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this opportunity to send you these few lines again, hoping it will reach you and find you all well as it leaves us at present through the mercy of God." " We received your most welcon~e and loving letter, my dear children, and we were most happy to hear a word fl-om you; for we had given u p all hopes of ever hearing from you again for we had not received an: letters since April 1854. We sent an answer to your last letter hut did not know whether you received it or not. We do not know whether we will he privilqed to write many more Ictters because we are 110th fast approaching the grave on account of age. Jane ( a sister just younger than Thomas) is livins with us for a time and helping with the work. John Owen and Gwmllian ( a n older sister and her husband) and his sister are well and livin:: in the same place. 'l'hcy have five children and one dead." Dave and Mary Evans, etr. siped (Proljat~ly meaning thc rest of the family) This letter was obtained from Ann Gardner and was written in the Welch Language. Thomas and Sage, with their four boys, moved out of the "Old Fort" in 1860. They had mmaged to build a small one-I-oom adobe house in the new site of Cedar City. T h e house was locatcd on First West approximately one block south of the Lund Highway on the East side of the street. The street is now called Hoover Avenue. T h e lot was Blk 36 Lot 8 Plat 8. The day that they did the final moving, they hauled their belongings on the wagon pulled 11\ a pair of white oxen. Their new home had a fence around it with a gate; however, there were only bars across the opening l~ecanse gate had not as yet been huilt. Lehi, who the was six years old, remembered riding on the wagon with a load of their I~elongings and crossing a small ditch as they entered their lot. Instead of stoppins at the b a n of the gate, the oxen went right on, Ixeaking thc bars and damaging the wagon tongue. This made quite an impression on him.' hlovi11g to their new location was a chore for Thomas, as his rheumatism was bothering him. It \\.;IS extremely difficult for him to do much manual work and it hurt him deeply to put so much of the load on his wife. Still, they were glad to be in the community because, by this time, most of the people had moved out of the "Old Fort."' .After the Iron \Vorks were discontinued, Thomas and Sage turncd completely to farming and livestock. The iron industry had served, however, to accelerate the settlenient of this region, and with its pxsili+?, the pioneels turned to other occupations, especially agriculture and stockraising, the foundation of the frontier communities.The pioneer toiled beyond endurance and comprehension in order to grow crops. T h e land

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
Type	Image; Still image
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Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 30
Description	this opportunity to send you these few lines again, hoping it will reach you and find you all well as it leaves us at present through the mercy of God." " We received your most welcon~e and loving letter, my dear children, and we were most happy to hear a word fl-om you; for we had given u p all hopes of ever hearing from you again for we had not received an: letters since April 1854. We sent an answer to your last letter hut did not know whether you received it or not. We do not know whether we will he privilqed to write many more Ictters because we are 110th fast approaching the grave on account of age. Jane ( a sister just younger than Thomas) is livins with us for a time and helping with the work. John Owen and Gwmllian ( a n older sister and her husband) and his sister are well and livin:: in the same place. 'lhcy have five children and one dead." Dave and Mary Evans, etr. siped (Proljat~ly meaning thc rest of the family) This letter was obtained from Ann Gardner and was written in the Welch Language. Thomas and Sage, with their four boys, moved out of the "Old Fort" in 1860. They had mmaged to build a small one-I-oom adobe house in the new site of Cedar City. T h e house was locatcd on First West approximately one block south of the Lund Highway on the East side of the street. The street is now called Hoover Avenue. T h e lot was Blk 36 Lot 8 Plat 8. The day that they did the final moving, they hauled their belongings on the wagon pulled 11\ a pair of white oxen. Their new home had a fence around it with a gate; however, there were only bars across the opening l~ecanse gate had not as yet been huilt. Lehi, who the was six years old, remembered riding on the wagon with a load of their I~elongings and crossing a small ditch as they entered their lot. Instead of stoppins at the b a n of the gate, the oxen went right on, Ixeaking thc bars and damaging the wagon tongue. This made quite an impression on him.' hlovi11g to their new location was a chore for Thomas, as his rheumatism was bothering him. It \\.;IS extremely difficult for him to do much manual work and it hurt him deeply to put so much of the load on his wife. Still, they were glad to be in the community because, by this time, most of the people had moved out of the "Old Fort."'.After the Iron \Vorks were discontinued, Thomas and Sage turncd completely to farming and livestock. The iron industry had served, however, to accelerate the settlenient of this region, and with its pxsili+ ?, the pioneels turned to other occupations, especially agriculture and stockraising, the foundation of the frontier communities.The pioneer toiled beyond endurance and comprehension in order to grow crops. T h e land 30
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1112.pdf

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