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Joshua Alvin and his brothers filed on some land at Marion, Idaho. Father built a one-room cabin and returned to Salt Lake that fall for his wife and two children, William and Owen. The following spring, desiring to put in a crop but not having a team to put in a crop he didn’t know what to do.             He went to Oakley to attend priesthood meeting and Brother George Whitley approached and said: “Brother Tolman, I have ten dollars I don’t need just now. You are welcome to it to buy seed to plant your crop.” And another man, Brother Klaus Carlson, stopped him and said: “Brother Tolman, I have a team you can take to plow and put in your crop.” Father went home rejoicing and thanked the Lord for his many blessings.

Father loved children. Mother said he always got up in the night time to wait on them when they needed it. Mother said when my brother Parley would sometimes fall asleep before he had his supper, they would put him to bed and during the night he would wake up and ask mother if he could have a piece. She would answer yes. Then he would say: “Father, mother said I could have a piece.” Then father would get up to get the piece. Then he would ask Mother if he could have two pieces. She would say yes; and he would say; “Father, mother said I could have two pieces.”

Father was good to his animals. He sold a horse once (We called him old Coly.). Several years after he was sold a man was passing our place going to the mountains for timber. The team turned in at our gate, and he couldn’t get the horses to go any further. He came in and talked to father. Father went our to the wagon and when he saw the horses he said, “There is the horse I sold sometime ago. I guess he thinks he has come back home.”             One time father lent a pig to a man. He kept it a long time and brought it back one day when father was not home and put it in the pen. When father came home he didn’t know the pig because it was so thin. So father opened the pen door thinking it was someone elses and tried to drive it out; but the pig would not go so father called the dog to help him. The dog was sicced on him and then father recognized the pig, so he hollered to the dog; “Stop. Don’t you know that is my pig!”