From Ronald's autobiography found on familysearch.org:
I (Ronald Edwin Farnsworth) was born July 5, 1896 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, to Lewis Edwin and Amelia Abigail White Farnsworth. I was the youngest of four children, Vernessa, Lewis, Hortense, and myself. When I was 5 years of age my father was called to fill a mission to Jackson County, Missouri. Being a family of meager means father worried as to how mother would manage in earning for her little ones. But he accepted the call. Mother worked very hard during his absence and by the time he returned home she had contracted a heart ailment. On the advice of her doctor the family moved to Washington County, but Mother died just one year later.
Father took his family and moved back to Beaver. One year later he married Serena Bastion, a girl that had worked for us during Mother's illness. She was now attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After his marriage to Aunt Rena (as we called her) he and two of her brothers purchased a large ranch five miles north of Beaver. We lived there five or six years, then moved to Provo. Later we went back and homesteaded in the Parawan Valley. By this time I had grown to young manhood and went with Dad to haul freight in Nevada. We freighted from Death Valley to Skidoo.
During this time I met Violet Gurr and we were married November 25, 1917, in the Salt Lake Temple. In June of 1918, we moved along with Dad and Aunt Rena to Blackfoot, Idaho. I was called to serve as a soldier in the First World War. I served a little over a year in France under General Pershing. While I was there our first child Edwin Pershing was born. On my return home we moved to Rigby, Idaho. Beatrice and Margaret were born there. Then in the spring we moved back to Provo as Violet's folks had moved there. Our baby Margaret died that August. Just shortly before Margaret 's death, Vi fell from a chair while hanging curtains, she struck the end of her spine on the corner of the table. Dehydration of the nerves set in and she died November 13, 1922, at the age of 22, leaving me with two young children.
Vi's cousin Vera took the children and I went first to work in the mines in Eureka, then to the steel plant in Provo, and then for a time I worked for Phoenix Construction Company in Grace, Idaho. When the work was finished there I was transferred back to Provo. It was about this time that Leora Law Fielsted having lost her husband in the Castle Gate mine disaster, came to her sisters (Elzada) home in Provo. She was enroute to Phoenix, Arizona, with her baby Georgia, having left her two other children, Don and Lola, with her mother in the Uintah Basin. After her return from Phoenix, I took her out to the Uintah Basin, we kept company till we were married June 10, 1924, later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. We bought a farm in Mountain Home, Duchesne County and settled down with her 3 children and my 2. Then to us were born five boys: Max, Rex, Lewis, LaMar, and Charles. Charles died shortly after birth.
Along with my farm work it was necessary for me to seek other employment to support my family. I helped to build Moon Lake, worked in the forest getting out timber and helped build many of the roads in Duchesne County. At one time I came to Provo and worked in the steel plant for awhile. It is true we had many hardships, but we found much happiness through it all. Her children, my children, and our children all were raised as our children and throughout their lives they remained one close family. In September of 1949 Leora took a stroke, she was confined to a wheel chair for seven years. She died September 18, 1956 and was laid to rest in the Mt. Home Cemetery.
I lived alone on the farm for awhile, then Lewis and his family moved in with me. The following May I met a widow, Clara Carlile Knight, she had four grown children-Carlile, Jay, and Bill. Clara and I were married September 3, 1957. We went on a trip to the northwest, then resided at her home in Murray, Utah. I sold the farm to Lewis. I worked for a short time in the shipping room of the Paris Company in Salt Lake then December 11, 1957 I began working for the Structural Steel Company in Salt Lake as a guard. We have been very happy. We take in from two to three dances a week, and our families enjoy many good times together.
Ronald passed away on October 20, 1969 in the Veterans Hospital.
From The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) - Thursday, October 23, 1969:
Ronald Farnsworth, Provo, graveside services and full military rites will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Provo City Cemetery under the direction of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Provo Post No. 2162.
I (Ronald Edwin Farnsworth) was born July 5, 1896 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, to Lewis Edwin and Amelia Abigail White Farnsworth. I was the youngest of four children, Vernessa, Lewis, Hortense, and myself. When I was 5 years of age my father was called to fill a mission to Jackson County, Missouri. Being a family of meager means father worried as to how mother would manage in earning for her little ones. But he accepted the call. Mother worked very hard during his absence and by the time he returned home she had contracted a heart ailment. On the advice of her doctor the family moved to Washington County, but Mother died just one year later.
Father took his family and moved back to Beaver. One year later he married Serena Bastion, a girl that had worked for us during Mother's illness. She was now attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After his marriage to Aunt Rena (as we called her) he and two of her brothers purchased a large ranch five miles north of Beaver. We lived there five or six years, then moved to Provo. Later we went back and homesteaded in the Parawan Valley. By this time I had grown to young manhood and went with Dad to haul freight in Nevada. We freighted from Death Valley to Skidoo.
During this time I met Violet Gurr and we were married November 25, 1917, in the Salt Lake Temple. In June of 1918, we moved along with Dad and Aunt Rena to Blackfoot, Idaho. I was called to serve as a soldier in the First World War. I served a little over a year in France under General Pershing. While I was there our first child Edwin Pershing was born. On my return home we moved to Rigby, Idaho. Beatrice and Margaret were born there. Then in the spring we moved back to Provo as Violet's folks had moved there. Our baby Margaret died that August. Just shortly before Margaret 's death, Vi fell from a chair while hanging curtains, she struck the end of her spine on the corner of the table. Dehydration of the nerves set in and she died November 13, 1922, at the age of 22, leaving me with two young children.
Vi's cousin Vera took the children and I went first to work in the mines in Eureka, then to the steel plant in Provo, and then for a time I worked for Phoenix Construction Company in Grace, Idaho. When the work was finished there I was transferred back to Provo. It was about this time that Leora Law Fielsted having lost her husband in the Castle Gate mine disaster, came to her sisters (Elzada) home in Provo. She was enroute to Phoenix, Arizona, with her baby Georgia, having left her two other children, Don and Lola, with her mother in the Uintah Basin. After her return from Phoenix, I took her out to the Uintah Basin, we kept company till we were married June 10, 1924, later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. We bought a farm in Mountain Home, Duchesne County and settled down with her 3 children and my 2. Then to us were born five boys: Max, Rex, Lewis, LaMar, and Charles. Charles died shortly after birth.
Along with my farm work it was necessary for me to seek other employment to support my family. I helped to build Moon Lake, worked in the forest getting out timber and helped build many of the roads in Duchesne County. At one time I came to Provo and worked in the steel plant for awhile. It is true we had many hardships, but we found much happiness through it all. Her children, my children, and our children all were raised as our children and throughout their lives they remained one close family. In September of 1949 Leora took a stroke, she was confined to a wheel chair for seven years. She died September 18, 1956 and was laid to rest in the Mt. Home Cemetery.
I lived alone on the farm for awhile, then Lewis and his family moved in with me. The following May I met a widow, Clara Carlile Knight, she had four grown children-Carlile, Jay, and Bill. Clara and I were married September 3, 1957. We went on a trip to the northwest, then resided at her home in Murray, Utah. I sold the farm to Lewis. I worked for a short time in the shipping room of the Paris Company in Salt Lake then December 11, 1957 I began working for the Structural Steel Company in Salt Lake as a guard. We have been very happy. We take in from two to three dances a week, and our families enjoy many good times together.
Ronald passed away on October 20, 1969 in the Veterans Hospital.
From The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) - Thursday, October 23, 1969:
Ronald Farnsworth, Provo, graveside services and full military rites will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Provo City Cemetery under the direction of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Provo Post No. 2162.
From Ronald's autobiography found on familysearch.org:
I (Ronald Edwin Farnsworth) was born July 5, 1896 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, to Lewis Edwin and Amelia Abigail White Farnsworth. I was the youngest of four children, Vernessa, Lewis, Hortense, and myself. When I was 5 years of age my father was called to fill a mission to Jackson County, Missouri. Being a family of meager means father worried as to how mother would manage in earning for her little ones. But he accepted the call. Mother worked very hard during his absence and by the time he returned home she had contracted a heart ailment. On the advice of her doctor the family moved to Washington County, but Mother died just one year later.
Father took his family and moved back to Beaver. One year later he married Serena Bastion, a girl that had worked for us during Mother's illness. She was now attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After his marriage to Aunt Rena (as we called her) he and two of her brothers purchased a large ranch five miles north of Beaver. We lived there five or six years, then moved to Provo. Later we went back and homesteaded in the Parawan Valley. By this time I had grown to young manhood and went with Dad to haul freight in Nevada. We freighted from Death Valley to Skidoo.
During this time I met Violet Gurr and we were married November 25, 1917, in the Salt Lake Temple. In June of 1918, we moved along with Dad and Aunt Rena to Blackfoot, Idaho. I was called to serve as a soldier in the First World War. I served a little over a year in France under General Pershing. While I was there our first child Edwin Pershing was born. On my return home we moved to Rigby, Idaho. Beatrice and Margaret were born there. Then in the spring we moved back to Provo as Violet's folks had moved there. Our baby Margaret died that August. Just shortly before Margaret 's death, Vi fell from a chair while hanging curtains, she struck the end of her spine on the corner of the table. Dehydration of the nerves set in and she died November 13, 1922, at the age of 22, leaving me with two young children.
Vi's cousin Vera took the children and I went first to work in the mines in Eureka, then to the steel plant in Provo, and then for a time I worked for Phoenix Construction Company in Grace, Idaho. When the work was finished there I was transferred back to Provo. It was about this time that Leora Law Fielsted having lost her husband in the Castle Gate mine disaster, came to her sisters (Elzada) home in Provo. She was enroute to Phoenix, Arizona, with her baby Georgia, having left her two other children, Don and Lola, with her mother in the Uintah Basin. After her return from Phoenix, I took her out to the Uintah Basin, we kept company till we were married June 10, 1924, later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. We bought a farm in Mountain Home, Duchesne County and settled down with her 3 children and my 2. Then to us were born five boys: Max, Rex, Lewis, LaMar, and Charles. Charles died shortly after birth.
Along with my farm work it was necessary for me to seek other employment to support my family. I helped to build Moon Lake, worked in the forest getting out timber and helped build many of the roads in Duchesne County. At one time I came to Provo and worked in the steel plant for awhile. It is true we had many hardships, but we found much happiness through it all. Her children, my children, and our children all were raised as our children and throughout their lives they remained one close family. In September of 1949 Leora took a stroke, she was confined to a wheel chair for seven years. She died September 18, 1956 and was laid to rest in the Mt. Home Cemetery.
I lived alone on the farm for awhile, then Lewis and his family moved in with me. The following May I met a widow, Clara Carlile Knight, she had four grown children-Carlile, Jay, and Bill. Clara and I were married September 3, 1957. We went on a trip to the northwest, then resided at her home in Murray, Utah. I sold the farm to Lewis. I worked for a short time in the shipping room of the Paris Company in Salt Lake then December 11, 1957 I began working for the Structural Steel Company in Salt Lake as a guard. We have been very happy. We take in from two to three dances a week, and our families enjoy many good times together.
Ronald passed away on October 20, 1969 in the Veterans Hospital.
From The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) - Thursday, October 23, 1969:
Ronald Farnsworth, Provo, graveside services and full military rites will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Provo City Cemetery under the direction of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Provo Post No. 2162.
I (Ronald Edwin Farnsworth) was born July 5, 1896 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, to Lewis Edwin and Amelia Abigail White Farnsworth. I was the youngest of four children, Vernessa, Lewis, Hortense, and myself. When I was 5 years of age my father was called to fill a mission to Jackson County, Missouri. Being a family of meager means father worried as to how mother would manage in earning for her little ones. But he accepted the call. Mother worked very hard during his absence and by the time he returned home she had contracted a heart ailment. On the advice of her doctor the family moved to Washington County, but Mother died just one year later.
Father took his family and moved back to Beaver. One year later he married Serena Bastion, a girl that had worked for us during Mother's illness. She was now attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After his marriage to Aunt Rena (as we called her) he and two of her brothers purchased a large ranch five miles north of Beaver. We lived there five or six years, then moved to Provo. Later we went back and homesteaded in the Parawan Valley. By this time I had grown to young manhood and went with Dad to haul freight in Nevada. We freighted from Death Valley to Skidoo.
During this time I met Violet Gurr and we were married November 25, 1917, in the Salt Lake Temple. In June of 1918, we moved along with Dad and Aunt Rena to Blackfoot, Idaho. I was called to serve as a soldier in the First World War. I served a little over a year in France under General Pershing. While I was there our first child Edwin Pershing was born. On my return home we moved to Rigby, Idaho. Beatrice and Margaret were born there. Then in the spring we moved back to Provo as Violet's folks had moved there. Our baby Margaret died that August. Just shortly before Margaret 's death, Vi fell from a chair while hanging curtains, she struck the end of her spine on the corner of the table. Dehydration of the nerves set in and she died November 13, 1922, at the age of 22, leaving me with two young children.
Vi's cousin Vera took the children and I went first to work in the mines in Eureka, then to the steel plant in Provo, and then for a time I worked for Phoenix Construction Company in Grace, Idaho. When the work was finished there I was transferred back to Provo. It was about this time that Leora Law Fielsted having lost her husband in the Castle Gate mine disaster, came to her sisters (Elzada) home in Provo. She was enroute to Phoenix, Arizona, with her baby Georgia, having left her two other children, Don and Lola, with her mother in the Uintah Basin. After her return from Phoenix, I took her out to the Uintah Basin, we kept company till we were married June 10, 1924, later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. We bought a farm in Mountain Home, Duchesne County and settled down with her 3 children and my 2. Then to us were born five boys: Max, Rex, Lewis, LaMar, and Charles. Charles died shortly after birth.
Along with my farm work it was necessary for me to seek other employment to support my family. I helped to build Moon Lake, worked in the forest getting out timber and helped build many of the roads in Duchesne County. At one time I came to Provo and worked in the steel plant for awhile. It is true we had many hardships, but we found much happiness through it all. Her children, my children, and our children all were raised as our children and throughout their lives they remained one close family. In September of 1949 Leora took a stroke, she was confined to a wheel chair for seven years. She died September 18, 1956 and was laid to rest in the Mt. Home Cemetery.
I lived alone on the farm for awhile, then Lewis and his family moved in with me. The following May I met a widow, Clara Carlile Knight, she had four grown children-Carlile, Jay, and Bill. Clara and I were married September 3, 1957. We went on a trip to the northwest, then resided at her home in Murray, Utah. I sold the farm to Lewis. I worked for a short time in the shipping room of the Paris Company in Salt Lake then December 11, 1957 I began working for the Structural Steel Company in Salt Lake as a guard. We have been very happy. We take in from two to three dances a week, and our families enjoy many good times together.
Ronald passed away on October 20, 1969 in the Veterans Hospital.
From The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) - Thursday, October 23, 1969:
Ronald Farnsworth, Provo, graveside services and full military rites will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Provo City Cemetery under the direction of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Provo Post No. 2162.
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