The Carrigan Family at Rosehill Cottage 1924 "We all thought that the Rosehill Cottage was the most wonderful house we had ever seen. It had five bedrooms and a bathroom, the first one we ever had. We enjoyed that year at the Rosehill Cottage very much." These were the sentiments expressed by Josephine Carrigan Bohman, daughter of Irven and Cynthia Jones Carrigan, who lived with her par¬ents in Mountain Green for one year. Irven Carrigan was born, 4 May 1876, in Peterson, Morgan County, a son of James and Lois Bent Carrigan. He had three brothers and four sisters, one of them dying in infancey. Irven's mother was a widow for many years and the family had a hard time find¬ing enough food to exist on. They did a lot of fishing to supply proteins to their diet and cooked dandelion greens and Sego Lily roots to supplement their meager fare. There were bands of Indians around Peterson at that time and they begged for food quite often. To keep on friendly terms the Carrigans gave them what food they could spare. Sometimes the Indians would steal to get what they wanted. Irven attended school in Peterson and graduated from the Weber Academy. He married Cynthia Jones of South Weber on 16 December 1903. The couple had six child¬ren: William, Pauline, Walker, Josephine, Jessie and Myrtle. Cynthia Jones Carrigan was born, 9 June 1877, in South Weber, Davis County, a daughter of William Parson and Elizabeth Shaw Jones, She attended Davis County schools and graduated from the Weber Academy. She taught school for a few years before her marriage. Irven and his brother, Jim, owned a big farm which was called the Peak Ranch, located about three miles west of Peterson behind a big hill that came to a peak. That was why the ranch 'over the peak.' They worked there during the Sumner and moved back to Peterson for the Winter months. THE IRVEN CARRIGAN FAMILY 309