Grouse Creek Personal Histories

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During Utah’s State Centennial in 1996, Verl and Delma Kimber Smith started a project to collect and publish personal histories of individuals who lived in Grouse Creek. We have now collected over 500 histories and some of them were created from obituary information they had. I finally finished adding the pictures I collected to these histories. There are now 950 images that were added. I have a lot more images, but need personal histories to add them to. These histories are available at https://grousecreek.com/grouse-creek-personal-histories/ 

There are two ways to access the histories. If you have a mouse you can position it over the Personal History Menu option to see an alphabetical list of Surnames. If you use your mouse and position it over one of the Surnames, it will give you a list of history with that name. Just lick on the name to see the history. 

If you don’t have a mouse, you can click on the Personal History menu and a list of Surnames are displayed at the bottom of the page. If you click on a Surname, you will see a list of histories that can be accessed. 

If you have any additional personal histories of individuals who lived in Grouse Creek, please feel free to send them to Alan Smith at alan.smith@grousecreek.com and I will include them.

Wild Mustangs

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A mustang is a wild horse, a broomtail, a cayuse, a fantail, or any of several other terms cowboys use to describe this tame animal gone wild. To you, my children, and your children and theirs, I give this book of stories about mustangs. The action and excitement I experienced while capturing mustangs are described here.

Parley Paskett published the subject book in 1986.USU digitized it just this month and made it available free through their digital library at: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/172//

 The PDF document should download on any device. It will take 9.9M for the download.

Would you please spread the word to your web site followers?

Thank you,
Philip Paskett

Service Project – Cemetery Benches

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Bob Flinder’s grandson, Shawn Flinders, is doing a Eagle Project For the Grouse Creek cemetery to provide benches.

They are accepting any kind of money donations any one would like to make to:

Send to Shawn Flinders
7486 South 1900 East.
South Weber Utah 84405

They would like to get them as soon as possible so they can have them ready for the cemetery cleanup day on May 13th.

Would like donations before May 1, 2016.

Plane Crash Near Park Valley

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On February 2nd, 2016, there was a mysterious plane crash in the remote desert southwest of Park Valley. The abandoned and empty plane was discovered by Tom Austin, a hunter, who contacted the sheriff’s office. When a detective contacted the FAA, they were informed the crash had already been reported and both passengers were fine.

Many questions about the crash, such as why they were attempting to land in a remote field and why the police were not contacted, have not been addressed.

Further information can be found on KSL.com and at the Box Elder News Journal.

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Photo by Stuart Johnson, Desert News, KSL Chopper 5