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Show Registered Aberdeen Angus Cattle Diamond T Ranch Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. Stanfill Townsend, Montana Registered Thoroughbred and Quarter Horses Stanfills in the Gully 1910 My father was a dry farmer in Graham County Kansas and had two sons and two daughters, all whom were born in Lenora, Graham County, Kansas. The oldest child, a daughter, lived only a few days. Mother's health became so bad that the doctor recommended a change of climate for her. In the Winter of 1908 Father rented his farm and took his family to Gall¬op, New Mexico, Mother had a cousin living there. We stayed in Gallop that Winter, then came to Salt Lake City in the Spring of 1909, being friends of Charley Baird who lived there. Father bought a home and we stayed until the Spring of 1910. Mother was much better so Father bought a ranch about one mile down river from Peterson in Morgan County, Utah. We lived in a little rock house in the gully south of Rosehill Cottage. This farm adjoined the James Williams property. Father hauled ore from the Carbonit Hill Mine in Cottonwood Canyon. My brother hauled the ore to Peterson for shipment by the railroad. Father sold the farm in the gully and leased the Carbonit Hill Mine. We moved to Peterson. In 1915 Dad hired two old timers who did most of the digging and I started classes at the old Ogden High School on 25th Street and Monroe. My brother, Starlin, continued his grade school in Ogden. I graduated from Ogden High and Father bought a farm in Penrose, Box Elder County. That was in 1920. In 1921 I married Marba Grover and we lived in a second 254 |