Show 4 Pge - Millard County Thurs USPS Dec 24 1987 West Millard History Book History of Garrison NOTE: The following excerpt was taken from Milestones of Millard a history up tp 1952 by Angie Dearden Warner Garrison a small town in Snake in the extreme is situated Valley western part of Millard County near the Nevada border Although it has a population of only a hundred people it is the largest winter grazing area in the state It is a cattle and sheep raiswith the immediate ing settlement locality being owned and operated by outside interests Snake Valley was named after the Snake Indians a branch of the large Piute tribe There were about a thousand of these Indians living in the mountains when the first settlers moved in three hundred of them stayed near the settlement and were hired by the cattlemen Irrigation comes from the Snake Creek which flows from the west and the Pruess Nevada mountains reservoir about four miles south Rovert and Nick Dowling were the first settlers to take up “squatter rights” in Garrison Alex Gonder and Bill Gregory purchased this site from the Dowling brothers It is the present location of the ranch now owned by Will Gonder and his son Wayne Gonder About this time Charlie Roland came into the country and squatted on a tract of land which was later acquired by Thomas Davis Dearden Later it was purchased by his three sons James Vivian and Lee Dearden Sam Forman and Captain Freeman site of Fred settled the present Shoemaker in June 1870 A cemetery was started in 1876 The six months old daughter of Charlie Roland was the first to be buried there Thomas Dearden Sr a native of who came to Lanceshire England America in 1866 established the first store in the valley to supply the needs miners of the ranchers and travelers This was in 1882 His wife was Charlotte Davis and they had twelve children The Dearden store was known as “Rancher’s Store” and was located in the town which is now known as Baker Nevada Joseph and Thomas Dearden hauled grain and lumber to supply the store Thomas started hauling freight when he was only 12 years of age operating the wagon and team himself He would go along with his grandfather Henry Davis who also drove a team and wagon They hauled from Clear Lake then later from Oasis The road went over man ever knew “No Man’s Road”--nafter a rain if he would get through or to Antelope down through Death Canyon to Tule Flat Cowboy Pass Burbank Garrison Osceola and Ely Nevada (Death Canyon was so named because at one time a train of emigrants were trapped in the canyon during a winter storm and all of them were frozen to death) In 1898 the first store in Garrison was established by James and Clay School was held in the homes in the early days Money was only available months of schooling each year for The settlers paid for the extra time put in by the teacher Some of the earlier teachers were Mrs Emma Garrison Mrs Margie Clay Mrs Effie Reid (Moody) The first post office was established in 1898 Mrs Emma Garrison was the first postmistress and the town was named after her About 1898 Thomas Davis and Joseph Dearden acquired the first mail contract from Frisco to Ely Garrison being the center point they made it their headquarters The run was from Garrison to Ely and from Garrison to New House and Frisco They each made three trips a week In the winter time this was a very difficult task many times the mountain passes would be blocked with snow and the roads would be almost impassable Many times the mail would have to be taken by horseback The stage would get to Garrison change horse and go back The first law introduced in the valley was through Judge Clay and Brick Hockman They made most of their own laws but dealt justice fairly The first automobile to be brought into the valley was a Metz Later another store was established by E Heckethorn in which the post office was housed and which is now owned and operated by Mrs Blanc Yersin In 1925 the Church of Jesus Christ Saints organized a branch of of Deseret stake at Garrison This was the first church organized in the valley Some of the missionaries that helped to organize the branch were: AA Hinckley Joseph Wright John Reeve and Alex Adams Alma Jennings was made presiding Elder of the new branch and James Robinson superintendent of the Sunday School Cecil Warner counselor The and Angie Dearden secretary school house was used for the meetings Today the present population of Garrison consists mainly of the descendents of Thomas Davis and Joseph Dearden Henry Davis and Will Gonder "There was no doctor in this small When a mother expected community a baby and wanted a doctor she had to go to Fillmore or Deseret One cold November day Thomas Dearden and his wife Elizabeth started for home with a two week old baby and a 16 month old child They crossed the desert and traveled 160 miles through wind and a blizzard Heated rocks and plenty of quilts in the buggy protected last 50 miles them from the of the trip the small children cried constantly” (The Deardens never forgot Former Delta Educator receives Doctoral Degree from BYU kV1 i Linda Carter New County Recorder Linda S Carter was appointed Millard County Recorder on December 15 1987 She was appointed County Recorder due to the retirement of LaVoy Martin Linda has been with the recorder’s office for the last six and one half years She is a certified Cadastral Mapper with the recorder’s association and has been doing the ownership changes platting and computer imput during that time “Iam proud to have the opportunity to serve the people of Millard CounI have had extenty as their recorder sive training with mapping computer of the input and the procedures recorder’s office “I enjoy working with the public and would like to thank the Republican Central Committee the commissioners and everyone that supported me in receiving this position” that trip) Indian village near what is now Boston got the name large hill place” from the fact that it was located in the Great Blue Hill This later became the name of the American An Algonkian Elizabeth Page Dewsnup a former teacher at Delta Junior and Senior High Schools and now director of cooperative education at the College of Eastern Utah was among 12 students who received Doctor of Education degrees Dec 21 at the end of fall semester at Brigham Young University 1200 students received Nearly degrees at the conclusion of final exam week Since there are no Commencement services held in December the graduates are invited to participate in the April Commencement in Dewsnup received a doctorate educational leadership through the College of Education A 1948 graduate of Jordan High she received a bachelor’s School degree in health education and business from the University of Utah in 1952 and a master’s degree in health from the University of in 1970 she examined For her dissertation the status of the vocational standards for program administration and training needs of secondary directors in Utah She found (36 percent) school districts satisfied the standard The secondary vocational directors in the state indicated that the curriculum and instruction area was the most important to them in the permanence of their jobs while writing requests for proposals and reports was the area of greatest need for training While at CEU Dewsnup has served as vocational director for one year and formerly served for eight years as chairman of the Family LifeHealth Education Department She taught at Cedar City High School for 15 years She is a former of Ruth Dewsnup Ashby of Delta and two of her three children were born in Delta Ekins new member of Angus Assoc Klell Ekins Delta UT is a new junior member of the American Angus Association reports Deick Spader ecutive of the national organization with headquarters in St Joseph Missouri Junior members of the association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association and take part in Association sponsored shows and other national and 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