Sleeps 2
(1 King bed)
"I am Charles Leroy Ferrin. I was born in Eden, Utah, June 2, 1880. I married Della Rose Walker June 5, 1901, in the Salt Lake Temple. She was the granddaughter of Edward Robertson Walker, who owned land in Block 3 of Barnett Addition, Nauvoo, Illinois, Oct. 27, 1843.
When we arrived in Lyman, it was a real struggle to find the materials needed to put up a one room log home with a dirt floor. Together we cleared the land of sagebrush and were able to get some crops planted that year.
We were blessed with five children, the oldest was Floyd, then Leo and Marvin, then our only daughter, Lyda, and then Sheridan.
Lyman Ward Chapel
Our first car was a second-hand Model T Ford. Money was hard to come by and I traded J. W. Slade cedar posts for the car.
Around 1928 I went to work for Superintendent Thomas J. Brough at the Experimental Farm for 30 cents an hour, as it was harder and harder to make a living on the ranch. Because of the Depression, wages were cut to 25 cents an hour. I did a little of everything on the Experimental Farm, milking cows, taking care of the hogs, sorting potatoes, hauling manure, cleaning seed, and plowing the fields.
Around 1937 I quit the farm and went to work for the LDS Church as a full time janitor in the Lyman Ward Chapel." (He died in an auto accident July 23, 1947.)
Three brothers of Della Rose Walker Ferrin, John, Charles, and Levi Walker, also left Eden, Utah, to homestead in Lyman, Wyoming. Levi Walker and his wife, Amelia Jane Grow, owned the ranch joining Charles and
Della Walker Ferrin. Levi and Amelia had 16 children. After Amelia's untimely death, Levi married Katie Guild, a woman who had been abandoned by her husband, leaving her with 3 sons. Together, Levi and Katie had 2 more children, making a total of 21.
Levi and Amelia Walker Family: