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Willine Blakley Rushton, (1928)
Mary LeGay Nelson Petersen, (1908)
Lewis LeRoy ‘Roy’ Petty, (d. 1999, age 85)
Malad’s First Flour Mill Was Constructed in 1867
By Gwenfred J. Crowther In the Spring of 1867 a group of the pioneers of the Malad Valley met and came to the conclusion that a flour mill was of vital importance to the community. They checked the possible locations and the various streams as a possibility of water power running the mill and doing …
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EVA NANCY CRIDDLE CLEGG
BORN JULY 19, 1887 DIED DECEMBER 2, 1971 Photo of Eva Clegg July 1967 I, Eva Nancy Criddle Clegg, was born in Syracuse, Davis Co. Utah, on July 19, 1887. I was the third child of John and Sarah Ellen Bennett Criddle. Nora Azellia born Dec. 30, 1883, Lonetta born Sept. 17, 1885, then me. …
William Coooper and Millizer Robinson
Sketch written by grand daughter, May C. Burns Bountiful, Utah Millizer Robinson was born in Eastwood Nottinghamshire, England, August 21, 1819. She was the daughter of Samuel Robinson and Mary Price. She was a member of a large family consisting of five boys and three girls, There were no free schools in those days, consequently …
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John Crowther
The following are some experiences of my Grandfather, John Crowther, who came from England with his family for the gospel’s sake. After landing by steamship and while on their way to Utah in 1864 sickness came into the family resulting in the death of four out of his six children leaving my father, Edward, and …
Libbeus Thaddeus Coon, Sr.
Libbeus Thaddeus Coon, sometimes spelled Coons, was born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, on May 13, 1911. His parents were Thomas Coon and Elizabeth Crandall. His parents were first cousins. His father was the son of Thomas (1737) and Anne Crandall. His mother was the daughter of Joseph Crandall and Mary Ladd. His Grandfather Crandall …
Ann Hewitt White Ceaston, Ellen White Colton
(Written by Ella Colton Palmer, March 9, 1938) Because the lives of my great grandmother and her daughter, my grandmother, are so entwined and because they were both pioneers having come to this valley together, I can hardly write the biography of one without the other. My great grandmother, Ann Hewitt White Ceaston, was born …
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