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Show ROLLINS HOME IN MOUNTAIN GREEN The Public Spirited Rollins Family 1910 OSCAR PEARL Oscar and Pearl Bybee Rollins both grew up in pioneer homes, As young people they met at a dance in South Weber, courted by horse and buggy, and were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The date was January 10, 1910, and it took two days to make the traditional trip to and from the Temple. Oscar was born November 19, 1887, in Centerville, Utah, the son of Steuben and Susan Johanna Whitaker Rollins. Zina Pearl Bybee was born March 30, 1889, in Uintah, Weber County, to Byram Levi and Jane Geneva Robinson Bybee. Oscar took his bride to Mountain Green. Part of Pearl's dowry was a young cow which they drove along with them on their first trip to their new hone. For ten years the young couple lived in part of the big Rollins house. After Oscar's mother died and his sisters were married, they occupied the en¬tire 14-room home. Grandfather Steuben lived there with them. Eleven of their 12 children were born here. The youngest, Myron, was born in Ogden at the Dee Hospital. Nine of the children grew to maturity and are still living (1984). They are Lee, Theron, Harold, Alice, Afton, Josephine (Joy), Marjorie, Norma and Myron. Of these nine, three, Lee, Theron and Harold, still live in Mountain Green. As the family grew up on the farm, there was always plenty of hard work to do. It was a self sustaining unit. They all had chores to do, the boys at farm work and the girls at homemaking. Large quantities of fruit were bottled, vegetables dried or processed, grain was taken to the mill for the year's supply of flour and cereal. Beef, pork, poul¬ 258 |