David and Marian Follick
By Mabel Kunz and Irene Partridge, from History of Bear Lake Pioneers
David Follick was born 30 Dec 1860 at Egypt, Iowa, son of George
Follick and Nancy Parker. He immigrated by ox team with his parents and
grandparents from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Denver in the summer of 1863.
They lived 220 miles west of Denver on Clear Creek, which at that time was a
placer gold mining camp.
In August 1867, in company with his parents, his sister Isabelle and brother Charles, David came to Salt Lake City on a stagecoach. They came to his grandfather, Able Parker, who came from Denver in the spring of 1864. His sister Martha, was born there. The Parkers had many fruit trees. They dried peaches, apricots and apples every fall. David helped on the farm and worked in a sawmill with his father and Able Parker, who operated the sawmill in that location.
About the year 1869, his parents moved to Cedar Fort Utah, in Utah County. Here he attended school for about five years and when not at school, he was employed to assist in agricultural work. He attended school in the winter months and finished the Fifth Reader, similar to what is now the eighth grade. He received a teaching certificate for teaching the primary grades and taught the advanced class in arithmetic during his term of attendance.
In July 1870, his father's family moved to Montpelier, Idaho. The procured lumber from the canyon and built a two room dirt roof house, a stable and a blacksmith shop. The Oregon Short Line Railroad was being built then, and everything had to be freighted in by team. His father had the first blacksmith's shop in town and many horses were brought there to be shod. His father fitted the shores, Perry Bingham and David shod the horses. They also repaired many of the freight wagon. During the summer of 1881 and 1882, David helped to construct the Oregon Shortline through Wester Wyoming and Eastern Idaho.
David learned the carpenter trade from Henry Hillier and James Kinnersley's father. He contracted building the Washington School in Montpelier about 1893. In 1900 he completed the east wing. In 1906 he took the contract to build the junior high school, better known as the Central Building, completed in 1907. David also contracted on teh Waterworks Dam in Montpelier Canyon.
He met Marian Bridges at a dance in 1882 and were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. After their return they made their home in Dingle, where they spent their honeymoon feeding cattle for Mr. Wilcox. David and Marian purchased this land and built a small house. David was called on a mission to the Southern States in 1888.
Children of David Follick and Marian Bridges
1. Sarah Elizabeth Follick b-12 Oct 1883 in
Dingle; d-29 Sep 1915 in Montpelier; br-Montpelier Cemetery; m-J B Hopkins
2. Marian Eveline Follick b-13 May 1885 in Dingle; d-10 Feb 1886 in Dingle; br-Dingle
Cemetery
3. David Romaine Follick b-20 Oct 1886 in Dingle; d-15 June 1965 in Ogden Utah;
br-Washington Heights Memorial Park in Ogden
4. Charles Loraine Follick b-14 Jan 1890 in Montpelier; d-22 July 1958 in
Pocatello
5. Minnie Ida Follick b-11 May 1892 in Montpelier; d-16 Sep 1992 in Pocatello;
m-Jesse Allen Green 28 June 1911
6. Mabel Ina Follick b-11 May 1892 in Montpelier; d-Montpelier; m-Alfred Jones Wells 11 Sep
1924
7. Grace Irene Follick b-30 Mar 1895 in Montpelier; d-3 Oct 1983in Tooele Utah;
m-Arthur B Partridge
8. Jane Orene Follick (twin)
9. Baby Follick (twin)
10. George Ruel Follick b-19 July 1899 in Montpelier; d-23 May 1964 in
Montpelier
11. Sidney B Follick b-13 Oct 1902 in Montpelier; d-26 Nov 1989 in Pocatello;
m-Helen Lucille Dunn
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Marian worked hard to take care of the family while David was away. Loraine was born shortly after David left in Montpelier, at the home of Marian's mother. David enjoyed playing the violin , worked with a home dramatic company and helped put on several plays for the community. They had an organ which was a source of great joy to him, because he played church hymns. David and Marian were always loyal to the church and were displeased when their children did not obey the church principles.
Marian was an expert seamstress and made most of the family's clothing. She was also a splendid cook and made many beuatiful quilts. In April 1921 while building the Bern Dam, David fell in the water. He tried to dry his clothes by a bonfire but was not successful and developed pneumonia. He died 2 July 1921. Marian was active most of her life as a Relief Society teacher and served as president from April 1919 to January 1924. She always enjoyed traveling and keeping up with the modern progress of the world. When she was eighty-five she went to California with her son-in-law, Arthur Partridge and daughter, Irene to see the Rose Bowl parade. When she was ninety-one she attended the Follick reunion in Pocatello, and spoke and encouraged her large family of children and grandchildren to live honorable lives.
She died in Montpelier 11 Oct 1953 and was buried in the Montpelier Cemetery next to her husband.
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The News Examiner, Thursday, 9 April 1953, page 3
HONORED ON HER 92ND BIRTHDAY
Members of the David Follick family held open house for their mother, Mrs. Marian Follick on her 92nd birthday. Mrs. Follick, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H Bridges, was born in Salt Lake City 31 Mar 1861. At the age of five, she came to Montpelier with her parents and has resided here most of her life. She was married to David Follick on 21 Sep 1882 in Salt Lake City. To this union eleven children were born, of whom four sons and three daughters are living.
Mrs. Follick served as president of the Third Ward Relief Society about four years and has been active in other church work. She has always loved to work in her flowers, garden and home. A host of friends and neighbors called to pay tribute to their long time friend and associate.
On March 29, the following members of Mrs. Follick's family attended a birthday dinner in her honor; Mr. and Mrs. Romaine Follick of Ogden, Mrs. Arthur B Partridge of Tooele, Utah; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L Follick, Mr. and Mrs. J A Green, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Green and daughter Kathy, Mrs. Fay Myers and daughter Ardith, Mrs. M R Gardner and sons Richard and Robert and daughter, LouAnn all of Pocatello; Mr. and Mrs. G R Follick, Mrs. Mabel Wells, and Mrs. George Hall of Montpelier. All members of the immediate family were present except one son, Sidney B Follick and family, who were unable to attend.