Show Lr Titus Family Pioneers rs H Hold t Reunion 1 4 I I Eds Ed's note A me member ber of ot the Titus has family made report a of their recent family reunion reunion- and tells In narrative form the famIly family fam ily lIy history We think that that- T readers particularly those hose long ong acquainted ed with this this country and its customs customs- will ivill enjoy reading her a account which follows O On Sunday s September 5 1954 the tile Titus Family had party par PM ty atthe home borneo of Mr and Mrs Md Elmer Ellis EUis The program was started by Prayer given by Parker TitusA Titus A lovely pl picnic dinner was served ser ved Jack Walker started the sing ing several songs Parker TItu has spent 8 years years' gather ing the Titus THus history which he told In story form dating back to 1550 pictures of the ancestors to The afternoon was spent sing ing visiting visiting- eating taking pictures pictures pic tures and watching the children dance darce and play which was worth I Those present were were Mary Mary E. E Titus Mr and Mrs Elmer Ellis EJU Mr and cand Mrs Bronson Titus all aU of Moab Mr and nd Mrs Parker Titus qt Z Phoenix Arizona Mr and Mrs Jack Beeson Mark and andred Ted red Mr and Mrs J. J C. C Bees Beeson n. n Dee and Bonnie and Mrs Dale Dae i Al hof of Moab Mr and Mrs Ronald Pray Terry Terr and Grand Junction unction Colo Mr and MiS Mr Jack Walker and Mr and end Mrs Mra Mark Walker Laura and Marie of Audubon New l Jersey Mr and Mrs Delmar Demar Titus and Wanda New Jew Port Richey Florida Mrs Shelba Sheba Buchanan Mary Ann AM and Iud Judy I New Aztec Mexico Mr frand fr and Mrs Mm Lonnie Titus and Lonnie Lon Len uI nl nie Joe Jr Moab Mr and Mrs Homer lomer Manson Louis and Lonnie Alan Moab Guests other than family members Mrs Ol Oil Walker Patsy Murphy Sandy and Tera Iera Lynn We W-e ere are re thankful f lot foz the tile day when Yoseph McDowell Titus was wu born bom Feb 3 3 1868 In m. m He was the oldest est of 7 child ren Wh When n small his family moved Garden City Kansas At the age of 15 he tie went to Oklahoma Okla Okia homa lma City Okla okia and stayed with his sister down T down Into Texas and helped drive a trail herd of Abaline Kansas ansas He also drove 14 span mule team freight wagons out of Dod Dodo Dodis C ty Kansas He tHe across New Mexico and Into hito Arizona went to work for a big cattle man Lot Smith who ran cattle around Mound Flagstaff covering a tot dot of country coun try with headquarters at oat Norman Lake The Pleasant Valley Valey Sheep and was Just ending at that time Some Som Sometime time later Joe had bad a pet horse and some seine one stoW It He for forit it Every few pays Jays some one would tell him of off seeing this horse hoise and end he be continued his search The took him hima a across oss Arizona into New Mexico on Into Colorado across Glade Park into Utah down the Delores River to Dewey down the Coo Cob rado River to Moab and on to where Monticello-where where he found lound his horse 11 Joe knew that a fellow named Bill Simpson lived there and nd he asked a young Jady ady who was getting a a- bucket of ot water out ofa ol of ola f fa a ditch where whereto to Mend friend She told him and Jo stayed with Billa Bill a few days and then headed back to Arizona where he stayed for jos six months and then to o Monticello to ride rI-de for tor fora a caW cattle man there J oW MatY Elizabeth Lh- Lh Parke was born August in Oxford Ox ford Cahoon Co 00 Alabama She Shewa was wa the 2nd child of 9 9 children While small her parents moved to Mississippi where I they a B raised neatly nearly everything they used used used- their their- malt crop op being cotton 1 When Wien MaryJ l 1 18 the family was converted con to the Church Chus-ch sold Old out ut their holdings in Miss and started out for tor Salt Lake the train someone told them that Mont Monti cello oello was a ca fine line place to go so they got off the u Thompsons Thomp Thomp- sons Utah In the tile sand was deep and lAnd in July dt it was hot and the stage v very crowded So the he older r children walked most of the way sons to Monticello One day some time later while Mary was Mary was I getting bucket a-bucket of water out ofa of ofa a ditch a a- a good looking young man asked her she tf she could tell him where Bill Simpson lived A few days day Mater later she was formally for mally Introduced to Joseph JQSeph M. M Titus A AUgust gust the ISM Joseph JosephM M M. M Titus and Mary E. E Parker were ware married by Ed Edd Hyde Hyde- the then Justice JustIce ot of the pe Peace ce in Mon Utah To them Ithem 6 child chUd ren ron were born They in itt Monticello a year then the cat tie man took his herd to Texas and Jo Joe Jor went on that trip which took him 4 months Marys Mary's folks had moved to Salt Lake City and she spent that time there with them This cattle cattleman man couldn't get all his out of the I rough country and so so he iw payer a reward for tor these cattle Joe Jol Joeand and Mary moved to Montezuma Canyon They rode for these wild cattle ge getting for tor a abig abig abig big steer ateer and for every verY cow they could bring out of this country In 1900 they moved to tp Indian Creek where they homesteaded home and lived for 21 year yea years Joe started the the IndIan Creek Cattle Co while there He sold out jut In n 1922 and moved up the tM river to the Old Richardson Ranch nd ind lived there 21 years They moved to Moab In hi 1913 and end Joe passed away two war y ars l later Mary lary was 80 SO years old on August Aug August 10 to of oX this hi year and was honored hon ored at a family gathering Pres ent were her children JEK EI US is Parker Titus THus land end Bronson Titus Grandchildren 11 Hel Itel el en ei TI Ruth Pray Jack Walker Mark Walker Delmar pelmar Titus Shelba Buchanan Lonnie Titus and Narlene Narene Manson Great grandchildren J. J. J C. C Beeson Deeson f Helen Hel lIel Tel en J Mark Beeson Ted Ted Ted Beeson Terry Pray Play Jeannie Pray ITay Donna Walker Laura Walker Ma Marie Marie- ie Walker Titus Mary Ann Buchanan Judy Buh anan LonnIe Joe Titus Jr Louis Louts Manson ManIOn and Lonnie Man Alan Man Mam so fiO Great Great J- J Bonnie Jo I We e that sorry 14 members o ol at the family were we-re unable to come because we we really this day I |