Minnie Maude Johnson was born to Joseph Horace Johnson and Julia Hills Eager Johnson, early pioneers to Moab, Utah on born 28 May 1889 in Moab, Grand, Utah. Maud married Harry on the 24th of June 1906 in Moab by Bishop J. P. Larson. He was the son of Herbert and Mary Day. Soon after their marriage, they moved to St. Anthony, Idaho, where Harry worked on a farm. Their first child, Leo, was born there on 2 March 1907. The people they worked for told Maud that she knew they were Mormons because she made gravy every day for part of their meal. The next year they moved back to Moab.

In 1914 Harry made the dobbies to build a house in Moab.

In 1915 came the big homestead boom at La Sal. Harry went and staked out his homestead and in the spring of 1916 he sold out in Moab and moved on to his homestead at La Sal. He later "proved up" on this land. The family lived in a small log cabin near his parents home in old La Sal while Harry build a two room shack on the homestead. The next year, 1917, Harry built a larger house of sawed logs – two large rooms downstairs, and two bedrooms upstairs.

The winter of 1916 the family went back to Moab where the children could go to school.

When school was out in the spring of 1917 the family moved back on the place at La Sal. Harry and Leo grubbed out the sagebrush and the younger children piled it up to be burned. That year Harry planted wheat, potatoes and hay. Maud also had a garden. Harry let her have the ground in back of the house for the garden.

In 1918 the homesteaders built a school house on Harry's south forty acres.

Then next moved to Kane Springs where the family lived or camped out in two large tents through the summer. When it was time for school to start in the Fall we moved into Moab so the children could go to school. Harry and Maud didn't move the family back to La Sal to live again.

In 1929 they moved to Fruita, Colorado, staying there only about and year and then moved the family to Delta, Colorado. He worked selling Maytag washing machines until 1940. While in Delta, times were very hard. It was the Depression of the 30's and people had no money to buy with. Harry traded for farm pruducts for the downpayment on their washing machines. He in turn traded with merchants for the things they had that they couldn't raise. He took even animals. He either traded or sold for cash if he could.

They sold the Delta home in 1938 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. In Utah they ran a self-help Laundry and sold washers. The self-help laundry didn't prove to be successful. The family then moved to Ephriam, Utah. I think they stayed there less than one year and then moved to Orem, Utah. While at Ephriam, Harry had gone to Ely, Nevada, to work around the mines there.

In 1941, the folks bought a large home in Lehi, Utah. Harry soon went from Ely, Nevada, to Wendover, Utah to work for an arms plant firing a boiler. In Lehi, Maud planted a large garden and fruit trees.

They sold their Lehi home in 1947 and bought a few acres of land on North Redwood Road in Salt Lake City. They were soon building themselves another home. This house was built of the red brick. They lived in the basement while they built the upstairs.

The family had a reunion on the 25th of June in 1951 on their forty fifth wedding anniversary. All of their children and their families were there and we had a wonderful time for two days. The following October Maud suffered a stroke and lived only nine days. She passed away on the 17th of October, 1951. She was taken to Moab, the place of her birth, for the funeral and burial.