Born: 18 November 1875 at Bountiful, Utah
Father: Charles R. Jones
Mother: Eliza S. Bell
Married: John F. Ashby
10 October 1894 at Salt Lake Temple
Children:
Ruth Ann Ashby, born 26 July 1895 at Bountiful
Beula Bell Ashby, born 16 April 1897 at Kamas, Utah
Eva Ashby, born 15 July 1899 at Kamas, Utah
Beth Ashby, born 23 October 1914 at Bountiful, Utah
Baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on 13 April 1884 at Bountiful, Utah by John K. Crosby. Confirmed 13 April 1884 by Charles R. Jones.
As far back as I have any knowledge of, my ancestors on my father's side were of Welsh decent. On my mother's, they were of English. My great-grandfather David Jones was born in Wales about 1766. My grandfather, also David Jones, was born in England. He was a soldier in the English Army, and did not belong to any church.
My father Charles R. Jones was the first to join any religious faith. At the age of nineteen, while visiting with his sister in London, he attended a cottage meeting where he heard two Mormon Elders preach the gospel. He was much impressed with their teachings, and after further investigating was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S. Soon after, he was ordained an Elder and set apart as a missionary. This position he held for eight years. Soon after his release he married Eliza S. Bell of London, who was the daughter of John and Eliza Seley Bell.
My grandfather Bell was a very devote member of the Church of England, but my grandmother did not belong to any church, but soon after grandfather's death she and my mother joined the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S. On May 14, 1862, father and mother set sail for America, landing in New York 26 June. They crossed the plains with ox teams in Captain Harne's Company. Not having a wagon of their own, they were compelled to walk most of the way. They arrived in Salt Lake Valley in the later part of September, being three months on the way. They located in the Nineteenth Ward, Salt Lake City.
Father, being a tailor by trade, had a little lumber shop on Main St. Early in the spring of 1869, they moved to East Bountiful. Father was always a faithful worker in the Church, being Superintendent of the East Bountiful Sunday School for nearly thirty years. Served as Ward Clerk for a number of years, and was a Patriarch in the Church. He died 30 July 1905, Bountiful, Utah.
I was born on the 18 Nov 1875 at East Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, was the fifth and youngest child of my mother. One of the earliest things I can remember is when I fell from a teter-toter at the age of six and broke my right arm and how my father set it, there being no doctors in Bountiful at the time. Although father had had no experience with broken limbs, through the help of the Lord, he was able to set it successfully.
All the education I ever received was in Bountiful district schools. I was baptized on the 13 April 1884. I was married 10 Oct 1894 in the Salt Lake Temple to John F. Ashby of West Bountiful, where we made our home the first winter. In the spring we moved to East Bountiful where our first daughter was born. In the fall of 1895, we moved to Kamas, Summit Co., Utah, where we lived four and a half years. While there, two more daughters were born. In the spring of 1900 we moved in to Salt Lake City, living there that summer, and in the fall moved to Taylorsville, where we lived until March 1903, when we came back to Bountiful where we now live. On the 23 Oct 1914, a baby girl came to bless our home, this being the first child born to us for over fifteen years.
The things that have most influenced my life were the teachings of my parents and the examples they have set me.
One of my greatest desires of childhood was that I would be a mother in Zion, which is now being realized.
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