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Show the cattle business and soon, through his industry, he was a very successful rancher. He loved ranching. It is with this background that Henry Eyring came into the world on February 20, l90l, in the Mormon settlement in Colonia Juarez, Mexico. The world into which Henry Erying was born was stable and serene. His father was well-to-do financially and by 1912 had accumulated a 10,000-acre fenced ranch for 600 head of shorthorn Durham cattle and a 4,000-acre pasture and farmland where he kept 50 to lOO head of horses. When he was two years old (his mother later told him) he rode his father's unsaddled horse, after a full day's work at the ranch, to the river behind their home in Colonia Juarez. After the horse finished drinking at the river, he shook himself, as horses do, and young Eyring tumbled into the river. His father fished him out, and he immediately asked to be put back on the horse. In fact, Eyring never remembers a time when he was not riding a horse in his boyhood.16 One of the earliest childhood memories of Eyring came as he was recovering from a case of typhoid fever when he was four years old. The drinking water for Colonia Juarez came directly from the Piedras Verde River without any purification. When an outbreak of typhoid occurred, people would begin boiling their water. Edward C. Eyring was afflicted with the disease and was rapidly recovering when his young son came down with it. Since young Eyring was running an extra high temperature, Dr. Roberts from Casa Grandes was called in. After Eyring received a dose of medicine, his temperature dropped rapidly from lOSOF to below body temperature in just twenty minutes.17 change almost killed him. The shock of the sudden His body, legs, and head were covered with numerous boils following this traumatic experience. |
