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| Name |
Joseph Cluley Greaves |
| Birth |
1 Dec 1858 |
Provo, Utah, Utah, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
16 Nov 1884 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
5 Mar 1885 |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWNC-SD4 |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I2662 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Joseph Greaves, b. 22 Feb 1832, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 19 Jun 1904, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Priscilla Cluley, b. 13 Feb 1831, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 13 Apr 1865, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 34 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Feb 1853 |
Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Family ID |
F385 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Catherine Mary Eames, b. 20 Sep 1855, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 31 May 1931, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Jan 1879 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| + | 1. Joseph Eames Greaves, b. 2 Nov 1880, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States d. 6 Jun 1954, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 73 years) |
| | 2. Olive Eames Greaves, b. 6 May 1883, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States d. Apr 1884, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 0 years) |
| + | 3. Oliver Eames Greaves, b. 6 May 1883, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States d. 13 Oct 1971, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States (Age 88 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1864 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Apr 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Joseph Cluley was the 2nd son born to Joseph Greaves and Sarah Prisc i l l a Cluley.
He was:
6 years old when his mom died
19 when he married Catherine Eames (settled in Logan)
21 in 1880 when the census record shows 19 year old Thomas was livin g w i t h Joseph and his family
almost 26 years old when he passed away
Joseph and his wife Catherine Eames had 3 children—Joseph E. and twi n s O l iver E. and Olive E.
Joseph became a regular worker on the railroad but Kate considered rai l r o ading too dangerous. Because of this the family moved to Preston, I da h o, to homestead a piece of land (probably around 240 acres) that the y t o o k up in 1882.
“They were to build a house and things on it so that the government w o u l d say that they had “proved up” on it. Joseph’s wife’s brother to o k u p la nd just across the street so they had company and one of his b ro ther s too k up land east of him.” by Vera Carter Lewis
In 1884, at the age of two, Olive E. died of diphtheria. Her fathe r w a s i n Preston at the time the Child took ill. Upon receiving word o f t h e chil d's illness, he walked to Logan, a distance of thirty miles . H e re ached L ogan just as Olive had passed away.
“In the fall of 1884 Joseph accepted a call to return to Logan and s p e n d the winter in Logan canyon getting lumber out for the building o f t h e L ogan Temple. His wife, Kate, also went along and helped to mak e car pe ts f or the temple.
On November 14, 1884, Joseph was falling a large tree in the north f o r k o f Logan Canyon when a sudden gust of wind whipped around, the tr e e fe ll a cross his leg, breaking it in three places. He was half a mi l e fro m any h elp. He cut a limb and, with considerable difficulty, wor ke d hi s way dow n the canyon. As soon as he was found, he was taken b y wag on in to Logan w here he died the next morning.” Leona Eames Dale y or Ver a Cart er Lewi s
Joseph’s oldest son, Joseph E. Greaves was a microbiologist at Utah S t a t e University. Joseph E. Greaves, Ph.D., a professor at Utah State A gr i cu ltural College, lost his wife in the 1918 influenza pandemic. H e spe n t th e rest of his life researching microbes and trying to preven t mor e d eath s from infectious causes.
He married Pernecy Jane Dudley on June 10, 1907. Together they had f i v e c hildren. Pernecy died in the 1918 flu pandemic, leaving behind fi v e c hild ren under ten years old. The loss devastated Joseph Greaves.
The loss devastated Joseph.
Joseph's sister, Vera Carter Lewis, recalled,
"Before Pernecy died, Joe taught Sunday school and was very religiou s . A f ter Pernecy died he said, 'No God would have taken a mother wit h fi ve c hi ldren.' He was bitter. He was very close to Apostle Widsto e and i f Per nec y had not died Joe would have become president of the C ollege . (He di dn' t because he lost his fervent attachment to the Mormo n Churc h after h is f irst wife died.) It was planned." (Vera Carter Lew is, 1994 )
Joseph E. was instrumental in the change sacrament cups
Mormon Sacrament Cups
Source: www.keepapitchinin.org
Joseph Greaves influenced the religious practices of the The Churc h o f J e sus Christ of Latter-day Saints--the Mormon Church. Previousl y th e chur c h partook of the communion sacrament using a common cup whi ch wa s pass e d around the congregation. Dr. Greaves thought that a shar ed cu p coul d sp read disease and urged the church to change to the us e of ind ividua l cups. Because germs were not widely understood, he me t resistanc e, bu t he per sisted and was able to effect the change.
"When I was growing up, I heard this story many times from my grandfat h e r, Joseph E. Greaves, a professor of bacteriology at the Agricultura l C o ll ege of Utah, now Utah State University. The moral to the story s hift ed, d epending on the lesson Granddad wanted to stress, but the stor y its el f wa s always the same. The event takes place in Logan, Utah, i n the e arl y 190 0s.
One Sunday, Granddad sat in church, toward the back. He watched the y o u n g deacons pass the cup of sacrament water down the row, each perso n t ak in g a tiny sip and passing it on. He knew Sister Brown sitting i n fro n t o f him had tuberculosis. After the meeting, Granddad went to s ee th e B isho p and explained how unsanitary it was to have people drin k fro m th e sam e cup. He gave the Bishop a mini (or perhaps not so mini ) lect ure o n bact eria. Germs are spread. Diseases are transmitted. “Br other G reaves,” th e bishop huffed, “Do you really think that God woul d allow hi s sacr ed wat er, which has been blessed by the priesthood, t o cause dise ase—t o make pe ople sick?” “Bishop” Granddad replied, “Do y ou really thi nk tha t God woul d have given us brains if he didn’t expec t us to use th em?” Fi nally the b ishop admonished my grandfather to g o home and repent . Grandd ad’s reply t o that suggestion was a resoundin g “Horse feathers . ”
The story didn't end there. Granddad enlisted the aid of his frien d a n d f ellow scientist, Apostle John Widtsoe. The practice was changed . In di vidu al cups replaced the common cup." (Menlove 2012)
Speaking of sacrament cups, Carol Greaves Brown recalls, “as the sacr a m e nt cup was passed around, some folks tried to take their sip from c lo s e o r on top of the handle, thinking not as many people would have s ipp e d fro m that spot”. It would be interesting to know how many peopl e tho u ght th at way….
Sources used:
Catherine Mary Eames. [This history was found in Vera Carter Lewis ' B o o k of Remembrance along with a History of David Eames written b y a gra nd da ughter, Leona Eames Daley. She may have written this histor y as wel l, alt hough it is not signed.]
#1 Personal History: Childhood by Vera Carter Lewis
The Crusade of Utah Microbiologist Joseph E. Greave s
Life history provided in this link: https://58468702.weebly.com/
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