(From Betty Jones Richards Files) Prologue It was 9:54 a.m., Thursday, August 13, 1992. I sat reading an article written by Jim Thomas from the Idaho Enterprise Newspaper of Malad, Idaho, dated May 24, 1990. The Late Annie Evans – An Angel in Repose “Annie Evans, 92 of Malad, died Tuesday at the Oneida County …
Ben Davis Evans
(Contributed by Mrs. Hannah Deschamps) (Newspaper clipping?-Pioneers Brief Biographies of Malad Valley’s Early Settlers.) Ben Davis Evans, son of Thomas L. Evans and Jane Edwards, was born in Yatalfia, Glamorganshire, South Wales, on March 15, 1844. He started working in the tin-works at the age of eight years, where he remained until he immigrated to …
Biographical Sketch of John Lodwick Edwards
(Brother of Mary Edwards, Second Wife of Charles Wesley Hubbard) Willard, Utah, October 1917 I feel impressed to write a brief history of my life, giving some incidents in which I personally figured as well as incidents in the lives of the members of my family, and to include in the sketch some of my …
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John Edwards
(Picture of a Cowboy standing on the porch of his home. Caption says: John Edwards – grandson of Gwennie Davis Edwards and John Edwards. Photo taken in 1980 in front of the little house where Titus Davis Sr. lived until his death. John Edwards still lives on this property which was originally built and owned …
Gwennie Davis Edwards
Written by her brother – Thomas A. Davis Gwenifred Bowen Davis, daughter of Titus Lazarus and Mary Bowen Davis, born at Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, South Wales in the year 1844, July 15. About the year 1855, she with her people, moved to Carmarthenshire and while here she was in the service of an expert milliner and …
Gwennie Davis Edwards
Gwennie Davis Edwards was the fourth child of Titus and Mary Gwenllian Bowen Davis, born on July 15, 1844 at Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales. She was the only living daughter of eleven children. She was a very beautiful and talented young lady. Her brothers described her as “handsome with bluish-grey eyes and wavy golden tresses hanging …
William Morgan Evans and Mary Jones Evans
By Wilma Evans Fridal (Granddaughter) (Cover page has two portraits: one is William Morgan Evans sitting on a chair with a hat on. The second one is Mary Jones sitting with a hat on. With descriptions of their birth, parents, marriage, death and burial. On the back of the cover page is William Morgan Evans …
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Elizabeth and Emrys Thomas Family History
Emrys and I were married October 12, 1909 in Malad City. Two years later, our daughter Dee was born, four years later our son Dan arrived and eight years after that our daughter Edna Rae was born. When she was nine months old we moved to Ogden, Utah. When she was three years old, she …
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Jesse Nicholas Ward
Jesse Nicholas Ward was born in a cedar post cabin (Curlew Valley) Snowville, Utah. April 17 1874. In June the family traveled in a horse drawn wagon to Willard, Utah where he was blessed by Shadrack Jones, and named after his Great Grandfather Jesse Nicholas. In October the family returned to (Muddy Creek) Woodruff, Idaho …
Richard Alvin Ward
Born 2/10/82 in Woodruff, Idaho. Married Marinda Irene John 4/27/04. Died 12/28/63. They had 11 children. From my father’s written words I quote, “I was born of the finest of parents, ambitious, honest and kind. “ While just a lad his father bought a band of sheep and Dickie boy became the herdsman. As the …