The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-12

ants, all OF one father and mother, will
shortly be held ON the old Green farm
near Big Cottonwood creek. The long
tables will be laid on the spot near
which almost sixty years ago MIR. and
Mrs. Alvin G. Green built the house in
which they still live-the spot which
for nearly sixty years has been the old
side yard of the house.
The Green farm, known for many
years as the best place for ID country
dinner to be found In the valley, lies in
the Cottonwood hollow Just north of
the group of Walker farms, which it
antedates~ by many years. Indeed
Green's ditch, the first irrigation ditch
taken out of the Big Cottonwood
stream in 1S4S, still waters the entire
tract
On this land the young couple who
had entered the valley with the first
parties of pioneers settled, and they
have watched the entire valley grow
from an uncultivated tract to what ii
is today.
II left my home in Michigan I'm COM
pany with my parents in 1916" said old
Mr.. Green, and when year later they
settled i'm NauvOo | was with them.
We came into Salt Lake valley Sept.
this land around here and below. ex-
tending nearly TO where Murray now
stands. 1t was not till October that
mother came in Mrs. GIeen), and soon
as. she did / began making steps this
way. We were married Nov. 81 1850
IL the first house ever built by Brig
ham Young. the little house now stand
ing back of the Bee Hive place, and Il
was Brigham Young himself that mar
ried US.
Welded Life Began There.
We settled ON this spot then. al
though the land belonged to her father,
George W. Gibson, who was called to
go south TO Dixie in order 10 begin the
cotton industry. because he was a
southern man. We took charge Of the
place for him then, but later we made
1t our own and we have raised all our
children here.
Did we make 1t pay? Well yes
and no. We never could have made it
pay and raised all our children on it,
If we had had no other way of making
money. But IN the winter of 20 or
along about this time came the min
ing excitement in Cottonwood at the
old South Fork, and for the next sew
enteen summers mother and ] went up
10 that place and ran boarding house
mother being a famous cook. Those
were the good old times for money.
but not here In the valley. Of course
the excitement at Alta and Park CITY
We're responsible for the prospecting I'm
Cottonwood, but It all brought good
times to US. But in late years the place
has always yielded a good living. and
we have lived to see all our sons and
daughters settled near us and our de-
scendants increase TO 1O1.
We hope to have all of them gath
cred together some time during the
late summer or the autumn. and we
propose 10 make IL a celebration worth
remembering"
Oldest Locust In Valley.
The locust tree which shades the
house and WHOSE branches now reaci
over the yard is thought by MIR. and
Mrs. Green TO be the, first ever planted
IN the valley. The seed was brought
from the east by man named Baxter.
who came In some time early i'm the sos
and from that ne raised the little sprout
which the greens bought from him. II
has thrived nightly and although
many of its largest branches have been |
cut and taken away by the numerous
visitors 10 the old place, il Is still a |
handsome tree. Beneath its shade the
and here the old water churn has stood /
for many years. Alongside il is the old /
root cellar, the depths of which are cool /
on the warmest summer day The era !
die has stood beneath il for children /
and grandchildren on many a day. and /
it has sheltered the house from the /
coolest winds of the winter
Within the dining room, which is the
original part Of the house. the old clock |
brought across the plains in a handcart
stands on shelf and still keeps good |
time. It is the old eight-day style.
with its quaint pictures set in the glass
which covers its face
The entire place is filled with old as
sociations, and has been i'm itself q
beauty spot for many years to The hun
dreds of Salt Lakers who have partak-
en- of Mrs. Green's cooking, for al /
though nearing her seventy-fifth mile /
stone. Mrs. Green is today a famous 4
cook. No chickens are quite like those Il
cooked by a southerner they say. anI II
Mrs. Greea's Mississippi ancestry alone Il
must be responsible for her cooking
for she WAS but a 16-year-old girl
when her parents .came here leaving
their slaves and their people TO come.
She says; she never learned cooking fin
she began to keep house on the same
spot She supposes she Just knew"
Descendants Number 100.
Five sons and three daughters. all of
hem living and in measure well To
do. are almost within call, the one son
in Rush valley being farthest away.
The oldest daughter is now the mother .