SCHOLES, Caroline

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• Name	SCHOLES, Caroline
  Birth	23 Jan 1878	Leeds, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Female
  WAC	12 Apr 1901	SLAKE
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  Death	15 Nov 1950	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  Burial	20 Nov 1950	Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States
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  Family	BISHOFF, Robert John ,   b. 2 Sep 1869, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United Statesd. 4 May 1950, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	18 Aug 1920	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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  MY QUEST FOR INFORMATION… Over the past year I feel that I have felt the spirit of Elijah, in as much as my thoughts and heart have been turned to my ancestors. Especially my grandfather, Francis Scholes, Jr. who I have never known in this life as he died on year and eight days before I was born. And yet today I feel that I know him quite well and could possibly pick him out of the crowd. It is not easy to find much information about a person who lives such a quiet life as Grandpa Scholes must have lived, sixty-four years after he died. It appears that all who knew him are gone also or don’t remember much about him. He has one living child, Esther, as of this date who tells me she doesn’t remember much of him. Esther was 19 years old when her father died and should remember something but she is 83 years of age now and has suffered a stroke that hasn’t helped her very much. Aunt Esther has two living sons but as I talked to them they didn’t seem to know anything except their mother has said he was a sheepherder, which he was for a while and I will tell you of this later. My mother, Chlorus Scholes, is the only living-in-law as of this date. Mother’s memory is long gone as she is 86 years but she says that Grandpa Scholes was a man to be pitied because of his crippled feet and the bad feelings that his wife and children had for him. I guess it is this thought that has prompted my search for facts of his life as I wondered why he was thought so little of by his family. I knew his wife, Sara Burr Eldredge Scholes for many years. She lived until I was thirty-one years old. She visited our home probably once a year for many years staying a couple of months at a time. GRANDMA SADIE SCHOLES… Grandpa and Grandma were married in the Salt Lake City Temple on the 5th of October 1898. Just five years after the temple was completed and sixteen years after Grandpa came to Utah from England. He was a boy of ten years of age when he and his family arrived in Utah. Grandpa was 26 years of age and Grandma was 25 years when they were married. He died at age 55 so they were married for 29 years. Grandma Scholes was a big woman and had trouble walking. She used a heavy walking cane as long as I knew of her. I remember I use to look forward to her visits for two or three reasons. First of all she usually brought us some small toy for each one of kind from Kress’ 5 and 10 cents store in the big city of Salt Lake City where she lived for the last years of her life. Second she could make apple butter like no one else in the world. It seems now that she always timed her visits to canning time. Third she always made homemade raisin bread to eat with the apple butter. As I remember back on those times anyone who has never tasted her raisin bread and apple butter has truly missed out on one of the best things in life. To me Grandmas always seemed kind of sad. As stated she was a large woman and didn’t move well which meant that she sat in the chair a whole lot. She could play a mouth organ or harmonica and Jew’s hard quite well and we use to enjoy sitting around listening to her play this instruments which she carried in her apron pocket. She always wore an apron. Grandma lived as a widow for thirty-one years of her eighty-five years in this life which probably accounted for some of her sad countenance. She raised canaries and loved their singing and it seems now as I think about it she had at least one hundred of them or more (well maybe not that many). It seems strange that as much as I was around or near Grandma I really never knew anything of Grandpa. Maybe it was because he died before I was born and so he wasn’t mentioned, but I do remember one time Grandma saying that if God was a just God he would not make her live with Grandpa in the hereafter. I wish at the time I would have asked “Why”, but I didn’t and the statement was passed over. This was about the time that I was married in the temple and I am sure it had something to go with that but I failed to find out why. It is my understanding that her thinking and attitude changed as she got older. GRANDPA FRANK SCHOLES Jr… Grandfather Francis, Jr. , was called Frank and worked with his father Francis Sr. and his three brothers who was six (Arthur), four (Walter), and two (Frederick) years older than him. They worked quarrying rock from the Fort Douglas reservation and furnished stone of foundations of dwellings and delivering the stone with a team of horses owned by his father. The next venture would become that of flock master. Great Grandpa, Francis Scholes, Sr., invested his means into sheep and he furnished employment for his sons of taking care of the sheep. This is where Grandpa Francis. Jr. met Grandma Sarah Burr Eldredge. She was working as a cook for the company that owned and operated the shearing corrals. Grandpa must have liked her cooking as he married her. Sometime between October 1899 and October 1900, as near as I can figure out from the birth of their children, they moved to Park City and Grandpa became a miner. This town of Park City was some town and I feel that I should relate part of its history as I am sure it had a strong influence on the lives of this branch of the Scholes family. The following is taken from the book “Diggings and Doings in Park City”, page 13, 14, 15 (available on Amazon.com) …“If the high county suggested fortune to Brigham Young it was virtually ignored. Brigham delivered the Latter-day Saint from Eastern religious persecution and instructed them to build a self-sufficient farming community beneath the Western Shadow if the Wasatch range of mountains in the Salt Lake Valley. Although he dispatched official exploration to seek coal, lead and iron deposits, he forbade his followers to prospect for precious metals which might contaminate them with “gold fever” and would surely bring a rush of the Gentiles in to disrupt the Mormon Settlements. They call Colonel Edward Connor the Father of Utah Mining. He was stationed at Fort Douglas where an army fort had been built to protect the overland mail route from Indian attack and to protect the government from the Mormons. The volunteer soldiers soon looked to the high county and hankered to dig into the mountains that were similar to those of California where they had been restricted from panning gold because of regular duty. General Connor issued permission for prospecting during off duty hours in July 1864. His intent was to invite a large Gentile and loyal population in to Utah to overwhelm the Mormons, at least a population numerous enough to put a check on the Mormon authorities by means of the ballot box. Just one year later Utah’s first mineral deposits were located in Bingham Canyon. The news was out. Brush shanties, rents and claim markers freckled the landscape as prosecutors tapped the hills. The Mormons were still counseled not to participate in mining precious metals, but they were not forbidden to share the bonanza in other ways. They sold dairy products, operated a livery stable, offered a daily stage service to Salt Lake City, they had a sawmill and furnished timber for mining. They opened boarding houses and July 4th 1872 Park City, Utah was christened as a burgeoning community. Before the use of carbide lamps in 1912 each miner stabbed a dagger-like candle holder into the timber where he worked and used a daily supply of three candles for his light. Board and room at a company boarding house was $1.00 per day. Muckers were paid $2.75, miners $3.00, timberman $3.50 per shift. Ten hour per day shifts, seven days per week, only two days of vacation per year, Christmas and the 4th of July. Payday was once a month. The Park City miners were plagued with lots of cold running water and the miners were wading in it all the time. As a rule miners were a superstitious lot. Just about everything was an omen of bad luck. The Palace Restaurant was open day and night and dished out five course meals including everything from German noodle soup to boiled ox heart with currant jelly, served first class at twenty-five cents. It was said that if a fellow wanted to become intoxicated he could start at one end of the street, take a drink at each saloon or store that handled liquor, and before he was halfway down the street, unless he had the capacity of a vinegar barrel, be gloriously intoxicated. Gambling of all kind prevailed. Red lights winked from a row of houses and gay ladies offered respite from the hard labor of the mines. Street killings were not uncommon and there was general crudeness. Park City was as frontier as a boom town could get with men out numbering the ladies by many. There were all nationalities pretty much clanned together. The Mormon Church was the smaller of the many Protestant Churches. Because of Brigham Young’s attitude against mining, there were few Mormons in the mountain town. Park City became a Gentile town with Catholics and Masons binding in loyalty league which was intended to eradicate Brigham’s doctrines by peaceful means but still with lawful force. The Mormon Church is still not large in Park City but they are there and seem to hold their own. As stated in the above quotation, street killings were common. People lived in fear and had to learn to care for themselves. Kids kind of grew up tough out of necessity. Even though work hours were poor and the pay worse, there was a lineup of men waiting for another man’s job. Gambling and all sorts was very open and a miner could easily lose his pay check by one or more of the means mentioned above before he reached home.”... LIFE IN A MINING COMMUNITY… It was to this kind of environment that Grandpa and Grandma took their first child to live and make a life for their family. Mining was a hard life as the foregoing article points out. The mines in Park City were plagued with a large amount of cold underground water. The men had to work in it all day and it would cause the sides of the shaft or tunnel to slough off on to the cold feet of the men. In most mines the underground water is warm but not in Park City and it was a real source of trouble and expense for the owners of the mines. Because of the rocks and dirt sloughing off on to Grandpa’s feet and the cold effects of the water, he became crippled and was in a lot of pain. It we stop to consider the conditions, working ten hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-three days a year, it became plain to see how family life could be strained. In J. Harold Eldredge’s (he was a brother to Grandma Scholes) life story, “Oh My Father”, page 32, Uncle Harold tells of going to stay with his sister Sadie a part of one summer when he was fourteen years old. He says that she was expecting a baby and he stayed with her because her husband was required to work the night shift. They lived in a small home up on the Ontario Dump in the Ontario Canyon. Their home was right on the dump and quite a distance from neighbors. The summer that Uncle Harold was fourteen would have been the year 1905. This was the year that my father Arthur Leslie “Dick” Scholes was born and so I presume that it was he who Uncle Harold stayed to help Grandma with. During some of the years in Park City, Grandma ran a boarding house for the miners. Another story about Grandma Sadie that was brought to mind by reading this book is that Grandma would always go to bed during an electrical storm. On the visits that she made to our place as soon as the lightening started she would head for her bed and as kids we thought this to be odd. Her reaction to electrical storms was the result of an electrical storm that hit the Eldredge home in Coalville, Utah when she was a young girl killing her brother Ernest who was standing on the back porch of his home. It too is an interesting story found in “Oh My Father”, page 41. CHURCH ACTIVITY… I do not know the details or the reasons other than the facts already mentioned but none of the nine of their children grew up interested in the Church. Both Grandpa and Grandma came from families who were close to the Church. The Scholes left England for the Church and the Eldredges came from the East with the early settlers because of their faith. Grandma Sarah’s father Ira Edgar Eldredge became disgruntle with the Church because of a broken promise to him by a stake president who was also the foreman of a coal mine. His attitude became that as long as there were men like the stake president in the Church, then, he wanted no part of the Church. (Personal Note: How often do we hear such a dumb excuse used in our lives? It seems for the want of a crutch, people blame the Church for the wrong doings of men. The attitude is a true tool of Satan.) Because of Great Grandpa Eldredge’s attitude, three of his sons grew up with the same attitude. Great Grandma Eldredge was strong and faithful but she allowed her husband to be the head of the house and family and his example was strong. (See the life story of J.H. Eldredge “O My Father”.) It may be, and this is only my assumption, that this is why Grandma Scholes was not stronger and more valiant in the Gospel than she was. Grandpa Francis Scholes, Jr. was only eighteen at the time his mother was killed by a runaway team of horsed. It may have been that he locked the influence of his mother in his life. I know that the Eldredge family was not happy about Grandma marrying Grandpa, and it caused a tiff in the families that seems to have carried on for about three generations. Deuteronomy 5:9 tells us that the iniquity of the fathers will be passed on to the children unto the third and fourth generations by those who seek graven images and hate God. It is plain that the influence of parents fashion the loves of their children and if the love of God is not present then the Holy Spirit cannot dwell there either. The thought that had driven me to seek information about Grandpa was why did he fall from the Church? I still don’t have the answer to that. Maybe he didn’t really fall that far. Maybe circumstances and the time in history played a large part in his life. As far as I can find out he never owned any method of transportation. Due to transportation of the times places were of a far distances and so contact with other family members was lost and little was known about him by his brothers and sisters. It appears that he spent more time at his sister Carolyn’s place than any other of the brothers and sisters. As I have written many letters and received many answers there has been many opinions but it seems no one really knows why this family was not as active in the Church as I seem to think they should have been. It has been a real pleasure to hear from relatives that I never knew before and many never see in this life but I have felt very close to them and to Grandpa Scholes because of this quest. CONCLUSION… I thank all who have contributed to what I have learned of my grandfather. I am sure that he was a good and noble man and I look forward to meeting with him in the life to come. As offspring we too often fall to appreciate the sacrifices that were made in our behalf by those who paved the way. Life for them was not easy, especially compared to our day, and yet they did what they had to do to progress us to the point we are at. I love and appreciate each one of my ancestors and hope that they may be able to say the same the about me. Since launching this quest I have compiled my own life story, a history of my Dad and Mother and now this one. I feel good in what has been accomplished and hope that it meets the approval of all whom it was intended for both in this life are in the Spirit World. UPDATE FROM AUNT ESTHER… Today just four days from taking this history to the press, November 18, 1991, I received a letter from my cousin, Jack Feagan, a son of Aunt Esther who is the daughter of Grandpa Scholes whom I spoke of before. The letter was very interesting to me as it clears up and verifies some of the things I have written of and some of the thoughts I have had. I will include the information as he has written it. “Mom is doing as good as can be expected for her age, 84 years, and condition. Her last stroke two and a half years ago left her with speech problem and she has difficulty trying to carry on a conversation. She will start to say something and then forgets what she wanted to say which upsets her very much. Mon didn’t understand what you wanted to know about Grandfather Scholes until I explained it to her. She really can’t remember too much but what she did remember was quite emotional for her. As far as she is concerned her father was the greatest man on earth. As you already know he was a sheepherder until him and Grandma were married. Then he went to work in the mines, but not as a miner. He worked in the smelter. Mom can’t remember if it was the Aliance Mine or the Judge Mine (my dad said the Ontario). She said he was injured in an accident in the smelter. (I have written from the sloughing of the walls.) He was taken to the hospital in Salt Lake City. He was there for a long time and when he came home he was crippled and not able to go back to work. She can remember that he had a big vegetable garden, and they canned vegetables for winter use. After Grandpa’s injury she said he used to hang around town and when he would disappear he would be up in the hills herding sheep. (He must have had a love for this kind of life) She can remember one time when he was gone for a while and came back, that her Uncle Fred and Uncle Owen would not let him in the yard because they didn’t recognize him. He had shaved off his moustache that summer. The summer that he disappeared and was gone all summer he went to Idaho or Wyoming (it was Wyoming). He went to see his baby sister Aunt Carolyn. Mom says that when he left he took two pair of socks, two changes of underwear, two shirts and two pair of pants which he put them all on and left. When he got to Aunt Caroline’s, Mom said he was so dirty and grubby that Caroline wouldn’t have anything to do with him until the kids took he out back and cleaned him up. He passed away the following year. Mom told us that after the accident and time went by he began to get ornery and cranky, mostly with the boys. Grandpa Scholes and his daughter Aunt Ethel used to fight all the time even before the accident. She can also remember that every time they went to the Frazier’s one of the Frazier boys would run over Grandfather’s feet with a tricycle just to make him mad...not very nice kids. Francis Scholes, Sr., son of Thomas Scholes and Ann Newton, was born 2 July 1835 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. His father died when the subject of this sketch was in his fifth year; thus, was he early left without the loving watchful care of a father, and his mother was left with the responsibility of caring, training, and educating of four young children, two boys and two girls, viz.: William, Francis, Sarah, and Caroline. The educational facilities of those times were somewhat limited as compared with the present system of learning; nevertheless, the mother saw to it that her children were sent to school, and there they were at least taught to read and write, and the finishing of their education was left to beobtained from the school of experience. At an early date, Francis learned the trade of Clay Pipe manufacturing, and at this business he devoted his efforts as long as he renamed in his native land. On 6 September l856, he married Sarah Jane Fishburn, daughter of Francis Fishburn and Eliza Jeffs. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 29 May 1880, by Elder Robert Leeming Fishburn, his brother-in-law. In 1881 he was ordained an Elder by James Rydalch, and called to assist in the presidency of the Leeds Branch. In April l882, he sailed for America on the S.S. Nevada, taking with him his wife and (six) of their children, arriving at Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, 1 May l882. (Their son Walter having come before in 1880.) Here he made his home until the following spring, at which time he moved to Salt Lake City, and entered the service of the Street Department, later obtained a team and followed the occupation of teamster for a number of years, also accepted contracts to furnish stone for foundations of dwellings, etc., quarrying the rock from the Fort Douglas Reservation, assisted by his sons, and delivering the stone with his team. His next venture was as a Flock Master, having invested his means in sheep; he furnished three of his boys employment, taking care of the same. In this enterprise, he was successful and enabled to retire from commercial activities at the age of 60, devoting practically the remaining l5 years of his life to Temple work. On 4 May 1890, he lost his beloved companion and wife Sarah Jane Fishburn, as the result of an accident, a runaway horse cutting across the sidewalk on the corner of 1st South and Main Streets, Salt Lake City, knocked her down, and from the injuries sustained she never recovered, remaining in an unconscious state for nearly two weeks. In June 1893 soon after the opening of the Salt Lake Temple, he received his Endowments and continued in frequent attendance at the Temple from this time until 16 November 1897, at which time he was called and set apart by President Lorenzo Snow as a Temple Ordinance worker, continuing in this mission until 19 September 1905 at which time he migrated to Logan to be with his youngest daughter Caroline who had accepted the position of Supervisor of the Kindergarten Department of the Brigham Young College, his son Frederick being already a resident of Logan, and later Walter and family also became residents. On 30 April 1907, he was called as a missionary to work in the Logan Temple and was set apart as an Ordinance Worker under the hands of President William Budge and Thomas Morgan, continuing in this capacity until his death 30 July 1910. At the organization of Liberty Stake in Zion, he was chosen and set apart as Second Counselor to President Joseph Keddington of the High Priest's Quorum, this taking place on 23 March l904. Father was a good man, devout and consistent, and convinced in every fiber of us body of the truth of the great Latter Day work.