From a sketch Parley McBride wrote about his life.

Parley McBride was born on a rainy day, June 26, 1886, in Eden, Weber County, Utah. He had the experience of growing up in an exceptionally large family. There were not only those of his own mother’s family, but in addition several others by his father’s second wife. Parley’s mother died when he was eight years old, at which time the stepmother took charge of raising both families.

“When I was eight years old my real mother died and I was very upset. I missed her very much. She was such a good mother to us. I wanted to be alone one day, so me and Old Ring, my dog, started walking and kicking stones. We walked farther than I realized. It was getting late when I started back home. My father and sisters spent many hours looking for me and they were really worried. When I came in the back gate they all hugged me and said how happy they were to see me. But he also told me that I must never go away alone again, that the Indians had been roaming the valley and that they had stolen a lot of children. That’s what they thought had happened to me.”