Mr. J. T. Chivers, born December 23, 1853, near Cardif, Wales. He came to this country in a boat. A test. He called it, of six weeks and two days on the water. He was eight years old, 1862. At the time he remembers a woman singing and being buried in the ocean. Then they landed in New York and were kept there for two days in a long (lumber?) building for inspection.

Then they went by train to the Missouri  River and then up the river to Florence (?) and camped there and waited for the Mormon box train to come to Utah in 1862. 

Lived in Brigham for three winters, working on farms. Our family then in 1866 came to Malad and settled on two-mile. He opened the first road into a 2 mile canyon and helped make the first road into a new canyon.

When he lived at Brigham he brought some marbles over from Wales, he traded the marbles, that is how he and his father kept wood for the family the first winter.

I asked Bill about Mr. Chivers and he said that the family were neighbors of Aunt Harriet’s and Uncle Sam’s. So I am going to see if I can find someone from the Chivers family to give the little story too. Bill said that he can remember Mr. Chivers as an old man when he was a boy.