Martha Jane McAffee Price
Martha Jane McAffee was the daughter of Ann Campbell Baird and Samuel McAffee.
She married James William Price Oct 31, 1906 in Charleston, Utah. They spent their first twelve years in Charleston. They had a horse and buggy which they rode to church every Sunday.
Both parents were very energetic and were hard workers, living. They raised pork and beef, farmed, raised vegetables and fruits. They were always helping friends and relatives, especially during sickness and emergencies.
Martha's brother, John McAfee, visited from Idaho and told of a farm for sale there. It was quite reaaonable, and prospects were good there; so late in summer they sold their place in Charleston, and with four children, old Pink, the family pony and favorite team of horses, Bolley and Zack, pulling the wagon, with what furniture and keepsakes they could take, they headed for Idaho.
With the help of Uncle John McAffee, they got a place and a few acres of farm land in Darlington, Idaho near Arco. It was a small log cabin and came to be the birth place of Orvel in 1919 and LaPreal in 1922. The family had quite a hard life there. James used his team of horses removing tree stumps, plowing and planting hay and grain for livestock and a few chickens and he raised vegetables for the family. They would shoot sage hens for Sunday meals. Also, they would catch lots of fish by hand in the empty ditch, as the water was turned off when irrigating the fields of of hay and grain. James made a good living providing for family, and he fixed up the home there. The boys would climb the ladder to the attic where the three boys slept on straw mattresses and soft homemade feather pillows.
After four or five years away from Charleston, relatives and friends, James and Martha decided to move back to Utah. Being Second Counselor in the Bishopric of the Darlington Ward, they sold their place to the First Counselor, with a $300 as a down payment; but they never received any more, as the lawyers made all the profit. This made James quite leary of dealing with church members for some time.
When they left Darlington, Martha and her daughters rode in an old smoky train and could see James and their sons from the window, driving the horses. The wagon was loaded with furniture, and old Pink, the pony, followed behind. They got as far as Rupert, Idaho, where they lived for a short time. After Veda May was born May 8, 1924, they once again were on there way to Utah.
When they arrived at Salt Lake City James wanted to show the family the State Capital, but with the heavy load on the wagon, they started sliding back down the steep Capital hill, which gave them all quite a scare, especially Mom and the girls.
They settled at Edgemont, which is just south of the highway going into Provo Canyon, and they lived there for over a year, James doing odd jobs, but mostly working with team and wagon hauling dirt and gravel. It was when unloading the gravel, tipping up a heavy plank to let the load out of the bottom of the wagon bed, that he broke his leg. Orvel didn't know how they got by with his Dad not able to work and no welfare in those days. James was too proud to receive much from the church. It is supposed that it was good neighbors, relatives and friends from Charleston and Heber. After his leg got better, James heard of a farm for lease at Lakeview, just over a mile west of the old Sugar Beet Mill and next to the last house near where Provo River empties into Utah Lake.
A veterinarian named Radclift lived here and told James of a healing salve for man and beast. James used it on a bad cut a horse had on its hoof and saved the horse. This salve is Corona Wool Fat and so well liked that after 63 years, everyone of the family and grandchildren use it as a main healer for cuts and bruises.
The next few years on the old Radclift farm was quite memorable. Lakeview had a one or two-room school, and church was about two miles north and next to the old highway. They mostly walked or rode old Pink, and Chloe and Jim got a ride to school with the school teacher, in the first automobile Orvel remembered seeing.
James had a large vegetable garden just a few yeards from Provo River. They had large green leaf stock celery and green peanuts growing with corn, potatoes, etc. There was long rows of sugar beets for the family to weed and thin. The children were paid 10 cents a row. They would dig the beets and haul them by wagon to a yard near the old beet still. There were also large stacks of grain to be thrashed. The thrashers would come each summer with a large orange machine to thrash the wheat, oats and barley. James would run or fast walk, overseeing everything and mother always needed extra help to cook and serve the large meals to feed 10 to 20 hundgry men.
1929 was right in the middle of the depression, and baby calves sold for $1.00. That winter Veda May, our five year old sister and youngest daughter, got rhumatic fever and passed away on December 22, 1929. It was the saddest and the coldest trip that her brother, Orvel, ever experienced, riding in a big black car up snowy Provo Canyon to the Charleston Cemetery. It was a dark and dreary Christmas Eve at home in Lakeview. It was the only Christmas they did not have gifts or a Christmas tree, just hard tack candy. But good neighbors left boxes of oranges and other fruits.
In February of 1930, William McAffee, the mother's youngest brother, came to visit. He was working at a mineat Bauer, Uath and told of the good opportunity of work there, especially at the mnill where they refined ore, Lead, copper, zinc, etc., produced by the mine there. He also told what a nice, pretty place Tooele was, then a town of about 3,000 people, just five miles north of Bauer. There was grass and pasture as high as the cattles'heads. So, selling most of the livestock, we came to Tooele with two or three cows, the horses, old Pink, a few chickens, and a truck load of furniture and personal belongings.
James found no job opening at the mill, but he started working anyway, cleaning up and within a week he was put on the payroll, and oldest son, Lynn went to work in the mine. James was a hard worker and well liked by all his fellow workers. He was often joking and playing tricks on them, even the bosses to a certain extent. He worked there 17 years doing all kinds of operations until two years after the war ended, and they closed down the mill, as the demand for metal was so low. he retired in 1947.
During the 28 years that they lived in Tooele, they still moved quite a bit. The first place was the south part of town above Main Street at the mouth of Settlement Canyon, in a little old house mother did not like, and in a month they moved next door to the large "Alt Martin" white house that had a place for a garden, fruit orchard, chickens and a cow. It was here that the ninth child, DeLoy F., was born, March 18, 1930; and when only six weeks old, he was in a bad automobile accident. His dad, James had borrowed Lynn's brand new 1930 Ford car to take the family to Charleston to decorate graves, as they did every Decoration Day. While driving on the highway between Tooele and Salt Lake City, they passed another car, and their bumpers touched, throwing them out of control and rolling them over. Nada received two large cuts on her upper arm and head. Mother's neck and shoulders were crushedm which she also suffered with the rest of her life. Lynn's new car was a total wreck, but they were able to tie and wire the doors shut to drive home. James said he was alright, but the next morning he blacked out as he had knees quite bad. baby DeLoy and Chloe were alright, but she had to quit high school to look after Mother and the baby.
On summer weekends we often went up Settlement Canyon in a wagon, and while Mother and the younger children made a picnic near the stream and prepared lunch, James would take one harnessed horse and a sharp ax and go up the side of the hill and cut the dead scrub oak trees, bundle them up, and drag them down the hill where he would help trim off small branches; and then after lunch we would haul the poles home to be cut up. It was quite exciting to see him jack up the back end of the car, put a large belt on one wheel, and about 10 feet away put a belt around a large pulley and attach it to a saw and cut oak trees into stove lengths, which was used throughout the winter for heat and also in the cook stove, instead of buying coal.
The next move was to the middle part of town known as the New Town, where mostly Greeks and Italians had settled to work at the local smelter. It took a few months as their neighbors for them to accept us Mormons, and for us to accept their customs and religious ways. They were mostly all good people and are still some of our closest friends.
Around 1935 we moved back on Main Street, 362 South Main. It was a nice home and had two acres of ground. Again we had our garden, cow, pigs and chickens. The previous tenants were local bootleggers and in the back lot the pigs would root up bottles of wine and whisky, which James brought into the house and mother would get quite upset and pour it down the sink, which did not seem to bother James at all. If the pigs got it before James found it, it had quite an effect upon them.
In 1938 they purchased a home near the center of town, 69 South Main, and a year later remodled an older home in the rear of it into a rentla home. Then as the war broke out in 1941, Tooele Ordinance Depot was built with a large reflux of people. They rented the extra house, along with a room on the back porch, and even space to pitch tents. At this time, two sons, Orvel and James Otis, went into service. James Otis had four years of active duty in the Navy, Pacific Theater and Orvel had over three years in the European Theater, Air Force Firefighter, mostly in England and France. Both were honorably discharged in October, 1945, and their younger son, DeLoy, was honorable discharged from the Navy, Korean War, in 1951.
-Written by her son Orvel Price in June and July of 1988
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Martha J. MacAffee Price
TOOELE—-Mrs. Martha June MacAffee Price, age 57, wife of James William Price, died in a Tooele hospital Thursday after a lingering illness.
Born at Charleston July 7, 1883, she married Mr Price Oct. 30, 1906 in Ihe Salt Lake L D S Temple.
She is survived by the following: Two brothers, James McAffee, Woods Cross, Utah; John McAffee, Chalis, Idaho; three sisters, Agnes Anderson, Bluebell, Duchesne County; Pearl Bell and and Leone Boyd, Salt Lake City; four sons, Lynn M., James O., Orvill and Deloy Price, Grantsville; three daughters, Mrs. Chloe Kirk and Mrs. Nada Johnson, Grantsville; Preal Bent, Salt Lake City.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Tooele First LDS Ward Chapel Monday at 1 p.m. Burial will take place at Charleston.
Salt Lake Tribune
May 10, 1946
trascribed by Rhonda Holton
They had the following children: Velma Price, Lynn M. Price, Chloe Ann Price Kirk, James Owis Price, Lapreal Price, Veda May Price and Deloy M. Price.
Martha Jane McAffee was the daughter of Ann Campbell Baird and Samuel McAffee.
She married James William Price Oct 31, 1906 in Charleston, Utah. They spent their first twelve years in Charleston. They had a horse and buggy which they rode to church every Sunday.
Both parents were very energetic and were hard workers, living. They raised pork and beef, farmed, raised vegetables and fruits. They were always helping friends and relatives, especially during sickness and emergencies.
Martha's brother, John McAfee, visited from Idaho and told of a farm for sale there. It was quite reaaonable, and prospects were good there; so late in summer they sold their place in Charleston, and with four children, old Pink, the family pony and favorite team of horses, Bolley and Zack, pulling the wagon, with what furniture and keepsakes they could take, they headed for Idaho.
With the help of Uncle John McAffee, they got a place and a few acres of farm land in Darlington, Idaho near Arco. It was a small log cabin and came to be the birth place of Orvel in 1919 and LaPreal in 1922. The family had quite a hard life there. James used his team of horses removing tree stumps, plowing and planting hay and grain for livestock and a few chickens and he raised vegetables for the family. They would shoot sage hens for Sunday meals. Also, they would catch lots of fish by hand in the empty ditch, as the water was turned off when irrigating the fields of of hay and grain. James made a good living providing for family, and he fixed up the home there. The boys would climb the ladder to the attic where the three boys slept on straw mattresses and soft homemade feather pillows.
After four or five years away from Charleston, relatives and friends, James and Martha decided to move back to Utah. Being Second Counselor in the Bishopric of the Darlington Ward, they sold their place to the First Counselor, with a $300 as a down payment; but they never received any more, as the lawyers made all the profit. This made James quite leary of dealing with church members for some time.
When they left Darlington, Martha and her daughters rode in an old smoky train and could see James and their sons from the window, driving the horses. The wagon was loaded with furniture, and old Pink, the pony, followed behind. They got as far as Rupert, Idaho, where they lived for a short time. After Veda May was born May 8, 1924, they once again were on there way to Utah.
When they arrived at Salt Lake City James wanted to show the family the State Capital, but with the heavy load on the wagon, they started sliding back down the steep Capital hill, which gave them all quite a scare, especially Mom and the girls.
They settled at Edgemont, which is just south of the highway going into Provo Canyon, and they lived there for over a year, James doing odd jobs, but mostly working with team and wagon hauling dirt and gravel. It was when unloading the gravel, tipping up a heavy plank to let the load out of the bottom of the wagon bed, that he broke his leg. Orvel didn't know how they got by with his Dad not able to work and no welfare in those days. James was too proud to receive much from the church. It is supposed that it was good neighbors, relatives and friends from Charleston and Heber. After his leg got better, James heard of a farm for lease at Lakeview, just over a mile west of the old Sugar Beet Mill and next to the last house near where Provo River empties into Utah Lake.
A veterinarian named Radclift lived here and told James of a healing salve for man and beast. James used it on a bad cut a horse had on its hoof and saved the horse. This salve is Corona Wool Fat and so well liked that after 63 years, everyone of the family and grandchildren use it as a main healer for cuts and bruises.
The next few years on the old Radclift farm was quite memorable. Lakeview had a one or two-room school, and church was about two miles north and next to the old highway. They mostly walked or rode old Pink, and Chloe and Jim got a ride to school with the school teacher, in the first automobile Orvel remembered seeing.
James had a large vegetable garden just a few yeards from Provo River. They had large green leaf stock celery and green peanuts growing with corn, potatoes, etc. There was long rows of sugar beets for the family to weed and thin. The children were paid 10 cents a row. They would dig the beets and haul them by wagon to a yard near the old beet still. There were also large stacks of grain to be thrashed. The thrashers would come each summer with a large orange machine to thrash the wheat, oats and barley. James would run or fast walk, overseeing everything and mother always needed extra help to cook and serve the large meals to feed 10 to 20 hundgry men.
1929 was right in the middle of the depression, and baby calves sold for $1.00. That winter Veda May, our five year old sister and youngest daughter, got rhumatic fever and passed away on December 22, 1929. It was the saddest and the coldest trip that her brother, Orvel, ever experienced, riding in a big black car up snowy Provo Canyon to the Charleston Cemetery. It was a dark and dreary Christmas Eve at home in Lakeview. It was the only Christmas they did not have gifts or a Christmas tree, just hard tack candy. But good neighbors left boxes of oranges and other fruits.
In February of 1930, William McAffee, the mother's youngest brother, came to visit. He was working at a mineat Bauer, Uath and told of the good opportunity of work there, especially at the mnill where they refined ore, Lead, copper, zinc, etc., produced by the mine there. He also told what a nice, pretty place Tooele was, then a town of about 3,000 people, just five miles north of Bauer. There was grass and pasture as high as the cattles'heads. So, selling most of the livestock, we came to Tooele with two or three cows, the horses, old Pink, a few chickens, and a truck load of furniture and personal belongings.
James found no job opening at the mill, but he started working anyway, cleaning up and within a week he was put on the payroll, and oldest son, Lynn went to work in the mine. James was a hard worker and well liked by all his fellow workers. He was often joking and playing tricks on them, even the bosses to a certain extent. He worked there 17 years doing all kinds of operations until two years after the war ended, and they closed down the mill, as the demand for metal was so low. he retired in 1947.
During the 28 years that they lived in Tooele, they still moved quite a bit. The first place was the south part of town above Main Street at the mouth of Settlement Canyon, in a little old house mother did not like, and in a month they moved next door to the large "Alt Martin" white house that had a place for a garden, fruit orchard, chickens and a cow. It was here that the ninth child, DeLoy F., was born, March 18, 1930; and when only six weeks old, he was in a bad automobile accident. His dad, James had borrowed Lynn's brand new 1930 Ford car to take the family to Charleston to decorate graves, as they did every Decoration Day. While driving on the highway between Tooele and Salt Lake City, they passed another car, and their bumpers touched, throwing them out of control and rolling them over. Nada received two large cuts on her upper arm and head. Mother's neck and shoulders were crushedm which she also suffered with the rest of her life. Lynn's new car was a total wreck, but they were able to tie and wire the doors shut to drive home. James said he was alright, but the next morning he blacked out as he had knees quite bad. baby DeLoy and Chloe were alright, but she had to quit high school to look after Mother and the baby.
On summer weekends we often went up Settlement Canyon in a wagon, and while Mother and the younger children made a picnic near the stream and prepared lunch, James would take one harnessed horse and a sharp ax and go up the side of the hill and cut the dead scrub oak trees, bundle them up, and drag them down the hill where he would help trim off small branches; and then after lunch we would haul the poles home to be cut up. It was quite exciting to see him jack up the back end of the car, put a large belt on one wheel, and about 10 feet away put a belt around a large pulley and attach it to a saw and cut oak trees into stove lengths, which was used throughout the winter for heat and also in the cook stove, instead of buying coal.
The next move was to the middle part of town known as the New Town, where mostly Greeks and Italians had settled to work at the local smelter. It took a few months as their neighbors for them to accept us Mormons, and for us to accept their customs and religious ways. They were mostly all good people and are still some of our closest friends.
Around 1935 we moved back on Main Street, 362 South Main. It was a nice home and had two acres of ground. Again we had our garden, cow, pigs and chickens. The previous tenants were local bootleggers and in the back lot the pigs would root up bottles of wine and whisky, which James brought into the house and mother would get quite upset and pour it down the sink, which did not seem to bother James at all. If the pigs got it before James found it, it had quite an effect upon them.
In 1938 they purchased a home near the center of town, 69 South Main, and a year later remodled an older home in the rear of it into a rentla home. Then as the war broke out in 1941, Tooele Ordinance Depot was built with a large reflux of people. They rented the extra house, along with a room on the back porch, and even space to pitch tents. At this time, two sons, Orvel and James Otis, went into service. James Otis had four years of active duty in the Navy, Pacific Theater and Orvel had over three years in the European Theater, Air Force Firefighter, mostly in England and France. Both were honorably discharged in October, 1945, and their younger son, DeLoy, was honorable discharged from the Navy, Korean War, in 1951.
-Written by her son Orvel Price in June and July of 1988
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Martha J. MacAffee Price
TOOELE—-Mrs. Martha June MacAffee Price, age 57, wife of James William Price, died in a Tooele hospital Thursday after a lingering illness.
Born at Charleston July 7, 1883, she married Mr Price Oct. 30, 1906 in Ihe Salt Lake L D S Temple.
She is survived by the following: Two brothers, James McAffee, Woods Cross, Utah; John McAffee, Chalis, Idaho; three sisters, Agnes Anderson, Bluebell, Duchesne County; Pearl Bell and and Leone Boyd, Salt Lake City; four sons, Lynn M., James O., Orvill and Deloy Price, Grantsville; three daughters, Mrs. Chloe Kirk and Mrs. Nada Johnson, Grantsville; Preal Bent, Salt Lake City.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Tooele First LDS Ward Chapel Monday at 1 p.m. Burial will take place at Charleston.
Salt Lake Tribune
May 10, 1946
trascribed by Rhonda Holton
They had the following children: Velma Price, Lynn M. Price, Chloe Ann Price Kirk, James Owis Price, Lapreal Price, Veda May Price and Deloy M. Price.
Martha Jane McAffee Price
Martha Jane McAffee was the daughter of Ann Campbell Baird and Samuel McAffee.
She married James William Price Oct 31, 1906 in Charleston, Utah. They spent their first twelve years in Charleston. They had a horse and buggy which they rode to church every Sunday.
Both parents were very energetic and were hard workers, living. They raised pork and beef, farmed, raised vegetables and fruits. They were always helping friends and relatives, especially during sickness and emergencies.
Martha's brother, John McAfee, visited from Idaho and told of a farm for sale there. It was quite reaaonable, and prospects were good there; so late in summer they sold their place in Charleston, and with four children, old Pink, the family pony and favorite team of horses, Bolley and Zack, pulling the wagon, with what furniture and keepsakes they could take, they headed for Idaho.
With the help of Uncle John McAffee, they got a place and a few acres of farm land in Darlington, Idaho near Arco. It was a small log cabin and came to be the birth place of Orvel in 1919 and LaPreal in 1922. The family had quite a hard life there. James used his team of horses removing tree stumps, plowing and planting hay and grain for livestock and a few chickens and he raised vegetables for the family. They would shoot sage hens for Sunday meals. Also, they would catch lots of fish by hand in the empty ditch, as the water was turned off when irrigating the fields of of hay and grain. James made a good living providing for family, and he fixed up the home there. The boys would climb the ladder to the attic where the three boys slept on straw mattresses and soft homemade feather pillows.
After four or five years away from Charleston, relatives and friends, James and Martha decided to move back to Utah. Being Second Counselor in the Bishopric of the Darlington Ward, they sold their place to the First Counselor, with a $300 as a down payment; but they never received any more, as the lawyers made all the profit. This made James quite leary of dealing with church members for some time.
When they left Darlington, Martha and her daughters rode in an old smoky train and could see James and their sons from the window, driving the horses. The wagon was loaded with furniture, and old Pink, the pony, followed behind. They got as far as Rupert, Idaho, where they lived for a short time. After Veda May was born May 8, 1924, they once again were on there way to Utah.
When they arrived at Salt Lake City James wanted to show the family the State Capital, but with the heavy load on the wagon, they started sliding back down the steep Capital hill, which gave them all quite a scare, especially Mom and the girls.
They settled at Edgemont, which is just south of the highway going into Provo Canyon, and they lived there for over a year, James doing odd jobs, but mostly working with team and wagon hauling dirt and gravel. It was when unloading the gravel, tipping up a heavy plank to let the load out of the bottom of the wagon bed, that he broke his leg. Orvel didn't know how they got by with his Dad not able to work and no welfare in those days. James was too proud to receive much from the church. It is supposed that it was good neighbors, relatives and friends from Charleston and Heber. After his leg got better, James heard of a farm for lease at Lakeview, just over a mile west of the old Sugar Beet Mill and next to the last house near where Provo River empties into Utah Lake.
A veterinarian named Radclift lived here and told James of a healing salve for man and beast. James used it on a bad cut a horse had on its hoof and saved the horse. This salve is Corona Wool Fat and so well liked that after 63 years, everyone of the family and grandchildren use it as a main healer for cuts and bruises.
The next few years on the old Radclift farm was quite memorable. Lakeview had a one or two-room school, and church was about two miles north and next to the old highway. They mostly walked or rode old Pink, and Chloe and Jim got a ride to school with the school teacher, in the first automobile Orvel remembered seeing.
James had a large vegetable garden just a few yeards from Provo River. They had large green leaf stock celery and green peanuts growing with corn, potatoes, etc. There was long rows of sugar beets for the family to weed and thin. The children were paid 10 cents a row. They would dig the beets and haul them by wagon to a yard near the old beet still. There were also large stacks of grain to be thrashed. The thrashers would come each summer with a large orange machine to thrash the wheat, oats and barley. James would run or fast walk, overseeing everything and mother always needed extra help to cook and serve the large meals to feed 10 to 20 hundgry men.
1929 was right in the middle of the depression, and baby calves sold for $1.00. That winter Veda May, our five year old sister and youngest daughter, got rhumatic fever and passed away on December 22, 1929. It was the saddest and the coldest trip that her brother, Orvel, ever experienced, riding in a big black car up snowy Provo Canyon to the Charleston Cemetery. It was a dark and dreary Christmas Eve at home in Lakeview. It was the only Christmas they did not have gifts or a Christmas tree, just hard tack candy. But good neighbors left boxes of oranges and other fruits.
In February of 1930, William McAffee, the mother's youngest brother, came to visit. He was working at a mineat Bauer, Uath and told of the good opportunity of work there, especially at the mnill where they refined ore, Lead, copper, zinc, etc., produced by the mine there. He also told what a nice, pretty place Tooele was, then a town of about 3,000 people, just five miles north of Bauer. There was grass and pasture as high as the cattles'heads. So, selling most of the livestock, we came to Tooele with two or three cows, the horses, old Pink, a few chickens, and a truck load of furniture and personal belongings.
James found no job opening at the mill, but he started working anyway, cleaning up and within a week he was put on the payroll, and oldest son, Lynn went to work in the mine. James was a hard worker and well liked by all his fellow workers. He was often joking and playing tricks on them, even the bosses to a certain extent. He worked there 17 years doing all kinds of operations until two years after the war ended, and they closed down the mill, as the demand for metal was so low. he retired in 1947.
During the 28 years that they lived in Tooele, they still moved quite a bit. The first place was the south part of town above Main Street at the mouth of Settlement Canyon, in a little old house mother did not like, and in a month they moved next door to the large "Alt Martin" white house that had a place for a garden, fruit orchard, chickens and a cow. It was here that the ninth child, DeLoy F., was born, March 18, 1930; and when only six weeks old, he was in a bad automobile accident. His dad, James had borrowed Lynn's brand new 1930 Ford car to take the family to Charleston to decorate graves, as they did every Decoration Day. While driving on the highway between Tooele and Salt Lake City, they passed another car, and their bumpers touched, throwing them out of control and rolling them over. Nada received two large cuts on her upper arm and head. Mother's neck and shoulders were crushedm which she also suffered with the rest of her life. Lynn's new car was a total wreck, but they were able to tie and wire the doors shut to drive home. James said he was alright, but the next morning he blacked out as he had knees quite bad. baby DeLoy and Chloe were alright, but she had to quit high school to look after Mother and the baby.
On summer weekends we often went up Settlement Canyon in a wagon, and while Mother and the younger children made a picnic near the stream and prepared lunch, James would take one harnessed horse and a sharp ax and go up the side of the hill and cut the dead scrub oak trees, bundle them up, and drag them down the hill where he would help trim off small branches; and then after lunch we would haul the poles home to be cut up. It was quite exciting to see him jack up the back end of the car, put a large belt on one wheel, and about 10 feet away put a belt around a large pulley and attach it to a saw and cut oak trees into stove lengths, which was used throughout the winter for heat and also in the cook stove, instead of buying coal.
The next move was to the middle part of town known as the New Town, where mostly Greeks and Italians had settled to work at the local smelter. It took a few months as their neighbors for them to accept us Mormons, and for us to accept their customs and religious ways. They were mostly all good people and are still some of our closest friends.
Around 1935 we moved back on Main Street, 362 South Main. It was a nice home and had two acres of ground. Again we had our garden, cow, pigs and chickens. The previous tenants were local bootleggers and in the back lot the pigs would root up bottles of wine and whisky, which James brought into the house and mother would get quite upset and pour it down the sink, which did not seem to bother James at all. If the pigs got it before James found it, it had quite an effect upon them.
In 1938 they purchased a home near the center of town, 69 South Main, and a year later remodled an older home in the rear of it into a rentla home. Then as the war broke out in 1941, Tooele Ordinance Depot was built with a large reflux of people. They rented the extra house, along with a room on the back porch, and even space to pitch tents. At this time, two sons, Orvel and James Otis, went into service. James Otis had four years of active duty in the Navy, Pacific Theater and Orvel had over three years in the European Theater, Air Force Firefighter, mostly in England and France. Both were honorably discharged in October, 1945, and their younger son, DeLoy, was honorable discharged from the Navy, Korean War, in 1951.
-Written by her son Orvel Price in June and July of 1988
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Martha J. MacAffee Price
TOOELE—-Mrs. Martha June MacAffee Price, age 57, wife of James William Price, died in a Tooele hospital Thursday after a lingering illness.
Born at Charleston July 7, 1883, she married Mr Price Oct. 30, 1906 in Ihe Salt Lake L D S Temple.
She is survived by the following: Two brothers, James McAffee, Woods Cross, Utah; John McAffee, Chalis, Idaho; three sisters, Agnes Anderson, Bluebell, Duchesne County; Pearl Bell and and Leone Boyd, Salt Lake City; four sons, Lynn M., James O., Orvill and Deloy Price, Grantsville; three daughters, Mrs. Chloe Kirk and Mrs. Nada Johnson, Grantsville; Preal Bent, Salt Lake City.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Tooele First LDS Ward Chapel Monday at 1 p.m. Burial will take place at Charleston.
Salt Lake Tribune
May 10, 1946
trascribed by Rhonda Holton
They had the following children: Velma Price, Lynn M. Price, Chloe Ann Price Kirk, James Owis Price, Lapreal Price, Veda May Price and Deloy M. Price.
Martha Jane McAffee was the daughter of Ann Campbell Baird and Samuel McAffee.
She married James William Price Oct 31, 1906 in Charleston, Utah. They spent their first twelve years in Charleston. They had a horse and buggy which they rode to church every Sunday.
Both parents were very energetic and were hard workers, living. They raised pork and beef, farmed, raised vegetables and fruits. They were always helping friends and relatives, especially during sickness and emergencies.
Martha's brother, John McAfee, visited from Idaho and told of a farm for sale there. It was quite reaaonable, and prospects were good there; so late in summer they sold their place in Charleston, and with four children, old Pink, the family pony and favorite team of horses, Bolley and Zack, pulling the wagon, with what furniture and keepsakes they could take, they headed for Idaho.
With the help of Uncle John McAffee, they got a place and a few acres of farm land in Darlington, Idaho near Arco. It was a small log cabin and came to be the birth place of Orvel in 1919 and LaPreal in 1922. The family had quite a hard life there. James used his team of horses removing tree stumps, plowing and planting hay and grain for livestock and a few chickens and he raised vegetables for the family. They would shoot sage hens for Sunday meals. Also, they would catch lots of fish by hand in the empty ditch, as the water was turned off when irrigating the fields of of hay and grain. James made a good living providing for family, and he fixed up the home there. The boys would climb the ladder to the attic where the three boys slept on straw mattresses and soft homemade feather pillows.
After four or five years away from Charleston, relatives and friends, James and Martha decided to move back to Utah. Being Second Counselor in the Bishopric of the Darlington Ward, they sold their place to the First Counselor, with a $300 as a down payment; but they never received any more, as the lawyers made all the profit. This made James quite leary of dealing with church members for some time.
When they left Darlington, Martha and her daughters rode in an old smoky train and could see James and their sons from the window, driving the horses. The wagon was loaded with furniture, and old Pink, the pony, followed behind. They got as far as Rupert, Idaho, where they lived for a short time. After Veda May was born May 8, 1924, they once again were on there way to Utah.
When they arrived at Salt Lake City James wanted to show the family the State Capital, but with the heavy load on the wagon, they started sliding back down the steep Capital hill, which gave them all quite a scare, especially Mom and the girls.
They settled at Edgemont, which is just south of the highway going into Provo Canyon, and they lived there for over a year, James doing odd jobs, but mostly working with team and wagon hauling dirt and gravel. It was when unloading the gravel, tipping up a heavy plank to let the load out of the bottom of the wagon bed, that he broke his leg. Orvel didn't know how they got by with his Dad not able to work and no welfare in those days. James was too proud to receive much from the church. It is supposed that it was good neighbors, relatives and friends from Charleston and Heber. After his leg got better, James heard of a farm for lease at Lakeview, just over a mile west of the old Sugar Beet Mill and next to the last house near where Provo River empties into Utah Lake.
A veterinarian named Radclift lived here and told James of a healing salve for man and beast. James used it on a bad cut a horse had on its hoof and saved the horse. This salve is Corona Wool Fat and so well liked that after 63 years, everyone of the family and grandchildren use it as a main healer for cuts and bruises.
The next few years on the old Radclift farm was quite memorable. Lakeview had a one or two-room school, and church was about two miles north and next to the old highway. They mostly walked or rode old Pink, and Chloe and Jim got a ride to school with the school teacher, in the first automobile Orvel remembered seeing.
James had a large vegetable garden just a few yeards from Provo River. They had large green leaf stock celery and green peanuts growing with corn, potatoes, etc. There was long rows of sugar beets for the family to weed and thin. The children were paid 10 cents a row. They would dig the beets and haul them by wagon to a yard near the old beet still. There were also large stacks of grain to be thrashed. The thrashers would come each summer with a large orange machine to thrash the wheat, oats and barley. James would run or fast walk, overseeing everything and mother always needed extra help to cook and serve the large meals to feed 10 to 20 hundgry men.
1929 was right in the middle of the depression, and baby calves sold for $1.00. That winter Veda May, our five year old sister and youngest daughter, got rhumatic fever and passed away on December 22, 1929. It was the saddest and the coldest trip that her brother, Orvel, ever experienced, riding in a big black car up snowy Provo Canyon to the Charleston Cemetery. It was a dark and dreary Christmas Eve at home in Lakeview. It was the only Christmas they did not have gifts or a Christmas tree, just hard tack candy. But good neighbors left boxes of oranges and other fruits.
In February of 1930, William McAffee, the mother's youngest brother, came to visit. He was working at a mineat Bauer, Uath and told of the good opportunity of work there, especially at the mnill where they refined ore, Lead, copper, zinc, etc., produced by the mine there. He also told what a nice, pretty place Tooele was, then a town of about 3,000 people, just five miles north of Bauer. There was grass and pasture as high as the cattles'heads. So, selling most of the livestock, we came to Tooele with two or three cows, the horses, old Pink, a few chickens, and a truck load of furniture and personal belongings.
James found no job opening at the mill, but he started working anyway, cleaning up and within a week he was put on the payroll, and oldest son, Lynn went to work in the mine. James was a hard worker and well liked by all his fellow workers. He was often joking and playing tricks on them, even the bosses to a certain extent. He worked there 17 years doing all kinds of operations until two years after the war ended, and they closed down the mill, as the demand for metal was so low. he retired in 1947.
During the 28 years that they lived in Tooele, they still moved quite a bit. The first place was the south part of town above Main Street at the mouth of Settlement Canyon, in a little old house mother did not like, and in a month they moved next door to the large "Alt Martin" white house that had a place for a garden, fruit orchard, chickens and a cow. It was here that the ninth child, DeLoy F., was born, March 18, 1930; and when only six weeks old, he was in a bad automobile accident. His dad, James had borrowed Lynn's brand new 1930 Ford car to take the family to Charleston to decorate graves, as they did every Decoration Day. While driving on the highway between Tooele and Salt Lake City, they passed another car, and their bumpers touched, throwing them out of control and rolling them over. Nada received two large cuts on her upper arm and head. Mother's neck and shoulders were crushedm which she also suffered with the rest of her life. Lynn's new car was a total wreck, but they were able to tie and wire the doors shut to drive home. James said he was alright, but the next morning he blacked out as he had knees quite bad. baby DeLoy and Chloe were alright, but she had to quit high school to look after Mother and the baby.
On summer weekends we often went up Settlement Canyon in a wagon, and while Mother and the younger children made a picnic near the stream and prepared lunch, James would take one harnessed horse and a sharp ax and go up the side of the hill and cut the dead scrub oak trees, bundle them up, and drag them down the hill where he would help trim off small branches; and then after lunch we would haul the poles home to be cut up. It was quite exciting to see him jack up the back end of the car, put a large belt on one wheel, and about 10 feet away put a belt around a large pulley and attach it to a saw and cut oak trees into stove lengths, which was used throughout the winter for heat and also in the cook stove, instead of buying coal.
The next move was to the middle part of town known as the New Town, where mostly Greeks and Italians had settled to work at the local smelter. It took a few months as their neighbors for them to accept us Mormons, and for us to accept their customs and religious ways. They were mostly all good people and are still some of our closest friends.
Around 1935 we moved back on Main Street, 362 South Main. It was a nice home and had two acres of ground. Again we had our garden, cow, pigs and chickens. The previous tenants were local bootleggers and in the back lot the pigs would root up bottles of wine and whisky, which James brought into the house and mother would get quite upset and pour it down the sink, which did not seem to bother James at all. If the pigs got it before James found it, it had quite an effect upon them.
In 1938 they purchased a home near the center of town, 69 South Main, and a year later remodled an older home in the rear of it into a rentla home. Then as the war broke out in 1941, Tooele Ordinance Depot was built with a large reflux of people. They rented the extra house, along with a room on the back porch, and even space to pitch tents. At this time, two sons, Orvel and James Otis, went into service. James Otis had four years of active duty in the Navy, Pacific Theater and Orvel had over three years in the European Theater, Air Force Firefighter, mostly in England and France. Both were honorably discharged in October, 1945, and their younger son, DeLoy, was honorable discharged from the Navy, Korean War, in 1951.
-Written by her son Orvel Price in June and July of 1988
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Martha J. MacAffee Price
TOOELE—-Mrs. Martha June MacAffee Price, age 57, wife of James William Price, died in a Tooele hospital Thursday after a lingering illness.
Born at Charleston July 7, 1883, she married Mr Price Oct. 30, 1906 in Ihe Salt Lake L D S Temple.
She is survived by the following: Two brothers, James McAffee, Woods Cross, Utah; John McAffee, Chalis, Idaho; three sisters, Agnes Anderson, Bluebell, Duchesne County; Pearl Bell and and Leone Boyd, Salt Lake City; four sons, Lynn M., James O., Orvill and Deloy Price, Grantsville; three daughters, Mrs. Chloe Kirk and Mrs. Nada Johnson, Grantsville; Preal Bent, Salt Lake City.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Tooele First LDS Ward Chapel Monday at 1 p.m. Burial will take place at Charleston.
Salt Lake Tribune
May 10, 1946
trascribed by Rhonda Holton
They had the following children: Velma Price, Lynn M. Price, Chloe Ann Price Kirk, James Owis Price, Lapreal Price, Veda May Price and Deloy M. Price.
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1880–1932
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