Month: August 2003

Charlotte Elizabeth Mellor Roper History

Charlotte Elizabeth Mellor, the third child of James Mellor and Mary Ann Payne Mellor was born at Lincolnshire, England, January 16, 1842. She worked in a factory when very young, making infant bonnets. Her parents joined the Mormon Church in England in 1844 and were active in helping the missionaries teach the gospel to their family and friends. After a few years they became eager to join the Saints in Utah and began preparing to make the journey.
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Brief Sketch of Thomas E. Morley

Thomas E. Morley was a man of large stature, weighing over two hundred pounds. He was a wheel wright by trade, was considered a temperate man, though he used tobacco and drank tea. He took no intoxicants. His family belonged to the Presbyterian church. In the year of 1829 he moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where he and his wife Editha spent the last 17 years of their lives on a farm. He worked mostly at his trade.
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Dry Fork (Mountain Dell), Uintah, Utah

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Originally known as Mountain Dell, the town of Dry Fork first settled in 1878. It got it’s name from the fact that it was the “Dry Fork” of the Ashley Creek for most of the year. Teancum Taylor was an early settler in the Ashley Valley and a polygamist who housed one of his wives at Dry Fork. In 1877 he persuaded several families from Ashley Town to settle in the Dry Fork area by dividing up land he had settled and giving lots to anyone who would build on it.

Alma Taylor and Chellus Hall brought the first loads of logs out of the mountains in order to build a schoolhouse. The first school teacher here was Mark Hall. Other early residents were the familes of Thomas Bingham Sr., Thomas Bingham Jr., Fred Williams, a Mr. Burns, George Keary, John Nielson, Charles Nye, Orson Nye, William Perry, Lee Hall, Iowa Hall, and Fletcher Hammond.

Family Questing

In the September 2003 issue of Family Fun Magazine there is a very interesting article on questing.

Questing is a sort of public treasure hunt that began in England as “Letterboxing” and is now spreading through the US, all though it really hasn’t hit Nevada yet. Find out more at www.vitalcommunities.org click the Valley Quest link.

I think it would be a lot of fun create and participate in “Family Quests.” For example a quest in Vernal for the Roper family could have a poem that directs participants to various historical (family history) places such as Reynold’s Mill and the Rock Point Cemetery.