Robert and Elizabeth McKell, Great grandparents that settled in Spanish Fork.
Henry James and Alice Vilate Jex McKell family living up Spanish Fork canyon, 1894. Great grandma Lindsay's father (Heber Joseph McKell) is the little boy in the front.
April 1926, Heber is 31, Romania is 29, and great grandma Lindsay was 2 years, 2 months old.
Her mother's name was Romania. She served a mission to the New England Mission and met great grandpa when she got home. Great grandpa McKell served his mission in Minnesota. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Her mother died of Leukemia when great grandma was three years-old. Great grandma Lindsay lived with family for a few years while her dad worked.
A few years later her father married Cornelia DeGroot in the Salt Lake temple, so now she had a
mother and then more brothers and sisters came to the family. Great grandmother Lindsay was the oldest of eight children in her family. She has two brothers and five sisters.- June 1945
L to R: Lael, Nola, Elsa Romane (GG Lindsay), LaNon - 1937
Christmas 1945
October 1944, engagement picture
October 31, 1944, wedding picture. GG Grandma and Grandpa were married in the Salt Lake Temple on Halloween day due to grandpa's military commitments.
This is the home in Spanish Fork, Utah, where great grandma Lindsay grew-up. It was built by her father and is made of brick, has two bedrooms on the main floor and three bedrooms in the basement. The basement was not finished when they moved into the house and it was very cold down there in the winter.
Her father graduated from chiropractic school in Iowa and set up his professional equipment in his bedroom. He was also a great farmer and raised cattle for meat and cows for milk and butter. They had 100's of chickens in a coop behind the house and the children would gather eggs everyday to sell and to eat.
Her father graduated from chiropractic school in Iowa and set up his professional equipment in his bedroom. He was also a great farmer and raised cattle for meat and cows for milk and butter. They had 100's of chickens in a coop behind the house and the children would gather eggs everyday to sell and to eat.
The house faces west and used to have two very large elm trees in front that shaded the house in the afternoon, but they had to come down when the city paved the street and put in gutters.
Great Grandmother Lindsay and her youngest sister Janeen
The front room had a fireplace, that was bricked up all the time I can remember, and enclosed book cases with glass doors on either side. The dining room table was set up where I was standing to take this picture. Hard to believe that we got great grandma's family and spouses as well as my family in this room for Sunday dinners when we visited them in the summer.
Great grandma's sister, Janeen and her husband, Wayne, own the house now. They are getting it ready to rent next month.
This is the backyard, or at least part of what was the backyard. This area has grass now, but it used to be gravel by the house and a huge garden that filled about an acre of the property. The chicken coops were on the other side of the fence in this picture. The fence was not there in those days.
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