Month: October 2003

“Butch Cassidy Came Back”

From Jim Nielson via the private MyFamily.com Bodily website.

By Kerry Ross Boren with Lisa Lee Boren

When I founded the National Outlaw-Lawman Association (NOLA) in 1974, with headquarters at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, one of the first members – and later a member of the board of directors – was Clinton Vernon. Mr. Vernon was formerly Attorney General of Utah, and a nephew of Tom Vernon, mayor and virtual owner of the town of Baggs, Wyoming.

In 1975 I had the unique opportunity of introducing Clinton Vernon to Duane Moran, a grandson of Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry. Duane Moran, reminiscent of his grandfather’s attitude, upon shaking Mr. Vernon’s hand, remarked: “Are you a lawyer, or a liar?”
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Louisa Mellor Clark

From Ronald M. Colby’s Colby Family & Others website.

Although Louisa is not our direct ancestor, this history gives additional information about her slightly younger sister Charlotte (who is our direct ancestor).

“On the journey south from Salt Lake I was left at the home of Sister Roper in Provo, Utah, to do housework for a few weeks. She wanted me to marry one of her sons but I did not like him for a husband, and also did not feel I wanted to be married at that time, so I made it a matter of prayer to God to know if it was right to marry him, and it was made manifest to me that he was not the right man.”
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