(Picture of Margaret Price Evans) This is Grandma Evans. Her children called her “Ma”. I love this picture because this is the way I remember her, a tiny little grandma with snow white hair and long dark dresses. I never heard her speak a cross word. While I was on a bus coming home from …
Lester Albert Knutson
Sentimental heart throbs were the force behind the building of a bowery at the Stone Reservoir Campground recently, as one family returned to bless the land that had blessed them. Meeting the last week of June for their annual family reunion, fourteen members of the Lester Albert Knutson family built the recreational structure in just …
My Parents
Joseph Hyde Josephson and Elizabeth Thorpe By Vernal Josephson 13 February 1979 Dad, sometimes during his reclining years when he was reduced to puttering around in the garage and reminiscing to himself over old photographs of his youth, wrote a short “Memories of My Dad’s Life,” and added a single paragraph on his own married …
Zephaniah and Caroline Thomas Jones
By D. Harold Jones My great grandfather, Zephaniah Jones, was born 21 September 1824 at Trevethin, Monmouthshire, England, son of John and Jemima Davis Jones. He married his second wife, my great grandmother, Caroline Thomas, on 13 February 1859, at Mynyddyslwyn Parish, Monmouthshire, England. Caroline was born 11 April 1832 at Llanthony, Monmouthshire, England. Both …
Life History of Henry Jones & Catherine Pierce
(Thomas Pierce Family History) Catherine Peirce was born in Denas, Wales, 26 June 1855. She was the youngest child in a family of eight children. Four boys and four girls. Her father, Thomas Pierce Sr., was born in Wales in 1807 and died 10 May 1863 at the age of fifty-six. Her mother was born …
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Oren Jones
100-year old home maintains the original charm If a house could talk, many a tale it would spin of the generations of passing time, especially one that is over 100 years old, as is the Oren and Pearl Jones home south of Malad. Built in 1880, the red frame dwelling with white gingerbread trim, has …
My Story
Zelma Atkinson Jones I, Zelma Atkinson Jones, was born April 26, 1915, at Samaria, Idaho, in Oneida County. I was the tenth child of Alfred Henry Atkinson and Hannah Elizabeth Waldron Atkinson. I was blessed on July 4, 1915, by Daniel M. Williams and baptized in the Samaria Willows on June 3, 1923, by John …
John Thomas Jones and Margaret Elizabeth Caldwell
John Thomas Jones and Margaret Elizabeth Caldwell were married December 24, 1890, on Christmas Eve, at our Grandmother Caldwell’s home in Malad, Idaho. The first eighteen months of their marriage was spent north of Malad, in a place known as Snake River Country. It was unsettled and there were many Indians around that territory. Father’s …
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History of William H. Jones
The history of my grandfather’s life is the early history of Southeastern Idaho. He played a most important part in shaping the early policies of this commonwealth, and a record of his activities is a chronology of the progress of this section of Idaho. He was a real leader in the early development of this …
History of the Life of Gomer Hughes
by Robert R. Hughes ( a son) Gomer Hughes was born 28, July 1846 at Georgetown near Merthyr Tydfil Glamorganshire South Wales, the son of James Hughes and Margaret Jones Hughes. He had four brothers and three sisters as follows– named in order of their birth; Maria, Taleisin, Mary who died in Wales when a …