ELLEN (NELLIE) FERNELIUS Ellen Robinson was born in Hooper in May of 1879, to John Heber and Lenora France Robinson. Soon after her birth the family moved to Mountain Green where she spent her childhood. She attended school and church in the little frame build¬ing between Gordon and Dry Creeks. On 3 June 1903, Ed, 27, and Ellen (Nellie) were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Their first home was in Uintah where Edna, the first of four daughters, was born in March of 1904. She died three weeks later. Ed and Nellie moved to Park City where he worked in the Silver King Mine, as near as can be determined. Gladys was born here in August of 1906. Soon after, the family moved to Mountain Green where Ed helped his brother-in-law, James L. Robinson, operate the ranch on Strawberry Creek. Thelma, a third daughter, was born in Mountain Green in 1909 but lived less than two weeks. Ed and Nellie became very active in the little Mountain Green Ward. He served for a time as second counselor to Bishop Joseph A. Parrish. When the Ward became short of priesthood holders Nellie served as Second Counselor to Ralph Warner in the Sunday School Superintendency. Ed and Jim raised hay and grain for their cattle, dairy herd and sheep. Nellie and Mary churned butter and traded it for groceries and staples at the old Watkins Grocery Store in Ogden. The two men home steaded 300 acres of grazing land on Gordon Creek and kept their dairy herd there for a number of summers. A cabin was built and the cows were milked day and night on the land. The land reverted back to the Federal Gov¬ernment when the men were unable financially to fence the property. During World War I both men worked as guards on the Union Pacific Railroad bridges in the Canyon, They also worked as watchmen for snowslides atop a high ridge east of Gateway. The 'shack' was equipped with a telephone as a safety pre¬caution. Berneice was born to the couple in 1912 but died during the terrible flu epi¬demic of 1918. The family moved to Ogden that Fall and lived on 3055 Adams Avenue. Ed worked for the railroad in the mail terminal. They later bought a home at 540 35th Street. In 1923 Ed and Nellie moved to South Weber to take care of his aging parents. Grandmother Fernelius died and Grandfather Fernelius remarried. In about 1925 Ed and Nellie moved to Arizona where he was employed as Agricultural Advisor on the 241