Wilson, Dec. 1887, and set apart as 2nd Coun. to John L. Smith, Bishop. This was when the Casia Stake was organized with H.D. Haight as President.

Outlook not good

We lived there (on Birch Creek) six years, but the outlook was not good, not dependable, not enough water, a better country for sheep, and I wanted to raise and handle cattle, so we moved in the spring of 1888 to Star Valley, Wyoming, where I had gone on a trip alone to look at the country and a squatters claim offered for sale, which I arranged to buy between fall and spring. We moved in May, and I had a small bunch of cattle and a few loose horses, besides the four we used as a team. We trailed a wagon and an old carriage with our effects for housekeeping. We left a small orchard in blossom. We moved into a log cabin, two rooms and dirt roof, on a squatter's claim of 160 acres, this was on 28 May 1888.

Except a yard and shed, there was no fencing or improvements (except a privy and a well) on this squatter's claim. We now had four children, two sons, Hyrum T. and Heber, two daughters, Avery and Mary. I was 32 years old (Feb. 13, 1856, I was born). Here again we started to build a home and support for a family. Heber was a nursing baby. This claim contained about 100 acres meadow and 60 acres of light brush ground and a living spring, for stock in the meadow.

Ambrose Palmer, then a lad, was with me and helped with

Hyrum and Eliza Clark and their growing family of five children are

shown in this 1891 family photograph. Children included Avery, Mary, Hyrum T., Heber and Edna.

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