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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Maude Gardner Hancock
This is just a little of my life being Maude G. Hancock at 80 years of age. I was born at Mendon, Cache County, Utah, April 1, 1881. My parents were Alfred Gardner and Mary Elizabeth Coon Gardner. I have 5 brothers and 6 sisters. My brothers were John, Irvin, Arthur, Arnold, Hugh. My sisters …
History of My Brother – Orson Hancock
By His Sister – Chloe Nelson My recollection of my brother, Orson Hancock, fifth child of Joseph Hyrum Hancock and Mary Annah Glover Hancock. He was born in Mendon, Cache County, Utah, February 14, 1882. A lovely Valentine gift for his parents, two brothers and two sisters at that time. Another boy and girl were …
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Mary Ann Nicholas Hansen
Autobiography This short autobiography of Mary Ann Nicholas Hansen was transcribed from a tape made just a few weeks before her death in October 1974. I was born in Elkhorn, Idaho, a little place in the mountains. It’s a very beautiful place with streams of water and lots of alfalfa fields and lots of wild roses and all …
Mary Ann Nicholas Hansen
6 February 1961 I, Mary Hansen was born April 27, 1896, at Elkhorn, Idaho, a little valley near the mountains. I was born in a little two room log cabin, in a field near a running stream of water, which was covered with willows and wild rose bushes, also wild fruit such as yellow currants, …