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Show -10- J."ust as I was ready t~ start he raised his head. flopped his wings and away he went. I saw it was nothing but a sand hill crane. My how I did climb that hill. The creek where we had the shingle mill went dry. Father had to move his family up about two miles west to a spring. One day at noon after father had l ain down to rest, mother took the bucket to go to t he spring to get some water. She saw a little brown bear. IIIB:nediately she called father. He jumped up, grabbed his gun. Charles A. Nye also took his gun and followed father. Father came within fifty yeards of the bear, dropped down on his knee and shot. Nye shot at the same time and the bear fell, Tb.at was our first bear meat. One day a bear came right close to the house. We had a couple of pigs that were laying down by a quaken asp. The bear would look at the pigs, then climb up the tree and act as if he would like to spring on the pigs. Kalip Hartley shot at the bear but missed him. The shote woke the dog. The dog barked at the bear,oi, Mother called the dog away and the bear came down the tree and ran away before Kalip could re-load the gun. Father cut shingles all that aummer, then late in the fall he moved the family back to Ogden. We lived on the bench between 3rd and 4th street which would now be 23rd east and West and 24th street. I went to school .that winter walking about seven blocks. My sister, Phoebe, was born on the 4th of June, 1862. ·When she was about three weeks old father moved the family up in the basin to the shingle mill. We had to go around up by the north end of Ogden valley because the road was washed out in places up Ogden Canyon. 'The water being ver1 high that spring the bridge had been washed out so we had to eross the river in a ferry boat at Farrs Grover. Father took his family to Huntsville and lef t them there while he moved another family by the name of Enock Growell and his wife, Mary, who had father rent some cows so that she could make butter and cheese. After we had them moved up into the bason father moved mother up there also. That fall father moved his family down to Hun.tf;fville. Father and Clinton n~ Brunson were chosen as councilors to Elder Jefferson Hunt, all three were members of the Mormon Battalion. / I went to the district school that winter. Our schools t hen were common schools reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling were taught. Every Friday afternoon we would choose up and have a spelling bee. We had from two and one-half to three feet of snow. We used sleights during the winter. In t he spring the la.st of March and first of April, the snow was cr usted so we could walk on top. In the s pring ot '63 father gave a man by the name of Ed. Rushton a yoke of cattle to bring him t wo stoves from St. Lewis--one for mother and one for grandmother Bingham. Father moved t he family up into the basin the latter part of May. We moved up to the upper place. That spring father hired a caprenter, Franklin Cummins and John Gould. They put in a over-shot wheel to run the shingle mill. The water to an overshor wheel is brought in a |
