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Left Liverpool aboard the Hartley. Arrived in New Orleans on 28 Apr 1849
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Nee O'Donnell????
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Still Living.[MegTilley-20051127a-10-29a.FTW]
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Still Living.
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MEMORIES: Of Verl from, Jeannene Hawk (wife of Steven Hawk ) Verl was a very good mother-in-law. She helped me in our youngers days of marriage in cooking, and always made me feel welcome in the family. I enjoyed all of the times that we would gather for the holidays in her yard and taking her to the store at times. She was a wonderful cook and made the best fried chicken I have ever had. Often times , I wondered how she knew that Steve and I were coming down for the weekend as we didn't have a phone and when we would arrive with the kids in tow she would calmly say "I expected you a couple of hours ago".
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1885 - Birth Record
1900 - US Census - Spanish Fork
1903 - Marriage Record
1910 - US Census - Spanish Fork
1920 - US Census - Starrh's Ferry
1930 - US Census - Starrh's Ferry
1940 - US Census
1966 - Death Record
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Jane and Pratt Thomas
· 11 May 2013 · 0 Comments
BIOGRAPHY: (this history was written by Jane's grand daughter Sharon Ann Thomas Knight 3 May 1999)
Jane and Pratt lived in Spanish Fork Utah area. Pratt & Jane had 3 children. The oldest was a son, Fay Robertson Thomas, next was a baby daughter, Verl Thomas. Then another son Mark Thomas, he died 26 Dec 1914, The Prophet asked Pratt & Jane, his sister Rachell & Jim Tilley, his sister Jenney & Gilbert Nielson, his sister Bess & Kimball Barner, cousins of both Jane & Pratt to come to the Starrahs Ferry Idaho area, to settle it for the church. They homesteaded on what is now 200 West and about 170 South of Burley. This is where another son LaMar Robertson Thomas was born, then 2 daughters, Helen & Dona Flay Thomas.
It was on the 4th of July 1927, it was Dona Flay's 2nd birthday, Jane had Dona Flay in her arms, she was standing on Overland Ave. In Burley in front of Alexander's mens store. When Bishop Smith from Oakley, Idaho lost control of the new car he was just learning to drive he pinned Jane to the store front with his car Jane threw DonaFlay. Dona Flay was not hurt, only scared and scratched up. The plate glass window broke and came down it cut off Janes foot at about the ankle. The doctor did emergency first aid then they took Jane to his house to do Surgery to save her life. The Doctor kept a room for patients as they didn't have a hospital at that time. Jane was kept here for some time. LaMar was 9 years old. He came running up to see what the excitement was, he saw his mothers shoe with her foot in it laying on the side walk. You can imagine the fear and horror the whole family went through.
Pratt sold his farm to pay the doctor bills. They moved to Spring Dale, Idaho, which is a area out of Declo Idaho. Declo is 8 miles east of Burley on the old highway to Salt Lake. Dona Flay remembered her mother trying to haul buckets of water up the hill from the Spring Dale creek with 1 leg, on crutches. She was crying and moving the bucket a little at a time. She never gave up on anything. Jane's leg was ulcerated, it never really healed, there was drainage all the rest of her life. She was a hard worker, and took care of her family all her life. When she had too much pain to wear her wooden leg, she would kneel on a chair and hop the chair around her house to clean and cook.
Pratt was an excelent farmer. They moved to Burley at some time before the depression hit. Pratt rented the farm land and house from the Olsen family. It was over across the tracks behind what is now Bonanza Motors and you go to the canal The Olsens lived on the west side of the road and the Thomas family lived on the east side right by the ditch. Helen, DonaFlay and I went out to the irigation ditch, we called it a canal, and we doug out the banks so it was big enough for us to swim in. Our Grandparets had chickens, pigs, cows, and a big garden. Also Grandad was an excellent farmer. He grew watermellon This is a hard crop to grow in our section of Idaho and he grew the best pea's I ever tasted. He would come in and say: "the pea's are almost ready keep Sharon out of them". I would go out and hide behind the viens. If they got 1 pea they were doing good. The old house had 3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen & pantry off the kitchen the middle bedroom was stripped and Grandma had a rug loom in it. She took orders for rugs. Then she wove them from strips of rags. We got a long runner that grandma had made for the mortuary in Rupert, it had been moved to the halls of the apartment building next door when they remodeled after the 2nd World war was over. Wanda had part of it and we took part to aunt Verl and I beleive Rhita but i'm not sure.
In 1942 Jane had to go to Los Angeles to have surgery on her leg again Pratt took her. He stayed until after Jane got over her surgery by this time her leg was amputated to just below her knee. They decided to move to Calif as the warmer weather didn't cause her leg as much pain as Idaho cold did. Pratt came home to move.
LaMar and Wanda were there with the girls. It was just before Christmas, Pratt built a fire in the yard and was burning papers and pictures he said that they didn't need all that stuff. Wanda stopped him before he burned to much. But a lot of history went up into smoke. he sold grandmas loom to some ladys from the church, he sold and gave away every thing.
They lived on Denver Ave in Los Angeles Calif. the family owned a hot dog stand accross from a high school in Los Angeles, Jane also owned a Malt Shop in Topanga Calif. she loved her family and supported all of them. Jane took care of Randy Jones and later Janell Jones. Jane was a great lady and a wonderful mother, grandmother, and great grandmother we all love her still and we know she is in heaven with grandad waiting for her family to get to be together forever.
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