Pot-Belly Stoves and Pioneer Adobe Homes in Lehi, Utah
Wayne E. Clark1 Lehi, Utah, 2016 One of my earliest childhood memories is a pot-belly coal burning stove in the living room of my house. The kitchen also had a stove on the other side of the wall. There was always a bucket full of coal next to the stove. I knew that I wasn't a good boy Santa Clause would bring me a pig tail and a lump of coal for Christmas. I don't think I really believed that, but I did know what a lump of coal was. I also remember my father, Asa Elden Clark (1911-1982) standing front of that stove removing ticks from himself and setting them on the stove where they sizzled and popped. I guess he had been out chasing cattle in West Canyon. My mother didn't like the ticks. 1
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There was also a pot-belly stove in my grandfather's living room. I remember it always being hot in there. I don't know how we got all the aunts and uncles and cousins in there for family gatherings. I was a kid running around all the time so I never noticed the crowding much. I guess I thought that would last forever but all that is gone now. My grandfather, Asa Jones Clark (1882-1966), lived at 187 North, 300 West in Lehi, Utah. He had a big garden, a big barn, lots of farm buildings and a herd of Holstein dairy cows. He lived there with his daughter, my Aunt Alta Pearl Bone (1908-1998), and my cousin. Alta never married. My cousin was her sister's son. I frankly don't remember her there, but grandfather had married the women they called "Aunt Mary Ann" and whom I knew as Grandmother Clark. She was not actually my grandmother. She was my grand aunt. She was Mary Ann Bone (1875-1950), daughter of William Bone, Jr (1841-1912) and Fannie Wagstaff Bone (1845-1935). I think she was in old age and not well and living with a sister or somebody in Salt Lake or somewhere when she died in 1953. Her sister, my grandmother, Julia Pearl Bone (1884-1921), had died in 1921, leaving my grandfather with seven kids. They had lived a block north on the site of a home that stands at 295 North, 300 West. A few years after the death of Julia Pearl Bone, my grandfather married "Aunt Mary Ann” and moved down to her 187 North, 300 West home. Her husband had died several years previously, leaving her with several kids. The two families of kids were thus joined. They were farmers. They worked constantly. Page 2 of 4
My grandfather was born while his parents, William Wheeler Clark (1855-1933) and his mother, Polly Melissa Willes (1856-1887), were living in an adobe home on First North Street, between First West Street and Center Street. The home is described as having been on the "farm" of grandfather's own grandfather, William Clark (1825-1910). Both adobe homes were on the site of the old Lehi High School athletic field which is now the parking lot of the Lehi Legacy Center. About two/thirds of the First North Street adobe home is visible in the background of a photograph of the Lehi Pioneer Monument. The photograph was taken some time after 1908 when the monument stood where it was first erected, on the Northeast corner of the intersection of First North Street and First West Street.
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Note : This story is drawn from information in the following documents which contain the supporting references and documentation. The Old Fort Wall, a Herd of Cows, and a Near and Dear Neighbor in Lehi, Utah, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wDxipAGQN2UG02ZnVLd2JRbVE/view? usp=sharing, 37 MB Melissa Lott Smith Bernhisel Willes and three Joseph Smiths, https:// drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wDxipAGQN2RFNmLW1sdTNSMlk/view?usp=sharing, 2 MB My "Aunt Melissa:” Melissa Lott Smith Bernhisel Willes, https:// drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wDxipAGQN2OTFNUUVSR0h4TTA/view?usp=sharing, 11 MB William Clark (1825-1910): His Pioneer Adobe Home in Lehi, Utah, and the Homes of his Neighbors and Descendants, https://drive.google.com/file/d/ 0B5wDxipAGQN2cmRUN0Z0NklMaTA/view?usp=sharing, 21 MB Pioneer Adobe Homes on the Memorial Building and Legacy Center Blocks in Lehi, Utah, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wDxipAGQN2MWRJVk1GNlVPVWM/ view?usp=sharing, 16 MB These, and similar documents, as well as other stories by Wayne E. Clark, are posted at Index to Documents by Wayne E. Clark for Lehi Historical Society and Archives, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wDxipAGQN2WFJNbXlwNDdyUjg/view?usp=sharing
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