Samuel Jones and Family

I have retyped this history from a photo copy belonging to Ann Smith Roper

FAMILY HISTORY
OF
SAMUEL JONES AND FAMILY
Written by Samuel Jones
I was born in Provo, Utah County, Utah on Monday morning 10:15 O’clock July 19, 1858 of goodly parents. My father came from Ohio and my mother came from Tennessee. They came for the Gospel’s sake. My father in 1850 and my Mother in 1859 and settled Provo where they were married the 13th of December 1856. When I was about 18 months old they went to Mount Pleasant. My father was a farmer and a blacksmith. He moved to Mount Pleasant the 9th of November 1859 in Sanpete County, Utah and stayed there about five years till the fall of 1864, when he moved to Provo Valley, now Heber City, and bouTht a lot with a log cabin on it from Thcr’ias Lee, father to Orson Henry Lee, and 15 acres of land from George Fraughton and 30 acres from Silas Smith. I then being only 6 years old could not do much work but in two or three years began to work some on the farm and soon began to do lots of hard work. My schooling was very limited and ended when I was about 14 years old. Then we had about three months in the winter time. About this time my Father traded land with George Clyde getting about 30 acres more not quite so handy.
As I grew older I wanted to be more in the canyon. I soon began to do lots of hard work being big and strong.I worked on the farm in the summer time and in the canyon _ the winter time. At about 18 I went to the railroad at Echo Canyon with my uncles, the Cummings Broti-ers, after their steam Saw Mill. That was in 1877. They put it up Li Valeo Canyon for the first Suinmer. In that summer I worked for Thomas Clotworthy, the summer of 1877, at his shingle mill. That fall I bought a pony from my brother Hyrum, naying $35.00 do1lars, for it was my first investment. I then bought 4 head of yearling steers and the next spring paid $15.00 per head for them. I worked at home that summer on the farm. The next fail I sold 2 of the steers and bought my father a set of harnesses. My Father died that fal], August 18, 1880, at 5:00 O’clock in the evening, leavng part of four different families to take care of. That winter I courted the gttl that I married. I worked in the canyon at the Saw Mill till March. About the 10th I quit and came home to get married. I took Margaret P. Fisher to Salt Lake City and was married in the Endowment House the 24th of March 1881. I had been in the Saw Mtll quite a bit and wanted to learn to saw.
The summer I was married I done some farming and worked in Red Pine Canyon making lagon and cord wood. In the fall I went to the Saw Mill and worked for Win. Forman and in the spring I done some sawing. That was the spring of 1889.
My son David F. Jones was born. His mother lay sick with her breasts a long while. I went back to the saw mill and soon got better time and more pay. That summer I bought the lot and built a one roomed house there where John Hansen now ownes. I bought the lot and built the house before David was born in 1881.
I worked the summer of 1882 at Jim. Forman’ s saw mill at the headl of Daniel Canyon. David F. was blessed the 7th day of September 1882 by Thomas Todd Sr. I stayed at the mill RI]. wimter. In the spring of 1883 I went in partnership with Thomas G. Clegg and bought a Shingle Mill, moved my wife and baby to the canyon and worked there 3 months and then moved back home and sold the shingle mill to Win. Foreman and went to work for him. I worked the rest of that summer and winter till February when Martha was born the 6th of February 1884, blessed by John Duke 1884. In the spring Mr. Paulson the sawyer that I worked with when I first went into the saw mill heard that I had got to sawing and sent me word if I would come and work for him he would learn me all about a saw, so in the summer of 1884 I went to Kamas, Suimit County, Utah in Beaver Creek Canyon and ruin Poulsons Saw Mill. The summer of 1884 when fall came I went back and sawed for Jim. Foreman that winter. In the spring of 1885 I dug a well on my lot and fenced the lot. I bought a mare from Win. Foreman paying $75.00 for her. I worked for Foreman that summer. In the fall of 1885 the Government sent some soldiers and built a fort at Duchesne, twenty miles below White Rock. Win. Foreman got the contract to furnish the lumber. So we moved the saw mill to the point of Pir~ Hollow in Strawberry Valley and run there that winter. In March 1886 we quit and went home. The snow was 8 feet deep all over Strawberry Valley. I have got a little ahead — in the spring of 1885 I went to Moulton’s ranch and worked for my brother—in—law, Orson Lee. I hauled meat and milk to Park City to the mines for two months and went back to the saw mill.
In the spring of 1886 Rachel Ann was born April~~th, 1886 blessed by John Duke the summer of 1886. I run my Mother’s farm on shares and put up hay for Orson Lee cut over two hundred acres and put 250 tons of hay up, mostly for Orson Lee. Had my brother Heber, help me. That winter I helped Herbert Clegg dig two or three wells in the spring of 1887 I went to Vernal together with Joseph M. Fisher, my brother John and George F.i Murray, we got a saw mill of all Johnston to run and done very well. I bought me another mare that summer making me a nice little team of sorrels. We came home that fall. I then went in the fall of 1887 to Van Wagoner’s Saw Mill and stayed two or 3 days and then went to Henry McGuires Saw Mill and worked the rest of the fall and pretty near all winter. Helped to dig David Fishers well, it was 98 feet deep and dug one for Peter Jacobs 65 feet deep. This was the spring of l889. I went that spring to Henry McGuires saw mill and worked all summer at the mill. July 13th, 1888 my son Elisha Warren was born. That winter I worked in the canyon. The summer of 1889 I farmed my Mother’s farm and cut and put up hay for Orson Lee. Hauled hay to Moulton’s ranch that winter. In the spring of 1890 I went to Park City and worked at the Ontario mine. February 27th, 1890 my daughter Margret Ellen was born blessed by John Duke. I moved my family to Park City and stayed till the fall of 1891. I came home and worked in the canyon till the next spring The summer of 1892 I worked farming my Mother’s farm and worked for Orson Lee, putting up hay. In the winter I hauled hay to Moulton’s ranch, in the spring of 1893 I homesteaded a piece of ground farmed that summer and built me a log 3 room house and moved my family in September on the land9 In September 1893 Florence was born, 21st of September. My land that I homesteaded joined my Mother’s farm. Florence blessed December 1893 by John Duke. I hired on my land and worked my Mother’s and for Orson Lee for about 8 years. In the summer of 1894 my 3 oldest children were baptised by Robert Duke, August 5th 1894 on the same day on the bank of the canal in my Mother’s field. David F. on August 5th by Robert Duke, Martha on August 5th, 1899, by Harmon Cummings, Rachel Ann on August 5th by Robert Duke. Up to this time I had taken no interest in the Gospel. I commenced studing the Gospel and commenced doing what I thought was right. I had been an Elder since
1881In the spring of 1895 the Timpanogus Canal was surveyed. I took stock in the ditch and went to work on the sruvey as Staff man and when the survey was done I went to work as boss on the ditch. I was boss for about 15 years as the work was in early spring generally. All the blasting around the Thomas point was done under my direction. Joseph Hatch being President and myself Vice President. About 1910 I was out for two years and in 1912 I got back on for water master. I served the people about 7 years as water master and satisfied them pretty well. While I was on the ditch as foreman and water master I gathered a bunch of very good cows around me and was doing very veil till I got into the saw mill bought of Mark Jeffs. That just about done me. In the summer of 1903 Andrew Fisher’s wife was thrown from a buggy in a runaway and hurt seriously. She had a 3 month baby in her arms that did not get hurt but she died in 24 hours. She told Andrew to let us have the baby if we would take it. We took her and raised her till she was 23 years old. She then married Fredrick Shoell, June 1st, 1926.
About the year 1909 I went in partners with Orson H. Lee on sheep. We had quite a few pets and brought the total ends to the amount of four or five hundred. My son David herded them in the summer. In the fall we sold them out and bought old ewes. That winter and spring we lost 50 percent of them. That drove us out of the sheep business. In about the year l870 or 1871 me and my cousin Isaac Jones herded the Reber Cow Herd. They numbered from four to five hundred. They were gathered in the lot where the North School house now stands. We drove them one block west and then south on main street to where the Central School house now stands. We then turned East to flat canyon hills, a distance of between four and five miles. We walked and did not think of having horses to ride.
I improved my homestead about 1899 having lived there continuously. I was ordained an Elder the 20th of March 1881 by Thomas Todd Sr— ordained a seventy the 4th of February 1905 by J. G. Kimball, ordained a High Priest the 22nd of January 1911 by David 0. McKay. My son David was ordained a deacon the 10th of June 1901, by George A. Wootton, a priest the 26th of February 1905 by Robert Lindsay, an Elder the 20th of March 190 by William T. Wootton, ordained a Seventy the 22nd of January 19U by C. F. Whitney. In 1900 I worked on the farm all summer. In the winter I worked in the canyon with my brother John and Albert Mitchel and got out saw logs and stable logs. The summer of 1901 I farmed again. In the winter of 1901 I worked in the canyon again and got logs and lumber for Elmer Mahoney’s house and in the early spring I layed up the logs and got Frank Gabe to help me to do the rest. I farmed again that summer and in the fall of 1902 I bought Thorns Todd’s farm and home on the east side of Heber City. I let him have 50 head of cattle, a pair of horses and a new wagon in the trade. I moved from my farm to the Todd home December lst, 1902.
was born September 29th, 1899 and died the 3rd of October 1899. Warren was baptized the 10th of September 1899 by Fredrick W. Giles, Margaret Ellen baptized September 10th 1899, by Fredrick W. Giles. Florence baptized September 6th, 1902. Warren had pneumonia pretty bad but recovered through faith in the Lord. That was about 1900. Margaret Ellen had pneumonia and got better but it left her heart bad from which she died September 24th, 1904. Florence died with apendicitis August 26th, 1905. David F. Jones filled a mission in the Central States. He was gone about 26 months and came home in 1907. That summer I contracted to run a saw mill in the West fork of the Duchesne for the Wasatch Lumber Company and cut about 200,000 ft of lumber and delivered it. Done pretty well. In the fall I contracted to run a shingle mill for the Wasatch Lumber Company in Strawberry Valley, cut 150,000 shingles and delivered them that winter. In the summer of 1908 I built a fence in Lake Creek 3 miles for Al Murdock and J.W. Clyde, 3 miles for Thomas Clothworthy, 2 miles for Joseph Hatch. In the winter of 1909 I worked in the canyon.On the 2nd of November 1904 Martha Jones married John William Blackley.In the summer of 1909 I worked on the canal part of the time and built some fence for Abram Hatch. In 1910 I was water master on the Wasatch Canal. In 1911 and 1912 I run Al Murdock’s farm south of town. In the fall I went to the reservoir at the head of the river and worked as boss for two months.
In the spring of 1912 my wife was taken to the hospital and operated on for apendicitis and her kidney which was dislocated when a girl lifting. They put it back and sewed it there. She was a pretty sick woman We asked Patriarch Nymphus Murdock and John Duke to come and bless her and Nymphus L~urdock promised the children that their Mother would come back if they would pray for her and she got back in eleven days. The children prayed for their Mother and she was healed. In the summer of 1912 David was married to Elizabeth Josephine Anderson in the Manti Temple. Rachel Ann zones married Nove her 5, 1913 to Samuel L. Smith. I milked the cows and worked as water master 7 years. In the summer of 1917 Warren, my son, went to the war. Enlisted in the Navy. He made 8 trips to France and back. Had several experiences with submarines. He was gone 19 months. We were very glad to see him back. While he was gone I bought the Wahlquist home for him. When he came home me and him bought the Mark Jeffs Saw Mill in the year 1919. I run it awhile and in the fall I layed off. In the winter of 1919 and 1920 I milked my cows. In June 1920 Warren was married to Hannah Cecelia Crook. We went to the saw mill and went to work making lumber. Did not do very well. Layed off and milked the cows in the winter. In the summer of 1921 we sawed some lumber for Park Utah. In the summer of 1922 we made a road to a new grove of timber and cut about 110,000 thousand feet of lumber. The next winter I milked the cows again. In the summer of 1923 we run the mill again. Didn’t do very well. I came home and tended my cows again. My wife’s health had gotten pretty good again and she worked with me all that year at the saw mill until she died with cancer of the stomach in the year of 1925, August 1st. I was left with Elizabeth Fisher the little girl we had raised. In the year 1924 we sawed about one hundred thousand feet of timbers for Jonathan
0. Duke, mining timbers
I came home and milked the cows again the spring of 1925 we went back to the saw mill again. That being the summer I lost my wife we did not do much. In 1926 we did not go to the saw mill. I sold my cows in order to get straight. June 1st of 1926 Elizabeth Fisher got married to Frederick Shoell. That left me alone. I went to Vernal that summer to my cousin’s, Isaac Jones. Stayed there for two weeks and returned home. Went to Salt Lake that fall to conference. Stayed about a week and returned home. That fall I went to the Temple and married an old lady by the name of Annie E. Archer the 26th of November 1926. She left me in about days. Her money was the cause of it I think. She wasan’t away till she commenced to try to get back.
I went to Garfield that winter and stayed with Elizabeth Fisher Shoell and went to the Temnle and went through twice each day till I had gone through 42 times. Came home about the first of March. Elizabeth had a boy on the 14th of March 1927. I worked on the farm most of the summer. I went that fall in August with my cousin and started a hot dog stand in Daniels canyon. In two weeks I quit that and came home. I then got on for J. Sylvan Rasband running his coal yard. That winter and the next summer. In l92~ I sold my farm and home and paid my debts.
I went that winter and lived with Elizabeth at Garfield and worked in the Temple till I went through 42 times. The next su mer 1927 I hauled gravel for the new high school. That winter and next summer I tended J. Sylvan Rasbands coal yard. That winter I went again to Garfield to Elizabeth’s. The next summer I worked at Chey-nes saw mill about twojmonths. The next year 1930 I didn’t do
My wife was born January 2, 1861 in Salt Lake City, Utah of goodly parents. She died August 1, 1925 at O’clock P.M., after an illness of two months. Her parents were David and Martha McKay. David was born June 15, 1024 and died August 11, 1868. He was killed in a land slide at the piomintory near Ogden when the railroad came into Utah. Martha McKay was born October 20, 1027 and died October 13, 1900. They came to Utah for the Gospel sale
Their children were : 1st child born and died an Infant; 2nd child Martha Fisher born April 23, &~5~and died October 3, 1915, 3rd child David Fisher born September 23, 1852 and died March 22, 1915; 4th child Joseph V. Fisher born January 0, 1055, and died August 19, 1924 5th child Andrew Fisher born October
25, lS5~and died ; 6th child Margret P. Fisher born January
2nd 1861, and died August 1, 1925; 7th child James Fisher born Septern~er 21, 1066; The year 1931 health very poor. I stayed at Elizabeths at Magna in the
winter and at Warren’s in the summer. The year 1932 at l3Diznheths again seven months and with Warren in the summer. The year 1926 March 2(~. This year I have read the New 1estament, The Book of Mormon and Doctrine Covenants, Cow].eys talk on Doctrine, The Life of Brigham Young, the Voice of’ Thin log tLe first and second volumes of Church History. April 3rd: this day finished the third volume of Church History. April 6t~z; this day finished readIng Dam Jone’s 40 years among the Indians. April 20; finished reading Wilford Woodruff. October 1; 1932 finished the Book of Mormon. October 10, 1932 finIshed readIng 6th Volume of Roberts Church History. October 2’~ 1932 finished rending the Life of’ John Taylor. October 25th, 1932 finished read~ ng The Life of YiI ford Woodruff. October 30, 1932 finished reading the 1st volume of Joseph Smith by George Q• Cannon. November 2, the lives of Our Leaders, Short aketches, by different men,