Back to business

When I originally started this blog it was for Family History, I've kind of gotten away from that but while doing some filing of research notes I've got a new ancestor for all of you to meet!

William Wilcock, my great grandfather, also my immigrant ancestor. There are a lot of fun stories about William. He was born 10 October 1830 in Ince, Lancanshire, England - he died 5 September 1906 in Parowan, Iron, Utah. Any of you that go to Parowan, can check out the old rock church now owned by the DUP in Parowan and I'm told that his picture is there. William was one of the first to be sent to Parowan and he raised his family there.

William had two wife's (not at the same time) the first was Elizabeth Sharp, and together they had 5 sons.

His second wife (my great grandmother) was Elizabeth Brown, they had 4 sons. Elizabeth B. had a daughter before she immigrated to Utah. The daughter was born out of wed lock and died in England. William had that little girl sealed to him and Elizabeth.

There are many fun stories about William: He was a member of the Parowan Choir and many years served as its leader. The choir went to conference in Salt Lake in a wagon. One time while they were camped near American Fork, people from the town joined them, and a jolly time ensued. A comic song contest was sponsored. Wilcock and a man by the name of Laycock were the singers. First one then another would make his contribution. Finally Laycock sang a song that set the whole crowd roaring with laughter. Wilcock follow up with the song "I couldn't help laughing it tickled me so" It was such a fitting climax that all agreed Wilcock was the winner.

Due to his heavy work on the turning lathes and large machines in the machine shops. William leaned to one side as he walked, however, as a young man his five foot and eleven inches was admired by the young girls. Before he left England a piece of metal flew up and hit one eye, he was blind in that one eye. Later in life he caught another piece of metal or wood in the other eye and was totally blind for many years. He would carry peppermint candy in his pocket to bribe the children of the town to guide him where he needed to go.

He and his sons had a saw mill "up the canyon", after William became blind he turned the mill over to the boys. One time the mill was not working right, the boys took their father up to the mill to see if he could advise them what was wrong. He sat and listened to the mill and told the boys what was wrong and how to fix it.

That Saw Mill stayed in the family for many years, I remember my Dad talking about his dad working up there and my Uncle Alma recently wondered if we could find it again.

William for his own amusements made an all brass locomotive. So small that it set in the palm of your hand. It was a perfect model of locomotives used on the railroad at the time and would run around on the floor by its own power. It generated its own steam and use a cylinder. This locomotive is in the museum at the St. Louis, MO. he also made a tiny up and down cylinder, stationary steam steam engine it would set on a 50 cent piece, but it would still produce power.

There are many more fun stories about William, if you look in any books on Parowan and/or Iron County, you will find William mentioned. He was a very prominent man in Iron County, Utah

Here is an older William:

I never planned to be this old!!

I never thought I would be 60 years old, but this week I will be considered a "Senior Citizen"! With that title there are some perks, I hope! I didn't in my wildest dreams, when I was young, think I would be this old, however, it's here so I may as well celebrate.


I really was a "cute" little kid, here are some pictures to prove it. Here I am in 1944.

One year old in 1945


1946/47 Daddy brought me pearls from Germany!





Lets jump ahead, here I am on my 10th birthday. June 1954, we lived in Lynndyl, Millard, Utah.



1956, 12 years old, where do you think all that hair went. I remember washing it at night so it would be dry for the next day, I think this was in Tintic, (Eureka) Utah.


1960, Caliente, Lincoln, Nevada. Looks like I'm growing Up.





17 years old, another younger birthday!!!



1962, Senior High Picture, do they still do feathers? I did get rid of most of the hair.


Childhood is over, here I am Married with child, I will end up with three wonderful children. This was a very long time ago, and it happened very fast.
This picture was taken in San Diego, California. My husband was a sailor.


Then Divorce Happened, I never ment for that to happen either, here is my family in 1975.


We were and still are "a happy Family!!!"



Re-Marriage in 1978, I inharited 4 more girls! Yikes! - double yikes! But we muddled through.
Gene and I have been muddeling trhough for over 30 years. I think I'll keep him.
Then I became a grandma, I love being a grandma! Here we are 4 generations of girls, I'm the old one in the middle, Nana is holding Melanie. This was taken 18 years ago, in Panaca, Nevada.
And now I'm a great grandma, I love being a great grandma. I'm the really, really, old looking one!!




I have ended up with 7 children, 3 my very own, 33 grandchildren, with one on the way 16aand 1/2 my very own, and 5 and 1/2 great grandchildren, and they are all my very own.
I have a lot to celebrate this year, turning 65 has been a great blessing. I thank the Lord for all my blessings, especially my family.

Pets

Yes! Loralie won that last post. This time I think it will be fun to post some of the pets we've had in the past. The first one I remember was a short haired terrier named Baby. Baby, would steel our candy and go behind the coal stove, where we could not get to her, and eat it.

I thought I had a picture of Baby, but I guess not. Baby was 17 years old when she died I was 19 and no longer living at home. Anyway here is an earlier pet that I do not even remember. Looks like her name is Poochie. We were good with names weren't we??

Next pet is Fluffy, not to be confused with Hagrid's 3 headed dog named Fluffy, this Fluffy is a Pickenese. Here is Mom and Fluffy.

Here is a different pet! When living in Lynndyl we raised a lamb and called her Rosie. She disappeared in the fall and I'm pretty sure we had mutton chops most of the winter.

We decided it would be good for the kids to have a dog. So we went to the Shelter and got a puppy. We never did figure out what to name him, so he became known as Pup. I told you we were good at names. Pup was very protective of the kids, he was small but mighty!! Uncle John had a large Dog, I think a German Shepard, Pup would stand between Joe's front legs and bark at everything, hoping Joe would back him up!!

Charlie, we are getting better at names, was a full size poodle mix. White, and fluffy. We had him for a long time. He was raised by our cat "Mother" and he fought like a cat. He was really good at getting rid of unknown cats, but never bothered Mother. I don't have a picture of Mother, she was called Mother for obvious reasons, but also, she trained all her kittens to the litter box. It was easy to give them away, they were cute and already trained.

We didn't have too many cats, but here is one, I don't remember where he came from, but his name is "Hitler". Look closely you will see why. This picture is taken in Cudahy, or maybe Pioche in about 1966.

One more interesting pet we had was Cinderella, I was working for a Lab Supply House and these little guys were free. Actually some of them got out and we had them all over the warehouse in a not very long amount of time. When Cinderella would get out of her cage, and she was out often, we would find her in my Tupper Ware. Not too good for the Tupper Ware! If I didn't want to be bothered at the pool in the apartment complex we lived in, I would just take Cinderella with me, even men didn't like her. Can't think why.

Last one I have a picture of is Bundy, see we did get pretty good with names. Bundy was a Silky Terrier, small and cute, but wirery. Took to running away and going to a particular home in the neighborhood, finally we just let him go. The people liked him and I was tired of chasing him. Bundy part of the family whenever we could keep him home.

Hope you enjoy my line up of pets, we have had others, James like birds and had a couple of them. Other Various and Sundry dogs. But now Gene and I have none, and I'm really good with that. Gene is enough to care for.

Cowboys

I found a couple of "Family" Cowboys, do you know them?

Interesting

I was scanning in photos, old photos, and had to take a second look at one of them. Even my husband had to do a double take. Here is a photo of me, and next a photo of my darling daughter, what do you think? I lied, I'm the one on the right, and Loralie on the left - poor little gal, at least she knows what to look forward to!!! I love you little girl.

Homes I've lived in!

In scanning in so many pictures I found some of the homes I've live in, I thought it would be fun to show some of them here.

First of all, the first home I "never knew" this is where my parents lived when I was born. I think it's in Upland, California but it might be in Riverside, California. Notice the car in the carport - Mom said the next place we lived was in Texas and she drove that little car all the way to Texas. When Dad was shipped overseas we, Mom and Me, drove back to Utah to my Grandparents. My grandma said I cried with a southern drawl.

After the Army, Dad took a job on the Union Pacific Railroad and we lived in different "sections" of Utah. There was no town there, just houses put up by the Rail Road to accommodate the men that maintained the track. Here is a portion of a house in Blackrock, Utah - am I cute or what??

The next place was Lynndyl, Utah - now isn't this a mottle crew?? From left to right - Tony Fatarsy, Myself, Billo Fararsy and on the end my sister RosaLee, the Fararsy's were friends of Mom and Dads when they were in the Army, they stayed friends for years. They settled in California, I don't remember visiting them in CA, but they did visit us once in a while.

Another Lynndyl, Utah, this is me, I was 10 years old, it was probably my birthday - doesn't this look like a birthday outfit? We are still living in RR Housing, all the houses had large yards, but they were built right along the tracks. We grew up with the sound of air horns, screeching breaks and the rumble of trains right outside our back yard.

I was 12 the summer we left Lynndyl, I love the smallness of Lynndyl, but never did live in any place big, until I had to grow up, so I guess that's why I'm a "small town' girl at heart.

This is the school RosaLee and I attended in Lynndyl, it was the proverable 2 room school, there were only 2 teachers my first and second grade, then they had a baby boom and when RosaLee started, they had to hire another teacher. So, Lynndyl Elementary School! Taken by my very first camera a Brownie Box Camera.

This is our home in Caliente, Nevada on Spring St. Between Lynndyl and Caliente we lived in Eureka, Utah - actually outside of Eureka once again in RR Housing called Tintic. Tintic was also the name of the High School and there I went to 7th and 8th grade. There was one school for 7th through 12 th grades. Anyway this is the first home my parents bought in Caliente. Before this home, we lived in RR Housing in Caliente. Actually in moving to Caliente the RR lost the box car our furniture was in and so for a couple of weeks we lived in a box car pulled on a side track, with a small "hut" (I don't know how else to describe it) close by. We had no running water and the bathroom was a privy away from the living "hut" and box car. Then when they found our furniture we moved into RR Housing, and finally this house on Spring Street. The house is still standing, once in a while when I'm in Caliente I drive past. A fun place to grow up. I was 15 the summer we moved to Caliente.

While living in Caliente, my parents opened a small "cafe" , it was called the "Short Order Cafe" on main street. Here I am

with a friend in the cafe, we were the only place in

town you could get "soft ice cream".

We served a hamburger, with all the trimmings, a scoop of cold slaw and chips for 35 cents. 1959/60. The Short Order Cafe, where I learned to work and boy is the restaurant business hard work.

I was married while we lived in Caliente, my family shortly after moved to Pioche, and opened the Silver Cafe in Pioche. They then bought a home up a hill that was really hard to get up by car when it snowed.

Here is a shot in front of the house looking down the hill, when it snowed it was really slick.

Tareca & Jacquie Joseph(nieces) in the front yard of "The Big House" in Pioche. We called it the big house, but it really isn't that big now. It is now owned by a cousin who bought it from Mom several years ago, she is living in Panaca.

I don't have a photo of the Silver Cafe, but here is one of Mom in front of the Beeline Cafe, she moved down there after several years up town. This cafe was down on the high way. After Dad died she moved a double wide trailer behind the cafe.

This is where Mom lives now called "Ye Ole Homestead" . Mom moved to Panaca many years ago, has since retired from not only the Cafe business but also from working at the Caliente detention center. She has served a mission for the church and still lives here in Panaca with her friend Pappy, her dog.

That's all for now, I'm going to try and clean this up without deleting any pictures which I am really good at. If you have any requests, I'll attempt to do something about them, no promises though!!

I finished another project

Just wanted to brag a bit. RosaLee and I started an embroidery project last year, and because of Christmas and dozens of other things, I put it away "for a season". Got it out last month and once again enjoyed doing the embroidery. I'm not completely satisfied with the end product, I wish I had used a medium color fabric instead of the dark, however, it is finished (except for the quilting). I'm happy with the embroidery so have began another project.

And a close up:

All Better

The new machine was delivered today - hooray - I got to do laundry.


Also computer has been acting up for the last couple of weeks, it turns out to be the browser, so




I called our resident computer guru (Troy) and he helped me download a different browser, I don't know what we did to the old one. Anyway we are up and running again with a new browser, but of course we have lost all our bookmarks, oh well I guess I was tired of the old ones anyway. Also have lost all settings for the visually impaired, this print is so small I have to use a magnifying glass, no worries, I'll figure it out




.
I am getting all my blog sites logged in so I can get to them easily.
I'm sad to see the Mikel Richters' leave the west coast. Even though we didn't get to see them often I knew they were close.

OK! Enough of this, I have Temple tomorrow "we Love to see the Temple" just like Krew - tomorrow I get to be the coordinator so I better get some sleep, is that possible? We have a Stake day so it will be busy - I'm polished my roller skates.

Dead Machine

Laundry piling up all over the place!!!

I really like the modern conveniences of the day but it is really irritating to have them break down.

The really upside to all this is I don't have to do laundry this week, the downside is that no one in this house has clean cloths until Tuesday when the new guy is delivered.

Oh well I guess we'll have to do the "Troy missionary" trick and turn our undies in side out for a day or two.

That's all I have I just wanted to vent some where. Other than that "my" missionaries are terrific, we hardly know they are in the house. They must me very hard working because we seldom see them. They are out working all day and in the mornings they are studying.

That's the update here, after my wonderful "Spring" posting this is a little depressing. but we must have the bitter with the sweet.

It's Spring in So Cal

You understand of course we seldom have much winter, but it seems to be spring today!

The geraniums are blooming on the patio

The roses are beautiful!

The corn isn't quite as high as an elephant's eye - yet. But, we have faith that we will have sweet corn and tomatoes this summer.

My Amaralis are coming up through the pansies and promise to bloom beautifully in a week or so. Should have gotten a better close up of these.

Any how, I thought you would like a glimpse of Spring in my yard. I know it's cold and snowy,in some places of the U.S.A. maybe even where you live and I would really rather it were cooler here. However, we are told to "grow where we are planted" and I'm trying. I miss all of you - hope spring comes to you very soon.