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Show PARLEY, GOLDEN, EDNA, LAWRENCE, EMORY the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The following year, 1897, Curtis Charles was hauling ore out of Cottonwood Canyon for the Carbonite Hill Mining Company. His loads totaled 30,993 pounds in one entry. That same year he was employed at 'skidding' out of Cottonwood Canyon. (Haul¬ing logs on a skid??) Edna Lucinda, the fifth child, was bom in Peterson in 1900 and that same year the family moved back to Uintah, later moving permanently to Taylor, Idaho. There is no record of what Curtis Charles did for a living there. A brother lived in the same area. It was here that he was severly injured in a freak accident. He ran out to the road to 'catch' a ride with his brother, who was driving a team and wagon. In some way he missed his footing and fell under the heavy wagon wheel, which ran over his body. He suffered broken bones and severe lacerations. His recovery was slow and painful. Curtis Charles Stoddard died 24 October 1902 at the age of 36. He left Margaret with three children to support: ages 10, five and two. In 1903 Margaret V. Stoddard married Joseph F. Stoddard, brother to her hus¬band. Joseph moved his newly acquired family to a place near Shelly, Idaho, where he worked in a sugar factory for $3.00 per day. The family was destitute and Mar¬garet took in boarders who paid her $4.00 per week for meals. To this union were born three children, Curtis Golden, 1903; Iva Lucetta, 1906; and Parley Merald, 1911. Although Joseph had some personal problems he was very good to Margaret and the children from both families. Margaret Valentine Robinson Stoddard died 1 April 1930, in Twin Falls. She was 59 years of age. Joseph Francis, born 21 March, 1872, in Hooper, died 6 March, 1942, in Twin Falls, Idaho. He was 70 years old. —assembled by Charles A. Robinson 225 |