“Native of Malad Awaits 90th Birthday” Idaho Enterprise, March 1962 Mrs. Victoria Williams Davis will be honored Sunday at an open house in observance of her ninetieth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Davis will host the gala event at their home, 492 North 100 West, from 2 to 6 p.m. Mrs. Davis was born March …
Titus & Mary Gwellian Bowen Davis
Titus Davis was the son of David Lazarus and Dina Thomas Davis. He was born on the 1st of August 1806, in Llandysul, Cardiganshire, Wales, in the Teifi River Valley. This is a very beautiful valley, with green rolling hills. Titus, for some reason, was raised by his grandfather on a farm. It is unfortunate that we …
William Price Davis
(Uncle Willie) William Price Davis was born in Samaria, Idaho, July 8, 1877. He was the son and the sixth child of David Price Davis and Elizabeth Griffiths Davis. His life history is very limited. He attended the grade schools in Malad Valley. He was age 13 when his mother died and age 17 when his …
Mary Bell Dawson
I was born in Weston, Idaho, in 1886–the 13th of February. My father was Jim Bell, my mother was Nellie Schvaneveldt Bell. I was named Mary Jane after my father’s sister. I was married in December, so I was still 17. (December 22, 1903.) My husband was Albert Dawson. We lived in the same town–were in the …
Louis Deschamps – Husband of Ann Stephens
Louis Deschamps was born in St. Timothee, Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada on March 12, 1838, to Francois Deschamps and Josephte Pare. They were French and Catholic. He was the sixth of 14 children. The Louis Heaneault Deschamps family genealogy is in the Heaneault name. Somewhere back in this line, Deschamps was the name of the family that one or more …
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History of Louis Deschamps
By Hannah Deschamps Louis Deschamps was born at Valley Field, Montreal, Canada, 12 March 1838. He was the son of Francois Deschamps and Rosetta Pare, who as most French people were members of the Catholic church when he was born. His father was a woodsman and Louis and his brothers helped cut and float logs 30 miles …
Deschamps in St. John
Louis and Ann Deschamps 1873 – 1909 Louis and Ann Stephens were married in the LDS Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1867. They lived in Willard, Utah, until 1870 when they moved to Malad Valley to live under primitive conditions for a few years. The first house was a dugout lined with logs located just west …
David Joseph Davis
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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