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Show I CEHTERYILLB p HISTORICAL SOCIETY J Brothers Land and Livestock Company Com-pany was organized. Orrin was named president and Melvin was vice president. Both were named directors. Also designated as directors direc-tors were Harley, Orrin LeRoy, Melvin Howard and Elbert E. Randall. Ran-dall. The ranch included over 1,000 acres in the Cottonwood area of Morgan County, plus a large cottage, cot-tage, named by the boys "The Rose Cottage" because of the abundance of roses that grew around it. Melvin's daughter and Sarah Louise, daughter of William R. Smith, and others, spent three summers sum-mers on the ranch, taking care of the house while the boys worked the ranch. It was the girls' responsibility responsi-bility to do the cooking, cleaning and mending the boys' clothes. Harley P. Randall and his wife, Amy, lived there as chaperones. The boys' marriages, dissension among wives, ended operation. Melvin H. Randall served in bishoprics in the Centerville Ward for a total of 34 years, the last 1 1 years of which were as bishop, having hav-ing been ordained bishop on June 19, 1899 by Pres. Joseph F. Smith. He was the first town board president presi-dent of Centerville when it was incorporated in-corporated as a town, serving for two terms. He was one of the leaders in installing in-stalling the town's first water system. sys-tem. Other offices of responsibility were school trustee for many years, and county commissioner for six years. He labored many years in the stake High Priests presidency. He hauled rock and lime to build the Centerville Ward chapel. His industry as a farmer provided the means for his three sons and one daughter to fill church missions. A rose thorn which defied removal re-moval resulted in amputation of one of MelVin's fingers. He was set apart as a temple worker in the Salt Lake LDS Tern-pie Tern-pie from 1922 until his death on April 21, 1930. lated by Tom Randall in his presentation. presen-tation. In February, 1900, Randall PART TWO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35 ' NOV. 2nd DAVIS CO. CLIPPER In 1892 Orrin moved his family to Morgan City. He and his brother Melvin and brother-in-law John E. Woolley built the TXL Creamery on East Canyon Creek. The creamery cream-ery consisted of a large frame building containing two large cheese vats, a large square butter churn which was run by steam, and a big ice-house in which to store ice for summer use. The ice was cut from the frozen creek and packed in sawdust. It was used to pack the butter and cheese while being hauled to Salt Lake City, a distance of 40 miles by team and wagon. It took three days to make a trip, one long day to Centerville, Cen-terville, one day to Salt Lake, and another day to return. The roads were extremely muddy in springtime, spring-time, snowpacked in winter, and deep in sand in summertime. The milk was gathered from all over Morgan County. Orrin also opened up a general store. However, Howev-er, after about 10 years, business dwindled due to other competition, and the creamery ( closed down. Orrin then took up carpenter work. He helped build the Morgan Opera House, and also a bridge across the Weber River at Peterson. While living at the creamery, three children were born to Orrin and Addie, Alfred, Camilla and Harold. Addie worked very hard at that time, helping in the creamery and cooking for hired help. The family moved back to Centerville Cen-terville in 1908. Here they did truck gardening, raised fruit and kept dairy cows. Both Orrin and Addie were active in the community and had many friends . During their first sojourn in Morgan County, Orrin filled a two-year mission in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1889-91. 1889-91. During his absence, Addie worked hard on the ranch, milking cows and helping with the cheese making. She was a Relief Society visiting teacher for many years. She was quiet, and a deep thinker. She took her trials without compfaining. They never owned an automobile, so they did very little traveling.1 When they did go, it was usually on the 'old dummy railroad', as it was called. It went from Provo to Ogden. One time Addie went to Victor, Ida. to visit her sister. She went by train as far as Driggs, then by stage 60 miles to Victor. One night while Orrin was taking care of his cattle, he was knocked down by the bull and badly hurt. He was never very well after that. He suffered for several months before his death from cancer of the bladder. blad-der. He died Nov. 5, 1918, and at that time the flu was raging and no public meetings were held, so his funeral was held on the front lawn, and he was buried in the Centerville Cemetery. Addie was very lonely and quiet after Orrin's death. She developed asthma and suffered for some time before her death three years later on Nov. 20, 1921. Next, the life story of Melvin H. Randall was related by his grandson, grand-son, E. Smith Randall. Melvin was born in a little adobe house on North Temple Street where the Salt Palace now stands, on Aug. 1, 1852 to Alfred and Margaret Mar-garet Harley Randall, pioneers who came to Utah in 1848 with the He-ber He-ber C. Kimball company. His early childhood was spent in Salt Lake City. He knew all the hardships of pioneer life. His mother was a plural plu-ral wife, and as her husband was occupied much of the time with missionary and other church work, she was often left to her own resources re-sources to provide for her family. Times were hard and food was scarce. Once their crops were an almost total failure, and they were reduced to digging roots for food. In 1862 Alfred purchased a farm in Centerville and moved Margaret, and her family there. Melvin and Orrin ran the farm. Margaret made shoes for the boys from heavy cloth. The boys would go outside and work as long as they could stand the cold, then they would come inside and warm and dry their feet before going outside again. Clothing was very scarce, and at one time Orrin's mother made a coat for him out of heavy canvas. He went to the canyon one cold and snowy day to cut wood, and his mother was worried about him. Melvin said, "Why do you worry about Orrin? He couldn't possibly get cold with that coat on!" Smith said he never heard his grandfather complain about his early ear-ly life, but he knew that Orrin and Melvin toiled long and hard on the farm and helped their mother raise her family, and later take care of great-grandfather. Melvin was married to Frankie Bennett Phelps, Feb. 15, 1875 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. Much of his early life paralleled para-lleled that of his brother, Orrin, especially in Morgan County, as re- |