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the county south of a line from Ennch to 'Ford or Sahara,' and are to perform regular missionary work, tracting and preaching, and meeting with the people primarily who are non-Mormon and deliver them the message that you are doing over there. We are supposed to 'touch' those who were baptized but have forgotten about it, gently in the ribs and see whether dead or only sleeping shall he written across their bosom. By the way, your friend and neighbor shuffled off his mortal coil yesterday. Pneumonia was the immediate cause, superinduced by a cold on the lungs, a wee bit of tobacco, and a surplus of fat. Six feet of earth now rest hetween him and the cold air. Poppies in Flanders Field would he much preferred hy many. Incidentally, we are including with your papa's draft, $5.00 to help remove some of the darkness from the heathen or put a beefsteak under your belt, just as you see fit. Credit it with the hest wishes to us and the kids. As ever Bert" One month hefore Will returned from his mission, Lehi M. married Bernella Gardner. Lehi and Bernella met in Pine Valley in the summer of 1913, when he came there with Bert (Bernella's brother) and Ann to spend a week at the Gardner home. Since Lehi was a sophisticated young.man of 22 and Bernella was only 16. they didn't pay much attention to each other. When Bernella came to the B.A.C. in the fall of 1914, she lived with Bert and Ann and, probably because she and Lehi lived near each other and it was convenient, they occasionally went places together - in spite of the age gap. After that, their paths went in different directions. Then, after World War I was over, in the summer of 1921, they were invited with a large group of young people to spend three days at Cedar Breaks. There they hecame interested in each other again -the age difference seemed to have narrowed - and on Feh. 1, 1923, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple." In 1927, the hank was moved into the new huilding located at 57 North Main. The space where the hank had heen, in the corner of the Rlercantile at 75 North Main, was rented, and a harber shop and tailor were there until 1935. Lehi M. and Bernella had moved from their farm to Cedar City in 1932 where it was more convenient for their children in school. Lehi M. was employed at the Mercantile Store. Lehi M. and Bernella bought the old bank location from the hank board in1935 and went into the grocery husiness. The store was known as Jones Corner Market, and occupied that space for many years. Later Lehi RI. expanded the grocery business and added farm machinery, for which he was a distributor. This was operated in a nearly lot, which, later, hecame independent of the other store and is known as Jones Equipment C:ompany. After Will returned from his mission, he began courting a girl from Salt Lake City, Claire Bennion, who was a new school teacher at the 204

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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 204
Description	the county south of a line from Ennch to 'Ford or Sahara,' and are to perform regular missionary work, tracting and preaching, and meeting with the people primarily who are non-Mormon and deliver them the message that you are doing over there. We are supposed to 'touch' those who were baptized but have forgotten about it, gently in the ribs and see whether dead or only sleeping shall he written across their bosom. By the way, your friend and neighbor shuffled off his mortal coil yesterday. Pneumonia was the immediate cause, superinduced by a cold on the lungs, a wee bit of tobacco, and a surplus of fat. Six feet of earth now rest hetween him and the cold air. Poppies in Flanders Field would he much preferred hy many. Incidentally, we are including with your papa's draft, $5.00 to help remove some of the darkness from the heathen or put a beefsteak under your belt, just as you see fit. Credit it with the hest wishes to us and the kids. As ever Bert" One month hefore Will returned from his mission, Lehi M. married Bernella Gardner. Lehi and Bernella met in Pine Valley in the summer of 1913, when he came there with Bert (Bernella's brother) and Ann to spend a week at the Gardner home. Since Lehi was a sophisticated young.man of 22 and Bernella was only 16. they didn't pay much attention to each other. When Bernella came to the B.A.C. in the fall of 1914, she lived with Bert and Ann and, probably because she and Lehi lived near each other and it was convenient, they occasionally went places together - in spite of the age gap. After that, their paths went in different directions. Then, after World War I was over, in the summer of 1921, they were invited with a large group of young people to spend three days at Cedar Breaks. There they hecame interested in each other again -the age difference seemed to have narrowed - and on Feh. 1, 1923, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple." In 1927, the hank was moved into the new huilding located at 57 North Main. The space where the hank had heen, in the corner of the Rlercantile at 75 North Main, was rented, and a harber shop and tailor were there until 1935. Lehi M. and Bernella had moved from their farm to Cedar City in 1932 where it was more convenient for their children in school. Lehi M. was employed at the Mercantile Store. Lehi M. and Bernella bought the old bank location from the hank board in1935 and went into the grocery husiness. The store was known as Jones Corner Market, and occupied that space for many years. Later Lehi RI. expanded the grocery business and added farm machinery, for which he was a distributor. This was operated in a nearly lot, which, later, hecame independent of the other store and is known as Jones Equipment C:ompany. After Will returned from his mission, he began courting a girl from Salt Lake City, Claire Bennion, who was a new school teacher at the 204
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1280.pdf

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