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1. Overview

Title: Benjamin Broadbent

Author: Wayne Broadbent

Subject: Personal History

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Number of Pages: 10

ID#: 361

Location: Website

2. Evaluation

Evaluator's Name(s): Kent and Polly Erickson

Date of Evaluation: November 2014

Key Words: Franklin, Idaho; tie camp, brewery, Deadman Creek, horse thief

Included Names: Enoch Broadbent, Keturah Ann Lumm, Agnes Colston,Hy Durney, Charles Haderlie, Thomas Smart, Orson Broadbent

3. Svnopsis

The account appears to begin in the middle of the story. It has no title. Itstarts in England where Enoch Broadbent and his wife Keturah were converted tothe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They came to America and movedwest with the pioneers. Benjamin Broadbent is the author's grandfather; his storyis next in the account. He grew up in Franklin, Idaho. At the age of 18 he workedat a tie camp. On returning home from the camp, he passed through Star Valleywhen there were few families living. In about 1893, he and his brother Orson withtheir wives moved to Star Valley.

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Some of my most enjoyable days areremembered, as the days when I wouldset on my grandfathers step, and hewould tell me the experiences he hadas a young man. I would set on theporch in the summer, and in the housein the winter, and listen to him relate these stories by the hour. Asnearly as I can remember, I will relate them in this biography of thelife of Benjamin Broadbent, mygrandfather.

How I wish I could have had oneof the tape recorders then that areso prevalent today.

Wayne BroadbentJune 9, 1982

When the census takers came to a certain home in Normanby,Lincolnshire, England in 1841, there was found living there, alongwith others, Enoch Broadbent, his mother Sarah and a servant girlKeturah Ann Lumm. Enoch had served an apprenticeship at the KingsCourt as a doctor, with his uncle. No mention can be found as towhether this uncle was his mother's or father's brother.

On July 5, 1842, when Enoch was 30 years of age and Keturah was18, they were married in Normanby Parish.

Between 1843 and 1849, their home in Normanby was blessed with thebrith of four children. Mary, September 21, 1843; Oames, June 10, 1845;Ruth, June 25, 1847; John, November 17, 1849. Mary lived to be 81 yearsof age and married Thomas Slater and died March 7, 1924 at Ogden Utah.James died March 9, 1847.

In January of 1849, two young men representing the Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints, called at the Broadbent home. They taughtthe principles of the gospel of their church to Enoch and Keturah.Keturah was baptized on March 12, 1849 and Enoch was baptized August IK1849.

On November 20, 1850, Enoch and Keturah, with their three remainingchildren, Mary, John and Ruth, left England for the United States ofAmerica, their goal Salt Lake City, Utah. While on the ocean there wasa time the ship was becalmed because of lack of wind, at this time anumber of the passengers became ill and many of them died; of thes, twowere the children of Enoch and Keturah. John died on Christmans day,December 25,, 1850 and Ruth passed away three days later on December28, 1850. Both of the bodies were consigned to the ocean.

Upon arriving in America, this couple with their seven year olddaughter, Mary, made their way to St. Louis, Missouri, where they livedfrom early in 1851 to about the 1st of June 1852. While in St. Louis,Enoch worked at odd jobs, and Keturah taught school, to earn more moneyto purchase the things necessary for their journey across the plains toUtah.

In the late spring of 1852, the family started across the GreatPlains with a wagontrain headed for Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, wherethey were going to make their home and Enoch could carry on with hismedical profession.

They endured many hardships while crossing the plains. One, particularly of interest, happened because Keturah was expecting a baby andhad been very sick since leaving Omaha Nebraska. The wagontrain stoppedfor the night by a large lone pine tree (Lone Pine Nebraska). Itappears, that when the wagontrain left early the next morning, Enochforgot to check his family, because Keturah had wandered away from thewagon and was left behind. The Lord must not have wanted her to die,because a friendly old indian found her and went riding after the wagontrain. When he met up with it, he told them they had left a squaw behind. Heads were counted and they found he had told the truth. Thewagontrain turned around and went back, even though there was muchgrumbling from some. Keturah was found under the pine tree with a newborn premature baby boy. This was June 21, 1852. He was given the nameof Orson and lived until August 18, 1934, when he died at Thayne Wyomingat the age of 82. During his lifetime, he was an indian scout, trapper.

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freighter and farmer. He married twice, once to Alice Durney and waslater divorced and second to Agnes Watson Colston. He didn't have anychildren.

When the Broadbent family arrived in Salt Lake Valley, PresidentBrigham Young sent them to help settle Sessions Utah, as the doctor forthe settlement. Here Enoch took care of the sick, but as money was ascarce item, he supplemented his income by farming. While the familylived in Sessions a baby girl was born to them. They named her Keturah,after her mother. She was born on January 17, 1855 and married WilliamNorville Head, February 15, 1876 and had a family, when she died onJanuary 31, 1888 at the age of 33.

From Sessions, the family was asked to go to Provo Utah. Hereanother baby girl blessed their home on July 17, 1858. They named herSarah Ann. She married Joseph Smith Nelson on July 5, 1882 and raised afamily until her death, November 25, 1921.

The family only remained in Provo a short time until they moved toSlaterville Utah. They only lived here a little over a year, but in thatshort time two events of note took place. First - Mary, their oldestdaughter, married Thomas Slater on September 22, 1859; and second theyhad twin babies. One boy and one girl. They were given the names ofGarnet and Cecille. They died, shortly after birth, in the year 1859.

In 1860, Brigham Young called the Broadbent family to help colonizea settlement in Northern Utah, which later was found to be in Idaho andwas named Franklin, the first permanent white settlement in Idaho.Because Enoch was a doctor, Brigham Young requested that he did not farm,but just locate on enough ground for a house, cow and a garden. Fourmore children were born in Franklin; Joseph, born November 22, 1860;Benjamin, born March 17, 1863; William, born November 13, 1866 and George,born October 21, 1869. Joseph married Lottie Hancey on December 8, 1886and died, leaving a large posterity, in Ogden Utah on May 19, 1948.William died June 20, 1879 while on a freighting trip to the gold minesin Bannock and Virginia City, Montana, with his older brother Orson. Heis buried somewhere in Montana. George married Mary Emily Swainston onDecember 23, 1900 and died, after raising a large family, on December 9,1939 in Salmon Idaho.

Enoch Broadbent was a very religious and God fearing man. Duringhis lifetime, he and one of his friends, Thomas Smart, wanted to know ifthere was life after death. They made a pact between them, that if therewas and it was permissable to do so, the first one to die would let theother one know in some manner. Enoch died first, in April 1875. Thatsummer, Mr. Smart was driving past the Broadbent home in his buggy, whenhe saw a man standing by the gate. He spoke, "Good Morning Enoch" anddrove on before he realized that Enoch had died. Immediately, he stoppedand looked back - but there was no one there. He always figured thepact had been fulfilled.

The foregoing gives a brief insight of the parentage and ancestorsof my grandfather, Benjamin Broadbent, of whom the rest of this story isabout.

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The community of Franklin Idaho is built on a bluff overlooking theBear River on the north. It was along these river bottoms that Benjaminplayed as a boy. Franklin was settled at the time when the Indians werestill unrestful and with this in mind, the town was built around a largesquare area, where the livestock could be driven in at night and at anytime an emergency arose. To the northwest of Franklin, is a butte risingfrom level ground on the north end to several hundred feet on the southend. During the daylight hours, there was always a man on the high endof the butte to watch for Indians. If any were spotted, he was to lighta signal fire, to warn the stock herders and the people in the settlementto corral the stock and make preparation to repel an Indian attack.

When grandfather was 12 years old, his father died leaving his wifeand seven unmarried children. Orson, who was 25 years old at the time,was away from home most of the time hauling freight to the Montana goldfields in the summer, and trapping in the winter. With Orson gone, itwas Joseph, age 15, and grandfathers responsibility to supply the needsand wants of the family, as William and George were too young. With thisneed in mind, these two slender boys went to see about work at a railroadconstruction camp nearby. The foreman turned them down at first becauseof their extreme youth and small size, but after they talked awhile withhim, he agreed to try them to see how much work they could do. Withgrandfather driving the team and Joseph holding the scraper they managedto do the work of one adult man and this was the wages they were paid,which was very welcome in the Broadbent home.

Grandfather was active in the church until he was in his late teens.He stopped going after a reprimand from the bishop that he felt was unjust,By his own account, this is what happened. A group of young people hada party one night that lasted longer than was thought proper. The bishopbarred them from any church sponsored activities until such a time as apublic apology was made. Grandfather did not feel he had done anything wrong, so he did not feel he should apologize.

Franklin, and the surrounding settlements, were like any place today,in as much as, when the young folks of two communities get together thereis always some good natured arguing and fueding taking place. The summergrandfather was 17 years hold, he worked in the beer brewery in Franklin.One day when he and another fellow was workin,g, two young men fromRichmond Utah rode up on their horses, dismounted and came inside. Ascan be expected, some arguing and hurrawing took place. After it hadgone on for a time, grandfather and his fellow worker tossed the twoRichmond men into a vat of beer and went on with their work, of bottlingthe beer to sell. Grandfather said he supposed worse things had beenput into beer without hurting it.

The love of the outdoors and the mountains beckoned to him and sothe work at home became the responsibility of Joseph and George, afterWilliams untimely death in Montana. Through necessity, he became amarksman with the rifle and a good hunter and trapper. I remember hearinghim joking with my uncle while they were preparing to go hunting becauseof the number of rifle shells they would take. He figured, that one shellfor each elk, you wanted, was sufficient.

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The winter after he turned 18 in 1881, he got a job cutting railroad ties for contractors by the name of Cole and Carter. The tie campwas in the Snake River Canyon on Wyoming, upriver from what is now AlpineWyoming. As there was not any road, but only a poor horse trail into thearea, the winter was spent cutting and squaring the ties and then bringingthem to the river and piling them. When spring came, the ties were putinto the river to float to the Idaho Falls, Idaho area where another workforce, working for Hank Keefer and William Oliver, took them out and hauledthem to the railroad construction camps.

Grandfather said the cook at the tie camp, where everybody was supposedlyall men, turned out to be a woman. She had worked all winter without anyone knowing. One of the fellows, grandfather had worked with, told him thecook had married one of the tie camp men. This was several years later.

During the winter, the section of the river by the tie camp froze overand a hole had to be chopped in the ice for camp water. One day grandfatherwent for water and slipped into the hole. Only the involuntary act ofthrowing his arms upon the ice at the edge of the hole kept him from beingcarried under the ice. He then managed to get one leg on top and rolledout onto the ice. He was wearing high boots, at the time, that filledwith water making it extremely difficult to get out.

Toward spring, grandfather and two other men were near the top of aridge looking for more tie timber. As he started to walk across an openface of the mountain, he felt the snow start to move. He knew he hadstarted a snow slide and ran for the timber. He just reached the edge ofthe clearing when the snow overtook him and swipt him along with it. Herode it out to the bottom of the mountain and because he was on the upperedge of the slide, he was only buried in the snow up to his armpits. Hiscompanions heard him yell and heard the slide. When they reached him,they had to use their axes to chop him free. He escaped with only a fewbruises.

When spring came and the ties had been started down river, he set outfor his home in Franklin. His only means of transportation was walking.At the mouth of the Snake River, he waded the Greys River and turned southto go through what is now known as Star Valley in western Wyoming. He hadto wade Salt River, and several other streams, before he made it through thevalley. Because of the warm weather and the melting of the snows, allof the streams were running over their banks. When wading a stream, hewould strip to the skin and hold his clothes, food, blankets, rifle andpowder above his head to keep them from getting wet. After crossing,he would hurry and dress to keep the mosquitoes from eating him.

There were only three or four families in all of the Star Valleyat this time.

About the second night, he stayed at a camp in what is now known asthe Narrows. The Narrows are about halfway through Star Valley, wherethe hills come together to divide the valley into two valley's formingUpper Star Valley and Lower Star Valley. This camp was a group of Frenchmenthat had been cutting railroad ties. When morning came they had abreakfast of meat and potatoes. As he was leaving, he saw the hind-quarter of a young horse hanging in the trees. He said this was the firstand last time he ever ate horse meat, that he knows of.

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That day he traveled through Upper Star Valley, Crow Creek and campedhere. That night, and the next morning, he ate fish he had caught in CrowCreek. He then traveled toward Montpelier Idaho. When he left Montpelierhe caught a ride across the Bear Lake Valley with a man hauling wood toLiberty Idaho. From here, he walked to a cabin on Mink Creek. Somewherebetween Mink Creek and Franklin, he came upon his brothers, Joseph andGeorge. He helped them finish their load and rode the rest of the wayhome.

One summer grandfather drove a freight team into Montana for hisbrother Oscar. He said the teams were ten mules hitched to two wagonsin tandum, and in crossing the desert after they left Eagle Rock (IdahoFalls), because of the sand, they would have to leave one wagon and goback for it. All feed and water had to be hauled, adding to the weight.

One summer grandfather. Uncle Orson, Pete Durney and Jim Handy,camped at the Narrows in Star Valley. During this time, they scouted thestreams for likely trapping locations, until the fur became prime and thentrapped until spring came.

The Fall River Basin, east of Ashton, Idaho was the scene of anothertrapping season. They took the wagon into that part of the basin. UncleOrson figured he should be able to take a wagon any place he could ridea horse, so they chopped trees and created a roadway through the forestto the streams they would trap on. Here they trapped beaver, muskrat,mink, weasel, otter and other furbearing animals of the area. They alsoshot bear for their hides, claws and teeth. At one time, while in theBasin, Uncle Orson was attacked by a grizzly bear. He shot the chargingbear with his 45-70 caliber rifle, but it didn't stop. Grandfather wasnot in a position to shoot without hitting Uncle Orson. Uncle Orsonthrew his gun at the bear, drew his hunting knife with one hand and hishatchet in the other and waited. As he plunged his knife into the bearsside, the bear fell at his feet and died from the gunshot wound.

While they were here, grandfather was confined to his bed most of thewinter with inflammatory rhuematism. He contacted this in a most uniqueway. While crossing Fall River, at one place, the ice and debris startedpushing the wagon downstream and the team of horses pulling the wagonpanicked. Grandfather jumped into the icy water, and while swimming atthe horses sides, managed to keep them headed toward the opposite riverbank. However, the cold, icy water took its toll and kept him bedfast,An old Indian happened to come by and stayed and doctored grandfatherwith herbs until he was able to be up and get around. He said, for a longtime, he was so sore and weak he couldn't feed himself so the Indian fedhim. After he was not bedfast, he still was not strong enough to go onthe traplines, so he stayed in camp and took care of the fur the othersbrought in and smoked meat for jerky.

•After the trapping season was over, they loaded their fur and suppliesinto their wagon and took them to Pocatello to sell, but not finding asuitable market for them, they took them to Green River Wyoming. Here theysold their furs to a dealer, then went to the railroad depot to sell theirbear claws and teeth and the elk teeth to Easterners that would stop.

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Some sets of bear claws sold for as much as $50.00 and a pair of elk teethwould sell for $75.00. During the trapping season, grandfather had madea.necklace of bear claws and bear teeth that hung below his waist. It wasthis necklace they sold piece by piece.

At the end of this season, grandfathers hair had grown so long hebraided it and would tuck the braid under his belt.

They spent one season trapping the Portnuef River and sold theircatch in Pocatello, Idaho,

Other trapping seasons were spent on the Greys River in westernWyoming. Because of the lack of roads into the area and it is ruggedcountry, everything used had to be taken by pack horses.

On one of these trapping seasons grandfather, Hy Durney and UncleOrson, left Franklin in the late summer with three saddle horses andseveral pack horses, to go to Greys River. They traveled up the riverlooking for well established beaver colonies, but didn't find what theywanted until they came to what is now known as Deadman Creek. As therewere several beaver ponds and real good pasture for the horses, theydecided this would be ideal for their main camp. Now was the time whenthe horses were really used, as the traps were strung out from the Hogs-back to quite a distance above Sheep Creek. Because of the value of thehorses, in their being able to take the fur catch home, the horses werekept hobbled at all times, so they couldn't stray to far.

One day Hy Durney came into camp, from the trapline and asked wherethe horses were, upon being told they were out in another grove of trees,he hobbled his horse and turned him loose and then proceeded to take careof the fur he had brought back with him.

In a short time his horse returned to the campsite. Feeling something was wrong because the horse had come back, the three men went tosee why he had not stayed with the other horses. They could not findany horses, but they found hobbles laying on the ground and signs thatthe horses had been driven off. They went back to camp and Uncle Orsongot his rifle, field glasses and some jerky. He saddled the only remaining horse and told grandfather and Hy, if he wasn't back by morning,to come after him. He then took off on the trail of the horses.

Uncle Orsons horse was fresh and he made good time following thetrail. After riding for quite awhile, he sighted the horses through hisfield glasses. At about the same time, the horse thief spotted him andtried to urge the horses to a faster pace, but as he had a band to lead,he couldn't make very good time and Uncle Orson was gaining on him. Thestranger tied the horses to a tree, and came back to a ridge of rock andwaited. Uncle Orson was watching him and found cover. When nothinghappened. Uncle Orson took the ramrod from his black powder gun and slowlylifted his hat above his hiding place. As soon as the hat came into vies,the stranger shot twice and Uncle Orson let it drop as if he had been hit.Then he circled around behind the stranger and called to him. The manwhirled to shoot and Uncle Orson shot him with his rifle. The man hadbeen laying on his stomach with two pistols pointed at the spot where UncleOrson's hat had been.

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When the first two shots had been fired, grandfathers heart practicallystopped because he knew it wasn't Uncle Orsons gun. When Uncle Orson firedawhile later, they both knew it and Hy said, "By God, Ocks is on top yet."

After Uncle Orson returned with the horses, they went back and buriedthe horse theif under an overhang. Uncle Orson hid the two pearl handlepistols under a tree with the intention of getting them later but he neverdid.

The horse thief didn't have a horse of his own, and probably thoughtthis was a good way to obtain some, leaving the two men afoot with no wayto travel as fast as he could. If Hy hadn't been out of camp with onehorse, they would have lost all of them.

In later years, after grandfather and Uncle Orson had settled in StarValley, they and two others had finished a trapping season on the GreysRiver and loaded their furs in a wagon that had been left at the mouth ofthe canyon. They took these furs to Soda Springs Idaho by way of Tin CupCreek. They were the first men to take a wagon over this divide.

After they had sold their furs, they camped for the night in thecedar breaks on the outskirts of Sada Springs. All but Uncle Orson sleptin the wagon and he took his bedroll into the cedar breaks a short distanceso he wouldn't feel boxed in.

During the night, he was aroused by someone passing close to him. Onlooking around, he saw two men creeping up to the wagon with drawn guns.As they stood up to look into the wagon, Uncle Orson was right behind themwith his old black powder gun and said "Just carefully back away and getthe hell out of here before you have to be carried out." They left.

About the spring of 1891, grandfather and a young Scottish lassie,Agnes Colston, decided to keep company. They probably knew each otherbefore, but as young people are, that certain attraction had been missinguntil this time.

They were married November 11, 1891, in Franklin Idaho. GrandmotherBroadbent was 18 years old at this time. She had came from Scotland tenyears previous to this time. To this union were born 10 children, 7 girlsand 3 boys of whom 6 girls and 2 boys lived to maturity.

Their first child, Keturah, was born at Franklin on November 1, 1892.She married Franklin W. Moultrie on October 2, 1912 in the Salt Lake L.D.S.Temple. To this union were born 9 children of whom 8 grew to maturity andhad families. These were. Earl Franklin, Florence (died in infancy),Linden Lorell, Nellie Floreen, Arnold D, Leonard Ralph, Agnes Joyce, ClaireLouisa and Beverly Ann.

In the spring of 1893, grandfather and Uncle Orson, who had marriedgrandmother's mother, decided to move from Franklin so they sold theirmother's home to Thomas Smart. Their mother had died in 1889.

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They loaded their wagons and trailing their livestock, they headednorth to Mink Creek and from there they followed the same trail to StarValley, that grandfather had walked some ten years before when he wasgoing home from the tie camp.

This trip was an exciting one for grandmother, as she was travelingover country she had heard a lot about but had never seen.

In Star Valley, they first stopped at a place just on the southernoutskirts of the town now known as Thayne Wyoming. They later moved tothe place two miles north that became their permanent home. It was herethe other nine of their children were born. They were: Enoch Benjamin,named after his grandfather and father, was born April 18, 1894. He diedjust one month later May 18, 1894. Their third child, Elizabeth LaRaewas born May 4, 1895. She married Charles M. Haderlie on December 10, 1912.They had five children of whom three lived to maturity and married. Theywere Agnes Irene, died in infancy, Gladys LaRae, Charles Broadbent and Joy.Their fourth child, and my father, John Elmer was born April 9, 1897. Hemarried Jean Allred Rich on June 9, 1920 in the Logan Temple. They hadfive children. They were Elmer Wayne, Lorna Mae, Vera Leone, Buhl Richand Norville Rich. These all married and have families. The fifth child,Mary Wilmetto, was born February 24, 1899. She graduated from nursingschool, a profession she followed all her life. She married Percy RaeFink on September 15, 1941. They didn't have any children. Their sixthchild, Ruth Ann, was born March 3, 1901. She married Marion Shelley Finkin Kemmer, Wyoming on October 22, 1917. They had three children. MaryJune, Barbara Mae and Ella Rae. They all married and had families. Theirseventh child, Orilla Chloe, was born December 5, 1903. She married DelbertCarlos Wright December 18, 1923 and had six children, who all married andhad families. They were Orilla Florence, Ruth Irene, Delbert Carlos,Robert Broadbent, Dell is and Doris LaVon. Their eighth child, Irene, wasborn in August 1906 and lived but a short time, dying the same year.Their ninth child, Olive Nellie, was born March 27, 1908. She marriedDonald Glenn Sibb^rtt on August 15, 1930. They had six children of whomfive lived to maturity and married. They were Duane, James, died inyouth, Agnes, Genevieve, Benjamin and Clayton. Their tenth and lastchild, Donald Kessel, was born September 3, 1911. He married VelmaMary Simpson on June 5, 1940 in the Salt Lake L.D.S. Temple. They hadfour children Velma Irene, Clyde Donald, Vaughn Kessel and Donna Kae.

When they moved to their final homesite, they stopped their wagonon a creek bank and here they set the wagon box down amid the sagebrush.This was to be their home until a small log house could be built. Theylived in the log house until the family home could be built, at whichtime it was converted into a granery.

Moving onto a piece of land that was covered with sagebrush, willowsand shrubbery was quite different then, than now, as everything had to bedone by hand or with a team of horses and a hand plow. As it was time toplant crops, so that they would have feed for themselves and their livestock, grandfather had to work long hard days. He would use a grubbinghoe and axe to clear the tall shrubs and then plow the sagebrush and pullit by hand and burn it. In this manner, he managed to plant a small cropthat first year and to erect a shelter for the winter.

One winter was so bad, the feed ran low for both man and animal and onlyby rigid measures did anyone survive in the all of Star Valley.

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Most of the land around him was unfenced and did not belong to anyone.He turned his cattle loose on the open land to feed. Sometimes they wouldbe far away when night time came, and would have to be brought back home.

There was always something to do in these early days of making a homeon the virgin land. In the spring he planted crops on the cleared landand prepared more land for the coming year. During the summer months,he irrigated and worked to produce the means to support his family. * Thevalley is isolated and the only means of transportation was by horse andwagon. All fuel had to be wood. This was cut and hauled from the nearbymountains during the winter months. Grandfather would spend all day,almost all winter long hauling wood. When he got it home he still had tocut it into stove lengths with a bucksaw and split it with an axe.

He also had to find some other means of support for his family, sohe went to trapping again. He would set out a trapline he could take careof while he was after wood and in the early spring.

One year there was a report that Indians v/ere on the way into thevalley and the Army sent a regiment to protect the settlers. The Armywintered and suffered severe cold on what is now known as Soldier Creek,about one mile south of grandfathers home.

In later years, when grandfathers crops were planted in the spring,he would work for other people that had need of help. In this manner, heprovided additional income for his family. Some of the time he herdedsheep for Thomas Van Noy and sometimes he worked in a lumber mill close tohome, for C.M. Haderlie, Charles father. It was by working in the lumber-mill he managed to get the lumber to build his home.

The only flour mill was in Afton some thirty miles away, so in thefall, after the wheat was harvested, it would be hauled to the mill andtraded for flour and bran for the winter supplies.

Grandfather and grandmother always liked to have their family together. Whenever possible there would be picnics in the summer andThanksgiving Day and Cristmas was always a time to go to our grandparents home.

Grandfather took every opportunity afforded him to go fishing onthe Salt River. This river was about a half a mile west of his home andI can remember seeing him walking to and from the river with his'bamboocane pole and burlap sack.

Grandfather acted as a guide during the hunting season. I rememberseeing doctors that Dr. Fink, Ruth's husband, had brought with him fromChicago, Illinois arriving and the hustle and bustle of getting ready forthe trip over the mountains into Grey's River to hunt elk. There werehorses to be shod, pack saddles to repair and tighten, and supplies to bebought and divided evenly into the panyards for the packsaddles.

Grandfather, Charles Haderlie, Delbert Wright, Glen Sibb^tt and in lateryears Donald would take the out of state hunters to the hunting groundson Grey's River.

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The horses they used on these hunting trips were not always gentlewhen it came to riding or packing them. Sometimes there was a little funwhen the saddles were first put on them or more often when an unsuspecting"dude" climbed aboard and landed on the ground. Dr. Fink was always onhand with his movie camera on these occasions. He always made sure theother doctors were not warned of the horses ahead of time.

Grandmother Broadbent died August 1, 1937, after a long illnes's.Most of this time she was in the hospital in Afton where Wilmetto was anurse. She died at home.

On the 8th of October 1946, grandfather called Donald to him and toldhim to go get Nellie. While Donald was gone, grandfather quietly passedaway, leaving a mourning family, but had a life filled with experiencesfew men ever have.