A Move to Chesterfield

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

When the kids were still young, we left the dry farm three miles northeast of Bancroft where we enjoyed ourselves for four years.  All this time, father Argyle lived with us and he was very good to the children.  We bought his house.  We lived in it on the dry farm and then moved it to the ranch in Chesterfield where we lived for six years.  We purchased the farm from my mother.  Life was comfortable here as the Utah Power and Light put electricity throughout the county and everyone made their homes modern.  The children had buses to go to school in.  The schools all consolidated and had one big school in Bancroft.  Doyle was a Senior in high school now and he fell in love with a lovely girl named Joyce Jenkins.  They were married on 12 June, 1950 in the Logan Temple.  Their home was blessed with our first grandchild on 1 November 1952.

 

(1948 Argyle Ranch Home)

 

(1950 Joyce Jenkins and Doyle Argyle)

 

Skiing and Sledding

Notes From Doyle Argyle

Some of Delbert Argyle’s early childhood was spent racing horses, playing in the snow, skiing and sled riding on the old Kynaston hill as many of you remember out on the flat.  Most of these skis, sleds, toboggans and things were home made.  Some of the Kynaston boys became very skilled in making skis.  I remember their well house, which was made of logs.  Above one of the doors there was a gap between the door seal and the top log.  It was just right to soak these skis and put them in there to turn the tips so they made a decent tip to ride down the hill with.  Much of my early memories of having fun with my dad was going to the Kynaston hill and sledging and skiing down this hill.  It wasn’t long and it wasn’t far to climb up and come back down again.  This is what made it fun.

(1915 Delbert Kynaston Argyle)

Another Sister

When Denece was expecting her fourth child, Delbert expressed his desire to have a brother.  He didn't want another sister.  He claimed that if it was a girl, he would throw her in the pond, which was more of a swamp out behind the house.  Denece and Edwin were worried about coming home from the hospital because Delbert had gotten another sister, Denece Ann Perkins.  Edwin came home to tell the family it was a girl.  He took one of the girls' dolls and told the kids that they had a lovely baby sister just like the doll.  When Delbert finally met his new baby sister, he said, "aw, isn't she sweet?"  Delbert never did throw D.Ann in the pond. . . At least while she was a new born.

 

(1960 Denece Ann Perkins)

 

(1960 Delbert, Edwinna, D.Ann, and Darlene Perkins)

 

A Long Night and Day

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

When Alene came to our family she was healthy but one day she took sick with a cold.  It was winter time and the roads were blocked with snow.  I sat up all night with the heater and rocked her all night.  About daybreak my prayers were answered because I heard the snowplow.  We hurried to the doctor and he told us she would never live.  They put her in an oxygen tent and gave her a Sulpha drug which was just new.  A nurse used to come in her room.  She would take a spoon and work her jaws.  One time they were so set they bent the spoon double.  This lasted for sixteen long hours in which I was constantly praying for her life.  The Lord answered my prayers again and she got well.  She had measles and pneumonia.

(1945 Denece and Alene Argyle)

Three Children

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

Ten months after our marriage our first child was born.  It was a boy, our pride and joy.  We called him Doyle J.  He used to spend lots of time in his grandparents home as he was the first grandchild on my side.  His Grandmother Baty taught him how to drive a car.

 

(1935 Doyle Argyle)

Four years later a little girl came to our house.  She also was a joy to us because we dreamed about a girl like her.  She weighed seven pounds and had lots of dark hair and eyes.  People told me she was a living doll and I named her Denece Ann.  I would fuss over her.   Her hair was always curled and she had two clean dresses on a day.  When she was ten months old she had "gathered ears" and she started to suck her thumb.  She and Doyle got along well.

(1937 Doyle and Denece Argyle)

 

Seven years later our home was blessed by the arrival of Doris Alene, a sweet baby of five pounds.  All my children were born at home and my mother took care of me.  A couple of months before Alene came, my father was taken in death from a heart attack on 17 March 1942.  This was our first experience with death in our family and it was hard to take but we realized the work of the Lord.  Dell and I rented the ranch from my mother.  She moved to Farmington, Utah.  Later we bought the ranch from mother.

(1943 Doyle, Doris Alene, and Denece Argyle)

 

Denece remembers her mother telling her that she had "gathered ears," but she never did know what that meant.

Delbert Kynaston Argyle and Dora Alene Baty

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

One day in the summer I wanted to go to a dance so I coaxed my mother to let me stay the night at a friends.  I came to town with the mailman.  That night I told a fellow named Delbert Kynaston Argyle I had to walk home.  He took pity on me and offered to take me home.  Of course, I  accepted and knew that night he was the guy for me.  I went with him for about a year and a half and then married hem in the Logan L D S Temple in Logan, Utah, on June 11, 1930.

We went to live with Dell's folks, (a sister, Alice, and his father).  The hard thing was leaving my folks and twin sister, but the Argyle family was very good to me.  I soon learned to love them dearly.
 

 

(1930 Delbert and Dora Argyle)

 

 

Logan Utah Temple

 

 

Teen Years

From Dora Baty Argyle

When I grew older, I used to spend time with my cousin, Beth Pace.  We used to pick cherries and also go the horse races at Lagoon near Farmington.  When it came time to go to school, Ora and I were the only children left at home.  All of our brothers had jobs and were married and Edna was a bookkeeper and lived in Ogden, Utah with Norma and her husband, Chick.  Mother stayed on the ranch with father and Ora, and I went and rented a room in the Call home and went to school.  We had lots of fun going to dances and having dates with boys.  This was in Chesterfield, Idaho, in my teen years.  I seemed quite lucky in being able to get dates, so I would take my sister along.

 

 

 

 

Chesterfield Idaho

 

 

 

The Family Home

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

The house I lived in was part log and soon my father added on to it and we all lived in four rooms.  A large kitchen and pantry were two of them.  We fixed the "cutest little front room", so we called it.  The other room was used for sleeping.  We had a cot in the corner of the kitchen and the whole family would rest upon it.  At night it was fixed out for the boys’ bed.

(1914 Ora and Dora Baty)