AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

of

BELLE ALBERTA EDMONDS

and

CLARENCE EDMUND THEODORE HYATT

Married October 14, 1922

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Typists:Carol Hyatt ZappeHerbert HyattBelle Hyatt

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December 1975

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FOREWORD

This book is prepared with our love and is given toour children and Grandchildren with our hopes that itwill be appreciated by all our posterity. If it is under¬stood as an amateur activity, and if it has any influencefor good in the years to come, we shall be very happy andshall feel the. effort has been well repaid.

We feel most fortunate to have been able to so liveas to know and love so many of our posterity. At thiswriting we. count four children, nineteen grandchildren, andten great grandchildren, with more expected within the year.

Please receive our testimonies which were crystal izedand increased since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came into the lives of our entire family, July4, 1937 . Our testimony had to be. built in three stages ofconversion. At first we had to have faith in our teachers.Then came belief, and today, v/e know that God lives as doesJesus Christ, His Son. This is the true Church with thefullness of the Gospel. Genealogical research activitiesculminating in appropriate ordinances of the priesthood areimportant components of our deep and abiding testimonies.

We pray for each of you!est desire is that each of uswill be united throughout the

Receive our love,will live so thatet ernity .

Our great-our fami 1 ies

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CONTENTS

Forward I

Tribute to Belle's parents II

History of Belle Alberta Edmonds 1

Tribute to Clarence's Parents III

History of Clarence Edmund Hyatt 13

History of Clarence and Belle Hyatt 46

Summary of family 112

Index 1 1 9

A Tribute to My Father and Mother

My father, John Franklin Edmonds, was born 1n a 1og cabinon a form in Bal t imore Township, Barry County , Michigan on May23, 1 867 of goodly parents who had previously come from Ohi o.The most I ever heard of his parents was that hi s father hadfought in the Civil War. He enlisted in Co. L, 8th MichiganCavalry and served unt i1 his r eg iment was discharged. His par¬ents had been active in the United Brethren (Radical) Churchnear their home. Later Grandma had been a Methodi st in Hastings.

Father and hi s brothers and si ster s were brought up tobe resourceful and independent and 1 eoder s in theircommuni ties.

My grandfather died November 26, 1 899 end Iwas toldthat the first place Iwas taken was Grandpa's funeral . Iwas then three days over five weeks ol d. I knew my grand¬mother well as she spent some of the time, with us and whenwe moved to town she 1 ived next door to us on Marshall St.until her death on June 17, 1917. I spent many hours withher and always enjoyed her company .

I never knew about my father 1 s early education butoften heard him tel 1 of hi s experiences end having hisyounger br others and si ster s in his one-room school . Hetaught at var ious school s in the county for nine years, thedeci ded to go to the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, Michi -gan, for summer school in 1 895. H® then went to Sagola inthe nothern peninsula of Michigan and was there two years .Dad took a school in the copper country, and taught at EagleHarbor (most northern point in Michigan ) for two year s . Hereturned to Hastings in 1 899 and gave up his teaching pro¬fess ion. Aft er residing in Hastings a few months he purchaseda farm three miles northeast of Hastings and sett 1 ed there.Iwas about six weeks ol d when we moved. He was alwaysexperimenting with new machinery and equipment. He was thefirst to own a gasoline engine; he had a silo for storane ofcorn; he delivered milk in Hastings for a whi Ie and was oneof the first to have a cream separator ; we were about thefirst to have a wall, side-crank tel ephone and v;ere on aline with eight others. He made a study and gave 1ectureson care and test ing of dairy products. After 1 iving on thisfarm for nine y e v r s we moved to the ol d Edmonds homestead inBaltimore where we lived for two years. He tood great pr$de

in the brick house because he had haul ed logs (cherry andwalnut) to be sawed for 1umber to be used in the house andhad done considerable work on it . He set up a map 1e syrup-making camp in the woods right back of the house because ofso many h: rd maple trees in the woods . He also instal 1ed abathroom in the house whi ch was really a novel ty for afarmhouse.

In order for hi s family to get the best educationpossible, he gave up farming to move to Hastings where v;e

would be near higher education facilities. He worked for theGoody ear Hardware Company selling farm equipment. He thenbecame manager of a small factory making sink frames. I didhis bookkeeping after school for three years. The factoryfinally went to Charlotte, changed the product and manage¬ment so after living there for 20 months, he returned toHastings. He became manager of an oil station and laterbuilt his own where he spent about twenty years.

Dad was very good in mathematics and promised e;;ch of usa good watch if we could work a problem that he could notwork' before we were sixteen. None of us ever received awatch that way . My sister Achsa' s health was very poor andshe could not finish high school but my two brothers rnd Igraduated. The two boys went on to college end got theirdegrees. We have so often mentioned how oroud Dad would beof his grandahi 1 dr en . There are four doctorate degrees, onemaster's degree, five bachelor degrees, one had two years ofcollege and one grandson was killed in en auto accident.Their metes have also had good educations as there is onelawyer, one dentist, and six with bachelor degrees. Manyof the next generation are also continuing their educations.

My father was always active in the church, serving asan elder for over twenty-five years in the Hastings Presby¬terian Church. He also served in other capacities. He wasactive in the Hastings Commercial' Club and helped to organizethe Grange, a farmers organization for promoting betterfarming conditions. He continued for mcny years in thisorganization,

Dad might be gruff but he never was a swearing men. Infact, on one occasion when he had had several flat tires ona round trip of a hundred miles (the tires were not the tiresof today and the inner tubes had to be dry patched or vulcan¬ized), a cousin who was with him inquired of him if it wasn'tabout time for him to swear! He never smoked nor drank.

He was always doing things for the family end manySunday afternoons were spent by his reading to the family.Whan I was six he took me on the train trip to Lansing wherewe visited his uncle John Chase, his mother's brother. Dadhad business at the Michigan Agriculture College, later knownas Michigan State College, three miles from Lansing. Iremember the trip well and seeing my great grandma, LucyYounglove Hicks Chase, v/ho was blind. I enjoyed visitingwith her and regret now Iwas not old enough to have gottenvaluable information from her. She visited one time at ourhome in Hastings,

No matter what the job was or how difficult. Dad wouldstick at it until completed.

Mother was born at Podunk in Rutland Township, BarryCounty, Michigan on the Kalamazoo-Hastings Highway, to apioneer couple from Ohi ©, on September 2k , 1868. Across theroad was Podunk Lake. 1 never heard much of her education,but after she was grown she taught music lessons on the pumporgan. The pdmping was done by the feet. I believe they metwhen Dad was teaching at a nearby school. They were marriedNovember 6, 1889 . They never said much about their courtshipor marriage.

She v/ as more reserved and quiet but supported Dad in allhis work snd activities. She did sometimes help with themilking but it was always because she was needed as Oad feltthat was not a woman's place to do chores, and I never rememberher doing any other work around the farm with perhaps anexception of gathering the eggs. She wasn't afraid of thehorses but never rode them. One time my sister, ae 11 and I,ae 7, had gone to Hastings (three miles) for Achsa' s musiclesson. On our way home, a f ive-y ear -ol d horse started to run.We were thrown out of the buggy and the horse went on home.Mother got into the buggy to come beck after us but the horsewas still too excited so she turned it into a field and he ranaround until he slowed down. A fellow found us girls and tookus home, unharmed. Another time she was driving the same horseon a cold wintery night over snow-packed roeds. Going down along crooked hill he started running but she finally was ableto slow him down. By talking to him, and she said she evensang to the horse, she covered the three miles home without enyharm.

She was a good wife and mother and home keeper as shefelt that was her calling and responsibility. She woul d doanything in her power to help us all. She was a leader in theGrange (farmers organization), also president of the LadiesAid Society of the Presbyterian Church for many years. Sheorganized and was president for a long time of a HospitalGuild when the hospital was first built in Hastings. She wesalways active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (V/CTU)and had no use for anyone using liquor in any form. Shetaught the adult class in Sunday School for many years. Theminister remarked in his funeral sermon for her that she wasa true Christian woman in her beliefs and actions,

Mother and Dad were always a great help and gave usencouragement in anything we started, especially in fulfillingour church or any obligations. We always felt they could andwould have been good Latter-day Saints. Dad remarked afterreading the Book of Mormon and Articles of Faith, he believedthem to be true and good but his religion hed been good enoughfor his entire life and would be sufficient for his few remainingyears. They respected our desires and never said anything againstour membership in the LDS Church. We were expected to respecttheir leadership and guidelines and do the best we could at alltimes. I once heard him say if we were stranded in the desert,we would find a way to get home some way.

The Life of BELLE ALBERTA EDMONDS HYATT(Dictated by her to Clarence E . Hyatt )

I, Belle Alberta Edmonds, decided to make my entranceinto the world in the home of my parents, 1ocated on SouthDibble Street , on the corner of Clinton or Madison Streets,Hastings, Barry County, Michigan. Thi s occurred 1n themonth which I have always most enjoyed, October ÿ The fate¬ful date was Wednesday , October 18 , 1899. Iwas nemed afterBelie Riley, a friend of my parents when they lived innorthern Michigan®

My father was John Frankl in Edmonds, known as Frank,My mother was Frances Adelaide Stone, known as Addi e. Bothof my parents were born in Barry County , Michigan underpi oneer ci rcumstances or pioneer perents who had migratedfrom Ohio, My father had been born 1n a 1og cabin 1n Bal¬timore T ownshl p where he made hi s home unt i1 he was married.My mother was born and raised a few hundred yards west ofPodunk Lake, Rutland Townshl p.

I was the third child born Into our family. My olderbrother was Gordon Col umbus , born 1 August 1893, He wasfol 1owed by my only sister, Achsa Mar 1e, born 3 Aprl 1 1895.Later , we were to have two other brothers, Theodore Alex¬ander, born 10 October 1903, and Maur 1ce Franklin, born15 August, 1905.

Two years prevlous to my birth, Dad had tpught schoolat Eagle Harbor 1n Ml chi gan. The faml 1y moved to the DibbleStreet home 1n the summer before I was born. I lived therebut a few weeks . On Thanksgi vl ng Day, 1899, we moved to adairy farm three ml 1es northeast of Hastings, still inHastings Township.

Accordl ng to my parent s, one of my first journeys wasto my Grandfather Edmonds' funeral , who died 26 November1899, on the old Edmonds Homestead, nine mi 1es south ofHastings, where Dad was born. He was bur ied in StrikerCemetery , about two and one-hal f ml 1es north of the Edmondsfarm,

The earl iest event of my memory was the birth of Theodorewhen Iwas eight days under four years old. Iwas "packedoff to Aunt Cora's" for the event . I al so have an earlymemory of the purchase of our new rubber-ti red family carriage.For some reason or other thi s was "quite the deal " , a realfaml 1y ml 1estone.

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About 1903 — 'i- , one of the first automobi 1 es 1n BarryCounty, driven by a Catholic priest, arrived at our farmand decided to quit operating* The priest was so thoroughlydisgusted thot he 1eft it in our yar d . Dad, who was alwaysinterested in pow er and advancement , 1ooked it all over andmade quite a study of 1t .

When Theodore was sick, Iwoul d run as far from thehouse as I could when the doctor came to lance hi s foot .Being Winter, I woul d go out back of the barn end slidedownhill on an old scoop shovel . When we buried Theodore,the weather was so cold and the snow so deep that we didn'teven get out of the bobsl eds. I was "Unci e Carey's girl"and sat on his lap dur ing the funeral . Theodora rHe<) oferysipelas, brought to him by the doctor , Dr. Howell, whodelivered him. The funeral was held in the home.

When I was about five year s old, against GrandmotherS t on e 1 s wishes, I went s 1eddi ng alone. Previousl y I hadsuccessful 1 y slid down this hill, passing under the barbedwire fence, onto a pond. This t ime I did not negotiate thepassage under the fence and I still bear the scar on my leftshin. In the summer , this pond was a source of frogs . Wech i1dr en used to catch them and then the family enjoyedeating the frog legs.

On Sunday afternoons we enjoyed having Unci e Ernie'sfamily visit us and it was a real treat when he woul d sing,"In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree." The girls, Grace andFrances, wou 1 d sometimes stay snd many hour s were spentplaying house down in an old grove of sugar maple trees.

One accomplishment of whi ch I was proud was that Istar t ed my cake baking by making my own seventh birthdaycake. This practice has been f ol 1 owed by each of my threechi 1dren.

Gordon had trained ,one of the cows so that he coul dride on her bare-back style. Grace and Achsa thought theywould try it but the cow thought differently. She wentunder every bush possi bl e and finally bucked them both of f .I was saved this indignity by my tender age.

When I was si x years old Dad took me on my first trainride (a business trip for him) to Lansing, Michigan inSeptember , 1 905 . Gordon had taken us to Coats Grove tocatch the C.K.S-S. ( Chi cago, Kalamazoo end Saginaw), affec¬tionately known as the "Cuss, Kick and Swear" . At Woodburywe took the Pere Marquette main line train to Lansing. InLansing we stayed at my gr eatuncl e ' s ( John Chase). One ofDad's cousins was a streetcar motorman so I was privilegedto take a trip with him. Whi 1 e in Lansing, I becameacquai nted with my gr eat grandmother , Lucy Young 1 ove HicksChase . I believe she was already b 1 1nd.

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I faintly remember Dad's delivering of milk from theold milk wagon, He was the owner of the first silo inBarry County . He was progressive and the first dairymento purchase a cream separater . I remember Dad going outand giving lectures for many years on separat ion and testingof milk and care of cat tie. One day our silo blew down,killing a cov. . Dad immediately rebuilt the silo.

V/e always wen t to the County Fair. We rode the merry-go-round end ferris wheel , watched the horse races, butseldom went into the grandstand® The following familypicnic dinner with Aunt Cora's family was always e bigevent . Aunt Cora lived five miles southwest of Hastings,near Podunk Lake and the old Stone homestead. Many yearsI spent parts of my vacations, two or three weeks at atime, at Aunt Cora's.

I used to ride horseback a 1 ot , never with a saddle,We didn't know what a saddle was , We always had dogs,collies. One time, Achsa end Iwent after the cattle. Thedog ran after the train instead of the cattle end waskilled by the train.

In September before I was seven, I started school atthe Fi slier School , three-fourths mile south and one mileeast of our farm. My teacher was Grace Gorham (her maidenname). We often drove during the winter, Gordon puttingthe horse in the church sheds (United Brethren) acrossthe rord from the school . Once, in school, I rapped underthe. desk and the teacher went to the door . Ev en uponrepeating the stunt the teacher was fooled again.

One Sunday, when returning from Sunday School (FisherUnited Brethren Church), the horse celled "Snip" becamefrightened and began kicking. Mother and Gordon jumpedout of the buggy. Achsa was thrown out and when the horsefinally quieted, I was on the floor of the !>uaqy just backof the dash-board, uninjured,

On another occasion, Achsa (age eleven) and I went threemiles to Hastings for her music 1 es son . All went wel 1 untilwe were a mile anc! a half Prom home. The horse Charlie,five years old, started running dov.n s hill and kept righton running! After crossing the railroad track, Achsa and Iwere thrown out of the buggy and the horse went on home,Mother got into the buggy and started out in search of us,The horse hf-.d not quieted down sufficiently so she ran itinto a field and let it run around the field. V.'e picked upour strewn music and started for home, uninjured!

Our school was a one-room affair with but fifteen ortwenty pupils from first through eighth grades,

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Dad was the first to have a gasoline engine. Also,we were the first in the neighborhood to have a telephone,wall style, which was in about 1?05.

In March of 1908 , we moved to the old brick house onthe old Edmonds ' homestead. Dad had built this house immed¬iately back of the old log cabin where he was born in 1867.He was 21 when he built the bricl- house. 11 was two stor ieswith six rooms and a hell downstairs and four or five bed¬rooms upstairs. It still (1968) stands, a beautiful house,

finished in walnut and cherry in the hall, stairway, andsoma of the rooms. The lumber wes milled from timber cuton the farm.

The school house (Durf ee) was also a one room building,just below the hill. Of course we immediately went toschool . We had a schoolmaster for the rest of th?t term.One Monday morning he was 1 at e . We ( about twenty ) wentinto the wood shed when we saw him coming down the roÿd.Gor don 1ocked us in and then went and hid. The school -master finally arrived and found us but had trouble quietingus down until we returned to the school room. Thereafter,he was quite punctual.

My first dollar was earned by doing an arithmeticproblem published in the local weekly newspaper. It wasworked during a snowstorm on the first day of May, 19O8 .The dol 1 ar was given by a hardware firm. They al so gaveme a small cover ed glass dish.

I attended the Durfee School until March, 1 9 1 0 . Ihad many interesting and enjoyable experiences while attend-ing there. Some of the relatives in the one-room schoolwere Christie, Millie and Arthur Wilcox, Lu1 a Manning,Greta Padleford, cousins of my Dad. Gordon and Achse al soattended.

During th 1 s two-year r esi dence in Baltimore Townshi pin the "Old Brick House", Dad was farming and in the latewinter months (February end March) maple sugar and maplesyrup was made. The sap was taken from the many large mapletrees in the woods immediately back of the house. Dadmodernized the house by instal 1 ing a bathroom and a furnace.As our house was large, I have many recollections of boxsocials and neighborhood parties being held. There was onewedding, that of friends Lizzie Lenz and Frank Ferris.Lizzie had been our hi red girl for many months i While, inBaltimore we attended a Methodist church , about three milesaway on the Battle Creek Road.

Dad firmly believed in bettering cur education, so whenGordon was about to finish 8 th grade he dec ided to move toHastings so we would be near a high school. He took

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employment 1n the Goody ear Hardware Store there after havingan auction sale on 25 February 1P l0 . This sale consisted ofall stock and farm tools. The form was rented to tenants, aDutch family. We moved the household goods to 1 38 West Mar¬sh.? 1 1 Street, Hastings. This residence was in Dad's ownershipuntil about 19*45.

When I entered school in Hastings, I had to go back tofourth grade as the fifth grade was advanced further thanwhat I had been having in the country school . The publicschool , an old white central building, was four blocks fromhome. 1 continued in this school through my junior year.We moved to Charlotte, Michigan in the Summer of 1 9 1 7 and Igraduated the next year, 1918, from the high school there.

When I was in sixth grade I was out of school twelveweeks with pneumonia, A nurse, Grace Giddings, was requiredfor four weeks. Recovery was complete and I have never beenbothered since. Soon after I returned to school , after theEaster vacation, we all had chic kenpox and over the Fourthof Jul y holiday I had the mump s . From thst year on , I nevermi ssed any school .

One of my school honor s was receiving a certificate inPalmer System of Penmanshi p . My high school general averagewas 91 .5%. Several items made by me in school, such es mapsand sewing, were displayed at the County Fair. I was in theGlee Club and the Chorus . Our outstanding performance was"H .M.S .P inafor e" . The Chorus goye concerts each y err andthe Glee Club sang before numerous outside organizations,During my freshman year , I was chosen to give a toÿst (tenminutes) for the freshman class at the annuel High SchoolBanquet for the ent ire studentbody .

During my three years o f high school in Hastings, Iworked for Dad as the bookkeeper for Jor den and SteeleManufacturing Company . The plant, located on Green Streetand the C.K.&S. Railroad tracks ( future site of the EdmondsOil Company) manufactured stat ionary tub end sink frrmes.The product s were wholesaled all over the count ry .

Before 1 9O8 , we had af f i 1 i t ed with the First Presby¬ter ian Church of Hastings. When we returned in 1910, webecame active in this church . Dad became an el der and SundaySchool Superintendent. He was an elder for over 25 years.Mother taught the Sunday School class of adult women for manyyears. 1 taught the primary class, was Recreational Chairmanof the Christian Endeavor (young pebple's organization) andsang in the choi r for many years .

When I was about th irteen I was baptized ( by sprinkling)by Rev. Maurice Grigsby of the Presby ter ien Church and declareda member at that time. My cousin Frances was baptized at thesame time®

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My first recollection of Grandma Edmonds was when Iwas about six years old. She had then 1 eft the Edmondshomestead to live in Hastings in an old house about .520 SouthChurch Street . This house was immediately back of the Bondhouse v/e later lived in from March 1 932 to August 1933. Atthat time she had a very severe illness and the whole familywas much concerned. She heel & very satisfactory recoveryand soon moved to 1 30 West Marshall Street where she livedunt i 1 her death June 1 7 , 19 1 5 .

After v/e moved to Hastings, and right next door to her,I have m-ny happy memories. I often spent Sunday afternoonswith her, combing her heir and doing things for her and withher. She became very ill in June and I gave up a high schoolpicnic at Thornapple Lake to be home. She passed away duringthat morning. After the funeral at the Methodist Churchwhere she had been a member , she was buried in Striker Ceme-t ar y , four miles southeast of Hastings* beside her husband.The four sons, Dad, Ernest, Carey and Milton, lived inHastings. Aunt Martha Freemen and Aunt Lucbf Hicks lived inDetroit. They with their families were there. A familydinner was hold in the y ar d between the two houses.

To add to the confusion at that time, two carloads ofcousins of my mother of the Stone family came from Oh io tospend a few days, arriving the day after Grandma died. Theyspent the time at Aunt Cora's until we were freer. Onecous in had a step -son who was a coup 1 e y ear s older than I.Those I can remember were Mary S t one Kent and husband Duane,Ri chard Stone and wife Gertrude, Eva Stone Hart, Emma S t on eSmith, and Hat t ie Stone Rothrock and husband Amos and sonStanley. We had a busy time with them until they left onan extended trip to the west coast .

In 1917, the Jordan £ÿ Steele Mfg. Co . was purchased bya Charlotte, Michigan stockholder and was moved to that city.Dad was also a stockholder and was active in the company. Wemoved in August of that year and I entered the high school ,taking my senior year there. I sang in the high school GleeClub there. In Charlotte we attended the CongregationalChurch. In February of 1 9 18 , I took the Federal Civil ServiceExamination for bookkeeper. In April I was offered employ¬ment in Washington, D.C. but because of Gordon's oppositionand due to the crowded conditions in Washington (World War I)my parents thought it best the-t I reject the offer. For I'l-weeks before graduation v/e had to go to school on Saturdaysin order to graduate earl icr sc some of the f el 1 ows couldeither work on the farm or be drafted for service. Graduationwas May 31, 1 9 18 .

Achsa had not been too wel 1 end had been unable to attendhigh school regularly. So after a two years attempt, shewent to work for a doctor in Grand Rapids, Michigan ashousekeeper. After two years there she went to a college in

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Val pari so, IncHena for a y ear . There she met Ear 1 Frase,a student from Washington state. He had been employed atthe steel mills 1n Gary , Indiana. They decided to be mar¬ried December 24 , 1917, at our home in Charlotte. Ofcourse, big plans were made for it and it went off in theusual manner with a dinner following the ceremony and thecouple hurry ing away . The biggest event , however , was whenDad and Mother called us into the bedroom and presented eachof us girls with a gold watch. Mo had not been able to gettwo alike so he just handed them out . Mine happened to bea very good one and is still keeping good time after 53 yearswhile Achsa's never did keep good time and has 1 ong sincebeen discarded. The day following, Achsa and Earl returnedfor Christmas celebration and we had a family picture with¬out in-laws.

Gordon graduated from Hastings Hi gh School in June1 9 1 3 and that Fall started college (Michigan AgriculturalColletoe, later Michigan State University), graduating inJune, 1 9 1 7 . I spent several weekends with him there,attendi ng col 1 ege activities. I generally stayed at eitherfriends in East Lansing or with my Great Unci e John Chase(Grandma Chase Edmonds ' brother ) . Early Monday morning Iwould take an el ect r ic train to R 1vei£ Junct ion (12 mi 1 esfrom Jackson ) then the Mi chi gon Central train, arriving atHastings in time for school . One weekend, the family droveover and wh i1 e there Dad and Mother were called to Mills-da1 e for the funeral of a cousin-in-1ew of Mother's. Hewas Jim Crow who had been killed in en acci dent near Lan¬sing. Maurice and I had to go home by train. Dad thoughthe had given us enough money to make the trip to Hastingsbut it p roved to be a very sad experience. We wanted to gethome on Sunday night, so after spending a pleasant day w 11hGordon and relatives we were taken to the electric; trainstation. Much to our sorrow we had to go clear into Jacksonwith no hal f-fare t icket for Maurice. I was 15 at the timeand Maurice was 9. We did not realize until well on our wayth-it v, e did not have money enough to get home. Needless tosay how worried we were, and what we could do as we knew noone we c ou 1 d ask for help. Wai t ing until near 1 y train time,I final 1y bought an adult fare ticket to Hastings and half-fare as far as 1t woul d take him, which was less than halfway,The conductor was kind enough to let Maurice continue toHast ings and we arrived home 1ate that night. Maurice and Ihave had many good loughs about it.

I spent some of the Christmas 1 9 1 7 vacat ion in GrandRapids with Alma Grabel and attending parties celebratingNew Year 1 s Eve. On New Year's Day I took an early train forCharlotte and at Hastings, Gladys Sisson, Gordon's girl, goton the train. The S issons had 1 iv ed across the corner fromus in Hastings and so we had been friends for nv.ny years,Gordon and she had not made definite p1-?ns for a wedding,but after talking it over in Charlotte th-t afternoon,

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decided there was no better time than that evening in Free-port at Gladys' parents' home. Gor don was home on leavefrom the Army (World War I) . The west her was bad v. 1th afine snow later, but we piled into the old fashioned touringcars with side curtains that never did fit, end drove toHastings and Freeport (40 miles in all, 10 miles from Hastings),11 was a col d ride and we didn't get there unt i 1 earlyeven ino . Mrs, Sisson had a fresh side pork (fried) dinner,Afterwards, Gordon and Gladys were married in their livingroom by a Methodist minister from Freeport .

The weather had become, so bad and the. roads nearlyimpassable. After driving the ten miles back to Hastings,we decided to take the midnight train for Charlotte.' Thattrain was very late so we didn't get home until nearly four.I we s definitely not ready for school and my physic tercher ,during the first hour, advised me to go home end get somesleep. Later on January 2, Achsa and Earl boarded a trainfor Earl's home in Daisy,, Washington.

Grandpa and Grandma Stone lived in a house across therorcl from Podunk Lake, where my mother was born. A UnitedB r et.li r en Church was about a city block to the south and thePodunk school was across the road from the Church. He wasvery active in the church; Superintendent of the SundaySchool for twenty years. The Stone family had arrived fromOhio to this location in a May snowstorm about 1360. Heserved as a volunteer in the Northern forces during theCivil War . I have a little stone heart on a chain he shapedand poli'shed while in the service. Grandma was also activein the church but her home was her main concern.

My first recollection of Grandma Stone was her beingat her living quarters at Aunt Cor a ' s - -Mother ' s sister andUncle Charlie Biggs home. After their house, burned dov nin the Spring of 1 9 1 6, Grandma Stone spent more t ime with us .As she grew older and had hardening of the arteries, shebecame very forgetful and needed more care night end day ,In the Fall of 1 9 1 8 she became ill at Aunt Cora's (five milessouthwest of Hastings) and finally passed away on December 2,1 9 1 3 . Her funeral was December '4 , a very cold blustery day .We were then living in Charlotte but Mother and Dad were atAunt Cora's './hen she died. I left work and went over to thefuneral, returning that night by train. She is buried atR u11 7 nd Cemetary , west of Hastings, beside her husband.Charles Henry Stone had died in January before I was born.I a 1 way s enjoyed being with Grandma Stone and she gave mealot of attention.

The family moved back to Hastings in February, 19 1 9 . Iremained in Charlotte, rooming and bocrdi ng , until June, 1920.After graduating from high school, I wes employed as cashierand bookkeeper in the Michigan Stores (chain store, five centsto one dollar from Flint, Michigan). Following this, I was

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a retail bookkeeper for grocers Lamb and Spencer Comspny fora year. After the family left Charlotte, I. attended theMethodist Church. I had many f r iends and a full social life.In December of 1 9 19 I joined the Order of the Eastern Staron Gordon's masonic membership, and in January 1920, Ijoined the White Shrine of Jerusalem,,

In August 19I 9, Alma Grabel (later Mol 1 ) came fromGrand Rapids, We went by trai n to Detroit and by boat toBuffalo, New York, then by interurban to Niagra Falls, Westayed there two days and retraced our trip back to Detroitwhere we stayed for three days. We had a great time shopping,sight-seeing, and went on a boat trip to Put-in-Say .

I spent the summer of 1 920 at home in Hastings. Dadwas selling road construction machinery in the eight northerncounties of lower Michigan,, I spent two weeks there with himand visiting Dad's aunt "Maggie11 Chase, widow of Grandma'stwin brother at Boyne City, We made a trip to MackinacIsi and one day for a delightful boat trip,

In September, Achsa and Earl moved to Ada, Ohio wherethey both attended Oh io Northern University. I went thereone term to help them take care of a boys' rooming house andtook twelve weeks of advanced bookkeeping. It was during thepresidential election year when I was at Ada, Ohio, and itbeing my first opportunity to vote, I became interested inpolitics. On my birthday, October 18, a celebration foryoung voters of America was held at Marion, Ohio, home ofthe Republican presidential candidate, Warren G. Harding,Calvin Coolidge, a Vice Presidential nominee, also waspresent. 11 was col d when we 1 eft at an early hour f r cmAda, Oh io by train, but was very warm during the day . Dueto the large crowd, some of us ate a pick-up lunch of crackers,cheese and cold-cuts of meat in the storeroom of a grocerystore. Then we had a long wait before about a mile and ahalf march to Harding's home, Our group from Ohi o NorthernUniversity was near the head of the marchers so we stood ona graveled yard in the sun, waiting for the other studentsfrom various colleges, universities and others to arrive.During the program I felt as if I had had it and remarked,"I have to get out of here because I am feeling fÿint," Wewere about 15 feet from the porch where the candidates werespeaking. A fellow student from ONU helped me our. of thecrowd, up on the porch, a few feet from the speakers, and intoHarding's home. Mrs. Harding came and asked me if I wouldlike to go upstairs to lie down. I was feeling much betterby that time and declined, I did stay quiet the rest of theafternoon but had recovered and was served later a chickendinner on the back porch. We took a train during the evening,returning to Ada about midnight when it was cold again. TheONU student was very considerate of me until we arrived home,

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I was hoping to seek employment in Lansing or GrondRapids after arriving home about the first of December.However, A ben Johnson, owner of the Hastings Manuf ictur ingCompany and with control 1 ing interests in two other manufact¬uring companies, wanted me to work at the first mentioned.This company soon began making the "Hastings Piston Rings"which are still very popular today, 1971.

After nine months, I decided that I didn't went toHIBERNATE in Hastings all of my life. My hi gh school friendswere all gone and I had a very 1 one 1 y life there. I went toChicago in September of 1 921 and entered the Chicago Osteo¬pathic Hospital as a student nurse on the recommendation ofthe. Osteopathic physician in Hastings* During my thi rteenmonths of training I worked on the surgical floor ~n d in theobstetricel deportment . On my last day of duty I "scrubbed"for two 08 cases and assisted in minor and major surgery fora total of f if teen consecutive hour s . The next day I v/as

mar r ied. 1 had a good time et Chicago, attending collegeand fraternity f unct ions .

In December of 1920 Imet Clarence E. Hyatt, who wasthen working as an or der 1 y end junior intern at th? hospitaland was a student in the attached Chicago College of Osteopathy.During January I was on night duty . Every evening betweensix and seven, we woul d take a brisk walk of about two miles,going to Lake Michigan near the Cooper Car 1 ton and SissonHot el s on 53rd Street . I went onto the floor for duty atseven p.m. and worked until seven a.m., sometimes having onlytwo hours off duty .

Whether it was a case of "the way to a man's heart isthrough his stomach" or not , I had made cocoa for us everymorning at Clarence's 3 a.m. visit to a baby patient withmeningitis. He saw thi s baby for a brief treatment everyhour for eight days and seven nights. He had a private roomon the floor during this case . Clarence and I had our firstdowntown date in January, the night the baby died.

I spent on e week as a special nurse on 8 post -op er at ivecose for Dr. Willi am C . MacGr egor . Although I v/as but ostudent nurse he requested me for duty as a private nurse butSuperintendent Wall would not let me cont inue as e privatenurse. In July, I spent another month of night duty, thi stime on the "0.B." floor. On day duty I had spent most ofmy time on the surgical floor, one month on the obstetricalfloor, 1n cl asses, and as r el ief nurse on other floors,

March 13, 1922, Clarence and I deci ded to "team it off"for the rest of our lives together . He gave me my ring amonth later®

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I took my vacation in August of 1922. Clarence ?ccom-paniec! ma to Hastings. A northern Michigan trip we s planned.We (Dad, Mother, Maurice, Clarence and I) went to Ionia onSunday and spent the night on the Prison Farm with Gordon endG1 r dy s . Gordon was Farm Superintendent* We packed up andleft the following morning in two Ford (Model T) touring errs.Vie carried three tents, bedding, five cot s , ch-irs and atsbl e, cooking equipment, a supply cupboercl, food, two gasstoves, clothing, etc. The cupboard was built onto e runningboard. The side of this case when let down made onotw othertable. Gordon and Gladys had Loren (age 7*2 months) along.He was sick at the start of the trip but quite well when wereturned, having had osteopathic care during the tri£.

Our route was up through Roscommon County where we foundno road and merely selected tracks to foil ow through the send.We went past Alma and camped at Houghton Lake. We wentthrough Indian River, Cheboygan and to Mackinaw City. Viecamped nights in crude tourist camps or in open v.- i1 d country.A side trip was made to Mackinac Island by ferry. Anotherferry took us across the Straits of Mackinac to St. Ignace.Between there and Saul t Ste, Marie we passed over one longstretch of quicksand end clay where they were building theroad. Dad and Gordon drove the two cars which were tow- ropedtogether. The rest of us walked, Clarence carrying Loren.By much maneuvering backward and forward the two cars finallypulled through to solid ground.

We stayed one night in the tourist camp at the "Soo" andslept little because of the cont inuous sounding of freighter

whistles end Fog horns. We all visited the famous ship locks.At th;.t time they were all open to the public, not under closemilitary guard as at present. Maurice (age 17), Clarence, andI wont across the Ste . Mary's River by ferry to the Canadian"Soo." Things there were very backward. It was hard to believethe difference the width of the river made b etween the twocivilizations. Kerosene lamps were in use in Canada; police¬men wore a maple leaf instead of a star; mailboxes vera redinstead of green; people were courteous but distant and woreout -of - sty 1 e clothing. Maurice was afraid we wou! d miss ourferry but we made it O.K. Returning to St. Ignace, we stayedthere one night and during the evening we heard a large herdof deer go through the camping area.

The ; eturn trip was made down the Lake Michigan coastthrough Cross Village to Good Hart where we camped fromSaturday night to Monday morning. Our camp was about one-lv. 1 fmile from Middle Village where there was a Catholic Church forthe Indians. They came to ear 1 y mass in various and sundryvehicles. A glorious drunk consumed the rest of the day. Farinto the night drunken Indicns staggered through our camp into

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Gladys' clothesline of diapers. She hod strung it acrosstheir path without knowing it . We were lulled to sleep atnight and entertained all day by the "Good Hart Symphony,"a motley chorus of many cow bells.

Continuing south along the 1 ake shore we stopped atTraverse City and visited Uncle Hilton Edmonds, Dad's brother .We went through Pentwater to Ionic, and then to Nestings. Thishod been s very interesting and lovely trip. Clarence returnedto Joliet. Dad, Mother end I went to Ada, Ohi o to visitAchso end Earl Fra s e . I returned to Chicago from Ada - 1 theend of my two week vacoti on.

A new requirement of the hospital was that ell nurseswould have to be vacc inat ed and have to serve three monthsextra, this service being in a contagious disease hospital.Having recollections of the terrible time I had with my firstvecci net ion when I was tv.'elve years old, I die. not think Iwanted to continue in the nursing profession. (I had aterrific infection in the vaccination sore end had to Ivvemedical cere for over two months before it heeled. The sc'ris still noticeable on my left arm.) After much per su*sionby Clarence I decided to give up nursing and be married,

As Clarence's time was limited by school and we couldnot take " trio home to Hastings, we decided to be marriedin Joliet. Hot of our planning and -Jesi r ps, e quite el .-boratehome wedding vips pl-.nned. Rev. E. F.. He stings of the CentralPresbyterian Church (my choice), Joliet, officiated at 123Union Street (old number), Joliet, Illinois, Saturday, October14, 1 922, about 4 p.m. Several nurse:*, interns, an -Friendsfrom Chi ccgo attended besides old acquaintances of the. HYATTfamily. Dinner was served in a private dining room in David¬son's C a f e t e r ia , across the street south from the library.It was a very rainy night. Visibility w<?s so poor thrt onecor almost hit the supports of the underpass on Clinton Street.We stayed at the house that night and went to Chicago the nextweek into a one-room apartment with a very sma 1 1 alcove et5486 Greenwood Avenue South where we lived until 11:50 p.m.,May 31 » 1923, the night Clarence graduated from college andwas granted the, degree of Doctor of Osteopathy .

We had the necessary furniture in our one-room s icoveapartment, however - -nothing to make it anything but a tem¬porary place to stay for <? few months. Our day-bed anddresser on one side of the room was our bedroom. On the otherside was a desk and bookcase, which was our i ibrary . Ourdiniiv room and kitchen were in the alcove. Our stove '..'asa two burner electric plate. Our bathroom was down the hell,used by other renters in one-room apartments. V/e were gladto leave. that after Clarence's graduation.

Thoughts about My Parents

Frank Eugene and Nett 1 e Emily Hyattby

CI arence Edmund Hyatt

My father , Frank Eugene Hyatt, and mother , Nett ie EmilyLanfear Hyatt had quite di f f erent activities before mar r iage,Each, was a member of the Baptist Church of Lockport , 1111noi s,as were my four grand parents . My father and mother , in turn,served that church as clerk, a posi11on I was to hold laterin the Mormon Church in Ward ( 2£) years) and Stake for 11 years,respect ivel y , The Lockport church was of the Northern Bapt 1 stper suasi on,

My father, being the son of Rev, George Theodore Hyatt,had a spotted and varied educat ion , He received some form ofeducat ion in South Canadi an and Atoka Choctaw Nation, IndianTer r itory , (later known as Oklahoma), Aval on Col 1 ege, Aval on,Missouri, ( operated by the United Br ethern Church ) , Also, inGardner and Maz onia, Illinois,,

My mother , Nett 1 e Emi 1 y Lanfear , 1 ived at home in HomerT ownship, Will County , 1111noi s , unt i 1 her mar r 1age, August 20,I896. Her ent 1 r e school ing was within one-hal f mile of herhome. She later went to the Lockport T ownsh ip Hi gh School ,Will County , II1 inoi s ,

As was his educat 1on, Dad's occupat ion was al so varied.Before he was 1 8 years old he had many interesting and uniqueexper iences 1n the Indian Territory and Illinois, While inthe Indian Ter r itory he had an indian pony and became an eccom-pl ished r ider . He had exper 1ence 1n book-bindlng, oiler on adeep sea tug, grocery clerk in the company store 1n T exas , InJoliet, Illinois, he was a grocery order taker and del 1very boy .Dad was later a tool maker of locks and door hardware and otherfixtures; operator and devel oper of barbed wire and field fencemachines? stock accountant in the Amer ican Steel and Wire Co, ,Rockdale, Illinois, Al 1 of these were preliminary to hi s pro¬fess ional school ing in Chi cago. He was, also, a thi nker al ongmechanica 1 1 ines. A few of his invent ions, some of which hepat ent ed, were the first folding umbr el la, the first gas stovelighter, compressed air starter for automobi 1 es, et cetra.He was al ways thi nking and developing worth while it ems ,

Dad of t en tal ked about his exper ience as an uniformedguard at the Wor Id's Col umbi an Exposit ion at Jackson Park,Chi cago. He was assi gned, for a good share of the time, tothe Swiss Jew e 1 r y and Musi cbox exhi bits. He had been requestedfor this assi gnment because of hi s proven honesty and r e 1 iabiV .ity . He served throughout the fair. This Exposit ion washeld in 1 893 in Chi cago,

My mother received t r eatment from a Lady , Doctor Edmunds.Through these treatments of my mother by this ear 1 y osteopathi cphysician, a condi t ion was cor r ect ed which had prevented normal

concept ion . Due to these successful treatments of Dr. Edmunds,Clarence was able to come to this world* As an appreciationof this doctor , Clarence was given a middle name of Edmund.

The ability of an osteopathi c phy s1ci an, Dr. Edmunds inobtaining results persuaded Dad that he could 1 earn to do aswell. This encouraged him to leave hi s wire mill employmentand to ent er the Ost eopathi c Col 1 ege in Chi cago. The coursewas extremel y heavy and pract ical , running for twenty months.Most of the medi cal schools graduated their students in 2kmonths, However , many medi cal doctor s were produced by themethod of "reading" under some other M. D., wi thout thebenef its of any col 1 ege.

The Osteopathic College in Chi cago was organized by fourDoctors Li ttl ejohn, graduates of the Universi ty of Edinburgh,Scot 1 and. They were Dr . J . 8 . Littlejohn, and his wife. Dr.Edith Littlejohn, and two brothers, J . Martin and DavidLittlejohn. The two brothers somet ime later went to London,England, establ ishing, for the first t ime in Eng 1 and, a collegeof Osteopathy . Clarence remembers having attending Dad'sgraduation in January 1 30k . The new profession of osteopathywas little known and gett ing a start in the business was verydifficult. Fine success was had by the 1 imi ted number ofpat ient s of this "new doctor" . Dad pract iced a short time inChi cago then in Jol iet . This brought much worry and hardship,heal th was impaired, to the extent that pneumonia and pleuisydeveloped to a serious condi t ion . Removel to Georgia wasrecommended. There, pract ice was- limited to three after-noonsper week. The rest of the time was given over to hard farmwor k . 1-1ea 1 1h was restored in three years, (August 1908-1911).

Aft er returning from Georgi a, Dad rebui 1 1 hi s practiceas an Osteopathic Physician having in most cases , excel 1 entto wonderful success , giving health and comf or t to many manypeople. Hi s chi ef interest was in hi s ability to help hi smany patients. He made many f r iends as was evi dent by the1 arge number of mourners attending hi s funeral . He was highly1 oved and respected by so many people.

My mother had di f f icul ty in accept ing her life as a wi f eof a profess ional person, wi thout a great deal of earningover many years. She had very few contact s and close f r iends .At the time of Dad's death, he had been, for sometime theSenior Deacon in the Eastern Ave. Baptist Church.

After my father 1 s death my mother 1 ived <?lone for abouteight months. She than moved in with us and mcW<3 to Utahwith us, s ix years later. She 1 ived with us unt i1 her death,Sept ember 13, 1959# f ol 1 owi ng a stroke two days previousl y ,

Much to our surpr ise two Mormon Lady Missionaries con¬verted my mother to the Latter-day Saint Faith. She was bap¬tised 9 August 1 953 by our older son, Preston, and Clarenceconf irnried her a member of the Church on the following Sunday .She had been interr 1gated in depth and approved by Bishop C .Nello Westover , and by the Mission president, Rulon Morgan.Dad had, years before approved fully the teachi ngs and doc¬trine of the Mormon Church. However , he woul d not acceptmembership wi thout his wife coming along too. After her death,T emp 1 e endowments were done for each of them as was, al so hersealing to Dad and CI arence to them. This work was done inthe Salt Lake Temple, at CI arence inst 1gat ion.

I have great respect for my father in oil that he eccom-plished, with the difficulties of his life, he did so well,continuously struggl ing for a better living® He was most con-si derate working with a cont 1nuing effort to improvehimself and family. In short , he was a fine, wonderful man.

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THE LIFE OF CLARENCE EDMUND HYATT.

I was born at 1212 State Street , Lockport, Will County,Illinois. The time was the exact middle of the last monthof lust century or noon of Sunday , December 1 6, 1 900. Theexpert attendants were Dr . Courtney (M .U .) and the nurse (?)Mrs. Fred (Louise) Chamberlain. The place was in a houseowned by 3i 11 and Sarah Turner who lived upstairs.

T wo of the above come again into my life at much Irterdates. Mrs. Turner attended our wedding in Jo1 iet , Illinois,being the oldest p er son there, about 82 years old. Dr.Courtney was present when our first son, Preston, w as born.

The apartment in the Turner house consisted of fourrooms at $ 8 .00 per month on the ground f 1 oor . Inc 1 uded inthe $ 3.00 was a barn for the buggy horse. My pr,rents livedin thc.t house one or two years but only a f ew months cfter Iwas born. Then we moved to my cousin, s, Will Brown's houseuntil Dad w en t to school in Chicago. Aunts Estelle and Ids(Dad's on 1 y sisters) lived with us there.

When Dad went to school , our goods were stored in a barnon a 1ot Dad owned, where he had planned to build a house.This 1 ot was purchased from "Wm. Henry", my grandfatherLanf ear , and was sold when we moved to Georgia in 1 908 .

We went to the farm, owned by my Grandfather Lanfear, inHomer Township, Will County, Illinois, ,?v miles east ofLockpor t . We lived there all of the time Dad was in school .When he graduated in January of 1904, we soon moved to theWallace Flats, 304 East Washington St r eet , Joliet, Illinois.The building was d irect 1 y south of the cour thous e . Thebuilding site is now occup ied by the east half of the EaglesLodge bui 1 d ing.

After my f o 1 k s were married out on the Lanfear farm,Dad rode dai iy from the farm to Rockdale, two miles vest ofJoliet. He rode his speed bicycle down the Alton Railroadtracks to Joliet and over the Rock Island, over the dangerousrailroad bridge to Roc kdal e .

When the f o 1 ks went to housekeeping first, they moved toJoliet, renting a small place the third door west of ArchCourt on the north si de of CI int on St r eet . They 1 ived therea few months end then went to the Turner house. When married,Dad worked as a Columbian Guard at the Wor 1 d 1 s Fair inChi cago, known as the Wor Id's Col umb ian Expos it ion . 11opened one year late, 1 893 , as it was to have been hOO yearsafter Columbus' supposed discovery of America® Dad's chiefassignment was in the jewelry and music boxes exhibit of the

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Swiss government. This was acquitted by his proven honestyin the act of turning in a very valuable piece of jewelryfound in the exhibit cases at night,

This is not to be a story of my folks except as theirlives affect this story. Dad's earliest employment in Lock-port was as an expert tool maker with the Barrows Lock Company.He made tools for manufacturing locks,, hinges End other doorhardware* He went with the Baker Barbed Wire where he rrwdethe world's first barbed wi re. This mi 1 1 finally moved toJoliet as the Lambert Mill (on Railroad Str eet ) , laterabsorbed by the Amer ican Steel and Wire. Dad went alongfinally to the Rockdale plant. He worked successively onbarbed wire and field fence machines and as a weigher. Duringthis t ime he invent ed the control whereby one operator cou 1 dcont rol four machines at one time, increasing his tonnage pay .Of course, Dad r ecei ved nothing for this. Later , he becamea bookkeeper with the same outfit, setting up their accountings y s t ern of stocks , materials, etc. He wor ked at the Rockdaleplant until he left to go to sch ool in Chicago.

Whi 1 e in Rockdal e, Dad got a job for his brother , UncleHerbert, as an engineer, becomi ng Chief Engineer upon hisretirement at age 70. Grandfather Theodore Hyatt wor ked atthe same plant during the last period of hi s life, up to anhour before his death.

It might be well to tell something of the identity ofmy parents. My father was Frank 'Eugene Hyatt . An earlyschool r ep or t card showed his name as "Francis" , He was bornSeptember 11 (or 9 ) , 1867, in the village of Gardner, GrundyCounty, Illinois. That day his father was absent, being aSupervisor attenaing a Board of Supervisors Meeting at thecounty seat , Morris, Illinois.

Dad's par ent s were Rev . George THEODORE Hyatt and MelveniaCairns. I never had the privilege of seeing ei ther of myHyatt grandparents. I feel that was a great loss as I believethey were wonderful persons. It makes me proud to h:.ve themas progenitors.

Grandpa Hyatt was a man of various capabilities. MyDad of t en told me. of them. Grandpa had been a school teacherin Mi s sour i, I believe. One story was of a count ry schoolattended by several overgrown boys who had successfully drivenoff all pr ev ious teachers by means of physical attacks. A tthe first bell of the first day's opening, Grandpa stationedhimself at the wood box and persuaded the bullies that theirattack woul d on 1 y r esu 1 1 in some cracked heeds. He remainedmaster of the situation and taught in that school until thebeginning of the Civil War. It was necessary to leave thisslavery area or be drafted into fighting against the Union.

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Grandpa left by a night freight with the family leaving laterfor their new home in Gardner , Illinois.

I believe they must have lived here for some time earlieras Grandpa and Grandma were married in Gardner . Grandpa'sfather, Frederick Wetzel Hyatt, had been a justic of the peacein Gardner and performed about four of the first score or soof marriages in Grundy County , Illinois.

I know all too little about my father's mother . Iunderstand that she never had a picture taken . She was of aScotch family of New York City, Staten Island, and nearbyNew Jersey. Her father was a Major in the War of 1812.

Grandpa Hyatt (Theodore) served in Company D, 127thInfantry , Illinois Volunteers, reaching the rank of Order 1y(First) Sergeant . He fought th roughout the Civil War to theBattle of Atlanta, Georgia. While he and a comprnion werecrawl ing along, a Rebel sniper shot Grandpa in the heel,shattering the bones. The companion, who I believe was aGe ski 1 1 , father of Byron, Emily and Cora of Joliet, Illinois,saw the block powder smoke coming from a tree. lie shot intothe smoke and the sniper fell to the ground.

Grandpa had won the Congressional Medal of Honor by hisbravery in leading the attack in the second siege of V icksburc,after his officers were either killed or h"d deserted. Inlater years Grandpa received a monthly pension of $18.00.When he was finally awarded the Medal, the pension was droppedto $ 8 .00 per month. A letter of his, now on file in theNational Archives in Washington D .C ., is a prize of irony ,wondering whether the government expected him to live on thelately r ecogn iz ed honor .

In his education, Grandpa Hyatt attended Knox Col lege atGalesburg, Illinois and later the Baptist Theological Seminaryof the University of Chicago. He was ordained as c ministerof the Northern Baptist Conference. He f i 1 led a pulpit atCordova, Illinois on the Mississippi River about 1369, Laterhe was a Baptist Missionary to the Choctaw Indians at Atoka,Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Later yet, he was a book¬keeper for his brother, Uncle Frank, in construction of thejetty walls at Sabine and Galveston, Texas as well cs Hyatt,Texas? then at Tampico, Mexico with Uncle Frank in a beefslaughtering business. Hi s foot injury and debi 1 ity fromwar time exposure precluded any heavy labor.

Gr-ndpe Lanfear came with his parents from New YorkState in 1 Q 3 4 . They settled on Haw ley's Hill, Yankee Settle¬ment, Homer Township, Will County, Illinois. Around the cornerof the section settled the Savage fcmily, also from Mew York.Their daughter, Emily Maria, was eventually married to William

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Henry Lanfear. They built a single room cabin just northof the original Lanfear homestead, the same building whenenlarged was the birthplace of my mother, Nettie EmilyLanfear .

Eventuali \yt Grandpa Lanfear owned three of the fourcorners, of the road- intersection just north- of the hows©..IH;e 1: iiV'Qd, an.di dit edi on; that farm, where he had farmed! alMl ofhiis, liiifa, raisingÿ cattil e cmd; br eedli n.§ Miorgian horses,

My- mother 1l iivedi on- this, same farm, unit is li her mcrr isag!© amdla:S. tOilid! p,r ev/ii ouisjy. lin- her schio-ol! iimig.#- she- attended! the?3;a-.r ne.t t one- tro'onii scho.ol jju-stt at the- next cornier sonuith., Thenish,e- attenidiedi the iLoekp.ort Wiiig;fot School..

frl;y/ E);a:d!'! s. seho.©ÿ iimg was rather sketchy. H'e muist hcv/ebieeni tutored; at home to qimitte an extent. At oroe t irae hisattenidedi the academy/ at Avalon, Mitssour 1. . IH.ii s. tra-inning: fromthereom unit ii l! he- went to- Ghicag.c (after my birth)) vras. quite*pjiraet iscsli . Itl,e> as. a boy near Mazon-ia, Illinois, amd iin> the%Choctaw; nation;, became an expert horseman as- were his father,brother Herbert and! slitter Eat a.. iVmt Estellie- was'- excel-lien-t w.iith the reiitn.s;,, driving exhibi tions with siingilie- ©rod tandtermhitches,. Dad: had- various, jobs which gave |t»)1>m- valuabletitaiin»tira.9,» Lrai Texas, he clerked in a grocery store and keptthe store for the construct ion- company. This may be repeated!listen but is of interest: one season- Dad fired a deep- sea!tug on the Gul f of Mexico, Uncl e Herbert was, the marineengineer for the same.

InOwight, Illinois, Dad clerked in a store, worked ina book-bindery- and later as an attendant in the KeeleyInstitute (Keeley gold chloride cure for alcoholics and dopeaddicts). In Jol iet, he clerked in a grocery store (Hart's)at Jackson anc- Collins St r eet --southeast corner . He woulddrive from customer to customer in the morning taking orders,return to the store, fill the orders, and go out and deliver11", the homes,

Ail- of, this information I have recorded from memory ofthe many, times. Dad, tolcl me of these- things. The tellingwill truly, be much too drab to do him justice. How can: one-tell the thrills of helping to break two carloads of Indiamponies at a time, ponies taken by Uncle Herbert anc GrandpaHyatt from, the range in the Indian Territory and! shipped! to»Gardner, Ililinois to be broken. What a viv id and exciting;end; to, an undeveloped: career as a violinist: wHi '.He- pilay/inqtthe instrument in the kitchen, lightning struck the chimney/and; blasted- the cook stove, developing; an applause too> greatfor comfort!5

Grandpa Hyatt could; add rapidly three columns of figures-..Dadi coulsdl canny-/ two. columns. Somewhere, Dad! acquired! and'-

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developed a rare mechanical skill which I have not as to non-human-body mechanics. Dad could make most anything with epair of wire-cutting and bending pliers and a piece of wire.i-le invented many things which I will try to list if and whenI try to write his hi story . Chief amongst his inventionswere the fo 1 <11 ng, . col 1 apsab 1 e unbrella or parasol, the firstgas stove lighter, and a compressed-air starter for euto-mobi 1 es . The gas stove lighter was stolen from him by ap rominent Akron, Ohi o stove firm. He traded the umbrellapatent for a Winton automobile. The starter worked but wasnever developed. A 1 1 of this non-school training helped Dadimmensely when he decided to study osteopathy.

My first true memor ies go back to the farm in HomerTownship. Some are quite early, possibly as early as when Iwas three years old and others extending over visits to thefarm until 1 908 in August when we moved to Tallapoosa, Georgia.

As memories often are, some of mine are quite silly butwere of sufficient import to Hist these fifty-plus years. Iremember sleeping in an alcove off from the unused (exceptfor funerals) and of course, unheated front parlor in the homeof my Lanfear grandparents. It was AWFUL cold! Nevertheless,I had to sit on the floor to put on my new red slippers (Howthe rest of me would freeze!) before running rcross the hellto the living room which was heated by a hard cod baseburner. Dressing was a process of rotation to kee > one sidetoward the comfort of the stove. Sometimes when I had achest cold it would be necessary' to stand next to the stoveand then came the hot , st i cky application of stick salve.

This same living room had other kid memor ies . My threecousins, Stella, Charlie, and Mary Lanfear, and I would oftenenjoy an evening of being "seen but not heard." The tacked-down carpet was laid over from four tc six inches of straw andmade a very comfortable seat for the kids. My GrandfatherLanfear would sit in one easy platform rocker and UncleAlbert, his son , in the other . Grandpa would di scour se onsome w eighty subj ect while Uncle Albert would snpr e. Then itwould be Uncle Albert's turn to add his deep and wonderful (?)op inion s while Grandpa took the snoring shift! Often it wasbetter than pr of essi onal vaudevi 1 1 e an d, of cour se, we kidswould snicker or whisper. That often brought reor imands andbroke up our ent er tai nment .

The next room was the di ning-ki tchen. It had a largewood-burning cookstove, woodbox, sink, rol 1 er -towel and alarge farm dining tab 1 e. At al 1 funerals, this rccm w as thegathering place for the "Spit and Whittle Club". Funerals werequite the social events. All regular meals of the family wereeaten in this room, the men being served first end the womenhurrying r n.-r.i stove V- table with the; hot dishes and hottercoffee. The coffee always „as too hot and, of course, had to

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be 1 saucer ed'. I enjoyed the chorus as I did watching themastication of cubes of fried fat p r*v\< wi th occasional gush-ings of fat f r om corners of mouths.

Once in this dining-ki tchen, there was a pile of dinnerplates on the table. I had Dad's big wire-cutter pliers inmy hands . 1 guess the f our - or five-year-old boy wanted tolearn some of the resistance properties of ceramics. Theresult was catastrophe which was duly impressed upon my memoryfor ever !

One of a series of convict farm hands wss one I celled,"Boom 3oom Tar 1 ie" . When he would bring the warm, fresh milkto the house he would sour a cup of it for me. Many convictshave s friendly feeling toward kids. I experienced this onseveral visits with my grandfather to the Illinois State Peni¬tentiary at Joliet. Each adult visitor was iven a slice ofwhite bread. When the kid would come along the operatingthe slicing machine would remove the white bread end would cutme a si ice of brown bread which he would butter for me. Mygrandfather sold beef to the penitentiary and worked numerousconvicts as farm hands, for their board and bed.

Opening into the ki tchen was a milk-cooking pantry usedFor cream-raising pans so the cream could be skimmed off forchurning. Usual 1 y , there was a cookie jar filled with friedcakes, now known by some as 1 doughnut s ' . They were a choicedelicacy for me as were the roasted onions, rotsted directlyin the hot wood :3shes in the end 'of the st ove.

Outside the kitchen, v.'as an immense attached wood shed.It enclosed also a crank type chain pump on a shall ow well.However , most of the drinking water came from the windmilloperated deep well out by the large red hay-cattle barn whichmy Dad painted once.

An attraction outside the kitchen door was the farmbell, hung on a high pout. It was used to call 'the men 1 tomeals and in case of emergency. It seems to me that I oncegot hold of the bell rope and believe that the sudden influxof men from the field indicated that I did not fully understandthe code.

In front of the house, along the road, was a wooden fencefrom which rny mother, when a girl, had fallen and broken herarm. There was a good-sized apple orchard with a couple ofmulberry trees. There was almost no garden because the groundwould produce mor e money when planted to corn. No thoughtwas given to the land wasted by the tall osage orange hedgesurrounding the farm, nor to the large undrained slough inone of the ' back forties'.

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Buildings were numerous and varied. There were toolsheds, corn cribs (double with an enclosed driveway between ) ,horse barns, long horse sheds and the big hay, grain, andcow shed of the eastern or truly the Pennsylvania type. Ialmost fogot the separate grain storage building, usuallyoats. We three younger kids liked to climb up on top of theoats and play as we did also in an empty split-rail corncribin the orchard.

Once when I was not over f iHfie or six, I was crossing thebarnyard, I was not afraid of the cows but, this day, theold C: en11 eman of the herd was in the enclosure. He chased meand I tumbled into an outdoor manger end escaped through ahole in the back . In returning to the house, I climbedthrough one of the osage orange hedges and, being barefoot,I collected a terrible th orn straight into the heel . 11 tookboth my mother and dad to hold me while Dad cut the.' thorn out.The pain was intense,

Near the barns, at the w in dmi 1 1 , were two wateringtroughs for the cattle and horses. The water, very cold fromthe deep well, would be pumped into the metal tank which wasof the deep type with oval ends. This col d wot er would f 1 owinto a large, shallow, wooden tank where the water was yetquite cool , ent i r el y too cool forkids to bathe in. Charlieand I worked out a system. We would, teeth chattering,immerse up to our necks for a quick count of a minute in theicy water. Then we could 'swim' in comparative comfort inthe cool water of the wooden tank . Some system!

I learned a couple of other tricks here from C h r 1 ie .The first was either about 1 908 or in 1911. 'With threecigarettes, he taught me to smoke. The first was all cornsilk? the second was half corn silk and he 1 f 3u 1 1 Durham;tho third all Bull Durham smoking mixture*

In 1 9 1 1 , Charlie taught mo to fire his hunting rifleby laying it across a rail of the rail fence* The calibrewas in the .'40' s. Wow, what a kick! Nice instructor, too!?

Attached £<r the north va.1 1 of the rmafn house was anotherfor Uncle Albert, Aunt Minnie and their three children andsome of the hired men. Their living conditions were not onas high a standard as in the main house. They almost neverhad cash money. Grandpa would take a 'want list1 to t own forAunt Minnie. After censoring the desired items, he wouldpurchase the rest for her. When Albert would take a load ofgrain into Lockport for sale, Grandpa would drive in andcol 1 ect the money .

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desirable social contacts and the untimely death of Stella,the oldest ch i1 d, prepared Mary and Char 1 ie for a slip and acomplete downfal 1 when they succeeded in stealing all ofthe farm, left in 1 if e- int er est by Grandpa to Uncle Albert,t hen bl ind.

The vji 1 1 of William Henry Lanfear had left one-third ofkO acres--l 3 1/3 acrss--to my mother, a like amount each toher sister, Aunt Mary, and to the second wife, Amy Hoi denLanfear . Uncle Albert got the rest as a life interest. Thefarm uas of about 320 acres, some brinqing about $ÿ00.00 peracre. A crooked lawyer-banker, Muhl enfordt , of Lockoort, gotthe blind man to sign away his rights, then stole most ofthe money and bribed Charlie and Mary each with a very cheaohouse in Lockpor t and some cash, too much, to be spent atDellwood Park and, in the case of Charlie, in liquor findvfith completely rotten women. Eventually, every cent wes lost.I, also, was a gr ndson of my grandfather but was even refusedhis watch because my name was not Lanfear. Charlie receivedthe watch as v; el 1 .

I can not leave the farm without paying a compliment tothe character of my grandmother. I feel that she was a fineChristian woman of excellent parentage and background, fullyadaptable to pioneer living. My grandfather was of a morerugged type, known by themselves "Blue-bellied Yankees11 from(lev; York. The original settlement on Hawley's Hill was evenknown as ''Yankee Settlement"® I have never been able to tracehis parentage back of hi s grandfather . However , even thoughthere might have been some French b 1 ood, there undoubtedlywas a high influence of English as the Lanfear family rigidlyfollowed the English system of 'primogeniture', favor ingexclusively the first-born son . Even with this fault, GrandpaLanfear was a regular Baptist, a trustee of the First 3aptistChurch of Lockpor t , Illinois. He was whrt is known as a"shrewd bargainer".

One amusing incident must be told that has s markedtheological connotation. Families of tl.eBaptist congregationtook turns at furnishing the 'bread and w ine ' for the communionwhich was partaken of once per month. On one occasion, Grandmaleft the responsibility to the hired girl to prepare the basketwith bread and a bottle of wine. When the wine was passed ithad an odd taste and the communicants w ere seen to be smackingtheir lips. After returning home, the 'wine' bottle wasexamined end it was found to contain the family's supply ofcough syrup. And--the cough sy r up was jus t as effective asthe wine would have been.

I attended my first Sunday School classes in that BaptistChurch (the building now occup ied by the Lockpor t PublicLibrary), where my Dad was ordained as a "Deacon for Life."He served as an usher for years and as Clerk, a position mymother held later® She was the last clerk of that congregation.

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The record book is on file in the Genealogical Library, SaltLake City. We attended there wh i1 e we lived in the WallaceFlats in Joliet from about February 1 90U to about August 1907 .

The building,, known as the Wallace Flats was of threefloors with two apartments per floor. The owner and archi-tect, Charlie Wallace, and family lived in one of the firstfloor apartments. His sisters, I bel ieve, had the other .Our family had the west one on the spcond floor cr.d for sometime Aunt Estelle and Aunt Ida, Dad's sisters, had the other .Later, after Aunt Ida was married in that building, she andUncle Johnie (John L . Lyle) lived there. One of the 1 ong-time tenants on the top floor was Mrs. Wright, mother of Joeof Joliet.

The Wallace boy s were Jos eph who became an engineer(Joliet Engineering Co.), and Charles, later a Roman Cathol icPriest, and Mark (Younger). I believe there was a girl also.Joe and Charles were my playmates and donor s of measles,di pther ia and scarlet fever .

When the latter came along, I was taken to the HunterAvenue house, built by my Grandfather Hyatt. My mother wentalong to care for me. The case was very severe and Dad calledin Dr. J . B. Littl ejohn of Chicago and Edinburgh, Scotland.He put me for weeks on a diet of dry toast, lightly salted,w it hout butter, and a drink known in English as Cambr ic Teaor in Spanish as augua caliente con 1 iche , just mi1 k and hotwater, unsweetened. One sad result of this incarceration,j us t the two of us in a ten -room house , was a severe phenolbranding of the gluteus nuximus . (Brands last for life aswell as memories of negligence.)

Of course there are some very outstanding memories ofthese early years. The. flat building faced north toward theCourthouse. The Rock Island Railroad ran diagonally betweenthe Courthouse and our building. Unci e Johnnie was a passengerconductor , so that he gave me many rides including one in thecab of 1 ocomot ive number 632 from Joliet to Chicago. Dad usedto take me occasionally to Ch ic ago for an out ing on the lakeshore, the present site of the 11 1 inoi s Central Railroad inGrant Park. He was a real pal .

My only p 1 ay ground was over in the Courthouse yard,str ict 1 y on the concrete as emphasized by the "Keep off theGrass" signs. I had a pedal wagon which later went to Georgiaand back with us.

I al ways liked to hear inus ic . A banjo and mandolingroup used to practice next door . I would go out and lie downin the hall to ] isten. Once there was a death in th?tapartment end the musicians at the "wake" put on a fine

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performance. Maybe the stimulation was from the contents ofsome of the beer cases stacked on the back porch®

We had a small balcony (second floor) in front of thebuilding. There at night, I could hear , "After the Ball",etc ., from a dance hall over on Ottawa Street, p. redespassed in f rat of our place* The bal cony was a fine vantagepoint. The bal cony was wonderful for another reason. Iwould si t th ere and watch the trains pass by, especially thefreight trains. The cars had numbers (as now ) find numbersalways int r igued me even at that age (under 6? years old).I would write down the numbers on my slate and add thern. Ihope the totals were correct -- 1 believe so. At least, I havenever lost my 1 ik 1nc for mathematics.

The sur roundings of the Flats were not too good . "OldDoc Ogden" 1 iv ed on one side. On the other were two hotels,the Cottage Hotel and the Duncan, diagonally across from thejail. All over the downtown section were many saloons of theworst variety. I am thankful that Dad sacrificed to move usto 709 Oneida Street so that I could be entered in FarragutSchool for first grade in September of 1907. That first yearaccomplished th ree or four s erne st er s of advancement. However ,socially (if kids are social at all) the year was a nightmareat school wi th frequent beatings by smal 1 er boy s ! I neverwas a fighter!

A s I write this today , the 20th of August 1953, I amreminded that my parents v.ere mJ.rried 57 years ago today.A 1 so, that k5 years ago today we arrived in Tallapoosa,Georgia, where we lived for three years. That day, a railroadfare (i) was paid for me the first time. 11 was requi r ed bythe gat eman at Atlanta. There were three other firsts forthat day: I ate my first egg plant, prepared by Add (Mrs.Edward P.) Ferrell; I saw the Stars and Bars, the Confederateflag, for the first time and that being flown from the townflagpole without the American Flag ( ! ) ; while sitting down ata store front listening to the home- town band in practice, Iheard and obeyed ( th rough fright) my first curfew. The nextday was another first a s we were sol d field corn for sweetcorn under the title of 11 roost 1 n 1 ears". (V7 e ' 1 1 come backto the story of our life in the South after we tell of 190/'to I9O8 and a bit of Dad's early practice.

Dad's efforts always seemed supreme but '..are not rev/ardedwith much monetary success unti 1 in later years of which Iwill write. How ever, his results f rom practicing hi s healingart were outstanding arid many 'cures' were certainlymi raculous and he mus t have been insp ired and Divinely guided.Most of his cases in over k] years of practice were placedunder his care following one or more failures by M.D.'s whoput every possible s t one in his way .

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I believe th ;t Dad's first practice was in Stineway Hall,Kimball [31 dg ., Adams Street between State St® and Wabash Ave.,Chicago, for a brief time. Then he struggled along in theGoodspeed B 1 dg . and then the Young 01 dg ., both on JeffersonSt., joliet. Many a Saturday supper time 1 eft not a pennyfor purchase of groceries for over Sunday. Then Ed Fer r e 1 1would come in end Dad would treat him and receive 50C, af r iend 1 s rate of pry !

Dad had gone to school, mat r icul ati nr, in and twentymonths later graduating from the American College of Osteo¬pathic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, a school started andoperated by the Littlejohn family of four doctors, J. 3 .,J. Martin, David, and Edith (Mrs. J. B .) . The first two orthree were M.D.'s from the Universi ty of Edinburgh inScotland. J . Martin and David later organized the BritishOsteopathic College which under the same name still operates.In January 1904, when Dad graduated, the M.D.'s had but 2hmonths of schooling. I remember having attended his graduation.

Somet ime after we moved to Oneida St . (about August 1907),because of worry, Dad's vitality was sapped and he fell victimto pneumonia and subsequent pleurisy. For some months duringthat, my first year of school , Iwas farmed out with Aunt Idaend Unci e Johnni e Ly 1 e in the Hunter Avenue house from whereI walked to Farragut School .

Dad's condition required many tanks of oxy-:en and forsometime a nurse. I do not know where the money came fromas there was no income. Once when Dad was so si ck, the nursewas reading the old-reading fever thermometer, which lv,:d nocurved device to read maximum reading. She was reading itby the light of a match. As she struck the old-style matcha spark flew into an open clothes closet. She did not noticeit and left the room and the house. A fire started. Dad gotout of his sick bed, called the fire department and then putout the fire, returned to bed and had a relapse.

We w ere poorer than ever that year and a youngster ofseven does not realize. I always have 1 iked chocolate candy,even then. There was a half-dollar on the dresser. I tookit to the store and bought o large bag of chocolate with it,brought the bagful 1 ( except for a few pieces) and put it wherethe money had been. I guess it was quite ser ious and ther eact ion changed my ent ir e life. My mot her gave me such aviol ent beating that I have never forgotten nor forgiven.That was the 1 ast time she cou 1 d lay a hand on me.

My first vacation from school was spent with a terrificcase of whooping cough which apparently left no ill effects.

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Evidently the financial pinch was felt quite several y .Iwas home for Christinas -kH thcr a was no rnonay for a Christmastree. My mother decorated a step-ladder instead,, I wculdrather have had nothing than that symbol of poverty .

I had a few playmates on On ieda Street . The Holmstromboy s lived at the next corner . They were nice. They werePaul (quite sissy), Peter (a fine f e 1 1 ow ) and a baby brother .There were two sisters, consi derabl y ol der .

Next door to us were the Steeds, Mrs. Steed ws s a Cas-t i11ian Spaniard who knew embroi dery . Mr. Steed was apparentlyan Englishman who was business manager of the ol d MetropolitanBusiness College. They , at that time, had two boys, Alberto andP er ico (now Albert and Pete) . A girl, Carmen , came later. A 1was quite nice and Perico was a knife wi el der even at si x andyet about twent y . A 1 is now Sal es Manager of the. V/hol esal eDepartment of Barrett Hardware Co. Pete has a similar positionwith the Ferguson Co. (automatic packaging machinery). A1 istal 1 , of light complexion and with the bearing of a Don; Peteis dark and squat, evidently showing some peasant or Moorishblood. One day , Mr . Steed brought home a duck for his wife toroast. She was not experienced in peon work in the kitchen.He went into the living room to read end shor 11 y srnel 1 ed enawful stench. His wife was roasting the duck, feathers and all!The poor man, some time later, walked out until his hat floated.I do not know whether his body was ever found.

Such incidents may seem to have no place in this, mystory , but I feel they each had a marked effect on me especiallypsychologically. Therefore, I am inserting such things that cometo mind.

Someti me, I believe during this year , Dad bought our firstautomobile (if it cou 1 d be cal 1 ed such ) . It was a Joliet-manufactur ed buggy type, high wheel ed, tiller right-hand steeredcontrapt ion . 11 had no fenders nor mud guards. (Once Ir ecei ved a face-full of mud!) Its ignition was a series ofdry -eel 1 batteries. I believe about six. Once we were stuckin a mud puddle because one connection jar red loose and wecouldn't find the troub 1 e. This auto was known as a "Ranger .M

The company made but t v/o or three cars. That WA S enough! Itshard-tired wheels w ere almost standard guege (streetcar) andfit perfect 1 y just within the inside groove of the streetcartrack at curves. Once the car drpped into the track at Jeffersonand Ottawa streets and immedi ' tel y started head-lone toward anoncoming streetcar. Dad was able to stop in time. The motormengot down from his car with his switch-bar and laid it down forus to drive over out of the t rack Quite a sight and quite anattracti on.

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years later. Dad got the car back upon our return from Georgia.Short ly„ Dad sold the car one Sunday to a couple of foreignersfrom "Whiskey Row" ( Col 1 ins Street ) . The price was somewherebetween $50 and $125 I bel ieve. Befor e the new owner got homeupon Collins Street the car became lonesome for a streetcar .11 met a Chicago to Jo1 ie t interurban car and just col 1 apsed--t oo t ired!

Mr . George Pinch„ the brother of Add (Mrs. E .P .) Ferrell,had sometime earlier gone to Tallapoosa* Harolson County , Georgia( 63 miles west of Atlanta on the Southern Railroad tower diiurminghaV ) , for his health. It was a boom town with a IrrgeLithia Springs Hotel which r emi nded me of the hotel in' "SevenKeys to Baldpate." There actually were some lithia springs whichsupplied "heal th giving" waters. There was a gold mine whichvias periodically re-opened for each new bunch of suckers from"up North." The hat ed "damned Yanks" were always wel corned ifthey had money . They even named the town Tallapoosa. We weretold that was an Indian name mean ing go 1 d town or something.A snal! mountain south of our ferm and southeast of town isknown -:..s T ÿ 11<-? r.ountr.-.in.

Coor "inch "sold" the two Ferrells and us on the movesouth for heal th r easons . So, we packed our th ing s with Fer r el 1 sinto a freight car which eventually got through with considerablebreakage.

The Tallapoosa River forms part of the boundry betweenAlabama and Georgia. I learned to swim in this red-yel 1 ow riverabove the dam at a place called Bentl ey ' s Mill. At least Icoul d swim after a f ash ion--dog fashion,, I reckon. This Bent 1 ey 1 sMill became quite important to me later when this young ' d-y ank 'on Jul y 4th of 19 1 0 ' wowed ' the c row d and won the si 1 v er medalin elocution. The. program was under the auspices of the L.T.U.,the Ladies' T emperance Uni on, the Confederate counter-pert ofthe Northern W .C .T .U., the Women 1 s Christian Temperance Union.

More about this speaking: On the pevious Fourth of July,there was a 1 r g e commun ity gathering with a ful 1 beef pitbar becue. Of cour se there was a contest of kid speakers. Iwas entered and felt t!v. t I had w on 'hands down 1 . The judgesannounced that they hcd mede a difficult decision and haddec 1 ar ed a tie between a girl and a boy , "a Southern lady anda Northern gentleman"® and tha t as they had but one medal theywere "certain that the Northern chival ry and courtesy wouldp rompt the Nor thern gent 1 eman to STEP-DOWN." The judge almoststrangled over his barefaced excuse for his stealing of mymedal. Anyway , the judges, a year later, conceded that Iout spoke their best .

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Dad had his office. My first prize for such speaking wasg 1or ious, a Florida tangerine, my first.

Miss Lingo a1.§o taught me paint ing. I did quite well,using oi 1 pahts on cloth and on drawing paper. My favoritesubjects were autumn leaves of various types, shapes and colors,

After having won the L .T .U. silver medal , I was advancedto compete in the state for the gold medal . I was ext r emel yconfidant that I was ahead of the field. Then, catastrophestruck. I acqui r ed a terrific head col d with an almost comp 1 eteloss of voice. There were but five silver meda lists, theabsolute minimum for a go 1 d medal contest . The officialspersuaded Dad that I shoul d "go on , saying a few words, thensit down" sacrificing myself so the contest cou 1 d go on . Iobjected strenuously but did go on. I could hardly say anythingand th en, thorough 1 y ashamed, I sat down. Mothing couId havebeen worse! It devel oped in me a terrific inferiority complexwhich did not begin to ease at all until, years 1 <? t er , I wascommissioned as a cadet officer or maybe when I was appointedas a cadet first sergeant .

In Tallapoosa, we lived for a sh or t time on 1 y in a bui1 dingknown as the Elton Block,, We lived on the second floor. Thenwe got a house north of the Methodist Nor th Church, a blockwest of Head Avenue, next to the rocque (pronounced 1 ow 1 ) court.Here the group j us t above the 'spit and whittle club1, wouldgather 'most every day to play a game similar to croquet ,however using short-handled mol 1 ets. play was on the herd-packed clay court .

This 1 ocati on was not too far from the school which had,I bel ieve, efeven grades. I re-entered second grade, aboutwhich I remember almost nothing other than I think the teacher1, sname was Miss Mary ( Camp ) . Southern sty 1 e, we did not use thelast name. Music notes were "shaped", squares, etc. insteadof the round an d f 1 agged ones in use in the North and everywheretoday .

The "times tables" th rough 12x12 were required for entranceinto third grade. I made it! I do not remember the teacherother than that she was a fright. School seats were doubl eones . Mild punishrnent ( somet imes not so mild) was for the boyto be required to share a seat wi th the mos t repulsive girl inthe room.

Almost daily beatings were received by the "d-yenk" fromthe dear little Rebels who were never punished for it. Oneday , I had had mor e than I could stand of it and evened up thescore with a small coal shovel end, strangely, I was not punishedfor that.

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Additional punishments were met eck out regularly andconsi st ent 1 y e A damnable practice was to require the writingof many hundreds of words . Another was to be f or c ec tc carryfrosty bricks, one or more in each hand walking and ./dikingwithout benefit of usual out -door protective clothing. Ishould not have said, "carry" , the word used was "tote*11 Aheavier punishment was to tot e a pole or one end of a pole,endlessly walking around a small square. The chief delightof the principal was to order a boy to go out and cut severe Jswitches which were then app lied! The same man led out every-morninc devot ional s of all grades together.

1 had a bett er deal in fourth grade. The teacher v £-s asympathetic one called Miss Alma. Her father, M. A, Greene,was the own er -operator of the city water works end was edelegate to the National Republican Convention. He stood heodand shoulders above the hill-billy Democrats who still werefighting the Civil War. I said, "hill-billy," because manydid not wear shoes. There were some "Hill Williams.11

Imade friends with a Fred Craven, two cousins by thename of Carter and a fine kid by the name of Henderson Gamble.In 1 9'4l I learned that Henderson was a "lifer" at the statepr i son, being a multiple killer. Wonder if 1 iquor (moon-shine)wasn't back of it.

The fathers of the Carter boys were butchers and meat,cut t er & .They operated a shop and a slaughter-house. On our frequentgang-fights on our way home from school, the nigger gang wouldchase us with rocks . W e wou 1 d r et r eat to the slaughter houseand the niggers would hastily take cover in the woods. We hadfound that the hog-killing calibre .22 rifle was effective inchasing off the niggers for that day . We used to fire throuohthe cracks between the boards at the edge of the woods .Fortunately our aim was never good or the nigger populationwould have decreased and we would have received mental medalsfrom the commun ity .

I attended Sunday School ch ief 1 y in the Baptist andPresbyterian Churches and occasionally in the Method North and,I believe, once in thr Methodist South. One Sunday School classinvited me to a steak fry up on T a 1 la Mount ai n . We went inhorse-drawn wagons. Within a f ew days I came down with a lightcase of smal 1 pox !

We didn't live many months in town. We moved about 1miles east ont o the Or . Truax farm wh ich Dad had purchased. Dr.T ruax was the retired head of Truax & Green, Surgi ce 1 SupplyHouse, Chicago. There were about 27 acres, hundreds of appletrees of many fine varieties (and no mrrket), many peach andpi um trees and about ten mulberry trees, wh it e , yell ov. ;nd red-block varieties. They were delicious. We raised e bole ortwo of cotton, some corn, wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes,peanuts, sorghum cane, chickens and too many snakes for comfort.

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On our farm we had wild and cultivated blackberries. Inthe woods were many huckl eberr ies of the low-bush, back-breakingtype. The woods furnished many wagon loads of kindling in theform of pine cones , mammoth things of the Southe rn long-leafpine. Bedding for the cows was obtainuble from the immense pilesof oak 1eaves.

Of course, the woods fur n ished many attractions for usboys, the Johnson boys and mysel f . There were chestnut s togather and some of the acorns were edible. Quite a way off,near the edge of the woods , some patch farmers had a wet ermel onpatch. Vie tried it once, got our melon and, as we started torun, almost collected a load of buckshot . We were thankfulthat we were out of range and whet tastes worse than hotwat ermel on !

We kids ran everywhere barefooted. 'When we woul <: see asnake we would avoid it or try to kill it with stones. Once,wh i 1 e running down the horse track on our farm road I ran headinto a coiled rattler. I took up aviation in a hurry end seiledover it, too scared to come back and try to kill it. We usedto like to exp 1 ore along the creek beds for beautiful stones,some contai ning pyrites, "fools' gold." We were even on thelookout for flowering dogwood, the beautiful whi te flower offive, petals, one usually being smaller, end for red-buds . Thesehad the most pleasing odor I have ever encountered. The budswould be crushed in our handkerchief and wet with creek water .How nice!

Never did we fai 1 to keep our eyes open for a possiblewildcat moonshine still. We lived too close to town forpermanent still instal 1 at ion . Iwill tell more of them whenI relate our trip to Buzzard's Roost.

As in the case of most kids today , school is a greatthing of interest whether it is liked or not . Our school wasabout two miles from home. We had to pay tu it ion in spite ofthe fact that it is now advertised as being "the first freeschool in the State of Georgia." The old school burned dov;nsometime after we left. In 1 9'M , it had been replaced by amodern building. The on 1 y relic of the old school is the largebell which is now mounted atop a monument in front of the newschool .

A 1 1 spring and summer and fall we chi 1dr en were withoutshoes . In the fall, when the hoar frost stood four to sixinches high on the clay at the side of the road and our feetwere freezing, we put on shoes . The pickaninnies and "pore( poor ) white trash" kids woul d wrap their feet with burlapand their legs wi th strips of white cloth like rol 1 er puttees.Burlap bags were sometimes used by the pickaninnie girls astheir only garment .

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We kids liked to watch and talk to old ex-slaves. Somewere hurnbl e and some just plain mean. Most were petty thieves.They would steal anything and everything*

In bad weather Dad would take me to school in the buggy,drown by old Dan, our only horse. Occasionally we would pickup He 1mer John son for a short distance. T hen he would turnwhite around the gills and would suddenly leave the buggy .Coming home from school was often an adventure. Empty cypress1 ogg ing wagons wou 1 d be going our way . They were very s 1 owbeat walking. They were hauled by four or five yokes of oxenwith the driver wal king, swingi ng a long whip. We boys wouldpay for the ride by working the brake levers on the bi'g downhi 1 1grade while the driver would pound the oxen in the face toslow them down . (We even had a brake on our light one-horse,farm wagon .)

One day , the Carter boy s come by with on e ox hi tched to atwo-wheel ed, boxed-up cart . We made the trip to a sawmi 1 1 forsawdust to be used on the floor of the father's meat market.Quite an adventure for a Northern kid!

Oxen were usual 1 y shod, wearing two shoes per foot. Theywere usually driven by whin end the "gee-haw" (right-left)method. This was usually used with horses, although some weretrained to the "jerk line," a single line of rope for signalling.Some were driven with a bridle and bit with ropes lines. Theharness (work) was (and is today) of canvas and chai n--noleather. Our buggy harness was of' leather with a breast strapinstead of a collar.

When walking to . nd from school , a shortcut would trke usthrough the old blast furnace of the boom days. Lots of funv/ as had there on the way home.

Many an hour was spent at the depot while awaitino Dadwho was in the office in the hotel. At the depot and in thehot e 1 , I met many traveling salesmen. They never tried their"stories" on kids but usually carried some sleioht of handtricks along. They were also good instructors in the use ofthe pasteboards, playing cards . Quite on educati on !

The hotel served quantities of fried chicken in the diningroom. It was quite a sight to see the old nigger ki 1 1 thechicken. He never used an axe or hatchet. (Wonder if helearned his techni que in somebody's ch ic k en coop at night.)He woul d grab the chicken around the neck--no squawk ! Then,holding onto the head, he would spin the fowl and give a qui ckjerk, neatly taking off the head.

Across the road from our farm, lived the C . F . Johnsonfamily. Their father was an excellent shoemaker in town,having learned his t nv-.de in Sweden. He worked long hours,walking home late at night, carrying a lantern. His supperwould be milk soup. Mrs. Johnson was a hord-wor king woman of

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poor health* She was from Sweden and spoke very poor English.Their children were in two batches, first girls and then boy s .The girls were all older than I and the ol dest boy was a yearyounger than I. The names were L i1 1 ie, El 1 en, 01ga, (pronouncedby the mother as Leel ee, Ay 1an and Oogl a. ) The boy s were allH's: Helmer , Henrick„ Herman, Herol d and Howard, the last twobeing born wh i1 e we lived there.

Mrs, Johnson's sister married Mr . Johnson ' s brother whowas first, a one-horse drayman, a theater and hotal owner endthen Mayor! They lived closer to town. We knew them as the"lower Johnsons, 11 They had four chi 1 dr en who seemed, to absorbmore education than their double cousi ns, They were Edith,Sigurd, Alma and Karl Gunner who we s about my age, I enjoyedplaying with him.

Each holiday was eel ebrat ed by the two f ami lies meetingfirst at one house and then at the other . I was a very frequentguest in these homes, Somet imes , I am sure, I was in the waybut I yet appreciate their hospitality.

Speaking of hospitality, we never found it in Southerner s,just in those from the North and not after too many years ofSouthern residence. In 1 9U 1 , we found it on 1 y in the f ami 1 yof Ruth Dodge.

Food was quite a probl em. Dad pract iced in town threeafternoons per week and to regain' his heal th he farmed, doingplowing and all of the other hard work himself. We raised ourchickens and eggs and potatoes, a smal 1 pig one year, somepeanut s and much fruit as well as beans, cow-peas and othervegetab 1 es . We dried many bushel s of apples, peel ing, cor ing,and si icing by a small, hand-cranked machine. Wheat was theprobl em. We did not have the money al tho we bought largeround loaves of bread in the town bakery,

Dad owned a good doubl e-bar r el 1 ed shot-gun and did nothave money for shells. There were many rabbits along the creekon our farm. A bargain was struch up with a native who ownedno gun. Dad al 1 owed him the use of the gun and hunt ing andtrapping privi 1 eges on the f erm. The native kept everythi nghe trapped and gave us half of all the rabbits. Vie had cotton-tai 1 rabbit al 1 winter and late into the spr ing. I r ememberno other meat that year . I still like rabbi t . One day I atesome highly seasoned rabbit in a sandwich 1 had just taken frommy 1 unch box at school . A y e 1 1 ow jacket had crawl ed into thebox and into the sandwi ch. When I bit into the sandwi ch itcertainly was tasty . Mr. Y . J . impressed his obj ect ion uponmy tongue ! Wow! I tried to help out by trapping rabbits inbox traps which I made. The chicken-hear t ed Johnson girlswou 1 dsneak over and drop the t rap to save the rabbi t s J

We had a whi t e overseer whom we inherit ed with the farmat the wage of $1.25 per day , He watched our niggers ( 7 5C per

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day) and Dad watched the overseer . A 1 1 were lazy and theiving*His name was Wi sener , a typical backwoodsman. His wife was aplug tobacco and dip-stick shawer , always having a plug in herapron pocket . She had been but eleven or twelve when she wasmarried. Girls over fourteen were "old maids." They hcd twogirls, Ola and Pearl . Pearl was a little older than I and wasmy sparring pardner. That relationship broke up when 1 tookenouth one day and mopped up the potato patch with her . Don ' tknow how I did it because she was much larger and stronger thenI.

I played mostly with the two older Johnson boy s , Helmerand Henr 1ck. However, the Johnsons, W. isener s and I us'ed to gettogether evenings in the brilliant moon 1 ight . My mother's oldbieye! e, wi thout tires, was available. Vie would ride down ahill by Wi sener s ' pump ing for all we were worth. At the bottomof the hill was sand. It was an effective brake and a softp 1ace to fall.

01ga , in high school when I was in fourth grade 1 iked totalk over her studies with me. She described enough of algebrato me so I knew the meaning of "X" . That was of value in lateryears.

The land was so badly eroded that it had to be terraced.P 1ow ing was more-or - 1 ess of the contour var iety with a one-hor sep 1 ow . Cot ton was planted by a small horse drawn machine.Commercial fertilizer had to be planted w i th the seed. Cornwas p 1 en ted by hand, one hill at a time as the potatoes. Wh eatwas broadcast and then reaped by a cradl e, a hand and arm swingtool like a scythe with long wooden fingers attached. Eachswath is caught up off from the fingers and held under the armuntil enough is occummul ated to form a bund 1 e.

The corn harvest was interesting. Before the leaves weredry they were st ripped off by hand. A hendful was tied 1oosel yby two or three 1 eaves . Three or four "hands" were bundledtogether with a tie of several leaves. The bundl e was then hungon an ear of corn if "was found. When dry these were col 1 ect edand were known commercially as three-hand or four-hand bundlesof fodder and sol d by the hundred or the thousand. Ears ofcorn were snapped off and hauled to the barn to be husked orshucked on a rainy day . Corn stalks were 1eft in the field.

We grew some very large sunflowers for the ch ick ens . Iused to cut down the stalks, cut off the head an d shell outthe seeds end then cut up the strlks thÿ h«vc's for fuel .Kid stuff but nevertheless a job.

In 1910 or 1911, Dad bought a strip of extra 1end next toours, across from W isener 1 s . Helmer and I with my small axecleared quite a patch wh ich was covered wi th pines fifteen totwenty feet high. He would top and trim the trees wh i1 e they

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were standing and I would cut them down. Dad hooked a chainaround them and old Dan dragged them home. They were to havebeen for the winter of 1 91 1 but we moved back to Joliet inSeptember . I believe we gave them to Johnson ' s.

Dad's health improved steadi 1y . However , every time he'dlie down to rest Ma would say , "Whet's the matter, Frank, areyou sick?" Poor , poor Dad!

Dad was al way s making or fixing something. The house hadno cellar. Dad excavated one and then I dug a wide shelf inthe c 1 ay all eround the eel 1 a r . 11 made an excellent place tostore fruit. It had to be protected from frost . When wemoved into the house it was freezing weather . The first nightsome of my Mother's plants "brought from home, " froze back ofthe stove ! That almost broke up the housekeeping right then .Aggravation was higher as Ma had run a nail through her shoeinto her foot that very first night on the farm. Dad improvedthe house quite a bit, built a well house, changed somepartitions, instal 1 ed a tel ephone, etc .

The barn was not sufficient, so Dad bui 1 t a good bank-barn. The foundation w as two feet in f ront and eight or morein back. The basement was very secure for the hor se , the cowand eventual 1 y her two heifer calves. The wagon could be dr ivenright ont o the barn floor where was kept ho y , corn, etc .

Feed for the catt 1 e usua lly consisted of a peck or so ofcotton seed hu1 Is, a doub 1 e handful of cotton seed mea 1 and aspr inkl ing of salt. Butter from such feed wou 1 d stand up on acounter in the hottest weather . Beef, fed on this diet, wou 1 dhave a tallow that v/hen eaten had to be scraped from the roofof one's mouth.

Natives 1 ooked at the barn, which Dad had ti ed to thef oundat ion with st rap - iron and wou 1 d say , "The first big windwill blow it away." Storms were fierce. A tornado hit andthe barn suf f er ed a broken basement window when the kitchen r oofof the house blew agai nst it. The barn stood !

One aft ernoon our house was struck by lightening. It camein in three places, exp 1odi ng insi de the hous e . None of uscou 1 d hear for over a half-hour. Al 1 three of us searched forpossible fire and found none. The smell of br imstone was terrific.The Johnsons, across the road, smel 1 ed it over there.

Georgia storms are sudden and awf u 1 lasting t en to fifteenminut es . Conti nuing rains often down -pour for three days.This, of cour se, made seas of red mud. Persons wearing shoeshad to wear rubber s--t ied on. The sticky mud woul d suck themof f . Winter weather was almost entirely wit hout snov; but thetemperature often dipped to 10 or 15 degrees, far too col d forthe f 1 imsy construct ion of Georgia's houses, built upon sti Its.

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Daytime temperatures ( summer ) were very high but there wasusually a breeze in the shade and comfortable nights forsleeping. The al t itude was , I be 1 ieve, about 1 200 feet, nearthe Camel -Back-Sparr of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which iff vt.

G6ergftj. cross the nor thwest corner of the state.

Cotton was our main money crop, furn;1.5hiing lots of work,some fun for the kids and about our only cash crop. We did afew potatoes at $ 1 .00 per bushel when labor was 7 5C oer day .Cott on picking brought 1 C per pound. The ginned price was6-9 or 10C per pound. Dur ing World War I it so 1 d for over35-40C.

Cot ton is dri 1 led in and when it is up a few inches ithas to be thi nned ( wi dth of a hoe between plsnts) by hoe ing orchopping forward and back by the hour leaving just one plantwith each stroke of the hoe . A field of cot t on in b 1 oom isbeautiful with white and red or p ink flowers. The saying is,"The first day , white; the second day red; the third day deed.11

he bl ossoms follow this rule. After the b 1os som comes thesquare" the vulnerable time for attack by the cotton boll

weevi 1 . From the square comes the boll which enlarges anddevelops and then opens wi th five prongs allowing for ourfive fingers to reach in for t he cotton.

The p ic ked cotton is held for a "favorable market",(Therenever was one! ) During th is hoi d ing time the kids play in thecotton bins. I used to turn a large c ot t on basket upside downon the cot ton and t hen crawl under the basket . Made quite acomfor tabl e igloo.

Cotton ginning was our last step . We hauled a wagon load( about four or five boxes high ) to the gin. A large suctionpipe (about 8-12 inche s in di amet er ) would un 1 oa d the truck.The cotton would pass through the ginning m -chi nes which wouldseparate the fiber f rom the seeds . The seeds were b 1 own intoa bin. Vie never knew whether we got honest weight or , if wewant ed to retain seed for planting, whether we received our ownseed. The fiber was b 1 own into a large press. Bales are allthe same size but vary in weight, according to the pressure,from 250-450 or 500 pounds. Y our cot ton is graded by someoneyou never see . You lare paid as they see fit. You always lose!The good old Southern system of peonage wh ich has replaced themore op en s 1 avery . What people!

There were many odd th ing s about the South : long-leggedrazor-back hogs feeding in the woods on acorns, etc . ; hollytrees used for Christmas trees in Sunday School s ; class dis¬tinction based largely on money ; factory owners class, workerclass, merchant class, pr of es s ional class, "pore white class"and niggers? nigger school s bur ned down annually and rebuiltby the niggers t hems el ves ; nigger garden fences t or n down by

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white boys turning cows in to destroy t he garden bringing neardisaster! and many other things I will describe. Once, even,we caught a young (older than I) nigger girl feeding her cowin our wheat patch. I took the cow away from her and took itto the house. After threatening to keep the cow next time, Imade her take it home the long way around instead of beck throughour farm.

There was a Bohemian col ony , called Buda, out beyond us,several mi 1 es . The women would walk in barefoot carrying theirshoes over their shoulders and pails full of huckleberries whichthey would sell for a dime, just "enough to buy some snuff."

Thinking of dimes, the first on e I earned may be of interest,One day , Helmer, Henrick and I were sitting along the roadunder our mul berry trees when some freak thing came down theroad. Just as it got squarely in front of us, it blew up. Itwas a steamer auto, either a Stanley or a White. For the thirdt ime in 63 rni1 ? s from A 11 an t a , it b 1 ew a soft metal safety p 1 ugand lost all its steam and water. The man hi red us, so we wentto cur wel 1 , close by . (Our well had a crank windless, pulleyand bucket . Johnsons' had a hand-over-hand double-bucket ropeand pulley.) I operated the windless and the Johnson s carriedpails and pails of wat er to that four-wheeled elephant. Event -tually, its thirst was satisfied and we each received a dime.

Movies, in that day, were but a nickel ! When the firstmovie came to town , all of us kids, including the Johnson girls,walked to town to see the marvels of Hiawatha walking amongstthe evergreens on snowshoes . Quite a sight for the snowl essSoutherner s !

Up North, we had seen a few automobiles but our horse, Dan,never had. One day Dad, Ma and I were out for a ride in thebuggy. Approachi ng us from the other d ir ect ion , coming downthe hill, was a funny looking contraption, a brillinr.t rÿd witha bl oc'<, sh iny , flapping top, supported by side braces ofshining brass from the top to the front of the hood, and a greatdeal mor e of that glittering trim. The sun shone on it justright, producing a truly frightening spectacle. Dad? did not1 ike it so he pr oceeded to turn around. Dad had to use thewhip to keep him from "cramping" the wheel s too short in orderto prevent a t ip -over of the buggy . Ma deserted the buggy,dragging me with her . Dad stuck to his post . The extra man inthe car not out and held the horse while the thing chuqcedpast. ©an was nervous but stood hi s ground. After it wasover, Ma was pa ral ized with fear and could not take a step.

Dan was an unusua 1 horse in many ways. He showed almostmule sense in that he woul d never hur t himself. When plowing,he woul d recognize the extra pull caused by the p 1 ow cent act inga root in the old st ump 1 and. Dad wou 1 d st op until the plowwas lifted up :ind over the roof . Then he would go cn . He

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would never go onto a bridge wi thout testing it. He had,before we owned him, gone through a bridge. Once, he refusedto cross the creek bridge by the waterworks. Dad got out toinspect the bridge and found a strip of bark loose at theedge of a plank® It was waving, snake fashion, in the air,When it was removed, Dan had no more objecti on to crossingthe bridge.

One season , Dad rented an extra horse of inf er ior qualitywhich Dan sensed with his Morgan intelligence® Dad took thetwo together to the water ing t rough end as he was as courteousto animals as he always was to peop 1 e, he allowed the guesthorse to drink first. Da<i\ ob j ected and took a nip at the otherhor se but in missing snapped Dad's sleeve and a bit of flesh.He realized his error and back ed off at once.

I, too, had a watering experience with Dan. Coming awayfrom the trough he stepped onto my right foot . ( I was bare¬foot and he was shod.) He sen sed hi s error and just stoodthere an d woul d not budge. I had to pound him over the nosewith the halter rope and then he decided to attack, biting,rearing and striking. I did not dare to let him wi n so Ibeat him in the face with the stout halter rope until I coul dgrab some brush from a di tch . He soon dec ided to take offdown the farm road. Some of the Johnsons saw it end laterobjected to the way I had mistreated the poor animal! Had Inot, he wou 1 d have killed me.

We had a very important animal which I have not mentioned.Dad bought me a black mountain goat which was trained to theharness. Dad made a harness and eveners, etc. so I couldhitch him up to my pedal wagon in which I had played all aroundthe cour thous e at Joliet. We us ed to hau 1 loads of sand andstones up'f'the the house where we were making a sand sidewalk,edged with the stones . Dad hauled most of these from the creekbank . In one load we found a piece of human j aw bone withseveral teeth which were filled wi th amalgam. We wondered ifit coul d have belonged to a soldier of the Kene saw Mountain-Atlanta campaign of the Civil War .

Dad al so made a fine two-wheel ed sulky in which I coul dride around the farm and up and down the road. I believe thatthis rig, even today , would have done credit to Dad's mechanicalskill.

Occasionally, the goat "Billy" ( of course), would get thecol ic. I woul d run to Wisener's and Mrs. Wisener wou 1 d reachinto her apron pocket for a plug of tobacco, bite off a "chow"and hand it to me. Billy would be in such pain that he wouldtry to climb the verti cal si de of the barn. When I would givehim the "cud" of tobacco, he would settle right down . I didnot know then that Joseoh Smith,, the Proohet , on February 27,1837, had r ecei ved a revelation, stating, "Tobacco is not for

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the body , neither for the belly, and is not good for man, butis an herb for bruises and all si ck catt 1 e, to be used withjudgement an d skill®" ( Doct r ine an d Covenants 89:8)

Billy the goat was stubborn, too stubborn to die a naturaldeath. One day he was tethered on a long rope to graze in thewoods . A terr if ic sudden but common Georgia electrical stormcame up . We could not get to him unt i1 after the storm. Hegot to running and tvM st r>-' thr rope- rrotind a bush. He wasthrown with his head under him, br eaki ng his neck.

01d Dan, after we left, met a tragic death, also. He wasput out into our s ide-hi 1 1 pastur e whi ch was terraced withdeep ditches, so deep that in places I cou 1 d run along themand not see out . He fell into one of these onto hi s back .A horse cannot stand such a position long. He was found dead.

This may seem lengthy and 100 detailed but may be ofs 1 ight interest to some. I lived more in those th ree yearsthan any like per iod of my chi 1 dhood and believe it wasdifferent from some. Also, understanding that period givessomewhat of an ins ight into cer tai n phases of the p resent . Ifone is bored, he should turn to fiction for there is mor e tocome.

Stills of the moonshine variety are a pa r t of the lifeand the economy ( even though it is a false economy of the"dry" South ) . They are chi ef 1 y of two varities, the weekend ,close-in, fly-by-night type and the backwoods, permanent one.We cou 1 d, somet imes see the smoke of the first type. OneSunday, we could see from our house the smoke of three on ourfarm. For our own safety , we 1 eft them al one . The stuff th eyproduced was raw and wicked. It was dispensed by the coin ina st ump method; come back later and pick up your bot11 e orjug of "rot-gut" whiskey®

One such Sunday p roduced a tragedy. A drunk was pickedup by his "best f r iend, " the sher i f f . While to jail him, thedrunk grabbed the sheriff's gun and killed the of f icer. Mondaymorning, we saw the bl ood hounds track ing the killer. He wasfound at home, asleep in bed. As I r emember he was given aone to three year pr ison sentence. Had he ki 1 1 ed a nigger itwould hi'.ve been over 1ooked.

We once came very near to a permanent still on a trip toa small canyon and cave , known as "Buzzard's Roost ." Theparty , out on a Sunday af t ernoon walk, consisted of Ed Ferrel 1 ,the guy with an exp 1 or er ' s thi r st for the unknown, hi s brother -in-law, George Finch, two or three Swedes , pos s ib 1 y both ofthe Johnson brothers and their friend, Simon Sour (pronouncedsee-man sewer ) , the Johnson boys, Dad and my sel f . We wantinto the backwoods and hills to the east of us, being not quite

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sure of our destination* Sudden 1y appeared a hill-billy,known to us. He had a shotgun or rifle with him. "Justhunting, you know !" He questioned us as to our presence anddestination. Guess that we boy s being along took away thepossibility that we were "revenovers" or even just snoopers.He vol unteer ed to take us part way to the "Roost .11 Soon, wewere met by another "hunter ," his brother . With due explan¬ation from the first brother , we were passed on to the second.He took us over a very round-about rout e and was the perfectguide, event ua 1 1y passing us bock to his brother who sent uson our way.

However, befor e gaining the outsi de, Dad's professionalservices were cal led upon, We were taken to thei r shockwhere Dad had to treat and put up a sprained wrist for a woman ,maybe a sister. There w as no pay offered, even in kind, butthere was si ncer e appreciation®

The shack was of great 1nterest, especially to me. 11was of two rooms around a large cooki ng fireplace. The secondroom, the women 1 s room, opened onto the first by two doorway s ,one on either side of the fireplace. The other room was themain one with a front and back door and a front window. Therewas no glass nor screen. There was not even an oi 1 lamp nora mi r ror . Pitch pine knot s split from old pine stumps wereavailable for lights if necessary . The side of the room awayfrom the fireplace was occupi ed by several double-beds, closeup s ide by side. In one was a bedfast old "granny." Nochi1 dr en nor other women were seen around. I do not rememberabout eating facilities. I was too stunned to think of that.The floor was of rough planks, spaced a finger or two apart.( Conveni ent for putti ng scrap s through to the ch icken s seenrunning around under the house which was , Southern style, builton stilts "for ventilation."

Dad' s pract ice was not too lucrative. There were notmany patients and the rate was $ 1 .75 per treatment. One e,even, an "upper crust er" had Dad cor rect a 1e s ion in the backof a hunting dog and then either did not want to or did notpay for that degrading servi ce . Again, nice people!

I had a young girlfriend by the name of Mildred Fowler.She and her folks were very nice. T he y w ere from Pennsylvania,I believe. Her father owned the coal yard, ice house and pi rntand was the Coca-cola dealer. I believe that was the on 1 y softdrink around. 11 or iginated at Atlanta. Yes , occasionally,there was a free bottle!

For est fires were always a worry to us as we were almostsur ounded . Fr equent 1 y , in season we cou 1 d see one on TailsMountain to th e south of us. When they got too close, wewoul d all turn out with sacks (wet if possible) and shovels.Somet imes Dad would backfire.

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Another firey spectacle, one summer , was the big comet(was it Haley's?) which night after night would slowiy passacross our sky . It was beautiful and so bright. As Iremember , it was a brilliant yellow or orange with a streamingtai 1 .

I am just recording interesti ng (to me) and odd thingsas they come to mind. Two of the most amusing pertained to anoffice nurse Dad had for awhile,, I believe her name was MissMaine. Women used to do their hair up on rolls of rags orhair, common 1 y called "rat s ." At Christines the nurse gave Dada neat 1 y wrapped package containing a spring-type rat trap,accompanied by a not e saying it was thought "necessary due toall of the 'rats' lying around the office®11

That same Christmas, the nurse received a gi ft which shetook back to her home in Boston, I bel ieve, considering it herprize relic of the South. A "Southern Gent 1 eman" asked Dad ifhe thought it woul d be alright to give her a pr esent . Dad saidit would be if not expensive an d not too personal . Finally,the gift arrived. In a little box were a half dozen "dipsticks". They were pieces of twigs slightly larger than apenci 1 and four or five inches long, the bark being peeled fromone-half of the length. T he "dip-stick" is chewed unt i1 theend is frayed into a brush. It is then dippect into snuff andplaced into the mouth for a time! The patient to 1 d Dad when hebrought it in, "If I had wanted to be real "puhsonal" Iwouldhave had them al ready chawed!"

For a wh i1 e we had an old colored coup 1 e (ex-sleves)working for us, he helped outside and she in the house. Weknew them on 1 y as "Unci e" and "Aunt ie" . When Aunt Estelle,Dad's older sister, visited us it was quite disconcerting tome to have "Aunt ie" answer when I wou 1 d speak to "Aunt Estelle!"

Aunt Estelle's visit was very nice. She was my pride andjoy and I guess I was hers. Even though she was an old maid,she was more of a mother to me . A s I hove said before, she wasan experienced hor se -woman . (What a continuity of thought!)However , Dan used to get the best of her. If a g roup of menhappened to be standing in the street gossi ping, Dad would pullup along side and stop . He would also befuddl e her by obey ingold "jerk-line" si gnal s . She would touch him with the whi p tospur him up a bit and he would stop co 1 d and she cou1 d hardlystart him again,

While she was with us, Aunt Estelle prepared a kid partyfor me. She enj oy ed making favors, decorati ons, etc . muchmore than I enjoyed the party, my one and on 1 y , first an d last!We only "belonged" for the day on 1y . We were outcl a ssed bybeing poor and not medical s

Anot her class d ist inet ion was shown at Its best (or worst)at the county fair. We ordunar y ( poor ) kids had not a penney

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and our tongues were hanging out for a drink. What we wouldnot have given for a "bike" ride. T wo "rich" kids whoseparents either owned a store or a mi 11 were riding around ontheir fine bikes. Each bought a case of Coco-col a . The venderwoul d open a bottle at a time for each. The riders would pi ckup an opened bott 1e and with a thumb over the top woul d shakeit. They would chase e&ch other in a Coca-col a dog fight onb ikes. Do you wonder thet I detest wast e?

At the same fai r a very show-off guy had a beautifulhorse. H6 was tortured wi th a jaw-breaker (long-leverage) bit.To exhibi t befor e the t rash the rider made the horse rear uponto his hind feet . The terri bl e bit brought the hor se up andclear over . The rider was paid of f with a fractured arm.

I remember one trip Dad and I made from our farm severalmiles to a cider mill. We took a wagon load of apples end hadthem crushed to obtain the juice. The trip had an unusualbeg 1nning and ending, neither permanently di sast erous . As wewere p repar ing to 1 eave, I was closing the end gate of thewagon, using a mason's heavy hammer to drive down a pin. Thehammer si ipped and fell, hitting my great toenail (smash!) Imade the trip anyway . Our return was th rough a very violentthunderstorm accompanied by a t or r ent ia 1 rain. The road wasno mor e than a si ng 1 e trail through the wood s . Dad had hi shands ful 1 with Dan trying to keep him between the shafts ofthe buggy . Dan just did not 1 1ke those "near misses."Neither did we !

Sorghum cane mills and syrup boiling pans used to "comearound" for a few day s in a 1ocati on doi ng cus torn ÿÿ squeez in 1

and bi1in 1 ." We kids used to 1 ike to drink the fresh juice andit di d not take much to make us s ick ei thee . Cane, when p eel edwas wonderful to chew on. Once, when peel ing a piece, Idropped the knife cutt ing a "spur t er" an artery just back ofmy b 1g toe. Of cour se Iwas barefoot . Fortunately, Dad wasthere, clamped hi s thumb over it and carried me to the houseand stopped the flow. Had I been alone Imight have bl ed todeath.

Anot her bit of unusual harvesting equipment was the smallthreshing machine which was pul 1 ed by the mules. It had asmall, mount ed gasoline engine. The outfit would move fromplace to pi ace thr eshi ng out the very small batches of wheator oats. 11 di d not take 1ong at each farm.

Soon after we ar r ived, I had two very bad falls on stairs.The first was in town. Iwas running downstai r s, too fast ,grabbed the rai 1 , swung into some sharp decorati on and injur edmy knee whi ch was stiff for some weeks . Later, on th e farm, Iwas cal 1ed to 1 unch one day and bei ng hungry, as usual , I randown the stairs. The "r 1 sers" were higher than usual 1n theboxed- in stai rcase. I fell headlong landing on a pile of two-

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by -four s, str 1king between my shoulders and neck . I have alwaysbeen bothered by this and feel that Imust have fractured avertebra and that this was a pr edi sposing factor in my goiterof 1930, 22 years later.

A very interest ing Sunday was spent at an "all -day si ngin ' ."Mr . Wi sener , our over seer , arranged the wagon , "Georgia style,"by standing up six dining chairs in the wagon box. I bel ievethat he and possibl y his wi f e went wi th us, (We have a pi cturesomewhere; this is all from memory .) Aunt Ida. Dad's youngersister was visiting us from Joliet. How well I remember hermonstrosi ty of a hat ! All in all , we made quite a picture inthat one-horse wagon, sitting on dining choirs, and with thekids in cont r o1 of the brake rope.

We drove quite a way to some little school in the backwoods.For the singing part , there was a dif f er ent song 1 eader and anew organist each hour , mor e or less. The si nger s wandered inand out . There were more interesti ng th ing s outsi de, such asthe eats and the "spit and whittle club." Dad went to see ifDan was alright. He passed two men too near to the afairs andone said, "Where1re Y'awl be frum?" Dad answered, "Illinois,"and received the comment "Weuns thought Y'awl was a damnedfurriner." Whew! Then they p itched into Dad, accusing theFederal Army of having starved Confederates held as prisoners1n the C iv i1 War . Dad shut t hem up by reminding them of someof the atroci ti es of the infamous And er sonvi 1 1 e p r is on ,atrocities of the Rebel Army in its faulty care of Northernpr isoner s.

Eat s at th e "Sing in" were a 1most beyond bel ief . Pies ofal 1 varieties were stacked up all being cut at once from the topto the bottom of the stack! Watermelons were in abundance, fartoo many for the comfort of the kids--I was very sick, too.Watermelon porti ons were one-quarter me 1 on and as many quartersas desi red. Fried chicken, bi scui ts and everything was served1n lavish quantities, a 1 1 donated pot - 1uck style. The singingwent on and on- -al 1 day! Yes, it was hymns ! "Ain't we gotr el ig 1on? ! "

I have ment ioned that Dad's si ster s, Estelle and Ida,vi si ted us individual ly . They were enjoyed by Dad and me.Another two visitors were Aunt Abbie, Dad' s sister-in-law,and her little brat , adopted daught er , Grace Clay Hyatt , whoin 1ater years, before her marriage, chang ed her name toAdr ienne Chi Ids. We have entirely 1ost track of her . Nei therof Uncle Herbert's adopted daughters amounted to a whoop .Gladys is the older. She is married to Will Condo and presentlylives in Joliet, Illinois,

Somet ime 1n 19 10 or 1911, Aunt Estelle was ser ious 1 y1njur ed. She broke through a cellar step at the old Hunter Ave.

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( 337 ) home 1n Jol iet . A hip operati on or two followed and thenshe became completely bedfast and very, very heavy . Word wassent to Dad to come home and take care of her as "her heart hadgone bad." This was the major cause of our move back to1111noi s. Dad had recovered his health and Georgia businesswas very poor . Within two weeks after our return in September1 9 1 1 , Aunt Estel 1 e' s heart was OK. She had to si eep on herback and was using a folded towel instead of a pillow. Thiswould slip from under the head to under the neck giving pressureon hear t -cont rol centers. Aunt Estel 1e was an invalid forsometime but progressively improved under Dad's care so that ,in her 1a st years she walked wi thout the aid of a cane and hadbut a si ight 1 imp.

This just about closes the Georgi a part of my historyexcept for our sale. We sol d our farm ( the equi ty ) but nevercollected. Furniture, etc. , was sold at a private sale. Ourol d, used nor thern quarter-sawed oak, bevel mir r or ed furniturewas far superior to that f or sale in the local stores, endtherefore brought good pr ices as did many of my ol d toys. Onebedroom suite went to an old cabi n which did not even havekerosene lamps, just pine knot s for lights. Ma cried es shealways personal ized furniture,, etc.

We 1eft Tallapoosa vi a Birmingham and over the slow railsto C inc innat i where we were delayed 23 hour s for the Monon toChicago. Have you ever lived almost a day in a strange depot?Some good woman in a restaurant near Fountain Square, fixed usup a fine box- 1unch of fried ch icken, etc . Our luggage wasnot check ed so we took turns leaving the depot . Ma would goand then Dad and I.

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Finally we ar r ived in Joliet and went to live in the upperapartment at 337 Hunter Avenue over Aunt Ida and her husband,John L . Ly 1 e, a rough-tough rai 1 road conductor ( Rock Island).Here we 1 ived in di scomf or t until the hot summer of 19 1 6 .

When we mov ed to Georgia, Dad sold hi s practice to Dr. A ,M. McNicel who sold it back to Dad in 19 1 1 . Between 1 9O8 and1911, the Joliet National Bank Bui 1 di ng was built at Chicagoand Clinton Street where a shatttime before had burned thebuilding housing the bank and Barrett Hardware Co. Thep ract ice was in that bui 1 d ing from its construct ion throughthe rest of Dad's pr act ice and I so 1d out on August 31, 1951,to move to our present home and of f ic e at 144 East 500 North,Provo, Utah.

During the time we lived over Uncle Johnn ie and Aunt Ida,we took care of her large flock of ch 1ckens which she rai sed ata loss. Dad was slowly rebuilding his practice so that wecould eventual 1 y move away from the too close associ at ion,

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In September of 19 1 1 » I entered Sheridan in fifth gradeunder Miss Mary Regan. I skipped the lower half and sixthgrade, which grade I comp 1et ed under a fine teacher, Miss AliceDonaldson. My seventh grade teacher , Miss Sadie (later Sarah)Burke, was principal of the school as she yet was when Ient er ed Preston in that same school 1n 1 929 . Manual trainingclasses were one afternoon per week way down at Central School .There I had mostly wood working and a 1 itt 1 e metal working.

One very unpleasant phase of my school 1ng was band. ( Ienjoy musi c but have never cared to make it). In the gradeschool band, my instrument was first the mel 1ophone, en el toinstrument, the ta, ta of the ump ta, ta combination w,ith thebasses. The di rector was Prof. J . M. Thomp son , a fine man.Final 1 y , in grade school f I was given first cornet ( not sol o)parts. I took private lessons from Mrs. Jesse Fields and Mr .Louis Condy . The 1 essons didn't do much good ! I ent er ed theJoliet T ownship High School Band 1n its second year of itsexi stance finding it a very painful experience under theleadership of A . R . MacAl 1 ister, Di r ector .

I entered high school as a mid-year student , enrolling inthe engineering cour se which I thor oughl y enjoyed. Math,mechanical drawing, survey ing, German, and sci ence were allfine. I completed all of my work except one credi t in thr eeand one-half years. The last credi t was a year of commercialgeography (interesting snap ) taken in Summer school of 1 9 18 .My dip 1 oma was issued in June of 19 19 at which time I hadcompleted one year of Jol iet Junior Col 1 ege.

Probabl y an out st anding part of my high school careerwas in my mi 1 itary activities. Six hundr ed boy s were enrolledin the H.S.V.U.S., Hi gh School Vol unteer s of the U.S. V/e hadno uniforms, just a lapel recogni t ion button. A tough regularArmy Segeent was our dri 1 Imaster . He would literally kickany student who slouched, truly a hard boot !

T wo local cadet corps compan ies were organized. Ourcommander's name was Ohl haver , a fine lad who was cut down inFrance by German machi ne gun fire. I became right guide of thecompany with grade of sergeant . Later, I was col or sergeant,a pos iti on of which I was very proud. I even carried the T enthInfantry batt 1 e co 1or s in parade and r evi ew at Camp Custer,Mi chi gan, July 4th, 1 9 1 9 .

A R .O.T .C. regiment was organiz ed , at first unofficially(local) under A . B. MecAl 1 ister and then under Col onel B. J .Tillman, Cavalry, and Capt . Phillip Doddr idge, Inf . Iadvanced to First Sergeant , to First Li eutenant (drill squadcommander) and then to Captai n in Command of Co. "C" . Thismi 1 itar y duty was the first thing that I coul d do well andhelped to build back into me some reassurance and sel f -conf idence1os t way back in a speaki nq contest in Georgia.

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In June of 1 9 1 9 , I was selected as one of six boys to besent from J.T. H.S . to the first ROTC Camp at Camp Custer ,Michigan. There we received six weeks of very v igorous trainingof high quality except for the usual medical mistreatment.Never having seen a machine gun, Iwas assigned to instructiri that weapon . Our officers were up a grade or two over theusual . For six companies of 100 each, the Commanding Of f icerwas Col . Edgar A, Fry . His Training Of f icer was a "leafcolonel" and each company commander was a major „ with p 1atooncommanders with grade of Captain® All officers and non-coms hadhad battle exper ience in World War I! The date of completionof this si x weeks training, August 2, 19' 9 , became the date ofmy comp 1 et ion of high school .

In September of 1 9 1 9 , I attempted to reg ist er for mysecond year of Jol iet Juni or Col 1ege. Mr . A . Francis T ramswas the on 1 y inst ructor in Rhetor ic and English, the on 1 yr equi red course in the school . He refused me as a studentin his classes. Therefore, I was not able to register.Instead, I registered 1at efthat month in the Chicago Collegeof Osteopathy, mor e about whi ch Iwill relate leter.

Before going on to my Chicago episodes, I should tell ofmy church and scouting and other ac t iv ities in Jol iet from1911 to 1919.

Due to its nearness, I attended Sunday School et WillowAvenue Presbyter ian Church. Rev. Car 1 Ferdinand Bruhn, a fineboy s man end man's man was the pastor for several years. Hissal ary was $810 being raised si ow 1 y to $1100. Of cour se itwas demanded that he pay a full tithing. This 10% was pre-deduct ed from hi s salary. But 2% of the members of Chi cagoPresbytery were tithe payers!

Rev . Bruhn organized a small club for about a dozen ofus boy s . He read T ar zan of the Apes to us as a come on . Hetook us on hikes and even on a week's camp at McCarthy ' s shackon the DuPage River near Bird's Br idge . From this class, heorganized a cat ech ism class and sever a 1 of us boys w erebapt ized by spr inkl ing into that church where my membershipwas 1 eft until I t ransferred it many years later to the FirstPresbyter ian Church, Hastings, Michigan.

Before we moved from Hunt er Avenue in 1 9 1 6 , I used to goacross town to the 3aptist Sunday School as that was supposedto be the chur ch of my parents, Mr . E. L . Mayo was the teacher,a fine man. I was el ected vice president of the class. Churchf ol 1owed Sunday School . Mr . Mayo invited us boy s to stay . It r ied it a few times (strictly alone) but no one ever spoke.Snubbing was quite noticeable. Probably my clothi ng was notof Bapt ist qual it y . Later, I attended the T r ip 1 e-M Class ofthe R ichard Street Methodist Chur ch for several years. Partof the time I attended church th ere and sometimes went to St .

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John's English Lutheran Church with the Schwerer family,None of these services was very satisfying,,

Scouting was always a pleasure to me even though my motherused it as a whip over me as she has always tried to use everyactivity or association I have ever liked. From Rev. Bruhn' sclub, he organized a scout troop, T roop 7 , with one second classscout and several candidates. In 19 1 3 I became the firsttenderfoot in the t roop. I was soon scribe and advanced toSenior Patrol Leader , Asst Scout Master and later was Scoutmasterof this same troop then known as T roop 12. Advancement was fromtenderfoot through all ranks to Star and Life Scout , missingEagle Scout by the one impossi b 1 e (for me) merit badge, lifesaving.

Dur ing a brief period of my eighth grade I worked unmer¬cifully, herd at the National Hot el , doing the most menial andf 1 1 thy chores th rough long hours seven days per week , receiving$2.50 per week and all meal s . I was al 1owed some food as theadult worker s except no beer even though I had to "rush" thebeer from the saloon® Concur r en 11 y , I had a 1 ong heavy Chi cagopaper route. My health was almost ruined.

While in high school , my inst ructor in trigonometry andsurvey ing was Mr . Irwin® About mid-semester, he was taken illand he assigned no to teach the class. I enjoyed this and wasable to be successful by studying ahead of the class. Hereagain, my training as a cadet officer helped wonderful 1 y .

In the extremely hot summer of 1 9 1 6, we 1e ft Hunt er Avenueand mov ed for the summer into the J . M. Large residence at 310Third Avenue. In September, Dad purchased the large house at123 Union St reet (later 23 Union) from Mrs. Albert Hindis.The down payment was from the very small sum my mother receivedfrom the estate of her father . This was her money and she neverlet Dad forget. Dad's business kept building and he had herds 1 eddi ng peeping me in col 1 ege.

I negl ected to add ear 1 ier that I was senior captain of theROT C and commanding officer of the drill team. My nicknemebecame "I.D.R. Fiend" as I had made a heavy study of InfantryDrill Regulations end had to rule frequent 1 y on those regulations.

My soc ia 1 life in high school was almost nothing. I "hungaround" with the Schweser s, the f ami 1 y and their daughters,Rosa, Ramona, both older than I. I never had a dat e with agirl until after I graduated from high school . Then I startedgoing with Ophel ia Hauck. We eventual 1y became engaged andafter about six months agreed to disagree but remained friendsafter the engagement was broken off .

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During my first two summer vacations from Ch icago Collegeof Osteopathy, I worked for the Public Service Co. of Northern11 1 inoi s as a substation operator at Substati on 97 at thesouthwest corner of Jackson and Ottawa Streets, Jol let. I hadmy own shift al one after eleven days of training. The salarywas very high: $ 1 05 or 110 per month for the first summer anda $ 5 raise for the second . We worked seven shifts out of everyeight days. I used to work my seven shifts, eight hours on andeight hours off and then had the 1ong ti me off.

Near the end of the first summer, I was in an electricalaccident based upon faulty operat ion of an oil switch by thevisiting stat ion e 1 ectr ici an. I was 1ooki ng directly at adi sconnect switch on a 4,000-2,300 vol t circuit, normallycarry ing a load of 1 75 amperes, wh en there was an arc to ground.This was just befor e noon, I finished my shift at 3:00 pm.Befoe the next mor ning I was blind, being in that condi t ion,total 1 y so, for the next twelve days, bei ng in the hospital inChicago. I returned to the job next summer chiefly to prove tomy sel f that I coul d take it.

My 1 ivi ng quarters at college were at first in singler ooms near the school . I tried commut ing from Jol iet butfound the phys ical strain too much. Our class schedu 1 e wasterr if ic. For examp 1e , the schedul e of my three sophomor equarters covered 39, 43, and 41 hours per week respectively.About two quarters, three of us, Ralph Chapin, a sen ior , andI 1 ived in the Hyde Park School for Little Children. We keptthe fire and swept and mopped the rooms having full occupancytwenty -one hours per day . We slept in an attic room and eachhad a classroom with a blackboard for study. I washed dishesin a "tearoom" for my supper plus $ 1 .

Meals were taken where we coul d . At noon, we often ateat the YMCA college. Restaurants on 53rd St . came in fortheir share. Occas ional 1 y an evening meal would be had atthe Hyde Park YMCA .

Eventual 1 y , I moved into the "Nest" in the basement of theChicago Osteopathi c Hospi tal with Ralph Chapin and Albert WareBailey. We were listed as j unior interns and did regularintern wor !< outside of our class time--and did order 1y workalso such as car r y ing pat ients and car ry ing extremely heavytrays of food from the basement to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floordi et ki tchens. We recei ved no pay othe r than bed, meals( f ur ni shed or supp 1 ement ed by food we sto 1 e nightly from theicebox and storeroom) and exper ience. We got to work in surgeryand in the obst et r ica 1 department . I gave anesthet ics fordel iver ies ( over 100) and wrote my thesis on the subject ,"Anaesthesia and its Relati on to Obstetr ics."

We al so were assigned to treat many hospital patients. Onesuch case was that of a baby about thirteen months old who hadsuffered a traumatic basal cerebral meningitis. I was assigned

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to the case and forgotten. The Super 1ntendent of Nuses toldme to t reat the child every hour until it died. She thoughtit wouldn't live more than a few hours . After seven days andsix night s of this grind, I asked for relief. The chi1 ddied that night ÿ

Often, I was so sleepy I had to be called by a nurse. Onefloor nurse woul d, in the wee small hours, prepare cocoa andwe woul d talk about an hour per night . On the final night ofthis case, she and I had our first dat e going down town inChi cago to dinner and a show to forget the baby . This nur sestill makes cocoa for me occas 1onal 1 y . Yes, her name wasBelle A1 berta Edmonds (now Hyatt ) .

We were engaged on March 13, 1 922, and were mar r ied atJoliet, Illinois in my parent 1 s home on October 1 4, 1 922 by Rev,E . E . Hast ings of the R ichar ds Street Presbyter ian Church. Ourbridal supper was at Davidson 1 s Caf eter 1a, south of the PublicL ibrary . We never had a honeymoon-- on time, no money ! We weremarr 1ed and I returned to school on Monday morning and we wentto house-keeping that morning at 5*+96 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago( about 1050 East ) . There we 1 ived unt i1 the n 1ght of my grad¬uation, May 31, 1923, during which night we moved to Joliet,wi th my parents.

Soon after we were sett 1 ed in our apartment Belle beganworki ng for Dr. Chester Morris, an Osteopathi c Physici an, inhi s of f ice down town 1n the 1oop of Chi cago. It took her anhour to get to work on a streetcar whi ch route was down throughthe Negro district. Her job was giving el ectronic t r eatment s( ear 1y El ectroni c Reaction of Abrams ) and she found it veryinterest ing and he was very nice to work for . She was therefrom November unt i 1 Apr i1 .

We had been promi sed the apartment at 1 23 Union Street( 1ater 23 Union ) but were unable to get in it unt i1 Septemberbecause the renters had not been asked to 1 eave ear 1 ier . Themonth of August we staid at Aunt Ida Lyle's ( across thestreet ) where it was more peaceful and agreeabl e. Our firstvi si tor s were honeymooners, f r iends of Belle's, Alma Grabeland Abe Mo1 1 from Grand Haven, Michigan.

Preston was born in the apartment , November 1 5, 1923, adark, cold morning, 4:00 am. Dr. Courtney , the doctor whodel iver ed Clarence in 1900, was 1n attendance. Helen Fowler,R . N . a f r iend of ours from Ch icago, came and took care ofus for ten days. P r est on came along wi thout any comp 1 icat ionsand kept me busy .

CI arence communted back and forth to downtown Chi cago,worki ng as ophthamol og ist in the Chi cago Osteopathi c ClinicalGroup. He worked there one year . His rental at 27 EastMonroe Street was 50% of receipts. With train fares, dailytrips, meal s, et cet ra he soon deci ded he couldn't makea suf f ici ent amount to keep going.

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In June, 192%, we deci ded to move to Grand Haven, Michiganand open an office* We made a hurried trip there f inding anapartment and of f ice space, then cont inuing on to Hastings (70miles). We left Preston with my parents, Mother and qadEdmonds. On our trip home, June 14th, we stopped at the veter¬ans Hospital at Camp Custer . It was a very hot day and we hadfan belt t roubl e, et cet ra,

June 20th, we moved to Grand Haven into a very nice 2ndfloor apartment at the Oaks home at 3 1 South 2nd Street . In-iormat ion had been sent to us that both women osteopaths weregett ing mar r ied and quitting pract ice. Both married, nei therquit pract ice and I had a rough time to break into a' funny Dutchand English town . After gett ing sett 1 ed we went to Hastingsto get Preston.

We enjoyed the f if teen months there. We coul d see LakeMichi gan frpw our front bedroom windows. We did not suffer thecol d as was predicted, being on the Mi chigan shore when it wasextremel y col d on the Wi sconsi n and 11 1 inoi s shores. We hadmany f ami 1 y and f r iends who were vi si tors from Hastings andJoliet, picnics on the beach, et cetre. Our old f r iends, Abeand A1ma Moll 1 ived there and hel ped us to get acquainted. Weattended the Methodist Church.

Anita Belle was born in the bedroom of the apartment , onSunday , February 8 , 1925 at 6 am. It was a very col d foggymorrftng.Dr . Peter DeWitt was the attendi ng phy s ic ian . Motherand Dad Edmonds had come there that week-end to take Prestonwith them for a short time. We had a practical nurse stay withus for a coup 1 e of weeks . Everythi ng went al ong as well aspossible and Belle was soon busy with Anita and Preston, whohad returned.

CI arence became interested in Scouting in Grand Haven andact ivat ed the program there by devel op ing it from one troop toa second class Counci 1 ( one wi thout a paid execut ive) with

seven very live and going t roops. He was the Scout Commi s-si oner (unpaid executive). During his lest months he servedas camp Di rector in the camp t en miles south of Grand Haven onLake Michigan. 11 was a most di ff icul t situation with unwantedpersonnel forced upon me. The cook was not hired by me andwas a "carney 11 , earnivel bum. T wo nigger boys were forced intocamp , The father of one of these came out to camp and threat¬ened my life with a hand gun. The timely arr ival of two auto¬loads of Klansmen saved the day and, frankly, he bel ieved savedhis 1 ife.

Business di d not incr ease as we desi red it would in ouroffice on Washi ngton Street, The of f ice was on the secondfloor of the tel ephone building. We moved back to Jol iet thelast of October , 1925, to live in the 1 ower apartment of AuntIda's house at 337 Hunter Avenue,

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When Preston was three weeks under three years ol d, hetried to shut the outside trap-door to the basement . It wastoo heavy for him and it threw him across the stairway, tear-ing the flesh off the second finger from the nail to the firstjoint and explosing the bone. It took over three months beforeit healed and left a bad scar and a deformed finger and nail,When taking him to the surgeon he was more concerned as toAnita's whereabouts (she was about twenty months old and hadbeen left with the second floor renters) than suffering painwith his finger.

Norman Frederick was born in Silver Cross Hospital, Decem¬ber 29, 1926. Mother Edmonds came from Hastings, Michigan, tostay with Preston and Anita, during the mother's stay with Normat the hospital, Preston and An ita came down with the measlesso when it came time for Belle and Mormam to leave the hospitalthey went to Grandparent Hyatt ' s home until the house eould befumigated before taking the baby home.

Clarence had gotten his Illinois 1 icense to prect ice (hehad previously taken the examination and received his licenseto pract ice in Michigan) hi s profess 1on and was in with hi sfather. But business was not really enough for two familiesand Clarence was always looking for something in which hecould better himself. He went to Ki rkdvi 1 1 e, Missouri, inthe Spring of 1927 to take a course in diagnosis and treatmentof Electronic Reaction of Abrams. His enst ructor s for this

electronic medicine were Drs, J. V. and Lul a McMannas and Drs.Pearl and Col son. The course lasted about a month, coveringchiefly laboratory diagnosis practice. Most instruction anddiagnosis practice was individual and supervised. That was tocome in very handy in 1938 when he added radioclast equipmentto his office and built his first and only real practice.

In 1927, Clarence took the Blue Course (4th year advanced)CHIC (Citizen's Military Training Camps) at Fort Sheridan,Illinois. He had not shouldered a rifle since 1 9 1 9 , but ratedfifth out of nine. The others were all experienced men. Inless than a year Clarence was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant,342 Infantry. Later assignments were to the 338th Infantryand 68th Infant ry ( Lt . T anks ) . All but the latter were straightreserve while it was R. A. I. (Regular Army Inaction). Promo¬tions carried through 1st. Lieutenant, which rank he attainedSeptember 1,1936.

March 1928, we purchased a new brick veneer house at 929(later 229) West Park Avenue and soon moved in. At first itwas quite muddy but we soon seeded and landscaped the yard ÿnd

we enjoyed living there. .Qn Labor Day Clarence built a goodsolid driveway by hauling macadum from the street that wasbeing paved,

While there we attended the Willow Avenue PresbyterianChurch. The chi 1 dr en being smal 1 we were not very act ive,While Clarence was in the hospital for surgery he was proposedand voted on to serve as Deacon in the church, and later ordained.

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Bel 1 e attended a few Eastern Star meetings and White Shrinefunctions,, Later became a member of a group, of eight who playedAuction bridge. We met for many years and had many good times,Its always a joy to return to Jol iet and visit old f r iends ,

In April 1 930, Clarence had a thy rodectomy at the CatholicHospital at B 1 oomi ngton, Illinois, by Dr. E . P. Sloan, He hada good recovery but was unable to do anything for some time.In June we wentto Hastings, Michigan, then later to a cabin, wehad rented on Podunk Lake, near the old Stone homestead, Belle'smother old home, six miles from Hastings. We stayed there untilthe last of August, Much time was spent fishing, (havingplenty of pan-fish every day) and swimming. His health wasimproved when we returned to Jol iet .

For several years Clarence was an instructor in the ArmyExtension Courses both by correspondence and in classes. From1927 to 1931, he taught on the average of ten hours per week(gratis) in the ROTC in J . T . H. S ., teachi ng the subjects ofscout ing and patrolling, and map reading, sketching. This earn¬ed him promotion to First Lieutenant, Service as a Lieutenantwas all at Fort Sheridan, Illinois until C . C . C. duty in 193*4.Total active duty amounting to about three full years,

Preston started school at Sheridan Elementary, Miss Sadie3urk, Principal, was the same teacher Clarence had in seventhgrade at Sheridan School. During the second semester theteacher promoted him to second grade for the last half of thesemester. He was able to carry along until May when he becameill with scarlet fever. We tried to keep him isolated in ourbedroom and away from Anita and Norm but we heard afterwardswe had not been too successful, Clarence had to live at hisparents home as we were under quar ant een . Pres recovered inabout a month and Anita and Norm showed nothing but a possiblerash. He was promoted to the last ha 1 f of second grade.

In 1931 we again decided to go on our own and consideredHastings a good location. We moved to West We 1nut Streetduring the summer. Clarence opened an office on the secondfloor of the Hastings National Bank. Preston entered the lasthalf of second grade, Anita, the first grade, and Norm startedkindergarten at the old white school building that Belle hadstarted her city school ing in,

Our church affiliation in Hastings was the First Presby¬terian Church, where Belle had been a member and was baptizedwhen she was twelve years old. Her father, J. Frank Edmonds,was an elder there for over twenty-f ive years. Her mother ,Addle, was very active as president of the Ladies Aid Societyfor many years. Also, the Sunday School teacher . She orgen-iized and was president of a Hospital Guild.

Dnrin-' tha v/i ;itor of 1332 Y:vi vÿr; sÿvÿre boutwith pneumonia but after treatments and prayers snapped out ofit and was soon her active self. Father McNul ty of the Epis co¬pal Church called several times and was very concerned about her.

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After a year on Walnut Street, we moved to 1 35 West Bond( and Church ) , immediately across the street from the perk andone block from school . We made many f r iends there and keptvery busy with church, PTA, etc. Belle served as presi dent ofthe Ladies Aid Society one year . Our neighbors, the MarkVan Del sen family built a cottage on Gun Lake and we had manygood times with them. They had a boy , Leon, and a girl P&outour ch i1 dr ens 1 ages .

Clarence was active in Scouting. He v; ps Cubmaster in theexperimental Cub Pack in the region, at the church. He helpedthe Scout Executive, Lloyd Shafer, in organizing Scout Troopsin Kellogg Foundat ion in Del ton and Allegan, He also, partici¬pated in training at Kellogg Foundation end at Camp f <. BenJohnson on Gun Lake, The Shafers became very good friends.

While in Hastings Clarence opened a three ha1f-dry,.practiceper week in Nashville at the home of Selle's brother, Gor dan andGladys Edmonds, twelve miles esst of Hastings. This didn'tp rove to be worth the time and expense. 11 was during the de-p ressi on and business did not pick up as we had hoped it would.The crisis came when one morninn Clarence found hi s of f ice doorin the Bank Building plastered with full-ptge notices of closureof all Michigan banks. Gov . Frank Murphy had received a bribeof a Supreme Court Justice-ship from F. D. R . Clarence earned$2 .00 that day and nothing more for two weeks . When school wasout we took the children to Joliet for a visit with their grand¬parents, Clarence's parents, and we returned to Hastings.

We w ere enjoying our r esi dence in Hastings and were becomi ngactive in the community functions, but feeling the effects ofthe depression.

June 25, 1933, we had hed a very enjoyable evening at theVan Dal sen cabin at Gun Lake, fishing and swimming. When ÿ wereturned 1 ate that Fr iday evening, a telephone call came inform¬ing us of the ser ious illinois of Clarence's father . 'We arrangedthings as best we coul d and after another call from Joliet wedeci ded to drive through to Joliet dur ing Saturday night.Drivinc along Lake Michigan we saw the most beautiful col or f ulsky due to a tornado wh ich had caused much damage in northernIllinois, but had lost its power crossi no the lake. A hard rain¬storm did hit us as we approached Mi 1 1 e r - - f iv e miles east ofGary, Indiana. The car stalled in the middle of the highway,as we discovered during a flash of lightning. Using the starter,we got to the side of the road. When the rain stopped Clarencewas able to dry the distributor and we continued our night tripto Joliet, We had two or three more herd storms before errivinethere about daybreak. Dad was some better but still very ill.He had been in a come when the first call.

We stayed a week in Joliet and decided then Clarence shouldreturn to talc over his father's practice, './a ÿ1 ->o found v/e

could move back to our house oi West Park Avenue -nd even getour old telephone number, 2 -0625 back. Clarence took the children

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and Belle back to Hastings to pack up to move August 1st. Hereturned immediately, but came for us when the moving van loaded.We again made the trip at night arriving ahead of the van .

Little Robert Theodore died twenty minutes befor e birthafter a very mi serab 1 e pregnancy and 1ong period of labor, at1:30 am, March 29, 1 934 at St Joseph Hospital. Aft er a week atthe hospital Or . Robley 1 et Bell e return home three to five daysear 1 ier than the usual stay so I coul d help Clarence pack ashe was leaving in the morning. Clarence's mot!tor came abd stay¬ed with us unt i 1 Belle was able to assume ful 1 dut ies . The babyis buried on the Hyatt 1 ot in Elmhurst Cemetery , Joliet.

After about nine months Dad was much improved and back inthe office. Clarence had spent several weeks at military campsduring the summers and w as a Reserve Of f icer . He vol unteeredfor active duty in the Civilian Conservation Corps end his orderscamp for active duty on April 6, 1 934 , at Fort Sheridan, northof Chicago. After two weeks he was sent to northern Wisconsin.Clarence's first camp was Camp Perkins, a town 70 miles west ofour railhead at Medfor d . After the arrest of one stealer ofuniforms and blankets and of a sheepsteal inq, he w; s suddenlyt ransf err ed to Camp Mineral Lake, nine miles from Marengo. Bothof these camp s were true Hell Holes.

During Belle spent a month at Mellon, about fifteen milesthrough the woods from the camp and Clarence spent what time hecoul d with her . Wilbur Carey took me up and his parents, Rossand Fanny Car eny ( nei ghbor s and old f r iends ) and Lucille came upafter me. The chi1 dr en had stayed with their grandparents.Later in the summer of 1 934, Belle took the ch i1 dren to Chicagofor an out ing. Places of interest were vi si t ed and an excitingbaseball game at Wrigley Field.

'When v/e returned to Joliet we again attended the Willow Ave.presbyterian Church. We all became quite act ive. Preston was inCubbi ng (BSA) before leaving Hasting whi 1 e hi s father was Cub-mast er . He continued at the Richard Street Methodist Churchuntil he became a Scout in the Willow Avenue Troon. Norm, also,started his cubbing at the. Methodist Church then became active1n the W i1 1 ow Ave. t roop. An ita joined the Girl Scout of thesame Church. Belle was Captain of the Girl Scout T roop and laterserved $s a c ommis s ion e r on the Joliet Girl Scout Counc i1 . In1936, she with two other of f icer s attended the National GirlScout Convent ion at Ci ncinnat i, Ohi o. Mr s . Herbert Hoover , wifeof former U . S. Presi dent Herbert Hoover was the pr esi dent andpresi ded at all the meet ings. The meet ings wer e held in the Hallof Mirrors of the St . Nicholas Hotel . It was an unforgetableevent to return a coup 1 e hours later for the Banquet in a beauti¬ful flower garden of f 1 owers and spanish moss . Belle h; d otheract ivessuch PT A , bridge club and church, et cetera .

Clarence's duty was for si x months. But after a thirteen-day lapse it was extended for two mor e years . During this t imehe felt the children had grov/n up as he only saw them in thesummers and during brief leaves of absences !

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When Clarence returned to Fort Sheridan in October 1934,he served as Commanding officer of a "conditioning company"of about 280 men, then of an entraining company, shippingabout 560 men dai 1 y to Oregon and Washington. His final dutythere was as Assi stant Dispatch Of f icer . The remainder ofhis duty was in the camps except for a two week period inFort Sher iden as po1 ice of f icer .

When Clarence was at his new assignment he hr d the p 1eos-ur e of three Co. of f icer s of that first company ( Mo. 633 )severely punished for mi sappl ionce of company and mess funds.The medico, spent the wi nter in a tent camp for he vi ng report¬ed , ' him to the Corps Area Surgeon for giving one treatmentwhich restored an enrol 1ee to duty after two weeks on his bunk,accompanied by daily treatment by the Medico in the form of"Get up you damned brick."

Later in October , Clarence was transferred through FortSheridan to Camp Smith Lake to Camp Cable where he served fornineteen months as Adjutant of the Thirteenth and ThirdForesty Districts, serving under seven district commander s„tv/o serving twice! Duties there covered many phases includingsummary court of f icer , special invest igator , auditor of funds,etc ., in fact the alter ego ( other self) of the District Com¬mander. A special duty which gave me about $100 per month ofmileage pay was Recruiting Officer of District W - 7 and W-9,which covered the northern eleven counties of Wisconsin.

After having our Christmas at home in 1 93ÿ , Del 1 e joinedClarence at Camp Cable in northern Wisconsin. It hod been verycol d and 1 ot s of snow while Belle was there. Clarence was ableto return with her. The train was late and cold and it took usabout thirty hours instead of about twenty , and it was a hardcol d trip.

In April of 1935 Clarence came home for a 1 ec ve and wepurchased a new 01dsmobi 1 e, al though it was not delivereduntil after he had returned to camp . 3 e 1 1 e hadn't dr ivenvery much for several years but she soon got to drivina andhad the car broken in and ready for our trip to Cable in June.Clarence came down and we returned with him to a cabin onLake Namacagon, one-hal f mile from the camp. Vie stayed theretv/o and one-half months. Swimming was not good and pan fishwere diseased so that part of the summer was adi sr ppointmept .We were able to make several sight seeing trips to the Oredocks at a shl and, Wi scons in and Dul uth, Minnesota; the woodedareas of northern Michigan? Masaba Iron Range (largest open-pit iron mine) at Virginia, Minnesota; Intern- tional Falls,Canada. We visited cousins of Clarence's father at RiverFalls, Wi sconsin, Ray and Roy Hyatt. We also, 1 e-- rned of esi st er , Edith Hyatt Servity who had a cottage around the 1r,kefrom where we were. We called on her a couple of times whilethere. We also found the bur iel place of Clarence's greatgrandmother in the cemetery at Prescott , Wisconsin. Oursummer was most enjoyable.

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The first Sunday in September, 1935, which was a verycold frosty morning, we started back to Joliet so the childrencould go to school® CI arence " returned to Camp Cable in aboutten days by train.

We had a very busy winter. Anita and Norman were attend¬ing Sheridan School. Preston was at Far ragut Junior HighSchool. After swimming at the YMCA, he had a hard bout withpneumonia in the winter, About eight weeks, while he was re¬cuperating, he did all his school work at home. This enabledhim to finish his seventh grade and be ready for eighth thenext year. Norman was busy in Cubbing at the Richard StreetMethodist Church. Belle was also busy as Captain of the GirlScout T roop, two Parent-T eacher organizations, church, bridgeclub, et cetera. Ani ta was also active in Girl Scouting,

One Sunday whi 1e out riding we 1 ist ened to MonsignorDuane G. !-!unt , 1ater a Bishop of Sal t Lake City. When we re¬turned to the cabin we wrote a card asking for the discourse.Clarence had had classmates in college who were Mormons so wesent a card to "The Mormon Church" in Salt Lake City. WhenClarence returned to camp after taking us home, he receivedan envelope of some tracts, pamphlets, and brochures about theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He spent hi sspare time reading those and making a list of questions inregard to the Church. He was invited to visit the MissionHome in Chicago when he was home on a visit.

While Clarence was home for the Christmas Holidays (1935)we made our first visit to the Northern States LDS MissionOffice at Logan Square. We had a very interesting two-hourvisit with President John H. Taylor who was filling in forPresident Bryant S. Hinckley's arrival. President Taylor hadbeen called to take over the office due to the death ofPresident George Romany. Pres. Taylor had such good answersto the questions Clarence presented. He gave references inthe Bible and then in the Book of Mormon. Everything wasanswered in a very enlightening manner making us interested anddesi r ing more study . We thought it was the best two-hoursermon we had ever heard . Clarence took a Book of Mormonback to Wi scons in when he returned to camp.

During the Spring of 1936 Clarence was transfer ed to CampOntario, Wisconsin, about 100 miles east of LaCrosse. He camehome in May on leave and Belle returned with him to find enapartment for the summer. When school was out Belle and thechildren drove to Ontario and lived over a store on the Mainstreet across the road from the city park and about one anda half miles from camp. That summer we made many trips aroundthe western part of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. Clarence'sparents came up for a visit and we took them to River Falls sODad could meet his cousins there. The children had a chanceto ride a yoke of oxen which had been trained to haul things.

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Clarence's last CCC duty was at Camp Ontario, Wisconsinfrom May to September of that terr if ica1 1 y hot summer of 1936.He was second in command of that company with chief dut ies asmess off icer. Hi s camp also fed and admini strated a -spikecamp about ÿ0 miles east of Laÿross, From that company he tookhi s terminal leave of absence returning home (Joliet) and beingpromoted to Captain on September 1 1 936. He was placed onthe Of f icer s Honorary Retired Li st on August 30, 1 9ÿ5, in whichstatus he still r emai ns,

Following Clarence's r el ease as a Captain from active dutywe 1'eft Ontar io for a trip through central Wisconsin. We visit¬ed f r iends at Fifleld. Cont inuing north we traveled throughthe western part of Northern Peninsul a of Michigan, Hancock andthe copper count ry , to Eagle and Copper Harbours on the shoreof Lake Superior. Knowing that Belle's father hed spent thelast two years of hi s t eaching career ( 1 897- 1 899 ) in this areawe spent a most en joyabl e night there.

Leaving the copper country we drove east through denseforests, to Marquette, Houghton and to Saute St . Marie. Therewe visited the International Locks on the St . Mary ' s Riverbetween Michi gan and Onter io, Canada. The term "Soo" comesfrom Las Saut e de Marie -- mean ing rapids of the St. MaryRiver. We visited other points of interest and drove intoCanada. Out next stop was St . Ignace where we staid all night.We spent a del ightf ul day on Macki nac Island. No motor vehi¬cles are allowed on the isi and. The old Fort had seen manybatt 1 es fought by Engl ish, French, Spaniards, and Indians.After returning to St Ignace ( by an excursion ferry ) we got ourcar and f err ied to Mackinaw City, the northern tip of 1 owerMi chi gan. We visited old Fort Mackinaw, another p 1 ace havinghad many bat ties. Leaving thi s hi stor ical p 1ace we stopped atIndian Village, Good Hart, and other points of interest alongthe western shor el 1ne of Michigan. We arrived at Grand Havenwhere we had 1 ived for seventeen months. An ita was born herein February , 1925. We vi si ted Alma and Abe Moll, old timef r iends and other friends we had made wh i1 e 1 iv ing there. Wewent to the Oval , a recceational p 1ace, on the shore of LakeMi chi gan and other places of interest.

Leaving there we drove 1n1and to Hast ings to visit Motherand Dad Edmonds and other relatives. A week was spent atPodunk Lake where we helped Mother and Dad entertain cousi nsfrom Akron , Ohi o, the Reuben Stone fami 1 y . Fishi ng and swimi -mi ng were the 1 igh 1 ights of our stay there. We finally ar¬rived home the first day of September with the feel ing we hadhad a very exc it ing summer and 1 ovel y trip. We were veryhappy to be home as a comp 1 et e fami 1 y as CI arence had been onact ive duty for near 1 y three years.

We all sett 1 ed down to our various act ivi t ies . C 1 arencereturned to hi s Ostoepath1c p rof ess ion with hi s father . Thechi1 dr en returned to school , scouting programs, and otheract ivi t ies and Belle to the Girl Scout Counci 1 , PTA and other

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After our visit to the mission of f ice in Chicago endreading the literature from Sal t Lake City, we were beginningto be quite interested in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We also were vi s ited by missionaries. In November,1936, we were invited to attend the organization meeting of theChicago Stake at the University Ward Chapel about 6100 SouthKenwood Avenue, Chicago* We were greatly impressed with thefriendliness of the members to us and the way the meeting wesconducted. President Heber J. Grant of the LDS Church waspresent . Also President and Sister Bryant S, Hinckley, NorthernStates Mission, were present. Although we did not meet themat that time we later had a very lovely association with theHinckleys end President Grant ,

The middle of December we were in Chicago anc: went to themission office. We had a very interesting and inspirationaltalk with President Hinckley. We tried to decline the invita¬tion to have 1 unch with them, but with Sister Hinckley'sremark she wanted time to add a little water to the soup , wecould not refuse. Then at the house ( next door ) after Si sterHinckley made a short trip to a nearby delicatessen, she inform¬ed Bel 1 e "I went to the cupboard and the cupboard was bare, soI went to the store," This truly had been a very interestingmorning.

In March, 1937, we received an invitation to attend a Firesideon Thursday evening. After that we made many trips (kS mileseach way) to Firesides at the mission home and we were so im¬pressed with the Church we asked to be baptized. It wes afamily desire and Sunday, July 4th was arranged for it in thebaptizimal font at Logan Square Ward Chapel, Elder AlbertGeigle of the mission was assigned by President Hinckley toperfor m the baptisms. Clarence was conf irmed by Presi dentHinckley and Belle was conf irmed by Bishop Ariel Williams, M.D.,Preston, Anita and Norman were confirmed by members of thebishopric and a missionary. We spent a very interesting even¬ing at themi ssi on home and stayed there to attend a wardpicni c at a park. On Sunday evening Dr.R.Russell of 'London ,England visited the home with Brother and Sister Anderson (hiss ister ) of Salt Lake City. Dr. Russel 1 hed attended theOsteopathic College with Clarence. His way of fasting, payingtithing and attending servi ces had greatly impressed Clarenceand he had often remarked about him and his church. This wasthe first reunion they had had si nee thei r graduation, 1923--f our teen years. We shal 1 never forget the July Fourth of 1937.We requested a release of membership from the PresbyterianChurch, Hastings, and received a very nice 1 ett er from themini ster, Rev. John John Kitching,

The missionaries in the neighboring towns would come forthe weekends and we had Sunday School in our home for m~nyyears. Vie tried to have Sunday School down in ~ hr 1 1 butseveral members who had been baptized and active years beforehad lost all interest and faith and would not - tt end.

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There was no organization of the Church in Jol iet so weattended many meetings and conferences in the mission, aftertraveling up to 200 miles before ten o'clock on a Sundiaymorning. We also attended the Chicago Conferences and metmany of the Church visiting authorities at the mission home.

During the first summer as members of the Morman Churchwe made a trip to Carthage and Nauvoo, Illinois to visitChurch historical places. Romania Meeks, a released LadyMissionary from Bi cknel , Utah who we hed met in the missionof f ice, accompani ed us. This was a very interesting trip tothe places which had become sacred to Mormon Saints. We alsovisited Springfield, Lincoln's Home and Tomb, and i !ew Salem-- a replica village v/her e Abe Lincoln had once lived. In 1939the members of the. Chicago Stake and Northern States Missionmet for an 1nspi rat ional conference at Nauvoo. The Saturdayeveninq meeting wss held in a Protestant church and the Sundaymeeting was held on the old T emp 1 e grounds . The members ofthe other churches served dinner for e good price to the .Mormons on Sunday. A meet in< w as held on the 1 awn of thejail in Carthage in the afternoon.

We did not have Church organizations to ottenl so v;e .11busy with other tilings, Ba1 1 e served is vice-president;

with Mrs. Frank Chemlik, Pr es ident of the Far ragut ParentTeacher Association. This was the first time a member hedcome to the Far ragut Junior High and Elementary PTA from anotherelementary school and served as an officer. She served for twoyears as president. Selle was also president of the Jol ietLady Lions organization for a year.

Preston had a bad throat infect ion during the summer aftergraduation from Far ragut Jr. High in 1937 and could not enterhigh school until the Spring semester. He had his tonsils outin October . An ita graduated from Far ragut Jr. High in June1939. Morman graduated from the Sheridan Elementary Schoolin January 1939.

We wanted to be near the high school end our home on WestPark Avenue was too small for our growing family so we persuadedClarenc's parent to change houses with us. We knew the parentswould be nearer their friends, the Gowlands, Careys and Roosters.We moved into the large Union Street house for sufficient bed¬rooms for our three children end in order to be close to thehigh school where all would be attending. This move was medein December 1938.

In 1938, Clarence purchased a Radiodast and went into thesale of vitamin and mineral foods. This puthim into ell thebusiness he could handle --even too much. The physical andmental strain was extreme! However, this good business allowedhim to take the financial load off from his Dad. 81or ence wasable to eventually pay off all indebtedness end when we movedto Provo, Utah in 1951, we paid cash for our new home on theday we moved in.

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In 1 938 the whol e family spent the month of August touringthe West . The boys wanted to sleep, enroute, out in a pup tentbut the weatherman was not cooperat ive at first. We stoppedat Winter Quarters, now known as Florence, in Omaha, Nebraska.Our first night we staid in a motel on the out -ski r t s ofOmaha. It rained so the boys had to sleep inside. We spentsome t ime in Lincoln, the capitol of Nebraska. Along thePlatte River we encountered a dust storm and the weather wasvery threatening so we stopped at Ogal 1 al a for the night.About 1 000 miles from home, just east of Cheyene, Wyomi ng,our back-door neighbor s and friends drove up behind us andsignalled us. We then pi anned to have 1 unch together . Afterpurchasing food we deci ded to eat in Col orado (9 miles fromCheyene) . Just south of the border we found a store andtavern 1n a shady yard. We asked if we might use their yardbut because we had not purchased anything they refused. Weate our 1unch in the middle of the cross-roads in the sun.Our friends went on their way to Yel 1owstone. We went northof Cheyene to f ol 1 ow the old Mormon trail through Wyomi ng.We stopped at Casper for the night then fol 1owed the SweetwaterRiver. We found the "Register of the Desert" where t h ÿ Saintshad r egi stered their camping a hundred y ear s befor e. It hadrained in Casper so,agai n , the boys were unable to sleep out .Later that day we arrived at the home of Brother and SisterD . Ray Shurt 1 if f , 23 1 4 Sunnysi de Avenue, Sal t Lake City,This was the home of one of our mi ssi oner s in the missionfield, Richard Shur11 iff, who had been in our home many times.11 didn't take long for the boy s to have their tent pitchedfor the night.

As the T emp 1 e was not open we decided to make our southerntrip first. Our first stop was at the home of Sister RomaniaMeeks at 3 icknel 1 . With her and her par ent s we drove to Sryceand Z ion Canyons enroute to St. George where we staid allnight. Hevrn-g our Temple recommends we were privileged togo through the Temple even though there was some remodelingbeing done. Our next stop was Las Vegas, Nevada and the on 1 yshade we coul d find to eat our lunch was on the courthouse lawn.This was the on 1 y free shade we could find. It was really HOT .We cont inued to Hoover Dam, and south r 1m of Grand Canyon.In order for the boy s to si eep in Arizona they had to scrape thestones away to put their tent at Sel igman. After seeing theGrand Canyon we returned to 3i cknel 1 by the most direct route.It truly had been a 1ovel y trip with our friend.

We then visited another mi ssi onery , Ladd Cropoer, on"Cropper Lane" just out of Hinckl ey , west of Delta. Therewe had a very enjoyable time with Ladd and hi s f ami 1 y . Fromthere we returned to Salt Lake City and the Shurt 1 if f s ,We went to the Salt Lake T emp 1 e and got our endowment s andwere seal ed and the children sealed to us, A 1 so babyTheodore Robert who had di ed at birth. The Shurt 1 if f s were

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very gracious and wonderful to us, We saw many historical andinteresting places and met many of their friends and Churchauthorities. They had a lovely party for us. We al so hadthe pleasure of att endi ng a bi r thday 1 uncheon for a grand¬daughter of President Grant ,who was a guest at the L ion House.The 1uncheon was truly a highlight of our trip, not becauseof the two ment ioned events, but to have the pr ivi 1 ege ofbeing with President Grant and hi s f ami 1y . Due to a misunder¬standing, the chi 1 dren were not present , We fol 1 owed Pres.Grant at the line in the cafeter ia and when the girl back ofthe beverage stand asked him what would be his drink, his replywas "I'll have my usual beer .11 Of course it was root beer ,We then went to an obi ong table in the dining room where therewas a nice chai r at the head of the table for Pr es ident Grÿnt .He insi sted C 1ar ence woul d si t there and Presi dent Grant satat Clarence's left, C 1ar ence alway s f el t this was one of themost embrassing experiences,

The morning we were 1 eavi ng for home we received word ofAunt Ida Ly 1e' s death in Joliet. Knowing it woul d be hard todrive back 1n time for the funeral , we did not change our plansto shorten our trip home. We went to Logan, Bear Lake, thenfollowed U.S .30 through Wyomi ng and Nebraska. In Iowa wedrove to Webster City, where some of the Hyatt f ami 1 y had1 ived. A brother of C 1arence 1 s greet unci e had pract iced 1 awthere. We were able to find two descendent s of Norman Hyatt ,This truly had been a wonderful trip.

In April of 1939 Bel 1e made a trip to Salt Lake with Sis¬ter Mel ba Cook, a Lady Missionary who served in the NorthernStates Mission. She was taking a new Dodge car home to herfather and Sister Hinckl ey want ed her to go with her . We wentto the factory in Detroi t and got the new car then drove westafter stopping at Joliet, Belle attended the Relief Societyand General Conferences, Afterwards she went , by bus, toSan Franci sco,attended the International Fair on TreasureIs 1 and and visited China T own before heading home vi a train,on the Golden Gate Limited ( Southern Padf ic and Rock Isi androads ) .

In August of 1 939 we agai n made a trip west, thi s timethrough the Badl ands and B 1 ack Hills of South Dakato. Wh i1 etraveling through the Shoshone mountains in Wyomi ng on the1 0th of August , we had fresh snow and had a great time throw¬ing snowbal 1 s . We spent a coup 1e of day s in Y e 1 1 ow s t oneNat ional Park, stay ing at Gardner , Montana, north ent raneeto the park. In Idaho Falls we attended Sunday School andPreston was cal 1 ed on to give the opening p rayer . We againvi si ted the Meek f ami 1 y at Bi chnel 1 end the Croppers atHinckley. We made our resi dence at the R ichmond Hot el ,North T emp 1 e and State Street . While there we visited friendsand attended a sess ion at the Temple. Gladys Meeks, sister ofRomania, was to return with us so we agai n went to B icknel 1 .The chi 1 dren did some baptismal work at Mant i T empl e and weat t ended a sessi on before starting for home. We took a more

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southern route, through Colorado to Denver. At Pikes Peak wehad quite an experience. In sight of the 1 '4,000 foet mrrker,our car stalled. Vie thought it mi ght be air-locked but itturned out to be just out of gas! Gladys, Anita and Bellewalked the last half mile to the top end sent word back to anoil station, about halfway, to bring us some gas, T hey sooncame with the needed gas and to our surpr ise only charged $5.00for the trip. We then reached the top but were gird when wewere down to the bottom. We wer e greatly impressed by the b ÿ

- rn-1 iked appearance of the Reorganized LDS tabernacle after ourtrip through Kansas to Independence, Missouri. It was a veryHOT, windy day. We tried to find Far West and Adamondi Ahmanbut it was 1ate on a Sunday night and we had tire trouble sogave it up and staid all night at Cameron, Missouri. 'We wereglad to arrive home on Labor day after a nice trip.

In 1938 Clarence added the Radioclast and el ectronictreatment equi pment to the of f ice and as Belle had worked inthat kind of treatment in Chicago she had helped him. We hopedthat Gladys woul d be a help in the of f ice but it did not workout satisfactorily so she v/ent home in June 1 9*+0 . A f t er Gladysleft Belle again took over the office work for Clarence and hisfather . We put in many hours together at the of f ice. Belle wasable to have time off to take care of the home and cont inuev/ith some of her social activities.

In 1 940 Myrtle Winger invited Belle out to attend her mar¬riage and sealing to Ferrell Carter. Myrtle lost her motherjust before leaving for her mission and she had adopted Belleas her foster mother . Belle staid at the Richmond Hotel whereshe and her sister were staying and attended General Conferenceand Temple Sessions with them. Belle was very glad that shecould be there at that time and she knew that it meant a lotto the newly weds, Belle had also, an opportunity to visitfriends, having an enjoyable visit and dinner with Presidentand Sister Hi nckl ey befor e returning home.

When Belle returned from her western trip in pr i 1 , 1 9ÿ0 ,she was informed of the insults that Norman had taken from hisgym and athletic coach and geography teacher at Washington Jr.High, because Norm had not played football in the fal 1 . Normwas very large for hi s age and com 1 d not get gym shoes. Theteacher gave him barely passing grades in gym and geography.Then took him out of gym class activity to run around the gymfloor in his sock feet with two negro boys. One class periodthe teacher took Norm in his office and told him he was dumb,could not write or compose a decent sentence, and how foolishit was for him to start high school or even think of going tocollege. That w as the last straw as he had always been a verygood student. Each other teacher Belle interviewer! coiilrl notoroi so 'air ~r.01.s3h n" r. verv s,urori ?ed to learn .he at¬titude of the gym teacher. In the ' pr ihcipal 1 s office v/iththe principal, Belle was told by the teacher that lie vr sjust taking a fatherly interest. She quickly replieo n\,/elook after Norman from that standpoint." Then she accused

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the teacher that because Norm had not played football he wastaking 11 out on the child* He was quite taken back but didnÿtdeny it . After our di scussi on Norm' s grades improved immedi¬ately to B+ and A in each subject and there was no moret roubl e with him. Also, the principal and other t eacher s gavehim very responsi bl e assi gnments and errands. This teacherwas never known to even get a graduate degree while Norman con¬tinued to get honors and degrees.

In August of 1 9ÿ0, we planned a more northern trip. Wedrove up through Wi scons in, Ni nnesota, International Falls,to Mani toba, Canada. The boys went swimmi ng in the Lake ofthe Woods where we stai d all night but the water was too col dfor a comfortabl e swim. We stopped at Wi nmipeg, Regina,Saskatchewan, Lethbr idge, where we had to have a tire fixed.We had t ravel ed about forty mi 1 es wi thout a spare over arough gravel road, Bel 1e found several tacks around the oi tstation where we stopped for repair and concl uded they weremaking business. At Car dston wr were able to go through theAlberta Temple although the tempi e was closed at that time.We cont inued to Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise. Returninq tothe states we drove throug.fi Glacier Nat ional Park. We hadpr evi ousl y dr iven through Water ton Park in Canada. The twoparks are known as the Internat ional Peace Parks. Cont inuingwest we went to Spokane, Washi ngton and Pasco where we staidall night. We f ol 1owed the Col umbi a River to Port 1and, thenturned south. Stopping at Sal em, Or egon we visited withMyrtle and Fer rel 1 Carter , who were there for the summer .

After a very nice time at Sal em, Oregon with Myrtleand Fer rel 1 , we cont inues our trip south, drivi ng along theNational Crater Lake Monument and Rogue River. A 1 ong the riverwas volcanic lava every thi ng. The Crater Lake and lava for¬mat ions were very beaut iful and interesting. We stopped thatnight at Cove Junct 1on . Pres, Ani ta and Norm went swimmingin the Illinois R iver of Oregon and the manager of the mot elwas very interesting with his small models of trains. We con¬tinued south, getting the first gl impse of the Pacific Oceanat Crescent City, Cal ifornia . Vie stopped at one beach andwent wading al ong the sandy shore. Our next stop was Eurekawhere we saw a whale on the beach near a whale processinq plant.

We then left the coast line traveling down throu thebeautiful redwood trees. The jungle and the large treeswere amazing and beautiful®

Our stop for the night was at Petal uma, California, wherewe found Delia Morris, a first cousin of Clarence's mother .After finding our mot el and had supper we had a nice visit withher and her family. This was a great poul try raisinq center .

We drove over the Gol den Gate Bridge to San Francisco andfound a smal 1 apartment where we stayed for two days. Thetime was spent seeing some of the interest ing sights whi ch were:Gol den Gate Park and Zoo, Chi natown, and FiSherman 1 s Wharfwhere we had a good dinner. We also had a good Chinese dinnerin Chi natown.

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We spent some time at the World's Fair on Treasure 1st end,a 1 arge island in the bay , which was converted into a NavelBase. Crossing the bay on the San Franci sco-Oakl and Bay Br idgewe proceeded east to Sacramento where we stai d all night. Itwas terr ibl y hot and humid but we did see the Capitol of Cali¬fornia and visited Si ster CI awson and Si ster Mel ba Cram,former missionaries in the Northern States Mission.

Proceeding eastward we went to Reno, Nevada but we didnot stop there. We stopped at Fal 1on for the night. The nextnight we staid at Ely. It was Saturday night and everyonewas out for a wild time. We followed U S-50 eastward throughthe desert to Hinckley, Utah where we visited the Croppers fora coup 1 e of days. Our next stop was Bicknel, visiting theMeeks family before goi ng to Salt Lake City. We again staidat the Richmond Hot el for several days, visiting f r iends,attending T emp 1 e Sessions, seeing the premier of "Brigham Young"and swimmi ng 1n Great Salt Lake.

Our rout e home was U S-40 through Vernal , Utah, RockyMountains National Park and Greel ey , Col orado. The rest ofthe trip was made wi thout any stops, arriving home on LaborDay, 1 9UO. Thi s had been a very 1 ovel y trip going through1ower Canada, seei ng Banff and Lake Louise. A1 so, Calgary,Cardston, A 1 berta Temple and Watferton National Park. heavingCanada we went to many piaces in our own Uni ted States, visit¬ing interesting historical places and visiting f r iends .

After our trip we soon got back into the busy routine.Preston and An ita were in Joliet T ownshi p High School andNorman attendi ng Wash 1ngton Jun ior High School . Belle beganspendi ng full time at the of f ice wi th C1 arence and hi sfather as a recept ioni st . She also, assi sted in the el ect ronicexaminati ons and t r eatment s . Many days we were in the of f iceten to twelve hours.

We were the on 1 y LDS members in Joliet and had no otherChurch activities. Missionaries came weekends and SundaySchool was held in our home many months. The Ward McCartyf ami 1 y , LDS members from Sal t Lake City, came to Joliet andjoi ned us but Brother McCarty would take no leadership activ¬ity so we cont inued to meet in our home as before. Hi s excusewas that he had held so many of f ices in Sal t Lake that hewanted a vacation. Having no other Church, we attended confer¬ences within the Mis s 1on whenever we coul d, al so, the quarter¬ly conferences of Ch icago Stake in Chi cago. We met many ofthe Church Author it ies .

In the spring of 1 9ÿ1 CI arence and Bel 1 e took the trainto El Paso, Texas® On a day-stopover we took a bus trip toCarl sbad Caverns, New Mexico. 11 was most 1nterest ing. Uponour return to El Paso we took a tour over to Juerez, Mexico.

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As we were the only couple on the bus we had a special tour .We visited an old Catholic church, after an evening mass, astreet bazaar, and toured the city. We had our dinner andfloor show in Mexico, Later in the eveni ngwe took a trainto Mesa, Arizona, Belle pieked up an infect 1on or bite onher eye lid so she nursed that some of the t ime. Clarencemet the Temple President's Counsel or, Brother La Seur , Hetook us to the Yachui Indian Reservation, T empe, and near 1yto Phoenix, We were vi sited by Sister Far r , a returned mis*s ionary, who invi ted us to her parents home for our secondnight in Mesa. The second day we att ended a coupl e sessi onsat the Temple, Leaving Mesa on Saturday morning by train forLos Angeles where Brother and Sister Roe C, Hawkins, f r iendsand former genealogical missionaries in the Northern StatesMi s s ion, met and took us to the C1 if ton House for dinner,This was a very unusual restaurant which we enijoy edverymuch. The Hawki ns took us to their home In Long ' Beach wherewe spent a 1ovel y week-end. We had planned to cont inue ourtrip by train to San Franci sco and Sal t Lake City but as theHawkins had al so p1anned to go to General Conference theywoul d have dr iven that route, along the coast with us, Butthe weather was too bad (foggy and rainy with snow on DonnerPass ) our p 1 ans were changed and we took an in1 and route throughLas Vegas and St . Georga . We staid all night in Las Vegas,We did not have time for a sessi on at the St. George T empl e butwe did make a tour of the building.

Before 1 eavi ng L, A , we vi si ted Brother and Sister MerlinSt eed in thei r 1ovel y home in G 1 endal e and had 1unch there.They were great collectors of choice and original paintings.The walls of their semi -ci rcular 1 ivi ng room and dining roomwere 1 ined with these beaut if ul paintings.

We arrived at Salt Lake on Wednesday and attended theRelief Soci ety and General Conferences. The weather was notgood and on Saturday when we left the T abernacl e at noon wefound the streets covered with about two inches of snowysi ush. We were happ i1 y surpr ised to see Brother and Si sterGreer, Branch pr esi dent of the Aurora, 11 1 inoi s Branch andthei r chi 1 dr en and two other members. They had dr iven out togo to the T emp 1 e for their endowment s and seal ings. We wentwith them on Monday but 11 was mi d-af ter noon befor e we leftthe T empl e. The Greeip immediately 1eft for Aurora and wetook an evening train for Jol iet . It had been rainy and snowyall dur ing the Spr 1ng Conference of 1 94 1 ,

Mother and Dad Edmonds eel ebrated their 50th WeddingAnniversary in Novemember , 1939® Belle spent several days inHastings making a dress for Mother and ar ranging a i. dinnerfor the fami 1 y and f r iends. We entertained about fifty fordinner at the First Pr esbyt er ian Church where Lizzy Ferris,a 1 ong t ime friend of the family had done the cooking andsupervi sing it. It was nice having most of the fami 1 y to¬gether at that time.

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When school was out 1n June 19UI we took the chi 1 drenand drove to T al apossa, Georgia where Clarence had livedfor three years -- August 1 9O8 to August 1 9 11 . His fatherhad gone there for hi s health. Oiir f outei took us downthrough Evansvi 1 1 e, Indiana and Nashvi 1 1 e, T ennesee . Wev is ited the old farm, one mile east of Talapoosa and other1 andmarks . Many places were f ami 1 iar but there were alsomany changes . After three days there we drove east to At 1 anta,Geor gi a . We visited many interest inq places and batt 1 e groundson our way to Chattanooga, T ennesee. Stone Mountain east ofAtlanta was also was one of great interest . Both of our grand¬fathers had fought on Look Out Mountain and Missionary Ridge.We al so drove through the Smoki e Mountains and we f el t theywere r ight 1 y named. We stayed at Ashvi 1 1 e, Noth Carolina.On our way home we drove to Frankfort , Kentucky , Cincinnati „Oh io and Indianapolis, Indiana. 11 was a very interestingtrip visiting f r iends and familiar places for CI ar ence; : alsovisiting places our grandfathers and relatives had fought inthe Civil War . We were amazed to see the Confederate flayflying in many p 1aces.

In Sept ember , 1 9*+1 , Belle's father became ill and shewas called home to Hastings to help care for him. Achsa madea trip there to visit so after a week, and Dad seemed to beimp rovi na along Ok, she returned home. Dad woul d do anythingfor Belle and let her care for him but was not so happy whenshe told him she had to return to Jol iet . The next day ,Friday, he went into a coma and Belle was called back home aswell as other member s of the family. Aft er a couple of dayshe rallied and continued to improve. However , a coupl e of timesAunt Martha (Dad's s ist er who was there with us ) and the fam-i1 y f e 1 1 he woul d not be with us 1 ong. Belle stayed a coupleof weeks unt i1 CI ar ence and the chi1 dren came up on a Sundayto take her home. Belle made several tripe up to see him duringthe winter and to help Mother . He improved enough so in Junehe and Mother came to Jol iet for Preston1 s graduation fromHigh School . After graduat ion Anita, Norman and Belle tookMother and Dad to Ashl and, Ohi o to the Edmonds reunion atFlorence Walton's home. We had a nice week-end there meet ingcousi ns on the Edmonds line. We drove to a beaut if u1 , wel 1 -keptup private cemetary in a wooded area where Belle's fourthgreat grand father was buried, and visited other cousins atWooster , Ohio.

Our next stop was Cuyahogo Falls, Ohi o to visit Belle'son 1 y si ster , Achsa Frase and her fami 1 y . Achsa' s husband wasa lawyer in Akron . On Sat ur day we attended the Stone Family,Reunion . This was mother ' s relatives. After another en joy -able week-end visiting cousins and the cemetary where Mother ' s g

parents were buried, An ita, Norman and Belle returned homeleaving Mother and Dad at Cuyahogo.

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In Apr i1 of 19ÿ2, Clarence and Belle went to Florida bytrain for a short vacat ion. We made our headquarters at St .Petersburg but took tours from there. One trip was a three-daymotor promot ion trip by the Oseol a Orange Grove Co. , to BokT ower , Cypress Gardens, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orange Groves.,Fort Meyers, Saratoga ( home of the Ringling Brothers Ci reus )and Tampa. A boat trip was taken across Tampa Bay up a navi¬gable r iver . We saw alligator slides but did not see any .The driver of our car , knowi ng we wanted to take color edslides, pieked out many piaces of interest and beaut if ulp 1aces for our benef it . Goi ng back to Jacksonvi 1 1 e, we spentEaster, April 6, 19*42 at St. August ine, the oldest city inthe Uni ted States.

The last two weeks of August we rented a cottage on theSt . Croix R iver near Gor den, Wi sconsin. It rained every dayand f ishing was very poor . P reston made many fishing attempt sbut only caught two or three fish while we were there.Clarence and Norm also did a little fishing and Clarencecaught only one dur ing the two weeks. The water did not getclear up to the cabin but the spring furnished our drinkingwater, became contaminated, covered by the muddy river end wehad to get the dr inking wat er from another spr ing on higherground. We spent much of the time r eadi ng and playing five®handed pinoc16; We staid our full two weeks. When we reachedthe highway to return home we were told the road was under sixfeet of wat er . We took the 1 ong way home through Du1uth, Minn.rather than f or di ng a st r earn across another road. We 1 aterheard the water there would have come up to the floor board,We drove through M1nneapol 1s, Madison, Wi sconsin, arriving homeabout daybreak on Labor Day after a 700 mile trip instead ofthe usual 500 Miles. We a 1 1 agreed it had been a nice vacat ion,r egardl ess of the rain.

Preston started hi s Scout ing act ivi ty when he was nineyears old in 1932. Hi s father was the Cubmaster of an exper 1 -mental cub pack at the time at the Pr esby t eri an Church inHast ings. He continued for the three years in cubbing afterhe returned to Joliet in 1 933 . Then became interested inScout ing and received the di f f erent ranks as fast as t imepermi tted. He was al so interested in worki ng for speci a1badges so before he graduated from high school he had recei vedhi s Eagle, a most coveted rank. He was a member of the Orderof the Arrow. He spent hi s summers at Scout camps, servi ngin 1 eader ship ways ( 1 if eguard and others ÿ , Preston graduatedfrom high school in June 1 9ÿ2 , bei ng the 22nd in a class ofover 500. Some of his honors were Lt . Col onel of the ROT C(Reserve Off icer s T raining Corps) , Presi dent of the NationalHonor Soci ety and Captain of the. Rifle Team where he recei vedExpert Rat ing. He ushered at many of the school functi ons.The summer between hi s jun ior and senior years he was asked byBen Hur Wi 1 son and Dr. Frank F1 eener to classify all rocks andshel Is at the museum. He al so was in charge of the first1api dary equi pment in the Joliet T ownshi p Hi gh School , and haspolished rocks in hi s collection*

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Pres had been busy getting ready to enter the MissouriSchool of Mines and Metallurgy at Roll a, Missouri. Soonafter our return from our cammping trip, Ani ta, Norm and Belletook him to Rol la. It was during World War 11 and after tak¬ing pictures at the br idge over the Mi ssour i River v/e werestopped and our film was conf iscat ed by guards . After findinga nice rooming house near the University and getting him set¬tled, the three of us 1 eft for Joliet by the way of St . Louisand Spr ingf i * 1 d, Illinois on Route U.S.66.

Ani ta and Norm soon started their act iv it ies in highschool . Norm was in the Championship Band in JTHS and An itawas in the 'A Cap el 1a Choi r . Both had other activities such asBoy Bui1 der s and Job 1 5 ! Daughter s (Bethel) of the Masonic Order ,and other act ivi t ies. Clarence was busy in the of f ice andBel 1 e was pr esi dent of the Band Mothers and Bethel Mothers be-besides spending much time in the of f ice.

Pr eston came home at Christmas vacation and we had theusual Christmas with Clarence's p; r ont g . The children were allbusy during the Holidays with dances on New Years Eve. Prestonreturned to Rol 1 a soon after January 1st.

February 1 94-3 C 1ar ence and 3 e 1 1 e went down to see Pres atRol 1 a and upon our arrival he informed us he wanted chevronssewed on his uniform. He had been promoted to Corporal of hisDrill Team. It was the first time a Freshman was so honored.We spent an enjoyable weekend with him and 1 eft for home onMonday morning. When we ar r ived home 1ate thetni ght Norm met usand told us Preston woul d be home the next day as he had re¬ceived his orders for mi 1 it ar y duty . He had r ecei ved theorders for the military duty before noon and never had an op¬portunity to wear hi s uniform with the chevrons. Clarenceand Pres made a hurried trip to Salt Lake City so Pres coul dget his endowment before going in the servi ce, February 26th.He 1 eft on March 5, 19ÿ3 for Jefferson Barracks, Mi ssour i forhi s induct ion and basi c training.

After a few weeks Preston was sent to Fort Belvoi r ,Virginia. In July he was in charge of a t r oop train going tothe West coast . On hi s return to Fort Belvoi r he stopped overa coup 1 e of days in Jol iet . He was transf ered to a camp nearRawl iegh, North Carol ina for machi ne instruction. He had achance to come home while there. After a short period he wassel ected to return to Fort 3el voi r for Off icer s Training inthe Corps of Engineers. In February, 1 , he got hi s com¬mission as 2nd. Lieutenant. Belle was pr ivi 1 eged to go toWashington, D .C . and Fort Belvoi r for hi s graduation. Enrout eshe made a stop-over at Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohi o tovisit her sister and family. Besides the graduation Belle wasable to view a Military Parade at Fort Belvoi r and on Sundayattended Sunday School at the Wash ingtonWar d with Preston,After a dinner with Saints we went to the 'Washington Monument.

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be changed because of bad weather in Chi cago so he had toleave earlier than pianned. He was traveling on pr iori ty inorder to get back before mi dni ght of hi s 1 eave. It would havebeen embrassi ng to report from Sal t Lake City instead of Cali¬fornia, as his 1 eave was 1 isted. He did get back before el even,Pr es left the middle of March for India.

Aft er Preston 1 eft, Ora Mae and Belle attended a sessionat the Sal t Lake Temple* The next day Bel 1 e returned to Jolietand Ora Mae went back to her nursing dut ies at the hospital®The 1 ast of Apr i1 she start ed her trip to Okinawa for her over¬seas duty .

11 took Ora Mae sixty-eight days to reach Oki nawa. T heyhad stopped at the Marshal 1 Is 1ands , Guam and other ports,del ay 1ng their arr ival at Oki nawa because the army hospi talwas not ready for service. After a time there she went by aLST ( Land (Shi p T ank) to Japan. Enroute they had a typhoonweather and it was a very rough trip for al 1 . She had manyinteresting experiences while on overseas duty . Her trip wasso 1ong and t iresome she wrote 11 she wouldn't return until abr idge was constructed. 11 After six months duty she returnedby p 1 ane and came to Jol iet the day before Thanksgiving, 1 9ÿ5.In a coup 1 e days she was given her honorabl e discharge fromact ive duty , at Fort Sher 1dan. We enjoyed the two weeks shewas with us before she went to her home at Mant i, Utah tovisit her parents and other r el at 1ves . She returned to Jol ietin April, 1 9ÿ6, to be there when Preston had hoped to be home,He was del ay ed so Ora Mae and Belle took an int er est ing ten-day trip to F 1or ida with Gordon, G1adys and their daughter,Bonnie Edmonds . PIaces of 1nterest they visited were St.August ine, St . Petersburg, Cypress Gardens , Bok T ower , andmany others. On their way home to Jol iet , Bel 1e end Ore Maevi si ted Mother and Dad Edmonds at Hast ings, Michigan®

CI arence, Ora Mae and Bel 1 e went to Fort Sher idan on May1 9, 1946, where Pres had arr ived a couple of hours before.Needless to say how thrilled we were to see him after hi sfourteen months of overseas duty . He coul d not return homewith us but after a coup 1 e of days he recei ved hi s honorabl edi scharge as a First Li eutenant , After a vacat ion at homePres and Ora Mae went to Utah to visit her parents and familyin Utah. Preston was a few days under age requi rement forCaptaincy . T hey returned to Jol iet the last of August . An itaand Norm came from Summer School at Provo. The whole familymade a trip to Michigan and spent Labor Day camp ing on PodunkLake and visiting the Edmonds fami 1y .

The Chr istmas of 1 9ÿ3 was quite a 1onel y one. Pres wasat Of f icer s Training at Fort Belvoi r and coul d not come home;An ita had staid in Utah with f r iends at Hinckl ey , Utah.CI arence' s parents f el t we shoul d not have had any celebration,but Norm was home and we had our t r eeand Christmas, anyway .

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Anita was very active in High School . She was treasurerof the National Honor Society and sang in the a cappella choirand chorus . Besides her school work she was active in theBethel, Jobs Daughters and served in several off ices, in¬cluding Guest Queen for a friend. Myrtle Edom, Honored Queen.She graduated in June 19ÿ+3, the eighteenth in a class of over500. While Anita was in the 3ethe1 (Masonic daughters) Bellewas a member of the Bethel Mothers C 1 ub. The mother of theHonored Queen, who was also then serving as the Guardian ofthe Joliet Chapter, asked Belle to serve in her place cs VicePresident one period and when her daughter was Queen to bePresident of the Club. Anita spent the summer getting readyto go to 3r igham Young University at Provo, Utah. 'Belle wentout with, her on the train in September, and as soon as Anitawas settled in' the Amanda Knight Hall and meet inc. her threeroom-mates, Belle returned to Joliet. Anita and ;;el 1 e hrc!spent a few days in Salt Lake visiting friends. Anita didnot come home for Christmas but spent it with friends, theCroppers at Hinckley.

When Norman was age nine he went to the Richard StreetMethodist Church Cub Pack for three years. He then continuedin Scouting, completing all the ranks, working and earning therequired merit badges for the coveted Eagle rank and pin. Hespent his summers at Boy Scout camps, serving in leadershipcapacities. One. sunnier he spent as the chef at camp. Thiswas and is a very pleasant hobby with him and he has becomea very good cook! He was also a member of the Order of theArrow. When Norm was in his first half of his seni or year(spring of 1 yhk) whi ch was during World War II, he was afraidhe would be drafted before he could graduate in June 19ÿ5.JTHS had only one graduation during the year. His band creditslied helped him to have enough credits, but he needed onesemester of English for graduation. He had been - member ofthe JTHS Championship Band for the three end a half years.His Counselor was very cooperative and suggested being tutoredto make up that credit. Miss Adler offered to help him nvkeup the English in a month so he could graduate in June 19*!'4,He was the 67th in his class of over 500 and graduated inthree and one-hal f years. He had been in the Junior HighSchool Band, playing a saxaphone, continuing in the HighSchool. He was a member ..of the National Honor Society andactive in Boy Builders,, and was the Master Bui 1 der one year.

The night Norm graduated, Clarence had gone to meetAnita at Aurora, who was coming home from 8YU. Her trainwas several hours so they did not get to the graduationuntil it w as nearly over. She did see her brother get hisdipi oma.

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Norman having graduated in June enabled him to have onequarter at Br igham Young University before he was drafted inthe Army . He spent two weeks in Joliet in March, 19*45* beforereport ing to the Draft Board in Sal t Lake City. We were sure¬ly glad to have him home at thi s time®

On March 14, 1945, an early call came from Clarence'smother informing us that Dad Hyatt had been talking with herfrom the office, after taking his car to the garage for repair,but there was a loud noi se and then qui et . Norm hur r idl ydressed and drove down to the of f ice and found him sitting ina chair* 1 if el ess . Clarence and Belle wal ked down as fast aswe could, about three quarters of a mi 1 e, Of course it was ashock but we were so thankful he had not suffered and that ithad happened in the of f 1ce.

Necessary things were done and telegrams were sent toPreston, who had 1 eft for overseas duty, and Anita who was atBYU. Arrangement s were taken care of by Sonntag Mortuary.After viewing on Thursday and Fr iday nights, the funeral washeld on Saturday, March 17th, at the First Baptist Church.Bur 1el was at Elmhurst Cemet er y , Joliet,, The minister'stheme was "Servi ce with his hands". He had been dedicatedto hi s Osteopathic professi on .

Aft er about two weeks we heard from Pres from Si dney,Austral 16, enroute to India. The word was received while theywere 1oadi ng but the commanding officer held it until theywere on thei r way . Word came from Anita, Immediately,

Norm 1 eft for Salt Lake City soon after Dad's funeral , toreport at Fort Doug 1 as for Army duty . He was sent to a campat Tex-Arkana for basic training. Before this training wasover he injured his hip and 1n July came home with a medicaldi scharge. He remalned home until fall and then returnedto BYU to continue his school ing.

Ani ta came home after her sophomore y ear , June 1945, fora short vacation, then returned to Sal t Lake to work. She1 1ved at the Br igham Young Home unt i1 March 1 946, and workedfor Brother D. Ray Shur 11 if f as an accountant . She begansinging 1n the T abernacl e Choi r at this time. She decided toreturn to BYU for the Spr ing quarter so came home in Marchfor a coup 1 e of weeks before returning to Provo to cont 1nueher education. She made up her two quarters by summer schooland correspondence and graduated with her class.

ÿ As Norm was home to look after things, Clarence and Bellef el t we coul d have a vacat ion. So the first of September, 1 945,we went to Detroit and spent the Labor Day week-end with Belle'sbrother, Maurice and Mar jor ie. On Tuesday night we boarded aboat for Buffalo, New York. At Buffalo we met about seventywho were on thi s Canadi an tour. This was a nine-dey boat tripdown the St . Lawrence River,i We had to take buses around theNiagara Falls then an excursion boat from Queenstown to Torontowhere we had a 1ovel y steamshi p . After sai 1 ing through the

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Thousand Is 1 ands we changed to a rapid-runni ng boat (flat bot -torn) to run some rapids. We also had a canal trip for twohours, going through three 1ocks, ski rt ing many raoi ds , Wearrived at Montreal in the 1ate afternoon. There we boardedanother lovely boat to travel on down the river, stopping atseveral trading posts along the river to T adusac at the con¬version of the Sagenay R iver . We went up that river fiftymiles to Bagotvi 1 1 e, a head of transport for larger boat s .We found that to be strickly a backward 1 umber town .

Returning the next night we stopped at Quebec and staidat the Chateau Frontennac. The next day we went on a trip toMount Mor ency Falls and Ste Anne De Beaupri, a Catholic Shrine.After dinner we took a streetcar t our of Quebec. While waitingfor our boat we saw a lerge t roop-car r ier , Princess of India,bringing soldiers home from fighting in Wor 1 d War 1 1 in Europe.Some hadn't been home for over five years. A night boat triptook us to Montreal, arriving there in the morning . We coul dnot get our rooms unt i 1 1 at e in the afternoon because of thearrival of the troop-carrier. Our luggage was roped down inthe lobby. We took a tour on Mont r ea 1 on a wagon drawn bythree horses. This is a very hilly t own with many catholicShrines, Monasteries and convents. We 'went shopping and to eshow at night. Leaving in the mor n ing we took a train for athree hour r ide around the rapids in the river. At Prescot-vi 1 1 e we boarded a large boat for our last night of the tour .Ordinarily this woul d have been a 1 ovel y trip as many of thesummer entertai ner s wou 1 d be on their way home as this was thelast trip of the seaso n. Thi s proved an exc it ing trip inanother way . We had to sai 1 through a very rough iea on LakeOntario and over seventy -f ive percent of the crew and passen¬gers were seasick. T hey had trouble docki ng at Rochester, N . Y .and there couldn't be the entertainment on the boa c which wascustomary the last night. It did not bother us un t i 1 we werer et iring but we did feel very sorry for the others. 11 was avery 1 ove 1 y and interesting trip seeing that part of the count ry .This trip was all in ocean-tide waters. Returning to Detroitby boat from Buffalo, in the morning we cont inued oy train toJoliet after having lunch with Maurice and Marjori ?. It trulywas a nice, much needed vacation.

Clarence's mother staid in her home all summe - but bythe last of August she realised she could not live alone. Sheinformed us she wanted to sell her home ( 929 West 'c r k Ave.)and come and live with us. Her house was finally -.old endClarence and Belle, after many long twe 1 ve-hour dc-s et theof f ice had to spend two to three hours helpinq her pack tomove by November 1st. 1 9ÿ 5 . She was with us until September11, 1959.

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Anita and Norm came home from 3YU, Provo, Utah and OraMae and Preston from R o 1 la, Missouri for Christmas, 19ÿ6.Morn and Anita brought e four-year old boy with them fromProvo to Chicago to the baby's parents, receiving $50,00for their kindness. They had quite a trip, with fun andsome embrassing moments. It was good to have them ell homefor the Holidays, again,

Nancy Mae Hyatt, our first gr andchi1 ÿ:!, was born February21, 19ÿ7 in a hospital at Waynesvi lie, Missouri, a shortdistance from Rolla , Je 1 1 e went to Rolla to be there whenOra Mae and the baby come from the hospital, and stayed ©bouttwo weeks with them„

In May, 1947, Clarence and Be1 1 e went to Rolls to visitPres and Ore Mae, enroute to Provo, Utah. Ora Mae and Nancywent to Manti, Utah with us to visit her parent's. Clarenceand 3e1 1 e continued their trip to Provo to attend Anita'sgraduation (Dachelor of Sci enc 6) from Brigham Young University,We were very proud of An ita as she had worked end graduatedwith her cl.'-'.ss after makino up the two quarters. She hed con¬tinued to sing in the Teberncle Choir, making a trip on Thurs¬day for practice and for the Sunday mornino broadcast , everyweek ,

After two weeks of visiting friends and the graduationClarence returned to Joliet by train, Del 1 e helped Anitaget settled at the home of Mrs, Meycock, on Kensington Avenue,Salt Lake City, She also found employment, Ora Mee, Nancyand 3e11e drove back to Ro1 1a arriving July 2nd. Sh& remainedthere over July 4th then drove to Joliet, alone. Norm stayedin Provo for summer school .

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in October,1547* we spent a couple of days with Pr es and Ora Mae inRolla, then went on to the Ozarks, in southwest ern Missouri,We rented a cabin at Taneycoma on the White River . We thenmade many sightseeing trips from there through the Sheoherdof the Hills country, also a trip to Eur eke Springs, Arkansas.This was an unique place, being very h'i 1 1 y , One church hadits entrance a story or two above its chapel, We enjoyed thisweek's vacation, seeing the places and could appreciate thsbook more. We stopped at Rolla for a short visit before re¬turning home, Anita ana Norm were in Provo so we could nothave a family eel ebreti on. 3e1 1 e had visited them the firstweek of October and attended General Conference,

Anita received a call for a Church Mission to HawM i inDecember, 1 947 . She came home during the Holidays and washome nearly a month. Norm came from 3YU, Provo and Pres,Ora Mae and Nancy came for the Holidays.

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Gel 1 e returned to Salt Lake with Anita the 1 a s t ofJanuary. She was to enter the Mission Home February 2nd. butcouldn't stay there as it was crowded, so she staid with hermother at Mrs. Maycock's home. .Belle was fcbl'e to go to theTemple a couple times with her before she left on February1 Oth by train for Los Angeles, California where Anita boardeda boat for Honolulu. Anita had her farewell st Wasatch Wardon her 23rd birthday, February 8th, 19ÿ8 . Brother andSister Shurtliff took us to the depot after a hard snowstormthe nightbefor e . After having lunch with Sister Shurtliffde 1 1 e took the bus to Provo to visit with Norm before leavingfor home. President Bryant Hinckley was one of the speakersat Anita's farewell, and Ladd Cropper was a sol ist .

Anita had a very interesting mission, spending all buttwo months in the Mission Office in Honolulu. Sige v.s theI ,is s 1 *i:i Secretary for "resident Melvi n Weenig. She organ 1zeda chorus that sang at the Veterans Hospitals during the Holi¬days. Anita did serve for about four weeks on the island ofMauri then traveled with P r es ident Weenig to the branches onthe different islands. She f ini shed her mission in August,1 9ÿ9 , completing p. very good mission and leaving urny friendsin Hawaii. She reported to her r Stake Pr esi dent in SaltLake City, then met us at Rolla where we were spending theLabor Day weekend . She returned to Jol iet with us and soentthree weeks at home. She gave several talks to various organi¬zations about her enjoyable experiences on her mission. 'Whenshe returned to Salt Lake Anita again sang in the TabernacleChoir and soon had a job there.

In May, 1 9ÿ8 , Clarence and Belle w ent to Provo to attendNorm's graduation (3achelor of Science degree). We were veryhappy to see him graduate with his class after making up thequarter he missed wh i1 e in the army. After the graduationhe went to Bryce Canyon where he was employed for the summer.As he had a motorcycle, we drove down to the canyon the nextday and took his clothes to him. We w ere glad to see himcomfortably settled and surroundings so pleasant. We thendrove through Z ion Canyon to St George where we attended as e s s ion in the Temple there. Returning to Salt Lake City, wemet J rotlier and Sister Sorensen (Ora Mae's parents) and droveto Logan to attend a Temple Session there the next morning.After the session we drove to Idaho Falls, Idaho, for asession at the Temple there. We cont inued our travels throughYellowstone National Park and then south to follow the Mormontrail through Wyoming, Nebraska and iowa. We were glad theSor ensens could return with us, giving them an opportunity tosee many pieces they hadn't seen and to visit Ora Mae and Presin Rolla, Missouri, for a couple of weeks.

They returned to Jol iet on Saturday, and the next morn¬ing, July 11, 19ÿ8, a call came from Pres that little Carolwas born that morning in the doctor's office but was not veryst r ong and needed oxygen at intervals ell day . Belle arranged

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things and 1 sft at I pm for Rol 1 a, arriving about 9:30 pm.The Sor ensens left in a few days for Wisconsin where they hadlived and had rel at ives, before returning to Utah. Carol andher mother hod been brought home before Belle, af*r iVed andCarol cont inued to gain, slowly. Belle staid there untilOra Mae was able to take care of her family with Preston' shelp. CI arence and Belle went down to visit them the firstof September when Carol was bl essed. ' : .

Chr istmas 1 9ÿ8, Preston and hi s family came from Rol 1a,and Norm had driven home, from P rovo, Utah. An ita was inHawaii. Norm had broughtthree girls with him for their ' -vacation with their parents in Wisconsin. Of course we wereg 1 ad t o have them home but were sorry An ita coul d not bewith us, also. Norm left New Year's Day to meet his passengersin west Chicago, then to start west . They staid the firstnight in Iowa, On Sunday when crossing Nebraska, he ran intoa terrific snowstorm and had to stop at Sushnel 1 , a smalltown on the Nebraska-Wyoming border. They were held-up thereuntil Thursday before the roads were opened up for travel.The food situation at Bushnell was getting 1 ow , as there wereso many stranded people held up there. He t hen had to drivesouth of Cheyene to Fort Col 1 ins and take a southern route,returning to Provo four days late for school . He was sothankful he eventually had arrived without more troubl e .

In May 1 9*+9 , Clarence and Belle went to Rol 1a to Preston ' sgraduation ( BS degree) from the Missouri School of Mines andMetalurgy. We were proud of him receiving his degree inCeramic Engineering after hi s del ay servi ng in the army .Aft er soendi ng a few days there, Ora Mae and the girls joinedus and we drove to Mant i, Utah. Norm met us at Thistle andafter 1 eavi ng Ora Mae and the girls there at Mant i , we droveto Provo. Norm received hi s Master's degree in Education Ad-mi nist rat ion on June 7th. The following day he was married toBetty Anderson of Salt lake City in the Salt Lake Temple. Wehad gone to the Temple three days before for Betty 1 s endowment .After the Sealing a breakfast was held in the Sky Room ofHotel Utah for the Anderson and Hyatt families. A lovely re¬ception was held at the L ions House for the new 1 y weds .

The next day Norm and Betty left for a honeymoon andClarence and Belle left for the A1 berta Temple at Cardston.After spending the morning at the Temple we started for Jolietby the Black Hills in South Dakota, Minneapolis, and 'Wisconsin.

Mother and Dad Edmonds sol d their home in Hastings as theywere unable to care for themselves. They went to Detroit tolive with Maurice and Mar j or ie. Belle spent a couple of weekswith them wh i1 e Maurice and Mar j or ie had an earned vacation.She was glad of this oppor tun ity to spend time with them andbe able to do something for them.

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No one cou 1 d come home at Christmas time as Anita wasworking in Salt Lake, Norman was Principal of an ElementarySchool at Thatcher (west of Tr emonton ) and pres and Ore Maewere expecting their thi rd baby and pianned to come the lastof January . Theodore Preston was born January 3 , 1950 dur ingvery cold snowy weather , in the doctor's of f ice in Rolla.Belle went down on New Years Day and staid a coupl e of weekswith them unt i1 they coul d get along without help. AfterPreston f ini shed hi s Master's requi r ement s in Ceramic Engi¬neering,, the 1 ast of January, the family came to Joliet forthree weeks before leaving for Salt Lake City, They lived1n Stadi urn Village and he worked at the University of Utah.

Bel 1 e was busy all spring and summer with her activities,and trying to help An 1ta by mai 1 , as best she could, to p 1 anfor her mar r iage in September 1 950 to Ralph Howard Davis, She(Ani ta) hod met him whi 1 e on their mi ssi on in Hawai i and afterreturning), to Salt Lake they were in the same ward. Belle wentagai n to Det roi t in July to stay with Dad, who was bedr 1dden,and Mother rwhi 1e Maurice and Marjorie were away , She did a1ot of sewi ng and was very busy al 1 the time she was there,This was the last she coul d do for her father as Dad passedaway in October . Mother was failing so fast she had to beput 1n a Nur si ng Home in Hast ings soon after Dad's death.

The last week of August , 1950, Clarence and Belle went toSal t Lake City to help Ani ta compl ete her plans for her wed¬ding September 8 , 1 950. It was a busy week with sewing andattending showers, et Cetera, We staid with Norm and Betty .Anita and Ralph, having had their endowment s pr evi ous 1 y , wereSeal ed at the Sal t Lake T emp 1 e in the morning by Elder SpencerW . Kimball. A breakfast was held at the Sky Room of HotelUtah and thei r 1ovel y r ecept ion was held in the L ion Housethat night . They took a trip to the Nat ional Parks in South¬ern Utah, for a honeymoon. They 1ater resided in Sal t Lakewhere Ralph cont inued his school ing at the Universi ty of Utah,and Ani ta cont inued worki ng.

Before 1 eavi ng for Joliet, C 1 ar ence and Belle hel pedP r est on 1 s f ami 1 y get sett 1 ed 1n thei r new home at Pr ovo, wherehe was to t each Geology at Brigham Young University,

Word came from Detroi t, Michigan, on October 6, 1 950,that Belle's father had passed away dur ing the night and wouldbe taken to the Leonard1s Mortuary at Hast ings for the funeralon Sunday , October 8th. We went to Hast ings on Saturday nightand staid with ftunt Minnie Edmonds. The minister, Rev . LeasonSharpe, used as his text a scripture reference from the 2nd.T imothy k%7, "I have fought a good fight, I have f ini shed mycourse and I have kept the faith.11 It was rather a shock toBel 1 e. When Dad was ext remel y ill several years before he hadtold her he wanted that text to be used at hi s funeral and shehad carried it in her purse for many years . She had had no con-

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tact with Rev. Leeson Sharpe, al though she did know him, untilw 9 were at the Sponebl e Cemetrry (three miles east of Hastings),after the funeral , He told her he had no word about Dad's de¬sire but he thought that best f 1tted him. Each of us were veryp 1 eased that Rev. Sharpe had used that text , Clarence andBelle returned to Joliet ( 200 miles) late that night.

Mother was not well and needed constant care, having har¬dening of the art er 1 es so was soon put in a nursing home inHastings, owned and operated by Or pha Edmondi Greenfield acousin of Dad 1 s. Mother was there until her death in JanuaryH 952 .

Al though Belle had been a member of the Order of the East¬ern Star since December, 1919, in Charlotte and Hastings,Michigan she never had time for much S* ar act 1vi ty . Her Mason¬ic af f i1 1at ion was through her brother, Gordon ' s membership.In the Spring of 1 she transferred her membership fromHastings to Marguer ite Chapt er , Jol iet , Illinois. She hadbeen asked to be an of f icer the following year . Belle was in¬stalled Chaplain of Marguer ite Chapter, November , 19ÿ4. Sheenjoyed this office very much, which was the beginning of anenjoyabl e act iv1 ty and 1ovel y associations in Star . When PhoebeKirby was Worthy Matron Belle was asked to be her news reporter .In 1 9ÿ6 Belle started 1n line as Associate Conduct r ess and con-t inued next year as Conductress. In 19ÿ8 Merv 1n Far r was chosenas Worthy Patron, and the two were Installed as Worthy Matronand Worthy Pat ron, November 30, 1 9ÿ9 , of Marguerite Chapter witha membership of over 900 members. Our off 1cer s club was knownas the Nifties Fifties and our goal was to have fifty new mem¬bers 1n 1 950. We init iated hi and had six members transferfrom other chapters so we made our goal . Our fund raising pro¬jects were very profitable, so when we received our jewel s atthe 1nstal 1at ion of new of f icer s 1n November 1 950, we felt wehad had a very pleasant and successful year . On a sad vein wehad conducted five funerals dur ing the year .

Dur ing the four years Belle served as guest of f icer manytimes in the chapters of the Fox River Valley area of 11 1 inoi s .There were thirty chapters in this area and over one thousandchapters in the state. Belle had many f r iends in the chaptersand served as Guest Worthy Mat ron and Honored Guest many t imesbesi des serving in near 1 y all of the stations ( of f 1ces ) In thenearby chapters. Our farther est chapt er vi si ted was Dekalb ( 60miles). The Far r s and we have been good f r iends since that verypieasant exper ience and associat 1on in the Star , In October1 950 Belle attended Grand Chapter at Medi nah T empl e, Chicagoand was one of the Pages for our Grand Worthy Matron, MatildaWor 1 d. She had become very close to many of us who had workedwith her dur ing the four years. Belle studi ed the ritual tobecome Grand Lecturer in Star but 1 eft for Utah before finish¬ing the work.

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many of the Matrons and Pat rons have continued to be verygood friends for many years. In September, 1 969, at a PastOf f icer s Dinner,, Bel 1 e received her 50th year Honor Membershippin and card from Marguer ite Chapter, Number 187.

19ÿ6-47 Belle served as Queen In the White Shrine ofJerusel em, with Mary Tallman as Worthy High Priestess. This,too, was an interesing and 1 ovel y of f ice to hold and she en¬joyed the associ at ion of its members and the organization ofthe White Shrine for many years.

In 1945 Belle was invi ted to be a member of the Daughterspf Nile in Chi cago. This invi tat ion came through C 1 erence1smember shi p in Medinah Shrine 1n Chi cago. This was anotherlovely organization and was enjoyed. In March, 1951, she wasinstalled as Marshall of the Daughters of Nile but had toresign when we moved to Utah in September . She still keepsher membershi p in this Chi cago chapter .

Belle was a charter member of the Daughters of the Ameri¬can Revol ut 1on Chapter , Des PIai nes Valley of Joliet. This isbetter known as D. A . R . This was organized 1n 19ÿ2. She „

served as t r easur er for two years and cont inued to be act ive inthis patriotic organi zat ion unt i1 she came to Utah.

While C 1ar ence was act ive in the L ions CI ub of JolietBelle was an act ive member of the Lady Lions and served aspresident one year . C 1ar ence served as Program Chai rmanmany years.

AI tho Clarence was very busy in the of f ice he had timefor a few other things, and did not neglect his Church act ivi -ties. As we did not have Church dut ies in Joliet other thena Sunday School in our home each Sunday, when we were home,we attended near 1y all of the District Conferences in the sixstates of Northern States Mission, We t ravel ed up to overthree hundred mi 1 es to attend these conferences.

Clarence supervised the ganeal ogi cal act ivi t ies for overtwel ve years 1n the sixty branches and through as many Chai rmenof geneal ogy . The original appoi ntment was by Presi dentBryant S. Hinckl ey in 19*40, and continued under the fol 1owl ngfour presidents. Di rect 1 eadershi p was given to six ml ssi onarea spedai izing in geneal ogi cal promotion 1n the branches.The Special Ml sslonar 1es, Brother and Si ster Roe C . Hawkins,of Long Beach, California, and two Lady Missionaries. Afterthese Lady Mi ssi onar 1es had devel oped the program suf f 1ci ent 1 y ,they were separated and each gi ven a new mi ssi onary companion,Their help was extremel y valuable, as they worked frequent 1 ywith most branches in the initial organi zati on.

Clarence traveled extensively and spoke frequently* Inone per iod of eight weeks he spoke in a di f f erent state eachweek. In line with hi s 1eader shi p calling, President Leo. J.Muir suggested that he be or dained to the of f ice of HighPriest. This was accomplished at Rock Isi and, 1111noi s byElder R ichard R . Lyman, January 31, 1 9ÿ1 Brother Karl Custer ,President of Northern Illinois Di str 1ct and Brother Peterson,President of Eastern Iowa District were also , ordainedHi gh Priest.

A few after thought s before moving to our new homein Provo, Utah in September 1951

Belle always showed some musical abi 1 ity and after theymoved to Hastings when she was t en years ol d. Mother thoughtit was t ime for her to try to develop it. Mother had taughtmusi c 1 essons before she was mar r ied. Pract icing on mother'sold foot -pumped organ was the hard part as Belle took her1 essons on a piano, making it very difficult. After si x1essons Belle gave it up as a hopel ess deal and she di d wanta little summer vacation,. However , she coul d read musi c andshe cont inued to piay . some with her mother ' s help. When Bellewas about twelve years of age a piano was purchased and she con¬tinued to p 1 ay for her own pleasure hymns and simple mus 1c .Dur ing her life t ime she has played some for her own amusementand r el axat ion .

Belle was alway s a member of the school choruses and GleeClubs and sang in the Presbyter 1an Church choi r . One year theHastings Hi gh School Chorus put on "H.M.S . P inafor e"wh ichwas a 1ot of fun and every t ime it is heard brings back memor ies .The mini ster ' wife gave Belle a few 1 essons and her one andonly solo was sung in the church. Her number was "Just ForToday", which has always been a favor it e of hers.During the time Clarence was in high school he was very busywith many activiti es. He was dr i1 1 mast er and commander of theHigh School company of Cadet s and the HSVUS (High School Vol un-t eer s of the Uni ted States) . The Jol iet unit being under thecommand of a hard boi 1 ed army Sergeant . Clarence was under theappoi ntment and di r ect ion of Ass istent Pr incipal , Lt . RalphBush, of the Guard. The Cadet Corps f urnished their own uniformsand part 1cipat ed in many 1ocal act ivi t ies . As a major effortthey met al 1 Canadian and Amer ican troop trains, stopping atJol iet dur ing World War I, as an exercise point . The chi efeffort was to hoi d off from the sol di er s the exci ted advance¬ment s by many girls who tried to enter the coaches . There wasan excess ive amount of war hy ster 1a.

Many of the older cadet vol unteered for act ive duty . Dueto age Clarence mi ssed en 1 istment by one month and five daysat the t ime of the Armi st ice, November 1 1 , 1918. Some ofhi s compani ons 1 ost thei r 1 ives in combat . Especially remember-

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ed was one who was cut down by machine gun fire. He was theolder A1 haver boy , This one' s sister, Esther, gr 1 eved so muchfor her brother that she di ed and was accorded a militaryfuneral with the Cadet s performlng the Honor Guard servicesthrough the time.

Another activity C 1srence had was Count er Intel 1 igence.He served wi thout pay , act ing under the Chicago Of f ice of theJustice Department, Hinton C . C 1 abaugh, Di r ector , Clarencewas responsi b1 e through hi s efforts to apprehend four andconvicting of three german spy s . These three were Annie Ditmar,her husband and her brother . The fourth per son was in poses-s ion of many many photographs of the Newport News and HamptonRoads Navy instal 1 at ions. He was a scout execut ive in 11 1 inoi sand Ohio, Hi s father was in the postal servi ce.

When Clarence was seventeen he suffered a ruptured appen¬dix, whi ch they all felt was brought on by the surgeon whenexamining him. Later in the day Dr . Grant Houston performedthe operat ion but doubt ing he woul d pull through. His remarkto the nurse was "make him as comfortabl e as possi bl e. " Afterthree weeks in bed in the hospital he went home in a "hearse"because the ambulances were all busy . It was a very col d andsnowy day . The road down the hill headed right toward thecemetery, making it quite a memorable exper ience. Clarencespend four more weeks in bed apparently had a complete recov¬ery , and cont inued his normal act ivi t ies .

In the Spring of 1923, C 1ar ence had a local tons i1 1 ectomyin Dr . Glen Moore' s office in Chi cago. This was followed byseveral days of bleeding.

C 1 ar ence with four or five others from the JTHS ReserveOf f icer s Training Corps attended the. first ROTC camp in theU. S . at Camp Custer, Batt 1 e Creek, Michigan,, This covereda period of six weeks ending August 2 , 1 9 1 9 .

In January 1935, Belle underwent an appendectomy and anexp 1 oratory operat ion in the St Joseph Hospital, Joliet, 111.Recovery was very good and she went home in due time. Awoman from the Presbyter ian church staid with the childrendur ing her absence and conval escence. C 1arence was on militaryduty in Northern Wi sconsi n and came home after Belle had re¬turned from the hospital .

In the 1 atter part of the thi rt ies and early fortiesC 1 ar ence took an act ive part agai nst subversi ve el ements. Heacted under the Amer ican Vi gi 1 ance Intelligence Federat ion withNat ional Headquarters in the T r ibune T ower , Chicago. Againthis service was wi thout pay . A great deal of informat ionwas r ecei ved relative to local and National subversive el ements,Out standi ng was dest ruct ion of the Dirigable Akron and several

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airplanes assigned to the Navy. Ohio was the only state inthe Union having ant i-sabatoge laws. It was extremely dif¬ficult to punish. This action led even to a woman defenseattorney, closely associated with an extremely high govern¬ment of f ice'r ' in ' V/ashi ngton, D. C.

In 1 9ÿ4 2 „ Clarence was president of the JTHS Brand Parentsorganization and gave assistance to the ffiand where and whenneeded/ This band, of which Norman was a member, was known r.sthe National Champion High School Band ,won many honors overthe Uni ted States, which meant fund raising projects for uni- '

forms, et cetra, In 1 943 the National High School Band Con¬test was held at Jol iet . The well known band directorPhi 1 ip Sousa accompanied by other noted band leaders, Goldmanof New York and O'Wail of Canada were the j udges. Clarencewas the body-guard of Sousa during hi s stay in Jol iet . Sousawas so impressed with the JTHS band he became very emotionalwhen speaking of the band over the radio. A . R. McAllisterwas the director of this famous band for many years. On thelast day of this contest all bands ,except one,played in amass formation under the direction of Sousa. The GrandRapids, Michigan, band director was very angry that his banddid not place in the top ten of the twenty -seven competingbands that he would not a 1 1 ow his band members to have thehonor of playing under Sousa1 s direction. Their buses depart¬ed during the final concert. A. R . McAllister was Clarence'sinst ructor during his High School military and band days.

During our r esi dence in Hastings, 1931-1933 we wereactive in the Presbyterian Church, teaching classes and help¬ing in many ways. Clarence planned and directed a lovelyChristmas program which was very successful . Belle was anoff icer in the Ladies Aid and supervi sed banquets and dinners.

Each of our three living chi 1 dr en having married Utahr esi dents in the Sal t Lake City, and having sett 1 ed in theirnew homes in Utah, we were left virtually al one in Illinois.For years we looked toward Utah as our future home. However,we were advised by Brother D . Ray S hur11 iff, later a Patri¬arch, that we shoul d not move w est then as we were neededin Northern States Mission.

In April, 1951, Clarence made a trip to Utah to visit thechildren who were living in Provo and Salt Lake City. Whilevisiting Pres and hi s family in P rovo he 1 ooked around a littlefor housing with the possi bi 1 ity of practicing in Provo. Thefamily seemed to be pretty wel 1 sett 1 ed in Utah. After hi sreturn he want ed me to go out and visit the chi 1 dren and lookaround for a suitable house and office facilities. Bellecame out on the train and sto/jped at Provo. She hadn't beenthere long before Preston had arranged an appointment with areal estate agent, Fred Lewis, to show her around for houses.

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He showediher several possibilities end then asked if therewas any she'd like to see the inside. The first house hetold about sounded rather good and the location was ideal,Monday morning we again started out and after seeing thishouse, Belle wes convinced it would and could be quite suit¬able for their needs, home, of f ice and rental space.

Belle imrnedi atel y wrote Clarence and later sent pictures.She went to Norm's in Salt Lake on Thursday night and onFriday evening spent the evening with Anita and Ralph andvisiting friends. We had visited the Shurtliffs and aftertelling them she had been looking for a house, Brother S hur11 iffremarked "This is the time for you folks to come out west."After returning to Morm ' s ,0 e 1 1 e tilked with Clarence to gethis op inion . He advised her that if she thought it would besuitable, to try and settle the deal the next day . Clarencehad been inquiring around about selling the house and businessin Joliet, Norm, Betty, Anita and Ralph took 3el 1 e to Provoon Saturday and the deal was set 11 ed for occupancy September1st. We then went to the house and the children liked itvery much and were glad that we had made that start to jointhem in Utah. This was May 28, 1951.

Anita and Ralph drove back to Jol iet with me the firstweek in June, stopping at Hannibal, Missouri (Mark Twain'sTom Sawyer's home) and Springfield, Illinois. While there wespent a busy two weeks . V/e made a trip to Chicago and saw astage production of "South Pacific". The three of us made atrip ( 200 miles) to Hastings, Michigan to visit Mother Edmondswho was in a Nursing Home. It was very depressing and discour¬aging as she had failed so since Belle had last seen her andwe wondered if she even knew us more than an instant when shelooked at her and inquired "Girlie, where did you come from."Mother had oft en called her "Girlie". That was the last wesaw her as she passed away after a few months. We visitedAunt Minnie and Grace Edmonds for dinner. Delle's brotherl-!or don and his wife Gladys had met us at the Nursing Home.Gordon took Aunt Martha Freeman (Dad's sister) abe! the threeof us to the old brick house, where Belle, Gordon and AuntMartha haa 1 iv ed . It was good to be able to again go insideand see the familiar place we had lived for two years ( 1 903—1910). Aunt Martha could tell us many things she rememberedwhile she had lived there, when it was first built by Belle'sfather in 1383. After visitinq other places of interest thethree of us drove home to Jol iet late that nite.

Anita and Ralph took Clarence's mother back with them toP rovo where she stayed with Preston's until we moved out inSeptember and were settled so she could again live with us.

We had a busy summer, packing and closing our businessand office, selling the Union Street house, et cetre. Wewere entertained by different friends, many times. We movedthe of rice furniture to the house on Saturday, September 1st.

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On Tuesday , September 4th, the Mayflower van came to load ourfurniture for the move to Provo. We stayed T uesday and Wednes-uay nights with f riends and during the days we were busy makingthe final check-out of the house. On Wednesday night a fare-wel 1 dinner was given us by the T uppers and A1 1cots . We hadspent many very enjoyable eveni ngs with these f r 1 ends, piayingpinochl e and visiting. On Thursday we made the final check-upand sett 1 ement of the sale of the house, cl ear ing all bi 1 Is,such as utilities and tel ephone. On our way leaving Jolietthe 1 ast stop was Weber's Milk Co, on West Jefferson Street .They gave us a huge sundae and then we were on our way . Beingheavily loaded we did not make the good 11me we had made beforebut we had an uneventful trip.

We arrived at Preston's in Provo 1ate Sunday afternoon,September 9» 1951. Norm, Betty, Ani ta and Ralph were down fromSalt Lake City and were awai t ing our arrival . The truck, also,arrived on Sunday . On Monday , the 10th, after making thefinal sett 1 ement with Henroids, our furni ture was unl oaded inour new home in Provo at 144 East 500 North. We have found thisto be a very comfor tabl e home and we have a 1ways enjoyed it.CI arence and Belle stayed at Preston1 s at 1 404 North 380 Westfor the first four days, unt i1 we coul d get sett 1ed somewhatand the pi ace was 1 1veabl e. One of our neighbor s made the re¬mark when CI arence was sprinkling "We are your new neighborsbut we do not neighbor ."We have found them to be very good neigh¬bors. Pres with the help of Norm and Ralph soon got busybuilding an of f ice in the front of the basement and an apart¬ment in the back part . Our first pati ent came to the door onSaturday, the 14th, and we were ready for business and torent to two girls, students at BYU, at the beginning of theFal 1 quarter .

Our business slowly incr eased and with the rental we f el tit had been a good move. We cont inued to have student s eachyear for many years . We preferred boys and several years wehad Hawaiian from the 1s1ands and Japanese from Japan, whom weenjoyed very much. In fact , they were our preference and wenever had any t roubl e with them. We have cont inual 1 y hadvery pi easant associ at ion with them. About the only troubl ewe ever had was with four white boys were here only one month,and we had to ask them to leave because they were smoking anddrinking. They left the apartment terr 1bi y dirty with beercans, wh iskey bott 1 es, et cetra. When our business becamemore than adequate, we decided not to rent and we have enjoyedbeing al one.

Our member shi p was sent to Manavu Ward, 6th North and 4thEast . 11 was our first ward to bel ong and able to att endregularly and we enjoyed it very much. Bi shop C . Nei 1oWestover , who lives across the street for us and hi s coun¬sel or s, Elmo Curt 1s, who 1 ived two doors west from us endKarl Miller, made us feel very wel come. CI arence soon became

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chairmen of the Finance Committee and was a home Teacher ashort time. After about four months Belle .wcs asked to be aRelief Society Visiting Teacher with Sister Mattie Henks. Forover four years they fr d the block of 700 North between 300and 400 East. The associations we had were very enjoyable.Belle was often ~sked to subst itute in directing the singingor playing the piano but was not able to sing with the SingingMothers for General Conference or as a regular of Pi cer, Oneyear she made 125 Re.ggety Ann dolls for a Christmas Bazaar.

In the Fall of 1953 Bishop West over asked Belle to bethe Gleaner Leader so she had to take both classes as therewas no M-Men Leader part of the time. April 2h, 1 Pel 1 ehad helped five M-Men to receive their Master M-Men Awardsand seven Gleaners to receive their Qolden Gleaner Awards, .andone Silver Gleaner award. Bishop We stover asked her to planand conduct the, program in Sacrament Meeting when the awardswere presented by Brother Harold Glen Clark, M-Men Leader,and Sister Florence P innock, Gleaner, of the General 3oard ofMIA. It is thought to be a Church record for awards at oneyear's advancement in a single ward. One Master M-Man saidshe had used a ball bat to get them to complete their ad¬vancement but they were trupyashe had helped them to get it.

13 el 1 e served as assistant ward work director in the ReliefSociety and later director for a couple of years (1956-195").She asked to be released when she broke, a couple of bones inher foot and had to go on crutches for six weeks. In 1 9 5 BBelle was sustained as Provo Stake Gleaner Leader t and enjoyedworking with the Stake M-Men - Gleaner Council.

January 24, i960 Belle was sustained as Stake YoungWpmen 1 s Secretary in MIA, working with Sister Leore Cclder,Stake YV/MIA President with Sisters Viola Adama an;l DeaneRasmussen as Counselors. We worked together until 1964 andhad many very pleasant associations which h" s continued.During this time, Sister Calder was released and Sister Adamsbecame President with Sister Resmussen and Norma Thomas,counsel or s .

In I96O the Priesthood took over the management of theGirls Canyon Home with the nine Stake Presidents acting as thegoverning board. The Stakes were; Provo, Provo East, Utah,Utah West, Sharon, Sharon East, Sharon W est, Orem, Orem West.The nine stake YW presidents and nine stake high counci 1 rep¬resentatives from the general committee, i'Jeing a '-'.take Secre¬tary, Selle was asked by Sister Calder, the i960 ['resident ofthe Girls Canyon l-lome Counci 1 ,to be the treasurer but she feltthe' work toÿe too much for both.' However the first meeting

she attended there v/»s no secretary and she was asked to takethe minutes. She served until a r eorganizat ion of the Councilin 1970.

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When the nine stakes organized this Council it was soarranged that there was no YW pr esi dent or High Counci 1 repr e-sentat ive from any one stake serving at the same time and thefirst three of each group would serve as the Executive Commi t-tee. After the number one of each group had served a year, heor she woul d drop to number nine and the other s would move up,This method worked out very well and 1t was always a pleasureto serve with the di f f erent ones . It meant the rotat ion was bystakes and some times there were releases in the organi zati ons .Some of the new of f icer s felt very inadequete in assuming thecamp 1eader shi p . When Belle was released from the Stake YWBoard in 1 964, the camp Counci 1 woul d not rel ease her so shehas had cont inuous act iv ity in that organi zati on. The last fewyears Belle has been consi dered as Executive Secretary . In 1 969and 1 970 four of the stakes divi ded : Or em, Sharon West, Or emWest and Sharon East adding Or em North, Provo North, Or em Southand Edgemont -- making thi rteen stakes in the camp area, AnExecutive Commi ttee was formed for the thi rteen stakes to deve-1op the new camp area. The Canyon Home was sol d to BYU and 480acres were purchased in Hunt ington Canyon. The Execut ive Com¬mi 11ee consi sted of the first four of each group but no threeof f icers from each stake woul d serve at the same time, then theywould rotate as before. Pr esi dent L. Flake Rogers, Provo EastStake was the chai rman in 1 970 and he asked Belle to cont inue asSecretary-Treasurer for the Commi ttee. It has been a rare andenjoyabl e exper ience to work with these stake presidents, Ywpresidents and High Counci 1 members of the Or em and Provo CampKegion or our Church. The canyon home and the ten acres becametoo smal 1 and di d not fit into the Church program after 11 96ÿ soother property was purchased. The camp is nearly f ini shed withthirty-five "A" frame cabins, which will house ten to fifteengirls in sleeping bags, and four comp 1 et e r est rooms. A smalllake has been constructed this fall ( 1975) and the girls can useit for canoei ng and boat ing. The water is too col d and f 1 ow ofwat er is not adequate to have swimmi ng at any time, A caretaker ' icabin is being const ructed and ot her improvements wi 1 1 be madeas time and money is provi ded. However, it is now a beaut if ulplace and wi 1 1 accommodate 2000 girls and 1 eader s during thesummer for a 1 ovel y camp program. The camp is known as CampMia Shalom.

I Have enjoyed worki ng with President Ernest 01 sen, SharonEast Stake, Presi dent El i CI ay son, Or em North Stake, Presi dentPhi 1 Shumway, Or em South Stake, Presi dent S , Blaine Willes,Sharon West , Presi dent Mirl Hymas, Or em North Stake, Presi dentRoss D. Denham, Provo Central Stake and Presi dent J. Dunn,Sharon and many others during the past few years,

After Belle's r el ease as Secretary of the YWMIA in 1 964 ,she was again sustained as Provo Stake YW Secretary in June1966 with Sister Virginia DeHart as Pr es ident , She served withher unt i1 1 969 and then with Cheryl Jacobsen until January1971, Bel 1 e was released at that time due to majory surgery ,

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she had had in October 1970. The new president , SisterGladys Elkins wanted her to stay on to help her so Belle didcont inue as the "MIA Newsy bulletin edi tor for two years.

On October 19 , 1969, one day after Belle's bi r thday , shewas awarded the Honorary Gol den Gleaner Award at the ProvoStake Quarterly Conference. This award was given for her manyyears of servi ce in the Mutual and the girls' camp program.This award is greatl y cher ished.

After gett ing settled and getting acquainted in ManavuWard, B ishop Westover called Clarence to teach a Sunday Schoolin geneal ogy . The first class was chi ef 1 y for adults with anenrol 1ment of about 68 . Later he had a geneal ogy class forpre-adul ts. These were very interest ing and he hopes therewere good r esul ts from them.

Clarence was soon called to serve as ward statisticalclerk with Bishop Westover . Ward member ships were 1mprovedand brought into a workabl e condi t ion. His association withB 1shop Westover was enjoyable and of real training value®Whi 1 e he was clerk he had addi t ional dut ies , as secretary of theStake Genealogical Commi tt ee under the chai rmanship of El donPayne.

In about 1 955 Bi shop Westover was released and El don W,Payne was sustained, ordained and set apart as B ishop . Heasked CI arence to cont inue, whi ch was al so, very en 1 ight en ingand p 1 easant except the last month. At that time CI arenceobj ected to special pr ivi 1 eges of Blessing of the Sacramentand col 1 ect ing Fast Of f er ings, as were given to a young burg-1 er of government property from several government of f ices ,The young bur g 1 er , age 1 8, lead two others in these escapades,was ar eested and found gui 1 ty 1n court . Within a week afterthis young man received a 1 engthy suspended sentence, Clarencewas accused of "try ing to make it hard on the boy ." Two weeks1 ater Clarence was uncermoni ous 1 y and insul t ingl y released asWard Clerk. This caused much bitterness between the Bi shopand C 1 ar ence and cont inued for y ear s . Fr iend 1 y relat ionsh ipbetween the two was re-established in the spr ing of 1974, uponCI arence' s di rect request and invi tat ion to have the B ishopcome to his home.

Fo 1 1 ow ing the rel ease from Manavu dut ies Clarence wascal 1 ed on to two secretary jobs in the Provo Stake SundaySchool and Geneal ogical Commi tt ee. This was all very enjoy -able work and a cont inuance of ear 1 ier training duties.

In October 1962, C 1ar ence was t ransfered to Brigham Y oungUniversity First Stake as Chai rman of Geneal ogogy whi ch turnedout to be a one year per iod. This was under Pr es ident WayneB . Hal es and High Counci 1 or Ernest Jeppson. Weekl y trainingclasses of ward chai rmen of geneal ogy were held each Sunday

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morning* Leadership and training were given to each of thir¬teen wards . Conference talks were given*

Aft er the training of the second year for V/a r d Chairmen,CI arence wss suddenly called to the B ishop ' s of f ice of ProvoFirst War d. Present in the room w ere: President JosephFielding Smith, Elder Sterling Sill, Roy W . Doxey, Bliss H.Crandal 1 , First and Second Counselors of Provo Stake and DeanE. Terry, Stake Clerk of the same* Brother Doxey announcedthat he had been asked to be the new President of Provo Stake.He had sel ected Brother Bliss Crandal 1 and Dean Terry to behis counsel or s and they thought they would 1 ike to haveClarence as their Stake CI erk. The transfer back to ProvoStake was app roved by President Smith. Ordinations andsettings apart followed immediately. President JosephFielding Smi t h. officiated with President Doxey . Elder Sillthen followed with Presi dent Crandal 1 . Then Brother T er ryr ecei ved his author ity under President Smith. Elder Sillthen suggested to Pres. Smith that Pres. Smith, being interest¬ed in genealogy and record keep ing, that it woul d be moreappropriate for him to set apart the. Stake Clerk. This was doneand started Clarence's 1 ong twelve years service as P rovo StakeClerk. lie served under President Doxeyfeight years.and eightmonths. This was a most enjoyable service associating withthe presi dency and High Council of Provo Stake.

In June of 1972, Bishop Harold Baker Jones w as called tobe Provo Stake President and he asked Clarence to stay on asclerk. This duty cont inued unt i1 Sugust 1 9 7 '4 . Clarence, hav¬ing been totally blinded for a short and then partially blinded,requested a release saying that a b 1 ind c 1 erk cannot do hiswork . Regretfully, this was accepted with the best of feelingsand Clarence's di sappoi ntment in ceasing to be able to beact ive. He has accepted "any menial job with out a title."This is the condition existing to day, 20 September 1975.Clarence was very happy when Bishop John Hay lor, a very effic¬ient man, man was called as Stake Clerk. Original planningwas done for a new stake center, grounds were purchased, plansmade and approved . A ward was divided with a nev; one, Provo28th, being formed. Assessments were cal cu 1 at ed ' and assigned.Al 1 of this was very productive work and extremel y enjoyable.A new Stake Cent er wa s duly comp 1 et ed and dedicated A p r i 1 20 ,1975. Since that time all Church duties have been limitedto helping others in their own f ami 1 y records.

Clarence has been a Life Member of the Genealogy Committeesince October 1939 and challenges every one to do research endbring their own records up to date and as complete as possible,This committee has been known as The Genealogical Soci ety ofUtah. This being chi ef 1 y , if not entirelyÿ, a L D S Churchorganizat ion .

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CI arence became a Mason in Matteson Lodge No, 175, 1nJol let, Illinois in 1 922 . He shortly advanced to the thi rddegree and 1ater through the York Rite to the Knights Templardegree. He then became a member of Medinah Temple in Chicago,,Addi t ional Masonic work carr ied him through the Scot ish Eit.eto the 32nd Degree. The Consi stery , at which he is a Li fe mem¬ber . He recently received his Honorary (50 year member shi p )Member's card and pin.

The Collegiate Research Lodge, known as the Order of theGol den Key was organi zed in Joliet by Almond Fairfield ofJol iet . C1 arence was the si xty-ei ghth person to become amember of this Lodge, advancing to the of f ice of Preceptor,(presi dent) . He r emai ned very act ive in this order until wecame to Utah. This Col 1 eg iate Rite had Masonic research asits chi ef purpose along with fraternal ism. CI arence wrote eshi s qualifying dissertation in deep study of Mormoni sm and FreeMasonry .

Clarence was alway s interested in civic work since earlyScout age, and hoped to get into scouting when he came to Provo.He soon found the Scout ing r egi strat ion in Provo was limitedto one year and as the Scout of f ice did not transfer to hiscr edi t any work done pr evi ousl y in Illinois or Michigan, itdiscouraged him to be act ive in the Scout program. As earlyas 1019 CI arence served the city of Jol iet , Illinois, as aninspect ion officer in city wide san itat ion matt er s .

Short 1 y after movi ng to Provo, CI arence became act ive inCivil Defense for Provo City. On February 6, 1953, he was ap¬pointed to serve as Assi star.t Di rector of Civil Defense andExecutive Of f icer of Provo City C iv i1 Defense Corps, He heldthis pos it ion most of the time unt i1 Jul y 1, 197ÿ. He servedwith George E . Larsen, City Civil Defense Di rector , and 1at erJesse Evan, Provo Chi ef of Pol ice. In each case the Di rectorhad to be a pai d empl oyee of the city, but CI arence was doingmost of the work . He made two trips to Al ameda, Cal if orniaand to Battle Cr eek, Mi chi gan, as well as numerous times toSalt Lake City. These trips were for instruct ion and training.

C 1 arence was the co-organi zer with the Assi stant Pol iceChi ef , Ellis Mower, Of the auxi 1 iary pol ice of P rovo City inthe spring of 195ÿ. This was later known as the Reserve Pol¬ice. He served as Captai n for about ei ghteen years, resigning,effective June 30, 197*+. This act ion was taken as it becameapparent that there was a state-wide effort to do away withal 1 the Reserve Pol ice. In 1 95*+ he was one of about si xt eento take special civil defense training as auxi 1 iary pol icemen(Provo City) and often served in this capacity, aver agi ng ei ghtto twel ve hours ( some t ime more) of vol unteer duty per week . Hethroughl y enjoyed this servi ce. All types of pol ice dutywere performed. This incl uded invest igat ion of family t roubl e,stake-outs, traffic control , acc ident 1nvest igat ion, cr iminalarrests, et cetra. Some of this was rout ine pol ice work andsome had var ious assi gnments in dangerous si tuations.

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Clarence served in the Utah State Guard as Mo,joy and thenas a full Colonel, having been irpmoted by .General Corner Smithfrom y he grade, of Major to Col onel , by-passing Lt . Col onel .He was given command in place of Colonel Thoret Heberson whodied. He was honorably released and succeeded by Bob Strong,Past Master, with the grade of Lt. Colonel only, Clarence'scommand was over the 5th Area of Utah.

A club activity was the Foot Printers, Internet ional , anorganization of peace officers and business men. He servedactively as secretary for several years. He was al so, a memberof the Provo Lions Club serving as chairman of the followingcomrni ttees : Blind and Sight Conservation, Safety, and Citizen¬ship and Patriotism.

Bel 1 e was appointed Deputy Director, Women's Activities,in Apr i1 1956 and served two years. Ouring this time sheattended a State Extension Course at Utah State University atLogan for a week. She, a 1 so, attended a Training sessionof safety and defense at Santa Rosa, California, at theexpense of the city®

Although Belle had been a member of the Jol iet 'women ' sClub for several years she was not in a hurry to get activein Provo when she was busy at other things. After being ap¬pointed Director of the Women's Activities of Civil Defensein Provo, by the Mayor she felt she should affiliate with acivic club. In 1956 she joined the Municipal Section of theWomen' s Council. Belle has had some very choice oxper iencesserving the community through her many years of activity andassociations. The programs have been very interesting fol¬lowing the outline of the six departments: Conservation,Education, Home Life, Fine Arts, Public Affairs an-:' Inter- Anational Affairs of General Federation of Women ' s Clubs. TheGFV/C has a membership of about 11 million members in thefifty states and many countries around the globe.

After a year ' s membership Delle was asked to be Secretaryof the Muni cipal Section. The following year she wa s asked tobe Chairman of the Section, serving a year. Her next officewas the First Vice President of the Women 1 s Council. This isan organization of six sections, each having a rnanb, r sh ip oftwenty to f i ,:ty members. The Sections are: Home Arts Muni -cipal, A r t is t , Literary, Music, Delta Arts, Junior, andHonorary (Past) Presidents . In 1$ 6 she was elected ,~r :s identof the Council and served two years. Her term of office wasvery interesting. The membership increased from 115 to 170members, She served on the Chamber of Commerce ChristmasPlanning Committee, the Provo-- All American City Committee,and Utah County Coordinating Committee. She was secretary ofthis committee for eight years. 5e1le, al so, served as presi -dent of the Presidents of the Provo Federated Clubs, whichsponsored beaut ifi'cat ion and better street lighting for the

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city. This group was asked to sponsor a meeting at the highschool to discuss the city manager system for the city. Thiswas very well att ended and much int er est was shown. Belle hadto conduct the meet ing. Another meet ing of int er est was apolitical rally was held when the condi dates or represents®tives of each party were able to give their slogans. This wascalled a Silver Tea and the expense for refreshments was takenout of a silver collection we received. Another rally was heldin 1969 at the Women ' s Cul tural Center . These were very wellattended and received by members as well as the cnadidates.Belle was general chai rman and had to conduct these meet ings.Another 1nter est ing commi tt ee was the committee planning theeducation and r ecr eat ional program for the Seni or Citizens,,Belle had charge of the music for this program. They firstmet at the Utah T echnical College. Later a building was plannedand constructed for the Seni or Ci t izens by the city in NorthPark, which is now the El dred Center, 270 West 500 North. Itwas at this time we began to look around for a sui tabl e clubhouse or building 1ocat ion as the old club house was needingmuch repair. The Women 1 s Counci 1 provi ded a water fountain onCenter St r eet in f ron of Penney's store during Belle's pr es idency .

Belle than served as Presi dent of Timpanagos First Districtof Utah Federat ion of Women's CI ubs, having a member shi p ofeleven clubs from Provo to Lehi. In 1 963 Belle was appol nt edGeneral Chai rman of the Utah Federat ion of Women 1 s Clubs conven-t ion to be held in Provo, With the help of Ruth Ai ken, her CO- ÿ

chai rman, and wonderful cooperat ion of many friends and clubmembers in the district, we had a very successful convent ion . Wehad a del ight f ul "Gay Nineties Party" on the Thursday night be¬fore convent ion whi ch opened Fr iday morning. Choi ce paintingsfrom throughout the state by noted artists were donated for thepr ises for the most out standi ng styles of that time. The col -1 ect ion of paint 1ng«as estimated to be worth $3000 by a well-known artist of Provo. This party was held in Ruth Aiken'sgarden, and a huge success.

Mrs. Jessie June MaGee, Third Vice President of GFWC, ofLakewood, Oh io, was our guest for the convent ion. Meetingswere held in the Commun ity Church and 1ovel y 1 uncheons wereserved there and at the St . Mary's Pari sh. The Award Banquetwas held at the Riverside Count ry Club. We al 1 f el t this hadbeen a very successful state convent ion. Mr s . MaGee' s friend¬ship has been very choi ce throughout the many years and dur ingher presi dency of GFWC in 1 968-70. Belle has heard hermanytimes remark about the "Gay Ninet ies Party" . Mi ss MargaretAnderson of Manti was the presi dent of Utah Federat ion ofWomen ' s CI ubs at this time.

In 1964 Belle was el ected to serve as T resurer of the UtahFederat ion of Women's CI ubs ( 90 c 1 ubs ) for two years. The pr es-dent then was Mr s . Etta Diamanti of Helper. After the twoy ear s Belle was el ected Third Vice President. In this officeshe was the Utah Newsl etter editor. She vi si ted the el even

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district throughout the state and have many f r iends in theclubs and lovely association with the state and General Feder¬ation of Women's Clubs officers,, Belle attended the Di amondJubliee Convent ion of GFWC in Chicago in 1 966, stay 1ng at theConrad Hilton Hotel with Mrs. Wal ter Ewing, past president ofUFWC, of Ogden. There were about 2000 del egates from ©11 overthe wor 1 d. This was a del ightful exper ience with the interes¬ting meet ings, lovely luncheons and banquet s . One never to beforgotten. Before r eturning home she vi si ted her brother ' inDetroi t, Preston's f ami 1 y in Milwaukee and f r iends in Jol iet .

Belle attended the GFWC convent ion in San Francisco, Cal if.,the next year and stayed agai n with Bury 1 Ewing . This wasanother very 1ovel y convent ion . We al so, had a tour of thecity, Fi Sherman ' s Wharf, Hipp ies sect ion and all.

In 1 968 , Mrs. Gladys Haugan, Third V ice President of GFWCwas the guest at the Utah Federat ion convent ion at Park City.We have had a close f r iendshi p si nee then. She became presidentof GWFC in 1 972. Belle attended that convent ion at Denver endhad a 1ovel y time. She was asked to work on the Internat 1onelHostess Commi tt ee in Denver , by Mrs. Sylvia Weber of Sheboygan,Wisconsin, Chai rman of this committee. Belle had been the UFWCInternational Hostess chai rman during the 1970-1972 t erm ofof f ice. She met some 1 ovel y del egates from Israel , Japan, Brazil,Estonia and other countries, as well as from the states. Sincereturning home she has received a nice hanki e and have had sever¬al 1 etters from Sel ma from Brazil.

Belle has been very active, hoi di ng some execut ive posi t ionin the Home Arts Municipal Sect ion and Women ' s Counci 1 since1 956 and in the state organization s inee 1 962. She served aschai rman of Amer ican Heritage and Citizenship commi11ee fortwo di f f er ent t erms besides the International Hostess Committee.Belle is a Pari iamentar ian, and is current 1 y Pub 1 ic it y chair¬man.

As ment ioned before The Women 1 s Counci 1 was 1 00k ing for abuilding 1 ocat ion to take the p 1 ace of the old building, whi chhad been original 1 y a church and needed repair. A 1 ot was pur¬chased east of 900 East but we soon realized that was not thebest 1 ocat ion . This was sol d for a good prof it . The city th©ngave us a building spot in North Park, west of Eldred Center,on 500 North, on a dollar a year 1ease. We broke ground forour new bui 1 di ng in June 1965 and began bui 1 di ng very soon . Weheld our first meet ing in our bui 1 ding, known as the Women'sCounci 1 Cul tural Cent er , in 1967® We sol d the old club house,3rd North and Universi ty Ave. , and that has helped a 1 ot towardthe total amount of the new bui 1 di ng which 1 s consi dered to beabout $ 100,000. In eight years we have brought that amountdown to about $ 1 3,000 with donat ions, rental s of the building,cateri ng dinners, weddi ng recept ions, et cetra. Belle hasdone a 1ot on var ious commi ttees in the planning end fund rais¬ing. She has an article in the cornerstone box of the bui 1 di ng.

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In 1963 Gwen Wether el 1 and Belle were asked by Mayor Ver1Dixon and Commissioners Mur dock and Luke CI egg, later LeoAllen, to make a scrapbook on Beaut ificat ion of Provo to besubmitted to the ÿeaut if icat ion Bureau in Washington, D. C .This had to be f inished in about three weeks but with thecooper at ion of Mr . i las e 1 1 , County Farm Agent, it was com¬pleted and sent in before the deadline, January 1, 1 969 s

We received an achievement award for it. The city commissionpaid our way bock to 'Washington, D . C . in February 1 969, toattend the Clean-up, Paint-up and Fix-up Conference at theSheraton-Hilton Hotel and to receive the nward. It was athrill for us to represent Provo and our city Dads,, Whilethere, we took a tour of the White House, visited Rep, LaurenceBurton in his office and his private secretory gave us a veryinteresting tour of the Capitol Bui Tiling, visiting sessionsof the Senate and House of Repr esentat ives «, We, also, visit¬ed the headquarters of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.Vie spent Sunday with a brother and family of Or . £1 don Ricksof uYlJ and friends of belle's, He end his wife took us toArlington Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Battle fields and otherplaces of interest. V/e had our dinner in their home and laterattended Sacrament Meeting wi th them before returning to ourhotel . This had been a most interesting trip with all expen¬ses paid by the city.

In February 1972 Belle had the honor of being nominatedthe Mother of the Year from the Women' s Counci 1 . This wastruly a privilege and honor to be chosen a 1 on with a careerwoman from Provo and by-passing the district to to to theState. The career woman was a professor at GYU and had manynational apaoi ntments as wel 1/as state and had given scholar¬ships and donations so she was chosen to represent Utah atthe National Meeting in New York. However , she was not namedthe National Moth'er of the Year. The rest of us are known asMerit Mothers of 1972. Sel 1 e has been nominated a CommunityLeader for 1972 and she. is listed in the. 1972 Book of CommunityLeader s .

With the exception of one Federal and one City election,each because of illness, Belle has been an election judge atall primary and general elections sinca 1956. She has heldSOv 1 offices in the voting district and has attendedcounty and state Republican convent ion s . Currently {1975 )she is Registration Agent for her District.

Sel 1 e has had membership in the Utah County LegislativeCounty for many years and on April 3,1975 she was elected andinstalled as Secretary for a term of two years.

3e1 1e has been active in the Women's Division of theChamber of Commerce for many years and has many friends inthat organization. In April 1 97*4, she was surprised when shev/as honored at a monthl y 1 uncheon of the Women ' s Division ofC . of C . She received a framed certificate with the following

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inscription: "Provo Chamber of Commerce Women's DivisionAward -- Presented to Belle A . E . Hyatt -- in Recognition ofVolunteer Service Act ivi t ies, Leadership Positions and activeMembership in Or gani zat ions serving our Community. " S ignedby the 1 974 of f icers. Mrs. Trieste Goodwi 1 1 , Presi dent .Another surpr 1 se that came that week of April 1974, was toreceive another award. Thi s was the annuel award of theLiterary Section of the Women's Counci 1 on their annual"Honor Might". Her mater ial award was a beautiful plaque withthe wording of 11 Servi ce to Community -- Belle Hyatt --Literary Section of the Women's Council of ProVo, 1974;"These awards mean a great deal to Belle showing the 1 ove andf r iends-shi p of these organizations. It al so, signifies to herthe appreciation these member s have of her service to her clybsand communi ty . Bel 1 e' s repl y was that whatever she had donewas not done for honor but because of her 1ove of givingservice to other s .

Belle has been a member of the Past Matrons Circle ofProvo ( former Worthy Matrons of the Order of the Eastern Star )for many years . She is unabl e to attend Star because of astat e ruling of the Masonic Fraternity . The Past Matrons endPatrons of Provo are very opposed to this ruling and have madeher feel very welcome. She has been secretary of the Circlefor several years and they will not rel ease her , say ing "if sheis not an officer she will not attend and we want her with us,"Belle has al so, been invited to be an associate member of theRoyal Nile Club, Daughters of Nile, (wives of Shriners). Belle'smembershi p is in Zenbia T empl e, Chi cago, Therefore cannot bean active member as the Royal Nile CI ub is affiliated with LydiaT emp 1 e in Salt Lake City. She has many f r iends in each organi¬zation, and has great 1 y enjoyed the association and f el 1owsh ipof the members whi ch has been ext ended to her .

Belle has al so, had unusual act ivi t ies . She had hel pedNancy , Ted and Tom (Preston1s children) clean the house afterthe van had loaded their furniture for their home in Mi 1waukeeand was on her way home with the chi 1 dr en . Their parent s hadpreviousl y 1 eft for Milwaukee. Traffic had been slow al 1 theway on 3900 South, in Salt Lake and she was very consci enceof her heavy load and three grandchi 1 dren. As she approached400 East she had to si ow down for a car ahead making a turn.Passing the inter sect ion she not iced a cycl ist approachingfrom a driveway and then proceeding in the same di rect ion asthe car, for a short distance,, She attempted' to pass him butas she di d so he turned to the 1 eft . She swerved to her 1 eftto avoid the col lesion and stopping on the center line. Thebicy 1 e made a dent in her right front fender and the boybounced off, bending the ariel and shattering the windshield.He 1 anded on the pavement a little ahead of her right frontdoor . The ch i1 dren in the car were covered with glass. Menwho had seen the accident offered to be wi tnesses should sheever be called into court . Pol ice were immediatel y not if ied

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and First Aid was appl 1ed to the bleeding boy . The boy wastaken to the County Hospital by ambulance® Mr, Pat ience, theinvesting officer,, gave Belle hi s name 1ater and reported hisinjury was minor and there should be no further trouble,. Shewas not given a ticket and the pol ice did not consi der thatshe was at fault in any manner . Not having had our supper ,we stopped and had somethi ng to eat before returning home.

The first of Belle's many trips back to Jol iet was in195ÿ . This was made in Sept ember when she went back to beGuest of Honor on Past Matron's Night for the Worthy Matron,,Bernice Far r , wife of Belle's Worthy Patron. Not many knewthat she was to be there and it was fun watching their reac¬tions,, It truly was a 1 ovel y evening and nice to be back 1nMarguerite Chapter,, again, and see her many f r iends there.Belle staid with the T uppers and A1 1cots while in Jol 1 et andvisited f r iends . She also, made a trip to Mason, Michigan,to visit her brother , and f ami 1 y . On Sunday there was a familyreunion as her other brother , Maur ice and hi s wife, Marjoriecame from Det roi t and her only sister,, Achsa was there fromBowl ing Green, Ohi o.

This was the 1ast time Belle was in Gordon 1 and Gladys'home as Gordon passed away August 3 , 1955, after a 1ong ill¬ness. Gladys soon sol d her home in Mason and went to live withher chi 1 dr en. She stopped in Provo in 1 957 enroute home fromvisiting her youngest son, Lauren and f ami 1 y in Sal em, Or egon,While in Provo Gladys had a st roke, 1 eavi ng one si de compl ete-1 y paral yzed. After ten days in the hospital here Gladys wasput on a pr ivate plane and taken to Grand Rap ids, Michigan, onthe request of her f ami 1y . Carl , a son, met her and put herin a hospital there, nearer her family. She was an inva1 idfor many y ear s, living in nursing homes and at the 1 ast at theCounty Clinic in T raver se City, Mi chi gan. She al so, during thetime, v

' -1 broke a hip and al though she did get around some andcoul d use her arms , she was never in good heal th agai n. Shepassed away at traverse City, May 1k, 1 97 1 and was buried atMason beside her husband. Gladys was always a true si st er toBelle and is great 1 y mi ssed.

Belle's next trip was to Det roit to serve as Mat ron ofHonor at Maurice and GI ady s Simich (King)'s wedding, June 2kf1 959 . Maur ice had divorced Mar jor ie Moffitt, in August 1955because of incompet ibi 1 ity . Belle had met Gladys when visit-ing Maur ice and Mar jor ie while Gl ady s had worked in hi s of f ice.In 1 957 Maurice and Gl ady s had attended Summer School here atthe BYU and they had become very good friends. Gladys especi al -1y want ed Belle to be with them at their marriage. The weddingtook place in a Russian Orthodox Cat hoi ic Church. 11 truly wasa very di f f er ent ceremony but interesting, and she was verygl ad she coul d part icipat e.

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Maurice and Gladys took Belle to Ashl and, Ohio, to visitF1or ence Wa1 ten and her daughter Katherine McE 1 henie. Aftera nice week-end there and visiting with Hattie and ZellaWarner of Woost er ÿ al 1 cousins of Belle father, she took atrainto Chi cago. Belle visited with the Edom's, in West Chi cagoand later went to Joliet for a visit with f r 1 ends . Enroutehome on the traip Belle stopped over 1n Gal esburg, 11 1 inoi sand spent an enjoyable twenty -four hours with Brother and SisterKarl Custer, of the Northern States Mission,,

Clarence's mother, Nettie Emi 1 y Lanf ear Hyatt , had a strokeon Fr iday , September 1 1 , 1959# and passed away Sept ember 1 3 ,1959, at the Ferrel 1 Nursing Home in Or em. Evening servi ceswere held on T uesday evening,, She passed away when being fedan egg-nog by an attendant in the home. Clarence did not feelhe coul d take the time to go back with her but wanted Bel 1 e tomake the trip. Belle 1eft with her on Wednesday night , chang¬ing., trains in Denver , and arriving in Jol iet Fr iday morning.Ross and Fanny Carey, old f r iends of the fami 1 y , met her andinvited Belle to stay with t hem. After resting dur ing the daya viewing was held in the eveni ng at Sonntags Mortuary, whereBelle met the f r iends and r el at ives . The funeral was heldSaturday , September 1 9th and she was bur ied on the Hyatt lotin Elmhurst Cemetery , besi de her husband. The funeral was con¬ducted by El der s and Branch President Warren Hoelzer, Belle wasinvi ted to Char 1 es Lanfear 1 s, a cousin of C 1ar ence, for a Lan-tear fami 1 y dinner. This was a surprise but Belle was verypleased to be invi ted, as she had never been in their home be¬fore and did not know many of the fami 1 y . She had known asi ster , Mary Lanfear Lar sen and had always liked her . Bellewas g 1ad to meet the rest of the family#

After spendi ng the week-end with the Carey's, she visitedother f r iends in Jol iet and the fol 1owi ng week-end she v/ent toDet roi t to visit Maur 1ce and Gladys befor e returning home.

Belle was invi ted to be the Instal 1 ing Chaplain for oneof her of f icer s in Eastern Star in 1 950. Norma Mey er had beenAdah, First Point for Bel 1 e, and she was now being instal 1 edas Worthy Matron in i960. This was a 1ovel y trip, serving asChap lain and seeing so many ol d f r iends . On the fol 1 owi ngSunday, a reception was held at Norma ' s mother's home and Bellewas invi ted to preside at the Punch bowl part of the 11me,where she met many more f r iends. After spendi ng a few days inJol iet Belle went to Detroi t to visit Mauri ce and Gladys beforereturning home.

In 1 962 CI arence and Belle pianned an extensive trip tothe East Coast . Their prime reasons were to visit histor 1calplaces, r e1at ives, f r iends , ol d fami 1 y landmarks, and fami 1 yhi story . The day before they were to 1 eave, Sept ember 12th,

Belle served as an election judge at the primary election,,This was a 1 ong day . Clarence* too, had had a big day . At11 pm, Presi dent Wayne B. Hal e of BYU First Stake and BrotherErnest Jeppsen, Hi gh Councilor and chai rman of Genealogy,came to the house, on an appoi ntment , and invited Clarence tobe the Geneal ogi cal Chai rman of that stake. Clarence toldthem that on his return, about October 13th, he would get intouch with them.

We left ear 1y the next morning for points east , Our firstvisiting stop was with Brother and Sister Karland Rena CusterIn Gal esburg, Illinois,, We had had many choi ce associationswith them. We then drove on to Pekin, Illinois, wher e we staidwith Clarence's cous in, Edward E . Brown and his wife, Emily,aged about 85y ear s old. We never had got t en very well acquaint¬ed with them so we were glad to have this visit with them.I hei r son, Laurence and wife came over in the evening. Thiscous in was the only 1 ivi ng cousi n of the Brown family.

Leaving Pekin 1n the morning, our next stop was Ashl and,Ohi o where we spent the week-end with F1or ence Wal ton and herdaught er , Katherine McElhenie. Hattie and Z el 1 a Warner ofWoost er , spent Sunday with us. These relatives were distentcous 1ns of Belle's father , J. Frank Edmonds. We also, vi si tedthe old Pet er Edmonds homest ead and cemetery in a wooded groveback of the house near Woost er . The story is told that a deerwas caught in the 1ane to the cemetery . Leaving Ashl and onMonday morning we spent an enjoy abl e day with cous ins of MotherEdmonds, in Akron. We went to the family cemetery at Tallmadge,a suburb of Akron . Later we went to the cemetery sexton 1 s of -rice and found interesting Stone - Mansfield history . Leavingthere we drove north t hrough old family comrnunit ies of Street-boro and Hudson. In the cemetery at Streetboro we found Combsand Root markers.

Our next stop was Church hi story in Ki rt 1 and, Ohi o. Wehad a very interesting tour of the T emp 1 e after a 1 ong morft-ing wait whi 1 e the gui de was on real estat e business. Whenthe guide's wife 1 earned we were LDS members, she would notact as our guide but referred us to her husband. He was veryrel uctant to explain things as the T emp 1 e is owned by the Re¬organized Church. By aski ng quest ions we did get some val¬uable and interesting informat ion about 11.

Leaving Ohi o we drove through the A1 1 egheny and Appal aci anMountains but they seemed like foot hi 1 1 s to our mountains wewere used to here in the west. We stopped at Milton, Penn.,on theSusquehenne R iver , 1 ooki ng for Hyatt family hi story .Finding nothing there we went to the State Archives and Libraryat Harr isburg. We fai 1 ed to find any Hyatt hi story we wanted.Gettysburg and the batt 1 e grounds were our next stop end wehad a good guide to explain things for us. The next mor ningwe went to Lancaster wh 1ch was another histor ical p 1 ace andvi si ted the county courthouse for informat ion. There, as before

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we could not find what we were looking for . 11 was interest igto drive through the Ami sh count ry . The next Hyatt landmarkswere Wilmington, New Cast 1 e and Odessa, Del ewar e, going tocemeter ies and places of interest in searc h of Wetzel and Hyatthi story . We saw a very small but unique church and cemeteryat Odessa,

The following forenoon we spent visiting the hi stor ical placesat Phi 1adel phi a* These were indeed very interest ing. Then wewent to Valley Forge, Revolutionary batt 1 e grounds, in verybeaut iful country , Arriving at Bethl ehem, Pennsylvania, wewent to the archives of the Moraven Church. Even though itwas closing time they were very kind to us and gave us severalbooks that ment ioned some of the Edmonds ancester s . We gainedval uabl e informat ion of the Edmonds f ami 1 y there. The nextday we drove to Perth Amboy , New Jersey, and crossed the r iverto Staten Island, New York. Clarence had 1nformat ion thatsome of hi s family had come from there.

On Saturday morning we met Norman, who had come from LongBeach, Cal if orni a to spend the week-end with us befor e goi ngto Washi ngton, D. C. for hi s busi ness there. We drove aroundNew York some then put the car in the garage and went to theT aft Hotel, where Norm Had already regi stered for us. We saw"The Music Man" and the famous Rockett es at Radio City Theet er ,Times Square and other points of interest. Sunday morning wedrove through Central Park and Har 1 em, then to LaGuar di a Air¬port where Norm took a plane for Wash 1ngton and we then soonleft for Connect icut A kind fellow not iced our license andstopped and asked if he coul d help us. He pi 1oted us out ofthat area to the highway . That area was the site for theWor Id's Fair a coupl e years 1at er . It was a short but interes-t ing time spent in New York.

We then drove through beaut if ul scenery and the trees wereso colorful , to Simbury , Connect icut . The clerk 1n the city hallshowed us a book stat ing Belle's ancest er , Edmond Edmonds,had come from Br itainy .

At Hartford and Wether sfi el d, Connect icut , we tried tofind Coombs, Woodhouse end Rhodes f ami 1 y hi story but were un¬able to get much information. Leaving there we traveled southand east through Provi dence, Rhode Is 1 and to Buzzard's Bay ,Massachusett s . Belle had had somethi ng at noon that made herterribly si ck but she was up and goi ng the next morning. Wewent the inland route around Cape Cod Bay to Provincetown onthe ext r eme point . We tried to visualize whet 11 woul d havebeen so many yaar s before, when the Pilgrims landed there. Wedrove the shoreline back, stopp ing at a glass factory and wentthrough cranberry marshes. We spent some time at PI ymouth goingto a museum, vi ewi ng PI ymouth, and a replica of the Mayflower,The next morning we had our plans to see Boston but becauseit was so rainy and dark we dec ided to bypass Boston and head

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west . It rained al 1 day but the rain on the beautiful color¬ed leaves made the scenery very lovely and shiny. In the morn-ing we drove to Hanover and Dartmouth University, in New Hamp¬shire, after spend ing the night at Whi te River Junct ion , Ver ,

The Joseph Smith Home ( bi rth place) between South Royal -town and Sharon, Vermont, was our next stop. It certainly hasa beautiful seenic spot and is nieel y restored. 11 was nicedriving through country where some of Belle's ancester s hadlived, then comi ng from Rutland, Vermont , and sett 1 ing 1nRutland T ownshi p, Barry County , Michigan,,

After 1 unch at Rutland we drove to Fort T iconderoga, N. Y .This is a lovely and historical place. It is on the bank ofthe Hudson River on a big bend 1n the river. We coul d visual*ize why a Fort was piaced there for protect ion. Some ofCI arence' s ancest er s had come from this part of New York, Heknew of some who had fought there, so it was very interesting.Leavi ng there we stopped at Granvi 1 1 e, the home of the Savagef ami 1 y . G1 en Falls was the home of the St reeter family. Wethen went to May f iel d, New York and found an old cemet er yback in a field. It had had a stone fence but it was brokendown 1n many places allowing the catt 1 e to wander through andkeep the weeds and grass down. C 1arence did find some gravesand marker s which were 1 eaning over . This had protected themsomewhat so dat es and names had not been weather beaten. Thesemarkers gave some of the Woodworth f ami 1 y .

Our next place of importance was the David Whi tmer Homenear Fayette, but it was closed for the day . We then went onto Hill Cumorah informat ion Center® 11 is a 1 ovel y spot andone cannot help but feel the sacredness of it. After drivingto the top of the hill we drove to Palmy ra. Finding our mot elwe then went to the Joseph Smith Home and were happi1 y sur¬prised to see Brother Boswel 1 of Provo, the caretaker . Wehad a nice visit with him and he invi ted us to go to the Grovewhile he dosed it up for the night. Sister Boswel 1 soon re¬turned from a meeting at Rochest er . The next morning we againreturned to the Home and to the Grove with Brother Boswel 1 ,who exp 1ai ned the 1ocat ion, the trees as for age and theamphi theater where the testimonial meet ings are held. That ,too, was a very sacred place. We had 1 unch with the f r iendsand in mi d afternoon we started on our way to Rochester andLewi st on, New York, north of Niagara Falls. After gett ing ourMotel we drove to the Falls when it was all 1 ighted up. Itsurely was a lovely sight, and quite di f f er ent then when Bellehad last seen them in 1 919. The next morning we went to FortNiagara,, Thi s is at the mouth of Niagara River and a beautiful1 ocat ion as a good protect ion for the states.

We then entered Canada and drove through N iagera andHami 1 ton, Ontar io to Sarni a, crossi ng the St . Clair River intoMichi gan. Our next stop was at Maur ice and Gladys Edmonds

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home, Belle's brother , in Detroit* We spent a very pleasantfour days there, rest ing and visiting. We, also visited anaunt and uncle of Belle's. Aunt Lucy Hicks, a si st er of Belle'sfather and very close to her . Their son and wife, Laurenceand 01iv,e were there. Belle was very fortunate to have a love¬ly hand knit sweater given to her because 01 iv e couldn't wearit . Leaving Detrol t we drove to East Lansing and Charlotte,Belle having leaved there it was good to get back and visitsome of the old f ami 1 iar pi aces . We were able to visit someof the old f r iends, also. Another en joyabl e visit was vithan aunt , Jennie Hicks Adams, a cous in of J. Frank Edmonds,Belle's father . We had vi si ted her on several occas 1on s endit was nice to see her again® She was 85 years old,

Cont inuing on, our next stop was the Reed Motel, Hastings*This was owned by cousins of Belle's father, although they werecloser to Belle's age than her father . Lula Manning Reed andBelle had attended Ourfee country School together, having hedmany good times together . The next morning we went to the oldbrick house and f ami 1 y cemeter ies. The house we had 1 ived innort heast of Hastings was so run down and lots of weeds in theyard we woul d not take pictures, as we had p 1 anned to do. Wevi si ted Bel 1 e' s cousins, Homer and Val Bauchman then drove toPodunk Lake, Wall Lake and Clear Lake to Kalamazoo where Belletal ked with another cousin® It was so good to be able to seeso many relat ives and visit many of the old f ami liar p 1 aces,Jol iet was our next stop arriving in a hard storm . It remind¬ed us of storms we had had when 1 ivi ng there. We staid withfriends, the Waage' s but vi si ted many other friends. Belleattended Past Of f icer s Banquet and Eastern Star Meet ing. Itwas so good to be able to attend Star and see many friends.We 1 eft on Thursday morning for Pr ovo, arriving late Saturday .

We had been gone four and one-half weeks and had traveledover 7000 miles. 11 was certainl y a beautiful time to makesuch a trip as the trees were so colorful. We had rain on 1ytwo or three days on the ent ir e trip. We f el t that it was avery lovely trip, seeing new country, old friends and relatives,meet ing new relatives and vi si t ing old f ami liar piaces . How¬ever , we were a little di sappoi nted we hadn't been able to getmore informat 1on of the Hyatt , Wetzel 1, Lanf ear , Edmonds, Stone,and Combs f ami 1 y 1 1nes.

Belle and C 1 ar ence have taken many short trips. In 1 963they went up through Star Valley to Jackson Hoi e end Yellow¬stone. While in the Park we met a wolf comi ng right up theroad on the center line, but it did not seem to be botheredby our presence. We returned home by the way of Idaho Fallsand the Crat er of the Moon Nat ional Monument . This was form¬ed by vol cani c deposits. Another trip was to Capitol Reef Nat¬ional Park, Hanksvi lie, Green River, Price and Sal ina and Home.

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Another time was to Cedar Breaks enrout e to St . George.After a session at the T empl e, we drove through Colorado,City, Ar 1 zona (pol ygaml sts) , North Rim of Grand Canyon, r eturn-1ng home throujghKanab, Z ion and Bryce Canyons,

The first of October , 1 967 , enroute to Lake Louise,A1 berta, we went up by Sun Valley, Idaho and Glacier NationalPark, Montana and Waterton National Park, Canada. When goingthrough Glacier the roads were being repaired and we drovethrough rain and clouds so coul d not enjoy the beautiful scen¬ery . It was also, col d. We stopped at Cardston on the col drainy day but went on north and stopped at the Fort at MacCloud,We stopped for the night at Calgary on our way to Banff and LakeLouise. We hardly recogni zed it as the last time we were therewas 1n 19ÿ0. We drove out of there to Jasper National Parkto the Ice Fields. This sur el y is beautiful count ry . Leavingthat area we went to Victoria, British Col umbi a, where one feel she is in a f orei gn country. We took a si ght-seeing ( two deck¬er bus from London) tour of Victoria. Clarence and Belle thenreturned to the states, stopp 1ng at Edmonds, Washi ngton hopingwe mi ght find some of the Edmonds history but were not success¬ful . We had knov/n that some of the Edmonds family had gonewest but their dest inat 1on was not knov/n . We stopped at F<i>rtLewis, where Preston had been in camp. We went to 01ymp 1 e, theCap 1tol , and 01ymp 1e Nat ional Forest and mountains. Leavingthere we headed for Pr ovo by Port 1 and, Oregon, the ColumbiaRiver drive and Boise, Idaho.

In 1968, we had another kind of exci tement, which happen¬ed on Belle's bi rthday . About an hour after a friend hsd sold*ered a broken gutter on the back of the house, the yard filledwith smoke. The back of the house was on fire unbeknown tous. A spark had igni ted an old shingl e under the slate roof,and had smol dered 1 n the attic all the time. Each of us hadhad t el ephone callsj Belle's havi ng been a Happy Birthdaycall from the Bishop . A pol iceman having seen the smoke call¬ed the fire department and the fire trucks were on their waywhen CI ar ence went to the door to see where the smoke wascomi ng from. This happened to be the openl ng of deer seasonand many were al ready out on their way or pr epar ing to leave

as was the Fire Chei f . One fire crew fought the fire inthe att 1 c in the back of the house whi 1 e another crew, withthe chief, a f r 1end of ours, put every th ing 1n the middle ofthe rooms and empt 1 ed the cl osets, etc. Then they coveredevery thi ng with nine tarpaul ins. Belle r emai ned in the housemost of the time as we had no not iceabl e amount of smoke butthe air was gett ing pretty foul . In 1ess then an hour thefire was out but we did have a sick 1ookl ng house and thestench was ter r ibi e! No fire got in the rooms but the wallswere soaked with water . We were so thankful every thing wasso ef f 1cl ent 1 y taken care of by the f ir emen and that we werehome. We had many f r iends who, al so helped and we are verygrateful . Most of our geneal ogy books were taken by a f r iendto hi s home and a bag of good coat s were taken across thest reet .

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A f ami 1 y birthday dinner for Belle was planned at Norm'shome in Salt Lake and in an hour we would have been on our way .We called Norm and the family dinner was brought down to 620North University (Preston's house) upon the invitation ofNancy. They had the room and conveni ences, it being a roomi nghouse for twelve students, to handl e the f ami lies: Norm' s endAnita's f ami lies. That about finished the day but then we knewwe could not si eep in the house. The Royal Inn seemed to bethe nearest and our first consi derat ion. We were offered apart¬ments by Presi dent Doxey , al so B ishop Westover , across thestreet but we di d not want to bother them so we went to themotel . The insurance agent and adjuster were out of the cityuntil Sunday night but when we cou1 d get Grant Jacobsen, theagent , he was glad that we had gone there and we were advisedto stay there unt 1 1 the house was in a compl etel y liveablecondition which was thi rty-f ive days.

The roof was r epai red and s 1ate shingled, and al 1 electri¬cal wiring was replaced, besi des new beams and what was neededto put the house in good condition. The walls were so soakedthat it took some time before painting coul d be don e but event -ua 1 1 y a compl ete inter ior painting job was done. Clothing,furniture, drapes and rugs were cleaned. Our meal s and tipswere all paid for minus an estimated amount we would have hadto pay for groceries, and 1 odging was paid for all the timewe were out of the home. We were so thankful we di d havegood fire insurance as we feel we were not out $50 on enestimated $'4 500 fire.

In 1 969 CI arence and Belle left Provo August 26th for atrip to Milwaukee, goi ng by the way of the 3 1ack Hills, Bad¬lands, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, traveling the southernrout e across Minnesota. We crossed the Mississippi River atLaCrosse, Wi sconsi n. In 1936 we had spent the summer atOntar io, 1 00 miles east of LaCrosse and we were around thispert of the count ry many times® ' 11 was interest ing tosee the changes . We hardl y r ecognized Sparta and Camp McCoy .As we were on Interstate 96 and 94 we bypassed Madison . Ourstop was at Preston' s in Shor ewood, a suburb of Milwaukee. Wespent an enjoyabl e Labor Day week-end there with the f ami 1 y .We left on Wednesday morning for points north, to NorthernPeni nsul a of Mi chi gan. We stopped at T ahquamenon Falls. Belle'sfather had ment ioned them so many t imes as to thei r beaut if ulcol or of copper and ir on . We were not di sappoi nt ed in Dad' sr ecommendat ion to see t hem. We crossed the Straits of Macki nawover a six-mile bridge from St . Ignace to Macki naw City. Thiswas quite di f f erent from the car ferry we had crossed the straitsbefore and was very nice.

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Continuing our trip south we drove through Petosky to TraverseCity. After getting a motel we visited Gladys Edmonds, Belle'ssi ster rin-1aw, at the county Clinic where she had been forsome time. She was able to go with us to her daughter , Bonnie' sfor supper but had to be back at the Clinic by 80'clock. Shewas then walking with a walker. We were so glad to see heras thi s was the first time we had seen her for about thirteenyears. This was, also, the last time we saw her as she passedaway May 1 97 1 , in the Hospital and was bur ied at Mason besideher husband, Gordon Edmonds.

Lat er in the evening after 1 eavi ng G1 ady s at the Clinic,we cal 1 ed on Milton Edmonds, Belle's father's youngest brother,and hi s wife, another G1 adys. Milton was three months olderthan Belle's brother, Gordon and we never thought of him as anunci e.He had sp ent much time in our home, going to school andworki ng for Dad. Hi s father had di ed when he was six yearsold. 11 was good to see them and they gave us some choi ce fam¬ily pictures. Before we 1eft Traverse City the next morningwe talked with G1 adys and were visited by Carl Edmonds, Gladys'son who had dr iven up from Grand Rapids, with hi s son, to seeus. They stopped at the motel . He had a boat and was goingf 1 shing.

Leaving there we drove down the west coast of Michiganthrough Mani stee, Ludington and Muskegan to Grand Haven. Wehad lived there for about f if teen months. While in GrandHaven we hunted up old 1 andmarks and went to the Oval . Therehad been so many changes everywhere we had t roub 1 e finding them.After eat ing lunch in Spring lake across the Grand River , wedrove through Grand Rapids enroute to Hast ings and agai n got ourmotel with Lul a and Dewey Reed. Maurice and Gladys had comefrom the Bahamas to see us there and we di d have such a goodt ime with them. They were with f r iends but we spent Saturdayevening and Sunday morning with them. Before they 1 eft we visit¬ed many cemet er ies where our fami lies are bur 1 ed and f ami 1 ier1andmarks, such as old homes, et cetera. We had e great 11mer em 1nisc ing of things we had done together . We were sorry tosee them 1 eave for Det roi t . C 1ar ence end Belle spent the after¬noon going through the Presbyter ian Church, Rut 1 end Cemetery,where Belle's maternal grandparent s are bur ied and then droveto Gun Lake but got lost and di d not find our old campinggrounds. We/al so, v1si ted Homer and Val Bsuchrnen, cousi ns ofBel 1 e . They invi ted us to go Eaton Rapids, to see cousin KatieFowler ( an aunt of Homer ) , age about 85. She had always beenvery close to 3e11e and she was so glad to see her . Belle wasglad of this opportuni ty to go as she hadn't seen her for aboutforty-f ive years. She mar r ied 1ate in life end her husband,

Fred Fowl er took her to Fruitport , near Eaton Rap ids, to live ona farm and would not let her have anything to do with her fam¬ily and most of her f r iends . We always did keep in touch bymai 1 . CI arence did not go as he want ed to rest , and the' tripwas gett ing too much for him after hi s il1ness the pr evi ousspring, Katie and Fred were in a nursing home and Fred was

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bedr edden. Katie was nearly b 1 ind . She was so thrilled tohear my voice but could bar el y see her . Belle knows it meanta 1ot to her and Belle was very glad to be able to make theside trip.

Monday we left for Joliet where we got a motel on WestJefferson St r eet . The Waage's were 1n Wi sconsin, T upperswere unabl e to have guests and A 1 1 cut s were away . We visitedf r iends and piaces. On Wednesday night Belle attended thePast Of f icer s dinner at Marguerite Chapter of Eastern Staras a guest and the meeting in the evening,, Belle receivedher 50-year Membershi p pin and Honorary Member shi p of theOrder of the Eastern Star . She was so glad to be back andsee her many friends there.

The next morning we 1 eft for Carthage and Nauvoo,II1 inois where we staid all night. We spent time sightseeingand the changes made in the Restoration program. Brother andSi ster Ray Gammon, friends of ours from Provo, made our stopthere very enjoyable. We were able to go through the BrighamYoung, Wi 1 ford Woodruff, Kimball and Tay 1 or homes end foundthem very inter est ing and lovely. We left at noon for themost di rect route for Provo and reached home 1ate Saturdayafternoon. It had been a very 1ovel y trip visiting relativesand places, new and old, especially Preston's fami 1 y at Mil¬waukee, Gladys' fami 1 y , Milton and hi s Gladys at T raver se City,and having Maur ice and Gladys make a special trip from theBahamas to see us.

We were invi ted to make a 1ovel y trip to Hawaii in June1970 with a group of ks, 22 of the group having served asmi ssi onari es in the Central Pac if ic Mission and their matesand some children, Anita and Ralph had worked with the tourdi rectors, Mr . and Mrs. Norman Feldmo, of Bount if u1 . Theyhad planned a very enjoyable trip of familiar places wherethe mi ssi onar ies had 1 abored and other places of int er est .From Los Angeles we t ravel ed on a 7ÿ7 Pam-Am Jet Plane:, Wespent four days in Waikaki taki ng tours to U.S. S ArizonaMemorial, Pearl Harbor , Punch Bowl (national Arlington ofthe Pacific), Dole P ineappl e plant and other noted places.We had di nner and floor show at the Royal Hawaiian Hot el andsaw a broadcast of Hawai i Calls.

The Saints were so gracious and 1ovel y wherever we wentand we were roya 1 1 y entertained. The first night of our arri¬val a picni c was held at the park for the tour members.Acquai ntances were renewed and it was a 1 ovel y time. Afterour busy day , si ghtseei ng, four coupl es were invi t ed to a di n-ner at Sochi T akeuch i and wife, special f r iends of Ralph andAnita. He had brought some del ic ious magoes to the picni cfor us. He, also, loaned us hi s car for our transportationon Sunday .

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Our first Sunday the fellows attended Pr iesthood. Thenall attended Sunday School . Twenty-five of the tour groupwere invited to friends to a very 1ovel y dinner. Then allmeeing again at Sacrament . Anita and Ralph had been invited byvery special f r iends for another dinner® When they were, wealso were invi ted. Belle was honored to have the father giveher hi s father's Day gift, a beaut if ul red and white carnation1ei . It was nice attending a Fi r esi de and hear ing the testi -moni es of the Saint s there. The four of us still had anotherPiace to visit before calling it a day ,

On Monday morning we got our rental car (Anita, Ralph and an¬other coupl e and CI arence and Believer# in one car ) , and droveto Lai e by the coastal route. We drove by Di amond Head andother interest ing piaces. We attended a Sessi on at the Templethat eveni ng after a trip to the Hawaiian University ( LDS) .The next day we spent at the Pol ynesi an Cul tural Center # at tend-ing ' thei r show at night. This was put on by the natives of thesix pol ynesi an islands represented in the center . This trulywas a very interesting program. Ani ta spent the majority ofher ei ghteen months mi ssi on in Honolul u in the Mission Homeas Mi ssi onary Secretary and the 1ast six weeks she di d dosome t ract ing in a beaut if ul val 1 ey where Robert Louis Steven¬son1 s "Grass Shack" is located. We had a 1 unch on Fr iday at a1unch Room next to this shack. This brought back many happymemor ies for her .

After dr ivi ng through pineapple fields, we 1 eft our carat the ai rport and boarded an isi and plane, on Wednesday , forthe"Gar den Isi andy Kauai. We, again, got our car and were onour way to see the sights. We took a boat trip on the WailuaR iver , to the Fern Grotto. Many weddings are per formed in thisbeaut 1f ul sett ing. We had our 1 unch at the Hanal ei PI antat ion,the 1 ocat ion of the f i1ming of'South Pacific". A member ofthe Church acted as a guide for our stay on Kauai and took usto the Waimae Canyon, the Grand Canyon of the Paci f ic. Thatnight we were entertai ned agai n by another Branch at theirchapel with 1 eu and a del ici ous di nner and program,

After two day s on Kauai we agai n 1 eft our car and boardeda piane for the "Beaut if ul Isi and" of Maui . An ita had spentabout one month on this island and Ralph had spent many monthsthere. This brought back many happy memor 1es for them. Wehad 1 unch at the Sher eton Maui Hotel . This was very uniquewith seven stor ies . The 1 obby being on the top floor and onehad to go down to the rooms, caf et er ia and beach. The cafeter¬ia was one of three or four that were open and the birds weref 1yi ng around, somet imes stopping for bits of food on the tablethat was unguarded. At Lahaine, Ralph told us of many interest¬ing bui 1 di ngs and exper iences he had there. We were there twodays and each evening we were ent ertained by the Saints withdinners and programs and f 1 ow er s . The last night the dinnerwas at a park near the Needles, a noted 1and mark of Maui .

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Here we saw one of the 1 argest banyan trees. This island hada Whal ing vessel .

Our next stop was the "Orchid Is 1 and" , the island ofHawai i, the 1argest 1si and. We arrived at Kona on the secondSunday of out trip, in time for the fellows to attend theirPr 1esthood meet ing and then Sunday School for all. Afterdinner we drove to the City of Refuge and black sands . Also,the smal 1 est cathol ic church.After the Sacrament we watchedthe program at a 1 uau that was being given for another tourgroup. The next morn1ng we drove over lava roads to Waimeeand stai d at the very rust 1c but modern Waimae Inn. SpencerBeach was about twelve mi 1es from Waimae and the group plan¬ned a picnic and swim on Monday . Some of the f e 1 1 ow s wentdiving for coral off the bottom of the ocean and secured somebeaut 1f ul pi eces. Leaving ther the next morn1ng, we sawmany 1ovel y sights. We toured the "Macadami e Nut Cap 1tol ofthe world" and saw Rainbow Falls and Akaka Falls. Our stopthat night was Hi 1o where we had a 1ovel y Motel. We vi si tedorchi d nurser 1es where we saw many vari t1es, large and smalland other beaut iful isi and flowers. The fol 1 owi ng morning wedrove through Fern Forest to the Hawai 1en Vol canoeÿlat ionalPark, where we saw lava trees and active vol canoes. Therewas much act 1vi ty 1n the vol canoes and we had to cover ournose with handerchi eves to be able to get a breath. Return¬ing to Hi 1 o we picked up our 1uggage and checked it at theai rport ÿ

We were royal 1 y ent ertained by the members of the H 1 1oBranch with a del 1cious dinner at the 1ovel y home of JohnVan Wagoner , on the Bay . John was from ÿrovo and had serveda ml ss1on to the Isi ands from Provo. Fawewel 1 songs weresung and there were few dry eyes with the thought that soonwe'd be 1 eavi ng this and other beaut iful 1si ands and woul d beon our way home. We 1 eft Hi 1 o at 8 pm 1n a rain storm andstopped at Honol u1u. There we met Shochi T okeuch 1, who hadentertained us before. He had ar ranged many boxes of pine¬apples for the group to bring home. He, also, geve Anitatwo boxes of f 1ower s, one for her end one for us. We didn'tknow about our s until we arr ived at Bount iful and then opened11 when we ar r ived home. In the box was a 1 ovel y assortmentof Hawaiian flowers which lasted about two weeks .

Our trip was uneventful until we near ed the States, whenit was announced that we coul d not 1 and because of fog at theLos Angel es a irport . 11 was about day break. We ci rcl ed overthe area for near 1y one hour before "dropp ing" 1n the ai rport .We had mi ssed our pi ane connect ion and after waiting about twohours, we took a piane that stopped at Las Vegas. We arrivedat Sal t Lake City about 2 pm. When we got to Bounti ful toget our car we 1 earned that Preston' s f ami 1y , movi ng fromMi 1waukee to Cal if ornia, was in Provo wai t ing for us so weimmedi atel y left for Provo.

11 truly had been a 1ovel y and wonderful twc -week tripand one we will never forget . We had staid at lovely hot el s,

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several were on beaches : Hotel Waikiki Bi 1 tmor e, right acrossthe st reet from the famous Waikiki Beach; Laniloe Lodge atLaie; Kauai Sands on Kauai ; Maui Hulalau on Maueij KonaHukilau at Kona; Waimae Village and Hi 1o Hukalau on the bigisland, Hawaii, On each of the islands we had been royallyentertained by the members and given beautiful leu. We also,had been invi ted with Ralph and Ani ta by their special f r iendsfor dinners and given leu and mangoes to eat in our rooms, Inal 1 we r ecei ved sixteen orcgid and carnat ion 1 eu. Then the1ovel y box of flowers that were sent home with us,

Our next trip was in the 1ast of April, 1971, when wedrove to Newbury Park, Cal if ornia, to visit Preston's fami 1 y .Preston was working in Provo and stay ing with us but his fam¬ily had not yet moved. We had an enjoyable time with °ra Mae,Bever 1 y , and the five youngest boy s who were home. On fami 1yNight we went to Mai ibu Beach. The f ol 1 owi ng day we went to avery 1 ov e 1 y and unusual shoppi ng center . On our way home wedrove up through the cent ral part of Cal iforni a. We took asi de trip to Sequoi s Nat ional Park but it was raining and foggycrossi ng the summi t so we couldn't see much of the big treesand seen ry. We were advised not to go in to Yosemi te NationalPark because of the bad weather and the pass woul d be closed.We ski rted Sacramento and went to South T ahoe and home throughCarson City, Fa 1 1 on , Wi nnemucca, ÿ evade and Salt Lake City.It was a very nice trip and we were glad to see Preston' s fam¬ily and the 1 ovel y home in Newbury Park,

We had made two trips that shoul d be ment ioned as very1ovel y t imes. We vi si ted Norm and Betty and fami 1 y in LongBeach, Cal if orn ia when Norm was the Executive Secretary ofthe Long Beach T eacher s Associ at ion for two years. We sawmany interesting p 1 aces including Knott ' s Berry Farm. Thefirst trip was in 1962, Norm and hi s f ami 1 y moved to Eugene,Or egon in 1 963, to attend the Universi ty of Oregon for a y earto get his doctor ' s degree 1n Education Administration. Wedrove to Eugene in August of 1 964, when he did receive thedegree of Ed. D . on August 15th. We made a trip to thePaci f ic Ocean, Port 1and, and the Col umbi a R iver drive, 11 wasall very nice and we were g 1 ad that we could cal I on Belle'snephew, Lauren Edmonds at Sal em, Ore, Norm's wer e movi ng byHertz truck, to Sal t tÿake and we were glad that we coul d helpthem out ,

Celebrating our 50th Wedding anniversary, October 14,1 972, we took a trip to south east ern Utah. We drove over thenew Interstate 70 from Sal ina to Green River . This is a 1 ove 1 yway to cross Utah. Then t ravel ing south , we went to DeadHorse Point enrout e to Moab where we stopped for the night.Nat ional Parks that we visited were: Arches at Moab, Canyon-1 ands , Four Corners, Monument Valley ( north of Kayante, Ariz.),Mexi can Hat , Capi tol Reef and Bryce Canyon. We also drove toEscal ente. 11 was al 1 very beaut if ul count ry and we were gladto see more of our state.

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Fiftieth Wedding AnniversaryOctober 14, 1972

Women's Cultural CenterProvo, Utah

A1 1 present except Tom

Thomas Alan Hyatt,absent on L.D.S. missionin Hong Kong.

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We celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary, October 1k,1972. With the exception of one of our grandson, Tom, whowas on a Church Mission in Hong Kong, the whole family washere to make our celebration complete# Clarence and Bellewere hosted by a family dinner at Norm's in Or em on Saturdayafternoon. During the evening we had an "Open House" at theWomen's Cultural Cent er in Provo, 7:30 to 1 0 pm, The threechildren with their mates were in the receiving line with us,and Ted, our ol dest grandson, int roduced the guest s , Ronni espel led off when Ted had to leave. The two ol dest granddaugh¬ters, Nancy and fearol took care of the guest book and Bever 1yplayed lovely music on the organ during the evening, JoleneRobyn and Kr isty ( Ron ' s wife) presided at the punchbowl ,Jeani ne and Lu Ann handed out "Thank You for comi ng" scrolls,Fred had a tape recorder and interviewed the guests and Herbtook many pictures, Ed, Davi d and Kim greeted the guests atthe door and R ichard, Jim and Andy helped cl ear the tables,Nancy's husband,Stephen Hardman, took care of Daniel and AnnEl izabeth Hardman and Carol 1 s husband, Wolfgang Zappe, tookcare of 1 itt 1 e Eric, Our f ami 1 y consi sted of two sons and onedaughter with their mates, eighteen grandchi 1 dren, three bei ngmarried and three great grandchi 1 dren. Over 200 attended theopen house, catered by Mrs, Fawn Whi tney , We received 75 1ove-1 y cards and a beaut if ul painted picture on bamboo from Tom,Also, a large bouquet of art if ical f 1 ower s from the ProvoStake High Counci 1 , Invitati ons and announcement s had re¬quested no gi fts,

The first week of October , 1973, CI arence and Belle drovegown U. S . 89 to Cameron. Arizona, Enroute we stopped at Pan-quitch, Kanab, Jacob's lake and drove through the Kai babForest , When driving through the Indian Reservation, sevenmiles from the nearest villa ge (if it coul d be called that )our motor became very hot and steaming. Aft er waiting forsome tlm* for it to cool down a kind motor 1st from Oklahomastopped and even took CI arence back to the vi 1 1age, The Gap,to get water. But that did no good as a 3-4 inch split haddevel oped in a water hose connect ion and the water ran rightthrough, The motor ist and hi s wife then left us strandedbut he did stop at the nearest station, 1 7 miles, Cameron,and cal 1ed a garage 1n Tuba City, another Indian Village, Afterabout kS minutes a wrecker finally came and towed us the twen¬ty-five miles. The mechanl c there knew hi s business and hadthe needed hose so in a short time we were again on our way,being held up over four hours, We great 1 y eppreci ated thekind motor ist from Okl ahoma , By this t ime it was so late westaid in a last chance motel room in Cameron,

The next morning we drove to the South Rim of GrandCanyon. We hadn't been there s inee 1939 and it had so chang¬ed we coul dn 1 1 find anything other then the Grand Canyon that1 ooked as we remembered it,

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At Prescott, Arizona, we tried to contact the RichardPerry family (old mi ssi onary f riends) but we 1ater heardthat they had gone to Salt Lake City to attend General Con¬ference. After dr iving through Phoenix and around T empe andArizona State University, we found a motel at Mesa. We wereamazed at the change that had taken piace in the 32 yearssi nee out last visit there and the incr ease in popul at ion,maki ng it very hard to find old 1andmarks . The T emp 1 egrounds were so beautiful at night. They were f 1 oodi ng thegrounds for sprinkling so we coul d not get on them. The nextmorning we agai n drove to the Temple grounds whi xh made sucha 1ovl ey sett ing for the T emp 1 e . After we were shown throughthe Geneal ogi cal Library across the st r eet from the Temple,we started on our way.

We drove through the mining town of Globe and north tothe town of Show Low. The naming of this town was very unique.It was named by a man showi ng the 1ow card in a card deal forpossess ion of some 1 and. Aft er 1 uncheon we drove through Snow-flake to Hoi brook and west to Flagstaff. As we were headinghome we took the most di rect route, U S 89, stoppi ng at Camer¬on, but we had a 1 ove 1 y cabin this time. We went to Page andspent a little time at the dam and then proceeded north throughKanab to Provo. This had been a very interest ing trip, visit-ing piaces that we hadn't seen for many years and again seeingthe Arizona T emp 1 e.

Belle and Clarence, each, have had exper iences that havenot been so pleasant.

In 1 966, when Belle was slowing up on her activities be¬cause she was not feel ing good, she was urged to go to a doctorand see the reason. Not havi ng gone to anyone in Provo, Bellekept putting it off an d not making up her mind as to whom tocall. One day she told her daught er , Anita, that she coul dmake an appoi ntment with her doctor , which is a very good f r iend,in Bount if ul . 3e1 1 e had no idea what that was going to mean !After X-rays and exami nat ion, Dr. Dewey C . McKay, woul d not lether go home but scheduled her fw surgery o>n TuascKy, at -thaSouth Davi s Community Hospital* Hi s col 1 eague, Dr. Wi 1 1 iamDunford was highl y recommended for the operat ion, which tookfour hours. Be' 1 e was in int ens ive care room for two day s .She made good r ecover y and in twel ve days she 1 eft the hospitaland went to Anita's home in Bount if ul for two weeks beforer eturni ng home to cont inue her conval escence. Belle had eel e-brat ed both her wedding anniver sary and b irthday while in thehospi tal .

In the spring of 1 969, Clarence had hi s turn at it. Hespent twenty -nines days in the Utah Val 1 ey Hospi tal in Provo.He went in for test s and cont inual 1 y went down , coul dn 1 1 orkeep any thing down and coul dn ' t remember having vi si tors and

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at times didn't know anyone. We changed doctors and after aweek of more x-rays and t est s we were advised to take him tothe University of Utah Medical Center, Sal t Lake City. Aspeci al 1st, Dr. Frank Tyler, told us, the second day thatCl arence was in the Hospital, that 1n three days treatmentswoul d be started. After a night of int ravenous g 1 ucose andmedi cat ion, he was another person, r emarkedl y improved, ment¬al 1 y and physi cial 1 y . He cont inued to gai n and in ten dayswas released from the hospital and able to return home. Wewere so g 1ad t hat we had changed doctors and Dr. MorrisGardner had r efered us to the Medical Center 1n Salt Lake.Dr. Gardner had been a Fraternity brother of Norman's at BYU.C 1arence cont inued to gain and in a few weeks he was able tohandle hi s regular pract ice. In the fall Belle and CI arencetook a three weeks trip to Wi scons in and Michigan. This wasanother time we appreci ated good heal th insurance, at thisbill was over $4,000.

After thei r trip to Hawaii in the summer, 1970, Belle wasagai n si owl ng up and she not iced she was not feel ing her sel f .She went , again, to her doctors 1n Bount 1f ul for a recheckand was told, much to her di sappoi ntment , that surgery wasagai n necessary . She was able to return for a few day s , buton October 17th, Bel 1 e returned to the South Davi s Commun-ityHospi tal and she celebrated her bi rthday , the next day .On the 1 9th Belle was on the operating table for six hoursand had eight pints of blood. After about five days shebegan to realize where she was, and to know her f ami 1 y . Bellethen began to feel better and continued to gain so she wasrel eased in twel ve days . Wh i1 e she was in the hospital, herbrother , Maurice Edmonds, came from Detroi t to visit herwhi ch meant a lot to Bel 1 e. She went to Ani ta and Ralph's fora coup 1 e of weeks. They then took her to Provo end she con-t inued to improve and was able to take care of things. How¬ever , she never has regai ned the pep and st rength or urge todo thi ngs she woul d like to do and tires easi 1 y . The doctortells Belle that everythi ng is in good condi t ion and he hasr el eased her to yearly rechecks so she wi 1 1 not complain.Bel 1 e and her f ami 1 y are so grateful to have had surgeons whohad the ski 1 1 with God ' s help to g ive her the extended timeand fairly good heal th. She dai 1y thanks her Heevenl y Fatherfor this restored 1 ease on life. This was another t ime theinsurance helped 1n pay ing the hosp ital , surgeon, and medi ca-t ion bills amount ing to about $4,000.00.

Dur ing the 1ater part of Apr i1 , 1 974, Cl arence went toDr . Mer r i1 1 Oaks, in Provo for an eye test .A techai cian , di d avi sual -field test . This showed a marked decrease 1n the fieldand when Dr . Oaks saw this condi t ion he di d not test hi s eyes.He immedi atel y telephoned Dr . Gardner in Provo and di scussedthe case briefly with him. T hen Dr, Oaks dial ed the Univer si ty

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Medical Cent er in Salt Lake City, and talked with Dr. VanDyke of the Ophthalmology Department and told him he was send-ing Clarence up there in a few days and they would admit him.The appointment was made for the following Tuesday, this beingT hur sday « Cl ar ence was so upset he was barely able to drive home.

On April 23rd, he was admitted and started a 1 ong seriesof testing whi ch incl uded examinations by Dr. Van Dyke andassistants in the department. This was followed by a pneumo-encephl ograph and numerous additional X-rays. These identifieda tumor, size 3ix3x2i cm. This was in the s e 1 la tursica press¬ing backward against the pituitary gland. On the 26th,e newtype of operation was performed to remove this benign tumor ( ormost of it). Routing of the surgery was back of the upper lip,back of the nose, through the sphenoid sinus, cont inuinn upwardthrough the floor of the sella. This took four hours. Laterin the same day, a pressure sympton developed and it becamenecessary for the surgeon, Dr. Ted Roberts, "to go in again*"This took about two hours during the evening. That was onFriday and for two days he could not see anything*

The Provo Utah Stake Quarterly Conference was on Sunday. TheStake President asked the members to fast and pray forClarence, in both the opening and closing prayers. About thetime the conference was closing after 12 noon, Clarence remark¬ed to Belle he could see a small horizontal line of light be¬tween the drape and window sill, and later he was able to seea light and dark outfit Kristy (Ron's wife) was wearing. Byevening he could see a vertical line or light, also. lie lefttho intensive care on Wednesday and on Sunday he returnedhome. When he returned, he was unable to see our front side¬walk but could see the snow pattern on Mt . Timpanogos about20 miles away. He was having no pain and gradually regainedhis strength but his eyesight was limited.

After a few weeks he did take a limited number of p t ien t s .After nine weeks of comfort there was an explosion, which wasa frightening attack centering on the right eyeball. This wasknown as trigeminal neuralgia. After four severe spells,lasting ten to fifteen seconds, Norman and 3elle took him backto the Medical Center for another ten-day spell. Tests andX-rays were taken but for a f ev/ days the spells continued. One10 hour period he had 23 attacks. He we s finally re1 esr-ed witha medication which had seemed to help. But the dosage was notst rong enough and the attacks returned again. He had to goback for another ten-day per iod. Increasi ng the T egr etol (drug)seemed to help but not compl etel y so radiat ion treatments wereadvised. The tumor had been too large and had extended overand coul d not be ent irely removed. The radiation treatmentslasted k2 seconds on each side of hi s head. He took four treat¬ments , then Anita brought him home. He had to have theset reatment s each week for five days so we woul d take him up onMonday and after the treatment we woul d go to Bountiful where

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Ralph or Ani ta would take him to the hospital for treatmentand then bring him home on Fr iday . After seven weeks he wasrel eased. He has not had any of the attacks for several monthsand has cont inued to improve but hi s eyesight has not improvedvery much. He has a very limited visual field and cannot readnewspr int wi thout an extreme!y st rong 1 ens or reading glass,The Library of Congress f urnishes records and tapes of maga- '

zines and books. The Church f urnishes the same of Pr iesthood,Sunday School lessons and many books by authorities. Theseall help to pass the t ime for him. He says Belle is hi s mem¬ory bank, eyes for reading, et cetra, and hi s chauffeur .

When in the hospital he tells about praying all nightasking for three things. 1 , To return to help Belle; 2 . To beable to help Stake President Harold B . Jones ; 3 . To help ingenealogy. He was released, at hi s request , as Stake Clerkafter el even years and ten months servi ng with President Roy W.Doxey and Presi dent Harold B. Jones. The new Stake Center wasunder const ruct ion and CI arence had helped in the pianni ng forthe cent er . He, al so, helped in the dividing of three wards tomake four wards . It was hard for him to take the rel ease. Heknows his prayers have been answered accor di ng to God's idea oft i me. 11 is felt there has been some improvement even thoughat t imes he is quite discouraged. Little by little new thi ngsare not iced. About December 7th, he was so happy to see snow-flakes falling. That evening he enjoyed immense] y seeing twolighted out -door Chr istmas trees across the st r eet at the homeof Pat r iar ch C . Nello Westover . He says that these seeminglysmall things mean so much to him.

CI arence seemed to be improvi ng and taking a limited num¬ber ( one to three) of pfeients, most 1 y ol d-t ime patients, without any i1 1 effects. But in February the flu bug, not thinkingC 1 arence had had enough, made a three point landing. After afew days the victum, C 1 arence became very i1 1 with pneumoniaand was taken to the Utah Val 1 ey Hospital by ambulance on Feb.7 , 1975. It took eighteen days to clear this up so he cou 1 dreturn home. He continually has gained and since Apr i1 he hasbeen taki ng patients, again, limiting them to two to threepat ient s a day , which he handles quite well without very muchexhaust ion.

In Ap r i1 197*4 he r esi gned as Captain of the provo ReservePolice and July 1 st . he t ermi nat ed hi s Provo City Civil Defenseact iv it ies .

The dedi cat ion of Provo Utah Stake Cent er was held April27th, 1975 and Presi dent Ezra T aft Benson wes the visitingauthor it y . Presi dent Jones especi ally invi ted Clerence andBelle to sit in the V.I.P. Sect ion .

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When Preston first went to Rol 1a, in 1 9*+2 , he found afew members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints meet ing in a home. He att ended for four months andhelped what he could. Preston then 1 eft for army duty .

When Preston and or a Mae returned to Rol 1 a aft er theirmilitary duty, Preston had had forty -three months, the mem¬bers were still meeting in the home. Preston and Ore Maebecame act ive and gave the members a great lift. He organiz-ed a Sunday School , serving as the first Super intendent .Missionaries came to Rol 1 a and a branch was organized. Presand Ora Mae wer e very active and Pres was the first BranchPr esi dent , serving unt i1 he graduated from the MissouriSchool of Mines and Metallurgy, leaving Rol 1 a in January 1 950.The Rolls cont inued to grow and now have a war d and a nicechapel .

The purpose of our move was to cont inue to be with ornear our chi 1 dr en and their families. It has always beenBelle's desi r e and pleasure to help our chi 1 dr en and grand-chi 1 dren . She hopes she will always be able to cont inue tog ive some sort of servi ce when and where needed.

Since coming to Utah Belle has staid with each of thefamilies many times, especially helping when the mothers havebeen in the hospitals for more chi 1 dren or any i1 Inesses athome. There have, al so, been times when the parents have takena needed vacat ion or on business trips. A few t imes she hadtaken the chi 1 dren in her home wher e it would be more conven-ient .

We are so glad to have the fami 1 ies come home and glad tobe able to do something for each and everyone. Our greatesthope and desi re that al 1 wi 1 1 feel our home is their homeand will come often, and it will always be a p 1 easant memory .

CI arence was the only child and a si ng 1 e grandchild. Asa result, the Hyatt line about di sappear ed but is current4ybeing carried on by our children, grandchi 1 dren and gr eatgrandchildren. As of November 1 , 1 975, there are two son s ,nine grandsons and one great grandson to carry the Hyattline on .

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Mother, Addi e Stone Edmonds, had been losing her goodhealth for many years and more noticeably after Dad became illand finally bed-ridden* She had a constant worry of becomingin the condi t ion her mother, Laura Cather ine Stone, had beenwith hardening of arteries* Sorrowful 1 y we have to say shedid become very bad and needed constant watching end care be¬cause of her forget fulness, caused by the condi t ion and effect¬ing her brain. Seeing her is this condi t ion in June, 1951, itwas very hard to leave her .

January 9th, 1952, a call came from Gordon that mother hadhad a heart attack during the night and was in the HastingsHospital under oxygen. She passed away , qui et 1y , that night,Knowing she couldn't do anything for her mother , Belle did notgo back at that time, Gordon, Belle's brother, wired her ofher mother ' s death and then called her later giving Belle adetailed plans for mother's bur iel and asked if she had any-thingmor e she coul d cuggest , Gordon and Gladys, 1 at er sent api cture of the fami 1y f 1 oral piece. Rev . beason Sharpe wasthe minist er and Belle was told that 1n hi s remarks he said heknew of no one who had 1 ived a truer christian life then MotherEdmonds had 1 ived. She was buried in Sponabl e Cemetery besi deher husband, J . Frank Edmonds and little Theodore, January 1 1 ,1952, She was 84 years, k months old. Mother and Dad eel e-brated their 60th wedding anniversary, November 6, 1 9ÿ9 . They,each,was 1oved and respected by all,

The Century of Progress was held in Chi cago, built on anis 1and of bui 11 up 1and in Lake Michi gan, south of Grant Parkextending as far south as 39th Street , This fair was openedi n1933, for about six months and agai n in 1 934 for another suc¬cessful period. This was forty years after the World's ColumbianExposit ion, 1893, where Clarence's father was a Co1 umb ian Guard.Light from the Star Octurus, forty light years away, was pick¬ed up and used to act ivate a photo-elect r ic eel 1 , whi ch activa¬ted the turning on of the 1 ight s in this fair. Dad Hyatt f

Frank, marched in a eel ebrat ion in the opening. He wore thesame uni form whi ch he had used in the fair before. CI arencewas on duty as an army of f icer in the admi nist rat ion work ofC . C. C . at Fort Sher idan and Wi sconsi n, during the summer of1 934. The family spent several days up at the fair visitingthe many int erest ing exhibits from all over the wor 1 d.

Di str 1but ion is being made by Chr istmas time, 1 97 5, toeach of our three living chi 1 dr en, eight een grandchi 1 dren,Dr. Maur ice Edmonds, Br igham Y oung Universi t y Geneal ogi calLibrary, the LDS Geneal ogi cal L ibrary in Sal t Lake City,and if desired, to the Library of Congress, Washi ngton, D . C.

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Summary of Chit dire' s Activities and Families

Edmond Preston Hyatt, born 15 November, 1923, At Home,Jol iet , 111inoi s.

Church Activities; Act ive in leadership act ivi t ies throughout his life. Serving in Bishoprics, Stake presidencies andHigh Councils. Member of the YMMIA General Board serving onthe Boy Scout and Explorer programs. He was in charge ofthree Church organi zat ions at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Educat ion s Public School s Jol iet , Illinois and Hast ings, Mich.Graduate of Jol iet Township High School, June 1 942 ; Bachelorof Sci ence degree, Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy,Rol 1a, Mi ssour i, June 194 9. Master degree in Ceramic Engi neer-ing, January 1950, same col 1 ege. Ph.D. degree in Ceremi cEngineer 1ng, Universi ty of Utah, August 1956.

Empl oyment : Served on the Facual ty at Brigham Young University,1 950-1954 ; Special research for the Navy . This resulted inmany features in restricted items. Sonar developed. A portionof this work even accompanied each of the major rocket s . Cur¬rent 1y he serves as an advisor in development of sub-produc-tive companies. He acts as an advisor and training others inplants and personal and personnel leadership methods. Hisactivities take in much of California, with some connection inIreland, Japan and T.ai wan, . He has, also, been production mana¬ger of several ceramic companies,

Other Act ivi t ies :Cubbing, 9 to 1 2 years of age. Scout ing from12 to the present time. Continuous leadership in Scouting andExplorer programs. Eagle Scout with 40 merit badges. Memberof the Order of the Arrow, Award? Silver Beaver,

Mi 1 itary Servi ce ; JT'HS, R . 0 . T . C . 5i years, all ranks toLieutenant Colonel. Captain of Rifle Team - awarded a Sabreand received the Chicago Tribune Medal for Out standi ng Cadetand Out standi ng Cadet Of f icer , two successi ve years. R.O.T.C,He was a member of the Detonators Drill Team at Rol la andattained the rank of Corporal in four months. Basic trainingin World War 11, Jefferson Bar racks, Jefferson City, Mi ssour i,and Fort Belvoi r , Virginia. Officer Training at Fort Belvoir,graduating as Second Lieutenant, February 1 944 . Company Com¬mander of a colored company, Bend Oregon and Fort Lewis, Wash.Over seas duty - Burma Road and Camp Hialeah, Calcutta, India.Honorable Discharge May 1946, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, as aFirst L ieutenant .Edmond Preston Hyatt married Ora Mae Sorensen, of Manti, Utah

26 February, 1945, Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City.Ora Mae was born 22 October, 1922, at Taylor, Williamson,Texas.

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Ora Mae's activities:

Educat ion ; Mant i Public School and High School , Manti, Utah.Graduated June 1941„ Attended Snow College; School of NursingSalt Lake County Hospital, Salt Lake. Registered Nurse.Bachelor degree in Nursing Administration , Brigham Young Uni¬versity in June 1952.

Church Act iv it y : Very act ive in Leader shi p posi t ions in allorganizations. Received her Golden Gleaner in 1952.

Milltary Servi ce : Li eutenant in the Army Burse Corps . Servedat Army Hospi tal s in Brigham City, Utah and Auburn , California.One of two girls to be the first army nurse in Utah. Overseasduty in Okinawa and Japan, Returned home to be Night Super¬visor, Salt Lake County Hospital. Currently Night Supervisor(two nights per week) Thousand Oaks Conval ar ian (Nursing Home ).

Other Act ivi t ies : Cubbi ng p rogram - Den Mother for over fifteenyears, and in Leadership act ivi t ies in the the cubbing andscouting program. Awarded Silver Beaver in recognition for hermany years of service to the boys program.

Chi 1 cren of Edmond Preston and Ora Mae Sorensen Hyatt.

Nancy Mae Hyatt, born 21 February 1 947 . Married Stephen Jar edHardman, 25 October, 1 968 . Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake .Stephen b. 17 April, 1946.

Carol Ann Hyatt born 11 July, I9U8, Married Wolfgang AlfredZappe, January , 1970. Salt Lake Tempi e.Wol fgang , b.

7 March 1 948

Theodore Preston Hyatt , born 3 January , 1 950. Marr iedTeri Marveen Budvarson, 18 August , 1973. Mant i Temple.T er 1 born 1 Apr i1 , 1 951

Daniel Hyatt HardmanAnne Elizabeth HardmanHeather HardmanJoshua John Hardman

b. 28 November, 1 969b. 8 July, 1971b. 28 May , 1 973b. 2 1 December ,1 974

Er ic Josef ZappeMark Alan ZappeAlex Jon Zappe

b. 28 August , 1 97 1b. 3 December , 1972b. 23 September, 1974

Jonathan Preston Hyatt b. 1 6 May, 1974

Thomas A1 an HyattBeverly HyattTwi ns : Edward R ichard Hyatt

b. 9 December, 1951b. 27 April, 1953

Frederick Roger Hyattb. 20 Apri 1 , 1955b. 20 Apri 1 , 1955

Herbert Peter HyattJames HyattAndrew Philip Hyatt

b. 18 February, 1957b. 15 December , 1 958b. 9 September, I96I

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Anita Belle Hyatt , born 8 February, 1925, At Home.Grand Haven, Michigan

Church Activities; Anita has been very act ive in her Ward andStake activities, fTo 1 ding leadership positions as Primarypresident, Relief Soci ety presi dent , Stake Relief Soci etySecretary . T eacher in al 1 auxi 1 iar ies and including ward choi rdi rector. She was a member of the Tabernacle Choir for abouteight years. The last two years, while attending BYU, she madetwo trips a week from Provo. Then six years after returningfrom her mission. She gave up the choi r to be home with herfamily so Ralph coul d attend hi s Pr iesthood obi igat ions . Anitawas a Mi ssi onary in the Central Paci f ic Mission, worki ng withthe Japanese. She spent al 1 but about two months of her eigh¬teen months mission, in the Mission Office, serving as the Mis¬sion Secretary and Mission Auditor. She organized and di recteda Mi ssi on Chorus.Education: Public School s at Hastings, Mi chigan and Joliet,111inoi s . Graduat 1on, June 19ÿ3, from the Joliet T ownshi pHi gh School . Eighteenth of a class of over 500. Member of thea capel 1 o Choir and chorus. Member and Treasurer of the Nation¬al Honor Society, She attended Brigham Young University fouryears, graduating in June l9*+7, receiving a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Accounting, She was a member of the BYU Chorus. Shewas, also, an Aid to the House-mother, Sister Elsie Carroll,Amanda Knight Hal 1 , her senior year#

Empl oyment ; Worked as an accountant for D. Ray Shur 11 if f inSal t Lake City, eight months. After graduation from BYU shewas employed at the University of Utah Alumni Association,Norbest Turkey Growers, and Z ion Secur ities. She was, also,inventor y extender for Fashion Fabrics Stores.Other Act ivi t ies : An ita was act ive in Girl Scouting, age 1 2to 15 years of age. She, also held several offices in Bethel,Order of Jobs Daughters. (Masonic daughters) By invitation ofa f r iend, served as Guest Queen and other honor of f ices.

Anita Belle Hyatt married Ralph Howard Davis, 8 September1950 in the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake.

Ralph was born 25 September, 1925, Salt Lake City.

Ralph's Educat ion : He att ended the Public school s in Sal t Lake,graduating from East High, Salt Lake, June 3 , 1 9ÿ3 . Graduated

from the Universi ty of Utah, Bachel or degree in ElementaryEducat ion, June 9, 1951. Master s s degree in Education Admin®istration, Universi ty of Utah, August 28, 1953.

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Church Activities: Missionary Central Paci f ic - JapaneseMission, January 19ÿ7 - 19ÿ9« Ptresident of the EldersQuorum, General Secretary Seni or Aaron 1c Program, SundaySchool Stake Board, First and Second Counsel or s in Bi shopr 1c,three years, Bi shop for six years. High Council and SundaySchool Board. Current 1y Gospel Doctrine Class 1nstructorand High Pr iest Group President.Scouting: Scout Master, Merit Badge Counsel or and Scout corn-mi ttee ( current ) .Mi 1 itary Servi ce : Drafted in the army, World War 11, December11, 19ÿ4 at Fort Douglas, Utah. Basic training at Camp Roberts,California. Over Seas suty: Phi 1 1 ippine Islands, OccupationForces in Korea,Staff Sargeant Awards : Good Conduct Medal ,Batt 1 e Star , Rifle Marksmanship Medal , Honorable di scharge,November 20, 1Sk6, Fort Lewis, Wash ington.

Empl oymen t '<ÿ Empl oyed by Davi s County School Di str ict sineeAugust 1951. Started out as teacher in the El ementary grades .Principal of three different Elementary Schools, Director of"American Values", Supervisor of Math and Science for gradesKindergarten through sixth grades. Director of Head Start andMigrant Programs. Writer of Kindergarten through Sixth gradesocial studies curr icul urn.

Children of Anita Belle Davis and Ralph H. Davis:

Jolene Davis b. 19 June, 1953md. William Hoevel er , 1 6 August 1 973 (Civil)Sealed in Salt Lake Temple, 16 August 197*+.

David Caleb Hoevel er b. 22 March 1 974

Davi d Hyatt Davi s b. 2 December ,1956Richard Hyatt Davis b. 20 June, 1958Annette Davi s b. 30 October 1 963 DeceasedLu Ann Davi s b. 1 6 February 1965

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Norman Frederick Hyatt, born 29 December, 1926, SilverCross Hospital, Joliet, Illinois,

Educat ion ; Public Schools, Hastings, Michigan and Joliet,11 1 inoi s , Graduated from Jol iet T ownshi p Hi gh School - 3iyears, June 1 ykk , 67th in a class of over 500, Member ofthe Joliet Grade School Band, playing a trumpet. Played aSaxaphone in the National Champion High School Band 3i years,Member of the National Honor Society,Attended Brigham Young University, one semi ster before beingdrafted in the army. Returned to BVU in September 19*46 andgraduated with his class in June 1 9U8, receiving a BachelorDegree of Science in Physics and Mathematice, Played in theBYU band,University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Doctor of EducationAdmi nist rat ion Ed. E. August 15, 1964,

Church activities: Act ive in Pr 1esthood act ivi t ies at Br ighamYoung University and in other residences. Counselor inBishopric at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. HighPriest Group President in Or em and currently Teacher Trainer,

Empl oyment : Principal - T eacher of Thatcher, Box El derDistrict, Professor of Mathematics at Horace Mann Junior High,Principal of Jackson Jr. High at Sal t Lake City. ExecutiveSecretary of Long Beach Teachers Association, Long Beach, Calf.Since receiving his Ed. D degree he has worked in leadershippositions in the Rocky Mountains Education Laboratory, WorldWide Education Research Institute, and Utah State Board ofEducat ion. Cur r icul er Devel opment at the Granite School Dist¬rict, Current 1 y he is a member of the Graduate Facualty ofBr igham Young Universi ty in Educat 1on Admini stration. He isco-or dinator of the BYU Internal Doctoral program. This re¬quires consi derabl e instruction in Western Uni ted Stat es andSamoa,

Mi 1 itary Servi ce: World War 11. Basic training, April 19*45 -July 1945, Camp T ex-Arkana, Arkansas. Sustained a hip injuryand given a medical discharge. School expreses were paid tothe day he received his Bachelor Degree, June 1 9U8 at BrighamYoung University,

Other Act ivi t ies : Norman was act ive in the Cubbi ng and Scout ingprogram, hoi ding staff posi t ions and act ive at summer camps .He was Scoutmaster of the Manavu Ward Scout T roop whi 1 e attend-ing BYU. He is an Eagle Scout having kO merits badges. Was amember of the order of the Arrow, Member and holding 1 ine officesand Was MasterÿBui 1 der of the Boy Bui 1 ders at Jol iet . (Masonicboy s ) Member of the Br idi deer s Fraternity BYU, Very popularon the campus,

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Norman Freder ick Hyatt , md. Betty Marie Anderson,8 June, 19ÿ9, Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City.Betty was born 27, Apr i1 , 1926, Sal t lake City.

Betty's Education: She attended the Sal t Lake City publicschool s, graduating from South High School, June 1 9ÿ3. Shesang in the High School chorus and a cape J 1 o choir. Bettyattended the University of Utah for one' year and BrighsmYoung University for two years. Specializing in classicalmusic and Engl ish.

Church Act ivi t ies : Betty has always been act ive in Churchactivities wherever she has been. She has been a teacher ofeach, Primary end Mutual , al so, chor ist er in the Primaryin several different wards .Ernpl oyment : She kept very busy during the vacat ions betweenher attendance at U. of U. and B Y U . She worked at theAllied Acceptance Corp., Utah Auto Parts, and Salt LakeT r ibune, where she had empl oyment several different times.

Betty love classical and good music and there is alwaysgood music in their lovely home. She is a good seamstressand a very clever home-maker. She enjoys doing things forothers .

Children of Norman and Betty Hyatt:

Ronald Norman Hyatt b. 7 October , 1951, L D S Hos¬pital, Sal t Lake. md, Kr isty Lamoine, 22 July 1 972,(Civil marriage). Temple marriage', Salt Lake Temple,3 May 1 97*+ . Kr isty born January ?5, 1951

Stephenia Ann Hyatt b . 6 March, 1 97 5

Kim Andrew Hyatt b. 14 May 1 9 5ÿ Sal t Lake HospitalRobyn Mar ie Hyatt b. 14 March, 1956 11 11 11

md. Mi chael Fur se, Salt Lake T emp 1 e, Sal t L eke1 November 1974. Michael born January 23, 1 953

Jeanine Marie Hyatt b. 2k May 1 962 Long Beach Hospital,Long Beach, California.

( Any honors r ecei ved by our chi 1 dren and not mam t ioned herehave not been intent ional 1 y omitted. Memory does not alway sserve, for whi ch we are very sorry .) November 1 , 1 97 5

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Missionary service, as of November 1975

Clarence and Belle Hyatt

Anita and Ralph Davis

Theodore P. Hyatt

Stephen Hardman

Thomas A. Hyatt

Wolfgang Zappe

Michael Furse

Edward R. Hyatt

Frederick R. Hyatt

Kim A. Hyatt

Beverly Hyatt

Local MissionariesNorthern Stat es Mission

Central Paci f ic - JapaneseMi ssi on, Hawai i

German North Mission

Norwegian Mission

Homg Kong Mission

T exas Mission

South Africa Mi ssi on

Montana - Wyomi ng Mis s ion

Korean Mission ( Pur san )

Italy North - SwitzerlandMission

Colombia - Cal 1 MissionMedical Mission, South America

Davi d Hyatt Davis, 31 October ,British Columbia Van CouverDecember, 1975.

197 5, received his call toMission - to report 13

INDEX

Anderson, Betty Marie, 73Anniversaries, 46, 66, 74, 10'), 105

"Frank end Addie 50th, 62Awards, 4, 5„7, 8, 24, 26, 43, 84Automobiles (early), 2, 24

Bat)t isms, 5, 35, 49, 55Barry County, Mich. ], 5Biggs, Chprles W. 8

Core Ellen Stone, 5Brown, Edward, 94

William, 13

Cairns, Melvenia Hyatt, 14, 15Cemeteries, 1, 2, 6, 8, 13, 511 69,

94, 96Chase, John, 2, 6, 9Churches, 3-6, 8, 9, 12, 20, 29, 43,

44, 48, 49, 51, 53-55, 57, 58,61, 72

Churches (LDS) , 59-62, 65-67, 72, 81,82, 84, 85, 109

Church Authorities, 58, 60, 62, 72,Church Callings, 76, 82, 83-85Civic Activities, 87, 90Civilian Conservation Corns, 51-54Coolidge,, Calvin, 9Courtney, Dr., 13Courtship, 10, 12, 46

Davis, Anita and Ralph, 75, 80Deaths, 2, 69, 74, 93, HI

EdmondsAchsa Marie, 1-3, 6-9, 66Alexander Quigley, 1Belle Alberta,

Church Callings, 82, 83Civic Activities, 51, 52, 87Education, 3-6, 9-10Employment, 6, 8, 10, 46, 6lHonors, 84, 90, 92, 93Organizations, 50, 87, 90, 91

Carey Ulysses, 2, 6, 12Ernest C. , 2, 6Frances Adelaide Stone, 49, 55,

77-80, 111Prances Marie, 5Francelia Marie Chase, 6Gladys (Gordon), 7, 8, 92Gladys (Maurice) 92Gladys (Milton) 100Grace Olive, 1, 2John Frank, 1, 7, 11, 73, 92, 93,

Lucy Edmonds Hicks, 6Loren Glen, 11Martha' Edmonds Freeman, 62Maurice Franklin, 1,. 7, H» 7ÿ. 92,

93Milton M., 2, 6, 12, 100

Employment, 6, 8-10, 4-4, L>6, 53, 6l, 63,64, 67, 86, 87

Frase, Achsa Marie, l-"*, 6-9, 66Fraternal

Masonic, 75 » 76, 86, 91Eastern Star, 9, 48, 75, 76, 91White Shrine of Jerusalem, 76Daughters of Nile, 76, 91

Freeman, Martha Edmonds, 63

Georgia, 15, 17, 22, 24, 26, ÿ2, 65Girl Scouting, 58-60, 68, 70Gleaners, 82Golden Gleaner Award, 84

HyattAnita Belle, '17, 50, 51, 53, 56,

61, 65-68, 70-72, 7\ 75, ll\115

Clarence Edmund,Church Callings, 76, 84, 85Civic work, 86Education, 10, 13, 22, 23, 26-28,

46, 56Employment, 4k -46, 86, 87Profession, 45-48, 50, 51, 55,

62, 63, 68, 70, 76, 77Radioclast, 56, 59Scouting, 43-44, ÿ7-50,. 53, 57,

Estelle L. 13, 16, 38, 4iFrank Eugene, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19-25,

27, 30, 32, 37, 4i, 43, 44,46-ÿ8, 52, 69, 72

Edmond Preston, 46-49, 53, 56, 6l,63-66, 71, 73, 74, 110, 112

Edmond Preston and Ora Mae Hyatt. 81, 110, 112, 113

Frederick Wetzel, 15George Theodore (Rev. ) , 14-16, 21Herbert Howard, 14, 16, 4oIda M. , 13, 58, 63Melvenia Cairns Hyatt, 14Nettie Emily Lanfear, 15, 20, 70,

80, 93Norman Frederick, 48, 51, 5q, 59,

61-63, 65-69, 71-74Norman Frederick and Betty Marie,

81, 116, 117Robert Theodore, 51

Index - continued

Hicks, Lucy Younglove, 2

Illinois, 10, 13-16, 18, 20, '+1, 6lIllnesses, 5-7, 21, 22, 27, Ug, 55

78, 91, 106, 109Indian Territory, 15, 16Iowe, 63

Lanfear, Nettie Emily, 15, 16, 20,72, 79

Charles, 19Mary, 19Stella, 19William Henry, 13, 15-20

Lyle, Ida M. 1*3, 58, 63John, 21, 58

Marriage, 12, ÿ6Manning, Lula, ÿ

Mackinac Island, 5ÿMexico, 15, 6lMichigan, 1T11, hZ, k3, 53, 55, 56Military, Ug-M, h?-Li9t 51-5ÿ» 78, 110Ministers, 12Missions, 118Missionaries, 62, 57Missouri, 5i!» 68Move to Utah, 81

New York, 9, 96, 97

Parents, 1-12, 13-ÿ1

Residences, 6, 12, 13, 15» 21, 23, ljl,U3, Lth, h6-U8, 50, 56, 79, 80

Savage, .15, 16Servity, Edith Hyatt, 57S'hurliff , D. Ray, 62, 72, 75, 78Sorensen, Ora Mae, 66, 67Steed, Merlin, 65Stone, Charles, 8

Charles Henry, 8Laura Catherine, 8Stone family, 6, 59

Trine, 2, 9, 11, 52-5L>, 56-61, 69, 71,73-79, 92, 101-10ÿ

Unusual Exneriences, 2, 3, 6, 7. 9, 23,'»8, 59, 60, 65, 77, 78, 91-98,

99, 102, 10ÿ-106, 109Utah, 58, 62, 63, 69, 77, 79

Wedding, 32Wilcox Family, UWisconsin, 57-59World fairs, 13, 60, 111

Ze.ime, 113

Ohio, 1, 6, 9, ÿ1, 59, 66Organizations, 76, 78, 79, 86-90