Jacob Ferrin, age 92 was born May 3, 1873, at View (now called Pleasant View or North Ogden), son of Jacob Samuel and Jenetta Ann McBride Ferrin. When I was eight years old my family left View, with several other families, and moved to Pima, Arizona. We were three months making the trip by team, arriving Jan. 1, 1882. I drove cows to Flagstaff where they sold the cows. When we got to Pima they traded my pony for a cow. It almost broke my heart to part with my pony. I got the job of herding the town cows. My father was killed by the Indians in July and I went on the freight road in January, with my own team, and freighted until I was 22. I married Valverda Jemima Stowe in 1894. we moved around a lot trying to find a place that agreed with my wife's health, which was bad; all over Arizona to New Mexico, and Mexico. Five boys and one girl were born to us.

I molded adobes at Cannera, Mexico, for four summers. I worked at the Bisby lumber yard four years. Left Mexico at the time of the rebellion of Pancho Villa, in 1910. Moved to Tuscon, Arizona, and worked for the Tuscon Farms Development Co., then to the smelter in Cottonwood, Arizona., during World War I; then to Texas with a logging outfit for three years. I picked up chills and fever and came back to Arizona. I worked for the Western Golf Club, worked for a road construction gang, and also helped build canals. My wife divorced me in 1922. All of our children were pretty well grown by now. I came to Cane Beds in northern Arizona, where a friend lived. In 1923 I homesteaded a quarter section of land, dry farmed and raised a few head of cows, on open range. Here I met Ethel Cox Allen, who had divorced her husband, and we were married June 14, 1939. She had three boys and one girl, the girl was married and the two boys were soon called into the army, and the youngest boy stayed with us. We came to Elsinore to visit one of her son's family and after the third visit we decided to stay, so we arrived here August 1, 1953. My eyesight began to fail, but after surgery it was much better, but has been gradually failing, but I can read some with a powerful magnifying glass which I have. I take care of our lot and raise a garden. I have been doing quite a bit of temple work, and attend church regularly. I am a high priest in the church. I will celebrate my 92nd birthday in 9 more days. I molded the adobes and burned the brick used to line the Zion Park Stake House.

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Centennial History
1865 - 1965