Anyway, keep it in mind as a resource for future projects.

It also sounds like Samuel applied the discipline he learned in the military to music:

“Samuel was a perfectionist, and he drilled each part separately over and over. Not until a number was thoroughly learned was it ever attempted in public.”

Samuel Jewkes, steel maker, soldier, saw and grist mill operator, and musician of early Sanpete County and pioneer of Castle Valley, was born in Tipton in Staffordshire, England on 23 Mar 1823. He was the son of William and Jane Woodward Jewkes of Dudley, Worchestershire, England. Tipton and Dudley are both suburbs of the huge industrial city of Birmingham.
Samuel’s early training was in the field of engineering and his work experience was in the iron works and heavy industry of Birmingham. (In his history of his father, Alma Gardner Jewkes Sr., states, “When Samuel was six years old he commenced working in a coal mine picking up the small lumps that fell of the cars. This was his first job experience.”) In the mid 1840′s, England was exporting its technology to other countries, and so it was that Samuel, his young wife Sarah, and baby daughter arrived in Mount Savage, Maryland, the place where the first steel rails for the emerging railroad industry were made in the US.
Other children were born to Sarah and Samuel in Mount Savage and later in Norristown, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio. None of these children survived past three years of age. The cruelest blow fell when Sarah died in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1850. She was 34 years old.
While engaged in business with his old friend Elias Morris in St. Louis, Missouri, Samuel married Sophia Lewis on 11 May 1851 and she and her 10 year old son John Lewis (Jewkes) came to Utah and settled in Salt Lake City. Mary Gardner (Adams) and her mother, Mary Nash Adams, were also on their way to Utah from St. Louis. Sophia introducted Samuel to Mary there, and then a year later when Mary and her mother arrived in the valley, Sophia invited her to join their family. They were all sealed together by Brigham Young on 4 Jun 1855.
With the threat of Johnson’s Army marching towards Utah, Samuel, because of his training and experience in the Iron works of Birmingham England and the Steel Industry in Ameica was called with the others to the Iron Mission in Cedar City. It was 1857 when he moved his family until the threat from the army had subsized. Samuel had previously served with the US Army (where we assume he met the Mormons) in the Mexican War and later in the Blackhawk war as a Lieutenant. His army records also show him listed as a musician.
Samuel moved his family from Cedar City to Moroni, Sanpete County, and then later to Fountain Green where he had purchased two farms and acquired other property. Together with James Boswell he purchased a saw mill and a grist mill northwest of Fountain Green. The mills were built together to make better use of the same water power. Logs once hauled from nearby canyons – one called Jewkes Canyon – to be sawed into lumber for construction of pioneer homes in the area. Joseph Hyrum Jewkes, a son, has written, “we had a fine outfit in Fountain Green for shoeing our oxen, consisting of a pen or frame of about ten inch square lumber (10×10) and being about six feet square with a beam overhead for hoisting the oxen. A wide belt extended under the animal’s body and a windlass was used for lifting him up so that he could not kick while being shod. We would place one foot of the ox on a block, remove the old shoe, if not already gone, and tack on a new one.”
It was at Fountain Green that Samuel’s musical talent became useful. He organized and and directed one of the first choirs in the Utah territory in 1862. The Fountain Green Choir was known throughout the state for its fine performances. Samuel was a perfectionist, and he drilled each part separately over and over. Not until a number was thoroughly learned was it ever attempted in public. Samuel could sing any part himself and was able to fill in wherever he was needed. The choir sang a capella at first because there was not organ or piano in the area. Samuel had the local blacksmith make him a tuning fork with which he set the key for some time.
Samuel R., eldest son of Samuel Jewkes, was band leader in Fountain Green for many years. Like his father, he took great pride in his music. He often wrote the score down and arranged all the parts for their numbers until printed music became available to them.
In 1876, during the Indian Wars, Samuel, in company with his future son-in-law, James A. Guymon, accompanied several other Sanpete men to Castle Valley, going as far as the settlement on the Green River. They were chasing Indians who had stolen horses. They traveled up Spanish Fork Canyon to Soldier Summit, thence through Emma Park and down Soldier’s Canyon to Green River. On the return trip they crossed Castle Valley then went southwest on Cottonwood Creek (about Orangeville) and came over the mountain to Manti. When the call came to settle Castle Valley Samuel had already made up his mind to move there. When the call came to send families, the Bishop of the Fountain Green Ward called first on those families who were already planning the move. Samuel and all his families were the first to be called from Fountain Green.
After living in Fountain Green for 17 years it was difficult to pull up stakes and move to another unsettled valley, but again the pioneer spirit proved equal to the task. Samuel settled about 2 miles west of present Orangeville, again building a saw mill and grist mill, and obtaining the best farm machinery around in the way of a threshing machine and a gang plow.
Samuel was never very enthusiastic about politics, concerning himself mainly with farming and the milling business. However, he was appointed by the Governor of the territory as the first Judge in Emery County.
The first winter in Castle Valley was a disastrous one for Samuel Jewkes and Sons. They had taken part payment for their land and possessions in Fountain Green in cattle and oxen. In the extremely cold winter they lost nearly 200 of the cattle almost the entire herd – and out of twelve yoke of oxen only two yoke survived. Through hard work and perseverance they were able to recover from this loss and the family prospered. Many of the descendants of Samuel still live in Castle Valley.
Samuel Jewkes died 23 Aug 1900 at Orangeville. For many years the anniversary of his death was the occasion for a family reunion. He was survived by his two wives and eight of his children.
These are the children of Samuel Jewkes and Sophia Lewis Jewkes:
John Lewis Jewkes, son of Sophia, was born 14 Dec 1840 at Dover Kent, Houham Parish, England; Samuel Richard Jewkes, born 22 Aug 1853 at Salt Lake City, Utah; William Henry Jewkes, born 28 May 1857, at Cedar City, Utah, and Sophia Jane Jewkes (married Orson Miles) born 9 Jul 1861 at Moroni, Utah.
These are the children of Samuel Jewkes and Mary Gardner (Nash) Adams Jewkes:
Alma Gardner Jewkes born 12 Jun 1858 at Cedar City, Utah; Benjamin Franklin Jewkes born 13 Sep 1861 at Moroni, Utah; Mary Eliza (Polly) Jewkes (married James Alma Guymon) born 14 Jan 1864; Ann Maria Jewkes born 18 Sep 1866 (died in 1874); Joseph Hyrum Jewkes born 6 Apr 1869; and Jesse David Jewkes born 11 Jun 1871. Mary’s last four children were all born at Fountain Green, Utah.
In Dec 1979, the Utah State Division of Parks and Recreation purchased one of the homes of Samuel Jewkes and removed it to the Pioneer Trail State Park near the This is the Place Monument at Salt Lake City. The home was restored and placed in the Old Deseret Village being recreated there as a typical Utah Village of the 1847-1869 period.

What caught my eye was that this was in a Utahn context, which made me wonder if it ever really existed there—and since i’ve already published some on the form of 19th-century Utah English (though the phonetics of it, not the syntax), it’s making me think i need to go poking around old texts and recordings again.