By Joe Williams 

Mrs. Sarah A. Jones, daughter of Thomas W. Jones and Charlotte Thomas (Richards) Jones, was born in Brigham, Utah, June 11, 1855. She is of Welsh parentage. Her father was a miner in the old country. When he moved to America he took up farming as his occupation.  

Mrs. Sarah Jones attended her first school in Brigham, Utah, under the supervision of Mrs. Box, known to everyone as Aunty Box. Most of her education was acquired at home, when experience was her only teacher. 

Mrs. Sarah Jones and her family settled in this valley in 1866, coming from Brigham. A wagon trail was the only road to follow. The land was not cultivated. Sage brush grew wherever it could. The buildings were made of log and there were only a few. 

On April 10, 1876, Mrs. Jones was united in marriage with Fred E. Jones at Salt Lake City, Utah.  

Mrs. Jones has been president of the Young Ladies Mutual Association for 12 years. She also worked in the Primary and later was counselor in the Stake Relief Society. She was also a visiting Relief Society teacher from the age of 17 to 75. 

Mrs. Jones is the mother of six children, five of whom are alive, namely: Edwin R. Jones, Frederick R. Jones, Mrs. Dave Napier and Pamela Jones of Malad, Robert G. Jones of Long Beach, California. One daughter, Mary, died at the age of thirteen. Mrs. Jones has 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. 

Mrs. Sarah Jones’ mother died when she was 16 years old, leaving her the eldest of 10 children. One brother died two years later and her father died five years later. During her entire life she has helped to nurse the sick and in her earlier life helped to prepare the dead for burial when death visited the home, because there were no undertakers then. When the crickets came to destroy the crops, Mrs. Jones got out in the fields and helped fight them, preventing the destruction of the crops. 

The greatest improvements she has noticed during her life is the development of farming and harvesting machinery because in her day they did it all by hand. 

She was asked what advice she would give to the younger generation and she replied, “Give your very best to every task undertaken. No one will ask how long it took to do a job, but who did the job.” 

(This is the eleventh of a series of biographies prepared under the National Youth Program of this county.)