Young Family Cabin

Ruth Agnes Reid Miller

2011-01-30T14:32:00.000-08:00

(I have several pictures/stories of ancestors of the Young/Miller family, and thought this would be a good place to share them, so everyone can have copies. I started with Ruth Agnes Reid Miller, Grandma Veda's mother. If there are any pictures I tagged incorrectly (or not at all), please correct me in the comments section and I'll fix it in the post.)

Ruth Agnes Reid was born to Albert Agustus Reid and Mary Dorthea Kocherhans. She was one of ten children, five girls and five boys. She grew up in a home surrounded by lots of family and cousins.

Agnes, as she was called, had a fun sense of humor, she loved to have fun. As a teenager, she worked in the Blue Pine Hotel. One day as she was hosing off the porch, someone told her that she shouldn’t be using all that water and as he started towards her she laughed and sprayed him with the water.

Agnes was dating Rudolph Church when she started dating James Lazell Miller. They were married on March 1, 1916 in the Salt Lake City temple.

James Lazell Miller and Ruth Agnes Reid Miller

Five children were born to the Miller family; Reid J. on December 1, 1916, Dorothy on April 9, 1918, Veda on January 20, 1921, Daniel L. on February 29, 1923 and James Nyal on February 10, 1926.

Ruth Agnes & baby Dorothy

Agnes' children: Dorothy, Reid, Veda, Nyal, and Dan

The family home was always open to friends and many parties held. In the summers there was always a houseful of cousins from California and Idaho. Because Jim was often gone to the sheep herd, Agnes would pack a picnic and take the children to the mountains to have lunch with him.

Ruth with Veda (middle) and friend and Dan?

Agnes was a very hard worker and took pride in her work and taught her children the same. They learned at a young age how to keep house and cook. One time when Agnes was very ill, they hired a girl to help out in the home. It was soon discovered that this girl knew little about how to keep house and cook. Agnes would have her bring the bread to her bed to mix it. After that experience she was determined her girls would know how to mix bread and do other housekeeping chores. She was an excellent seamstress and could get a dress out of minimal scraps. She had to manage on her own and many times do a man’s work. They had large gardens and she had to do all the irrigating and harvesting of the gardens. She bottled the harvest and dried corn and apples.

Agnes was very frugal and didn’t like to waste anything. One day she was baking bread and left Veda to take the bread out of the oven while she rushed to help someone. As Veda, who was a very young girl still, struggled to lift the bread out of the oven, she dropped it and ruined the batch. That was the only time she remembers her mother getting cross with her.

Agnes was active in church and held callings in Primary and Relief Society. She served in the Presidency of the Relief Society and was very charitable. Agnes was good to her extended family. She walked every day to her mother’s home to visit. She was very good to her mother. She was first to attend the sick and grieving and to help when anyone had deaths in their families.

Agnes, Veda, and Dorothy

When they built their beautiful new home, Agnes worked hard and saved to make her new home lovely. It was well kept and cared for. After all her efforts, she only lived in it nine short years before her death.

Agnes was 40 when she was expecting her sixth child. During her pregnancy, she had her teeth pulled and dentures made. She also sprained her ankle one day while making soap and carrying a large tub. On November 9, 1935, Agnes died during childbirth. The baby was stillborn and was buried beside her. Her funeral was one of the largest ever held in Panguitch. She was loved by many and the floral gifts were abundant. From the tributes given her, it was clear that Ruth Agnes was a very special person. The Miller family was terribly saddened by her death and Jim never wavered in his devotion to her.

Agnes

Agnes' children: Reid, Dorothy, Dan, Veda, and Nyal

Veda and Dorothy

2011-01-28T22:12:00.000-08:00

This isn't a cabin picture, but I found this while looking through old pictures and thought I would share. This is Thanksgiving 2006, in Logandale, NV. Grandma Veda and Aunt Dorothy spent the time together while we were with my dad's side of the family.

I can almost guarantee that Grandma had a tissue in her hand, as she always did. She would always tuck them in her sleeves (short sleeves too). We always said if we couldn't find Grandma, to follow the tissues.

They look beautiful, right?

Cole Family Reunion: June 2010

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Dana Reunion 2010 part 1

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Every reunion has to begin with a good card game. Panguitch Rummy! What is Aaron eating?

Its a real great Uncle who will take you fishing...Seth and Allen
2600 sheep came to visit...too exciting!
I tried to organize this post but here is one of our marshmallow roasts with Jeff in charge.

Tanner enjoying!

Aaron whittled but don't think we ever figured out what it was that he made.

Ellie and Dana posing, future super models for sure.
We must be saying goodbye cause Kate looks ready to cry. She is our tender heart, doesn't like leaving.
Light sabers, fun for the boys.
I think this is the only picture I have of Jessica
Dionne and girls with cute hairdos
Dionne is our craft woman. We made stamped washer necklaces, dog tags and dutch oven tags.

Jeff and Chase at the lake
Ruth, Tanner, Megan and Jessica sitting on the dam. When I was there a month earlier, the water was pouring over the top.
Colin with a perfect roast.
Caught a tiny chipmunk. Who let it go?

Kate, Dennis and Ellie
Chase Allen and Paige

Dana Reunion 2010

2010-07-29T10:50:00.000-07:00

So I guess I exceeded the amount of pictures I can post and how did I underline all the text? I am still learning. So on Tuesday, I had arranged with Lance to bring up a horse for the kids to ride. What a man he is. We all thought he was just like Uncle Reid, loving and kind. After all the kids had ridden Kate still was not going to ride. With Jeff forcing her and lifting her up to Lance she was finally in the saddle but still not too happy. How did we go from that to her wanting him to come back the next day? Love that she wanted to do it again.

Our favorite meal is always the dutch oven dinner prepared by Dennis and of course the kids love the fire and roasting marshmellos an making smores.

Dana decided she had eaten enough and began to play with hers. The result!

Boys love to shoot. Here they are using bb guns and then they went up the canyon to use the big guns.

The trip to Henrie's drivein is always a must. We won't show what everyone ate!1
For our reunion tshirts this year we spray dyed and had a great time being creative.

Courtney and Ruth. Just relaxing..... and so is Allen......Allen.....?

Gotta have a dog to love. Funny but Chase was way afraid of Sunny the whole time.

Dana's June Cabin trip

2010-06-22T10:40:00.000-07:00

We just returned from a week at the cabin.

I took a little trip to Panguitch to visit friends and it turns out that everyone was at the funeral of Tom Proctor, Merle Stowell's brother. So I drove out to the cemetary and took a photo of Mom and Dad's headstone with her information engraved. What a beautiful day and week, everything was so green and lush. The lake is so full it is running over the top of the dam. I had to tell mom about that. She would be so thrilled. That was something she always want to do was to see how full the lake was.

We had a frequent visitor night and morning about 7 along with the deer. The night these pictures were taken she came with 5 deer and kept interacting with one of the deer. It was so fun. I hope no one harms it, I am told by a former Forester, Fred Houston that it is probably a hen and they do not taste good to eat. He said to listen early in the morning for the gobbles and noises that chicks would make and they are probably nested in a tree. He said that Toms have a beard in the middle of their chest so he thought this was a hen. Hope you all get to see it. Jim says he has seen more than one at a time.

While we were there we made a side trip to Orderville. I had already read 4 books and "needed" to get out.
This first picture is a model of the way the town was set up during the United Order. The big building in the center is the mess hall where everyone took their meals. The long ones are the residences the families lived in. The woman who runs the store attached to this building was so nice and it turns out is married to one of our cousins through James Brinkerhoff. Actually only a half cousin since James was a polygamist and they were from another mother. Her sister came and brought a book that she had put together. She is also married to another cousin as was another woman who showed up. We sat in their restaurant and visited for almost an hour. I think we are probably related to everyone in that valley.

Great-grandfather Kocherhans (Grandma Reid's father) was also there during this time and Grandma Loretta B. Young and Mary K. Reid were both children there at this time. They were the same age and I have a picture of them with me when I was a newborn.

This picture is of the woolen mill. I suspect that this is where Grandpa Kocherhans worked. That is what he did for a living prior to this and probably why he was called to go there. Remember the story about the boy who saved lambs tails to get money to buy some "city" pants. I bought a book written by one of the ladies that we visited with that I will leave at the cabin so everyone can see it.

I went to the valley to look for gravesites of relatives and I did find the headstone of James Brinkerhoff. The information I got from one relative on the phone was that he is actually buried outside the fence (in the weeds) of the very small cemetary. There are like 4 cemetaries in Glendale, Ut.

Veda Miller Young November 26, 1994

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If you want to put this on your own blog or anything, just go to Youtube and copy the embed code and post it. Hope you all enjoy!

Pt 2

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Pt 3

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Pt 4

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Pt 5

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Veteran's Day

2010-01-08T06:19:00.000-08:00

Since today is Veteran's Day, I wanted to post something relevant. I thought of my Grandpa Woodrow Wilson Young who was in the US Navy during World War II. The last few times I saw him before he passed away just after Spencer was born in 1991, he told Allen and me the same story each time we saw him. I will do my best to remember it and post it here. If you know more about it than me, please comment and I will add to it. I can't remember what kind of ship or where his tour was.

When Grandpa was serving in the Navy, he was on a ship and they asked if any of the men were barbers. Grandpa figured there were less desirable jobs than being a barber, so he volunteered. Pretty soon they had all the men lined up behind several barbers who were giving them crew cuts. An officer noticed that Grandpa was not as fast as the other barbers, because he was doing a better job and leaving the hair a bit longer than the others. Pretty soon most of the men noticed as well and lined up for a haircut from him. The officer in charge told Grandpa to cut faster and he told him he wouldn't because the only haircut he was going to give was a good haircut. Grandma Young later told me that Grandpa made really good tips from his haircuts which he would send home to her and she was able to save a nice nest egg.

Cabin Video circa 1981

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Log Play House

2009-12-20T16:04:00.000-08:00

I just found this old gem in my picture files. It looks like Ryan, Melia, Candace, and Allison. This must be around 1990-1991.

The Evil Squirrel returns

2009-10-12T19:22:00.000-07:00

Panguitch is a pretty little town.

Just returned from a great trip to the cabin to see the fall colors. It was beautiful! A little on the cold side but so pretty.

This picture just doesn't do it justice. Maybe it was the photographer.

Again it was a great trip except for the night we were terrorized by a flying squirrel. First I heard it in the attic and never dreamed it could get in the cabin, but it did and proceeded to jump on the bed where Dennis was sleeping. That woke him up! I grabbed mom's old cane and chased him around the cabin while Dennis got the door propped open so he could run out. But he hit all the high spots in the cabin first, the top of the book shelves and the drapes. Boy could he move fast. I think he was very hungry because once we got him out, he tried it again and this time he knew just how to get in. After getting him out again, we decided to catch him at it the 3rd time and taped up a garbage bag to the hole. I guess that discouraged him because he didn't come back. That was our great adventure.

Dana Cabin Trip 2009

2009-08-25T09:31:00.000-07:00

Auntie Ruth was popular while giving quitar lessons. Amazing what small children can so easily pic up.

Grandpa Dana's favorite activity is taking the little ones riding on the quad.

Our cabin trips always start with getting Jeff's motorbike out of the shed and some 28 years later, it always runs. It took a little encouragement this year but was up and running and it was Megan's turn to learn how to ride.
The zipline is also a real favorite and we have most of the kids trained to get themselves on and off. It has provided many hours of entertainment for most of them.

A real highlight of this years trip was having Uncle Scott there to teach kids how to fish. Then a real treat when he cooked them up for dinner. Chase and Grandpa stick pulling. Girls adoration society. Aaron took over for Spencer this year. Benny's first cabin trip, he loved trying to eat the dirt, grass and sticks. Speaking of sticks, those are the girl's fort. We did a regular tick check after our experience last year. We always do projects or crafts. Grandma helped the Dana girls with their stitching. Dionne brought scrabble tile necklaces again and they were still a hit. So glad Melia and family could come so far but we missed Allen and Dennis L.

Young Family Cabin

2009-08-24T16:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome, I hope all of you enjoy the blog. We as the original Young family want to invite you to post and add pictures to our blog so that we can all share the memories of our cabin trips. The calendar was established to allow you to see when your family has use of the cabin. Jim, Joan, Bill & Dottie each have weeks starting on Sunday at 2 p.m. and lasting until then of the following week. We will be posting cabin rules soon and expect anyone using the cabin to abide by the rules to make it enjoyable for everyone.

As always, our love to Grandpa and Grandma Young for building such a great legacy for us all to enjoy.