Esther Ada Loveland

History taken from her own words found in a compliled ancestor record for the relatives of

Afton Loveland Hyde, layout by Christian Fasy, 2003.

Esther was born 20 june 1873 at South Weber, Weber, Utah. She is the seventh child of a family of eleven children. Her father Thomas Franklin King and Mother Lucy Ann Ogden. They lived in a two bedroom home on a farm with six kids at the time. Esther claims to have been a curious child when she was very small. She tells the story of when she tested out a skunk trap and caught her finger on the plate. She further shares an other childhood memory when she was playing in the orchard and saw something white that seemed to be floating around. It frightened her and she screamed and ran away. The figure turned out to be her mother in a shite blouse and a dark skirt picking up things off the ground and moving through the trees. Her mother died when she was between the ages of eight and ten from a sort of sickness after delivering her ninth child whom later died a year later. Her father remarried Hanna Moon and they had two more children of their own.

   Esther took college coarses and earned a living working for friends from Farmington. Esther married Josiah Howe Sr. (Dode) 16th November 1893 at the Logan Utah Temple.  They had five children and raised them in Chesterfield Idaho.  Sheep herding was the livlihood they kept there in Idaho.  Thier youngest daughter was Lillian Jensen wife of Norris Jensen, mother of Jack Jensen.

    They lived in Chesterfield for a time on a 160 acre ranch Where they had Josiah Howe Jr., Lucy and Ivalue.  Herold, Adelia and Lorna were born in a bigger home on the same ranch, living in that house for fourteen years.