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Show Newspaper OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER LAKESIDE REVIEW Date____~JUNE~~~2~6~,~1~9~9~O__ Earl Kendell (lower right corner) was born in the rock .. house in South Weber now owned by Weber Basin Job . Coros. His daughter Cheri Lang, herhusband, .Kenneth, Office once settlers' home EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in an ongoing series high. lighting the history of older homes in the area. Readers with ideas on homes that could be featured should call 776-495/ weekdays. Historic "It was a rock building and was a nice home at the time. It had three bedrooms, a good-size dining room, a parlo.r. a pantry, a hall between the dining room and kitchen. There was a basement. and a large room upstairs where Ogden where they had five chil· the boys slept. By DEENA JONES dren. According to a history of S tandard·Examiner correspondent "There was a big canal just a litSOUTH WEBER - The rock· the Harbertson family written by tle west of ocr home, which was home-turned-office on the their daughter Irene Harbertson cemented later. Father and the grounds of Weber Basin Job Kendell, in 1886 the family boys used to go swimming in it. Corps Center has a history bought the property in South We- Father used to put the smaller stretching back more than a cen- ber, which at the time was a fruit ones on his back and swim with farm, and her father built the us." The Harbertsons had seven tury. .. Built by James Harbertson and house after the family moved more children while living in the home. · Elizabeth Taylor Harbertson, who there. The property on which the immigrated from England in The children in grades one 1875, the house once was home home was situated at one time through eight attended a oneto several generations of Harbert· extended all the way across where room schoolhouse in South Wesons, who later became known U.S. 89 is now located, and in- ber. "Sometimes on the way to for their contracting work in the cluded land now occupied by the school the wind was blowing so sand and gravel pits. area. hard that we would have to hold Mrs. Kendell's history states on to a pole or tree for a few Now used as offices for the staff of the W~rk Program Depart· that when her father purchased minutes 10 keep if from blowing ment, the home has been remod- the farm , her grandfather and her us over." she wrote. eled and not much of its interior Uncle John, who had previously Wildlife abounded in the area cc: Be is in the original state. . immigrated from England. at that time. she said . "It was RE ~ . The home is nestled high in the moved out to South Weber and nothing to see a coyote by the DC foothills near the mouth of We- helped on the farm. side of the road. We had a clump ·ber Canyon. Built of native river "They ·w orked hard. picking- of oak brush not far from our and mountain rock the exterior fruit. raising grain, and taking house. The coyotes would sit in still has its ornate gingerbread care of the animals," she wrote. the oak brush at night and how\. trim. Snakes were another constant She also describes the home that T h~ U.,.,..h .n ..... __ r r. .. r t ,. ...... , .... .-1 :_ ·homes · 1_ ~ _ r_. , .•. t.. . ". v· |
