Frank Phelps of Arbon, Who Froze to Death in 1934
Frank Phelps, an Arbon Valley farmer in the papers from 1915, froze to death in 1934, and his son Bud, then 14, left school to run the family farm.
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Frank Phelps, an Arbon Valley farmer in the papers from 1915, froze to death in 1934, and his son Bud, then 14, left school to run the family farm.
From 1911 the papers followed Pierce Hardman of Mendon to his Arbon Valley homestead, which he and his wife Ella farmed for half a century, later wintering in North Logan.