This quiz is for all of you who think you know everything Whelchel and those of you just interested. True or False
1. R. Carleton Whelchel applied to and was accepted into the Julliard School of Music.
2. R. Carleton Whelchel claims Emmett, ID as his birthplace though he has never called that town his home.
3. Elsie Johns Whelchel has three siblings Richard, Elva and Lily.
4. Elsie Johns' parents moved from their farm/homestead in Smith Center, KS to a 40 acre farm in Emmett, ID when their daughter Elsie was 10 years old.
5. The Johns family were prominents enough members of the Emmett, ID community to have a main street named after them: Johns Avenue.
6. After Clyde Carleton Johns died, his Emmett homestead was divided into 4 equal 10 acre parcels.
7. After Clyde died, his widow Minnie sold her 10 acre plot including the farmhouse to move to "town". She moved about 1 mile west.
8. Harold Carver Whelchel grew up in Caldwell, ID.
9. Harold decided upon moving to college to change the name he was called to Carver.
10. Grandpa Nichols, Minnie Nichols Johns father, was the Sheriff or Deputy of Smith Center, KS.
11. Minnie Johns remarried at a ripe old age after moving to "town."
12.Elsie couldn't go to the hospital to deliver her baby boy because she and her husband were too poor to pay for the hospital bill.
Stay tuned to for the answers to the quiz.
Love you. We are having a great time in historic Baker City.
Martissa
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1.False 2.True 3.True 4.Sounds good- True 5.Wouldn't that be fun-True 6.The favorite child would get the most-False 7.True 8.True 9.True 10.A police officer in the fam would be nice-True 11.Hope not :)-False 12.False
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When I wrote out the quiz, I thought all of the answers were true. Since then I've learned a little more and here are the answers. (Don't peek if you haven't posted your answers yet.)
1. True. When Dad finished his tour of duty in the Navy in Washington DC, he was planning on heading to Julliard where he had been accepted to study music. You can imagine how proud Granddad and Grandmother must have been. Just before finishing in the Navy, however, he received a letter from his father that changed the course of our family history; or perhaps more accurately began our family history. Harold Carver Whelchel responding to his son's request, would not give consent for his darling boy to be baptized, (Dad was not yet 21 years old), but "come home and we will talk about it" was the feeling. Unfortunately for Carver, he continued in his letter, but if Carleton liked that church so much, why didn't he go to the mormon school in Utah. I'm sure Granddad must have written that very facetiously and probably wished he had cut his hand off after receiving a response from his eldest son saying he would follow his father's advice, had canceled his admission to Julliard and was going to sign up at BYU on his way home cross country. Dad jumped off the bus in Utah and somehow got to BYU, was accepted on the spot, signed up for fall classes, (his GI bill paid the tuition) then got back on the bus to finish the trip to Portland. He made one more stop in Boise on his way home, meeting his parents at Aunt Elva's and Uncle Carrel's home there. Grandma Johns was also there and Aunt Lily and Uncle Sonny Dresser. Dad was very excited about what he had learned about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Mormon Church and spoke to them all about it. The above mentioned family quickly marched him around to various pastors who tried to convince him of the evils of the Mormon church. Grandma Nichols told him, "The Mormon church has nothing that lived up to the teachings of Jesus Christ." Dad was unswayed. He told me, "I knew somthing. I knew something." and he wasn't going to lose it. During the little stay in Boise, Dad actually attended a sacrament meeting and signed up to go help build a new chapel in Mountain Home, ID a few miles outside of Boise. I'm sure his family were excited about that! Dad said he couldn't remember how he got to and from the construction site, but he spent a day pounding nails into the roof of a chapel. He or the guy next to him dropped a hammer through the tresses and they watched as it fell all the way down and crashed to the ground below, but no one was hurt. Dad told me this story as we drove through Mountain Home, ID. I forgot to ask Dad, but I don't think he ever received permission to be baptized, but soon after this bus trip home he turned 21, traveled back to BYU for the start of the semester, entered his band class and saw a cute girl sucking on her french horn. He was baptized and engaged within a month.
Answer to question 2 coming soon.
So did your parents have to wait a year to get married in the temple due to your fathers recent baptism?
They not only waited one year they waited three. Dad wanted to go on a mission, so he had to be a member for one year and then went on a two year mission. They were married 7 days after he returned from his mission. Lucky they were so sure of themselves! I asked mom if he was wierd. I mean RMs are a little strange until they get back into real life. She said, "Yes, he was. We had to get up at 4:30 am for scripture study every day on our honeymoon."
Answer to 2 and 12.
Dad was born in Emmett, ID but his family was living in Odesa, WA at the time and his family never lived in Emmett, ID at any time. They traveled there to visit family during the summers and at holidays. So why was he born there? Grandfather was teaching band in a middle school or high school, (can't tell by the photos but I'd guess high school) making $50 a month. Carver and Elsie did not have enough money for Grandmother to go the hospital to deliver baby Carleton, so she traveled to her mom and dad's homestead where our Daddy was born in the front bedroom. That house no longer stands. A church of some sort and a parking lot are where the house used to be.
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