I was born in Weston, Idaho, in 1886–the 13th of February. My father was Jim Bell, my mother was Nellie Schvaneveldt Bell. I was named Mary Jane after my father’s sister. I was married in December, so I was still 17. (December 22, 1903.) My husband was Albert Dawson. We lived in the same town–were in the …
Louis Deschamps – Husband of Ann Stephens
Louis Deschamps was born in St. Timothee, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada on March 12, 1838, to Francois Deschamps and Josephte Pare. They were French and Catholic. He was the sixth of 14 children. The Louis Heaneault Deschamps family genealogy is in the Heaneault name. Somewhere back in this line, Deschamps was the name of the family that one or more …
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History of Louis Deschamps
By Hannah Deschamps Louis Deschamps was born at Valley Field, Montreal, Canada, 12 March 1838. He was the son of Francois Deschamps and Rosetta Pare, who as most French people were members of the Catholic church when he was born. His father was a woodsman and Louis and his brothers helped cut and float logs 30 miles …
Deschamps in St. John
Louis and Ann Deschamps 1873 – 1909 Louis and Ann Stephens were married in the LDS Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1867. They lived in Willard, Utah, until 1870 when they moved to Malad Valley to live under primitive conditions for a few years. The first house was a dugout lined with logs located just west …
David Joseph Davis
David Joseph Davis was born February 18, 1863 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of David Price and Alice Williamson Davis. His father was born in Tyrebet, Brcn., South Wales on 11 October 1825 and his mother was born on 19 August 1833 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. She was baptized 14 February 1862 and she and David P. Davis were endowed in …
Emma Hoskins Halford
By Mrs. Pearl Hawks In the little town of Crescent, Iowa, on the 18th of January 1853, Oliver H. Hoskins and his wife, Lucinda, were made very happy over the arrival of a baby girl, the second daughter and third child that God had entrusted in their care. This black-eyed baby was christened Emma. She came into a lovely …
A Brief Family History of Alden Lyle Hall
I will begin this history with my grandfather, Charles Scott Hall, who was born in Addington, Buckinghamshire, England, on the 10th of November 1845. He was the son of Ann Neal and Walter Scott. (Walter Scott was a close kin of Sir Walter Scott, the noted poet and novelist.) We don’t know much more of Walter Scott. It …
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Jane Hale Hall
Contributed by Miss Anne Clark It was the year 1875, that my Great-grandma, Jane Hale Hall, and Grandpa David Hall started from Council Bluffs, Iowa, for Salt Lake. They left in February, equipped with only a team of horses and a covered wagon. They had a family of six children, the youngest being my Grandmother …
Miles Hall
The following is a brief narrative of the life of Brother Miles Hall, written at his request by Robert C Harris in the year 1905, when Miles Hall was 80 years old, and now copied by the same writer at the request of Amelia D. Everett, 892 Laurel Street, Alameda, Calif. Near the village of Danvillion River, …
History of My Grandfather – Joseph Hyrum Hancock
Joseph Hyrum Hancock was born 27 April 1849 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He was the eldest son of James and Ann Melsome Hughes Hancock. In the year 1852, when Joseph was three years of age, his parents and grandparents left their home and went to Liverpool, England. Here they bought tickets for America, leaving on a sailing …
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