| Show The tune was mello and sweet Myrtle finders a favorite tune on the old organ she played long time ago as the only organist In the pioneer The organ was as as she was as a brido in this community on the Upper Duchesne River in Sweet music came from her organ of yester-year in community events By Wilcken DUCHESNE The That Reached My may have been played on the six octave organ by Myrtle L. If you were a resident of the Tabiona-Hanna community on the Upper Duchesne River in probably you recall one of her familiar She still plays the same organ many times a week for her own enjoyment or accompaniment for a family song Her nine sons and daughters and a number of her nearly 40 grandchildren have left their mark on the The the best of its kind in the Woodland community when it was bought from Roebuck in 1903 by her was the only such musical instrument in the Tabiona-Hanna settlement for many It was taken from their home and generously given for community use by and Dorothy Robert Moroni Wilcken's For about two It remained in the Hyrum Jones ranch which served as a community and entertainment where Wilcken as the bride of H. played the After a church was built in the the organ was taken back to the Michie home where it was first housed after it was brought over Wolf Creek Pass with the family's other possessions when their homestead cabin was Wilcken recalls being about 15 years old when the organ was bought from Roebuck at Chicago for plus freight to Park Her mother particularly wanted the eight girls in her family of 11 to have Wilcken remember my mother saying that the purchase of that organ was the best Investment the family eyes must have gotten wide as saucers when I first saw this grand musical It was replete with carved and shiny walnut tiny shelves and a large curved and framed When Michie moved to Provo in the early she gave the family heirloom to the Wilcken At the Wilcken many a Relief Society and Cottage Meeting was held there because of the organ and the ready The organ was brought to Duchesne when the Wilcken family moved there in One of the Wilcken boys the organ about 20 years ago when he the but the old music instrument is still a useful in Wilcken's living Don't marry for money it's far cheaper to borrow Our affections are our We live by They supply cur warm Ellery Channing |
