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(6277.) ARTHUR BERTRAM CHAMBERLIN (4856.) (2787.A.) (1116.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 30-10mo-1903, Meeteetse, Bighorn (now Park). Co., Wyoming; m. DOLLEY J. KEELE. (R149).
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(6278.) ERNEST EUGENE CHAMBERLIN (4856.) (2787.A.) (1116.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 12-9mo-1909, Polson, Montana; m. SADY IREAN TULLE. (R149).
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(6279.) RUTH ESTHER CHAMBERLIN (4856.) (2787.A.) (1116.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 12-5mo-1914, Dewarnash, Wash.; m. 28-7mo-1931, at Tacoma, Wash., to MONROE EDWIN TRIMBLE, son of William Stewart and Jeanne (Kohler). Trimble; b. 5-lmo-1909, Markville, Louisiana; address: P.O. Box 1042, Midwest, Wyoming.CH: (7348.) Robert Edward; (7349.) William Richard; (7350.) Linda Jeanne. (R174).
(7364.) GILBERT LA VERN DEVEREAUX (6284.) (4858.) (2787.A.) (1116.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 24-7mo-1924, Basin, Bighorn Co., Wyoming; d. 29-12mo-1924. (R149).
S/o Niels Christian Ericksen and Nielsine Nielsen. Sent by Willim Graham and Minnie Loveland.
A SHORT SKETCH OF LIFE OF ERICK ERICKSEN -
"I Erick were born 20 March 1880 in the Uhe Mark Viele Amt Denmark. My father Niels Christian Ericksen, my mother Nielsina Nielse. In October 1881 we came to Salem Utah Co Utah. Over ocean in ship called Wyoming. I remember my mother riding by where we lived. (In Salem 1902). We my sister Karen Margaret Ericksen and Elsie were on the north porch of the house. Sister Karen Margaret told me there were mother. I called but she could not come because she had to help her employer unload the potatoes. Father came to Utah the next fall. He could not get enuf money to all come at one time. So Niels Born 1871 Karen Margaret Born 1873 Elsie Born 1876 Erick Ericksen 20 Mar 1880. Joseph B. 1883. Hyrum 1886 D. 6 months I also had 2 half Brothers Hans Ericksen 1853. Anton Ericksen Born 1858 Linabala Denmark. We were very poor and times were hard lots of time only had one half pint of milk to brake my bread in to. And it would not soak up enuf bread to satisfy my hungery stumick when I was 12 years. I started to herd cows for one cent per head per day in the hills South of Salem. Had from 55 to 80 cattle. Always had bare feet in summer.
"Father had taken up a home-stead near the water canyon mountain. When I was 13 I would drive a team on a harrow in fall and spring. Herd cows in summer. When 15 I held hand plow and plow large sage brush. When 18 I took over the farm for 2 years. The season were to dry for dryland farming. So I worked in the Eureka mines got badley gassed then quit. Road a horse to Roda Springs Idaho. Then back west to blue creek Idaho trailed sheep to dry valley 200 miles. Helped lamb then after lambing
Went to Fairview Wyo from a starve??? Wyo. Then road a horse 350 miles to Salem. Always ride on a trot to hurry to get there. The next spring 1901 I trailed sheep walking all the time let them, the sheep, feed north east most of the time till we got to the tatman mountain near Burlington Wyo. On that trail we waded Green River in nor (?). and drove the sheep threw it. And also new fork (sheep did not want to swim it so we led one across the others followed by driving them). river the water were waist deep. 12 cattle men came to my sheep camp and told me we had to take the sheep back pointing west. And said take them into those mountains I told them I would not, the older man about 40 years old said did you hear how we killed the sheep herder and camp mover of the outfit he said the name and they killed one half of their sheep. I told him I had heard the story he said you go back and take them sheep with you are you will get the same. I told him I would not for the snow were 2 or 3 feet deep in those mountains. And if it were my luck to get shot to death I would take it alike a man. And then I added dos it take 12 cattle man to get one boy because he herds sheep. I am bare handed. You each have a dagger rifle and a six gun. It shamed them out. They mumbled a minute then said if anybody can take sheep threw a dead line young fellow you can. And we are going to let you go threw I thanked them. This was in Green River Valley on the Orgen trail. Where the statement is that one person have lost their lives in an average of 113 feet from the Mercria River to Orgen in history of early days of Idaho. It was no harm to kill a man especially if he herded sheep in those days. Near South pass Wyo a cattle man pointed a six gun at me. I asked him to get of his horse and eat supper with me and he did. And then he told me I could have part of the feed on his cattle range. But two days later we moved. We moved to Haley, Wyo on the continental divide we waited there for about 2 weeks for our Boss to fetch our camp wagons. But corsen never fetched them. Then one morning there were two feet of snow, and it were still snowing. Flake as big as the end of my finger ½ inch in diameter, we tramped a trail into the timber, and the ridge were very steep. The sheep ran down the mountain ridge. It stopped snowing about noon. My brother Joseph Ericksen were helping me we had 4200 sheep in our herd. We still had our pack out fit. Because our Boss had not come yet. The snow were only 12 inches deep when we got out of the timber. For the next two weeks we trailed those sheep northward. Had to kick the snow aside lay our tent down then 2 quilts then a pair of blankets. And 3 quilts over us./ The weather were very bad. We had 40 degrees below zero at times weather and many snow storms. The wind blew very hard my story is getting too long. So we must make it short after we arrived on the tatman mountain in March I and Joseph quit herding. He stayed in Otto I went back to Salem Utah. I sold what cattle we had and drove a team to Otto Wyoming the next fall October 6, 1903, I married Minnie Jackson, daughter of Henry Jackson and Emma Crispin. The next February we moved to Salem. My father wrote me to come coz he was old. We took care of him till he died at the age of 80 years and 2 months, he had only one tooth left. He died July 1908 at Salem, Utah. In 1910 we moved to Otto Wyoming we had 2 children then Floeese Ann Born 3 November 1905 Salem, Utah, William Joshua Born 31 December 1907 Salem Utah. And Hyrum Levi Ericksen 23 April 1910 at Otto Wyo we made a Sheep Camp and moved to Lewistown Montana with 4 horses to work on a railroad back the next fall broke hawled Baled hay all winter 15 miles to Basin from between Otto and Burlington were in the debt 60.00 in the spring. Then farmed most of the time after that I farmed in the summer time and herds sheep in the winter. Till I could buy a ranch and bought some milk cows." (R149).
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(4858.) MINNIE AUGUSTA JACKSON (2787.A.) (1116.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 26-2mo-1886, Rawlings, Carbon Co., Wyoming; m. 6-10mo-1903, at OTTO, Bighorn Co., Wyoming, to ERICK ERICKSEN, son of Neils Christian and Nielsina (Nielsen). Ericksen; b. 20-3mo-1880, Uhe Mark Viele Amt, Denmark; address: 69 N. State St., Salt Lake City 3, Utah.CH: (6283.) Erick Earl; (6287.) Ivan Clarence; (6288.) Emmeline Augusta; (6289.) Eugene Joseph; (6290.) - (Stillborn son). - (6291.) Theodore Jackson.
(6283.) ERICK EARL ERICKSEN (4858.) (2787.A.) (1116.) (391.) (77.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 20-10mo-1904, Salem, Utah; d. 28-12mo-1904. (R149).