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Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bud (Clarence) remembers: "Dad (Alfred) was having problems with his eyes. I was about 8 or 9 when he started seeing a specialist in SLC. Ma (Adelia) and Dad took Dallas and me with them in the model T Ford. In order to get over Wellsville Canyon I remember Dad had to turn the car around and back up the hill. In those days there was always a problem with flat tires. We left home at 4am and got to Ogden at 8pm. We spent the night with Uncle Ross and Aunt Inez and continued into Salt Lake City the next morning. Us kids stayed with the Fowlers (friends from Lago) in Roy. Dad did loose the sight in his left eye at that time.

We returned to Ogden and Dad bought a 26 Overland; that's what we rode home in. It was a much better trip.

After Grandpa Bassett died Dad was the constable in Lago for about 15 years. Dad was on the school board for over 35 years. After war was declared in 1942 they moved the high school from Thatcher to Grace, and Dad remained trustee. Dad ran the dance hall in Lago (at the school house) for quite a few years. I only remember that they had big dances there every Saturday night in the winter time and it always bothered us kids that Dad would dance with every one but ma; never found out the reason.

When Grandpa Bassett died Mother received $5,000 from the estate, Grandpa Hansen gave Alfred another $5,000 and Dad borrowed $4,000 from Utah Mortgage and loan to buy the farm. During the depression they feared they would loose it. About 1934 Dad went to Federal Land bank to borrow enough to pay off Utah Mortgage and Loan. Sumptner Pond was head of Federal Land Bank in Grace and refused the loan. Ma, in speaking to Lenore Rudd, learned that the same thing had happened to Glenn, but Glenn made a trip to Spokane, the head offices, and spoke to his brother-in-law Lyle Coburn (Irene Rudd's husband). After examining the finances he determined that Glenn had enough equity in the property to grant the loan. Mother came home and told Dad and he also made the trip to Spokane (Irene had been mother's girlfriend of her youth). Upon returning home he again visited Pond who told him the main office had granted his loan. He didn't know why. Dad later learned that Pond had blackballed him."

Bud and Dorothy remember the first radio they ever had as a family. It was operated on batteries. Batteries were expensive so in the winter months they would block up the car and bring in the battery so they could enjoy the radio.

Dorothy remembers how her mother kept her at her side to teach her the “womanly” arts. She remembers learning how to iron and cook. Dorothy is a fabulous cook. It was Mother that encouraged the kids to get their educations. She steered Dallas to the army to further his career in electronics and Dorothy was encouraged to go into nursing. Adelia checked with her friend Dr. Kackley and Dorothy was sent to Odgen to the Dee Hospital.

Dorothy remembers in 1934 during the depression that Alfred received a letter saying that his farm was to be foreclosed. Alfred paced the floor and couldn’t sleep for worry. Dorothy remembers that Adelia wrote to the state senator to request assistance for the problem. (Bud remembered a conversation with Lenore Rudd) The result was the same. A trip to Spokane secured a new loan with the Federal Land Bank.

(I’m - Mary Ann -always impressed with Adelia and how she was not only practical but also followed up and got things done, What a marvelous woman she was, also with a strong history of service in the community. It is obvious how she loved and guided her children).

Bud went to work for Vega (a Division of Lockheed) aircraft in November 1939. One of the classes he took while there was jig building. He was also a machine parts dispatcher.

Ma died in February, leaving the youngest son Stanley at home with Dad. He would have been about 7 at the time. She had a lump growing in her breast and went into surgery in Soda Springs to have it removed. She did not survive the surgery.

Oddly enough, Dallas was on a troop train that went thru Soda Springs that day heading for Alaska by way of Washington, but of course he was unable to get off. Bud got word of the death thru Vega Aircraft. The family had notified the plant to get word to him. He asked for leave to attend the funeral, but it was not granted. He went anyway. They threatened to turn him over to the army, but it was an empty threat as he had already joined the navy.

He went into the active service in Feb. 1943. He was in the Pacific for two years mostly on Bougainville (battle of the Coral Sea) and then came back to the states joining the ship New Jersey and went to antiwek. When he came home his ship was called to a rescue in Alaska so they took the long way home.

Phil stayed on the farm helping that summer. That winter he went with Willard Bitton to Ogden to work. Dorothy was in nurses training in Ogden at the Dee Hospital and Dallas was in Alaska. Dallas's group was sent back to home base in the mid-west and eventually to England where he was "ships crew boss" and flew many missions over Germany.

In November Dad married Lutie Bassett Swensen, Ma's older sister, and she helped raise Stan. Dad milked cows and helped Lutie with the post office during the war. Rex Bassett ran the farm.

Bud was discharged in January 1946. Phil came home the following year.

When the war was over Phil and Bud returned to the farm. They purchased the Elliot Place, leased part of Emil’s farm, bought equipment and built the Quonset hut for weather protection.

Phil married Carol Meacham in 1950 and Bud married Mary Ann Hildreth in 1951


From Mary Ann Hildreth Hansen Jan 15, 2007

Parantheticals and minor puncutation and spelling corrections by Stanley D. Hansen March, 2007.

Alfred married BASSETT, Adelia Dubois on 31 Aug 1918 in Pocatello, Bannock, Id, USA. Adelia (daughter of BASSETT, William Henry and COOK, Marette (Twin)) was born on 3 Sep 1894 in Lago (Trout Creek), Bannock, Id, USA; died on 13 Feb 1942 in Soda Springs, Caribou, Id, USA; was buried on 16 Feb 1942 in Lago, Caribou, Id, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a distinct shock to residents of the entire valley came the news of the death of Mrs. Adelia Bassett Hansen, wife of Alfred Hansen, who succumbed Friday morning at 3am in the Caribou County Hospital following major surgery at 8am.

Mrs Hansen was born at Lago September 3, 1894, a daughter of William Henry and Marrett Cook Bassett.

She attended grade school at Lago and High school at Thatcher. She also attended Idaho Tech, now the University of Idaho South at Pocatello, one year. She clerked in her fathers store for 8 years and was cashier in the Keith O'Brien store in SLC for 2 years. She organized the first girls basketball team in Lago which team was not defeated for 2 years. In Aug 1918 (error) she married Alfred P. Hansen and has made her home in Lago since. She served as president, counseler, and secretary of the Lago ward relief society, a sunday school teacher and secretary of the HYN club.

Bud (Clarence) remembers: Ma was about 5'6" of slim build, never put on much weight, maybe because she had to work so hard, packing water, washing clothes in the old fashion hand washers, feeding hired men. We had a big garden and she canned the produce. No electricity until 1929. Just can remember living in the "old Morehead" place up at the saw mill site on the hill in Lago. Then Dad rented and ran the WH Bassett place (grandpa's) and moved into their home. They lived in one end and we the other. In 1928 Dad bought the place. In 1929 grandpa died in a car accident, but grandma (Met) remained with us. We kids had the responsibility of getting in her wood and coal, gather her eggs and be generally useful. The W.H.Bassett store was then sold to Hyrum Swenson, Ma's brother-in-law. Grandma passed away in 1934. By then Ma, who was always active in the church, was Relief Society president and kept busy doing service for her neighbors. Dallas and I kept busy with our own private bird santuary. We had hawks and magpies and woodpeckers. We kept them in our tree house. Then one night we found two baby owls. We just stuck them in the chicken feed box. Later that evening Ma went to feed the chickens and she could see those huge eyes sticking up and got quite a fright. She wouldn't let us keep them and the babies were returned to their nest. I remember us kids were sent to Grandma Hansen's and when we came home Phil was there. That was Sept. of 1924. When we went to Grandma's, her girls and Emil were there and we had to milk cows and pack milk. When the aunts scubbed the floor they made us sit on the chair until it was dry. It was not easy to get around Lago in the early days. Trout Creek would flood and cause extra miles going around instead of over the bridge. We got water in the house in 1931 or 32. After Grandma Bassett died we got a bathroom out of part of her kitchen. When the plummer came and went downstairs to hook up the fixtures (only he and I were there) we found a bottle of Ma,s juice that had fermented and the plumber drank until he passed out down in the basement. When Ma and Dad came home they found him in the basement- he returned the next day to finish the job.

When I was in high school I remember that Ma went up to see a doctor in Pocatello. She was having trouble using her arms. He told her to change her deoderant. Stan was born 1934. In about 1937 Ma had surgery for a cyst on her ovary by Dr. Kackley in Soda Springs, By the time I graduated and left home her arm was bothering her quite a bit. In Feb. of 1942 while at work at Vega Air Craft in Burbank, California I recieved a telegram that Ma had passed away following surgery for breast cancer.



Name:
William Bassett, written 02 Dec 2006, requested by Stephen A Hansen. Since never having met Adelia, Stephen asked Bill, a 1st cousin, once removed, to share his impression of her.

Bill writes:
Regarding my memories of Aunt "Dele", I can only remember that she was by far my favorite aunt, and that she was especially warm and friendly with me. I was something of a "problem" growing up and not all that well accepted, but never felt that way in Lago. As I recall, I spent several summers there, as a toddler visiting with my Mother, and then 4 or 5 summers between ages 6 and 13. I remember sacking wheat on the combine, driving a "bull-rake", riding the derrick horse, and pitching hay on the hay stack, and Phil taught me how to ride a horse (sort of). One summer I fell off the hay stack and broke my arm and Aunt Dele was my comfort...she arranged to get me to a doctor. All of the Hansens were good to me, even Phil, but I especially felt close to Aunt "Dele". She always had a smile and I can still see the warmth in her eyes as she put up with me. I also recall that all of my sisters and brothers (most of them grew up in Lago) felt the same about her. You have a wonderful grandmother.

Other Events:

• AFN: 28ST-CF
• _UID: 49AE19B20B05AC4FB6A3140FA81D209CCA1F
• Residence: 1900, Precincts 19, 28 Chama, Moreno, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory
• Residence: 1920, Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho
• Residence: 1930, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California

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The family of a newspaper publisher may often find itself in courious and unusual places. Because of his father's newspaper, Fay Hildreth began his first grade of school in a small town in the northern part of New Mexico territory, where he and his brothers and sister were the only english speaking students. All the other students and residents of the town spoke spanish. Fay Hildreth was born in Basalt Colo. to Mr and Mrs. WH Hildreth on Nov. 1 1895. William, Fay's father, came from Watsonville Calif., where his father raised horses. The horses raised on the ranch were herded across the dessert to markets in California where Mr Hildreth had considerable real estate. (John S.) William Hildreth began his career as a newspaperman in Basalt when he was newly married. The family lived there until about 1900 when they moved to New Mexico to publish the local newspaper. The paper was printed half in Spanish and half in English.
Although the Hildreth children didn't speak Spanish when the arrived, it wasn;t long before they were fluent in the language, as that was all that was taught in the school.
After about four years the Hildreth's returned to Colorado where they lived until 1910 when they moved to Jerome, Idaho, to work on the newspaper there. While living in Jerome, the family helped celebrate the first anniversary of the town.
In 1911 the Hildreth's moved to Soda Springs where Mr Hildreth bought the local newspaper, "The Chieftain." In May 1931 this was merged with the Soda Springs Sun, the forerunner of the Caribou County Sun.
Fay had just turned 21 when he enlisted in the Army after World War 1was declared. He and five other Soda Springs boys left for Sand Diego the same day. The others were Bill Gagon, Billy Kelly, Jack French, and two Rhineheart brothers. Fay spent the two years of his enlistment in San Diego building barracks.
When Fay was discharged he returned to Soda Springs. The town had just become the county seat of the newly-organized Caribou County. The new court house was under construction and Fay returned in time to help build it.
In 1919 Fay and Emma Beus were married. Emma was a daughter of Mr and Mrs LP Beus, who were among the first of the pioneers to come here. Emma was born in Soda Springs.
Fay and Emma attended grammer school at the same time but had not been well aquainted until his return from the Army.
Their first son, Donald, was born in Soda Springs before they moved to California in 1921. Fay was a carpenter and cabinet maker and the family lived in Long Beach and in Burlingame. Their son Dean was born in Burlingame and their daughter Mary Ann Hansen, was born in Long Beach. Fay worked on several intresting constructiom projects. One was the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs. The hotel was built in June, 1927. Temperatures were 110 to 115 degrees in the shade, when there was any. Many men quit after dropping from the heat but Fay stayed until the job was finished.
The Hildreths were living in Long Beach in 1933 when that area experienced one of the most severe earthquakes in its history.
For some unexplainable reason Emma had made an extra large pot of chili that day and, maybe due to the size of the Kettle, it stayed on the stove when the house slipped off it's foundation. For blocks around water and gas lines were broken and all services disrupted.
Fay wa a foreman for GH Baxter & Co. and had worked late that afternoon. He got home about 6 p.m. It was supper time and all the food being prepared in the neighborhood was thrown to the floor along with the dishes and the contents of the cupboards.
When the worst of the earthquake was over it was discovered that the chili and a chocolate cake that Emma had made that afternoon was the only food available to feed the neighborhood.
Everyone who could, drove to a deadow, now the community of Lakewood, and slept in their cars that night. The following day they returned to their homes. The Hildreth's had a tent which they set up in their back yard. They slept in the tent for several nights, until they felt it was safe to sleep inside.
In 1951 Fay and Emma took a vacation in Idaho Falls where Fay was helping build a house. Bill Gagon called him and asked if Fay would come to Soda Springs to help in the construction of a new home for the newly-arrived manager of Monsanto Co. The plant was under constructuon at that time and Mr Gagon had plans for a new subdivision in Soda Springs.
Faye came back and helped build the home for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Furvin on Highway 30. The house was the first to be built in what is known as the Gagon Division. Fay helped build many of the newer homes in Soda Springs.
Fay retired in 1961 and he and Emma decided to move back to Soda Springs. They bought the home on Second East that had belonged to Merle Steele. Fay has enjoyed rebuilding their home. He has a shop in the back where he does his carpenter work.
In making their decision to come back to Soda Springs, the Hildreths remembered the mountains and the open spaces and the good fishing spots. They still have many friends and a large number of relatives here and decided this was a good place to live.
Although Fay hasn't done much fishing, he does enjoy going down town to play a game or two of snooker. He is known as Uncle Fay to everyone, even some whose names he does't know. Since retiring he had found time to take up oil painting, a pastime which he enjoys. He has been a member of WW1 vetrans. Emma belongs to Rebeckahs and the Royal neighbors Lodge. She enjoys quilting, sewing and growing house plants.
Fay and Emma have six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. When asked if they didn't miss the milder California winters, they replied that Soda Springs is the best place to be regardless of the weather.

Fay the Fisherman
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Recollections of Fay's Daughter MaryAnn
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Fay the Father
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Fay the Soldier
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Fay married BEUS, Emma Matilda on 15 Dec 1919 in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, USA. Emma (daughter of BEUS, Louis Phillip and TERRY, Mary) was born on 26 Dec 1900 in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, USA; died on 14 Jul 1987 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, USA; was buried on 20 Jul 1987 in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• _UID: B15B2FEC0174D64CB8457A26EEDB80C66A4F
• Residence: 1910, Soda Springs, Bannock, Idaho
• Residence: 1920, Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho

Notes:

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Emma, Dean and Don
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Emma Beus Hildreth
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Emma and Don
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Emma
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Emma Beus Hildreth
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Obituary
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Notes:

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