CHAPTER FOUR: JOHN PRICHARD SQUIRE AND ADELIA DEMILL
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| Adelia DeMill |
My grandmother, Adelia DeMill, was seventeen years old when she with her fathers family crossed the plains to Utah. The mode of travel was the ox team; however, she walked every step of the way driving loose stock. She told of camping one night near Chimney Rock. In the early morning hours she with other young people of the company climbed Chimney Rock and as they were climbing do they noticed that the wagon train had left them. They had to run for some time to catch up and she said she never left camp and got behind again.
Five months after they had made their home in Manti, she went to Salt Lake City for the April conference in 1851. It was while there she meet my grandfather John P. Squire who was working for Lorenzo Snow and was in his work clothes at the time they met. The first time he called upon grandmother she was washing and was some embarrassed to be seen in her wash day clothes. However, he said he had always wanted to see his future wife on a wash day before he married her, because he felt he could tell if she would be a clean and tidy wife with her work.
The early life of grandfather and grandmother Squire was very typical of the pioneers of that time. As before mentioned their home was the school room during the day. They had to carry out the split log benches and seats at night to make room to live in and then carry them in in the morning for school. Grandmother spun the yarn and thread then getting her mother to weave it into cloth from which she made all their clothing, sewing by hand for a number of years.
They were the parents of the following children:
(1) Orpha Elizabeth, born on a Monday. Nov. 21, 1853 at 10:55 a.m. She died a month later on Dec. 28. 1853 of Erecipales. [Erysipelas is usually caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria.]
(2) Harriet Amelia born Dec. 2, 1854 at 10:00 a.m. She married Isaac Morley Allen and died Dec. 4. 1881, leaving three children, two girls and a boy. The girls were: Elenora who married William Preston Vernon and moved into Uinta County where they had a family of ten children. Other daughter. Ada Allen married a brother of her sister's husband, by the name of Andrew J. Vernon and moved to Vernal where they had a family of 6 children. The son Orson Allen was raised by grandmother Squire to manhood. He married Jane Russell in Salt Lake City and had a family of 8 sons and 1 daughter. He was a mailman in Salt Lake for many years.
(3) John Prichard Squire, Jr. (my father) born Oct. 9, 1856 on a Thursday at 3 p.m. More will be told of him later.
(4) Arron DeMill Squire, born May 6, 1858 on a Thursday. He lived his life in Manti where he had two daughters and three sons. Nellie married Mark Waters and made her home in Richfield. Laurette married Clyde Meriam lived in Manti. Franklin, oldest son, married and made his home in Manti. George married and moved to Mt. Pleasant to live. Forrest married and moved to Mesa, Arizona
(5) Anna Maria, born Jan 23. 1860 and died Jan 7, 1865 at age 5 of Scarlet Fever.
(6) Adelia Lovinda born Sept 3, 1862 and married Cyrus Winget, and made their home in Monroe, Utah.
(7) Eliza Roxa born Feb. 1, 1865 married Zenos Winget, brother of the other sister's husband and made their home in Monroe.
(8) Oliver Elias, born Feb. 26, 1867. Married Alice Jones and had one daughter named Alice. Mother died at her birth. Grandmother Squire raised her to womanhood. She married Milton Doxford and lives in Magna, Utah. Later Oliver married Diantha Anderson and they had ten children, lived at Manti, then Monroe then Clarin west of Gunnison and back to Manti.
Grandmother Squire was the only grand parent I ever saw on my father's side. In her later years I would go to her home after school to bring in her fuel and run any errand for groceries and etc. she wanted. I remember her as a white haired kind gentle old lady with piercing black eyes. She was active in her church, a counselor in Relief Society for 17 years. She did a lot of Temple work and was very faithful in her testimony of the gospel.
I remember so well her telling of grandfather coming back to their home one night some years after his death and how she got up out of bed and called his name and went as if to embrace him. She said he backed away and said, ''you can't do that now" I don't remember the other particulars, only her positive statement that he did come back and did appear to her in reality.
Grandfather took up a farm on Willow Creek north of Manti. Later he and his sons took up land about three miles south of Manti. They with others including some of the DeMill boys, made ditches from six-mile creek east of Sterling to water this land. The North Six-Mile Creek Irrigation Company was incorporated in 1889 with my father as the first water-master. This company is still in existence My father was only sixteen years old when his father died and upon him fell the man's work of caring for his mother and brothers and sisters.I remember my father telling the story on a number of occasions of the time when he was 15 years old and his brother, Arron, 13, were sent out to Nine Mile Creek to care for some sheep. Indians were causing some trouble among the settlers at that time. There was a U-turn in Nine Mile Creek as it wound its way through a meadow with a narrow neck of land in the open end of the U. They bedded the sheep at night in this U and had a covered wagon across the open end of this U were they slept.After they had been there a few days, one night they heard the sheep running about like they were being chased. An Indian stepped up on the wagon tongue and looked in upon the boys in bed. Father said he was wide awake, but did not dare move a limb. He said he remained motionless and wide awake until day light came and then he spoke to his brother and asked him If he had seen the Indian. He assured him he had and he remained awake all night fearing to move. The Indians had killed a sheep and taken it. That day his brother left for Manti to get help and some one older to be there. Yet father said no one came for several days. He never saw a living soul during that time.
In 1888 when father was 32 years old he married Anna Ferre of Provo and to them were born the following children: Leona, born Feb 4. 1889, in Manti, Utah. Gilbert was second child and was born, July 30, 1891.Two other children were born and died as infants. John Leslie, born July 30, 1892 and died March 10, 1893. Ruth born Oct. 24, 1895 and died Sept. 3, 1896.
On November 15, 1895 father's wife Anna died leaving him the three children. Ruth died later. Leona was age six and Gilbert age four. On January 8, 1897 father married my mother who lacked four days of being eighteen years old. Father was forty-one.
Five months after they had made their home in Manti, she went to Salt Lake City for the April conference in 1851. It was while there she meet my grandfather John P. Squire who was working for Lorenzo Snow and was in his work clothes at the time they met. The first time he called upon grandmother she was washing and was some embarrassed to be seen in her wash day clothes. However, he said he had always wanted to see his future wife on a wash day before he married her, because he felt he could tell if she would be a clean and tidy wife with her work.
The early life of grandfather and grandmother Squire was very typical of the pioneers of that time. As before mentioned their home was the school room during the day. They had to carry out the split log benches and seats at night to make room to live in and then carry them in in the morning for school. Grandmother spun the yarn and thread then getting her mother to weave it into cloth from which she made all their clothing, sewing by hand for a number of years.
They were the parents of the following children:
(1) Orpha Elizabeth, born on a Monday. Nov. 21, 1853 at 10:55 a.m. She died a month later on Dec. 28. 1853 of Erecipales. [Erysipelas is usually caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria.]
(2) Harriet Amelia born Dec. 2, 1854 at 10:00 a.m. She married Isaac Morley Allen and died Dec. 4. 1881, leaving three children, two girls and a boy. The girls were: Elenora who married William Preston Vernon and moved into Uinta County where they had a family of ten children. Other daughter. Ada Allen married a brother of her sister's husband, by the name of Andrew J. Vernon and moved to Vernal where they had a family of 6 children. The son Orson Allen was raised by grandmother Squire to manhood. He married Jane Russell in Salt Lake City and had a family of 8 sons and 1 daughter. He was a mailman in Salt Lake for many years.
(3) John Prichard Squire, Jr. (my father) born Oct. 9, 1856 on a Thursday at 3 p.m. More will be told of him later.
(4) Arron DeMill Squire, born May 6, 1858 on a Thursday. He lived his life in Manti where he had two daughters and three sons. Nellie married Mark Waters and made her home in Richfield. Laurette married Clyde Meriam lived in Manti. Franklin, oldest son, married and made his home in Manti. George married and moved to Mt. Pleasant to live. Forrest married and moved to Mesa, Arizona
(5) Anna Maria, born Jan 23. 1860 and died Jan 7, 1865 at age 5 of Scarlet Fever.
(6) Adelia Lovinda born Sept 3, 1862 and married Cyrus Winget, and made their home in Monroe, Utah.
(7) Eliza Roxa born Feb. 1, 1865 married Zenos Winget, brother of the other sister's husband and made their home in Monroe.
(8) Oliver Elias, born Feb. 26, 1867. Married Alice Jones and had one daughter named Alice. Mother died at her birth. Grandmother Squire raised her to womanhood. She married Milton Doxford and lives in Magna, Utah. Later Oliver married Diantha Anderson and they had ten children, lived at Manti, then Monroe then Clarin west of Gunnison and back to Manti.
Grandmother Squire was the only grand parent I ever saw on my father's side. In her later years I would go to her home after school to bring in her fuel and run any errand for groceries and etc. she wanted. I remember her as a white haired kind gentle old lady with piercing black eyes. She was active in her church, a counselor in Relief Society for 17 years. She did a lot of Temple work and was very faithful in her testimony of the gospel.
I remember so well her telling of grandfather coming back to their home one night some years after his death and how she got up out of bed and called his name and went as if to embrace him. She said he backed away and said, ''you can't do that now" I don't remember the other particulars, only her positive statement that he did come back and did appear to her in reality.
Grandfather took up a farm on Willow Creek north of Manti. Later he and his sons took up land about three miles south of Manti. They with others including some of the DeMill boys, made ditches from six-mile creek east of Sterling to water this land. The North Six-Mile Creek Irrigation Company was incorporated in 1889 with my father as the first water-master. This company is still in existence My father was only sixteen years old when his father died and upon him fell the man's work of caring for his mother and brothers and sisters.I remember my father telling the story on a number of occasions of the time when he was 15 years old and his brother, Arron, 13, were sent out to Nine Mile Creek to care for some sheep. Indians were causing some trouble among the settlers at that time. There was a U-turn in Nine Mile Creek as it wound its way through a meadow with a narrow neck of land in the open end of the U. They bedded the sheep at night in this U and had a covered wagon across the open end of this U were they slept.After they had been there a few days, one night they heard the sheep running about like they were being chased. An Indian stepped up on the wagon tongue and looked in upon the boys in bed. Father said he was wide awake, but did not dare move a limb. He said he remained motionless and wide awake until day light came and then he spoke to his brother and asked him If he had seen the Indian. He assured him he had and he remained awake all night fearing to move. The Indians had killed a sheep and taken it. That day his brother left for Manti to get help and some one older to be there. Yet father said no one came for several days. He never saw a living soul during that time.
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| John Prichard Squire, Jr. |
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| Manti Cemetery: Bottom Left: The tall tombstone is a joint tombstone of John Prichard Squire and Adelia DeMill Bottom Right: Flat plaque is of John Prichard Squire, Jr. Facing his parents' tombstone Upper Right: There are three tombstones in a row, which belong to John P. Squire's first wife, Anna, and their two children that died in infancy, John Leslie and Ruth. |
In 1888 when father was 32 years old he married Anna Ferre of Provo and to them were born the following children: Leona, born Feb 4. 1889, in Manti, Utah. Gilbert was second child and was born, July 30, 1891.Two other children were born and died as infants. John Leslie, born July 30, 1892 and died March 10, 1893. Ruth born Oct. 24, 1895 and died Sept. 3, 1896. On November 15, 1895 father's wife Anna died leaving him the three children. Ruth died later. Leona was age six and Gilbert age four. On January 8, 1897 father married my mother who lacked four days of being eighteen years old. Father was forty-one.  |
| Cannie Christena Kenney |
This takes the history on my father's side up until the time he married my mother, Cannie Kenney. I will now go back on my mother's side of the family and report what I can of them.
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