Jones-Price - Short Stories

         JONES--PRICE

                   SHORT STORIES

            Received from Everett Baird in Halfway Oregon. He couldn't remember, at the time, who gave it to him. (Footnotes added by Leland Jones)

            Martha Ann Price was the youngest twin of 13[1] Children. Her father was Jeremiah, a foreman in a coal mine employing about 500 men, the job being handed down from generations back. Her mother, Jane Morgan was the youngest of 7 children. She was raised on a farm and her father was a stone mason. Of the 13 children, 5 died in Merthyr S. Wales and were all buried in one grave. Jeremiah Price owned a dry goods and general merchandise store and also 7 brick houses which he rented out. Jane did the buying in Bristol for the store. Jeremiah had been educated for the ministry but never ordained.

            Jeremiah sold all his interests in Merthyr and went by caravan with other Saints to Liverpool, about 80 miles, and departed for America.

            Mary Price, Martha Ann's twin, fell down a slanting ladder from upper to a lower deck and died. Her body was placed in a box with weights attached to the sides. Thomas Jones, Martha Ann's future husband was one of the pallbearers.[2]

            The family lived three months with other Welch families in Philadelphia and purchased one ox team and wagon to carry the family across the plains.

            The only piece of furniture that was brought across the ocean was a large hardwood chest. The majority of the ship’s passengers continued on together to Utah.[3] It took three months to cross the plains.[4] Martha Ann's brother Josiah, age 21 and sister Sarah, age 11 had come to America 2 years previous and were living in Ogden when the parents arrived and this is where the family came. Josiah had taken land there and built an adobe house.

            With the Price family came Josiah's betrothed, Rachel, and they were married a year later. The lived happily for 15 years till she was forced to leave him by the Mormons since he refused to embrace their faith. They had no children. Rachel married again, but unhappily. Josiah married a widow[5] with one child and had nine daughters. Ann married Roser Jinkins soon after they arrived as she had been engaged to him in Wales and he had come to America two years previous. Sarah married Joseph Godfrey at age 15.

            Martha Ann's father purchased a small home in N. Ogden and later a small ranch in Pacen (Payson) City.[6]

            Martha Ann's father was drowned the 18th[7] of March 1860 in Utah Lake. The morning of his death his wife, on bidding him good-bye, told him she would never see him alive again. He and his son John started out across the Lake for their sheep. The men had gone four miles on the ice and were within the width of a house from the shore when the ice broke and both went down. John was able to get out but the father, less active, trying time and time again until his fingernails had almost worn away, gave up. He refused to allow the son to aid him further for fear they would both be lost. The father talked to the son during his remaining hours and entrusting his mother, sisters and brothers to his care. Telling him to care for his mother for as long as she lived and telling him of the life he would have him live. The son knelt down and offered prayer to God for his father, bade him goodby and awaited the end. When the mother heard through one of the neighbors of her sons return, she told them she knew her husband was drown.

            From Pecen (Payson) they moved back to N. Ogden to live with Josiah where they stayed one summer.[8] The next spring John, Josiah and Isaac took land in Malad and took the families there. They bought and sold stock on the farm there for about three years. They then bought about 40-50 acres 10 miles up the valley closer to town which was good hay land and they all lived in town together.

            Isaac married Sarah Thomas in 1869 or 1870 and went to Mont. making his home near Deer Lodge.[9] Jemima married Coleman in N. Ogden and moved to Canada to farm. Thomas Jones married Martha Ann on Oct 27 1870[10] and on Nov 2nd moved to Gold Canyon Mont.[11] Martha first met him when they were living on Henderson Creek he came to visit his brother William, who he thought was dead from California where he had been working. The Price family was neighbors of William Jones. He dated her and then went to Mont. where he gave his horse and saddle, which he had ridden from Calif., for a mine claim. They wrote to each other often during this time. He took thousands out of the mine claim which he worked with his brother William and another brother[12] of which one was a disabled soldier.

            Thomas then returned to Malad and was married to Martha. They had a large supper with 30 guests. She was married in a street dress with a plain waist trimmed with beads, a hoop skirt of small blue plaid material. Her mother and brother John were there and they had wedding pictures taken.

            Mat Hughes,[13] Grandpa's neph., went with them to Mont. in a spring wagon, with cover, new harness and a good team. They bought dishes, bed and bedding, chairs and other things and took them with them. They lived at the mine for 5 years in a little log cabin in a mining camp about 8 miles from Blackfoot.[14]

            George and Mary were born there and when Mary was about a year old they were attacked by Indians to which they gave food and they went away. William Jones had a ranch about 4 miles from the mine and Isaac and Cy Price had farms about 4 miles from William. Some time after Mary Jane was born, Thomas took the children to visit Isaac and the children stayed with them for some time. Thomas worked at a placer mine in Snowshoe camp for wages for a couple months and then sold the mine to his brother William.

            The family then moved to Malad[15] and then to mothers home at Elkhorn[16] a distance of 750 miles. John gave Martha 55 acres of his farm so they could live close to him. Thomas improved the land and built a house and stable and dug a well that fall. Maggie and Carrie were born there where they lived for seven years.

            They then moved to Wallowa Co. Oregon when Carol was about one year old and lived there 9 years on a farm. They moved to Oregon because a neighbor influenced our father T. W. Jones to come up to Wallowa.

            Daddy b. 17 Mar 1838.[17] Mother b. 12 Dec 1854.[18]

            Uncle Isaac's family - David Price b. Washing Gulch Mont.[19] M J Price b. Avon.[20] Alice b. Pa.[21] Reese b. Avon.[22] John b. Avon.[23] Henry b. Avon.[24]

FAMILY RECORDS  RECEIVED FROM HOWARD AND KATHERYN PRICE IN AVON, MONTANA WHILE VISITING THEM IN 1984.

          Jeremiah Price, Howard D. Price's great-grandfather, was born Aug. 13, 1804 at Radnorshire, S. Wales. On Feb 20, 1928-9 at Merthyr Tydfil, S. Wales, Jeremiah married Jane Morgan. Jeremiah is said to have owned a coal mine in wales where the children worked as soon as they were old enough. Jeremiah's son David Price was killed at the age of eight while working in the mine.

            Margaret Lewellyn Morgan, mother of Jane Morgan Price, was gored by a bull at the age of 100 when she went out to milk the cow. (Told by John Cy Price of Malad City, Idaho).

            Jeremiah and Jane Price and their family came to the U.S. on a charted boat in 1855. Two-and-a-half year old Mary Price, one of the twin girls, lost her balance and fell from one deck to a lower deck and was killed. Mary was buried at sea.[25]

            Landing at New York the Jeremiah Price family crossed the plains by wagon train to Payson, Utah Territory, where they settled.[26]

            After collecting on a debt, Jeremiah and a son were crossing Payson Lake on the ice. The ice broke, and Jeremiah and the team drowned, but, Jeremiah's son was able to walk on the ice to safety. After Jeremiah's death on March 19th 1860, the Price family moved to Malad City, Idaho.

            Howard Price's grandfather Isaac Rees Price, born August 7th 1846, was the ninth child of Jeremiah and Jane. Isaac married Sarah Ann Thomas January 27th 1870 at Malad City, Idaho. Isaac and Sarah left Malad City in the spring of 1870 going by wagon train to Lolo Forks, Mt. (later called Fort Missoula.) The following spring of 1871, the Isaac Price's moved to Blackfoot City where Isaac made his living hauling sluice boxes around for the miners.

            Isaac and  Sarah lived in a little gray house on the left side of the road across Ophir Creek. It was here in Blackfoot City that Howard Price's father, David Josiah Price was born October 15th 1872. Isaac and his family moved to Snowshoe Crossing, (where Snowshoe Creek was crossed on the way to Ophir Creek and Blackfoot City.) Isaac milked cows for a living and increased his herd to forty milk cows after he bought and moved to a railroad section down Snowshoe. (Now known as the Old Price Place.)

            Isaac's wife Sarah Ann Price died May 11th 1889 when her baby girl Sarah Ann was born. Isaac Rees Price died three years later on Sept. 12th 1892. Isaac and Sarah are both buried in Hillcrest Cemetery at Deer Lodge, Mt. They were the parents of nine children.

            Husband Isaac Rees Price b. Aug 7th 1846 at Brickyard, Monmouthshire, S. Wales d. Sep 12th 1892 at Avon Mont. Bu. at Deer Lodge, Mont. Father, Jeremiah Price. Mother, Jane Morgan. Married Sarah Ann Thomas  Jan 27th 1870 at Malad. 2nd child named David Josiah and his son named Howard md. Katheryne McKenzie.

FROM THE BOOK "THE SAMARITANS"

Pages 33, 34, 115, 116, 121, and 122.

LEWIS HUGHES SR.

            Lewis Hughes Sr. had blue eyes, dark brown hair and a fair complexion. He was born 3 May, 1852 at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales. He was the fifth child in the family of seven children born to James and Margaret Jones Hughes. James was a pumping engineer and worked on a canal three miles from Merthyr Tydfil. Water was pumped from the river into the canal which was used to transport commodities, mainly coal, to the seaport town of Cardiff.

            His parents heard the missionaries preach in Merthyr Tydfil and were converted to Mormonism. In common with others they later had a great desire to emigrate to the headquarters of the church in Utah. Lewis, in company with his father, mother, a sister Marie and four brothers, named Taliesin, Gomer, Mathew, and Daniel, set sail from Liverpool the 17th of Apr 1855 on the ship Chimborazo for America. After a pleasant voyage the ship cast anchor in Philadelphia on 22 May 1855.

            Lewis was three years old when they arrived in America and settled in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The father worked as an engineer at a coal mine. Later they moved to Caseyville, St. Clair County, Illinois. His sister Sarah Ann was born October 23rd 1856.

            His mother died September 5th 1858 and was buried on the bluffs of the Mississippi River twelve miles east of St. Louis, Missouri. They had been in America a little more than three years now while the father worked to make money so they could continue to Utah. However, after the mother's death his father became disheartened and never felt a desire to continue the journey to Utah. The children all wanted to continue their journey so with the consent of the father their mother's brother, William Jones of Willard, Utah, went to Illinois and brought the seven children to live with his family in Willard.

            They crossed the plains in 1859 in the Horton D. Haight Company. The two oldest children, Maria, eighteen, and Taliesin, sixteen had the responsibility of taking care of the family. The father planned to join his children later but he never did. They never saw him again. He sailed back to Wales and was married the second time to a widow named Margaret Jinkins. She had children but none resulting from the marriage to James Hughes.

            The children lived in Willard for a few years, then moved to Cedar Fork, now Logan, where they made their home and Lewis attended school. In 1868, news was afloat that there was a place in southern Idaho where wild grass grew up to your knees. Four families, James Thomas, Thomas R. Roberts, David William Davis, and Taliesin Hughes with his brother and sisters moved to Malad Valley in May of 1868 and started the village of Samaria. The family of John Even Price was already there.

            On 1 Dec, 1875 Lewis married Mary Ann Davis at Brigham City, Utah. She was the daughter of David William Davis and Charlotte Nott Jeremy who had come to America on the same ship as he and his parents in 1855. They had met again in Logan, Utah. Both families had moved from Logan at the same time to settle in Samaria.

GOMER HUGHES

            Gomer Hughes was born 28 July 1846 at Georgetown, a suburb of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, the son of James and Margaret Jones Hughes. He had four brothers and three sisters as follows, named in the order of their births; Maria, Taliesin, Mary who died in Wales, and Sarah Ann born at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Near or about 1850 the Hughes family was contacted by the Mormon Missionaries and converted to this faith. Evidently, soon after becoming converted, they were imbued with a desire to gather to the headquarters of the Church in America. Acting on their desire, they with many others started on this journey, leaving Wales, their  native land, in 1855 for their destination in the Valleys of the rocky Mountains. Father was nine years old at this time.

            On Tuesday 17th April 1855, the sailing ship Chimborazo left Liverpool, England for America. Among the passengers was the Hughes family. After a pleasant and successful voyage the Chimborazo arrived in the mouth of the Delaware River on the 18th of May, being on the ocean thirty-one days. On the 22 of May the ship anchored at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. Some of the immigrants continued on to St. Louis by way of Pittsburgh, but James Hughes and his family went to Pottsville, Pennsylvania where the father secured employment. At this place Sarah Ann, the last child, was born. A short time later the family moved to Illinois, just a few miles east of St. Louis at Caseyville, St. Clair County, where the father secured work running an engine at a coal mine. September 5th 1858 the wife and mother died and was buried on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi river near Caseyville, Illinois.

            Daniel Jones and Mary Williams Jones, the parents of Margaret Jones Hughes, apparently crossed the plains before 1859. Soon after Margaret's death, William Jones, Margaret's brother, returned to Caseyville, Illinois to bring the family to Utah. With the consent of James Hughes he brought the children across the plains in a company of Saints in charge of captain Horton D. Haight in August 1859. A record of their arrival was printed in the Deseret News of Wednesday, August 24th 1859, page 179. Taliesin Hughes' name was recorded but we know that all members of the family were in that train. Maria, being the eldest of the family, acted as mother to them. The youngest, Sarah Ann, was under three years of age.

            The father, James Hughes, did not accompany the family to Utah, but remained in Illinois working and was to follow later. Instead of coming to Utah he returned to Wales, his native land, where he married a widow by the name of Margaret Jenkins. So the children never saw their father again. Shortly after the arrival of the Hughes children in Salt Lake City they were taken to Willard, Utah by their uncle, William Jones, with whom they lived for a few years. Sometime in the early sixties the family moved from Willard to Logan, Utah, which became their home for a number of years. My father herded sheep for a man named Harding when he was thirteen years old.

THE JONES FAMILY BIBLE FROM WALES.

Page 1:

Daniel Jones     Georgetown, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire.

Wrough by Lewis Jones 1849

Page 2:

Daniel Jones    1840 uw unidwn berchen yllyfr hwn chwefror W^ain 1840

(This book belongs to me Feb 1840)

Walter, Daniel   blaen canaed Merthyr

y candor fre ymd bed Catherine Phillips yn Monwent Abardare     Catherine Phillips.

(A monument to her in church yard at Aberdare.)

David, Eward   Shone

Page 3:

T W Jones b 17 Mar 1838 in the Parish of Marthear Tidvill, Glamorganshire, S Wales.

Martha Price 12 Dec 1854 in Rimney, S. Wales.

George b 18 Dec 1871 in Gold Canyon, Deer Lodge

Mary Jane b Oct 5 1873

Daniel Jones b Nov 16 1875 Tue morning three 0-clock

Last pages of Maiolica:

George W Jones b 18 Dec 1871 Mont.

Mary Jane b 5 Oct 1873 Mont.

Dan W Jones b 16 Nov 1875 North Ogden

Margaret b Mar 17 1878 Malad

At begining of New Testement:

In memore of Daniel W Jones Dide Aug 15 1870 in Gold Canyon, Deer Lodge.

Beread in Blackfoot City cem.

Carolin b Nov 2 1880 Malad

W W b Jan 1 1883 Wallowa

Anna Jones b July 22 1885 Alder, Wallowa, Ore.

Leonard b June 8 1893   Malad at Mary

Back page:

b. Oct 3 1866 Bangmin son of Daniel and Elizabeth    Pothow Lenard b.

This bible in the possession of Everett Baird of Halfway, Ore. As of the last of March 1981. Copied and had translated as best I could. Leland Jones.

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