"It was Monday, September 29, and my parents—Hazel Jane Lee and William B Batt—had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first child. I was helped into this world by Dr. Hayward and my father’s sister, Pearl Batt Hulse, a graduate nurse, at the old home of my grandparents—Charles and Eliza Brazier Batt—on the corner of Fifth East and Fourth North in Logan, Cache County, Utah. I weighed in at nine pounds.
"My parents were very happy at both my safe arrival and my timing. My father, who had graduated that spring from the Utah Agricultural College in Logan, had to be in Driggs, Idaho, for his first teaching assignment as coach of the high school there. My parents were all packed and ready to leave, which was why they were staying at my grandparents’ home.
"Dad left the next day for Driggs, and Mother and I remained at Grandpa Batt’s for three weeks. Then Mother and I left by train for Idaho Falls" (Batt & Lee Ancestors [2005], 52–53).
The home she referred to on the corner of Fifth East and Fourth North in Logan still stands. It was where her grandparents, Charles Batt (1861–1949) and Eliza Brazier Batt (1864–1926), lived at the time. Here are two current pictures of the home that the Batts lived in nearly a century ago at 509 East 4th North in Logan, Utah.
The photographs were kindly taken in late April 2009 by Coila Robinson, a member of our ward in Bountiful. The first picture was taken from the curb east of the home. The second picture was taken from west across the intersection.
Several different directories, from 1915 to 1922, list several people living at 509 East 4th North: Harry (a fireman), Morley, Myrtle (matron), Pearl (a nurse), Charles G (an electrician), and another Charles (a teacher at the Agricultural College in 1915 and 1917, and a superintendent of water, heat, and light at the UAC in 1922).
