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Show 632 HISTORY OF EMERY COUNTY. G. T. was raised in Mayrield as a farmer riist bishop. and stock-raiser and was married there November 16, 1883, to Catherine M.. daughter of James P. and Catherine Edwards, born in Springdale, Kane county, Utah, October 11, 18C.3. They have five children: Luella, George T.. James 1L, Liliee and Katie B. In the spring of 'Mi he came to Emery and bought a farm. He now has 250 acres, and deals in general merchandise, carrying |5000 stock and doing a business of about $15,000 annually. lie runs the stage line between Price and Emery, a distance of sixty-rive miles. Has about S000 sheep and 500 cattle in company with two others. He is a most prominent and representative man, well and favorably known throughout the county and State. 0VERLADE, ANDREW, farmer and planing mill man, son of Andrew and Caroline, was born in Salt Lake City March 5, 1S55. The family removed to Kaysviile and in '59 to Ephraim. Father took part in the Black Hawk war and the Johnston campaign, and Andrew remembers distinctly the Indian troubles of '06, having to run about four miles for his life when a small boy. He grew up in Ephraim and engaged in lumbering. Came to Emery in '02 and has since resided here. He owns a farm of 100 acres and the only planing mill in town. Has been postmaster since '05, and is a wellknown, energetic and reliable citizen. Was married in Ephraim November 2, 1S7G, to Mary, daughter of Jens P. and Rebecca C. Anderson. They have had nine children: Rebecca C, Arthur P., Winnie M., Urban E., Eldon, Joseph E., Vera C. and an infant. PETTY, WILLIAM G., carpenter and wheelwright, son of Albert and Catherine, was born in Henry county, Tenn., Sept. 3, 1831. The family joined the Mormon church and moved to Missouri in '36, thence to Xauvoo, 111., in '38, passing through all the church persecutions. Although only a boy at the time, William G. remembers many of the important events of those stir- |
