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Sarah is on the Ancestral file as Sarah Jane Banks and Sarah J.B. Huntington [Thomas_Llewellyn-1853.ged]
Sarah is on the Ancestral file as Sarah Jane Banks and Sarah J.B. Huntington [Thomas_Llewellyn-1853.ged]
Sarah is on the Ancestral file as Sarah Jane Banks and Sara h J.B. Huntington[Thomas_Llewellyn-1853.ged]
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Mark, Allen and Ruth Tilley all detested this man due to his treatment of his wife.
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Note N552
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NAME: Miles middle name was for his grandfather Pratt Thoma s.
DEATH: Miles only lived one short year. There are no know n pictures of him. But I remember he had brown curly hair . Mom would hold a toy and move it slowly to see if he woul d follow it with his eyes, he did, and he could roll over f or a while, but then he stopped. He had been sick with a co ld. they thought but during the night he got worse, and the y tried to rush him to the hospital in Santa Monica Calif , we lived in Topanga Canyon, about a 45 min. drive. He die d before they got there. He is buried at the Inglewood Cem entary in Calif.[MegTilley-20051127a-10-29a.FTW]
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S-Birth Certificate
S-Death Certificate
NAME: Miles middle name was for his grandfather Pratt Thoma s.
DEATH: Miles only lived one short year. There are no know n pictures of him. But I remember he had brown curly hair . Mom would hold a toy and move it slowly to see if he woul d follow it with his eyes, he did, and he could roll over f or a while, but then he stopped. He had been sick with a co ld. they thought but during the night he got worse, and the y tried to rush him to the hospital in Santa Monica Calif , we lived in Topanga Canyon, about a 45 min. drive. He die d before they got there. He is buried at the Inglewood Cem entary in Calif.
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[Thomas_Llewellyn-decendency.ged]
S-Birth Certificate.
S-Death Certificate.
Gregory's nephew, Christopher Daughton was baptised in beha lf of him in the St. George Temple.
BIOGRAPHY: As written by his older sister, Vicki Thomas Dau ghton. I remember when he was born, he looked so much lik e his sister Hope, he had dark curley hair and big brown ey es. Our parents noticed there was something wrong when he w as about 6 months. He didn't sit up or do the things tha t a baby that age should do. He suffered a lot in the year s he lived, but he brought joy to those around him, he ha d a special sperit. When he smiled, mostly at his dad, Fay , it made us fell that he knew more then he let on.[MegTilley-20051127a-10-29a.FTW]
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S-Birth Certificate.
S-Death Certificate.
Gregory's nephew, Christopher Daughton was baptised in beha lf of him in the St. George Temple.
BIOGRAPHY: As written by his older sister, Vicki Thomas Dau ghton. I remember when he was born, he looked so much lik e his sister Hope, he had dark curley hair and big brown ey es. Our parents noticed there was something wrong when he w as about 6 months. He didn't sit up or do the things tha t a baby that age should do. He suffered a lot in the year s he lived, but he brought joy to those around him, he ha d a special sperit. When he smiled, mostly at his dad, Fay , it made us fell that he knew more then he let on.
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(written by her sister Vicki Thomas Daughton 1998)August wa s called Mona Fae, after her father Fay and her mother La M ona. My parents named her August because they liked the fal l and thought it was pretty, but most family members did no t like the name and never called her August but Mona Fae, i t was never changed on her birth certificate. She had wav y red hair and green eyes, she was a very pretty. But ver y sick and did not stay long with us.
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(written by her sister Vicki Thomas Daughton 1998)August wa s called Mona Fae, after her father Fay and her mother La M ona. My parents named her August because they liked the fal l and thought it was pretty, but most family members did no t like the name and never called her August but Mona Fae, i t was never changed on her birth certificate. She had wav y red hair and green eyes, she was a very pretty. But ver y sick and did not stay long with us.
S-Birth Certificate..
S-Death Certificate.
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DEATH:
Pratt died while they were living at 7711 South Hoover, Los Angeles California. He was working at the Rockwell Packing Co. with his daughter Donna Flay and son Fay.
I remember the Christmas just before he died a lot of us grandchildren were at their house. I was 11 years old, he had each one of us sit on his lap before we went home and he said good-bye and hugged and kissed us, which was something he did not do very often. I felt he knew some how he would not be around long and he was saying a final good bye (Vicki Thomas Daughton).
BURIAL:
Jane had just bought the burial plots in 1956 at the new Cemetery in Burbank California in the Latter Day Saint section. She had not expected to use it so soon; the plots she had bought were not ready yet when Pratt died, so they gave them different plots right by the Seagal Monument [Seagull Monument???].
BIOGRAPHY: (This was written by Pratt & Jane's oldest son Fay in 1980 he was 72 years old.)
At the time their first son was born to them, they were living in Lake Shore, Utah. When their son was one year old (in 1909) they moved to the Strawberry Reservoir, a huge tunnel was being built through the mountain by the government. First Pratt drove a donkey to haul muck out of the tunnel. Then electricity was installed, and he used to haul out the muck with electric cars, he was then called a "Motorman". They lived in Strawberry for about three years.
When this job was finished, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Pratt was a street car motorman for two years in Salt Lake City. They then moved back to Spanish Fork Utah, where he worked for a Dr Stoddard who had a large farm, where Pratt dug a well. Doctor Stoddard had a large peach orchard which was on the Spanish Fork Bench. Dr. Stoddard had the first car in Spanish Fork. It was the first car Fay saw and rode in. The Doctor would give the children a ride in is as far as his farm and then the children would walk back to town. Dr. Stoddard drove his horse and buggy more than he drove his horseless carriage. That vehicle would have been a Ford.
In 1912 Grandpa Llewellyn Thomas died. He was a wealthy farmer for those years. Fay was four years old and remembers going to Grandpa Llewellyn Thomas's funeral. They rode in a big black surrey with fringe on top. When Pratt's father died, it took several years to settle the estate. Pratt received nine acres of land. When you consider how many children Llewellyn had that was a good amount.
In 1914 Fay was seven years old, and Verl four, and Mark was born in November, but on the 26 of December Mark died with peumonia.
Pratt kept his nine acres of land until 1915 . He sold his nine acres and they moved to Rexberg, Idaho. Pratt worked on a large farm at Cammos Meadows in Rexburg, Idaho. Pratt left first and then Jane and Fay and Verl came later on the train. Fay was then six years old and his sister Verl three. Fay remembers eating soda crackers coated with cheese.
Pratt worked on a huge farm and ranch, with a sawmill and a dry farm for wheat. It was forty miles from Yellowstone Park. It took a half day to make the rounds with a plough. They had three ploughs called a Gang or Sulky plow with eight or ten horses (Gang plows and sulky plows came into use 1868). When Jane, Fay & Verl arrived in Rexberg they had to wait a whole week for Pratt to pick them up and go back to Cammos Meadows. They stayed in Cammos Meadows for only the summer, three months, then back to Spanish Fork, Utah.
They were in Spanish Fork for a short time until they went to Idaho again, this time to Burley, Idaho. Pratt worked for a Mr. Shey, he also left ahead again, then the family followed Pratt to Idaho. Mr. Shey had a farm and he also butchered pigs, sheep & cows. He put the meat on a wagon and sold it from farm to farm also door to door in town. They were there at Mr. Shey's for six months, in all.
Pratt then bought forty acres of land from Mr Shey. Mr Shey bought land from the school district (state land) - this land was set aside for the schools when the town of Burley was laid out. The land they bought from Mr. Shey bought was left over from the planning. He was a rich man. All of this land was sage brush land. The land Pratt bought was located near Beetville, near Starrh's Ferry, Idaho. Beetville was a place where the farmers took the sugar beets and loaded them on the rail road cars. Pratt and Jane gave $3,000 for the forty acres of land. They had to clear off all the sage brush before they could plant a garden. They took a big piece of a railroad rail and brok down all of the sage brush with horses and this big iron rail. Then they took a big rake with large teeth and had all of the sage brush in rows. Then in the evening they would set the sage brush on fire and burn it all night. They didn't get it all cleared off in time to plant that summer, just some barley and that was all until the next spring they were able to plant sugar beets, vegetables and so on.
In 1916 our family moved to Starrh's ferry (Beetville), we lived in the Burley 1st ward, as an answer to the President of the Church of Latter Day Saints call at the time asking families to settle this area. In the fall of this year Typhoid Fever was really bad. Jane, Verl, and I all had the fever and were very ill. There was a ditch running through our field. The drinking water was hauled in and the stale & stagnant water caused a great deal of sickness. Later in Burley all of the pumps were condemned because of the Typhoid Fever.
While they lived here, Pratt and Jane had three more children, LaMar, Helen and Dona Flay. They built a two room house on their forty acres.
In 1922 the banks went broke Pratt and Jane lost their home and forty acres to the International Mortgage Company. They then moved to Springdale in 1926. The family of five children lived in the Wixom home. The Wixom place was located on Spring Creek. They lived here for one year. In 1923 they then moved to View, Idaho.
All of the houses were rented out. They were all painted a slate gray blueish with a white trim, half the county of Cassia Idaho had painted homes like this. One hundred and twenty acres was rented in Springdale, Idaho. Jane's brother Sterling had rented half of the house with his wife and three children, Marcel, Gerald and Afton Robertson. His wife had typhoid fever and died. They were from Spanish Fork, Utah.
Grandma Robertson, Maria Argyle Robertson, and William Robertson her youngest son same age as Fay Thomas, lived with Sterling and his three children at the old Charley Jones' place after Sterling's wife died. Charleys Jones' place was located on Spring Creek near Tommy Dayley's place. The Tommy Dailey's bought the Wixom home while Pratt Thomas & family lived there renting the place to them. Now Pratt Thomas and family moved back to View a year later, 1929, eighty acers. They moved back to the Charley Jones' place. In the meantime Sterling and his mother and three children moved back to Spanish Fork, Utah. Pratt and Jane stayed in the Charley Jones' place until 1934.
While living in Nellie Dayley's place in Springdale, Idaho, 1927, it was the 4th of July and we were in Burley and standing in front of Van England's Department Store near by King's variety store we, Mother, myself (Fay), Verl, and Dona Flay, only a year old, in Mother's arms, Aunt Bess & Early Barney, when a new Chrysler Sedan, was pulling up into the parking space when the driver killed the engine, then started the engine again, he got excited, didn't know how to drive the automobile very well, it lunged at all of us, and hit mother and Dona Flay fell out of Mother's arms. The automobile picked mother up and forced her clear through the Van England's window. Mother's toes were cut off up to her heel, all was left was her heel, split her leg all to pieces, right up to her knee. This man's name was Smith who lived in Oakley, Idaho. A religious man, he paid for the Hospital bill, that was all. Jane had to go back for surgery three different times. The Salt Lake City Hospital paid for her bill for the Surgery the first time. Fay bought her an artificial limb the first time for $125.00. In 1934 they moved to Burley, Idaho on Occidental, near the Prescotts, Jeffs, and rented a house or half of it, Bert and Tex Dudley lived in the other half. Fay worked for Dave Braden at the time. They lived here for a year, then moved to the Olsen house and rented there until 1943. (Occidental Avenue was just off East 11th and 5th street) They had an acre of ground and a cow and Pratt added to the two room house. They had five rooms in all for their big family.
Pratt & Jane Thomas had a lot of hard years and were strong and good parents. They came from a rich heritage. Pratt worked at Rockwell's and Serels Mfg. Co. until he died. He was ill for only a day or two. He never missed work. [Thomas_Llewellyn-1853.ged]
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