Lewis Jones Lewis and Eleanor S. Davis

By Viola Kent Morgan

Lewis Jones Lewis was born to John David Lewis and Hannah Jones at Landabia Langhol, Carmarthen, Wales, on July 29, 1825.

He married Eleanor S. Davis on November 28, 1845. She was born May 15, 1826, at Hyreuin, Panderin, Breconshire, Wales, to William Davis and Mary Samuels. He was a collier while living in Wales and a farmer in St. John.

The couple and six children sailed to the United States from Liverpool, England, on June 2, 1869, on the ship "Minnesota" for New York.

They were the parents of eight children: Hannah, Margaret Ann, Nephi D. (Sarah Jane Williams), William Davis (Ann S. Jones), Mary, Catherine Jane, Elizabeth, and Eleanor (Andrew N. Hill). Hannah and Mary were buried in Wales before they came to the United States.

The St. John Branch of the Malad Ward was organized about 1873, with Charles Duvander as Presiding Elder, about 1876, and he was succeeded by Lewis]. Lewis, who presided until 1884, when the Branch was organized as the St. John Ward with James P. Harrison as Bishop and Henry Denning and Lewis J. Lewis as counselors.

He died February 10, 1900, at Spanish Fork, Utah. She died March 9, 1905, at St. John, Idaho. They were both buried in the St. John Cemetery.

(From St. John, Oneida County, Idaho: A collection of personal histories from the time of the first settlers to the present day, pp. 196-197.)