Born 2 Feb. 1855 at Mount Fort (Ogden), Utah to Evan Austin Williams and Mary Ann Tompkin, was blessed by her father and baptized 15 May 1863 by her father, was confirmed a member of the church in 1863 by M.M. McCrary.  She lived in Willard in the very early history , then in 1864 they moved to Bear Lake.  Her father was a blacksmith.  They worked real hard while living there.  They also had many run-ins with Indians.  One time they had to go and hide when the Indians came.  Grandma met grandfather in Willard and on the 8th of Feb. in 1875 they were married in Salt Lake City endowment House by Wilflord Woodruff.  They lived at Willard where the family was born.  Being blessed with nine children , 6 boys and 3 girls.  In the year 1888 they purchased a fruit farm which had about everything on it.  It was the farm that is now known as the Graser farm.  They worked hard but couldn’t make out on this place, grandfather being in poor health, so they sold out and Nov. 19, 1901 the Dalton family left Willard to move to the Willow Springs ranch about 5 miles south of Malad.  They purchased the ranch from John Mifflin’s father and that winter both families lived on the ranch.  The trip to Malad took 3 days.  The first day to Tremonton, Utah, the second to the Lawrence Wells ranch in Idaho where they camped overnight.  The third day they arrived at the Willow Springs ranch.  On it was a rock house.  For several years the Willow Springs ranch was a rest stop for people going to and coming from Malad.  People watered and fed their horses, cleaned up and ate lunch or stayed overnight before going on.  At the present time the ranch is owned by Ralph Tovey and the old rock house has been remodeled and covered with white stucco.  This being done in (1960).  Getting the children ready for school wasn’t much of a problem for Grandma as the school was built right on the ranch.  The children going to this school were Roy, Gene, MaryAnn Dalton, my mother, Jim and George Tovey, Tom and Bill Richards, Tisha and Seamore Davis.  Their teachers were Millie Davis, Audrey and Rose Dalton, no relation.  In 1905 the school was consolidated with Malad and Grandma and grandfather being on the end of the school district drove the school bus, which consisted of a sleigh or wagon and 2 or 4 head of horses, depending on the weather.  Sadness came to Grandma and family in this same year.  Their son Matt fell from a haystack and broke his neck.  He left his wife Eliza and baby Lizzie.  Five years later their son Roy married her.   Grandfather’s health kept getting worse.  Grandmother said they decided to install a telephone so she could call for help, but the day they came to install the phone grandfather died.    

It was the morning of 3 Sept 1913.  He died of cancer.  He was buried at Malad the 5th of Sept. 1913. 

Grandmother received her patriarchal blessing 3 Aug 1870 by John South.  While living at Willow Springs she was made President of the Cherry Creek Relief Society and was set apart by Lewis Dan Jones.  She held this position for years. 

Gene Dalton enlisted in the marines in Dec 1917 and returned home in Jan 1919.  When he arrived home he found that his brother Roy had died on the 7 Nov. 1918, leaving his wife and 3 children, which consisted of Lona and Lola, twin girls, and a little boy whose name was Albert. Things  weren’t good there, grandma had the flu and baby Albert had pneumonia and had very little to eat so Uncle Gene went looking for work to help out with the family.  As Grandma’s health wasn’t good and her being old.  Mrs. Salverson took Albert at the age of 8 and raised him.  The twin girls married and moved away.  Also Lizzie whom Grandma raised also had married.  Grandma came to live with us.  She lived with us for a number of years.  I don’t remember grandma with teeth.  She sometimes would think her grandchildren laughed at her the way she ate.  Grandma loved to sew and do artwork.  Several of her quilts she pieced by hand.  She could make beautiful clothes out of old things.  At home she was sewing all the time.  She served as a midwife and nurse delivering many babies.  She loved the Church and always tried to do her part.  She lived with us until 1935 when they moved grandma back to Malad.  Aunt Rose having 3 daughters home and mother with (myself) we took turns staying with grandma 3 weeks at  a time. Grandma loved to have her hair fixed.  We used to curl it with curling irons you had to heat on the stove or over a lamp.  We had to be real careful so we did not burn it.  Grandma was a large woman with silver grey hair that she wore pulled straight back.  Loved pretty clothes which she made herself and they always had a white collar and cuffs on, that she made also, and they also had long sleeves.  She liked pretty front aprons that were starched to a fine crispness. She was a wonderful cook.  In her later years she developed diabetes and on Oct. 3, 1936 she passed away at her home and was buried on the 6 Oct. 1936 at Malad, at the age of 88.