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< Back Forked Stick and Riddles Return to Native Americans Shoshone Indian Village Mary said that none of the pioneers locked their doors. To keep the doors so they wouldn’t come open there was a wooden latch on the inside and a string was fastened to it and put through a hole to the outside so that anyone who wanted to get in had to pull this latch string and raise the latch inside the door. One could press a knee against the door and break the wooden latch easily. At night when one retired, one pulled in the string to the inside of the door. In the early 1860s, when Mary and her family were leaving the house for a while, she noticed her father pick up a stick and set it on and against the door. She said, “Why do you do that father?” And he replied, “That is to let the settlers and the Indians know that I have gone away.” When an Indian leaves his tepee, he puts a forked stick against the flap or opening of his tent. Then other Indians will not go in because they know no one is there. Mary’s father adopted the custom from the Indians and did likewise. Once the school teacher took a basket of food to the sick Indian women during the noon hour and allowed some of the little girls to go with her. Mary noticed that a number of tepees that they passed had sticks crossed against the flaps or openings, and the teachers told them that the Indians who occupied those tepees weren’t at home and for them not to go near. [1] An Indian Riddle ​ When the little Indian girls came over to play, Mary and her sister used to tell riddles and the Indian girls tried to guess them. Little Rose Leaf one day said, “Guess this riddle: There is something that has two legs and a body but no head that guards the door.” Of course, they couldn’t guess, and Rose Leaf was delighted. Finally, they asked her what it was, and she said, “It is the crooked stick we put outside to hold the flap of the wickiup together and to let everyone know we are not at home, and then no one comes in.” [2] [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933, p. 87. [2] - Ibid, p. 78. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back Courting, Marriage, and Clothing Return to Native Americans Grouse Creek Jack’s leather gloves, 1880s. Mary Hutchens can remember young Jack Indian courting a young Indian woman. It was really a beautiful sight to see them as they were both dressed in wonderfully beaded suits of white doeskin. [1] At this time, Shoshone marriages were arranged for nearly all. If a man wanted to marry a certain girl, he would send a gift to the girl’s parents of a horse or several horses, or skins of all kinds, or deer meat or other food supplies showing him to be a good provider. If the parents agreed, the marriage was arranged. This arrangement was not considered a purchase but rather was considered compensation for the loss of service to her parents. [2] Arrangements for the marriage of a chief probably had other significant procedures. A Shoshone marriage ceremony was conducted by the spiritual leader. He always gave the couple rules to live by, among which would be the injunction to be true to their mate at all times. There were counseled to be chaste in thought and to always remember their wedding vows. Sometimes the spiritual leader would pull hair from the bride and groom and tie it together. The tied hair was then taken by a relative to a hiding place known only the relative – if later the couple wanted to divorce, they would first have to find the hair and untie it. [3] A spiritual leader or the medicine man would pray and dedicate a new dwelling. He would normally pray and do a smudging ceremony before the poles were covered. Smudging consists of burning sage, sweetgrass or tobacco to cleanse and purify the surroundings. He would pray that the occupants would have a happy life together in the dwelling. He would pray that no evil would enter through the door opening, that the dwelling would always be open to the hungry, fatherless, and aged. [4] As time went by Jack Indian had five or six wives and quite a lot of sons and daughters who were very regal looking; all dressed in beaded and fringed skin clothing. [5] Shoshone clothing was made primarily from tanned animal skins. Sagebrush and juniper bark were also used. As many as seven hides from an antelope, three or four hides from a deer, and two large elk hides were required to make one dress. Dresses and suits were decorated with shells, claws, and teeth from various animals. Bones and porcupine quills were also used as decoration. Sinew from animals was used for thread. Sagebrush and juniper bark was used to make capes, blouses, and leg coverings. [6] Jack Indian’s tribe was spotlessly clean. Many of them wore heavily embroidered leather suits with fringe. Mary has seen the Indian women rub the leather suits all over with a pumice stone until they were white and soft and clear again, as of course they couldn’t be cleaned in water. [7] 1850s Shoshone leather dress ornamented with sea shells from Lake Bonneville. [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933 p. 84. [2] - Darren Parry, The Bear River Massacre, Common Consent Press, 2019p.20, 21. [3] - Ibid, p. 21. [4] - Ibid p. 15,16. [5] - Sherner, Mary Elizabeth- Her Stories, p. 83. [6] - Parry, The Bear River Massacre, p. 19. [7] - Sherner, Mary Elizabeth- Her Stories, p. 86. A pumice stone is formed when lava and water mix together. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back Return to Roads Indian Camp Road Indian Camp Road is named in remembrance of the Indian camps that existed here in the 1800s. 1968 view of Indian Tree; the Indians once hung their meat in the tree to dry; photo Dave Montgomery. 2005 view of Indian Tree before it was cut down. Located at 145 Century Dr. 1983 view of Indian Tree from 2nd St.; the tree became a symbol of the Indian camps that use to fill the surrounding meadows; the tree died in about 1997; it was cut down in 2005. 2011 view of the same site pictured above. The Indian Tree was a landmark on 2nd Street for 100 years, symbolizing the former surrounding Indian camps; the tree was located at today’s address of 145 Century Drive. Indians camped here and hung their meat to dry in this tree and others. A large spring was located near the tree and a pond 3 blocks to the north. The tree and surrounding Indian camps were described by four writers over the years. Sarah Stone Crowther (1872- 1963) grew up on today’s Fort Bingham subdivision. She wrote in the 1920s: A very large tree stands on the place and it has been there for fifty years. It is a monstrous tree today measuring around the trunk, and its outspreading branches are a sight to behold, and I am told it is the largest tree in Weber County. Many times my brothers have wanted to cut it down but I have always put up such a fight for it that I have won out and the tree still stands. There used to be another tree like this one in a field below us and many more smaller ones. When I was a little girl about eight years old (1880) great companies of Indians used to come to this spot and camp for weeks at a time. This use to please me. I have always liked the Indians and then they were so peculiar in their mode of living. I have seen five and six wicki-ups planted in between the trees and they always had lots of horses with them. There were always papooses and I was crazy to see them. They use to hang their meat in the trees to dry. They would beg for everything they saw, and sometimes old bucks would get drunk on whiskey and then we were afraid of them for they would quarrel and shoot at each other and someone would have to get an officer of the law to quiet them. They would stay for a few weeks and then they would all go again. One cold autumn day they drove away and left an old Indian woman. She was very old and they left the poor old thing to die. She came up to our house ( 386 West 2nd Street ) and begged for clothes. She was freezing, and she could not see but very little. We asked her why she did not go with the others. She said she was too old and that she must die. They would not have her any more. I do not know what became of her after she left our place. [1] Gwendolyn Shaw wrote in 1928: On West 2nd Street, Ogden, Utah stands an old cottonwood tree which is the largest specimen of its kind that I have ever seen. It towers above and spreads its protecting branches over a tiny log house which was built within the confines of Bingham’s Fort. It has stood unmoved through the changes of time, indifferent to the change of flag and government, the passing of the Indian, the coming of the fur traders and trappers and finally the coming of the Mormon settlers. [2] Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner recalled: There was a huge cottonwood tree in Mr. Gates’ meadow (in the 1860s), not very far from the schoolhouse. The children played under this big tree. It had such huge, outspreading branches that four large swings were hung in it… She also noted that there were Indian encampments on both sides of 2nd Street from Slaterville all the way to the fort. Once during seasonal migrating the road was so crowded with Indians that it was difficult for her parents to drive their wagon on the road ( 2nd St.). [3] In an interview published in the Standard Examiner in 1934 Fred Pierce remembered the Indian camps during the 1880s: “the Indians made their camp in Bingham Fort meadows during the eighties. The Indians were friendly and not quarrelsome. They would come and beg once in a while, but that is all they would bother us. I remember that as a boy I gave one of them a big piece of cake, and he always remembered it and was good to me as long as he lived there. The Indians lived by hunting ducks and geese and fishing and didn’t do much else. I’ve seen them catch carp weighing as much as twenty-five pounds (from Stone’s Pond ).” Respect for Indians Taught in School c. 1865 The teacher, Mrs. Bingham, instructed the children to respect the Indians and “explained that Brigham Young had made a treaty with the Indians (so) that the white people would live at peace with them. That the children must learn to respect the rights of the Indians as the country really belonged to them first, and that the white people were the interlopers and should always treat the Indians with respect, as there were just a handful of white people and many thousands of Indians in the valley. Mary told her father what the teacher had said and he agreed with Mrs. Bingham in everything. He warned the children again not to go into the Indian camps but to keep to the roadways when they left home and to be courteous to the Indians always.” [4] Relics from the Past Ancient Indian arrowheads were plentiful on the Bingham/Stone farm. From 1910 to the 1960s the Stone family filled a shoe box full with arrowheads over the years of plowing the fields. It was easy to see them when plowing with a horse, but a sharp eye could also spot them from the high tractor seat. Sample of arrowheads found in the fields of the Bingham/Sone Farm. [1] - Autobiography of Sarah Stone Crowther, manuscript, typed 1959 by Macel Stone Montgomery, p.1. [2] - Gwendolyn W. Shaw, History of Bingham’s Fort, Weber College, Ogden Utah, manuscript, 1928, p.1 [3] - Editors Dorthy Amelda Sherner and Laura Sherner Welker, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 20, 85, 88; Dorthy Amelda Sherner and Laura Sherner Welker, Mary Remembers, p. 101. [4] - Ibid, p.85. Previous Return to Roads Next

< Back 115 West 2nd Street Return to Homes YESTERDAY, 115 W. 2nd STREET. TODAY, 115 W 2nd STREET. In England Walter Crane apprenticed to a miller and joined the Mormon Church at age 14. After a four-year apprenticeship, he immigrated with his parents to America in 1866. In Wyoming Territory Walter beheld his first glimpse of a Native American with great interest. He and his parents arrived in Salt Lake City in September 1866. Walter moved on to Farmington to work at the flour mill of Mr. Clark. Most of the employees were converts and emigrants, experiencing their first jobs in the new country. Walter, however, was an experienced miller and became a valued worker. [1] Mary Ann Rackham arrived in America from England in 1868. What she remembered about her journey across America was how large the country seemed and like a wilderness compared to England. The Civil War was just two years over, so she saw firsthand the scars of internal war on the first part of the journey. On the second part of the journey the railroad construction followed the wagon train trail part of the time, and her brothers were allowed to leave the wagon train and work for the railroad to earn much needed money. In Salt Lake City Mary Ann lived with her aunt who prepared Mary Ann for the job of housework, teaching her the difference between service in England and that in Utah. With this preparation Mary Ann went to work for a family by the name of Clark in Farmington. She was the maid of all work, watching the children, and cooking and serving the men who worked for Mr. Clark in his flour mill. [2] Mary Ann Rackham (1850-1930) Walter Crane (1848-1932) Walter was 21 and Mary Ann 19 when they were married in the old Endowment House in Salt Lake City in 1869. Their employer, Mr. Clark, opened another mill in Morgan and put Walter in charge of it. During the following 10 years Walter worked as a miller in Morgan and then in Tooele. Walter took two plural wives, but they did not move with him in 1879 when he moved to Ogden with his wife, Mary Ann, and daughter Annie. They bought a small farm in what was then called Bingham Fort at Lynne (Ogden), Utah; Walter was now working for the Utah Central Railroad Co. as a brakeman and check master. [3] Walter and Mary Ann first lived in a two-room log cabin already on the property left by the David Crowther family. They were delighted with the orchard, currant bushes and a small pond fed by a natural spring. Irrigation water was supplied by the Bingham Fort ditch, now called the Lower Lynne ditch. They planted more trees, bushes and flowers and planned to build a brick house and spend the rest of their lives here. By 1883 Walter had again changed vocations and was listed in the Ogden City Directory as “a contractor and builder”. He started building the brick house at 115 W 2nd Street in the 1880s, but it was not completed until about 1895. His life became complicated by taking a fourth wife in 1889, appearing in court twice for unlawful cohabitation, and serving a mission to England. Upon his return from England, the house was finally completed. He served as secretary of Lynne Irrigation Co. and a counselor in the Lynne Ward. In addition to their daughter Annie, the Cranes adopted another child, Zina, and raised Mary Ann’s nephew. Mary Ann died in 1930 and Walter in 1932. [4] Walter and Mary Ann’s daughter Annie and her husband, Anders Bolander, built the house at 133 W 2nd St. in about 1908, pictured on the right in the photo below. This house has been in possession of Annie Crane Bolander family for more than 100 years. Annie’s daughter Mary married Clarence Stromberg, and they created the house at 125 W 2nd St in 1930, pictured in the center in the photo below. The house at 125 W started as a one-room house that had belonged to the Clapier family and was moved to this site from Old Pioneer Road. In time an addition was made on the rear. [5] Three Crane family houses in a row; 115 W 2, 125 W 2, and 133 W 2nd Street. Old fashioned methods of flood irrigation from the Lower Lynne Ditch are still in use on 2nd Street. [1] - Mary Bolander Strombery, Biography of William Walter Stannard Crane, manuscript, p. 1-3. [2] - Alice Bolander Davison, Mary Ann Rackham Crane, manuscript, p .4, 5. [3] - Stromberg, Biography of William Walter Stannard Crane, p. 3; Family Search, pedigree resource file. [4] - Alice Bolander Davison, Mary Ann Rackham Crane , manuscript, p. 7; Stromberg, Biography of William Walter Stannard Crane, p.3; Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward , manuscript, 1893, p. 11, 12. [5] - Letter of Evelyn Stromberg Kerr, Tooele, Utah, 23 Sept.1998; Mary Edith Bolander Stromberg, manuscript. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 218 2nd Street Return to Homes Lawrence Sherner was born in Lynne, Ogden City, Weber County, Utah, in 1873 to Peter and Mary Elizabeth Huchens Sherner who lived at 122 2nd Street. He attended school at the Lynne Schoolhouse and spent his childhood days in the company of his pioneer relatives. [1] He epitomized the transitional generation that was raised on a farm by pioneer parents and grandparents and then led the way into the first half of the twentieth century. By the time Lawrence was 21 years old, Five Points had three stores selling merchandise, one of these was the Shaw Mercantile Store. There was also one drug store, two shoe stores, two tailoring establishments, three blacksmith shops, one butcher shop, one skating rink, several or three saloons, and a number of offices for real estate, doctors, and lawyers. Electric streetcars passed each way through Five Points every few minutes giving the community an air of importance. [2] Rozina Shaw was born in 1882; her grandfather and great-grandfather helped take the first water ditches out of Ogden River for agriculture irrigation in 1849. In the 1890s her father helped begin the mercantile store on the SW corner of 2nd Street and Washington Blvd. Later her father became the sole owner of the store and his family lived first above the store and later in a house built next to the store on 2nd Street, just three blocks away from the childhood home of Lawrence. [3] Rozina’s father owned W.D. Shaw Mercantile on the SW corner of Washington and 2nd Street; location of Pizza Hut in 2021. Lawrence completed this red brick house prior to his marriage to Rozina Shaw in June 1901. It was located on family acreage next to the north branch of the Lower Lynne Ditch and a block-and-a-half -west of the junction at Five Points. The ditch was a great advantage for irrigation and proximity to “The Points” meant walking distance for shopping and business. Lawrence’s neighbor, Moroni Stone, was his great uncle. In 1916 Lawrence Sherner was called to be bishop of the Lynne Ward and served from 1916 to 1926. A new church meetinghouse was dedicated in 1915 to the triangle at Five Points. [4] During Bishop Sherner’s first years his ward members were coping with the sorrows of death and deformity from World War l. Those who returned after the armistice in 1918 faced a lack of work – Utah’s agrarian economy did not support many jobs- and broken spirits. About this time the influenza epidemic enveloped the world, and Ogden did not escape either. Nearly every family lost a family member to its scourge; penicillin had not yet been discovered. Then in the waning days of World War l, prohibition was a political issue and there was a growing awareness of the erratic stock market. [5] The men in the bishopric were devoted servants to the community during these difficult times, and the new meetinghouse at Five Points was a bright spot for the community. This was where ward meetings were held and social events for the entire community. Everyone was proud of the chapel. [6] On December 16, 1923, by popular vote, the name of the Lynne Ward was changed to the Ogden15th Ward. [7] Lawrence was a farmer and manager of the Scoville Paper Company (later called the Ogden Paper Company). He preferred to think of himself as a farmer. In 1896 he planted 35,000 strawberry plants by hand on the Sherner Farm. [8] In 2021 the Lawrence Sherner house on 2nd Street retains 2 acres of the farm and is still owned by the Sherner family. Lawrence & Rozina Shaw Sherner, c. 1901 [1] - Colleen Blankenship, Lawrence William Sherner, manuscript, 2004, p.1 . [2] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward, Microfilm LR#6405 2, p. 1, 12. [3] - Pioneer personal history of Myrtillo Shaw Jr, 1937, Federal Writers Project . [4] - Colleen Blankenship, Lawrence William Sherner, p.3. [5] - Ibid, p. 4. [6] - Ibid; Andrew Jensen, History of the Ogden 15th Ward. [7] - Andrew Jensen, History of the Ogden 15th Ward. Year 1923. [8] - Letter Colleen Blankenship, 27 Feb. 2014. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Incident at the Schoolhouse Return to Native Americans Mill Creek Schoolhouse was located on the SE corner of the intersection of 2nd Street and today’s railroad track; in 2020 it was announced that this site will be the location of a new Front Runner Station. Amanda Bingham The settlers and the Indians had a treaty… but the rude things we say or think can violate that… A dramatic incident occurred in the Mill Creek Schoolhouse in about 1864 between the children and the Indians who came begging from the children at lunchtime. “The Indian women were frequently begging from the settlers, and when they were camped in the Meadows and school was in session, the women used to come to the schoolhouse at noon and beg the children’s lunches. It wasn’t very often that Mary Hutchens took her lunch when she went to school; she preferred to run home and back. One day as she neared the schoolhouse for the afternoon’s session, she saw a crowd of Indians at the schoolhouse, some on horseback, and they all seemed to be in a rather serious mood, as they were talking and gesticulating. Mary had always been told that if she minded her business, no harm would come to her, and as she had been familiar with Indians all her life, she had no fear in approaching the crowd. Then too, she saw her teacher Mrs. (Amanda) Bingham coming down the street, so she figured she would be safe. They arrived about the same time. Mary heard Mrs. Bingham ask what was the trouble, and the Indian chiefs closed about her and commenced talking excitedly. They conversed together in the Indian language for quite a while. Mary turned to one of the schoolgirls and said, “What is the matter?” The little girl answered that during the noon hour quite a number of the women had come begging for the children’s lunches and that a number of them had little nursing babies and that the boys made fun of the women for exposing their breasts so the women went away. Mary looked about her. The teacher was talking very earnestly to the Indian chiefs, and they apparently were becoming quieter. She noticed too that a lot of the children were already in the schoolhouse. Then Mrs. Bingham called the children to gather together into the schoolroom and when they got inside, they found a number already there, also two or three Indians; and following closely on the heels of the children from outside, came to the rest of the Indians until the room was soon crowded to capacity. Then the teacher called for order and told the children that the Indians had come to report that some of the boys had insulted their women by making fun of them. She asked what boys were guilty of the offense and some owned up to the deed; others had to be named, but at least a half dozen were designated as being parties to the offense. They were the larger boys from 11 to 12 years of age, and one was Mrs. Bingham’s son. Then she said that the Indians were demanding the boys so they could punish them as they felt they deserved, but that she had finally prevailed on them to let her do the whipping, though they would superintend the punishment and decide when each boy had had enough. Then she asked if the boys would rather she did the whipping or turn them over to the Indians. Of course, the boys agreed that it was preferable for her to whip them. Then she had them go out and bring in three green willows each. She braided three together and whipped each boy with a new braided willow whip until the Indians in charge agreed that the culprit had been punished enough; then she took another boy and punished him. It took a long time and the teacher appeared exhausted when it was finished. The boys were crying badly, so were the smaller girls. It was a tense and critical time, and it frightened one to hear the falling of the whip, the outcries of the boys, and the grunts of satisfaction from the Indians at the punishment. Then the Indians filed out of the schoolroom after telling the teacher things had been settled to their satisfaction, and as they left the school ground on their ponies they whooped in a bloodcurdling manner and caused quite a commotion. Then the teacher very seriously addressed the pupils – she told them how very near they had come to being seriously hurt by the Indians, and that if the boys had been delivered into their hands there was no telling what might have happened to them, and the result would have been that all of the settlers in the valley might have suffered. She explained that Brigham Young had made a treaty with the Indians that the white people would live at peace with them; and that the Indians had been more honorable than the boys in this instance because they had not taken the boys while she was away but had waited until she had come before taking action; that the children must learn to respect the rights of the Indians as the country really belonged to them first; and that the white people were the interlopers and should therefore always treat the Indians with respect, as there were just a handful of white people and many thousands of Indians in the valley. The boys were very much subdued, and they listened intently, as did the rest of the children, and as it was impossible to settle down to studying after the awful incident, the teacher dismissed the school and the children went home. Mary told her father, William Hutchens, about it, and he agreed with Mrs. Bingham in everything she had said and done and said she had averted a very serious catastrophe by punishing the boys and settling the dispute to the satisfaction of the Indians then and there. He warned the children again not to go into the Indian camps but to keep to the roadways when they left home and to be courteous to the Indians always.” [1] Mary Elizabeth Hutchens attended the Mill Creek School in 1864. [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933, p. 85. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back 128 2nd Street Return to Homes Carl & Harriet Sherner Turnquist Photo taken 2021 Carl O. Turnquist was born April 25, 1880, in Karbenning, Sweden, and came to Ogden in 1891 at age 11 with his parents. His parents settled with other Swedish immigrants in a popular Scandinavian settlement on the east side of Five Points where they built a farm on the top of a small hill above “the Points”. [1] Farmhouse of Gustav and Mathhilda Turnquist family east of Five Points. Carl met Harriett Sherner in the Lynne Ward; her father was president of the Scandinavian Society. Carl and Harriett were married on June 1, 1908. Harriett’s father, Peter Sherner, gave them land from his farm for their house at 128 2nd Street. In November 1908 Carl was called to be the bishop of the Lynne Ward; he was 28 years old and newly married, a very young bishop indeed. In 1914-1915 Bishop Turnquist supervised the building of a new chapel on the triangle at Five Points by Smoot Park. Smoot Park land was donated by Senator Reed Smoot to the City of Ogden to maintain “forevermore” as a park. [2] Bishop Turnquist had a committee of ten men from the community to construct the new church. William Wilson Fife was the architect. The new red brick building was constructed in 1914 at the cost of $20,000 and was not dedicated until debt-free in February 1926. Lynne Ward on triangle at Five Points built in 1914 in upper right corner; Bank of Ben Lomond in 1957; Bank of Utah today. Building Committee - In 1923 the name of the Lynne Ward was changed to the Ogden 15th Ward. Many old-timers remember that the picture of the Building Committee hung in the entranceway of the church at Five Points until the 1950s. It is interesting to note that Bishop Carl Turnquist looks like the youngest man on the committee. All members of the committee were contributing members of the Lynne Community at this time. Carl worked as a salesman for a local paper company. He and Harriett had three children. Carl died in 1940 and Harriett in 1944. Turnquist family [1] - Laura Calette Turnquist, MEMORIES OF GRANDMA AND GRANDPA TURNQUIST, Gustav and Mathilda Turnquist, manuscript. [2] - History of the Lynne Ward-Ogden 15th Ward, p. 13. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Return to Roads Century Drive Curving entrance of Century Drive from 2nd Street. Century Dr ends at North Street with sweeping view of Ben Lomond in 2022. In the Nineteenth Century, the intersection of today's Century Drive and West 2nd Street was the location of Sam Gates cabin and the lane that led into the Gates’ farm. Below is the famous picture of Sam Gates’ cabin which was exhibited at the 1893 World’s Fair and pictures of Gates’ Lane as it looked in the 1980s and in 2000. 1892, Sam Gates cabin on NW corner of intersection. 1980s, Gates’ Lane is now Century Dr. 2000, Gates’ Lane is now Century Dr. 2000, Gates’ Lane is now Century Dr. Previous Return to Roads Next

< Back 251 & 259 2nd Street Return to Homes 251 & 259 2nd Street Photo 2022 Augustus (1855-1936) & Alice Harrop (1854-1929) Anderson 259 2nd Street Alice, Edith, Augustus (seated), Archie; rear: Clarence, Joe. There are two homes connected between the current day care center. The larger home at 259 2nd Street was t T he 1881 home of Augustus and Alice Anderson. Augustus was born in Sweden in 1855 and “sailed on a boat to America” in 1864 settling in Huntsville and then Slaterville, Utah. His first job as a teenager was herding cows. The men he worked for were also mining gold, and they sometimes hid the gold dust in the yoke of some of the cattle so it would not be stolen. No one suspected a teenage boy of being left to guard such a treasure. Alice Harrop was born in England in 1854 and immigrated with her family to Ogden when she was three years old. Augustus and Alice married in 1880 and built this brick home in 1881. It started as a two-room adobe structure and, as the family grew, they added three more rooms and a brick exterior. When Native Americans knocked on the Anderson door, Alice always fed them. The Natives left a mark on the fence in front of the house as a signal to others that the residents here were kind. Augustus farmed and worked as a supervisor of roads and streets in the county; he served the community as Lynne Irrigation president and a volunteer fireman. See Appendix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 251 2nd Street Joseph (1884-1966) & Viola Purdy (1889-1978) Anderson Viola & Joe Anderson Augusts and Alice’s son, Joseph Augustus Anderson, was born in 1884 and married Viola Purdy in 1906. In 1907 they built their two-room home next door to Joe’s parents. In time Joe added on four more rooms. Joe helped many persons build their homes on 2nd Street and built several to sell like the one at 215 2nd Street. In time he made carpentry and home building his vocation. He also served as a volunteer fireman. While their five children were growing up, the spur of the Oregon Short Line was in operation and the train passed in front of their house. The passing engineers were friendly and sometimes blew steam to scare the children off the tracks or fence. They threw live savers to the children who threw back pears or apples in season. [1] Viola was a wonderful mother and an entertainer. She invited neighbors over for quilting bees and held parties for neighbors and family. Even the advent of World War 1 did not stop her gatherings for life must go on with small happiness in spite of world politics. Card tables were set up for card games; High Five was a popular game of choice. Guests pinned on cards and the children who acted as the servants, punched the winner’s card and served refreshments. The card with the most punches won a prize and the booby card won a prize also. Viola’s gatherings helped to lift spirits during the war. In about 1980, the house was remodeled into a child care center that eventually connected to Augustus Anderson’s house next door. Daughter Hazel Anderson Greenwood thought that the day care center would make her mother and grandmother very happy because they both had a great love for children. [2] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX Standard Examiner, Sept. 3, 1963. [1] - Anna Keogh interview with Hazel Anderson Greenwood, 1998. [2] - Ibid. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Return to Roads Old Springs Way There was a large spring of water in this area where the public stopped to water their horses from the 1850s to the 1920s. People on horseback or in wagons coming and going from Slaterville to Five Points liked to stop at this spring on the north side of 2nd to water their horses and get drink for themselves. There were as many as five springs in today’s Fort Bingham area that furnished good fresh water. [1] In the Nineteenth Century, the schoolhouse was always located near a good spring. Pupils took turns cleaning out the spring each day. The pupil who cleaned out the spring had to put his arm in the water and dig out the dirt that had collected in the spring during the day with his hand. He had to bank the dirt around the sides so that the flow would be better, and by doing this after school, by the next day the water would be clear for the pupils to drink. [2] The Old Spring on the north side of 2nd Street was a stopping place for persons on bikes in about 1900. [1] - Autobiography of Sarah Stone Crowther, manuscript, typed 1959 by Macel Stone Montgomery; interview Chauncey Stone by Macel Stone Montgomery,1958, p. 1. [2] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, transcribed by Dorothy Sherner, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 72. Previous Return to Roads Next