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.

From the description of The San Juan mission to the Indians, before 1942. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 658045453

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