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Show I CENTERVILLE I HISTORICAL SOCIETY J By VES HARRISON In the February meeting of the Centerville Historical Society Kathy and Marlene gave interesting interest-ing accounts of various members of the Dalrymple family. Kathy told of Luther and Elizabeth, of their parents, Andrew and Caroline Dalrymple Dal-rymple and Robert and Charlotte Peel, also Caroline's parents, John and Anna Holland. John Holland was born Nov. 12, 1808 in England. He was a master tailor, and a pair of his shears is displayed in the DUP cabin here in town. Most of the family were baptized bap-tized in 1851 by Charles W. Penrose. Pen-rose. Nine or 10 years later the Hollands came to America, settling in Centerville. John married Anna in 1829. She was born in Maldon, England Aug. 4, 1805. She died Oct. 13, 1883 at age 78, and John on Feb. 20, 1894, aged 86. Both are buried in Centerville. Caroline, third of their 10 children, chil-dren, was born Feb. 10, 1834 in Maldon. She and Andrew Dalrymple Dalrym-ple were wed Jan. 5, 1861 in Salt Lake City. Exactly when they came to Centerville is not known, but church records for the Primary Association Presidency for 1908 show Rebecca Porter as president, with Rosetta Smith, first counselor and Caroline Dalrymple, second counselor. She and Andrew had five children, three dying as infants. in-fants. The family had a huge black iron kettle in which they made lye soap, heated water for bathing, and filled with boiling water for scalding the slaughtered pigs prior to scraping the bristles off. This kettle also rests in the DUP local relic cabin. Andrew was born in Bolton, New York May 25, 1817 and made his way to Centerville in the early 1860's. Little is known of him before be-fore that time, but on his church record are listed two wives, Fanny Kilburn and Evelyn Walker. The family has no other information on either of them. On July 1 , 1 865 the 70th Quorum of Seventy was organized in Davis County with William H. Lee, L.S. Burnham, Samuel Bryson, Sr., Andrew Dalrymple, A.D. Boyn-ton, Boyn-ton, Henry Tingey and Israel Barlow, Bar-low, Jr. as presidents. Most of these men resided in Bountiful and Centerville. , Andrew purchased property near the foothills just north of Deuel Creek for the sum of $9.40. The deed was recorded Dec. 26, 1872. Three years later he sold part of this land to James Lucas for $85. That deed was recorded Oct. 4, 1875. Looking through a ledger and journal of Andrew Dalrymple, it is evident that he maintained a small store, probably in his own home. This is an interesting discovery, because there has never been any ' mention of it in any of the histories of Centerville. Several accounts were listed, among whom were those of John Coles, A. Sims, Richard Mills, David Barber, Philo Kent, Charles Duncan, Jesse Kimsley, Sister Kesler, George Winn, Thomas Tingey, M. Smith, Father Holland and others for the years around 1878-1885. He dealt in flour, plants, seeds, molasses, pork, butter, but-ter, fabric, rib roasts, garden produce pro-duce and fruit, fruit and shade trees, shoes, boots, overshoes, etc. In many cases his pay was in manual labor, such as setting out strawberry plants, pruning trees, or for a day's work or in trade for other commodities. On reading Mr. Dalrymple's journal and account book, it is evident evi-dent that he had received either an extensive education of was very well self-taught. His ability to write and express himself seemed to come easily, as noted by the extent of his papers, both in prose and poetry. Witness the following short essay on reading, written about 1884: "Facts are realities that admit of authentication, and among the many that might be dwelt upon is the fact that but few men, comparatively compara-tively speaking, are calculated by reason of there (sic) intelligence to enlighten the public mind in the capacity of a public speaker. And if so, why so, from the simple fact that they are not well- read. Then it is a fact that reading much qualifies men, many men, for public speakers. speak-ers. And if so, this fact stands confessed con-fessed that the man who is not well-read well-read is most assuredly incapacitated incapaci-tated to enlighten the public mind. Then in order that the public mind may be enlightened, this fact also stands confessed, that our speakers speak-ers in order to be teachers must be well-read. Which simply implies that they must be men of extensive information, by reason of which they will be teachers in very deed." Andrew Dalrymple and Lorenzo Schofield collaborated and submitted submit-ted many songs to the church music department. Two which were accepted and published were: "Come Let Us One and All," page 15, and "O Lord of Hosts," page 187, Deseret Sunday School Songs, 1909 edition. The latter song is listed in the hymn books with George Careless as composer of the music, but Nora Miles sent documentation to the church in an attempt to get it changed. Howev- er, they declined to do so. Sylvia Tingey played these two hymns on her accordian. Kathy read a poem "The Old Wooden Rocker" written in Andrew's journal in his handwriting. handwrit-ing. Space precludes the printing of it here, but some day we hope to give you many of his excellent poems. There is no known death date for Andrew, as the Centerville death and burial records for that time have been lost, but it is thought that the date is between 1890 and 1910. After the death of her husband Caroline continued to live with her son, Luther, and his family in the old home. She had her own quar- ., A r ! : a l "i ' r A:, 'i , ANDREW DALRYMPLE M ,-,:.a LUTHER DALRYMPLE 4 -""' V . ;" ; pT ," ' -" - OLIVER DALRYMPLE ters in a little lean-to on the north side of the house. One winter, after v a heavy snow storm, a terrible three-day East wind developed, during which time huge drifts were built up, blocking roads, covering buildings, bridges and fences. Caroline's little lean-to was completely com-pletely covered by a deep drift, and when the wind was over, her son Luther, Samuel Rigby and other men had to dig through the snow to release her from her white prison. Kathy then moved on to Luther and Elizabeth Peel Dalrymple. Elizabeth Eli-zabeth was the daughter of Robert and Charlotte Peel of Halifax, England. Eng-land. She was born July 8, 1882 at Dudley Hill, York, England. The family embraced the gospel of the LDS Church in 1898, and became active members. Elizabeth began to keep an autograph book, and among the many signatures, salutations saluta-tions and words of counsel are two of particular interest to us, one being written by Henry A. Cleveland Cleve-land and the other by H. Columbus Brown (probably Harry), both of Centerville, and both missionaries to England. In November, 1903, Charlotte, Elizabeth and John Peel crossed the ocean on the "S.S. Romantic" bound for America. There is no mention of the father, Robert, being with them. He died Dec. 28, 1906 in Halifax. As a young girl Elizabeth lost the sight in one eye in an accident with scissors. Elizabeth, her mother and brother landed in Boston Nov. 28, 1903. After arriving in Salt Lake City Elizabeth met Luther A. Dalrymple, and they were married Aug. 25, 1904 in the Salt Lake Temple. Tem-ple. They came to Centerville and lived with Luther's mother, Caroline, Caro-line, who still lived in the old home. Elizabeth's mother and brother, John, also lived with them. Both mothers lived there until their deaths. To help supplement the family's finances, Caroline was the janitress for the red brick two-room two-room schoolhouse for several years. Luther was born in Bountiful May 19, 1862, and moved to Centerville Cen-terville with his family between then and 1966. He grew up and was educated in Centerville. He and Elizabeth had two children, Oliver and Ida. Luther served as health officer for Centerville, and many a home displayed the "quarantine" signs he put on them for such diseases dis-eases as measles, chicken pox, mumps, etc. The family property used to go down to 400 East, and they raised vegetables, fruit, flowers, horses, pigs, chickens, cows, pigeons and rabbits. Luther worked for Porter-Walton Porter-Walton for many years. In his later years he served as night watchman, watch-man, and kept the furnace going in winter. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He and his son, Oliver, used to raise fighting chickens, and held fighting chicken shows in the old Alberta Hall which drew chicken chick-en fighters from all over the state. After her family was raised, Elizabeth Eli-zabeth took a course in home nursing nurs-ing and maternity care. She then opened a nursing and maternity home in Centerville in the early 1930's, which she maintained until 1940. Many a person came into the world in the old Dalrymple home. In her later years she suffered from poor eyesight, but with the help of CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Centerville historical CONTINUED FROM PREV. PAGE a magnifying glass and young grandchildren she was able to get around, and even baked cookies for the kids. There was a small problem sometimes, because with her bad eyesight she didn't always see the weevils that would sometimes some-times infest the flour. She died in Centerville Dec. 9, 1951 at the age of 69. Luther was killed at 5:30 on the morning of Jan. 29, 1947 at age 84 when he was walking home from stoking the furnace at the Porter-Walton Porter-Walton greenhouses. It was a very snowy morning, and visibility was poor. He died within an hour of being hit by a car. Bill Tingey was on his way to market, and was one of the first persons on the scene. He stayed with Luther until the end. Marlene then gave an account of Oliver's life. He was born May 25, 1905 in Centerville, and lived there all his life with the exception of a short stay in Bedford, Wyo. Oliver inherited his grandfather's love of poetry, and skill in writing it. He also wrote plays while at Davis High School and ward plays for the church. ; After completing a course in Jgraphy he got a job with the Joad, but they sent him to some out-of-the-way place. He didn't like that, so he quit and came home. He married Idella Perkins on July 5, 1931 in the Logan Temple. Tem-ple. They lived in Star Valley, Wyo. for a short time, but lost their property during the great depression depress-ion because they couldn't pay their taxes. They moved back to Centerville Center-ville and built onto Grandmother Dalrymple's old house (it has since burned down). They became parents pa-rents to four boys and two girls. Oliver became a foreman at Bountiful Lumber and Supply, and he and his son Eugene made boxes at the box factory. His life's work, however, was as a brick mason, starting with his apprenticeship under Walter and Therice Duncan in the early 1930's and lasting until his retirement in 1962. He helped to build many homes in Centerville, the Star Valley Creamery in Thayne, and Weber College in Ogden. Like his dad, Oliver loved to fish and hunt. Indeed, these two pastimes pas-times became family affairs which are fondly remembered by his children. chil-dren. He raised beautiful pedigreed fighting chickens which he displayed display-ed at fairs and shows. He also loved and kept other animals, and raised fruits and vegetables. Oliver was. scrupulously honest. He also paidliis debts, and tried to pay cash whenever possible. ! Idella was a loving wife and mother until she became ill. She died in 1958. Oliver suffered a heart attack and died in 1971. Both Kathy and Marlene expressed ex-pressed appreciation for belonging to the Dalrymple family via Oliver's Oliv-er's sons, Eugene and Bryon. Members of the audience were invited to share persona experiences experi-ences they had with members of the Dalrymple family. Dick France remembered many hours of visiting with Oliver at the France Garage. Dick used to carry the newspaper, and many times he ended up taking a rooster for his pay from the Dalrymples. Through them he became interested in chickens. He also participated in some of their pig killings. One day they had 27 dead pigs scattered out in the orchard. Dick had spent many days with Oliver chicken fighting, fishing and talking. He lauded Oliver's honesty. hones-ty. Oliver would come to the gar- age, and if he had only 30 cents in his pocket he would buy only 30 cents worth of gas. He refused to charge any gas. Dick told of Oliver's Oliv-er's sorrow in his later years, when his wife was confined to the hos-iwife hos-iwife was confined to the hospital. Richard Williams spoke next. He said as kids they used to give people nicknames. The one they selected for Luther was "Tudor-ay," "Tudor-ay," a name that infuriated him. He told of an old watch Luther had which he wound with a key. He took great delight in asking you what time it was. When you'd tell him, he would reach into his pocket and check with his watch. If you didn't have exactly the same time as he did, he'd argue with you. Richard also told of delivering milk to Dalrymples. He often had to help "Sister Lizzie" get her Model A Ford up the hill and in the garage when she got stuck in the snow. He had to help her, because her car had the street blocked. Ves Harrison then arose and said that in a way, Oliver shaped his destiny. After Ves got out of high school in 1927 he first worked out on his own, then his dad's and finally fin-ally George Miles' assessment when the First Ward chapel was remodeled. Following that, he went to work for Hen Cleveland in his garden. Oliver was also working in the field for Hen, and one day he said, "Say, I've got some game chickens exhibited in the State Fair, and they gave me some free passes to get in the Fair. If you'd like to take tomorrow off and go to the Fair, I'll give you a ticket and you can get in free." "Wonderful," replied Ves, and so the next day he caught the Bamberger, Bam-berger, and got off at then North Temple and Third West, in front of the old Salt Lake Hardware Com- pany, and started to walk over the viaduct toward the Fairgrounds. He hadn't gone far when he , reached in his pocket, and no fair ticket. He had forgotten to bring the pass! He thought "I don't want to waste this trip," so he dropped into the hardware store and asked for a job. He started working there the next day and spent the next 42 years there. Bill Tingey was next, and he told of several humorous experiences with Luther, such as the time the Tingeys cut a number of large trees down, but the stumps were too big to be pulled by a team. Luther said he would cut all the stumps up if they could get them up to his place. Finally, they prevailed on the operator oper-ator of the county road grader to drag them up to Luther's. Many years later Bill saw many of the stumps still in the oakbrush, uncut. Bill used to raise a mother pig each year, and one year his mother pig had more piglets than she had facilities to feed them with, so the family used to feed the baby pigs with a bottle which had a nipple. jThe little pigs ran loose around the yard, and would follow anybody. One day one of them followed Luther up the road to his home. Bill couldn't find the pig. For three days he contacted all the neighbors, neigh-bors, but none had seen it. One day Luther came down the street and Bill asked him if he'd seen the pig. Luther said "Oh, is that your pig? He followed me home two or three days ago, and I still have him!" Bill then told of coming upon the accident acci-dent which killed Luther. They carried him into 'Dark' Rigby's home after Dr. Trowbridge had arrived, ar-rived, and laid him on the couch, where he died. Franklin Walton told of his experiences ex-periences weeding with Luther, also of having to listen hundreds of times to Luther's story of how good the drinking water was that he tasted while visiting Oliver in Star Valley. Vera Jorgensen related how he and Kevin Duncan went fishing with Oliver. Oliver's big dog, "Silky," "Sil-ky," went along. They stopped near Randolph for breakfast, and Oliver told them to go fishing while he fixed breakfast. He always took a can of bacon on their trips, and when Vera and Kevin got back to camp there was no bacon. "Silky" had eaten it. At Star Valley they laid their bedding and sleeping bags out on the ground. "Silky" had found some fresh manure and rolled rol-led in it. He then curled up on Oliver's Oliv-er's sleeping bag and got manure all over it. The evening ended with the audience audi-ence gathered around the table, examining ex-amining the numerous old photos, documents, and relics from the family collection. Cliff Russell captured cap-tured them all on video for history. A plea: if you have old photos, negatives, books, diaries, journals, etc. which you have decided to throw out don't. Throw them our way instead. If there is any question in your mind as to whether they should be kept or discarded, dis-carded, give us the chance to decide. de-cide. CaJl Clara Goudy at 295-8358. In the March 17 meeting, briel histories of six prominent ladies will be given by their family members. mem-bers. They are: Edith H. Winn, by Bill Winn; Amelia Porter Walton, Franklin Walton; Amy Porter Hart, by Sanona H. France; Emma Wayman by Jane Wayman Reynolds; Lavena Scofield Harri-' Harri-' son, by Vestil Harrison; and Bessie W. Clayton, by Archer Clayton. In addition, a very valuable and helpful five-page handout on ideas for writing your personal and family fami-ly history will be given to all who attend. The starting time is 7:30 p.m. at the Centerville City Hall. |