Jack of All Trades

Frances M. Perkins (Edwin’s grandfather) contracted out and put up hay.  He was a jack of all trades.  He hauled gravel for a dam.  At one time, he owned a farm out by Rigby.  He also surveyed the state line around Afton.

(1886 Frances and Margaret Ann Perkins)

 

Margaret went by Maggie to the family.

Traveling

Edwin’s Grandpa Frances Perkins never did have a car.  He always drove a horse and wagon.

 

 

(1894 Margaret Ann Southworth Perkins and Frances Marion Perkins)

 

Beans at Hazleton

One year his (Edwin Perkins) Grandpa Frances grew beans out at Hazleton.  Lamar went out and got a truck full of bean vines.  They put a large canvas in the backyard to dry them.  When the vines were dry, they stomped on the vines and then they blew the chaff away with a vacuum.  They stored about fifty pounds of dry beans that year.

 

 

(1940 Edwin Perkins)

 

 

(1940 Frances Marion Perkins and Margaret Ann Southworth Perkins, and unknown)

 

 

(1945 Lamar Perkins)

 

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)

 

A Trip to California

Frances Marrion Perkins took his son Lamar, who was five years old, on a trip to Gridley, California in 1910.  They went by wagon and it took three weeks.  They went to Gridley to pick up Agnes Caldwell Southworth (Frances’s mother in law) after the death of her husband, Chester Southworth III.  (Edwin Perkins remembers his father Lamar telling about the this trip.)  

(Abt 1894 Margaret Ann Southworth Perkins and Frances Marion Perkins)

At the Movies

Edwin remembered going to the movies with his grandpa Perkins ( Frances Marrion Perkins ) when he was a kid.

 

(Edwin Perkins 1940)

They rode the bus to the movie theater in Pocatello and saw the movie Brigham Young.  Frances knew Brigham Young and he said the actor did not look enough like Brigham Young and that the seagull story was not done right.
 

 

Frances and Margaret Perkins

Edwin remembers his grandparents (Frances and Margaret Perkins) had a farm in Hazelton, Idaho, that they farmed in the Spring and Summer. 

(Taken About 1894)

 

They had a farm there and when it was harvest time all their sons and son-in-laws would come and help put in the hay.  When Lamar Perkins and his family came the kids would all stay at the cousins homes that lived in Hazelton.  Edwin was only about 4 or 5 when he broke an egg and he dropped it down a hole in the ground to hide his mistake.  It turned out the hole he had happened to choose was a well and his grandma told him if he could not behave he could not come back.  So he does not remember ever going back there again.   

Frances and Margaret moved to Logan during the Winter months and while living there did they did over 130 endowments at the Logan Temple.