In mid-August cousins Nancy and Flora Lee took me on a grand adventure on top of Monte Cristo. I'd planned on a mid-week retreat to Randolph to be with them. Flora Lee suggested we might be able to find the remains of the cabin my father, Glenn Frazier built on his Monte Cristo homestead in the late 1930's. I couldn't resist.
We visited the Rich County City Hall which is down the street from Flora Lee's Randolph home. Its on the corner of Church and Main Streets. There we poured over land records and found the record and location of Glenn's homestead. We didn't know where he'd built his cabin. I had this picture of it.
August 2018
Glenn built the required cabin on his homestead before he moved to Oakland, California and married Helen Rex there on November 20, 1937.
Family history reminds us that Glenn sold his homestead land in 1943 to help his father Frank Frazier pay the taxes on his Woodruff, Utah Ranch.
Glenn's six-hundred-thirty-six acres and forty-five-hundredths of an acre homestead is part of "Woodruff Park" as the area is called on the Cache National Forest Service Map. Thanks to my cousins' generosity, Jeep, and incredible navigational skills we found our way there.
We located the collapsed cabin in the dry barren sage brush covered hills according to the land description coordinates. Many years ago Glenn's son Rex discovered the cabin and the "roof was caved in."
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