Gwennie Davis Edwards was the fourth child of Titus and Mary Gwenllian Bowen Davis, born on July 15, 1844 at Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales. She was the only living daughter of eleven children. She was a very beautiful and talented young lady. Her brothers described her as “handsome with bluish-grey eyes and wavy golden tresses hanging …
Month: January 2025
William Morgan Evans and Mary Jones Evans
By Wilma Evans Fridal (Granddaughter) (Cover page has two portraits: one is William Morgan Evans sitting on a chair with a hat on. The second one is Mary Jones sitting with a hat on. With descriptions of their birth, parents, marriage, death and burial. On the back of the cover page is William Morgan Evans …
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Elizabeth and Emrys Thomas Family History
Emrys and I were married October 12, 1909 in Malad City. Two years later, our daughter Dee was born, four years later our son Dan arrived and eight years after that our daughter Edna Rae was born. When she was nine months old we moved to Ogden, Utah. When she was three years old, she …
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Jesse Nicholas Ward
Jesse Nicholas Ward was born in a cedar post cabin (Curlew Valley) Snowville, Utah. April 17 1874. In June the family traveled in a horse drawn wagon to Willard, Utah where he was blessed by Shadrack Jones, and named after his Great Grandfather Jesse Nicholas. In October the family returned to (Muddy Creek) Woodruff, Idaho …
Richard Alvin Ward
Born 2/10/82 in Woodruff, Idaho. Married Marinda Irene John 4/27/04. Died 12/28/63. They had 11 children. From my father’s written words I quote, “I was born of the finest of parents, ambitious, honest and kind. “ While just a lad his father bought a band of sheep and Dickie boy became the herdsman. As the …
History of Ida Paulina Ward
By Eunice Isabell John Griffiths In a little old one room log house on the morning of Feb. &, 1877 in Woodruff, Idaho, Ida Paulina Ward the sixth child of George Ward and Eunice Alice Nicholas was born. She was a very outgoing good natured child from the time she was born. When Ida became …
Sketch of Marintha Pearl Ward Thomas
Marintha Pearl Ward Thomas was born Aug. 14, 1892, at Woodruff, Idaho, the thirteenth of 14 children. I grew up on a farm with my parents George and Eunice Nicholas Ward. I had a well provided and happy home, learning to help with chores and housework. I went to school at Woodruff and later in …
Owen David Ward
Owen David Ward, son of George and Eunice Nicholas Ward, was born May 29, 1889 in Woodruff, Oneida, Idaho. His parents owned and operated a farm and raised cattle and sheep. He was the twelfth child in a family of fourteen. His parents came to Woodruff from Willard, Utah, in the spring of 1870. Here …
Charles William Ward
Charles William Ward, the eighth of fourteen children, was born April 16, 1880 at the family home in Woodruff, Oneida County Idaho, to George Ward and Eunice Alice Nicholas. He grew up in Woodruff and attended school and church there. He was of a studious nature and loved to read good books. He was a …
Beatrice Fortune Smith Jones
By her daughter, Sarah S. Ward Beatrice Fortune Smith Jones was born February 22, 1858 at Spanish Fork, Utah, the daughter of John Smith and Sophia Fortune Smith. Her parents were born in Scotland. They left Scotland to come to this country with their two older children, a boy and a girl, on the ship, …