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Note: Everett Gareth was born 17 February 1899 in Chase County, Kansas. He was the middle child and only boy in the Everett and Effie Thomas Wilson family. He grew to manhood on his father's farm located on peyton Creek in Chase County. Gareth attended Kansas State Agricultural School in Manhattan after graduating from the Cottonwood Falls High School. In 1917 he joined the army much to his mothers horror. Determined to save her son from the fate of her Civil War father, she interferred and cut his army service short. He retrurned home and joined his father in running the family ranch.
Gareth raised a pair of mules that he named Doc and Grace. He loved those mules very much. He was caught sneaking them upstairs to his bedroom one night when they were very young. They grew into a strong team and served him many years.
On 16 August 1926 he married Helen Margaret Hinden at Grace Cathederal in Topeka, Kansas. It was a small lovely family service. J. Hinden, Everett Wilson and Kurt Benninghoven were the signers of the marriage certificate. After their marriage they honeymooned in Colorado and returned to Chase County where they settled on Peyton Creek. Gareth continued in the business of farming and stock raising.
About 1930, Gareth and Helen moved to a wheat ranch in Hamilton County, Kansas. By 1939 the "dust bowl" had bankrupted them. Helen returned to the University of Kansas and earned a degree in Home Economics. Gareth went West to find work and recover his health. He finally had his consumption go into remission and his family was reunited in Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming in 1942. Helen taught Home Economics and other related classes in the Jackson-Wilson High School and Gareth worked in construction for Morrison-Knudsen Co. He was a project engineer building hydro-electric power plants. The engineering class' he had taken at Kansas State, against his parent's wishes, paid off.
Gareth worked on the Snake River projects in Idaho, Grand Coulee project in Washington and finally retired and did sub-contracting on his own in 1963. He retired in Boise, Idaho and died there of emphysema on June 12, 1973. He was buried in Dry Creek Cemetery 15 June 1973. During his retirement he almost realised his goal "to read every book in the Boise City Library". He was an avid history buff and spent many happy hours reading. His favorite time was to drive to a quiet spot in the country where he would find a lovely shade tree to sit under while he read.
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