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Show The boys had done four days work on Central Ditch. Attended to May party company April 19. Lee had gone to work for Mr. Nash, who was sick. He got $3 a week. Minnie worked for Mrs. Allread for $2 a week. In June we finished grubbing two acres on the lot, plowed the ground and put in a garden. Also plowed and put in corn on ten acres on the Olney Farm. The End. Isaac H Robinson, Washington, Utah According to Zina Robinson Dana, the trip to Arizona took about four months. Her father, Isaac, homsteaded 160 acres and after clearing the ground he and his sons made adobes for a two-room house. It was a great day when the walls went up and the floor was laid. Doors and windows were the last to be consid¬ered. The weather was so warm that cooking and all other work had to be done outdoors. The next important event was when the community built a large, one-room building to be used for Church meetings and school. The school was not graded. The little settlement was named Thatcher after Moses Thatcher. Samuel Claridge was the Bishop and Christopher Layton was president of the Stake. As time went on Isaac added two rooms to the house and planted many fruit trees. He dug a deep well and walled it from top to bottom with rodks. A new baby, Jennie, arrived, the 13th child in the family. She lived just two years. Other changes came when Andrew Kimball, father of President Spencer W. Kimball, became stake president. The children remembered that when frigid weather set in and money was scarce, Isaac and the boys would load tubs into the wagon and set out for Graham Mountain. Here they would fill the tubs with pure mountain water and leave it to freeze. After the water had time to freeze into a block of ice it would be brought back and sold to town folks for their ice boxes. Each year Isaac threshed the grain and stored it at a mill in Pima. On one trip to the mill he was driving up a steep dugway when the team bolted. The wagon tipped over and Isaac and Elsie were buried under the grain. Elsie died in March of 1907. Ten years later Isaac died. Both are buried in the Thatcher Cemetery. Wanda Stoddard and Zina Robinson Dana 152 ISAAC ROBINSON HOME IN SAFFORD |
