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Cemetery Plot: X-2-128-2-E | Robison, Melba Susannah (I104959)
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Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay f o r equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible lea de rs of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , s he traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women' s su ffrage.
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts . H er father, Daniel, was a farmer and later a cotton mill owner and man age r and was raised as a Quaker. Her mother, Lucy, came from a family th at f ought in the American Revolution and served in the Massachusetts sta te go vernment. From an early age, Anthony was inspired by the Quaker bel ief th at everyone was equal under God. That idea guided her throughout h er life . She had seven brothers and sisters, many of whom became activis ts for j ustice and emancipation of slaves .
After many years of teaching, Anthony returned to her family who had mov e d to New York State. There she met William Lloyd Garrison and Frederic k D ouglass, who were friends of her father. Listening to them moved Susa n t o want to do more to help end slavery. She became an abolition activi st , even though most people thought it was improper for women to give sp eec hes in public. Anthony made many passionate speeches against slavery.
In 1848, a group of women held a convention at Seneca Falls, New York . I t was the first Women’s Rights Convention in the United States and be ga n the Suffrage movement. Her mother and sister attended the conventio n bu t Anthony did not. In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Th e two w omen became good friends and worked together for over 50 years fi ghting f or women’s rights. They traveled the country and Anthony gave sp eeches de manding that women be given the right to vote. At times, she ri sked bein g arrested for sharing her ideas in public.
Anthony was good at strategy. Her discipline, energy, and ability to org a nize made her a strong and successful leader. Anthony and Stanton co-fo un ded the American Equal Rights Association. In 1868 they became editor s o f the Association’s newspaper, The Revolution, which helped to sprea d th e ideas of equality and rights for women. Anthony began to lecture t o rai se money for publishing the newspaper and to support the suffrage m ovemen t. She became famous throughout the county. Many people admired he r, ye t others hated her ideas.
When Congress passed the 14th and 15th amendments which give voting righ t s to African American men, Anthony and Stanton were angry and opposed t h e legislation because it did not include the right to vote for women. T he ir belief led them to split from other suffragists. They thought the a men dments should also have given women the right to vote. They formed th e Na tional Woman Suffrage Association, to push for a constitutional amen dmen t giving women the right to vote.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting. She was tried and fined $100 f o r her crime. This made many people angry and brought national attentio n t o the suffrage movement. In 1876, she led a protest at the 1876 Cente nnia l of our nation’s independence. She gave a speech—“Declaration of Ri ghts” —written by Stanton and another suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage.
“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing l e ss.”
Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights. In 1888, she helpe d t o merge the two largest suffrage associations into one, the Nationa l Amer ican Women’s Suffrage Association. She led the group until 1900. S he trav eled around the country giving speeches, gathering thousands of s ignature s on petitions, and lobbying Congress every year for women. Anth ony die d in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote wit h the pa ssage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. | Anthony, Susan Brownell (I99266)
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Changed the name of his People to Franks after his own name. | Francus King of the West Franks (I15021)
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CHARITY ARTEMESIA BUTLER
It was in the beautiful blue grass state of Kentucky that my mother, Cha r ity Artemesia Butler, was born July 13, 1834 in Simpson County. She wa s t he eldest daughter of John Lowe Butler and Caroline Farazine Skeen an d th eir third child. Their first child was a son named Kenion Taylor aft er hi s Grandmother on his mother’s side. The second child was a son name d Alex ander who died in infancy.
The ancestors of this fine couple were Revolutionary patriots who serv e d their country in helping to gain it’s independence from the mother co un try England. For services rendered, they received western lands in th e ar ea of Kentucky and Tennessee. William Lowe (see his life sketch file d wit h his group sheet), Grandfather of John Lowe Butler, was a pionee r in Sim pson County. His farm was separated from his neighbor’s, Jesse S keen, bu t a stream of water. Jesse Skeen’s plantation was in Tennessee , but the t wo pioneer homes were but a mile apart. (Note by compiler: i t is not clea r from the many references to William Lowe and William Butl er which man o wned the above home near Jesse Skeen. In some places Will iam Lowe and hi s activities [which have been reliably recorded] have bee n confused wit h and related to William Butler.)
Jesse Skeen (Caroline Skeen Butler’s father) engaged in cotton growin g o n his extensive plantation. The work was done by Negro slaves who wer e co mfortably housed and kindly treated by their master. Evidence of thi s fac t is that after the Civil War, they plead with him to let them rema in whe re they were. This kind hearted man granted them their desires an d thus t hey were spared the pitiful plight in which most of the liberate d slave s found themselves in those days. The Butlers, neighbors to the S keens di d not believe in slavery and though their neighbors adopted tha t practic e of owning slaves to do the work of their plantation, the Butl ers neve r did. The children of these two families, whose parents had opp osite vie ws in many regions such as religion, associated together, as di d their pa rents, in close friendship. The tall handsome, blue-eyed Joh n Lowe Butle r won the heart of the slender shy but charming Caroline Far azine Skeen.
Farazine Butler Robinson told me that Caroline, her mother, told her th a t Jesse Skeen was born in Scotland and emigrated to America when a bo y fi fteen years of age. He wore the Scotch plaid kilts and his hair in t wo lo ng braids, one over each shoulder in front.
William Lowe was a man of integrity, a good neighbor who attracted peop l e to him as they moved to that section of the country. He became a spir it ual leader and went from door to door teaching the sacred truth from t h e Holy Bible. He was resourceful and to him credit is given for makin g th e first ax, the first plow and the first spinning wheel in Simpson C ounty . He also performed the first marriage, -- his daughter Charity Low e to J ames butler, the son of William Butler.
William Lowe did no baptizing as he went from house to house preaching . H e planted seed in virgin soil, however, and it is left for future gen erat ions to tell the results.
When Caroline Skeen married John Lowe Butler, they were given two slav e s by her father as a wedding present. They received them graciously, b u t the next day gave them their freedom.
In the year 1835, Simpson Emmett and his missionary companion brought t h e message of the restored Gospel to the home of my grandparents, the Jo h n Lowe Butlers. It is interesting to note that William Lowe died on th e d ay some of his descendants were baptized. The teachings of Joseph Smi th w ere accepted as truth and John Lowe Butler and his wife became membe rs o f the church.
Jesse Skeen, father of Caroline, was much disturbed when he learned hi s d aughter had been baptized into the Mormon Church. In fact, he becam e so a ngry that he threatened the lives of the Mormon Elders, and even t hat o f his son-in-law. One evening a faithful Negro slave of Jesse Skeen ’s cam e to the Butler home in Kentucky and told them, “Massa angry” an d said h e was making bullets by (words obliterated) by the fire place an d runnin g it into bullet moulds and he intended using the bullets to kil l John Lo we Butler and the Mormon Elders who baptized his daughter. Th e Negro afte r warning them was so anxious to be on his way to his planta tion home, ei ght miles distant, as he wanted to get back before dayligh t so that no on e might know he had been away. Grandmother hurried and ma de a skillet cak e which he put in his shirt and was soon on his way home . Caroline knew h er father’s bad temper. The two Elders were in bed at t he Butler home. Gr andfather roused them, the three went to the stable, s addled a horse fo r each of them and they rode many miles away before daw n. Caroline had n o sleep that night. When morning came she went about he r usual househol d duties. Just as the sun was rising, she looked out o f the window and sa w her father coming on horseback with his gun acros s the front of his sad dle. With a prayer in her heart she took her littl e children (two I think ) and went down into the cellar. Looking out o f a small window she saw he r father arrive at the gate, get off his hors e, put his gun by the gate , the bridle reins over the gate post and star t for the house. Her hear t almost sank within her, then came a feeling o f security and peace as th e words of an old hymn came into her mind, “Fe ar not I am with thee, oh b e not dismayed. For I am thy God and will sti ll give thee aid.” Then al l the fear left her, and with babe in arms an d a little one clinging to h er skirts, she returned to the kitchen jus t as her father entered the fro nt door. He greeted her warmly, saying, “ good morning, Carrie, have you h ad breakfast? I am hungry.” She assure d him it would soon be ready. He en joyed his little grandchildren. He wa s a kind and loving parent. While th ey ate, she never saw him in a mor e pleasant mood. They visited for som e time. He never inquired once abou t the Mormon Elders or his son-in-la w John Lowe Butler. He bade a pleasa nt good-bye and returned home.
On another occasion, when John heard that his father-in-law meant to ki l l him, he said, “Well, I have a gun I can shoot too.” And his Uncle Jo h n Lowe (a Constable) borrowed both Jesse Skeen’s and John Lowe Butler’ s g uns.
Another child of Jesse, Charity, who was deaf and mute, became convert e d to Mormonism through her sister Caroline repeating to her on her han d s the message brought to their home by the Mormon missionaries. She wa s s o anxious to know why the men had come to the home and what they wer e tal king about that she gave her sister no peace until she was given th e ful l explanation. Much of this was done at night after the other membe rs o f the family had retired, as her father was so bitterly opposed to t he ne w doctrine. (Charity Skeen went with the Butlers when they joined t he Sai nts in Missouri and John Lowe Butler made her his second wife in 1 844.)
Friends and kindred turned against those who became members of the unpop u lar Church called the Mormon Church. And the spirit of gathering came u po n these new converts. They made preparations to go to Missouri to mee t th e Prophet Joseph Smith and be with the body of the Saints. Charity , my mo ther, was but two years old when her parents made this move by o x team.
The Saints had already been driven from Jackson County from the farms wh i ch they had purchased. And there was great distress and suffering, bu t th e Butlers were happy to join the Saints and to know the Prophet.
While the Saints were at Gallatin in Davies County, an incident record e d in Church History and told many times by my mother, Charity, occurre d . The citizens were not going to allow the Mormons to vote on electio n da y and a crowd gathered. John Lowe Butler, picking up an oak stick, s wun g through a crowd and said, “Come on, boys. Our fathers fought for ou r li berty and we will maintain the same principles.” He voted and other s foll owed him. He was struck over the head with a loaded black whip an d he suf fered from the effects of it until the day of his death. After h e voted , he was surrounded by an armed mob who said to him, “You are ou r prisone r,” and told him to go with them and lay down his stick. He sai d, “No, wh erever I go, this stick goes.” One of the crowd said, as the c ircle opene d for him, “For Gosh Sake, let him go,” and he escaped. He wa s a powerfu l man, about six feet three inches tall.
Grandfather Butler went through the persecutions of the Saints, as the y w ere driven from one county to another in Missouri. When the Prophet w as b eing hunted and was in hiding from the mob, Grandfather would also h ave t o keep in hiding as his body guard. They would visit their familie s at ni ght to secure food and clothing. At one time when persecution wa s high an d the brethren had to remain away from their homes, Grandfathe r asked Gra ndmother to meet him at a certain tree near the Post Office , bringing lun ch, clothing, etc. that he needed. When she did this, sh e found a large g roup of men at the Post Office and was at first afrai d they had seen wha t she was going to do, but they remained so intensel y interested in somet hing they were doing that she was able to accomplis h her errand without b eing seen.
At Far West, when the Prophet and many of the brethren were in priso n a t Liberty, John Lowe Butler and many others were in hiding. Carolin e endu red great hardships in caring for her family. The Saints were requ ired t o lay down their arms at Far West, and John Lowe Butler was amon g them. H e said it was the hardest thing he ever did.
The Butlers were at Far West when Governor Boggs issued the order of exp u lsion of the Saints from the state of Missouri. John Lowe Butler was am on g the men who went to Commerce, Illinois ahead of the main body of th e Ch urch. In his diary he described Commerce as a miry bog which he help ed t o drain, and saw it transformed into a beautiful desirable city unde r th e Prophet’s blessing. There the Mormon people built a city which the y cal led Nauvoo, the word meaning “beautiful.” It was on a bend of the M ississ ippi River which sloped back to higher elevations. It was an idea l settin g for a city. There they built a temple, the Nauvoo Temple.
That first winter, 1839, Charity’s father taught school in Quincy, Illin o is to provide the necessities for his growing family who were to join h i m the next spring when the Saints left Far West. With the assistance o f B rother A. O. Smoot, who had a team of horses, grandmother had a wagon , th e two families wended their way with the refugees from Far West acro ss th e state of Iowa to establish what they hoped to be a permanent hom e in Il linois. Charity told her children of a time when her mother Carol ine wa s blind from sore eyes and Sister Smoot led her while they walke d the lon g miles to Quincy. It might have been on this journey. A marvel ous chang e same to Commerce in an incredibly short time. John Lowe state s in his j ournal that the land yielded so abundantly they scarcely had p laces to co ntain the crops.
Charity remembers well their family life in Nauvoo. Mother went to the P r ophet’s home many times. Her father became a trusted friend and one o f th e body guards of the Prophet, who came frequently also to their home . Th e two often wrestled together. The Prophet was not often thrown by a nyone , but Grandfather sometimes did throw him. Mother related to us chi ldre n this incident: Their family was riding in a wagon past the Prophet ’s ho me. Seeing them, the Prophet came to the wagon and after pleasant c onvers ation, finally challenged John l. to a wrestling match, “Come on , Brothe r John. Let’s have a wrestle.” Grandfather got out of the wago n and enga ged in this exercise which both enjoyed. The Prophet was the v ictor. Bot h were tall men with fine physiques. Grandfather was six foo t three inche s. Mother remembered that her father had just recovered fro m a recent ill ness and would rather not have wrestled then, but would no t refuse. She a lso said they engaged in this pastime frequently. Sometim es one was champ ion and sometimes the other.
As the Nauvoo Temple was in the course of erection, Charity with her pla y mates often walked around on the broad walls. She spoke of the stone fa ce s engraved in the upper walls. How wonderful she thought they were an d sh e reached down and touched them.
Every one of the women were taxed to give so many pennies to build the T e mple. The women in those days raised $2,000 that paid for all the nail s a nd glass in the Temple. Caroline was very thrifty and resourceful an d bei ng unable to give any money, she found other ways to help with he r share . At one time she found a large buffalo bull that had died. She h ad her b oy stop the wagon and they took a large sack of the long hair of f it’s ma ne. This she took home and washed and carded and spun into yarn . Out of t his yarn she made eight pairs of gloves for the workmen on th e Temple. Li ke the widow’s mite she did her bit to help carry on. Many t imes, she wa s able to get this hair from where buffaloes had fought an d killed each o ther. This she made into quilts, pillows, beds, socks, et c. to help provi de for her family.
Once when Grandmother was ill in Nauvoo with malaria, she wanted to ha v e the Prophet come and administer to her, but he was too busy as ther e we re so many sick; so he sent his handkerchief to put over her face an d s o great was her faith that she was made well.
The Prophet told Caroline once to give a child with worms all the hard h o ney he could eat on an empty stomach, then follow it up with all the n e w milk he could drink, followed by a dose of castor oil.
She was a woman of great faith. One time when she was very sick, she to l d those around her to take her to the river and baptize her and she wou l d get well. An old squaw thought they were going to drown her. She gav e G randmother an herb that cured her.
For awhile after moving to Nauvoo, the Butlers lived on the outskirt s o f the city. And Caroline was left alone quite often with her children . Th ey had an old mother pig with a lot of nice piglets. When they wer e prett y good sized ones, one by one, every pig but the mother was stole n. So Ca roline told her oldest boy, Taylor, that they had better kill th e old pi g to make sure of meat for the family of six children. (aprox 18 41-3) S o with the help of her twelve year old boy, she killed and dresse d this l arge pig.
It was during this time that they were living on this farm a few miles o u t from Nauvoo that Grandfather met the Prophet one day on the street. T h e latter inquired where his family was, and when he learned they wer e o n the farm, the Prophet advised Grandfather to go at once and remov e th e family into Nauvoo before daylight. He immediately secured a tea m and w agon and went for them. Grandmother took the children up from the ir beds , put their bedding and what clothing they could take in the wago n and th e family went into Far West that night. Just at dawn the neighbo rs sa w a large armed mob riding toward Butler’s farm home. This neighbo r remar ked to his wife when he saw this mob, “Butler’s a goner.” They su rrounde d the house, yelling like demons. When they discovered that no on e was th ere, the house was set fire to and went up in flames, together w ith all t he family belongings that had not been removed.
At Nauvoo, the Butler family, by their thrift and industry, prospered a n d enjoyed good returns for their labor. Charity told how as a child sh e l oved to wander in the woods to gather hazel nuts and the varieties o f nut s, and wild raspberries and strawberries which grew in corners an d uncult ivated spots in the fields. She also loved to dance and took dan cing less ons when she was a girl. Later in life she sometimes entertaine d us child ren by repeating some steps she learned. Gliding smoothly side ways, she w ould count 1-2-3, there’s 4 and 5. Six -7-8, there’s 9 and 10 , then glidi ng back to the same count. This always pleased us. Her frien d, Mary Shumw ay (later Westover), was the only girl Mother knew who love d to dance a s well as she. Another very dear friend was Lydia Thornton , daughter of O liver Thornton, who had come from Canada, having been bap tized by John Ta ylor who later became President of the Church. Mother an d Lydia pledged i n girlhood to each name a child for the other, which th ey did. Lydia Thor nton married Edmund Butler in the States. Two childre n were born to them , both dying in infancy and then her husband died. Al l this happened befo re Lydia was twenty.
But the happy life of the Saints was not to continue long. The same pers e cutions and experiences in Missouri caught up with them in the state o f I llinois. The Prophet Joseph many times was arrested and brought to co urt s of justice, but each time acquitted as they could not prove he ha d inju red anyone. As persecution raged, John as one of the body guards o f the P rophet, was called away from his wife and family much of the time . And th e care of this increasing family rested upon Caroline. Two child ren, Sara h and John, were born at Nauvoo.
At one time a group of men came to the Butler home in search of Grandfat h er. Grandmother’s little children clung close to her and kept saying, “ Mo ther, are these the mob?” She wanted to silence them but they kept rep eat ing the question. In answering, she said, “Yes child, these are the m ob, ” to which one of the men replied, “No, we are not the mob. We are th e mi litia.”
Another time, a mob of men with blackened faces came hunting for Joh n L . Butler. After a fruitless search they demanded that Caroline give t he m some supper. She did not have much to cook so they made her kill a m utt on and cook some of it for them. When they sat down to eat, one of th em d emanded a fried egg. Caroline broke it into the frying pan and was g oin g to cook it when he said to her, “Bring it to me. that is done enoug h. ” As she did so she recognized her brother and was surprised and so] , “Oh ! Alex, why would you bring trouble to your sister like this?” He s aid, “ I’ve come to take you away from this damned outfit.” She told hi m that sh e was better off than he was and she did not want any of his he lp.
Charity saw the Prophet Joseph Smith in his Nauvoo Legion uniform. She a l so told us of Grandfather’s activity in the Legion. He drilled with oth e r members of the Legion under the leadership of Joseph Smith. He was a n a ide de camp in this organization. His sword is now in possession of o ne o f his great grandsons, Hyrum Barton of Panguitch.
She also saw the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum as they l a y in state at the Mansion House at Nauvoo after their martyrdom by a ru th less mob in the Carthage Jail. She experienced the gloom and deep sorr o w of that sad occasion. Truly all the Latter-day Saints were in deep mo ur ning after that tragic event. Mother said that Grandfather went with t h e Prophet when he was on his way to Carthage. He said he never was so l oa the to do anything in his life as he was to leave the Prophet when th e la tter asked them to leave him a few miles from the jail and insiste d upo n going on alone, with guard.
Mother told me, when I asked her the question, that Grandfather helped c a re for and bury the body of the Prophet. She said he was gone from hom e a ll night, the night after the martyrdom and although he never gave an y sp ecific statement of that night, the family knew that he had been car ing f or the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. I heard Father (Amos G. Thornton ) giv e a sermon in the old Pinto meeting house telling of his memories o f th e martyrdom. He said a messenger was sent to Nauvoo from Carthage wi th th e sad news. He told of the sadness and gloom that settled over th e Saint s in Nauvoo, giving an impressive picture of it.
Mother was at the meeting of the Saints when the Prophet’s mantle fel l o n Brigham Young and the people knew that he was to be their leader, a nd n ot Sidney Rigdon.
John owned a farm in Nauvoo which he had paid for and had to leave whe n c ompelled by the mob. He said it belonged to him and that he would hav e i t at some future time. Mother and all other members of her father’s f amil y left the comforts of their home in Nauvoo when driven out by the m ob, t aking only what clothing and bedding they could carry and crossin g the Mi ssissippi River on ice in midwinter.
After driven from Nauvoo, the family was never very long at one place. T h ey were at Punca on the Missouri River for a time and at Pottawattomi e fr om 1849 to 1851. They did not leave with the group of Saints that we nt t o Utah in 1847 because John was a blacksmith and was required to rep air w agons.
The following incident was told to me by Henry L. Hinman of Canada abo u t 1905 or 1906. He said that his father and Grandfather were close frie nd s in the States and on one occasion when the saints were camped on a r ive r after they had been driven from Illinois (I think the incident occu rre d in Iowa), a resident of that section lost a steer and accused the M ormo ns of stealing it. A band of men came into the camp. At their approa ch mo st of the men left the camp and kept out of sight. Grandfather an d Brothe r Hinman stayed to meet them and were told the Saints there ha d done th e residents no wrong. The band of men told them they would hav e to go t o the State Capitol to stand trial and consented to go on one c ondition , that they would not come back to molest their families at th e camp. Th e band promised this and led Grandfather and Brother Hinman aw ay, with ro pes tied to their wagons. The first night, the band halted i n the woods , but down timber and laid it together in pen form, and put t he two men i n it for the night. They threw in raw potatoes for the men t o eat. They s aid they were not animals and would not eat raw vegetables . They insiste d upon being treated like men and given a portion of the s ame food the ba nd had prepared for themselves. This was done. The next m orning the ban d was observed by the men to be counseling over something . Finally they c ame and said they had decided to go back to the camp. Gr andfather stood o n the wagon tongue, with a stick in his hand and said , “You promised us y ou would not molest our families. I promise you in t he name of Israel’s G od, that if you do, either you or I die,” and he ra ised his stick. The ba nd decided to go on, which they did for two hundre d miles to the Capitol . They endured many hardships during this journey . When they came to on e of the rivers, Brother Hinman, who was an olde r man, refused to wade i t as it was very cold, and deep enough so clothi ng had to be removed. H e said, “If I cross that stream, you’ll carry m e across,” which they did . When they reached the Capitol, their accuser s did not appear. And the y were left to make their way back to their fam ilies as best they could . When they arrived, after tow or three months , with ragged clothing, etc ., at the camp they had left, they found th e Saints had moved on to anoth er camp. Kind friends had taken Grandmothe r and her family there and help ed them get established, They had suffere d many privations in the absenc e of Grandfather, and had not known wheth er or not he would return alive . Grandfather said he felt the hardship h ad been greater on Brother Hinma n than upon himself, since the latter wa s a much older man. They were mos t grateful to be again back with thei r loved ones.
(Note by compiler: In the copy of John Lowe Butler’s diary by Helen Thur b er Dalton, pp. 29-30, there is an account that sounds similar to the ab ov e, and must be the same incident. John L. says that they were on the I ow a River, having been sent up there by Brigham Young to try to bring so m e order into the wayward Emmett Company. Some of that company had bee n st ealing, and it was Brigham Young’s instructions to John Lowe Butle r to g o up and save the good people that were with the Company. He state s in hi s diary that there were some seventy-five armed men who had com e with off icers of justice. And many details coincide with the above acc ount of Bro ther Hinman, though Brother Hinman is not mentioned, nor th e name of th e head officer. There is a two volume diary of Hosea Stout w hich has bee n printed by his family. He was a staunch Mormon pioneer an d law office r during many of these difficult years. He records some inci dents in hi s diary in the years 1846 to 1848, thoroughly castigating Emm ett and Joh n Low Butler and others “of like stamp.” He writes of an inci dent where h e had to arrest John L. and many of the details, while casti ng a differen t light on the affair, fit in with the above accounts. Hose a Stout neve r forgave John Butler, because Brigham Young stood up for hi m. He never a ccepted the fact that John L. had actually been sent up t o Emmett’s Compa ny and was not guilty of the misbehavior of some of th e group. John was i nstrumental in seeing that Hosea himself stand tria l before the Council f or misdeeds committed in the arrest, and Hosea wa s found guilty. This Cou ncil Meeting took place, according to Stout’s di ary, Sunday November 21 , 1847 and this can give us some idea as to the d ate the unfortunate inci dent occurred. John records in his diary that wh en they arrived at Iowa C ity, the men who had brought them there were go ing to send them home with out a trial because they found they were innoc ent of the charges. But h e insisted upon the trial, and as a result wa s given provisions, etc. fo r his journey home. Comparisons of these seve ral accounts of what seem t o have been the same incident are most intere sting.)
After joining Emmett’s Company, the Butler family did not follow the o l d trail, but went farther north, to find a new crossing over the river . W inter overtook them when they were in the heart of Indian country. S o the y had to stop and build log cabins and wait until spring. They stop ped i n a little valley and there was a patch of timber between them an d an Ind ian village. The men began to cut logs and they would bind a bun ch of log s together and drag them into camp. The children had great fu n riding o n the logs. One day a little Indian boy was very badly hurt, a s the log s began to roll, not being bound tight enough. So the Indian Ch ief told t hem if the boy died they would take one of the white childre n to pay fo r it. Caroline was very sick at the time and they were afrai d she was goi ng to die. Their food supplies had run out and they had not hing but mea t to eat, without salt. One day as she lay very sick in he r tent, with th e other women trying to help her, the old Indian Chieftai n came into th e tent and asked for the little tow headed girl (Keziah) w ho was about tw elve or fourteen years old. When she came in, he took he r by the hand an d led her away to his cabin. Caroline thought that the l ittle Indian bo y had died and that he had taken Keziah as a ransom. Bu t she was too wea k and sick to protest.
The old Chieftain took Keziah to his cabin and told her that her mothe r w as very ill, and that she would die if she did not get something besi de s meat to eat. He gave her a pan of flour or meal and on top if that h e p ut a bowl of coffee and on top of that a smaller bowl of sugar. He to ld h er to carry them on her head till she got home and to make one biscu i t a day for her mother. He told her to be sure and keep it all for he r mo ther and that it would save her life. What joy filled the little cam p whe n Keziah came trudging home with her precious load. The instruction s wer e followed and the dear mother returned to health and strength. The y neve r forgot to give thanks to their Heavenly Father for all these ble ssings.
Another time there was trouble with the Indians and they demanded a chi l d as hostage to be returned at sundown if the Saints complied with th e de mands of the Indians by that time. One of Grandfather’s children (co usi n Libby Allen Cameron thinks it was Mother, Charity) was held, much t o th e concern of Grandmother, but she was returned to her family at sund own.
Mother also reported that while the Saints were at Camp Pottawattomie, I o wa, the Indians planned a massacre. A friendly Indian made his way int o c amp and told the Saints of this. They were therefore able to make a p eac e effort which forestalled trouble.
John was appointed hunter for the camp as meat was their only food suppl y . Time and again, when the kill was sent home, Caroline and her famil y we nt without a share, which speaks a great deal for the Saints in Emme tt’ s Company. (John, while obeying the mission assigned him by Brigham Y oung , seemed to resent somewhat having been sent to that company.)
When John was called on a mission to the Indians, he was not fixed ver y w ell financially; but so great was his faith that he accepted the call . Af ter his mission was completed, he and his companion had to pass thro ug h a hostile Indian country. They had been three days without any food , s o when they came to a fork in the road, they knelt down and prayed fo r gu idance to know which road to take. They were inspired to take the le ft ha nd road, but they were discouraged after traveling a long way to fi nd onl y a large barren waste of country. There was not a sign of any on e livin g as far as they could see. But suddenly they came to a stream o f water l iterally filled with trout. The fish were so thick that they co uld catc h them with their hands, so their prayer for food and protectio n was answ ered.
While he was away, Caroline, who was in delicate health, and children li v ed on wild honey and crab apples for nine weeks. But she was very resou rc eful and they nearly always had something to eat, even when others wen t h ungry. She used to parch the hard corn and pound it, then put new mil k ov er it for her family to eat. When she had flour, she would very ofte n mak e her bread the day before they ate it, so as not to have hot bread . Col d bread lasted longer.
When John L. returned from his mission, he was full of lice, after livi n g with the Indians. So his wife had to get a whole set of clean clothe s f or him. The Indians told her to put his clothes on an ant hill and th e an ts would eat the lice and knits. His clothes were white with knits b ut th e ants cleaned them up.
One time a group of Sioux braves rode up to their camp and were talkin g t o the men while children stood some distance away. Mother counted fo r the m in the Sioux language. When she did this, they eyed her keenly an d talk ed to one another. After they had gone, her father told her neve r to do t hat again, as it might lead to trouble. In those days, childre n were some times kidnapped by the natives. She often entertained us by s peaking word s in the Sioux language.
While living in the territory of the Sioux, the men of the camp wen t o n a hunt to get meat for their families. Grandfather’s oldest son, Ta ylor , was a boy of about twelve years of age, I think, and he was a goo d mark sman. He met with unusual success on this occasion, killing a larg e buffa lo and two wild turkeys. They were hitched to the buffalo and whe n they c ame into camp, Uncle Taylor was astride the buffalo, with a bi g turkey i n each hand and very proud, as any youngster would be. The mea t was share d by all in the camp.
We liked to hear about how they made maple sugar. My impression is tha t i t was when they were in Iowa. Most of the families had what was call e d a sugar bush, or a clump of sugar maple trees. In the spring of the y ea r when the sap began to rise in the trees, families would take some o f th eir belongings and camp in the woods and make maple sugar. Trees wer e tap ped by boring a hole in them and a little trough inserted through w hich t he juice would run into a bucket. As many trees were tapped, peopl e wer e kept busy day and night emptying buckets of juice into a large ke ttle w here it was boiled down and granulated. Then it was poured into sm aller v essels to harden into cakes of maple sugar which was a great luxu ry.
Keziah, Charity’s sister, told the following to her children: When spri n g came and the sap began to rise in the trees, the little camp began t o m ake plans to continue their journey. They were in a sugar maple secti on a nd they used to tap the trees and catch all the syrup they could eat . Nig ht after night Caroline sat up boiling, boiling and boiling the pre ciou s syrup into sugar to help feed her little flock. By her hard labor , sh e filled a small trunk full of maple sugar to use on the journey t o the G reat Salt Lake. One day, Emmett demanded that she divide her suga r with t he camp and she refuse to do so. So he asked John L. if he coul d make hi s wife mind him. He said, “If you can make her divide her sugar .” John L . answered, “Well, on that point, Caroline can just suit hersel f.” The re st of them could have had some if they had worked.
On one occasion, Mother, old enough to walk to town, was sent for some s u pplies they needed. The distance, as I remember, was about two miles. D ar kness overtook her before she got back to camp. Her parents became ver y u neasy and built a large bonfire as a guide for her to the camp. On he r wa y she had to cross a deep ravine, with a pole laid across it for a b ridge . Soon after crossing, she heard a terrifying howl of a wild anima l whic h seemed very close. She hurried as best she could through the dar kness , guided by the bonfire and reached her anxious parents in safety . Next m orning her father went along the trail and found the bare footpr ints o f a panther. It had followed the child for some distance but stopp ed whe n it reached the foot pole. The parents rejoiced that their chil d reache d them unharmed.
During that long winter, a Sioux squaw became very much attached to Gran d mother because she said she looked so very much like her daughter who h a d died. She asked if Caroline would be a daughter to her. All winter s h e kept the little feet of the children covered with Indian moccasins. T he y called her Grandmother Squaw.
When spring came, Grandmother Squaw told Caroline not to leave before s h e told her good-bye, but the call came to break camp and she was not ab l e to see the old squaw. The company traveled about ten miles that day , an d after they had gone to bed, Caroline heard a moaning noise. She li stene d and it seemed to be coming closer and closer. Finally there cam e the fa ithful old Indian woman to tell them good-bye. She sat up all ni ght by th e low burning fire and
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put them out to pasture. Many of these horses proved to be valuable wh e n they were up in flesh.
Charity and Keziah baked bread, washed and ironed the gold rusher’s soil e d clothing and did many other helpful things, as the men rested and rec up erated so that they might continue their journey west. Often these me n ha d to lighten their loads and at a minimum cost exchanged valuable me rchan dise for labor. In this way, Charity and Keziah were able to obtai n mater ial for clothing for themselves and the rest of the family.
Charity later worked in Salt Lake City for J. C. Little who owned a hot e l at Beck’s Hot Springs, a few miles north of the city. She was in goo d h ealth and fine physique. Being a good cook, she did her best and wa s rewa rded with a higher wage than girls who worked beside her. While wo rking t here, she was struck with cramps in her stomach, with pain so sev ere tha t she could not speak sometimes for hours. The few doctors in th e city we re baffled. All through her life, she suffered from cramps.
Being the Bishop of Spanish Fork, her father had many Indians come to h i s home begging for flour, which was a scarce article in those early day s . On one occasion, a large strong Indian came for flour and Taylor Butl er , the oldest son, said to his father, “Let him work for his bread as w e h ave to do.” The angry Indian eyed him keenly. A short time later whe n Tay lor was in the canyon for a load of wood, the same Indian met him a nd rem inded him of the words he had spoken against them. He was ordere d off hi s load of wood and whipped unmercifully until he could hardly st and. Foll owing this, the Indian and his companions took his lunch whic h was in a s mall sack tied to one of the posts of the wood rack. Going b ack to him, t hey asked him to shake hands with them and then they woul d be good friend s if he would not talk against them anymore. They helpe d him onto his loa d of wood, and wounded and sick as he was so that he c ould hardly sit up , he made his way home as best he could.
John rallied to the call from President Young to send teams with provisi o ns to suffering emigrants on the plains. When the belated Handcart Comp an y finally reached the Valley, there were distributed among the Saint s whe re they were welcomed and cared for. Some were sent to the Bishop’ s hom e in Spanish Fork. One poor victim who had had his leg amputated cr ied al l night from pain in that limb even to the end of his toes, thoug h the li mb was gone.
Mother told us of a visit by President Young to Spanish Fork at a time w h en there was a great scarcity of food from the grasshoppers and other c au ses. He promised the sisters if they would glean the wheat fields afte r t he harvest, their children should never want for food. Trusting in th e wo rds of their great leader, Mother Caroline and other sisters of tha t War d gleaned the wheat fields of Spanish Fork until they could not fin d anot her head.
The Butlers, with other converts, endured great hardships, but a promi s e made to Caroline in a patriarchal blessing by Patriarch John Smith i n N auvoo that the lives of her children should be preserved was fulfille d. T hough they were unsettled from the time they left their home in Kent ucky , and endured unspeakable hardships through the years, their ten chi ldre n lived through the trip across the plains and the last child born i n Spa nish Fork also survived the early pioneer life.
An incident that brought sadness to the hearts of all the family was wh e n their faithful oxen were drowned in a flood which came down Spanish F or k River. As I remember, Charity said their names were Dick and Larry . Th e loved animals had brought them safely across the plains and Grandm othe r and the children wept.
Early in life, Charity learned many things from her resourceful mother , a nd among them, the art of weaving. First, the wool from the few shee p kep t by the family was sheared by the men. Then she helped her mothe r wash t he wool, which after drying, had to be pulled apart and then car ded int o batts, then rolls, spun into threads on a spinning wheel, and t hen wove n by hand on the homemade loom in their home. She also knew th e differen t shrubs form which different colored dyes could be produced , using thes e and blue dye produced from indigo. These dyes were used t o color the th reads and made beautiful cloth. She also helped her mothe r knit warm stoc kings for the family, but she was not so fast a knitte r as Keziah. Kezia h would tell Charity that she would knit her stocking s if she would sew t he dresses for her in return.
(See History of Pinto, Parents, etc. by Lydia A. T. Duffin for the remai n der of Charity’s life.)
John Lowe Butler survived only a few years of the hardships of pioneeri n g in the Valley, but was an ardent worker all that time. He assisted i n s urveying lands and in making thrashing machines, doing the iron part s whi le other men did the wood work. He did black-smithing for himself a nd oth ers and took an active part in making the desert “Bloom as a rose. ” He ef ficiently performed his duties as a Bishop. Many emigrants and po or peopl e were helped by this generous man and his faithful wife.
Grandmother Butler was loved by her children and they all idealized the i r father to an unusual degree all through their lives. He had a good se ns e of humor. His daughters remember his teasing, when he would invite t he m to kiss him when his face was covered with shaving lather.
John Lowe Butler was the first person to be buried in the cemetery whi c h he had dedicated. (This was told to me by a relative in Spanish Fork . A fter the older members of the family married, Grandmother Butler move d wi th her three sons and younger daughters to Paragoonah, Utah as a pio neer.
(See pages 16-18 in Lydia A. T. Thornton’s History of Parents, Early Li f e in Pinto, etc. for accounts of Butler reunions, Temple work, etc.) | Butler, Charity Artemesia (I162558)
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Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great (Latin: Carolus or Karolus M a gnus) or Charles I, was King of the Franks. He united most of Western E ur ope during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern F ran ce and Germany. He took the Frankish throne in 768 and became King o f Ita ly from 774. From 800 he became the first Holy Roman Emperor — th e firs t recognized emperor in Western Europe since the fall of the Weste rn Roma n Empire three centuries earlier. While Charlemagne already rule d his kin gdom without the help of the Pope, recognition from the pontif f granted h im divine legitimacy in the eyes of his contemporaries.
The expanded Frankish state Charlemagne founded was called the Carolingi a n Empire.
The oldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, Charlemagne beca m e king in 768 following the death of his father. He was initially co-ru le r with his brother Carloman I. Carloman's sudden death in 771 under un exp lained circumstances left Charlemagne as the undisputed ruler of th e Fran kish Kingdom. Charlemagne continued his father's policy towards th e papac y and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in n orther n Italy, and leading an incursion into Muslim Spain. He also campa igned a gainst the Saxons to his east, Christianizing them upon penalty o f death , leading to events such as the Massacre of Verden. Charlemagne r eached t he height of his power in 800 when he was crowned Emperor of th e Romans b y Pope Leo III on Christmas Day at Old St. Peter's Basilica.
Called the "Father of Europe" (Pater Europae),[3] Charlemagne united mo s t of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. His rul e s purred the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of energetic cultural an d in tellectual activity within the Western Church. All Holy Roman Empero rs u p to the last Emperor Francis II, as well as both the French and Ger man m onarchies, considered their kingdoms to be descendants of Charlemag ne's e mpire. However, the Eastern Orthodox Church views Charlemagne mor e contro versially, seeing his support of the filioque and recognition b y the Bish op of Rome as legitimate Roman Emperor rather than Irene of At hens of th e Eastern Roman Empire would be one of the machinations that w ould lead t o the eventual split of the Rome and Constantinople in the Gr eat Schism o f 1054 AD.
Charlemagne died in 814, having ruled as emperor for just over thirtee n y ears. He was laid to rest in his imperial capital of Aachen in what i s to day Germany. His son Louis the Pious succeeded him.
Political background
Francia, early 8th century
By the 6th century, the western Germanic Franks had been Christianised , a nd Francia, ruled by the Merovingians, was the most powerful of the k ingd oms that succeeded the Western Roman Empire. Following the Battle o f Tert ry, however, the Merovingians declined into a state of powerlessne ss, fo r which they have been dubbed the rois fainéants ("do-nothing king s"). Al most all government powers of any consequence were exercised by t heir chi ef officer, the mayor of the palace.
In 687, Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, ended the st r ife between various kings and their mayors with his victory at Tertry a n d became the sole governor of the entire Frankish kingdom.[6] Pepin him se lf was the grandson of two of the most important figures of the Austra sia n Kingdom, Saint Arnulf of Metz and Pepin of Landen. Pepin of Hersta l wa s eventually succeeded by his illegitimate son Charles, later know n as Ch arles Martel (Charles the Hammer).
After 737, Charles governed the Franks without a king on the throne bu t d eclined to call himself king. Charles was succeeded in 741 by his son s Ca rloman and Pepin the Short, the father of Charlemagne. To curb separ atis m in the periphery of the realm, in 743 the brothers placed on the t hron e Childeric III, who was to be the last Merovingian king. After Carl oma n resigned office in 746 to enter the church by preference as a monk , Pep in brought the question of the kingship before Pope Zachary, askin g wheth er it was logical for a king to have no royal power. The pope han ded dow n his decision in 749. He decreed that it was better for Pepin, w ho had t he powers of high office as Mayor, to be called king, so as no t to confus e the hierarchy. He therefore ordered him to become true king .[7]
Under the Carolingians, the Frankish kingdom spread to encompass an ar e a including most of Western Europe; the division of the kingdom forme d th e basis for modern France and Germany.[9] The religious, political , and a rtistic evolutions originating from a centrally positioned Franci a mad e a defining imprint on the whole of Europe
The most likely date of Charlemagne's birth is reconstructed from sever a l sources. The date of 742 — calculated from Einhard's date of death o f J anuary 814 at age 72 - predates the marriage of his parents in 744. T he y ear given in the Annales Petaviani, 747, would be more likely, excep t tha t it contradicts Einhard and a few other sources in making Charlema gne se venty years old at his death. The month and day of April 2 is esta blishe d by a calendar from Lorsch Abbey.
In 747, that day fell on Easter, a coincidence that likely would have be e n remarked upon by chroniclers but was not. If Easter was being used a s t he beginning of the calendar year, then 2 April 747 could have been , by m odern reckoning, 2 April 748 (not on Easter). The date favored b y the pre ponderance of evidence is 2 April 742, based on Charlemagne's b eing a sep tuagenarian at the time of his death. This date would appear t o support t he idea that Charlemagne was born illegitimate, which is not , however, me ntioned by Einhard.
Place of birth
Region of Aachen-Liège (contemporary borders, trade- and travel routes).
Charlemagne’s exact birthplace is unknown, although historians have sugg e sted Aachen in modern-day Germany, and Liège (Herstal) in present-day B el gium as possible locations.[11] Aachen and Liège are close to the regi o n from where both the Merovingian and Carolingian families originated . Ot her cities have been suggested, including Düren, Gauting, Mürlenbach ,[12 ] Quierzy and Prüm. No definitive evidence as to which is the righ t candi date exists.
Charlemagne was the eldest child of Pepin the Short (714 – 24 Septembe r 7 68, reigned from 751) and his wife Bertrada of Laon (720 – 12 July 78 3) , daughter of Caribert of Laon and Bertrada of Cologne. Records name o nl y Carloman, Gisela, and three short-lived children named Pepin, Chroth ai s and Adelais as his younger siblings.
Before he was elected king in 750, Pepin the Short was initially a mayo r , a high office he held "as though hereditary" (velut hereditario funge ba tur). Einhard explains that "the honor" was usually "given by the peop le " to the distinguished, but Pepin the Great and his brother Carloman t h e Wise received it as though hereditary, as had their father, Charles M ar tel. There was, however, a certain ambiguity about quasi-inheritance . Th e office was treated as joint property: one Mayorship held by two br other s jointly.[15] Each, however, had his own geographic jurisdiction . When C arloman decided to resign, becoming ultimately a Benedictine a t Monte Cas sino,[16] the question of the disposition of his quasi-shar e was settle d by the pope. He converted the Mayorship into a Kingship an d awarded th e joint property to Pepin, who now had the full right to pas s it on by in heritance.
This decision was not accepted by all members of the family. Carloman h a d consented to the temporary tenancy of his own share, which he intend e d to pass on to his own son, Drogo, when the inheritance should be sett le d at someone's death. By the Pope's decision, in which Pepin had a han d , Drogo was to be disqualified as an heir in favour of his cousin Charl es . He took up arms in opposition to the decision and was joined by Grif o , a half-brother of Pepin and Carloman, who had been given a share by C ha rles Martel, but was stripped of it and held under loose arrest by hi s ha lf-brothers after an attempt to seize their shares by military actio n. B y 753 all was over. Grifo perished in combat in the Battle of Saint- Jean- de-Maurienne while Drogo was hunted down and taken into custody.[18 ]
On the death of Pepin, 24 September 768, the kingship passed jointly t o h is sons, "with divine assent" (divino nutu). According to the Life, P epi n died in Paris. The Franks "in general assembly" (generali conventu ) gav e them both the rank of king (reges) but "partitioned the whole bod y of t he kingdom equally" (totum regni corpus ex aequo partirentur). Th e annals [19] tell a slightly different version, with the king dying at S t-Denis , near Paris. The two "lords" (domni) were "elevated to kingship " (elevat i sunt in regnum), Charles on 9 October in Noyon, Carloman on a n unspecif ied date in Soissons. If born in 742, Charles was 26 years old , but he ha d been campaigning at his father's right hand for several yea rs, which ma y help to account for his military skill. Carloman was 17.
The language in either case suggests that there were not two inheritance s , which would have created distinct kings ruling over distinct kingdom s , but a single joint inheritance and a joint kingship tenanted by two e qu al kings, Charles and his brother Carloman. As before, distinct jurisd ict ions were awarded. Charles received Pepin's original share as Mayor : th e outer parts of the kingdom bordering on the sea, namely Neustria , weste rn Aquitaine, and the northern parts of Austrasia; while Carloma n was awa rded his uncle's former share, the inner parts: southern Austra sia, Septi mania, eastern Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence, and Swabia, land s borderin g Italy. The question of whether these jurisdictions were join t shares re verting to the other brother if one brother died or were inhe rited proper ty passed on to the descendants of the brother who died wa s never definit ely settled by the Frankish people. It came up repeatedl y over the succee ding decades until the grandsons of Charlemagne create d distinct sovereig n kingdoms.
Charles and his children
Charlemagne (left) and his eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback. Tenth-centu r y copy of a lost original from about 830.
During the first peace of any substantial length (780–782), Charles beg a n to appoint his sons to positions of authority within the realm, in t h e tradition of the kings and leaders of the past. In 781, he made his t w o youngest sons kings, having them crowned by the Pope. The elder of th es e two, Carloman, was made king of Italy, taking the Iron Crown that hi s f ather had first worn in 774, and in the same ceremony was renamed "Pe pin. "[36][37] The younger of the two, Louis, became king of Aquitaine. C harle magne ordered Pepin and Louis to be raised in the customs of thei r kingdo ms, and he gave their regents some control of their sub-kingdoms , but rea l power was always in his hands, though he intended his sons t o inherit t heir realms some day. Nor did he tolerate insubordination i n his sons: i n 792, he banished his eldest, though possibly illegitimate , son, Pippi n the Hunchback, to the monastery of Prüm, because the youn g man had join ed a rebellion against him.
Charles was determined to have his children educated, including his daug h ters, as he himself was not. His children were taught all the arts, an d h is daughters were learned in the way of being a woman. His sons too k arch ery, horsemanship, and other outdoor activities.
Charlemagne instructing his son Louis the Pious
The sons fought many wars on behalf of their father when they came of ag e . Charles was mostly preoccupied with the Bretons, whose border he shar e d and who insurrected on at least two occasions and were easily put dow n , but he was also sent against the Saxons on multiple occasions. In 80 5 a nd 806, he was sent into the Böhmerwald (modern Bohemia) to deal wit h th e Slavs living there (Bohemian tribes, ancestors of the modern Czech s). H e subjected them to Frankish authority and devastated the valley o f the E lbe, forcing a tribute on them. Pippin had to hold the Avar and B eneventa n borders but also fought the Slavs to his north. He was uniquel y poise d to fight the Byzantine Empire when finally that conflict aros e after Ch arlemagne's imperial coronation and a Venetian rebellion. Fina lly, Loui s was in charge of the Spanish March and also went to souther n Italy to f ight the duke of Benevento on at least one occasion. He too k Barcelona i n a great siege in 797 (see below).
Charlemagne's attitude toward his daughters has been the subject of mu c h discussion. He kept them at home with him and refused to allow the m t o contract sacramental marriages – possibly to prevent the creation o f ca det branches of the family to challenge the main line, as had been t he ca se with Tassilo of Bavaria – yet he tolerated their extramarital re lation ships, even rewarding their common-law husbands, and treasured th e illegi timate grandchildren they produced for him. He also, apparently , refuse d to believe stories of their wild behaviour. After his death th e survivi ng daughters were banished from the court by their brother, th e pious Lou is, to take up residence in the convents they had been bequea thed by thei r father. At least one of them, Bertha, had a recognised rel ationship, i f not a marriage, with Angilbert, a member of Charlemagne' s court circle. | Karling, Charlemagne "Charles the Great" King of the Franks (I13586)
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Charles Call is Walt Disney's Grandfather and is Father to Flora Disney (Call) Walt's Mother. Charles who was a school teacher is buried next to his wife Henrietta Call (Gross) Walt's Grandmother, she died on February 21, 1910. Charles and Henrietta are in an old rural cemetery called Ponceannah and have a headstone with inscriptions. Walt Disney's parents Flora and Elias Disney were married on January 1, 1888 in Kismet, FL not far from Ponceannah Cemetery. The Call's and Disney's both had homesteads and worked in an around Kismet and Acron, FL. Today both towns do not exist, but were near the present town of Paisley, FL. Various unpaved roads and trails lead to the site of the Call and Disney homesteads. Interesting fact is that Ponceannah Cemetery and the homestead sites are only about 50 miles north of Walt Disney World near Lake Buena Vista, FL. Close by Disney World is a city called Kissimmee that sounds like the town Kismet where Walt's parents were married (Kissimmee is indian for "Heaven's Place"). Ponceannah Cemetery is in a rural part of North west Lake County near Paisley, FL and closet major city is Deland, FL in Volusia County. The cemetery is past Paisley on the north side of CR 4 2 between Clearwater Lake Recreation Area and the Blackwater Creek Swamp near the southern boundary of the Ocala National Forest. Walt Disney and his Brother Roy later in life visited this area. | Call, Charles Henry (I97051)
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Charles Douglas Glaze was born on September 17, 1931 in Oklahoma City, O k lahoma and died February 19, 1975 in caulkesville, Logan County, Arkans as . He was buried Feb. 24 1975 at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas wh er e two of his infant children, Ted Austin and Amy are also buried. Char le s was the youngest of six children of Arthur Woodward Glaze and Fredon i a Holdaway. He retired from the Air Force on March 1, 1974 after 22 yea r s in the Armed Forces, during which time he was stationed in various pl ac es, including Guam, Alaska, Germany, & several locations in the Unite d St ates. He was retired at Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee, Mass. Aft er hi s retirement, Charles worked for a few months in the Massachusett s area a nd then moved to Ozark, Arkansas where he was later joined by hi s father . They planned to build a cabin there on some wooded property ow ned by th e elder Mr. Glaze for several years. It had been Charles' drea m to buil d a cabin in that beautiful area since he was a young boy. Jus t a short t ime before his untimely death, Charles and his father had mov ed onto a fa rm on which they planned to be caretakers while the owner wa s away workin g on the Alaska Pipeline for the next 3 years. It was in th at farmhouse t hat Charles died during the night of natural causes. He ha d not been ill . (Written by his sister, Helen G. Lotzman - In the Edso n Whipple Famil y Newsletter - June 1975) | Glaze, Charles Douglas (I164427)
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Charles Martel (c. 688 – 22 October 741) was a Frankish statesman and mi l itary leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Pal ac e, was the de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death. He wa s a s on of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal and Pepin's mistress , a nob lewoman named Alpaida. Charles, also known as "The Hammer" (in Ol d French , Martel), successfully asserted his claims to power as successo r to hi s father as the power behind the throne in Frankish politics. Con tinuin g and building on his father's work, he restored centralized gover nment i n Francia and began the series of military campaigns that re-esta blishe d the Franks as the undisputed masters of all Gaul. According t o a near-c ontemporary source, the Liber Historiae Francorum, Charles wa s "a warrio r who was uncommonly [...] effective in battle".
Martel gained a very consequential victory against an Umayyad invasio n o f Aquitaine at the Battle of Tours, at a time when the Umayyad Caliph at e controlled most of the Iberian Peninsula. Alongside his military end eav ours, Charles has been traditionally credited with a seminal role i n th e development of the Frankish system of feudalism.
At the end of his reign, Charles divided Francia between his sons, Carlo m an and Pepin. The latter became the first king of the Carolingian dynas ty . Charles' grandson, Charlemagne, extended the Frankish realms, and be cam e the first emperor in the West since the fall of Rome. | Martel, Charles "Martel" Mayor of the Palace (I9026)
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Charles name is "Charles Everet Hilton". He later changed his surnam e t o Johnson after he relocated to Utah prior to his marriage to Media S ophi a Andersen in 1907 in Logan, Utah. His middle name is clearly spelle d "Ev eret" on the application for Social Security of his daughter Goldi e Mae H ilton, as well as on his World War 1 Draft Card (as well as in hi s signat ure). Yes, Charles had a son named 'Evert', but the evidence i s quite cle ar that his surname was 'Everet.' | Hilton, Charles Everet (I127478)
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Charles Osborne Cooley was born March 14, 1929 in Mesa, Arizona. He pass e d away peacefully Tuesday, June 27 in Mesa. He suffered from congestiv e h eart failure, but was never an invalid until the last 3 days of his l ife . He remained good natured and grateful until the very end of his jou rney .
Charles farmed, sold insurance and was active in The Church of Jesus Chr i st of Latter-day-Saints. He loved being in the outdoors hunting, campin g , and climbing mountains. He climbed Mt. Whitney the last time at age 7 0. | Cooley, Charles Osborne (I162343)
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Charles Ramsden Bailey was baptized into the LDS Church by John Taylo r . Taken from his Autobiography.
BIOGRAPHY: Charles was born a "Ramsden" but took the last name of his mo t her's first husband, who had died. BIRTH: There is a discrepancy in dat es . Another family record says it was 1 Sep 1839. And another says i t wa s 31 Aug. 1839. MARRIAGE: Could also be 17 Nov 1863. DEATH: Discrep ancy . Could also be 19 Jan 1910. SOURCE: Book, "Charles Ramsden Bailey " by J ay Years and Betsey Long (1983). Archibald family group records . Templ e Index Bureau (TIB) on child, Susannah Hawkins Bailey Archive fa mily gro up sheet submitted by Margaret B. Smurthwaite of SLC. Wellsvill e ward rec ords, GS Film #027,410.
Autobiography of Charles
I, Charles Ramsden Bailey, son of Charles Ramsden and Jane Robbins Baile y , was born in the little town of Honley, Yorkshire, England, August 31s t , 1839 . Born of humble parents, my father was a stone cutter by trad e . However, he could cut or delve stone from the quarry and was a ver y ha rd worker. [He was] very strong, more than average in size, about s ix fe et in height, weight 175. When he was himself he was kind to his f amily , but he was one of those kind of men that lacked fortitude and wa s ver y easy led by company to drink; and many times he lost his manhoo d and wo uld get drunk. It was then he would be unkind and may times abu se his fa mily, drinking up all his wages, and this made home very unplea sant. Mot her was a small woman, but full of energy, high spirited, an d could not s tand drinking; and in particular to be abused also. For [t o] speak [he r mind], she would, under these or any other circumstances , as that was h er nature, but she was a kind and loving woman after on e got acquainted w ith her. She loved her family dearly and always wante d them to appear de cent in society, being well clad, always attending Su nday School and chur ch every Sunday. She was very religiously inclined , firm believer in th e bible, and was thoroughly conversant with the bib le .
In early life I commenced going to Sunday School. I well remember the f i rst time I went with my sisters, Mary Ann and Sarah; each took me by t h e hand to school. This would be before I was three years old, and I alw ay s went with the girls every Sunday morning. The school we went [to] w a s the Church of England or the Episcopal Church. As I grew older I wen t t o the day school which belonged to the same church, but I well rememb er t he first day I went. The schoolmaster or teacher took me and trie d me wi th the alphabet, and I went through the letters every way he coul d try me . And then he took me through the next grade, and he found me u p as wel l in that as the other. So he tried me with the third grade an d found m e very well up with that. However, he kept me in the third an d asked m e who had been teaching me. I told him mother had taught me . He said, “ I wish all mothers would do that. ”
I found that I had a good start, and I kept on going to school until I w a s about seven years old, when I went with one of my playmates to the wo ol en factory; and the boss wanted me to go to work also. So I worked th a t day, and after coming in the evening mother asked me where I had bee n , so I told her. And she was undecided whether to let me go or not. B u t on account of our circumstances she thought I could go and make a lit tl e [money], but I must go to Saturday night school if I went to the fac tor y. This I did. However, the school teacher, Joseph Donkersley, wa s ver y sorry to have me quit school, but he said if I would attend the S aturda y night school he would feel a little better. He took great pain s with m e both on Saturday night and Sunday at school, as he had the cha rge of th e Sunday school also. So I kept on working half-time and the o ther hal f I went to school until I reached the age of eleven years; the n I was pa ssed for full-time, being a large boy of my age. It was no tr ouble for m e to pass; however, the master of the factory was liable [t o the law], a s no one should pass for full-time until they were thirtee n years old. A nd I well remember the General Inspector coming around . I was sitting do wn at the time, and he told me to stand on my feet, w hich I did. And h e looked at me, and I was afraid he would condemn me ; but he said, “All r ight, you will do.”
In going back a little to my Sunday School days, I may say that I had [l e arned] the Church of England catechism of by heart and had to repeat th e m often to visitors that would come to visit the school on a Sunday mor ni ng. Sometimes some of them would give me a little for repeating it fo r t hem. About this time I had joined a cricket club, as a number of u s litt le fellows had got together and formed a club, both running race s and pla ying cricket, and we got to be a good club. I was the fastes t runner i n the whole country! I was running almost all the time, bu t I did not pl ay in a match as often as I would have liked to have done , as we always h ad a race on when we had a cricket game on; and for fea r I would get crip pled, I did not play. And in my racing, I always bea t my man. I remembe r my school teacher calling me to him and said to me , “Charles, you are a lways running races. Don’t you think it will lea d you astray so that [wh en] you are a man you will perhaps take to drink ing like your father? ” I said, “I hope not.” H asked me how mother an d the girls took [to m y running]. I told him, “Not very well, as they f elt as you do. Afrai d I might get to drinking.” “Very well now”, he sa id, “Charles, be ver y careful what you do. But”, said he, “I’m glad t o hear you always bea t when you run.” I think the record said I had ru n 14 races and lost bu t one, and that was accidentally.
When I was 10 or 11 years old my father went to drinking, and because mo t her would not stand it, he left home for 13 drinks. After drinking thr e e month’s wages up and breaking everything in the house and abusing m y mo ther, he thought he had better leave; so he went away for 13 weeks . Duri ng that time we got every[thing] fixed and [we] was doing nicel y when h e came to the house one night and asked to come back and promise d to do b etter—but we knew better. However, mother [said] she would tr y him again , as she had done many times before. He did some better fo r a little whi le, when he did the same again and again .
When I was about 13 years old we moved into Lancester to work in the cot t on factory. Or I should have said previous to this time, our cousin Ma r y A. Wheelock made us a visit. She had [a] beautiful little child abo u t seven months old. She was a Latter-day Saint and the first one I ev e r say. Cyrus H. Wheelock was a president over 3 conferences in Englan d . He came and preached in the open air, that was the first sermon we h a d heard in that part of the country. Mary A. Wheelock stopped with u s fo r about two months conversing with different ones on the scriptures , whe n she would show up the bible all right and the gospel and could do wn an y that came to talk with her. When she went home, Sister Sarah wen t wit h her, as they had formed an attachment to each other and Sarah t o the ba by. Mother concluded to let her go with Mary and nurse the baby . Afte r awhile, sister Mary Ann went to see Sarah and the folks and str ange t o say, both was baptized into the Mormon church.
In a few months after this, Uncle William Broomhead, who had been in t h e church and president of a branch, visited us on his way to Liverpoo l . His family had gone to Utah one year before, and he called on us . I s hall never forget the Tuesday evening he came to visit us. A clas s leade r in the Episcopal church met at our house to hold meeting, and h e preach ed his doctrine, which did not suit uncle very well, so he aske d the priv ilege to speak. And Mr. Sykes, the preacher, gave Uncle Willi am the oppo rtunity to speak, and he did speak. And no mistake, he knock ed the othe r man’s doctrine all to splinters. Mr. Sykes was much put ou t and said t hat he would not come anymore. And I was glad to hear that , for I did no t want to have him come any more.
Next day, uncle left us for Liverpool. He bid us goodbye and said we wo u ld come into the church before long. And I often thought of those word s , but it wasn’t long before it came to pass, of, as I was saying, befo r e we moved to Lanceschire. And in the meantime, the girls came home fr o m West Broomsick where they had been [staying]. Mary A. Wheelock had g on e, also, to Utah while we was at Mosleys in Ashton. We went to visi t a t Ashton, there was a large branch of the church [there], and we ha d a go od time there. After the afternoon meeting, we went to tea with o ld Fath er Lee of Ashton, and Cyrus H. Wheelock was with us. And as we s at dow n to tea, he opened a letter and read of the death of his little g irl wh o had died in St. Louis. Elder Wheelock was very much affected i n losin g his little girl, however, [and] had to speak in the evening mee ting o n celestial marriage.
In the month of May, 1852, [my] sisters, Mary Ann and Sarah, and mysel f w ent on a visit to West Broomwick to some of our relatives, expectin g to b e gone about 10 days. But after we had been gone one week, we rec eived w ord from mother telling us to stop up there and she would come up , as fat her had been on a drunken spree ever since we had been gone an d had beate r her and abused her shameful; and he had gone but she did no t know where . However, she sold most of the things and came up with th e rest .
In June 1852, mother and myself was baptized in the West Broomstick ba t h house by John Taylor, a local elder, and was confirmed by Elder Jame s B owers, president of the branch. We remained there 10 months. I work ed i n Chances Glass Works—got good wages, 10 shillings per week. But th ere w as nothing for girls to do in that part of the country, and [so] w e move d to Manchester where the girls got good work, and I got a good jo b of wo rk. But the wages was not so good as at West Broomstick, but w e got alon g very nicely [and] furnished the house very well. We identif ied ourselv es with the Manchester branch, which numbered four hundred sa ints; the co nference numbered about 1800 saints. During the time we liv ed in Manches ter, we was expecting to hear some tidings of father, but w e never hear d one word, expecting he was dead or had met with an acciden t during th e time he was on a spree.
We remained in Manchester until the fall of 1854, when, in November 16t h , 1854, we received word to be at Liverpool on the 20th to set sail o n th e 23rd. we arrived all safe on the 20 at Liverpool, and on the 22n d emba rked on the ship Hollies for New Orleans. After we had all got o n boar d and had gone to bed, during the night a terrible gale came up fr om th e Irish Channel and took a small ship called a brig, loaded with wh eat, a nd sent her direct [into our ship],breaking our bulwarks. And whi le th e two ships was in this condition, a craft or black flat [was near] , an d the wind took her in between the two ships, and it was a terribl e job t o get them all apart. It took about two hours to clear them awa y so we c ould start that day. And the ship sprang a leak, and some gove rnment ins pectors came on board to see what damage she had sustained. A nd the wor d was given that she was not fit or prepared to stand the voya ge, se we w as brought back into port, and we went to hunt up lodgings .
And we remained in Liverpool until the 17th of January, 1855, and we emb a rked on the fine clipper ship names Charles Buck, and on the morning o f t he 17th bid farewell to the old country that gave us birth. After w e ha d been out on the sea 3 weeks, the sailors said we would be in New O rlean s in about 5 weeks. But not so, for I remember on a Sunday mornin g whe n we met together on deck to hold meeting, the captain came out i n his ta u poling suit and called aloud, “All hands on deck”. And I tel l you ther e was not much time, for a black squall came up and it was awf ul—wind an d rain. The first mate said it was a bad a storm as he had ev er seen, an d it lasted 6 days, sea rolling mountains high. And our littl e craft roll ed about like a piece of wood, and the crew was afraid we wa s doomed. Bu t I had no fear then, for I was too young to realize the dan ger we was in . But I should fear now, as I can look back and wonder ho w in the world t hose ships ever made the trips. But the Lord as ever wa tched his peopl e in crossing the sea since the year 1837, for none as ev er gone down, ei ther sailing or steam vessels, but all has crossed saf e up to the year 19 05.
We arrived New Orleans on the 15th of March, 1855, making 8 weeks an d 4 d ays crossing the Atlantic Ocean. We remained there for two days . When w e arrived, or before we tied up to the wharf, land sharks in th e shape o f men came along the side of the ship in little small boats an d climbed u p on board. And they came so thick and fast that Bro. Balent ine had to s tation a guard to prevent them from going down in among th e passengers . And some of them were very impudent and was going down an yhow, but th e guard made a stand and said if anyone tried it, he would d o it at his p eril. But they did not go down, or there would have been b loodshed .
On the evening of the 17th [we] commenced piling our luggage down the ga n gway on the steamboat Michigan. There was between 5 and 6 hundred pass en gers on our ship and about 400 from another that set sail from Liverpo o l the same time of day that we did. Her name was Tempest. And beside s t he two ship loads, all piled together. Night came on and we had to s lee p the best way we could for that night. Next we had to hunt around a nd f ind our things. It took us about 12 days to get to St. Louis, as th ere w as a heavy current; river was rising, ice breaking up, large tree s comin g down the river. The Mississippi and Ohio and Missouri all risi ng mad [ together as] a large stream and a heavy current, and the trees w ould ge t into the wheels and smash them. Then we would have to stop an d repair , and altogether made us about three days longer than we shoul d have been .
However, we arrived in St. Louis on the 29th of March In the evening. [ I t was] dark and we had to get off the boat and get our luggage on the w ha rf and fix the best we could for the light to sleep. Mother, two siste rs , and myself got our boxes and walled them around and spread a tent ov er ; and then we got inside ad laid there till morning. The tent we had w a s made on sea coming along. Mary Ann and Sarah helped to make 40 or 5 0 te nts. [We] kept one, so we could make use of it as I mentioned. Th e nex t day, the 30th of March, Cousin Benjamin Broomhead came with a tea m an d took us up to his house. He ad his wife, Sarah, made us very welco me an d was a s kind as could be. They had been here in St. Louis abou t 3 wee k and was very comfortable. We remained there about 6 days and r ecruite d up a little, and the folks did some washing, etc.
On the 5th day of April we embarked on the steamboat Golden State, an d i n the afternoon we started up the great Missouri River after travelin g sl ow, as the water in some of the places was very shallow. There was o ne o f the boat hands at the front of the oat throwing a lead attached t o th e end of a rope to see how deep the water was. Sometimes he would s ay, “ No bottom,” but not often. The next throw would be 5 feet, then 4 . The m sometimes on the sand bar; then what a work to get her off the s and bar .
But we arrived in Atchinson on the 9th of April. Atchinson was just la i d of for a city, but there was only about 6 houses there then and no la nd ing for the boat. But we got off her all right, and about one hour [l ate r] about 3 teams came to move us out 2 miles to make our first camp . Thi s was the fist time I ever saw oxen work, and I asked the man to l et me d rive. He gave me the whip, but the old fellows did not care to b e drov e by a greenhorn; however, we got to our home or camp and pitche d our ten t, and in a few days felt quite at home. We had four more besi des oursel ves, making 8 in number. In a few days we commenced makin g a landing fo r boats and streets, some working at [a] saw mill and at d ifferent kind s of work.
We worked for about 6 weeks in Atchinson. [Then] in company with 2 other s , [I] went over on the other side of the river to work in Missouri. W e w as ferried over. We was there one week only and came back when the e migr ation commenced coming in boats. Every boat brought a load of Saint s til l we soon numbered thousands, and our company moved about 5 miles t o Icke ry Grover—We called it Mormon Grove .
And we commenced working on the large farm, some plowing, some plantin g c orn, and some making a ditch around the farm. It is a beautiful far m [wi th] rich land. This [land was] taken for the outfitting post to cro ss th e plains. There was about 3,000 Saints that emigrated that year,18 55, th ere was three independent companies started before our company go t ready . However, just before we started, some of our relatives came o n the las t ship and came to the grove 2 weeks before we started; there w as old Gra ndma Robbins (over 93 years old), Aunt Nancy, James, Joseph, M ary, Cyru s Robbins. We [are] the first of the 13-pound company. Our re latives ca me in the second company.
We started on our journey on the 27th of June, and then started the fu n ! Green cattle and green drivers made it amusing—cattle running away , wa gons upsetting. However, I was very fortunate myself, I had drove ca ttl e ever since I came to Atchinson, and I found it a good thing. We ha d ma ny incidents on the way; lots of accidents also. After we had trave le d a few days, we seen lots of buffalo; sometimes they would be aroun d ou r camp. Some of the brethren shot some, and we had meat to eat whil e w e was traveling along the Little Blue River.
[One day] when sister Mary Ann was getting into the wagon—she was sitti n g on the wagon tongue and she was giving me a drink of water—when al l a t once she fell in front of the wheel. The first wheel went over he r ches t, and the hind wheel went over her jaw, breaking it all to pieces . I ra n to pick her up, and she appeared to be dead stiff. I called o n some o f the elders, and they laid their hands on her and prayed the Lo rd to ble ss her and restore her. And when they had finished, she came t o all righ t, and an old man that was in the company came and set her jaw . It wa s a difficult thing to do, but he set it very well, and she was a ble to m ove along with the company. It disfigured her some little, but c onsiderin g the circumstance, it was a miracle that she was not killed o n the spot . I may say, also, that where Mary Ann was run over was the [ same] plac e where old Grandma Robins laid down her body [later].
There was eleven accidents on the trip; 8 run over [and] 3 shot; 5 die d . Feed was very poor on the plains that year. Lots of cattle lay dow n a nd died foot soar [and for] lack of feed, and etc. When we came to F or t Laramie, we met about 500 Cheyenne Indians. Captain Balentine calle d e very man to shoulder his gun and keep alongside of the wagons as guar ds t o the company. When we camped for noon, they came in clouds, as i t were , begging for sugar, flour, etc., trading. And while they was al l roun d camp, one of the brethren, a young man, was standing with a gu n in hi s hand, playing with it. The gun went off and shot Sister Palme r in [the ] knee, shattering the knee all to pieces. This caused a grea t excitement , both with our people and with the Indians. They got on the ir horses an d prepared for battle in a moment, but when they got to unde rstand what w as the matter, they came in to camp and seemed to feel ver y sorry at th e accident. The poor woman was taken back to Laramie, an d she suffered t errible. They cut her leg off above the knee, but the y had to cut abov e again and again, and she finally died. This cause d a sad feeling in ou r company, as she was a beautiful singer and the li fe of the camp. Som e of the companies had cholera and buried 32 in 2 da ys .
Those were days of trial to some that came along to Zion, while others c a me singing songs of everlasting joy, and this was the travels in thos e da ys. After we came to Sweet Water, we had a stampede in the day tim e [wit h] 16 wagons all running, breaking wheels, tongues, etc. However , in abo ut half day, all was repaired and we moved along; but our provis ions in t he whole camp was done, and we begun to feel a little blue abou t it. Bu t in a few days we met 4 wagons loaded with flour. They met u s on Littl e Sandy, and that night we had a dance until a late hour, as a ll the comp any felt light-hearted.
Bye and bye we found ourselves in between the Big and Little Mountain, a b out 15 miles from Salt Lake City. We had a returned missionary in ou r co mpany, he was captain of ten; his name was Captain Pitt. He had bee n cap tain and leader of the Nauvoo Brass Band for a number of years, an d in ho nor to him the band boys came out and met him; and they had a gre at tim e all night. And I was one that had a great time—up in the mounta ins gua rding the cattle, and I could hear the band play and the dancer s enjoyin g themselves all night.
Next morning we brought up the cattle, and in a short time all was on t h e way to the city, those on foot moving along as fast as they could t o se e the great city; and in the afternoon we all found ourselves in th e city . We passed right through the city to where now the University o f Utah st ands. There was only 2 stores in the city at that time [as wel l as] poo r looking houses, but we felt thankful that we had arrived. Th is was o n the 27th day of September, 1855. After being on the way for a bout 10 m onths, we had settled down in our tents, and the cattle had gon e to the c hurch heard, as we was through with them.
President Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and others of the twelve [me t u s], and many of the brethren and sisters from different parts of th e cit y [came] looking for us looking for relatives and friends. Brigha m and H eber spoke to us, telling [us] what to do and what we might expec t, bein g in a new country and unacquainted with things, [and] that we ma y find i t difficult for a time until we got acquainted with the countr y and peopl e. Some had come alone [with] no relatives here and felt a li ttle lonesom e. But friends came and seen if they could help them, and t hey soon foun d an acquaintance and was taken to their homes; and I thin k this gladdene d the [hearts] of those poor people who had come under th ose conditions .
Mother, sisters and myself was all right, as Cousin Wm. Broomhead came w i th a team and took us to his house. And we was at home, as we found t h e house furnished as it was when Aunt Kate [and] Mary Wheelock—then Cyr u s H. Wheelock’s wife— [was there]. But, in the spring of 1855, she we n t to California—Aunt Kate Broomhead and two girls, Anne Maria and Jane , t hen young girls about 16 and 18 years old. This was a great disappoi ntme nt to us to find them gone when we arrived here, as they were the fi rst t o receive the gospel in Old England and to be the means of bringin g us in to the church. But we are reminded of the prize is to those tha t endur e to the end. We remained at Wm. Broomhead’s house all winter .
In October the 20th, the rest of our relatives arrived in Salt Lake Cit y . They traveled in Captain Milo Andrew’s company. Grandmother Robin s di ed on the plains on the Little Blue River at the ripe age of 94 year s. S he was coming along with Aunt Nancy Robbins and her 4 children name d Jame s, Joseph, Mary, and Cyrus. They came and lived with us at Cousi n Willia m in the 17th Ward.
About the 15th of December, 1855, James Robbins and my sister Mary Ann m a rried (full cousins). Soon after, they and Aunt Nancy’s family moved in t o the 15th ward. I might mention that after we got to the city, I go t wo rk with a man named Crossby and went down with him and a couple of h is bo ys to the field. And the first thing I did was cut corn, and we lo aded t he wagon box with fodder and started home. One of the boys [was ] drivin g the ox team. I was on top of the load and on our way home, i n turnin g the corner into Main Street, the oxen pulled off to the right ; and th e boy that was driving didn't say anything, and the wagon droppe d int o a ditch, and I slipped off with a lot of the corn fodder. And [I ] ha d the basket on my arm that held the dinner dishes, and I fell to th e flo or and broke my left arm. I walked home, and mother went with me t o Doct or France. I was in great pain after I got it set until after mid night ; then all the pain ceased. From that time, I was idle for about s ix wee ks.
As soon as I could get work, I went to work on the canal. I would g o o n a Monday morning out as far as the penitentiary and would go to th e gri st mill with my sack, and would take all the flour I could get—some time s 40 pounds and sometimes 20 lbs. I would carry it home rejoicing , for f lour was a scare article those days; the grasshoppers had taken a ll or ne arly so all the grain, so that there was not half enough for th e people t hat was already here. However, I worked until the winter clos ed us up, w hich was in the month of January, 1856, so that we had brea d all the time , while many who came in with me was very short of bread.
When the work shut down, I thought I would have to do something. Duri n g the time we had been here, we got acquainted with Vurlum Dives, the n li ving in North Willow Creek, now called Willard. And on the 22nd o f Febru ary, 1856, I started on foot for Willard, and when I got to Farmi ngton i t was snowing to beat time. However, I kept on going, not knowin g wher e I would stop for the night, but after traveling till in dark , I found m yself in Kaysville. As I entered the fort or town, I saw a m an choppin g wood, and he asked me where I was going or who I was lookin g [for] . I told him I was going to Willow Creek. “Well,” said, “you ar e not go ing there tonight.” I told him no and said I was a stranger i n the count ry and did not know where to stop. “Well,” he said, “you ha d better sto p with me all night.” I thanked him and accepted his invita tion. The la dy of the house gave me my supper, and then they gave m e a spade and som e corn to shell. And it being something new, and I wa s so tired, and aft er walking in the cold and snow all day and then [bei ng] in a hot room , I got so sleepy I could not keep awake to save me. A nd I felt that th e man and woman of the house perhaps thought I was lazy , but if they ha d felt as I did, they would have sympathized with me. Ho wever, I tried t o keep awake and shell a little corn until about eleve n o’clock. Then af ter prayer went to bed and I slept good all night. O n the morning I aros e and washed me, and the lady of the house informe d me it was fast day an d that they would not have any breakfast. Says I , “Alright,” and thanke d them for my supper and bed; then I started on m y journey.
There was about 6 inches of new snow, and I had to beat the road acros s t he sand ridge, and a cold wind blowing till about noon. By the tim e I go t to Weber I was very hungry and thought I would go in to one hous e or an other and ask for something to eat. But this being the first tim e I eve r needed to ask for food, it was a hard thing to do. However , I kept goi ng until I got to President Farr’s house. And I saw a lad y at the gate , and I ventured to ask her, and she said, “why, you come i n, my boy.” A nd she gave me a loaf of bread, molasses, and milk; howeve r, she cut th e first slice and then left me to help myself. But I was a fraid to eat e nough, so I got up and left, not half satisfied, but I fel t a little bett er. And after I had crossed the Ogden River Bridge, an ic e old woman cam e to the gate and said, “My boy, you look tired.” “Yes, m a’am”, I said. A nd she said, “Hungry too, I expect.” “Yes ma’am” I repli ed. Says she, “w ait, and I will see what I can bring you.” She brough t 6 nice shortene d biscuits. “Them will help you”, she said. I thanke d her kindly and we nt on my way.
At 11 o’clock at night, I found myself at Vurlam Cives’ house, he was n o t at home; he was out with the stock in Blue Creek. But his wife and h i s mother were home, and Patriarch Hyde and wife and son was there als o . And, oh. How tired I was—and footsore from and a little hungry. B u t I rested up, and in a few days I felt alright and tried to make myse l f at home. But it wasn’t long before I could sing the old song of “Ho m e Sweet Home.” There is no place like home, for I found that a boy’s b es t friend was his mother. And it took some time before I could feel a t ho me [there and] in every [other place] since. But as time rolled alo ng , I began to feel more at home.
After about one week had passed, Verlum came home from Point Lookout i n G arland, and he asked me if I would like to go out there. Of cours e I did n’t like to say no, as it was the first thing he had asked me t o do, s o I said, “yes, I will go and try it.” I had never been on a hor se’s bac k as yet, but I thought I might as well commence now as at any t ime.
This was on a Saturday and I had to start on Monday. And I was wonderi n g how I would get along, not being acquainted with riding or with the r oa d and a perfect stranger in that country, and also strange to the way s o f the customs of the country and people. However, Monday came, an d I wen t up went up into the mountains east of the house about one mil e and foun d the animal I was to ride. And I looked at her and wondere d if she coul d take me and the load, as she was very poor. And all the p oor thing ha d got [to] eat since she came on the Friday before was a lit tle grass aro und a little mud spring and about two quarts of oats that t he boss took o ut of his seed oats.
The winter [of] 1855 was one of the hardest winters ever yet known. A n d what made it worse, the winter previous had all been so as stock cou l d winter out, and people never got up much hay. And then the grasshopp er s had took everything or nearly, so the hay crop was short, and nearl y al l the wheat was eat up. But at Willard, as it is now called, they r aise d about twenty five thousand bushels of wheat and good crops of oat s an d barley, corn, and other things that were not raised in but very fe w pla ces; and on this account people all over was unprepared for suc h a winte r as this [in] 1855. And the people almost every were north o f Kaysvill e drove their stock to range north west of Brigham, and that w as the reas on why I went out there. Stock was dying everywhere; the Chu rch had hund reds of cattle and horses in Cache Valley at that time and l ost over tw o thirds of them. But I must not forget to state how I got a long.
As I started about the first of March on Monday, Vurlum saddled up the p o or mare, and I got on her. And they brought a large sack of grub, a n d I started on my journey. And got to Brigham and inquired [about] th e r oad of a man [and] told [him] were I was going. He put me on the roa d, s o I went along till I came to the big slough, and it looked a bad pl ace f or me to cross. And when I got to the middle, the poor mare mire d down , I had to get off into water and mud. And then I spoke to the ma re, an d she jumped and splashed me all over. And I led her out to the s ide an d got on again, and in a few minutes came up to two roads—one wa s to th e west and the other to the north. That [one to the north] was t he on e I should have taken, but I took the other to the west and found t ha t I had got to the end of the road. People had been hauling willows f ro m the Bear River, but I did not know it was Bear River—and I went on t o i t as it was frozen over, and I started east. The snow was on the ic e s o that I could not tell it was a river, but I came into the cattle ro ad a fter a while, which was about where Corinne is now situated.
It was then near sundown, and after I had gone about 3 miles, I met an I n dian. He could talk pretty well, and he asked me where I was going . I t old him and asked him how far it was, and he said 15 miles. Shade s of ev ening was coming on, and my wet clothes frozen on me. I felt col d and ve ry hungry, but I would not take time to eat; and I was afraid th e poor an imal would give out with me, but we kept on. And I seen a ligh t bye an d bye, but to my surprise it was an Indian camp. And I though t I would b e eat up, mare and all, but some of the old ladies came out o f her tent a nd called. So I asked how far to Cole’s Camp, and one of th e bucks holle red, “3 miles.” Well, I thought it was a hard [thing to] d o, but I kep t on my way; and, in about one hour, I arrived all safe, bu t very tired a nd cold.
James Cole and C. Harding was there, and they made a fire. I turned o u t the poor mare to find her own grub. I sat up to the fire, and soo n m y clothes began to smoke or steam. I eat a little and soon got sleep y . The two men took me in between them, and I soon got warm. I slept s ou nd till morning, and then I got up and looked around and seen lots o f poo r cattle; and I wondered how they was living, and asked the other m en wha t the stock lived on. They said not much, as the snow was about 1 8 inche s deeps. And this was my first trip for my new master. I remain ed ther e for about two weeks and our provisions gave out. And they tol d me I co uld come in and they would look after the stock, so I was gla d to do so a nd came in all safe and sound.
After I had been home for a few days, I thought I would try the Canyo n . So I went and took a yoke of oxen and got good, large drag of mapl e wo od (small wood), and I tore all my clothes off my back, almost. Som etim e in April the winter broke up, and then we went to cleaning ditches , etc .; and next was plowing. And my boss, he put in a three acre patc h of la nd in wheat and said I could have it for a year’s work. Said h e though t it would [grow] thirty bushels of wheat to the acre, and I tho ught it w ould be all right. But when the summer sun came on the wheat , it prove d to be poor alkali land all covered with salaratus; and the r esult was i t only yielded thirty-three all together. So it made me fee l a little di scouraged at such a crop, but when I thought about it, I co uld not expec t anything better for the first time .
I went to water it, I stole the water from another man, but I did not kn o w it, as my boss told me to go and water all night. And I remember goi n g on a Sunday night, and I went thinking I would give it a good waterin g . And I turned the water alright, and it got nicely started. And soo n t he stream stopped, so up the ditch I went for a half mile in my bar e feet . Now I heard the water going down into the other ditch, and I hu rried t o the place. But, to my surprise, I stepped into a prickly pea r with bot h feet; and I fell forward to help my feet, and my hand was i n the same b ed, and it did feel terrible. However, I got up the bes t I could. And m y feet was so sore that, after I had turned the water , which was at the s ame place that I turned it first, I thought I woul d make a better dam thi s time. Then I started back to the flied, bu t I had a struggle to walk t here, and I laid down.
And after a while I went to see how the water was doing, and to my surpr i se, it was stopped again. So I laid down and try to sleep, but could n ot ; I was in such pain. In the morning I started up the ditch, and ol d Fat her Cole came along and asked me if I had been watering. I sai d I had be en trying to, but someone had stole my water or it broke loose . Said he , “Did Vurlum send you to water?” I said, “Yes.” “Well, yo u have been t aking some other man’s water. That is the reason you did n ot water. ” I said, “I did not know it.” He said [he] knew that, he sai d there wo uld [be] trouble about it.
However, I never heard anything about it anymore, so I thought I would s t op till October conference, and if he did not give any more, I would n o t come back. So I went along till then and told him I wanted to go to c on ference to see mother and the girls. And Verlum and his wife went t o con ference, and when we was about six miles from the city, one of th e wheel s run off. If was just dark. The linchpin that held [the] whee l on cam e out, and we could not find it anywhere. And we had a troubl e to get i n the city, but we finally got there at about ten o’clock; w e stopped a t William Broomhead’s.
It was at this conference when the snow fell in Salt Lake City about t w o feet. This was on a Sunday while meetings was going on; it snowed a l l day. President Brigham Young and all the people got terribly excite d , as there was six companies on the plains, four handcart companies an d t wo ox trains—about two thousand souls. Before the close of the after noo n meeting, President Young called for volunteers to take their team s an d go and meet these poor people.
And all the folks that had come from the different places to conferenc e , nearly all volunteered except those that were too old. My boss was o n e that went after the poor saints, and by Monday at noon there was abo u t 50 teams on the way. And next day two hundred teams was gone, organi ze d into companies loaded with provisions, blankets, quilts, etc. Two m e n to each team. Some of the companies was three hundred miles back i n th e deep snow—could not move, nothing to eat for their cattle, snow s o deep . The hand cart companies had about 20 yoke of oxen to each compa ny. Th ey nearly all died, and scores of the people froze to death; som e lost th eir feet. This was a terrible tale to tell .
I had to get to Willard the best I could. Had it not been for Verlum go i ng back [to help those snowbound], I should have remained in the city , bu t he wanted me to come back and he would give me more pay when he re turne d. So I came back, and the first thing I did was to thrash or tram p th e out about300 bushels of oats and clean them with the wind. I go t the m tramped out, and then we got some Indian squaws to help clean the m. Af ter I had finished the oats, I then got up 15 loads of wood. An d I came a ll alone and made the trip in one day. I got the wood about t wo miles so uth of Dry Lake. I was about four weeks hauling wood, as th e team coul d not stand to go every day, for it would be ten o’clock at n ight whe n I would get home with my load of wood. I was 17 years old. H owever, t he bad weather and snow stopped me for going to the canyon an y more tha t winter.
I joined the choir at Willard, and we had a good choir at that time; h a d a good leader; he just came in
from Wales. During the winter of 1856 we had a great reformation; all t h e people was called upon to confess their sins and then be baptized aga in , and on new Year’s Day I was baptized down at the old grist mill—we h a d to break the ice, which [was] about six inches thick. And that eveni n g I was confirmed and ordained an elder by President Alfred Cordon, an d A lfred Cordon was ordained an elder by President Brigham Young and Ors on P ratt, and apostle, President Young being mouth. Prophet Joseph Smit h ord ained Brigham Young an apostle, and Peter, James and John ordaine d Josep h Smith to the High Priesthood. So my ordination came about th e fourth f rom the head. I just thought of that while writing. I remain ed all wint er at my old place tending stock, etc .
In the spring of 1857 I was impelled to go to April Conference at Salt L a ke. I had to go! I did not know why, but I started on foot and go t a ri de once in a while; got there in two days. After I arrived in th e [city ] I stopped at William Broomhead’s. Next morning, while I was wa lking al ong Second South, I met my sisters, Mary Ann and Sarah, and at o nce Sara h said to me Jim and Mary Ann was going to St. Louis. This asto nished me , and [I] could hardly believe it. Nevertheless it was true, a s the tea m had started north with their luggage. And Cyrus Robins [Jim’ s 9 year o ld brother] of Snowville, who had been living with them, had g one along w ith the wagon and luggage.
However, in company with Mary Ann and Sarah, we went to the house [the y ] had been living in and found Jim sitting smoking his pipe. He was su rp rised at seeing me there, and I asked him what was this he was tryin g t o do and also his reason for going away. He said he was going to St . Lou is to try and make a raise. I said to him, “You can make a raise h ere a s well as you can in St. Louis or anywhere else.” I said others ha d mad e a raise here, and he could do the same if he would work, but no o ne wou ld give him a raise. “But,” I said, “you can go if nothing else w ould, ” but he could not take Mary Ann, for I said we had trouble enoug h in bri nging her here. Well, he did not know what to say in answer t o this, bu t he did not care to go then. But what to do about the boy an d luggage w as the mystery.
However, in the evening me and Bro. Charles Parkinson started after th e t eam and went as far as Farmington and looked all round for them but c oul d not find them no place. And we got back to the city early in the m orni ng, footsore and terrible tired. After two days, Jim thought he cou ld g o after the team and the boy, and Mary Ann remained in the city fo r a fe w days to see if he was coming back. However, he never came and s he wen t [to] Farmington to live [with] Joshua and Sarah Brown. By thi s tim e I had got back to Willard and could hear nothing of him or team , so I h ired a horse and saddle and went north and crossed the Bear Rive r on a fe rry boat. And there I found Jim in camp all right, playing th e violin, s inging, etc., as happy as a lark, as though nothing was the m atter. An d he was much surprised at seeing me again on his trail, an d I looked a t him and asked him where Cyrus was. He said he did not [kn ow] where h e was, as he had not seen him or heard of him and thought h e would find h is way back or perhaps find me in Willard. And to see hi m so indifferen t about it made me out of temper. And I said he was a wo nderful man to b e enjoying himself and the boy lost among strangers an d his wife lookin g all the time for his return, as she never had any tho ught but he woul d come back with the boy and the things. (But he went o n under these circ umstances to St. Louis and afterwards married a wife t here and had a larg e family of children. However, we have never seen hi m since. He has be en dead for a number of years, and Mary Ann lived wi th Sarah for about th ree years in Farmington [and remarried]) .
[In the meantime], Cyrus, he lost the wagon somewhere in Willard. He w a s crying to think he was all alone among strangers for so many days, a l l the time expecting them to come along. And [he] fretted about it, a n d some good kind woman asked him what he was crying for. And he told h e r as well as he could, and she gave him some bread and milk. And afte r h e had eat he started after the team. And as he came near Brigham City , h e took the wrong road—he took up the canyon and came though the littl e va lley what is now called Mantua. There was no house then between Bri gha m and Wellsville, and night overtook him; and the boy was lost, and h e cr ied himself to sleep. And in the morning he did not know what to d o or w hich was to go, and he was there for two days and nights in that l onely c ondition.
However, the third day Bros. John Maughan and Zial Riggs came along th a t way and heard someone cry. Then went up to see what or who it was a n d found the little boy, as he was only about 9 years old. They found h i m exhausted for want of food and water. They took him to their wagon a n d gave him a little food and water, as they was afraid to give him muc h f or a while. They was on their way to the grist mill in Brigham, Joh n Mau ghan took the boy to live with him, and none of us had heard of hi m sinc e he left Salt Lake City with the team .
However, in October 1857 I was called in company with about 9 others t o g o out and see where Johnston’s Army was, as they was on the way to ki ll o r drive out the Mormons, and hundreds of men and horses were calle d out t o go stop them. And, as I was saying, I was called and we came o ver to M augham’s Fort, now Wellsville; and here I found Cyrus at John Ma ughan’s h ouse, and I was glad to see him, and the poor boy was pleased t o see me . And this was the first time he had seen [any] of his folks fo r almos t one year.
Yes, me and two young men from Willard remained in Blacksmith Fork for t w o weeks, one of us guarding the horses and anything else that might co m e along. After two weeks, Bro. James H. Brown came along very sick . H e had been out for several weeks on the lookout for the soldier; h e calle d us to come in with him. As he was coming down the canyon, Bro . Brown w as taken sick—chills, etc. And he said, “Boys, we must stop an d make a f ire and make something warm.” So we turned the horses out an d went to ma ke a fire, but we did not have one match among us. So we go t some rag an d put into a gun, fired it off, and then the rag was on fir e. And afte r a while got a fire and made Bro. Brown some hot tea. I don’ t know wha t kid it was, but I think ginger tea. But he said, “Boys, I w ant you [to ] lay your hands on me, or I shall die.” Now we were wonderi ng who woul d be called to be mouth. The other two said they could not d o it, and i t fell on me, and I did my best. And I am pleased to say h e got better a t once and afterwards eat his dinner. Then we came alon g to Maughan’s Fo rt; then the next day we went home to Willard .
And in a short time, a company was called from Box Elder County, and I w a s one of the number, and started on foot in December. We went to Ogde n C ity first day. Next day up Weber Canyon; terrible bad walking. It w as l ate at night when we got to camp, very cold and tired. And then w e comme nced camp duty as soldiers and then working cleaning of the groun d, cutti ng willows, etc. We worked for weeks out there on half ration s and poo r clad, very poor stockings, only one shirt. We slept in wigwam s like th e Indians, had a fire in the center, and ten of us slept in eac h tent o r Wigwam. It was a hard, cold winter .
There was over ten thousand men out standing guard and scouting all ov e r the country around Ham’s Fork and Bridger. And Johnston’s Army thou g h there was ten times as many as there was of our people out in the hil ls . They did not like us to keep them out there all winter, and they wa nte d to come into Salt Lake City and have a good time; but the Mormons s care d them out, because they thought we were too many for them. They ma de ma ny attempts to start in, but they reconsidered the matter and staye d ou t there until April 1858. They lost a terrible lot of cattle and mu les t hat winter, and sickness got among them for want of salt. Presiden t Brig ham Young sent several tons of salt to Johnston’s Army out to Brid ger, bu t they was afraid it was poisoned, and they would not use it much . Thi s was a wonderful winter I spent, but in the midst of it all, I en joyed v ery good health.
In March we started back home. And the night before we started, twelv e o f us was called to go out and night herd so we could have a good star t i n the morning. We took our bedding with us and divided into two watc hes— six in each. I was on the last watch, and, at about one o’clock, wa s cal led up to go out and herd the stock. The snow had fallen about tw o fee t on to our beds, and how to get out was a job and the others to ge t int o bed. It was a hard night for us, but we survived and came in wit h th e animals and started about ten o’clock .
We got down in Weber Valley and camped in a grove of Cottonwoods. The s n ow was four feet deep, we cut down the trees and trimmed off the branch e s and laid the branches on top of the snow and made our beds on top o f th em. In the morning we had melted the snow from the heat of the body , an d was down in a hole. But we got along, and next day brought us ou t of t he canyon, and we camped at East Weber, a little town at the mout h of th e Canyon. Next day brought us into Ogden City all well but leg we ary, an d next day brought us home in Willard .
Home, did I say? No, it was not home in the fullest sense of the word , b ut I made up my mind to feel at home as well as I could. But yet I c oul d say, “Home sweet home, there is no place like home.” No, that is t rue , and I certainly found it so, if ever a young man did in this world . Yo u may live with other people, and they may be very kind to you an d appare ntly would [do] anything for you, but still that parental feelin g is no t there; for if you feel sick, you cannot make it known as well a s you ca n to mother and father. And then they can’t go to the same trou ble for y ou, but your parents can and they think it no trouble to do any thing fo r you. This was my experience.
After coming from Echo Canyon, we went to putting in grain settlements n o rth of Salt Lake City to pick up all of their affects and barns and al l t hat would burn, as it was thought that the soldiers would come in an d tr y to plunder the homes of the Saints; as there had been a great dea l of r umors gone about among the Latter-day Saints. However, the Lord di d thing s in his own way, and it all came out right .
We started about the tenth of April from Willard: ten teams and a lo t o f cows, sheep, pigs, and a few horses. Our teams was oxen and cows a nd s mall steers, not two years old; lots of them and every kind of wagon , n o wagon covers like we have today. [There were] carpets for cover, s om e lumber and every kind of covers. The people was destitute of clothi ng . Young men and young women [were] barefoot, and lots that I saw ha d no t sufficient to properly cover their nakedness, and this was the rul e an d not the exception. We traveled very slow as we was heavy loaded a nd ha d lots of small calves and sheep and lambs .
On the morning of the 17th, Governor Cummings and Thomas L. Kane and oth e rs passed on their way to the city. They had just come from Washingto n . Cummings was appointed governor of Utah, and this was his first appe ar ance. In a day or two after they arrived, there was a great meeting c all ed, and a many spoke at that meeting. Pres. John Taylor, then an apos tle , spoke and roared like a lion. Cummings and T.L. Kane stared with a ston ishment. T.L. Kane was a great friend to this people and had been f or ma ny years, and he did much in this instance.
On the 17th we arrived in Salt Lake City, and we unloaded our wagon; th e n I went back to Willard for another load. Was gone one week and cam e [b ack] to [the] city. And in a few days went with Cordon’s family; i n tw o days landed at American Fork. There we stopped for six weeks . I mad e one more trip to the city and back to American Fork. And afte r being t here for three weeks, I thought I would go and find mother an d the girls ; and I found them at Payson, and stopped there for a few day s. Then I w ent back to Provo and got work on the Canyon road. Bro. Wal ter Glenn, Se n., was the boss on the road. After I had been there a fe w days, Bro. Jo hn Wilson, a friend of ours, he had his family on the oth er side of Prov o River, and he was on the opposite side of the river, an d his provision s had run out. And to go around to the bridge was six mi les, while we wa s then within gunshot of his tent where his family was , and he was talkin g about being out of grub. I said, “I believe I dar e cross the river fo r you and get you something to eat.” He said, “Well , try, but be very car eful and not drowned.” The river was very high an d looked very wicked an d dangerous. However, I stripped off my clothe s and took a small pot i n my hands, and in I went and had a hard time t o get over. And I wishe d a many times I had not done it; however, I com pleted my errand and star ted back and tried to take the same line across . The water was pretty de ep, very cold, but I got over safe ad promise d myself that, while I had m y proper senses, I would [not] do as foolis h a trick any more.
The next day while at work, there was a young man. He was six years old e r than me, and he was always running on someone. There was one in part ic ular that he was always trying to make a fool of, and I did not approv e o f it, and I told him so. And he turned on me and tried the same game . H e was a Yankee, and he [was] very insulting to the English and woul d bra g [about] what he could do. And he said he could out run, throw do wn, o r out jump me, and I said I did not believe he could do any of them . H e said he could. I said I would try him a race for hundred yards . So h e took me up. He wanted to bet his revolver, but I did not hav e one to p ut up, but some of the fellows put up some tobacco and one thi ng or anoth er.
So I stepped off, and he wanted his own way of starting; but he did no t g et it, as we drew lots and I got my choice, and that was to start on e tw o three, as that was my old game in England. I knew I would get th e star t on him, so we went to the mark. And I watched him and said, “I’ ll ge t you alright.” And the first thing he knew we started and I got t he sta rt on him and beat him bad. And he did not like it, as the other s took h im down and made fun of him. He got mad !
Then he wanted to wrestle. And we was going to take a fall as Bro. Walt e r Glenn, the boss, came up to us and asked what we was doing here, a n d I told him. So he took me to the mouth of the canyon and I worked i n a nother crowd. Bro. Glenn as often referred to it, and about killin g a bi g blow snake with four large birds in its inside. Well, I worke d there f or about three weeks, mother and me was living in a small ten t by the riv erside. Josh Brown and Sarah came along and took her with t hem back to F armington, and she lived with them all summer .
All the people was told that they could move back home again, as the pea c e commissioners had come and the people was called together; and afte r so me explanations had been made, all was reconciled and peace declared . An d they found that the President of the United States had been misle d by t he cunning of some territorial officials in stating that the peopl e was i n rebellion and the records had been burned up. But, on investig ation, i t was found to be untrue and groundless, for the commission an d the gover nor, Mr. Cummings, all declared that the records were in goo d preservatio n and all completed. And said, also, that they could not b lame the peopl e for defending themselves and did not think we were in re bellion neither , and they seemed to feel very bad for us as a people. I t was a great me eting at Provo and Lehi, all seemed to feel better tha n before and prepar ed to go home.
The soldiers came into Salt Lake City and found no one at home—it wa s a s quiet as death. They marched straight through town and never moles te d anything. They crossed the Jordan River and camped overnight. Nex t da y they moved up the west side of the Jordan River and kept going til l the y got into Cedar Valley and settled down beside a large spring an d name d the place Camp Floyd. And in a few days the work commenced buil ding th eir quarters, and things was lively, ad lots of money in circulat ion. I n a short time there was then thousand troops and not less than t wo thous and camp followers—gamblers, merchants, liquor dealers, and ever ything th at was in the world. Large companies of ox teams coming in eve ry day loa ded with merchandise ad goods for the soldiers. Lots of our p eople mad e big money. Wages was three prices, and everything our peopl e sold the m was 3 or 4 prices. And cattle could be bought for fifty dol lars fo r a yoke of oxen. Good, heavy, strong wagons fifty dollars each . So th e people flocked out there, and all could get work and lots of g ood pay .
But some of our people forgot who they was, they would drink with them a n d profane and be one of them. And while they could get plenty of money , l ots of them, men and women left the church and made shipwreck of thei r fa ith—and some got more bitter than the gentiles themselves. This wa s muc h to be lamented over. But it showed to us that while the people wa s poo r they was humble and could be handled, but as soon as they got a v ery li ttle money, then they began to show what was in them—they forgot t he man y testimonies they had born and what they had done and said in def ense o f the Latter-day work. And it presented another scene, as you cou ld se e every vice, both at Camp Floyd and Salt Lake City, Provo, and Ogd en, an d I many of the towns. And though but a young man, I looked on al l manne r of evil—drunkenness, profanity, smoking, gambling, etc.
In the spring or summer of 1858 I went [to] work on the Lander’s Wagon R o ad, which left the old wagon road out east of Rock Springs and wen t i n a northley direction. And the Lander’s Road crossed Green River si xt y miles north of the old emigrant road. I got 35 dollars per month . Thi rty dollars per month was the price paid to all the rest of the me n, bu t I, being a cook, got five dollars more. I cooked for 37 men . I ha d a young man to help me with wood, etc., but I did the work ver y comfort able and gave good satisfaction to the boss and the men. Whil e out there , I bought a horse off an Indian for about 25 dollars and gav e the hors e and ten dollars for a yoke of oxen. That was my first team.
Arrived home early September and in the beginning of October, went to Ca m p Floyd to work chopping cord wood into four-foot lengths. Got two dol la rs per cord ad board. I worked there for about ten weeks. On the 20t h o f December, Uncle Joshua Brown and me started from camp for home. Th e fi rst night [we] camped about ten miles from Lehi .
On the morning of the 21st, we started for Salt Lake City. It was a dre a dful cold morning—cold north wind blowing, we was on foot. After we h a d traveled about five miles, came to Jordan River. [It was] about thr e e rods wide ad three feet deep. While we was looking and wondering ho w w e was going to get over the river, the stage from Camp Floyd came alo ng a nd uncle Josh caught on and got over all right. But how was I goin g to g et over, for my boots was froze on my feet? But I went to a roc k and kic ked my boots, and they came off very nicely. And I took off al l of [my ] clothes but my shirt, and over I went. And as soon as I got o ut of th e water, my limbs was stiff and covered with ice .
However, Uncle Josh and some other men was there in a log cabin, and th e y got some cold water and let me stand in a tub and poured water ove r m y legs and thawed me out, and in a few minutes I was alright again . An d we walked, or rather trotted, along as it was so cold we could no t kee p warm walking as we was very thing clad. The wind blew hard and v ery co ld, and sleet and rain. We passed several loads of hay turned ove r and s everal loads of wood turned over.
Also, at about 10 o’clock at night we got to Little Cottonwood and walk e d into a house. There was a large fire. It was an old Englishman an d hi s wife that lived there. They had the table spread waiting for th e stag e to come with a number of passengers, the same stage that came t o us i n the morning at Jordan River.
In coming along over to Cottonwood, the horses and driver could not fa c e the wind and storm, and the[y] drifted to the left and lost their roa d . My belief is that, being so cold they was drinking whiskey and was a l l drunk. However, at about eleven o’clock the stage arrives, and the o l d Englishman said we would have to give room for the passengers, so w e wa lked out, and it looked like we were facing death. One man by the n ame o f Lever from Salt Lake City was on his way home. He was wrapped u p i n a pair of good blankets and over shoes, and he said he was freezing . Bu t we told him to go in the house as we must go or we would sure free ze . But he followed after us, and he got off the road, and the next mor nin g Bro. Daniel Hill found him froze stiff .
That night we arrived at Bro. Archie Gardner’s place. He run the gris t m ill at Big Cottonwood. We went up to the door of the house, a smal l hous e, and knocked. Sister Gardner came to the door. I asked if we c ould st op there for the night. She said, “Yes, come in.” And there mus t have b een 10 or 12 men in the house at the time who had sought shelte r from th e cold and the storm. And the woman said to these men, “Let th ese two bo ys come up to the stove, for they are about perished.” And sh e soon brou ght us a bowl of coffee and some bread and butter and molasse s, and it ca me in all right, as we was very hungry. [We] had not taste d food since s ix o’clock in the morning—and not a very good breakfast th en—but we fel t all right after eating supper. The good sister—for surel y she was one— she called George, the young man that lived with them an d had charge of t he carding mill under the grist mill, and said to Georg e, “take these tw o boys down to sleep with you in the carding room.” An d we went along an d had a good bed in the wool, soft and warm .
We had not been in bed over two hours when the stage came along again, t h e same one that passed us in the morning and the same one that came t o Li ttle Cottonwood when we had to leave to make room for them. And i t looke d like we was going into the jaws of death when we went out of th e hous e there. But through our good courage or pluck, we got to a goo d place f or the night.
And, as I was saying, the stage came along about one o’clock [at] nigh t , and [the people] came into the carding room, for they could not go a n y further that night, the cold wind and the sleet was so bad. And aft e r they got into the mill they was crying out, “Oh, my toes!” “Oh, my f in gers!” They were all froze. Some were. However, next morning we awo k e after a good night sleep and we started for Salt Lake City feeling al ri ght after our hard trip, not froze in any part of our body. Thus ende d o ne of the hardest trips of my life, and to come off so well for nex t da y we could read in the papers of men being froze to death all over t he co untry. And it stated that yesterday was the coldest winter ever wi tnesse d in Utah.
After getting to the city, [I] found mother and Aunt Mary Ann, and the y w ondered how we survived. Uncle Joshua and Aunt Sarah lived in Farmin gton , but we remained in the city all winter, living in the Seventh Ward . Du ring the winter I attended the court proceedings, as Bro. James Fur geso n was being tried for intimidating the judge on the bench in the yea r 185 6. The case lasted for about 85 days, and I attended at least 60 d ays . It was a great case, but Furgeson was too smart a lawyer himself f or a ny of them. Hence, he won the case.
During the winter I, in company with some others, went up in the gambli n g room and seen more gold stacked up in the center of the table tha n I ev er seen before or since. It was a square table, and four men wa s at th e table, two betting and dealing cards, and the other two exchang ed the c hecks according to the winning and losing. The money was not to uched; i t remained there as a bank. It was said 32,000 dollars was th e bank. Th ey played for about two days and nights. When one of them lo st, you neve r heard a word among the four men, but you could see a six s hooter by th e side of each man. I thought that looked terrible, becaus e I see the wa iter of the house keep bringing up four little glasses o f liquor, and I w ondered what would be the outcome. But all came out al right—one came ou t happy and the other perhaps miserable .
But during that winter there was lots of gambling in Salt Lake City a n d a number of saloons and large stores going up everywhere, and wickedn es s of every name and kind was now in Utah. Camp Floyd was full of rott enn ess and evil of every description. And, I am sorry to say, our peopl e o f both sexes mixed up with them lar | Bailey, Charles Ramsden (I174739)
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Charles served in the United States Air Force for four years, after whi c h he attended & graduated from Mexico City College, majoring in anthrop ol ogy. He was interested in people & cultures, which led him to many cou ntr ies. At the time of his death, he was residing in Ukiah, California . He h ad never married. | Pierson, Charles Odell Jr (I159517)
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CHARLES WILLIAM FISHER ~
was born in Hannibal, Missouri to William and Minnie Fisher. He was a se l f-made man and he worked very hard throughout his life to accomplish ma n y things.
He was educated in Kansas City at the Benton Elementary School where h e f irst met fellow classmate Walt Disney, and they remained very close l ifet ime friends! Charlie also met Walt's older brothers Roy O. Disney an d Ray mond A. Disney and he also remained close friends to the Disney bro ther s for the rest of his life.
Charlie served in the Army Ambulance Corp in WWI in France in 1919 and h i s boyhood friend Walt Disney served at the same time and was in the sa m e division where Charlie served!
At age five, tragically, he witnessed his father being killed by a trai n . At that point in his young life, he began selling newspapers and he a lw ays turned over his small income to his mother .
His family included brothers Earl, Roy and sister Nathaline. He was a bu s iness partner with his brother Roy. He also attended the Kansas City Ma nu al Training School where he learned to use his hands to build and remo de l homes.
Charlie met and married Alvah Meredith Boyington. They resided in Kans a s City, Missouri. Following Charles' passing in 1967, Alvah remarried h e r first husband Raymond Disney in 1969 .
Early in life, he managed the Foreman & Clark Clothing Store in downto w n Kansas City. Charles was then named the Division Manager for Bond Clo th ing Stores in the Midwest where he continued for over 30 years. His of fic e was in the Bond Clothing Store at 1009 Main Street in the heart o f down town Kansas City, MO and his regional territory included several m idweste rn states.
He was a member of Central Methodist Church and prior to that Paseo Meth o dist Church where he was a very close friend to Pastor Rev. Edward W. P ot ts who was also the Ararat Temple's Chaplain. Charlie Fisher was an ac tiv e Mason and Shriner. He was appointed to the Ararat Temple Divan by I llus trious Potentate Frank S. Allison in 1945 and he was installed as th e Ill ustrious Potentate of Ararat Shrine Temple in 1952 where he led an d gre w the membership quite successfully .
Throughout his year as Potentate, he grew the Shrine membership to a rec o rd level! When he was Ararat's Potentate, he appointed William J. Tobl e r and Fred Bellemere, Jr. to the Divan. He believed and often stated: " I f everyone would live by the teachings of the Masonic Orders, this wou l d be a better world for everyone! "
He and his wife Alvah spent much time with the various Ararat Shrine act i vities including raising funds for the Shriner's Hospitals for Cripple d c hildren (now called the Shriner's Hospitals for children) and promoti ng a nd selling tickets for the annual Ararat Shrine Circus! He stepped f ort h and was the first Shriner to actively raise funds for the first bui ldin g ever for the Mother Chapter of the Order of DeMolay at 42nd & Pros pec t Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Charlie was a very close friend t o Fra nk S. Land, the founder of the International Order of DeMolay an d a Pas t Potentate from Ararat Temple and a Past Imperial Potentate fo r the Shri ner's.
He was also an active member of the Royal Order of Jesters Court 54 whe r e he became the Court Director and Impresario. For over 35 years Charl i e met each Friday at noon for lunch and fun at the Hotel President wit h h is Jester friends where "Mirth was King." His very close Jester frien ds , among many others, included George W. Ryan, Sr. and Dr. Ray Evans an d F rank Newcomer, Sr & Jr and Robert C. Greenlease, Sr .
Charles served on the City Council in Kansas City, MO from 1959 to 196 3 w here he chaired the important fire and water departments. He was a cl os e friend to then Mayor H. Roe Bartle and he worked with Bartle and Lam a r Hunt to secure the Kansas City Chiefs Football team and he was a clo s e friend to Charlie Finley where he worked to secure Major League Baseb al l for Kansas City!
He was always a great example to his family and many, many friends. He h a d a keen and kind sense of humor and his willingness to help anyone wa s s o obvious throughout his life.
Charlie loved to fish and he had access to many ponds and lakes in and s u rrounding Kansas City. His close friend A. J. Stephens granted him life ti me access to his famous Basswood Springs Lodge where Charlie landed ma n y large mouth bass! There is a rather famous picture of Charlie fishin g i n his business suit at Basswood Springs when he had just landed a hug e la rge mouth bass! Another close friend was Robert "Bob" Duden who gran ted h im access to his many lakes on his large 500 acre farm north of Kan sas Ci ty.
Charlie Fisher vacationed in Minnesota for over forty years where fishi n g was the call of each day and he enjoyed the company of many family a n d friends who would trek very far back into the Minnesota woods to hidd e n lakes where the fish were so plentiful as well as the mosquitoes!! Th i s was always such an important part of his life--his times spent in Min ne sota! His good close friends Dr. Ralph and Joyce Peck and Irwin and Ol li e Pederson and Harry and Hilda Bauer in Crosslake, MN were always so h app y to greet and spend time with Charlie and his family for many, man y year s!
He always encouraged young people to work hard and to strive to do the i r best throughout their lives. He hired so many young people in his sto re s and he opened many opportunities for people he employed .
Charlie really had a passion and soft heart for stray dogs and cats. H e w ould go out of his way to find homes for stray animals, often takin g the m into his own home! He once found an injured coyote, nursed it bac k to h ealth, and gave it to a wild animal farm where it was returned t o the wil d.
Very sadly and suddenly, Charlie suffered a fatal heart attack on Apri l 7 , 1967 inside the Bond's Clothing Blue Ridge Store in Kansas City, MO . H e will always be remembered for his charity and goodwill and his goo d sen se. Among other things, Charlie is remembered for his huge fundrais ing ef forts in behalf of the Shriner's Hospitals for children, somethin g he alw ays encouraged his family and many friends to embrace! | Fisher, Charles William (I173587)
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Charlotte Elizabeth Smart was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on the 6t h o f November, 1849, the daughter of Thomas Sharrott Smart, who was bor n Sep tember 14, 1823, at Staffordshire, England, and Ann Hayter, born Se ptembe r 22, 1822, at Hampshire, England.
Mother's mother was married early in life to Henry Fleet, by whom she h a d three children, Mary Ann, Alice and Louise. All three were born in En gl and. We have no further data on Henry Fleet after marriage. He led a n unw orthy life which caused much privation, sorrow and poverty. The cou ple we re consequently separated and she soon after married Thomas Smart , former ly of Stonall, Staffordshire, England. Both families were of th e honorabl e, industrious class; his being farmers and her's commercial , and there w ere a goodly number of children in both families. Both belo nged to the Ch urch of England and were respectable, loyal, English citiz ens.
Soon after the marriage, they came to the United States, settling firs t a t St. Louis, Missouri, on a farm, and here the subject of this sketc h beg ins. It was in St. Louis, after keen investigation, that they joine d th e church, and soon thereafter, about 1852, they moved to Salt Lake C ity , Utah. After remaining but a brief time, they were directed to settl e i n a new town, American Fork; from there they went to Provo in order f or M r. Smart to take charge of a newly founded tannery. This business wa s mad e profitable by Mr. Smart who found it in a very run-down condition .
A short while later Peter Maughan, presiding bishop of Cache Valley, w a s getting together a number of families to go and assist in settling wh a t became Franklin, Idaho. The family moved to Franklin in the spring o f 1 860. This became the permanent family home until their deaths. Charlo tt e lived most of her young days in Franklin, though she well remembere d th eir homes in American Fork and Provo.
Home Life before Marriage
Mother was the eldest daughter of the latter marriage and she was give n r esponsibilities of trust at a very early age. She was ambitious and v er y dependable, never wanting to shirk her work or hand it over to an ol de r sister, but she took great pride in doing well all the work which wa s e xpected of her.
Her mother was a very neat and orderly woman and placed certain responsi b ilities upon her children, teaching them at an early age to do things r ig ht and to carry their tasks with honor and to do them uncomplainingly . Th e older girls helped some with the outside work on the farm. Mothe r did t he family sewing and a great deal of the weaving of the cloth o f which th eir clothes were made, as well as blankets, etc. She was to ma rry Samue l Rose Parkinson, but at her father's advice, she waited an ent ire year a fter the original marriage date, preparing herself for the cou ntless duti es of marriage and polygamy. She told Mr. Parkinson that sh e would not co urt him during the year for she knew it would be too har d on his other wi fe. They agreed if at any time during the year either o f them changed the ir minds, they would meet to let each other know.
Intellectual Inclinations
Mother had very little schooling, studying only reading, writing and ari t hmetic and spelling. She was of an intellectual nature and became quit e c onversant in many subjects, although she had only a few short winter s o f actual schooling. The main amusement of the time was dancing and sh e be came a very smooth dancer, keeping perfect time and rhythm. She too k extr eme pride in this art and was classed as one of the leading dancer s of th e locality.
Mother was married to Samuel Rose Parkinson December 8, 1866. It was a p o lygamous marriage, she being the second wife. Mother was always all thr ou gh her married life extremely thoughtful of the other wives, thus disp lay ing a character which she always possessed-one of self sacrifice, nev er t hinking of herself first-a woman unselfish of her own interests, cha ritab le to all and was ever thinking of the welfare of others, ready a t any ca ll to assist in sickness or sorrow, leaving her own family of sm all child ren any time of night or day, never afraid of contagious diseas es, intere sted in everyone's trouble, and loved by all. Her sons-in-la w were ever l oud in their praises of her. Her door was open to everybody . She was a ve ry devoted wife, and never tired of waiting upon the want s of the family . She had a very intelligent way of counseling with her c hildren to do ri ght and live lives preparing them to be leaders among me n.
Mother and Father were not of the poor class. Father was a very successf u l business man as well as farmer and manufacturer. He first had a stor e i n Franklin and was doing well when he was advised to make of it a co- oper ative store, which obedient to council he did, and was made manager . In t his he was very successful, and in a few years he started up a woo len fac tory. He went East and secured all the necessary machinery and st arted th e factory going, making blankets, wool, sheets, yarn, etc. Mothe r was alw ays interested in his business affairs and proved to be a compe tent advis or to him. Their domestic life was successful in general; he w as a good h usband and father; and she was a good wife and mother, bein g loved and ho nored by all her children. She was the mother of Annie, Lu cy, Joseph, Fre derick, Leona, Bertha, Eva, Hazel, Nettie, and Vivian. Th ey all married i n the temple and were well mated. Mother was always symp athizing with th e in-laws and advising each of her family to do the righ t thing by thei r husbands or wives, and in this and other acts, she gain ed the respect o f her in-laws, and most, if not all of them, respected h er as their own a nd spoke always in lauding terms of her.
About the year 1906, Mother and father joined their sons Joseph and Fred e rick and moved up on land on the bench east of Rexburg, Idaho, where th e y apparently enjoyed the quiet life in father's declining years.
At one time when mother was going from one home to the other, a heavy wi n d was blowing and it picked her up and blew her against the house, brea ki ng or rather cracking her shoulder blade. She was a long time gettin g th e use of it and it was nearly a year before she could dress hersel f or co mb her hair. This was due largely to the wrong treatment prescrib ed by th e doctor. However, when the crack was discovered, she took car e of it a s she would a broken arm, and soon she had full use of the lim b again.
Another time a week or fox tail got in her ear and one of the tiny hea d s broke off and settled into the drum, causing a trouble which she nev e r did get cleared up. She wore a piece of cotton in the ear constantl y t o absorb the drainage as well as to keep out of the cold. This was al way s a handicap to her. She was seldom sick even with a cold. She was st ron g and healthy and up to the time she received the stroke, she could p roba bly work as hard as any of her girls.
Spiritual Inclinations
During her youth she was of a religious turn of mind. She was always ve r y devout in her religion. She strictly kept the Word of Wisdom until h e r death. She was a temple worker and especially enjoyed the spirit of t h e work. She devoted about 20 years to the service and did 600 names fo r h er father's family during the time when only one name a day could b e work ed and three names a week. She assisted also with the Parkinson na me. Sh e was true and loyal to the church, as to her husband, to whom sh e was se aled the 8th of December, 1866, in the Endowment House in Salt L ake City . She had full faith in the eternal ordinance of the celestial m arriage c ovenant and in all principals of the gospel. Of course this mar riage wa s a great trial to her, but few there were who lived it so loyal ly as di d she, always considering the other wives and feeling that the y had suc h a hard battle to which hers was but secondary. She attended R elief Soci ety, but did not want any public position. She often said sh e hesitated b eing a teacher on account of giving reports. She wanted t o work, but wa s not an office seeker, preferring to do her work in a qui et way and unkn own if possible.
She believed in the benefits of tithing and was honest with the Lord. H e r heart and soul were with the teachings of the church against indecen t d ancing, etc. and against card playing. I never knew a game of cards t o b e played in our home. She was opposed to all lawless habits such as g ambl ing, drinking, breaking of the Sabbath, etc.
Personality
Mother was one of those characters who always saw the good in everyone , a nd never saw the bad side. She was a real counsellor in times of trou ble . This we can all verify as being the truth from the time we knew her . Sh e was generous in the giving of time and means to the poor and sic k and s pent much of her time doing what is now called social service wor k, carin g for those in need and sick. She often sent me or someone els e of the fa mily to do the work in the home where she was helping, then b rought thei r washing home with her. Many times I have gone with her t o a sick home , and helped in various ways, sometimes helping in laying o ut the dead a s she was often called on to do, and although her life wa s largely give n to that work, I never knew her to receive anything for i t. It was don e for charity and in the full spirit of charity.
Mother was from a commercial class of people and inherited as well as ac q uired an aptitude in temporal matters. She was industrious and highly e co nomical, and like her husband was firmly opposed to debt. She usuall y ha d a good garden, a few cows and chickens, and helped in every way t o kee p up with the family expenses. Previous to father's death she board ed th e teachers for several years. She enjoyed their company and they th ough t a great deal of her. It was her principal to be as self supportin g as p ossible. Her business integrity and honesty were unquestionable, s he bein g here, as in other temporal matters, a harmonious companion to h er husba nd.
Mother was well built, about 5 ft. 4 inches, weighed about 130 pounds, w a s dark-complexioned. She sat and walked with a straight carriage. She w a s proud as to character, but never vain. She was strong in personalit y an d passion when aroused, but was quick to forgive and make up, and wo uld m eet the offender more than halfway every time.
Mother cared for father about 6 months before his death, his other wiv e s being dead at this time. Her very outstanding virtues were exhibite d i n his behalf each and every day, and she never tired in helping him i n ev ery possible way. She respected him to the utmost and was loyal to h im an d the priesthood he bore, showing true marks of greatness and woman hood . Indeed she sought to make his life as comfortable and happy as pos sible .
She believed in the natural governmental order of the family, with the h u sband at the head, which was appealing to her inward soul. She was a st ro ng companion to her married children, helping them not only in the dut ie s of their home and in sickness, but ever striving for peace in thei r fam ilies.
She dressed with good tasted, and always becomingly to her age. As she g r ew older she hesitated to wear anything which might appear as old-lad y co mforts. I well remember asking her about a Christmas present. I tol d he r I wanted to give her either a nice pair of wool hose or a pair o f sil k ones. She hesitated a while and then said-"I don't think I need w ool ho se." Soon I found her examining the two pair and she chose the sil k ones . She enjoyed a good hearty laugh and was ever reminding her child ren t o keep up with the times and styles. This made her a favorite amon g her g randchildren.
Father died on the 23rd of May, 1919, in Preston, Idaho. Mother passed m a ny lonely hours and days, but seldom was she found fretting or complain in g. She resumed her temple duties and lived the life of a constant Latt e r Day Saint. While working in the temple, she was seized with a strok e wh ich finally resulted in her death two years later. She died in Loga n at t he home of her daughter Annie, on the 14th of June, 1929, surround ed b y a number of her family.
She was buried in the family cemetery at Franklin, and as she had spen t t he latter part of her life in Preston, for that is where they finall y set tled and built a home-, her funeral was held at Preston. Although t he da y was an exceptionally stormy one, with the rain coming down in tor rents , the funeral was well attended, hardly standing room being availab le i n the Fourth Ward meeting house. The floral offerings were profuse a nd al l spoke of her unselfish life and the good she had done.
In her coffin, as she lay, she looked queenly-like a bride going to me e t her bridegroom. | Smart, Charlotte Elizabeth (I109420)
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CLARENCE BURNS MCBRIDE - Eighth Child and Fourth Son of Heber Robert McB r ide and Elizabeth Ann Burns (m. Ellen Maria Bennett)
Clarence Burns McBride was born July 6, 1884, in Eden, Weber County, Uta h . Only recently the family had lived in Plain City, Utah (a suburb of O gd en). It is family tradition that a primary reason for moving to Eden w a s because the father, Heber, did not like the taste of the water in Pla i n City. Water from the flowing wells in the high mountain Ogden Valley , w here the small town of Eden was situated, would no doubt fill the bil l, n ot only for drinking, but for irrigation as well. Clarence grew up o n a f arm in that small Latter-day-Saint community and attended school th ere.
Clarence's father and mother were both very active in church affairs. Th e y each held leadership positions in the youth organizations, which prom ot ed dancing as a favorite entertainment. Young Clarence considered danc in g one of his favorite pastimes.
Hard work and frugality were habits formed early in the life of Claren c e McBride, as they were in his several brothers and sisters. In his lat e r years he is quoted as saying, "Mother saved every drop of grease to m ak e lye soap for the laundry. They rubbed laundry on a washing board. Wh e n we got a washing machine that had to be turned with a crank, we thoug h t that was wonderful. Now you just press a button and it's done for yo u . People don't get enough exercise now. Hard work and exercise is the r ea son I have lived so long."
Clarence was near age twenty when his father and family were "called " b y church authorities to move to Canada to help settle new lands and b olst er the work of the church there. With other families they settled i n Magr ath, Alberta. Here Clarence met, and soon married, a lovely youn g lady, E llen Maria Bennett, then only recently from Idaho, December 26 , 1907.
History records good reasons for the Canadian Government inviting the Mo r mons to colonize in Cardston, Magrath, and a number of other location s i n Canada. A certain report by Ora Card, given to the Alberta Railwa y an d Irrigation Company, cites, among other reasons: Mormons were know n to b e excellent colonists. They were organized under farseeing leaders . The y were experienced in farming, particularly in irrigation and in op enin g new lands. They could be trusted at all times:
Under these conditions Clarence and his bride took up farming and bega n t o raise a family in Magrath. Two sons were born to them in Canada; bu t th e family eventually moved back to the U.S., living for a time in Ida ho an d eventually in Taylorville, Utah. The last of six children was bor n ther e.
Clarence was a farmer most of his life, an honest, hard worker. He serv e d well his church and community, as priesthood leader, in the Sunday Sc ho ol, and as a home teacher. A humble, dedicated man, and a great pal t o hi s boys, he told them to "always give a day's work for a day's pay; a nd al ways be honest in your dealings." In his home they had family praye r regu larly. He and the mother taught their children how to pray.
Upon retirement from farming Clarence and Ellen moved to Meridian, Idah o , where they spent their remaining years. At a new chapel built in Meri di an, Clarence served as custodian for the next seventeen and one-half y ear s, until eighty years of age, loved and respected by all who knew him . Up on his retirement from the custodian job the ward members held a spe cia l party in his honor, "to show our appreciation for your faithfulnes s the se many years."
During their many years of church activity, Clarence and Ellen sang in t h e Meridian Ward choir, his voice a beautiful baritone. In Meridian he w a s ordained a High Priest. His family and friends agree that Clarence' s mo st distinctive physical characteristic was his beautiful head of hai r, s o curly and full that it often became unruly. Only by parting it i n the m iddle could he deep it under control.
In his declining years, his wife now in poor health, Clarence faithful l y helped with the housework and spent his spare time in a small garden . H e still had his flowing white hair when he passed away in the Boise , Idah o, hospital, November 2, 1973, at age eighty-nine. He was buried a t the C loverdale cemetery near Meridian, Idaho.
(Submitted by Owen Bennett McBride, the eldest son of Clarence and Ellen.
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Clarence Delwin Davis was born March 27, 1887. His father, William Charl e s, was called to St. Johns to help build the homes in that area. His mo th er, Anna Joanna Vilhelmsen, was a milliner and in this way helped to s upp lement the family income.
St. Johns became the birth place of some of the family members, includi n g Clarence. The family later moved to Clifton. It was while he was livi n g there that Clarence enrolled at Gila Academy to continue his educatio n . He was elected president of his class and Mary Ethel Ferrin was chos e n class secretary. They knew each other but did not date.
It was during this time that Clarence was called on a mission. Prior t o l eaving he returned to Clifton and worked for a few months to help wit h co ming expenses.
He loved his mission. He labored mostly in Virginia and West Virginia. T h e miracles he witnessed were a source of joy to him and strengthened h i s testimony. He enjoyed friendships with some of these people for man y ye ars after his return home. Brother Drew Angle and his family were al way s important in his life. She was coming to Arizona and expressed a de sir e to visit him.
While still in the mission field Clarence was impressed to start corresp o nding with Mary Ethel Ferrin and as a result the last few weeks of hi s mi ssion he asked her to marry him. It was agreed she was to meet Clare nce i n Salt Lake where they would be married in the temple. The temple w as clo sed and so they were married in the Logan Temple July 21, 1909.
Their first home was in Pima and Clarence's first steady job was in th e W ebb-Merrill store. They had eight children: 3 boys (Delwin, Cloyd an d Ray ); and 5 girls (Delsa, Mahala, Nonda, Norma and LaVenda). Clarenc e was no t only interested in his own children musical ability but he gav e free le ssons to any child who wanted to play an instrument and was abl e to obtai n one. He was determined to have a band so after teaching th e youth how t o play an instrument, Clarence and Charles Clauson utilize d the abilitie s of these young people and organized the first band in Pi ma. They partic ipated in parades, celebrations, program and just for fun , even though th ey traveled many times with a team and wagon.
Another accomplishment of this talented man was his gift for understandi n g the intricacies of genealogical research. He would not only do his pe rs onal genealogy, but if anyone else needed help they knew who would wil lin gly drop his own research to help them. Many people started their ow n gen ealogy under his inspiration. He was ward genealogist for years i n Pima a nd after moving to Mesa he was stake genealogist there. He bough t a 24-vo lume set of Davis Genealogy books from a man in England. Afte r copying th e names on his line from these books he donated them to th e genealogica l library in Mesa.
He was ward chorister, and choir director in Pima. He wrote poetry and m a ny people were cheered or comforted by his poems.
After moving to Mesa he was put in the second ward bishopric. He also w a s an ordained temple worker and was given the responsibility of all bap ti sms for the dead for a period of several years.
His grandchildren will remember his love and consideration for them. H i s entertaining them in ways and the special things he did to change the i r attitudes and mood especially the Indian dances and songs he sang t o th em.
He was an extra special home teacher. When he received a new family he t o ok brand new shiny pennies to give to all the children & entertained th e m with stories and songs. They thought he was wonderful.
The children of Clarence Delwin and Mary Ethel Davis feel honored to ha v e been born to this choice and noble couple.
(Written by his son, Delwin Ferrin Davis, for his funeral services.) | Davis, Clarence Delwin (I161508)
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Clarissa Maria Young Dougall (10 December 1849 – 30 April 1935) was a Ut a h suffragist and a member of the general presidency of what is today t h e Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da y Sa ints (LDS Church).
Maria Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Brigham You n g and his eighth wife, Clarissa Ross. When she was eight years old, he r m other Clarissa died, so from that point forward she was raised by Zin a D . H. Young, another of Brigham Young's wives.
Maria Young married William B. Dougall on 1 June 1868. She was at the fo u ndational meeting of the LDS Church's Young Ladies' Department of the C oo perative Retrenchment Association in 1869. When Margaret Young Taylor , th e first counselor in the Young Women organization, resigned her posi tio n in 1887 after the death of her husband, Dougall was selected to suc cee d Taylor. Dougall was the first counselor to Elmina Shepard Taylor fr om 1 887 until Taylor's death on 6 December 1904. For many years, the mee ting s of the presidency of the Young Women was held in Dougall's home i n Sal t Lake City. When the Salt Lake Temple opened in 1893, Dougall beca me a n ordinance worker.
After Utah gained statehood in 1896, Dougall was the chairperson of th e U tah chapter of the National Council of Women, a suffrage organizatio n le d by Susan B. Anthony; in 1897 Dougall attended the NCW's large suff rag e convention in Washington, D.C. Dougall was also a founding member a nd f irst counselor to Annie Taylor Hyde of the Daughters of Utah Pioneer s org anization.
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Clarissa was well-educated, and proud of being descended from the distin g uished New England Prouty family. Despite being in poor health as a you n g mother, she taught her children to read, write, and sew. She also lat e r taught her grandchildren to read and do sums. The Eastmans mourne d a so n who died of an accident at a young age .
Clarissa and her husband James were devout Christians but did not unit e w ith a church until James met the LDS missionaries while in Boston o n a bu siness trip. James was baptized and Clarissa soon joined as well . (Her mo ther had also been previously converted but died suddenly befor e their de parture.) They left their comfortable home for Nauvoo via th e steamboat R obert Fulton from Troy to Albany, New York, then railway an d canal to Pit tsburg, then steamboat on the Ohio .
Clarissa performed proxy baptisms for her sisters in Nauvoo. In the fa l l of 1843, she and James were among the three thousand Saints who sign e d the Scroll Petition for Mormon redress due to mob violence. The Eastm an s received their blessings in the Nauvoo Temple. Once they left Nauvoo , t he Eastmans traveled in rainstorms nearly daily for months. This wa s a ha rd time for the family, as all were ill for weeks on end. Clarissa ’s sist er Lavinia Whipple and her baby died at Council Bluffs, and the n Clarissa ’s husband James also died in Winter Quarters .
Clarissa recovered and crossed the plains. She insisted on bringing alo n g her little rocking chair, which her husband had made. Her son Ozro re tu rned from the first expedition west with Brigham Young to accompany hi s w idowed mother and sister Sylvia to Utah. Clarissa and Sylvia helped t ur n the adobe for their first Utah house. Clarissa moved in with Sylvi a whe n her oldest child (Lorenzo Lafayette Hatch) was born, and lived wi th th e Hatches in both Utah and Idaho until her death. She doctored he r grandc hildren when ill, wrapping up their legs—sore with growing pains —in “re d hot flannel”; she also knit their stockings and mittens and tol d them s tories.
It is said that Clarissa was never known to have lost her temper, and on l y told one falsehood in her life, when she took some dried apples and d id n’t own up to it. Her testimony, given when she was 84 years old in 18 77 , reads as follows: “I want to bear my testimony to the work we are en gag ed in. When I received the testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophe t I wa s as happy as I could be in the flesh, seemingly I loved all who l oved hi m and the doctrine he taught. I loved Nauvoo and had the spirit o f gather ing as soon as I believed. The spirit of Christ tells his servan ts they c annot be wrong. And so it was I have never had a doubt of the t ruth of th is work for a moment.” http://www.familytreerings.org/2011/03/ happy-218th -birthday-clarissa-goss.html | Goss, Clarissa (I164499)
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Cloyde Wood Anderton (93) died at the University of Utah Medical Cente r i n Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, April 11, 2014. Cloyde was born o n Ma y 25, 1920, in Monroe, Utah to parents Cloyde Anderton and Gertrud e Sophi a Wood. He was the oldest of six children?three girls and three b oys. H e is survived by his daughters Karen, Bountiful, Utah and Lea Daw n Davids on (John), Tucson, Arizona; his sons Robert (Shauna), West Jorda n, Utah a nd David (Beth) Austin, Texas; seven grandchildren, twelve grea t-grandchi ldren and one great-great- grandchild. He is also survived b y his brother s Lynn and Wilmer and his sisters Fae Perkins and Louise Ha rtle. He was p receded in death by his wife Dale and his Sister Stella.
Cloyde and Dale were married in the Manti Temple on March 29, 1940. Ov e r the years, they lived in Richfield, Utah; Glendale, California; Beave r , Utah; Twins Falls, Idaho; Salt Lake City, Utah and for nearly 58 yea r s Bountiful, Utah.
Cloyde was fascinated from an early age with aviation and engineering. H i s Mother returned home one day to find her brand new player piano playi n g itself without a soul around. As a young child, Cloyde had connecte d hi s mother?s vacuum cleaner exhaust to the piano to provide the motiv e powe r. Around the same time, Cloyde became interested in radio. He mel ted lea d sulfide powder to smelt his own Galena crystals for use in a cr ystal ra dio set. During his high school years in Richfield, he worked a s the proj ectionist for both theaters in town. He later worked for Forse y?s Distrib uting and enjoyed some rare experiences making deliveries i n Central an d Southern Utah. He enjoyed staying at Ruby?s Inn when he wa s in that are a. In 1940 he moved to Southern California and was employe d by Lockheed A ircraft. He was working a shift at Lockheed on December 7 , 1941.
On his return to Utah he worked for the Telluride Power Company in Beave r . His first job in broadcast radio was with KTFI in Twin Falls, Idaho . I n 1945, Cloyde, Dale and eldest daughter Karen moved to Salt Lake Cit y t o work for George Hatch and was one of the original engineers that he lpe d KALL Radio get on the air. After working at KALL for eleven years h e tr ansitioned from broadcast radio to television. He worked for KSL Tel evisi on for 33 years retiring as Chief Transmission Engineer. KSL presse d hi m back into service for one day in 2009 to turn off forever their an alo g transmitter when they switched over to the new high definition form at.
Cloyde was a ham radio operator (call sign K7LBB). He belonged to the AR R L, IEEE, Sons of the Utah Pioneers and Sertoma.
Cloyde was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a n d faithfully served in various callings over his lifetime. He was als o ve ry active in genealogy and temple work. He and his wife Dale serve d a one -year Mission as locators at Church Headquarters in Salt Lake Cit y.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, April 14, at 12:00 Noon in th e B ountiful 45th Ward Chapel located at 115 East Wicker Lane. There wil l b e a viewing at the Chapel from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. prior to the funer al s ervice. Burial will be in the Bountiful City Cemetery at the directi on o f the Russon Brothers Mortuary. An on-line guest book can be found a t www .russonmortuary.com.
The family would like to express their appreciation to the doctors and s t aff at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful and the University of Utah Medic a l Center for their care and concern in the final days of our father's l if e.
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Cobthach Cóel Breg, son of Úgaine Mor, was, according to medieval Iris h l egend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He took powe r aft er murdering his brother Lóegaire Lorc. The story is told that he w as s o consumed with jealousy for his brother that he wasted away to almo st no thing, from which he gained his epithet Cóel Breg, the "meagre of B rega" . Acting on advice from a druid, he sent word to that he was ill, s o tha t Lóegaire would visit him. When he arrived, he pretended to be dea d. A s he lay on his bier, Lóegaire prostrated himself over his body in g rief , and Cobthach stabbed him with a dagger. He paid someone to poiso n Lóega ire's son, Ailill Áine, and forced Ailill's son Labraid to eat pa rt of hi s father's and grandfather's hearts, and a mouse, and forced hi m into exi le – according to one version, because it had been said that L abraid wa s the most hospitable man in Ireland. Cobthach later made peac e with Labr aid, now known by the epithet Loingsech, "the exile", and gav e him the pr ovince of Leinster, but relations broke down again and war b roke out betw een them, and Labraid burned Cobthach and his followers t o death in an ir on house at Dind Ríg. He had ruled for either fifty or t hirty years. Th e Lebor Gabála gives fifty, and dates his death to Christ mas Eve, 307 BC . It also synchronises his reign with that of Ptolemy I I Philadelphus (28 1–246 BC). The chronology of Keating's Foras Feasa a r Éirinn dates his re ign to 409–379 BC,[3] that of the Annals of the Fou r Masters to 592–542 B C. | Cóel Breg, Cobthach High King of Ireland (I41165)
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Coel Hen or Coel the Old, the son of Tegfan, was a Celtic ruler who liv e d around the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries at the time of th e de parture of the Roman legions from Britain.
He imposed his power over a large area of the country, Coel's territor y e xtended over the whole of the north of England from a line joining Ch este r and Wash and up into what is today southern Scotland. Coel's assoc iatio n with the north of Britain has led to the suggestion that he may h ave be en the last of the Roman Duces Brittanniarum with his headquarter s at Yor k.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (History of the Kin g s of Britain) cites Coel as the King of the Britons following the reig n o f King Asclepiodotus. According to Geoffrey, Coel, annoyed by Asclepi odot us's handling of the Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most sev ere p ersecution of Christians in the Roman empire, started a rebellion i n Cae r Colun (most likely Colchester). He clashed with Asclepiodotus i n battl e and killing him, assumed his title of high-king of Britain.
According to the Harleian genealogies and the later genealogies are kno w n as the Bonedd Gwyr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North), C oe l Hen was married to Ystradwal, the daughter of Cadfan, and was the an ces tor of several lines of kings in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", the B ryth onic Celtic speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland . Hi s descendants, known as the Coeling, included Urien of Rheged son o f Cynf arch Oer, Urien, a late sixth-century warrior king of North Rheged , of wh om the Welsh Triads list as one of the "Three Great Battle-leader s of Bri tain". Other descendants of Coel include Gwallog, possibly kin g of Elmet ; the brothers Gwrgi and Peredur; and Clydno Eiddin, king of E idyn or Edi nburgh. He was also thought to be the father-in-law of Cunedd a, founder o f the kingdom of Gwynedd in North Wales, by his daughter Gwa wl. The genea logies bestow the epithet Godebog, on Coel meaning the "Pro tector".
The song was first recorded by William King in his Useful Transaction s i n Philosophy in 1708–9.
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Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler he had a fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there's none so rare, as can compare
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He was one of the Chieftains of Edward the Elder(his son-in-law).
Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent, was likely born 860 or before as he appea r s in a charter dated 875 as a 'Minister' of the king. At this time he w ou ld have had to be 15 (the age of majority) or older .
The names of Sigehelm's parents are not known, however, it is believe d h e is the brother of Sigewulf, Ealdorman of Slaegen, and is also the u ncl e of Sigebreht.
Sigehelm is a very uncommon name and he is believed to be the emissar y o f King Ælfred that delivered alms to Rome in 882, a trusted position . I n 889 he is identified as Sigehelm Dux in another charter and in 89 8 Kin g Ælfred grants him land at Fearnleag (Farleigh) in Kent. He is als o beli eved to have held lands in Cooling, Kent which were given to a ma n name d Goda as security for a loan. The Foundation for Medieval Genealo gy iden tifies him as Lord of Meopham, Cooling and Lenham in Kent.
The name of Sigehelm's wife and date of their marriage is not known, how e ver, it is believed that he married. He is identified as the father o f Ea dgifu of Kent, 3rd wife of Edward the Elder, and there is not eve n a hin t that she was illegitimate. Eadgifu is believed to have been bor n in 90 2 or 903, either shortly before or after he died .
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