Oral history interview with Ellen "Ella" Siddoway by Diedra Northern [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Ellen "Ella" Siddoway by Diedra Northern [Transcript]
Creator Siddoway, Ellen; Northern, Diedra
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1978-02-21
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html
Subject Berries; Brown's Park; Canals; Chickens; Cows; Death; Diphtheria; Electric lighting; Fruit trees; Gardening; Grandparents; Great Depression; Horse & Buggy; Ice cream, ices, etc; Icehouses; Moving, Household; Outlaws; Native Americans; Parents; Personal narratives; Pigs; Power-plants; Sheep herding; Siblings; Smallpox; Typhoid fever; Works Progress (Organization); Naples (Utah); Salt Lake City, Utah; Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Diedra Northern with Ellen "Ella" Siddoway. Topics include: Parents and siblings; Growing up in Vernal; Her father herding sheep; Brown's Park; Outlaws; Native Americans; Fruit trees and berries; Canning; Buffalo berry picking; Using an ice house to store food before getting the first ice cream freezer; Raising pigs and chickens and milking cows; Traveling by horse and buggy to visit grandparents in Salt Lake City; Riding horses to school when the weather was good; Death of her mother; Diphtheria and smallpox epidemics; Having typhoid fever; Moving to a farm in Naples; Marriage; The Great Depression; Gardening; WPA; Attending Uintah Academy; Her husband's work on the canal and working at the power plant; and the introduction of electric lights in Vernal.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 5 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6jwffxt
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535928
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jwffxt
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