By Adele Thomas Harker Adele Thomas Harker, daughter of David Phillip Thomas and Anna Davis Thomas, was born 27 May 1920 at Samaria, Oneida Co., Idaho. My paternal grandparents were David Bynon (Beynon) Thomas and Martha Ann Reese (Rees) Thomas. My maternal grandparents were Samuel Watkins (Williams) Davis and Mary Ann Martin Davis. My family …
A Letter to Friends of Samaria, Idaho
By Max & Adele Thomas Harker We’re going to write our memories of Samaria, Idaho, and its people in the form of a letter. Max C. Harker and I spent two years (1942 to 1944) teaching in my hometown of Samaria. As the years come and go we remember those years as choice years and two of …
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A Brief History of Max Clinton Harker
I was born to Alfred Harker and Mary Edna Osguthorpe Harker on October 26, 1917. The sixth of seven children. My youngest brother was born on my birthday in 1919 but died the following spring so I do not remember him. My parents had built a new home on their farm which was three miles east of …
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Max Clinton and Adele Thomas Harker
(Picture of Adele Thomas Harker) (Picture of Max Clinton Harker) Max and Adele were married 12 April 1939 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. It was a happy day when Max came into my life. Max has been a kind and loving husband. I have never met a more gentle, loving individual in all my life. He’s slow to …
Uncle Arch
by Betty Jean Jones Richards 6 June 1965 Introduction: GRAY’S LAKE–GRAY’S LAKE. The words kept coming back into my memory like the half forgotten melody of a once heard song. We had just opened our shoe repair shop in Soda Springs, Idaho, and one of our first customers said he would be in town for the afternoon, …
Titus Davis
The mother that was left behind. My great-great-grandfather Titus Davis emigrated with part of his family to the United States in 1863. He was born in 1806 in Llandysul, Wales, and was raised by his grandfather. Titus was the choirmaster at the church. He fell in love with Mary Bowen who was 21, Titus was …
Richard J. Davis
by Curtis Lynn Hoskins My great great grandfather, Richard Jenkins Davis, was born in South Wales, the son of William Jenkins Davis and Gwenllian Thomas. His father died when he was very young and he lived with his grandfather, Richard Thomas, doing farm work. He later worked in the coal mines. He married Rebecca Morgan …
Johnnie Albert Gray
Born 9th February 1910, Minn. MN Died 19 November 1984, Clovis NM., buried Sayre, OK Johnnie Gray really had a deep love for the Mormon people. Once they had saved his life, and later had saved the life of his wife. When Johnnie was just ten years old his mother left home. Both of Johnnie’s …
Archibald Harris (1885-1965) & Mary Mae Jones Harris (1885-1972)
And his parents Everett “Ev” Harris (1860-1931) & Margaret Ann John Harris (1866-1927) Article Title: Newlyweds miss train; walk home four miles On June 10, 1908, Arch (Archibald Harris) married May (Mary Mae) Jones in the Salt Lake Temple, and the entire family piled in the buggy and drove to St. John to the reception. …
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Thomas A. Davis – Davis Farms
To write a brief history of this Century farm, I will have to start with my Grandfather, Thomas A. Davis, who was the first owner of this farm in this family. He was the sixth child of my Great Grandparents, Titus and Mary Bowen Davis. Born on June 10, 1849 in Cardiganshire, Wales. In the …