John Heber Jones

JOHN HEBER JONES is the second of six children born to Thomas Cornforth and Eliza Jesson Jones both from England.

As a baby, John’s health was poor. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family immigrated from England to America. While crossing the Atlantic, his feared she would lose him. Recorded in a family history John’s mother was relieved that he didn’t die while at sea and “have that he was not buried in the ocean.”

Upon arriving in America, a physician “who passed them mistook the fever flush on the child's face, thinking it was a sign of health and let them pass. They started on the journey across the plains but the child never regained his health, and died August 19, 1868, at the second crossing of the Sweetwater where he was laid in a grave by the side of the road.”