Gooseberries

Edwin’s Grandmother Banks lived in Montpelier.  She grew raspberries in her garden and sold them.  She also had red currants and Edwin’s favorite gooseberries.  Edwin never knew what a ripe gooseberry tasted like because he always ate them green off the bush.

 

(1875-1947 Eliza Ann Tubbs Banks)

 

 

(1939 Vern Banks and Edwin Perkins)

 

 

(Raspberries and Gooseberries)

 

BANKS - PERKINS

Miss Louise Banks of Montpelier and Mr. La Mar Perkins also of this city left Saturday on No 25 for Pocatello where they were united in marriage.  The Bride is one of the popular young ladies of the Montpelier younger set, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Banks (William Cornelius and Eliza Ann) of this city.  The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Perkins (Francis Marion and Margaret Ann) of Montpelier; he is employed in the O. S. L. (Oregon Short Line) shops.  The young couple will make their home in Montpelier.

 

 

Newspaper clipping from April 18, 1925

 

 

 

(1926 Louise and Lamar Perkins)

 

Grandma Banks

Edwin remembers his Grandma Banks (Eliza Ann Tubbs) heating her home in Montpelier, Idaho with the coal that fell off the trains that ran near her home.  It was always the young people's job to walk along the tracks and pick up the coal.

 

 

(Abt. 1945 Eliza Ann Tubbs Banks, Vern Archie Banks, William Edwin Banks, Billey Banks)

 

 

 

(Montpelier, Idaho Abt. 1910)

 

Driving Around

In about 1938 when Edwin was 8 or 9 he was going to Montpelier, Idaho with his parents, Lamar Perkins and Louise Banks, his sister Evelyn, his Aunt Ethel, and his grandma Banks (Eliza Ann Tubbs).  They were driving through Georgetown when they came around a corner a horse drawn wagon was blocking the road.  Lamar drove through the wide irrigation ditch.  When the car came up out of the ditch the dust flew.  He remembers shouting "Good Lord, Aunt Ethel get off of me!" because in all the bouncing, she had landed on top of him.

 

(1937 Edwin, Evelyn, Elaine, and William Keith Perkins)

 

    (1938 William Edwin Banks, Eliza Tubbs Banks, and Vern Banks)