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James Henry and
Lenora Ward Zobell

Jim and Lenora Ward Zobell were married in 1890 on the Provo Bench and had three children born to them before moving to Castle Gate. They made home the first house on the left side going toward Willow Creek before Coke Oven Row. Jim took care of the furnaces in the hotel, the hospital and the amusement hall. He also cared for the filter plant, did plumbing and other fix it jobs for the company. In 1940 the family left Castle Gate and headed for Salt Lake.

	The home of James and Nora Zobell - location first house below the tipple about 1929. Jack Zobell is in the center.
	The back yard of Jack Zobell and family - in the area called the rows.
	Dog owned by Jack Zobell. The Zobell home is on the left and the Jones house is on the right.
	Lenora Ward Zobell in front of the school.

The Sun - 17 Jun 1921
Private Zobell is buried at Castle Gate, Saturday

Impressive services were held for Private Rudolph Zobell at the community hall at Castle Gate last Saturday afternoon. The body arrived at that place from overseas on Thursday of last week. Castle Gate post of the American Legion had charge. The funeral, however, was under the direction of Bishop Morgan D. Evans of the Latter-day Saints church. Number were rendered by the local choir under the leadership of Glenn D. Reese and the speakers, C. H. Madsen of Price, and Dr. C. E. MeDermid of Castle Gate, paid tribute to the courage and patriotism of the deceased in leaving his wife and family - he had two children - to fight for his country. The Castle Gate band and members of the American Legion walked to the cemetery, where full military honors were accorded to the departed soldier.

News Advocate - 16 Jun 1921
Body of Hero Now Resting at Home

The body of Rudolph Zobell, son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Zobell, who died in France after an attack of the flu, was buried in Castle Gate Saturday. He left a wife and two babies to serve his country and had been under fire in the front line before he was taken ill. His wife re-married and is living in California and was not present at the funeral. It was the most impressive ever held in Castle Gate. Engineer Clark of the bureau of mines rescue car which is now in the county was a comrade of Zobell in the army and he spoke feelingly of the service rendered at the front by the young Castle Gate man. The principal addresses were made by C. H. Madsen, formerly of Castle Gate, and Dr. C. E. McDermid. Both paid high tribute to the soldier who made the supreme sacrifice. The amusement hall was crowded with people who desired to show honor to the memory of Rudolph Zobell and fifty members of the American Legion marched in uniform under the command of Lieut. L. W. Kelly. Bishop M. D. Evans had charge of all the service but the Legion accorded the departed soldier full military honors. Pall bearers were three soldiers and three sailors in uniform.

When the mine blew up in 1924 John Stagg was working just across the canyon at the gate house where the miners checked in and out of the mine. The doors of the mine were blown across the canyon to the same side as he was on. He was one of the first to go into the mine to try and rescue people and to bring out and help identify the dead.

The photo on the right is the Castle Gate Meat Market owned by Utah Fuel Company. John Stagg was a butcher at this meat market until he got into a disagreement with his boss over getting a new slicing machine and the ice box fixed. When the boss wouldn't do it John quit.

John was also standing on the porch of the Meat Market and watched Butch Cassidy rob the Castle Gate payroll in 1897. He always said he watched Butch rob the payroll and he was smart enough to let him do it and not interfere and get himself shot or anything else.

	Frank Stagg son of John & Lizzie Stagg
	Albert & Frank Stagg sons of John & Lizzie Stagg

Frank E. and Julia Smith were married in Loa, Wayne county, Utah on May 4, 1897. They moved around quite often and spent some time in Joseph, Vernal, Myton and then to Price in about 1900. Frank did not have a regular job but worked where he could. Family lore says that he drove a wagon up Nine Mile canyon to Myton when it first opened along with the outlaws on the trail. He also dealt cards at the Savoy Hotel and Saloon with Matt Warner and was a very good friend of his. Nothing is known about him before he married and very little after. It was said that he was not in good favor with the law.

Julia was the daughter of George Monterville Ames who was the son of Ellis Ames who was in the Brigham Young company when they left Winter Quarters. Her other grandfather was Niles Haskell who was in B company of the Mormon Battalion. She was a very small lady but a friend to everyone. This is a picture the house that we called a tent house. The floor was of hard packed, dirt so hard that she could sweep it just like a wooden floor. Then in 1938 Frank built a new house up closer to the road and it still stands at 500 South and 400 East. Where he got the funds to build it is still a mystery.

Frank E. and Julia Smith are both buried in the Price City Cemetery with other family members.

Funeral Held Yesterday for 81 year old resident
Jan 25, 1945 - Sun Advocate

Funeral services for Frank Smith, 81, who died at his home here Monday, were held in the Mitchell Funeral chapel Wednesday afternoon under direction of the Seventh Day Adventists. Burial was in the Price city cemetery.

Mr. Smith was born January 1, 1864, in Detroit, Michigan. Names of his parents are not known. He had resided in Price for the past 25 years. Surviving are his widow, Julia Smith; two sons, Clarence Smith, Price; and Corporal Lawrence Smith, France; and two daughters, Mrs. Nora Stoffos, Hiawatha; and Mrs. Golda Olsen, Orangeville.

on right:Smith family home from 1937 to 1940. The house is east of town on main street just before you got to the hill that we called Niggerson Hill. There are three houses on the right hand side that where built at the same time and are deserted now. We lived in the one in the middle.

This picture was taken in 1938. The man standing on the Scofield Dam is James Gilbert Austin (Gib). He and his brother, Web, were the owners of what was then called the Austin Ranch about three miles south of Price. Gib was born in Payson, Utah in 1880. He married Mildred Irene Ostler of Springville. Gib and his brother owned 250 acres and were instrumental in the growth of the canals. He was one of the early ditch riders. As a young man I got to go with him. It was fun for me but grandpa had to work.

When they were able to have water they where the first to start raising sugar beets. He was also the biggest contributor to the building of the sugar beet tipple down by the old stock yards.

He had the biggest water wheel in town and with the use of flumes was able to plant 200 acres. There is a page written about him in the Centennial Echoes from Carbon County.

After he was hurt walking behind a plow he sold out and moved to Washington state where he lived out the rest of his life. He died in 1960 just after he had seen his first granddaughter. His wife, Irene, died in 1948. They are both buried in Seattle, Washington.

Written by his grandson, Loren Lewis Smith, native of Price now living in Washington.

John Hreinson was born 21 Jan 1858 in Brandshusi, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. His parents were Hreinn Jonsson and Sigrid Olafsdotter. He married Christine Gudmundsdotter, the daughter of Gudmund Arnasson and Gudney Arnasdotter, on the 17th October 1879. They became the parents of two daughters and three sons.

In 1892 he and his family immigrated to the United States arriving in New York City on July 10th and made their home in Spanish Fork, Utah. On Thursday, May 26th, 1910 Christine died in her home after a long illness. She was buried in the Spanish Fork, Utah cemetery.

John eventually made his way to Carbon County working at Winter Quarters for awhile and finally settling in Castle Gate and worked for the Utah Fuel Company. In his spare time he would do shoe repairing. On the 26th of June 1914 he married Elizabeth Ward in Price, Utah. He retired in 1937 at the age of 79 years old.

In his later years John became blind and unable to live on his own. He had cataracts on both eyes. One eye was operated on but it was unsuccessful so they wouldn't work on the other one. For six months of the year he would live with his son John Sigurmunder Hreinson and the other six months of the year he would live with his step daughter Ann Downy.

On the 7th of October 1948 he died in Castle Gate, Utah at the home of his son. Funeral services were conducted by Bishop Fay Thacker in the Castle Gate Ward Chapel. John was a member of the Lutheran church. He was buried in the Spanish Fork cemetery.

The picture shown here of John Hreinson was taken by Darrell K. Downey of Helper, Utah. It appeared in the August 13, 1942 Helper Journal. It is one of the three prints judged as the best in the July photo show of the Pueblo Camera club. It was to be included in the traveling salon which the Pueblo Club was to exchange with other clubs in the nation.

John Sigurmunder Hreinson

The following story was copied from a newspaper article entitled, "Two Castle Gate Employees Due Holmes Safety Awards Tonight". Newspaper and edition unknown.

John S. Hreinson of Castle Gate and Frank Mangone of Helper are to receive the Holmes Safety certificates of honor at the regular meeting of the Eastern Utah District Council of the Holmes Safety Association at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) at the Helper civic auditorium.

Mr. Hreinson will receive the framed certificate for working in and around the coal mines of Utah for 44 years without having a lost time accident. Mr. Mangone's certificate for working 47 years without a lost time accident will be presented to his son, Bennett Mangone, in lieu of Mr. Mangone who is critically ill at the Dragerton Permanente hospital.

Donald Newberry will present the certificate to Mr. Mangone. Tom Bendall, superintendent of the Castle Gate mine will make the presentation to Mr. Hreinson.

Mr. Hreinson was retired a year ago. Mr. Mangone is an employee of the coal company.

Mr. Hreinson was born August 21, 1887. He began work as a box car loader in 1905 at Winter Quarters. In 1906 he left to work at the quartz mines at Eureka. After laboring there for two years he was employed for three years as a rock driller on the Strawberry tunnel, a goverment reclamation project.

In 1811 he married a Springville girl, Ethel Singleton, and came to Castle Gate looking for a job in the coal mine. "I went in and asked for a job and I hoped to goodness he wouldn't give it to me," reminisced Mr. Hreinson. However, Superintendent Bob Williams was needing rock drillers and he hired Mr. Hreinson at once. "Then they found out I could drive mules, too, so I drove mules to pull the coal. That would try anybody's patience. Mules are stubborn, especially when a fellow wanted to accomplish something."

In 1913 the first cutting machine in Utah was brought into the Castle Gate mine and Mr. Hreinson found running it more to his preference than driving mules.

"Then I decided if I was to work in the coal mines, I'd better study up." He took extension courses and within a month had acquired his fire boss certificate.

The following year he was made a foreman in the mine. In 1916 he was sent as fireboss to the Clear Creek mine where he remained for a year before being sent back to Castle Gate. From August 17, 1920, to mid April of 1921, Mr. Hreinson did "helmet work." In this case the helmet work was fighting the Sunnyside mine fire. On the 1st day of May, 1921, he was appointed as foreman at Winter Quarters, where he stayed for a year before being transferred to Sunnyside to serve as foreman in re-opening the mine. He worked at Sunnyside until 1924 when the explosion at Castle Gate killed 172 men. Mr. Hreinson assisted in removing the bodies and clearing the mine. Since 1924 he has been at Castle Gate as fire boss and shot firer until he retired in October of 1955.

He attributes the playing of "hunches" to saving his life on different occasions.

The Hreinsons have reared six children - Hubert, Fern, Paul, Lois, Anita Mae and LaRue. At the present time Mr. Hreinson is a member of the Castle Gate LDS ward bishopric.

Fern Hreinson

FERN HREINSON SULLIVAN was born 19 Oct 1914 to John Sigurmunder Hreinson and Ethel Singleton. She was the second of six children. She was the daughter of a coal miner and moved back and forth from Castle Gate, then Clear Creek, back to Castle Gate, Winter Quarters and Sunny Side. On March 8, 1924 there was a mine explosion at Castle Gate killing 172 men. The Hreinson family returned to Castle Gate to help with mine rescue. They then remained at Castle Gate, Utah to raise their family.

When Fern was almost five years old she was playing with her friend Arthur Christensen. They were running on opposite sides of the old push lawn mower that Duane Christensen was using. She stuck her fingers into the lawn mower cutting her finger off to the knuckle. Duane and Arthurs sister carried her to the doctor, screaming and yelling with blood spurting all over. Her father was called out of the mine to care for her.

She tells the story of when she was five her mother had left her and her baby brother Paul in the front room while she did the washing. Paul began to fuss and cry so she picked him up and sat in her little rocker to rock him. It wasn't long before he was fast asleep. When her mother returned she said, "What did you do that for? Look how dirty his face is." Apparently he wasn't suppose to sleep with a dirty face.

On 10 March 1938 Fern Hreinson married James Harold Cousins in Provo, Utah, Utah. They ended up in Watonga, Oklahoma where a son James Hubert Cousins was born on 18 July 1938. It wasn't long until she returned to Castle Gate to be with her family never to see James Harold Cousins again.

On the 12 October 1942 she married Eddie Nutter and moved to Denver, Colorado. Upon arriving in Colorado Eddie disappeared. Fern remained in Colorado and worked at Lowry Base. Here she met Ira Mack. He was in the Air Corp. and stationed at Lowry Field. They had a short relationship and he was shipped out. He would never know that he was the father of a beautiful baby girl named Terry. Fern then returned to Castle Gate where she worked in the Company store. She missed Colorado and her friends she had made there. She was able to return a couple of times to visit with them.

On the 9 March 1954 Fern married John Sullivan and moved to Orem, Utah, Utah. She has lived there since. They had three children Paul, Kathy and Don born to them. They shared 23 years of their lives together. There was bad times but there was a lot of happy times and experiences. On May 6, 1977 John died of a blood clot and bronchitis. He is laid to rest in the Orem Cemetery.

Daily Herald - Provo, Utah

OREM - Fern Hreinson Sullivan, 85 passed away in her home Sept. 8, 2000.

Fern was born Oct. 19, 1914 to John and Ethel Hreinson in Castle Gate. She married John Sullivan on March 9, 1954.

She attended schools in Carbon County and graduated from Carbon High School. Fern enjoyed many kinds of needlework, including crocheting and needlepoint, and created many beautiful pieces of art throughout her life right up to the time of her passing. She shared these gifts of love with many and her pictures hang in many homes and are treasured by all.

She loved to read and when her eyesight failed, her love of reading led her to enjoy books on tape. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and her happiest time in life was when she served for many years as a temple worker in the Provo LDS Temple.

Fern is survived by children, sister, 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her husband.

Funeral services will be Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. at the Geneva Heights 2nd LDS Ward Chapel, 590 N. 900 West, Orem. Friends may call at the church one hour prior to services. Interment, Orem City Cemetery under direction of Sundberg Olpin Mortuary.

Franklin H. Rolapp born and raised in the community of Ogden, Utah, the son of Henry H. and Martha H. Rolapp. Here he spent his young life enjoying athletics and won a medal for his record high jumping. During his school years one of his teachers was Emma Ray, who was being courted by Church President David O. McKay. He was chosen to run love letters between the two of them.

As a young man he was called to serve in the German Mission, where he served under Serge Ballif and Thomas E. McKay.

He assisted his father over an eleven year period in carefully analyzing and studying the scriptures which are accepted as such of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Out of this experience together came a book which is standard in any great Latter-day Saint library. It is called Gospel Quotations by Rolapp.

After his return from a mission he entered into the coal business, which took him many places, including Logan, Utah where he met Louise Thatcher. They were married in the Logan Temple and their marriage kept them together for 64 years. They were proud parents of H. Thatcher Rolapp, Ralph T. Rolapp, Franklin T. Rolapp* and Edgar T. Rolapp.

In 1918 the family moved to Salt Lake City, after acquiring his own coal mine, which he ran successfully until 1928. Just before the market crash, he sold the mine and moved to California where he went into the mortgage business. He also entered into the oil business. A number of his productive years were spent as receiver for Julian Petroleum Company. He was appointed by the Federal Court of Los Angeles. This position brought him a great deal of prominence in Los Angeles.

He later went into subdividing of real estate and construction. He loved to compose music and was an expert fly fisherman and sportsman.

Devoted to the Church, he held many positions and supported the Church leaders. He died in Los Angeles in 1975.

In the Winter Quarters mine explosion there were five Wilsons that lost their lives. I have had several inquires about them and who is related to who. This is the information that I have learned about them.

In the book "History of the Scofield Mine Disaster" by J.W. Dilley, page 91-94 it lists these Wilsons as dying in the explosion.

From a June 1975 Wilson Family History prepared by Leah Perry Wilson

Born 2 December 1874, Leicestershire, England. George followed in his father's footsteps as a coal miner. He married Sarah Pugh 13 Nov 1895 at Scofield, Utah, a coal mining town. They were blessed with three children. George was killed in the Scofield mine disaster of 1 May 1900, leaving a struggling widow and two youngsters (the youngest, Joseph, passed away 16 Apr 1900, just two weeks before his father's tragic death). You can imagine the bereavement of this mother. George and his cousin Thomas ("Tug") Wilson married sisters: Sarah and Mary Ann Puch. After George's death Sarah married James Smith 7 November 1901. When she died, 13 November 1904, her children were reared by their Grandmother Pugh.

CHILDREN:
Mary Ann (Annie) Wilson born 10 December 1895.
William John Wilson born 28 March 1898.
Joseph Wilson born 12 March 1900, died 16 Apr 1900 (infant).
All were born in Winter Quarters, Utah, a town near Scofield.

The McCutchen family from Divide, Colorado.

Joseph White McCutchen, Jr., of South Carolina and Harriet Minnie Margaret Martha Raymond McCutchen were the parents of 16 children. The McCutchen's had lived in Nebraska and Colorado. They had lived in Colorado until circumstances forced Mrs. Harriet McCutchen to come to Utah (about 1913) and adopt (or possibly sell) her children. The older children that were married and could care for themselves stayed behind in Colorado.

Mrs. McCutchen and her children were living in a tent in Hiawatha. She had put the word out she was giving her children away. There were many of the McCutchen children that found homes . There are some we have found and some we have not. We are so very grateful to the wonderful families who took the children in as their own and provided wonderful loving homes for them, the Barney’s and the Larsen’s and the Jensen’s.

We do not know what ever happened with Harriet. We know a few years after she came around to visit some of the children again... but do not know whatever became of her after the last visit possibly took place in 1915.

The following are children that were adopted or possibly sold.

We are so very grateful to any of the people who came into our relatives lives and opened their hearts and homes to them. We know they became better people because of your kindness and love. If you have any information we would greatly appreciate you sharing it with us.

newspaper article about McCutchen family

3 Members of Family Meet After 40 Years

Three member of a large farm family separated 40 years ago when their widowed mother became ill were reunited Thursday.

Meeting a sister and brother for the first time since 1915 was Mrs. Mary I. Graham, Phoenix, Ariz., who arrived Wednesday in Salt Lake City.

Participating in the reunion were Mrs. Renee B. Harward, 626 Harmony Ct., and Carl V. Barney, Tooele.

Their mother, the late Mrs. Harriet Minnie McCutchen, was left alone with a large family in the ranching community of Divide, Co., 40 years ago.

When she became ill, she was forced to give up her children and place them in adoption in various homes.

"We all grew up under different names and separated." Mrs. Harward explains, "We tried to contact each other but without success."

Mrs. Harward and her brother Carl V. Barney (Barney is his adopted surname), kept in touch with each other since they were adopted by brothers.

Two years ago Mrs. Harward returned to Divide, Colo., and learned that two of her brothers were residing in Colorado-- one at Colorado Springs and another in Denver.

These brothers meanwhile had learned that a sister, Mrs. Graham, was residing in Phoenix.

The sisters, Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Harward, began corresponding. And this spring, Mrs. Graham and her husband decided to use their vacation time to come to Utah and meet the sister and brother she hadn't seen in four decades.

Howard Larsen (birth name was William Howard Taft McCutchen) The Larsen family in Cleveland adopted him.

Samuel James Montgomery of Janesville, Wisconsin and Amanda Jane Mead of Spanish Fork, Utah were married November 10, 1889 in Price, Emery County, UT.

Samuel worked for the railroad. He was an engineer. He died 8 Sept 1901 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. It was the railroad center for New Mexico.

Amanda being left with 3 sons to raise, later married John O. Thompson and Henry Checketts. Amanda is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. Amanda was the daughter of Orland Fish Mead and Lydia Aby Presley.

The family of Samuel and Amanda consisted of 3 boys:

Harris worked for the D & RG Railroad.

Their children Ruth Fern Montgomery (1915) and Florence May Montgomery (1916) were both born in Helper. Evelyn Amanda Montgomery was born in 1918 in Kenilworth, Carbon County.

The family then moved to Garfield, Salt Lake County, Utah where they continued to have children and raise their family.

Alice died at the young age of 37 years old. Leaving behind a family of 9 children. Harris and Alice are both buried in the City Cemetery in Salt Lake City, UT.

George and his wives never had any children.

He worked as a Customs Agent. He is buried in Salt Lake City, UT.

Burt and his wife had 2 children. Burt and his second wife are buried in Ferron, Emery County, UT.

Harris and Alice Montgomery with three daughters born in Carbon County

Howard Edward Perkins

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Dragerton Second Ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Howard Edward Perkins, 64, who died Saturday at the Carbon Hospital after a long illness.

He was born May 3, 1896, at Mt. Pleasant, to Daniel H. and Martha Ericksen Perkins. He married Ruth Grames October 9, 1938, at Price. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake City LDS temple. He had been employed as store manger for the Spring Canyon - Standardville Coal companies and the Union Supply Company at Dragerton. More recently he had been a car salesman.

Surviving are his widow, sons and daughters; 15 grandchildren, a brother and sister. Burial was in the Price City cemetery.

Information about this family donated by Diane Perkins.

Maude Larsen Perkins

Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs. Maude Larsen Perkins, wife of Howard E. Perkins of Standardville, in Price tabernacle. Mrs. Perkins died Saturday. She had been a resident of Standardville for the past seventeen years, being born at Castle Dale, May 11, 1910, a daughter of Hyrum S. and Dora Acord Larsen. Bishop C. I. Reid conducted the services. Survivors are her husband and mother, five sons and daughters and the following brothers and sisters.

Information about this family donated by Diane Perkins.

William Keddie Douglas

William Keddie Douglas was a son of Thomas Greig Douglas, born 1831 Dysart, Fife, Scotland and Margaret Keddie born 1833 Markinch, Fife. He was one of 10 children. Five of his siblings died young ie John, Alison, James & Catherine and one other. His father was a Flax Worker in Fife. Two of the older children, Isabella and Thomas, stayed in Scotland while three left for America with their parents for a new and hopefully better life. They were Elizabeth Fyfe Douglas born 1861, Coalsnaughton, Tillicoultry, Fife, Janet Keddie Douglas born 1863 (as above) and William Keddie Douglas born 1867 Beath, Fife. He also was a Flax Mill Worker in Kinglassie, Fife. William married Hannah Jane Small Robertson born 1874 in Jarrow Durham, England. They married in 1891 in Utah. They had children Thomas Greig born 1892 in Spanish Fork, George Robertson born 1893, Chase Turnball born 1895 and William Wallace Douglas born 1897. Only the last two boys survived to a ripe old age with descendants. Hannah went on to marry twice following the death of William. Elizabeth Fyfe Douglas married Henry Harrison Wilson born 1858 Scotsdale, Pennsylvania. Their children are John Henry, Lewis Carson and William Douglas. After the death of Henry, Elizabeth, married William L Mathews. William Keddie Douglas and his brother-in-law were both killed in theScofield Mining Disaster of May 1, 1900. The father, Thomas Greig Douglas, died in Spanish Fork in 1917 and Margaret died in 1898 in Scofield, Carbon, Utah. They probably never saw their remaining Scottish family again.

Birth: Mar. 25, 1925
Enlisted in WWII: 8 Oct 1943
Death: Dec. 29, 1944
Service: Company 1 3rd Battalion 502 nd Parachute Infantry, 101 St Airborne Division
Killed in the Battle of the Bulge

WELLINGTON, Carbon County- The body of Pvt. Ernest F. Bruno, 20, Wellington, paratrooper killed in the battle of the bulge in France Dec. 29, 1944, has arrived in Price.

Holy Rosary will be recited at the Mitchell Funeral home in Price Monday at 8 p.m. Requiem mass will be celebrated at the Notre Dame Catholic church by Rev. Thomas F. Butler at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Pvt. Bruno was born at Price March 25, 1924, a son of Ernest Felix and Carmela Pagona Bruno. He enlisted in the army at Fort Douglas in November, 1943. He received his basic training at Camp White, Cal., and his paratroop training at Fort Benning, Ga., from where he went directly overseas.He was a graduate of Carbon County high school and was engaged in the livestock business at the time of his enlistment.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Carmela B. Galsone, Biggs, Cal.; four brothers, Michael Bruno, Price; Leonard Bruno, Salt Lake City; Jesse Bruno, Salt Lake City, and Felix Bruno, Price; two sisters, Miss Betty Bruno, Gridley, Cal.; and Miss Beverly Bruno, Biggs, Cal.

Burial will be in the Price city cemetery.
-The Salt Lake Tribune, June 5, 1949

Recently a helmet belonging to Ernest Felix Bruno was found in the south of Carentan in Normandy. It is believe that Ernest Bruno lost the helmet between June 9 and June 13, 1944 in Carentan. Photos of the helmet were donated by Arnaud BRIDELANCE.

December 31, 1925 - January 16, 2011

Merrill C. Newren passed away due to complications from heart disease on January 16, 2011 in his home in Holladay, Utah at the age of 85. Merrill married Marjorie Keyte of Mona, Utah. Together they are the parents of three children. He graduated from the U of U, survived WWII; he retired from the U. of U. Medical Center. He was active in church positions, gardening, golfing and table tennis. He loved being part of family and family activies. He always had a desire to learn and improve.

He is surived by his wife of 62 years, his younger brother, 3 children, 13 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Viewing will be held Friday, Janaury 21, 2011 at the Holladay Cottonwood Mortuary, 4670 So. Highland Drive, Holladay, Utah between 6 and 8 p.m. Services will be held Saturday, 11:00 a.m. at the East Millcreek 2nd Ward, located at 3750 So. Hillside Lane (2500 East). There will be a viewing one hour prior to services.

Harmon Harry Day was born May 17, 1901 in Butler, Tennessee to Mr. and Mrs. John Day. He married Bessie Louise Johnson on May 11, 1934 in Colorado. Harmon was a coal miner and settled in the coal mining town of Dragerton, Carbon, Utah. On Monday, May 3rd, 1965 after a long illness he died in the Carbon County Nursing home. He is buried in the Price City cemetery.

Bessie Louise Johnson was born on April 13, 1915 in Tres Piedras, Taos, New Mexico, to Dugger Johnson and Eliza May Campbell. She died at the age of 56 in the Price hospital following an illness. She is buried in the Price City cemetery.

I was born in the town of Castle Gate, Utah (in Carbon County) to Thomas Levi Reese and Margaret Ann Davis (Davies) Reese on May 1, 1905. My mother and father were born in Wales. My father came to settle in the United States. He then sent for my mother, whom he married after her arrival here. They were married in Emery County near Price, Utah. They lived in Winter Quarters, Utah for a short time and then settled in Castle Gate.

My father was a coal miner. He told of his father carrying him on his back to help him the mines in Whales. He was only eight years old at the time.

My mother and father had seven children. Glyndur Davies, Theodore, Levi, Annie, Thomas, William, and Edna May. My brother, Glen, was the first baby born in Castle Gate. He was born in a tent, as they had not yet built homes there. My brothers, Levi, Thomas and William died at an early age. Levi fell from a load of hay and his neck was broken. Thomas had a heart condition and William died from complications caused by and infected tooth.

I can't remember my sweet mother. She died when I was two years old on July 12, 1907. I have been told that she may have had leukemia. I went to live with my Aunt Mary and her daughter, Vannie. They took care of me until my sister, Annie, was old enough to take over the responsibilities of the family. They have told me how much they loved me and how hard it was for them to give me up. My sister took the place of my mother and gave up so much to help raise all of us. I loved her very much.

I have faint recollections of living in Wyoming as a child. My aunt tells me that we lived there two different times. My brother, Levi, was killed there and my sister, Annie, was born there. She was the only on in our family that was not born in Utah.

My father was a kind, loving man. He did all he could to keep us together after the death of my mother. He spoiled me terribly.

The members of my family have all passed away now, but I have many happy memories of them. Mine was a happy childhood in the small town where I grew up. I remember the band and orchestra my brother, Glen, directed. He was such a fine musician. My father played the flute and piccolo. My brother, Bill, played the trombone. My brother, Theo, played big base and Glen also played the trombone. My father and Glen directed a choir in our church. They all sang so beautifully. I remember the bandstand in the middle of town. We had a band concert there every Sunday. The ladies would serve cookies and punch to everyone. We had a dance in our big hall every Saturday night. People would come from all over the county to attend. I remember on Halloween when we had a costume ball. Everyone was supposed to make his or her own costumes. I made a dress and called it "Night". It was black and had a net overskirt held out at the hips by a hoop with silver stars and moons sewed on the net. I wore a big silver crown with a big star on it, with net hanging down my back from the star. I won first prize! I also won first prize for a dress I made for another contest. It was brown satin, hand embroidered in silk thread on the skirt and sleeves. It was so pretty. I have always loved to embroidery, crochet and knit.

In the summer of 1923, my sister Annie, was sent to Wichita, Kansas on a mission for the LDS Church. She was unable to finish her mission as my father was killed in an explosion at the Castle Gate mine, along with 173 other men. This happened on March 8, 1924. It wiped out almost every man in town.

My father had married Hannah Philips of Spanish Fork, Utah just the year before this happened. He had taken me to Spanish Fork to go to High School and live with her in her home there. They had known each other for many years. She was a beautiful seamstress and she made me such beautiful dresses. After the explosion, she moved back to Spanish Fork to live with her married daughter.

After my father was killed, I was sent to Salt Lake City, to go to beauty school to learn how to finger wave and pin curl. After I finished, I went back to Castle Gate to open a beauty salon. It was at this time that I started to go with Welber Hardee, a hometown boy who had helped save me from drowning in the Price River some years before. We were married on December 22, 1925 in Price, Utah. We have had six lovely children. Margaret Elaine, Dorothy May, Joyce Ann, Wilbur Clydell, Deanna Gwendolyn and Douglas Reese Hardee. My two little boys passed away when they were just babies. Clydell at seven months and Douglas at 5 days. They were such choice spirits of our Father in Heaven. I hope that I might live my life to be worthy of raising them in Heaven as we are promised.

In 1959, I had a mastectomy and a nervous breakdown.

My husband died on August 12, 1964 in the Dragerton Hospital. He had cancer of the pancreas. A year later, I took out his temple endowments and we were married for time and eternity in the Salt Lake Temple. I hope he will accept this work.

I became more active in the Church and held offices as Relief Society chorister, Mutual counselor and Relief Society visiting teacher, a position I have held for 40 years.

In November of 1968, I sold my home in Castle Gate and moved into an apartment house in Salt Lake City as all of my children had moved here. I was again asked to be the Relief Society chorister and a visiting teacher. I also joined the Welsh Ladies Auxiliary, as I am full blooded Welshman.

I have lived in the same apartment house for 19 years. They call me the "decorating lady" here. I decorate my door in the hallway and windows for each holiday of the year. I have learned to make pretty roses and other kinds of flowers and put them in flower arrangements.

Here, I met and married James P. Sorensen on December 12, 1973. He was a good, kind man and very handsome. He had many health problems caused my diabetes. He passed away on January 27, 1980 after many operations and much time in the hospital. At the time of his death, he had both legs amputated and was confined pretty much to a wheel chair. He loved my family and they loved him very much.

All of my daughters and their families live nearby. Elaine married Bruce Johnson. Dorothy married Mike Vlamakis. Joyce married Boyd Newbold and Gwen married Henry Coleman, but was later divorced.

Never has a mother been shown so much love and kindness by her family as I have. I hope that some day my family might have a desire to serve the Lord and keep His commandments so that we might all be together again in Eternity.

I love you all very dearly.

Story donated by Julie Withers.

Possibly Jack Watson

Possibly Jack Watson

Utah Territory had its share of bonafide, shoot-em-up gunfights. In 1890, for instance, Price was as surprised as lawman Jack Watson when Watson was gunned down in broad daylight on its main street. He had had a colorful career. As a Confederate soldier he sustained a wound to the instep that gave him a lifelong limp. Despite this, he became a cowboy and then a Texas Ranger. In 1884, after a drinking bout, Watson shot up Montrose, Colorado, and a $600 reward was posted for him. No long afterward he was free and working in Crystal, a Colorado mining camp. There he knifed a man, apparently for cause, for he was arrested but acquitted. Crystal's sheriff had worked with Watson as a cowhand and hired him as his deputy. Watson served faithfully.

By 1890 Watson was in Price, Utah, acting as an undercover agent among horse and cattle rustlers. He must have been successful, for eventually, his cover blown, he had enough enemies that a gunman named Ward was hired to kill him. One day Watson turned up as usual in a Price saloon. Ward waited for him behind a high wagon on the opposite side of the street. When Watson came stumbling out, Ward aimed and fired. The lawman fell, badly wounded. As he tried to crawl back into the saloon to get his guns, Ward fired again. It was the end for Jack Watson.

Source: Bill O'Neal, Encyclopedia of Western Gun-Fighters (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979). Copied from the Utah State Historical Society History Blazer - available on CDRom.

The following information about Jack Watson is also taken from a newspaper article date 14 May 1898 entitled "Bandit Leaders Killed" and is about Butch Cassidy and Joe Walker.

...Joe Bush was in the Price party, having left here last Sunday for the purpose of taking the trail with Sheriff Allred. Along with him was Jack Watson, who has spent the greater part of his life in running down criminals in Colorado, and who bears the scars of eleven bullet wounds sustained in the hazardous calling." ...

The following is a transcript of a letter written by Jack Watson to his brother.

W.C. RICHMAN DEALER IN FRESH DRUGS AND MEDICINES
Surgical Instruments, Appliances, and Electrical Apparatus, Toilet Articles, Cigars, Paints, Oils, Stationery, Price, Utah.

May 29, 1898

Mr. Vesta Watson
Dear Brother,

I received yours of May 1 and was glad to hear from you yet sorry to hear of the death of our parents still I knew of Pas death soon after it took place. But was calculating to see ma again before she died though I can't. well Vesty I suppose you know by this time what I am doing and I have bin in the detective business 8 years. I killed about six 6 men since I rote you at Crestel (Crystal, Co.). But a few years ago I rote you and I was going to Alaska. That was after a Desparado I got. Since I got your letter ave got 4 killed 2 and 2 alive. I have them here in jail waiting trial will come of in about 2 weeks then I am going to quit the bisness for a while any way. Well Vesta you said you had some money for me if you will send it to me I will come home and stay a while you will have to send it by express no more at present your Brother.

J.A. Watson

Ps I got a letter from S.M. to day.

(Letter is from J.A. Watson to his brother Benjamin Franklin Sylvester Watson in Hardin County, Tennessee. He must not have been in touch with his family for sometime because his father had died in 1893 and his mother in 1897.)

Watson Epitaph

In July 2004 a monument will be unveiled at the Price City Cemetery and dedicated to Jack Watson. The following is the epitaph that will appear on the monument.

Jack Watson, a native of Hardin County, TN, joined the Confederate Cavalry in Texas and was wounded twice. He later joined the Texas Rangers, and worked as a blacksmith, a stock detective and a bounty hunter. He was rescued from the wrong side of the law by Sheriff C. A. "Doc" Shores and became a deputy sheriff and a deputy US marshal in Colorado. He was hired as a stock detective by Preston Nutter and single-handedly curtailed the rustling in the Nine Mile area. Jack served on the Carbon County posse that stopped outlaws Joe Walker and Johnny Herring. While waiting for the reward, he got in feud over irrigation water rights and was severely beaten. When he recovered, he challenged his accuser and was shot and killed in a gunfight on the streets of Price by the county attorney, JW Warf.

Christian Hansen was born 20 October, 1866 in Laasby, Gern, Skanderborg, Aarhus, Denmark. The last child of Marie Kisten Jensen Pelsen and Hans Nielsen Herning. In the spring of 1877 Chris age 11 with his two brothers, Niels 22 and Jens (James) 17 immigrated to America with the help of Mormon Elders. Niels was listed as lost at sea. Chris, it seems, arrived in Richfield and lived with the family for a time but left home as a young man to live in the Spanish Fork area. The Denver and Rio Grand Railroad had bought the Calico Railroad from Milan Packard and was building a regular gauge railroad in its place. The D&RG already owned the Pleasant Valley Coal Mine at Winter Quarters. The railroad was called the Pleasant Valley Railroad and Chris worked for it from building it to running it.

While he was living in Spanish Fork he met and married Louisa Mary Mead. They were married 24 January, 1887. Their first child, Verne Orlando Nelson was born in Provo, Utah 17 January, 1888. Other children were born in various other railroad towns where they worked and lived. Hans Herning Nelson was born in Clear Creek in 22 December, 1890. Christian Herning Nelson was born in Price 20 April, 1892, Emron Monroe Nelson was born in Spring Glen in 16 December, 1895. Chris had saved and bought a large farm and house here at Spring Glen. Two years later he was transferred too a job at Thistle, Utah for the next several years. Where four more children were born; Della Larue 23 February, 1898, Norma Presley Nelson 1900, Chester Louis Nelson 1902, and Kisty Gwendoline Nelson 24 May, 1903. Henry Mead Nelson 30 May 1907 and Helen Louisa Nelson 1908 were born in Provo, Utah.

Chris asked his brother, James Nielson to leave Richfield to live and run Chris's farm in Spring Glen until Mary decided to let her family run it. Chris was quite successful and worked himself up to a high position on the railroad. Ella Nielson Boothe said, "I had an Uncle Chris. You should hear about him. He is a famous guy in my life. He was the head of the trains. His office was way up high in the store. When he would come over he would put me in his arms and love me and give me a book or something. I remember standing up on the hill when I had the mumps, waving at the men on the track. When Uncle Chris came they would throw out lumps of coal for us and we would go and get it."

Chris remained the "the head of the trains" for the D & RGW serving the Carbon County coal companies until he moved from Provo to Salt Lake City. The Bingham Canyon mines were mining ore faster than the D & RGW could ship the ore to the Magna mills. Two or three new lines were constructed but this was not enough, so, they built the Bingham & Garfield Railway (the B & G) from the bottom of the Utah Copper Pit directly across the mountain to Magna. It was a 20 mile railway built high up on the steep mountain side high above the town of Bingham. It was a major project with three huge steel trestles across three canyons and four tunnels totaling almost a mile long. And Christian Nelson was the roadmaster, "the head of the railroad". Quite a step from a poor emigrant boy to the head man of the railroad that served both the coal and metal mining industries of Utah.

I have yet to find a family member of the Nelson family to talk to. A newspaper article and what Ella Nielson Boothe tells about her famous Uncle Chris is all that I know about him. Chris was killed in my home town, at Bingham Canyon, Utah on the 19th of March, 1935.

Newspaper Headline; Falling Trolley Pole kills man at Highland Boy Christian Nelson, 68, of 154 West North Temple Street, roadmaster of the Bingham & Garfield railroad, was killed at 10 a.m. today (19 March, 1935) at Highland Boy. Mr. Nelson was killed when a crane on the wrecker struck a trolley pole crashing it down on him.

Mr. Nelson was born in Denmark, 20 August, 1866. He had resided in Utah for the past 55 years and had been connected with the Denver and Rio Grande, Salt Lake & Utah, Southern Pacific railways prior to his last position with the Bingham and Garfield railroad.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Louise Nelson, Salt Lake; five sons, V. O. Nelson, Norman P. Nelson, Chester Nelson, Henry Nelson, Salt Lake; Mrs. Kisty Williams, Winnemucca, Nevada; Mrs. Helen Hade, California. (three children missing)

Mary died in Salt Lake City on the 8th of May, 1948. They are both buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Obituary of Christian Herning Nelson; (son of Christian Nelson) Christian Herning Nelson, 82, 5504 Elaine Avenue, died 14 March, 1975, at a son's home here after a lengthily illness.

Born 20 April, 1892 in Price to Christian and Louise Meade Nelson. Married Ella Driggs. She died in 1947. Former engineer. Member of LDS Church.

Survivors; sons, Raymond C., Salt Lake City, Spencer K., Maywood, California; brother and sisters, Verne O., Norman P., both Salt Lake City; Chester L., Sacramento, California; Della Malcolm, Helen Marlowe, Watsonville, California.

Funeral, Monday noon, 260 East South Temple where friends call one hour before services. Burial Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Obituary of Raymond Chris Nelson; Raymond Chris Nelson, age 81, passed away 4 May, 1998 at the home of his daughter.

He was born 16 October, 1916 in Salt Lake City to Christian Herning and Ella Ann Driggs Nelson. He married Helen Gladys Winkelkotter on 11 August, 1941. She preceded him in death.

Raymond was an avid outdoors man who enjoyed hunting and fishing with his family and friends. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, retired from Interstate Brick and was a member of the LDS Church.

Ray was the father of three and is survived by his daughter, Kristine Blue; son-in-law, David Blue; Grandsons, David R. Blue and Ryan Blue. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Claire, and his son, Wade. Buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery.

The following story is a translation from Marjatta Pulkkinen's article printed in "Keskipohjanmaa" Paper on Sunday, May 1st, 1988, by Terttu M. Härönoja, Golden, Colorado.

On the 20th of December, 1850, the farmhand ("renki") Aaprami Aaprami's son from Tikkakoski, was wedded to the aristocratic farm daughter ("talontytär") Katariina Juho's Daughter Finnilä who had just turned fifteen. The couple was not addressed with these fancy names, and from here on we shall also call them just Aapa and Kaisa. The last names changed often, and after several phases, they ended as the Farm Lesse ("torppari") in the Paster's House ("pappila") in Veteli, first in the Haka Cabin and then in the Isoluoma Cabin. Ten children were born out of which two died very young. Once adults each child left home to become a farmhand ("renki") or a maid ("piika") or a farm lessee ("torppari") - until the travel fever hit and dreams about better future conquered their minds.

The oldest of the children know as Jussi Jännikangas, escaped the travel fever and remained in Finland. Aaprami and his wife Anna Liisa Tofferi first traveled to Pietari (St. Petersberg) and then departed for America with their four children. Tilda, my grandmother, went along as well. They left the prefix of the Isoluoma last name off and were know as the Luomas. Heikki Vihtori from the Villiage of Liedes in Halsua, became the son-in-law, and left from there with his family. So did leave Matti Leanteri with his wife Marjaana Isoaho of Reisjärvi and their children. Kusti and Ales were bachelors when they left. When Viljami left, he took then the parents, Aapa and Kaisa with him. Viljami's Marja, maiden name Pasila, a daughter of a shoemaker from the Village of Patana in Vetelli and her two children and 9 month old twins were left behind to wait for the tickets which never came.

Aapa and Kaisa traveled to join their children to Scofield, Utah. Then about 300 Finns lived there. A temperance Society and a band were founded and actively functioning amongst them. Majority worked in the coal mine owned by Pleasant Valley Coal Company. Everything looked promising until the 1st of May 1900. The trying fate had so arranged that Aapa and Kaisa had to be there and in person to experience the horror and agony when the mine exploded. Their family had six sons and three grandsons left in the depths of the mine.

Isoluoma Family's Grief

Journalists in America told about Aapa and Kaisa as follows: "There are many moving tragedies but perhaps none as tragic and touching as the one with the Luoma Family. Abe Luoma and his wife had seven sons and three grandsons who had left their homes in Finland and immigrated to America eventually ending up to work at the Winter Quarter Mine. Children had wanted their parents, 70 and 65 years old, respectively, to come and spend their last years together with them. The parents were told that they don't have to work anymore because the sons earn more money than they had ever had in Finland. Abe Luoma and his wife arrived in Scofield three months before the accident. Six sons and three grandsons were killed in the explosion. Five sons and two grandsons were married. Only one son, Matako Luoma did not perish in the accident". Most Likely their son-in-law, Tilda's husband Aleksi Vänäkangas from Toholampi was also accounted as a son.

Faddis, Thelma Beth

Here is bits and pieces on Spring Canyon

I was born in Spring Canyon November 5, 1928 at home. Dr. Himes was the attending physician. At age eight weeks I had emergency surgery for a hernia and strangulated bowel. It was performed at midnight my mother wrote, just as the bells were ringing and the whistles blowing announcing the new year. The doctor was Dr. Tuttle. I was blessed and given the name Thelma Beth Faddis just before the surgery. My father was Samuel Emilton Faddies (later changed to Faddis). He was a carpenter and worked maintaining the company homes. His brother Robert Karl Faddis was injured in Spring Canyon when his leg was run over by a railroad car. It had to be amputated, but he died of blood poisoning March 14, l918 at age 21, just one day before he was to go into the army during World War I.

Samuel Emilton double cousin (their fathers were brothers and their mothers were sisiters), Eleanor Faddis Hanna writes of when their family lived in Spring Canyon. She says the school was made of brick and was built next to the church. She was in first grade in 1916 and her teacher was Esther Powell. The State Mine Inspector was John Pettit. Her father, Samuel Joseph Faddies was overseer of all the tracks that were laid to run from the mine. He later was made foreman of the tipple - the tipple being where the coal was dumped from the mine cars, sorted according to size and grade, weighed, then loaded into railroad cars to be shipped out to Helper. Eleanor's second grade teacher was the same lady, but she had married so her name was now Mrs. Withouse.

In May of 1918 a flash flood went through the canyon, flooding the homes as water ran in the hillside built homes in one door and out the other. It took out a large section of the railroad,also, which took until July of that year to repair.

On October 9, 1918 La Rue Faddies was born in Spring Canyon (Eleanor's sister) November 11, 1918 the Armistice was signed and towns people celebrated. The mine whistles blowed, and people cried with joy and shouted, waving flags and singing songs. Everyone was out on Main Street. Eleanor's 4th grade teacher was the same lady, but now, having been divorced and remarried, her name was Mrs. McBeth. The winters brought lots ot snow, so the kids could coast on their sleds from home to school without stopping. The only shopping was at the Company Store, except what you ordered from a catolog from Sears, or Montgomry Ward. Frank T. Bennett was the Chief Clerk at the mine office at the Company Store.

Eleanor's sister, Erma Marie was born December 24, 1919 at home in Spring Canyon. In November 1921, the day before Thanksgiving, Samuel Joseph Faddies was at work as tipple foreman showing the train engineer where to place the railroad cars needed to fill with coal that day, and as he walked backward, motioning to the engineer with his hands raised above his head, he came in contact with the high voltage power lines. His body went up in a ball of flame, then fell to the ground. He was taken to the small hospital then put him on the train to Salt Lake to the Holy Cross Hospital. He died December 1, l921 at age 41 leaving his widow and five young children still at home. After the school year the family moved to Provo and took in BYU students as boarders to sustain them.

Information submitted by Beth Allred.

John Newbern Butt

Arnel S. & Pearl Hamblin Milner

Beth Milner Raynes

My father worked at the Castle Gate mine. He went with an inspector and the inspector told him there was gas in it and it was dangerous but evidently not enough proof to close the mine. My father said he quit and talked a coworker into moving his family with he and his family to Sunnyside. (That was where I was born Aug. 29, l925). Both he and his friend had to take a much lower wage with the move. His friends name has long since been forgotten and my Father is dead so I can't find that out.

It was difficult for the families to live on the lessor wage. My father said his friend was upset that he had listened to my father because he had really liked Castle Gate and now they were in a difficult circumstances because of the move.

When the explosion happened he came to my father, threw his arms around my father and wept and thanked him repeatedly for saving his life.

My father was raised in Wellington and his father, Mother, his mother (Emma Thayne Milner) father and mother (Thayne) and numerous aunts,uncles,cousins,etc. are buried in the Wellington cemetery.

My Mother and Father moved from Sunnyside when I was a baby and built a new house in Wellington. A short time later their house burned to the ground. I remember them saying the piano fell into their basement. They said that they stood by the burned out house, me in their arms and daddy said, "I've lost my sheep (his livelihood) and our home... We can live anyplace we want to. Mama replyed," Provo,I want my children educated."

They did and we are.

Samuel Bert Bunnell

Retired Price Auto Dealer Dies at 80 After Stroke
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Price - S. Bert Bunnell, 80, retired Carbon County automobile dealer, died Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in a Price hospital after a stroke.

Mr. Bunnell started business in Price in 1920 as a partner in the Alger Auto Co. He started his own automobile business in 1926 and in 1930 moved his company to Helper. In 1946, he moved back to Price and formed a partnership with his sons, who now own and operate an auto company here.

Serves on Council

Mr. Bunnell was a member of the Helper Kiwanis Club for 25 years. He served on the Helper City Council from 1940 to 1945. He once was a director of the Helper Merchants Baseball Assn.

Mr. Bunnell attended Emery Stake Academy and served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1908 to 1910. He was a former Sunday school superintendent in Castle Dale, Emery County, and was a high priest in the Price Fourth LDS ward at the time of his death.

Mr. Bunnell was the father of State Sen. Omar B. Bunnell (D-Carbon County.)

Born in Emery

He was born Aug. 5, 1885 in Lawrence, Emery County, to Samuel David and Marietta Moore Bunnell. He married Louise Kofford, April 5, 1911, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died Feb. 27, 1956. He married Grace Roberts in June 1958, in the Salt lake LDS Temple.

Survivors include his widow, Price; sons, Sen. Omar B. Ross, Kay, Louis, Boyd, all of Price; 15 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren, stepson and stepdaughters, Robert Roberts, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Harold (Fay) Harding, Mrs. Vernon (Bonnie) Merrill, both of Kaysville, and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Young, Bountiful.

Rites Saturday

Funeral Services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Carbon LDS Stake Center. Friends may call at Mitchell Funeral Home in Price Friday from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday at the stake center one hour prior to services.

Burial will be in Price Cemetery.

Clyde & Amanda Pace Roberts

Amanda Pace Roberts taught school in Columbia. She was the wife of Clyde Roberts a personnel director at the Columbia Mines. In an article written by Gerald Evans that appeared in the spring 2002 Carbon County Historical Society Journal it says: "The first school was held in a tent and began September 7, 1923. There were 29 pupils who experienced a thrill of holding school in a tent with new desks, supplies and even a new teacher with children who had never been together before. Even the town was new."

"There were seven grades in one tent. Eight children in the first grade which was the largest. Later in the year one eighth grade pupil came, making eight grades in the tent. By hard work of the teacher and pupils a space large enough for a ball diamond was made. In the bright fall days the tent became too hot, then pupils and teacher went out under the cedar trees to continue classes, rocks and logs providing the seats. Mrs. Amanda Roberts was the first teacher. She is still a resident of Columbia and the wife of chief clerk in the office, Mr. Clyde Roberts. Mrs. Roberts recalls that the first janitors were the pupils. Ventilation was difficult. When the stoves in the middle of the tents became hot the tent was hot, if the fire went down a little, children got cold but even so school was held in the tent two years. The third year school was held in a beautiful new building which is an honor to the town."

Amanda and Clyde had two children, one died at birth and the other, a boy named Carl, was raised in Columbia. He attended high school at the Wasatch Academy in Mt Pleasant. Carl eventually received a advanced degree in geology and worked for an oil company in Houston, Texas. He was married to Rogene "Jeannie" Cullen and they had two daughters.

Edward T. Jones, a farmer and ice maker living about a mile west of Helper, was almost instantly killed a few minutes before midnight Saturday, while crossing the D. & R. G. railroad tracks at Spring Glen. Jones had been to Kenilworth on business and was on his way home when killed. He was driving a horse and single buggy and was struck by the 2nd section of passenger train ____4, due into Price from the west at 12:14. The body was found at 12:30 by people coming from " ___ench'ys" park, south of the track near Spring Glen, where a dance had been in progress during the evening. The heart was still beating when the body was found, but the neck had been broken by the impact of the engine striking the body. The horse and part of the harness was carried to this city on the cow catcher of the engine.

County attorney Hoffman went up to Spring Glen from this city Sunday morning to investigate the killing but decided the cause of death was so obvious that an inquest was not necessary, and none was held. Dr. Dowd of Kenilworth had also examined the remains and was of the same opinion.

Mr. Jones was 54 years of age and has been a resident of Carbon county for about twenty years. He is survived by a widow and seven children, now presiding in this county, the children being Mrs. Bertha Montgomery, Mrs. Pearl Davis, Ed. L., Fern, Ruby, Elden and Clarence Jones, all grown except the last three, who are 14, 6 years and 18 months old respecfully.

Funeral Services were held at the Spring Glen meeting house at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Bishop ___ officiating, and the body was laid to rest in Spring Glen cemetery. ___ H. Brown and family of this family attended the funeral, Mrs. Brown being a niece of the deceased.

The story of the Rizzi families in Carbon County, Utah began in 1891 when a young Eugenio Stefano Rizzi left his native Tirol for the promise of America. At 17 years of age, he boarded the SS Bretagne and sailed from Havre, France to New York, arriving at Ellis Island on December 7, 1891, He travelled with several of his friends from his native village of Cloz, Austria (now Italy). In his company were Modesto Rauzi 18, Felice Anselmi 34, Basilio Zanoni 17, Giovanni Rauzi 30, Pietro Zanoni 23, Alfonso Floretta 21 and Stefan Angeli 26. There eventual destination was Rock Spring, Wyoming where many Tiroleans had already settled.

After working for a couple of years as a coal miner for one dollar a day, Eugenio bought a bar with several of his countrymen. It was called the Fountain Saloon and was located across from the train station in Rock Springs. It was often the first destination for newly arrived Tiroleans from the old country. Business was good and the young Eugenio built a comfortable life in Rock Springs, travelling to and from his native Tirol. Three children were soon born in Rock Springs: Rosalia in 1898, Rinaldo in 1901 and Girogio in 1905. Eugenio parlayed his earnings into a sheep ranching business with several other men from the Tirol’s Val di Non. However, this good life was short lived. After falling through the ice during a winter roundup of stray sheep, Eugenio fell ill and returned to Austria. On September 11, 1912, he had a fatal heart attack at the age of 38.

Eugeneio’s wife, Anna Maria Flor of Brez in the Val di Non was pregnant with the couple’s fourth child and travelled to the village of Tret to have her baby with the help of her sister Armida Flor. On April 1, 1913, Eugenio Valentino Rizzi was born some seven months after his father’s death. Nine months later, Anna’s daughter Rosalia died at age 14 from heart failure. Anna lived in Meran, Austria until World War 1 and finally left her new country of Italy for the United States in 1921. She settled in Rock Springs, Wyoming before moving to Price, Utah to join her son Giorgio in 1922.

Giorgio Rizzi married Lena Flaim who was born in Castle Rock in 1899. Together they managed the Newhouse Hotel in Price which was owned by Fedele “Fred” Paternoster and his wife Giuseppina Larcher. Fred Paternoster owned many businesses in Price and built whole block of the city in the 1920s and 1930s. Fedele Paternoster was Lena Flaim’s uncle. In addition to running the hotel, Lena also taught school on the Hams Fork after graduating with a teaching certificate in 1920.

Rinaldo “Roy” Rizzi moved to Price two years after the rest of his family after a successful business career in Meran, Austria. He married Gwendolyn Fenn of Rock Springs and was a successful businessman in both communities. He worked for his uncle Giovanni Rizzi in Rock Springs at the Mercantile Company. He later owned a company in Price called Neon Creations along with his brother Giorgio Rizzi and their aunt Virginia Flor Mengoni. They specialized in neon sign advertising. However, like his father he died at 38 years of age due to heart disease. It is said that Roy told his mother, “I don’t want to die now” and then fell dead in his mother’s arms in his hospital bed in Salt Lake City.

Eugenio Valentino Rizzi also lived in both Rock Springs and price with his mother. The younger Eugenio took up the violin at age seven and attended schools in Price at Southside Elementary and Harding Jr. High. He studied violin in Price under Professor Eugene Hansen and Alvin Duke. From 1922 to 1927, he played with the Price Orchestra and at many social events in the city. In 1927, Eugenio left Price to study violin at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium (New Vienna Conservatory) in Vienna, Austria. He graduated as concert master in 1932 as the youngest graduate in the history of the school. He returned to Price in 1932 and proceeded with a music career in both Europe and the United States.

In 1938, Eugenio returned permanently from Europe as the German anschluss had obliterated most music in pre-war Austria. In the same year, Eugenio and his mother moved to San Francisco, California and later to Hollywood, California where Eugenio became an actor in such films as The Outlaw, To Be or Not to Be and Crash Dive.

Giorgio remained in Price until he was drafted into military service during World War II. After the war, he returned to Price and lived there until the death of his wife Lena in 1950. He then joined the rest of his surviving family in North Hollywood, California.

The Rizzi family, like many fellow Tiroleans, helped build the cities of Rock Springs, Kemmerer and Price into the cities they are today. They were hard working, creative and unflinching in their desire to make their new home in America a better place to live.

Anna Maria Flor Rizzi	Euegenio S. Rizzi	Rosalia Rizzi	Rinaldo Rizzi	Giorgio Rizzi

Eugene Rizzi, a gifted young violinist, son of Mrs. Anna Rizzi, has just arrived in Price after a five year sojourn in Vienna, Austria, where he has recently graduated with high honors from the Neue Wiener conservatory (the New Vienna conservatory), with the title of concertmaster. Mr. Rizzi who is now but 19 years of age, was the youngest student ever to finish at the conservatory, which is considered one of the finest in Europe.

The young concertmaster studied originally with Professor Eugene Hansen and with Professor Alvin Duke of Price. With the ambition to continue his musical study under the best foreign instructors, he went abroad five years ago. Taking some preparatory lessons with Professor Erich Graf, who is one of the first violins of the Vienna opera, he was able to pass his entrance examination with ease, and entered the concertmaster class under Professor Heinrich Schwarz, one of the greatest violinists and teachers of the violin in Europe. Also taking private lessons with Professor Schwarz, Mr. Rizzi was enabled to finish his studies in less than the usual period.

At the same time he was studying harmony and music history with Dr. Robert Conta. He played first violin in the symphony concerts given by the conservatory under Professor Rudolph Nihus (or Nilius), one of the orchestra leaders at the opera, and made a public appearance with the graduating class, a small class of four members finished with him.

If his plans materialize, he will make a concert tour during the winter season.

5 Sep 1919 - The Sun pg 5

Dominick Albo of Helper, who has the honor of being the first man in Utah to volunteer his services when the United States declared war on Germany, reached home last Tuesday evening, coming from the East. He was a member of the marines and was in most of the important battles in which the 'devil dogs' took part. He returned to the states on board the George Washington, which brought President Wilson home from the peace conference at Paris.

1 Nov 1921 - The News Advocate pg 1

Double Rock store fire of 1919. Jennie Ariotti lost her case for damages against Mike Bergera Tuesday when a verdict of no cause for action was given. This automatically ended the several cases brought by the members of the Ariotti family against Bergera as result of the falling of the wall of the Double Rock store after the big fire of the summer of 1919 in Helper. One of the walls of the burned building fell over on the building occupied by the Ariott family, doing considerable damage and causing some personal injuries. Price and Fouts were Bergera's attorneys.

Funeral services were held today at Provo for Mrs. Josephine Thomas Berg, native of Scofield and a relative of numerous Helper and Scofield residents. Mrs. Berg died suddenly Tuesday following a short illness. Mrs. Berg was born in Scofield, Jan. 6, 1892, the daughter of T. H. and Eliza Holley Thomas. The family moved to Salt Lake in 1902 and later to Springville. Surviving are her husband, one son, Max Berg; two daughters, Marian and Jean Berg; her mother, Mrs. E. H. Thomas, Helper; one brother, Lee S. Thomas, Scofield, two sisters, Mrs. Herbert Robinson, Salt Lake, and Mrs. J. C. Kavanaugh, Helper.

death - 30 Mar 1975

age 67, born June 25 or 27, 1907 Diamondville, Wyoming. Parents: Dominic and Mary Ferpatto Bergera. Died Sunday, 30 March 1975 in Price Hospital. Burial Thurs. 1975 Helper, UT. Married Grace Hreinson, 22 Dec 1931 in Castle Gate, Carbon, Utah.

death - 8 Aug 1918 - News Advocate page 4

Died at the home of a son Dominic Bergera, at the age of 71 years. Born in Italy. Lived in Helper many years. Funeral Helper, Sunday. Born 1847.

Born 11 Jul 1882 in Cuorgne, Province of Tarino, Italy. Parents: Lodovico Farpotto and Madelina. Died at Ogden Hospital. Burial Tuesday, 28 Apr 1953 in Helper, Utah. Husband was Dominic Bergera. Came to the U.S. with her husband in 1900. Settled in Castle Gate. Permanent resident of Helper since 1909.

20 Oct 1981 - Salt Lake Tribune page D5

Born 2 November 1904 Ketty, Fifeshire, Scotland. Parents: Archie and Euphamia Penman Beveridge. Married: June 1, 1930, Mary Dalpiaz, Price, Utah. Died: 18 Oct, 1981, Price, Utah. Buried: 22 Oct 1981, Helper, Utah. Retired: Helper Businessman

Killed by falling rock in Royal mine. Widow: Caroline Bertoglio Bianco, one son and five step chilren, two brothers, both in Italy, one sister, Helper.

13 Nov 1930

Funeral services were conducted at the Catholic Church in Helper Wednesday at 11:00 a.m., age 42. Died in Kenilworth 8 Nov 1930 of labor pneumonia, buried Helper. Born 19 Jun 1888 in Camania, Italy. Son of Bernardo and Maria Bianco. Wife, Demoneica Bianco survives.

John James Bianco Sr.,

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Sun Advocate
HELPER - John James Bianco Sr., died October 4, 1981 in a Provo hospital following a short illness. Born September 9, 1916 in Kenilworth, Utah to Barnardo and Antoinette Bianco. Married Freda Hreinson November 8, 1937 in Castle Dale, Utah. Member Catholic Church. Lifelong resident of Carbon County. Served U.S. Air Force, World War II. Retired Postal employee, 11 years service Price Post Office. Former manager of Bonnie Lanes, owned and operated Jonnie's Club in Helper, member Helper Post American Legion, Helper Italian Lodge Stella D'America.

Survivors: wife, children, John J. Jr., Michael B. O'Shea all Helper; Marsha B. O'Shea, Price; nine grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Geno (Katie) Ori, Mrs. Tony (Edith) Tonc, Mrs. Carlyle (Netta) Burton, all Helper. Preceded in death by a daughter, Sahron Heath.

Mass of Christian. Burial Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. St. Anthony Catholic Church. Holy Rosary will be recited Tuesday at 8:00 p.m., Mitchell Chapel, where friends may call Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday prior to services. burial, Mountain View Cemetery, Helper.

Memories of Nick's Club by Don Butler

5 Jan 1979

Age 67, died 5 Jan 1979 in a Price hospital after a short illness. Born 8 Mar 1911 in Helper, Utah to Louis and Olive Luigia Nava Boonza, married Elizabeth Migliaccio, 27 Feb. 1935, Price. Member of Methodist Church. Was elected Helper City Councilman for twelve years. Retired manager of Utah State Liquor store after 29 years.

The Sun, Price, UT pg 3 - February 5, 1931

Mrs. Reva Beck Bosone, a graduate of the University of Utah, has started the practice of law in Carbon County with office in Helper. She is the first woman lawyer in this county and the second one in the state to set up practice. Her husband, Joseph Bosone, is now completing his studies at the University of Utah and will join his wife in the spring.

She passed the state bar examination a year ago, the eleventh woman to do so in the state, and has received her B.A. degree from the University of California, Mrs. Bosone is the fourth woman to receive L.L.B. degree from the University of Utah. Before taking up law study, Mrs. Bosone was supervisor of public speaking and dramatic arts at the Ogden high school for five years. She had the distinction of being the first president of the Phi Delta Delta, international legal woman's fraternity, when it was organized in Utah. Mrs. Bosone will specialize in divorces and personal injury suits.

Boweter, William Sr.

Oldbury, Bilston, England to Benjamin Rowley and Fanny Boweter. wife Emma Beddoes. children: (1.) Fanny born 2 June 1866 in Windhill, York, England. married: 10 Aug 1885 Frank Merriweather. Died; 21 Feb 1951. (2.) Emma (3.) Sarah married William Reese. (4.) William Benjamin. The father came to U.S. Oct 21, 1881 on the ship "Abyssinia", #217 page 388 Wm Boweter, 41, Leeds conference. Settlement, expects money in New York, acting as a ship steward. The wife and children sailed 29 Aug 1883 on the ship "Nevada".

...man found in mine...and although sitting among the dead, was found to be alive, although hardly conscious. After being assited to his feet he walked out, with slight help...taken to Salt Lake hospital.

William was in the Winter Quarters Mine when it exploded May 1, 1900. He was badly burned and taken to a Salt Lake hospital. In the 1920's he told Stanley Harvey this story: Men working in a room near him came to William and said that they were ready to set off some powder, but they had misgaged the thickness of a wall. When the powder exploded, it came through the wall, exploding coal dust which then was like a ball of fire as it went from room to room. Mr. Harvey asked William why did he never tell this story. The reply was that no one had asked him.

...a miner, placed an immense amount of black powder in a hole he had drilled for a shot, at the bottom of the coal vein, intending to blow out all the coal from the bottom of the vein to the top. When the shot was fired the jar or concussion was felt from one end of the mine to the other. The coal dust flew from the discharge to the mouth of the mine, and the only reason the men were not killed by an explosion of dust at that time, was the fact that the company kept the dust on the floor of the entries sprinkled.

Killed in a cave-in at Helper. He had the contract for putting in the bridge across Price river just back of the Tom Fitch residence and was filling in an abutment. The gang had just gone to work after dinner when three or four wagon loads of dirt and boulders caved in from the side of the hill burying Burch underneath. Art Burch came to Price with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burch, 35 years ago.

The Eastern Utah Progress - 28 Jan 1943

NEW MECHANICS TEACHER DIES: HERE SHORT WHILE

Death claimed a member of the Carbon College faculty last Thursday as he was asleep in his room in Price. A sudden heart attack being reported as the cause of death for James Burton Chamberlain, who came here in January.

Mr. Chamberlain was teaching vocational training for war production workers at the University of Utah before coming to Price on January 16 to begin work in the automobile mechanics department.

Funeral services were held Tuesday in Salt Lake City, where the body had been shipped by the Mitchell Funeral Home.

J. M. Naylor and Dr. A. E. Jones attended the services as representatives of the college faculty.

Carbon County News, June 27, 1912 page 5

Old Tom, the aged "Chink" who carries the mail between the Post Office and the depot at Helper, and who has been a resident of that city for more than 20 years attempted to stop 2nd No. 5 Saturday afternoon at that place by the simple expedient of getting in front of it. Marvelous to relate the engine butted him off the right-of-way without injuring him in the slightest degree.

2 Jun 1969 - The Helper Journal

Born 23 Jul 1927 in Spring Glen, Utah. His nickname was given to him from falling into a cinder pit while working as a call boy for the D&RG RR. He was a barber in Helper, a veteran of World War II, receiving the medal of valor for saving lives in a barrack's fire. He was a team manager for Pony League. He died 1 Jan 1969.

Curtis, James P.

...was born in Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, April 1862, and has served his country in the army for eight years. At the last election he was elected Trustee for Scofield Town by a handsome majority. He is also chairman of the Joint Board of quarantine. being a past grand, he was the first D.D.G.M. for Scofield, and was one of the charter members. He is much admired by the members of Scofield Lodge No. 32, for his sterling qualities. Having been an Odd Fellow for many years he is able to give good advice in the councils of the lodge. he served as representative from here at the last session of the Utah Grand Lodge. He was outside foreman at number four when the explosion occurred and labored night and day with his men, sending material etc. into the mine for the use of the rescuing party.

Steve Pallas (Telios Palloudakis)

News Advocate - 26 Mar 1925

Mr. and mrs. Pavlos N. Palloulakis of Crete will receive $1000, less $150 attorney's fees, as benefits from the death of their son, known as Steve Pallas, in the Castle Gate mine disaster on march 8, 1924, according to a decision of the state industiral commission at Salt lake Saturday. The parents were presented at hearing by another son, who established that the man now dead had made contributions from time to time to support his father and mother.

Thomas Topping Lamph

copied from - Lamphs: They came for Markethill
by: Francine Lamph Berrett

Thomas Lamph was superintendent of the National Coal Company at the National Mining District in Carbon County. he is a native of England, but has lived in Utah since boyhood. The business in which his experience and his inclination have made most expert has been mining. He was born at Workington, England on 14 May 1872, the son of Daniel and Eleanor (Topping) Lamph. His father was an iron worker in England and after coming to the United States established his home in Utah.

Thomas Topping Lamph attended school in England and at the age of thirteen came to Utah. after arriving in Utah with his father, he completed his education at the age of fourteen. In 1886, being employed in a quarry, later in the mines. He lived in Salt Lake from 1888 to 1890. He lived in Castle Gate from 1890 to 1906. For one year he was street inspector in Salt Lake City. In 1907 he went to Dawson, New Mexico installing a check system for a mining company and subsequently was made mine foreman for Phelps Dodge Corporation. Returning to Utah in 1910, he became mine foreman for the Kenilworth Coal Company in in 1912 was sent to Hiawatha as safety foreman and explosive inspector. His next commission of responsibility was to open the Standard Mine at Standardville in 1914. In 1917 he opened the Wattis Mine for Mr. T. Rains and in 1918 was made mine superintendent at Rains. In 1919 he was operating a mine of his own in Straight Canyon. In 1920 he worked at Standard as mine superintendent. In 1924 he was appointed to reopen the Castle Gate Mine after a destructive explosion had occurred there.

In September 1927 he was sent to Gordon Creek District as superintendent of the National Coal Company and his duties have kept him there for the past four years.

He was very active in many public affairs and during 1903 to 1907 served as County Assessor of Carbon County. He married in 1894, Sarah May Eden of Braidwood, Illinois. Their children are: Edna, Annie, Thomas E., Lucille, and Elizabeth Mae. Probably no man in Utah has done more of the supervisory and constructive work in the development of Carbon County coal mines than Mr. Lamph. He was ordained High Priest which he held at the time of his death. Mr. Lamph retired in 1932 moving to Orangeville, Utah. While in Emery County he worked as foreman on road projects. Mr. Lamph passed away at the home of his son, Thomas E. Lamph, in Price, Carbon, Utah on 25 February 1947.

Franklin Marion Ewell

The News Advocate - 27 Dec 1923 pg 1

FUNERAL OF F.M. EWELL TAKES PLACE AT PROVO

Franklin Marion Ewell, for many years a resident of the Spring Glen community of Carbon county, died Monday morning after a lingering illness at his home in Provo. He left his county some twenty years ago, since which time he has lived in Provo. He was born at Payson February 6, 1862.

He is surivived by his wife, Kate Thompson Ewell: five sons, William Marion Ewell of Mammoth, Lawrence T. Ewell, Roy Ewell, David Ewell and Arthur Ewell, all of Provo. Three daughters, Mrs. Alice Chadwick of American Fork; Mrs. Merling Jolly of Provo and Miss Dorothy Ewell of Provo also survive. He is also survivived by seven grandchildren, three brothers, Lorenzo Ewell of Provo, William Ewell of Salt Lake City and Permit Ewell of Payson, and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Pratt of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Laura Dennis of Myton.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Third ward chapel. Interment was in the Provo city cemetery.

The Sun - 28 Dec 1923

Another of the oldtimers of this locality passed away last Monday when Franklin Marion Ewell died up at Provo after a lingering illness. He formerly lived at Spring Glenn, but left this county nearly twenty years since. He was a native of Utah, born at Payson almost sixty-two years ago. His wife, five sons and three daughters survive, all living in Utah at Provo, Mammoth and American Fork. Many of the family connections of the same name are still at Spring Glenn, the name of Ewell as applied to the community being from this source.

Information received from Barry Ewell.