ISAAC M. JONES, FORMER MAESER RESIDENT DIES

Isaac Morley Jones, 91, former Uintah County resident, died Tuesday, March 2, at the home of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Wilson (Known as Maysie Jones to her friends in Vernal) in Hatch, Utah.

He was born August 3, 1862, in Fairview, a son of James Naylor Jones and Caroline Delight Allen. Most of his childhood days were spent in Heber. In 1881, he came to the Uintah Basin to help A. C. Hatch, Captain Pardon Dodds and John Peterson bring a herd of cattle to Jensen. The snow was deep and it took sixteen days for the trip. In 1880, he brought a wagon load of provisions from Heber to Vernal for Abraham Hatch and John Smith, who had come to Vernal to organize the Uintah Stake for the LDS Church.

He worked in Vernal two years and then was hired as Boss Farmer at the Whiterocks Indian Agency. Later he was transferred to the Indian School as Industrial teacher.

Mr. Jones had told many times of the building of Fort Thornburg at the mouth of Ashley Canyon. In 1886, the soldiers marched over the mountains from Fort Bridger, Wyoming, thru Ashley Valley and to the present site of Fort Duchesne. Mr. Jones helped to shingle the government buildings the soldiers built at the fort. He worked on the first road made through the twist and helped build the first bridge over the Uintah River.

When the people of Uintah Stake were building the Stake Tabernacle, the baptismal font had been completed, but there was no roof on it. Mr. Jones has told he and Brother Glines hid behind the big boiler used for the furnace in order that they might change their clothes to perform baptisms.

He married Ann Elizabeth Starkie, daughter of Edward John Starkie and Ann Spray. The ceremony was performed in a dugout in which her parents lived in what is now Naples Ward, December 4, 1890. In 1892 their marriage was solemnized in the Manti Temple. Mrs. Jones died June 14, 1942.

Survivng are eleven sons and daughters, Morley Jones, Lehi; Mary Elizabeth Wilson, Hatch; Rosalin Carlton, Fairview; Allen Jones, Maeser; Mabel Bartlett, Tridell; Lucy Wilson, Hatch; Warren S. Jones, Ashley; Rachel Jones in Roanoke, Virginia, working in the mission home there; Albert E. Jones, Springdale and Howard M. Jones, Richfield and a half brother, Edward A. Jones.

Mr. Jones moved his wife and family to Manti in 1929.

Speakers at the services were Lewis R. Anderson, president of the Manti Temple and Paul L. Wilson, a son-in-law. Pallbearers were Alma Jones, Mark and Clyde Bartlett, Keith Hepworth, Carl Anderson and Reed Brower. Burial was in the Manti Cemetery.

Those attending the funeral from the Uintah Basin were Mr. and Mrs. Warren S. Jones, Alma and Deloy Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wansley, Stanley and Allen Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Goodrich and son Wayne, Olive Weyerman and Mr. and Mrs. Reed Brower of Fort Bridger, Wyoming.

-Vernal Express, March 11, 1954, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Isaac Morley Jones, 91, a resident of Manti, Utah, died March 2, 1954 in Hatch, Garfield County, Utah of senility.

He was born August 3, 1862 in Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah to Caroline Delight Allen Naylor and James Naylor. He married Anne Elizabeth Starkie December 4, 1890 in Naples, Uintah County, Utah. His occupation was a farmer. He was preceded in death by his wife.

Interment was made in the Manti City Cemetery on March 5, 1954.

-death certificate

Isaac Morley Jones was the son of Caroline Delight Allen and James Naylor Jones.

He married Anne Elizabeth Starkie December 4, 1890 in Naples, Uintah County, Utah.

Children not listed below: Mary Elizabeth (Maysie) (1893-1985); Sarah Rosalin (1895- 1973); Caroline Mabel (1899-1985); Lucy Viola (1901-1990); Albert Edward (1911-1999); Howard Monroe (1914-2004)