By Olive Irene Hartley Fredrickson (Picture of Sariah Cooper Hartley) (Picture of Charles Richard Hartley) My father and mother both came from England with their parents at an early age. Their parents had joined the L.D.S. Church in England. Father was born at Wakefield, Yorkshire, on November 22, 1851. Mother was born at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, …
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(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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 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 …
By Her Daughter, Nora Harrison Williams My mother, Emma Dredge Harrison, was born on 27 September 1866 at Malad, Oneida, Idaho. Her father, Jesse Richard Dredge, and her mother, Ellen Rhees, were the parents of 13 children, with my mother, Emma, being the seventh child and the first to be born in Malad. My mother …
By Eunice Ward Harris Joseph Harris was born March 26, 1836, at Apperly, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Robert Harris Jr. and Hannah Maria Eagles. He was baptized a member of the LDS Church in 1847. His parents had joined the Church a few years prior in 1840. On 10 February 1841, he, with his …
I was born 1 May 1885 at St. John, Idaho, a little village five miles west of Malad City, the county seat of Oneida County. My father and mother both came from Wales. My mother, Catherine Pierce, was born in Dinas, Glamorganshire, Wales, 26 June 1855 and emigrated to America in 1866 with her mother, …
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