Happy Birthday to Erma Garrett, who is 127 years old today. I wonder if she is square dancing with Rob calling it.

Just in case you don't recall, Erma Garrett was the first penny candy pusher at "The Serv", now known as Garrett Honda in Nephi, Utah. She was born in 1890, the second of ten children born to Wm. & Elizabeth Tolley Jones of Nortonville. Her sisters were Pearl and Norma, and brothers being Victor, Dell, Grant, Alma, Bert, then two brothers-Ray and Eddie who died as children. Erma was taught good work ethics, but loved to go on a sleigh ride with the horse doing the pulling. She attended Nortonville School then BYU Academy in Provo. Her father was the Presiding Elder of the Nortonville branch of the LDS church, so she was active in church affairs. Then one day, while in town, a young built like a brick man caught her attention. Robert Pixton Garrett was in town, from Riverside, Utah(near Delta), as his father was a section foreman for the railroad. After gazing at the most beautiful young gal in Juab Valley, he realized he had a love for something more than his groomed team of Palomino horses. Rob knew hardship in life, being the eighth child of ten, and his mother-Harriet Goble Garrett dying while giving birth to twin boys. He started to court Erma; married in 1911, then in the Temple in 1915, and moved to the still standing cabin on the  Garrett farm below Nephi. Trouble is, the well water down there....well, it is like the Nortonville well water...you drink it and it seems to cause kids to be born, and along came Joe, Lucy, Afton, Roscoe, Elizabeth(died after five days old),Corrine, then they took in foster son-David Mecham. Rob and his brothers had sheep, but got in to cattle, horses, farming, and then lived behind the Serv, then their last house on Main Street. Second photo is of Lucy, Afton, Justin Wm. Jones(grand nephew),Erma and Corrine, on July 4, 1980. Once we load and release this, we will take hundred year old photo of Erma to daughter Corrine. Don't forget Erma Garrett, she hasn't forgot you.