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Show The Parishes on Cottonwood 1875 'Living in Mountain Green in the 1880's was no different than it is today,' Bishop Joseph Alonzo Parrish assured his family as members settled down for an evening of rem¬iniscing. 'We grew up in two places, Centerville and Mountain Green. My father, Joel Parrish, wanted enough land to give each of his 10 sons property for a home and help make a living for themselves. 'Between 1875 and 1890 he purchased several quarter sections of land from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Charles and Parley settled in what is now Croyden, 'Hyrum and Samuel located on land now owned by the Rollins family. Brothers William, Ezra and I later acquired this farm. John, Ernest and Stanley exchanged their acreage for our land in Centerville. They later sold out and moved to Alber¬ta, Canada. Sam, Hyrum, Charles and Parley sold their Mountain Green property and moved back to Centerville. 'Our father, Joel, built a stone and lumber house on the Mountain Green land. He also built a barn, corrals, chicken coops and a small dairy. He dug a well which provided us plenty of culinary water. 'Our mother, Emma Ford Parrish, died on 29 March 1888, when I was 15. Chloe, our 13 year old sister, offered to take over the kitchen and cooking if our father would get a housekeeper and spend more time with his motherless children. 'Being 15 I spent most summers on the Mountain Green farm, returning to Cen¬terville to attend school in the winter. After completing the secondary grades I started classes at the University of Utah, which was much like our high schools of today. 'In 1896, along with my brother, Ezra, I went to the Mountain Green ranch where we raised hay, grain, beef cattle, and milked a herd of cows. When we weren't busy doing this we made cheese. 182 JOSEPH ALONZO AND IDA COOK PARRISH |