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DECK,
Hannah Marie Nelson Warby
Hannah Marie Nelson moved with her parents
and brother John to the state of Nebraska sometime
prior to 1900. It was in Nebraska she spent her early
childhood, and there that she met her future husband,
Henry Percy Deck, a young man from Chicago, Cook County,
Illinois. Hannah, age 14,
and Percy, age 21, were married October 25th,
1902 in Minden,
Kearney
County, Nebraska. Henry worked for
the Union Pacific Railroad during this time but late in
the year of 1914, something or someone prompted them to
move to the state of Utah. They made this
trip with five children ranging in age from 11 years
down to two years old. They first
settled in the town of Antelope but at different times
lived in Manila and Linwood as
well. And,
they added two more children to the family, another
daughter and their last child, a son. Henry was killed
prior to the birth of their last child, the birth of the
child, February 24th 1918, and Henrys death,
August 17th, 1917. Hannah
was, at the age of 29, a widow and a mother of seven
children.
A long time resident of the
area, Stephen Douglas Warby, and Hannah married May
9th, 1919. Stephen had
moved to Manila from
Beaver, Beaver
County, Utah along with
several other family members. The Warbys had
become landowners and farmers and were well known
through out the area. He was, to the
son born after his own fathers death, a kind and caring
stepfather.
And, the family grew. The first two
sons died shortly after birth but three daughters and
two sons followed. Stephen
Warby died July 6th, 1936 and again Hannah
was a widow.
She moved to the town of Green River,
Wyoming,
remained unmarried, and died on February 5th,
1976.
Her roots to Nebraska were never
severed. She talked with pride of being from that state,
and even more proudly of her years in Antelope,
Manila, Linwood and
McKinnon.
She did not dwell on her hard ships. It was not
in her to complain or wish for different. She saw each day
as time with those that were with her and honored those
that were not with crepe paper flowers, crafted yearly
by her and her grandchildren to be placed on the graves
in memory of those she had lost. She spent her
life, from the age of fourteen nurturing 14children, 53
grandchildren, 131 great grandchildren and 25 great
great grandchildren. Her legacy was
her never-ending love, her patience and kindness and an
apron pocket always full of pink candy mints that was
the cure-all for sadness and pain.
Submitted by Pat
White
SMITH,
Alvin E.
Mr. Smith is one of the old timers of the
pioneer age.
He was born November 13, 1876 in Salt Lake City,
Utah the
son of Dr. Anthony W. Smith and Jane Elizabeth Brough
Smith. When
he was but two years old they moved to Beaver,
Utah where he grew
into manhood.
In 1896 he joined with a group of Saints who
migrated to Manila at
which time known as Lucerne Valley. It was here that
he was married to Sarah Ann Nelson the daughter of
Daniel M. and Sarah Warby Nelson on December 28,
1897. They
were the first couple to be married in the valley. To
this union were born six children: Louvina,
Eva, Lucille, Doris, Daniel, Albert
Wesley.
Mr. Smith has done many types of work in
his life-time, such as a store clerk, farmer,
blacksmith, sawmill operator, sheep herder and shearer,
miner and prospector, freighter, railroad worker, store
owner, gas station operator and assistant
postmaster.
They lived in Manila and surrounding
areas.
When asked what his plans were for the
future he said, To keep breathing until I die.
Vernal Express 80th Birthday announcement in the year of
1956
 TINKER, Dr. Fay
Waters, was born the son of Lefavor and Ella
(Barnes) Tinker on October 5, 1883, in Morristown
Lamoille Vermont. He attended Medical College in
Philadelphia. After completion of medical college he
practiced in Pueblo, Colorado. He came to Green River
Wyoming about 1912, he met Elizabeth McCool and they
were married January 12, 1913 in Green River. He
practiced medicine in Green River until they left in
1914 living at first in Linwood, and then in South
Valley. He also practiced medicine in Manila, and was
the only Doctor in town. He taught school in Manila, and
later served on the School Board. Source
Family member
 TINKER, Mary Elizabeth was born December 27,
1885 in Stewartsville, Dekalb county Missouri the
daughter of John McCool and Martha Merris she came to
Green River Wyoming to teach school. While teaching in
Green River she met and married Dr. Fay Waters Tinker.
They made their home in Manila. She taught school there
and in other surrounding communities. They had five
children James, John, Mary Ella, Albert and Isabell.
James the oldest died as a toddler when a root cellar
caved in on him. In 1933 her husband died, and she
taught school to support her family. In the fall of 1938
she taught school at Bridgeport, taking her small
daughter Isabel with her. She moved into the old school
building which was used as a teacherage. It had no
ceiling and was entered via a battered old door. Rats
ran around on the logs near the roof. She taught school
at several communities in Daggett County. Her two sons
and their families currently live in Manila, and Mary Ella lives in
Little Rock, Isabell and her family live in Denver.
After retiring she liked to travel she took a tour
through Europe visiting Paris and London. She also went
to Hawaii before it became a state and visited her
sister that lived there. She was planning on going to
Cuba but at the time there was a lot of political
unrest, and she decided not to go. She never did care
much for airplanes and always preferred traveling by a
bus or train, when she went to Europe and Hawaii
she boarded a ship. She walked to the post office and
sometimes to the grocery store as she never did drive a
car. Source Family
member
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