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been going on."
He said Mr. Higgins could have told him what was happening, but didn't want to interfere. James was going to Emma's and "find out the straight of things soon as I am able, but cannot do much until I get a little strength as I cannot walk a block here without being all out of breath and tired out."
Apparently Chuck and Bonnie(LaVonda) were married and Emma gave Bonnie $5 for baby clothes and Chuck $5 for food, but he spent both on booze and was supposed to live at the ranch until she could get there, too, but he came back to Emma's and started a racket. James was told a man would buy his land for $250, but he didn't want less than $500 for it. He planned to fix the fence for the chicken yard and cussed at the man who had torn it down, "Dam his hide."
"Well, darling, Lyle says they are figuring on selling out this fall and moving to San Diego and buying a farm and have us come and live with them there. Well, I said that would be fine, but I don't think they will sell out here. He says he would like to do something for us, as none of the others will. Well, this is good of him anyway.
"Dallas says she wants to stay here no longer than this summer, so I guess she rules. She wired for Lyle to come as Fred was sick. Lyle sure has a nice car, looks like new. He says Darral got a little roadster and could of got a good car for same price. But don't make much difference, he says, as he will never pay for it any way if he don't change his ways, as he won't keep a job, no matter now good it is, Lyle says.
"He says Darral could of paid for the car in a short time and had money to have gone to the woods and if he had kept his job, but just walked off and left a good job as he always does and go hunting and other, as tough as it is to find jobs. Says he don't see what the is matter with him, just quit and go hungry and lose his cars and never learn anything and after quitting a few jobs no one will give him a job and so it goes."
"Well, dearest, Lyle says he won't be surprised in the least if we or Bonnie never sees Chuck again and thinks we would all be much better off if we never did even hear of him again, and said Harder and his wife Vera just forced them to get married, took them at 11 in night and had them married. Vera told me so. Well I thought it strange that they got married. Yes and saw Art Truman last night and he said Bonnie promised him she would write to him and soon as she got down there..."
James couldn't stand Lyle's water, claimed it gave him stomach pain. He said it had too much alkali. He wanted to go get some from town. He was subsiding on milk and root beer. The next day Lyle went to get him some.
James found his gun in the cellar, but Blanchel "Could not find his and was sure mad and said he was going to make Chuck suffer for his dirty trick and Ervie said he would sure help Blanchel do it."
The next day he wrote that Olive Truman (Art's mother?) had just received a letter from Bonnie (Lavonda) "saying she were going to Sacramento. How about it? Well, I hope she does, then I can comeback to you, Darling, as I fear I will not be able to live here the way I feel."
Reuniting with Maud
On June 3, 1937, James was beginning to feel the effects of the heat. He wanted to come to be with Maud where it is cooler, if she wants, otherwise Lyle will take him to the mountains as soon as the first crop of hay is up. He wrote: "He said he would come and get you if you wanted to go some place for a while with us and I thought if you wanted to go visit with the boys in the woods that would be a fine chance for you and I could stay. We could enjoy being in the woods for a change while it is so hot here and I am sure you need a change, Darling...I think it will be just the thing to do as you could rest easy being a way from the city and work and I will be kind and considerate and help you all possible, sweetheart. Of course Lyle could not stay long, but we could stay as long as we liked, especially if I get the pension the first of July."
He tried to talk Maud out of worrying about work. He felt they had done their part of work in this world and shouldn't have to work anymore. he said, "Lyle say he will do his part and thinks he can induce the rest to do theirs, and not let you work and slave any more, Pet. Says it is a sin and a shame on all the boys and is high time they are taking a tumble to themselves and must."
He begs her to reunite. "I know I shall live much longer and be much more content and happy with you, Lover. See this is the third time we have been parted in the last two years, when we should not. And I confess, I can't endure it long and live.
In June of 1937, James Uriah was living in the Arlington Hotel at 492 9th Street, in Oakland, CA. He received a letter confirming conveyance of the two deeds, conveying land and water to John Z. Alger, from the bank of St. George, Utah, and requesting the patent of the land, as Mr. Alger had sold the land to Chas. F. Foster, Jr.
Time Alone in Fallon
On Dec. 21, 1937, he was finally granted his request for "old age assistance" and began receiving a monthly grant of $30 to begin in Jan. of 1938. This was conditional upon his continued residence in Nevada. As a result, James Uriah was still required to spend much time alone in Fallon, between the years 1937 to 1944 and perhaps even longer, according to Nevada law.
He made frequent trips to California to see Maud and family. But, as he told Lyle upon one visit, " I've been away from the state with permission longer than they allow me now and they told me I could not get another leave this year. So if I leave and they find out I am away they'll cut me off my pension so they told me and if I leave I am taking a big chance. And I don't know how I'd exist without it, as I am not able to work. So you see why I am staying here.
"No it's not good to be alone, besides it's contrary to nature and a detriment to my getting better also and I sure do dread it.."
"I am all alone at the little Ranch home. Ed and Wanda had moved to the Dodge Bros. Ranch three weeks before I arrived here, so I learned. I have not seen them or know anything about them yet. It's very lonely here all alone. I think I shall go to the Ione hills for a week or 10 days up high, see if that will help me any. "
Blanchel Marries at age 28, Dies 6 Months Later
Blanchel finally found the woman of his dreams. After a prolonged effort to find her estranged husband and effect a divorce, they were married on Nov. 29, 1939. She had two children he also loved. But his happiness was not long lived, as he died only six months later when a tree fell on him while he was working lumber in Westwood, California, on June 5, 1940.
A Car Accident Claims Leona's Life
A year later, on June 21, 1941, while Leona's boyfriend was driving a car full of 6 other young people, he apparently turned in front of a truck on Pergola Hill, near Hayward. The resulting crash hurled six of the seven car occupants to the pavement. Among the 4 who died that day was her oldest brother, MORE
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