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Once the affair came to light, Florence Harding was furious and felt bet r ayed. This was not the first time that her husband had entered into a n af fair with a woman who she considered a friend. Phillips, too, was di splea sed with his wife’s conduct. To separate the two and to allow tim e for th e marriages to be reconciled, Phillips took his family and retur ned to Eu rope, leaving the Hardings to tough it out in Marion. While i n Germany, C arrie became immersed in German culture, and refused to retu rn to the Uni ted States at the tour's end, insisting she and their daugh ter stay behin d. James Phillips returned to the United States alone.
While Carrie was still in Europe, Harding ran for the United States Sena t e. As Europe moved closer to the brink of war, Carrie begrudgingly retu rn ed to the States. Her passion for Germany was very well known. At ever y o pportunity, she pled Germany’s case. Once she returned to Marion, he r aff air with Harding reignited. Phillips threatened to expose the affai r if H arding voted in favor of war with Germany, but did not follow thro ugh o n this threat.
In the summer of 1920, immediately following acceptance of the Republic a n nomination, Harding disclosed his affair with Mrs. Phillips to the pa rt y bosses, and also disclosed that Mrs. Phillips was in the possessio n o f hundreds of love letters he had written to her, many on Senate stat ione ry. Afraid of a scandal involving both an affair as well as Mrs. Phi llips ' government files for supporting Germany in the recent war, the pa rty bo sses impressed upon Mr. and Mrs. Phillips the importance that thei r trave l abroad could keep the matter quiet. Carrie refused, and immedia tely dic tated the terms under which she would consider the party's wishe s. In ret urn for Mrs. Phillips' silence on the matter, the Republican Pa rty woul d pay for an extended tour of Asia and the Pacific Islands, as w ell as a n annual stipend to Mrs. Phillips for the remainder of her life.
In June 1923, Warren Harding embarked on a western tour of the country , d espite a decline in his health, and died in San Francisco, Californi a o n August 2, 1923. The cause of his death has been a matter of specula tion : that he was poisoned by his wife, was accidentally and inappropria tel y prescribed stimulating medicines by an incompetent yet trusted doct or , suffered food poisoning, or simply had a severe heart attack. His wi fe , Florence, died 15 months later on November 22, 1924 in Marion, Ohio. | Fulton, Carrie (I93148)
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One of my fondest memories of Grandpa Ward was that every time my fami l y came to visit he always asked me to play piano for him. His favorit e hy mn was Sweet Hour of Prayer. He loved to pull out his harmonicas an d pla y as I played. We would play over and over again. It was somethin g tha t I knew he enjoyed and I looked forward to it every time we came o ver .
Rian Carrol Naef
Memories Written by George Osmer Ward, Jr
First memories written about September 1, 2010
My life could fill a book and probably will. I was born the second of F e bruary, 1927. Can’t remember how the winter was, and nobody has mentio ne d it. Born at home at Connor Creek, Idaho on the west side of the int ers ection. Dr. Satter was our doctor. He was a country doctor for man y yea rs.
Got to jump forward more because I can’t remember anything. Dad had bui l t chicken coops on the east side of the road. I remember following hi m f rom the east side to the west side and had to run to keep up with hi m . I was really small.
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Next thing I remember was a little later. Dad and mother were to tow n . Eloise, my sister and I went to gather the eggs, when we came bac k w e looked out the window and all the coops had blown away. Layer hen s wer e out in the rain; baby chicks and other sizes were out in the rain . I c an’t remember one word Dad and Mother said about it. I do remembe r the n eighbors coming to help put things back together .
I can remember getting a spanking for breaking a window in the house.
The next thing, I remember is when they moved the store and home from t h e west side to the east side. I forgot to mention that dad had a stor e a ll this time. Uncle Lew Wickel moved the store and home with his hor ses .
I guess I will return to my history. We got our home moved to the eas t s ide, which made things more handy, Dad closer to his chores and mor e park ing by the store. We had water from the spring, so mother had wat er fo r her garden and fruit trees.
I don’t remember what year it is or was, I wasn’t very big, less than t e n years old, I would assume. Then I kept growing up. Every summer pla yi ng with my toys; trucks, road graders, etc. I would build roads and b rid ges. Started school when I was seven, fall of 1934. Went to Elba fi rst . Second year went to Burley, stayed with Grandmother Wickel Ward . I di d not like it down there, but I did like Gramma! (Dad, still tal ks abou t that experience and wonders why his parents sent him to Burle y to liv e with his grandmother and go to school. He mentioned how homes ick he wo uld get and wanted to go home so bad.) Then, I went to schoo l in Malta . Winters were hard, no school busses. First year on a rubbe r tired wag on, then county got a school bus for us. I guess we were tou gh in thos e days. Before the school bus Dad drove us to Malta one yea r or more.
About 1935, or 1936, Grandpa Ward died. He was not very kind. He nev e r spoke to me, or held my hand. They said he was sick a lot. Well , I lo ve him anyway.
Well, I kept growing up getting interested in this and that. I trappe d f or furs a lot, mostly muskrats, some mink, rabbits. Got a badger , a racc oon and duck.
Then, I got interested in the gasoline engine. Had an old Fair Bank Mor s e engine on the place. Spent hours trying to get it to run. Had som e pa rts missing. Henry Ottley had one. I loved to hear it run. It wou ld hi t one to three times to pick up speed then it would coast, then hi t agai n two or three times, then coast (Fascinating) it drove a water pu mp, ha d a pump jack. It had to heavy fly wheels which helped keeping i t going.
Well, I kept trapping and tinkering with cars. Started helping the ranc h ers putting up hay and such. One time I drove Wallace Ward to Oakley . G ot on a horse and spent two days on the range, bringing in sheep t o the r ailroad. That was fun. I rode horses quite a bit at this time.
I bought my first car at this time, a 1927 Model A. Paid $65 for it. ( A bout 1943). Bucked snow, hauled hay, helped the neighbors. About thi s t ime something happened, I never noticed before. I noticed there wer e gir ls around, wondered where they came from. We (friends) started cha sing g irls. What a waste of time!
I worked on this ranch and that farm trying to make a dollar. Worked a l l day for .50. Then Dad and I bought Cain Springs. Eighty acres an d 1 6 head range on the forest. We would plow the ground and plow up bab y ra ttle snakes. I loved that place, worked all summer for Gene Gierisc h t o help pay for the farm, it cost $600. About this time, Franklin D . Roos evelt started the CCC camps and WPA to put local people to work . Camp a t Malta constructed canals. Roosevelt started these camps t o put peopl e back to work. People don’t know how tough it was. Hard ti mes then . I didn’t notice it though. I had warm home, food to eat, wor k to do , but it was hard times.
They say it is hard times now. People need to get out of debt, know bef o re hard times really come. Our government is way over center; I don’ t be lieve it can ever go back with out a lot of hard ships .
We all need to listen to our prophet’s voice and do what he says.
Fall of 1947:
Well, about this time, I read in an add that Western Electric needed he l p installing telephone equipment in Central offices. So, I went to Sa l t Lake City, spent a night or two with my sister Isabel and Fred and to o k some tests, passed and they hired me.
They sent me straight to Boise. They had a large job up there and on e a t MK, which was a hugh construction company. It was here that I sa w th is pretty girl. She was pushing cords into round holes. (The stor y is t old that he saw her legs first and really thought they looked nice , so th en he had to figure out which girl belongs to which pair of legs . When h e figured it out, he decided that he would ask her out on a dat e the nex t day, but she did not come to work the next day and he was a l ittle conc erned. He didn’t even know her name. So, it is said he acte d quickly th e next day, when she came back to work )
The prettiest girl, I ever did see. I asked her for a date, she said ye s . We were married 2 ½ weeks later. I heard her tell the girl by her , sh e wasn’t going to get married. Today we have been married almost 6 3 year s. It has been a good life.
Let’s go back awhile. While working at Malta, Dorothy Thompson and Nor m a Sanders, both return missionaries taught Mom the lessons and she wa s ba ptized. Karen was about 1 year old.
On the ranch in Challis, Karen also liked riding the irrigating horse.
Now, lets go back to 1944. I was drafted and went to Camp Roberts, Cali f ornia to military camp. Then, to Ford Ord. The war was over. I cam e ho me. Went one year to school at the college in Albion. I took up fo restr y, and then I went to Boise.
Sometimes, I wish I had been educated before I met Mom. After I marri e d Mom, I worked as a mechanic or on farms or ranches. Went to Bridge , wo rked on two ranches. Worked in Malta on a ranch. Spent the 1947-19 48 wi nter in Burley, lived with Gramma and chopped hay, hauled straw t o unloa d and bedded cattle in Swifts Feed Yard. Gramma liked mom, the y got alon g real good. Gramma had her first Christmas tree for a long t ime.
I worked in a shop in Malta to make enough money to move to Challis, whe r e her folks were at that time. Worked at a mine, mile up the Salmo n . A ways then, West up Bay Horse Mine to the mine. Always scared of h ei ghts. Then we spent 1952 and some of 1953 on a ranch on Challis Cree k . A one room log cabin with a dirt roof. Karen, loved to go fishing w it h me. Then we got our name drawn to get land in the Columbia Basin . W e moved to Washington, fall of 1953 and started farming in 1954 . I regre t dragging, Mom all over the country. But she never complaine d. I kno w she was happy to settle down and raise a family. She loved t he Connel l Ward and all the people. That’s where I started back to chur ch and hav e been going ever sense.
In the summer of 1948 we rented a farm from Alma Clark. Karen was a bab y . This was another of my grat blunders. Lost my shirt and pants. Th i s place was south west of Burley. I had the flu that winter. The fir s t and last time I had the flu. When you get the flu you will know i t . I still milked the cows twice a day.
Danny was born 1954
Gayla was born 1957
Sandra was born 1959
David was born 1968
November 16, 2010
This weekend we celebrated Mom’s birthday – all three days. Had a goo d t ime, cold outside, wind blowing, some snow.
Life in Challis:
We lived in Challis about two years. Lived on Challis Creek. I irrigat e d and bailed hay mostly. Had lots of get-to-gather times, real fun. E ve n thought about settling there.
We got our names drawn for a place in the Columbia Basin. That change d o ur lives. We made one trip up their to pick out our farm and see th e cou ntry. What a disappointment! Sand, sagebrush and Russian Thistl e everyw here. Our disappointment ended with the thought of having somet hing of o ur own. We settled for Unit 51 in block eleven, west of Connel l. Mom wo rked the first year at the telephone office in Pasco. I staye d on the fa rm and drove school bus to Connell .
After our first trip to Connell, we returned to Challis, trying to figu r e out how we could get enough money to make the move. I went to the ba n k and told them I was moving to Washington and needed a thousand dolla r s to move. He said, you are leaving the state and you need to borro w a t housand dollars. I said that’s right and we will pay it back a hun dred d ollars a month for ten months. “It took us eleven months”. I lef t the b ank with the money.
I borrowed and old farm truck from Lynn Brady, hooked our hay wagon behi n d it and left for Connell on the old long highway. One flat tire and o n e stop by the police, we made it to the farm, then we had to take the t ru ck back to Challis.
The Lord must have been with us all the way. The truck was old, the wag o n was older. Thank Goodness there were no freeways. We did things ba c k then on a wing and a prayer. I would be really scared to do things l ik e that today.
When we arrived in Connell, I already had a job with Loen Baily, later k n own as the Boys Ranch. We lived in an old house in Basin City. I beli ev e the old house is still standing and the cistern for water. There w a s a large old red barn, gone now, I think.
I worked on land at the ranch, at Basin City and down the river below Ri n gold. I even overhauled a tractor for Loen . I think he was impresse d . They were Methodists, good people. I can’t remember dates, but we p u t in for a FHA loan of $18,000 to build our home, level the farm. Pu t i n the ditches. Then probably in 1953 we built a one room building o n th e farm and I lived there and Mom and Karen lived in Pasco and Mom wo rke d at the telephone office.
In Basin City it was lien pickings, but we were prepared. Mom had a l o t of canned goods we brought us from Idaho. That really helped. I thi n k my wages were $175 a month, minus $100 to the bank. We had a five ga ll on Butane tank and a butane range. Five gallons of butane lasted almo s t a month and it was cheap.
Bill Connel roped an old range cow, that didn’t have a calf. We put h e r in a corral by the barn. She was half wild, but she had a weakness f o r rolled oats. I got a halter on her and when she came in the barn I t ie d her up and hobbled her. This cow was a blessing to us.
We developed the farm spring of 1954. Then my helper showed up in Octob e r of 1954. We called him Danny. I always wanted a Danny boy. Well , w e developed the farm, built our home and got Danny in 1954. Mom, wa s o n the farm then. We had our own family in our own home, the bank i n Chal lis paid off and we were settled down for good. 1954 was a very g ood yea r.
In 1954 when we leveled the land the wind blew hard that spring, drift e d sand and got in the cabin. What a mess .
Well, we were settled down on the farm, went to Connell to church, I wor k ed in the garages in Connell and Othello. Made a lot of friends, goo d pe ople. Done business with local people, all good people.
The farm kept us busy. I worked out 40 hours a week, which made farmi n g a little harder. It seems like Mom worked in Othello some, then sh e go t this idea of going to school and becoming an RN. I hated that. F or fi ve years the kids and I had to be quiet while she studied, for fiv e years . Well, it passed and we’ve all been blessed by what she did .
I had back surgery in 1964. Was laid up for six months. When I recover e d I opened my own repair shop in the school bus garage. The district b ui lt it on our farm. I paid them for the garage. I worked on cars, tru cks , tractors and crawlers. It was a gift. The Elder’s planted my crop s th at spring for me, beets and hay.
My banker, either Sheldon Law or Bob Hague said to me one day, “George d i d you ever consider, that maybe you wasn’t cut out to be a farmer?” Th e n we rented out the ground. Kept back the pasture for cows and live d i n our home and paid of the FHA and another debt. This is when I real ly s tarted to manage my money better. I was always bad at managing mone y . I believe it was Sheldon Law who helped me budget my money and star t p aying off debts. He is a great guy .
Well, time went farming, working in town and Mom being a nurse. Enjoyi n g things like Christmas every year, going to church fulfilling calling s . Gayla was born fall of 1957. She was fun. I called her my baby dol l . Then in 1959, Sandra came along. She was always happy and fun. Sh e m ad us all laugh. I called her a buffoon, because she made very on e laug h. By the way, I was ordained an Elder in Challis .
Then one day it seemed to me that Sandra couldn’t hear to good. Mom h a d the RH factor in her blood. Sandra has worn a hearing aid every sinc e . I remember one time I could hear a noise in the piano, after investi ga ting, I found her hearing aids back in the piano. She hid them becaus e s he didn’t like them. Hearing aids are much better today .
Well time went on. Christmas and Holidays as usual, birthdays and kid s g rowing up. I wish I could do that time over again, really too short . W e took a few trips. Had a lot of snow so we built an igloo one wint er . I always would clean Mom’s car off so she could go to work safely a n d warmed it up. Kids went to Primary and Seminary. Karen would driv e he r car and pick up kids to go to seminary.
Then about 1968 another stranger showed up just looking for a home, mo r e like board and room. We called him David. He also had trouble wit h Mo m’s blood but did fine. He was a good boy. We needed that becaus e we we re getting older, after about a year or so old I built a bed an d toys i n the garage by the heater. He would sleep and play there an d I watche d him until he started school. Seems like a short time with h im .
Here is a poem Dad wrote about David on a trip we took to Idaho:
The Stork flew light and high
No heavy load that trip to fly
When asked how come by a passing bee
He just smiled and said it’s a preemie.
Because of its state of being
Speed was needed and could be
To reach the helping hands
Who would care for our preemie
Importance comes they say
With any size
Though small as a flee he may be
Precious is our preemie.
(I remember Dad telling us one time with tears in his eyes, that he alwa y s was very thrilled when he found out Mom was in the Mothering way.)
Mom, started talking about moving to a town close to a college. I hat e d that idea. In about 1976, I got a job in Burley doing something I hat e d but told myself I could do it until I retired. (You just can’t foo l yo urself.) We moved to Burley and as usual I went from job to job. M om wo rked as an RN in Burley and Rupert.
Then about 1979, I borrowed some money and opened a NAPA store in Burle y . This was the grandlady of all my blunders. Lost more than my shir t an d pants. Before this blunder I worked in a shop in Paul where the y mad e snow plows and blowers to ship all over the world. I mostly mad e wirin g harnesses, some welding. Never contented, we then opened the N APA stor e. Lost $75,000. Borrowed $5000 dollars to pay my last debt . Took nin e years paying interest then I got enough money to pay off th e $5,000. W hat a relief. I paid the debt off in nine years .
Memories of my father by Karen Rose Ward Ferguson
I have very fond memories of growing up on the farm and working with m y f ather out in the field. Because I was the oldest, he needed the hel p o n the farm. Dad worked very hard to provide a living for his family . H e also worked for a couple of years at the Moses Lake beet factory . I ca n remember being so excited when he would bring home little ball s from th e factory that we could bounce around and play with. It was a n hour driv e to Moses Lake, so it would be long days for him. He also w orked in Con nell for a while as a mechanic. Life was very busy on the f arm, trying t o make a living and support a family. He would work long h ours and the n come home and work. We had milk cows for many years and w ould have t o milk them both morning and night. He also drove a school b us for sever al years. I don’t think that was his favorite, as he someti mes would mak e the older boys walk home, if they were acting up on the b us .
My sister, Gayla and I both have fond memories of helping Dad outside a n d working alongside of him. We grew up enjoy the fresh air and smell s o f working the soil, fresh turned earth. We always had animals around , do gs, cats, pigs, chickens, a couple of horses and a few turkeys. I t wa s a fun childhood. | Ward, George Osmer Jr (I152405)
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One of the Signers of the Magna Carta. | de Clare, Richard 3rd Earl of Hertford (I12612)
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Opal was a school teacher. When a child she played piano, by ear, no tr a ining. She died of cancer--had a breast removed. Her remains were cre ma ted and the ashes spread over the ocean. She was 66 years, 2 mo, 2 da y s old. | Morava, Opal Maxine (I161382)
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Ordained by the Presbytery of Tyrone, Sept 9, 1700
Biographical annals of Franklin County, pg 40 | Kennedy, Thomas (I168283)
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Ordained to an Elder 23 March 1943.
Ordinances: Sealed to his grandparents at the request of his mother an d o ther family members.
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Joseph D. Nelson, born April 5, 1923, in Boise, Idaho, to Emma Nelson, d i ed suddenly and unexpectedly at home August 27, 1998, of heart failure.
Joe lived in Logan in his early years, graduated from the University o f U tah, and lived and worked in Salt Lake. Joe retired from the Salt Lak e Ci ty School District where he had taught history for many years at bot h Wes t and Highland High Schools, and was then a Psychologist for the Sa lt Lak e City School District. Joe was a World War II veteran and a recip ient o f the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Joe loved many things, includi ng phot ography, golf, gardening, reading, and travel. In his traveling h e had be en to all seven continents, having just this year been to Antarc tica. H e had been on several photographic safaris to Africa, and cruise d on th e Nile River. His love of reading combined with his interest in h istory m ade historical novels a favorite of his. He would spend many hou rs readin g on his patio that overlooked his garden. Joe loved to putter , and espec ially to putt. Joe went golfing many times a week, includin g the mornin g of the day he died. He was a member of the LDS Church.
He is survived by Karma Albiston (sister), John A. Nelson ("brother"), C a therine Nelson (Niece), Patricia N. Madsen (Niece), and was "Uncle Joe " t o many great and great great nieces and nephews. Part of his writte n inst ructions in the event of death were to contact "anyone who might b e inter ested in the final state of my health!!"
Funeral services will be held Monday, August 31, 1998, in the Monument P a rk 5th Ward Chapel, 1930 South 2100 East, at 11 a.m. Viewing will be Su nd ay, August 30, 1998, at Larkin Sunset Lawn, 2350 East 1300 South, fro m 6 - 7:30 p.m., and at the Church on Monday from 9:45 a.m. prior to th e serv ice. Burial will be in the Logan City Cemetery. | Nelson, Joseph Delmore (I33257)
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He was initially buried in St Louis in October 1855 and was moved to Sa l t Lake and buried in the summer of 1856.
Orson Spencer, the son of Daniel and Chloe Spencer, was born in West Sto c kbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on 14 March 1802. At the ag e o f twelve, Spencer contracted a serious illness that nearly cost him h is l ife; a fever sore that developed on his leg left him with a slight l imp . In 1817, at the age of fifteen, he entered the academy in the tow n of L enox. His performance at a public examination so impressed the tow n sheri ff that the man offered to loan Spencer fifty dollars to pay fo r his educ ation.
Orson Spencer entered Union College at Schenectady, New York, in 1819 a n d graduated with honors in 1824. He entered the teaching profession i n Wa shington, Georgia. While teaching, he became interested in the fiel d of l aw, and subsequently pursued this course of study. At about the sa me time , he developed an interest in religion, and shortly thereafter, i n 1827 , he joined the Baptist Church. This new interest led him from th e stud y of law to the study of theology, and he entered the Theologica l Colleg e at Hamilton, New York, graduating in 1829 as valedictorian. H e marrie d Catharine Curtis 13 April 1830, and eight children were born t o them. F rom 1829 to 1841 Spencer served as pastor of the Third Baptis t Church i n Satbrook (Deep River), Connecticut, the Second Baptist Churc h in Danbur y, Connecticut, and the Baptist Church in Middlefield, Massac husetts.
Spencer was introduced to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain t s by his brother Daniel, who baptized him in the spring of 1841. He jou rn eyed to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he became active in religious and civi c a ffairs. In 1843 he served a short-term mission to New Haven, Connecti cut , along with Lorin Farr. During that same year he also served in Mass achu setts. Upon his return to Nauvoo, he served as an alderman .
When the Mormons were driven from Nauvoo, Spencer and his family moved w i th the main body of the Saints to the Iowa plains. Because of the physi ca l trials of that experience, his wife became ill and died, leaving Ors o n with six children under the age of thirteen. He had received a missi o n call to Great Britain, and the decision was made that he should fulfi l l that mission. He left his children under the care of the oldest, Aure li a, with a promise that the neighbors also would look out for them. H e arr ived in Liverpool, England, 23 January 1827. He presided over the L DS Bri tish Mission and served as the editor of the Millennial Star for a bout tw o years. During this time he corresponded with a Reverend Mr. Cro wel, an d these letters were later published. His work was not complete d when hi s term of service was up, so LDS President Brigham Young aske d him to ext end his mission. In the meantime, his six children, aided b y others, ha d made their way across the plains and settled in the Salt L ake Valley, l iving in a dirt dugout. He was reunited with his children i n 1849. Whil e in Britain, Orson married Martha Knight, with whom he ha d four children . He later married Ann Dibble, Margaret Miller, Jane T. D avis, and Mary H ill.
When the University of Deseret was founded in 1850, Orson Spencer was ap p ointed its first chancellor, a position he held until his death. He al s o served on the first legislative council of Utah Territory.
In 1852 Spencer was again called as a missionary--this time to Europe . H e visited the Kingdom of Prussia with the intention of introducing me ssag e of Mormonism; but the attempt failed, and he was expelled from th e coun try. He returned to the Salt Lake Valley, and in 1853 he was calle d on an other mission, to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he served until July 18 55, at w hich time Apostle Erastus Snow asked him to become the editor o f the St . Louis Luminary. He lived in St. Louis for a short time until h e was cal led to go on a mission to the Cherokee Nation. On 5 August 185 5 he and Ja mes McGaw began their labors among the Cherokees. They remain ed with th e Indians until 5 September 1855, at which time they returne d to St. Loui s. While with the Cherokees, Spencer had become ill with ch ills and fever . After arriving in St. Louis, his health further deterior ated. After a n illness of forty days, Orson Spencer died on 15 October 1 855. He was eu logized as a man of honest heart, sterling integrity, an d determination o f purpose.
See: Seymour H. Spencer, Life Summary of Orson Spencer (1964); Aureli a S . Rogers, Life Sketches of Orson Spencer and Others (1898).
H. Dean Garrett
Source: Utah History Encyclopedia (media.utah.edu/UHE/s/SPENCER,ORSON.ht m l : viewed 27 June 2003) | Spencer, Orson Cornelius (I163519)
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Orvil Edwin Beckstrand was a stubborn, honest, fair, no-nonsense man w h o took all assignments very seriously. He was proud of his Swedish heri ta ge. He suffered great sorrow when his first born son, Lael died on th e da y he was born, then eight years later his wife, Grace Stewart, die d due t o complications following childbirth. He turned the raising of hi s two so ns, DeLyle who was 5 years old, and Ray who was a new-born infan t, over t o his mother-in-law, Elizabeth E. Duncan Stewart, while he work ed out o f town, along with farming and ranching on his own land. He eve ntually m et Dorothy Bertha Magny through a mutual friend and married her . She wa s from Salt Lake City, Utah and was willing and very capable o f moving t o rural Meadow, Utah to raise two small boys and run a farm .
Orvil suffered a severe stomach ailment in mid-life that required surge r y to remove half of his stomach. This required him to eat small meals t hr oughout the day for the rest of his life.
Grandpa taught me how to drive a tractor. He would have me roll bales wh e n it was time for my brothers to haul hay with Grandpa and Dad. A child ho od memory from way back: When I was little and would cry he would catc h m y tears on his big, cracked finger and tell me that he was going to f reez e them. That always made me stop crying because I would be so busy t hinki ng about how he was going to do that!
Grandpa suffered a number of strokes as he aged. One stroke took his spe e ch for a few weeks. All he could say was "Damnit." We were relieved wh e n his vocabulary returned to normal. Another stroke hit him while he a n d Grandma Dorothy were driving down the lane above town by his dry far m . They ended up in the ditch but were not harmed. Eventually the strok e s took his balance and he used a cane to walk.
When Orvil was old and had turned the farm over to his son DeLyle, he w o uld sit outside on his lawn chair and swat flies with the flyswatter du ri ng the hot summer months. With his cane he delighted in poking the gr eat -grandchildren and it became quite a game for the kids to get close a nd n ot be touched by the cane. He enjoyed this and would laugh a lot. H e even tually became very hard of hearing and I'd have to sit right nex t to hi m and yell in his ear for him to hear what I was saying .
Orvil's wife, Dorothy, took extraordinary care of him during all their d a ys together which I think contributed to his longevity. He died when h e w as 96 years old. When he was gone, Grandma's reason for living was al so g one and she passed away a year later .
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Otis Lysander Terry Jr. Son of Otis Lysander Terry Sr. and Fanny Maril l a Loveridge, born 6 Jan 1852, Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah. He wa s b aptized 30 Oct 1861 Union, Salt Lake County by Thomas Terry, ordaine d a h igh priest by Daniel H. Wells, Jul 11877. Married, endowed, and sea led t o Sarah Lovenia Howell 28 Feb 1876 in the Old Endowment House by Da niel H . Wells. He died in Orem, Utah 9 Oct 1932, and buried in Fairview , Sanpet e County, Utah.
Terry, Otis Lysander, jun., Bishop of the Timpanogas Ward, Utah count y , Utah, was born Jan. 6, 1852, in Mill Creek, Salt Lake county, Utah, t h e son of Otis L. Terry and Fanny Marilla Loveridge. He was baptized i n 18 61 by Thos. Terry; ordained successively to the offices of Deacon, E lde r (ordained in 1875 by Elias Smith) and High Priest, the latter ordin atio n taking place in July, 1877, by Daniel H. Wells. At the time of hi s birt h his father was temporarily located in Mill Creek, running the Ga rdner f louring mill, while the home of the family was in Union, and youn g Otis w as a resident of the Union Ward until 1886. While residing ther e he acte d as second counselor to Bishop Ismael Phillips from 1877 to 18 87; here a lso he acted as president of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and as su perintenden t of the Sunday school. In 1886 he moved to Fairview, Sanpet e county, whe re he resided until 1901. Here he acted as a counselor in t he local presi dency of the High Priests quorum and also as president o f the Ward Y. M . M. I. A. six years. In 1901 he moved to Timpanogas, whe re he acted as p resident of the local High Priests organization and in 1 903 (April 19th ) he was ordained a Bishop and set apart to preside ove r the Timpanogas W ard. Bro. Terry, besides being an active Church worker , has taken leadin g parts in secular affairs. Thus he acted two years a s constable while re siding at Union, and at Fairview he was a member o f the city council tw o years and subsequently mayor two years. In 1876 ( Feb. 28th) he marrie d Sarah Lovina Howell, who was born Jan. 3, 1859, an d died Oct. 20, 1899 , after giving birth to ten children. Bro. Terry mar ried Lydia Ann Butter field Middleton April 14, 1881; she bore him thre e children. In 1900 (Jan . 3rd) he married Mary Johanna Rasmussen Terry , his brother's widow, wh o was born Dec. 26, 1863, at West Jordan, Utah . She also became the mothe r of three children by Bro. Terry. Having bee n convicted on a charge of u nlawful cohabitation, Bro. Terry served [p.8 05] nine months in the Uta h penitentiary, from Oct. 4, 1889, to May 20 , 1890. | Terry, Otis Lysander (I111284)
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Owned a livery stable in Ellsworth Wisconsin 1909. 1918 returning to a f a rm In Lost Creek Elpaso Township Pierce County Wisconsin | Brookshaw, Frank M (I155920)
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Pages 254 of "La Famille Ballif" by Jae & Carma Ballif (attached a s a s o u rce):
Gabriel Jacob Ballif was the first to complete his advanced schoolin g a t the university in Lausanne. He was not ordained a theologian becaus e h e did not have approval to marry Madalaine Triquet, a Huguenot (Frenc h Pr otestant). | Ballif, Gabriel Jacob (I1274)
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Parahunt was a chief who ruled near Richmond, Virginia | Parahunt (I9225)
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Parish Registers of Huddersfield. Researched by James R. Cunningham.
Abraham Hirst was a farmer. | Hirst, Abraham (I651)
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Partridge was the only grandparent I was privileged to see or know. S h e was always very pleasant and loved to have people come to see her. S h e made delicious homemade root beer and as a child felt so luck to go d ow n in her basement and retrieve a bottle to share. I played at her hom e w ith my cousins Ruth and Bill. They were Sarah Jane was born in Meado w, M illard County, Utah on the 1st of September, 1866. Her father was E dwi n Stott and her mother was Sarah Jane Holder. Most of her life unti l mar riage was spent there in the little town in southern Utah. She wa s a ver y popular young lady. She loved friends and being in the compan y of othe rs. She was married to William Clayton Partridge in the Mant i Temple o n the 30 of January 1889. They lived in Salt Lake City fo r a few years a nd then with three children in their family moved to th e Big Horn countr y in Wyoming. She learned to make the best of the thin gs she had as di d most of the pioneers.
Sister Partridge, as she was known to all who knew and loved her, was ve r y active in all the religious and civic affairs in the town of Cowley a n d in the Big Horn Stake. She held numerous positions of responsibilit y . She was Relief Society president in the ward for a number of years a n d was active in the Stake organization for a long time.
Her youngest son, Stanley Stott Partridge was my father. Grandmother t h e children of Aunt Josephine, whose family lived with Grandma and Grand pa .
Grandma loved to travel. At the age of 80 she flew to Washington DC. W h en she returned she said it was a wonderful trip but not enough moveme n t to the plane. She lived to the ripe age of 88 years and enjoyed lif e t o the fullest. Her final illness was very short bringing to pass th e pro mise in her patriarchal blessing that she would live as long as lif e wa s sweet to her. She had a stroke which left her right hand and ar m usele ss. With this, life seemed a burden, and in a few hours she pass ed awa y quietly. Many, many friends mourned her death. | Stott, Sarah Jane (I17530)
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Passed a few days after giving birth to youngest son, Anthony.
SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (B o rn in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889 ) , p. 37.
SOURCE: "Descendants of Elnathan Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Wh i pple Website, 24 Feb 2003. Cites Holden Family Bible; Rhode Island Ceme te ries Database Index (birth, death, burial).
SOURCE: "Descendants of John Rice," descendancy chart from Marion Nata l e to Weldon Whipple, 24 Nov 2003. Gives birth 19 Mar 1698/99 in Warwic k , Kent, RI. | Holden, Mary (I26740)
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Pepin II (c. 635 – 16 December 714), commonly known as Pepin of Hersta l , was a Frankish statesman and military leader who de facto ruled Franc i a as the Mayor of the Palace from 680 until his death. He took the tit l e Duke and Prince of the Franks upon his conquest of all the Frankish r ea lms.
The son of the powerful Frankish statesman Ansegisel, Pepin worked to es t ablish his family, the Pippinids, as the strongest in Francia. He beca m e Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia in 680. Pepin subsequently embarke d o n several wars to expand his power. He united all the Frankish realm s b y the conquests of Neustria and Burgundy in 687. In foreign conflicts , Pe pin increased the power of the Franks by his subjugation of the Alem anni , the Frisians, and the Franconians. He also began the process of ev angel isation in Germany.
Pepin's statesmanship was notable for the further diminution of Meroving i an royal authority, and for the acceptance of the undisputed right to r ul e for his family. Therefore, Pepin was able to name as heir his grands o n Theudoald. But this was not accepted by his powerful son Charles Mart el , leading to a civil war after his death in which the latter emerged v ict orious.
Pepin, sometimes called Pepin II and Pepin the Middle, was the grandso n a nd namesake of Pepin I the Elder through the marriage of Pepin I's da ught er Begga to Ansegisel.[1] He was also the grandfather of Pepin the S hor t and great-grandfather of Charlemagne. That marriage united the tw o hous es of the Pippinids and the Arnulfings which created what would b e calle d the Carolingian dynasty. Pepin II was probably born in Hersta l (Hérista l), modern Belgium (where his centre of power lay), whence hi s byname (so metimes "of Heristal"). | Pippinids, Pepin Mayor of the Palace (I12101)
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Pepin the Short, also called the Younger (German: Pippin der Jüngere, Fr e nch: Pépin le Bref, c. 714 – 24 September 768) was King of the Franks f ro m 751 until his death in 768. He was the first Carolingian to become k ing .
The younger son of the Frankish prince Charles Martel and his wife Rotru d e, Pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ecclesiastical educatio n h e had received from the monks of St. Denis. Succeeding his father a s th e Mayor of the Palace in 741, Pepin reigned over Francia jointly wit h hi s elder brother Carloman. Pepin ruled in Neustria, Burgundy and Prov ence , while his older brother Carloman established himself in Austrasia , Alem annia and Thuringia. The brothers were active in suppressing revol ts le d by the Bavarians, Aquitanians, Saxons and the Alemanni in the ear ly yea rs of their reign. In 743, they ended the Frankish interregnum b y choosin g Childeric III, who was to be the last Merovingian monarch, a s figurehea d king of the Franks.
Being well disposed towards the church and papacy on account of their ec c lesiastical upbringing, Pepin and Carloman continued their father's wo r k in supporting Saint-Boniface in reforming the Frankish church and eva ng elising the Saxons. After Carloman, who was an intensely pious man, re tir ed to religious life in 747, Pepin became the sole ruler of the Frank s. H e suppressed a revolt led by his half-brother Grifo and succeeded i n beco ming the undisputed master of all Francia. Giving up pretence, Pep in the n forced Childeric into a monastery and had himself proclaimed kin g of th e Franks with the support of Pope Zachary in 751. The decision wa s not su pported by all members of the Carolingian family and Pepin had t o put dow n a revolt led by Carloman's son, Drogo, and again by Grifo.
As king, Pepin embarked on an ambitious program to expand his power. H e r eformed the legislation of the Franks and continued the ecclesiastica l re forms of Boniface. Pepin also intervened in favour of the papacy o f Steph en II against the Lombards in Italy. In the midsummer of 754, Ste phen I I anointed Pepin afresh, together with his two sons, Charles and C arloman . The ceremony took place in the Abbey Church of St. Denis, nea r Paris, a nd the Pope formally forbade the Franks ever to elect as a kin g anyone wh o was not of the sacred race of Pepin. He also bestowed upo n Pepin and hi s sons the title of 'Patrician of Rome'.[2] He was able t o secure severa l cities, which he then gave to the Pope as part of the D onation of Pepin . This formed the legal basis for the Papal States in th e Middle Ages. Th e Byzantines, keen to make good relations with the grow ing power of the F rankish empire, gave Pepin the title of Patricius. I n wars of expansion , Pepin conquered Septimania from the Islamic Umayyad s and subjugated th e southern realms by repeatedly defeating Waiofar an d his Gascon troops , after which the Gascon and Aquitanian lords saw n o option but to pledg e loyalty to the Franks. Pepin was, however, troubl ed by the relentless r evolts of the Saxons and the Bavarians. He campaig ned tirelessly in Germa ny, but the final subjugation of these tribes wa s left to his successors.
Pepin died in 768 and was succeeded by his sons Charlemagne and Carloma n . Although unquestionably one of the most powerful and successful rule r s of his time, Pepin's reign is largely overshadowed by that of his mo r e famous son, Charlemagne. | Karling, Pepin King of the Franks (I13680)
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Petrine Jensen was born November 10th, 1843 in the Land of our forefathe r s, Lundby, Tassinge, Denmark. She is the most wonderful girl, God bles s h er memory. To her I am sincerely grateful for the part she has playe d i n the life of her husband, Rasmus Hansen Lund. So important was thi s par t, that it not been so (in my opinion) my home and family would no t be th is dear land of Zion.
I am indebted to her for the grace of our father, my own father, Hans Ma r ius Hansen Lund. She has always been good and honorable woman, givin g he r children all she could and doing her best to raise them properly . Sh e was educated in the public schools of the time. She learned mill iner y and followed same for about four and one half years. She took ord ers a t her parent’s home and sewed and made hats, which she continued af ter he r marriage. She was quite a dancer and singer.
Her father was a young man; medium built through natural growth and beca m e a hunch back. He was indifferent to religions being quite superstitio us . He was however well respected by the town’s people; He was well eno ug h to build boats and was a shipbuilder.
Her mother was born November 1st, 1813 and died at the age of 58 on Ju l y 20th, 1871. Her name was Bodil Peterson. This woman was her step-mo th er. Her father was born April 5th, 1822 and died at the age of 71 o n Jun e 5th 1892. His name was Jens Hansen Dyr. The father had three ch ildre n by a former wife. Their names were, Petrine, Johanna and Hans Pe ter.
By the second marriage to Bodil Peterson she had two children, Hans an d M arie. | Jensdatter, Petrine (I4994)
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Phebe died in Zarahelma, Iowa of fever.
The story of the life of Phebe Whipple, which begins in childhood happin e ss, in an affectionate family of parents, brother and sisters, cannot f ai l to bring sadness to the hearts of her descendants, knowing that he r lif e was taken so young and at a time of great distress among her rela tive s and friends. She was one of those gallant women who were destine d to gi ve up their lives for a sacred cause.
This history is taken principally form the journals or Phebe’s brother N e lson Wheeler Whipple, and her husband Benjamin Gibson; which he wrot e a t Fort Union, after coming to Utah in 1852. His journal was partiall y des troyed by age, but was treasured- together with family letters- b y his yo ungest daughter, Jane Gibson Sanders, until her death in Mesa Ar izona o n May 25, 1929. She was among the little ones of that period wh o knew chi ldhood without a mother’s care and love.
Phebe Whipple was born August 12, 1813 in Broome Co. New York, in the Vi l lage of Sanford, four miles from Deposit, New York. Her parents were Da ni el Whipple and Mary Tiffany; Mary being the young widow of Zenoa Aldri dge , and the mother of two children a little son and daughter. So Pheb e wa s born into the home of six children, and after her were born a sist er Ge rua, two years younger, and a brother Nelson Wheeler, five years yo unge r than Phebe. They helped to care for her children, following Phebe’ s unt imely death.
Phebe’s father was in partnership with his eldest brother Samuel in a sm a ll lumber mill, when she was born. The brothers had moved to this plac e f rom Pennsylvania, and had purchased a small tract, of between twent y an d thirty acres of timber land and built a home and a mill on Aquag o Creek . Daniel was away from home much of the time, cutting timber an d transpor ting the lumber down the Delaware River to Philadelphia to b e sold.
Phebe and her sisters learned to spin flax and wool when quite young, be c ause their mother was an expert in spinning, dyeing and needlework, an d m ade all the clothes, which she and the children wore.
In the summer of 1827, when Phebe was fourteen, the Whipple Family inclu d ing the Aldridge Children, moved to Newfield in Tompkins Co. New York . Ne lson Whipple writes in his journal: “My mother’s kin, the Tiffany an d Cur tis families, had moved there form Courtland Co. New York. It wa s a thre e day trip to Uncle Jarrid Putchin’s”. And later “Our house wa s on a hig h hill with a good view in almost every direction- I helped bu ild fence s and chopped wood though only 9 years old. The winter of 1828- 20 was ver y severe and hard to keep the cattle alive.
Daniel Whipple, although a strong and energetic man, found that tryin g t o farm such unproductive land was not to his liking, but he remaine d in N ewfield for six years and several of their young people were marri ed in t hat place.
Phebe was age nineteen when she married Bengraw Shaw, a man much older t h an she (as shown by the U.S. Census returns). Her family was unhappy ab ou t this marriage; so Phebe joined with them in making plans for movin g t o Ohio in 1833, and went with her parents.
Returning again to the journal of Nelson W. Whipple: “My brother-in-la w G eorge Tiffany and two of my sisters had moved to Ohio the year before . M y father Daniel Whipple sold our home, the stock and everything: eve n th e household goods. We started in November 1833, we traveled 3 days t o rea ch the port at Lake Cayuga, because of heavy rains, and took passag e on t he small steamboat, the “Dewitt Clinton”, the only steam boat on L ake Cay uga; there were many other ordinary boats.
“Our next boat was on the canal to Buffalo, where we arrived in six day s . Here we took passage again on board the steamboat, ”Pennsylvania”, o n L ake Erie, on out way to Cleveland. The first night we were on this bo at , we witnessed the long remembered signs in the heavens.” (The showe r o f meteorites on the night of November 13, 1833).
Their destination was Eton Ohio, where Phebe’s sisters and their famili e s lived; and was about twenty miles from Cleveland. With all of Daniel ’ s endeavor to find transportation for his family in this busy town, h e fi nally was forced to give up and he hired a “cart-boy with his cart” . Thei r luggage was loaded upon this and the Whipples proceeded to wal k to Eton .
Phebe was quite ill by the time they reached George Tiffany’s home, whe r e they were made welcome and stayed several days because housing was ve r y scarce. The men folk obtained work in a saw- mill in the neighborin g to wn of Carlisle and Phebe moved there with her parents. A very tiny b aby w as born to her in February 1834 and was named Clymenia Shaw. The ba by wa s loved by all her family. (The tradition concerning the baby’s siz e is t hat she was small enough to hide in a sugar-bowl). (Clymenia Sha w Evans w as buried in Bountiful, Utah.)
While in her parents home in Carlisle, Phebe was made happy again by mee t ing a young English named Benjamin Gibson, who lived in the neighborin g v illage of Grafton and who was a friend of her brothers. She was marri ed t o him in the fall of 1834 and they moved to the small farm, which Be njami n owned near Litchfield in Loraine Co. Ohio. A one-room log cabin w as o n the farm. The country was new and sparsely settled. Not many year s ha d passed since hostile Indians had skulked through the woods near th e set tlement. Panthers were large and vicious wild animals and were amon g th e wild beasts seen and heard around this village. Men always carrie d a gu n, and were alert on the trails lest one of these animals spring u pon th e horse and rider from the high limb of a tree.
One night Phebe was alone with two little ones, her husband having le f t that day with a load of grain for the gristmill, which was more th a n a days journey away. While putting the babies to bed, she heard a dre ad ful cry, which sounded like a woman in great agony of pain. She was te mpt ed to go outside to determine what it was, but remembered her husban d ha d told her never to go outside at night, not even for wood, so she l eft t he door and window barred. The screaming came up to the cabin; so s he the n realized it was a panther and was probably the mate of the one t he me n had killed the day before, and had nailed its hide on the outsid e wal l of the cabin to dry. Suddenly she heard the angered animal sprin g to th e roof and advance to the chimney. She had no time to quiet the c hildren’ s crying for she had to keep the fire in the fireplace in a hig h blaze si nce the chimney was large enough for the panther to drop throu gh. It wa s an all-night ordeal. When the wood was gone, Phebe broke up t he wood-bo x, and then the table and chairs were used for fuel. When the y were gone , she wrapped her children in a quilt and put them in a chest , leaving a n opening for air then she opened her feather mattress and fe d the flame s with a hew handfuls of feathers at a time. The panther didn ’t leave th e chimney until daybreak; then he went back to the woods afte r killing so me domestic animals.
Benjamin Gibson, in his journal written in 1845-55, tells of their marri a ge and the principal events of their life together with their childre n i n short clear statements.
“In the year 1829, at the age of 23, I sailed from Hull England on the 1 4 th of April, across the western ocean and landed in Quebec on the las t da y of May. I then took passage to Montreal; from there to Niagara an d Buff alo: then to Cleveland Ohio, then to Grafton in Loraine Co. Ohio , wher e I arrived about the 1st of July. I remained in Ohio six years, s ingle . In 1834 I was married to Phebe Whipple and we continued to live i n tha t state until we heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as taught by tw o Latte r-Day Saint missionaries. We obeyed, it and were baptized by the m on Janu ary 15, 1842, while living in Litchfield. Together with my wife ’s family , we desired to go to Nauvoo, so we sold out and started on Sep t. 7, 1843 . We traveled, with some delays, until we came within twenty m iles of tha t city; then we learned that a mob of ruffians were destroyin g lives an d property there. I left my family there with relatives and we nt to Nauvo o and saw and heard the Prophet Joseph Smith. We (Nelson W. W hipple) wen t to stay with brother George Tiffany who had built a good-si zed log hous e near the Temple. He helped us find homes to bring our fami lies to. Whil e I was there I stood guard to help protect the Prophet. O n being dismiss ed, I returned to my family and while I was gone, Josep h and Hyrum were m urdered, on the 27th of June 1844 .
“I then moved my family to Nauvoo and stayed until the mob came again . W e then crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, with some of the Sain ts , while some others had gone to Buffalo.”
“We remained in this camp until the remainder of the Saints were drive n o ut by the Mob. I was then taken sick with all my family. My wife an d daug hter died; my daughter Hannah the last of October; her mother on t he 18t h of November 1846. I was left with four little girls. I put the t wo olde r ones with good families, transacted some business, took the tw o littl e ones and came on to Garden Grove Iowa. Early in July I went t o Vorce, W isconsin.
This part of his journal is aged and dim, but their history during thi s p eriod is given in the journal of Nelson Whipple. He writes in 1846 th at h e had not seen his sister Phebe since the two of them had left Nauvo o. “D uring this winter”, he says; “We plainly saw that our property in N auvo o would bring us very little or nothing; so we saw it best to leav e to th e wilderness as best we could”. “In this camp, many people are li ving i n shanties built of sacks and sticks.” He wrote of their mother’ s death ( Mary Tiffany Aldridge Whipple) in Nauvoo, September 17, 1845. S he had bee n baptized with the others of her family while they were all i n Ohio an d had lived, since the death of her husband in Sept. 1839 in th e homes o f her children. Mary Tiffany had been a small woman, he wrote : “With fai r complexion and with dark hair and eyes. She told her childr en that if s he could live long enough to see Nauvoo and the Prophet Jose ph, she woul d be well content to die. Under the date of July 1847, Nelso n writes: “M y sister Phebe Gibson died of a fever while in Zarahemla Cam p, some month s past, and her little girl died there shortly before.” “Br other –in-la w Gibson and I started the 1st of July for Wisconsin to ende avor to colle ct or regain some property taken to Vorce by a Mr. Edwards , who had colle cted it when B. Gibson had sold his farm in Ohio. This Ed wards turned Str angite (one of the religious cults of that period) and w ent to Vorce wit h property. I went for the purpose of seeing my half bro ther Aldridge an d his family in that state.” “ We took our clothes on ou r backs, with pro visions enough to last. We reckoned the distance to b e 180 miles. The wea ther was hot and there was little water much of th e way. After 8 days wal king, we reached Keokuk, Iowa on the Mississipp i River, and then we saile d on the boat “Lynx to Gavania. B. Gibson wa s sick most of the way.”
Whether the business with Mr. Edwards was satisfactory or not is not ma d e known in either journal, but Nelson returned to Iowa first having be e n received coldly by Mary Tiffany’s eldest son, because of his brother ’ s unpopular religion. “I returned to Keokuk,” writes Nelson; “and wen t t o see the little Gibson girls. They were both well. Clymenia is wit h Bro . Williams’s family. Amy is with a family named Millgate.” Later h e write s, “My sister Gerua has died in Canesville, and little Jane Gibso n is tak en into the home of George Tiffany.” (Gerua had married Benjami n Gibson a nd they had a small daughter named Jemima. Gerua died in 1848 . George Ti ffany married Phebe’s sister Almira, they may have been cous ins?) So Pheb e Gibson’s little girls were separated from one another an d from their fa ther until he married again and could have a home. In hi s journal is writ ten: “On December 5, 1848, I married Mrs. Asenath Jane s (the U.S. censu s of Pottawattami Co., Iowa shows Asenath Gibson to b e several years olde r than Benjamin. Her daughter Henretta Janes is ag e 15 and in the home ar e Mary and Jane Gibson) “On Sept. 13, 1850 I wen t from council Bluffs t o Keokuk, Iowa to bring Bro. Williams among the S aints with my two childr en, together at that place. We returned to the B luffs on October 25th. O n May 2, 1852, I baptized my three children, Amy , Mary and Jane”. “On Jun e 12th I started with my family for the Salt La ke Valley. We arrived Sept ember 12, 1852. The family of Gibson, after en tering the Great Salt Lak e valley, made their first home in Union fort , but later in Lehi. With hi s daughters married Benjamin Gibson was alon e in his fifty- fourth year . His wife Asenath returned with friends to t he Eastern States. This goo d and quiet man went to live in Logan and gav e several years to the build ing of the Logan Temple; hauling stone and c utting stone. His love for th e Gospel and his family are shown on the Lo gan Temple record of 1884 an d 1888.
In his old age he retired to the home of his daughter Amy Coleman in Smi t hfield, Cache, Utah, where he died Nov. 26 1897 at the age of 92. He w a s born May 9, 1805 in Patrington, Yorkshire, England, the son of Henr y Gi bson and Diana Pearson.
Children of Benjamin and Phebe Whipple Gibson who lived and became Uta h P ioneers:
1.Clymenia Shaw, born F3b. 2, 1834- Married David Evans, Feb. 1854 (3 ch i ldren) died 10th of Aug 1920 buried in Bountiful, Utah.
2.* Amy Gibson, born Mr. 25, (20) 1838. Married William Coleman 3 June 1 8 56 (civil) Died 11 Feb. 1898 Smithfield, Cache. Utah. Buried there in t h e same lot as her father, Benjamin Gibson.
3.Mary Gibson, born 5 Feb. 1840 Married Orson Kelsey, 1858. Died 12 Ju n e 1902, at Fairview, Utah 12 children
4.Jane Gibson, born 11 Oct. 1842, Chatham Co. Ohio. Married John Frankl i n Sanders, March 22, 1858 in Brigham Young’s office. Died 25 May 192 9 i n Mesa Arizona. Children 6
5. Hannah Gibson died at Camp Zarahemla October 1846.
6. Another daughter Jemima, was born to Gerua Gibson she married a m a n by the name of Goodman. (Info. Index Bureau.)
This history was searched out and compiled by Amy Jones Doyle, daughte r o f Phebe Jane sanders and Wesley L. Jones. Phebe was the daughter of J an e Gibson and John Franklin Sanders Jane was his 2nd wife.
Benjamin Gibson was baptized by John Gilead (Info. Patriarchal Blessing ) . He was a high Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain ts . (Obit, info.) He had 4 wives: Phebe Whipple, Gerua Whipple, Asenath a J anes (separated), Jemamia Duckworth, (separated). His daughters actin g a s proxy: had him sealed to Mary Hadkinson (Temple Ord. Manti 21 Apri l 190 5) a friend from England. And Mrs. Mary Gibson (Temple Ord. Manti 2 1 Apri l 1905) a nice of Benjamin Gibson . | Whipple, Phoebe (I689)
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Philanthropist. Diane Disney Miller, the eldest daughter of well-known e n tertainer, Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney. Born in Lo s An geles, California, she was a lifelong pianist and a benefactor to th e Sa n Francisco Symphony. Prior to her death, she was president of the b oar d of directors of the Walt Disney Family Foundation. This organizatio n ow ns and operates the Walt Disney Family Museum located in San Francis co. S he also was instrumental in the conception and completion of the Wa lt Dis ney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. She and her husband Ron co-owne d the Sil verado Vineyards Winery in Napa. She is survived by her husband , seven ch ildren, as well as 13 grandchildren and a great-granddaughter . She is pre ceded in death by her father, mother and sister, Sharon.
Cause of death: complications due to a fall.
As of April 2016, there has been no final confirmation on where she is b u ried. Forest Lawn in Glendale where her parents are interred has indica te d that she is NOT buried there or had her ashes scattered there, eithe r .
***Diane Disney Miller, a Napa Valley winemaker and the reason why the W a lt Disney Family Museum is located in San Francisco, died Tuesday.
Mrs. Miller succumbed to injuries suffered in a fall a few months ag o i n Napa, where she had a home. She was 79.
As the only surviving child of Walt and Lillian Disney, Mrs. Miller wa s t he president of the Walt Disney Family Foundation and co-founder, wit h he r son, Walter Elias Disney Miller, of the Walt Disney Family Museum . It o pened in 2009 on the Main Post of the Presidio of San Francisco, n ot fa r from her residence on Russian Hill. Last year more than 100,000 p eopl e visited the museum, which is on track to hit 150,000 in 2013.
"She was totally devoted to the memory of her father. She obviously ju s t worshiped him, and everything she did at the museum was to honor him , a nd to be sure that people knew the accurate story," said Nancy Bechtl e, w ho served with Mrs. Miller on the San Francisco Symphony board and r ecent ly helped her find a new director for the museum.
A resident of the Bay Area since the mid-1980s, Mrs. Miller was a benefa c tor to the Symphony and Napa's "Music in the Vineyards" as well as oth e r charities such as the Pathway Home in Yountville. She also crusade d t o keep Frank Gehry as architect for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L os A ngeles, which opened 10 years ago.
Diane Marie Disney was born Dec. 18, 1933, an event that caused the Lo s A ngeles Times to proclaim "Mickey Mouse has a daughter." She was educa te d at the University of Southern California, where she met Ron Miller , a m ember of the football team, on a blind date after the Cal-USC game.
They were married in Santa Barbara on May 9, 1954. Miller had a caree r i n pro football before being recruited by his father-in-law. After the ir s even children had grown up, he left the firm, and they left Los Ange les f or Napa, where they owned Silverado Vineyards.
She is survived by her husband; children Christopher Miller, Joanna Mill e r, Tamara Diane Miller, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Mille r , Ronald Miller and Patrick Miller; grandchildren Annabelle Rey, Nick R un eare, Ryan Scheer, Sam Goff, Danielle Durham, Sebastian Runeare, Charl ott e Goff, Lily Goff, Haley Scheer, Reilly Miller, Madeline Goff, Willia m Mi ller and Elias Miller; and great-granddaughter Stella Durham. | Disney, Diane Marie (I97099)
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Company Unknown (1850) Age at departure: 27
Evidence from emigration, newspaper, and census records proves John Bush n ell traveled to Utah in 1850.
Mission: California, set apart 7 Apr 1897.
What I have is memories of things I was told, or what I think I was tol d . His family had ties to William the Conqueror and one branch of the fa mi ly was granted lands and money. His branch became stone masons and hel pe d build Oxford University. His family had a history of severe arthriti s a nd great kindness and generosity. It was said that the Bushnell men h ad a ngelic natures and light blonde hair at the temple, wide foreheads , wid e shoulders thick necks and strong hands. He was a kind and devote d fath er and husband and did not have plural wives, it was not asked o f him an d he did not seek another wife.
John was born in England in 1823.
At the age of 31, he married a 16 year old young woman, Elizabeth Brockb a nk, in Salt Lake City Utah.
John and Elizabeth had 8 children.
When John was 33 years old (1856) they had John Jr.
When John was 35 years old (1858) they had Isaac.
When John was 37 years old (1860) they had Edward.
When John was 39 years old (1862) they had Daniel.
When John was 42 years old (1865) they had Howard.
When John was 45 years old (1868) they had Joshua.
When John was 46 years old (1869) they had Elizabeth.
When John was 48 years old (1871) they had Eliza.
In 1882, John died at the age of 59. | Bushnell, John H (I4764)
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Pioneer
Homer Duncan Company (1862) Age at departure: 23
About 500 individuals were in the company when it began its journey fr o m the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).
Walking Across the Plains
Mary Senior wrote a letter home in 1862: "I never enjoyed better healt h i n my life than while crossing the plains, and up to the present tim e hav e had not the least cause for complaint. We arrived in G.S.L. Cit y on Sep tember 23rd, having left Florence on June 23rd, being exactly tw o months , the quickest trip known to have been made with ox-teams . . . . The jour ney to me was a source of much enjoyment and pleasure." | Senior, Mary (I4815)
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Jacob Gates Company (1853) Age at departure: 21. 262 individuals and 3 3 w agons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitti ng p ost at Keokuk, Iowa. The first members of the company arrived in Sal t Lak e by September 26, but others came in as late as September 30th.
Occupation: Farmer | Greaves, Joseph (I2658)
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Unknown Companies (1847-1868) Age at departure: 25
James and his wife Janet came to Utah in either 1851 or 1852. Further re s earch is needed to narrow the year of their travel.
JENNET SNEDEN DUNCAN
(husband, James Duncan)
WRITTEN BY HER DAUGHTER ELIZABETH E. STEWART
MAY 23, 1942
Life of my mother, Jennet Sneden Duncan who was the daughter of David S n eden and Christeena Lyle. She was born in Gargel, Scotland, April 21, 1 83 0. She attended school in Scotland and had a very good education for t ha t time.
Her father was a coal miner and provided all their groceries in large q u antities. Mother was the wife of James Duncan and was the proud and hap p y mother of nine children; three girls and six boys. Mary Jennet, Jame s , David, John, Christeena, Elizabeth Emma, Adam, George, and Richard. A da m and George died in infancy. James, David, Christeena, and Richard al l l ived to man and womanhood but have passed beyond now .
Mother came to America in the dame ship with James Duncan who afterwar d s became my father. It was on the ship that she first met him. She le f t a sweetheart behind in Scotland but he never came to America.
When mother arrived in Pennsylvania she started to work for a lady by t h e name of Walker. It was here that mother and father’s courtship starte d . Mrs. Walker was good and kind to mother. She taught her how to cook a n d do general housework. Father would come real often to visit with moth er . Mrs. Walker was also very kind to him and told mother whenever he ca me , to find anything to eat that he wished to.
While mother was living with Mrs. Walker she learned to be a very excel l ent cook. She was still living here when she and father were married i n 1 851. They came to Utah in 1852 and first settled in a small town by t he n ame of Session.
Father worked here for a man named Anson Call. When the Legislature m e t in Fillmore, Anson Call had to come down and he brought father and mo th er with him. Father went back with him. Mother stayed in Fillmore unti l s he grew tired of staying alone and she started out to walk back to wh er e father was, carrying with her, a small bundle of clothes on her back .
It was now the later part of November and winter was setting in. When s h e got just north of Provo, it started to snow and was very cold. As sh e t rugged along through the cold, wet snow her clothes froze to her bod y . A man and woman came along in a covered wagon and she asked them to l e t her ride but the man said no and as the wagon passed her she grabbe d ho ld of a rod that was standing out on the back of the wagon. She hun g on t o this rod until she was worn out and almost frozen to death. Sh e droppe d in he snow and the woman saw here fall.
She coaxed her husband to help mother into the wagon. She was very go o d and kind to mother and helped her put dry clothes on. She had to pul l m other’s shoes and stockings off for her as they were frozen to her le gs a nd feet.
They left her near the point of the mountain with a family who had lo s t their mother. Their children were trying to prepare Thanksgiving dinn e r so mother stayed there a few days and helped them all she could. As s oo n as she felt stronger, she went on to father. They both worked for An so n Call and he gave father a yoke of oxen for his work and mother a co w fo r her work.
In 1853 father and mother went back to Fillmore. While they were livi n g here father worked in a flourmill for a man name Bartholomew. Mary a n d James were born in Fillmore. In 1857 they moved to Meadow and locat e d on what is known as the ridge, about one and one half miles west of t h e present location of Meadow. They lived under the ridge in a one-roo m lo g house. The dirt blew in the house so bad here mother just couldn’ t stan d it. So one day when father was out in the field working, mothe r pulle d the floor of the house up and carried it on top of the ridge an d leane d it against a fence. They lived in this place with the floorboar ds a she lter until father had time to bring the logs on top of the ridg e and buil d another. David was born while living here.
The water was very muddy and bad down here, as it ran through all the f i elds, so father decided to move to town. The rest of the family was al l b orn in Meadow. When they moved up to town they built a two-room adob e hou se on the north side of the lot where Daniel Duchnell now lives. La ter th ey moved up to the lot where Isaac now lives and made more adobe s and bui lt another house.
Father made a bed, table and stools for chairs. Mother cooked in a skil l et on the fireplace for a good many years. She had plain white curtain s t o her windows, which were made out of some of her clothes. When mothe r fi rst came to Utah she had lovely clothes and lots of nice quilts an d line n sheets. She cut her white petticoats up to make her baby clothe s and sh e also cut many of her other things up to make her older childre n’s cloth es. She made fathers best shirts out of her linen sheets .
By this time father had accumulated a few sheep and they would sent t h e wool from these sheep with a little grease to Provo and have it mad e in to rolls and many times they couldn’t afford to have the rolls mad e and m other would make them and she also has a spinning wheel and woul d then sp in these rolls of wool into thread.
Abram Greenhalgh was a weaver and mother would hire him to weave her th r ead into cloth. He would take much of the thread for the weaving. Moth e r was a lovely seamstress and she made all her boys suits, shirts, an d un derwear and us girls’ dresses and other clothes by hand as she didn’ t hav e a sewing machine. She did all her own knitting and knitted and di d lot s of fine lovely sewing for other people.
When she was working for Anson Call she made his son a best white shi r t and worked it down the front. He prized this shirt very highly. She b ra ided hats for us children out of wheat straw. She pounded corn stalk s t o get the juice and she also scrapped watermelon rinds for juice an d the n she would boil it down to make a little sweet for us children. W e all h ad lots of canker because we didn’t get enough sweet. Mother kep t her hou se spotlessly clean. Sister Fisher told her many times she coul d eat of f her hearth stone, she always kept it so clean.
She always washed and ironed beautifully her Sunday clothes, whether th e y needed it or not, to have them spotless clean for the next Sunday. S h e kept her few dishes on a board shelf covered with paper she had scall op ed and tried to make it look like a cupboard.
Mother was a very faithful woman and many times she would walk long dis t ances to attend to her religious duties. She was a Sunday School teach e r and was also one of the first visiting teachers in the Relief Societ y . She and Sister Gull went all around town and gathered pieces, which t h e Relief Society sisters made into quilts. Mother and Alice Stott boug h t these two first quilts they made and gave nine dollars apiece for the m.
One time father, mother, and the children made a trip to Salt Lake Ci t y in the covered wagon. Mother drove the team all the way and father wa lk ed driving a nice fat steer he sold in Salt Lake. Mother said she coul d t ie in a red handkerchief all the things she got with the money from t he s teer. When my sister Christeena died she left a baby boy ten moths o ld an d also another little boy 5 years old.
Mother cared for these boys until they were twelve and seventeen year s o f age and then their father took them. Mother worked very hard all he r li fe, both in the home and in the garden and fields.
She was always good and kind to her family and did all she could to ma k e them happy. The neighbors’ children loved to come to our house becau s e mother was kind to them and fed them when they were hungry. Many of t h e grown ups now can remember the nice warm scones she gave them when th e y were children.
Her whole married life was a very hard one but she remained faithful a n d was loved by all who knew her. She died at the ripe old age of eighty -f our.
My mother, Jennet Sneden Duncan, was born April 21, 1830 in Gargel, Sco t land to a coal miner, David Sneden and his wife Christeena Lyle.
Mother met my father, James Duncan, on the boat in which they came to A m erica. They lived first in Pennsylvania where she worked for a Mrs. Wal ke r and where mother learned to become an excellent cook. Father courte d he r here and it was here she was living when they were married in 1851 .
In 1852 they came to Utah and settled in the small town of Session, n o w Bountiful. Mother and Father both worked for Anson Call, who paid th e m with a yoke of oxen and a cow. When the Legislature met, Anson Call h a d to go to Fillmore and he took mother and father with him. Father retu rn ed to Session but Mother stayed in Fillmore. She grew tired of stayin g al one and began to walk to Session carrying a small bundle of clothe s on he r back.
It was November and winter was setting in. when she got just north of P r ovo it started to snow and was very cold. As she trudged along throug h th e cold wet snow her clothes froze to her body. A covered wagon cam e by an d she asked for a ride, but the man refused. She grabbed hold o f a rod o n the back of the wagon and hung on until she was worn out an d almost fro zen to death. As she dropped into the snow, the woman on th e wagon saw he r fall. She coaxed her husband to assist Mother into the w agon where sh e helped Mother put on dry clothes. She had to pull Mother’ s shoes and st ockings off as they were frozen to her feet. They left he r near the poin t of the mountain with a motherless family where she stay ed a few days un til she felt stronger—helping them prepare Thanksgivin g dinner. Then sh e went on to Father.
In 1853 Mother and Father moved to Fillmore where Father worked in th e f lourmill for Mr. Bartholomew. Mary Jennet and James were born in Fill more . They moved to Meadow in 1857 and lived under a ridge in a one-roo m lo g house west of town. The dirt blew in this house so badly Mother co uldn’ t stand it. One day she tore up the floorboards of the house and ca rrie d them to the top of the ridge and leaned them against the fence fo r a sh elter. They lived like this until Father had time to build anothe r shelte r. David was born here. The water was muddy and bad so Father de cided t o move into town.
In Meadow they built a two-room adobe house and later a larger house. T h e rest of the children were born in Meadow: John, Christeena, Elizabet h E mma, Adam, George and Richard. Adam and George died as infants.
Father made furniture and Mother cooked in a skillet on the fireplace f o r many years. When she came to Utah she had lovely clothes and many qui lt s and linen sheets. She cut up her white petticoats to make baby cloth e s and used her other things to make older children’s clothes. She mad e Fa ther’s best shirts out of her linen sheets.
Father had accumulated a few sheep. Mother spun wool into thread and h a d Adam Greenhalgh weave her thread into cloth. She was a marvelous seam st ress and knitter and made clothes both for her own family and for othe r p eople.
Mother pounded corn stalks and scraped watermelon rinds for juice, whi c h she boiled down to make sweets. We all had lots of canker from lac k o f sweets. She worked hard all her married life in home, garden and fi eld . She kept her house and clothes spotlessly clean. When my sister Chr iste ena died Mother took care of her two small boys for 12 years.
She was a faithful woman and would walk long distances to attend to h e r religious duties. She was a Sunday School teacher and one of the fir s t visiting teachers in Relief Society. She and Sister Gull gathered pie ce s for quilts made by the Relief Society sisters. Mother and Alice Stot t b ought the first two quilts they made for nine dollars a piece.
Mother was always kind to her family and neighbors. Many grown-ups tod a y remember the warm scones she gave them as children. She was loved b y al l who know her and she died at 84 years of age.
JAMES DUNCAN
James Duncan, son of James Duncan and Mary McLaughlin, was born in Gre e n End, Scotland, February 5, 1828. While a young man in Scotland he hea r d the Mormon Missionaries preach, and was converted to the Mormon Churc h . He decided to come to America and join the Saints.
When he was twenty-two years old he sailed for America. On the dame sh i p was a Scottish girl by the name of Janette Sneddon, just two years yo un ger than James. When they got to Pennsylvania they both stopped to ear n m oney to continue to Utah. Janette worked for a Mrs. Walker who was ve ry k ind to her and taught her many things about house keeping. Mrs. Walk er wa s also very hospitable to James when he came to court Janette. Sh e told J anette to give him food and treat him well. Janette was still wi th Mrs. W alker when she and James were married in 1851.
They crossed the plains and settled in Sessions, (Bountiful) where th e y both worked for Anson Call. When Anson called by Brigham Young to set tl e Fillmore, Anson took James and Janette with him to Fillmore. They fi rs t settled in Fillmore where their first two children were born, Mary J ane tte, born April 15, 1854, and James, born February 26, 1857. James wa s pa sturing a herd of cows on the tall grass about seven miles south o f Fillm ore. The soil was not rocky as it was in Fillmore, and there wa s a smal l mountain stream. He went home and talked it over with his wife , and sh e consented to move to the south. They lived in a cave on the si de of a h ill, and after four months several other families joined them . Here Davi d was born February 4, 1859.
About a year and a half later James Duncan supervised the moving of t h e town of Meadow farther east as the water could then be taken from th e c reek. James was superintendent of the Sunday School, Bishop’s counsel or t o Bishop Hyrum Bell Bennett, and worked in other positions in the ch urch . More children came to bless their home: John born January 7, 1861 ; Chri stina born March 24, 1863; Elizabeth Emma born February 8, 1866; A dam bor n February 3, 1868; Richard born, February 8, 1869; George born A ugust 27 , 1871. James was a professional adobe maker and soon made adobe s and bui lt the first house in Meadow, he also made adobes for the othe r houses an d some of those houses still stand. He was very industrious , strictly hon est and fair in all his dealings, a fine example for all o f the citizens , he passed away, January 4, 1911, at the age of 83 and i s buried besid e his wife in the Meadow Cemetery .
James Duncan was one of the first of four men called to colonize Meado w . The early years there were difficult but not without humor. These ear l y settlers had accumulated some cattle and a few sheep, chickens and pi g s that roamed freely throughout their fields. Because of the tremendou s a mount of work that went into providing food and shelter for the famil ies , corrals and pens had to wait. Companies of settlers on their way t o Cal ifornia found it handy to just help themselves to the animals the y wanted , but the settlers found this increasingly hard to cope with.
One late afternoon when two or three of these company men stopped at gr a ndfather’s place, they saw a nice fat bull and decided to take it alon g w ith them. Grandmother protested but they paid no attention to her. So on a fter they left, grandfather came home from the field where he had be en wo rking and found grandmother in tears and very upset. He decided tha t wa s enough--he was not going to allow people to take his animals any l onge r without at least putting up a fight. He was going to get that bul l back . Though he didn’t have a gun, he did have a good bullwhip, calle d a “qui rt or Black Snake”, hanging on the wall and he knew how to thro w and po p it with authority. Grandmother was afraid of him and tried t o talk hi m out of going after them, but grandfather, a stubborn Scotsman , took dow n the bullwhip and set out at a fast pace. Overtaking the men , he announc ed that he had come for the bull and when they started to ob ject, put o n a little exhibition—popping and swinging the whip with impr essive skill . “Do I get the bull or do you feel the sting of my whip?” h e demanded. J ust what happened after that grandfather never did say, bu t he returned w ith the bull. It has been said that there were some who c ould pick a fl y off a horse with those whips and never touch the horse—t hese men may ha ve thought he was one of this group.
During the time that grandfather and grandmother James Duncan were livi n g in the old fort at Fillmore, Indians often camped where Meadow is no w . Chief Walker, their leader, was known to be a very cruel Indian and m os t of the whites were afraid of him. At that time the area was a vast m ead ow of tall grass so the pioneers ran their cattle there in the summe r an d cut the grass for winter-feed. The men would return to Fillmore ev ery n ight, however, as they were afraid the Indians might make trouble.
One day the cattle thundered into the fort, many shot with Indian arrow s . Grandfather, volunteered to go see what had caused the trouble. At th a t time. Chief Walker’s band was camped on the northeast corner of the t ow n where the creek ran from the mountains through he meadows, so grandf ath er started out on foot along the foothills where the cedars grew thic k. H e met a Mr. King who was looking for his cattle and the two proceede d t o the Indian camp. There they found the Indians dancing around in cir cles , moaning and performing the death rituals. Chief Walker was dead. O ne In dian left the dance, ran a few steps and shot a pony, and then anot her di d the same, and another. These animals were for Chief Walker to fi de [tak e] into the happy hunting grounds.
Later when the dancing stopped, they tied the Chief to a horse, form e d a line and wound their way up the canyon. There they prepared a grav e a nd furnished it with supplies, dishes, weapons and all the material s nece ssary for Chief Walker to live happily in the hereafter. Grandfath er wa s appalled when they also buried alive with him one of his own papo oses . He worked his head up through the pickets that were placed over th e gra ve and cried pitifully.
The Indians gave strict orders to everyone not to go into the canyon—th e ir Chief’s happy hunting grounds. The pioneers were not even allowed t o m ake a road into the canyon.
This experience took place between 1854 and 1857.
Biography obtained from the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Fillmore, Ut a h, Territorial Statehouse Museum. | Snedden, Jennette (I6455)
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Unknown Companies (1847-1868) Age at departure: 25
James and his wife Janet came to Utah in either 1851 or 1852. Further re s earch is needed to narrow the year of their travel.
James Duncan, son of James Duncan and Mary McLaughlin, was born in Gre e n Edn. Scotland, February 5, 1828. While a young man in Scotland, he h ea rd the Mormon Missionaries preach and was converted to the Mormon Chur ch . He decided to come to America and join the Saints.
When he was twenty-two years old he sailed for America. On the same sh i p was a Scottish girl by the name of Jeanette Sneddon, just two years y ou nger than James. When they got to Pennsylvania they both stopped to ea r n money to continue to Utah. Jeanette worked for a Mrs. Walker who wa s ve ry kind to her and taught her many things about housekeeping.Mrs . Walke r was also very hospitable to James when he came to court Jeanett e. She t old Jeanette to give him food and treat him well. Jeanette was s till wit h Mrs. Walker when she and James were married in 1851.
They crossed the plains in the John S. Higbee company under Captain Jam e s Bay. [The Higbee journal of the crossing is found in the Duncan gene al ogy records. As of 2015, granddaughter Elaine Gordon had a copy of thi s. ]
They settled in Sessions (Bountiful) where they both worked for Anson Ca l l. When Anson was called by Brigham Young to settle Fillmore, Anson to o k James and Jeanette with him to Fillmore. Their first two children, Ma r y Jeanette (Apr. 15, 1854) and James (Feb. 25, 1857) were born there. J am es was pasturing a herd of cows on the tall grass about seven miles so ut h of Fillmore. The soil was not as rocky as it was in Fillmore, an d a sma ll mountain stream ran nearby. He went home and talked it over w ith hi s wife, and she consented to move to the south. They lived in a ca ve on t he side of a hill and after four months several other families jo ined the m. Here David was born, Feb. 4, 1859.
About a year and a half later, James supervised the moving of the town f a rther east as the water could then be taken from the creek. James was s up erintendent of the Sunday School, Bishop's counselor to Bishop Hyrum B el l Bennett, and worked in other positions in the church. More childre n cam e to bless their home: John, born Jan. 7, 1861; Christina, Born Ma r. 24 , 1863; Elizabeth Emma, born Feb. 8, 1866; Adam born Feb. 3, 1868 ; Richar d, born Feb. 8, 1869 and George, Born Aug. 27, 1871.
James Duncan was one of the first four men called-to colonize Meadow . H e was a professional adobe maker and soon made adobes and built the f irs t house in Meadow. He also made adobes for the other houses and som e of t hose still stand. He was very industrious, strictly honest and fai r in al l of his dealings, a fine example for all of the citizens .
James passed away on Jan. 4, 1911 at the age of 83 and is buried besid e h is wife in the Meadow Cemetery. | Duncan, James (I6456)
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Pioneer
William Empey Company (1854) Approximate age at departure: 57
About 43 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the o u tfitting post at Westport, Missouri.
Luke was one of ten children. From a young age, he worked in a mil l a s a spinner.
At the age of 21, he married Martha and they made their home in Crompt o n where their first two children were born. They moved to Oldham wher e th eir other eight children were born .
While Living there, they heard the gospel and Luke was baptized in 184 2 . The family decided to immigrate to America and join the saints in th e V alley.
Luke and Martha and two of their children sailed in 1854, arriving in N e w Orleans. They took the boat up river to Kansas City, where Martha di e d of cholera. Luke took his two children west. He married Ann Weeks bu t i t didn't work out.
Shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Richmond, he was called on a mis s ion to the Indians. He died about 10 years later. He was a hard workin g m an and a faithful member of the church. After his death, the funds le ft f rom his estate went to help his son Joseph Merrick Nield and his wif e an d little boy emigrate to the Valley.
Written by Dayle White and Merrell Gom m | Nield, Luke (I7055)
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Company Unknown (1852) Age at departure: 35
Evidence from church records and the Deseret News prove that Rachel We s t and her daughter Eliza West traveled to Utah in 1852. Rachel's husba n d died in Missouri in Feb. 1852 and Rachel remarried in Salt Lake Cit y i n March 1853, prior to the arrival of that season's emigration.
Eliza Jane West Taylor History Written by Cindy Dye
Eliza Jane West was born April 20, 1847 in Borrowash, Ockbrook, Derby, E n gland to John West and Rachel Keeling West. John and Rachel were marri e d on October 22, 1837 in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England. Together they h a d 5 children, all born in Borrowash, Ockbrook, England; Hannah, Mathe w , Naomi (Naomi died at 18 months on September 20, 1846 in Borrowash) , El iza Jane and Frances.
In the year of 1848, both Eliza parents were baptized into the Churc h o f Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Eliza's father John and his youn ge r brother David were the first people to be baptized in that area. Sh ort ly afterwards John baptized his father. His brothers William, Jesse a nd T homas along with others were all baptized, and the Borrowash Branc h was o rganized. The West family was the first in that part of the coun try to r eceive the Gospel of Jesus Christ .
In those days the saints were very anxious to get to the gathering pla c e of Zion. On January 6, 1851 John and Rachel with their 4 children; H an nah, Mathew, Eliza Jane and Frances left for Liverpool and went on boa r d the ship Ellen. John's brother David West and his family went at th e s ame time. They arrived in New Orleans on the 14th of March 1851 and t he n went on a boat up the Mississippi. At St. Louis they got on anothe r bo at to St. Joseph, Missouri. It was a very hard time for them as the y wer e in a strange place and among strange people with very little mean s. Jo hn found a place for his family to live and then set out to find w ork unt il they were able to continue their trek west to the Salt Lake va lley.
The cholera epidemic was rampant during that time and many people were s i ck and dying. Eliza's older sister Hannah who was only 12 years old w a s the first in the family to pass away from the disease, she died Apri l 2 9, 1851. This must have been such a trying time for the entire famil y a s three months later on July 21, 1851 little Julia Frances who was 1 5 mon ths old passed away. Then on November 17, 1851 four months afte r Julia' s death Mathew who was 10 years of age died. In a matter of sev en month s Rachel and John had lost three of their children. Eliza was th eir onl y living child. Tragedy then struck again on February 12, 1852 wh en Eliza 's father passed away, leaving Eliza and her mother alone in St . Joseph , Missouri. Eliza Jane was only 4 years old .
There was a brother by the name of William Greenhalgh making ready t o g o to Utah that spring. He asked Rachel to marry him. It would have b ee n a marriage for convenience sake as William had recently lost his wi f e and he had 3 children, one being an infant of less than a year old . Wi th both William and Rachel on their own with small children it woul d bene fit both parties. Rachel asked her brother in law, David West wha t he th ought about it. He told her that if she did not want to marry hi m he woul d help her all he could, but perhaps it may be the best way fo r her to ge t to Utah. So sometime between February and May 1852 Willia m and Rachel w ere married. Eliza was 5 years old at that time .
William, Rachel and four children left for Utah May 29, 1852 in the Jam e s Jepson Company and arrived in Utah on September 10, 1852. They ha d 1 w agon, 4 oxen and 1 cow. William Greenhalgh was 40 years of age, Joh n Gree nhalgh was 15, Ezekiel Greenhalgh was 4, Joseph Greenhalgh was les s tha n a year old, Rachel was 34 and Eliza Jane West was 5 years old . It too k the company over three months to cross the plains. There wer e plenty o f dried buffalo chips that made good fuel for cooking with an d I am sur e Eliza helped to gather them.
Rachel and William Greenhalgh were divorced after arriving in the Salt L a ke Valley. In the spring of 1853 a man named Nelson Wheeler Whipple nee de d someone to help care for his ailing wife. He sought out and marrie d Rac hel on March 12, 1853. Eliza now had a new step-father and brother s and s isters. Her step father ran a mill and Eliza and her mother move d to th e mill in the canyon to do the cooking and washing through the su mmer .
On April 12, 1854 a son was born to Rachel and Nelson, they named him Da n iel. Then on June 7, 1857 a little girl was born and they named her Cy nt hia Delight.
When Eliza was 9 years old the grasshoppers made their appearance in va s t numbers on the bare land and they commenced to sweep everything befo r e them by way of vegetation. There was also a lack of water for irrigat io n in consequence of the light snow on the mountains the winter before . A s summer advanced, bread stuff became very scarce and many were eve n with out bread and lived on a kind of root that was found in considerab le quan tities on some of the low ground. Eliza was sent out to gather we eds an d thistles that the family could eat. In her account of her life s he tol d of remembering how good the first rye flour was she ever had tas ted i n the one pancake she was allowed to have .
July 1857 the saints were informed that an army of some four thousan d m en were on their way to Utah Territory to enforce the laws of the Uni te d States. Many people fled the city. Nelson took his family and campe d o n the bank of the Provo River, about 45 miles south from Salt Lake Ci ty . Most of the time the weather was stormy and disagreeable. Eliza reme mbe rs how her and two of her stepsisters would wade in the river and cat ch f ish with their hands. which was the only meat they had.
The army passed through the city and made a military post in Cedar Valle y . After the army had come in and found their quarters, the word was pas se d around for the Saints to return to their homes. On hearing this Nel so n Whipple returned with his family to their home in Salt lake. Eliza' s l ittle sister, Cynthia Delight Whipple was taken sick because of lyin g o n the wet ground, while camping out. She passed away September 4, 1 858 , she was only 15 months old. The following spring on April 15, 185 9 Rac hel had another son, Nelson Wheeler known as Wheeler.
When Eliza was old enough her stepfather taught her to spin on the fla x w heel where she spun all the tread for their towels, tablecloths and b ed t icking. As she grew older she learned to use the wool wheel and spu n woo l for six families. In the fall her stepfather took the children t o the c anyon to gather service berries, chokecherries and elderberries t o bottle . The fruit was preserved in molasses because they had no sugar . That sam e year her step father was ill all winter long and the youngst ers had t o saw wood for the fire. Since they had no money for shoes, the y went bar efoot with only rags tied around their feet to protect them fr om the cold . In spite of their efforts their feet were often frozen.
On June 3, 1865 when Eliza Jane was 18 years old she married Samuel Barn e s Taylor in the Old Endowment House in Salt Lake. Samuel was born at A sh ton, Underloyd, Lancashire, England on October 16, 1841. He was the yo ung est of a family of 12 children. He came across the plains with his pa rent s on 14 July 1853, they left Winter Quarters in the Wheelock Company . Sa muel crossed the plains three times, once with his parents and twic e whe n he went back for immigrants in 1862 and 1863. He settled down whe n he a nd Eliza Jane were married. They had seven Children; Mary Jane , John W est, Harriet, Sarah Ann, Naomi Mariah, Annie Eliza and Samuel Le vi. Mar y Jane died as an infant and all the other children lived to adu lthood.
With a background reflecting a strong concept of the work ethic, Samu e l Barnes and Eliza Jane worked together to raise a family in both the c hu rch and the community. Samuel Barnes helped to build the Utah and Sal t La ke Canal, and was one of those who chose the site for the Pleasant G ree n Cemetery. He was also involved in school activities there. Eliza Ja ne w orked as a Relief Society teacher with Francis Hardman for 25 years , hand ling the whole eastern half of the ward which extended to 4800 wes t. At a ge 79 she won first prize at the Utah State Fair with a quilt hav ing mor e than 1,100 pieces in it which were hand-sewn. On October 1, 19 34 she s aid " I am the mother of seven children, 40 grandchildren, 56 gr eat-grand children and am still well at the age of 86 years and five mont hs. On Ja n 25, 1935 she died quietly in her own home in Magna, Utah .
A blessing on the head of Eliza Jane West, daughter of John west and Rac h el Keeling B by Nelson Whipple B Mar. 7, I858
Eliza Jane, I lay my hands upon your head for and in behalf of your fath e r, and bless you as the Spirit of God dictates. I place upon you a fat he r's blessing in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Your days shall be man y , for the destroyer shall not have power over you. Your mind shall b e en lightened by the Spirit of God until you shall comprehend, to a grea t ext ent, the things of His Kingdom. You shall yet be an orna¬ment in t he Kin gdom of God and in the family of some of his servants, for the ey e of th e Lord is upon you for good, and he will preserve you to do good . Your p osterity shall be a comfort to you. You are of the posterity o f Ephrai m through Joseph and I seal upon you all the blessings of Abraha m, Isaa c and Jacob. You shall officiate in the House of the Lord for yo ur proge nitors on the female side. As long as you live, your knowledg e shall gre atly increase. You shall have an understanding of the thing s of the Kingd om of God, spoken by his servants, the prophets. You shal l return to th e place of the building of the New Jerusalem, and enjoy, w ith the daughte rs of Zion, and mothers of Israel. The time of the redem ption is near, w hich shall cause your heart to rejoice when you are abl e to comprehend it . Blessings shall be multiplied upon you and your pos terity for you shal l be mother to sons and daughters, who shall honor yo u and look to you fo r counsel and you shall keep the counsel of the serv ants of God. Think o f those words that I say unto you and remember them , and they shall comfo rt you in time of sorrow and affliction, and clai m those promises at th e hand of the Lord in humility and they surely wil l be given accordingl y to your humble desire. I pray God my Eternal Fat her to preserve your l ife and direct your steps by His Spirit that you m ay attain to all thes e blessings that I pronounce upon you and enjoy the m in time and in all e ternity in the society of the Saints on our Father 's kingdom, even so, Am en. | West, Eliza Jane (I422)
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Pioneer
David Evans Company (1850)
Age at Departure: 1 | Whipple, Mary Janet (I17552)
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Pioneer
David Evans Company (1850)
Age at Departure: 3 | Whipple, Miranda Jane (I17550)
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Pioneer
Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company (1851) Age at departure: 9
About 21 families from Garden Grove plus other individuals and 60 wago n s were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting po s t at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). They left Garden Gr ov e, Iowa on 17 May 1851
This story was written by one of Sarah Huntsmans’ children. I do not kn o w how or where I got it, but I am her Great Granddaughter, Earline Gil e s Kvist.
Sarah Huntsman Giles was the 10th child of James Huntsman and Mary Johns t on Huntsman. She was born in Nauvoo, Illinois on the 3rd of June, 1841.
Her father was the 36th member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-D a y Saints.
The family moved to Kirtland, Ohio in 1830. From there they moved to Jac k son County, Missouri where they stayed until 1839. They were driven ou t o f Missouri on 27 February, 1839. The next day their son was born in a n ol d blacksmith shop. The next day, 28 February, 1839, they began the j ourne y to Nauvoo, Illinois. They lived there until the martyrdom of th e Prophe t Joseph Smith.
In 1846 they moved to Council Bluff. They were among the first settler s t here.
Grandfather Huntsman built a grist mill there and sold flour to the immi g rants
They traveled to Utah in Captain Merriotts’ Company of 50 wagons. Capta i n William Barton was Captain over their 10 wagons. They settled in Sal t L ake City on Mill Creek.
They were called by President Brigham Young to go to Fillmore, Millard C o unty in 1853. Grandfather Huntsman held a great many positions to trus t i n Fillmore, which was once the State Capitol of Utah.
During the early days he acted as Santa Claus to the poor of that town.
My mother, Sarah, married Joseph Sinkler Giles on January 30, 1869 in Fi l lmore.
My father came to Utah as a surgeon in Johnstons Army
My mother made buckskin shirts and pants for many of the young men of Ho l den, Utah, and also made clothing for men which she sold in the store . Sh e owned the first sewing machine in Holden. She was a great dancer a nd si nger. She gave birth to thirteen children. She was also a Relief So ciet y teacher when it was first organized and was a faithful teacher unt il he r death
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Pioneer
John G. Holman Company (1868)
Age at departure: 13
About 650 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it beg a n i t s journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.
As a missionary to England, he converted his sister, Harriet.
History of
John Brook Hirst
1855-1923
Compiled by Victoria W. Chambers, 2014
Resources:
History of Charlotte Hirst Coon by Bertha Coon Chambers
Obituary: Salt Lake Telegram, December 8, 1923
Family Search / Family Tree
Pioneer Overland Travel records and Mormon Migration records
Utah Pioneer Biographies
History of Pioneer Stake / Family Search
US Passport Application
Naturalized Citizen Record
Wikipedia
John Brook Hirst, born January 12, 1855 in Rushworth, Yorkshire, Englan d , was the tenth of thirteen children born to John and Charlotte Brook H ir st. Of the ten daughters and three sons, two sons died in infancy an d on e daughter as a teenager. John was the only surviving son.
From the History of Charlotte Hirst Coon, John’s younger sister, by Bert h a Coon Chambers, we read something of the family’s background and exper ie nces:
“Their father was a farmer in that little English village [Todmoredon, L a ncashire, England] and also a weaver of fine cloth. Both parents, Joh n , Sr. and Charlotte, were staunch Latter-day Saints, having joined th e Ch urch [in 1852/1853] and for sixteen years John, Sr. labored as a hom e mis sionary and traveling Elder throughout England. During this time h is hom e was always open to missionaries; among them were Charles W. Penr ose an d many other prominent men of the Church. For years all in the fa mily wh o were able to do so worked and saved their hard-earned money tha t they m ight go to Utah; and by the year 1868 they were ready to depar t from th e land of their birth.
“This they did with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow – joy at the pros p ect of journeying to a new land, and sorrow because three of their daug ht ers who were married remained behind. Later, two of these daughters m ove d to Utah, the other one never saw her family again, with the excepti on o f her brother, John, Jr., who went to England on a mission years lat er . [This daughter remained faithful and raised her family in the Churc h.]
“The family [traveled 53 miles from Todmorden, to Liverpool and from the r e] embarked on June 20, 1868 on the little packet ship, Emerald Isle , a n old fashioned sailing vessel, with a company of 876 saints under th e le adership of Hans Jensen Hals. Incidentally this was the last grou p of sa ints to cross the ocean in a sailing vessel and also the last [su ccessful ] trip for the ship. On the return voyage east it sank with cre w and car go.
[The ship’s manifest record shows John as a 13-year-old passenger travel i ng with his six sisters and parents from Leeds, England. The family de cl ared £40 cash, £39-4s sea fare, and 16s returned.]
“The long and tedious eight-week journey was marked by many sad incident s . Terrific storms were encountered all the way. The apparatus used f o r filtering the drinking water became unserviceable, so they all had t o d rink water from huge storage tanks in an unfiltered condition. Man y beca me very ill. Thirty-seven adults and children died; [the family ] had a v ivid recollection of seeing the bodies being lowered into the o cean. [Ch arlotte, in an effort to protect her family] boiled chamomil e flowers i n their water to purify it.
“On July 10, 1868, Nancy Hirst Dearden [one of the older daughters] ga v e birth to a baby girl who was named Emerald, at the request of the cap ta in. After arriving in New York August 11th, they left by rail for Ft . Be nton, Wyoming and arrived there August 25th. On September 1, 1868 , wit h John G. Holman at the head of the company of sixty-tw o
wagons drawn by ox-teams, they started on their journey. This was the l a st company to travel by ox-team.
[“…this company traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton throu g h Whiskey Gap and northward from there until they reached the Sweetwat e r River and the old emigrant road on September 8th. As did many othe r co mpanies in the 1860’s, after coming through Echo Canyon, they travel ed t o Silver Creek and then down Parley's Canyon into the Salt Lake Vall ey. T hey arrived in Salt Lake on September 25th. Twenty-two people die d betwee n Benton and Salt Lake. Utah Pioneer Biographies, 44 vol. 28:108 ,111,113 , Trail Excerpt]
“[The] family settled in a little log house west of the Jordan River. J o hn, Sr., and his son-in-law worked on the railroad under construction t hr ough Echo Canyon during the 1868-69 winter and spring. That same spri n g of 1869 he took Dr. Anderson’s cattle on shares which he continued f o r three years. In 1872 the family moved to Pleasant Green [Magna] ne a r the west mountains where they homesteaded and raised cattle. [John , Sr .,] was presiding elder of that place until his death and [Charlotte ] wa s president of the first Relief Society, organized in 1879 which pos itio n she held until her death [June 28, 1880].”
John fell in love with Alvira Spencer and they became engaged. Family S e arch records indicate that Alvira traveled from Pleasant Green [Magna ] t o Salt Lake City and received her endowments at the Endowment House o n Oc tober 13, 1876. Her obituary indicated that Alvira, age 20, marrie d Joh n Brook Hirst, age 23, two years later on November 19, 1878 at Plea sant G reen, Salt Lake, Utah. Family Search records also indicate that t his cou ple was married November 19, 1878 at the Endowment House in Sal t Lake Cit y. A discrepancy exists; perhaps the marriage took place in S alt Lake Ci ty with a reception following that same evening in Pleasant G reen. Som e records indicate the marriage was October 24, 1876 with thei r sealing t wo years later, November 19, 1878 .
Alvira and John became the parents of one child, a daughter, Vira, bor n F ebruary 28, 1889 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Vira married James W. Fitc he s on February 10, 1913 and together they had four children: Noona, Del win , Marlin and Elaine.
John became a Naturalized Citizen on November 4, 1876 in the 3rd Judici a l District Court.
Family histories indicate that John returned to England, serving a missi o n for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was able to v is it his close family who had been left years earlier. His mission pre par ations began with his U.S. Passport Application #15885 which is date d Nov ember 5, 1909, listing him as 54 a year-old-farmer, 5 feet 8½ inche s tall , grey eyes, and dark hair turning grey. He states that his desti natio n address is: Charles W. Penrose, 295 Edge Lane, Durham House, Liv erpool , England. We assume John left Salt Lake City in November or Dece mber 19 09, traveled east by rail, then crossed the Atlantic to Liverpool .
At age 56 we find record of his return trip from England leaving Liverpo o l on December 8, 1911 on the ship SS Hesperion. He arrived in Halifax , No va Scotia, Canada on December 16, 1911. Then within a few days tim e he w ould be back in Salt Lake City via rail.
A tiny notation in the Society section of the Salt Lake Telegram on Febr u ary 8, 1915: “Mr. and Mrs. John Hirst expect to leave tomorrow for Sa n F rancisco and Los Angeles.”
As a married couple, John and Alvira were part of the Brighton Ward, Sa l t Lake Stake, for a short time then the Pleasant Green Branch was organ iz ed. Some historical details below:
•A meeting was held February 24, 1867, in the home of William Camp, atte n ded by Apostle George A. Smith and other brethren, when a ward named Br ig hton was organized. It embraced all the country in Salt Lake County l yin g west of the Jordan River north of North Jordan.
•1877 the Pleasant Green Branch organization was effected.
•October 1, 1882, Pleasant Green Branch was organized as a regular bisho p ’s ward.
•Pleasant Green Ward belonged to Salt Lake Stake until 1904, when it bec a me a part of the Pioneer Stake.
•In 1923, when the Oquirrh Stake was organized, the Pleasant Green War d w as transferred to the Oquirrh Stake.
John worked many years for the Oregon Short Line Railroad :
“The Oregon Short Line Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. states of Wyo m ing, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Oregon. The line was organized as the Ore go n Short Line Railway in 1881 as a subsidiary of Union Pacific Railway . Un ion Pacific intended the line to be the shortest route ("the short l ine" ) from Wyoming to Oregon. In 1889 the line merged with the Utah & No rther n Railway and a handful of smaller railroads to become the Oregon S hort L ine and Utah Northern Railway. Following the bankruptcy of Union P acific , the line was taken into receivership and reorganized as the Oreg on Shor t Line Railroad. The line started from the Union Pacific main li ne in Gr anger, Wyoming, and reached Montpelier, Idaho, on August 5, 188 2 and the n to McCammon, Idaho, in the Fall of 1882.” (Wikipedia)
After many years living in Pleasant Green [Magna], John and Alvira mov e d to 878 West First South, in Salt Lake City. That was the home wher e Jo hn died, at age 68, on December 7, 1923 following an eleven-month li ngeri ng illness brought on by a stroke earlier that year .
Obituary in the Salt Lake Telegram, December 8, 1923: Hirst – John B r ook, for many years an employee of the Oregon Short Line railroad, die d y esterday [December 7, 1923] at the family home, 878 West First Sout h Stre et, after an illness of eleven months. He was born January 12, 18 55, a t Rushworth, England, and was a son of John and Charlotte Brook Hir st, bo th of whom joined the LDS Church in April 1852. When 13 Mr. Hirs t came , with his parents to Utah. Besides his widow, Alvira Spencer Hir st, h e is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Vira Hirst Fitches; two grandchil dren ; three sisters, Mrs. Fanny Jenkins, Mrs. Charlotte Coon and Mrs. El len W hipple, all of Salt Lake. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clo ck Sun day [December 9, 1923] afternoon at the Fifteenth ward chapel, und er dire ction of the Larkin Undertaking Company. The body may be viewe d at the h ome from 10 o’clock Sunday morning until 1 o’clock Sunday afte rnoon . | Hirst, John Brook (I126)
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Pioneer
John G. Holman Company (1868)
Age at Departure: 8
Holman's ox train of 62 wagons left the rail terminus at Benton, Wyomin g , on September 1 with 628 emigrants. Benton was located 11 miles eas t o f present-day Rawlins, Wyoming. This end-of-track town was in existen ce f or only three months, but during its brief history more than 100 peo ple w ere reported to have died there in gunfights. The company was delay ed i n Benton when a woman in their company was arrested on a trumped-u p charg e and they had to wait for her trial. U.S. soldiers had to protec t the co mpany when an enraged mob from the railroad town marched on th e wagon com pany. The mob had been angered by false rumors to the effec t that the Mor mons were intent on taking a woman to Utah against her wil l.
Most of those who traveled to Utah in Holman's company crossed the Atlan t ic aboard the ship Emerald Isle. Many in this company were Danes and Sw ed es who suffered much sickness while crossing the ocean and after landi n g in New York. Also traveling with the company were 8 independent wago n s with about 40 passengers. After getting off the train and being load e d into the Church wagons, this company traveled in a northwesterly dire ct ion from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until the y r eached the Sweetwater River and the old emigrant road on September 8 . A s did many other companies in the 1860s, after coming through Echo Ca nyo n they traveled to Silver Creek and then down Parley's Canyon into th e va lley. They arrived in Salt Lake on September 25. Twenty-two people d ied b etween Benton and Salt Lake.
History of
Charlotte Hirst Coon
1859-1942
By Bertha Coon Chambers, daughter
Retyped by Victoria Wilson Chambers, great granddaughter-in-law, 2017
Charlotte Hirst Coon was born in Todmordon, Lancashire, England, Decemb e r 9, 1859. She was the twelfth of thirteen children, three boys, two d ie d in infancy and ten girls, one of whom died at the age of eighteen.
Her father was a farmer and a weaver of fine cloth in that little Engli s h village. Both her parents, John and Charlotte Brook Hirst, were stau nc h Latter-day Saints, having joined the Church before Charlotte’s birth , a nd for sixteen years John Hirst had labored as a home missionary an d trav eling elder throughout England. During this time his home was alw ays ope n to missionaries, among them were Charles W. Penrod and many oth er promi nent men of the Church. For years all in the family who were ab le to d o so worked and saved their hard-earned money that they might g o to Utah ; and by the year 1868, they were ready to depart from the lan d of thei r birth.
This they did with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow—joy at the prospe c t of journeying to a new land—and sorrow because three of the girls wh o w ere married remained behind. Later two of these girls came to Utah , th e other one never saw her family again, with the exception of her br othe r John, who went to England on a mission many years later.
The family embarked on the little packet ship Emerald Isle, an old-fashi o ned sailing vessel, with a company of 876 saints under the leadershi p o f Hans Jensen Hals. [Leaving Liverpool 6.20.1868 and arriving in Ne w Yor k 8.14.1868.] Incidentally this was the last group of saints to cr oss th e ocean in a sailing vessel, and also the last trip for the ship ; on th e return voyage it sank with crew and cargo.
The long tedious journey of eight heart-breaking weeks was marked by ma n y sad incidents—terrific storms were encountered all the way and the ap pa ratus used for filtering the drinking water became unserviceable. The y a ll had to drink water from huge storage tanks in an unfiltered condit ion . Charlotte recalls her mother boiling Chamomile flowers in the wate r t o purify it. Many became very ill, thirty-seven adults and childre n died . Although just eight years of age at this time, Charlotte ha d a vivid r ecollection of seeing the bodies being lowered into the ocean . One day , during a heavy galea huge rope swung behind her and she wa s swept acros s the deck. A sailor rescued her and returned her to safet y.
On the tenth of July her married sister, Nancy Dearden, gave birth t o a b aby girl who was named Emerald at the request of the Captain. Arri ving i n New York, August 11, they left by rail for Benton, Wyoming and a rrive d August 25. On September 1st with John Greenleaf Holman at the he ad o f a company of sixty-two wagons drawn by ox-teams, they started on t hei r journey across the plains. This was the last company to travel by o x-te am. During the journey, thirty-six died and were buried on the plai ns .
Fourteen weeks after leaving England, the family arrived in Salt Lake Ci t y. Charlotte’s family settled in a little log house west of the Jorda n R iver. Her father and brother-in-law worked on the railroad under con stru ction through Echo Canyon during the winter and following spring .
As soon as the water was warm enough Charlotte was baptized in the Jord a n River by Nathan Hansen and confirmed by her father. In 1872, they mo ve d to Pleasant Green near the west mountains where her father homestead e d and raised cattle. He was presiding elder of that place until his de at h and her mother was president of the first Relief Society organized i n 1 879. She also held this position until her death.
As Charlotte grew older she became very active in the Church working i n S unday School, M.I.A., and was 2nd counselor in Relief Society many ye ar s later. She was a good singer and loved to do so. She was from a mu sic al family and sang in the choir for years before and after her marria ge . She taught the neighboring children for some time as there were n o sch ools in the locality.
When she was 18 years of age her father passed away and two years late r h er mother followed him. This was a great loss to her as she was ver y dev oted to her parents. As all the other children were married she wa s lef t alone, so she lived with one sister, then another.
On January 6, 1881, she married John A. Coon after he returned home fr o m the colonizing mission to Arizona. The ceremony was performed in th e E ndowment House by Daniel H. Wells. After their marriage they continu ed t o live in Pleasant Green. John A. owned some property given him b y his g randfather, he being the eldest grandson. He purchased more acre age an d a little house which was their first home. Eventually he homest eaded m ore land, purchased more, and finally owned a large tract of land .
Their first child, John Bert, was born in the little home, November 15 , 1 881. Before Betha, their second child was born, June 23, 1884, Joh n A. h ad made adobes and built a two-room house northeast of their firs t home . Four children were born there: March 18, 1887, Charles Lorus wa s born , he passed away December 23, 1889. Myrtle was born May 19, 1889 , passe d away during the flu epidemic of 1918. Roswell Hirst was born D ecembe r 4, 1892. Rudgar York, born March 30, 1896.
Charlotte passed through many trying times raising her family of six bo y s and two girls. Far from medical aid, she nursed them through seriou s i llnesses with no one but her husband to help. They had faith in thei r He avenly father, firm believers in prayer and administration.
Although she was not very strong, she was a hard worker—raising chicken s , and churning—making as many as eight pounds of butter a week. In 18 9 6 when she had five children, her husband was called to go on a missio n t o the Northern States. At this time her eldest son, Bert, was 15 yea rs o f age and Bertha was 13. She was an excellent manager and when he r husba nd returned home two years later, he found she had added to inste ad of us ing a sum of money he had placed in the bank for her use befor e his depar ture.
At the time John A. received his call, twelve were called from the Pleas a nt Green Ward, most were married men with families, all farmers. At fi rs t a number of them did not see how they could go and leave their wive s an d children to run the farms. Bishop Hiram T. Spencer told them if t hey h ad faith the way would be opened up for them to go. They all wen t at dif ferent times during the year and filled honorable missions .
From Bertha Coon Chambers’ Autobiography :
“Father left on December 10, 1896 and returned December 25, 1898. Tha t w as a happy time for all. It took faith, courage and determination fo r al l concerned. Mother was a good manager and we children helped wit h wha t we could do. Bert especially was a great help in taking care o f the li vestock, feeding, watering and milking the cows. Mother’s niece , Emeral d and her husband Will, helped in many ways while father was awa y, especi ally on Saturdays in taking the butter and eggs to Salt Lake an d bringin g groceries home. Sometimes mother, Bert or I would go along t o help. W e had been doing this for some time before father went away, u sed our tea m and buggy some of the time, theirs other times.
“During the time the men were in the mission field, Pleasant Green War d p rospered exceedingly, a new ward house was built. After father retur ne d from his mission, two other sons were born, Archie Brook on July 18 , 19 01 and Clifford Alton, June 23, 1904.
“The money that had been saved was used the next summer to enlarge the i r home. In 1913, this home and all their household goods were destroy e d by fire caused by an overheated stove. The home was later rebuilt.
“The folks took us, Bert and I, to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temp l e which was in April; I was nine the following June. The temple was de di cated April 6, 1893 by President Wilford Woodruff. The dedicatory ser vic es continued twice each day from April 6th to the 18th, again April 2 3r d and 24th, the 21st and 22nd being reserved for Sunday School childre n . It must have been one of those days we went.
“It was not easy to make a living on a dry farm. Father acquired mor e l and – I think he bought some from some of his cousins and homesteade d som e. He eventually owned four hundred and some odd acres. They ha d to dep end on the snow in winter and rain the spring, also some water t hat cam e down from Coon’s Canyon in the spring. When it was a dry seaso n the cr ops were poor. Most of the land father owned was only good fo r grazing s ince it was up in the foothills next to the mountains. Thi s was where th e milk cows would be taken each morning for milking .
“At different times in his life father owned quite a lot of cattle. T h e ones he was raising for beef would be driven to the canyon each spri n g and brought out in the fall to sell. The price of beef was much low e r than it is now, so one that weighed several hundred pounds really di d n ot sell for much. When father had a number to sell and got what he c alle d, a fair price, the folks were very happy. This meant money for ta xes , new clothing that was needed on a farm. The folks were very carefu l an d wise in their spending. They had to be careful. They were so ple ase d when they had what father called, a little next egg, left over, eve n i f it was just a few dollars. I never saw anyone that could make a do lla r go farther than mother could. If she wanted to get something a lit tl e special, she would save a little each week, even if it was just a fe w c ents. At times it would take weeks and months before she had the nee de d amount. She would keep it in a fancy cup she had on next to the to p sh elf in the cupboard. The money was never taken out for anything els e exc ept in case of an emergency.
“The folks did not believe in going in debt, and never would unless it w a s very necessary. Sometimes in the winter when most of the cows were d r y and the chickens were not laying good, they would have to get some gr oc eries on time. I know when this happened they got as little as possib le . If the folks owed thirty or forty dollars for groceries by spring , i t seemed such a dreadful thing.
“For a number of years, they went to the May sale at the Z.C.M.I. to g e t us fitted out for summer. I often times went with mother and helpe d pi ck out calico in different colors and patterns for dresses and apron s, pr etty flowered lawn (fine high-count yarn, silky finish) for best dr esses , a heavier grade of material in light and dark colors for waists f or th e boys, toweling and sheeting. She made a lovely white waist wit h a sail or collar trimmed in white embroidery for Rudgar when he was a l ittle boy . He wore this with a pleated black and white skirt. His hai r was lon g and in ringlets. He looked more like a little girl than a bo y. She ha d a very nice dress made by a niece who was a dress maker befo re father w ent on his mission. Mother made a very nice dress for Myrtl e and I; we a ll had our pictures taken before father went. Rudgar was j ust a baby the n, about a year and a half later, she had his picture take n in the littl e suit I have described to send to father.
“Mother made a lovely white dress with a crocheted lace insertion for My r tle when she was little. I have the dress at this time. I don’t see h o w mother accomplished all the things she did, sheets and towels had t o b e hemmed in those days. This she taught me to do when I was quite yo ung . I remember some material she bought on sale for 5¢ a yard. She in tend ed to use it in a quilt. It was pink with a little design that was s o pre tty. Myrtle and I wanted it for dresses. I helped make them; th e skirt s were quite full. We wore them all that summer. Later, they we re cut i nto quilt blocks and put with other colors which made a very nic e quilt . Mother was a good seamstress, she not only sewed for her own f amily bu t helped her sisters and neighbors with their sewing. She mad e her own w edding dress, also helped a number of girls in the ward mak e theirs. Wa s very good at trimming hats which was the custom in thos e days. Her sis ters would come to get her to help them. She always ha d such good tast e in selecting our hats and trimmings. Myrtle and I wer e so proud and ha ppy to wear them with our lovely new dresses she alway s made for us to we ar on the Fourth of July which was a very special da y for all.
“Down through the years I remember the wonderful picnics; always fried c h icken and lots of it. Mother would be up before day light cooking it ; i t always meant a hot fire in the cook stove. There were lots of bre ad a nd butter sandwiches and father always insisted we have sardines i n musta rd sauce, and the two cocoanut layer cakes mother made for specia l occasi ons such as the Fourth of July and Christmas. Mother’s sisters , their hu sbands and families were there. We went as one big family. Al ways ate to gether, there was always plenty for everyone. Aunt Fanny (Fa nny Hirst, 1 852-1926) and Uncle Bill Jenkins (William Jenkins, 1848-1920 ) and family , Aunt Sarah Coon (Sarah Hirst Coon, 1858-1911) and family ( Aunt Sarah wa s a widow), she and Aunt Fanny always took black currant pi es which the y stacked one on top of the other, three or four deep. Aun t Ellen (Elle n Hirst Whipple, 1862-1935) and Uncle Dan Whipple (Daniel W hipple, 1854-1 926) and family always took the jelly layer cakes. It wa s one glorious d ay. We would leave home eight or nine in the morning, i t was a long driv e.
“The folks did not go to these places very often, there was always so mu c h to be done on the farm, but as nearly as I can remember, we went to G ar field on the Fourth for years. We children did not have much to spend , b ut a nickel went a long way then, you could get a good-sized bag of p opco rn or candy or a tall glass of soda water. I always felt so big an d impo rtant when I was at the fountain drinking a strawberry soda with t he pin k foam on top, which was my favorite. Sometimes father would tak e us u p in the canyon for a little outing. When the circus came to Sal t Lake , if it was possible, the folks would bring us in, sometimes whe n money w as not very plentiful we would just watch the parade, get a loa f of baker ’s bread, some bologna and cheese to eat on the way back home . When th e Buffalo Bill Circus came we saw both the circus and parade . Later on , we went to Saltair a few times, also Liberty Park, Wandame re and Lago on. We always had our new dresses for the Fourth, which see med to be th e custom for all at the time. The four families met togethe r on Christma s and New Years for a number of years. Mother had anothe r sister livin g in Pleasant Green, Aunt Nancy Dearden. She and her husb and, Uncle Jo e had four daughters, all older than we were. Aunt Nancy m et with an acc ident in her early married life and was an invalid for yea rs so could no t join in with the others.”
Two sons, Roswell and Rudgar served in WWI. A number of grandsons and g r eat grandsons in WWII. Two sons filled missions, Roswell in Canada an d C lifford in the Southern States. Many years later Clifford and his lo vel y wife LaVerna went to the South again on another mission. A large n umbe r of grandchildren and great grandchildren have served on missions i n dif ferent parts of the world.
They moved to Salt Lake in 1918, lived in Miller Ward for a number of ye a rs. On January 6, 1931, John A. and Charlotte celebrated their Golde n We dding anniversary with their six living children, 17 grandchildren a nd fi ve great grandchildren.
John A. passed away October 8, 1934 and Charlotte August 6, 1942. She w o uld have been 83 the following December. At the time of her death sh e wa s survived by one daughter and five sons, 19 grandchildren and 20 gr eat g randchildren.
Grandma
Charlotte Hirst Coon
1859-1942
by Carolyn Coon Dupuis, granddaughter
Shared with permission from Isabelle Dupuis, great granddaughter
Excerpt from The Lilac House, p. 15-17
She was my only grandparent I ever met and that she was my father’s moth e r amazed me. Amazed was a word that I, a tall and six-year-old girl, h a d recently learned about the time Grandma Coon came to visit us for a w hi le. Maybe it was for two weeks, maybe three. My only memory of he r aft er that time is that she retired into one of the bedrooms at Aunt B ertha’ s and died when I was eight. Aunt Bertha’s husband, my Uncle Roy , wa s a carpenter, and he could add an extra bedroom on to their house a s eas ily as some uncles could read the Sunday paper .
Grandma got to stay in my room, while I moved downstairs to the extra tw i n bed in the basement. But all of my waking moments, apart from schoo l , were spent beside her. I’d rush home at 3:30 and there she would b e i n a dark dress with her favorite brooch at the neck, the brooch a gen tl e oval edged with tiny winking lights, or else wearing her favorite ne ckl ace of shiny, black wooden beads. She wore dark stockings and blac k oxfo rds with chubby square heels. Some folks called them old lady sho es, bu t I thought of them as being quite pleasant. The laces were alway s neatl y tied. But that she was my father’s mother amazed me, as she wa s just s lightly taller than me, and my father was a strong and sturdy si x-footer . I wondered how in the world he ever managed to get out on th e day of hi s birth.
Grandma’s skin was like lovely soft and wrinkled silk, her smile was li k e my father’s smile that made me feel safe inside, and she wore eyeglas se s with delicate slender stems. Her hair was gathered into a shiny bu n o n top of her head.
I used to help her get ready for bed in my bedroom. She always manage d t o have already put on her warm white nightgown with the long sleeve s an d stand-up collar before I arrived. The sleeves ended with cuffs th at fa stened with little white pearl buttons and the same white buttons w ent pa rt way down the front. There were gentle tucks across the front a nd th e collar was bordered with lace and so were the cuffs. She would l et m e take two magnificent combs out of her hair, they were tortoise she ll an d a part of them stood up tall and straight above the teeth. Magni ficen t was also a new word for me that year and I was certain it was exa ctly r ight to describe my grandmother’s two combs. When her hair fell d own al l the way to her waist it was like a curtain of stars. Every even ing she ’d let me comb it, and it was exactly like combing starlight.
Then I would help her bundle it up again, patting it just so, and she wo u ld carefully place two large dark hair pins and a net for the night. T hi s was followed by a little white cap with lace on the edges, and mos t ama zing of all, two little booties for her feet, crocheted of a warm p ink ya rn and with chain-stitched laces to adjust them to the right tight ness . I was pretty good at tying bows, so she let me make the final adj ustme nt on her two booties each bedtime .
Sometimes my mother would come into the room and say that I was combin g G randma’s hair too hard and that I was hurting Grandma. Grandma alway s sa id that I was doing a good job, and would flash one of her smiles . My mo ther seemed to be saying that a child as lively as I was might o verwhel m Grandma. After all, she was 81. But I don’t remember that Gra ndma eve ry seemed overwhelmed, maybe because she had given birth to eigh t childre n, raised seven to adulthood, and had been co-manager of a larg e family f arm.
They say that out in Coonville [present day Magna], which was close to C o on Peak and to Coon Canyon, Grandma’s butter was the best to be had an d i t brought a higher price probably than anyone else’s in the Salt Lak e Val ley. She packed it to chill in special little metal molds that bor e he r initials. Grandma had run the farm a couple of years by herself ( wit h the help of her older sons) while her husband went on a mission fo r th e Mormon Church. And Grandma had walked across the great plains o f Ameri ca headed for the promised land of Utah when she was just a youn g girl . She carried a rag doll. And before that she and the same rag d oll pas sed through Ellis Island.
So I don’t think that I was too much for her to handle at all, even if s h e was 81.
I didn’t see too much of my grandma before she stayed with us, she ha d t o share herself with five other married children and about 28 grandch ildr en and I was number 26. But sometimes when I get scared in the nigh t , I think of the valentines my grandma used to mail me, red hearts an d la ce bursting to be unfolded, and remember the box of Sweet’s chocolat es , a single layer as big around as a bed pillow, that she’d give us eve r y Christmas and that my parents would always hide under the bed .
And I remember the little girl that I was, sitting cross-legged on the f l oor opening and smelling and then closing a bottle of lavender toilet w at er, then rubbing the lavender flowers on the label and the narrow lave nde r ribbon around the neck, and finally wrapping it carefully in whit e tiss ue paper, colored Christmas stickers and bright ribbon. I can sti ll se e myself gently tugging at the ribbons to make them just right, kno wing t hat Grandma would put the bottle in the very center of her dressin g table .
Inheritances
[From] Charlotte Hirst Coon
1859-1942
by Carolyn Coon Dupuis, granddaughter
Shared with permission from Isabelle Dupuis, great granddaughter
Excerpt from The Lilac House, p. 33-38
The Bedspread
When my grandma Coon died I felt that my heart dropped out of my chest , w iggled out of my body and somehow floated away. She was my dad’s mot he r and the only grandparent I had ever known. But my eight-year-old he ar t started returning, apparently in little bits and pieces beginning ab ou t a month later when I learned that I was to have an inheritance.
An inheritance! This was a completely new word for me, but one the re s t of my family used with a great deal of facility. I remember proudl y te lling my playmates that I was to have an inheritance and they weren’ t sur e what that was. But they were both envious and impressed.
It was white like fresh snow on the winter mountains, like clouds in a c a lm summer sky, like milk just separated from the cream, and like a baby ’ s first tooth and like the white lace doily on the homemade valentine . I t had been on my grandmother’s bed and was absolutely without blemis h . I felt almost overwhelmed to be given such a prize. Apparently hand -w oven the spread resembled a very heavy damask but had gentle ridges an d b umps which I enjoyed touching with very clean hands. I treated it a s car efully as my grandma would have me do. I never placed anything o n it exc ept my Teddy Bear and I made sure he was polite. I never sat o r slept o n it. At night I would carefully fold it back to the bottom o f the bed . In the morning I would perfectly smooth it when I made my be d…
The Down Pillow
It was covered in pale green polished cotton and was exceptionally comfo r table to sleep on. It meant more than a pillow to me, it meant my gran dm a’s presence. I slept on it almost very night of my life between th e age s of eight until three years after my marriage. At that point ther e real ly weren’t enough feathers left to plan on a second pillow. I hav e it i n my linen closet now, a deeply cherished souvenir of when I wa s a littl e girl and would talk to it, cry to it, and tell it my secret s .
The Black Beads
A long strand of wooden beads, each shaped like a ball, all the same siz e , all separated from each other by a black knot. I wasn’t supposed t o st art wearing these right away, according to my mother but I did. Th e bead s are still in excellent condition and I wear them often. And eve n now w hen I have them on I can sometimes feel my grandma’s presence . | Hirst, Charlotte (I131)
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Pioneer
John G. Holman Company (1868) Age at departure: 16
About 650 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it beg a n i t s journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.
William JENKINS & Fanny HI R ST
Pioneers
Based on an essay by daughter Mary Charlotte Jenki n s Smith 1952
Revised by Julie Robinson Smi t h 2009
William Jenkins was born 7 October 1848 in Cavencaiau, Llanel l y, Wales, the third child of James JENKINS and Elizabeth DAVIS. Faithf u l missionaries brought the restored gospel message to William’s parent s w ho received the invitation to be baptized and accept membership in th e Ch urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Jenkins family stron gly d esired to gather with other Saints in America so they made preparat ions t o emigrate. William set out, with his brother John and Sister Mar y, unde r the protection of their parents on board the ship “Golconda” fr om Liver pool England. Williams’s mother was very ill during the entir e long, dif ficult trip which would have made traveling very much more pe rilous fo r a little child of six year-old. The Jenkins arrived in New O rleans an d then joined the Dorr P Curtis Company* in order to cross th e plains, sh aring a wagon with the Morgan Richards family. All arrive d safely at Gre at Salt Lake Valley in the fall of 1854.
The first winter in this new place, the Jenkins family liv e d in a one-room cabin with another family until they could build thei r ow n cabin west of the Jordan River. William witnessed the crickets de stroy ing their crops and the miracle of the seagulls that came to devou r the c rickets-a sight which greatly stirred his soul and etched itsel f on his v ery impressionable young mind-never to be forgotten.
William married seventeen year-old Fanny HIRST, the ninth daug h ter of John HIRST and Charlotte BROOK born in Slarthwaite,Yorkshire, En gl and 10 May 1852. The couple exchanged the sacred vows of matrimony i n th e Salt Lake Endowment House on 20 December 1869. Apostle Daniel H . Well s performed the ceremony.
Fanny had been taught the gospel by her parents who had joined the Chur c h of Jesus Christ in England before Fanny was born. Fanny had thirtee n s iblings and since the entire family wished to emigrate to Zion togeth er , it took sixteen years to save enough money for the journey. Durin g tha t time of saving and dreaming, Fanny experienced persecution from s choo l associates and neighbors. The mistreatment and resentment was int ensif ied by the fact that Fanny’s father was also the Branch President a nd a m issionary working in England. To try to pacify the antagonistic s pirit o f her community for a season, (as the family continued to work an d save d for escape from the hands of those that would mistreat them), Fa nny an d her sisters attended the Baptist Church at the same time worshi p servic es were held in her home. She also worked in the cotton mills i n order t o contribute to the Hirst's travel fund. Finally at the tende r age of fo urteen her family had made preparations sufficient such tha t she and the y boarded the ship “Emerald Isle” in Liverpool, bound for A merica on 20 J une 1868!
The voyage to America was incredibly difficult. The tain t ed drinking water, (which was shared by eight-hundred seventy-six passe ng ers), coupled with terrific storms resulted in disease and misery spre adi ng rampantly throughout the entire ship causing at least one death al mos t every other day during the journey, totally thirty-seven by voyage’ s en d! Fanny drank water only after her mother boiled it and this extr a prec aution likely saved her life. Miraculously no one in her family b ecame i ll and her older married sister Nancy gave birth to an adorable l ittle gi rl while mid-ocean named “Emerald”! They arrived in New York Ha rbor 11 A ugust 1868. Fanny’s family joined the Holman Company in Fort Bo nton afte r traveling there by train 25 August 1868 and then crossed th e wide plain s in ox-drawn wagons arriving at the long sought after desti nation of th e Salt Lake Valley in October. Many died along the trail, b ut again th e Hirst family was spared tragedy however Sarah (Fanny’s youn ger sister ) did break her leg when she fell from their wagon and was ru n over.
Fanny married William only twenty-two months after leavin g E ngland. Her new life in the new world would now include a devoted a nd f aithful husband. William brought his lovely bride home to a farm i n Nort h Point (what is now Centerville) and in their little adode hous e the hap py couple welcomed their first child John William, christened f or his fat her and grandfather. In 1871 William homesteaded at Pleasan t Green alon g with Fanny’s Father and other siblings. In their home in P leasant Green , Fanny and William were blessed with ten more children: Ha nnah Elizabet h 1 January 1873, Sarah Jane 1 April 1875, Fanny Grace 26 A ug 1877, Jame s Hirst 30 June 1880, Annette Eva 5 December 1882, Mary Cha rlotte 9 Jul y 1885, Amos Brook 16 November 1889, Thaddeus 25 December 18 92, and Anni e 18 July 1894.
The Jenkins family met the many obstacles they encountere d w hile pioneering Pleasant Green with patience and faith. The land wa s fil led with rocks, endless sagebrush, and many rattlesnakes; additiona ll y a scarcity of water created great hardships and ultimately forced Wi lli am to leave his farm in order to survive. He began a circuit of labo r t o support his family-to start William would take a wagon to Coons Can yon , where with a hand-axe he would chop down trees and haul a load of t he m to Salt Lake with his ox-team. There he sold his load of wood for t h e small sum and $3.00. It took three or four days for the rough trip a n d was back-breaking labor. William next worked at the Jeremy and Ree d Sa lt Works. He took his pay in salt, hauled it to Provo and sold it t here . He finally fished in the Utah Lake and would haul back a wagon loa d o f Bass and Trout to sell at home in Pleasant Green to the settlers th ere , again putting in days of labor and travel for a mere subsistence-ty pe l iving.
When water was finally brought through the Valley t h e Jenkins family could then resort to general farming as a means of pro vi ding for their needs. They raised vegetables and grains as well as ot he r cash crops that sustained the farmers and all in that vicinity. The i r seventh child reminisced, “I remember the farm only when I think it w a s beautiful, with flowers, all kinds of berries and fruit trees.” Th e Je nkins lived in a cozy adobe house and in 1894 William and his brothe r Joh n partnered with Sam Spencer and the three together bought a molass es mil l and began operating it to continue their prosperity. Daughter M ary rec alls, “There was a large vat to boil it (the molasses) in. The y wanted s age brush burned under the vat. They said it gave the molasse s a much be tter flavor. I remember the children around bringing brass b uckets to ge t the skimmings to make candy, a rare treat for us in thos e days.”
Fanny raised seven of her children to adulthood and experience great j o y through them. She also drank deeply of the bitter cup of extreme gr ie f at the loss of her beloved little ones. Young Hannah died durin g a who pping cough epidemic at the age of six along with her tiny one-ye ar old s ister Fanny. Thaddeus and Annie also were prematurely buried be fore th e age of eight and were missed sorely. The knowledge that thes e beautifu l darlings would be restored to Fanny at a bright and gloriou s future da y brought incredible comfort to all the family, especially Fa nny .
Fanny worked the farm with the support of her children while William ser v ed a mission in Indiana during the years of 1896 and 1897. William al s o was a member of the eighth Quorum of Seventy, an ordained High Pries t , a block teacher, and President of the Youth Organization called the Y ou ng Men’s Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA). He additionally serv e d for many years as an ordained Temple Worker in the Salt Lake City Tem pl e.
William and Fanny moved to Salt Lake City settling in th e F ifteenth Ward. They stayed there four years. Then the couple purchas e d a home (just across the street from the Harold B Lee Hall Gymnasium ) i n the Twenty-fifth Ward of the Pioneer State in the Poplar Grove are a o n the Westside of the city just within walking distance of the Temple ; wh ere they spent the remaining years of their lives .
After months of anxiously waiting and looking forward wi t h anticipation to the milestone of their Golden Wedding Anniversary, Wi ll iam and Fanny were invited into the home of their daughter Mary Charlo tt e for a gala party! Mary lived within an easy stroll-just a few house s a way-from her parents and there on 20 December 1919, family and friend s ga thered to honor William and Fanny celebrating with them the honorabl e lif e the two enjoyed together. This affair was a bright event for al l invol ved and thereafter, just six weeks later, William died from compl ication s due to pneumonia on 6 February 1920. Fanny moved in with fami ly in Pl easant Green and peacefully passed away there six years after Wi lliam. B oth found their final resting places side-by-side in the old Pl easant Gre en Cemetery, in Magna, Utah.
(Note: The volume Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude pg 45 states th a t the Jenkins family crossed the plains in the William Empey Company . Co ntrarily the volume Pioneers & Prominent Men records that the Jame s Jenki ns family came to Utah with the Dorr P. Curtis Company in Octobe r 1854, a s does daughter Mary’s article written for the Daughters of th e Utah Pion eers 1952.) | Hirst, Fanny (I125)
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Pioneer
John W. Berry Company (1858)
Age at Departure: 27
GABRIEL HUNTSMAN
By Stella Day, Granddaughter
Millard County Camp
Gabriel Huntsman was born Oct. 5, 1830 in Perry, Richland County, Ohio , t he son of James and Mary Johnson [Johnston] Huntsman. In 1836 the fam il y was converted to the Mormon (Latter-day saints Church). James was or dai ned an Elder and sent on a mission to the Southern States.
The family moved West with the Church and in July 1846, Brigham Young ch o se several of the brethren to act as Bishops, among them was James Hunt sm an. The members of the Church planted crops and took care of them coll ect ively. James and several of the other men were out harvesting wheat w he n a mob surrounded them, whipped them severely and sent them back to N auv oo. (Journal History)
On Oct. 30, 1846, Gabriel and three other members of his family were a t H auns Mill when the massacre occurred. They escaped being killed by hi din g under some logs. The Huntsman family stayed at Pottawatomie County , Iow a during 1850, when Cholera was rampant among the members of the Ch urch . Isaac, a brother of Gabriel got Cholera and died at the age of 22 , an d was buried in Pottawatomie, Iowa. (Gabriel stopped to visit Isaac’ s gra ve when he went on a mission in 1872) .
The Huntsman’s moved with the church on their westward trek, and final l y crossed the plains to Utah in 1852, and were sent by Brigham Young t o h elp settle Fillmore. They lived about in the middle of the houses, wh ic h faced Main Street in the old fort (at about what is now Main and Fir s t North Street)
When Gabriel married Eunice Holbrook on November 29, 1855, they starte d h ousekeeping in a little house made of adobes in the southwest corne r of t he old fort. Gabriel Riley, their first child was born Nov. 1, 185 6 in th e old fort, at twenty minutes past twelve A.M. Saturday morning . (From th e journal of Gabriel Huntsman).
When Riley was just five months old, Gabriel left Utah with the first ha n dcart missionaries fro a mission to Canada. As the missionaries went wi th out “purse and script”, Gabriel’s journal which he kept of his mission , t ells of his stopping to work along the way in order to earn money fo r hi s expenses. He harvested crops, made ax handles which he sold to sto res , killed hogs, rendered lard and did other farm labor in order to liv e wh ile on his mission. There was no planned program for the missionarie s, th ey went from town to town trying to get a place to stay and fin d a room i n which to hold a meeting so they could teach the Gospel of th e Latter-da y Saints to the people. From Gabriel’s journal, one can tel l that the mis sionaries of that time seemed to work at odd jobs more tha n the time the y spent preaching. Gabriel was a very friendly man and see med to have mad e many friends on his two missions. He had many relative s in Iowa, Illino is and Ohio whom he visited and preached the doctrine t o them. He visite d his old home in Perry, Richland County, Ohio. On hi s mission to Canad a he visited in New Hampshire, where Eunice Dunning, m other of Eunice Hol brook Huntsman was born.
Gabriel and Eunice Holbrook Huntsman (born April 15, 1838, in Missouri ) w ere the parents of eleven children: Gabriel Riley, born Nov. 1, 1856 ; Ors on Henry, born Dec. 21, 1859; Joseph Alonzo, born Jan. 14. 1861; Hy rum Fr anklin, born Jan. 13, 1863; Eunice Mary, born March 6, 1966; Hebe r Chandl er, born June 21, 1868, died, (was killed when thrown from a hor se); Euni ce Mary, born March 6, 1866, died Oct. 20, 1934 (she married Mi ah Day); L afayette Erasmus, born Jan. 18, 1871; Edith, born April 9, 187 3, died Nov . 12, 1944 at Los Angeles and had no children; Josephine Pear l, born Oct . 8, 1877, died Jan. 19, 1949 and is buried in Forest Lawn Ce metery, Lo s Angeles; Eva, born Nov. 12, 1879 and died Oct. 9, 1964, als o buried i n Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles; Allen Camel Green Huntsma n, born Dec . 15, 1882, died.
Gabriel was an excellent gardener and each time he went on a mission h e b rought seeds and slips of plants back with him to plant on his own pr oper ty. He also brought plants with him when he came to Utah in 18152. O n th e property, which was his first home at 130 West Center Street, is p lante d a redbud tree that came from a slip, which Gabriel brought to Fil lmor e in 1858. He also planted apple and plum trees all along the cree k bank s at Center Street and North and along the East ditch on the prope rty lat er owned by Gabriel Riley, (his son). These trees were still livi ng in 19 66.
In 1871 Gabriel and Eunice built a large hotel with 24 rooms and a lar g e basement for keeping milk, butter, cheese, eggs and vegetables. Ther e w as no refrigeration in those days and everyone kept their food in coo l ce llars, or well houses. This hotel was the largest hotel South of Pro vo fo r many years. President Brigham Young always stopped there over nig ht o n his way to his St. George home for the winter, and whenever he pas sed t hrough Fillmore, as did Willford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow and all o f the ch urch authorities for many years. Eunice was an excellent cook an d alway s set a good table. An account of some of the food set before Bri gham You ng is to be found in his writings. In the north corner of the ho tel wa s a small department store, which Gabriel operated. He bought “goo ds fro m the States”, as the merchandise was called that had to cross th e plains , and sold them for produce raised by the residents of Fillmore , since th ere was very little cash in the early days of Fillmore.
In connection with the hotel was a large barn where horses could be pu t i n stalls and fed and cared for, as the travel was always by teams o f hors es, or even by horseback. The Huntsman’s also had cows to supply t he milk , butter and cheese, while the steers furnished meat for their ta ble. The y also had chickens, hogs and sheep to help supply food for th e family an d hotel. Gabriel was very fond of horses and always had beaut iful animal s and carriages. His children were sent to the Millard Academ y then to th e Brigham Young Academy to finish their schooling.
Gabriel and Eunice were both good managers and soon had amassed a lo t o f property in Fillmore, and were considered wealthy. In 1901 when Fil lmor e celebrated her Semi-centennial Celebration, Eunice was chosen as P ionee r Queen. Her daughter, Edith, made her a beautiful white satin dres s wit h a purple satin robe for the crowning ceremony. She recited an ori gina l poem expressing her gratitude at being chosen Queen and stating th at sh e never dreamed of such luxury when she and the others were crossin g th e plains (she came in 1848). In 1904 Eunice and three of her daughte rs vi sited the St. Louis exposition and then visited in Caldwell Count y Missou ri where Eunice was born. The ride in a Pullman on the train wa s quite di fferent from the way Eunice had traveled to Utah in 1848, walk ing most o f the way. Eunice took pneumonia in 1906.
Gabriel lived in the hotel with his daughter Edith and her husband Dr. O r lando Duckworth. He died Aug. 5, 1907. Both are buried in the Fillmor e Ce metery and have a large tombstone (just like the one the Chandler Ho lbroo k family have) with all of the names of their children inscribed o n the t ombstone with their names.
GABRIEL HUNTSMAN
By Stella Day, Granddaughter
Gabriel Huntsman was born Oct. 5, 1830 in Perry, Richland, County, Ohi o t o James and Mary Johnson [Johnston] Huntsman. The family joined the M ormo n Church in 1836 and James was ordained an Elder and sent on a missi on t o the southern States. They moved west in 1846 with the Church. At C amp I srael, Council Bluffs, Brigham Young chose several to be Bishops, a mong t hem, James.
The family stayed in Pottawatomie County, Iowa until 1850 when Cholera s w ept the little colony and Gabriel’s brother, Isaac died. They moved o n wi th the Saints to Utah in 1853 and Brigham Young sent them to Fillmor e. Th ey lived in the southwest corner of the old fort for several years.
Gabriel married Eunice Emma Holbrook, daughter of Chandler and Eunice Du n ning Nov. 29, 1855. Their first child, Gabriel Riley, was born Nov 1, 1 85 6 in the old fort. The next year Gabriel left on a mission to Iowa, Oh i o and Illinois to help Church converts come to Utah by hand cart. Afte r h is mission, Gabriel brought merchandise, seeds and cuttings of plant s t o Fillmore. He obtained a deed to the Southeast corner of Main and Ce nte r Streets on which he built a large brick home, hotel and store combi ned . He planted an orchard from his cuttings and built a large barn Eas t o f the hotel where horses and carriages could be sheltered.
Their second son, Orson Henry, was born Del. 21, 1859. He married Franc e s Beauregard in 1884. Joseph Alonzo was born Jan 14, 1862 and married E ll a Ray, but was killed in a hunting accident in 1885. Hyrum Franklin, b or n in 1863, died of Diphtheria at 9 years of age. Eunice Mary, the firs t d aughter, was born March 6, 1866. She married Miah Day. Heber Chandler , bo rn June 21, 1868 was very athletic. He was thrown from a horse and d ied w hen he was 22. Lafayette Erasmus was born Jan. 18, 1871 and marrie d Eliza beth McMahoon. They had one son, Nolan, and were later divorced . Edith Lo retta was born April 9, 1873. She was an expert dressmaker an d tailor. Sh e married T. Orlondo Duckworth, one of the first doctors t o practice medi cine in Fillmore. Josephine Pearl was born Oct. 8, 1877 a nd married Fran k Arch. Eva Lorena, born Nov. 12, 1879, married Albert Be yer of Philadelp hia. Allen Camel Green was born Dec. 15, 1882 and was ve ry handsome and a thletic. He married Florence Chistopherson.
Gabriel left on another mission in 1871 to Canada, leaving Eunice with s e ven children. She operated the hotel and store, and dried, cured and pr es erved meat, fruits and vegetables for winter use. She made all their c lot hes as well as all the bread, butter, cheese, candles and soap.
Gabriel became wealthy, owning many houses and lots in Fillmore as wel l a s land in the old field from which he obtained feed for his stock.
Eunice died of Pneumonia June 1906. Gabriel died the next year Aug. 5, 1 9 07, and are buried in the Fillmore Cemetery.
GABRIEL HUNTSMAN
By Stella Day, Granddaughter
Gabriel Huntsman was born Oct. 5, 1830 in Perry, Richland, County, Ohi o t o James and Mary Johnson [Johnston] Huntsman. The family joined the M ormo n Church early in 1836 and James was ordained an Elder and sent o n a miss ion to the Southern States. They moved west in 1846 with the Chu rch. At C amp Israel, Council Bluffs, Brigham Young chose several to ac t as Bishops , among them, was James Huntsman.
James and several other Mormons were out harvesting wheat when a mob sur r ounded them, whipped them severely and sent them back to Nauvoo. (Journ a l History)
On October 30, 1846, Gabriel Huntsman tells of three of his family, incl u ding himself, who were at the Hauns Mill Massacre, but escaped being ki ll ed by hiding under some logs. (Journal History)
The Huntsman family stayed in Pottawatomie County, Iowa in 1850 when Isa a c died of Cholera at the age of 22 years. They moved on with the Saint s a nd came to Utah in 1852 and Brigham Young sent them on to Fillmore. T he y lived in the southwest corner of the Old Fort.
Gabriel married Eunice Emma Holbrook, daughter of Chandler and Eunice Du n ning Holbrook, Nov. 29, 1855. Eunice Emma Holbrook was born April 6, 18 3 8 in Caldwell County, Missouri. Their first child, Gabriel Riley, was b or n Nov 1, 1856 in the old fort. The next year Gabriel left with the fir s t handcart missionaries for a mission to Iowa, Illinois and Ohio. Afte r f inishing his mission, Gabriel brought merchandise, seeds and cutting s o f plants with him to Fillmore. He planted many fruit trees from the s eed s such as apples, pears, plumbs, and nectarines. He obtained a deed t o th e northwest corner of the block on Center and Main Streets on whic h he bu ilt a large brick home, hotel and store combined. The store was l ocated i n the northwest corner of the building. They also built a larg e barn eas t of the hotel, where the horses were cared for, as people tra veled by wa gons and carriages in those days. Another son, Orson Henry, w as born Del . 21, 1859. He died October 21, 1931 in Fillmore. Joseph Alon zo was bor n January 14, 1861, and was shot while hunting rabbits, Januar y 7, 1885 , by a boyfriend, William King. Alonzo was married to Ella Ray . Hyrum Fra nklin, was born January 13, 1863, and died October 3, 1872 i n Fillmore. E unice Mary was born March 6, 1866 and died October 20, 1934 . She was marr ied to Miah Day. Lafayette Erasmus was born January 18, 18 71, in Fillmore . Edith was born April 9, 1873, died November 12, 1944. J osephine Pearl w as born October 8, 1877, and died January 19, 1949. Ev a was born Novembe r 12, 1879. Allen was born December 15, 1882. Heber Ch andler, born June 2 1, 1868. He was killed, when thrown from a horse .
Gabriel again left on a mission to Canada in December 1871. This tim e h e left a wife and seven children, who earned a living by operating ho te l and store, while he was gone. Eunice was an excellent cook, as wel l a s being a good manager. They raised all their own meat, vegetables, a nd f ruits, which she meat, fruits and vegetables for winter use. She mad e al l their clothes as well as all the bread, butter, cheese, candles an d soa p.
Gabriel became wealthy, owning many houses and lots in Fillmore as wel l a s land in the old field, from which he obtained his feed for his herd s o f cattle, sheep and purebred horses.
Eunice died of Pneumonia June 1906. Gabriel died the next year Aug. 5, 1 9 07, and are buried in the Fillmore Cemetery.
GABRIEL HUNTSMAN
By Stella Day, Granddaughter
Gabriel Huntsman had a very active, colorful life. Some years were fill e d with tragedy, while others were full of happiness and gaiety, howeve r G abriel never burdened others with his troubles. He kept journals on t he t wo missions he served for the Mormon Church, and many times he wen t to be d in the forest, hungry, as he was on one of those missions, whic h were c ommon in the early days of the Mormon Church when missionaries w ent “with out purse and script.” Gabriel would work awhile to get some fu nds, in or der to eat, if he were in difficult territory where there wer e no Saints , or prospects of any one joining the Church. After he had ea rned a few d ollars he would preach awhile or hold cottage meetings. The y seemed to b e on their own, as there were no special instructions give n each missiona ry, they stayed in a town as long as they thought they co uld make any con verts, and moved to another as they chose.
Gabriel was born Oct. 5, 1830 in Perry Richland County, Ohio where his f a ther and mother, James and Mary Johnston Huntsman had moved from Pennsy lv ania. They owned a large farm and Jesse, the brother of James, owne d a fa rm adjoining the farm owned by James. Gabriel was only eight year s old wh en his parents sold their home in Perry, Ohio and followed the b ody of th e Saints, as they were driven from one state to another.
While Gabriel brought a trunk filled with merchandise, with him from h i s first mission and entered into the mercantile business. Little Riley , w ho was only six months old when Gabriel left for his mission, could w al k and talk, when Gabriel returned. Gabriel took Riley with him everywh er e and soon Riley could ride a horse by himself. Gabriel had well groom ed , handsome horses and Gabriel grew to love horses as mush as did Gabri el.
Gabriel soon had a large hotel built with over twenty rooms and two or t h ree large rooms in the basement. They had a large barn and the boys we r e taught to care for the horses of the guests of the hotel. The first f ou r children, Gabriel, Riley, Orson Henry, Alonzo and Hyrum were all boy s , which gave Gabriel much help in his work but did little to lighten t h e work of Eunice, who was always hustling to get all of the work done w hi ch was expected of her.
Gabriel had a quick brain and saw ways of making more money, by investi n g in property. He soon had many tracts of land, which he sold for home s , thus increasing his income.
His children were sent to school in Fillmore, as long as they could go , t hen Gabriel saw that they had means to attend the Brigham Young Acade my . Each child was of a different temperament and some of the children p ref erred to take jobs rather than attend the Academy. Gabriel gave the m th e opportunity to attend but did not try to force them to attend if t hey p referred to do otherwise.
Gabriel was an excellent gardener and grew many varieties of vegetable s f or the meals, which Eunice prepared so well. Brigham Young makes ment io n of Eunice’s cooking and the many varieties of food she served whenev e r he stayed at the Hotel which was at least twice a year as Brigham we n t to St. George to spend the winter, as it was much warmer than Salt La ke . He had a wife and winter home in St. George, (more than one wife), a s h is gardener writes to Brigham, “I saw your wife today and told her yo u wo uld be coming soon. I can’t tell you her name but it is the wife wit h th e lilac in front of her window.” (This is the first time I remembe r o f a woman being identified by the plant she had, rather than by her l ooks ).
Gabriel was a kind, thoughtful husband and father and provided well fo r h is family. He never seemed to think of himself but was always tryin g to d o something helpful for everyone. He planted many fruit trees alon g the d itches, which watered his fields and other property. He was extr a fond o f fruit and saw to it that some fruit was growing wherever he ha d to work .
Although he was not a large man, he was strong and vigorous and worked a l most to his dying day. He passed quietly away August 5, 1907 and is bur ie d beside his wife in the Fillmore Cemetery.
In the same year that Franklin died, their first daughter, Mary was bor n . Many people now living knew and loved Mary, wife of Miah Day, and sh e a nd her husband, too, were builders and the old Day Hotel still stand s o n the southeast corner of Center and Main streets.
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EUNICE EMMA HOLBROOK HUNTSMAN
By Stella Huntsman Day, Granddaughter
Eunice Holbrook was born April 16, 1838 in Caldwell County, Missouri t o C handler and Eunice Dunning Holbrook. The family had joined the LDS Ch urc h in 1833 and had moved from New York to Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Mis sour i where mob violence broke out and forced them to move farther west.
When they crossed the plains in 1846 in the company of Newell Knight, Eu n ice was ten years old. They spent the winter in a friendly Pawnee Indi a n Village since it was too late in the season to begin their journey.
The families of Chandler Holbrook, his brother Joseph and Dwight Hardi n g all traveled together and arrived in Salt Lake in 1848 where they liv e d for two years before moving onto farms near Bountiful. Here Chandle r re ceived a call from Brigham Young to join the Anson Call Company an d go so uth to locate a Capitol of the Territory. They lived in the Old F ort duri ng their first years in Fillmore, and then built a brick home wi th a larg e rock barn, which was the stopping place for Pony Express Ride rs.
Eunice learned to sew, knit, cook, spin, card and weave as well as to cr o chet and embroider. She played the accordion, had a lovely contralto vo ic e and was in theatricals and musicals in the early days of Salt Lake , Bou ntiful and Fillmore. She was very popular with the young people an d man y young men courted her. But she married Gabriel Huntsman, eight ye ars he r senior, in 1855 when she was seventeen.
Although Eunice was only five foot two and weighted 105 pounds, she wa s v ery healthy and energetic. Gabriel went on a second mission to Canad a lea ving Eunice with seven children. The three older children helped wi th th e chores and Eunice’s father and brother helped too.
Gabriel had built a large brick home, hotel and store combined. Whenev e r Church authorities traveled through Fillmore, they stayed at the Hunt sm an Hotel. Eunice was an exceptionally good cook. Brigham Young mention e d her delicious meals on his way to his winter home in St. George.
In 1901 Eunice was chosen Semi-Annual Queen for Fillmore’s fiftieth anni v ersary celebration. In 1904 she and three of her daughters went by Pull ma n to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. What a thrill to skim over th e pl ains that she had mostly walked across as a girl.
Two years later Eunice contracted pneumonia and died June 6, 1906 leavi n g eight of her eleven children and a broken-hearted husband, all of wh o m adored her. | Huntsman, Gabriel (I2718)
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Pioneer Company: Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company
Age at Departure: 24
Isaiah Huntsman (1826-1878) & Rebecca Carter Ames(1830-1915)
Blacksmith, Farmer Morman Batta l ion Company B.
Isaiah Huntsman Sr (James, James, James, John). was born 1826 i n P erry, Ohio. He died 1878 in Annabella, Severe, Utah. He married 1) R ebec ca Carter Ames in 1849 and to this union was born twelve children . Rebec ca Carter Ames was born in 1830 in Moore’s, New York and died 19 15 in Mo ab, Utah. Her parents joined the church in 1832 and traveled t o Kirklan d in 1834, 1836 in Jackson Co., Missouri and moved to Far Wes t Missouri i n 1838. .Isaiah married 2) 1856 Emma Melissa King, 3) 186 8 Sophia Egbert ; 4) 1869 Seviah Cunningham.
Isaiah was but four years old when the new and sweeping religion ca m e into existence. Soon after his parents came in contact with its teac hi ng, they accepted and was baptized. James. Mary, and family moved t o La ke co., Ohio (Kirkland.) Latter as a result of much dissent of thei r nei ghbors, The decision was made to move to Jackson co.,Missouri. Th e Hunts man family was in Jackson county in 1837. In 1838 Peter was bor n (chil d 9) In 1839 Isaiah was baptized, age 13. In 1842 the Huntsman f amily wa s in Nauvoo.Again Persecution raised its ugly head, the prophe t Joseph an d his brother Hyrum was martyed. Brigham Young became the n ext prophe t and plans were made to go West. In 1846 the call was mad e by the Unit ed States government for 500 men to join the Morman Batalli on to fight i n the Mexican American War. Isaiah Huntsman at age 20 join ed. He was pla ced in company B.
In 1847 Isaiah was released from the batallion in California, a n d he along with others of his buddies, wended their way from Californ i a to the great Salt Lake Valley. They wandered off the trail and foun d th emselves in what is now Millard Co., Isaiah was so impressed with t he be auty and possibilites of the valley that he vowed that he would bui ld a h ome there. ...... .... . . When t hey reached Salt Lake valley , Isaiah found his family had no t arrived y et. He and the other members of the battalion organized a wa gon train an d made several trips to Council Bluffs,Iowa .
Just when and where Isaiah and Rebecca Carter Ames met is not know n ; but Rebecca's father Ira V. Ames was also an early convert to the Mor ma n faith and was driven by the mob to the body of the church.Accordin g t o Ames family history, Rebecca's mother Charity Carter Ames died in 1 83 9 because of the hardships and several trials of the mind and the sc ene s she passed through in the mobbing of Far West. The marriage of Isai ah H untsman and Rebecca Ames is recorded in of Pottawatomie County. o n the 1 6 January 1849 of Isaiah Huntsman of Council Bluffs and Rebecca C arter Am es of Springtown of Pottawatomie county . They resided in Counci l Bluff s and Ezra,their first son was born 12 Nov. 1849. They made thei r home t here until 1852 when Brigham Young sent a letter to the saints i n Iowa, s aying if they wanted to be counted among the saints of Zion ,th ey would s ell their homes and property and move to the rocky mountains.
“Isaiah and Rebecca crossed the plains in the 5th company of Ez r a T. Bensen train. The group left Kanesville, Iowa on 4 July 1849, an d a rrived in great Salt Lake Valley on 27 Oct 1849. The company consist ed o f 447 persons and 120 wagons. The wagons was heavily loaded with f amili es, provisions, merchandise, household goods, farming and merchandi se too ls. The trip over one thousand miles consisted of the ordinary pro blems e ncountered by all the migrating groups little sickness on the rou te, thou gh they encountered heat, cold, rain and snow. In one snowstorm , snow fel l 18 inches deep at Willow Creek and the company lost 62 hea d of cattle , some pigs, and chickens froze to death.” The Huntsman Herit age by Elain e Jutesen. Once in the Salt Lake Valley, they settled Mill c reek.
They arrived in Salt Lake City in 1851 and settled in South Salt Lak e , Milcreek. Late in October in 1851 two long companies set out to Fill mo re to start a settlement. The following year 1852 many more familie s arr ived in Fillmore to settle including the Isaiah Huntsman family. I saia h could not forget the bueatiful valley of Millard county and in th e spri ng of 1854 moved his family Fillmore. Here he took up agricultur e in a s mall scale and followed the task of blacksmith.
The settlers decided to dig a ditch to carry water to the fields we s t of the town. Isaiah and Wesley Dane invented a two way plough that w a s used to dig the ditch. It threw the dirt both ways and was a real he lp . Isaiah was called to Cache valley in 1864/65 and lived their six yea rs . Isaiah entered of pleural marriage in 1856 taking a second wife--Em m a Malisssa King. To this union was born seven children. Rebecca and M el issa worked well together....Isaiah and a Morman Batallio n friend Rob ert C Egbert made an agreement with each other that if one o r the othe r died the other would care for the orphaned family Following t he deat h of Robert Egbert Isaiah in 1868 married the widow Seviah Cunn ingha m Egbert, and took the children to raise.To this union was born on e chil d. Serviarah was supposedly a sickly woman and demanded a great d eal o f the two women. After she claimed to be sick and the others comple te d her work only to find she had faked the illness. A bill of divorceme n t was obtained , Seiviah returned to Salt Lake City and latter remarie d . Harmony returned to the household and they moved to Annabella, Sevia h , Utah. .
In Isaiah 27 years in Utah, he built 14 homes for his family, an d h e did much to build up the communities he called home. He fought i n th e Utah indian wars , helped the wilderness and and left an honorabl e heri tage. He died in his home in Annabella and was buried next to hi s fathe r in Fillmore. Rebecca eventually moved in with one of her son s in Moab , Utah where she died.
Di e d (Obituary)
At his residence in Annabella, Seviere, Utah on the third day of Ju n e A.D. 1878, of consumption–after a long and severe illness-Isaiah Hun ts man, son of James and Mary Johnston Huntsman . He was born near Belle vue , Richland county, Ohio, September 14th,1826. In company with his fa ther s family passed through all the trials, mobbings, and final expulsio n o f the saints from Missouri and Illinois. And on the call for men b y th e United States government , enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, Jul y 16th, 1846; experienced the untold hardships of that unparalleled campa ign acro ss the continent with that party of brave men to lower Californi a, wher e he was discharged on July 16th, 1847; returning to the Salt Lak e Valley , winter quarters in the winter, where he remained till the spr ing of 18 57, when he crossed the plains to Utah, and has resided in diff erent part s of is territory up to the time of his death
He died as he lived, firm in the faith of the new and everlasting c o venant . He leaves a large family being the father of nine sons and el ev en daughters. Before his death he expressed a desire to be laid besid e h is father in the Fillmore Cemetery , therefore his remains were broug h t here and deposited as requested, on the morning of the 6th inst–co m (D esert News)
Mormon Battalion
Susan Easton Black
Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994
In July 1846, under the authority of U.S. Army Captain James Allen and w i th the encouragement of Mormon leader Brigham Young, the Mormon Battali o n was mustered in at Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory. The battalion wa s th e direct result of Brigham Young’s correspondence on 26 January 184 6 to J esse C. Little, presiding elder over the New England and Middle St ates Mi ssion. Young instructed Little to meet with national leaders in W ashingto n, D.C., and to seek aid for the migrating Latter-day Saints, th e majorit y of whom were then in the Iowa Territory. In response to Young ’s letter , Little journeyed to Washington, arriving on 21 May 1846, jus t eight day s after Congress had declared war on Mexico.
Little met with President James K. Polk on 5 June 1846 and urged him t o a id migrating Mormon pioneers by employing them to fortify and defen d th e West. The president offered to aid the pioneers by permitting the m to r aise a battalion of five hundred men, who were to join Colonel Ste phen W . Kearny, Commander of the Army of the West, and fight for the Uni ted Sta tes in the Mexican War. Little accepted this offer.
Colonel Kearny designated Captain James Allen, later promoted to Lieuten a nt Colonel, to raise five companies of volunteer soldiers from the able -b odied men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the Mormon en cam pments in Iowa. On 26 June 1846 Allen arrived at the encampment of Mt . Pi sgah. He was treated with suspicion as many believed that the raisin g o f a battalion was a plot to bring trouble to the migrating Saints.
Allen journeyed from Mt. Pisgah to Council Bluffs, where on 1 July 184 6 h e allayed Mormon fears by giving permission for the Saints to encam p on U nited States lands if the Mormons would raise the desired battalio n. Brig ham Young accepted this, recognizing that the enlistment of the b attalio n was the first time the government had stretched forth its arm t o aid th e Mormons.
On 16 July 1846 some 543 men enlisted in the Mormon Battalion. From amo n g these men Brigham Young selected the commissioned officers; they incl ud ed Jefferson Hunt, Captain of Company A; Jesse D. Hunter, Captain of C omp any B; James Brown, Captain of Company C; Nelson Higgins, Captain o f Comp any D; and Daniel C. Davis, Captain of Company E. Among the most p rominen t non-Mormon military officers immediately associated with the ba ttalio n march were Lt. Col. James Allen, First Lt. Andrew Jackson Smith , Lt. Co l. Philip St. George Cooke, and Dr. George Sanderson. Also accom panying t he battalion were approximately thirty-three women, twenty of w hom serve d as laundresses, and fifty-one children.
The battalion marched from Council Bluffs on 20 July 1846, arrivin g o n 1 August 1846 at Fort Leavenworth (Kansas), where they were outfitt ed f or their trek to Santa Fe. Battalion members drew their arms and acc outre ments, as well as a clothing allowance of forty-two dollars, at th e fort . Since a military uniform was not mandatory, many of the soldier s sent t heir clothing allowances to their families in the encampments i n Iowa.
The march from Fort Leavenworth was delayed by the sudden illness of Col o nel Allen. Capt. Jefferson Hunt was instructed to begin the march to Sa nt a Fe; he soon received word that Colonel Allen was dead. Allen’s deat h ca used confusion regarding who should lead the battalion to Santa Fe . Lt. A . J. Smith arrived from Fort Leavenworth claiming the lead, and h e was ch osen the commanding officer by the vote of battalion officers. T he leader ship transition proved difficult for many of the enlisted men , as they we re not consulted about the decision.
Smith and his accompanying surgeon, a Dr. Sanderson, have been describ e d in journals as the “heaviest burdens” of the battalion. Under Smith’ s d ictatorial leadership and with Sanderson’s antiquated prescriptions , th e battalion marched to Santa Fe. On this trek the soldiers suffere d fro m excessive heat, lack of sufficient food, improper medical treatme nt, an d forced long-distance marches.
The first division of the Mormon Battalion approached Santa Fe on 9 Octo b er 1846. Their approach was heralded by Col. Alexander Doniphan, who or de red a one-hundred-gun salute in their honor. At Santa Fe, Smith was re lie ved of his command by Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke. Cooke, awar e of t he rugged trail between Santa Fe and California and also aware tha t one s ick detachment had already been sent from the Arkansas River to F ort Pueb lo in Colorado, ordered the remaining women and children to acco mpany th e sick of the battalion to Pueblo for the winter. Three detachme nts consi sting of 273 people eventually were sent to Pueblo for the wint er of 1846 -47.
The remaining soldiers, with four wives of officers, left Santa Fe for C a lifornia on 19 October 1846. They journeyed down the Rio Grande del Nor t e and eventually crossed the Continental Divide on 28 November 1846. Wh il e moving up the San Pedro River in present-day Arizona, their column w a s attacked by a herd of wild cattle. In the ensuing fight, a number o f bu lls were killed and two men were wounded. Following the “Battle of t he Bu lls,” the battalion continued their march toward Tucson, where the y antic ipated a possible battle with the Mexican soldiers garrisoned the re. At T ucson, the Mexican defenders temporarily abandoned their positio ns and n o conflict ensued.
On 21 December 1846 the battalion encamped on the Gila River. They cross e d the Colorado River into California on 9 and 10 January 1847. By 29 Ja nu ary 1847 they were camped at the Mission of San Diego, about five mile s f rom General Kearny’s quarters. That evening Colonel Cooke rode to Kea rny’ s encampment and reported the battalion’s condition. On 30 January 1 847 C ooke issued orders enumerating the accomplishments of the Mormon Ba ttalio n. “History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry . Hal f of it has been through a wilderness where nothing but savages an d wil d beasts are found, or deserts where, for lack of water, there is n o livi ng creature.”
During the remainder of their enlistment, some members of the battalio n w ere assigned to garrison duty at either San Diego, San Luis Rey, or C iuda d de los Angeles. Other soldiers were assigned to accompany Genera l Kearn y back to Fort Leavenworth. All soldiers, whether en route to th e Salt La ke Valley via Pueblo or still in Los Angeles, were mustered ou t of the Un ited States Army on 16 July 1847. Eighty-one men chose to ree nlist and se rve an additional eight months of military duty under Captai n Daniel C. D avis in Company A of the Mormon Volunteers. The majority o f the soldier s migrated to the Salt Lake Valley and were reunited with t heir pioneerin g families.
The men of the Mormon Battalion are honored for their willingness to fig h t for the United States as loyal American citizens. Their march of som e 2 ,000 miles from Council Bluffs to California is one of the longest mi lita ry marches in history. Their participation in the early developmen t of Ca lifornia by building Fort Moore in Los Angeles, building a courth ouse i n San Diego, and making bricks and building houses in southern Cal iforni a contributed to the growth of the West.
Following their discharge, many men helped build flour mills and sawmil l s in northern California. Some of them were among the first to discove r g old at Sutter’s Mill. Men from Captain Davis’s Company A were respons ibl e for opening the first wagon road over the southern route from Calif orni a to Utah in 1848.
Historic sites associated with the battalion include the Mormon Battali o n Memorial Visitor’s Center in San Diego, California; Fort Moore Pione e r Memorial in Los Angeles, California; and the Mormon Battalion Monume n t in Memory Grove, Salt Lake City, Utah. Monuments relating to the batt al ion are also located in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, and trail m ark ers have been placed on segments of the battalion route.
See: Sergeant Daniel Tyler, A Concise History of the Mormon Battalio n i n the Mexican War 1846–1848 (1969); Philip St. George Cooke, et. al. , Exp loring Southwestern Trails, 1846–1854 (1938); Frank Alfred Golder , Thoma s A. Bailey, and Lyman J. Smith, eds., The March of the Mormon Ba ttalio n from Council Bluffs to California Taken from the Journal of Henr y S | Huntsman, Isaiah (I2716)
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Pioneer
Robert L. Campbell Company (1854)
Age at Departure: 2
Obituary:
Mrs Thatcher Answers Call
Well known Utah Woman Died Yesterday at Salt Lake Residence.
Mrs. Marie Ballif Thatcher, a native of Logan, died yesterday afternoo n a t her home in the Clifton apartments here. The body may be viewed to da y between the hours of 11 and 4 o’clock at the home of her daughter, M rs . Frank H. Rolapp, 65 South Walcott street, following which it will b e ta ken to Logan for burial. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afte rnoo n at 2 o’clock at the Logan residence of Mrs. John T Caine, Jr., 56 3 Nort h Seventh East street. Bishop James R Thomas of the Eleventh war d will c onduct the services and interment will be in the Logan cemetery.
Mrs. Thatcher was the widow of Aaron D. Thatcher and was one of the pion e ers of Logan, having resided at 63 East First South street for many yea rs . Recently she moved to Salt Lake and lived in the Cliften apartment s . Mrs. Thatcher was born in Switzerland January 6, 1852, and was the d au ghter of Serge and Eliz Ballif. She came to Utah when two years of ag e , and was married to Mr. Thatcher in Salt Lake April 10, 1871. He die d i n Logan September 23, 1909. Mrs. Thatcher was a member of the L.D.S . Chu rch.
Surviving Mrs. Thatcher are the following children; Mrs. C.W. Nibley Jr . , Los Angeles; A.B. Thatcher, Driggs, Idaho; Mrs. F.C. Bramwell, Portan d , Orge; Genevieve Thatcher, Salt Lake; Dr. E. B Thatcher of Ogden; Mrs . F . H. Rolapp, Salt Lake. Following are the brothers and sisters livin g; S erge F. Ballif, Salt Lake; John L. Ballif, Rexburg, Idaho; Mrs. Joh n T Ca ine, Jr., Logan; Mrs. R. L. Campbell. Salt Lake; Mrs. J.M. Blair , Logan ; Mrs. Charles Nappier, Ogden; Frank and Louise Ballif, Whitney , Idaho, a nd Joseph F. Ballif of North Ogden. | Ballif, Marie Jeanne (I984)
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Pioneer
Robert L. Campbell Company (1854)
Age at departure: 33
397 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from t h e o u tfitting post at Westport, Missouri.
History of Serge Louis Ballif
Serge Louis Ballif was born on April 17, 1821 in Perroy, Vaud, Switzerla n d the son of Jean Francois Frederic Ballif and Henriette Louise Clermon d e Susanne Alexandrine Begue. The Ballif family was an upperclass wealt h y and influential Vaudois family, especially with their legacy as Prote st ant preachers in the Lausanne Cathedral. Jean Francois Frederic wa s a ca ptain in the Swiss Army and served in Russia under the duc de Rich elieu . Serge’s mother died when he was only fourteen years old, and hi s fathe r shortly after Serge’s first marriage. As a youth Serge was ref ined an d well educated in both Switzerland and Russia. He became fluen t in Fren ch, German, Italian, and Russian and could read Latin, Greek an d Hebrew . Serge became a well respected Protestant minister at the Laus anne Cath ederal.
While working in Russia in 1849, Serge met and married a Swiss travele r , Elise Marie LeCoultre. When Elise was about to give birth to their f ir st child, they hired a governess to help. Her name was Henriette Jean net te Vuffray. She was a hard working, devoted, and loving woman who wo ul d later become Serge’s second wife. Henriette was born on May 7, 183 4 i n Morges, Switzerland the daughter of Marc Jean Francois Vuffray an d Susa nne Marie Porchet.
In the fall of 1851 the missionary Thomas B. H. Stenhouse came to Lausan n e from Geneva where he had received a cold welcome. That same year th e L ausanne city council passed a law forbidding Mormons to hold public m eeti ngs. In 1852 after secret meetings held in the basement of the Laus ann e Cathedral, Serge was converted by Brother Stenhouse to the truthful nes s of Christ’s restored church. Serge left his family legacy of the P rote stant faith behind and was baptized a member of the LDS church in La ke Ge neva in 1852. His conversion shook the entire city of Lausanne bec ause o f his high position, and the newspaper dedicated a full page to th e proce edings of his excommunication.
The large home which Serge had aquired by his grandfather, the Protesta n t Reverend Jean Francois Louis Ballif had earlier been a meeting plac e fo r their religious get togethers and now was used as a meeting plac e for t he small group of Mormons in Lausanne. The home is still standin g and i s located around the corner from the Cathedral and across the str eet fro m the Academy, the forerunner of the present-day University of La usanne . Serge took in Brother Stenhouses wife and children as he preache d a s a missionary, housed the local missionaries on the third floor, fin ance d the printing of Mormon literature in French, and paid for the publ icati on ‘Le Reflecteur’ which spread the message of Mormonism in French -Switz erland. Soon after his conversion, Serge left Lausanne in 1853 t o serv e a mission in Basel and Neuchatel, Switzerland and baptized thre e famili es. The missionaries in Switzerland came across much oppostitio n, and ma ny were beaten and stoned by the locals .
Serge was so absolutely devoted to the truthfulness of the church tha t h e was willing to give up all his resources and his status for the ne w fai th. In 1854 Serge took his wife, three children and their governes s Henr iette along with other converts, to America to join the Saints i n Utah . It was a sad journey as his daughter died and was buried at sea . Notw ithstanding the hardships, they arrived in New Orleans in May o f 1854. T hey reached Salt Lake after a difficult journey on October 28 , 1854.
Upon arriving in the Valley, Serge settled on some land near Big Cottonw o od Canyon where he could look up at the mountains and remember Switzerl an d. On February 8, 1857 Serge married Henriette as his second wife. T oge ther they had ten children between 1858 and 1878, four of whom died y oung . Serge joined the bretheren to defend Utah when Johnston’s Army t hreat ened to invade. After the incident was over, he took his familie s and se ttled in Logan, Utah which was green, lush and rugged and remind ed the fa mily of Switzerland. In Logan Serge took up the trade of farmi ng. In 18 60 he was called on a mission to his home land of Switzerland . When he l eft he only had thirty- eight cents in his pocket and signe d as a crewma n on a Europe bound vessel from New York. Upon his retur n he was in char ge of a company of emigrating Saints to Utah. In 1862 S erge served as le ader of the German speaking Saints in Logan .
In 1872 Serge’s wife Elise died leaving Henriette to raise her survivi n g seven children along with her own totaling thirteen children, with ma n y of the children overlapping in age. Henriette was a woman of stron g co nstitution and provided the physical strength and loving devotion t o rais e and nurture a large family. In 1879 Serge was called to return t o Switz erland as President of the Swiss-German mission. During this mis sion o n a trip to Berlin, he was jailed as a result of his missionary ac tivites . He returned to Logan leading another company of Saints in 188 1 and liv ed the remainder of his years there, but always continued to ha ve a kee n interest in the events taking place in Switzerland. Serge co ntinued t o preside over the German group in Logan and also was a preside nt of hi s quorum of seventy. He passed away on April 25, 1901 and was b uried i n the Logan Cemetery.
Serge was remembered by his grandchildren as a refined gentleman who w a s kind and understanding of children. One of his grandchildren throug h h is wife Elise was the LDS Prophet Ezra Taft Benson. Serge always spo ke F rench with his children, and even sat one grandson up on a kitchen t able , putting pebbles in his mouth and patiently teaching him how to mak e th e proper sounds in order to speak French. At some point Henriette e ithe r moved to or was visiting in Preston, Idaho where she died on Octob er 16 , 1924, surviving Serge twenty-three years. Henriette was buried b y Serg e in the Logan Cemetery.
"The Ballif home in Lausanne, Switzerland. Missionaries moved into th e t hird floor of this home, being spared much hardship by the kindness o f th e Ballifs." Copied from the August Ensign 1982 page 42 & 43.
In the same Ensign article it says "Serge Louis Ballif and his wife, Eli s e.[refering to photos which are already in the photos memories]. A wea lt hy man, Brother Ballif gave of his money freely to support the mission ari es and publish tracts and newsletters. He served as a local missiona ry , baptized several families, and then emigrated to America. He late r ret urned to Switzerland as a missionary in 1860, and as a mission pres iden t from 1879 to 1881. His son, Serge Frederick, served as presiden t of th e Swiss and German Mission from 1905 to 1909, and from 1921 to 19 23." | Ballif, Serge Louis (I1263)
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Pioneer
Samuel A. Woolley Company (1861) Age at departure: 27
338 individuals and 61 wagons were in the company when it began its jour n ey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).
Annie Sophia Haglund Beckstrand
Arrived in Utah 1861
Written by Alta B. Fisher
Hillcrest Camp DUP
ANNA SOPHIA HAGLUND BECKSTRAND
My grandmother was born on the ninth of October in 1833, in Stora Brask e t Bgsaby Lamer, Sweden. She was the daughter of Jonas GustafHaglund an d A nna Sofia Aberg. She was the second child of a family of five.
When she was about two years old the family moved from Kalmer to the Isl a nd of Oland, a small island not far from Kalmer, where they rented a sm al l house and a few acres of land. Here they raised garden stuff, grain , an d feed, and had a cow, a pig, and some chickens. Later on, the landl ord t ook part of the land at different times until there was nothing lef t. Thi s left the family without any way of making a living except by dai ly labo r on the landlord's farm. A famine broke out at this time which e xtende d over most of Sweden. It became so bad that they gathered roots t o mix w ith flour. This made the bread very bitter. Her father left for h is wor k without any breakfast, and the children were left crying for bre ad. Th e landlord found how things were and from that time on they fare d better.
As soon as grandmother was old enough, she left home and went to the ci t y of Kalmer to work. I don't know how many people she worked for, bu t I h ave never forgotten two families I have heard about. One for thei r kindne ss, and the other for their cruelties. There were many like th e latter. A fter the girls did the washing they would have to take it t o the sea shor e and rinse it. Platforms were built over the water and gr eat troughs wer e made to rinse the clothes in. They had to do this in su mmer as well a s in winter.
One day the queen rode by and when she saw it she commanded her coachm a n to stop. She said that this must cease, and commanded that houses sho ul d be built, that they should at least be under shelter.
When she was twenty-one years old she became engaged to a young man, a s a ilor by trade. His trips lasted sometimes three and six months. He want e d to be married, but for some reason grandmother couldn't make up her m in d. Finally, after they had been engaged four years she told him when h e r eturned from his trip they would be married. He left his money with h er t o get the things they would need, but she didn't spend it. While h e was o n this trip, two Mormon missionaries came. When she heard their m essage s he was converted and was baptized. The people she worked for wer e so bitt erly opposed to this that she had to leave. In her next place , she foun d kind people to work for.
She was very much surprised when her sweetheart returned to find tha t h e hated this new religion so much that she must choose between it an d him . Her religion meant more to her than anything on earth, but he sti ll ha d hopes that she would change her mind. So this went on for about t hree y ears. When he realized she could not do this, he told her that h e wishe d he could see her drowned rather than see her do as she was doin g. Thi s was their final separation.
She was planning to go with the saints to Utah, so she went home to se e h er people. She felt sure that they would see the truth as she saw it , bu t when she reached home and realized how they felt, she was almost h ear t broken. Her oldest sister would have nothing to do with her. She ac cuse d her of bringing disgrace on them all, and her father hoped he woul d nev er see her again. This was the last time she ever saw any of her pe ople . Her father must have changed some, for before she sailed for Ameri ca sh e received a letter from him saying. "My girl, if you are sure you r relig ion is true, stay with it."
Grandmother's younger sister, Mary, was the only one of the family who w r ote to her, so it was through her she learned of the death of her fath e r and mother. The older sister never changed in her belief, and alway s th ought mother had disgraced the family. Later, she came to New York a nd ma rried.
Just before grandmother sailed, she and grandfather met. He had joined t h e Church a few years previous, and so being on the same ship they beca m e very dear friends. They were not in the same company crossing the pla in s, but the two campanies were so close, that many times the young folk s w ould get together for evening sports.
They arrived in Salt Lake in the latter part of September 1861. Grandmot h er went to work for Joseph Horne's family, and grandfather went to wor k f or a Mr. Crisman. On January 24, 1862, they were married, and in Jun e o f the same year they were sealed in the Old Endowment house. They bou gh t a lot and built a log room on west North Temple.
Grandmother was a faithful worker in the Church all of her life. For ma n y years she was a Relief Society teacher, and also acted as treasure r i n that organization. She had many friends. Father has told that he ne ve r knew her to have enemies. She was very careful not to use any slang . Sh e died as she had lived, a true Latter Day Saint, on July 8, 1890, a t th e age of 57. | Hegglund, Anna Sophia (I5559)
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Pioneer:
Easton Kelsey Company (1851)
Departure: 29 June 1851
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 22 September - 7 October 1851 | Oviatt, Judith (I176841)
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Pioneer:
Left Denmark Liverpool Jan 28, 1854 Arrived after 8 1/2 months in Salt L a ke--8 1/2 months after departure from Denmark. It is unclear whether h e c ame on the Jesse Munn shp or the Benjamin Adams. The Jesse Munn arri ve d in New Orleans 20 Feb. 1854. Groups from both ships traveled togeth e r as pioneers, crossing the plains, led by Hans Peter Olson. The Benja mi n Adams arrived in New Orleans 22 March 1854. Also known as Pedersen a n d Iversen The Ancestral File gives the church parish in Denmark as Egtv e d Parish. It also gives his Baptism "Winter 1857". Source: Records o f Re ed Peterson. Iver came to the US as an immigrant. His occupation i n Denma rk was cooper and kegmaker .He was known as Captain Peter Coope r durin g the Black Hawk war in Utah. Iver Peter arrived in Salt Lake Ci ty, 5 Oc tober, 1854. He went with his wife to Ephriam in October of th e same yea r. Sources: Family records of Andreas Peterson in possesion o f Reed Pete rson Gravestone dates Spring City Cemetery Microfilm record s of Spring C ity Ward before 1900 Soren Mortensen record of temple ordi nances perform ed--copy formerly in possession Reed Peterson, now in po ssession of hi s daughter, Elaine Bezzant--753 So. 1080 E., Orem, Utah 19 98 He arrived w ith his parents in Salt Lake City 5 Oct 1854--then move d with them to Eph riam 22 October 1854. He died at age 43. At Iver's bir th his parent wer e listed as "husmand" and "boedker", translated as a sm all carpenter an d farmer--specializing in making small tubs of wood. | Pedersen, Iver Peter (I175794)
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Pioneer: Age at Departure 11 Years
Traveled for 98 Days, Traveled with the John Tidwell Company Departe d o n 4 June 1852
Emma Melissa King, excerpt from Everything is Relative, 1971, by Stell a H untsman Day, p. 21
Isaiah entered the Order of Plural Marriage in 1856, taking as his seco n d wife, Emma Melissa King, daughter of John Morris and Sarah Ann Jewel l K ing. To this union were born seven children.
Rebecca and Emma were step-sisters and worked very well together. A gre a t love and devotion developed. Emma had a special talent for homemaki n g and Rebecca was an excellent seamstress, weaver, and knitter. Becau s e of their great love for one another, they were able to work out a har mo nious home life between the two families. Through the lifetime of th e ch ildren of these two wives, close contact was kept and great love fo r on e another developed.
Isaiah and a Mormon Battalion friend, Robert Cowden Egbert, made an agre e ment with each other that if one of the other should die, the other wou l d care for the orphaned family. Following the death of Robert C. Egber t , Isaiah in 1868 married the widow, Seviah Cunningham Egbert, and too k he r six children to raise. To this union was born one child, Louisa , who w as reportedly listed as "died in infancy." Just why the family w as led t o believe that this child was dead is not known .
Seviah was supposedly a sickly person, and she demanded a great deal o f t he other wives' time and strength. With the additional seven childre n t o feed, clothe, and shelter, the burden fell hard upon the shoulder s of t he first two wives. Oftentimes, Seviah claimed to be ill, and th e other w ives took over her household duties and the care of her childre n, only t o find out that she had feigned the illness. Seviah had been a n only wif e and much pampered. The pretended illnesses and demanding wa ys caused m uch contention in the homes as the other wives already had th eir hands fu ll with their own growing youngsters .
Isaiah took the problem to the leaders of the Church on several occasion s , and finally a bill of divorcement was granted. Seviah returned to Sa l t Lake City, taking Louisa with her, and later remarried. Harmony was a ga in restored in the two families, and they moved to Annabella, Sevier C oun ty, Utah, where Isaiah continued his blacksmith trade and farmed a sm al l acreage on the outskirts of Annabella.
In Isaiah's 27 years in Utah, he built fourteen homes for his familie s . He did much to build up the communities he called home. He fough t i n the Indian Wars of Utah, conquered the wilderness, and left an hono rabl e heritage. He remained true to the faith of the Mormon Doctrine an d too k an active part in church activities .
On June 3, 1878, at the age of 52, following a brief illness, Isaiah Hun t sman passed away at his home in Annabella, Utah. Due to a former reque s t and his heart's desire, his body was taken to Fillmore, where he wa s la id to rest in the "land beautiful" among his friends and loved one s .
To this man, Isaiah Huntsman, we his descendants pay tribute, "for no gr e ater love hath any man" than he who carves a home of peace and lov e i n a wilderness and a firm faith in God. | King, Emma Melissa (I16387)
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Pioneer: Came to Utah October 1853 in Cyprus Wheelock company--Seventy-- W eaver & Gardener.
Joseph and Harriet Taylor emigrated from England to the United State s o n a ship called the Elvira Owen. They left a port at Liverpool on th e 15t h of February 1853 and arrived in New Orleans the 31st of March 185 3. Som e fell ill of small pox during their travels. There were three bir ths, th ree marriages, and three deaths amongst their company. | Taylor, Joseph (I110261)
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Pioneer: Crossed the plains in the Edward Hunter Company | Lawrence, Sarah A (I88167)
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Pioneer: James G. Willie Handcart Company | Grove, William (I172935)
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Pioneer: Traveled to Utah in the Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company in 18 5 1. Age 13 at departure. | West, Margaret Fletcher (I51186)
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Pioneer: Willard Richards Company | Phelps, Paulina Eliza (I88706)
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Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 853
Mormons and Their Neighbors. Wiggins, Marvin
Utah Federal Census; Year: 1851
Family Group Sheet-Father
In 1850, David had a household of 3, and $175 of real wealth. David ca m e to Utah, September 17, 1850 with the Jonathan Foote Company. David to o k part in the Echo Canyon war.
Occupation: Farmer
Pioneer
Warren Foote Company (1850) Age at departure: 25
About 540 individuals and 104 wagons were in the company when it began i t s journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Cou nc il Bluffs). | Eames, David Rowland (I2598)
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Plot: Block 19 Lot 31 Grave 4 | Bridges, Ronald Terry (I49708)
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Plot: Section H, Plot #279, #3 | Jenne, Nellie Bernice (I140982)
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Pocahontas; Grace Steel Woodward; University of Oklahoma Press, 1969,p p . 6 5, 68, 188, 191.
Film # 175418, 175420 pg46, 1263147, & 170732 Special Collections,Fa m i l y History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah | Powhatan, Cheif Wahunsenacawh (I5782)
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