Rosella Birks

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• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED
• FamilySearch ID: KWZP-4PH

Rosella married Roger Dean Moore on 7 Aug 1947 in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. Roger (son of Samuel Albert Moore and Violet Edith Thompson) was born on 8 Feb 1926 in Independence, Montgomery, Kansas, United States; died on 15 Mar 1992; was buried in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gary Dean Moore was born on 8 May 1950 in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States; died on 27 Nov 2010 in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States; was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Pageland, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States.

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• FamilySearch ID: KWCS-B6Z
• Initiatory (LDS): 23 Oct 1929, LOGAN

Orval married Minnie Maude Whipple on 19 Mar 1921 in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States. Minnie (daughter of John Quinney Whipple and Sarah Amanda Conrad) was born on 6 Jun 1898 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States; died on 21 Apr 1987 in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States; was buried in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KWCS-B6W
• Initiatory (LDS): 23 Oct 1929, LOGAN

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Obituary:
Services for Minnie Maude Birks, 88, of Nampa, who died Tuesday, April 2 1 , at a Nampa nursing home, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, at the Namp a 1 1th Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1500 Smith Ave . Ext . Bishop Ken Harward will officiate. Burial will follow at the Hill cres t Memorial Gardens, Caldwell, under the direction of the Alsip Funer al Ch apel, Nampa.

Mrs. Birks was born June 6, 1898, at Provo, Utah, to Sarah Amanda Conr a d and John Quinney Whipple. In 1905 she moved with her family to Emmet t , where she was reared and educated. She married Orval Edwin Birks Mar c h 19, 1921, in Boise and their marriage was solemnized in the Logan LD S T emple in 1929. In 1925, they moved to Melba and then to Nampa in 1942 . Sh e was a longtime member of the LDS Church, having been involved in t he Na mpa 3rd Ward for many years. At the time of her death, she was a me mber o f the Nampa 11th Ward and of the Nampa RSVP .

She is survived by five daughters, Ruby (Mrs. Oliver) Loberg and Rosel l a (Mrs. Roger) Moore, both of Nampa, Verda June (Mrs. Neal) Chess of Yu b a City, Calif., Della Marie (Mrs. Marcel) Bourse and Ila Fae (Mrs. Jay ) H enrie, both of Salt Lake City, Utah; five sons, Howard Birks of Nampa , Al bert Birks of West Valley City, Utah, Orval Jay Birks and George Boy d Bir ks, both of Salt Lake City, and Clarence Birks of Eureka, Calif.; e ight s isters, Tessie Clifford of Kuna, Bertha Kemble of Weiser, Kate Moo re of M eridian, Sylvia Walters of Woodburn, Ore., Jennie Stapplecamp o f Anaconda , Mont., Juanita Pierson of Clear Lake, Calif., Laura Goff o f Portland, O re., and Daisy Smith of Independence, Ore.; a brother, Geor ge Whipple o f Nampa; 43 grandchildren; and 75 great-grandchildren. She w as preceded i n death by her husband in 1982, four sisters, a granddaught er, a great-gr andson and three great-granddaughters.

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• FamilySearch ID: KWZ8-JFX
• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Oct 1929

Edwin married Rosetta Ann Rice on 7 Dec 1883 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Rosetta was born on 12 Jun 1863 in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States; died on 29 Jan 1936 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States; was buried on 3 Feb 1936 in Wilford, Fremont, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LBJN-MG5
• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Jan 1897, LOGAN

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• FamilySearch ID: KWC1-MKV
• Initiatory (LDS): 7 Mar 1946, IFALL

John married Sarah Amanda Conrad on 8 Nov 1892 in Pleasant View, Weber, Utah, United States. Sarah (daughter of Serrine Moroni Conrad and Amanda Elizabeth Andrews) was born on 30 Nov 1875 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States; died on 13 May 1938 in Ontario, Malheur, Oregon, United States; was buried on 16 May 1938 in Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KWC1-MKJ
• Initiatory (LDS): 7 Mar 1946, IFALL

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• FamilySearch ID: KWJM-VZ4
• Initiatory (LDS): 31 Dec 1845
• Census: 1860, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
• Census: 1870, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
• Census: 1880, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States

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SOURCE: Michel L. Call, "Royal Ancestors of Some L.D.S. Families" (Afto n , Wyoming? 1972), p. 110.

SOURCE: Records of the Edson Whipple Family Organization.

SOURCE: Family group sheet of John Yeager (husband) and Ann Hyatt (wi f e ) prepared by Lydia W. Hansen, Box 314, Lakeside, Arizona. Cites th e foll owing:

Rec of Edson Whipple in poss of Charles Whipple, Show Low, Arizona.
Patriarchal blessing of Mary Ann and Harriet Yeager.
Temple rec

Life Story of Edson Whipple


Edson Whipple was a descendant of John Whipple, who came from England ab o ut 1620 and settled in Providence, Rhode Island. John was a son of Mat th ew of Booking, England. Edson was the sone of John and Basmuth Hutchi ns , grandson of Timothy and great-grandson of Samuel, who lived and die d i n Connecticut. John, the father of Edson, migrated from Connecticu t an d settled in Vermont in the year of 1780, where on the fifth of Febr uary , 1805, in the town of Dummerston, Windham County, Edson was born; h e bei ng the youngest son of a family of twelve children...five boys an d seve n girls.
He lived on a farm with the family until his father’s death, which occur r ed in November, 1830, after which he took charge of the farm and manag e d the affairs of those of the family yet at home.
On February 6, 1832, he married Lovinia Goss.
In 1834, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he ran a grocery sto r e for a year or two. In the summer of 1837 he moved with his family t o P hiladelphia, where he lived for 9 years. It was while living in Phil adel phia that he first heard the gospel as revealed to Joseph Smith. O n 16 J une 1840, he was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church o f Jesus C hrist of Latter-day Saints, by Elder Benjamin Winchester. 17 Oc tober 184 0 he was ordained a priest by Elders Hyde and Bernes. He was o rdaine d a High Priest 6 April by Pres. Hyrum Smith and was chosen to ac t as fi rst counselor the Elder Benjamin Winchester to preside over the P hiladelp hia branch of the church.
On the 22 September 1842, he in company with twelve or fifteen others le f t Philadelphia by boat through the Erie Canal, for Nauvoo. The first S ab bath out they were detained on account of low water. They obtaine d a nea r-by school house and held two meetings, after which Elder Whippl e had th e privilege of baptizing six persons, among them the captain o f the boat , Jacob Wtezler, and two of his brothers.
The trip from Philadelphia to Nauvoo consumed 32 days by boat and rail a n d cost $12. 25. In speaking of prices of provisions and other thing s i n Nauvoo about 1842, he says lumber cost $10.00 per thousand; bric k $4.8 5; wheat 30 cents a bushel; corn 12½ cents; pork 1½ cents, bee f 2 cents l b.; butter 8 cents, eggs 6 cents a dozen; sugar 16 lbs. O r a dollar; mola sses 25 a gallon. He said these were the hardest time s he had in his lif e to get things’ no money in circulation. His wife w as sick and wanted s ome butter, he had no money to get it but started fo r the store after som e, and in crossing the rad, found a quarter .
In writing of the prophet in a letter to a friend, he says; “
He is a man whose character stands unimpeachable and is respected and co n sider a good citizen by all classes who have become acquainted with hi m . I know him to be kindhearted and charitable, given to hospitality, a n d he would divide the last meal with the poor.”
Nauvoo, at this time, was a city of twelve or fifteen thousand inhabitan t s and a very peaceful city, not a grog shop in it. On May 1, 1844 he , i n company with David Yearsly, left Nauvoo for a mission to Pennsylvan ia , to canvas the state and to present to the people to prophet’s view s o n government. While on this trip the prophet and patriarch were murd ered . Returning home, he was present at the meeting of the saints and w itnes sed the mantle of Joseph rest on Brigham Young as he was preachin g to th e people.
He assisted in building the Nauvoo Temple and was present at the layin g o f the capstone, and when it was completed, he received his endowment s the rein. He also helped to build the Nauvoo House, working on it duri ng th e Months of August and September, 1845. He assisted in defending t he cit y of Nauvoo against the mob which threatened to destroy it and th e temple . He was on guard some three or four miles down the river whe n General H arden and some thirty men on their way to Nauvoo to take Brig ham Young (t he time they took William Miller, supposing him to be Brigha m Young). A fter they passed, Whipple started for the city to give th e alarm and wen t by way of Golden Point, and around to the Temple, wher e he arrived thr ee-quarters of an hour before the General and his party . Conference wa s in session then. He sent in for General Rich, who mad e the arrangement s for their reception. At this time Elder Whipple belo nged to the new po lice under Captain Jesse Hunt.
At the time of the organization for the building of wagons, he was appoi n ted captain over ten in General Rich’s company. On the 15th of May 184 6 , in company with Hugh Mckinley and their families and teams, they cros se d the Missouri River on their way to Garden Grove. Travel was slow a n ac count of swampy ground.
They stayed in Garden Grove about two weeks, when he left for Council Bl u ffs, where he arrived about the middle of July 1846. It was about thi s t ime that the son, “Come, Come Ye Saints’ was composed. While on thi s jou rney he met Brigham Young going from Council Bluffs to Phisgy. H e told t hem that the government had made a demand on them for 500 men t o go to th e Mexican War.
After arriving at the Bluffs they were counseled to fix for the winte r . Together with twelve or fifteen families the located themselves on P on y Creek, about twelve miles from Winter Quarters, but they found thi s a v ery sickly place and out of the few persons, they buried fourteen . Her e Elder Whipple buried his whole family, consisting of his mother , wife a nd child, and came nigh unto death himself. There were only tw o well per sons in the camp at the time. After his family was buried, h e lay helple ss for a day and night and no one came to him; then the lat e Franklin Ste wart came to him and told him his family was not well, bu t if he were ove r to their camp they would help him. So he go John Mile s to move him ove r to Stewart’s where he stayed until well.
In the spring of 1847 he was called with 142 other people to form a pion e er company to lead the way to the Rocky Mountains. He traveled in th e fi rst ten of the second division under Captain Appleton Harman. (Howa rd Eg an, captain of ten of the second division under Captain Appleton Ha rman . Howard Egan, captain of ten and Heber C. Kimball of fifty.) Fro m th e diary of Edson Whipple; “In the spring of 1847 I was called in com pan y with 142 others to form a company of pioneers to lead the way int o th e wilderness. I left Winter Quarters 9 April and traveled among th e firs t ten of the second division under Capt. Harmon in the same c ompan y wit6h Pres. Heber C. Kimball. I was one of the guards and stoo d duty h alf the night every third night. About half our company arrive d in Sal t Lake City 22 July 1847, followed by Brigham Young and the rema inder o f the company on July 24. I had remained to take charge of the p ropert y and Brother Kimball’s family and effects, having buried all my f amily o n the road...”
After farming in Salt Lake City and making a return visit in the easte r n states and coming across the plains with another band of pioneers, Br ot her Whipple resumed his writing; “8 December 1847 This day, after comp let ing the sowing of wheat, all that I intend to sow until Elias Peirso n ret urns from California, I have weighted all the bread stuff we have o n hand , which consisted of 1078 lbs. Of wheat, 150# buckwheat, 360# of c orn, 65 1# of beans, Coffee for Ellen (Kimball’’s wife) 7#; rice for Ell en , 1 4 ½ #; sugar for Ellen 20#.
“December 10, the family came together in Brother Smith’s house and I la i d before them the quantity of provisions on hand and requested them t o ta ke into consideration what disposition we should make of it. It wa s agre ed on by all that each should draw every week 3# wheat, 2 ½ # bea ns, 1 # buckwheat, and 9 3/4# beef, and by so doing it would last until t he 1s t of July next.”
He was a member of the first High council in Salt Lake City, also the fi r st watermaster. On the 13 October 1848 he started back to the state s o n business for himself and discharged soldiers of the Mormon Battalio n . On this trip he took with him a small vial of California gold dust , pr obably the first gold dust ever exhibited in the East from the new C alifo rnia diggings. Wherever exhibited in the East, people came by th e thousa nds to see it. While Edson was in the east, Wilford Woodruff wa s sent o n a mission to the States with an epistle form the twelve apostl es and El der Whipple was called to assist him.
After filling this mission, he returned to Salt Lake City. 6 November 1 8 50 he married Mary Ann and Harriet Yeager whom he had brought across t h e plains with him from Philadelphia, where he had made their acquaintan ce . Quote again the diary of Edson Whipple: “After returning to Utah i n 18 50 I was called to help settle Iron County. We left 4 December wit h 10 1 wagons in our company. C.A. Smith was appointed judge of the coun try c ourt and I was his first associate. We submitted plans for towns a nd Par owan, Utah was built according to my plan. George Brimhall and my self bu ilt the first thresher and used water power from the creek to thr ash th e first crop of grain.
“In May 1851, Pres. Brigham Young made a visit and he and Pres. Hebe r C . Kimball said, “The mission is established and you can return to Pr ov o whenever you choose.”
His first wife was taken by death before he came to Utah. He married fo u r other wives and had families by all. He had a total of 33 Children . T he following is a tribute paid by Albert Jones, who lived in Provo a t th e time of Whipple’s residence there; “He was one of the pioneers liv e bur ners of our country, opening a large kiln across the lake at Pelica n Poin t, and the first to open up the commerce of Utah Lake by shippin g his lim e in a flat-bottomed sailboat.
“The love and devotion of his large plural family in the early days is e m phasized when one of his children contracted the dread disease, small-p ox . A consultation has held between his first wife, Mary Ann, and Edson , i n regard to the case. The child was not one of MaryAnn’s or of her S iste rs, but a well_grow boy of his third wife, Amelia, name Heber. Th e discu ssion concluded with Mary Ann’s argument, as if in foreboding o f her deat h, that if anything happened, she could be spared better tha t Edson; ther efore she would go in and nurse the boy, and she did. Th e boy died and s o did she. The case produced quite and excitement at th e time. The stre et was fenced off by order of the City Council; fires w ere built near th e premises, and the two victims of the dread disease we re burned in the d arkness of the night. The coffins were wrapped in clo ths dipped in tar : no funeral service, no sympathetic accompaniment of f riends, but the de ad hour of the night, Edson consigned to the flames th e remains of his lo ved ones.”
In 1871 He was sent on a mission to the Eastern States.
When the laws of the land no longer permitted plural marriage, or the li v ing together of plural families, Edson Whipple moved with two of his wi ve s, Harriet and Amelia and their children, to Arizona. Stopping at Hol bro ok the first of the year 1881, he worked there on the A. & P. Railroa d, n ow the Santa Fe. In May of the same year, they moved to Showlow, wh ere t hey located and bought a couple of claims, one from William Wolf o n the S howlow Creek, which had a small two-room house on it; and the oth er two m iles west which had about 20 acres of cleared land and some cro p plante d on it. Here he built a pumping plant run by water power, an d pumped th e water 150 feet up the cliff for domistic purposes. At thi s place he bu ilt a block house 22 by 32 feet, with port holes in it fo r protection aga inst the Apache Indians who were not friendly at that ti me. This buildin g was also used for public meetings and dances, and i t was known later a s the Whipple Hall.
He lived at Showlow until the fall of 1885, when he took his wife Ameli a , and the unmarried children and started for Old Mexico. But only wen t a s far as the Gila Valley, spending the winter there and going on in t h e spring, and locating in Colonia Juarez. The next fall he returned a n d got his other wife, Harriet, and her unmarried children. He also to o k his cattle on this trip.
In Mexico he built two houses and resided there until his death, 11 Ma y 1 894. He was buried in Colonia Juarez.
(Prepared by L. Florene Lunt Fair.)

Edson married Mary Ann Quinney on 21 Apr 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, and was divorced. Mary (daughter of John Quinney and Jane Susannah Moss) was born on 8 May 1832 in Witham, Essex, England; was christened on 19 Aug 1832 in Witham, Essex, England; died on 1 Dec 1910 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States; was buried on 4 Dec 1910 in Provo City Cemetery, Utah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KWJZ-ZMQ
• Initiatory (LDS): 21 Apr 1857

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Mary Ann Quinney Whipple Matthews was born in England. She was the young e st of a family of three sisters and one brother. When she was four yea r s old her mother died. Her father remarried when she was eight years o l d and at twelve years she lived with her oldest sister, Susan, and he r hu sband. At fifteen Mary Ann and a friend started attending meetings o f th e Mormon Missionaries that were held on the street corner twice a we ek. M ary Ann decided to be baptized. Her sister was very angry when sh e hear d of Mary Ann's baptism and told her she was no longer welcome i n her hom e. Because it was night, Mary Ann asked if she could stay unti l morning . The answer was no. She took what few pieces of clothing she h ad and sta rted out. She decided she would pray for help, as the missiona ries had ta ught her to do. A policeman came to her rescue and helped he r obtain a po sition as nurse to an infant. The baby's mother was happy t o have her an d treated her kindly. When Mary Ann had saved enough mone y to emigrate t o Utah, which took five years, her employer gave her clot hing and money t o help her on her way.

Mary Ann and a girlfriend took the same ship to America. When they land e d they had to sell a lot of their belongings to buy groceries. They ma d e their way to Iowa City, Iowa and obtained a handcart with which to ma k e the journey across the Plains to Utah. Mary Ann and her friend, Heste r , pulled the handcart all across the Plains. They were caught in a terr ib le blizzard and snow storm. Some of Hester's toes were frozen and sh e beg ged Mary Ann to cut them off. Although it was hard to do, Mary An n cut th em off and healed them by putting axle crease on them. They wer e in the f irst handcart company that came across the Plains in 1856. (Pr obably th e Edmund Ellsworth Company that left Iowa City 9 June 1856.) He ster die d a year later in Salt Lake City.

Mary Ann married Edson Whipple in 1857. She was his fifth wife in plur a l marriage. They were among the first to settle Provo, Utah. The city w a s surrounded by a Fort to protect them from the Indians. She made stra w h ats, wove cloth on looms to make clothing, made soap, butter and chee se . Pioneer life was very hard. She always tried to live her religion a s sh e understood it. She chose to remain in Provo when her husband and t wo wi ves went to Mexico. She raised her family of five children by herse lf. Sh e married James Mathews in 1892. After he died she lived with a da ughter . Mary Ann died at the age of seventy-eight 1 December 1910 in Pro vo, Uta h.

From "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Volume III (M to R)" by th e I nternational Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers

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• FamilySearch ID: KWNK-4S3
• Initiatory (LDS): 17 Mar 1871

Serrine married Amanda Elizabeth Andrews on 17 Apr 1871 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Amanda was born on 6 Jun 1838 in Chambers, Alabama, United States; died on 14 Sep 1906 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States; was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Utah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KWNK-4SQ
• Initiatory (LDS): 17 Apr 1871, EHOUS