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July 17, 1897; Elton Lunt Jones, born Jan. 22, 1901 ; and Preston Lunt Jones, born Mar. 6, 1904. Kumen's Journal includes this statement about Thomas Jed: ".4s a child he started out with a happy disposition, and with a rather mechanical turn, and quite early in life he took u p the carpenter trade which he followed through his life quite successfully, and also worked himself into a clean-cut sucressful, public-spirited, useful citizen, as well as a church leader in his part of the state, Iron County and Parowan Stake. He was quite unpretentious, with a high sense of humor. He endeared himself to all good people who became acquainted with him. 'Jed' as we called him: took a leading part in public improvments, especially schools, school I d d i n g s etc., and was one of the prime movers in securing the Branch A.C., which has done so much good for thesouthern part of the state of Utah.'" Just a month before Jed died, young Kumen's wife, Lil, died Dec. a 10, 1930. Lil had a bad heart and w s a n invalid for a number of years. She and Kumen L. had four children -Katherine, Florence, Thomas Henry and Elizabeth. Lil's sister Jen (Amy Jane Leigh), moved hack to Cedar City and she and Kumen were married Oct. 16, 1931. However, she died in 1943 of a stroke and Kumen was oncr more alone. He later married Iva Rich Oshome, April 18, 1944, to whom he was introduced by Randall Jones in Salt Lake City where she worked in an office at Hotel Utah?3 Lehi's brother, Kumen, came from Bluff again to visit his family in Cedar City in 1931 and wrote thc follow in^ ahout his visit: "Aug. 14, 1931, came through the towns in the muddy valley and Utah's Dixie, Santa Clara, St. George, Leeds, etc., arriving at Cedar about noon. Had a nice visit with relatives; found most of them quite well. I noticed that my older brother, Lehi is beginning to slip; moves around slower and is getting much thinner, but his spirit is active. His wife, 'Aunt Henrietta,' is \.cry feeble and has lost all intercst in everything since hreakdown a year or so ago. This places an added burden upon Lehi, which is a strain upon his rugged will-power." Henrietta died the following year May 31, 1932. Henrietta Lunt Jones' life was an inspiration to all who knew her and especially to her own family, who knew her 1)est. One who spends a great deal of time working f o r the public, does so at the expense of her duties at home, but Henrietta had the raparity and efficiency to do both ~ ~ lFurtherl. more, her home interests reached beyond the household duties. She was a good foreman, so to speak, in direrting her boys with the farm and livestock projects, such as making ready a camp outfit or killing a mutton, if necessary. If she saw the need for a fence to be moved or a woodpile or pigpen to he cleaned up, she accompliahed that, with available
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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
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
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CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 215
Description	July 17, 1897; Elton Lunt Jones, born Jan. 22, 1901 ; and Preston Lunt Jones, born Mar. 6, 1904. Kumen's Journal includes this statement about Thomas Jed: ".4s a child he started out with a happy disposition, and with a rather mechanical turn, and quite early in life he took u p the carpenter trade which he followed through his life quite successfully, and also worked himself into a clean-cut sucressful, public-spirited, useful citizen, as well as a church leader in his part of the state, Iron County and Parowan Stake. He was quite unpretentious, with a high sense of humor. He endeared himself to all good people who became acquainted with him. 'Jed' as we called him: took a leading part in public improvments, especially schools, school I d d i n g s etc., and was one of the prime movers in securing the Branch A.C., which has done so much good for thesouthern part of the state of Utah.'" Just a month before Jed died, young Kumen's wife, Lil, died Dec. a 10, 1930. Lil had a bad heart and w s a n invalid for a number of years. She and Kumen L. had four children -Katherine, Florence, Thomas Henry and Elizabeth. Lil's sister Jen (Amy Jane Leigh), moved hack to Cedar City and she and Kumen were married Oct. 16, 1931. However, she died in 1943 of a stroke and Kumen was oncr more alone. He later married Iva Rich Oshome, April 18, 1944, to whom he was introduced by Randall Jones in Salt Lake City where she worked in an office at Hotel Utah?3 Lehi's brother, Kumen, came from Bluff again to visit his family in Cedar City in 1931 and wrote thc follow in^ ahout his visit: "Aug. 14, 1931, came through the towns in the muddy valley and Utah's Dixie, Santa Clara, St. George, Leeds, etc., arriving at Cedar about noon. Had a nice visit with relatives; found most of them quite well. I noticed that my older brother, Lehi is beginning to slip; moves around slower and is getting much thinner, but his spirit is active. His wife, 'Aunt Henrietta,' is \.cry feeble and has lost all intercst in everything since hreakdown a year or so ago. This places an added burden upon Lehi, which is a strain upon his rugged will-power." Henrietta died the following year May 31, 1932. Henrietta Lunt Jones' life was an inspiration to all who knew her and especially to her own family, who knew her 1)est. One who spends a great deal of time working f o r the public, does so at the expense of her duties at home, but Henrietta had the raparity and efficiency to do both ~ ~ lFurtherl. more, her home interests reached beyond the household duties. She was a good foreman, so to speak, in direrting her boys with the farm and livestock projects, such as making ready a camp outfit or killing a mutton, if necessary. If she saw the need for a fence to be moved or a woodpile or pigpen to he cleaned up, she accompliahed that, with available 215
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
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