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T* , I EUB w$R%& % T E B ~ . father, n ~ ' dedd, ir Mler Tsmey,

Pmrth oBllb an& thisYB l$oh-tqb FB3, arr i e t woos. Bl.~aanls father ga the aoa or Austin Ians?@Jr asd F9s Auetin'a fstber i r @&id t o be W s r f h g ?amremy, wife wae XlitaWth Fratt, and i tby l i v d i a Em mother is A l i a Tollman, eflevrratfri ehlld; and -sep of Juasan "Palman aadl hle f i r a t wife, &kLrah Lu~rett6 H ~ l b t b i ~ k * Judson Tolman nae the m$k sf BlaZ;ha;n ~ollrmarm Saah E f e ~ X t t , Bathan w e ~ s tba @on of Rutlbe~f ~olm&a an& Margaret BtNar*fhy. Reuben was ths, a m 09 William T~laraa asld Bet;%? j r ~ a b n * f5lli.m was the mn of &amel YBolsmi ant3 ErptrPe~e* Glapp, Sacmsl was the aon of Thhoaaae To- and ~ l l o a b t h Johssa, Thla ? - Thoass rae the 8ba sf TIkama Tofmm &a& hrsh, bfe r i f e , she were both burn fh mgland, bu% d p a t r d to f ismahusat t r before 1653. JWssret vaa 'barn in Eanaebea m! _ a i m , was nra~ried UB 6- 18159 'axid eama t o Utah nt%B ZlYs wifa'e family arriving 8@' Bept 184B.

K, W i l l i a m Tancay, aa *he foultssnth child and eighth son of my pamnta, I mas b l m 34 FeB. at the rtbr family home at Groveland, biegham C w t y , Idsbe. Tbe glaee fa a large briok hcruee which raa built by ay father. It atm&%r next door to the churab, and I s the 1ar~s.t ; Boma is Gmvelsad. It i e snrrounded bg a white pitket farra:~r ahibh

TBe firat t k h g %hat I c a resbber v I ~ i & % j f116 brLl3i~lg f r o m a ernall footbridge fnta the sanal Irbgah mar W b i d *

aur barn. Sylv ia , ny s%etBr -4 kmm I were oat there ns day. ditW r*t. too small. I eaw a p o s e acmaa it; but midway aoreee the water, I hll in : T still recall going dMra, down, down. Then glomesoa.8 lifted me v. ma oB of the water, .It aagl tlyh9ar rho had pulled ma t;u brateta,

I started 86h601 eat the 3 9 of f i v e vesrr in the 014 Grovelmd school, rhloh was a small tw@-story &wildlag o f atlobe and brick. , bnt f: th isk 4% gnlg four m ~ a a ; WO ffown~ t m . : ~ @ ~ ~ % m . X r how 'onae I @tt&fab ssaa p&p$urs a@ ' fmk d m fat@ furnace rees ter , arna rlwa $36 f i ~ ~ wasl made in the pipe go21 but, tb;9 %tuff aartrg%% fire, mtl when I eat

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smoke coming out i n t o tEce xa~m--Well, I wua a s o e r ~ d boy.

When I w a ; ~ ~Brfen, Pa and Ma adopted a baby g i r l , ay a i e t e r , Ruth. 1 was '$iap%%W 2 June 1917 by Joeatlsan H. Eale in t he canal i n whicb I m w ~ d , but fu r the r upatream, where it runs k1 .%$a' @BaaB.

Once a t &he Ward haLl s a 'gd *a& -tab they sold basket luncherr. Lit t ' k B I ws~lrci kaw *# eat $he-IWOb with a lady. f a r er pretty Zr-sket, ge t t ing i t f o r f i f t y the r ipe EL@ of t e n o r thereabouts. I don't doubt but that t he lady wera em- barrassed. Being sf a very ehg nature , I wmZd bava given anything t o be ab le just t o vanish in to nawhara.

On such day$ ae t h e Fourth a f July, snd whenever we ha8 a celebra t ion a t the schoal 2nd baseball grand@, there would be progrms and ~ontes fos and b a l l ga.101.68 and kcs oream, pop corn, and'scsda pop. There was raom under tl&e gr~tn88tand t o gut up Bhsee re@#esbmen%a f o r eaPs. I, and o the r imp8 like myeelf waul& put lit fircbcradkere through the f l o o r mB drop them on the people underneath, '1230 were ~ e l l i o g +,hew hol ldsy ware@;, .It was great eporf t s see thean 3- and h m r them f r e t and storm at ouah goings-on,

I had a pony which I rode a great deal . I n summer, I - . -.> . . ,.+ -

would go swimming i n the czn 1 3113 river from morning t i l l ,i night. Winter would f i nd ms at the erne h a u t 8 on 108

ong my raoollectionar s r ~ e the d u e o f :aleat noise am& b g , sit 0;- - Ii-ise bt &be 1@18 a, si%gne&." aft& DwL%~I o tbmam 0 qme hm6 I r/eseraber st% i t t l e ~b my fat.h;6~., .a8 bs di@

whun I was eleven year^ old. I reaaJ-3. that he w a s nearly blind, an8 i n poor heal th fo r some time baforu he die&. Ha lg+ed order and nestness, snd alwscye ha8 a plsoe far er+~p- khing, with everything i n i t a p l ? c e and ready f o r ia$tcat- nee, Baing the ysfingeet boy, and separated Ir0a the O%B@FB~ of the family by several yes rs , I grew up ra ther alone. I ebtnrrrot remember much of t he older bro [hers and eiatarari ln my ohild- hood, except ae I was taken to v i s i t them, f o r severa<l ,were married e i t h e r before o r aosn sftex t he time of my bi.rth* . Those whom I do remember st home were Sarah, Orley, C$-a and DsnieJ arZd Sylvia, Alice and Ptuth. I r e a s l l that . G y m wag badly wounded i n the war. Also, we m-de barreawaf apple c i d e r f o r vinegar, f o r we slWsrsy8 had e "6;*pples. Also, I t r i e d t o smoke. I remember b a l e *-%be brother of my f l t h e ~ , although he died when I waa abbk thir taem.

I was ordained t o the o f f i c e of Deaoan i n the Aaranic priesthood a t Groveland.

when Ma went to C s l i f o n i a , I lived at Bertha's. 1 was t h r i t e e n ,yeacre o ld , and celebracad my fourteenth b i r t h - day there . I received a copy of t b ~ book, mDoctrine and Covensnta!, a d *Fesr l s f Great Priaem as a b%rth&y g i f t from Ma, and read it throagh r igh t away. ~ h i a k e oae a f my moat pr ized poglzsessions. ,ha? winter I broke out with Bhick- en pox st echo01 and was sent hone, but when I ar r ived there

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a haa compaay, got rldblrs-g t o bar oeeu, I etaye4 oat he yard. kt sometime in my cBdldMM, I ha8 yr%Brrrraanla, oniag s o se a f rssalea . I tz~lec3 %O have f3intfbg ~cgrellm. FP taken t o a ehfr~pfs~d@a~r who 4i4 amethiag P;@ my Iratsk, a f t e r that I was oirea. hrm I zar ps-qg, I cltU a o t

ohurab. Aa 8nrrl.g k S QTePT @bdk~'4!! iS.Qt, - x ma a whipping ts makt me , tcr no a'~a%lj ZQZ I u ~ T @ &

r P" e anyway, I was SQ ael mwafcma tWt 3 -It&@ rtlarad t o ga, '

as gradmated from the' Olro~elmd. B e b ~ l , -bartag PSn%shed e grader there. Iri tba meant Sma a n&l blg bailding &a4

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1 rae ordrabed s ' t @ a a h ~ @a f3 lhm. X8t5 by lkr%lr;lsls huaband, Joeeph P, Jsna4#e, at @mrlelauJaBt, where I +am later ordained a Priest. ,

In the fal l of lm7 I wen* te'lire watb tkylvia m d Jarad, a d entered mheerl at the PoeaDalXa IIL@ 8ehool. Also, I: eardlled i n a o b a s in Seminary unQer B. stdnmy 13. merry. Wa had to Baw o l r s r at eight o'olsck in the mornin , before sEbaul. Aaong the young people Who attendmd. that c !! aea rere Roland Wilker, Calvin and Emereon YcOmbar, Xilla and Sylvia Yarlor, Virginia Howard, Arvilla E l l s ~ o ~ t h , Vendall Rich, L y t l e Wright, Venice GIBby and he2 sister, Loaim, We etuddiad the 618 Teatmerit. We gave program8 $a tEt@ rrrrlaus Pocatello Warcls, and also one in the BlsakPoot St&$ fab- erne~cle, and went on hikes, and even had a aanoa aitb fancy deco-rations; and in f w O , bad a most enjoyable year. vhen school wsa out in the egrimg, X returns4 horn@ %a Groqe-

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4% eome time during tbe year I epmB at FfeeslteEXa, 1 rdnrned home and recelsecl a Patria.mha.1 b l e u e i q W a r - %he Band of Orson HJde Hickenlooper. I t as.$ 2 Dee. 1987 at C)xoreland, Idaho.

On the 29th o f January IgiaQ, I was cslle& on a *f~ le iaa to Grest Britain. I served Piret in Ireland. I street meeting we held there. The day Bad beea r my senior Elder decided that we would not Im that night. I ins ia t sd tbaf we ahould. We to a host i l e ~ m t d . whi6~se 026 thrm@ir W the mob at our hoela. For some maeon they mi&

able t o get as oloee aa four feet b h l o d ua, but. sever m y closer. We arrived home safely and ar we went throue the gates, the niece o f the lsnalady Burled a a t o m polar intb the crowd an8 then we were *inside. On anather owaaiaa, I was low on funds at Tbankegiving. I faetad that day, and while +,he other pldere were eating, I w b a t trao%lag. I made a very good coataot . While I was in freZand, %hare waa a rainieter.Whf3 made i t his buslnesls ts warn the people against ur . ,Phi@ resulted in making thcm oarious aboat u a , and openied dmra to ;:B t h t mould have9 been indi f i rmnt %a our message. About ' a l l he suaceeded in doing wae t a make an ass of himself. when I wae tranlsfarred to England, T

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