WILLIAM H . LEIGH Biography 1877 - 1958 William H . Leigh was one of Cedar City's best known businessmen and civic workers. He founded the Leigh Furniture and Carpet Company in Cedar City, and operated it for 45 years before turning i t over to the...
March 7 . 1 9 1 4 . . .Mayor suggested that the City Park be plowed and reseeded with orchard grass. No action. April 2. 1914.. .On motion Councilman Thorley, the item of South and West Field, owing the City $38.28 for several years, was stricken...
PARLEY DALLEY Biography 1886 - 1970 Parley Dalley was born November 5 , 1886, the son of James and Petrina B. Dalley. He grew up on a farm in Summit. Utah, the place of his b i r t h , and attended the oneroom school there. He then went to the...
Robert Gallegos of t h e Division of Housing, State Community Affairs, met to discuss remedies to t h e housing shortage a n d u r g e d the creation of a public housing authority. Council voted against same. Nov. 2, 1971.. .Election from t h e -...
L. KERRY JONES Biography 1929 Lehi Kerry Jones was born in Cedar City, Utah, on October 29, 1929, a son of Lehi M . and Bernella Gardner Jones. He was the middle child of the family, having two older sisters, Joan and Marolyn, a younger s i s t e r...
Chief. During the early days of the settlement of the country, when there were many more Indians than white men. a great chief named Kanarra reigned supreme over his tribe. He was very unfriendly toward the white people who were coming into the...
Smeath, George, 339 Smith, Alfred K., 68 Smith. Benjamin, 97 Smith, Benjamin Jr., 81 Smith, Don, 299 Smith, h a , 361 Smith, E m a , 366 Smith George A,. 5, 6, 22, 25, 470, 471, 473, 479, 487, 489 Smith, Gordon, 259 Smith, Henry, 366 Snith, J....
It spread its fragrance al around l The pleasant spot on which it grew Yet, so lovely and so sweet, 'Twas full of grace and modesty, And strove to hide its loveliness From the rude gaze of passers by. But there was one of beauteous form, Of gracehl...
times. The U.S. Army was pressing upon the people uttenng dire threats as to what would take place when it reached the ~ a l l e y s . ~ n Fmstrated i seeking pace, bankrupting themselves to store food and ammunition, and stmggling to reestablish...
and coke, were sold directly to individual^.^ In Apnl 1862, i spite of the Civil War and al1 the national n humoil, Justice M o d of Vermont introduced the first Congressional Bill against the practice of polygamy into the House of Representatives....
CEDAR CITY IN THE 1870's AND [RON WORKS AT RON MOUNTAIN he women of Cedar City held a mass meeting on February 1, 1870, to protest against the passage of the "Cullom Bill." The b proposed by Representative Cullom of Illinois would, among i d ~ther...
place, during which time 1 have never felt to tum back or regret the step 1 have taken. Since this Church was organizer;, relentless persecution has followed the Saints. The present 'Cullom's Biii' brings a passage of scripture forcibly to my mind...
honored and revered by our children, exalted above al1 other women. 1s this a state of slavery? If so, it is a very pleasant one. We have many privileges guaranteed unto us, one of which is the right to choose our husbands and, arnongst the many...
John Macfarlane, who had been reproved for volunteering to put Wood out of a public meeting, felt considerably rasped. After the triai he went to Bishop Lunt's, and 1 [Lee] was sent for where 1 reasoned the rest of the night with hun,
sex of the telegrapher at the place we had left in the morning, when Mrs. Lunt remarked to her sister-wife that 'Parowan has been c d e d by St. George three times without answering. She will go to meeting!' Mr. Lunt did what he could to help, poor...
held by the saints in the evening, at which important business was transacted. The necessity of a gristmiU was strongly urged by the Bishop, and a comrnittee appointed to labor in that interest. At this time the settlement had one of the finest...
The family members helped i cooking and sewing the food. Al1 the n girls and wives were involved in this Dart of the service to the hotel guests. There was a great deal of laundry and cleaning that was necessary to keep the rooms ready, so there...
and tens of thousands of men and women are out of n work and, but for soup kitchens being established i the large towns, some would starve to death in this, the wealthiest nation on earth. 1 saw a brother at the conference in Nottingham named...
whom Dalton had escaped before, traveled from Beaver to Parowan to arrest him. The two Marshals hid and, when they saw Dalton, he began to run and they called for him to stop. Without waiting, Thompson shot Dalton in the back, killing him. Apostle...
Henrietta wrote about workmg as a telegraph operator, but she was manied and had four children before Henry and Sarah Ann left. Her husband, Lehi W. Jones, was called on a mission to the Southern States in January of 1888, shortly a