May 25, 2009

After the raid we moved to Salt Lake City Utah. We as a family lived in three different homes while we lived there. The first one was Lindin Av. we lived there for one year . We went to Webster elementary for 6th and 7th grade. It was really quite nice because we lived in three different homes and they were with in two blocks of each other. The last one was right across the street from the school. The others was about three blocks from the school. My seventh grade teacher was named Mr. Scott and this is where I got my son Scotts name. I really liked him. I remember one summer he took his class on a swimming party. I thought I could swim so I went down to the deep end of the swimming pool and jumped in and I decided really quick that I didn't know how to swim because I went up and down and up and down quite a few times before some one got out there to save me. From then on I swim but down in the shallow end of the pool. But I quickly learned how to swim. I taught myself. I later become a swimming teacher but i t was not until I was out of High school. Later that summer we were going to go to Lagoon a amusement park with the same teacher. It was before Lagoon was very big. There was not very many rides there. I think the fun house was the main thing there. It was still fun. I sure loved Mr. Scott he was a very nice teacher. I often wounder if his son is the general authority .

The next thing that happened is the time that Dad decided that the Law was after him so he lo added us all in the car and took us to Nevada so he could keep his family from getting put in foster homes and at the same time he divorced Aunt Esther ,
Dads second wife and married Mom legal. We was not there very long when he decided that he needed to take us to Mexico for the same reason. We were down there for the rest of the summer . Then he took us back to Salt Lake where we lived before. When we got back there our home had been taken and re rented so we had to find us another home. We moved into a house that was over a store right across from the elementary. Dad told us kids that we couldn't go to school because the law was still looking for us and that they would take us kids away from them and put us into a Foster home. I didn't believe that and told Mom that I was going to go to school. Nothing happened .

I think I got to the point where we were moving from Little Field Arizona to Huntington Utah when I last left off. I need to have Rachelle post the last entery because I don't know how to get it back when I save it because I get tired after I have been on the computer for a long time. So I hope I saved it. When Dad moved us from Little Field Arizona to Huntington Utah he had a large truck and loaded all of our things in it but he didn't have a end gate on it and some of us kids had to get in the back of the truck and I remember I was so scared that I would fall out of the back. But ofcourse we didn't but I was still scared. It seemed so long and far away. When we got there it was a coal mind town. There were a few houses but not many and my Dad worked in the coal mind. All we had for a home was a very large tent. There was Isebell, Sherrell, me , Joe, Alma, and Darell. and Mom and Dad. They made two bedrooms and a living room kitschen combind. The boys slept into the living room kitchen and the girls had one of the bed rooms and Mom and Dad took the other bedroom. We lived there for about two years. I was in the third grade when we moved down there. This seems so weird because I was in the first grade when we was in Little Field we moved to Short Creek for a few months befor we moved to the coal mind. We moved so often I get so mixed up. While we lived at the coal mind Mom had another baby boy. He was born in september in the middle of my third year in school my sister Neta lived in Nevada and she wanted me to come live with her for the second half of my third year in school and my mom let me go but if it would have been me I wouldn't have let one of my kids go in the middle of the year but my mom let me go. I don't know that it was too good for me . I think that is why I was not very good in school. I don't think kids do good in school when they are moved around so much. This is what happened to me quite often. I am not saying I didn't have friends while we lived at the mind because I did . It would have been a lot better if we would have been in the church where I am now but we did alright. We lived inthe coal mind for two years. We had to ride the bus for about an hour to school The only thing I didn't like was that I had to be in a school class with two grades in it I happened to sleep through a lot of the class because the teacher would teach the forth grade most of the time. I didn't get much out of the third grade. I guess that is why Mom let me go with Neta. Her husband was the teacher on the ranch where she was living . The forth grade was a little better. I was the older ones in the class then. The next year we moved to Short Creek and that was the year that they had the rade which I wrote about first. When we first moved down the Short Creek we lived into what they called Don Covington Castle. I t was a old mans home that it looked like a Castle. We lived in the top of the house. It was way up in the top of the Castle. We didn't live there very long because Dad decided to build us a home. He had built the base ment and took off to I realy don' t know where. He was raising a garden this is where he was when they had the Big Rade in Short Creek. This was one of the first entreys in my blogg. I am going to close for now because I am tired I hope some day we will get this all in order. May the 25

I don't know where I am so I want to go back befor the raid. We lived in Little Field arizona on a ranch when I was in the second gread. I look at Little field arizona now and it is so large when we lived there it just had a small one room school house and there was seven greads in the school. I think I was the only second greader there. The thing I remember most there was that I was so bashful and I wouldn't talk very much and the I remember the teacher was asking me some questions and I jusst sit there and wouldn't even answer her. She go pritty unset with me and she took here ruller and hit my hands very hard and I guess you know from then on I answered her when she talked to me. These are things that I remember so they aren't reallly in order. I remember it must have a been a lote of rain this year because I me and my brother Sherrrell and Isebell, and Elenor I think and myself went to school there and we had to walk for five miles and had to cross the river and this year the water was really high. I remember my sister Elenor took our black horse which we called toots. She was so big we could all get on her to ride across the river and the water came up to her belly . That day we were late for school and when we came into the class room the teacher and the other studente sang a song to us this is the song they sang to."A diller a doller a ten aclock scaller you use to come at ten o'clock but now you come at noon." I didn't think that was very nice but oh well. I also remember I think that day when school was almost out my big brother Earl came to take me home because I got out befor everybody else but this time he come a little bit early but I didn't know it so I went with him . The next day I got in truble for leaving so early. I think Earl knew it was little early because he didn't like the teacher and he went down the street in frunt of the schood and honked the horn to distirbe the class.