Show Ray Reynolds finds meteorite Raymond Haymond Ray Hay Reynolds was born July 1 1890 lie He was one of ten children The house he lived In was made of adobe which had been brought from the buildings of the deserted Fort Thornburg This house was located just three or four miles from where he lives today out InI in I Maeser I RAY HAY ENJOYED all of the I things that were Involved in farm living Also he liked sports and games of all kinds He lie has always been a good athlete In his youth he was a fleet runner winning several races When Ray was about 10 or 12 years old he and L L. L A. A Timothy hooked a horse to a slip to do sledding on This horse had never been used for such an activity before It was slick and when the horse stopped the slip didn't it proceeded right into the back of the horse The horse began kicking back right over the heads of the boys as they lay layon on their stomachs There were wild horses out Inthe Inthe in inthe the hills in those days When Ray was about 18 he said I went out and roped one brought it in and an old blacksmith got me to get on it When it threw me of off my foot caught Then as the horse went around and around the blacksmith was yelling Whoa to the horse as though it was broke Finally my foot came loose Ray was vas an accomplished horseman He taught horses to todo todo todo do tricks One horse called Red was taught to count and answer questions To How flow Howald old are you he would begin to paw out the answer to you Do you Do like oats he would duck his head up and down and to Do you want to be rode answered no noby noby noby by shaking his head After Ray had taught him all these he sold Red Several years after that he stopped at Jensen and saw saw Red there Ray walked l up and asked Red if he knew him Then he asked Red How old are you and immediately the horse started to count The present owner was so su surprised He Ill had no idea he had a trained horse and had been using him as a work horse w Once a teach teacher ro told lold old his is students that students that he knew Ol horse that could beat them in arithmetic arithmetic arith arith- met in referring to Red Ray Hay has also worked as a teamster I MUST have been born with witha a rope rope in my hand says RayOne Ray One experience he had roping involved his brother My brother and I were branding cattle one day I was roping my brother was using the iron The rope is on the back legs so as soon as the branding is done you give it lots of slack The one we were branding was a wild two two- year-old year on the fight As soon as asI I gave it if slack it took after my brother He ran as hard as he could for the fence It reached him just as he got to the fence and gave him a shove He went up on the fence out of reach He was really mad During World War I Ray was In the service and was wounded He Ill was sent to France and without being properly trained was immediately sent out to the front lines Ray had a narrow escape in 1929 when they were building a achurch achurch achurch church house in Maeser A trench had been partly dug for months and the banks were all baked This nine foot trench caved in on an Ray and completely buried him As the bank had caved in his hat flew up in the theair air This showed the rescuers where to dig Without this clue they wouldn't have known where to start When they got him out he was all mashed up His right arm was According to Ray It flopped napped like a dishrag So I went to a chiropractor and after one adjustment it was better By the second day I could swing the arm at my side I walked all the way home that day refused several rides along the way ways because it just felt so good to be beable beable beable able to swing my arm at my side again Tim Tilt manufacturing of plaster out of gypsum was another interesting occupation he was engaged in In vats of approximately four feet by approximately 12 feet they would make over a ton of plaster According to Ray it was Hard lard hot labor Used to get up at 4 am a.m. to start the f fires ires and it would be midnight 20 hours later before we stopped YOU YOI could burn at least two ba batches after every everything thing got hot hotin hotin hotin in less time than it took to heat for lor the first one No matter how dry you thought the gypsum was when you put the heat on it moisture would come out When you wanted to use it you just f r 9 t r Y Y a p r r. r r r 6 art L t s 4 3 RAYMOND REYNOLDS explains the he found approximately 40 years ago on Taylor Mountain It weighs pounds put water back on it to make it hard It Ray raised chickens for fryers During a meat shortage several years ago he dressed chickens a day for Ashton's lie He could take the feathers off six chickens in a minute Sometime later after he had ceased to raise chickens chickens' Ray decided his house was to large and lonely for just one person so he sold it to his sister and law brother the L L. 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A Ray then converted the unused chicken houses into two apartments He Ill resides in in one of these apartments now About 40 years ago Ray and Ed Bodily were on Taylor Mountain in the location of Merkley Springs when they discovered an unusual rock It was perfectly round one way and oval the other They estimated the rock to weigh four or five hundred pounds It weighed RAY Y COMMENTED l that some day he would return and tr transport the r home z He lie brought his team and slip scraper loaded the rock in the slip and started up the rough grade The excessive weight caused the rock to roll backward backward backward back back- ward out of the scraper down a agrade agrade agrade grade and lodge again on the He lie made no further attempt at this time to secure the rock Later he made a sling or net from some old car chains and placed the rock in the net hooked his team on and started up the grade He almost reached the summit when the rock broke loose and down it rolled again THE TIIE NEXT time Ray returned to get his rock he brought blought with him a neighbor and his team They They rhey secured the boulder in chains and hooked the four head of horses to it This time Rays Ray's dream came true They got the rock out on top of the rim ready for loading skid the rock upon the running gears of the wagon and brought it itt it down to the old Reynolds home It lay by the old gate post for several years until one day Lee Dustin came by examined the rock and told Ray it was worth a dollar a pound Lee said the rock was a meteorite and that it contained nickel rockel steel a very hard metal Ray tried to bore a hole in the rock with a steel bit but could barely penetrate its it's surface He Ill later sold the rock for RE itA Y HAS liAS been an active member of the Uintah Club of Senior Citizens since their organization He lie participates in pool table games dancing and especially enjoys the good food en cn party da days das s. s He lie had not played pool since he was about 18 years old until he began to play regularly when he was past 80 Until just this past year Ray Hay could frequently be seen riding his bicycle the three and one one- half miles from Maeser to the Golden Age Center to play pool or to do his shopping He is truly an example to all of us that Age is no barrier |