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Show jANi4«80 t After the death of Elizabeth, Snyder married Hannah LaCompte Snyder. Snyder died in about 1930. Hannah died in 1941 at the home of her brother Edward H. LaCompte. In 1923 Fergus Ferguson moved into the house. Ferguson who lived here until he died in 1927, received his early education at the old Deseret Universtiy. He graduated from the law school of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He practiced law and according to the city directories was involved in mining. Ferguson's wife lived in the house until 1928. In 1929 the house was sold to H.A. Klaburne. Klaburne rented the house. In 1939 he sold it back to Hannan W. Snyder and she sold it in 1940 to C.P. Streitt. He did not live in the house and rented it. He sold it in 1943 to John Winn Simmons. John Winn Simmons was a sales supervisor. Simmons was born March 24,1887 in MDrgan to James and Susan Tucker Simmons. He married Ora May Egan on June 7,1911 in the Salt Lake Temple. He served an LDS Mission to Scotland and Tahiti. He was a member of an LDS bishopric and stake Sunday School Superintendency and a stake missions He worked for the Wrought Iron Range Company of St. Louis for fifteen years. He moved to Salt Lake when he retired. He was survived by his widow and the following children: Glen W., Raymond E., and James Brent, John Robert Simmons, Rosalin (Mr.s Charles E.) Larsen and Barbara (J.A.) VariVeen. He died at this house in 1965 of cancer. The current owners, Mary Ann and Jeff Lee, told me that one member of the Simmons family came to the house a few years ago. He told them that the Simmons had a "rest home' ii the house. The house was divided into "apartments" and Mrs. Simmons took care of the older people who lived in them. The City directory lists eight apartments in the house. After John died, Ora lived, in the house one year. In 1966 she sold it on a real estate contract to Raymond E. Phister. Phister, a carpenter, lived here from 1968 to 1973. He eliminated the apartments and by 1969 all the tenants were gone from the house. The Lees were told by Brian Kuchner, who-owned the house after Phister, that Phister boarded up the upstairs and lived only on the ground floor. Simmons sold the house to William C. and Aaron Duchne and their son Brian. Brian and a friend started to restore the house. In 1974 Brian and his new wife Caroline lived in the house. That year the Lees bought the house. Jeff is a deputy Chief of the United States Department of Labor. The Lees are continuing to restore the house. TELEPHONE INTERVIEW LEONARD J. MCCULLOUGH, DECEMBER 5,1978, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Leonard is a grandson of John McCullough. He gave me the following information on his grandparents: John McCullough was born in Scotland on the 26 of April, 1834. He died in April of 1909. He crossed the plains in the Willie Handcart Company. He dug graves for those that froze on the trip. Thirteen died one night. John didn't talk about the experience very much but he did mention that when the company crossed the North Platte their feet left blood on the frozen ice because they didn't have any shoes. John had no shoes. He prayed for shoes, that night his companion, who had shoes, died. John helped quary rock for the Salt Lake Temple. He was paid in Temple script. Leonard remebers his grandfather has a "big heart" and would give almost anything he had away. He had a little goatee and he never lost his Scottish accent. John's father was a mason in Scotland. Leonard said of his grandmother, she was an industrial, ambitious person. She was a seamstress for Bishop McGard and did alterations for him. She was a very spiritual persozz The couple got a divorce (temple divorce) because they were two completely opposite kinds of people, grandfather John was easy going and Louise was industrious. The couple was married Dec. 18,1862 in the Endowment House. For more family information see: "Louise McCollugh"Deseret News, April 17,1915,pps.3-6; April 19,p.14. William (a son), Salt Lake Tribune, March 21,1953,p.2S; March 22,p.Cll. John S. (a son, Leonard's father), Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 22,1964,p.25. John M;Cullough, Deseret News, April 29,1909,p.2. |
