Jones, Kumen, 1856-1942

Kumen Jones was born on May 5, 1856, in Cedar City, Utah, the son of Welsh immigrants who had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the age of sixteen Jones became a post carrier, delivering mail from Utah to Nevada. He later drove cattle through Zions Canyon for the C.C. Company. He was made a colonizing missionary during a Parowan Stake Church conference in 1878, and he and his wife Mary Nielson Jones joined the San Juan Expedition that left Paragonah, Utah, in 1879 to find a site on which to establish a colony of Mormon pioneers. The party eventually settled in Bluff, Utah, where Jones married a plural wife, Lydia May Lyman. After Lydia's death in 1906, Kumen and Mary Jones ran a co-op store in Bluff, where they had close dealings with local Indians. Jones was made a bishop in the LDS Church in 1910, and in 1911 became a Justice of the Peace. He died in 1942.

Kumen Jones was born on May 5, 1856, in Cedar City, Utah, the son of Welsh immigrants who had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. At the age of sixteen Jones became a post carrier, delivering mail from Utah to Nevada. He later drove cattle through Zions Canyon for the C.C. Company. He was made a colonizing missionary during a Parowan Stake Church conference in 1878, and he and his wife Mary Nielson Jones joined the San Juan Expedition that left Paragonah, Utah, in 1879 to find a site on which to establish a colony of Mormon pioneers. The party eventually settled in Bluff, Utah, where Jones married a plural wife, Lydia May Lyman. After Lydia's death in 1906, Kumen and Mary Jones ran a co-op store in Bluff, where they had close dealings with local Indians. Jones was made a bishop in the LDS Church in 1910, and in 1911 became a Justice of the Peace. Kumen Jones died in 1942.