By Matilda Gleed Price 

Edward Gleed was born in the little town of Broad Hinton, in the county of Wilshire, England on March 23, 1832.  Little is known of his early life except that he met and married Ann Shivers Gleed in 1853. 

While living in Broad Hinton, six children were born to them.  They were John, Edwin, Henry, George, Sarah Ann and William. 

When William was a baby the family moved to Wales, where I, Matilda Gleed Price was born August 7, 1868. 

It was at this time that my mother, Ann Shivers Gleed, received letters from her brother James Shivers in “Willow Springs (or Four Mile) in Utah and Idaho.  James Shivers persuaded the family to come to America.  So when I was just a tiny baby, our family of seven children and mother and father left Wales by boat, reaching America in late spring.  We came West by train. 

We arrived in Willow Springs at the home of Uncle James Shivers in June 1859.  Father settled his family on a pioneer farm in Willow Springs and remained there for six or seven years, then moved to Malad. 

Father homesteaded his farm which is the farm owned by Wm. Howard, south of Malad.  As the farm was developed, father became interested in cattle and about this time he started to help a man from Montana, named Allerdice, trail cattle to and from Montana.  My brothers, Edwin, Henry and George helped with this cattle work and later located in Montana where they spent the rest of their lives. 

My father also helped Nat Ireland with farm work and cattle. 

After moving to Malad, two more children, Alexander and Mary were born. 

My memories of my early life here are pleasant for my father loved the farm and animals, and he and mother instilled a love and pride of home improvement in all their children.  Father loved to own nice driving horses and always kept a well groomed team for work or buggy driving and also took pride in his riding horses. 

It was with regret that that we left that old homestead when father retired and moved to town in 1892.  He bought the home and large lot belonging to Henry Denning, located on the north side of what was called the Dan Daniels Block. 

Here he raised fruit, garden etc. and kept up his social hobby, of the best horses and cattle he could find. 

Edward Gleed died Sept. 3, 1902 at his home in Malad and was laid to rest in the little cemetery on the east side of town,