History of John Griffith Timothy, Part 3

This is the last part of John Griffith Timothy's written history:

After they moved to Heber, John had a team of horses and a wagon, and during the winter went north to Wyoming and got a job where they were building a railroad. He left Martha and nine children with about 50 lbs of flour. He didn’t know when he left how long he would be gone, but it was necessary for him to find a job somewhere. He was gone nine weeks, and all the flour Martha had during that time to feed the nine children and herself came from that one sack. Their main food was bread. She said each time she made bread, it would seem that most of the flour was gone, but each time she went to get flour again, it also seemed there was as much as there had been before. When John got the money for his work, he went to Salt Lake City and bought 900 lbs of flour, the most they ever owned, and came home and found them still using flour from the same sack they were using when he left.

At Wallsburg, a public school was established and John’s boys attended the school, beginning about January 1^st each year and ending about April 1^st. In the spring of 1885, John moved his family to Ashley Valley (Vernal, Utah). The first winter they, including David and his family, lived at Fort Thornburg in the northwest part of the valley. John purchased a large farm in a very productive part of the valley and built a very nice home. His sons were now married, most of them, or were of marriageable age, and how the grandchildren did love to go their grandparents’ home. He had planted many shade trees around the lot and soon had a fine orchard.

After having raised a fine family of nine boys and three girls (one boy and one girl died in childhood), helping always with community and church affairs, these worthwhile pioneers lived happily and contentedly until John reached the age of 74, passing away the 18^th of April 1900. Martha died at the age of 81 on the 10^th of October 1906.