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Show 3B f Thursday, March THE GREEN SHEET 3, 1988 HISTORICAL FEATURE Hiram Theron Spencer Built Luxury Home For Mary After Life Of Hardships in 1898, now the Open Door Baptist Church. On the comer of 8850 West, was the home of Peter and Martha Hayes LeCheminant, that later became the Magna Womens Club and the first library here across the street on the comer of 8915 South was the home of Frank and Sarah Brower Chambers, which by LaRee Pehrson Green Sheet Staff Writer MAGNA. When Hiram Theron and Mary Spencer moved into their new home on 2700 South around Christmas 1905, it was a very different road than it is today. Instead of a paved surface, it UUOlijf ncui that extended from 8000 West and wound around the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains. There were only a few homes. Ko'QTTIO On the east side of 8000 West at approximately 2879 South was the home of Dave and Mary Rockwell Reid. (Mary Rockwell was the daughter of Porter Rockwell). Built in 1886, the house was tom down to build the new stake center and the Shadow Run subdivision. Across the street on the west side of the road was the house built by Samuel Barnes and Eliza Jane West Taylor, and on the northwest corner of 8000 West and 2700 South was the home of George Washington Perkins (a Pony Express rider) and his wife Alice Mellon Perkins. Both of these dwellings were built in 1868, and are still standing today. On the southwest comer of 8000 West and 2700 South was the home of George and Mary Ann Cutcliffe Auer, and further down the road on the north side was the home of Daniel and Mary Hains Jacobs who came to this area from Bear Lake in 1883. The Auer home later became the ASARCO Farm and is still standing today. However, the Jacobs home was tom down in 1983 to make way for part of the Green Meadows subdivision. Anthony and Alice Robison Cockerills home that was built in 1868 is also still standing today near 8400 W. 2700 South just Store. It is the east of the home of Steve and Alexandra Vosnos. Moving west, there was the Alfred Campbell and Eliza Jacobs Reid home, built in 1897, now the Peel Mortuary. On the comer of 8560 W. 2700 South the George and Eliza Garrick Reid home, built in 1891, provides shelter for and the First Security Bank, and Austin M. Browns home became a boarding house when the mills began to attract single men to work in the area. Some time later it burned down. But Osmond LeCheminants home is still standing between Dr. C. D. Clarks office and the old J. C. Penney Store. As for Hiram Theron Spencers home, part of the builder went into the house, for he knew that in addition to being functional it must also have aesthetic value. He realized the truth of the statement that man does not live his Where the post office' is now, was the home of Samuel Spencer, a cousin of Hiram Theron Spencer. It was built in 1889. Further down the street on the north side of the road was the Pleasant Green ward house, built LOSEWithWEIGHT FAST of the help a dentist THE WEIGHT GUARD DENTAL APPLIANCE Constantly blocks tempting foods Allows you to speak freely Slows down eating, stops binges Can only be removed by the dentist Can not be seen by others Shores up self control and willpower If vmi have trouble staving with a weight Inna program, the weight guards ran give von the help vmi need to lose Ihs fast, yet they will not he seen bv others Gateweigh Weight Loss Center has a complete program 263-007- 9 3761 So. 700 E. Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Call w . does life easier for Mary to for all the hardships she had endured. Nothing but the best materials were put into the house. It was the first to have central heating. In addition he built a huge wooden 100 gallon water tower on the west Slue of the structure to water the cattle and to act as a reservoir for a large metal tank in an upstairs west room that provided water inside of the items, clothing and food. Each time they came through they expected Mary Spencer to have a quilt ready for them and a new red dress for "Becky" one of the women. Mary Jacobs Howard, the Spencers granddaughter, remembers one of the Indian women who had been shot through the cheek. She also the remembers beautiful buckskin beaded moccasins and arm cuffs that they sold to residents here, but most of all she recalls their integrity and honesty in dealing with the white on the east side of 8750 West, and a home for his oldest grandson, Hugh Jacobs, on the southwest A? Ohpa nr lOU UUULI1 OiU Anryi VI i tv, wpsr. vi which is still being lived in today. In addition he built two two-roohouses, which are gone, then two more three-roohouses which are all still standing. One of the two brick houses he built next door to Bills Lounge is m two-roo- m still there. Where the bar is now he moved an old store from Eldorado, a town north of 2100 South 5600 house. West, and remodeled it into a Inside the home there are three large home for rental purposes. As Hiram Theron aged, his bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs, one of which Hiram oldest grandson ran the farm, and Theron died in. There is a living when Hugh Jacobs left this area room, a dining room, a large to move to Idaho, his father, pantry and a huge kitchen with Daniel H. Jacobs, took on the job. lots of cupboards and plenty of Later another son, Barr Jacobs, storage space. Originally there took care of the place until it was LANDMARK . . . The Hiram Theron Spencer home when it was built in 1905. It was the first in the area to have central heating and running water. The water was powered by a windmill and was stored in - m t - and neither alone - so he made every effort people. When Hiram Theron Spencer lay dying one March morning in 1930, the Indians happened to be camping in his yard. His daughter Maude went out and explained to them that he was too ill to visit with them as he usually did, and she committed herself to honor her fathers pledge to reserve a place for them to stay when they crossed the valley. As the moment of his transition drew closer, four Indian men and four women came to the house and asked to see their old friend. In single file they came into the house and stood in an formation around his bed, with the men on the side of the bed and the women at the foot. For a time they stood with bowed heads in silence as though they were praying, then without a word they began backing in single file out of the room, through the dining room, through the kitchen and down the back steps. A grieving Maude Laker followed them out and asked why them has been bricked create more wall space. Outside Hiram Theron planted a row of trees on both sides of the lane that ran down to the blacksmith shop and all along 2700 South as far as the Pleasant Green ward house. The fence down the east side was six boards high. It was painted ' red like the water reservoir, and the well was just outside the kitchen door. There were two granaries just north of the back door. Hiram Theron built a horse barn just like the one he had had on the ranch at Point of West Mountains, because he knew that you never really leave a place you love. Part of it you take with you and part of it you leave behind. North of the horse bam was the buggy shed and a cow bam. There was an orchard from the west side of the house to 8800 West. Spencer also went into the real estate business when he built eleven rental units across the street from his home. houses He built three two-roo- &:'&- - v.i.J'ix.Xi a1.. s but were two fireplaces, - sold to Kennecott in 1935. In June of 1924, Mary Spencer began to suffer the indignities of old age, and her daughter Maude Spencer Laker came to help out. She died in January of 1928 at age 86. As he did when he was at the Point of West Mountains, Hiram Theron let the Indians stay on his property every timer they came through the valley. In the summer they camped under the trees and in the winter they stayed in the blacksmith shop where they built a fire to keep Ji EXAMINATION By Appointment With This Coupon Only can 4370 So. Redwood DR. RON BROWN Podiatrist Foot Specialist' SURGERY OF THE DISEASES jI .Callouses, corns and bunions Bone spurs and calcium deposits I Arch problems .Running iniuries Warts I .Ingrown toenails .Foot pain and other problems involving I feet and lower extremities . 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An original birth certificate is requires at registration. Immunization records are required before a child can enter school and if possible, parents are asked to bring them to registration, If not available, the necessary forms may be obtained at the school. Children do not need to attend An orientation registration. session for the entering students will be held on April 22 from 2:30 to 3:30, at which time children may meet teachers. v said. When the Indians came through from Skull Valley to White Rocks a couple of times a year, every kid in town came down to watch. The Indian women each took a gunny sack (burlap bag) and canvassed the town from top to bottom coming back with household its rich Plymouth Will Register Children And so the boy who had received a promise from Brigham Young that he would live in spite of the fact that he was mortally warm. ! - passing. as I am alive you can camp on my ground," Spencer for wayside unrecognized White Spirit." However, they assured her that they would not leave until Hiram Theron had passed on, and through some uncanny instinct they knew when he died because they were already packing to leave when they were told of his an outside reservoir. It was also the only place in the valley where Indians were allowed to camp on the grounds, a practice that continued until 1935. wounded, lived to become the man that Brother Brigham had promised would live to do great things. He helped to settle the area, and had a mountain named in his honor (the mountain where the Cyprus C is located), which was and is to this day on the map as "Theads Peak." He served on the school board, was the first road supervisor here, was instrumental in bringing the irrigation water to this area and served as one of the directors of the Utah and Salt Lake Canal board, as well as president for a period of eight years. In his church he was a leader, having served as bishop of the Pleasant Green ward from 1892 to 1916, and became the Oquirrh Stake patriarch on June 11, 1923, a position he held until his death. Although the two story red brick home has stood by the historical value for the past 83 years, it is recognition eventually that really counts, even if it does come at the last moment like the cavalry in the cowboy movies. For the old house is filled with the echoes of all those yesterdays that blend into today - creating a local treasure that should never be allowed to be lost. they had left in that manner. "The Great White Spirit is in that room," they answered. "And we never turn our backs on the Great lift 7-- Christenson ft V11V Pnnnl WliUiUl Lumber and Hardware and the Gem Theater. The only other homes between 8950 West and Webster School were the homes of Edmond LeCheminant and Osmond and Hannah Maria Davis LeCheminant, also built in 1905. 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