Written for the Jones Reunion By Hannah Deschamp At about the time the Revolutionary War was at its height in America, an infant son was born to Mary and John Hughes at Llangbyther, Carmarthan, South Wales. While this son who was christened William was of no more importance to the world than thousands of other children, yet to this group assembled …
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Loyal Mathias Hess (as told by himself) This is the story of my life as I remember it. Some of the dates may not be exact, but are very close. I was born on 29 April 1900 at Farmington, Utah to Mary Alice Ufy and Joseph Lancaster Hess. My parents were just visiting someone at Farmington when I was born. …
I was born in Portage, Utah , on 5 July 1897. I was the daughter of Thomas Marshall Tims and Sarah Jane Howell Tims. My parents were good people. They lived in a two room log house. My mother passed away when I was just two years old. I can remember her lying on her bed, her long black hair , which she wore braided, hung …
Dr. Ellis Kackley, a well known physician in Caribou County, is still remembered by some residents, even though he died in 1943. He was the county’s first licensed physician. Wayan writer Ellen Carney recorded the highlights of Kackley’s life in a book, “ Ellis Kackley, Best Damn Doctor in the West”. A couple of stories that follow were taken from the …
Elizabeth Kemmish arrived in England three months before the Mormon Missionaries. She was born 17 April 1837 in South Sea, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Her family–Father Charles, and Mother Elizabeth Wilkey were happy to welcome her into their home on the windswept coast of the English Channel. She was especially precious to them for their first child, Serrah Jane had died …
(written by his Mother Mary B. King and edited by his sister, DePhane) Dennison Brigham King was born in his grandmother’s home in Malad, Idaho on 2 June 1909 at 8:00 PM (Wednesday). He was a lovely child with dark brown eyes and hair and weighed 8 pounds and developed into a handsome boy. He was named after …
It was a lovely fall. October was first being ushered in, in 1888 when the second daughter was born to William T. and Cynthia Maria Lusk Jones. She was born at night. There was no doctor in attendance, but both Grandmother Lusk and Grandmother Jones were there. The first child had been so tiny that the parents …
PHOEBE DAVIS JONES (by Victoria Davis) From two columns of a newspaper with PIONEERS as the title. In the year 1841 on May 21, a baby girl was born to John E. and Margaret E. Davis in the town of Tredegor Momoth Shire, South Wales. She grew to girlhood and at the age of 14 she was baptized in …
By Mary Matthews Lawrence Jones, the 90-year-old president of First Bank and Trust of Idaho, is a banker who would rather be a sheepman. Jones looks with disfavor on borrowing and paying interest. In recalling his youth, Jones sees his life as much easier than that of his parents, but thinks they knew how to better …
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Thomas John and his wife, Margaret Thomas, lived in a little town of Mathry in Pembrokenshire, South Wales, with their family of nine children– Phoebe, William, Charles, Ann, James, Levi, Henry, Letitia, and Mary Jane. Thomas John was a very religious man. His mother died when he was just a baby, so he was raised by his grandmother, Elizabeth Murrow Phillips. She took a …
