Richard Golightly Watt 1860-1933 and Mary Ann Harris 1867-1939

Richard Golightly Watt
Parents George Darling Watt and Elizabeth Golightly
Birth 26 November 1860 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Mary Ann Harris 25 Feb 1886 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Death 6 October 1933 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Buried 10 Oct 1933 Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Sources
1880 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 19, at home with his widowed mother)
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 49)
1920 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 58)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 69)
Pic: Family Searchancestry.com
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121291

Mary Ann Harris
Parents Thomas Eagles Harris and Mary Ann Payne
Birth 31 January 1867 Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States

Death 11 November 1939 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah, United States
Buried 14 November 1939 Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Sources
1870 US Census Malad, Oneida, Idaho (age 3)
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 43)
1920 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 52)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 63)
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121287


CHILDREN

Mary Hazel Watt
Birth 2 April 1887 Layton, Davis, Utah
Occupation:  Teacher
Married Walter Calvin Waldron 29 January 1913 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Virgil, Faye, Vern, Verle, Della, Arlene
Death 30 March 1947 Columbia, Maury, Tennessee
Buried Valley View Cemetery, Bothwell, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 23)
1920 US Census Morgan, Morgan, Utah (age 32)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 43)
1940 US Census - can't find her, though on Family Search it claims she was in Rawlins.
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=71877484
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com

Annie Elizabeth Watt
Birth 11 February 1889 Layton, Davis, Utah
Married William Alexander Westmoreland 12 January 1921 Logan LDS Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah
Children: Baby boy, Mary, Edward, James, Don, Edna
Death 18 April 1960 Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah
Buried Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 21)
1920 US Census Morgan, Morgan, Utah (age 29)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 41)
1940 US Census Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah (age 51)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=183291
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com
Alice Watt (twin to William)
Birth 19 March 1891 Layton, Davis, Utah
Death 19 March1891 Layton, Davis, Utah
Buried
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com

William Louder Watt (twin to Alice)
Birth 19 March 1891 Layton, Davis, Utah
Occupation: Farmer
Married 1) Mabel Elizabeth Wheatley 16 Feb 1916 Logan, Cache, Utah
Children: Mary, Richard, Ione, Dorothy, Ruth, Thomas
2) Cora Elizabeth Ray 10 Sep 1928 10 September 1928 Salt Lake LDS Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Olene, Valene, Leah, Alice, John, Kathleen
Death 13 June 1971 Ogden, Weber, Utah
Buried Valleyview Cemetery, Bothwell, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 19)
1920 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 28)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 39)
1940 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 49)
Obituary
WW1 Draft Registration
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com

Isabell Harris Watt
Birth 28 March 1894 Layton, Davis, Utah
Married Royal Charles Robins 27 August 1918 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Clara, Richard, Charles, Lee
Death 24 September 1967 Ogden, Weber, Utah
Buried 27 September 1967 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Sources
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 16)
1920 US Census Layton, Davis, Utah (age 22)
1930 US Census Layton, Davis, Utah (age 36)
1940 US Census Layton, Davis, Utah (age 46)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=123842
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com

Hattie Harris Watt
Birth 4 December1896 Layton, Davis, Utah
Occupation:  18 years as School Cook in Layton School District
1963 Davis County "Mother of the Year"
Married O'Keath Evans Adams 27 June 1917 Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Itha, Dean, Von, Fern, La Ree,  Evan, Val
Death 14 August 1989 Layton, Davis, Utah
Buried Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Note: Plot 4-15-C-7

Obituary

Beloved mother, grandmother and sister, Hattie Harris Watt Adams, 92, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 1989 at her home.
She was born Dec.4, 1896 in Layton, a daughter of Richard Golightly and Mary Ann Harris Watt.
She married O'Keath Evans Adams July 27, 1917 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died Nov. 28, 1973.
She was reared and educated in Thatcher, Utah and resided in Layton the past 72 years.
She was an active member of the Layton 7th LDS Ward and had served as Relief Society and Primary teacher and Religion class secretary.
She was Davis County Mother of the Year in 1963.
She had worked for the school lunch program as a supervisor for 18 years.
She enjoyed cooking and gardening. She loved her family and grandchildren and enjoyed being with her family.
Surviving are four sons and two daughters, Dean R. and wife Marjorie Adams, Von E. and wife JoAnn Adams, Evan W. and wife Gale Adams, ltha and husband Bill Hodson, LaRee and husband Roy Bowers, all of Layton; Val L. (Fern) and wife Kathie Adams, Mountain Green, Utah; 28 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Grace Jeppson, Corrine; Mrs. Lois Coombs, Honeyville.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Fern Orton, a brother and sisters.
Services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Lindquist's Layton Mortuary. 1074 N. Fairfield Road where friends may call Thursday from 6-8 p.m. and Friday from 9:45-10:45 a.m.
lnterment, Kaysville City Cemetery. 

Sources
Obituary
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 13)
1920 US Census Layton, Davis, Utah (age 23)
1930 US Census Layton, Davis, Utah (age 33)
1940 US Census  Layton, Davis, Utah (age 43)
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com

Verna Harris Watt
Birth 11 October 1899 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Married Melvin John Wood 17 Dec 1919 Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children:  Rulon, Edwin, Vern, Ann
Death 7 April 1986 Layton, Davis, Utah (at her sister's home)
Buried 10 April 1986 Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
Obituary
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 10)
1930 US Census Layton, Davis, Utah (age 30)
1940 US Census  Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 40)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14473206
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com
Baby Girl Watt
Birth 12 Feb 1902 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Death 12 Feb 1902 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Buried
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com

Richard Golden Watt
Birth 27 April 1904 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Death 1 November 1905 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
COD:  Pnuemonia
Buried Valley View Cemetery, Bothwell, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
Death Certificate
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30090205
Family Search
ancestry.com

Ruth Harris Watt
Birth 18 October 1906 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Death 27 February 1907 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
COD:  Bronchial Pnuemonia
Buried Valley View Cemetery, Bothwell, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
Death Certificate
Family Search
ancestry.com

Grace Darling Watt
Birth 13 January1908 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Married Marvin Rasmus Jeppesen 8 December 1932 Logan LDS Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah
Children: Claude, Linda, Leon, Ricky
Death 13 February 1995 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah
Buried 17 February 1995 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
1910 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 2)
1920 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 19 - should be 12)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 22)
1940 US Census Malad, Box Elder, Utah (age 32)
Note:  Malad later became part of Idaho
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13835603
Obituary
Pic: Obit
ancestry.com

Lois Jane Watt
Birth 22 October 1911 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Married Harold Ross Coombs 24 October 1935 Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah
Children: Don, Harold, Boyce, Eileen, Gae
Death 5 May1995 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah
Buried 9 May 1995 Honeyville Cemetery, Honeyville, Box Elder, Utah
Sources
1920 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 8)
1930 US Census Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 18)
1940 US Census Portage, Box Elder, Utah (age 28)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94102982
Obituary
Pic: Family Search
ancestry.com

Thomas Eagles Harris 1841-1928 Mary Ann Nichols Payne 1848-1911

Family Picture

Back Row: Laura, Verna Bell, Thomas, Corilla, Robert, Catherine, Willard

Front Row: Joseph, Mary Ann (mother), Nettie, Thomas (father), Mary Ann, Orson

Thomas Eagles Harris

Thomas Eagles Harris
Parents:  Robert Harris (Jr) and Hannah Maria Eagles
Born 29 Mar 1841 Atlantic Ocean aboard the ship Echo which left England 16 Feb 1841
Occupation:  Farming, Carpenter
Aaron Johnson Company Mormon Overland Trail
Married Mary Ann Nichols Payne 14 Jan 1866 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Military:  Private in Captain Robert W Burton's Company Utah Territory Militia Cavalry during the Blackhawk War
Died 17 Mar 1928 Layton, Davis, Utah (Apoplexy)

Thomas Eagles Harris
and Mary Ann Nichols Payne Harris headstone

Buried 21 Mar 1928 Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Sources
1860 US Census for Davis County, Utah Page 63 (age 19)
1870 US Census for Malad, Oneida, Idaho (age 29)
Note:  Claims he was born in England
1900 US Census Page 7B for Kaysville, Davis, Utah
1920 US Census Sheet 6 (age 78 - living with daughter Nettie)
Veteran's with Miltiary Service Utah, Territorial to 1966
Online: www.lightandtruth.net/i/History.pdf

Note:  This is a PDF file about family history and will need to be downloaded (I used Adobe Acrobat)

Utah Death Certificate
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123942/thomas-eagles-harris

Mary Ann Nichols Payne
Repaired, enhanced
and colorized

Mary Ann Nichols Payne

Parents: William Lauder Payne and Catherine Nichols
Born 10 Sep 1848 Kanesville, Iowa

LDS Pioneer

Emigration to Utah 1850 with parents, sister Sarah, and brother Samuel

Died 13 Jun 1911 Layton, Davis, Utah (Stomach Cancer)
Buried 15 Jun 1911 Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Sources
1870 US Census for Malad, Oneida, Idaho (age 22)
1900 US Census Page 7B for Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123912/mary-ann-harris
Utah Death Certificate

CHILDREN

Richard and Mary Ann
Enhanced and colorized pic

Mary Ann Harris
Born 31 Jan 1867 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Richard Thomas Golightly Watt 22 Feb 1886 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Mary, Anna, William, Alice, Isabelle, Hattie, Verna, Unnamed twins, Richard, Ruth, infant, Grace, Lois
Died 11 Nov 1939 Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah (Vascular Renal Syndrome)

Headstone

Buried 14 Nov 1929 Kaysville-Layton Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Sources
1910 US Census for Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah page 9 (age 49)
1920 US Census for Box Elder County, Utah sheet 4 (age 58)

1930 US Census for Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 63 - sb 68)
Picture of Mary Ann:  from my Grandmother Taylor and Family Search
Picture of Richard G Watt family:  Family Tree
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121287/mary-ann-watt

Watt Family Picture  

Back row: Verna, Isabel, Annie, Hazel, Hattie

Middle Row: William, Mary Ann (mother) George (father)

Bottom Row: Lois and Grace

Thomas and Eliza

Thomas William Harris
Born 10 Aug 1868 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married 1) Eliza Ann Evans 31 Dec 1889 Layton, Davis, Utah

Children: Melvin, William, Wilford, Thomas, Ivan, Mary, Joseph, Annie, Roy

2) Minnie Bain 16 Jan 1934 Logan, Cache, Utah
Note:  both his wives are buried with him in Canada

Immigrated to Canada in 1904
Was an LDS Bishop and Patriarch in Canada
Died 15 Sep 1941 Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Thomas, Eliza, Melvin, and Minnie headstone

Buried 18 Sep 1941 Taber Cemetery, Taber, Alberta, Canada

Sources
Marriage to Eliza: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 483530 Batch M73450-9

1870 US Census for Malad, Oneida, Idaho (age 2)

1900 US Census for Snowville Village, Box Elder, Utah (age 32)
1916 Canadian Census for Lethbridge, Alberta  (age 47)
Picture of couple: Family Search
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83830883/thomas-william-harris

Robert and Harriet
Enhanced and
colorized pic

Robert Chauncy Harris

Born 27 Oct 1870 Kaysville, Layton, Utah
Education: Weber State Academy, BYU (Provo)
LDS Mission:  Southern States 1907-1909
Occupation:  Mayor of Tremonton (1 term)

Married (1) Harriet Eliza Waldron 2 Feb 1898 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children: Golden, Thomas, Charles, Luella, Thelma, Wilford, Leland, Lovica, Norma

(2) Lucy Waldron Everton 15 Mar 1949 Logan, Cache, Utah

Lucy Waldron
Note: she was the widow
of John Elva Everton
and they'd had 12 children

   

Died 16 Feb 1961 At home, Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah

Robert C Harris headstone

Buried 28 Feb 1961 Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder,Utah                                                                                           

Sources

Obituary:  Ogden Standard Examiner 16 Feb 1961
1900 US Census for Snowville Village, Box Elder, Utah Sheet 6A (living with George Dewey and James Burbank)
1910 US Census for Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah
1920 US Census for Box Elder County, Utah (age 47)
1930 US Census for Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah (age 59)
1940 US Census for Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah (age 69)
Picture of couple: Family Search
Newspaper Article announcing Golden Wedding Anniversary Open House: Bear River Valley Leader Issue 29 January 1948
Marriage to Harriet: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 25886 Ref# 590 Batch 1004362
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182618/robert-chauncy-harris

Catherine Harris Adams

Catherine Priscilla Harris (went by Priscilla)

Born 16 Jan 1873 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Dennis Elias Adams 30 Mar 1890 Layton, Davis, Utah
Children: Basil, Dennis, Thomas, Norma, Claude, Ruby, Teresa, Mamie , Lisle Jabez, Wilma, Floyd, Oral

Note: Dennis died in 1916, leaving her a widow with 11 children (Norma had died as a baby). She never remarried and had to raise the 11 on her own.
Died 16 Jul 1953 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
C.O.D. Arteriosclerosis, Cerebral Hemorrhage

Buried 20 Jul 1953 Layton-Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Sources
Marriage: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 483530 Batch M73450-9
Note:  Name recorded as Priscilla
1900 US Census for Snowville village, Box Elder, Utah
Note:  Recorded as Persilla
1910 US Census for Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah page 9 (age 37)
Note: Her parents birthplace is incorrectly recorded as Illinois
1920 US Census for Box Elder County (widowed, age 46)
Note: Recorded as Pricilla 
1930 US Census for Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah (age 56)
1940 US Census for Rawlin, Box Elder, Utah (age 66)

Catherine Priscilla Harris Adams
and family headstone

Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124982/catharine-priscilla-adams

Picture of her: Family Search. I colorized it on My Heritage
Utah Death Certificate

Joseph and Mary wedding pic

Joseph Daniel Harris
Born 15 Dec 1874 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
LDS Mission to California 1909-1910
Occupation: Businessman
Married Mary Marie Waldron 25 May 1898 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children: LaMar, LeRoy, Thomas, Joseph, Lloyd, Deloras, Ruby, Reed, Jay
Died 25 Nov 1964 Valley Hospital, Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah
Buried 28 Nov 1964 Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah

Life Sketch

This information was compiled in August 1961 [Florence and LaMar Harris] submitted by granddaughter GaeLene Harris Miller, SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOSEPH DANIEL HARRIS On December 15, 1874, in a log house in Kaysville, Davis County, Utah, a fifth child and third son was born to Thomas Eagles Harris and Mary Ann Payne Harris. His father gave him the name of Joseph Daniel in January of 1875.

Joseph’s fine heritage was not monetary wealth, but the privilege of being born to a family of humble and God-loving people who had exercised great courage in following the dictates of their hearts to a new religion and a new land. 

His father was born on the high seas, on the ship Echo, whose Captain offered free passage to the family on any future trips on that vessel if they would name their son Echo. It is thought that the rough passage, added to the fact that they did not expect to be sailing again, helped make the decision to give him a family name.

Somehow the name Eagles matches the family and certainly Joseph who has been a steadfast, brave, and dependable son, brother, husband, father, citizen and church worker, whose wisdom has been sought by many who needed resolving of problems.

Joseph remembers both Father and Mother as being soft-spoken people, who were firm in their teaching but gentle in their dealing with their family of five sons and six daughters.

Although not in very good health, Joseph’s mother managed her duties as a housewife, taught her children, sewed and knitted for them, made the boy's suits, and gave of her time to the church. Joseph remembers wearing a little sunbonnet made by his mother to protect him from the sun. 

He was seventeen when he had his first ‘store-bought’ suit. Shoes were not easily come by, even though made by a Mr. Bone for $1.50 for stogies and $3.00 for Sunday shoes. Joseph herded sheep and cattle through sagebrush and thistle with bare feet.

The family home in Kaysville was a 2 room log cabin, with a ‘lean-to’ on the back that served as a summer kitchen. Joseph slept with his brother in a low bed.

When Joseph was nine the family moved to a five-room house in Layton on a 160-acre dry farm. The north line of this farm set what is at this writing the south boundary of Hill Field Air Force Base, and the original farm is now cut in two by a road, with less than 30 acres remaining in the family.

Because of his poor health, known as a youngster as ‘child-fever’ and a three-year bout with malaria near the age of 15, Joseph had little formal schooling. His mother taught the children from the Bible as best she could. 

In the little 24 by 40-foot schoolroom that served the community, as many as 70 students from seven to twenty years of age attended from about September to March. Joseph had about three months each year. The students were considered graduated when they finished #2 Harper Arithmetic and #5 Reader. At the age of twenty-one, Joseph attended Weber Academy in Ogden for about three months.

As in the lifetime of most boys, Joseph knew both sad and happy times. He hid under the seat once in his anxiety to go with his father on a hay wagon, and begged so hard to stay that he was allowed to go along. His curiosity about gravity lead him to dropping a bucket full of water into a well to see if it traveled faster than an empty bucket; he and his companion were dismayed to find it had force enough to drop both buckets and hook into the well! He knew the tragedy of seeing a boyish prank of hooking rides on a freight car take the life of a beloved playmate.

Dancing was a great part of community life in his youth, and everyone turned out to the school or church building to dance to the tune of a three-piece orchestra, which always included a ‘fiddle ‘and an old hand-organ that the boys had to pump. Joseph got a good workout pumping the organ and graduated to being the ‘fiddler’, which job he kept through the two valleys in which he lived.

At the age of 17, he began to be in a little better health, and started doing farm work for hire and was soon able, through his diligence and application, to start planning for his own home and future. He felt that he could not support a wife just yet and so gained a bit of a reputation as a flirt because he had a smile and a dance for all the girls. A certain young lady named Annie invited him to a leap year dance, and he, in turn, invited her to a dance; the following summer at a fishing party he was told that Annie had a ‘bone to pick’ with him—they walked away from the group and she told him she thought they’d better quit—which he always considered a mighty cold scald!

In 1896 he came to the Bear River Valley to work for the Canal Company for about three months. He came again in 1897 and found land could be purchased rather cheaply, he and his brother invested in property in what was first Point Lookout (and Indian name), then Rowville, and then Bothwell.

Before leaving to farm their land, Robert invited Joseph to accompany him to Morgan to see his girl. Their transportation was Joseph’s beautiful dapple grey horse named ‘Ben’ and his brother’s horse named ‘Frank’, which had already gained a reputation as a dashing outfit when hitched to either sleigh or wagon and more than once races were run to and from church and school. 

In the family, at Morgan, was a girl named Mary, who has since told of looking out the window when the brothers arrived and being immediately smitten with Joseph and his white straw hat, and deciding then and there she would marry him if she could! After they sat together in the family buggy most of the day Mary invited him to come again, and when he wrote from the North Valley to ask permission to call she answered that the door would be open any time he came.

Joseph and Mary married in the Salt Lake Temple on May 25, 1898, with lilacs and orange blossoms as Mary’s corsage, and the same lovely flowers filling her family home when they had the reception. 

Joseph Daniel Harris and Mary Maria Waldron Family Picture:  

Back Row: Joseph, Thomas, Lloyd Harris, Levi

Front row: Joseph (father) with hand on Jay, Deloras, Reed, Ruby, Mary

In three days, they were on their way to their new home in Bothwell. Travel was not easy over the roads that were barely paths and it took three days for the journey. When the couple reached Corinne and not a house existed from there to Bothwell Mary felt she was leaving civilization and asked how much farther they must go.

When they reached their destination, they shared a one-room home with Robert and his wife Harriet and their bedroom for the summer was a tent. They prospered and that winter were able to build a three-room home of their own, to which later was added another room.

Their marriage was blessed with eight boys and one girl, and it is told that when the daughter arrived the six older brothers climbed to the highest stack of hay on their farm and shouted to the valley that they had a new baby sister.

It might be mentioned that the first child was born at the home of Mary’s mother and Joseph received word by letter at the arrival of his son. Mary was delayed a little in returning and Joseph made the long trip from Bothwell to Deweyville twice before she arrived on the train.

Joseph’s life has covered a span of progress in this land, he has seen candles progress to electricity; horse-drawn harvester machinery changed to huge combines; transportation grew from horse to airplane; communication grew from letter to telephone, to radio, to television; and now the space age is included in his life.

In 1913 Joseph built one of the nicest homes in the small town of Tremonton. It was such a lovely home that his brother used the same architect’s plans to build another one. The home has had slight remodeling but remains as comfortable a home as one could ask for. Into this home in Tremonton was born the two youngest sons.

In addition to running the farm in Bothwell, Joseph and his brother and brother-in-law ran a store situated on Second West and Main Street. This grew to what is now the Waldron Building at Main and Tremont and was the first brick business building in Tremonton. Joseph and Robert also owned the Tremont Coal and Grain Company and many a story can be told of the growth and changes in the valley this business has known. 

A typical story of the fairness of Joseph in his dealings is during one of the years of World War I when coal and other items were scarce, and he had to make many a trip to Salt Lake to get coal for his customers. On one occasion the wagons had waited so long in the falling snow that the snow in the Wagon and scale weighed heavier than the coal total and when Joseph discovered that fact in totaling the weight later he figured carefully and sent a refund to the customers.

Also during the War, he was commissioned by the U. S. Government to purchase the grain gathered and stored by the Relief Society. This mission he carried out with dignity and fairness also.

In his family of nine children, five have college degrees, and the other four were given comparable aid in establishing themselves.

The devotion of the family is deep-rooted and each member has, with great pride, contributed to the pleasure and well-being of both Father and Mother. Trips have been arranged from Tremonton to the Grand Canyon, California, Pacific Northwest, Alberta, Canada, Chicago, New York, the New England States and Washington D.C.

All of this has added to Joseph’s education and he is well-versed in world affairs both from observation and study.

His devotion to his Church duties is legion. He is a High Priest, has served a three-year mission to California at a time when he left a wife and family of five children at home. 

On this mission, he knew many faith-promoting incidents, but none more graphic than that of a night on a ship between Eureka and San Francisco when the storm threatened to capsize the ship. Both he and his companion were tossed about but neither of them became seasick and said as much to the Purser when he knocked on their door in the morning, upon being told they were Mormon Elders he said, “Oh, you can’t make those S.O.B.’s sick!” They were invited to the Captain’s Cabin and were told that in the 40 years he had been afloat the Captain had not worried about losing his ship before and he would not have worried that night had he known the Elders were aboard, as no ship had ever sunk with Mormon Elders.

He has been superintendent of the Bothwell Sunday School, First Counselor in the Elders Quorum, Ward Clerk, Board member of the Stake Sunday School, and Superintendent of the Tremonton Sunday School.

He had the unusual task as an Elder of having to go to the neighboring town to choose a casket and having no other way of measuring the size, the maker had him lie in the box to check it for length. During that same era, he took his turn sitting with the dead, who were always laid out at home.

He has sent three sons on missions and has contributed to the building of eight church edifices, and has stated that somehow the money always turned up for the building fund.

It is easily understandable that these qualifications should have prepared him to serve as Justice of the Peace in Tremonton for five years, and a member of the Box Elder County School Board for four years.

Joseph and Mary  headstone

Oh, Joseph, it can surely be said; “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”.
Sources

Ship Manifest of Echo available on microfilm:  US Roster 200149
Obituary:  Ogden Standard-Examiner 25 Nov 1964
1900 US Census for Snowville Village, Box Elder, Utah page 6B 

1910 US Census for Rawlins, Box Elder, Utah page 12 (living with brother Robert)
1920 US Census for Box Elder County, Utah sheet 8 (age 45)
1930 US Census for Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah (age 56)
1940 US Census for Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah (age 65)
Marriage:  Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 480867 Batch M73612-8
Picture of couple: Family Search
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183608/joseph-daniel-harris

Laura Maria Harris

Laura Maria Harris

Born 28 Dec 1876 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married John David Craig 21 Jun 1893 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Edna, Alta, Carl, Othella, Olene, Ruby, Shirley

Died 21 Jul 1956 Layton, Davis, Utah - living with her daughter Alta at time of death 
COD: Cerebral vascular accident, arteriosclerosis

Buried 25 Jul 1956 Layton-Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Sources
Marriage to John:  Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 429053 Batch M01483-2

Obituary: Ogden Standard-Examiner, 22 Jul 1956

Laura Maria Harris Craig
and John David Craig headstone

1900 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah page 2B
1920 US Census for Davis County, Utah sheet 2 (widowed)
1930 US Census for Layton, Davis, Utah (age 53)
1940 US Census for Layton, Davis, Utah (age 63)
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124610/laura-maria-craig
Picture of her came from the group photo my grandmother Taylor had (also available on Family Search)
Utah Death Certificate

Orson Enoch Harris

Orson Enoch Harris (went by Enoch)

Born 18 Oct 1878 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Occupation(s):  farmer, stock raiser

Married Katie Layton 11 Mar 1903 Ogden, Weber, Utah

Children: Milton, Wane, Mary, Afton, Ethel, Nean, Bula

Orson Enoch Harris and Katie Layton Harris Family
Back Row: Afton, Wayne, Ethel, Nean, Mary
Front Row: Katie, Bula, Orson

Orson Enoch Harris death certificate

Died 5 Aug 1960 Clearfield, Davis, Utah

Enoch and Katie headstone

Buried 8 Aug 1960 Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Sources

Marriage: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 1324667 Batch M74769-7

Obituary: Ogden Standard-Examiner 8 May 1960
1900 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah sheet 7B
1910 US Census for Clearfield, Davis, Utah page 4

1920 US Census for Davis County, Utah sheet 10 (age 41)
1930 US Census for Clearfield, Davis, Utah (age 51)
1940 US Census for Clearfield, Davis, Utah (age 62)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121928/orson-enoch-harris

Willard Richard Harris

Born 8 Jan 1881 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Phebe Layton 30 Jan 1901 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Leora, Mary, Althea, Melroy
Died 10 Dec 1916 Layton, Davis, Utah 
C.O.D. Chronic Myocarditis, toxemia from Quinsy
Note:  Quinsy is the name given to a very nasty throat infection that causes abscesses to form in the back of the throat
Buried 15 Dec 1916 Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Willard and Phebe headstone

Sources
1900 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah (as a son)
1910 US Census for Layton, Davis, Utah page 9 (age 29)
Note: name misspelled as Wilford and living with the Doman family
Marriage to Phebe: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 483530 Batch M73450-9
Picture: Family Search
Headstone:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=123978
Utah Death Certificate

Corilla Payne Harris Muir
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Corilla Payne Harris

Born 21 Sep 1884 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Thomas Muir 6 Jan 1904 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Orlando, Lloyd, Harold, Mary, Clyde
Died 20 Sep 1974 University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
C.O.D. Stroke

Corilla and Thomas Muir headstone

Buried Syracuse City Cemetery, Syracuse, Davis, Utah
Sources
Marriage: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 483530 Batch M73451-1920 US Census for Davis County, Utah sheet 10 (age 35)
1930 US Census for Clearfield, Davis, Utah (age 45)
1940 US Census for Clearfield, Davis, Utah (age 55)
Obituary: Ogden Standard-Examiner 21 April 1974
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56355582/corilla-payne-muir

Verna Harris Munn
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*Verna Belle Harris
Born 3 Sep 1886 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Blessed 1886 by her grandfather William Lauder Payne

The missionary that didn't come home 

A part of her young life:  When fifteen years old , Verna fell in love with John Jacob  (Jake) Fife, a young man from Clinton, Davis, Utah, that was going on a Mission to the Southern States.  He was set apart on 15 October 1901 and left Salt Lake City the same day.  He was doing well when he was stricken with a contagious disease and died 8 Dec 1902 - having served only half of his mission.  His remains were taken to Selma, Alabama (a distance of about 50 miles) in a wagon.  He was interred there as the health authorities believed he had died of diphtheria and consequently would not allow the remains to be shipped to Utah.  I do not know if the remains were later removed from Alabama, or if this stone is just a monument with nothing buried beneath it.

Verna's headstone

Married Robert Ingersol Munn 1 Jun 1904 Layton, Davis, Utah by her uncle Bishop Daniel Browett Harris
Died 7 Dec 1953 At home, Hooper, Davis, Utah 
C.O.D. Cancer
Buried 10 Dec 1953 Hooper Cemetery, Hooper, Davis, Utah
Children: Leoan, Othella, Florence, Thora, Lorin, Velma, Oral
Sources
Information about John Jacob Fife:  LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol 3 page 628
Marriage to Robert:  Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 1324669 Batch M74769-9
1910 US Census for South Hooper, David, Utah pg 3 (age 23)
1920 US Census for Hooper, Davis, Utah sheet 10 (age 33)
1930 US Census for West Point, Davis, Utah (age 43)
1940 US Census for West Point, Davis, Utah (age 58 - sb 53)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26749163/verna-belle-munn
Utah Death Certificate

Nettie Harris

Nettie Payne Harris

Born 29 Aug 1889 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Charles Draper and Nettie Harris

Married Charles Henry Draper 27 Oct 1909 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children: Golden, Derral, Miland ,Willard, Helen

Nettie's death certificate

Died 17 May 1931 Ogden, Weber, Utah
COD: Ovarian Cancer

Nettie's obituary

OBITUARY (in case you can't read it):

Mrs. Nettie Payne Harris Draper, 41, wife of Charles H. Draper of Layton, died at an Ogden hospital Sunday.  Mrs. Draper was born here August 29 1889, a daugher of Thomas E. and Mary Payne Harris.  Surviving are four sons and a daughter, Golden Thomas, Derral Charles, Milannd George, and Helen Draper; four brothers and five sisters, Mrs. H.G. Watts, Mrs D.E. Adams, Robert Harris and Joseph D Harris, Tremonton; T.W. Harris, Taber, Canada; Mrs J.D. Craig, Layton, Enoch Harris, and Mrs. Thomas Muir, Clearfield; Mrs. Robert Munn, Hooper.  Funeral arrangements are in charge of Larkin & Sons of Ogden.

Nettie's headstone

Buried 20 May 1931 Kaysville Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Sources

Marriage to Charles: Utah Marriages 1887-1966 Film 1324678 Batch M74774-1 Reference number 4805

1910 US Census for Layton, Davis, Utah page 9 (age 20, she and her husband are living with her parents)

1920 US Census for Davis County, Utah sheet 6 (age 30)

1930 US Census for Layton, Davis, Utah (age 40)

Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123918/nettie-payne-draper

Picture of them:  Family Search
Utah Death Certificate
Obituary: Ogden Standard-Examiner