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Show l9 obstacles. Even with the deep financial strain on the family during the year in El Paso and later in southeastern Arizona, the Eyring's home life was as pleasant as it had been in Mexico. If the problems of making a living for his large family was difficult, as it must have been, the stress was never shown by his parents in their Highland Park home in El Paso, Texas or later in their modest home in Pima, Arizona. With all hope of returning to Mexico dashed, in the spring of l9l3, Edward C. Eyring and Miles Romney, his brother-in-law, purchased a farm on credit in southeastern Arizona near Solomonville for $l8,000. Edward Eyring had sold his Mexican property for almost nothing and later received a little for his horses. ‘Nithin a few months time they could see that the farm would not supply enough income for both families.30 Edward Eyring then sold his portion of the farm to Miles Romney and the Eyrings moved to Safford, Arizona where he worked for himself in the dry goods store business. Henry Eyring was able to go back to school after more than a year's absence. He had finished the fifth grade in Mexico so he started the sixth grade at Safford. After a few weeks of school his teacher, Miss Dewitt, promoted him into her seventh grade class because he was a good student. With school at an end, the Eyrings moved again, this time to Thatcher, Arizona. At Thatcher, Edward Eyring purchased the livery stable and during the summer of l9l4, Henry Eyring was given the responsibility of taking care of it. One of his duties was to rent out buggies. His best cus- tomers were the young men of Thatcher who would rent a buggy to go courting their girl friends. excitement for Eyring. But the livery business was not without One day a man came in and told a lurid story |
