From a history found on familysearch.org:
Myron Whiteley is a son of Joseph Ephraim Whiteley and Alice Mariah Adams. He is one of eleven children and twin brother to his sister, Marion.
When the twins were about two years old, their father hauled a load of sand into the back yard near the house and the twins had some buckets and spoons to play with. It was the last of June and the alfalfa was higher than the children's heads. There being no fence between the hayfield and the sand pile, it was an accident waiting to happen. When Myron's father drew near with the mowing machine, little Myron ran quickly to join him, faster than his mother could catch him. The knife blades of the mower caught his legs and cut one off completely and severed all the foot except for the heel cord on the other. Joseph handed the child to his mother and hurriedly unhooked the team of horses and rode 15 miles to bring a doctor. Mariah held the one little foot on until help arrived and the one leg was saved, but the other leg was buried in a small grave in the cemetery at Fountain Green. Myron often visited the grave as he grew up until the family moved to Pleasant Grove when he was 14 years old.
Myron was a very determined individual and full of ambition. His twin sister was very devoted to him and tried to save him every step she could. Myron never once shirked his duty or put his work on anyone else.
Myron graduated from the eighth grade at the Linden School and stayed with his grandparents in Pleasant Grove during some of the winters. In the summers he worked on his father's farm thinning beets until he thought he would not be able to get up the next morning. He always stayed until the job was done. His duties also included herding the cows. In some of the winters he would take his father's team to Salt Lake and haul sand and gravel to build the roads there. He saved enough money to buy himself a new wagon and got a job as a bookkeeper for Baxter, Straw and Stores, the firm building the railroad into San Francisco. Myron attended Brigham Young University where he graduated with a commercial course after two years.
Myron saved enough money to buy an artificial leg made of a very light wood and he did so well on it that many people never knew he was a cripple. While Myron was working on the Taylor fruit farm, he met Kate Warwood. The wedding date was set after only three months. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on November 2, 1910. They lived and worked on the Taylor farm for four and a half years. A son and a daughter were born while they were there.
In June 1915 the family moved to Oakley, Idaho. They moved on a dry farm. It was hard, the rain and water were so scarce the crops would not grow. Another son was born. Myron purchased a 40 acre sagebrush farm on the north side of the Snake River. The family lived in a tar roof shack. They grubbed on the sagebrush and planted potatoes.
In 1917 Myron went to Emmett, Idaho and purchased a 127 acre farm west of town. They bought a house in town. Later Myron bought an additional 137 acres. Six more children were born. Myron added on to the house in Emmett.
Myron was a master of all trades. He was the family's barber and dentist. He sharpened their pencils with a knife, had beautiful penmanship, and a reputation of his bookkeeping skills.
After working hard and building a fine ranch Myron's health began to fail him. The boys were either on their own or in the war so help was hard to find. Myron decided to sell the ranch. It had grown to over 412 acres and they had lived lived there for 28 years. They moved to a small home in Emmett, but after a few years bought a larger home and acreage where they raised chickens and had a large garden.
Myron became the ward clerk of their LDS ward, an office he held for twenty years. He was a member of the Enterprise Ditch Company, the Letha Irrigation District, and was secretary of one Drainage District. Myron kept busy in the church, enjoyed a few trips, but spent quite a bit of time fighting his illness through the last years of his life. He died of cancer at the age of 68.