of his grandfather, Leonard Robey. Niceville. Seems he and his other half had taken a Baptismal document is recorded on page 71, Nauvoo cruise ship from Miami to Amsterdam on about a two Temple Baptism Record Book D, in 1844. week schedule and had not taken the cats. George was Jeremiah and his family did not take part in the passing through Niceville to collect the cats and played first companies of the Mormon migration to Salt Lake the machine and got my message. Told me he was a Valley, Utah, but remained in Western Iowa, at Honey little burned out on genealogy and had kind of let the Creek, where he farmed and built wagons for the move Lint Family Genealogy Workgroup row for themselves further west. Matilda, his daughter, was born there in for a while. He was glad I had told him of William’s 1849, and the family moved on west in the Spring of passing. Suggested we should keep closer contact over 1852, in the 6th Company, under Captain David the summer. I guess I’m game. Wood. Jeremiah took up land in a very beautiful valley and lived the typical pioneer life; he died in 1903 at the age of 94. Matilda married a New England Whaler who I got an interesting call from Utah on May 13th came west to mine, and joined the L.D.S. Church. As from the man who set up the display of old tools at the a recognized authority and consultant, he went to reunion at Salt Lake City in 2002 to give us some more Mexico and Nicaragua where he drowned in a boating good news about the Robey connection to the early accident. settlement in Utah. After a little review of the May Matilda died in 1944, also at age 94. Emily, her 2002 issue of the daughter, lived to be 93, and her son, the father of Shirl R/R/R newsletter, I Coleman, is 85 (this in 1976) and still active. He have decided to try served in West Virginia as a Mormon Missionary and to include the same met a Robey girl who took him to the family home, but story of Jeremiah he did not get to meet the people as they fled to the Robey, Jr that I had woods, unwilling to meet a stranger. in that issue by way Jeremiah himself, was a very modest man, and it of Bill Robey’s was not until the 1970's that the family knew that family CD that has Jeremiah was a High Priest of the Mormon Church in many stories. Salt Lake City, Utah. 4685. JEREMIAH ROBEY JR. #1535, In a report on prominent men in Utah in 1852, (2565.JEREMIAH10, 1316.LEONARD9, 574.JOHN8, there is listed Jeremiah Robey, born 14 April 1809, 216.JOHN7, 91.JOHN6, 39.JOHN5, 19.JOHN4, Harrison County, West Virginia; came to Utah in 8.WILLIAM3, 2.THOMAS2, 1.JOHN1) b. 14 APR August 1852; High Priest - Carpenter. This appeared 1809 in SHINNSTON, HARRISON COUNTY, VA under a photograph of Jeremiah Robey. In the (WV), d. 22 NOV 1903 in MIDWAY, WASATCH photograph, he has a very long white beard, his hair is C O U N T Y , U T A H , o c c u p a t i o n combed back showing no trace of baldness, and he has CARPENTER-CHURCH ELDER. Jeremiah Robey a very sensitive face, expressive eyes, altogether a and Ruth Tucker were married and living in Shinnston, picture of a kindly man. (This description from the WV., when he left to seek work; he was a carpenter book written by Lucille Maddox, published in 1976). and furniture maker. When Jeremiah became a Mormon in 1841, the They ended up going to Nauvoo, IL., and joined church was very young, having been founded 6 April the Mormon Church there. He was baptised in May 1830. It was established as the "Restored Authority of 1844, by Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon God on Earth". The Mormons believe in Faith, Church in America. The Mormons had to leave Repentance, and practice Baptism by immersion and Nauvoo under mob pressure between December 1845 the laying on of hands for gifts of the Holy Ghost.

-3- Jeremiah Robey was a High Priest; the Priesthood make their settlements. I am a great fan of Google is divided into two parts. The Melchizedek Priesthood, Earth and the area out there looks good from way up. to which he belonged, administers the spiritual affairs In the upper left (or northwest) corner we find Salt of the Church. A group of thirty-four General Lake City and the highway over the mountains to the Authorities directs the work of the church. The east and then south takes us to Heber City which seems Mormons are noted for their care of the poor. to be the hotbed of activity for the historical monument In the vision of Joseph Smith in 1820, he was told construction. I had a little chat with MR Springer on not to join any church, but was later authorized to his cell phone about noon his time Saturday 5/23 and establish the Church of Jesus Christ. The authority to he mentioned Midway, UT. This rang a bell as being have revelations has been handed down from Joseph the residence and place of death for Jeremiah at 94 in Smith to each succeeding President of the church. In 1903. I decided to take a look (Google Earth again). 1838, the city of Nauvoo was founded in Illinois by refugee Mormons from Missouri. In 1846 they were forced to flee Illinois. They journeyed to the area of Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah. Ogden is named for a Canadian fur trapper. The great Temple in Salt Lake City was begun in 1853; it took forty years to completion in 1893. Jeremiah Robey was able to see the completion of the Temple into which he had put so much of himself, both as a Priest of the Melchizedek and as a skilled craftsman who did some of the fine woodworking in the Temple. I guess with a background such as that it isn’t any wonder the historical heritage program that apparently So here we have it folks. This would be the Chevron is under way in Utah sees fit to honor this man. gas station and 7eleven store located on the northwest corner of the downtown square of Midway, UT. Note the beautiful Wasatch Mountains in the background. Midway is located directly west from Heber City and this entire area was used for several of the venues of I would think most of you remember the winter the Olympic Games. Olympic Games that were held in the Salt Lake City area just a little before our 2002 family reunion there. I certainly felt that it was an extremely beautiful area and no wonder that the Mormons chose that area to Well folks, here I sit on Memorial Day watching the race that should have been run last night. Oh well. Although I have fed enough Lint family news to you to hold you over for a while, it’s really hard for me to believe that another one has passed away right here in the area. Although this one lived his entire life in this area, I did not know of him. He even worked at a Wooster company where I knew many employees. Many old friends and some relatives. The Rubbermaid Company originated here in Wooster and Sines, Inc. did a lot of work for them including recycling scrap plastic and trucking. This one was only 55.

-4- was an active member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church since 1923. She was a Founding Member of the Great Trail Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, (Chapter Regent 1980- Our youngest, Tim, really outdid himself over the 82), a Founding Member of the Minerva Historical weekend doing a real nice landscape job on their cellar Society, active in Girl Scouts, and delivered Minerva dweller patio area. Since Tammy is still recuperating Community Meals. During WWII she worked for the United States Navy Department of Personnel in Cleveland. She also worked for Minerva Wax Paper Company and Canton's YMCA. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert B. Taylor; siblings, Geraldine and William W. Roby; grandson, Christopher (Sue) Fisher; and great grandson David Fisher. Family includes: daughter, Dr. Azaria Akashi (Worthington, OH); son, from her 3 month bout with hospitals and emergency OZ (Stephen) Osborne (Minerva); step-children, Beth surgeries they decided (Doug) Fisher (Phillipi, WV), David (Billie) Taylor to stay in the basement (Rogersville, AL), Jeff (Ruth) Taylor (Greer, SC); this year instead of the grandchildren, Steve and Henne Petros, Jenifer (Doug) o v e r t h e c r e e k Anderson, Robert Sean Taylor, Helen Beth (Chris) campground. He seems Walters, and Becca (Drue) Bachman; great to have a talent for that grandchildren: Sophia and Ellessar Petros and David sort of project and once Jeffrey Anderson; beloved sister- cousin, Catherin again it turned out quite Roby Johnson (Greensville, NC); other special people, nice. Dr. Richard R. Prouty, Sharon Sippo North, Kara I took 2 shots from the rear deck of the house and Pittman, and the caring staff at Moore Care and merged them together to get the top picture. In the area Eldercare of Minerva. on the other side of the concrete is a small pool with a A Memorial Celebration of Jeannette's life will be fountain and a colony of goldfish that seem to enjoy held on her 91st birthday, at 1:00 PM, June 6, 2009 at their environment very much. The way they go St Paul's Lutheran Church in Minerva. A private burial scooting around the fountain seems that they really like service will be held at Evergreen Burial Park in New the room available to them. Philadelphia, Ohio, prior to the celebration. In lieu of flowers, it is Jeannette's wish that contributions be made to St. Paul's Lutheran Church (515 East Line Street, Minerva, OH 44657). From Robie Chronicles - appendix A: I have got to quit reading the obituaries as names 111. JEANNETTE ROBY #70678, (81.HARLEY5, keep catching my eye. This one 36.WILLIAM4, 11.HANSON3, 2.HANSON2, isn’t a Lint. 1.JAMES1) b. 6 JUN 1918 in DOVER, Taylor, Jeannette Roby 90, TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, OHIO, d. ?. long time resident of Minerva, She married (1) HARRY KARL OSBORNE OH, went to be with her Lord JR.OSBORNE HARRY KARL JR. #70681, 20 JUN on the morning of May 28, 1942, b. 27 MAR 1915, d. ?, occupation LAWYER. 2009. HARRY: He received A.B. degree from Mount Jeannette was born June 6, Union College, Alliance, Ohio, LL.B., McKinley Law 1918 in Dover, Ohio, the School, Canton, Ohio. Practicing law at Minerva, Stark daughter of Wilma D. Wagner Co., Ohio. Children: and Harley G. Roby. Jeannette

-5- + 130. i G E R A L D I N E M A R I E children — who survived. Her father was among the OSBORNE - OSBORNE, GERALDINE MARIE 1,517 who died. Babler, who is head of the #70682 b. 14 JAN 1947. Switzerland Society, said Dean was a “very 131. ii STEPHEN KARL OSBORNE good friend of very many years.” “I met her through OSBORNE. STEPHEN KARL #70683, b. 3 MAY the Titanic society but she became a friend and I went 1950 in CANTON, STARK COUNTY, OHIO. to see every month or so,” he said. She married (2) ROBERT BROWNSMITH The pride of the , the Titanic had a TAYLOR - TAYLOR. ROBERT BROWNSMITH mahogany-paneled smoking room, a swimming pool #79531, 26 NOV 1977, b. 14 DEC 1913, d. ? and a squash court. But it did not have enough lifeboats for all of its 2,200 passengers and crew. Dean’s family were steerage passengers setting out from the English port of for a new life in the United States. Her father had sold his pub and I no more than get this out of the way and along hoped to open a tobacconists’ shop in Kansas City, comes someone very famous who is neither a Lint nor Missouri, where his wife had relatives. a Roby but may be of interest to everyone. She was 1 Initially scheduled to travel on another ship, the year 13 days older than my dad. Survived her ordeal family was transferred to the Titanic because of a coal well. strike. Four days out of port and about 600 kilometers Last Survivor of Titanic Dies (380 miles) southeast of Newfoundland, the ship hit an iceberg. The impact buckled the in England Titanic’s hull and sent sea water pouring into six of its Death Comes on 98th Anniversary supposedly watertight compartments. of Launch of Famous Ship Dean said her father’s quick actions saved his LONDON (May 31) — Millvina Dean, who as a family. He felt the ship scrape the iceberg and hustled baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat the family out of its third-class quarters and toward the in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been lifeboat that would take them to safety. “That’s partly the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. what saved us — because he was so quick. Some She was 97 years old, and she died where she had people thought the ship was unsinkable,” Dean told the lived — in Southampton, England, the city her family British Broadcasting Corp. in 1998. Wrapped in a sack had tried to leave behind when it took the ship’s ill against the Atlantic fated maiden voyage, bound for America. chill, Dean was lowered into a lifeboat. Her 2-year-old She died in her sleep early Sunday, her friend Gunter brother Bertram and her mother Georgette also Babler told the Associated Press. It was the 98th survived. “She said goodbye to my father and he said anniversary of the launch of the ship that was billed as he’d be along later,” Dean said in 2002. “I was put into “practically unsinkable.” Babler said Dean’s longtime lifeboat 13. It was a bitterly cold night and eventually companion, Bruno Nordmanis, called him in we were picked up by the Carpathia.” Switzerland to say staff at Woodlands The family was taken to New York, then returned Ridge Nursing Home in Southampton discovered Dean to England with other survivors aboard the rescue ship in her room Sunday morning. He said she had been Adriatic. Dean did not know she had been aboard the hospitalized with pneumonia last week but she had Titanic until she was 8 years old, when her mother, recovered and returned to the home. about to remarry, told A staff nurse at the nursing home said late Sunday her about her father’s that no one would comment until administrators came death. Her mother, on duty Monday morning. always reticent about Dean just over 2 months old when the Titanic hit the tragedy, died in an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. The ship 1975 at age 95. sank in less than three hours. Born in London on Dean was one of 706 people — mostly women and Feb. 2, 1912, Elizabeth

-6- Gladys “Millvina” Dean spent most of her life in the (and the last American survivor) was Lillian Asplund, English seaside town of Southampton, Titanic’s home who was 5 at the time. She died in May 2006 at the age port. She never married, and worked as a secretary, of 99. Next to last survivor, Barbara Joyce West retiring in 1972 from an engineering firm. She moved Dainton of Truro, England, died in October 2007 aged into a nursing home after breaking her hip about three 96. years ago. She had to sell several Titanic mementoes I must credit my AOL account for the news item on to raise funds, prompting her friends to set up a fund to Milvina Dean. It is as they said, the end of an era. subsidize her nursing home fees. Leonardo DiCaprio and , the stars of the film “Titanic,” pledged their support to the fund last month. For most of her life Dean had no contact with Titanic enthusiasts and rarely spoke about the disaster. Time marches on and my knowledge base keeps on Dean said she had seen the 1958 film “A Night to growing. I got an e-mail from Bill last night and now Remember” with other survivors, but found it so understand why I have not been able to make contact. upsetting that she declined to watch any other attempts It seems he has been in Arizona for about the last five to put the disaster on celluloid, including the 1997 weeks and just arrived back at home base in Oxon Hill, blockbuster “Titanic.” She began to take part in MD. Unlike myself he apparently had no computer in Titanic-related activities in the 1980s, after the tow. I have reached the age that causes me to think it discovery of the ship’s wreck in 1985 sparked renewed may be better that way. interest in the disaster. At a Since today is a nationwide historical occasion, I memorial service in England, Dean met a group of will add comment here. It is Friday, June 12, 2009 and American Titanic enthusiasts who invited her to a will come to be celebrated, I’m sure, as the day several meeting in the U.S. of our TV sets mysteriously quit working. Bill got back She visited Belfast to see where the ship was built, just in time. I checked out an article in the Philadelphia attended Titanic conventions around the world — Inquirer that rewarded my Google search. I will where she was mobbed by autograph seekers — and include a small amount here. participated in radio and television documentaries Wal-Mart and Best Buy are stocked with $50 about the sinking. Charles Haas, president of the New digital-converter boxes for last-minute procrastinators, Jersey based Titanic International Society, said Dean and the government says it will have 4,000 phone was happy to talk to children about the Titanic. “She agents available today to answer urgent calls about lost had a soft spot for children,” he said. “I remember TV reception. watching as little tiny children came over clutching That's because the nation's local TV broadcasters, pieces of paper for her to sign. She was very good with in somewhat of a staggered fashion throughout the day, them, very warm.” will extinguish the age-old analog TV signals for new In 1997, Dean crossed the Atlantic by boat for the digital ones that improve picture quality and make first time, on the QE-II luxury liner, and finally visited available more free-TV on air channels. Digital TV Kansas City, declaring it “so lovely I could stay here transmissions also could lead to mobile-TV devices, five years.” She was active well into her industry experts say. 90s, but missed the commemoration of the 95th Digital TV signals can be received by older TVs anniversary of the disaster in 2007 after breaking her with help of a government-subsidized digital-converter hip. Dean had no memories of the sinking and said she box. Depending on tree foliage and the topography preferred it that way. “I wouldn’t want to remember, around the home, a person might need a new antenna, really,” she told The Associated Press in 1997. She too. opposed attempts to raise the wreck 4,000 meters The article says that some elderly folks and those (13,000 feet) from the sea bed. “I don’t want them to that don’t speak English may be confused about the raise it, I think the other survivors would say exactly changeover but our local cable company took care of the same,” she said in 1997. “That would be horrible.” the confusion issue for us. They threw their own curve The last survivor with memories of the sinking ball into the game by converting their entire cable

-7- system to digital. Not the same as the government center street, or somewhere on the church property. DTV mind you, but a whole new ball game. About a (Note: the July 4th date has fallen victim to a problem year ago they bought 100,000 digital converter boxes obtaining the actual site.) of their own and started making them available to their According to Jessie L. Emberly, author of “A subscribers. History of Wasatch County”, the first visitors to the They generously allowed 3 to each household free valley were Native Americans, then explorers. as if that may be all you need. They kept a straight face Archeological evidence supports claims that Native when asking if I needed more. Then I began thinking Americans were visitors during the warm months of about just how many of our 15 more connected TV’s the year for hunting purposes. Early explorers also would warrant the $2.00 per unit monthly charge for entered the valley, but only to pass through. additional converters. I guess I always knew that they Emberly outlined obstacles facing these early would someday figure out how to charge me for the pioneers as identified by scouts sent to explore the extra tap-offs I installed. valley for potential settlement. The first concern was About a week later I bit the bullet so to speak and traversing high mountain passes to enter the valley. picked up five more units. Up until then I had been a Once a narrow road through Provo Canyon was little put out by the quality of the conversion at the TV completed in 1858 the next challenge was climate, the in my newest home/office space and had received harsh winters and a short growing season. While water some insight from the cable people that I may have a was plentiful, pioneers also needed to construct an signal strength problem. Since I felt able to find the irrigation system for water transportation from problem without further help from their technicians (I mountain streams to the farm fields. am one) I finally tracked it down to a bad piece of W. Dee Halverson, author of “Midway: Portrait of cable. Guess what, it was the only piece left that had a Town”, wrote the first permanent settlers chose a been actually installed by the cable company when we spot along the lower Snake Creek south of present day moved into the house. It was my modem cable when I Midway. Originally known as the lower settlement, was on cable internet and might be part of the reason five men and their families arrived on April 15. They I have DSL from the phone company now. A change I built homes ad started farming. have never been sorry I made. The upper settlement, commonly known as Mound City, was founded one year later in 1860. Located on Snake Creek three and a half miles north of the lower settlement, Mound City was so named because of the hot pots and warm springs which contributed to a Enough horn tooting for DSL. Here is the story I longer growing season. got from Jerry Springer, no not that one, in Midway, According to Halverson the lower settlement, years UT. It was taken from The Wasatch Wave newspaper later, was frequently referred to by family and nearby and written by Robin Johnson, Midway Staff Writer. neighbors as Smith’s Grove, although it was not a April 1859 was the beginning of year round settle- widely known name. Traditionally this first settlement ment in Heber Valley. Exactly 150 years ago, Mormon has been called the lower settlement but, since the pioneers overcame great obstacles to begin life in the publication of Halverson’s Midway History, it is Heber Valley. becoming more accepted as Smith’s Grove. Randon Wilson, Midway Heritage Foundation Heber City’s first settlers, according to Emberly, (MHF) representative, said Midway’s first permanent also arrived in the valley in late April. Eleven families settlement “was founded by five families of Benjamin built homes and farms between present day First West Mark Smith, Sidney Epperson, Jeremiah Robey, and Fourth West. David Wood, and Jessie McCarrel.” Wilson said, “Our foundation has agreed to assist Midway City is planning to celebrate and mark this in raising funds for a fitting monument to these early event as part of their annual Fourth of July celebration. settlers and to commemorate the founding of Smith’s A monument will be placed on the city’s two acre Grove.” undeveloped park next to the new LDS chapel on Wilson also said Halverson was commissioned by

-8- MHF to write a pamphlet titled, “Midway’s First Settlement” which will be available at the dedication of the new monument on July 4th.(Date to be determined) Donations toward Smith’s Grove monument and As for myself, I was born and raised in Orrville, the publication of “Midway’s First Settlement” can be OH which is the home of the J.M. Smucker Co. that sent to Midway Heritage Foundation, c/o Randon has become a giant in the food industry in the past Wilson, PO Box 1025, Midway, UT 84049. several years and now includes Jif peanut butter and Along with the copy of the newspaper article, MR Folgers coffee among it’s many brands other than their Springer included a copy of a March 23rd letter from own Smuckers brand jams, jellies and much more. MHF to the citizens asking for their help in the form of The other thing about Orrville growing up was the a donation ($100,00 suggested) to help with expenses. busy railroad activity. The Pennsylvania RR was by far The costs projected to be in excess of $10,000.00. I the biggest in town, and the US for that matter, with a will include first paragraph here, as it gives additional busy freight yard and large roundhouse facility for insight to Midway’s origin. engine maintenance. This was the era of steam and my On July 4, 2009 Midway City will celebrate the maternal grandfather was a freight conductor on the 150th anniversary of the founding of Smith’s Grove. “Pennsy” which as I figured out later, probably let me Smith’s Grove was founded in 1859 along Snake prowl railroad property without too much hassle. Creek south of present day Midway by the five The Wheeling and Lake Erie was the other line in families of Benjamin Mark Smith, Sidney Epperson, town and in those years that line was the main artery Jeremiah Robey, David Wood and Jessie McCarrell. for the supply of coal from the mines of WV to the This community later combined with the residents of iron mines in Minnesota by way of the big ore carrier Mound City to the north to create a fort for protection ships on the great lakes. The ships brought ore down from the Indians in 1866 “midway” between the two into the “rust belt” to feed the mills and loaded coal for settle-ments, creating our present Midway. the trip back and I got to watch it all. I wonder if it may have evolved into a gas station Another local big business was the Koppers Co. and convenient store. (Old editor humor) See picture that produced utility poles and railroad ties by the on page 4 from Google Earth®. FEB millions and their tie yard was another of my early play After having looked at the Heber Valley by way of grounds. With all this in Google Earth, I have remembered seeing pictures of my history you can the Heber Valley Railroad steaming it’s way to some imagine why the Heber of the venues of the 2002 winter Olympic Games. Valley Railroad caught These TV broadcasts served to whet my appetite for my eye. They run a our own trip to Salt Lake City six months later for the variety of rail excursions R/R/R reunion and the good time had by all at the all through the beautiful home base of the LDS family research center. mountains and valleys of Jerry Springer (the one that provided the previous Utah. And yes, once more story) provided the reunion with a very special display it is Google Earth to the of Jeremiah Robey tools rescue. After looking at the and other memorabilia rail facilities out on the brought over as I now SW side of Heber City, I realize from Midway. I realized just what a busy didn’t know at the time outfit they really were. This in turn caused me to ferret how much Heber Valley out their site on the Internet for much more would come to be of information on their steam excursions and the other future interest to the exciting activities in the Wasatch Mountain area of family. I’m glad that at Utah. The picture on the next page is one from the least Jerry seems still to be interested. railroad web site that shows the river rafting on one of

-9- their excursions and at the to think was okay to dump. I find that someone has end of your raft trip you kind of filled the gap at a new site with a similar name. get to load up for a shuttle http://reocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/2507/robey.html train ride back. With all is the address where Don is working. I guess if I am a this going on in just one success at converting this thing to PDF format I won’t area it’s no wonder those need to explain because that’s where you found it. Utah travel ads I see on I also have a story I found on the Internet that is of TV lately look so good. interest to the family (Robie) that took place in Savona NY which you may remember is where the picture of the Roby Key House in Castle Donington, England that we think was taken in about 1890 is in the possession of Clinton Robie in 16X20 inch size. I wasn’t able to figure out exactly where the site for Things are looking a little brighter for being able to the monument is going to be because the pictures from get this thing into PDF format. If Corel WordPerfect Google Earth are three years old and I think the new Office X4 works anywhere near as good as they say it LDS Chapel and undeveloped city park area that is does, I am apt to be successful. I bought it a couple of referred to in their letter to the citizens is on the road to years ago for the computer I was using at that time. It Deer Creek. Well now, although I turned up 3 LDS is the newest of my emachines which was the one I had Churches in town, none seemed on the road to Deer been doing the newsletter on. The reason I bought it Creek. Seems as though Google Earth puts the office was because of the ability to work with PDF files and for The Deer Creek State Park across the street from I had been toying with the idea of posting a PDF file one LDS Church, but it is right down town. on the family Website with Don. Since it was just a Not being real sure how far south the Smith’s very young idea that I had not run past anybody, I just Grove settlement was from the beautiful downtown did a back burner storage. Meanwhile along came our area of Midway it is next older from Tim, namely Tom Sines, and his just a wild guess extremely serious health problem. Along with his but the railroad personal health was the crumbling condition of his crosses to the west company, Sines Enterprises, Inc. Being the concerned side of Snake Creek parents we are we dropped everything and moved into south of town and a vacant office at the Sines digs. Somewhere along the appears to be joined line my biggin computer got a serious belly ache. by a smaller stream So now as luck would have it, I was seriously in a in the same area. It would be interesting to know just jam for a computer at the office as I needed to not be where Jeremiah Robey’s farm might have been located running back and forth to handle computer chores for amidst all this good looking farm land. I also wonder the business. Along came a Staples ad in the Sunday if any buildings or fortifications remain to be seen. newspaper that offered a Compaq computer with flat panel wide screen monitor and printer all bundled for a price so unreal as to not be able to be ignored. This computer has Windows Vista on it and I have yet to find anyone that has it and likes it. I suppose I’m Well, okay so I give up. Here it is the first week in old and set in my ways but I have made transitions March 2010 and I have heard nothing from Bill so I am before and never had these problems. I have to run my of the opinion that the family association has pretty AOL account from another browser. AOL software much died. The family Website threw a curve ball to will not load. Next for some reason WordPerfect X4 Don. It seems they just up and pulled the plug and let loaded but almost immediately the word processor a whole lot of folks hung out to dry. The geocities.com portion died. Now it refuses a second attempt. I could thing just no longer exists. Don has been working on go on and on about how it tends to run me instead of reconstruction of the information that they just seemed me running it. Guess I should just shut-up. FEB

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