LUCRETIA JONES 1883
By Daughter, Viola Singleton Medley
By Daughter, Viola Singleton Medley
Mother was very clean, "Said people could eat off my floor." She was small with dark eyes and lots of black hair and was very tiny.
Mama wrote poetry and was very educated. She went to Murdock Academy. She could have taught school, but her health wouldn't let her.
I am a merry little girl
And if I had my way
I wouldn't go to school at all
But with my dolly play.
I wish someone would come
Along and steal the schoolhouse key
So all the little boys and girls
Could come and play with me.
Mama got sick in about 1923. We were living in Milford. I was ten in May and she died in June, 1925. She was an invalid for 2 ½ years. She had a disease called "Creeping Paralysis of the Spine." It was caused by the shock of Mr. Marcum pulling her teeth. She never got over this. She always said it was the ether moving out of her body, which isn't right. She weighed only 65 pounds when she died. I could lift her into bed. The last year before she died I never went to school, but stayed home to take care of her.
Mama wrote poetry and was very educated. She went to Murdock Academy. She could have taught school, but her health wouldn't let her.
I am a merry little girl
And if I had my way
I wouldn't go to school at all
But with my dolly play.
I wish someone would come
Along and steal the schoolhouse key
So all the little boys and girls
Could come and play with me.
Mama got sick in about 1923. We were living in Milford. I was ten in May and she died in June, 1925. She was an invalid for 2 ½ years. She had a disease called "Creeping Paralysis of the Spine." It was caused by the shock of Mr. Marcum pulling her teeth. She never got over this. She always said it was the ether moving out of her body, which isn't right. She weighed only 65 pounds when she died. I could lift her into bed. The last year before she died I never went to school, but stayed home to take care of her.
By Sister, Hazel Eyre
Lucretia Jones was born November 22, 1883, at Adamsville, Beaver County, Utah. She was the sixth child born to Evan and Cressia Jane Walters Jones and they gave her the name Lucretia after her mother and father's older sister. Lucretia was blessed January 13, 1882, by D.D. Rees at Adamsville; baptized April 10, 1892, by Wm. H. Joseph at Adamsville; confirmed April 10, 1892, by Wm. H. Joseph.
Her girlhood days were spent in Adamsville and Frisco, Utah. At Frisco her father worked in the Horn Silver Mine. Lucretia went to school in Frisco and graduated there under O.F. McShane. The school wasn't very large so he took the class down to his house and they had the graduation there. Lucretia was an excellent writer and loved to write.
She and her sister, Kate, were very close and could never stand to be separated. Kate being two years older, they were always together. They were baptized together on April 10, 1892, at Adamsville. They were always asked to sing together in all the programs.
She had many friends and always kind to everybody. She always went to Church and Sunday School.
Lucretia was always very frail and never had very good health. The Elders were called in on several occasions to give her a blessing and by the hand of the Lord she was saved many times.
She was very industrious. She loved to sew, crochet, piece quilt tops, cook, dance, write letters and read.
In 1901 her father moved back to Adamsville on the farm. She stayed in Frisco with Kate and husband and she helped keep house for her brother, Evan.
All the family watched over her and tried to make her happy on account of her poor health. But as she grew up she got much better, and on one bright day she met Thomas Gillins. They went together for some time and on December 22, 1909, they were married in the Court House in Beaver, Utah. To this union five children were born; Elden, Viola, Gerald, Evan, and Henry. They lived in many places during their married life; Shaunty, Minersville, Milford, and Adamsville. She was stricken with a disease that paralyzed her and caused her death on May 22, 1925, at Minersville, leaving five children, the oldest 12 and the youngest three years.
Lucretia Jones was born November 22, 1883, at Adamsville, Beaver County, Utah. She was the sixth child born to Evan and Cressia Jane Walters Jones and they gave her the name Lucretia after her mother and father's older sister. Lucretia was blessed January 13, 1882, by D.D. Rees at Adamsville; baptized April 10, 1892, by Wm. H. Joseph at Adamsville; confirmed April 10, 1892, by Wm. H. Joseph.
Her girlhood days were spent in Adamsville and Frisco, Utah. At Frisco her father worked in the Horn Silver Mine. Lucretia went to school in Frisco and graduated there under O.F. McShane. The school wasn't very large so he took the class down to his house and they had the graduation there. Lucretia was an excellent writer and loved to write.
She and her sister, Kate, were very close and could never stand to be separated. Kate being two years older, they were always together. They were baptized together on April 10, 1892, at Adamsville. They were always asked to sing together in all the programs.
She had many friends and always kind to everybody. She always went to Church and Sunday School.
Lucretia was always very frail and never had very good health. The Elders were called in on several occasions to give her a blessing and by the hand of the Lord she was saved many times.
She was very industrious. She loved to sew, crochet, piece quilt tops, cook, dance, write letters and read.
In 1901 her father moved back to Adamsville on the farm. She stayed in Frisco with Kate and husband and she helped keep house for her brother, Evan.
All the family watched over her and tried to make her happy on account of her poor health. But as she grew up she got much better, and on one bright day she met Thomas Gillins. They went together for some time and on December 22, 1909, they were married in the Court House in Beaver, Utah. To this union five children were born; Elden, Viola, Gerald, Evan, and Henry. They lived in many places during their married life; Shaunty, Minersville, Milford, and Adamsville. She was stricken with a disease that paralyzed her and caused her death on May 22, 1925, at Minersville, leaving five children, the oldest 12 and the youngest three years.
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