Frances Jarvis Iverson
Daughter of Samuel Walter Jarvis and Frances Godfrey DeFriez
Granddaughter of George and Ann Prior Jarvis

The following is from a newspaper clipping.

Overton, Feb 10,1914.
Funeral services were held at Kaolin, Feb 2nd. for Frances J. Iverson, who died Jan. 31 leaving a husband and a daughter 3 years old, also many friends to mourn her loss. Mrs. Iverson was the daughter of Samuel W. Jarvis and Frances Godfrey Defriez Jarvis and was born May 2, 1885, at Colonia Diaz Chihuahua, Mexico, being the first girl born of Latter-day Saint parents in the Mormon Colonies of Mexico. Her frontier life among the natives of Mexico acquired for her the stauch and brave character of the pioneer; she acquired a good knowledge of the Spanish language and having lived in a number of colonies was widely known and loved by both the natives and the colonists. In 1907 she came with her father fo visit relatives in St. George Utah, where she became acquinted with and married Williard Iverson of Little Bald, Arizona. In 1909 He and Mrs. Iverson returned to Old Mexico and remained until they with the other Mormon colonists were driven out as the begining of the war in Mexico. ...


From notes in the PAF (genealogy) file by Pearl Jarvis Augustus.

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