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1 422 HENRY E. JENKINS OXEN TO AIRPLANE 423 the logs were hauled from the Island Park area, and he traded a team of horses for the rest. This potato cellar stood until after Henry's death was a good year for potato production, and the price was good the first half of the marketing year. Henry sold enough of his potatoes to pay for the year's expenses, and decided to gamble on the rest of the crop. He had about two train car loads of No. 1 potatoes left in his cellar, and agreed to sell them when the price reached three dollars per hundred weight. When that price was reached about the middle of December, the buyer agreed to come get the potatoes the first week in January. Henry went to town and ordered a new 1928 Model A Ford car, with the understanding that he would take delivery when the potatoes were sold. However, between the time the agreement was made and the first week in January, a severe blizzard closed the roads and prevented the buyer from getting to the potato cellar, which was two blocks from the railroad. Although they kept hoping the weather would get better so the roads could be opened up, this did not happen. By the first of February, the price of potatoes started going down; and by spring, they were worthless-the sale was lost. That spring the potatoes were hauled out on the hill and piled up where they rotted and were used for fertilizer the next fall. Several other men in the area also lost their entire potato crops, and some even lost their farms. The stock market fell the fall of 1929, and the whole country went into a depression that was to last until the United States entered World War Two in During the depression, farmers had difficulty selling their crops and livestock: fat hogs sold for as low as six dollars per head; fat grain-fed steers sold as low as fifteen dollars per head; wheat sold for fifteen cents per bushel; potatoes sold for as low as ten cents per hundred weight for No. 1's, while the No. 2's and culls were given away for cattle feed; loose stack hay sold for six to eight dollars per ton. At these prices, farmers had very little money. Henry and H.E. worked at different jobs around the area, and would take livestock, hay, and grain for pay when working for farmers. They milked cows and had about three hundred head of laying hens that Emma took care of. Eggs sold for fifteen to twenty cents a dozen, fryers sold for twenty to twenty-five cents each, and a five-gallon can of cream shipped by train to Blackfoot would net about two dollars and thirty cents. With the three older children working, the family managed to get by. In the summer of 1928, Henry sold his last two milch cows to make the final payment on a home he had bought located west of the Parker school. Along about 1930, H.E. traded the saddle horse his older brother, Dell, had given him for a wild gray unbroke horse. After this horse was broken to ride, it became Henry's main source of transportation. He rode this horse wherever he went, and became a legend around the town of

2 424 HENRY E. JENKINS OXEN TO AIRPLANE 425 Parker. Henry was in his middle eighties when he quit riding the horse and sold it at the Idaho Falls auction yard. The winter of was a low-snow year, which created water shortages on the Egin Bench country and other areas of the Upper Snake River Valley. Many farmers lost their farms because of the poor crops and depressed prices. Henry's crop was also very poor-the potatoes were rough ~nd misshapen. Henry did not get enough out of selling the potatoes to pay the twenty dollars per acre cash rent for the ground. All that winter, H.E. sorted potatoes for Remington's at thirty-five cents per hour to pay the balance of the rent on th~ lan.d. During the thirties, Henry was out m his front yard fixing some of the boards on the ~ence that h~d come loose. A man named Clark Remmgton was m his car trying to outrun some of his horses. As they came by Henry's home, a neighbor's dog ran out and chased the horses. Henry threw his hammer at the dog and called for it to come ba~k, but it ke~t right on chasing the horses. The neighbor, a big two hundred thirty pound man, was about thirty years younger than Henry, who was in his ei~hties. at the time. The neighbor called to Henry, telling him not to throw a hammer at his dog, and that he would straighten Henry out. Henry put his hand on the fence, junped over it, and started across the ro~d after the neighbor. The neighbor climbed onto his wagon and drove away before Henry could get to him. Emma was watching from the front porch, a~d later told Henry he had better look out for that big neighbor. Henry reassured her he was not afraid of the neighbor and believed he could whip him if they had gotten into a fight. Henry never seemed to be afraid of anything or anyone-if he ever was, he never let anyone know it. By the fall of 1937, the family had accumulated about forty head of cattle. H.E. went away to the University of Idaho that fall, and he told the folks to sell the cattle and live on the money until he finished school; then, possibly, he could help them if he got a good job. When he finished in the spring of 1940, the best job he could find was working for the University for one hundred dollars per month-he was one of the lucky graduates to find work. In the fall of 1938, Emma decided she was going to have to make her own living and enrolled in Groom's Beauty School in Idaho Falls. Although she was then forty-nine years of age, she studied hard and graduated with honors. She and Henry returned to their home at Parker, where Emma set up a beauty shop in her home. She later worked in a St. Anthony beauty shop for Loretta So. Henry was getting along in years and was unable to work by that time, so they moved to St. Anthony in order for Emma to be closer to work. They remained in St. Anthony until the winter of , then moved to Idaho Falls to be nearer H.E., who had recently returned from service with the United States Navy. Henry's health had deteriorated to the point that someone had to look after him most of the time. He wanted to go home, so they moved back to Parker

3 426 HENRY E. JENKINS OXEN TO AIRPLA..~E 427 where, on 1 May 1945, he passed away at ninety years of age. Late in the summer of 1946, Emma went to Oakland, California, to visit her mother. On October 27th, Emma, her mother, and a Mrs. Booth from Salt Lake City were walking to Church together. They approached an intersection and started to cross with the red traffic light in their favor. They were nearly across when a fifteen-year-old teenager drove down the boulevard at a high rate of speed and hit the three women, killing them all. This young man was sentenced to six weeks in the detention home, and his driver's license was taken away for one year. LIFE magazine carried the story of this accident. This ended a long, adventurous, and interesting life. Henry had seen great changes take place in the United States. When he came into this life, people were traveling with oxen. From there they progressed to horse and buggy, automobile, and finally to airplane. During World War Two, the Germans were developing rockets they claimed would travel faster than airplanes. Henry had lived during the time when the United States had been engaged in several wars: Civil War, Nez Perce War, Spanish American War, World War One, and World War Two. He had seen the western states develop from Indians, trappers, sagebrush, and jack rabbits to productive farms and cities. Henry lived a full life, and tried to make things better for those who came after him. He was born into this life with no worldly goods, and left this life with none. It isn't what you have to start with or what you have at the end that counts, but what you do with your life ~while here on earth. 1938, Henry at 83 years old

4 428 HENRY E. JENKINS OXEN TO AIRPLANE 429 Home in Parker Genealogy Name Evan Jenkins Ann Davies Jenkins Birth Date 22 June February 1823 Death Date 9 June February 1905 Children of Evan and Ann Jenkins John Jenkins 8 May December 1936 Ann Jenkins 26 January September1938 Moroni Jenkins 11 April May 1887 William T. Jenkins 15 May December 1932 Sarah E. Jenkins 15 May May 1852 Henry E. Jenkins! 22 February May 1945 Juliette Jenkins 12 October January 1909 Mary Estella Jenkins 16 May March 1952 Margaret Qoquella Jenkins 16 May 1858 May 1952 David Hyrum Jenkins 2 May Children of Henry Henry LaDell Jenkins David LeRoy Jenkins Edna A. Jenkins Eva C. Jenkins Leonard Evan Jenkins Claude Rice Jenkins Lester Jerome Jenkins E.I and Caroline 25 August July August June April August October 1896 Rice 2 Jenkins 16 November March February August May June October 1914 Children of Henry E.I and Emma Williams 3 Jenkins E. Marie Jenkins 22 April June 1987 Ethelyn E. Jenkins 29 January 1910 Still living 5 Henry E. Jenkins, Jr September 1911 Still living 5 Woodrow Evan Jenkins Gwendolyn Elda G. Jenkins Jenkins 23 September October July June 1914 Still living 5 Still living 5

5 430 HENRY E. JENKINS OXEN TO AIRPLANE 431 Additional Sources of Information Henry E. Jenkins, subject of this book. 2Caroline Rice Jenkins, died 21 March Emma Williams Jenkins, died 27 October Henry Evan Jenkins, Jr., author of this book. 5S t ill living as of 19 November Guie, H.D. and McWhorter, L.V. Adventures in Geyser Land. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, LTd.,19??(Map of the Nez Perce Campaign). 2. Jensen, Andrew Church Chronology, Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, (This book is a compilation of chronological events which were printed in the DESERET NEWS over a period of many years.) 3. Genealogical research completed by Marie Jenkins Webster. 4. Homer Duncan's journal kept during 1861 while travleing across the plains. It was obtained from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints archives through genealogical research. 5. Short Life History of John Jenkins. 6. Agricultural year book, 1940.

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