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Show shed, with a chicken coop in the east end. An outhouse stood between the rock barn and the house. In the corral there was a tall hay-barn with stable, a pigpen and a buggy shed. Their home was a palace to John K and Katie. She cooked for schoolteacher boarders that first year and for one, two and sometimes three of John K's younger brothers who lived with them when they were not working with the sheep and away at camp. Since their mother's death they enjoyed that arrangement, living there until they married or began their own businesses. Ten years before Wilhelmina's death she had divided the 4 homestead acreage signed over to her by her husband when he was sent to prison for practicing polygamy. She recorded the deed to the land in the Sanpete County Recorder's office in June of 1890, in the names of all of her children and she lived for over ten years beyond that date. The 160 acres of the original homestead decreased by 29 acres when John K's father sold the north corners of the farm to others. He may have been in need of money at that time. Most of the remaining acres were of alkali soil. Notes reveal that the brothers and sisters by common consent agreed that they would apportion the Bottoms land signed to their mother-and in turn to them-into 20 acre parcels of the poorest soil, and 14.45 acres of the better. Five acres were so undesireable that none of them wanted those. Lots were then drawn to determine parcel ownership, and it proved to be a fair and equitable distribution. 77 |