<p> BOWEN FAMILY HISTORY As remembered by Clark Simmons Bowen, and given to His daughter Geraldine Bowen Fisher, in 1979 Added comments by Janis Clark Durfee in January 2009</p><p>Not much if any is remembered or known before Elias Bowen and Cynthia Harrington, or on the Simmons side before George Simmons and Eliza Berry. The things that are remembered by my father, Clark S. Bowen, were mainly told to him by his mother, Edith Ellen Simmons Bowen. </p><p>Elias Bowen was born in 1809 in Shaftbury, Bennington Co., Vermont, to James Bowen and Rhoda Potter. Their home was just a short distance from where the prophet’s parents lived in Norwitch, Vermont. Elias married Cynthia Harrington, 20 Dec. 1829. She was born 30 Nov. 1811, to William Harrington and Elizabeth Hawley. She was also born in Shaftbury, Vermont.</p><p>Elias joined the church in Oct. 1830, when the church was 3 months old, he was 21 years old at this time, and they had been married 8 months. The family history we now have says that Cynthia was baptized 4 months after he was, but this must be a mistake because the baptism says 4 years later, 6 July 1834. Dad says he remembers them telling him that they had moved into New York, and it was his impression that they had joined the Church there, as the Church was only in New York at that time. So, we figured what might have happened was maybe he went to New York to get work, as they were building the canals at that time, and he probably went without her, because the two oldest children were born in Vermont, Casey Potter in 1830 and Jonathan Slocum in 1834. Or maybe she went back to Vermont when the children were born, anyway, maybe that is why she joined the Church 4 years later. Some time before Joseph Leonard was born, on 5 July 1837, they moved to Newbury, Ohio, near Kirtland, as this is where Grandpa was born. While they were in Newbury, Elias helped on the Kirtland Temple. (Another Bowen History claims that Brigham Young had preached the gospel to Elias in New York and that Elias had given Brigham his coat. JCD)</p><p>They were driven out of Ohio in 1838 with some other saints. Norman was born shortly after this in 1838, somewhere between Ohio and Mo. The next few years were hard ones being driven from place to place. Rhoda, their only daughter, was born in 1840, also somewhere between Ohio and Missouri. Some time before 1847, they moved north into Clay Co. It was here that Elias and several of the children got sick with what they called the fever. Grandpa (Joseph Leonard) and his sister, Rhoda, carried all the water in lard buckets to be used through the night to break the fever. The children recovered from this sickness, but their father did not, formall appearances he had passed on. They were making preparations for a hasty burial when he rallied and said the Lord had permitted him to stay with his family for three more days. During this time he bore his testimony to the truthfulness of the gospel, that the Church was as true as the Heavens and Earth stands, and for Grandma not to notify her family of his death. They were a well-to-do family and he knew her brothers would come and take her and the family back, and he wanted his family raised with the saints in Utah, so this she did. Because her funds were low, and in order to carry out her husbands wishes to go on to Utah, she got employment with a man who was probably a rancher. She was a cook for his hired men.</p><p>1 She worked there for probably a few years, then when a company of saints came through to go west, she made plans to go with them. By this time Jonathan was old enough to sign on the train as a teamster. With this help, and the funds she had saved from working , and the help of the man she had worked for, as he was very good to her, she was able to get ready to travel with this train. This train of Saints arrived in Utah in 1849. She lost her only daughter, Rhoda, in route to Utah; she was buried somewhere on the plains.</p><p>Norman, the youngest son, was born blind. It was while Brigham Young was President of the Twelve that Cynthia and Elias met and shook hands with him. They asked him if he would give Norman a special blessing, this he did, and from that time on he was able to see. </p><p>Later in life, when a young man, Norman and another young man signed on a cattle drive that was going through Salt Lake to California. For some reason, when they were somewhere in the Nevada desert, they were not needed any more and were dismissed. They started to return home and somehow because elost, and because they were starving, they ate some red berries and became very sick. The friend threw up what he had eaten, but Norman was not so lucky, he is supposed to have died there on the desert in Nevada. Someone came along and picked up the other fellow and brought him back to Utah. He then told this story to Norman’s mother. Some of the family believed that Norman didn’t die but went on to California, but Dad said Grandma and Grandpa did not believe this, they believed the young man had told Grandma (Cynthia) the truth. </p><p>We understand Grandpa and Grandma (Elias and Cynthia) were present at the meeting when Oliver Cowdery came back into the church. (There is also a story that they were in the meeting where the mantle fell on Brigham Young, when he was chosen President of the Church, but Dad said he is not sure this is right.)</p><p>It is not known exactly where Cynthia met Francillo Durfey, Sr., whom she married on the 4 May 1849, but it seems very likely that they met and married somewhere enroute to Utah from Missouri, as they didn’t arrive in Utah until sometime later than May. Brother Durfey was a widower with 5 children and Grandma had five also. There was only one son born of this marriage, Francillo Durfey, Jr. (Note: Cynthia and Francillo Durfey were part of the Silas Richards Company which left the outfitting post in Kanesville, Iowa, on 10 July 1849. All of the children are listed under the Durfey surname, probably for ease of keeping track of the family members. Mormon Overland Trail, Church History, lds.org JCD ).</p><p>(This is interesting. I found an article in one of the Vol. of Treasures of Pioneer History” by Kate B. Carter, on Francillo Durfey written by Beth Durfey Marble, telling about his life, but the interesting part was she told of his first marriage and the number of children, and that he spent his later years in Beaver Dam, but there was no mention of his having married Grandma Bowen or the birth of Francillo Jr. It has been made very plain that they do not acknowledge the fact that he married Grandma. Dad has mentioned this several times: this article was amusing to him.). Note: As Geraldine noted, this is interesting. Beth Durfey Marble is actually a descendant of Francillo Jr. so it is curious that Beth did not mention the marriage of her grandparents, Cynthia and Francillo. The notion of a split between the families has been </p><p>2 handed down by the descendants of Francillo’s first children. They spell their name “Durfee” and the tradition is that Cynthia thought they were such ruffians that she changed the spelling to “Durfey” in order to separate herself from them. In researching the family, it is obvious that Francillo and Cynthia were very devoted to each other. Cynthia’s children respected Francillo greatly and Henry Dennison’s bride lived with Cynthia while Den was gone on rescue missions shortly after their marriage. Elias, Cynthia and Francillo were all very special people. Their descendants should celebrate their connections to them, whether through marriage or birth. JCD</p><p>In 1855 Brigham Young sent them to Lemhi River, 12 miles from Salmon City. Francillo, Sr., was sent up as Capt. Of the company. Francillo, Jr. ws 5 years old at this time. Part of the old fort that they built to keep the Indians out is still standing. It was built of adobe, 16X16 rods, also there was a 16X16 rod fort built of poles, with two look-out towers on it. One night when Grandpa (Joseph Leonard) was in one of the look-out towers, and Hen Gates was in the other, it was a bright moonlight night and Grandpa saw an Indian coming up the road through the brush. He woke Grandpa Durfey because he was the captain, and he also could speak the Indian language. After talking to the Indian, they found he was from a different tribe, and knew nothing of the trouble they were having with the Indians, so they let him in. This Indian went out three different nights and brought back cattle that had been stolen by the Indians, but after that he was afraid to go out any more for fear he would be caught. </p><p>Hen Gates was out in the foothills when some Indians jumped him, shooting and wounding him. Several men went out to bring him in. Grandpa was one of those men, and when they found him, Grandpa spoke to him, he said, “My gosh Joe is that you? I thought it was the Indians coming to scalp me.” Theymade a litter out of their coats and two sticks and carried him back to the fort, by some watching for Indians, while others carried him to the next ridge.</p><p>When they first went on the mission, the Indians were friendly, but when Johnson’s Army came in, they poisoned the minds of the Indians against the Mormons, and from then on they had trouble with them. They were there three years. They abandoned this mission when Pres. Young told them to come on in, because it was so bad.</p><p>Sometime after they returned to Ogden, they moved to Cache Valley. Their first night there they spent in Maughn’s Fort, in Wellsville. They went from there to Providence where there was a nice spring. They settled there and called it “Spring Creek”. One of the Apostles later came up there, and said it was too pretty of a place to be called Spring Creek, so the name was changed to Providence. </p><p>They stayed there about 10 or 11 years. Dad tells the story of Grandpa Durfey capturing an Indian boy, after the Indians had stolen three white children. He chained the boy to a tree in his front yard, then told the Indians that he would free the boy when they brought the three white children they had taken, so they released the white children and he let the Indian boy go.</p><p>From Providence they moved to Beaver Dam to raise cattle. Jonathan settled in Providence with his family, and this, I guess is where most of the Logan Bowen’s come from.</p><p>3 It is said that Francillo Durfey, Sr. had the power of healing. One day when Grandma (Cynthia Harrington) was very sick, Grandpa Durfey was away, and may of the neighbors had come and were standing around the bed, the room was full and from all appearances she had passed on. Grandpa came home and pushed his way through the people and went up to her bed and commanded her in the name of Israel God to rise; she opened her eyes and said, “Oh, Daddy have you come?”</p><p>Another example of the type person Grandpa Durfey was, is the story Dad tells, that one time he told his son Frank, Jr. to go outside and get a real good willow and bring it to him. When Frank did this, he was thinking that his father was going to use it on him, but instead he told Frank to use it on him (the father). At first Frank couldn’t hit him hard, but his father insisted, saying he had done something wrong and needed to be punished. Uncle Frank said that was an awful hard thing to have to do.</p><p>In July 1873, Grandma (Cynthia Harrington) had the sealing done to be sealed to Elias Bowen, she also had Grandpa’s (Elias) baptism redone because it was ain incomplete date. Jonathan took her to Salt Lake to the Endowment House to do this, and he stood proxy for his father. Dad says he remembers them telling about her worrying about things at home most of the way down there, so to get her to relax and stop worrying, he turned the team around and headed back home. She asked where he was going, andhe told her that since she was worrying so much he thought she would rather go back home. She said, “Oh! No. I didn’t mean that.” So of course he again turned around and continued to Salt Lake, probably without much more worrying, if any.</p><p>(The next two paragraphers were taken from part of the obituary notice of Grandpa’s death, also with a few corrections).</p><p>After arriving in Ogden with his Mother, Joseph Leonard helped to build the first two Forts erected at that place, Farr Ford and Mound Mort. In the spring of 1856 (the article said 1855, but this is not right, that is the year Francillo Durfey went, and Dad said that Grandma always said that Grandpa went a year later than Grandpa Durfey) he was called on the Salmon River (Idaho) mission. Though only a boy of 18 years, he took the part of a man in every way. He acted as one of the guards and had some very hot skirmishes with the Indians. He remained there two years until the mission was abandoned.</p><p>He helped to build the first irrigation ditch and the first grist mill in Idaho. In 1858, he moved south with the Church, and on returning moved into Cache Valley about 1860 with the pioneers of that county. The Indians being very troublesome he was called by Apostle Ezra Benson with 49 other men to act under Commander Col. Ricks, as minute men to guard the lives and property of the settlers. One of the duties of the minute men was to drive the cattle of the settlers across the valley to the north end of Salt Lake to winter pasture. He acted in this capacity for about 5 years in Cache Valley, when he was called to go to Bear Lake by Apostle Benson for about the same purpose, leaing his young wife whom he had recently married in 1862 or 3, and whom he did not see again for two years. There he helped to build the first log cabin in Bear Lake Valley, also Canyon roads, and established a large church farm. His mission was for 10 years with 3 years subject to call.</p><p>4 He spent the better part of his life in doing good for others. He lived an unselfish life, and was loved by all who knew him.</p><p>When he was released, he moved to Beaver Dam. His firs wife, Margaret, had died, also one of his babies, Joseph. The other two children were staying with their Grandmother Fife. These children were Uncle Will Bowen and Aunt Ella Bown Farns. After Francillo died, Grandpa’s Mother gave him 6 acres and 1 hours of water toget him to move close to her. This land is just below or west of where Uncle Will lived, by the creek, up the road from where the home place is now. </p><p>Grandma married his second wife, Julia McCrary, 7 Dec. 1870, who was a sister to Uncle Frank Durfey’s (Francillo Jr.) first wife Margaret McCrary. All four of them went to Salt Lake City to be married in the Endowment House, but it was closed, so they looked up the President of the Church at his home. He had been working in his garden and was walking through the gate when they got there. They talked to him and he advised them to go ahead and get married, and then come back to the Endowment House as soon as possible to be sealed. This they did, except they never got back to get the sealing done. After both women had died, uncle Frank came over to Grandpa one day while he was out feeding the hogs, and said he was inspired in a dream that they better get this work done, so they did. This was after Grandpa had married Grandma, (Edith Ellen Simmons) and Uncle Frank was married to his 3rd wife, Aunte Lucy (Findley), Wilf and Joe’s mother. Grandma acted as proxy for Julia to be sealed to Grandpa. Uncle Frank was also married to Ante Lucy’s sister, Sara Ann Findley, she was his second wife. He lived with these two sisters in polygamy. As we understand, they can’t find any record anywhere of Uncle Frank’s marriage to his third wife, Lucy (it is said that the proof of this marriage was put undercover, so to speak, so the law couldn’t prove he had a second wife at that time). He spent 6 months in the State Penitentiary in Salt Lake for this. It was only 6 months because the law couldn’t find anything or anyone to give proof of this marriage, but they knew he was living in polygamy, and so did everyone else. His fourth wife was Elinore Hendricks.</p><p>Grandma told Dad that one thing about Grandpa was when he told you something, the next time he told you, even if ten years later, it was the same. </p><p>Eliza Berry and George Simmons were married about 1860 (pedigree chart says 20 Jan. 1861, it’s the family group that says, abt. 1860) in England. They heard of the gospel through the missionaries, and were baptized. Eliza Berry was from a large and well-to-do family. Within two years they were making preparations to sail to America. She had a very beautiful home in England and her people tried very hard to persuade them to stay there, but they wanted to join the saints in America. They felt they could live their religion in Utah with them. They had four small children at this time. Her parents gave them enough money to pay their passage to America. They sold all their possessions with the exception of a few personal things, and they set sail on what she called “the good old sailing vessel”. They were on the water eight weeks. Their rooms on the ship were right above the water wheel, as they were poor and had to take what they could get. Water was pumped out of the ship the last part of the journey. This ship in returning to England sank the third day out. Grandma (Edith Ellen) was the oldest in the family, and she was eight years old when they arrived in the States. From there to get to Utah, they came as far as they could by train, which Dad thinks was probably somewhere around the </p><p>5 Mississippi River, then from there they came by wagon. Dad isn’t sure if they had to get their own wagon, or if some of the saints met them and took them on to Utah.</p><p>They settled first in Farmington. Grandma Simmons had a sister living there who had come to the States earlier, and was married to a man named Orem. Grandma told Dad that when they were living in England they had heard so much about the Indians that when they got to Farmingon, they were scared to death of them. One day when her Aunt was away from home, some Indians came and were shaking the fruit off the trees in front of the house, into their blankets. They were so frightened they hid. Her aunt came home and chased the Indians away, taking back her fruit. Grandma thought she was the bravest woman in the whole world.</p><p>They stayed in Farmington only a short time and from there they moved to North Ogden, on 12th St. where Grandpa Simmons worked for the railraod, that was in 1869. Grandma went to school in Ogden and received what schooling she had. In 1876 they moved to Beaver Dam. They homeseaded 160 acres in the upper part of the east end of the little valley. They moved into a dugout that Grandpa Simons and the boys had dug for that purpose before they moved up. They would turn the table on end and use it as a door at night to keep the animals out, and an old quilt served as a door during the day time. They endured many privations. Many times the parents went without food so the children could have what there was to eat. Sometimes there was nothing to eat but boiled potato peelings, and there were times when she took the last bit of flour from the bin and made what she called porridge, not knowing where the next food would come. At night she would put the children to bed, then she would wash and iron their clothes so they could be clean the next day, as they were the only clothes they had. Grandpa Simmons was a good hunter and was able to provide wild game most of the time to help with the food problem. But they never wavered in the faith or doubted the truthfullness of the gospel. </p><p>All the sons, four of them, took up land around their father, 160 acres each. It used to be called “Simmonsville”. They lived in this dugout for quite awhile. Later Grandpa and two of the boys went to Logan Canyon and got some logs and they built a two room log cabin. It was the house Roy and Lizzy later lived in, in the upper part of Beaver Dam, which burned down.</p><p>One day Grandpa Bowen saw Grandpa Simmons with a shirt on that was so patched the patches had patches. At that time Grandpa Bowen was married to his second wife, Julia, and he asked her where his other shirt was. She told him it was in his drawer, and when he got it she wanted to know what he was ging to do with it. He told her he was going to give it to Grandpa Simmons. She said, “You know that is the only shirt other than the one you have on, don’t you?”, and he said, “Yes, but Grandpa Simmons doesn’t even have one.”</p><p>When Grandma was living at home, she worked for Crandall Dunn in the lower part of Beaver Dam. Because they were out of food, she had been asked to stop at the home of Joseph Bowens and ask him if he would sell her some meat as she would be paid that day. This she did. She said he looked at her a few seconds and then told her very emphatically that he had no meat to sell, then he left the room asking her to wait. She said her heart sank as she knew how much her mother was counting on the meat, as they had had very little to eat for several days. In a few minutes he returned with a large side of ham, and seeing that it was too heavy for her to carry he cut it in half and told her to stop for the other half the next day. As she was coming up the creek,</p><p>6 she could see her mother standing in the door of the dugout waiting for her, and when she reached home her mother had the frying pan hot and waiting.</p><p>Another story Grandma told Dad was the time her Father lost one of his two horses, and without it he was unable to do the spring work on the farm, it was growing late in the spring and he had no money to get another and he was very despondent about it. Brother Bowen (Grandpa) approached three other menof the community and they each gave a young heifer or steer and he traded them for a horse so Grandpa Simmons could get his work done. On this occasion there was one man in the community who refused to help, saying he didn’t owe old man Simmons anything. Grandpa replied by telling him he would come to want himself one day with the kind of attitude he had. I know that when this man died he didn’t even own the house he lived in, and also had too many debts for what little he had to cover them all.</p><p>Grandma and her sister Aunt Hattie Simmons asked a missionary who was in England to look up some Genealogy fo them. He told them that he found one old Simmons fellow, that all the rest were dead, and that this fellow was so onery that he should have been dead.</p><p>Grandma Bowen (Edith Ellen) said that before she married Grandpa, she was going with a fellow who was working on the railroad, the old narrow gauge railroad up above Beaver Dam where the U.IC. railroad later ran. She said one day she saw Grandpa walk past the window. She remembered he was wearing a gray suit, and through inspiration she was told that he was the one she was to marry.</p><p>When they married, Grandpa didn’t have anything, except land, which included a lot with a house and there were 4 rows of big apple trees that ran the full length of the lot. They were having a hard time so she got his permission to get some cows, chickens, and pigs, and after that things were a little easier. She said that after Henry was born she didn’t want Grandpa to have to go get the cows after he had been working all day for fear he would get disgusted and want her to get rid of them, so she would take Hen in her arms and go after them herself, up in the foothills east of Beaver Dam. Her arms would ache so, that after she had seen where the cows were, she would set Hen down in a clear place, making sure it was safe, then went after the cows, picking Hen up on the way back.</p><p>Dad said that Grandpa was a very hard worker, but that it was Grandma that had the business head. She managed all the finances, so because of this they were able to get along financially.</p><p>Grandpa worked on the railroad and canal that went through Bear River Canyon (Cutler). The irrigation system and the railroad in the canyon were being put in at the same time. To make extra money, Grandma washed the white shirts the engineers wore on this project. At this time they lived in a two bedroom board house, located by the tap behind the present house. (Dad, when building the present house, ran into the rock of the old cellar they had at that time.) The walls of this house were boards running up and down to the ceiling, the cracks were covered with 4 in. bats. The ceiling was cheese cloth covered with paper, and every time the door opened, it went up and down. With both of them working they had made enough money to build a new house, so Grandma had Jarvis Johnson lay it out one day, and when Grandpa came home, she showed it to him and he said, “Goodnight it’s as big as the Logan Temple”. (Jarvis Johnson was </p><p>7 the grandson of Francillo’s older sister, Polly. His father died when Jarvis was quite young, and Francillo and Jarvis became very close. Jarvis enlisted in the Mormon Battalion at the age of 16 with the understanding that Francillo would look after him. Jarvis moved from Brigham City to Beaver Dam about the time Francillo died. From Jarvis Johnson History. JCD)</p><p>Frank, Grandpa’s son by his second wife Julia,and their only son, lived with Grandma and Grandpa until he was grown. He never married.</p><p>Dad said that Grandpa had bad knees. When he was a young man, he always wore buckskin pants, and when they got wet they had to dry while he still had them on, or they would shrink so much he would never get them on again. It was thought that his knees were bad because of this, but Dad’s knees are bad also, and he never wore buckskin pants, so I think it is more of a family weakness or trait that was made worse by the wet pants.</p><p>Uncle George Simons, Grandma’s brother married Bishop Johnson’s sister, Alice. They lived up in the big brick house in the upper part of Beaver Dam. One day a hobo came by and wanted some breakfast. Aunt Alice told him she would fix him some, but while she did it she wanted him to saw her some wood. When she finished the breakfast, she went out to get him and found he had gone and left a note which said, “If anyone asks if you saw me, you can say “yes”, but don’t say you saw me saw”.</p><p>Uncle Gid, when he was young had an awful temper. As he grew older he was able to control this and very well, because I never remember seeing this in him, but before he controlled it, it caused a few problems. He and Hen, when they were young men worked together, each having their own land or farm, but they worked them together. Hen was the financier or bookkeeper and Gid was the worker. Hen also did the fixing of all the equipment, keeping it in good shape for Gid to use. One day when they were going to the field to work, Gid stopped out front and came through the yard to the barn to get something. Grandpa was sitting on a barrel resting his knees. As Gid passed, Grandpa said, “What are you going to do today Gid?” Uncle Gid just went on without answering, and when he came back he walked past Grandpa again without speaking, and Grandpa said, “I asked you what you were doing today?” Uncle Gid said, “I haven’t got time to talk to you.” Boy! Grandpa came off that barrel and said, “Well then we will make some time for you.” Gid said he then had plenty of time to talk to him.</p><p>When a young man, Uncle Hen one day told Grandpa that he was going to go to Ogden wih a certain fellow (name unknown) and they would be leaving to catch a train at a certain tie. Ogden in those days was a rough place, and the fellow he was going with was probably of questionable character. Grandpa told Hen he would rather he didn’t go but Hen continued to get ready, so Grandpa started to get ready as fast as he could. Uncle Hen asked where he was going, and he said to Ogden with him and his friend. With this Hen told his friend that he wouldn’t be going to Ogden with him.</p><p>Uncle Roy once was driving a header box on a steep side hill, when it turned over throwing him down the hill, knocking him out. He was carried home and put to bed. When he came to the next morning he thought it was the sun going down, instead of coming up.</p><p>8 Having a large family, it wasn’t easy for Grandpa to provide for them. He had 22 acres below the track, in the lower part of Beaver Dam. He had planted it to fall wheat. One day Uncle Frank Durfey had walked through it on his way home from somewhere. He came to Grandpa and told him that there was no wheat there at all, it was all Russia thistle and he might as well plow it all under. That afternoon Grandpa walked downto take a look. He loved to walk. It was said tha the would lead a horse to death. After looking the field over he went into a big culvert that went under the railroad there, he prayed to the Lord and asked him to bless the wheat because he had to have it to feed his family. That fall when the wheat was harvested, they got 40 bushels to the acres, more than any place around. Uncle Frank was surprised.</p><p>When Uncle Hen married Jean, he bought Uncle Casey Potter’s old house located across the road south of Alf Johnson’s place, which is just east of the road that goes to Wheelon. He moved the house up on the east side of the creek across from the old home place. While they were remodeling it, Hen and Jean lived with Grandpa and Grandma Bowen, this was before Grandpa died. Dad said he was probably about 3 or 4 years old. He said he thought he was real big stuff walking along holding Jean’s hand. He thought she was a very special person (and she was). When Joe was born, Uncle Hen took Dad up to see the baby, and he sure thought that he was a beautiful baby. Dad said Uncle Hen was like a Father to him after Grandpa died.</p><p>Before Hen bough this house, he went to Lyman, Idaho and bought a piece of land close to the Snake River. Later Grandpa got word that Hen was sick with Pneumonia, so he got some medicine together and went up on the train and doctored him back to health and then brought him back home. A little later Hen went to Monticello, Utah to look at some land he was interested in there, but before the deal went through, he got a chance to buy land on and around Hogback from Jack Roundy. There were 3 pieces of 160 acres each. He and Gid went halves on this, each having 160 acres. They let George have 80 of the other 160 acres, and the other 80 to Uncle Will. Because Uncle Will had been jumping around from place to place, they, with Grandpa’s suggestion, offered this 80 to him. They wanted him to settle close to the family, and this was an incentive to get him to stay.</p><p>Uncle Gid went on a Mission to the Southern States. When he got home and was going to the Temple, he met and married Aunt Anna. His Patriarchal blessing had told him he would meet his mate in the house of the Lord. When they married they moved into the old family home. By this time Grandpa had died and Grandma, Uncle Wallace, Aunt Sarah and Dad had moved to Logan. When Dad came back for the summers he stayed with Uncle Gid and Aunt Anna. He said he sure worked hard. He stayed with them for one or maybe two summers, and after this he lived with Uncle Roy for about two summers. The first summer he worked for r10 dollars a month and th second summer it was 15 dollars a month. He ran the headerbox. He bought a 95 dollar harness with this money. Before they moved to Logan, Dad drove cows for Hen and Grandpa.</p><p>One winter when Dad was about 2 or 3 yrs. Olld, he went home with uncle George and Aunt Mary to spend thenight. They made him a bed on the floor and then he decided he wanted to go home. He said he can remember them trying to tell him what a pretty bed it was, trying to get him to calm down and stay, but nothing doing, he wanted to go home. So George went out to hook up the team to take him home, but by the time he had done this, Dad had fallen to sleep. </p><p>9 He said they never asked him to spend the night with them again. Uncle George died about a year after that. </p><p>10</p>