Born: Place: Blessed: Baptized: Place: Decon: Teacher: Priest: Elder: Seventy: High Priest: Married: Spouses Places Endowed: Sealed: Patriarchal Blessing: JOSEPH ELBERT ATKINSON October 5, 1913 Farmington, Utah December 12, 1913 December 4, 1921 Clarkston, Utah November 16, 1925 November 6, 1928 January 18, 1931 April 29, 1934 dune 23, 1960 September 5, 1939 Flossie Nora Buttars Salt Lake Temple September 5, 1939 September 5, 1939 December 12, 1930 (Davis County) (Bp. John Ravsten) (Raymond Griffen) (Cache County) (Cc. D. McBride) (Kenneth Thompson) (Andrew Heggie) (John E. Hyer) (Alma A. Sonne) (Steven L Chipman) (John H, Peterson)JOSEPH E, ATKINSON ZI was born at Grandfather Christensen's home in Farmington, Utah on October 5, 1913 on a Sunday morning at 5:20 A.M. Dr, Tanner was mother's doctor. I was only 3 when Grandfather Atkinson died so I don't remember him very well. We stayed on a piece of ground called, Dirty Head, in Clarkston, Utah. Dad thomesteaded it. It was probably the last piece of ground to get because it wasn't very good. We stayed in a little one room shanty in the summer. We had a cow, pigs, and raised a few horses. Dad broke up 16 acres to farm. The rest was grazing area. He put up 2 to 3 miles of fences (I know because it was so crooked). We also lived at Birch Creek in a one room log house that had been used by Hunsakers.. Dad got this piece from Grandpa Atkinson,and was bought from Hunsakers. Grandfather died and it was divided 3 ways. Dad got 53 acres (16 acres was farm ground and the rest was sage brush). Sid Godfrey told me that Dad used an axe and chopped sage brush off the South side of the road and got about 8 acres more land to farm. A brother, Alfred Atkinson got about 120 acres and a half brother, William got about the same. Hunsaker. owned about 300 acres.T was told by Zelda Atkinson Adams that when I was a small baby, she was holding me while on a header box. Dad and Mother were there and we had a tip over. Zelda told me that I cried alot from pain in my neck, I asked Mother about it about 4 years before she died. She said I cried for 2 or 3 weeks. I had X-rays of my back’ and neck about 20 years ago. The Dr. said it looked like I had had a fractured neck sometime in my life. Mother told me that when I was small she came to get me out of the water. I squirted the hose all over her and got her soaked. I didn't think I'd do a trick like that again. I didn't start school until I was almost 7 years old. Either I wasn't smart enough or they didn't run a school bus to Birch Creek or Dirty Head. Dad and Mother had a 2 roomed home to move into about 2 or 3 months after they were married. They lived on the homesteading farm at Dirty Head so they could obtain the ground according to the Homesteading Act. We had to live there 6 months out of the year. I was baptized at Clarkston in the font at the church house. My friends were neighborhood cousins: the Christensens, Ravstens, Ariel Griffen, Leanard Jensen, and Uncle Joe Atkinson's family. They later moved to East Garland. I spent alot of time at Grandma Atkinson's and Aunt Tillies.