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Show Lakeside Ties the cabin where steps led into a dugout m whuh apples, honey, honied fruit, dried beans, corn and squadi were siored. Beyond From 1 The frnule CW?rimn travel-I- n will the etoidirn left m CifiH gnj returned (a I ngUnd, and the Jjmily believe htf IiH'K their mother money wuh her, The four children, including Victor' father, were left in Irani ith thg and or. rhaned. Record tww ihey left Mormon tome on July 2a. t iSS. with the fcsh (Vfiifjft), Dili in, led by tapiwithC. A- - Harper. the help of They (ranted perpetual emigration fund. There were 2J8 people with the company, traveling in 23 wag. one with Jt4 oven and IS cow. the cellar was the granary. Victor said site remember a photographer coming lo t and her parent warned to have a picture taken of the three younger children- - It wa taken on the front porch of their old home. I ler older inter. Ciomar, had given her sister Bona a locket to wer in the picture, Victor wanted one to wear too, io she cried, Someone borrowed a toilet for Victor to wear in the picture as il-c- said. Riding with the wagon train 'My father remembered riding in the bak of the wagon, and hi nvteri trailing along behind," Victor Mid. According to hi sier Man, ihey would omeume travel lor du with the rain falling to fait there wat no way to bake bread. VWten a nice day came, they would do their wavhtng and bake bread. Each time they made bread, they alwt made an oven to bake it in. Thi wat done by packing hot rocks around the pan of bread. Chtckent were let loote to scavenge for food, and some would wander away and be eaten ihemcclves by wild animals. Those that returned were put into their coops for the night At night the wagons were placed in a circle and the other animals were put in the center to graze. We find Emma, the oldest of the fjmily, recorded at head of , & W- - Her older sister often diJ the AM f OR HIS MISSION Vema tom Charte dorm Roe, poses tor s poai ptveiocrar leaving tor hit mason to me Dtoe Rd3 Moumans ol Wgtma. PREPARING Vm toe on a miwion to the Blue Ridge Mountain of Virginia. He wa the ftrvt miviionary to leave Escalante. Dora stayed with her maternal grandparent, who had a dairy farm. Victor ha a picture of the small stone church in Escalante where her father's photograph was hung, honoring him for being the first missionary from the area. That picture now hang in the new modem chjpcE "After the completion of his mission he met and married my mother, who was only 17 at the time." Victor said. "They were married in the Manii Temple and had nine of us children, myself the little group." Victor uid. being the youngest." Picking up a small while enveWe can picture this little lope containing crumbling bus of full of sorrow and girl, with handwritten notes, loneliness, ct trying to take a paper famother's place for her younger Victor showed some of her ther's missionary journal. sisters and brother." "Several years ago, I begged to borrow several small noteFinding a home The wagon train arrived in books on which he had recorded Salt Lake City on Oct. 29, 1833. his mission experiences," she When they arrived the children said. "These had been handed were taken to the public square. down to Dora's children. From these worn pages and with the Those who could add another aid of a magnifying glass, I put member to their family took together a missionary journal for them in, one by one. The chil dren were separated, and Charles him." was left sitting in a chair, the last Remembering 'Dadd to be taken. Roes children always called "I can only feel the heart break of these four as they were him "Daddy," as Victor still tom apart, Victor said. "My fa- does. He was a kindly man," she ther was taken into the family of Job Perkins and raised around recalled, adding that when she was young he would hide pink St. George." and white peppermint candy in Victor also knows stories the I father, told of his life as. a , the grain for the children to find. , Jlcr -Roe was the water master in young man. By the age of 15 he was fending for himself. He Escalante. I would tag him around a lot drove a wagon team and hauled lava rocks for the filling-i- n of the as he changed the water," Victor foundation of the St. George said. "Often we would have a picTemple. He met and married nic of pork and beans or we Mary Frances Young of Kanar-ravill- e. would build a fire and fry potatoes and onions. It was fun to be and they had three chilwith him." dren. He was left with just his litVictor also remembers the tle daughter, Dora, after his wife and two sons died. family home. Our home in Escalante was a Staking a claim to a lot, Charles Roe settled in Escalante log cabin with additions onto it Valley. It was here that he was throughout the years, she said. living when he was called to go There was a cellar at the back of -- 17M AYS U washing. They used an old washer outside where stack of clothe lay on the ground. Roe would turn the washer for the girls. One day when they were doing the washing, he went to gather wood, and he didnt come home. When men from the area went looking for him. they found that hit wagon had hit a stump and he had fallen out. He wat already dead when they reached him. "Our dog Rover wa laying by hi side in the hills of Lscalame," said Victor. Victor has kept record over the years, writing many of them in terse. She has written down her memories of the old homestead where she grew up and 1997 J? xf tv AC'I WE CASH CHECKS ALL TYPES WE GIVE PAYDAY LOANS Money Orders 25c Wire Transfers 2984 North Hillfietd Rd. Layton, Utah 84041 728-324- 0 Fax: 728-324- 2 APiirtttGcbtorkftrbw 395 S. State, Clearfield. .825-882- 5 q opening Mew office in about the lonely cedar trees where she once sat for shade. Victor's father also wrote poetry, and some of hi poetry is in her collection of family history. A cracked antique photo is also Dr. Robert H. Johnson, D.D.S. part of her collection, as are letters from her dad. I try to write down all of my experiences," she said. "I hope it helps someone else, I hope it spurs them on. Write it down before you forget it. To know your ancestors is to know yourself." Dr. Johnson Keeping track of history Davis High Ricks College Victor said she writes her history in the form of a story because she says it makes it more interesting. She is in the process of writing a love story about her husband. "He was a great blessing to University of Utah Creighton University School of Dentistry me," she said of her husband, ALL PATIENTS WELCOME who died seven years ago. On a recent trip to Escalante, Victor was disappointed to find she could attended and graduated from: EMERGENCIES ACCEPTED no longer roam through the hills and sagebrush the way she did as a child. "No trespassing" signs are now posted . . tq kgep.pgople.out. 415 Medical Dr., Suite B100 Bountiful SSB-SflU- S -- Vidor, who celebrated her 86th birthday on July 17, says she has kept busy all her life. She learned Spanish at Brigham Young University when she and in Provo and worked in the Provo Temple. She and her husband served a mis- sion in the California Fresno Mission in 1978-7Victor also keeps busy working on her secret garden in the her husband lived -- 9. backyard of her sons home, where she lives in a basement apartment. 777. ,i itffrniiTOrffi SS!l55i!Id E tgrasi an GSG 0 Q-- y OPY JJy19 AT CHAnLEY CHARLEY'S: e, well "I wa always a crybaby," she Mi t i tIuffi M ill iii jl jJ - d 9 |