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History of Joel Clement Metcalf
Written by his wife Leona Schramm
Metcalf
Joel Clement Metcalf was born 11 May 1902, in Centerfield,
Clem attended school in
As a boy Clem had a lot of trouble with his ears. At times he had to
stay in
There were some Japanese truck farmers who farmed near Clem's
father. As Clem grew older he often
worked in his spare time for them. They were very fond of him.
The following is a list of the Priesthood ordinances that Clem received:
He was blessed July 1902 by John Kearns, Baptized 7 June 1910 in the Manti
temple by Jorgen P Winter, Confirmed 7 June 1910 by Aaron S. Squire, Ordained a
Deacon 27 March 1921 by Charles Hansen, a teacher 5 February 1922 by Charles S.
Embley, a Priest 24 June 1923, by J Earl Pickett, an Elder, 23 May 1948 by
Clyde Barker, a high Priest, 11 April 1954 by Orin R. Bawden, and he received
his patriarchal Blessing 11 July 1955 by J. Hatten Carpenter.
Two of Clem's brother's died during his youth. His oldest brother,
Lavern, died 22 June 1918 of diphtheria:-His brother, Guy, died 16 Nov. 1921 of
typhoid fever. This was very hard for
Clem because of the close relationship he had with these brothers.
I met Clem during the winter of 1929 while I was living in Manti with my
aunt and Uncle and attending
Clem often worked in the sugar factor in the fall. He worked in the Burley Idaho sugar factory
in 1936 or37. He worked on a farm near
Burley
After some bad years on the farm in Clarion his father sold the farm and
Clem bought a farm in Granger just off 3100 S. and 3600 W. He and his brother Deon moved to Granger
around 1940. For a few years he farmed
and milked cows. Then he got a job at
the Garfield Smelter. About this time
Clem's father, whose health had been failing, passed away. A little later Clem sold his farm and bought
a small farm at 3806 S. 4000 W. Here he
built a basement house. He and Deon
lived there for awhile. Around 1947 he
built a small block house North of the basement house where he had lived.
On June 2, 1948 Clem married Leona Schramm in the
The winter of 1948 and 1949 was a hard one. The men were out on strike at the
Smelter. Then Clem had to go into the
hospital for surgery. The buses didn't
run all the while he was in the hospital.
There were blizzards constantly and huge snow drifts everywhere. I had to drive into
Finally the men were able to go back to work at the Smelter. When Clem recovered sufficiently from his
operation he went back. It took us all that
winter and part of the next summer to get our house finished. In the meantime Clem worked at the Smelter
and farmed our seven acres. He bought a tractor to help with the farming. Clem's brother Deon and his wife Esther lived
next door to us on the south. Deon had
two acres of land which he farmed.
In 1953 we were on a belated honey moon to Los Angles California. Katherine and Walter Ricks went with us, also
Clem's mother. On our return trip home
we went to a session at the St. George Temple and saw my friend ZelIa Stone and
her husband Le Grand Hepworth and their little girl sealed in the temple.
Clem-and I were very happy together.
We had one sorrow. We were not
blessed with a family of our own. After
we had been married about five years I was asked to return to teaching because
there was a teacher shortage. This I
did. It worked out quite well for
us. We were able to build us a nice
double garage, which has been very handy.
On April 1, 1954, Clem was in an explosion at the Smelter. He was blown about twenty feet from where the
accident occurred. The doctor called me
at school and said he had been in an accident and was on his way to the St.
Marks hospital in an ambulance, and that I had better get in there as quickly
as possible. When I arrived at the
hospital he was in surgery and I had to wait two or three hours before I could
see him. They brought him from the
recovery room all swathed in bandages.
He had a couple of very large facial lacerations, a broken collarbone
and other cuts and bruises. The doctors
said that they weren't concerned about those outward hurts, as serious as they
were. They were afraid of internal
injuries.
Just after Clem was brought from the recovery room the Bishopric came to
see him. One of the ladies I taught with
had notified them. They gave him a
blessing and promised him that he would recover. He was in intensive care for three days. I stayed with him. Then they took him out of intensive care and
sent me home. Clem recovered, and after three or four months he returned to
work, but he never got to feeling as well as before. His broken collar bone didn't heal and the
next year he had to have surgery and some bone grafted in it.
Clem and Deon had a chance to sell their farm land for a subdivision, so
they sold it, keeping just the homes and garden plots. On the second of March 1956 Clem was shocked
and deeply sadden by the sudden death of his brother Deon. Clem had been very protective of Deon. After their father's death he had been more
like a father than a brother to him.
After living so close he missed him every where he turned. In Dec. 1956 we bought the old Lon Haskell
farm and home in Payson. That winter and
summer we spent all of our spare time fixing up the place. It was in ,a bad state of disrepair. Clem liked the farm very much and we planned
on moving there when we retired. We
rented the farm and the house.
In the summer of 1958 Clem wanted to go back to
After school was out we went to Payson for a few days. Clem got to feeling worse so we returned home
on the 5th of June. His condition
continued to worsen. He could only be up
for short periods of the day. It got hard
for him to eat and keep his food down.
We borrowed a wheel chair for him to get around in. I called the doctor and he had me bring him
into the office. When he saw him he had
me take him right to the hospital. He had been in the hospital a little over a
week when he passed away on 20 July 1959 about ten P.M. We laid him to rest in the
He was courageous and brave to the very end. I was so grateful that our marriage was an
eternal one, and that the parting would be for but a short duration.
Contributed by jhammond22@cox.net
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