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HINTON, John Nock: Furniture Maker

  • March 5, 2022
This story is told by Edith Alice Hinton Gibson and Wilhelmina B. Hinton. They were respectively John Nock’s daughter and daughter-in-law, and had 1st hand knowledge of him. This short history is located in the Archives and Special Collections area of the library at Utah State University in Logan, Cache, Utah.
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EAGER, Anna: Pioneer Child & Mother

  • October 30, 2021
Anna is born in Virgin, Utah but a a very early age moved to Eagar Arizona, then Snowflake, Az, then Morelos, Mexico Where she went to school. Forced out of Mexico, she moved with her family to Woodruff, Arizona, then later to Hurricane, Utah. She married, raised her family, and died there.
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HINTON, James Maurice: Life Story

  • June 22, 2021
I herded those sheep through what they call the Bear Hole. I’d start them through the East side and it would take them ten days to go through. I herded sheep four years for Wilts Imlay on Kolob in the summer and on the Arizona Strip in winter. The wages were $40 a month and board. I’ve got more to show for those four years than any other time in my life.
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PARKER, John Jr.

  • June 13, 2020
John Parker Jr., was born February 14, 1812 in Chaigley, Lancashire, England, the sixth of ten children.  As members of the Anglican Church, the Parker family attended regularly; John Parker,…
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COVINGTON, Anna Eager

  • March 31, 2019
Pioneer Child & Mother This biography originally appeared on pioneerstories.org My grandfather, John Eagar, was born July 13th, 1823, at Auburn, Cayuga. Cayuga County, New York. Two years later they…
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