(Some information from the works of Norma South, 15 June 1989) (Photo of Charming Old Home – Pearl and Oren Jones home) If a house could talk, many a tale it would spin of the generations of passing time, especially one that is over 100 years old, as is the Oren and Pearl Jones home …
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“3 families boast oldest farms in Oneida” In their search for the oldest farm in Oneida County still remaining in the original family, it appears that the Farm Bureau’s Women’s Committee has a three-way tie. Three local families can trace their relatives back to the fall of 1864, after a wagon train of pioneers from the east …
By Margaret P. Metcalf William Jones was born in 1798 in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. He became an elder and president over a branch of the LDS Church in Wales. He was a soldier in the English army for 21 years. Then he married Eleanor Evans/Eleanor James of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1838 or 1839. She came …
The New West Magazine, Brigham City, Utah, 1895 James E. Jones, a representative and pioneer farmer and rancher here for 32 years, came when there were but four other families here; when the country surrounding was tented with tepees and thick with Indians. Irrecilable [sic] to the hated pale faces. Indeed, what this section is today in …
Thomas John Davis and his wife, Elizabeth Williams Davis and four children came to Samaria, Idaho to make their home in the spring of 1869. He was born 17 March 1820 near Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales and she was born 15 April 1832 in Ystradgunlais, Breckonshire, Wales. Thomas joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 15 May 1848 …
My father, Jacob Hess, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1792. In 1816 he married Miss Elizabeth Foutz, my mother, who was also born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on June 4, 1797. They had twelve children of which I was the fourth child. In 1832 my father moved to Richmond County, Ohio and located on a piece …
My Great Grandfather, Andrew Hill, was born in Scotland about the year 1808. In his early manhood, he was a sailor. After he married, he pursued the weavers trade. As modern machinery was installed in the mills, the weavers were no longer needed and he then became a coal miner. My Great Grandmother, Elizabeth (Cherry) Hill, was born in Soctland about 1813. She heard the …
Eliza Horne was born on the twentieth of October, 1823, in Wakefield, Yorkshire England. She was born into an aristocratic, wealthy English home. Her father, Joshua Horne was a pioneer in the business of manufacturing glass bottles. His beautiful home and estate was known as Redhill, at Castleford, Yorkshire, England. This was one of the large beautiful estates for which England was famous in days gone by. Joshua’s home, fortune and …
My parents were born in the beautiful land of the Midnight Sun. My father was a sailor in his boyhood and later learned the trade of a shoemaker. My mother did the most beautiful dressmaking I have ever seen. They have told us such interesting stories about their early life, how they would go out …
by J. Edw. Gibbs, a son-in-law Oliver Cromwell Hoskins, a son of Eliza Hoskins and Mary Hall was born May 17, 1827, at Georgetown Vermillion County, Illinois. He was married to Lucinda Howell, Jan. 18, 1846. They moved to Nauvoo, Ill. in 1847 arriving there after the Latter-Day Saints had made their exodus to the West. In 1849 he went to Garden Grove, …
