Samuel Ezra Bulow

Samuel Ezra Bulow

Four generations; Sam Bulow holding great grandson Steve Clark, Lucile Clark and Fred Clark.

My great grandfather Sam Bulow is the most distant ancestor that I can remember. He lived a few of his last years in the home of my grandparents grandma and grandpa Clark. In my memory he always wore a pair of coveralls and a long sleeved white shirt. On one occasion while we where there visiting I remember him setting at the kitchen table fiddling with his hearing aid. He said the batteries where dead. My grandmother yelled at him "there is nothing wrong with your batteries, your just deaf!"
He died on December 3rd, 1963 when I was 12 years old. His funeral was the first one I ever attended. I can remember most of all the 'viewing' which they held in his old farm house in Moroni, Utah.

Samuel was born April 6, 1877 the son of Charles Henry Bulow and Berthe Marie Johnson. He had diphtheria when he was one year old and was very ill for a long time. He lost six of his brothers in three days.
He worked the fields with his father and did not attend school until he was ten years old. His father was then the janitor at the school and they arrived at 5:00 a.m. each morning to start the fires in the classroom stoves. When he was thirteen years old his father died. after his father died he continued at school until he was sixteen but had to quit each February to work the farm.
About 1900 Sam went to Scofield and went to work in the coal mine. He left working the mine for a few years and went to Richfield, Utah. While he was working in Richfield there was an explosion at the mine that killed 200 men.
Sam went back to work the mine and lived with a family in Winter Quarters, he was paid $2.00 a day to work, and paid $30.00 a month for his room and board. On April 30, 1902 he married Caroline G. Gillott. Even after he was married he did not make much money, the house they rented in Winter Quarters cost them $6.00 a month.
My grandmother Lucile and her older brother Bill were born while they were living in Winter Quarters, Sam and his wife together had six children.
Samuel was eventually able to get a farm in Richfield, Utah. He later sold his home in Richfield and started a farm in Moroni, Utah where he spent the rest of his life.
As I said he spent some time living with his daughter in Provo, Utah and then lived with his youngest son Warren Bulow in his old farm house in Moroni, he passed away on December 3, 1963. He is buried in the Moroni city cemetery.