Random Facts
Vier Variety
Memories
Were you Listening?
Who would have known?
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What is a tin foil dinner?
Hamburger, sliced potatoes, carrots and onions usually.
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What was Grandpas favorite game to play?
Chinese Checkers
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Scotts memory shared about a home made cold treat. What was it?
Root Beer Floats made with Yeast!
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What year did William Glover McMullin Return from his mission? What did he do that same year?
1855: Married Maryann Holmes
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Due to famine and hungry during the Trek across the west during the Pioneer Trail what was one of the things that was out of the ordinary that someone made soup of?
Skunk
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What did they grow in the Conley Field?
Melons, Onions and sugar cane.
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What practical joke did Grandpa play on the kids camping at Oak Grove?
Grandpa put dried buffalo chips in all the kids shoes.
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Why did us kids when we had to go to the bathroom hold it "all night?"
Because no one wanted to use and empty the honey bucket.
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+Oscar and Miranda+
What did Oscar do for a living?
What did Earl Storm and Oscar purchase for the hotel that Oscar and Miranda ran?
What disease did Miranda die of?
Wells Fargo building work, reported to census bureau he was a copper mine, stone masonry, "general farmer," and ran the bed and breakfast.
Radio
Brights Disease
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+Leeds Facts+
What was the original name of Leeds?
William Stirling played an important role in the history of Leeds and Silver Reef. What disaster did he divert and how?
Bennington, but was renamed in 1869 after Leeds, England, the place of origin for many of its settlers. Named to honor the town Bishop Benjamin Stringham later he suggested the town be called Leeds.
He averted a disaster by opening head gates to direct water from the Leeds ditch system to cool an overheating silver ore processing mill.
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What is a hot drink that Grandpa used to drink even on the hottest days?
Postum
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What were Grandpas two favorite shows?
MASH and All in the Family
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+Evelyn and Vier+
What was the date of Vier and Evelyn's wedding date?
How many years did Vier work for the Forest Service?
August 7th 1922
26 years
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Where did the Migration and Trek West Begin?
Who paid Archibald's passage to America in exchange for him to be his indentured servant?
How many times was Archibald Jr. married? Name of last wife?
Maine
Moses White
3 Times, Abigail
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What was a fashion statement that was dangerous for women to wear on the wagon trail?
Bloomers as they were big awkward skirts that would get stuck in wagon wheels causing injuries and death.
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In the 1950-1960’s, what was a HOT commodity for kids in Leeds to earn money?
Redeeming Glass Bottles
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Grandpa had a real passion for what snack?
BBQ potato chips.
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Who shared a fond memory of Grandma making her a quilt of her old baby clothes and still has the quilt today?
Pam
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What was Mirandas Nickname?
Rand
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+Mormon Pioneer Trail+
Between 1846-1869 roughly how many Mormons traveled West on the trail.
What is the halfway point on the Mormon Pioneer Trail?
70,000
Garden Grove
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What was considered an "icon" in Leeds?
Blue 1952 Jeep
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What did Grandpa Vier let Lori pick out and smash in the field?
What was Grandma Evelyns favorite hymm?
watermelon
I need him every hour.
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+Memories of Vier+
What did Lori take from her visit in Leeds back to McDermitt to use in show and tell?
Sugar Cane Plant
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Fill in the Family Tree
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Rebecca Winters:
Rebecca Burdick Winters (January 16, 1799 – August 15, 1852) was a Mormon pioneer who with her family left the eastern United States to emigrate to the Salt Lake Valley with other Latter-day Saints. In August 1852, en route to present-day Utah, she died of cholera near present-day Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Rebeccas died of Cholera in 1852 what was her grave marked with?
A metal wagon wheel
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+Fox Islands+
are know today as Vinalhaven.
1.Vinalhaven is Maine's largest offshore island and was a leading producer of __________ in the 1820s–1920s?
2.How many states did the Mormon Pioneer Trail travel through?
Granite
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What word did Lynn use to describe his time with Vier driving around in the jeep?
"Priceless"
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+Evelyn+
How many bishops in the church did Evelyn serve while singing at and attending the church?
9 Bishops
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Lynn is a nut enthusiast what nut is his favorite?
What was the soup that grandma made?
Pistachio
weenie soup: to carry on the legacy you must all come up with another name for it. Best answer wins
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Who said:
"Brethren, the Lord bids me hasten the work in which we are engaged. Some important scene is near to take place. It may be that my enemies will kill me"
Joseph Smith