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Show G A !; H " Y a a -1 P W4 WAY A;Vl.v ;:v BRACKETT FAMILY Read to ride herd at the Noy Brackett Ranch in Idaho are Noy Brackett, father; Ruby Johnson Brackett, mother; Ann 18; twins Jean and Joan, 16; Bert, 14; Ruby J., 13 and Chet, 11. Mrs. Brackett is the daughter of Andrew A. Johnson. Former Pleasant Grove Woman Raises Family, Helps to Herd Cattle on Ranch in Idaho; Children All Work as Ranch Hands "It's a wonderful satisfaction to sea your kids doing well," said 81-year old Andrew A. Johnson of Lindon Monday afternoon. Mr. Johnson was telling about his youngest daughter Ruby, who married an Idaho man and is the mother of six fine, active boys and girls. Ruby's mother was the late Ellen Dittmore Johnson. Ruby, like her own four brothers broth-ers and sisters, was bora in Lindon Lin-don and educated in the Lindon and Pleasant Grove schools. After Af-ter high school graduation she attended the USAC at Logan for two years. It was at USAC that Ruby met Nov Brackett, a young agriculture agricul-ture student from Three CretJks. Idaho. They were married March 16, 1910. The young couple established a home on a ranch at Three Creeks about 75 miles southwest of Twin Falls, Idaho and launched immediately im-mediately into their life's vocation voca-tion of raising strong, vigorous intelligent children, and high type Hereford beef cattle. At present the Brackett "spread" includes a summer ranch at Three Creeks and a winter ranch at Hagerman, where they "run" 1500 Herefords. Since the children began to reach high school age the Brack-etts Brack-etts established a winter home in Hagerman; but the summers are spent at Three Creeks. Ann, 18, is a high school graduate grad-uate and is currenly a college freshman in Denver, Colorado. Twin girls Jean and Joan, 16, Bert, 14; Ruby J. 13; and Chet 11 are attending High School in Hagerman. There has been no "time with nothing to do" for the Brackett clan. Ruby, Noy and all the kids are active and efficient cattle wranglers. The girls as Weill as the boys can ride a quarterhorse and "cut, rope 'and brand" with the best of them. There's no juvenile ju-venile delinquency problem here. Chow time finds them gathered gather-ed around the campfire where "Mam Ruby" dishes out the prime beef, sourdough bread and pink-eyed beans. Grandpa Johnson is a familiar sig'ht on the stree'ts of Pleasant Grove, where he travels about on a pair of well-worn crutches. In his hand he carries a battered brown brief case filled with pictures pic-tures and newspaper clippings of the Brackett family from Three Creeks. Given half a chance and a little encouragement he will proudly tell you the whole story. |