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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER. JUNE 17, 1982 Tiwinifeys EKmpIifw Family Unity and intelligent, establish the Sunday School was well-rea- d In 1894 he received a six- - organization in every ward, month mission call from LDS IN 1907 he received a Church President Wilford Woodruff. He was assigned to second mission call. He was a special Sunday School sent to Liverpool, England, Normal Course at the Brigham While doing missionary work Academy in Provo. Af-- in his native land, Mr. Thom- ter he completed this short- - ley was able to acquire many term mission school, Mr. important family records. He left the mission field in Thomley returned home to the Davis Stake where he helped poor health. Heart trouble pla- - Pair Receive College Loretta Rice, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rice of Clinton, and Mitch Perkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Per- kins of Farmington, have re- ceived college scholarships through their work in the programs. MISS RICE was awarded the Union Pacific scholarship $500. She plans to attend USU and major in business, She has been involved in for eight years and has re- ceived many top awards at the gued him from the time he was released from the mission field until his death in 1916. MEMORIES OF the Thom-atten- d ley home are both happy and sad for Mrs. LaVema Thom-Youn- g ley Smedley. I loved my old home and I still do. I am the only member of the family left. It hurts me to see it as it is today. 4-- H She has also been involved in MITCH IS a graduate of cooking projects. She gra- - Davis High School and active duated from Clearfield High jn the FFA program. He has School where she was student- - held the office of historian and body vice president. She en- - vice president in the Davis joys skiing, shopping and FFA chapter. He has received awards for farm electricity talking. Mitch Perkins has been in projects in state FFA competi- work since he was 12 years ton. He plans to attend USU old. The last three years he has and major in wildlife manage-fo- r worked in the field of electric- - ment or a related ity. His earlier projects were in horsemanship. The scholarship he received was book which through his Davis County Fair for clo- - covered his full term of prattling, judging and modeling, jects, awards and activities in 4-- H 4-- H HENRY THORNLEY FAMILY This old photo of the Henry Thomley family shows LaVema Thomley Smedly, the only family member still living, on Mr. Thomleys lap. Mr. Thomley ran sons built the thick cement a large herd of sheep in Willow walls of the home themselves. Creek, Ida. room. Mr. Thomley and his well-tende- d. They set the manufactured MY FATHER was a horse- windows in the casings and did abandoned orchard. Window all other forms of construction proud man, says Mrs. Smed- ley, His animals were the panes are empty of glass, except the finishing plaster best. He wouldnt allow any- Crumbling wooden graineries work. Mrs. LaVerna Thornley one to mistreat an animal. nolongerstorewheatforusein Jack, the dog was always the winter. A root cellar is Smedley, the only family water wells member still living, was born at my fathers feet whenever bare. Hand-du- g have sunken and can no longer in the impressive home in he was about. I think my father be seen. The homes position 1890. She says, When I was a must have been quite a char- back in the field several yards young girl I remember holding mer of animals. At the time of from the Hill Field Road and the boards and helping my my fathers death. Jack tore Antelope Drive in Layton father put siding on the old log the wire from the front door to seems to shelter the once room. I got stung on the hand get to his master and laid by the bed until the boys took him out beautiful landmark from the ' by a big bumble bee. and locked him in the grainery. HENRY Thomley and his We could hear the dog crying wife, Nancy King Thomley, clear into the house, Mrs. raised a family of five girls and Smedley remembers. $ix boys. The children all reached maturity except the DUCKS WERE more than youngest boy, Harry, who pets. Mrs. Thornley would Mr. Thomley, a native of died of an appendicitis when pick the feathers to use for stuffing in pillows and feather England, migrated to the U.S. he was 8. with his mother when he was a The Thomleys raised a van- - beds. To make sure the ducks young boy. Converts to the ety of field grops including would not pick her, Mrs. LDS Church, they settled in grains, hay, sugar beets, com, Thornley and her daughters Layton not far from 1800 N. tomatoes, potatoes and would put a sock over the Church Street. Henry worked cucumbers. Sugar cane was birds head and then place the d at various jobs, transported to the Lewis W. head and neck between their He picked up badly needed ex- - ' Whitesides molasses machine legs while they removed the tra money by hiring out to the where it was ground and boiled soft down feathers from the ducks body, railroad. Young Henry Thom- - into molasses. Ingenuity in other areas ley was present when the gol- -AFTER A few years, Mr. helped the Thomley family get den spike was driven at PromThomley was able to purchase the most out of their farm life. intory Point. 40 acres just north of the ori- - For example, the family had no IN 1872 the U.S. govern- - ginal homestead. All 120 acres ice cream freezer so Mrs. ment opened Utah to homes- - were irrigated by the waters of Thomley devised a system of two buckets as a substitute, teading. Henry Thornley Kays Creek and the Davis and The outside container was a claimed 80 acres near Hill Weber County Canal. The home was surrounded large milk bucket. The can that Field Road and Antelope Drive for his farm. He built a by black currant bushes, held the ice cream mixture was lean-t- o which he lived in alone, gooseberries, apples, peach, a smaller molasses bucket. Mr. Thomley went with other pear and prune trees. One ear-- The small bucket fit nicely inhomesteaders to get the logs to ly yellow apple was very side the larger container. Ice build a large log room which sweet. The children would was packed between the two, was later moved to where the watch closely each spring for an improvised handle was this early fruit to ripen. A added and the Thomley family home now stands. the finest homemade On one occasion, Mr. green cooking apple tree bore churned large fruit. One apple ice cream, Thornley was hauling logs- extra from the canyon when he slip- was all you needed to make aHENRY Thomley and his whole pie, Mrs. Smedley reped on a log in the river. It- calls. nearest neighbor, Thomas d on him. AlexanEvans, designed a homestyle der Patterson, a noted swim- FARM WORK involved the telephone system. It consisted mer from Clinton, was nearby to pull Mr. Tliomley from the whole family. The children of cans and copper wires. The river thereby saving his life, wrapped their knees with gun- - reception was so good the ny sack strips so they could Thornley family could hear THE THORNLEY home crawl along the beet rows to Mr. Evans play his violin over the telephone, consisted of five cement weed the crop. Although Mr. Thornley Ducks, turkeys, chickens. rooms, a kitchen, a pantry and closets and one larger, log cows, horses and sheep were lacked formal education., he farm-relate- over-turne- 4-- H or 4-- H 4-- H 4-- H 4-- Kaysville Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Richard- son attended the church ser-vices in Salt Lake City on Sun- day where her brother and sis- Mr. and Mrs. Noal D. Despain gave their mission report. w Women Moot The Federal Womens Club and their guests will hold the Installation Luncheon at Dis- tinctive Catering Service,285 e. 2700 S., SLC on June 19 at 12:30 For reservations Mr. and Mrs. Despain jjii; p.m. ' served in the ColoradoDenver LDS mission where LINDA CARLSON, 968- they worked with the Hmong 5991 in SLC after 5 p.m.; May People who are refugees. McGhie, Mary Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Jensen Hansing, Ogden; and family spent the past week Mary Mendez, at Jackson Hole, Wyo. Ogden. 268-494- 825-115- 0; 2, 825-553- , 7, 'fa filHV |