(Before he was married) I, Mabel Marietta Hancock Hartley, wife of Ernest Hartley, am writing this short account of my husband’s life that I remember. I can’t seem to glean much from his two sisters and one brother that are still alive. Ernest was born in Rockland, Idaho, 13 May 1894. He was the tenth child of …
The Life of Richard Hartley
Route #6 Nampa, Idaho (as told to his son, Leonard LaMar Hartley, Sr.) My father’s parents were Charles Henry Hartley and Eliza Horne, who came to America from England with their own families in about 1855. Among those in his family was my father, Charles Richard Hartley, age eight. My mother, Sariah Cooper, came in …
James Richards Hawkins and William Edward Hawkins
At Nottinghill, Kensington, England, On January 31, 1844, James Richard Hawkins and his wife Ann Aewell were rejoicing over the arrival of their baby son. They named him William Edward Hawkins and he grew to be a fine, industrious young lad. These good people became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When the boy was …
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Mary Jane John Hawkley
Mrs. Mary Jane Hawkley, daughter of Thomas John and Margaret Thomas, was born November 18, 1856 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. She was the youngest of nine children, five boys and four girls. All of the family except the oldest daughter immigrated to Utah, October 17, 1862. In their native land, they had listened to the L.D.S. missionaries, were converted and baptized and …
Francis Mitchell Deschamps
My Life History I was born October 4, 1901 in my grandparent’s home, Jane and Benjamin Evans. It was a red-brick house on the same block where the Malad First Ward Chapel now stands. I was the most beautiful baby in the county at that time. My parents, Francis and Hannah Deschamps, wouldn’t show me to anyone only by special admission, …
Louis and Ann Deschamps
Louis Deschamps was born in Montreal, Canada July 12, 1842. He was the son of Rosella Parry and Francis Deschamps. His father was a woodsman and Louis and his brothers helped out to float logs 30 miles or more down the St. Lawrence River. Here they met many trappers who came from the United States, who told them wonderful …