Day: September 16, 2003

Note: Missing beginning of History need to retype.

By Oather Ross Roper

Lacy Loviar Jones Roper was born 16 April 1891 at Vernal, Utah, a daughter of James Naylor Jones and Mary Ann Bodily. Her parents were both of pioneering families who had come to Utah during the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois. Her parents had purchased a tract of land on the extreme north side of the Ashley Valley where they cleared the land and built a home. It was on this farm that their eleven children were reared. The home was one mile north and one half mile east of a then familiar landmark – the old flour mill in the Maeser Ward. James first built a log cabin in which he and his wife lived while they built a more elaborate home just east of the cabin.
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