ACCORDING TO THE NORTONVILLE, UTAH FARM GAZETTE, TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER IN UTAH. SO IF YOUR APPLES, PEARS AND CHERRIES FROZE, NEVER FEAR, AS WE HAVE PLANTED SOME NORWEGIAN WATER PLANTS THAT CAN GIVE YOU A POCKETFULL OF FLAVOR. IN A WAY, WE DON'T LIKE TO SEE MAY PASS US BY, AS IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE OUGHT TO DO MORE DEDICATION TO ALL WHO SERVED IN ANY CAPACITY IN OUR MILITARY. SO IF YOU THINK AS I DO(WHICH IS DANGEROUS), I HAVE THREE FRIENDS WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO YOUR LIST OF HERO'S. WE ARE NOT SURE WHOSE HOME IS BEHIND THEM, SO DIG DEEP IN YOUR PAST AND LET THE WORLD KNOW. THE PHOTO WAS BORROWED FROM THE FAMILY OF KEN ZABRISKIE. KEN'S WIFE WAS RUTH ZABRISKIE, DAUGHTER OF UNCLE HY TOLLEY, WHO WAS THE SON OF GUN AND ALSO THE SON OF WM. FISHER TOLLEY. IF MY BRAIN WILL WORK FOR A FEW SECONDS, ELDEN WAS ONE OF THE NEPHI COAL VENDORS LIVING DOWN BY THE DANGEOUS BRIDGE BY THE FOOD BANK, AND WHERE THE EVAN HARRIS FAMILY LIVED, AND YES NEPHI CITY HAS BEEN WARNED AND WARNED THAT IF ANY TYPE OF ACCIDENT OCCURS THERE, THE CITY "COULD AND WOULD" BE HELD LIABLE. WE ARE NOT REALLY SURE THE WHO AND THE WHERE ABOUTS OF JAY OLDROYD, BUT THAT COULD BE RELATED TO GOLDEN OLDROYD, WHO WAS FROM FT GREEN, AND TRIED TO TEACH SCHOOL TO SOME OF THE WILD KIDS IN GRADE SCHOOL AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. HE AND HIS NEW WIFE ALSO RAN THE MOTEL THAT IS NOW HIDDEN FROM VIEW, BUT SOMEHOW HAS FOLKS THAT CAMP OUT THERE. TRACY BOOTH WOULD TELL US THAT ELDON SPENT A LITTLE TIME IN FRANCE DURING WORLD WAR TWO AND FELL IN LOVE WITH A "UNE BELLE FILLE" AND BROUGHT HER HOME TO NEPHI, OR SO WE HEARD. JAY AND KEN APPEAR TO BE IN ARMY TYPE CLOTHING. SO FILL IN THE BLANKS IF YOU ALL KNOW, AND NEVER, EVER FORGET OUR VETERANS, EVEN THOSE GALS THAT WENT TO WORK BUILDING THE ARMS AND AIRPLANES. SELDOM DO WE GIVE CREDIT TO THE THOUSANDS OF WOMEN THAT DID THE WORK, AND FROM WHAT GARY B. JONES TOLD US YEARS AGO. " YOU WON'T FIND ANY GUY THAT CAN KILL AND CLEAN A TURKEY BETTER THAN RUTH TOLLEY ZABRISKIE" AND THE ONLY SON OF KEN ZABRISKIE SINGS FOR THE HAPPY CAMPERS AT THE LAUREL GROVES ASSISTED LIVING IN NEPHI.
ONE MORE STATISCAL POINT IF YOU ARE IN THE MOOD. I DON'T KNOW WHERE ALL THE COMPUTER HITS COME FROM, BUT AS OF TODAY, WE BROKE OUR OWN MONTHLY RECORD FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT OPENED A BLOG. AS OF YESTERDAY, WE HAD 26,326 THAT OPENED A HISTORY BLOG AND SINCE WE STARTED TEN YEARS AGO, WE NOW HAVE 363,723. NOT SURE HOW LONG IT WILL LAST, AS THE COMPUTER "LORDS" KEEP THREATING TO SHUT ME DOWN IF I DIDN'T ADD SOME ADS, BUT AIN'T GOIN DO IT. I CAME INTO THIS WORLD NAKED AND PENNILESS AND INTEND ON LEAVING THE SAME WAY!
I have never seen this picture of my father Elden Johnson before, but I do remember my father and mother going to Ken and Ruth Zabriksie's home on north main street to socialize. I think Ken and Ruth had a couple of girls that were older than me. As far as my father spending time in France and bringing home a wife, Tracy is wrong. He is thinking of Dan Johnson who did bring a girl home to Nephi that he married "Madeline." Their children were Annette and Alex. My mother Jean was a Nephi home grown girl that my father married.
ReplyDeleteThis is a picture of our father, taken at our grandparents’ house in Fountain Green. Elden, our father, was home on leave and his buddies showed up to see him. Our mother had this picture in an album. She is the one who typed the names.
ReplyDeleteI have two stories about this leave. Dad had these pants made especially for him in New York. The issued navy wear did not fit him well. They were in the bottom drawer of his dresser, along with the American flag received at the time of his father’s funeral. I got to wear them one year for Halloween. Also, Dad had a wart on his finger. He whittled at it all the time while he was out to sea. It never went away. There was a man in Fountain Green who could “wish warts away. “ On this leave our dad went to him. He had to write the number (1) of warts on a tiny piece of paper. The man put the paper in his bib pocket. A week later it was gone. When my son had a wart, our dad had him soak it in vinegar every morning. It went away but not as quickly as wishing it away.
Tom mentioned Annette Johnson Lovell and Alex Johnson. They also have a sister Susan.
Jay and Golden were brothers. Their mother was a Johnson, so also related.
Coincidentally, Fountain Green is looking for donations for their memorial.
https://fgcity-veterans-memorial.square.site/product/general-donation-to-the-fg-city-veterans-memorial/YDIUGZAW2QDBKETS27LNMQAH?fbclid=IwZnRzaASNgsJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeUHh_np9yv8weh_zKSsv_gnOs2FuhrRce50tbpXsguC5HTOY_ZunqW8SKdG4_aem_lVdXX_oQt3eqKq5WSUBn9g&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demonq760i83
Please donate, if you can. We have an uncle who did not come home from the war.
Thank you, Holly Johnson