Thoughts and stories, by Pal

First posted: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013 December 14th was the 43rd anniversary of my father passing away.  I noticed someone had recently read this history of my dear father, Orson Pratt Miles, and I re-read it again myself.  I was fascinated, and enjoyed reading of his early life again.  I hope you enjoy it!  I first posted this in my 34th blog! He was born September 7, 1891 in St. George, Utah, to William Gustavus Miles and his wife Paralee Amanda Church.  He grew up in early St. George.  To see other parts of his autobiography, go to blogs after this, and check out his name in the "labels". 34. Dad's autobiography, early 1900's to World War I, by himself      (By Ruth, his wife, my mother) :  "There are two memories Pratt has mentioned that occurred at the Red Hill home.  (It was just north of the Post Office on 2nd north and Main, a house or two going nor...

The Proctor's who are the editors for Meridian Magazine have written 3 stories about pioneer children and their adventures and mishaps.  They tell of the pioneer's desires to come to Zion, even if they had to send only one or part of a family.  Tomorrow, July 24th, I will relate some stories from our own ancestors who also sent some family members ahead, when the family couldn't afford to all come.  They showed great faith. Wednesday, July 23 2014 Three Children’s Pioneer Stories on the Trail to Zion By Scot and Maurine Proctor Those wheels west toward a distant mountain valley called Salt Lake and a dream called Zion were so much a part of the thinking of the early Saints that even the separation of family members, sending one at a time as the means could manage, was common. Just to set your foot there, for a son or brother to plant a crop and call it home, for a baby bearing your name to catch its first breath in the mountain ai...

     (By Ruth, his wife, my mother) :  "There are two memories Pratt has mentioned that occurred at the Red Hill home.  (It was just north of the Post Office on 2nd north and Main, a house or two going north on Diagonal Street.)  Both have to do with accidents, and both included a certain girl, Hortense McQuarrie, who later moved east and became a millionaire.  In memory of her time in Dixie she donated the money for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Memorial Building Museum here in St. George, which contains many relics and pictures of the early Dixie Pioneers.      Pratt and Hortense were playing as all children loved to, up in one of the hay lofts in a barn.  Pratt fell through where some boards were broken and as a result, his arm, as well as the boards, were broken.  He remembers going home and then to the Doctor, who set it, not in a plaster of Paris cast as we do now, but in a leather cast that had to be lace...