| Show Early life in is told by first Resident who came To locality in 1906 from Jensen EDITOR'S NOTE The following story of the life in the Uintah Basin of Alice D. Gardner and Elmer early pioneers who moved to Bluebell in 1906 from Jensen was written by A recent open house was held honoring Gale on her by Alice D. Gale Wc were the first ones here in and we lived around the It was noised around that they the white man take our The government told white man pay you for the WRITES OWN STORY Alice D. first Bluebell resident and writes own story of laer family's life In the Uintah The Indians' cattle were all over our and we left them My husband would go at night to get two cows and two and he would see the Indians lying around in the My husband tried to talk to but they wouldn't answer This went on for about ten The Indians rose up and salute white no killum my My husband sage hens for him to get to My husband went up in the Pines burning pine wood in a making charcoal and selling it at He traveled by team and and it would be dark when he came home at I was so I heard the most terrible roaring I didn't know what to so I knelt down and I then wrapped Jesse in a blanket and we hid behind the cook first locking the I didn't dare light a fire in my There was snow all over the When my husband came home he was because I wasn't out to meet He thought I had gone to meet him and had gotten lost In the The next morning wc saw the tracks of a mountain lion right in our That was what had My husband worked at the Lybert sawmill a Wc de- elded to go to Roosevelt to spend We traveled our wagon down through the and ran into a terrible snow storm and We stopped and my husband raised the wagon tongue and propped it up with the neck yoke and put a over and there we stayed until Old Santa visited us and left our gifts hanging on a cedar tree all covered with Jesse was so happy to have find The first house built in Bluebell is where Jesse and his family now Sunday dances and all meetings were held in this Wc lived in a tent and cooked on a camp-fire while the house was being built- I was the first teacher in Sunday School of the little Then by request I was the teacher of the One of the little boys I taught in the class always called me He grew up to a good man and went on a He came in and administered to me one time when I was very sick and I was That little boy was Bernard Five from this class went on I was secretary of the Primary and the Relief Society a total of 35 I was a teacher advisor for 11 and maintained in Relief Society as a visiting teacher for 18 For a long time doctors were unavailable Forty babies were born under my care and I acted as their I was Sunday School teacher for 40 years and a Primary teacher for 40 I am still teaching in Primary and I am a Relief Society visiting walking a great deal of the time to the I was bom in Utah to Alice Snow and Ira Gardner on May I married Elmer who died April Our adopted has six living and 11 |
