HISTORY OF
JULIA EUZELL CRANDALL TRUMAN
Compiled by Cloe Truman Anderson

This information was given to a granddaughter, Cloe Truman Anderson by Julia Euzell Crandall Truman in 1953, when she was 81 years old.

Euzell was born December 7, 1871, in Springville Utah. She was the first child of Hyrum Oscar Crandall, and Harriet Guymon Crandall. The family lived in Springville, until Julia was about eight years old and then moved to Fountain Green. They lived there for a little over a year and journeyed over the mountain to Huntington in a covered wagon. Father built a two-room log house over across the Huntington River. He had one room completed and the logs ready to build the second room, when the threshing crew came from Orangeville to harvest father's grain. It began to rain soon after they got there, and the threshing crew built the second room to the house while waiting for the rain to stop and the grain to dry. This home was built on our farm. We later moved to 3rd West and 2nd north and father built another home there. This new location was called "Crandall's Corner."

I went to school in a dugout when we lived on the river. Sally Wimmer and Elias Cox were my teachers. There were approximately 12 students who attended school with me. Later there was a log schoolhouse built south of the old church. I went to school there, until I was about sixteen years old. My father had a farm north of Huntington and a saw mill up the canyon. He and William Howard owned the saw mill jointly, and the first year they didn't make enough money to buy oil for the machine. Crandall Canyon was the location of the saw mill, and that canyon still bears the name of my father.

I did house work for different people from the time I was sixteen until I was married at age 20. Father lived in Huntington for about seven years and was a counselor in the Bishopric for four years of that time. In l887, Hyrum sold his l60 acres in Huntington and pulled up stakes and moved his two families to Vernal, Utah. Father stayed there for one year and was being sought after by the federal marshals for practicing polygamy so he moved with his families to Old Mexico. My sister Hettie who was just younger than me, married Samuel Rolf and stayed in Vernal, and didn't move on with the family to Mexico.

I married Mica Truman at the time my dad and mother moved from Vernal. We lived with his mother, who was a widow for a short period of time and then Mica built a two room log home on 2nd North and 2nd West. Kate, Ralph, Guy, Iver Wilda, and Floyd were all born in that home. We moved up on 3rd West and 3rd North into a much larger three-room frame home and the other children were born in this house.

My Dad's two wives were sisters. Margaret and Harriet Guymon. Margaret was the first wife and the older of the two sisters. She was always bossy and domineering with my mother. She and her family received preferential treatment from father. I really disliked polygamy.

-Compiled by Cloe Truman Anderson, Thanks to Marchelle Nielson for this history
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Julia Euzell Crandall (Truman) was the daughter of Harriet Guyman and Hyrum Oscar Crandall. Julie married Mica Spencer Truman February 2, 1891 in Huntington, Utah.