BETH As dictated by WINKLER Ella PRICE Carol Winkler - 1990 Venetia Proctor was born October 12, 1883, in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County. She was christened December 2, 1883. She was a year old when diphtheria broke out and their family lost 3 children with diphtheria: William, Henry, and Libby (or Mary Elizabeth). Then in 1884, Floyd, who was 10 years old, died of appendicitis. In 1887 their father took them to Mt. Pleasant to live. Leddy, the oldest girl, drove the wagon with Venetia, her mother, and baby Aur. They were going up the hill when the horses started back down . The father called out, come on, and they lunged forward. The sheep down and returned for the family. They lived in town for one year until a cabin was built and the large house completed. He sold his sheep for a large amount and bought cattle. He planted trees and furnished Mt. Pleasant with shade trees. He bought a cart and horse for Aur to drive Venetia and himself to Wasatch Academy. In the winter, Venetia stayed the week usually and came home on weekends. Venetia's mother, Nancy Elizabeth Winchester, was born on April 25, 1853. Her husband, Joseph Hyrum Proctor, had never been to school, and could neither read nor write and Nancy Elizabeth taught him to both read and write. And then they were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City by Daniel Wells, June 7, 1869. He was 25 and she was 16. Joseph then worked in the smelter. They had 7 children. These 7 children, 4 died before they moved to Mt. Pleasant. Aur and Venetia attended Wasatch Academy from first grade through high school. Venetia did some extra young work at man who the sang school. In in a quartet, the fall, Ernest she Winkler. was attracted And then she to a left for California to stay with her dad's sister to attend college to Poly Tech, now Cal Tech in Pasadena. On returning home, love soon blossomed to Ernest Winkler in Manti. And when first married, he worked as a clerk for Walter James and Venetia helped in the house at Black Rock. Then they received word that her father had died March 4, 1905 and they came back to Mt. Pleasant. Ernest worked for Aur but moved to Mt. Pleasant the day before Orville was born. The government tests were coming up for work with the U.S. Forest Service. Venetia persuaded him to take it and according to Mr. Benedict who gave the test, stated that Ernest had passed highest of anyone taking it that year. He was made Assistant Forest Ranger and advanced to Assistant Supervisor on the Manti. Bill Humphrey, his friend, and Ernest assisted regional forester were called to settle the line allotments made 27 years before. The Line was exactly where they had originally marked moved to Mt. Pleasant Jetta died the day she and then died. Nonna it. I failed to mention that after they Hyrum and Nancy had four more children: was born. Rodney Lived just four months was born December 29, 1891 and she lived 1