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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show The relatives would come up to our canyon home. One family used to come up quite often around 5:00 p.m. and have dinner with us. The adults would sit and talk as the children played. My father's sister, Aunt Ida Creamer and her husband, would often come up in the evening. We had Japanese lanterns all across the front of our home, and when they were lit up, it was so pretty from the highway. As I recall in our younger years, it was just a dirt road through the canyon. But while we were there, the road was paved. The traffic increased so much that on Saturdays and Sundays it would be just one car after another traveling up and down the canyon. We enjoyed so many, many times having our friends come up. I remember Superintendent Karl Hopkins of the Ogden City Schools who was a good friend of Dad's. Dad, he, and some of the principals would go hunting together. Duck hunting was especially enjoyable for them. Superintendent Hopkins's sons would come up during the summer, too. In the summer, my father's sister, Aunt Lisle Lauder, lived in a tent east of Mother and Dad's house. Then she had my brother, Milton, build a house for her on that property. When Aunt Lisle was older and didn't come up that often, she sold her home to my mother's sister, my Aunt Ida Farley Ferrin. Mother and Aunt Ida spent time together during the day and this was so enjoyable for both of them. Later on when Aunt Ida no longer lived in the canyon, her sons, Arnold and Winslow and their wives, would come up and spend time in that home. THE TROLLEY CAR My sister Ida and I would make a few trips to Ogden by way of the trolley car that ran every so often during the day. The trolley would go twice a day to Huntsville. We would ride into Ogden City and take piano lessons from Bernice Tyree and then return home. Dad always arranged for the piano from our home at 1208 Porter to be taken to the canyon home so that we would have it there in the summer. Ida would already have her lesson learned just by hearing the piano teacher play it. I had to practice by notes and work so hard to prepare my lesson so it would be good. It was a long time before Mrs. Tyree realized that Ida played by ear. This came about one time when Ida was playing a piece in another key. It must have been a shock to Mrs. Tyree to find out that Ida had the wonderful gift of playing by ear. We lived in the canyon all summer until it was time for us to enter school. |