A little about me...

1. What's my heritage? From my parents and I come close but never touch anyone famous or worldly significant. We come from the line of the brother of Joseph Smith Sr. His first name is Silas through my grandmother Nield’s Ross lineage. She was a Morgan as can be seen at the following site http://macsheep.tripod.com/Morgan/id12.html .On the side of my grandmother Passey, Helen Lee, I have been told that she is a cousin of President Harold B. Lee but I have never seen the connection. Because Paf 5 does not run on Mac OSX or OS9 I cannot lookup my family origins but from memory, which is getting poorer and poorer with age and my disease, most came from England Wales and Herefordshire, from Scotland and from France anywhere from early 1700s to mid – late 1800s. Many came to better their lot in land and freedom and most others came for religious reasons. I know the Nield family settled in Star Valley Wyoming a little southwest of Yellowstone National Park. Some of the Lee fami settled in North Carolina and others of the family settled in Utah and Idaho. The Morgan family, Thomas and Ann, emigrated to Utah in the 1851 they were baptized in the Mormon religion in 1840 by the missionary Wilford woodruff in the Herefordshire England area. They immigrated to Utah and were sent to Idaho. The only family that I cannot find is the Passey family of my grandparents. I just cannot find anything on them. Most came over to farm.

2. My mother last on right next to Dad in the following picture http://macsheep.tripod.com/Morgan/id44.html was born in Ririe, ID on March 3, 1930 and grew up mostly in Lincoln, ID. My father was born in Idaho Falls, ID on September 20, 1929 and grew up mostly in Amman, ID. Both Lincoln and Amman were part of th Idaho Falls school district so they grew up together and never dated until a mistake brought them together, mom was visiting a friend and dad went there to get his date, moms friends sister who was not there. Anyway when moms date got there her friends mom got involved and suggested that dad take out mom and moms date take out her daughter, moms friend as she thought moms date was to good for mom. She then dared dad to take out mom and the rest is history. They were married May 21 1947 in the Idaho Falls Temple. Since then they have moved several times. My father worked for his father in the dairy business grandpa had in Amman as a truck driver moving the milk from the barn to the dairy then he started working for the dairy picking up milk from many farms and taking the milk to he dairy. Then they all, in the above picture, moved to Victor, Montana to work together on a farm that my grandfather had bought. Each in turn moved away to follow a different skill because the farm grandpa had bought couldn’t pay as much as they wanted to earn. Dad stayed with grandpa until grandpa sold the dairy farm. Later they found that the reason they struggled so much is they bought their hay fro Montana and not from Idaho. Grandpa and dad both got jobs working on a state representatives ranch, where they worked until the owner could afford both. So dad got a job driving truck for Mayflower moving company and we moved to Stevensville, MT. dad quit Mayflower when he found they had not been honest with him. He then started driving for another company who could keep him home more. When that didn’t work out dad started working as foreman for a lumber yard which burnt as part of a forest fire so dad started working as a fireman for the state. We then moved to Othello, WA, where dad worked as plant foreman in a fresh pack potato plant. Then he went to work as a dispatcher/manager for a trucking company. And finally he worked as a truck driver for a chemical company out of Pasco, WA for twenty years. My mom, although very stern is one of the most loving people I have ever known. My dad loves his wife more than anyone can imagine, he will stand up for her regardless. My father taught me the importance of always working hard. My mother taught me the importance of the gospel of Jesus Christ.