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Arthell Arnold ""Thell"" Walker

15 Mar 1902 – 28 Feb 1947

Birth15 Mar 1902
Death28 Feb 1947
CemeteryPleasant Grove City Cemetery
Pleasant Grove , Utah County , Utah , USA
Added bySRBentz on 29 Oct 2009
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77125

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Son of Delbert Walker and Cynthia Elizabeth Park Husband of Luella Swenson married 20 Apr 1921 in Provo, Cache, Utah Our subject, my father, was born March 15, 1902, in Pleasant Grove, Utah to well-known and respected parents, Delbert Walker and Cynthia Elizabeth Park. Delbert was a descendant of Pioneer Henson Walker, Jr. and Mary Green and Cynthia was a descendant of Samuel Wallace Park and Sarah Jane Taylor. "Thell", as he was called, was the fourth son and the sixth child of thirteen brothers and sisters. Thell attended school until the 8th grade. The schoolhouse is now the Museum of Pleasant Grove. Also, he attended school in what is now The Third Ward church house. He played catch and short shop on the school baseball team. As a shortstop, it has been said he was very fast and good at making plays. Delbert, a farmer, always had plenty of work for the family to do. there were cows to be milked, range stock to be fed, and all kinds of chores to do, besides the field sugar beets, and the hay and grain to be hauled by team and wagon. By the sweat of his brow and hard work, Thell grew. At the age of sixteen, he was hired as a guide for men from Salt Lake to ride the Indian Trail from Pleasant Grove to American Fork Canyon. Thell was a very good horseman. Many people today can remember watching Thell ride up and down "Sam Whites Lane" with one hand in the mane of a horse running full speed jumping from one side to the other. In a potato race on horseback, he and his horse were a hard pair to beat. Thell owned one of the first rubber-tired buggies in Pleasant Grove. He and his girl, Luella Swenson, would go to town. The road from the Bank Corner to the curve in American Fork had cement. It was the first cemented area. they would take couples in turns for a ride over there and back. thell and Luella were married on April 20, 1921, in Provo, Utah, Utah. They set up housekeeping in the old Will Robbins home out by Jarmans in Orem. The rent was $9 a month, the water was hauled one and a half miles from Swenson's farm. When Thell came home from work, he brought a 10-gallon can of water. Thell's income was from farming so they had very little money until fall. Luella picked berries to earn their rent money. In September they moved to Walker's two-room brick home under the Hill, or now half a mile east of Geneva U.S. Steel Mill. Then from there in 1924 Thell sold the horse and buggy, bought a Ford car, and moved his wife and son, Arlo to Springdale (by Burley), Cassia Co., Idaho where their second son, Lloyd. J was born. Thell rented 80 acres of land for three years and they prospered there. the farm was sold and there were no other farms about for rent; so they moved back to Utah. On the 16th of February 1928, his brother Perry died. He bought Perry's farm on the lower highway, Geneva Road, where Glade D., Howard L., and Sterling L. were born. They built onto the old home in 1935. During 1929-30 Thell ran the Shady Inn at Pleasant Grove, besides running the farm. During the following years, Thell farmed, and in 1942 he started working at the Geneva Steel Plant. He worked there until 1946, but due to ill health he quit and on the 27th of February 1947 he took chills during a blood transfusion. He hemorrhaged and passed away leaving his wife, five sons, and four grandchildren. At the present time January 1962, there are still surviving five sons and wives and sixteen grandchildren. He was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. By Arlo A. Walker, son:

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