Mrs. Ida Carter
Ida Alice Thacker was born May 20, 1908 at Charleston, Utah. She was the second child and second daughter born to Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
When she was growing up there were always chores to do such as bring the cows from the pasture, feed the chickens and gather the eggs, weed the garden, look after the little ones, and help with the dishes, dusting, learning to cook, sew and such.
The kids would help their mother pick the geese each spring. Their father would help us drive the geese into the chicken coop. Mother wore a long skirt. Father would grab a goose by the legs when he had them in a corner. He handed it to Mother as she sat on a stool. She put one foot over its head and it was covered with her long skirt. The dumb things thought it was night and would lie still while Mother quickly plucked a few handfuls of soft feathers from its breast and put them in a sack.
Father took the goose quickly to the door and turned it loose. Lela and Ida would herd them into a corner and the game would go on. This had to be done before the full moon or the geese would pull their breast feathers out on moonlit nights when they got too warm. Mother would have a sack full of feathers and would wash them and make them into pillows and feather beds. Real goose down! The geese looked pretty swimming in the ponds and wading over the green pastures. It was fun to see the little goslings in the spring waddling behind their mothers.
They had milk cows, horses, pigs, chickens, geese and even Guinea hens, dogs, and cats, which provided a lot of chores for the family.
Coal, wood and water had to be carried into the house, and ashes carried out each morning before the fires could be made. Water was heated on the stove and everyone had a bath in a round tub every Saturday. Washday was a big job. Clothes were sorted into batches and each batch, in the washer for ten minutes twice before rinsed, blued and hung on the line, or on the fence when the lines were full. The children turned the stick that worked back and forth, turning the agitator to clean the clothes. In the winter they froze on the lines, and they often carried underwear into the house frozen stiff and hung it on chairs around the front room stove to finish drying. All the dresses, shirts, tablecloths, and such were starched and ironed by heating the irons on the kitchen stove.
There was no indoor plumbing and the old Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs were very useful before toilet paper. Later a government program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided better toilets and their dad was able to get one for us. It was a great improvement.
During World War 1, Grandpa Thacker (Charles Edwin) discussed with Dave the possbilities of making lots of money by homesteading some cheap land in the Uintah Basin, and also raising sheep for sale to the United States Army for food for the soldiers. This was in 1917. However, this required some capital. Mother, Alice, was approached one morning when Grandpa Thacker had ridden down early with some papers which Dave took for her to sign because they needed to get them to Heber City that day. Alice put her signature to the place they bade her, and Grandpa Thacker hurried away. She later learned she had placed a mortgage on her hard-to-come-by home. They lost badly on the sheep because the Armistice was signed in I918 and the market dropped off for sheep as they were sending the soldiers back home.
Her dad had quit his Rural Route when they moved to Bluebell in I917, much against Mother's wishes. While in Bluebell they lived in a two-room log house, with a dirt roof The depreession hit the country and that, with the fact they did not know much about taking care of sheep, the venture did not payoff and they had to sell after three years.
Before they left for Bluebell, the Charleston Ward gave them two lovely gifts--a set of silverware and a set of Harold Bell Wright's books, a very popular author at that time.
While they lived in Bluebell, they worked in the church and community. Their dad organized a Dramatic Club and they produced three-act plays each winter using local talent. It was very successful, and they presented them to various towns nearby. They had many friends who came to visit them for many years after they returned to Charleston.
HISTORY BY IDA ALICE THACKER CARTER
From the Charles Edwin and Maria Rawlins Price Thacker Book
BY Mae Thacker Wright, Doris Thacker Gardner, Wesley Carter, Carl H. Carter, Judy Jackson Carter, Joseph Allphin and Marcie Carter Allphin
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Parents: Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
Spouse: Ernest "Ern" McKay Carter
Ida Alice Thacker was born May 20, 1908 at Charleston, Utah. She was the second child and second daughter born to Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
When she was growing up there were always chores to do such as bring the cows from the pasture, feed the chickens and gather the eggs, weed the garden, look after the little ones, and help with the dishes, dusting, learning to cook, sew and such.
The kids would help their mother pick the geese each spring. Their father would help us drive the geese into the chicken coop. Mother wore a long skirt. Father would grab a goose by the legs when he had them in a corner. He handed it to Mother as she sat on a stool. She put one foot over its head and it was covered with her long skirt. The dumb things thought it was night and would lie still while Mother quickly plucked a few handfuls of soft feathers from its breast and put them in a sack.
Father took the goose quickly to the door and turned it loose. Lela and Ida would herd them into a corner and the game would go on. This had to be done before the full moon or the geese would pull their breast feathers out on moonlit nights when they got too warm. Mother would have a sack full of feathers and would wash them and make them into pillows and feather beds. Real goose down! The geese looked pretty swimming in the ponds and wading over the green pastures. It was fun to see the little goslings in the spring waddling behind their mothers.
They had milk cows, horses, pigs, chickens, geese and even Guinea hens, dogs, and cats, which provided a lot of chores for the family.
Coal, wood and water had to be carried into the house, and ashes carried out each morning before the fires could be made. Water was heated on the stove and everyone had a bath in a round tub every Saturday. Washday was a big job. Clothes were sorted into batches and each batch, in the washer for ten minutes twice before rinsed, blued and hung on the line, or on the fence when the lines were full. The children turned the stick that worked back and forth, turning the agitator to clean the clothes. In the winter they froze on the lines, and they often carried underwear into the house frozen stiff and hung it on chairs around the front room stove to finish drying. All the dresses, shirts, tablecloths, and such were starched and ironed by heating the irons on the kitchen stove.
There was no indoor plumbing and the old Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs were very useful before toilet paper. Later a government program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided better toilets and their dad was able to get one for us. It was a great improvement.
During World War 1, Grandpa Thacker (Charles Edwin) discussed with Dave the possbilities of making lots of money by homesteading some cheap land in the Uintah Basin, and also raising sheep for sale to the United States Army for food for the soldiers. This was in 1917. However, this required some capital. Mother, Alice, was approached one morning when Grandpa Thacker had ridden down early with some papers which Dave took for her to sign because they needed to get them to Heber City that day. Alice put her signature to the place they bade her, and Grandpa Thacker hurried away. She later learned she had placed a mortgage on her hard-to-come-by home. They lost badly on the sheep because the Armistice was signed in I918 and the market dropped off for sheep as they were sending the soldiers back home.
Her dad had quit his Rural Route when they moved to Bluebell in I917, much against Mother's wishes. While in Bluebell they lived in a two-room log house, with a dirt roof The depreession hit the country and that, with the fact they did not know much about taking care of sheep, the venture did not payoff and they had to sell after three years.
Before they left for Bluebell, the Charleston Ward gave them two lovely gifts--a set of silverware and a set of Harold Bell Wright's books, a very popular author at that time.
While they lived in Bluebell, they worked in the church and community. Their dad organized a Dramatic Club and they produced three-act plays each winter using local talent. It was very successful, and they presented them to various towns nearby. They had many friends who came to visit them for many years after they returned to Charleston.
HISTORY BY IDA ALICE THACKER CARTER
From the Charles Edwin and Maria Rawlins Price Thacker Book
BY Mae Thacker Wright, Doris Thacker Gardner, Wesley Carter, Carl H. Carter, Judy Jackson Carter, Joseph Allphin and Marcie Carter Allphin
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Parents: Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
Spouse: Ernest "Ern" McKay Carter
Mrs. Ida Carter
Ida Alice Thacker was born May 20, 1908 at Charleston, Utah. She was the second child and second daughter born to Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
When she was growing up there were always chores to do such as bring the cows from the pasture, feed the chickens and gather the eggs, weed the garden, look after the little ones, and help with the dishes, dusting, learning to cook, sew and such.
The kids would help their mother pick the geese each spring. Their father would help us drive the geese into the chicken coop. Mother wore a long skirt. Father would grab a goose by the legs when he had them in a corner. He handed it to Mother as she sat on a stool. She put one foot over its head and it was covered with her long skirt. The dumb things thought it was night and would lie still while Mother quickly plucked a few handfuls of soft feathers from its breast and put them in a sack.
Father took the goose quickly to the door and turned it loose. Lela and Ida would herd them into a corner and the game would go on. This had to be done before the full moon or the geese would pull their breast feathers out on moonlit nights when they got too warm. Mother would have a sack full of feathers and would wash them and make them into pillows and feather beds. Real goose down! The geese looked pretty swimming in the ponds and wading over the green pastures. It was fun to see the little goslings in the spring waddling behind their mothers.
They had milk cows, horses, pigs, chickens, geese and even Guinea hens, dogs, and cats, which provided a lot of chores for the family.
Coal, wood and water had to be carried into the house, and ashes carried out each morning before the fires could be made. Water was heated on the stove and everyone had a bath in a round tub every Saturday. Washday was a big job. Clothes were sorted into batches and each batch, in the washer for ten minutes twice before rinsed, blued and hung on the line, or on the fence when the lines were full. The children turned the stick that worked back and forth, turning the agitator to clean the clothes. In the winter they froze on the lines, and they often carried underwear into the house frozen stiff and hung it on chairs around the front room stove to finish drying. All the dresses, shirts, tablecloths, and such were starched and ironed by heating the irons on the kitchen stove.
There was no indoor plumbing and the old Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs were very useful before toilet paper. Later a government program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided better toilets and their dad was able to get one for us. It was a great improvement.
During World War 1, Grandpa Thacker (Charles Edwin) discussed with Dave the possbilities of making lots of money by homesteading some cheap land in the Uintah Basin, and also raising sheep for sale to the United States Army for food for the soldiers. This was in 1917. However, this required some capital. Mother, Alice, was approached one morning when Grandpa Thacker had ridden down early with some papers which Dave took for her to sign because they needed to get them to Heber City that day. Alice put her signature to the place they bade her, and Grandpa Thacker hurried away. She later learned she had placed a mortgage on her hard-to-come-by home. They lost badly on the sheep because the Armistice was signed in I918 and the market dropped off for sheep as they were sending the soldiers back home.
Her dad had quit his Rural Route when they moved to Bluebell in I917, much against Mother's wishes. While in Bluebell they lived in a two-room log house, with a dirt roof The depreession hit the country and that, with the fact they did not know much about taking care of sheep, the venture did not payoff and they had to sell after three years.
Before they left for Bluebell, the Charleston Ward gave them two lovely gifts--a set of silverware and a set of Harold Bell Wright's books, a very popular author at that time.
While they lived in Bluebell, they worked in the church and community. Their dad organized a Dramatic Club and they produced three-act plays each winter using local talent. It was very successful, and they presented them to various towns nearby. They had many friends who came to visit them for many years after they returned to Charleston.
HISTORY BY IDA ALICE THACKER CARTER
From the Charles Edwin and Maria Rawlins Price Thacker Book
BY Mae Thacker Wright, Doris Thacker Gardner, Wesley Carter, Carl H. Carter, Judy Jackson Carter, Joseph Allphin and Marcie Carter Allphin
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Parents: Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
Spouse: Ernest "Ern" McKay Carter
Ida Alice Thacker was born May 20, 1908 at Charleston, Utah. She was the second child and second daughter born to Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
When she was growing up there were always chores to do such as bring the cows from the pasture, feed the chickens and gather the eggs, weed the garden, look after the little ones, and help with the dishes, dusting, learning to cook, sew and such.
The kids would help their mother pick the geese each spring. Their father would help us drive the geese into the chicken coop. Mother wore a long skirt. Father would grab a goose by the legs when he had them in a corner. He handed it to Mother as she sat on a stool. She put one foot over its head and it was covered with her long skirt. The dumb things thought it was night and would lie still while Mother quickly plucked a few handfuls of soft feathers from its breast and put them in a sack.
Father took the goose quickly to the door and turned it loose. Lela and Ida would herd them into a corner and the game would go on. This had to be done before the full moon or the geese would pull their breast feathers out on moonlit nights when they got too warm. Mother would have a sack full of feathers and would wash them and make them into pillows and feather beds. Real goose down! The geese looked pretty swimming in the ponds and wading over the green pastures. It was fun to see the little goslings in the spring waddling behind their mothers.
They had milk cows, horses, pigs, chickens, geese and even Guinea hens, dogs, and cats, which provided a lot of chores for the family.
Coal, wood and water had to be carried into the house, and ashes carried out each morning before the fires could be made. Water was heated on the stove and everyone had a bath in a round tub every Saturday. Washday was a big job. Clothes were sorted into batches and each batch, in the washer for ten minutes twice before rinsed, blued and hung on the line, or on the fence when the lines were full. The children turned the stick that worked back and forth, turning the agitator to clean the clothes. In the winter they froze on the lines, and they often carried underwear into the house frozen stiff and hung it on chairs around the front room stove to finish drying. All the dresses, shirts, tablecloths, and such were starched and ironed by heating the irons on the kitchen stove.
There was no indoor plumbing and the old Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs were very useful before toilet paper. Later a government program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided better toilets and their dad was able to get one for us. It was a great improvement.
During World War 1, Grandpa Thacker (Charles Edwin) discussed with Dave the possbilities of making lots of money by homesteading some cheap land in the Uintah Basin, and also raising sheep for sale to the United States Army for food for the soldiers. This was in 1917. However, this required some capital. Mother, Alice, was approached one morning when Grandpa Thacker had ridden down early with some papers which Dave took for her to sign because they needed to get them to Heber City that day. Alice put her signature to the place they bade her, and Grandpa Thacker hurried away. She later learned she had placed a mortgage on her hard-to-come-by home. They lost badly on the sheep because the Armistice was signed in I918 and the market dropped off for sheep as they were sending the soldiers back home.
Her dad had quit his Rural Route when they moved to Bluebell in I917, much against Mother's wishes. While in Bluebell they lived in a two-room log house, with a dirt roof The depreession hit the country and that, with the fact they did not know much about taking care of sheep, the venture did not payoff and they had to sell after three years.
Before they left for Bluebell, the Charleston Ward gave them two lovely gifts--a set of silverware and a set of Harold Bell Wright's books, a very popular author at that time.
While they lived in Bluebell, they worked in the church and community. Their dad organized a Dramatic Club and they produced three-act plays each winter using local talent. It was very successful, and they presented them to various towns nearby. They had many friends who came to visit them for many years after they returned to Charleston.
HISTORY BY IDA ALICE THACKER CARTER
From the Charles Edwin and Maria Rawlins Price Thacker Book
BY Mae Thacker Wright, Doris Thacker Gardner, Wesley Carter, Carl H. Carter, Judy Jackson Carter, Joseph Allphin and Marcie Carter Allphin
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Parents: Charles David Thacker and Alice Jane Wagstaff Thacker.
Spouse: Ernest "Ern" McKay Carter
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