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Afton, Wyoming 83110
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he arrived at the camp safe.
     Theo met Merdath Barnson at Urie Wyoming. He was driving his new Model A.
He stopped to talk to this load of girls in a car on there way to Lyman. He found
out where these two blond girls lived in Mountain View and said he would stop
by and see them. So he did and he couldn't tell the girls apart so he waited
until Al Day took out the one he had came for and Theo took out the one left
for him. Merdath he said, when she turned side ways he couldn't see her she was
so slender’ (Theo always said SKINNEY).
      Theo and Merdath got married June 23, 1931 in Salt Lake City they were accompanyed
by Merdath's mother Mrs. Vivian Barnson Green, they were married by Bishop Graham
in west Salt Lake. The honeymoon night was spent in Salt Lake. On there return
to Mountain View, Theo worked for Avery Green in the forest ona saw mill. He
worked for a dollar a day. The next summer in the hay fields and walked 3 miles
to work and back. The first child a daughter was born March 4, 1932, named
Carolee. Theo then worked at sheep herding until one time on his return Carolee
didn't know him and would cry when he came near. So he quit that job and went to
work in the Ackerman grocery store. He worked there for three years and during
this time his first son Jay Ronald was born, April 14, 1935. In 1933 Theo and
Merdath purchased an acre in the west end of Mountain View , there Theo built a one
room log cabin 16 X 22 ft. , were his little family lived until in 1939 he built
a new house. In 1940 he had two rooms completed and moved his family into the new
rooms. December 11, 1940 a second baby son was born Garry Brent. In the summer
of 1941 Theo moved his family to Evanston to work for M.K. Construction, removing
the top of the Union Pacific tunnel at Wahsatch and making a cut. It was the
first time anyone had seen a Monnagun shovel that walked around and Theo was
impressed with it and took his family out to see it walk.

     Theo learned to sheep shear,when in his teens he sheared with his uncles.
His back would get so stiff he had a bucket of rocks tied to a pully and while
shearing being bent down shearing when he raised up the bucket would go down to
the floor and pull him back up. He got his own shearing plant in 1936 and hired
a crew of men each spring to shear and eyeing (cutting the wool away from the eyes )
baging ( cutting the wool away from the ewe's bag for the lambs to suck) tailing
(removing the wool from the sheeps back door).