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Authorities advised Father to take another wife. Now this was the time of polygamy, when polygamy was practiced by the Authorities of the Church. Father knew this girl from Centerville. In fact, he had taught her in schools as he had taught school for two years in Centerville. He got the consent of his first wife to take another woman in marriage which he did. She didn't have any children for about two years. Soon after his second wife's first child was born, my mother got pregnant. My mother then had seven children, two of which I mentioned died soon after birth.

G: Where was the second wife located immediately after her marriage?

C: Immediately after the marriage of his second wife, she lived with some of her relatives for I think about two years. It was at a time when the government authorities were after people who were in plural marriages. The LDS General Authorities told Father that he had better get out of the state and take your second wife and get her settled outside the state of Utah. Grandfather Clark had been up in the Bear Lake country, and so Father went up. He decided that that would be a good place for him to settle with his second wife. They did in Georgetown, Idaho.

G: Tell me about your father's occupation down here in Farmington, Utah.

C: Father was a farmer, strictly a farmer. His father had acquired quite a lot of property right west of Farmington. My father managed his father's affairs as his father was getting along in age. He died in 1901. Father hired men and they ran the farm. It was mostly hay, grain and cattle. Then there were some crops such as squash and mangos that they used to have for their cows. They had grain to feed the hogs.

G: How often would your father visit the other family up in Georgetown?

C: I don't know that he ever had a set time, but every little while I know he would get on the Oregon shortline railroad train and go up there. He would spend a week or ten days and then he would come back. He would get things managed here and then he would go back again. So he spent quite a lot of time in going back and forth.

G: How often would he make these trips up to Georgetown?

C: I don't know. It depended pretty much on the season of the year. In the summertime when they really needed help he would go more often, maybe every week or ten days and spend just a day or two. Then he would come back. He was trying to manage both places. That took quite a lot of his time.

G: Do you remember ever going with your father on these trips to Georgetown?

C: No, I don't. I don't know that I ever did go with him. It just seemed as though everything was so busy down here. People don't understand the workings in those days where everything was done by hand