Show Echoes from the dust CHARLES S BENTLEY lON rm It Charles Bentley Dentley was born In Richmond Virginia on July 27 1842 He fie grew up his grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grand grand- fathers father's plantation where everyone kept busy Including slaves The grandfather lived to be years old Ills His Hisson son Gideon Charles' Charles father moved to Illinois when Charles was about 14 years old There Charles was apprenticed apprenticed ap ap- prenticed out to a blacksmith Being discontented with his job Charles joined a wagon train of pioneers going into Oregon and came out West in the early From Oregon he came down the coast Into California and later with several prospectors made his way Into Uintah Basin in northeastern Utah He lie worked for several years in a blacksmith shop at atthe atthe atthe the Indian Agency In White While Rocks Hocks AFTER Pardon Dodds came cameto to Ashley Valley Charles came here with several other bachelors and proved up a squatters squatter's claim before the land was surveyed In Ashley town he la later ter met and married Emily Carroll just before the Hard Winter of 1879 In August 1880 their first child was born and they named him Charles Henry When Henry was 2 years old they moved to Heber and here a Eva was born to the Bentleys When Eva was about 2 years old young Henry died and was buried in the Heber cemetery The family then moved to a mining town in Eureka where their second son Ray was born in the fall of 1884 The next summer they left Eureka and moved to Snake River Valley where fertile land was plentiful They homesteaded land between between between bet bet- Willow Creek and Eagle Rock where the city ity of Idaho Falls is now located Charles built a comfortable cabin and here their third son Roy was born on March 21 1886 They lived there for several years years In 1888 the Bentley family decided to go to Ashley Valley for a visit This was the year Emily's brothers Edmond and Will Carroll married the Wamsley sisters Esther and Marinda l While on the visit to Ashley Town another boy was born to the Bentley family September 28 1888 and they named him Robert TilE THE NEXT SPRING the Bentleys returned to their farmin farm farmin in Idaho At this time Chart CharI Charles became acquainted with n contractors from Pocatello who persuaded him to take a contract contract contract con con- tract on some construction work on the new roundhouse that was being built in Pocatello for the Union Pacific Railroad Here re the family lived in a frame house on the banks of Portneuf River niver The baby Robert lived only 11 months he died in Pocatello in August 1889 The next family move was to Ibapah Utah The following is a news item about Ibapah Ibapah a remote western Utah town on the southwestern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert miles southwest of Salt Lake City was once a communication center of sorts It served as a rest station for Pony Express riders and their tired mounts Telegraph wires also served the town until 1860 Until now anyone wishing to tomake tomake tomake make a phone call either had to travel to Wendover 65 miles to the north or to one of the other phones located in the thinly thinly- populated desert area Two telephones now serve the 50 town residents and Goshute Indians on a nearby reservation reser reser- va tion At that time Ibapah was mostly a farming district with cow ranches one store post postoffice postoffice postoffice office schoolhouse and rolling beautiful green meadow land but no church The Bentley children had to walk 1 miles to school Charles went prospecting most of the time EMILY g HAD U A boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house and was very busy She was an excellent cook and a aVry avery avery very Vry meticulous housekeeper She had many lady friends and they loved to get together to sew cut apples for or drying make quilts etc Emily's father Cather Patrick Carroll passed 1 away on June H 14 1893 Hoy Roy was given a letter at the post office one day with a ablack ablack ablack black edge l-dge around it and he remembers the occasion as about the only time he ever saw baw his mother cry Soon after aCter Emily's fathers father's death the Bentley family de decided to go back to As Ashley hley Valley to live Emily's mother gave them a building lot and her brother Will Wilt helped them build a house Charles had mir mining ng property near South Pass in Wyoming and spent every summer working there flay Ray went with his father Cather most of oC the time after aCter school was as out and they would placer mine Charles was hurt badly m to a amine amine amme mine mme cave in The mailman madman happened to come by on horseback horseback horseback hor hor- just as Ray Hay got his father Cather out of the mine and helped get him to a doctor THE TILE DAUGHTER 1 Eva va taught school Roy Hoy went out to BYU UYU in Provo in 1903 The youngest son Elba went out on his own Emily's mother Margaret Carroll died December 1 I. I 1913 and was buried next to her husband Patrick in the Maeser MalSer cemetery That same month Charles Bentley died of oC a stroke in Provo and was buried in that town Emily lived until she was 84 8 years ears old the last one of Patrick and Margaret Carrolls Carroll's children She died of oC cancer on September 17 1944 in Salt Jake Lake City |