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Show speak of the trek of 76 into Arizona. His father had written a poem and sung about the boys from Salt Lake that he often recited. They had cut a road down through the sheer sandstone cliffs to the Colorado River called They had cut a pathway for their wagons to pass through. Alvin had plenty of his own stories to tell ... about Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution. He had anecdotes that matched anything the other old timers could come up with. On June 3, 1915, Alvin married Ber-- v nice Spillsbury in El Paso, Texas and they had come to Utah to honeymoon, visiting Coonville. Evelyn Sadler Goble remembers their visit to the Sadler home on the canal below the Pleasant Green Cemetery. Even then, Alvin had exciting stories to tell. DAVID CROCKETT CAZIER Dave Cazier was from Kentucky. Obviously, with a middle name like Crockett, he had some relationship to Davy Crockett. Dave Cazier was in his 80s when Volney (Veldon) as he called him and Kenneth, Bill Gobles boys, worked for him, but he retained a quick wit and keen eye and still rode a horse. Old Dave used to favor the boys with his stories ... how he and his brother Sam and father William and the other boys had crossed the plains. Sam and David had been called north at the time of Johnstons army to join the soldiers k. in Echo Canyon. John, Davids brother, had i ! ,, V . Bill Goble dressed in cowboy garb typical of the 1890s and early 1900s. His family crossed the plains with the family of outlaw Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) along with others of the wagon train. Coonville LI Outlaws ... and gentlemen by W. Kent Goble Magna limes Feature Writer PROLOGUE For most gentiles on the out- side looking in, Mormons were a bit of an enigma. And, Mormon " outlaws " were a breed apart. Desperados with a price on their head, these Bible totin Sons of Dan were known for their good manners, chivalry to women, and fearlessness In the face of danger. So It was that Elder Wilford ' utWoodruffs prophetic terance may have had Just such destroying angels" in mind when he declared, as the new year of 1862 dawned, "This is a wicked generation and the earth groans under Its abominations ... the Lord," he continued, will pour out his Judgements upon the wicked ... until the earth Is cleansed from them! . "Retiring" Governor of Utah John W. Dawson could well attest to the veracity of apostle Woodruffs prophetic insight. However, he was none too happy to aver that a good cleansing was salve to the soul. You see, Dawson discovered that he was one of those abominations" that Woodruff despised. "Having grossly Insulted the widow of Thomas Williams and other women," Dawson was fleeing Salt Lake City under cover of dark of night In a cloud of dust. Eph Hanks had warned him to flee suggesting to the governor that kinfolk of widow Williams were determined to avenge her honor. So, when the stagecoach reached Hanks stage coach station In the canyon east of Salt Lake City, Dawson was nestled snugly Inside, having been flushed from his "cover" by Hanks Into the waiting arms of his foe. " While the stage drivers horses were being changed ... the stage driver, Wood Reynolds ... gave the "retiring" governor... a good, sound thrashing." Destroying Angel, Bill Hickmans boys were teaching the good governor that Insulting a lady In public was an unThe sin" In Mormon-doReynolds, the Luce boys, Lot Huntington, and Moroni Clawson "whupped the gover- and mores near Nine Mile Creek Robbers Roost. He knew Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch and Matt Warner (who was from nearby Levan), Flat Nose George, and Kid Curry, and hed come to spend the evening with Bill and his young son, Ken, to spin some of his yams. Ironically, Butch Cassidys folks had known Jim Bowers family for several years. Robert LeRoy Parkers grandfather, Robert Parker, had crossed the plains in 56 with the McArthur hand- carts, and Jim BowersVfather Jacob. Bowers, was a boy with the same company. Jakes father had died on the trek, but he, and the Parkers, reached Salt Lake City on September 26, 1856. There were 256 people in their company and 52 handcarts. Butchs mother, Ann Gillies, was from Scotland. Her family had crossed the plains in 56 also, but with Jims mother, Caroline Goble, and her family. Bill Gobles father was only ten when he and sisters Caroline, Mary, and Harriet were caught in the bitter winter snows. They, with the Gillies tt family and others of the Salt Lake reached train, City in wagon December 1856. A further irony was that both Butchs grandfather, Robert Parker, and Lehi Nephi Hardmans father, Richard, were weavers by trade from Preston, England. Both had joined die Mormons and their families had established themselves in the mountain vastness of Utah. So, as ol Jim sat near the campfire, the stories began to flow about Mor-mo- n outlaws and their compatriots that he had come to know. Stories that Bill Goble laughingly told his son hed heard a thousand times. Yep, he knew more than a bit about Robert LeRoy Parker (Butch Cassidy) and didnt mind bending an ear with his g story telling way ... hisn ... and hern ... and yoren and as he spun and weaved his such .stories about the Wild Bunch and Robbers Roost. Hunt-Hodge- sing-son- - THE outwit- ted an Indian. Lying on his stomach to drink from a stream, John had seen the Indians reflection with a raised tomahawk in his hand ... and at the last moment ... spun away firing his pistol as he rolled, dropping the Indian in his tracks. Jake Bowers was also attacked by an Indian on Levan Ridge. He grabbed die horses bridle and controlled his head so the Indian couldnt tomahawk him. As two men from Nephi approached on horseback, the Indian jerked the horses head and fled. And, they were fond of teasing Langley A. Bailey, Sr. about killing Indians. Langley was a little bit of a guy with a high squeaky voice. Dave Cazier joked that Langley killed an Indian once. He ran him to death. Trouble is, Langley was out front. Dave Cazier also used to say, Come early ... stay late, and leave your watch and hat home cause youll always be lookin' at your watch and chasing your hat. Kenneth Goble remembers, as a young boy, looking at an old Civil War poster in Cazier's shed and having Dave Cazier tell him about the Civil War. In his clipped ... abrupt manner, hed say, Thats where they fought like ten thousand devils! Old Daves eyesight was fading as attested by another story Ken tells. They were irrigating Daves field with flood water from Salt Creek. And, as usual', Dave had the Boys at 'work routing the water. Ken spied a large salamander flipping about in the mud of a gopher hole. Picking it up on his shovel, he walked to where the old man was standing with his newfound pet. What ya got there? the old man asked, bending over at the same time for a near sighted look. With his nose almost to the shovel, he squinted then, recognition finally coming through, leaped back, and with a savage blow, chopped the squirming salamander in two. Thats a Heeley (Gila) monster, he declared unabashedly. Id quicker run from one of them things than twenty Indians! Seems he had seen the Gila monster that was being kept in a bird cage at Haymonds drug store. The Magna Times, Thursday, July 20, 1989 7 Ohio Mormon roots committee gathering July 29 Kirtland, Ohio, July 12, 1989 Several hundred guests are expected to attend the annual Ohio Mormon Roots Seminar, a gathering of descendants of Kirtland, Ohio Mormon pioneer families, on July 29, 1989, according to Karl R. Anderson, committee chairman. There is no charge for attending the program which will include a keynote address by Richard Morley, a direct descendant of the Kirtland Morley family. Morley has researched and written extensively on the Morley family of Kirtland. Other program sessions will be led by Geauga County Commissioner Edna Davis, speaking on The Women of 1830s Kirtland; Ronna Bryant of the Western Reserve Historical Society, outlining resources for family research available through that institutions facility; Jeannette Grosvenor speaking on Ohio Revolutionary War Veterans and compiling and publishing personal family histories. Local Catholic Church News Bishop William K. Weigand has appointed Deacon Herman Toro to serve in our parish for the next two years. Deacon Toro is employed on a fulltime basis in the Diocesan Office of Evangelization and works primarily with the Spanish speaking of our diocese. Sympathy and prayers are offered to Mrs. Jeanette Pappas and Mrs. Virginia Shaw and their families on the death of their cousin, Mrs. Bessie Colovas, this past week. We pray that she will rest in the eternal presence of Jesus and the saints. Father Pellegrino will distribute the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to all those who attend Mass this Sunday, in honor of Our Ladys feast day. Thank you for returning the Traveling Crucifix. You will find a sign-u- p chart in the vestibule of the church for this vocation crucifix. Eucharistic Fasting: Communicants may not receive the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist unless they have fasted from solid food and from drink, with the exception of water, for a period of one hour. The Communion Process: Approach the minister of Communion, making the reverential bow while the person directly in front of you is receiving the Body of Christ. With the principle hand nesting under the other, please extend your hands toward the minister. The minister says, The Body of Christ. Your only reply is Amen. Communion is placed into your open hand or on your tongue. Communion is not to be grabbed by the fingers from the minister, but received on the outstretched and uplifted hands, as particles may be lost. If a sign of the cross is made, it is done after placing the host into your mouth. After receiving the host, take one step to the side, place the host into your mouth and consume the precious Body of Christ immediately. When receiving from the cup, you respond Amen when the minister says, The Blood of Christ, grip the cup cautiously, and receive. Please remember who it is that we receive at Communion. This is Jesus, Himself, our loving savior, and the source of our strength, mercy, and salvation. Committee Chairman Karl Andersons topic, A Kirtland Tour, is an audio-visupresentation of historic sites in northeast Ohio relating to Kirtlands prominence as a center of the Mormon Church in the 1830s. Anderson recently published his book, which Joseph Smiths Kirtland, draws heavily from diaries and other writings of the 1 830s to describe that al era. Last years meetings were the largest wed ever assembled in Kirtland for this purpose, said Anderson. One family alone, the Joseph and Emma Smith family descendants, numbered over two hundred. The purpose of the upcoming seminar is to provide access to local family history information and to encourage the many descendants to organize and disseminate information about their families. Our committee, said Anderson, seeks to locate all data and family relationship lines for the families we have identified as critical in the history of the early Mormon Church. We are currently concentrating on five families. We are specifically looking for siblings, cousins, and other extended family members who stayed in Ohio after the Mormon Church moved westward in 1838, said Anderson. Family names the committee is currently seeking information on are Whitney, Tanner, Morley, Rigdon, and Snow. Those people potential related to early Kirtland pioneer families are encouraged to contact the committee through the Kirtland Ohio Family History Center at 8876 Chillicothe Road, Kirtland, Ohio 44094. The center telephone number is (216) 256-880- 8. Copper Days food and general vendors are still needed. For more information, please call Clyde Perkins at 250-242- 5. CREATIVE COOKING BRAN-AN- MUFFINS A ripe, medium Dole Bananas, peeled - . . cups wheat bran cereal (not flakes) 12 cup milk 13 cup butter or margarine 12 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg 1 cup flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 12 teaspoon baking soda 12 teaspoon salt 12 cup Dole Raisins Mash bananas (1 cup). In a medium bowl, combine cereal, milk and bananas; set aside. Cream together butter, sugar and vanilla Beat in egg. Beat in banana-bramixture. Combine dry ingredients; add to mixture. Stir until just blended. Stir in raisins. Spoon into 12 lightly greased muffin cups. Bake in a 400 F oven 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool on wire rack. Makes 12 2 2 n muffins. For more nutritious banana recipes, write P.O. Box 7758, San Francisco, CA 94120. to Dole Bananas, Dept. FBM, Courtesy Dole prices UTAHS LOWEST FOOD PRICES ! WBS.'MOrJ, 23M EAST 7000 SOUTH. $ C 2783 SO STATE. St C 4750 SO REDWOOO RD SIC 4070 SO 9TH EAST MURRAY 723SW 3500 SO MAGMA 40 WEST 2ND NORTH BOUNTIFUL 10670 SO 71m EAST SANDY 3585 WEST 6200 SO AARN8 8000 50 2700 WEST W JORDAN 1350 NO 200 WEST PROVO 890W CENTER RROVO FOOD BARGAIN WAREHOUSE mop& ik SAGES OF SALT CRICK William Alvin Coon didnt consider himself old although he was in his 98th year. Bom December 3, 1891 at Cliff Ranch near the Mormon settlement of Colonia Juarez, Mexico to William Coon and Elizabeth Braithwaite, he had experienced a full and interesting life. pardonable nor In a convincing manner. They were Mormon "outlaws In the purest sense of the word. Chivalrous gentlemen to women with tiie good manners to defend a womans honor while falling cross ways to the law that, In their minds, sometimes ran contrary to good common sense." They were "outlaws and ... gentlemen. OLD JIM BOWERS Levan Ridge was a lonely place,' especially after nightfall. As the sunset faded, the stars overhead seemed to multiply until 10,000 or more shone ridges. And, down upon the cedar-line- d the plaintive call of coyotes seemed to rise upon the wind until the sounds of their cry broke the silence of the desert with an unrelenting chorus. Old Jim Bowers sat cross-leggnear the campfire finishing his dinner. A cousin to William Goble, he was an old cowboy who rode for the Whit ed Alvin, as he was known, was the grandson of Abraham Coon. His father, William, had left Coonville in 1876 on a mission call to settle the wilds of Northern Arizona territory beyond the Colorado River. Now, more than a century later, Alvin was still sharing anecdotes of his boyhood and his remembrances of pioneer times as told to him by his father. Nope, Alvin wasnt old ... he just had seniority. And, seniority in Nephi was something to be respected ... revered ... almost. One of the benefits of seniority was the privilege of taking your place alongside your silver-haire- d peers where you could spin yams and share the wisdom of your years. You see, storytelling in Nephi was' a national pastime and an art of ancient form that was finely polished and perfected by each succeeding generation that found its representatives amongst the silver greys, the sages of Salt Creek (or Crick). THE STORIES , How often Alvin had heard his father i ) |