GEORGE SYLVESTER HEINER George Sylvester Heiner was one of four sons born to Daniel J. andSarah J. Coulam Heiner on 2 March 1884. He served in the eastern states mission from 1909 to 1910. He enjoyed his mission until he had a ruptured appendix. While in the hospital, the doctor took a lot of data from him, and one of the last questions he asked was "Now if you should pass away, where would you like your body sent?" George's lips quivered and he said, "Send it home." George did not receive the educational opportunities some of his brothers received. He was a genuine cowboy and used to spend time on the ranch helping with the chores or spending time at home while his brothers were at school. There were twenty children in his father's two families. George married Elsie Clawson in the Salt Lake Temple in 1911. One humorous, but serious, story told of George happened in his early courting days. George was courting Elsie Clawson, whom he later married. The Clawson family owned the Morgan Hotel. George rode into the hotel on horseback. He turned around in the hotel on the horse, and rode the horse out of the door again, and as he was riding the horse out, he reached his hands up and grabbed a ceiling transom across the top of a door. The horse went out from under him, and as bad luck would have it, the beam broke. He came crashing down on the small of his back on a stair. He was in great pain and spent a few days at home in bed. Some thirty or forty years later, he had trouble with his legs. There was some pain and he started to walk with a limp. His daughter, Elsie Mae, encouraged him to go to the doctor and get it checked out to see what was wrong. As the doctor sat him down and was analyzing the X-rays with him, he asked him the question, "When did you break your back, Syl?" Of course he didn't realize that he had broken his back, and it was probably that incident when he was riding the horse in the Morgan Hotel that caused the damage. In the fall of 1917, George and a number of his brothers and his father went in a bobsled up to old Lake Como. The brothers and their father had purchased this property and were looking it over with the idea of building a swimming pool and a resort. Sylvester Heiner, son of George says, "It was a little scarry for me in that we went on the dugway around the lake on a very narrow road and then drove down into the grove and over to the lake." Como Springs was completed in 1918. George would follow a team of horses through the slough until he was almost submerged with water ?.%