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Show daughter of Amos and Leah Fickes Stoddard. She was four years old when the family moved across the plains to the Great Salt Lake Valley. The Stoddard family also settled in Uintah. Isaac met Elsie at a well site where he took his horses to be watered. He was attracted to the young teenager and told her that he would see her again soon. He left for California where he worked for several years, then returned to Uintah. Upon his return he began 'calling' on Elsie. The young couple married 29 May 1863, and moved to Mountain Green where Isaac purchased land on Strawberry Creek from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Here they built a large one room log cabin near the creek. It was here that 12 of their children were born; Isaac Payson, Leah Lois, Joseph Martin, Mary Ann, Cyrus, Franklin, Emily, Wilford, Elsie P., Effie, Orson Hyde and Zina. Isaac cleared the land for farming and raised a few cattle and sheep. They also had a dairy herd and a few chickens. Elsie Permelia made butter which was sold in Ogden to help provide food for the table. In an old ledger kept by John and Lucinda V. Robinson is recorded the many responsibilities assumed by Isaac and Elsie in helping to establish the school and their many activities in the little LDS Branch. Isaac played a leading role in the erection of the frame school house located south of the roadway between Dry and Gordon Creeks. Besides acting as chairman of the school committee he also assisted in raising funds for the erection of the building which also served as an LDS Chapel and social center. In December of 1883, in response to a call from Church leaders, Isaac left with his family for Arizona where he settled in the Thatcher area. He had sold the Mountain Green ranch to Ira Spaulding for $50 and Ira assumed the contract with the railroad. Ira lived on the ranch until about 1890 when he sold it to John Heber Robinson for $100 cash and Heber assumed the railroad contract which cost him $1.25 per acre for about 140 acres of land. Isaac wrote the following in his journal: 'I, Isaac Payson Robinson, started out with my family, consisting of my wife, Elsie and 12 children, from Strawberry Creek, Morgan County, for the Gila River in Arizona, Graham County. We traveled along smoothly until the end of December. We camped at Navajo Wells, Apache County. There we lost a pair of mares. January 7 we got on top of 150 |
