History of Rockport

I found this online, it's a history of Rockport.  I'm just putting in a couple of the paragraphs that talk about grandma and grandpa.


ROCKPORT UTAH, A BRIEF HISTORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF HOMES
Edited and Compiled by
Thomas E. Brown
http://www.rockportoriginals.com/


From page 6:

Up to the 1950's there were still homes in Rockport without running water or indoor toilets.
Others had running water but no indoor toilets or bathrooms. The families in the four homes in
the center of town (those by the church and the school) got their water from the same well. They
hand carried water for every household use (drinking, washing, bathing, cooking, etc). Water
also had to be carried to the livestock. During the 1940's the following families lived in the
"town center homes" at one time or another: Della Gowns, Eisaku Mano, Frank Takemori, Wm.
D. Brown, Ted Brown, Florence Walsh Hunter, Vern Wardell and Alma Keyes.

From page 7:

Two of the last families to move to Rockport came as a result of an edict from the government.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor all Americans of Japanese decent living on the West Coast had
to move inland. Those who left voluntarily (by 31 March 1942) were not sent to relocation
camps. The Eisaku (Tom) Mano and the Frank Takemori families left their homes in California
and moved to Rockport. At first they both lived in the Della Gowns home and operated a "truck
farm" on her property. They raised lettuce, radishes, peas, onions, strawberries, and perhaps other
crops. A brother of Michi Mano, Nibs Morio was wounded while serving with the all Japanese
unit in Italy, the most decorated unit of the war.