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Everyone in the Jones family worked hard because it was a necessity. Henrietta was no exception, she could drive four horses as good as any man. When the family moved to town from 3-Creeks in the fall of 1904, school had started. Will was the only one of the children with Lehi and Henrietta, who were each driving a fully loaded wagon with four horses pulling each wagon. They had raised grain and potatoes and had, in the neighborhood of, 100 cheeses. Will was riding with his mother on the wagon loaded with cheese and some furniture, and they were headed over the top of Cedar Mountain on their way home. When they came up Billy Jay Hill by Deep Creek, their wagon just couldn't make it. Will was out putting rocks under the wheels while his mother was trying to force the hones to pull harder. Finally Lehi got his "outfit," which was loaded with pototoes and grain, up to the top of the hill and tied his rig up and walked back down to help get the other wagon up. In due time, they were able to inch the wagon up the hill. The same thing happened on Corry Point. I t was Will's hirthday, Sept. 14, 1904, and he said it was a real windy, cold day and the leaves were flying in every d i r e ~ t i o n . ~ Will says, "Father would send us kids off to do t h i n s that he knew doggone well we couldn't do. At least we couldn't do them right. He'd send us down in the field to mow hay and we'd chase Jack Rabbits half the time." Once when Rass and Will were cutting a five-acre piece of hay in the "old field," they became tired of taking turns, a round or two a t a time, and decided this was too monotonous so they started cutting through the patch in any direction they felt like. Will said, "By the time Henry came down to rake the hay, we had that darn patch cut up into little chunks. Henry was at a loss to know which direction to go or just which way to start raking and he said, 'What in the heck have you darn kids done? " In the summer of 1904 Henry worked as a sheep shearer. H e was planning to go to Chicago in the fall to market the lambs but contracted typhoid fever and was unable to go. Henry wrote the follow in^ regarding what happened: "I was with the other herders in the fall of 1904 when we brought the lambs out of the mountains and down into town to he loaded at Lund for shipment. Doctor Middleton was called by my father (my mother was on the mountain) concerning my health. He examined me and said I'was too sick to go to Chicago. H e said that if niy health improved enough, I could possibly catch up with the herd before it sot to Lund. But my health did not improve - it grew worse. I was weaker by the day. There was quite an epidemic then, and several in the community had died. The typhoid fever kept me in bed for 5 or 6 weeks. A day or two after I got out of bed, I was called on a mission and was to leave from San Francisco by boat October 20, 1904." 148

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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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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
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Title	Page 148
Description	Everyone in the Jones family worked hard because it was a necessity. Henrietta was no exception, she could drive four horses as good as any man. When the family moved to town from 3-Creeks in the fall of 1904, school had started. Will was the only one of the children with Lehi and Henrietta, who were each driving a fully loaded wagon with four horses pulling each wagon. They had raised grain and potatoes and had, in the neighborhood of, 100 cheeses. Will was riding with his mother on the wagon loaded with cheese and some furniture, and they were headed over the top of Cedar Mountain on their way home. When they came up Billy Jay Hill by Deep Creek, their wagon just couldn't make it. Will was out putting rocks under the wheels while his mother was trying to force the hones to pull harder. Finally Lehi got his "outfit" which was loaded with pototoes and grain, up to the top of the hill and tied his rig up and walked back down to help get the other wagon up. In due time, they were able to inch the wagon up the hill. The same thing happened on Corry Point. I t was Will's hirthday, Sept. 14, 1904, and he said it was a real windy, cold day and the leaves were flying in every d i r e ~ t i o n. ~ Will says, "Father would send us kids off to do t h i n s that he knew doggone well we couldn't do. At least we couldn't do them right. He'd send us down in the field to mow hay and we'd chase Jack Rabbits half the time." Once when Rass and Will were cutting a five-acre piece of hay in the "old field" they became tired of taking turns, a round or two a t a time, and decided this was too monotonous so they started cutting through the patch in any direction they felt like. Will said, "By the time Henry came down to rake the hay, we had that darn patch cut up into little chunks. Henry was at a loss to know which direction to go or just which way to start raking and he said, 'What in the heck have you darn kids done? " In the summer of 1904 Henry worked as a sheep shearer. H e was planning to go to Chicago in the fall to market the lambs but contracted typhoid fever and was unable to go. Henry wrote the follow in^ regarding what happened: "I was with the other herders in the fall of 1904 when we brought the lambs out of the mountains and down into town to he loaded at Lund for shipment. Doctor Middleton was called by my father (my mother was on the mountain) concerning my health. He examined me and said I'was too sick to go to Chicago. H e said that if niy health improved enough, I could possibly catch up with the herd before it sot to Lund. But my health did not improve - it grew worse. I was weaker by the day. There was quite an epidemic then, and several in the community had died. The typhoid fever kept me in bed for 5 or 6 weeks. A day or two after I got out of bed, I was called on a mission and was to leave from San Francisco by boat October 20, 1904." 148
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