acres meadow joining east, got it on payments, it furnished me more hay. I kept on struggling, increasing my cattle and my family until I stocked up this addiction to my ranch and also our home, so I proceeded towards a larger home. First I got the foundation in and the lumber on hand, hauled from Cottonwood Saw Mill, I had paid for the Parry Meadow, bought 640 acres mostly meadow of Mark Bigler and I was County Commissioner. Blanch, Morrell and Antone were also born in this home, the latter in 1908 (Jan. 6th).

In 1980, on account of Eliza's poor health, I contracted a house built in Farmington and moved her into it in the fall of 1908, her 13th child a nursing baby.

In the meantime, being successful and desiring to raise and provide for a large family, I took to wife Mary Robinson in 1903. After providing a new home for Eliza in Farmington, I moved Mary into the home on the ranch where Carlos, her 4th child, was born in Feb. 4, 1911.

Up to this time, and among many other things, Avery, Mary, Hyrum T., Heber, Edna and Porter had been sent to B.Y.U. College at Logan. Avery and Mary married, Hyrum T. been on a mission to Central States and married to Luemma Cox, Heber on a mission to Eastern States, he left in 1909 and returned in 1911, the year Carlos was born as  stated above. Then in Nov. 1912, Alma Porter went on a mission to Eastern States Mission and returned in 1914 in Dec. Then, in 1919, Elwin went on a mission to Australia and returned Mar. 1930. Morrell left on a mission to Germany Nov. 1929 and returned July 1932.

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After moving to Farmington in 1908, I sent Edna, Porter, Rachel (Thelma), Rhoda and Elwin to either L.D.S. schools in Salt lake City or Provo. ELwin, Zula, Blanch, Morrell, and Antone attended school here in Farmington and Davis High and later at Provo or A.C. at Logan except Zula, this was while they were under my supervision.

Soon after Hyrum T., Heber, Elwin, Weston and Morrell returned from missions, they married. Edna married in 1910 to Ephrim Erickson and accompanied him to Chicago where he was finishing his Dr. Degree.

In moving to Farmington (in 1908) with only part of my family raised, I bought more land, built a hay-cow barn so my boys could milk and got to school (also a silo) here at Farmington.

My time was divided between my ranch in Star Valley and farm at Farmington, also my two families. For a time, I paid part tithing at each place. In fact, I went on a short time mission from Auburn in 1927 to North California or San Francisco, while there, Eliza died suddenly at the Farmington home, her health having been poorly for some time. She died June 12, 1927. I was released then to return after an absence of 5 months and 7 days. Pres. Jos. W. McMurin of the California Mission attended and spoke at her funeral, also others.

Mary and the family, except Herma and Weston, were at Afton and the children in school there. Herma had married Byron T. Smith, Oct. 4, 1922 and gone, Weston was attending school in Logan A.C. College.

I had bought two homes in Logan, Mary lived in one (Nov. 1919 to June 1922) and I rented the other, then moved her back to the ranch and rented

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