brothers and sisters to a farm east of Dry Creek in Mountain Green, Heber and Nodie were married in November of 1875 and moved to Burch Creek, Weber County, where they bought a small farm and cared for Heber's grandfather, John Robinson Sr., former Sea Captain. Two children, Nora and Adelaide, were born here. Following the death of John Sr. and Baby Adelaide, the young family moved to Hooper where John Heber tau¬ght school for a term. After the birth of Ellen (Nellie), the Robinsons moved to Mountain Green onto the Gordon Beckstead ranch on Gordon Creek. Heber built a sturdy granary while living here. He supplemented his earnings by teaching school. A 320 acre farm was acquired through homesteading and purchase from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Located on the bench above the present Dick Warner home, Heber built a comfortable home and the necessary farm buildings. Dry Creek cut through the corner of the farm and was a favorite camping spot for Little Soldier and his band of Indians. The squaws bargained with Nodie for her surplus farm and dairy produce. By 1890 the family had increased to eight living children. This number was swelled to nine when Stephen Winchester, an English youth, came to live with them. John Wells was just three weeks old when Heber sold the bench farm and bought a ranch on Strawberry Creek, which had been owned and developed by his Uncle, Isaac P. Robinson. The family moved unto a delapidated two-room log cabin with a leaky roof. Heber tacked a canvas wagon cover on the ceiling over the bed to protect Nodie and her tiny son, who had just been born. It was a discouraging venture, at best. In December the children were stricken with the dreaded 'black dyptheria' which claimed the lives of two children, Iva Lucinda and Francis Heber. Three neighbors, Bob and Joe Kippen and Sam Horsefield, came to the aid of the stricken family, caring for the livestock and running errands. Heber later built a comfortable six-room frame house on the bench east of the Creek. When Irene, the 10th child, was about six months old, Nodie took into her home and heart the infant daughter of Sam Horsefield, whose wife had died in childbirth. ARIETTA SARAH WELLS IRENE 191