History of
Parley Pratt Brough (1902-1974)
and Ann Karen Andreason (Boyd)

Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book:
Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally written by Laura Adeline Brough Bradshaw in 1979

Parley was the sixth son of Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry. He was a pretty little baby with auburn curly hair. Mother was president of the Primary during his baby years, and he was loved by all of the children. He was a happy, good little boy. He attended school at Lyman, Wyoming and had many chores to do around the home and farm as he was growing up. He worked with father and his brothers doing the many things necessary on a big ranch. When he was about 18, father sold all his property at Lyman and moved to Bountiful and bought a rock home and 10-12 acres of ground from Mr. Holbrook. Parley helped his father with the work of truck gardening. plowing, planting, harvesting and selling. They would prepare the produce in the evening, load it in the truck and at 4:00 AM each morning he would drive into Salt Lake City to the Farmer's Market and stay until the load (whatever it was) was sold. If any vegetable or fruit products were left he brought it to us.

He was very active in his church duties both at Lyman and Bountiful. In Lyman he would go on horseback many miles to do his home teaching and other duties. While in Bountiful he was made an Elder. He was a very handsome young man and enjoyed life.

On June 29, 1929 he married Ann Karen Andreason Boyd, who was a widow with four young children. After a few years in Bountiful they moved back to Lyman, Wyoming and took up a homestead near Church Buttes where he worked very hard, farming, gardening, clearing sagebrush and grease wood off the land before he could plant anything. He also did a lot of carpenter work helping the other homesteaders building homes and other buildings needed on a farm. He also (as a carpenter) helped with the building of the original and later the present Little America Motel complex in Wyoming. His homestead was close to his brother, Thomas J. Brough, and they spent much time working and helping each other.

On April 22, 1962, his wife "Carrie" died of a heart attack. A few months after her death he sold his ranch and came back to Salt Lake and lived with his sisters Laura and Nettie, but he just wasn't happy without work to do, so he went up to Oregon where his three step-daughters lived. Loree Backes at Grant's Pass, Ora Smith at Klamath Falls, and Eva Atkinson at Lakeview. He was very happy with the girls and they were very kind and good to him. He stayed with each one a few months at a time. He used his experience as a farmer at each home. Their yards and gardens were beautiful. The yards looked like parks, and the gardens were weedless and produced bountifully. He was a tireless and hard worker and a perfectionist in whatever· he did. While at Klamath Falls living with Ora, he helped build the L.D.S. chapel and also helped with the church building program at Grant's Pass, while living with Loree. He shared with others the talents God had given him. His grandchildren loved him and always called him Grandpa Parley. They all missed him very much after his death. A funeral service was held in Klamath Falls and one in Bountiful. He was buried in the Bountiful Cemetery next to his brother Wallace.

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