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                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  "A Compilation of Historical Facts and Information of the CRAM Family" compiled from various Cram family members by Stu Anthony and printed on May 3, 1992.

MARRIAGE-FAMILY:  Same as source of Birth information.

DEATH-BURIAL:  Same as source of Birth information.

BIOGRAPHY:
                                  MILTON BUNTING CRAM
                                 By his son, John Cram

         Milton Cram was born September 3, 1907 to John and Fannie Cram.  He was the fifth of twelve children.  Surviving brothers and sisters are Madge, LaVon, Clara, Lock, Orem, and Norman.

         At the time of his birth the family home was on the site of the old Kanab Hospital, where the new Kanab Medical Clinic is now.  Milt tells of moving to their new house in Kanab with deep snow on the ground. They moved their belongings on a sled with locust runners with a natural curve up in the front.

         They had the second player piano in town.  Later it was stripped down and used at dances at Hillcrest.  Some Spanish music player rolls were popular.  Some rolls were played backwards -they went over as new tunes.

         As a youngster, he traveled 45 miles across country with the Boy Scout troop to attend ceremonies in Zion National Park when President Warren G. Harding was there.  Milt was patrol leader in the troop selected to help control the crowds at the gathering, and later shook hands with the President.

         Milt was a hard worker.  As a young man he would either have a job in town or be helping Uncle Alex on the ranch in House Rock Valley.  Milt liked horses and cattle.

         He tells about someone wanting him to homestead south of Las Vegas, before Boulder Dam was constructed, and become a partner in the dairy farm business.  Milt said he felt like his dad, John Cram, had said when he was asked why he didn't do more farming.  John Cram thought a minute and said, "I would do more farming if I could do it horseback."

         He, also, liked cars.  Starting when he was a boy, he always had an old car that he could make run.  He liked to tell stories of different stripped down Model T Fords he'd had.

         When his father died, Milt helped support his mother and the younger children in the family.  He worked on road construction jobs as a mule skinner for Hodgeman and McVicker. He worked on the Kaibab, in House Rock Valley, around Florence and in Oak Creek Canyon.  They got snowed in at Oak Creek and had to get out with just the horses and mules.  Milt carried George Greenhalgh, who had inflammatory arthritis on his back through the snow.

         Back around 1935 there was a customary Saturday night poker game in Kanab.  The poker players got in the habit of going down to the tavern (Milt's Tavern) and pounding on the door wanting Milt to open up and feed them breakfast.  Milt decided to cure this habit so he had Jack Butler get him two hindquarters of mountain lion meat.  He soaked it in cooking wine and spiced it fancy.  When the poker players showed up, Milt began to fry lion steaks with all the trimmings.  As the food was being cooked, the poker player's wives showed up with fresh baked sweet rolls to join their wayward husbands for breakfast.  They slicked up the steaks exclaiming, "Such good Pork"  Later Milt told Uncle James Bunting what he had served the card players.  Uncle James asked them if they had been experiencing any strange behavior and let the "Cat" out of the bag.

         Many movie stars frequented the Tavern when they were filming in Kanab.  Milt always protected them from the public when possible.  Curiosity seekers often stood very near the people they were seeking without recognizing them in "ordinary" clothes.

         Milt sold his Tavern after operating it for twenty years.  He then invested in a lodge near the east gate of Zion National Park.  He operated it until he retired and sold it in 1973.  He then moved back to his home in Fredonia.

         Milt's life might be summed up as saying he enjoyed hard work, livestock and meeting people.

         Milt died March 2, 1982 and was buried in the Fredonia Cemetery.  His children are Evelyn, Marilyn, and John.

OBITUARY:  Fredonia - Milton B. Cram, age 75, died March 2, 1982, in Kanab, Utah.
     Born November 3, 1907, in Kanab, Utah, to John smith and Fannie bunting Cram. Married Evelyn Martine Jsnsen, February 2, 1933, divorced.  Farmer, Milt's Tavern and Zican Lodge.

     Surivors: children; Mrs. william (Evelyn) Foster, Westport, Conn.; Mrs. E. A.(Marilyn) Rusert, San diego, Calif.; John Cram, Fredonia; ten grand children ; one great grand child, brothers, Locklon, Owen and Norman of Kanab; sisters: Madge Workman, rossevelt, Utah; LaVon Blackburn, St. George; Clara Pratt, Kanab; proceded in death by five brothers.

     Graveside services will be held Friday 1:30 p.m. in the Fredonia City Cemetery.