Earl Lee Jones & Shirley Jane Wilson Family Tree

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Thomas Alma MOULTON

1. Sometime in the year 1908 Thomas Alma, John Alfred, and Joseph Wallace Moulton came from their home in Chapin, Idaho, to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and homesteaded at Grovont, Wyoming, better known as "Mormon Row". They each took 160 acres of good black, level land at the north end of "Mormon Row".
In April 1913 Thomas Alma Moulton brought his wife Lucile and son Clark Alma to live on the homestead. The only irrigation water close by ran dry in July, so work was started on a canal when a land slide, followed by a flood washed away about two miles of the work. Then, almost as a miracle, a warm springs came out of the mountain lower down, large enough to water several ranches. Now the land produced abundantly.
The ranch was later run by Thomas' sons and was sold to the National Park Service in 1960. Thomas Alma later lived in Shelley, Idaho.