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Coey was born in a railroad crew car on a siding in Milford, UT. His father, Julius was working the railroad in that area and the family lived on the rails. Eventually as Julius moved up in responsibility and became a Section Foreman (responsible for maintenance of a 'section' of tracks), his family live in often fairly primitive conditions in the company home next to the tracks. They lived in Lofgreen, UT in the desert west of Eureka. He recalled watching the steam locomotives as they would rumble to a stop for water at the big wooden water tank. He went to the small one-room school house there with the other children of railroad workers. The one teacher taught all the grades. He described being held back in First grade because he was the only student in that grade. Julius was the only priesthood holder (Priest in the Aaronic) there and was called to be the Sunday School president. When Coey was baptized they damned up the spring (up the road from their house) to do the ordinance. He recalls when his older sister May was baptized the year before, coming up out of the water with a big blob of moss on her face. His Mom Hattie never drove or had a driver's license. Once when Julius was out of town, an emergency came up and she had to drive to Eureka for medicine. Coey remembers running the gas pedal for her and what a wild ride it was. Once the family got stuck in a mud hole on the road and had to wait until the temperature dropped to freezing to be able to drive out. Later they moved to a section assignment in near Mona at what was know as Star [Ranch]. It was a very sparsely accommodated section house with no indoor plumbing or running water. He always admired his Mom for what she had to put up with and how she adapted to her changing situation without complaining. They eventually built their first real home in town. That home still stands. I believe David rented and lived there at one time. Coey herded turkeys one summer on the Nebo foothills and recalled how homesick he got camping above town and being able to see his home down below. He graduated HS in Nephi. Him and his best friend Kenneth Lynn joined the  National Guard and then wher full time army together. They went to Fort Ord in Monterey, CA for basic training. The day they were to be shipped off to Korea, he was left all alone on the tarmac - they never called his name. They had to recreate his training records from memory and  because of his superior marksmanship, asked him to stay as an instructor for the new troops. He also travelled the country on the Army Shooting Team. While still in HS him and some friends went to Spanish Fork for the 24th celebration. One of his friends was trying to hook up with a girl there. They when to a girl's soft all game at the old ball fields on 5th East and Center St. (That's how the Park Elementary, that's there now got it's name, from the ball 'park'). A girl on first base caught Coey's eye so he started to tease her a little through the fence. It turns out that was the girl his friend was interested in. But Coey beat him to it. Her name was Jean and he asked her to come to the carnival with him. Her Dad followed them around keeping an eye on his 'little girl'. At one point on the Hammer ride (when it stopped at the top to change riders in the other car), being out of sight from her Dad, he gave her his first kiss. After that they were inseparable. Jean had started her senior year in HS. On leave from the Army Coey got her out of school in his uniform. All the other girls ooed and awed over her solder boyfriend. He asked her to marry and by October were newlyweds headed to California. Jean finished her HS by correspondence. The war ended and he went back to National Guard status and moved to Spanish Fork. They lived in apartments and had four kids in four years. Jesse was a baby when they build their home and moved in the Summer if 1959. As their home was being built (and nearly finished) there was a fire in the kitchen that delayed things. They were starting to move some thing in and Jean had place some rugs in the countertop stove and accidentally bumped one of the electric burner dials to the on position. When the electrician turned on the power to that circuit and left, the rugs first slowly smoldered then caught fire. The smoke was seen early and the damage was limited to smoke and cupboard/countertop damage. Another duty change for  Julius brought them to Santaquin. Coey was still quite small then too, so I think they lived in Santaquin  before Star. The old home there still stands. They had a milk cow and when Julius was out of town, Hattie would take Coey to the shed to milk the cow each morning. She would hold the lantern while he milked. He was young enough that he couldn't be trusted to hold the light reliably, so even though he was slow at milking, he milked. He recalls the cow would swat him with her tail and more than a few times would step in the milk pail. They still took the milk home, strained out the dirt through a cloth and used the milk. The afternoon milking was done by a man up the street with a big family. They let him have the milk for free. Coey recounted a story about one of their girls giving him a hard time once and her hit her with a branch. He later had to apologize. He remembered how Grandpa Joseph (who went by Jody) always wore denim bib overalls. He would wear the same pair until it would wear out (I'm sure it was laundered along the way). He recalls how Hattie and Julius would give him a new pair every Christmas. If you look at some of the old photos of the family you'll see Jody wearing his overalls with a tie. After the Army and before working for the Post Office, Coey had worked for Julius temporarily on the railroad crew. He recalled one time a terrible smell along the tracks and they discovered a hobo who had fallen from a train and died. Grandpa Julius' last Foreman job was at the Spanish Fork section. The old section house is gone (just a spot overgrown with cottonwood tree now), but the old depot building still stands. As kids we would visit every Sunday. Julius would cut our hair. He was a smoker and Jean hated the smell of tobacco so we always had a bath after a visit and our clothes washed. Julius retired due to health. They moved into town in a house that still stands on the 100 block of 600 N.
That's about it for me. I'll attach screenshots of the houses/locations from Google Maps.