Person:Cloyde Anderton (2)

By Gertrude Sophia Wood Anderton Transcribed by Marie Smith 18 June 2013 Blessed by Joseph A. Smith Baptized by Luther Winget on 4 June 1921 Confirmed 5 June 1921 by Ephriam Magleby Ordained Priest by Walter O. Lundgreen on 1 August 1921 Ordained Elder by Walter O. Lundgreen on 20 February 1922 Ordained Seventy by Samuel O. Benion on 12 December 1937 Married to Gertrude Sophia Wood by Samuel G. Clark on 22 July 1919 Endowed in Manti Temple 19 July 1922 Sealed to Gertrude Sophia Wood in Manti Temple 19 July 1922 Cloyde Anderton was born 20 Nov. 1896 in a 2 room log house about 3 miles North West of Monroe, Sevier, Utah. He was the 2nd son of john and Estella Barney Anderton. When he was 6 years old he and his brother John who was 13 months older than he, walked to school to Monroe all winter with no rubbers or gloves. Soon the Presbyterian Church started a school in Monroe and Cloyde with his brother was sent to the Presbyterian school. The school was small the one or two teachers taught all grades. Cloyde and John paid their tuition by chopping wood, etc. for the school. When Cloyde was old enough to drive a horse they rode in a buggy without a top when the weather was the coldest and walked the rest of the school year. By this time there were other children girls and boys. Cloyde and John would get up early, do their chores, milking etc. harness the horse, drive to school and care for the horse before school time, cut wood at recess and noon. Their lunch was mostly fried bread with side meal (?) As soon as Cloyde was old enough to drive a team he was kept out of school until the ground froze too hard to plow. Just as soon as the spring work started he had to stay out again to run the farm. The other boys stayed in school. As they grew older the other boys played in the Elsinore band while Cloyde did the farming. (Spelling and punctuation as in the original in the possession of Marie Smith, Granddaughter of Gertrude Sophia Wood Anderton)

RIN: MH:N1767

PRIN: MH:I731