Post a Comment. My name is Lena Thorpe Wade. My sister, Agnes and me were born in Higham, Yorkshire, England. I got the measles, then pneumonia; that held them up until I was better. They sold all the furniture and everything. When we got on the ship, the captain asked my parents if I could walk. They told him I could. If I couldn't, he said we would have to get off the ship.
They put me down and I walked from one parent to the other parent. We stayed on the ship. My mother was pregnant. She was seasick all the way. My dad had to take care of us. We went to a mining town called Winter Quarters in Carbon County. Mining was all my dad knew. He quit school when he was 12 years old and worked in the mine with his dad.
My dad was bald-headed on the top of his head. When we were kids, we asked him how come he was bald-headed. The only answer we got was that he pushed the loaded coal cars with his head. The altitude was very high. The houses were on one side of the canyon.
On one hill, there were sage brush and sarvis berries. They were good to eat. The other side was pine trees, aspen trees, timber, lilies and forget-me-nots that grew wild. There was the hillside, houses, road, railroad tracks and the creek. It was cool in the summer and cold in the winter. We got the first snowfall in October.
You never saw the top of the fences until spring. We had dirt roads and no snowplows to clear the snow off. The train would have a plow on the front of the engine to clean the tracks. I have watched two trains together to clean the tracks off.
