THE FOURTH CHILD OF EDWARD DALTON AND ELIZABETH MEEKS WAS BORN SEPTEMBER, 1854 IN PAROWAN, UTAH. THIS WAS THREE YEARS AFTER THE PIONEER ARRIVAL TO THAT AREA. THEY NAMED THIS SON JOSEPH PRIDDY DALTON.
JOSEPH PRIDDY ATTENDED SCHOOL IN A LITTLE LOG SCHOOL HOUSE AND WAS TAUGHT BY HIS MOTHER, WHO WAS THE SCHOOL TEACHER FOR THE PAROWAN AREA AT THAT TIME.
AT THE AGE OF EIGHT, IN 1862, JOSEPH WAS BAPTIZED AND THEN AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, HE RECEIVED THE PRIESTHOOD.
AS JOSEPH PRIDDY GREW UP, HE BECAME A VERY HANDSOME AND INDUSTRIOUS MAN, DESIRED BY MANY FOR HIS FINE QUALITIES.
HE MARRIED SARAH ELIZABETH THORNTON ON DECENMER 25, 1877, IN PAROWAN, UTA H. SARAH WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND THE DAUGHTER OF STEPHEN G. THORNTON AND NANCY CURTIS, WHO WERE ALSO PIONEERS WITH A GREAT HERITAGE.
J0SEPH AND ELIZABETH RAISED NINE CHILDREN. THEY HAD A NICE HOME ON THE SAME LOT AS THE OLD RANBOLET BARN, WHICH IS ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN. PART OF THIS AREA STILL BELONGS TO A DALTON FAMILY.
JOSEPH HAD A NUMBER OF FINE HORSES. ONE HORSE WHOSE NAME WAS RED MAN, WAS THE ONE THAT EDWARD MEEKS DALTON, JOSEPH'S BROTHER WAS RIDING WHEN HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK, WHILE RIDING THE HORSE DOWN MAIN STREET. HE WAS SHOT FOR POLYGAMY, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO PART WITH ONE OF HIS TWO BELOVED WIVES.
IN JOSEPH'S YOUNGER YEARS HE WAS QUITE PROSPEROUS AS A SHEEP MAN. HE OWNED LAND IN THE NORTH FIELDS AND SOME MOUNTAIN LAND. HE ALSO OWNED LA ND IN THE CHIMNEY MEADOWS, WHICH IS NORTH OF PAROWAN.
BEING MEDICALLY MINDED, JOSEPH DECIDED THAT HE WANTED TO GO INTO THE MEDICAL FIELD AND BECOME A DOCTOR SO HE PACKED UP A FEW THINGS AND WENT TO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS TO STUDY FOR A DEGREE IN MEDICINE. IN TIME HE RECEIVED HIS LICENSE AND PRACTICED AS A DOCTOR IN PAROWAN.
THERE WAS A MAN IN TOWN, NAMED CLAYTON NATCHELL, WHO WAS RIDING A HORSE, AS HE WAS RIDING THE HORSE IT BECAME OUT OF CONTROL AND RAN ALONG A BAR BED WIRE FENCE TEARING THE MANS LEG SO BAD THAT MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE LEG AMPUTATED, IF HE SURVIVED. HE HAD LOST SO MUCH BLOOD BECAUSE OF IT. BECAUSE OF JOSEPH PRIDDY'S EXPERTISE AND FAITH HE WAS ABLE TO SAVE THE MANS LIFE AND HIS LEG.
AUNT FLORENCE HAD COMMENTED, AT ONE TIME, THAT SHE REMKMBERED HER FATHER GOING OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AT ALL HOURS AND IN ALL KINDS OF WEA HER TO GO TO SOME PERSONS HOME TO HELP THEM IN THEIR TIMES OF SICKNE SS OR WITH OTHER MEDICAL NEEDS THAT NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION, NOT COMPLAINING BUT INSTEAD TRULY SHOWING THE LOVE OF HELPING AND HEALING OTHERS.
GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER WERE A WONDERFUL COUPLE HELPING ANYONE IN NEED AND WERE HONORED BY MANY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO LOVED THEM FOR THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT THEY WERE. AT THE TIME OF JOSEPH'S DEATH THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO STILL OWED HIM MONEY FOR HIS MEDICAL SERVICES WHICH THE FAMILY MEMBERS, AT THAT TIME CANCELLED, PAID IN FULL, WHICH SHOWS THE
TYPE OF FAMILY THAT THEY WERE AND THAT WE COME FROM. JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH WERE SEALED IN THE ST. GEORGE TEMPLE A FEW YEARS LATER, AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED, THEY WERE VERY ACTIVE IN THE L.D.S. CHURCH, ALL OF THEIR LIVES AND THEY LOVED THE LORD, ALWAYS.
SARA ELIZABETH THORNTON OUR GRANDMOTHER DIED AT A VERY EARLY AGE AT THE AGE OF 45, JOSEPH PRIDDY DALTON DIED A YEAR LATER AT THE AGE OF 49, LEAVING A VERY YOUNG FAMILY. UNCLE CLAUDE DALTON WAS ONLY ABOUT I YEAR OLD AND UNCLE WILLIAM KARLYLE DALTON WAS ABOUT 3 YEARS OLD.
UNCLE CLAUDE DALTON LIVED WITH AUNT DENA WHITNEY, SHE WAS ABOUT 23 YEARS O LD AND HAD MARRIED WILLIAM FRANCES WHITNEY. HE LIVED WITH THEM UNTIL HE MARRIED THELMA WOOLEY AND THEN BUILT A HONE ON THE NORTHEMT SIDE OF DENA'S H OME. LATER ON WHEN UNCLE CLAUDE DIED OF A GUN SHOT, WHILE HERDING SHEEP, UNCLE KARLYLE MOVED INTO THE HOME THAT UNCLE CLAUDE HAD BUILT AND RAISED HIS CHILDREN IN THE HOME WHERE IT STILL STANDS TODAY.
THE REST OF JOSEPH AND SARA'S CHILDREN WERE PUT INTO DIFFERENT HOMES AROUND PAROWAN, WHERE THEY WERE LOVED AND CARED FOR AND GREW UP, MARRIED, RAISED CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN AND HAD A GREAT POSTERITY WHICH THEY COULD BE VERY PROUD OF.
BY LLOYD MEEKS DALTON
1854 - 1903 (48 år)
