Interview with Roy Wilhelm, December 24, 1992

'''Roy''': All the time there, [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|Grandpa's]] interest in Concho was more and more and this homestead of [[Lydia Hannah Draper|Lydia's]], they had to get on it and stay on it or they'd lose it.  They built one of the best houses in the country.  [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|Grandpa]] was a carpenter by trade and he was good workman, I guess.  And he built that house that was going to be the old ancestral home and they built a big house.  And [[Lydia Hannah Draper|Grandma]] was an exceptional cook, somehow the Wilhelms always was kind of particular about how the way their stuff tasted.  And when the church authorities would come through and they'd come over to Snowflake and then they wanted to come on to St. Johns, they'd always time it so they could stay with the Wilhelms in Concho.  Well, it was quite an honor but it was expensive and worked out both ways, everybody was satisfied.  And [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|Grandpa'd]] planted a big orchard there, several orchards and improved their place and everything, but then come the polygamy stuff.  And these, the Apostles, they had four or five of 'em all the time down here ridin' herd on these people and they had to advise them.  And so the Church members did what they asked 'em to, so they advised [[Bateman Haight Wilhelm|Grandpa]], in that letter, to get the younger woman and go down, to follow the mountains down into Old Mexico and leave Lydia to prove up on her homestead.