July 2007

July 2007

This is the building where the High Council used to meet every month when Bill was in High School. It was here that Bill and his friends took cement blocks from the new gymn that was being built and blocked up all the cars outside. When the meeting was over, all the high council members got in their cars to go home, but they wouldn't go anywhere. It took a few minutes for them to figure out what was going on since it was dark. Meanwhile Bill and friends hid in the bushes across the street and watched them get themselves back on the ground. It was alot of fun.

July 2007

These are all the brothers and sisters that went to the Reunion in Colonia Juarez Mexico. From left to right are Kent, Bill, Carmen, Catherine, Knolton, Reed and Ray

July 2007

This is the actual gunfight site at the OK Corral in Tombstone between Wyatt Earp and the Outlaws.

July 2007

This is the courthouse where Grandpa and Grandma Martineau were married in 1923. Since they needed witnesses, they went out into the street and rounded up a couple of witness and got them to come in and witness their marriage. They never got their names or knew who they were or where they were from. The county seat has since been moved to Bisbee (I believe). The model A Ford that they went to St. George in had the gas tank just in front of the dash board on the outside of the car. On the way home, when the road got too steep, they would have to turn around and back the car up the hill so the gasoline in the tank would be higher than the carburator. Grandpa told me that when they got back from St. George, he had only a dime left in his pocket. On the way both ways, they simply pulled off the road and slept on blankets with the open sky.

July 2007

On the way back home, we stopped at Tombstone Arizona. This guy stopped and posed for us. Teresa though he was so macho that she began having ideas of staying in Tombstone. This is where Grandpa and Grandma Martineau were married because it was the county seat at the time. They lived in Bisbee (about 30 miles away) where Grandpa Martineau was working in the copper mines. Knolton was born in Bisbee a year after they were married. They were married in September of 1923. As soon as they could scrape up the money, they took their Model A Ford and drove on dirt roads to St. George, Utah where they were married in the Temple.

July 2007

This is Colonia Corrales where Grandpa Martineau had his Saw Mill. Our lumber home was just behind where the fence is....about half way between the fence and the hill. There is a spring a couple of blocks away on the hillside to the right. Grandpa Martineau got some pipe and piped water from the spring into the house so we had running water in our home. It was in this home that Bill was born while all the kids were sent away to go swimming at the "Ledges". He weighed about 10 pounds. (Grandma Martineau was only 4 ft 10 in. ) I don't know how she could have that big a baby. I am certain that they put the fence up so that people would not trample on this sacred place.