Jasper and Mary Head

This is Jasper Jason Head and Mary Hadlond Thomas, parents to Elizabeth Head Blumel. Here is a paragraph that was written in a book called " James McClellan and his Progenitors"

Jason moved to Cardston, Canada in June of 1890, with his wife and three small children, arriving there on July 23, 1890. In a letter written to the home newspaper, the Advocate, in January of 1918, he comments about the abundance of feed and coal that they have in the area, saying that there is so much straw that the people become extravagant and make fires with it. On his visit home the year previously, he had seen many animals hungry and dying for want of feed, and wished there was some way to place the straw going to waste in Canada into the barns and fields of Preston and the neighboring towns.



Jasper Jason Head - This biographical sketch appeared in Irrigation Builders Vol. I, page 471, published by the Magrath and District History Association for Magrath, Alberta’s Diamond Jubilee. The book was printed in 1974.

HEAD, JASPER J. born in 1861 in Franklin, Idaho. He came to Magrath in 1901, was Magrath’s first Overseer, and in partnership with Bishop Levi Harker operated the Harker-Head store. He had the first lumber yards in Magrath and Raymond. He purchased land and specialized in raising livestock. He built railroad grades for the C.P.R. (Canadian Pacific Railroad) in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Jasper married Mary Thomas in 1886. They had twelve children: Elizabeth m. Oscar Blumell, mother of Emerson, Russell, Jim and Jasper. She died in 1919 with the flu. Jasper Jr. died at age 11; Wason; Hugh; John W. m. Vera Miller. John was a First Lieut. In the Canadian Air Force in the First World War; Nephi m. Ireta Cahoon, Nephi was also a First Lieut. In the Air Force in the First World War and a Flying Officer in the Second World War; Cleo m. John Allen; Doris m. Fred Jensen; Lee m. Marjorie McKee; Maybelle m. James Anderson; Mary m. Earl Harris; Rollo.

Jasper and his wife were of the L.D.S. Church. He filled a mission in Manitoba. His wife was a Primary worker and a Relief Society worker and teacher.