1 Cleverly Crossing

Last week we mentioned the area in south Davis County that used to be known as Cleverly Crossing. The photographs here, courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society, show the CWM Company [Consolidated Wagon Machine Company] building a road at Cleverly Crossing. The road being built is either the main highway to Salt Lake (what today we would know as U.S. Highway 89) or a road that intersects it at Cleverly Crossing.


The farm owned by Henry William Cleverly was in this area. There is a chance, although we have no way of confirming it directly, that the unidentified man standing to the right forefront of the next picture could pass as Henry William Cleverly.


This is the shot we shared last week of the actual Cleverly Crossing. The road running parallel to the train tracks is what today would be U.S. Highway 89 (and in earlier times was also known as U.S. Highway 91).


The large building in the next picture is the District School of South Bountiful, which was built in 1898 and replaced an earlier school building built in the early 1880s on the same site.


Harry Shipler of Shipler Commercial Photographers is credited with taking the pictures. The photographs are all dated May 20, 1913, two years before Ivard was born on April 7, 1915.


This area of south Davis County certainly looks a lot different than it does today nearly a century later.

2 Quote of the week

"When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she put it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies" (E. T. Sullivan, in Charles L. Wallis, ed., The Treasure Chest [1965], 53; quoted by Gordon B. Hinckley, in "These, Our Little Ones," Ensign, Dec. 2007, 5-6).

3 This week in our family

Wed, Apr 1: April Fool's Day
Wed, Apr 1: Lynda's birthday [Gail]
Sat, Apr 4: General conference
Sun, Apr 5: General conference
Sun, Apr 5: Eliza Challis's birthday [Dean]
Mon, Apr 6: Anniversary of Savior's birth
Mon, Apr 6: Anniversary of organization of Church in 1830
Mon, Apr 6: Jason Tully's birthday [Gene]
Mon, Apr 6: Sunshyne Kersker's birthday [Lyle]
Mon, Apr 6: Brooklynn's birthday [Kay]
Mon, Apr 6: Next issue of newsletter

4 Bits and tidbits

Four generations
When Paul and Eliza were here visiting us a couple weeks ago, Eliza arranged for her sister Mary to take some four-generation pictures. Our newest grandchild, Aaron Marvin Challis, was named in part after his great-grandfather. From left to right: Aaron Marvin Challis (age 3 months), his mother Eliza Cleverly Challis, her mother Claudia Lange Cleverly, and her father J. Marvin Lange.


Aaron Marvin will not be our newest grandchild for long. Our daughter Anna and her husband Peter Halverson announced to the family just two days after this picture was taken that they are expecting their first child in September. That will be grandchild number 18 for us.

Fishing
Chad and Nicolle (Kay's family) posted the following Saturday: "We went fishing this afternoon at a little pond not to far from our house. We didn't catch anything but had a good time. Easton and Gretchen enjoyed rolling and running down the little hill. I am sure we will go fishing a lot more. So this is probably just the beginning of fishing pictures!