Harmon Harry Day was born May 17, 1901 in Butler, Tennessee to Mr. and Mrs. John Day. He married Bessie Louise Johnson on May 11, 1934 in Colorado. Harmon was a coal miner and settled in the coal mining town of Dragerton, Carbon, Utah. On Monday, May 3rd, 1965 after a long illness he died in the Carbon County Nursing home. He is buried in the Price City cemetery.
Bessie Louise Johnson was born on April 13, 1915 in Tres Piedras, Taos, New Mexico, to Dugger Johnson and Eliza May Campbell. She died at the age of 56 in the Price hospital following an illness. She is buried in the Price City cemetery.
Anyone having more information about this family please contact Joan Banner
BackUtah Since Statehood, Historical and Biographical, Chicago-Salt Lake The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1919, pgs 44-45 with picture
Leland R. Wattis, head of many business enterprises which feature as factors in the material development of the state, is a native son of this commonwealth, where he has made a most creditable name and position. He was born at Ogden, Utah, May 26, 1882, a son of Edmond 0. and Martha A. Wattis, both of whom are natives of Utah, the father having been born at Uinta, while the mother's birth occurred at Riverdale. Their prespective parents were among the pioneer settlers of the state, having crossed the plains with ox teams during the period of early colonization here. In young manhood the father turned his attention to live stock raising and later with his brother, W. H., formed the Utah Construction Company, of which he is vice president and general manager. This concern has handled some of the largest contracts in the west. The firm is also very extensively engaged in stock raising, operating ranches in Utah, Idaho and Nevada. E. O. Wattis is president of the Wattis Coal Company, director of the Lion Coa1 Company and director of the Amalgamated Sugar Company. He and his wife reside in Ogden, where they occupy a large and attractive residence. They became the parents of eight children, one of whom has passed away, while those living are: Leland R., of this review; Mrs. William Harris, of Ogden; and Mrs. Ethel Kimball, Mrs. E. A. Littlefield, Mrs. Margaret Dumpke, Mrs. Ruth Williams and Paul, all of whom are residents of Ogden.
Leland R. Wattis received his education in the public and high schools of Ogden, after which he entered business college. When his textbooks were put aside he became an employee of his father in railroad construction work and acquainted himself with the various phases of the business in the six years in which he was connected with his father's company. He then resigned his position and organized the L. R. Wattis Construction Company, of which he has since been the president and manager. This company concentrates upon railroad building. The extent of their contracts necessitates the employment of many men and their energies are most carefully and wisely directed, bringing substantial success. Leland R. Wattis is also the president of the Caldwell Construction Company; president of the Hieslet Construction Company and, in addition to his operations along construction lines, he has become equally well known as an operator in the coal fields of the west. He is vice president and general manager of the Wattis Coal Company and was also one of the organizers of the Carbon Fuel Company. The mines of these two companies are located in Utah and are now being extensively operated, the production of coal being very large.
On the 16th of January, 1900, in Oxford, Idaho, Mr. Wattis was married to Miss Helen Crandall, a daughter of Mrs. Emma Crandall of that place. They have one child, Edmond 0., who was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1902 and is now attending St. John's Military Academy.
Politically Mr. Wattis maintains an independent course nor has he ever been an office seeker. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and in fact is a well known and prominent Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason as well as Shriner. He also belongs to the Benevolent Order of Elks and to the Alta Club of Salt Lake.
A Brief History of the Life of Edna May Reese Hardee Sorensen - Written 1980-1981
I was born in the town of Castle Gate, Utah (in Carbon County) to Thomas Levi Reese and Margaret Ann Davis (Davies) Reese on May 1, 1905. My mother and father were born in Wales. My father came to settle in the United States. He then sent for my mother, whom he married after her arrival here. They were married in Emery County near Price, Utah. They lived in Winter Quarters, Utah for a short time and then settled in Castle Gate.
My father was a coal miner. He told of his father carrying him on his back to help him the mines in Whales. He was only eight years old at the time.
My mother and father had seven children. Glyndur Davies, Theodore, Levi, Annie, Thomas, William, and Edna May. My brother, Glen, was the first baby born in Castle Gate. He was born in a tent, as they had not yet built homes there. My brothers, Levi, Thomas and William died at an early age. Levi fell from a load of hay and his neck was broken. Thomas had a heart condition and William died from complications caused by and infected tooth.
I can't remember my sweet mother. She died when I was two years old on July 12, 1907. I have been told that she may have had leukemia. I went to live with my Aunt Mary and her daughter, Vannie. They took care of me until my sister, Annie, was old enough to take over the responsibilities of the family. They have told me how much they loved me and how hard it was for them to give me up. My sister took the place of my mother and gave up so much to help raise all of us. I loved her very much.
I have faint recollections of living in Wyoming as a child. My aunt tells me that we lived there two different times. My brother, Levi, was killed there and my sister, Annie, was born there. She was the only on in our family that was not born in Utah.
My father was a kind, loving man. He did all he could to keep us together after the death of my mother. He spoiled me terribly.
The members of my family have all passed away now, but I have many happy memories of them. Mine was a happy childhood in the small town where I grew up. I remember the band and orchestra my brother, Glen, directed. He was such a fine musician. My father played the flute and piccolo. My brother, Bill, played the trombone. My brother, Theo, played big base and Glen also played the trombone. My father and Glen directed a choir in our church. They all sang so beautifully. I remember the bandstand in the middle of town. We had a band concert there every Sunday. The ladies would serve cookies and punch to everyone. We had a dance in our big hall every Saturday night. People would come from all over the county to attend. I remember on Halloween when we had a costume ball. Everyone was supposed to make his or her own costumes. I made a dress and called it "Night". It was black and had a net overskirt held out at the hips by a hoop with silver stars and moons sewed on the net. I wore a big silver crown with a big star on it, with net hanging down my back from the star. I won first prize! I also won first prize for a dress I made for another contest. It was brown satin, hand embroidered in silk thread on the skirt and sleeves. It was so pretty. I have always loved to embroidery, crochet and knit.
In the summer of 1923, my sister Annie, was sent to Wichita, Kansas on a mission for the LDS Church. She was unable to finish her mission as my father was killed in an explosion at the Castle Gate mine, along with 173 other men. This happened on March 8, 1924. It wiped out almost every man in town.
My father had married Hannah Philips of Spanish Fork, Utah just the year before this happened. He had taken me to Spanish Fork to go to High School and live with her in her home there. They had known each other for many years. She was a beautiful seamstress and she made me such beautiful dresses. After the explosion, she moved back to Spanish Fork to live with her married daughter.
After my father was killed, I was sent to Salt Lake City, to go to beauty school to learn how to finger wave and pin curl. After I finished, I went back to Castle Gate to open a beauty salon. It was at this time that I started to go with Welber Hardee, a hometown boy who had helped save me from drowning in the Price River some years before. We were married on December 22, 1925 in Price, Utah. We have had six lovely children. Margaret Elaine, Dorothy May, Joyce Ann, Wilbur Clydell, Deanna Gwendolyn and Douglas Reese Hardee. My two little boys passed away when they were just babies. Clydell at seven months and Douglas at 5 days. They were such choice spirits of our Father in Heaven. I hope that I might live my life to be worthy of raising them in Heaven as we are promised.
In 1959, I had a mastectomy and a nervous breakdown.
My husband died on August 12, 1964 in the Dragerton Hospital. He had cancer of the pancreas. A year later, I took out his temple endowments and we were married for time and eternity in the Salt Lake Temple. I hope he will accept this work.
I became more active in the Church and held offices as Relief Society chorister, Mutual counselor and Relief Society visiting teacher, a position I have held for 40 years.
In November of 1968, I sold my home in Castle Gate and moved into an apartment house in Salt Lake City as all of my children had moved here. I was again asked to be the Relief Society chorister and a visiting teacher. I also joined the Welsh Ladies Auxiliary, as I am full blooded Welshman.
I have lived in the same apartment house for 19 years. They call me the "decorating lady" here. I decorate my door in the hallway and windows for each holiday of the year. I have learned to make pretty roses and other kinds of flowers and put them in flower arrangements.
Here, I met and married James P. Sorensen on December 12, 1973. He was a good, kind man and very handsome. He had many health problems caused my diabetes. He passed away on January 27, 1980 after many operations and much time in the hospital. At the time of his death, he had both legs amputated and was confined pretty much to a wheel chair. He loved my family and they loved him very much.
All of my daughters and their families live nearby. Elaine married Bruce Johnson. Dorothy married Mike Vlamakis. Joyce married Boyd Newbold and Gwen married Henry Coleman, but was later divorced.
Never has a mother been shown so much love and kindness by her family as I have. I hope that some day my family might have a desire to serve the Lord and keep His commandments so that we might all be together again in Eternity.
I love you all very dearly.
Story donated by Julie Withers
Utah Territory had its share of bonafide, shoot-em-up gunfights. In 1890, for instance, Price was as surprised as lawman Jack Watson when Watson was gunned down in broad daylight on its main street. He had had a colorful career. As a Confederate soldier he sustained a wound to the instep that gave him a lifelong limp. Despite this, he became a cowboy and then a Texas Ranger. In 1884, after a drinking bout, Watson shot up Montrose, Colorado, and a $600 reward was posted for him. No long afterward he was free and working in Crystal, a Colorado mining camp. There he knifed a man, apparently for cause, for he was arrested but acquitted. Crystal's sheriff had worked with Watson as a cowhand and hired him as his deputy. Watson served faithfully.
By 1890 Watson was in Price, Utah, acting as an undercover agent among horse and cattle rustlers. He must have been successful, for eventually, his cover blown, he had enough enemies that a gunman named Ward was hired to kill him. One day Watson turned up as usual in a Price saloon. Ward waited for him behind a high wagon on the opposite side of the street. When Watson came stumbling out, Ward aimed and fired. The lawman fell, badly wounded. As he tried to crawl back into the saloon to get his guns, Ward fired again. It was the end for Jack Watson.
Source: Bill O'Neal, Encyclopedia of Western Gun-Fighters (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979). Copied from the Utah State Historical Society History Blazer - available on CDRom.
The following information about Jack Watson is also taken from a newspaper article date 14 May 1898 entitled "Bandit Leaders Killed" and is about Butch Cassidy and Joe Walker.
...Joe Bush was in the Price party, having left here last Sunday for the purpose of taking the trail with Sheriff Allred. Along with him was Jack Watson, who has spent the greater part of his life in running down criminals in Colorado, and who bears the scars of eleven bullet wounds sustained in the hazardous calling." ...
The following is a transcript of a letter written by Jack Watson to his brother.
W.C. RICHMAN DEALER IN FRESH DRUGS AND MEDICINES
Surgical Instruments, Appliances, and Electrical Apparatus, Toilet Articles, Cigars, Paints, Oils, Stationery, Price, Utah.
May 29, 1898
Mr. Vesta Watson
Dear Brother,
I received yours of May 1 and was glad to hear from you yet sorry to hear of the death of our parents still I knew of Pas death soon after it took place. But was calculating to see ma again before she died though I can't. well Vesty I suppose you know by this time what I am doing and I have bin in the detective business 8 years. I killed about six 6 men since I rote you at Crestel (Crystal, Co.). But a few years ago I rote you and I was going to Alaska. That was after a Desparado I got. Since I got your letter ave got 4 killed 2 and 2 alive. I have them here in jail waiting trial will come of in about 2 weeks then I am going to quit the bisness for a while any way. Well Vesta you said you had some money for me if you will send it to me I will come home and stay a while you will have to send it by express no more at present your Brother.
J.A. Watson
Ps I got a letter from S.M. to day.
(Letter is from J.A. Watson to his brother Benjamin Franklin Sylvester Watson in Hardin County, Tennessee. He must not have been in touch with his family for sometime because his father had died in 1893 and his mother in 1897.)
In July 2004 a monument will be unveiled at the Price City Cemetery and dedicated to Jack Watson. The following is the epitaph that will appear on the monument.
Jack Watson, a native of Hardin County, TN, joined the Confederate Cavalry in Texas and was wounded twice. He later joined the Texas Rangers, and worked as a blacksmith, a stock detective and a bounty hunter. He was rescued from the wrong side of the law by Sheriff C. A. "Doc" Shores and became a deputy sheriff and a deputy US marshal in Colorado. He was hired as a stock detective by Preston Nutter and single-handedly curtailed the rustling in the Nine Mile area. Jack served on the Carbon County posse that stopped outlaws Joe Walker and Johnny Herring. While waiting for the reward, he got in feud over irrigation water rights and was severely beaten. When he recovered, he challenged his accuser and was shot and killed in a gunfight on the streets of Price by the county attorney, JW Warf.
If you are related or have any information concerning Jack Watson please contact Jane Helvering and Joel Frandsen.
Christian Hansen was born 20 October, 1866 in Laasby, Gern, Skanderborg, Aarhus, Denmark. The last child of Marie Kisten Jensen Pelsen and Hans Nielsen Herning. In the spring of 1877 Chris age 11 with his two brothers, Niels 22 and Jens (James) 17 immigrated to America with the help of Mormon Elders. Niels was listed as lost at sea. Chris, it seems, arrived in Richfield and lived with the family for a time but left home as a young man to live in the Spanish Fork area. The Denver and Rio Grand Railroad had bought the Calico Railroad from Milan Packard and was building a regular gauge railroad in its place. The D&RG already owned the Pleasant Valley Coal Mine at Winter Quarters. The railroad was called the Pleasant Valley Railroad and Chris worked for it from building it to running it.
While he was living in Spanish Fork he met and married Louisa Mary Mead. They were married 24 January, 1887. Their first child, Verne Orlando Nelson was born in Provo, Utah 17 January, 1888. Other children were born in various other railroad towns where they worked and lived. Hans Herning Nelson was born in Clear Creek in 22 December, 1890. Christian Herning Nelson was born in Price 20 April, 1892, Emron Monroe Nelson was born in Spring Glen in 16 December, 1895. Chris had saved and bought a large farm and house here at Spring Glen. Two years later he was transferred too a job at Thistle, Utah for the next several years. Where four more children were born; Della Larue 23 February, 1898, Norma Presley Nelson 1900, Chester Louis Nelson 1902, and Kisty Gwendoline Nelson 24 May, 1903. Henry Mead Nelson 30 May 1907 and Helen Louisa Nelson 1908 were born in Provo, Utah.
Chris asked his brother, James Nielson to leave Richfield to live and run Chris's farm in Spring Glen until Mary decided to let her family run it. Chris was quite successful and worked himself up to a high position on the railroad. Ella Nielson Boothe said, "I had an Uncle Chris. You should hear about him. He is a famous guy in my life. He was the head of the trains. His office was way up high in the store. When he would come over he would put me in his arms and love me and give me a book or something. I remember standing up on the hill when I had the mumps, waving at the men on the track. When Uncle Chris came they would throw out lumps of coal for us and we would go and get it."
Chris remained the "the head of the trains" for the D & RGW serving the Carbon County coal companies until he moved from Provo to Salt Lake City. The Bingham Canyon mines were mining ore faster than the D & RGW could ship the ore to the Magna mills. Two or three new lines were constructed but this was not enough, so, they built the Bingham & Garfield Railway (the B & G) from the bottom of the Utah Copper Pit directly across the mountain to Magna. It was a 20 mile railway built high up on the steep mountain side high above the town of Bingham. It was a major project with three huge steel trestles across three canyons and four tunnels totaling almost a mile long. And Christian Nelson was the roadmaster, "the head of the railroad". Quite a step from a poor emigrant boy to the head man of the railroad that served both the coal and metal mining industries of Utah.
I have yet to find a family member of the Nelson family to talk to. A newspaper article and what Ella Nielson Boothe tells about her famous Uncle Chris is all that I know about him. Chris was killed in my home town, at Bingham Canyon, Utah on the 19th of March, 1935.
Newspaper Headline; Falling Trolley Pole kills man at Highland Boy Christian Nelson, 68, of 154 West North Temple Street, roadmaster of the Bingham & Garfield railroad, was killed at 10 a.m. today (19 March, 1935) at Highland Boy. Mr. Nelson was killed when a crane on the wrecker struck a trolley pole crashing it down on him.
Mr. Nelson was born in Denmark, 20 August, 1866. He had resided in Utah for the past 55 years and had been connected with the Denver and Rio Grande, Salt Lake & Utah, Southern Pacific railways prior to his last position with the Bingham and Garfield railroad.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Louise Nelson, Salt Lake; five sons, V. O. Nelson, Norman P. Nelson, Chester Nelson, Henry Nelson, Salt Lake; Mrs. Kisty Williams, Winnemucca, Nevada; Mrs. Helen Hade, California. (three children missing)
Mary died in Salt Lake City on the 8th of May, 1948. They are both buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Obituary of Christian Herning Nelson; (son of Christian Nelson) Christian Herning Nelson, 82, 5504 Elaine Avenue, died 14 March, 1975, at a son's home here after a lengthily illness.
Born 20 April, 1892 in Price to Christian and Louise Meade Nelson. Married Ella Driggs. She died in 1947. Former engineer. Member of LDS Church.
.Survivors; sons, Raymond C., Salt Lake City, Spencer K., Maywood, California; brother and sisters, Verne O., Norman P., both Salt Lake City; Chester L., Sacramento, California; Della Malcolm, Helen Marlowe, Watsonville, California.
Funeral, Monday noon, 260 East South Temple where friends call one hour before services. Burial Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Obituary of Raymond Chris Nelson; Raymond Chris Nelson, age 81, passed away 4 May, 1998 at the home of his daughter.
He was born 16 October, 1916 in Salt Lake City to Christian Herning and Ella Ann Driggs Nelson. He married Helen Gladys Winkelkotter on 11 August, 1941. She preceded him in death.
Raymond was an avid outdoors man who enjoyed hunting and fishing with his family and friends. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, retired from Interstate Brick and was a member of the LDS Church.
Ray was the father of three and is survived by his daughter, Kristine Blue; son-in-law, David Blue; Grandsons, David R. Blue and Ryan Blue. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Claire, and his son, Wade. Buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
If you are related or have any information concerning Christian Nelson and his family please contact Gene Halvorson
The following story is a translation from Marjatta Pulkkinen's article printed in "Keskipohjanmaa" Paper on Sunday, May 1st, 1988, by Terttu M. Härönoja, Golden, Colorado.
On the 20th of December, 1850, the farmhand ("renki") Aaprami Aaprami's son from Tikkakoski, was wedded to the aristocratic farm daughter ("talontytär") Katariina Juho's Daughter Finnilä who had just turned fifteen. The couple was not addressed with these fancy names, and from here on we shall also call them just Aapa and Kaisa. The last names changed often, and after several phases, they ended as the Farm Lesse ("torppari") in the Paster's House ("pappila") in Veteli, first in the Haka Cabin and then in the Isoluoma Cabin. Ten children were born out of which two died very young. Once adults each child left home to become a farmhand ("renki") or a maid ("piika") or a farm lessee ("torppari") - until the travel fever hit and dreams about better future conquered their minds.
The oldest of the children know as Jussi Jännikangas, escaped the travel fever and remained in Finland. Aaprami and his wife Anna Liisa Tofferi first traveled to Pietari (St. Petersberg) and then departed for America with their four children. Tilda, my grandmother, went along as well. They left the prefix of the Isoluoma last name off and were know as the Luomas. Heikki Vihtori from the Villiage of Liedes in Halsua, became the son-in-law, and left from there with his family. So did leave Matti Leanteri with his wife Marjaana Isoaho of Reisjärvi and their children. Kusti and Ales were bachelors when they left. When Viljami left, he took then the parents, Aapa and Kaisa with him. Viljami's Marja, maiden name Pasila, a daughter of a shoemaker from the Village of Patana in Vetelli and her two children and 9 month old twins were left behind to wait for the tickets which never came.
Aapa and Kaisa traveled to join their children to Scofield, Utah. Then about 300 Finns lived there. A temperance Society and a band were founded and actively functioning amongst them. Majority worked in the coal mine owned by Pleasant Valley Coal Company. Everything looked promising until the 1st of May 1900. The trying fate had so arranged that Aapa and Kaisa had to be there and in person to experience the horror and agony when the mine exploded. Their family had six sons and three grandsons left in the depths of the mine.
Journalists in America told about Aapa and Kaisa as follows: "There are many moving tragedies but perhaps none as tragic and touching as the one with the Luoma Family. Abe Luoma and his wife had seven sons and three grandsons who had left their homes in Finland and immigrated to America eventually ending up to work at the Winter Quarter Mine. Children had wanted their parents, 70 and 65 years old, respectively, to come and spend their last years together with them. The parents were told that they don't have to work anymore because the sons earn more money than they had ever had in Finland. Abe Luoma and his wife arrived in Scofield three months before the accident. Six sons and three grandsons were killed in the explosion. Five sons and two grandsons were married. Only one son, Matako Luoma did not perish in the accident". Most Likely their son-in-law, Tilda's husband Aleksi Vänäkangas from Toholampi was also accounted as a son.
Included here are a few pictures of the Luoma family in Scofield, Utah. Click on the picture for a larger image. If anyone can identify the members of the family in these pictures or are interested in seeing others please contact Doug Kero or Kathy Hamaker, Carbon Co. coordinator.
I was born in Spring Canyon November 5, 1928 at home. Dr. Himes was the attending physician. At age eight weeks I had emergency surgery for a hernia and strangulated bowel. It was performed at midnight my mother wrote, just as the bells were ringing and the whistles blowing announcing the new year. The doctor was Dr. Tuttle. I was blessed and given the name Thelma Beth Faddis just before the surgery. My father was Samuel Emilton Faddies (later changed to Faddis). He was a carpenter and worked maintaining the company homes. His brother Robert Karl Faddis was injured in Spring Canyon when his leg was run over by a railroad car. It had to be amputated, but he died of blood poisoning March 14, l918 at age 21, just one day before he was to go into the army during World War I. Samuel Emilton double cousin (their fathers were brothers and their mothers were sisiters), Eleanor Faddis Hanna writes of when their family lived in Spring Canyon. She says the school was made of brick and was built next to the church. She was in first grade in 1916 and her teacher was Esther Powell. The State Mine Inspector was John Pettit. Her father, Samuel Joseph Faddies was overseer of all the tracks that were laid to run from the mine. He later was made foreman of the tipple - the tipple being where the coal was dumped from the mine cars, sorted according to size and grade, weighed, then loaded into railroad cars to be shipped out to Helper. Eleanor's second grade teacher was the same lady, but she had married so her name was now Mrs. Withouse. In May of 1918 a flash flood went through the canyon, flooding the homes as water
ran in the hillside built homes in one door and out the other. It took out a large section of the railroad,also, which took until July of that year to repair. On October 9, 1918 La Rue Faddies was born in Spring Canyon (Eleanor's sister)
November 11, 1918 the Armistice was signed and towns people celebrated. The mine whistles blowed, and people cried with joy and shouted, waving flags and singing songs. Everyone was out on Main Street. Eleanor's 4th grade teacher was the same lady, but now, having been divorced and remarried, her name was Mrs. McBeth. The winters brought lots ot snow,
so the kids could coast on their sleds from home to school without stopping. The only shopping was at the Company Store, except what you ordered from a catolog from Sears, or Montgomry Ward. Frank T. Bennett was the Chief Clerk at the mine office at the Company Store. Eleanor's sister, Erma Marie was born December 24, 1919 at home in Spring Canyon. In November 1921, the day before Thanksgiving, Samuel Joseph Faddies was at work as tipple foreman showing the train engineer where to place the railroad cars needed to fill with coal that day, and as he walked backward, motioning to the engineer with his hands raised
above his head, he came in contact with the high voltage power lines. His body went up in a ball of flame, then fell to the ground. He was taken to the small hospital then put him on the train to Salt Lake to the Holy Cross Hospital. He died December 1, l921 at age 41 leaving his
widow and five young children still at home. After the school year the family moved to Provo and took in BYU students as boarders to sustain them. If you are interested in more information about this family please contact Beth Allred.
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This picture that is in the museum in Helper of six miners at the Castle Gate Coal Mine taken in 1890 ---the fourth man from the left is my Grandfather John Newbern Butt. He was 28 years old at the time of this photo. He also served as County Sheriff's Deputy during the time of strikes and racial trouble in Castle Gate. He chased Butch Cassidy and his gang along with other outlaws which they succeeded in capturing at times. My cousin has his badge and his gun which he used. He was born March 14, 1862, the day of the battle of Newbern in which his father was fighting during the civil war. Thus his name John Newbern Butt. He was born in Ohio.
The photo is a picture of the badge, watch and gun of John Newbern Butt. He was sheriff deputy in Castle Gate and City Marshall in Lehi, Utah. Click on images for large pictures.
If you are interested in more information about this family please contact Beth Allred.
My father worked at the Castle Gate mine. He went with an inspector and the inspector told him there was gas in it and it was dangerous but evidently not enough proof to close the mine. My father said he quit and talked a coworker into moving his family with he and his family to Sunnyside. (That was where I was born Aug. 29, l925). Both he and his friend had to take a much lower wage with the move. His friends name has long since been forgotten and my Father is dead so I can't find that out.
It was difficult for the families to live on the lessor wage. My father said his friend was upset that he had listened to my father because he had really liked Castle Gate and now they were in a difficult circumstances because of the move.
When the explosion happened he came to my father, threw his arms around my father and wept and thanked him repeatedly for saving his life.
My father was raised in Wellington and his father, Mother, his mother (Emma Thayne Milner) father and mother (Thayne) and numerous aunts,uncles,cousins,etc. are buried in the Wellington cemetery.
My Mother and Father moved from Sunnyside when I was a baby and built a new house in Wellington. A short time later their house burned to the ground. I remember them saying the piano fell into their basement. They said that they stood by the burned out house, me in their arms and daddy said, "I've lost my sheep (his livelihood) and our home... We can live anyplace we want to. Mama replyed," Provo,I want my children educated."
They did and we are.
If you are interested in more information about this family please contact Beth Milner Raynes
Retired Price Auto Dealer Dies at 80 After Stroke
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Price - S. Bert Bunnell, 80, retired Carbon County automobile dealer, died Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in a Price hospital after a stroke.
Mr. Bunnell started business in Price in 1920 as a partner in the Alger Auto Co. He started his own automobile business in 1926 and in 1930 moved his company to Helper. In 1946, he moved back to Price and formed a partnership with his sons, who now own and operate an auto company here.
Serves on Council
Mr. Bunnell was a member of the Helper Kiwanis Club for 25 years. He served on the Helper City Council from 1940 to 1945. He once was a director of the Helper Merchants Baseball Assn.
Mr. Bunnell attended Emery Stake Academy and served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1908 to 1910. He was a former Sunday school superintendent in Castle Dale, Emery County, and was a high priest in the Price Fourth LDS ward at the time of his death.
Mr. Bunnell was the father of State Sen. Omar B. Bunnell (D-Carbon County.)
Born in Emery
He was born Aug. 5, 1885 in Lawrence, Emery County, to Samuel David and Marietta Moore Bunnell. He married Louise Kofford, April 5, 1911, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died Feb. 27, 1956. He married Grace Roberts in June 1958, in the Salt lake LDS Temple.
Survivors include his widow, Price; sons, Sen. Omar B. Ross, Kay, Louis, Boyd, all of Price; 15 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren, stepson and stepdaughters, Robert Roberts, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Harold (Fay) Harding, Mrs. Vernon (Bonnie) Merrill, both of Kaysville, and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Young, Bountiful.
Rites Saturday
Funeral Services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Carbon LDS Stake Center. Friends may call at Mitchell Funeral Home in Price Friday from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday at the stake center one hour prior to services.
Burial will be in Price Cemetery.
Amanda Pace Roberts taught school in Columbia. She was the wife of Clyde Roberts a personnel director at the Columbia Mines. In an article written by Gerald Evans that appeared in the spring 2002 Carbon County Historical Society Journal it says: "The first school was held in a tent and began September 7, 1923. There were 29 pupils who experienced a thrill of holding school in a tent with new desks, supplies and even a new teacher with children who had never been together before. Even the town was new."
"There were seven grades in one tent. Eight children in the first grade which was the largest. Later in the year one eighth grade pupil came, making eight grades in the tent. By hard work of the teacher and pupils a space large enough for a ball diamond was made. In the bright fall days the tent became too hot, then pupils and teacher went out under the cedar trees to continue classes, rocks and logs providing the seats. Mrs. Amanda Roberts was the first teacher. She is still a resident of Columbia and the wife of chief clerk in the office, Mr. Clyde Roberts. Mrs. Roberts recalls that the first janitors were the pupils. Ventilation was difficult. When the stoves in the middle of the tents became hot the tent was hot, if the fire went down a little, children got cold but even so school was held in the tent two years. The third year school was held in a beautiful new building which is an honor to the town."
Amanda and Clyde had two children, one died at birth and the other, a boy named Carl, was raised in Columbia. He attended high school at the Wasatch Academy in Mt Pleasant. Carl eventually received a advanced degree in geology and worked for an oil company in Houston, Texas. He was married to Rogene "Jeannie" Cullen and they had two daughters.
If you are related to or would like to have more information about this family please contact R. Wayne Pace.