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honors.
By March 18, 1892, he became a father, when son, Charles Jerome, was born in Woodside. Son Raymond Castello followed in 1894, and daughter Pearl Helen in February of 1896.
At that time they were living near to Ogden. Helen was born at a maternity home in Ogden, Weber County, Leah asked her younger sister to come and help with the children and housework during this time. She had no idea the consequences of this request.
Knocked old George off about 10 feet the other side, and old George run toward a little cedar there, a bushy cedar, and he jumped into that cedar and got up. When he got up a little ways he bent over and there he was, hanging there, hollering for help, and that bull just standing there hooking at him, he just couldn't reach him, but was just about to reach him and George was getting a little bit lower all the time.
"So I laughed until I couldn't hardly throw to rope the bull. So finally I run over and ...wrapped around the hind end with the rope. And when he whirled and made for me, with the horse I had on, he couldn't get him. He jumped to one side and I throwed the rope on his front feet and downed him. And of course he kicked his hind foot... was tied up right now. I jumped off and tied him up.
"Old George dropped down off of there a sick man, he said, 'You won't ride cattle for me. That's the last.' But he said, 'I got a good bull, didn't I?'
"I said, 'You didn't get nothing. That's my bull. If it hadn't been for me you'd have lost the bull and your life both.' I said, 'The one thing I ask you to do now is hold his head while I saw his horns off.' We carried the meat sawers and we sawed the horns off. Sawed them off right there. So I got the bull. Old George he lost his horse."
James Uriah continued to get cattle from the canyon, ending up with about 75 head from different attempts. But he always avoided the Texas steers, with their long sharp horns. They were too dangerous.
Once in Love with Leah
On June 25, 1890, James Uriah was 22. He cut a dashing figure as a lean, strong cowboy. He married a girl just barely 15 years old, Leah Thompson, (also called Mabel Cecelia Thompson), at her mother's home at Lower Crossing, P.O. Woodside, Emery, Utah. Justice of the Peace J.T. Farrer did the honors.
By March 18, 1892, he became a father, when son, Charles Jerome, was born in Woodside. Son Raymond Castello followed in 1894, and daughter Pearl Helen in February of 1896.
At that time they were living near to Ogden. Helen was born at a maternity home in Ogden, Weber County, Leah asked her younger sister to come and help with the children and housework during this time. She had no idea the consequences of this request.
leaving.' And he said, 'Well, I love her and I love you, too, and I'm going to marry her.' So he married her and Leah left. Grandpa Coleman told me that himself. He said he loved them both. He said he wasn't mad at Leah when she left, but she was mad at him. Leah left and got a divorce. So if you look at the divorce dates, it would be after Maud and him got married."
In later years, he claimed the two sisters were as different as night and day. Perhaps he preferred day, for on Sept. 7, 1896, only 2 months after his father's death, in Price, Carbon County, Utah, James Uriah married Leah's younger sister, Maud Louisa Thompson. He was now 28. She was barely 18. Yet, mid hardship, separation, and many tragedies, their marriage would last over 50 years on earth and would be sealed for time and eternity.
Homesteading in Enterprise
Roy continues, "They had a little ranch or farm there and he worked for some guy there for quite a while. Grandpa Coleman moved south of Salt Lake on the old Corie Ranch. They lived there 4 or 5 years and then he moved to Enterprise and they homesteaded down there, 640 acres. A lot of it was hill land and cedar trees, but there was a spring on it, the nicest spring. The spring is still there. The old cabin has been gone for years. He built a little 2 room cabin up there that was very small. There was room for a bed and a chair in one end and there was a kitchen, dining room and everything in the other room. He had an old fashioned square cook stove. That's where they homesteaded.
"And then he bought the place in Enterprise and built that house that I showed you the picture of. He built that house. Bess Jones helped him.
"And his corrals were made out of picket fences. He dug trenches in the ground about that deep, and he stood these posts up against each other and then they covered in around the posts and that was their fence. And then their gates are made of quaking ash poles, about that big around. And they had a gate on each end. And in the winter time, when the north wind was blowing and it was cold the cows would lay against that picket fence and it wouldn't break apart. They had protection. They set 4 more posts out a little ways and put some quaking ash poles across that and some beams down and covered it, thrashed and the straw went over that and it made a shed. That's where the cattle would go in the wintertime. Oh, that was cold country in the wintertime. I've seen it 40 below when I was a kid.
A New Family, A New Church
James continued working for the railroad for a total ofseven years, as section foreman. During this time he and Maud had their first child, Lawrence Ira, born on Feb. 3, 1898, in Cedar Siding, Emery County, Utah. Twenty months later, on Halloween, 1899, Vendon James was born in Sagers, Grand County, Utah.
On Oct. 4, 1902, James Uriah was baptized into the LDS Church. Apparently Maud may have been baptized again at that time.
On the Move
Before Aug. 13, 1903, they moved to Nephi, where James Uriah bought back his father's old home. It was there his third son, Lyle Arnold, was born nearly four years after Vendon. Then they rented another place, called the Coorie(sp?) Ranch, 13 miles north of Nephi City, in Mona, Juab County, where, according to James. U., they "stayed for several years, got a good start, had a big dairy herd coming on, then Maud Louisa got sick." Vendon's familysays it was in Mona that James Uriah worked for Murray Sheep company and then for Amos Hall.
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