I never knew him. Was he kind? The world he lived in didn’t appear to be.
These are my memories and have been collected from what I’ve been able to scrape from libraries, shoeboxes, and interviews.
John H. Koyle lost his father when he was a young boy. Adlinda Hillman and John senior were ordered by Brigham Young to work in a desert outpost near the Muddy River in the Nevada desert. In 1873 John senior died in a rock quarry accident. John junior was working in the same quarry and watched as the quarry wall gave way.
At age fourteen he began selling goods from a mule he acquired. Saving what he could for 6 years to purchase land in Leland, Utah. At age 20 he married Emily.