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Show The fifth grade I attended school at the Episcopal Church house. Now it is owned by the Plain City Lions Club. It had one room and a cloak room. Centinial Palmer was my school teacher that year. My last years of grade school I spent in the adobe school which was two and a half miles away from my home. Mildred and I went to the Weber Academy for two years. Father use to say I was the darnest fellow, because if I was writing and talking to someone I’d never look at the paper on which I was writing. When I became a young man, Mother and Dad left me in charge of the kids and the farm work while they went on trips. I’d get the boys out working on Dad’s farm out north and they would get lazy and run through the fields and back home. Many times I’d chase them and bring them back to work. This was a lot of responsibility for a young man. Mother and Dad took a trip to Southern Utah and left me in charge, I harvested the potatoes and sold them and had the money for them when they returned home. At the age of nineteen I bought 20 acres of land for myself. It cost me $1800.00. I was at a dance in Plain City when I met Violet Hannah Hart at the age of 19. We were engaged for 2 years. November 26, 1913 Violet and I drove to Ogden in a horse and buggy. We stayed all night with Uncle Henry and Aunt Sophie Cottle. We arose very early the next morning to catch the Bambruger(train) to Salt Lake City, Utah to be married in the Salt Lake Temple. The wedding was proceeding normally when I discovered mother had forgotten to put my garments in the suit case. So I had to make a dash from the Temple, down town to buy some more garments and quickly return so as not to hold up the ceremony. Our wedding night was spent at Salt Lake City, Utah. Upon returning home the next day, Violet’s parents prepared a wedding supper for us and sixty friends and relations. We lived in Mother and Dad’s home for our first six months of marriage. We had one room upstairs and one down. Violet and I built our first home, a 2 room white brick. We built it on the twenty acres of land I bought before our marriage. We worked for Dad 3 |
