Mr. J. T. Chivers, born December 23, 1853, near Cardif, Wales. He came to this country in a boat. A test. He called it, of six weeks and two days on the water. He was eight years old, 1862. At the time he remembers a woman singing and being buried in the ocean. Then they …
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Ann Morse Camp
(by her daughter, Deseret C. Moon) Ann Morse Camp was born August 9, 1862 in Mountain Ash, Idanno Co., South Wales, a daughter of William Morse and Margaret Evans. Her father, William Morse, worked in the coal mines, and it was here, while still in his teens, that he first received the Gospel. Because of …
Information about L. M. Camp
One summer he told Allene and LaVella that they could keep busy raising and feeding animals and the garden. It turned into quite a project! We had one sheep for burrs, big Devil Creek calves to feed by bottles, pigs also. We played bull fighting with one animal and when Bert Call came to load …
About My Father Leo M. Camp
By Wilson Camp I was only ten years old (1923) and my recollections are somewhat hazy. In 1923 my all around cowhand father bought, traded or rustled?? 30-35 wild mustangs in Nevada. I was in the round-up and captured those speedy steeds. But a little background first. I was raised on a ranch in South …
Memories of L. M. Camp Recalled by Daughter
(By Maureen Camp Thomas) On the 4th of July this year I entered the Malad Parade with a small tribute to my father, L.M. Camp. Since then, I have had numerous people thank me for what I did. Shelba D. Dredge suggested I write about him. She said, he was the most colorful man she …
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Pertinent Incidents From a Life Sketch of Phillip Arbon and His Wife Margaret Cottom
By His daughter Eva Arbon Phillip is the son of William and Elizabeth Hardwick Arbon who immigrated from Graveley, England on the ship “Constitution” leaving Liverpool with 457 British, Swiss, and German converts, June 24, 1868, and arrived in New York, August 5. Harvey H. Cluff was in charge of the company. The immigrants continued …
Maria Thomas Bywater
Maria Thomas Bywater was born in Glamorganshire, So. Wales, February 4, 1840, the 12th child in the family of 14. Her father was a cobbler by trade, honest and industrious. When they first heard the Gospel message it struck a chord which responded to the call and for the knowledge of these gorgeous truths and …
Mary Pearl Illum Brown
Family History 4 Pictures are on top of page 1- Top left is of Peder Hansen Pederson Illum, July 1926, Malad, Idaho Top right is a picture of the gravestone of Illum at the St. John Cemetery Bottom left is Jane Grey Noble Illum Bottom right is Ruins of Peter H. & Jane Grey Noble …
The Life Story of Estella Daniels Jones Budge
By Estella written Feb. 24, 1992 This is a history of my life as I remember it at 94 years of age. I was born in Malad, Idaho at my grandfather Thomas Daniels’ home, October 7, 1897. My father was George Daniels and my mother was Mary May Bolingbroke Daniels. My father homesteaded at West …
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Henry Bolingbroke
Henry Bolingbroke Henry Mitchell Bolingbroke was one of the first white men to settle in Arbon Valley, especially in the northern portion of the valley. He, along with other settlers, filed for his water rights on Rattlesnake Creek in 1889. He built a one room log cabin on his homestead which is today still standing …