THE HISTORY OF EDWARD LEONARD JONES-By Nadine Jones Blackett.

While going though some old papers, I located a paper that was typed by or for Nadine Jones Blackett of Nephi, Utah. She wrote some history about her parents and stapled some photo copies, which should be included. We also found another packet of photo copies, which we will hand deliver to a great  granddaughter of Edward Leonard Jones, who I came to call "Uncle Lenny", as that is what my father-Alma Jones called him. Going back in times of old, their were five of the Jones boys called Edward Jones from the country of Wales to Nephi, where "Little Eddie" died as a young lad.

IF YOU WERE OLD ENOUGH, WHERE WERE YOU 60 YEARS AGO TODAY?

I was just going to let todays moment in history go by, but something stirred up the thoughts of yesteryear, so had to get out of a slumber to write of it. On Nov. 22, 1963, the President of the United States was shot and killed in the same Texas City that they spit on another American Leader-Adlai Stevenson a few weeks before. Dallas folks were usually open to US leaders, but on those days, they were not. Most Americans have forgot that day, as we prepare to rush out for Black Friday specials but for the Nephi Jones Family and Juab High School, we will never forget that day. The cold war was a hot agenda, and we would practice running for cover preparing for the Russians to bomb and kill us all. We were stunned and even by my brother and I came home from school and wept. We thought it was the end of our lives in our small rural Nephi. I had been sitting in the Ag. class taught by Jay Dalley.  They had just installed a speaker system in all the classrooms, and we thought it was a weird prank we heard the news over the loud speaker. It was real and a sad day for Americans. Years later, I traveled to Dallas for a week to investigate that murder, and although it was a personal and private investigation, I received full cooperation from police and others in the school book house where Lee Harvey Oswald killed our leader. I stood at the same window Oswald did and picked up a broom to point in the same spot he was shot. Police helped me search the Grassy Knoll area. To me, it was a simple murder case, but many folks, including the crazy media wanted to come up with all kinds of BS, only to make a name for themselves on TV. Their frenzy worked, as they did become popular for the suckers that got hooked on TV News. It is a  day the Juab High Students and Senior Americans will never ever forget.

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL-WE EXPESSS A THANKFUL THANKS TO OUR MILITARY

 

THIS JOE WASN'T JUST AN "OLE JOE"-HE WAS JOE JONES OF 1871.

If a researcher had time to waste, they could count how many "Joe's" were called that nickname compared to the given name of Joe! We do know that this Joe Jones of Juab County, was the second set of Nephi's "Jones Boys." His father was Edward Jones, who arrived in Nephi in 1852, under the direction of Brigham Young. That Edward Jones came from the country of Wales, which was like Scotland- hooked on to England and a part of the "British Isles". He had experience as a Blacksmith and Farmer, and the Pioneer settlement of Salt Creek (renamed Nephi) needed that kind of expertise. His Blacksmith shop was north of the Salt Creek Fort, on 1st East near the Old Hollow, and yes, very near where the seldom spoke of-The Nephi Massacre of local Indians(Ancient Ones) occurred. Joe Jones had 9 Full siblings, with his mother being Martha Jackson, who was one of the Handcart Survivors. She was the second wife of Edward Jones, so this Joe had a few "half-siblings". When I interviewed my father about 50 years ago, he identified the two pictured "full sisters" who are "Aunt Lizzie Cazier and Aunt Louise Broadhead". On the back of that photo, it appears I asked Alma Jones where the house was located. He reported it to be on 1st East at about 5th or 6th South in Nephi. To add more confusion(at least to me), we have included a genealogy sheet showing some of the family connections. This writer loves history, but just the word "Genealogy" gives me a headache, so hope I won't be thrust to Hell when I get past earth life, and hope that God has a better system of keeping track of Who is Who that me & these Dam computers! Now where did I leave the headache medicine!