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CHAPTER 8: The Land, The Homes, and Other Things'---------79 old Morrisite Square. The house still stands. It has been renovated. Benjamin Franklin Bowman became the sec 0 n d Postmaster of South Weber. A picture of a small log house, through which the citizens of South Weber Figure 99. Ben}. F. Bowman and Wife . received their mail from the first post office of the town, can be seen In a book entitled, ·Post Offices and Pony Express· . Agnes Patten Bowman died on 15 June 1890. THE BURNSIDES The Burnside family, Kenneth Byram's grandfather, built a rock home on the corner where the old road turned to cross the river into Uintab. That area came to be known as Burnside Corner. \ ,l '~ Figure 10 1. The Rock Home al Burnside Comer Still Stands . JAMES HARBERTSON James Harbertson built a rock home at the foot of the mountains, which was purchased by the Federal Government in 1920. It is used by the Job Corps at the present time. His biography can be found in the BUSINESS chapter of this book. JOHN ALLEN John Allen, who built the rock home where Lavern Poll presently lives, was born in Scotland in 1834, and his wife, Jessie, was born in the same country in 1824. John and Jessie were married in 1867 while living in Scotland. In that same year, they moved to Salt Lake City, and in 1868 they moved to South Weber where John became a farmer. During their first year in South Weber, John and Jessie shared a one-room, log home on the bank of the Weber River with the Joseph Bambrough family. At that time in South Weber's history , there was plenty of sage brush to burn for fires, a lot of wild game to eat, and a sufficient supply of fi sh in the river, but very little flour with which to prepare bread or pastries. They had to make a fift y-po und bag of fl our last all winter. John and Jessie had three children: No ra (who died at the age of three), Peter, and Geo rge. Figfjre 100. Andy HarbulSon. Peter married Netti e Cook, but he was killed in a mine disaster befo re hi s son Peter was born. SOUTH WEBER HISTORY