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Earl & Della Crockett Website |
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Outline Biography1. Earliest recollections Preston a. bottle (milk) b. Wills death Red Rock suckes mice want a bird Cambridge baptism first ice cream cone first ride in auto first telephone first movie first violin first kerturpe karups ? purchase of land from Della's father real estate business law practice (George) earning for pony (pig) School Mrs. White Skipped 2nd grade 22 automatic rifle - $12 rabbits, grouse, pheasants skating on pond Clyde's visit - magpie Pigeons scouting (11 yrs old) Killing kittens cemetary edge of property, flags walking to school Boy friends 2 Jesse's Dewey Brimhall Brim Carry water from spring Jermie's 20th Fall from roof Birthday & trip to Canyon 24th July celebration Mother's illness Flour mill trip to McCormmau Travel to Preston, horse & cow Visit to Salt Lake City (last) Dave conductor on street car Lava Hot Springs Picking chokecherries fishing in Bear River Xmas trees in Mink creek (Clyde) Thinning beets, topping beets Parties, girls homes Trips to Bear Lake Scout trip to Hyrum First class badge - walk to Franklin Preston City park - planting trees High school - Oneida Stake Acadmy Trips to Dayton (train) Hokhmal?? Clyde?? Flu - 1918 End of war - 1918 - celebration locking faculty in prayer room (see year book) Editor year book Harrison Merrill Work at Penney's Ward MIA counselor - plays - Severe winters - skiing - snow slide Ora Packer & Orvid Culters Tonsils out Family reunions to Logan bicycle ride Working with George in Marsh Valley Meeting Della in Pocatello Later contacts with her letter writing weekly selling woolens in Montana Yellowstone park Butte telephoning for money Model T Ford 1918 - My first suit of clothes with long pants Childhood games Marbles Run sheep run Jump the rope Baseball Tops Ice skating Fox and geese Skiing Sleigh riding Activities picking choke cherries picking service berries rabbit, wild chicken & duck hunting county fairs, 4th of July, 24th, Franklin Day dancing parties in homes Eating Lumperdick Hot soda biscuts & honey fish bread & milk bread & gravy homemade bread, yeast, flour salt bacon Other items churn butter dry corn turn washer Some Important First in My Life 1. First pony (when about 10 yrs old) 2. First bicycle (see Mother's notes) 3. First contact with death (Will's funeral) 4. First date (Lorsen girl) 5. First time seeing Della, Pocatello, graduated 8th grade 6. First date with Della 7. First visit to temple (marriage) 8. First car (1921) 9. First child born 10. First child's death (Bob) 11. First view of "Old Country" England 12. First home owned (Grant Place) 13. First teaching job (Lund) 14. First telephone call, first car ride, first TV set, first radio program, first airplane ride, first ice cream cone, distraction? of life (kittens) 15. First stay in hospital (Berkeley) 16. Loss of Father (Berkeley) 17. Loss of Mother 18. First child married (Marian) 19. First direct contact with church President (Heber J. Grant) 20. First ride?? ????? (Green ???) My paternal grandfather was born in 1829, one year before the church was organized. He grew up in New England near the Prophet's birthplace, was converted by missionaries and migrated with his parents to Utah in the 1850's. He was sent by Brigham Young again with his parents to begin the settlement of Payson, Utah. Where my great grandfather was the first mayor. My father was born in Payson in 1856 and if alive today would be 118 years old. At the age of two years, his parents moved to Logan where they helped to found the town my grandfather becoming the first mayor of this community. When Father was nineteen years old, while employed by Brigham Young
Junior, who resided in Logan, he was given the job of white washing
the chicken coop. Lime from the white wash got into his eyes and as
a consequence he .....???? Remembrances of Mother 1. Churning butter and washing clothes and my helping her. 2. Making laundry soap from grease and lye. 3. Seeing that I kept the wood box full and stove resevor? With water
also hauls of water filled 4. Getting us, ready for Sunday service 5. Keeping a beautiful flow garden with sweet peas, peonies &
pansies, roses 6. Her illness for several years 7. Devotion to church, faith in God, reading of standard works and
church News Section or Deseret News. 8. Nursing the ill in her ward and neighborhood (1918 flu epidemic) 9. Washing and dressing the bodies of those that died. 10. Her love for Dad and redine?? To pass on to the hereafter after
his going. 11. Anointing with oil and blessing by priesthood when ill. 12. Her ability to see good in all people. 13. Journal keeping. 14. Writing of letters and love of receiving them. 15. Love of Logan and desire to have Dad and Her burried in Logan
cemetery. 16. Visit from her when our David was born. 17. Her love of all our children including Peggy (2 yrs old) when
she died. Picture on mantle. 18. Her?? Desire or art with children to be a active in church, advice,
counsel in letters, etc. First European Trip Summer - 1949? 1. Left Bob, Dave and Margy 2. Drove new Buick to Philadelphia 3. Visited Marian & Don 4. Boarded Queen Mary 5. South hampton 6. Bus trip to Winchester, Salisbury Bath, Oxford, Buckingham, London 7. Joined groups, Canadian students (girls) 8. Toured London, etc. 9. Boat to Rotterdam 10. Bus trip to Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Paris - Boat to home via St. Lawrence River & Montreal - back to Philadelphia & drove home (two months), meals with captain
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