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As Bert walked back down town, he and Ann Jones, who was on her way home from school where she taught, passed each other. Both turned back at the same time to look, each interested in this new penon. Bert lived with the Joneses for the rest of the winter and, this first encounter ripened into a love affair. In the summer Bert brought Ann and her cousin, Mamie, to stay with his family for two weeks in Pine Valley. The next winter, he went back to the Univelsity of Utah where he got his degree in Electrical Engneering. He and Ann were married in the Salt Lake Temple the following Dec. 21, 1910.'2 O n Oct. 15, 191 1, a third son was born to Sophia and Willard and they had a difficult time deciding what to name him. The Sunday arrived when the baby was to be blessed and Lehi W. was given a choice of about three names, one of which he was to choose when he named the child. When he carried the baby up to the front of the chapel and laid his hands on the child's head, Sophia wondered what name he would pick. When Lehi W. named the baby Uriah Jones, after Lehi's brother, Sophia was very surprised and a little upset as that was not one of the names she had given him.13 Henry graduated from the University of Utah in the spring of 1911 and passed the bar examination in Law. Before he left Salt Lake City he w a friendly with Mary Gardner, a girl from Pine Valley who was working for the New Castle Reclamation Company. Henry went to the office to visit her and was introduced to her cousin, Artemesia Gardner, with whom she lived. Henry said, "There, a romance began and, I say to myself, that it was love at fint sight. I called her the next day and she was leaving for southern Utah on the train, I said 'what a coincidence I'm going to Cedar City on the same train,' and so we sat together and Mesia's father met her at Lund with a got better a~quainted."'~ whitetop, and Henry came to Cedar City on the stage. Henry said, "I did a pretty good job of selling myself and I went to Pine Valley several times to see her." Henry and Mesia went on a mountain trip that summer to Navajo Lake with Sade and Frank Thorley, Bert and Ann, and Henrietta and Ferd. They traveled on a light wagon with a team and camped in tents. Mesia recalls having met Henry earlier when she was 16 years old when he came to Grass Valley with a group of young people on the fourth of July. They came to the Gardner home for supper with Mesia's brother. The family had already eaten so Mesia and her family bustled around trying to find something to feed the group before they went to the dance. Mesia says she doesn't think she was even introduced to Henry but she remembered him well. 191

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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 191
Description	As Bert walked back down town, he and Ann Jones, who was on her way home from school where she taught, passed each other. Both turned back at the same time to look, each interested in this new penon. Bert lived with the Joneses for the rest of the winter and, this first encounter ripened into a love affair. In the summer Bert brought Ann and her cousin, Mamie, to stay with his family for two weeks in Pine Valley. The next winter, he went back to the Univelsity of Utah where he got his degree in Electrical Engneering. He and Ann were married in the Salt Lake Temple the following Dec. 21, 1910.'2 O n Oct. 15, 191 1, a third son was born to Sophia and Willard and they had a difficult time deciding what to name him. The Sunday arrived when the baby was to be blessed and Lehi W. was given a choice of about three names, one of which he was to choose when he named the child. When he carried the baby up to the front of the chapel and laid his hands on the child's head, Sophia wondered what name he would pick. When Lehi W. named the baby Uriah Jones, after Lehi's brother, Sophia was very surprised and a little upset as that was not one of the names she had given him.13 Henry graduated from the University of Utah in the spring of 1911 and passed the bar examination in Law. Before he left Salt Lake City he w a friendly with Mary Gardner, a girl from Pine Valley who was working for the New Castle Reclamation Company. Henry went to the office to visit her and was introduced to her cousin, Artemesia Gardner, with whom she lived. Henry said, "There, a romance began and, I say to myself, that it was love at fint sight. I called her the next day and she was leaving for southern Utah on the train, I said 'what a coincidence I'm going to Cedar City on the same train,' and so we sat together and Mesia's father met her at Lund with a got better a~quainted."'~ whitetop, and Henry came to Cedar City on the stage. Henry said, "I did a pretty good job of selling myself and I went to Pine Valley several times to see her." Henry and Mesia went on a mountain trip that summer to Navajo Lake with Sade and Frank Thorley, Bert and Ann, and Henrietta and Ferd. They traveled on a light wagon with a team and camped in tents. Mesia recalls having met Henry earlier when she was 16 years old when he came to Grass Valley with a group of young people on the fourth of July. They came to the Gardner home for supper with Mesia's brother. The family had already eaten so Mesia and her family bustled around trying to find something to feed the group before they went to the dance. Mesia says she doesn't think she was even introduced to Henry but she remembered him well. 191
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1267.pdf

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