William Earl Brooks b10 Jan 1886 in Lakeshore, Utah, 3rd child of William Fredrick & Rozina Rose. He married Nettie Lavina Crittenden 14 Aug 1907, they had 15 children, 10 boys, 5 girls. Son, Blanche Crittenden, William Wrenn, Thelma, Grant Crittenden, Elliot Otto, Don Douglas, Gale, Loraine, Fay Eugene, Dean, Kenneth, Daughter, Fern, Ralph.

 Around 1898 in Tintic District, Earl & his brother Henry, ran a water wagon, going several miles to a spring from which they supplied the town with fresh spring water.

As a family they lived in Coalville, Wanship, Grass Creek, Hoytsville. Earl worked in at the in the Creamery on Creamery lane, Brick Factory on the Coalville, Hoytsville line, several mines in the area and at the Bates farm in Wanship & Livingston Ranch where Echo reservoir is now located, before owning his own farm at Hoytsville.

I remember going out one morning when I was about 8 to see if I could help at the milk barn, I made it as far as the thermometer on the pole which went to -60 below and all the red was curled up in the ball at the bottom, I went back in and went to bed where it was warm. I remember at one time they were milking 18 head of cows by hand, and at one time had around 3000 chickens, he also raised peas for the cannery, they also raised sugar beets at Cedar Hollow. I can still remember the team of horses Grandpa had Bird & Lady, I believe Champ was the offspring. They also raised there own mutton, cattle, pigs for ham & bacon, cured their own.

Grandpa must have learned the shoe making business from William Fredrick as he used to help Gene (Big Moe) in the shoe shop, Henry Saul Brooks was also in the Boot & Shoe repair business in St Louis. Earl also worked for the State Road running graders & snow plows, sometimes being out all night, and run a rock crusher in Marion Ut.

They ran the Draper Feed & Seed for a while I remember going with Elliot to Draper once when I was staying there, we used to play on the stacks of feed in the cinder block barn across from Elliot's. They had an old wire tie baler, Elliot would feed the wire thru and I would tie the bales, we used to skim cream off big milk cans to cool off. I can remember being down in the old dirt cellar at Grandpa's cleaning eggs and putting them in cases with several of the other grandchildren. Going to the Island to mow & bale the grass hay was an adventure, trying to stay away from the bee’s.

Even after the family was married and moved away it was a gathering place as long as Grandpa was alive, on weekends, cutting wood with the saw that Walt made from Model T frames & mining belts & pulleys, one of the saw blades was on display at Thelma’s 90TH birthday party, after work the adults gathered around the piano and would sing for hours while the kids played. After the death on Nettie Lavina Earl joined the LDS Church and had Nettie Lavina sealed to him, he later married Libby Robinson.

When he used to travel with Walt & Thelma in the Idaho area he would tell them he had been up there with the horse drawn freight wagon. I can remember Gus taking barley up to Kamas to have it milled, while it was hot it made pretty good chewing gum. I remember it was hard to get him to stay away from his cows when we went fishing he would want to go home to check up on the farm.

William Earl Brooks, was cultivating with a horse drawn cultivator in his garden at Hoytsville with Bonnie Brooks on the horse when he passed away on 2 Jul 1959.