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gether and made enough adobe for their homes. They made bricks in the Hyrum Dutton brickyard and burned them themselves. Lehi stacked his on his lot located on 100 West in Cedar City. When Lehi started building his home, he quarried the rock for the foundation, but before setting the stones, he ran water into the foundation to settle the ground. His care in building the home on a sturdy foundation reallv paid off hecause the old home is still standing without a crack in it. Lehi's cousin, Ed Ashton, from Salt Lake City, who was an excellent brick layer and builder offered to help build the house after Lehi had orxanized the materials and finished the foundation. Ed had just finished a 7 year apprenticeship in this field. Lehi and Henrietta kept him in mortar and tricks. When they got up to the square, Lehi would get up on the house and Henrietta would throw the bricks up to him to keep the bricklayer going. They built a portion of the home, as it now is and later built on as their family increa~ed.~ In 1884 Lehi, when he was 29 years old, was elected to be on the Cedar City Council. The Certificate of Election read as follows: United States of America, Territory of Utah, Secretary's Office. . . . . I Arthur L. Thomas, Secretary of the Territory of Utah, do hereby certify that Lehi W. Jones was, on the 4th day of August A.D. 1884, duly elected Counciler in and for Cedar City, Iron County, Utah Territory, for the term prescribed by law. Signed: Arthur L. Thomas. In 1885, Sage T. Jones, Lehi's mother, was appointed as Postmistress for Cedar City. Being unable to write English, her children helped her with the correspondence and bookwork. The office was kept in the big sinde room that stood midway of the block on the alley back of the present Lunt HoteL4 Sage had very little education. She had learned to read when quite young, but had not learned to write until her son Kumen was sent on the mission to San Juan County. She once told Kumen that she had so much trouble getting the letters written to him that she decided to learn to write. It was surprising how quickly she learned."he eventually became a very proficient writer . When her term ended, Uriah, her youngest son, was her successor. Together, Sage and Uriah kept the post office for 13 years6 A few yean after Kumen went to San Juan, Sage T. Jones with her son, Lehi, went twvisit him and his family. She traveled by railroad part of the way and then went the rest of the way by stagecoach. The stagecoach trip took three days through this unsettled wild Indian country. When crossing the Colorado River at Moab, the horses pulling the stagecoach, turned around in the middle of the river and nearly tipped the coach over. The driver jumped into the river, took the lead horse by the hits, and turned them around before the wagon capsized 95

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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
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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
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CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 95
Description	gether and made enough adobe for their homes. They made bricks in the Hyrum Dutton brickyard and burned them themselves. Lehi stacked his on his lot located on 100 West in Cedar City. When Lehi started building his home, he quarried the rock for the foundation, but before setting the stones, he ran water into the foundation to settle the ground. His care in building the home on a sturdy foundation reallv paid off hecause the old home is still standing without a crack in it. Lehi's cousin, Ed Ashton, from Salt Lake City, who was an excellent brick layer and builder offered to help build the house after Lehi had orxanized the materials and finished the foundation. Ed had just finished a 7 year apprenticeship in this field. Lehi and Henrietta kept him in mortar and tricks. When they got up to the square, Lehi would get up on the house and Henrietta would throw the bricks up to him to keep the bricklayer going. They built a portion of the home, as it now is and later built on as their family increa~ed.~ In 1884 Lehi, when he was 29 years old, was elected to be on the Cedar City Council. The Certificate of Election read as follows: United States of America, Territory of Utah, Secretary's Office..... I Arthur L. Thomas, Secretary of the Territory of Utah, do hereby certify that Lehi W. Jones was, on the 4th day of August A.D. 1884, duly elected Counciler in and for Cedar City, Iron County, Utah Territory, for the term prescribed by law. Signed: Arthur L. Thomas. In 1885, Sage T. Jones, Lehi's mother, was appointed as Postmistress for Cedar City. Being unable to write English, her children helped her with the correspondence and bookwork. The office was kept in the big sinde room that stood midway of the block on the alley back of the present Lunt HoteL4 Sage had very little education. She had learned to read when quite young, but had not learned to write until her son Kumen was sent on the mission to San Juan County. She once told Kumen that she had so much trouble getting the letters written to him that she decided to learn to write. It was surprising how quickly she learned."he eventually became a very proficient writer. When her term ended, Uriah, her youngest son, was her successor. Together, Sage and Uriah kept the post office for 13 years6 A few yean after Kumen went to San Juan, Sage T. Jones with her son, Lehi, went twvisit him and his family. She traveled by railroad part of the way and then went the rest of the way by stagecoach. The stagecoach trip took three days through this unsettled wild Indian country. When crossing the Colorado River at Moab, the horses pulling the stagecoach, turned around in the middle of the river and nearly tipped the coach over. The driver jumped into the river, took the lead horse by the hits, and turned them around before the wagon capsized 95
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1175.pdf

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