- Joseph Smith Eggleston,81, the son of Orson Hyde Eggleston and Annie Christine Johnson, died Saturday March 4, 1967 at the St. Benedict Hospital after a short illness.
Mr. Eggleston was born at Eden, Utah July 5,1885. When a child (1866) his family moved to Afton, Wyoming where he matured into a fine young man. He worked, as a young man, in Wyoming and Utah as a farm hand and sheep herder.
In 1906, he went to Jackson, Wyoming with his Uncles Jacob and Ephraim Johnson and worked in their sawmill.
Around 1910 he homesteaded a farm in Grovant, Wyoming. To raise money for the claim and form a stake he carried mail from Jackson to Moran. He later served as Postmaster at Grovant until me moved back to Eden in 1919. While residing at this homestead in Grovant he served the L.D.S. Church as Sunday School Superintendent and visiting Elder.
He married Talitha Cuma Cheney January 15, 1914 in the Salt Lake Temple (She died November 4, 1940). While living in Grovant they had four children: Alice, J. Wesley, Orland and Lola.
In 1919 Mr. Eggleston purchased and moved into his Eden home where he has reided until his death. At Eden four more children were born to this marriage: Laura (she died in 1944), Melvin, Dale and DeLoss.
Joe found a very faithful companion who was to remain with him for the rest of his life. On
August 20, 1941 he and Stella May Cheney Robinson were married at Eden and were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. He accepted, as his own, loved and raised her four children: Lorin , LeGrand, Lawrence Dell, Edith and Lee.
Many Ogden Valley residents remember Joe and his boys coming daily to pick up their milk. He was so punctual that some would set their watches by him. He hauled milk for the Weber Central Dairy from 1936 to 1943.
As a dairy farmer he has been a typical independent farmer, never asking anyone to do anything that he could do for himself. He has always been self reliant and independent. Never the less, he has always been ready to come to the aid of a neighbor or friend when they needed help.
In Eden he has served in many church positions: High Priest group leader, High Priest Secretary, Chairman of the Genealogy Committees, Sunday School
Teacher as well as Ward Teacher.
Joe was always punctual, and sometimes had little patience for those who were not. He was always fair and honest in his dealing with his fellowmen. He has been a good father, friend and neighbor, and almost a father to many of his nieces and nephews. We're better off for having known and associated with him and look forward to the time when the frailties of this body will no longer limit our association with him.
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1885 - 1967 (81 år)
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