Show As near as I 1 can find out it W was named after a man by the name of ashley who was hero here exploring the t 0 country and lost nil his provisions but fortunately madd mada his way to salt lake city I 1 came hero october 30 1878 well do I 1 reni remember omber the day when first I 1 saw ehley abbley af valley although only eight years old among its inhabitants I 1 remember pardon dodds jas barker W wm britt fin britt wm win gibson S P dillman john nakor their were four families of us came in that time and settled in ill this thia valley there but two cabins to bo be obtained so wo we rented one cabin from jas barkes and our family and the family of A S johnson moved into that one the other 0 f families obtained a cabin from a man by tho namo of doko dok our ifal hers thon then went back to green rier city for provisions we next built cabins for ourselves and and had quilts for doors and windo 10 vs tf t f Z ear earth tai for floors boxes for chairs and boards on our laps for tables ploughing sloughing hing was commenced in february the spring of 79 we had but one sawmill saw mill hero here then which was run by the strength of mr kr S P dillman and john Steinn ker it was called saw we finally built a house in the town of old and they sawed the lumber for the floors with this thia kind ot of a mill but the time to bo remembered is the winter of 79 when it seemed d as I 1 though we were all deserted dessert cd by tiny any supreme power bui bat we all managed manage ct to get through albright allright all right by begging and borrowing 0 from each other I 1 can remember when a biscuit then looked as largo as a pan of them does no now new w anyone any one bened to have bave a few cows could go out and see them pilled a heap lor for we had nothing vit which to 10 feed them during that winter the tee jdith thecia bro broe lw l w out oat and too aka Laway al must most entire families 1 we had no communications with the out oal s sado ade only ns fib i of would fo 10 to broems paris par k af after vr V r ih mail mr dillman Dillma ai n u 1 to 0 go on shoes when no 0 w ald id and pack jack it oa his back over diamond mountain when the horibe out fi eforo 0 ro what was t th es e termed as the bench the fint iddinn trouble came up in this i samo gaino yi VC it f t and all tho the people of dry fork ork came cam to live in old ash loy arid and in order to give you at an understanding how vernal wag formed the rest of tho the people built a fort at this place and for years it was called hatch town until the firm of blythe and mitchell mercantile company wore were appoint on as post master and named it ii vernal this indian trouble wal wa at the time odthe meeker massa ere cre in which there were some noine women stolen istolena from that section of the country mr S P dillman accompanied by another gentle man whoso choso name I 1 disremember went and tried to got get them back but failed fortunately the achley people were not molested in any way and the valley has gradually grown from that time on in those days all wore were at peace with each other you never would hoar hear of any trouble among the citizens in any way but now it is some one getting killed or getting a black blac blackeye koye oyo or meeting with some other great calamity very often the first school house bouse that was built in antho tho valley built in what is now known as ni 0 davis field in 1878 and W 0 britt was the teach teacher orP now wo we have bayo two and thre ihre e schools sc bedl 13 in every ward and in avero vern I 1 al wo we have as fine a school as any I 1 ono one would wish to go to th this is ria is called the uintah stake academy |