First row, from left: Roselia, mother and baby - Hector, father and Oliver, Isaac Jr., Harriet Adelia (Spillsbury) front. Back row: Marie Antio Nett (Hattie) West, Sonja Ann (Annie Adam), Hortense (Nebeker), Mary Eugenia (Jennie) Hamilton. ...
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED
The Territorial Legislature of 1855 had passed law placing the schools under the direct control of the county court. This court was to appoint "three competent men to determine the qualifications of teacher, an all...
The last Company manager was a Mr. Evans. In 1911, the store was known as the American Trading Company and was operated by Ed Street, Steve Fotheringham and J. F. Tolton. The Utah Leasing Co. took over the mine and worked the dumps after the mine...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Rod
Rod Swasey was next to the oldest brother in a group who became known as the Swasey Boys.The Swasey brothers went to the San Rafael Swell with the family's herds of cattle and horses in the 1870s. Liking the Swell so much, they basically made it...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Joe; McDonald, Mary Etta
Joe Swasey was the youngest of the Swasey brothers who became legends linked to the San Rafael Swell. Joe married Mary Etta McDonald in 1887. He continued to run a horse trading business into his later years. He and his brothers wrangled the wild...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Molen; Swasey, Joe; Dugout
Joe Swasey built this dugout in Molen. He and his wife Mary Etta lived here for a while. Joe Swasey was the youngest of the Swasey Brothers who lived on the Swell and became legends to the area.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Joe
Joe Swasey is the youngest of the Swasey Brothers who ran horses and cattle on the San Rafael in the 1870s and into the next generation as well. The Swasey Brothers adventures and stories are as embedded in the San Rafael Swell as the fossils. They...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Joe; Swasey, Mary Etta McDonald
Joe Swasey was the youngest brother of the Swasey boys. He married Mary Etta McDonald in 1887. The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking the wild ones and selling...
JOHN S. WOODBURY Biography 1865 - 1949 John Stillman Woodbury was born in St. George, Utah, November 16, 1865. He was the oldest of eleven children born to John Stillman and Martha Alice Parker Woodburv. They were among the pioneers arriving in the...
URIAH TREHARNE JONES Biography 1861 - 1929 Uriah T r e h a r n e Jones was born Feb. 11, 1861 in Cedar City. Iron County, Utah, t h e son of Thomas and Sage Treharne Jones. He had a twin s i s t e r , Sarah Ann, and they were the youngest of a...
ROBERT H. LINFORD Biography 1923 Robert Henry Linford was born July 1, 1923, in Panguitch, Utah, t h e youngest son of seven children born to Joseph Henry a n d Luella R. Orton Linford. Being reared in Panguitch a n d attending schools t h e r e ,...
was a good sized branch of the Church in South Molton and, as there were some existing difficulties, my visit was much needed and much good was done. When I had walked to Barnstable, twelve miles from South Moulton, I took off my shoes and found my...
Now for the ducks and geese. They have large flocks of each, between thirty and forty. They only reckon to kill one themselves, a goose 1 mean, at Christmas, and sell the rest. They will weigh from 1015 pounds each and get 9 pence or eighteen cents...
took the rest of us i the family buggy. We overtook the n wagon near Green's Lake, part way up the mountain. George was perched upon a rock taking a last look at our native town. 1 weU remember how he cursed al1 nature 'black and blue' at the...