John Price Fullmer was a son of Juliette Fullmer and John Solomon Fullmer. John was named after his grandfather John Solomon Fullmer, Jr. and was given the middle name of Price, his grandmothers maiden name.

John's mother died when he was eight years old and most of his youth was spent living with his grandmother, Sarah Sophronia Oysterbanks, in Salt Lake City. Later he went back to his home in Springville, attended school and in the summer worked in the fields and orchards.

He was a good-looking young man, about 5'8", his hair (balding)was dark. Eyes were grey. He was popular with the young folks and loved to sing and dance. He was quite a gay blade among the ladies as he had a pleasant personality.

John purchased a farm about a mile and a half from Clawson and was living there when he met and married Mary Ann Singleton April 6, 1901 in Orangeville, Utah. Mary was seventeen years old and John was thirty.

After their marriage they moved to Tintic in Juab County where John's father worked in the silver mines and they lived there a year.

They were happy, they had many friends, but they also had their challenges and sorrows. They moved many times, as pioneers often do, trying to make ends meet at each place.

They had fifteen children.

In about 1924 John got Typhoid Fever, caused by the bacteria, Salmonella. It causes headache, remittent fever, and cough. In the third week you'd have a high fever and delirium. He had this a second time the next year. Mary Ann had to watch him several times he'd wander away and two times she had to take him to the doctor. He'd try to tell her she was on the wrong road and he didn't know where he was.

One winter John was helping a friend tear down an old building and was hurt in an accident. The building decided to fall and John was hit by a plank right under his nose. It took his nose off and his eye fell way down on his face. It nearly killed him. They drove him to Roosevelt where the Doctor was able to put his eye back in and stitched his nose back on. The eye was usable but one nostril closed up and he could never breathe through it again. The only thing that would ease the pain was a cup of coffee and Mary Ann wouldn't allow it in the house. Once in a while he would get a little can and make it himself but Mary Ann didn't like it. He'd go to the neighbors and ask them for a cup of coffee. They said anytime you want a cup you just come over. They were real good to him. He went there quite a lot.

John suffered from migrane headaches, in which a prescription drug that combines argotamine and caffeine helped. John didn't have access to modern medicine but found that drinking coffee would help give relief.
In January of 1925 John went into the mountains to get poles for fencing. Since it was so cold he left his boys home and went alone. It started to snow and the wagon was on an incline so he walked along side of the horses to help guide them. The road was slick and he lost his footing and the wagon wheel ran over him breaking his leg. He continued to walk on that leg until he got to the foot of the hill then he climbed in the wagon and rode the rest of the way home. Having no money for doctors he made a crutch and hobbled around for several weeks. Always afterwards he dragged his foot. John's health was very poor after this last accident.

It was always hard for John to sit and not fall asleep and it was hot weather. It was in June, he was working for his Uncle, and they were spraying the fruit trees with lead poison pesticide. John went to sleep in the spray wagon and it made his uncle mad. His uncle saturated his clothing with the spray. He came home and Mary helped him clean up and he went to bed. The pesticide blinded him. He had a stroke and died two or three days later.

Mary Ann was left with eight unmarried children, six under the age of 14, to raise alone.

Children not listed below: Arvella Fullmer Groesbeck, Ettie Fulklmer, Nettie Fullmer, Cleo Lavern Fullmer Welch, Leo Fullmer, Alodia Viola Fullmer Moncur, Oral Devo Fullmer, Fred Sidney Fullmer, Eugenia Fullmer Johnson,