19 July, 2001 update
1 August 2003, update
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1836 To 1912
From Canada, Maine, Illinois and England To Utah & Arizona
Asay, Barrett, Crockett, Gadd, Haws, Lamoreaux, Reed, Rowley
Each of my eight great-grand parents were polygamist or children of polygamist parents.
My Lamoreaux Family was the first to accept the gospel in Canada in 1836.
They were in Kirtland and Nauvoo.
My Crockett and Young family listened to Wilford Woodruff in Maine in 1838 & 1839.
Ann and William Rowley were part of the 600 Brethren Wilford Woodruff baptized in 1840 - 1841.
My Gadd family sailed in the same ship and were also on the Willey Handcart Co. with the Rowleys.
About 1840 Gilbreth & Hanna Haws heard the gospel in Missouri.
My Asay family left a rich inheritance to join the church in Philadelphia and New Jersey in 1841.
My Reed family was in Nauvoo by 1843. They came across the plains with the Curtis family.
My children’s Coleman and Averett families were also in Nauvoo in the 1840s.
My Barrett family converted and sailed from England in 18--
My Asay family were late comers. They rode the train across America in 186?
This is their story… and mine.
april coleman, PO Box 31184, Mesa, AZ 85275-1184
(602)834-3209 akcoleman1@
akrc PC:Word:FamChurchHist1840
“The exodus would ever be more trial than trail.”
“Come, calm or strife, turmoil or peace, life or death, in the name of Israel’s God we mean to conquer or die trying.”
Pres. Brigham Young, as quoted by, Richard E Bennett, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign, 40-53
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE
Pioneer Sesquicentennial Project - akrc March 1997
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE,
What did you leave when you left your home land?
When you followed a husband, who followed his God?
Would you have come, if you had known the path your feet would trod?
Suzanne back in France so long ago, across waters, wide and deep,
That long trip to New York, And a language you couldn't speak.
Babies you left buried in England, damp and cold.
Others you brought in that small boat, Across the ocean, where none of you had ever been.
Did your husband know how to find the new land?
Abigail, must you leave again? Born in New York,
You'd left your homeland, when the missionaries you heard in Canada.
It wasn't so far you had to go, compared to how far you'd already been,
Just across the lake to Kirtland. Did you make it to Nauvoo?
Would your children all follow with their families, too?
Women of courage, with faith in every step,
When I hear their stories, such a pattern they set,
In them, I see my way more clearly, I may get there, yet.
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE,
Who did you leave when you left your home land?
When you followed a husband, who followed his God?,
Would you have come, if you had known the path your feet would trod?
Eliza, you didn't believe like your husband Sam, That God had provided a promise land.
So why did you come o'er the ocean and then, Pull that handcart thru' icy rivers and snow?
Even after he died and was left on the trail; why did you stay and embrace his beliefs
After all that? It's amazing to me.
Sarah Ann, pampered and spoiled as a child, You of all people, I would have expected to stay
In Philadelphia, where your charmed life, Had to do with ponies, and satin and no strife.
Hiding, because of your "delicate condition", You listened to the truth,
And traded it all, For nail keg and goods boxes, loaded in wagons.
These stories have hardships and trials and death
But when told by those who the journey trod,
They were led and protected by the Hand of GOD.
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE,
How did you feel when you left your home land?
When you followed a husband, who followed his God?
Would you have come if you had known the path your feet would trod?
Yes! You would come if you had know, the path your feet would trod!
In honor of my pioneer grandmothers: Suzanne de la Tour Lamoreaux was a Huguenot who left France 1685 so that her children could be raised in religious freedom. Abigail Losey Lamoreaux was exiled to Canada when her family fought for the British in the Revolutionary War and then moved to Kirtland after Parley P. Pratt converted her and her husband in Canada in 1836. Eliza Chapman Gadd left England in the 1840's after her husband and older children joined the church. They pushed a handcart in the Willie Company. Her husband and two children died on the trail. She was baptized one month after reaching the Salt Lake valley. Sarah Ann Pedrick Asay was raised well to do, was disowned for joining the church in the pioneer trek in the 1850's. She had to hide to hear the missionaries because genteel ladies did not go out in public when they were expecting. akrc mar/june 1997 wp\songhst
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE,
How did you feel when you left your home land?
When you followed a husband, who followed his God?,
Would you have come, if you had known, the path your feet would trod?
So many stories, I can't tell them all.
Jeanne died, leaving so many so young,
Who would care for them as she had done?
Elizabeth, with small children, escaped down the Hudson to what?
A war torn New York, then Exile in the wilds of Canada, her fate.
Martha and Mary, twins, for forty years apart,
A long separation for two so close.
Nancy and Rosa, young sisters, All alone,
could not stay in England when the truth was known.
Delia and her daughter Mary Sophia crossed the plains,
With a new husband and father they lovingly claimed.
Lydia Lavera and her husband, with her brother, came south,
To Arizona to start again and built a new house.
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE,
Who did you leave when you left your home land?
When you followed a husband, who followed his God?,
Would you have come, if you had known the path your feet would trod?
Too many stories, I must tell some more.
Lydia and her husband left persecution in Maine,
To come to Utah and try to settle again.
Elizabeth and her husband died back in Maine,
neighbors dug their graves, crooked so their souls they could not claim.
Hannah in Missouri, was safe, but wait,
Their neighbors were exiled, they couldn't stay.
Phoebe left some children in England, grown, to go,
With their father to Utah to build a new home.
Ann, from Mars Hill, her husband dead,
Watched her children pull the handcart, all of them lived.
Mary Ann, too, walked with the handcarts, when only six years old;
Now, to Mexico with her husband’s young wives she must go.
Lucy from Kentucky to Arizona much later, by train,
With so many nearly grown daughters to wed.
Alice, came to Arizona and married, so young,
To a man who wouldn't see his children grown.
Martha and Mary, like their mother, twins....
Left their father buried in Mexico, came back alone.
Mabel dragging her children across the state,
To be with her husband as work would dictate.
SARAH ANN, ELIZA, ABIGAIL, SUZANNE,
What did you leave when you left your home land?
When you followed a husband, who followed his God?,
Would you have come, if you had known, the path your feet would trod?
Yes! You would come, if you had known, the path your feet would trod?
The other verses honor Jeanne Masse' Lamoreaux, Lydia Young Crockett, Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux, Martha Barrett Haws, Nancy Miriam Orrell Lamoreaux, Delia Byam Reed Curtis, Mary Sophia Reed Crockett, Lydia Lavera Crockett Lamoreaux, Lydia Young Crockett, Elizabeth Brockett Crockett, Hannah Whitcomb Haws, Phoebe Colburn Barrett, Ann Jewell Rowley, and Mary Ann Gadd Rowley, Lucy Susan Stinson Pedrick, Alice Arminda Hendricks Asay, Martha Haws Rowley, and Mabel Asay Lamoreaux.
akrc
1836
Date Place Event & Source
1836 Apr Lamoreaux - “…Apostle Heber C Kimball blessed Parley [P. Pratt] …he would
go to Toronto and there ‘find a people prepared for the fullness of the gospel, and they shall receive thee,’”
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p157
1836 June Scarborough Canada, Lamoreaux - Parley P. Pratt returns to Canada, preaches to John Toronto,Ontario, Lamoreaux, wife, children. & 100 neighbors
Autobiography of P.P.Pratt, page 155
TORONTO, CANADA
1836 June Toronto, Canada Lamoreaux - “About seven miles from this place[“…within a short day’s
journey of Toronto…”] lived a merchant by the name of [John McCord] Lamareux, who was a man of extended thought and general information; he sometimes preached or lectured to the people. This man, on hearing the
strange reports of what was going on, sent for me. I visited him on a day appointed; he had shut up his store, suspended all business, dressed in his best, and prepared a dinner, while at the same time a general meeting of the people was convening in his large barn. He received us cordially, and after dinner accompanied us to the barn, where there was indeed, a crowd of some hundreds of anxious listeners. We preached; after which the old merchant exclaimed to the meeting, that if this was Mormonism he was a Mormon.
“He[John McCord Lamoreaux] pressed us to tarry a few days, or rather go with him, to which we consented. So, next morning he furnished a horse and saddle for himself, and another for me. We mounted – he leading the way. We traveled through a fine settled country of villages and farms, where I had never been before, and where they were strangers to “Mormonism” and to me, but well acquainted with him.
“As we went, he[John McCord Lamoreaux] preached, saying to every man he met, and even crying aloud to those at a distance, and as we halted in each little village:
“’Hear ye, my friends, the kingdom of Heaven is restored again to man, with the gospel in it’s ancient fullness and power. Turn out and hear this stranger who is with me, and do not gainsay him, for I testify to you that the sick are healed, the eyes of the blind are opened, and devils are cast out under his hand in the name of Jesus. And if you do not believe it we can give you names and particulars, and prove it by scores and hundreds of witnesses.”
“The more I tried to keep him[John McCord Lamoreaux] still the more he proclaimed these things.
“Leaving a chain of appointments, we traveled as far as Scarborough, and, preaching there, we returned the next day and filled the chain of appointments given out the day before. The excitement now became general, and a very learned clergyman,… announced himself as the peoples chosen champion to meet us in public debate and put us down, or receive our doctrine,…
“A public discussion was at last agreed upon, to be held a few weeks hence in the open air, as no building would hold the people. The preliminaries were as follows:
“The Bible was to be recognized as a standard of truth.
“…Thousands attended, and listened with patience. Elder O. Hyde, …took up the matter, as I was unavoidably engaged elsewhere.”
“In the opening speech Elder Hyde laid down the following principles, viz:
“A true Church of Christ is composed of apostles, prophets,… who have been baptized (immersed) in the name of Jesus Christ…
“A true Church of Christ believed in visions, angels,… revelations, healings & miracles…
“Any creed or religious body differing from this New Testament pattern could be considered the Cchurch of Christ, however sincere they might be.
“Thus, after a few hours of shuffling and trickery on the part of the opposition, and a few vain attempts to introduce the poisonous slanders which so often prevail in blinding the public mind, they were utterly silenced.
“Elder Hyde then proceeded to address the vast assemblage at considerable length, congratulating them on the triumph of truth,… the truth grew and prevailed.”
Autobiography of P.P.Pratt, page 155
Date Place Event & Source
1836 Summer Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux -John & Abigail Losee Lamoreaux & older children ask for
baptism
Autobiography of P.P.Pratt
Lamoreaux - [The following is quoted from Edith Ivans Lamoreaux’s pamphlet, “Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux.” Written about 1940?? She listened to David tell these stories so they do have validity as to the content. She would know the name of their horse, the personalities and loyalties of the participants, and other personal facts. However, there are many inconsistencies in the narrative. I have put my notes in brackets through out this quote.]
Lamoreaux - “Two boys, David and Andrew Lamoreaux, sat on the rickety seat of an old delivery rig, discussing earnestly a new venture just come into their lives. David, the driver, slapped the lines vigorously on the back of old Toby, for promptness in delivery was a hobby of the father of these two. The discussion on the subject of religion was very exciting to these boys. ‘I’m sure,’ said Andrew, the older, ‘If we accept baptism with the rest of the family as father urges, we’ll be ostracized by all friends but I don’t care. I knew it was the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the same as existed in the earlier days, as we read of in the Bible, as I listened to those Elders preaching it. And I’m willing to risk everything in life for it!” David acquiesced assuringly. David was a quiet, retiring lad, always backward in self expression. He looked upon his older brother, more forceful, and already an eloquent leader and speaker, with real hero worship. Nothing would suit Andrew better than to shout from the house-tops that God had spoken again from Heaven, revealing to the boy prophet, Joseph Smith…
“John McCord Lamoreaux, father of these boys, living in Scarborough, Upper Canada, near Toronto, had been a successful adjunct in this community as a grocery man for twenty years. His father, Joshua, before him, had started the business from a mere scratch financially, having been forced to flee from his native state New York, where he, with others loyal to old King George of England, had been branded Tories in their refusal to fight with American patriots in the Revolutionary War.”
“When John Taylor [According to Parley’s journal, John Taylor was now with Parley on this trip. He may have been converted about this same time.] and Parley P Pratt took the gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by Joseph Smith into Canada in the locality of Toronto, John McCord Lamoreaux opened the attic of his big store as an assembly room [According to Parley’s journal, He was taken to a barn. This may be one in the same… or not.] in which these Elders could preach. The room was filled with listeners. The Lamoreaux family, eager and attentive, accepted the message as coming direct from Heaven. They were all# baptized, among them being David Burlock Lamoreaux, our grandfather, and his older brother Andrew. As soon as John could sell his business, he, with his family, moved to Iowa^, to be near the Prophet Joseph, [Joseph was in Kirtland, Nauvoo & Missouri.] whose chief branch of the church was then at Kirtland Ohio. Not all the family remained faithful. Some, already married, drifted into nearby states, where their progeny still reside.”
“Andrew, married Isabelle Locy, and David, with their families and the old father, were ever loyal to the church and to Joseph Smith. After the death of John McCord Lamoreaux, [John McCord Lamoureaux was in Nauvoo and in Iowa. ] the brothers moved with the body of the Mormon Church, helping establish the City of Nauvoo, in Illinois.” “Life of David Burlock Lamoreaux,” Edith I Lamoreaux
[“Who does she mean by all? Options were _____?_____ Known members were, a cousin, Deborah &
James Leithead, Susan Ann & Jachenth Brunelle, Henry Lamoreaux… Who Else? Joshua & wife Ann Cross? moved too… did they join the Church? There is another John in Kirtland.]
[^They went to Ohio first and then to Nauvoo & Missouri & then Iowa. Yes, they traveled to follow the prophet but she skips some steps getting there.]
1836 Aug 6 D&C 111 in Salem, Mass about treasures – [Not money but souls.]
1836 Oct 23 Young St John Lamoreaux baptism date “23 Oct 1836 by P (Parley) P Pratt in Young
Upper Canada St., Upper Canada”
Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Record, pg 78”
1837
Date Place Event & Source
1837 Mar 30 Ontario, Canada Lamoreaux -Susan Ann Lamoreaux Brunelle baptized
Family group record
1837 May Ontario, Lamoreaux - John & Deborah Leithead baptized by John Taylor Scarborough Diary of James Leithead*
Lamoreaux - "We first heard the gospel through Elder Parley P Pratt, & the year following we were baptized & confirmed into the Church by Elder John Taylor. In the summer of 1837 a conference was held in Canada at which Joseph Smith, the Prophet, Sidney Rigdon & Apostle Thos. B Marsh were present. At this conference I was ordained a Priest & set apart to preside over a branch of the Church. My wife & I left Canada for Missouri in the spring of 1838."
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Jensen, vol 1 p 540
1837 June Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux - David Burlock Lamoreaux & Henry E Lamoreaux baptized Family group record
1837 Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux - Scarborough directory still lists John McCord Lamoreaux &
family there on Concession 3 Lot 34
Walton's Directory of the Home District, Upper Canada
1837 Mid Ohio, Kirtland - Apostasy in many church leaders, caught up in immorality, in Kirtland
Even Parley P Pratt says, "Prophet is in error"
The Heavens Resound p325 Milton V. Backman Jr
NOTE: [Some of the Lamoreaux family stayed in Ohio.]
Date Place Event & Source
1837 June England VICTORIA IS CROWNED QUEEN in England
1837 July Canada Joseph Smith, Bros Rigdon & Marsh leave for Canada
The Heavens Resound p322 Milton V. Backman Jr
1837 Jul 19 Liverpool, Eng. Mormon Missionaries Arrive in England
1837 July 23 D&C 112, Kirtland, Missionaries sent to all the world
1837 Aug Ohio, Kirtland “…while Joseph Smith & most of the quorum… were away on missions …a
group armed with pistols and bowie knives …an attempted takeover of the temple. In panic and terror, several people jumped out of the temple windows. The police managed to quell the disturbance and eject the men. When the prophet returned, these men were disfellowshipped.”
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p181
1837 Summer Ontario, Scarborough Joseph Smith, Bros Rigdon & Marsh hold conference, in ...
Diary of James Leithead* &
The Papers of Joseph Smith Dean C. Jessee
1837 Fall Ontario, Scarborough Joseph Smith messenger, Saints "gather to Missouri" "early in Spring"
Diary of James Leithead*
1837-1838 Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux - Mackenzie Rebellion (most of Saints were in sympathy with
rebels, who lost)
History of County of Ontario, Lee A Johnson, 1973
History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965
Ohio, Kirtland [see 1837-8]
1837 Nov Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Bank closed.
The Heavens Resound p 315, Milton V. Backman Jr
1837 Ohio, Kirtland Lamoreaux - John McCord Lamoreaux moved with his family to join Saints
[Before or after conference?]
History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith I Lamoreaux ~[Isabelle's Notes]
1837 Ohio, Kirtland Lamoreaux - Susan & Jason (Jacinthe) Brunelle leave for Kirtland this year
Diary of James Leithead*
1837-1838 Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux - Joshua Lamoreaux & wife Ann Cross sell all land in
Scarborough All the Lamoreaux families left Canada, Ontario in about 1840.
There was no one left there to answer requests for information.
A letter to Isabelle from ???
[Why did they leave Canada? If they joined the church they did not stay active. He did not sign Kirtland Camp. Edith L. says, "Not all the family remained faithful. Some, already married, drifted into nearby states..." akrc]
Letter to AJ L'Amoureux, 1921, [Isabelle's Notes]
& History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux
FOX ISLAND, MAINE
Crockett - The Crockett family lived in Vinal Haven, Maine. David Crockett’s mother-in –law’s brother ”Justice Ames was the first one on the Fox Islands to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Elder Wilford Woodruff, later pres of the Church was the first one to take the gospel to the islands of the sea to the Fox Islands. Lydia Young met David while visiting with relatives in Vinal Haven. …One of their children was named Wilford Woodruff Crockett. Pres Woodruff gave him his name and blessed him.
“…Vinal Haven, an Island off the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay” 12 miles out in the bay. “The town of Vinalhaven includes both North & South Fox Islands“
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine p 307
[Research & Insert More Fox Island/LDS History Info here]
1837. Fox Island, Maine Crockett - Wiford Woodruff’s first mission to Fox Island, …off the coast of
Maine. The town of Vinal Haven includes both North & South Fox Islands.” P 12
“…an Island off the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay” p307
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
“David & Lydia Crockett …Among the first who accepted the gospel that was
taken to the Fox Islands by Wilford Woodruff on his first mission.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
[See also 20 Dec 1837 for return to Fox Islands]
Date Place Event & Source
1837 Dec Fox Island, Maine Crockett – W Woodruff “…we returned to Fox Islands, …had to row hard to
make land…” “On the 20th of December I spent an hour with Mr Issac
Crockett, (not my Isaac) in clearing away large blocks of ice from the water in a cove, in order to baptize him, which I did when the tide came in…”
“The Saints were established in the truth while the wicked were contending against us and some were disposed to take our lives if they had the power.”
“…but the devil raged to such an extent that some of them were terrified.”
Wilford WOODRUFF Daily Journal (I have &) quoted in
Scott, Donna, The Crockett Family of Maine p12-14
1838
Date Place Event & Source
1838 Jan 1 Fox Island, Maine Crockett - “prejudice was giving way, …signs followed those who believed.”
“…success did not come without many obstacles …those who rejected
…make an attempt at persecution.”
Wilford WOODRUFF Daily Journal (I have, from computer.)
1838 Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux - "Simpson Rennie bought the Lamoreaux property in 1838" "on
Passmore Rd west of Kennedy Rd"
Rural Roots Pre-Confederation Buildings of York Reg of Ontario
by Mary Byers, 1976?
[before 1840] Ontario, Scarborough Lamoreaux - James Long was the storekeeper in 1840. (John McCord
Lamoreaux had been)
History of North York, Patricia W Hart, 1968
CANADA SAINTS MOVE TO KIRTLAND, OHIO
Lamoreaux were in Canada.
"Two groups left Canada in 1837 and 1838, and most eventually settled in Nauvoo." It also tells of people settling in Ontario as being "fortunate enough to buy a fine farm in Pickering very cheaply from a Mormon family who decided to follow Joseph Smith." "...he bought also horses, two span, cattle, wagons and everything else just as they stood."] Lee A. Johnson, The History of the County of Ontario, 1973
The people of Ontario [the Lamoreaux family included.] left in "splinter group" fashion. "There was no mass migration per se, no set company." "... assuming they left in winter they may have either crossed over the frozen Lake Ontario on ice to Buffalo & then either by road or ice westward to Kirtland. Or they may have traveled via Mt Pleasant (Nickerson home) & thence south on ice across the frozen Lake Erie to Kirtland. If in warm weather most traveled overland from Toronto to Niagara Falls & then overland to the Kirtland area."
Richard C Bennett, in a letter to Isabelle L. Cluff, 1976
KIRTLAND, GEAUGA, OHIO
Lamoreaux were in Kirtland.
[I was interested in the timing of events in Church History. Certain things had already happened in Kirtland before the Lamoreaux family left Canada. Polygamy was revealed about 1835, The bank fell about July 1837. Apostasy seemed to be at it's worst about mid 1837. Lamoreaux' joined and moved in the midst of all of this.]
“Everyday life in Kirtland: During the middle 1830’s Kirtland …number of saints almost tripled, …to about 1500 between 1834 & 1837. …calling of the twelve apostles and the publishing of the D & C, …day-to-day life centered on earning a living on the farm or in town. Despite long hours of hard work, the Saints found time for recreation, education, and worship.
“Although leisure time was limited, the Kirtland Saints enjoyed hunting, fishing, swimming, and horseback riding. Wintertime favorites included ice skating and sleigh riding. Family associations were especially important to the Saints. …parents and children often enjoyed the evenings together singing, playing, studying, and discussing topics of common interest. Holidays were infrequent… even … Christmas Day.
“The Saints considered education essential, the home was the setting for most learning. Private tutors …were common.”
“Sabbath worship was central in the lives of early Latter-Day Saints. …Morning meetings typically began at 10:00… The afternoon meeting …usually included the administering of the sacrament…
“The first Thursday of each month was fast day. …meetings often lasted 6 hours, the Saints sang, prayed, bore their testimonies… Music has always been important…”
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p161
Date Place Event & Source
1838 Jan 12 Joseph Smith fled from his [Kirtland] enemies.
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p169
1838 Feb 26 Ohio, Kirtland Lamoreaux - "John Lamoreaux" Ordained, Elder
[Andrew was an Elder before May.
Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p40, Cook & Backman
[David is not listed. akrc]
1837-1838 Ohio, Kirtland 1600 Saints abandoned Kirtland because of persecution, chiefly from
dissenters ...
"By the end of July 1838, Church members had almost entirely abandoned Kirtland."
"...who apostatized. All of the three witnesses, three of the 8 Witnesses, & one third of the General Authorities, including three Apostles, left the Church in 1837-1838."
"87% [of the Saints] stayed faithful."
"A Warning From Kirtland" Milton V Backman, Jr.
The Ensign April 1989
1838. “There was no decision to abandon Kirtland, but clearly the focal point of
the Church was switching to northern Missouri. …By early 1838 the years of Kirtland’s
glory had passed. …Latter-Day Saints were eager to find a season of peace after the disastrous year of apostasy in 1837”
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p181
1838 Spring Ohio, Kirtland "The seventies ... discussed the best method to remove to Missouri ...they
should go up in a camp, pitching their tents by the way ...extended to those who were not seventies, on condition that they would comply with the rules.
The Missouri Persecutions, B. H. Roberts 1964 p 195
1838 Mar 6 Ohio, Kirtland Meeting of the Seventies in the House of the Lord in Kirtland, ... Moving of
the Saints from Kirtland to the land of Missouri, ...taken into consideration the extreme poverty of the Seventies in Kirtland and vicinity, and that it seemed to them almost an impossible thing for the quorum to move from this place under existing circumstances ...
1838 March Far West, Missouri “After a difficult journey from Kirtland, Ohio, the Prophet Joseph Smith
arrived at Far West, Missouri, in March 1838 and established the Church headquarters there. In May he went north into Daviess County and, while visiting the Grand River, prophetically identified the area as the Valley of Adam-Ondi-Ahman,…”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 46
1838 Mar 16 Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Camp constitution lists John Lamoreaux with family of 6, & son
Andrew with 7,son-in-law Wm Earl with 11, & nephew James Leithead
History of the Church vIII, B. H. Roberts p 90-93
1838 Mar 17 Ohio, Kirtland General Meeting of Kirtland Camp Hyrum Smith addressed the group
1838 Mar Far West D&C 113
1838 Apr 17 Far West D&C 114,
1838 Apr 26 Far West D&C 115,
1838 May 3 Ohio, Kirtland Lamoreaux - Andrew Lamoreaux, an Elder, brings charges against a
"brother".
Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p55 Lyndon W Cook &
Milton V Backman Jr
Date Place Event & Source
1838 May Ohio, Kirtland Lamoreaux - David B Lamoreaux married Mary Ann Gribble [age 19 & 23]
History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith I Lamoreaux ~ [Isabelle's Notes]
1838 May 19 D&C 116; Adam Ondi-Aham Named
1838 Spring Canada, Ontario, Scarb. Lamoreaux - Leitheads & others leave for Kirtland, "team & wagon",
& eventually Missouri ... We tarried in Kirtland for some time ..."
[They may have been part of the group led by John E Page.?? See 12 Aug 1838]
Diary of James Leithead*
1838 Spring Dayton, Ohio Lamoreaux - David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John Mc Lamoreaux family
moved to Dayton, Ohio
Note: [This may refer to the time the Kirtland Camp left.]
History of D B Lamoreaux (handwritten) Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~
[Isabelle's Notes]
1838 July Ohio Lamoreaux - Andrew L Lamoreaux is on a mission in Ohio
Times & Seasons v2 #9
1838 July 2 Wilford Woodruff - “I left my fathers home until my mission was finished.”
“Wilford Woodruff Daily Journal” (I have &) quoted in
Scott, Donna, The Crockett Family of Maine p14
1838 July 5 Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Camp, camps meet "a quarter mile south of the Lord's House in
Kirtland"
(See footnote) The Missouri Persecutions, B. H. Roberts 1964 p 195
"Times & Seasons" v1 #5 77, 2
KIRTLAND CAMP
Lamoreaux were in the Kirtland Camp.
“Kirtland Camp – In the same month that Joseph Smith fled from Kirtland, the lives of the high council were also threatened, and most of the faithful decided to follow their leader to Missouri. …But before most of the faithful could leave Kirtland, enemies began ransacking homes of the Saints and starting fires in basements.’ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church History in the Fullness of Times, p178
“The trek was delayed for several weeks as the Saints struggled to settle their debts, sell their property, and purchase wagons, teams, and equipment. They finally left Kirtland on 6 July 1838 with over five hundred Saints, 27 tents, 59 wagons, 97 horses, 22 oxen, 69 cows, and 1 bull. ‘…all were to fare alike, and did as long as they remained in camp together.’ Even so the travelers had to pause occasionally to earn money for supplies and equipment. Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9
The Kirtland Camp was also dogged by persecutions along the trail. Many people were suspicious of the bedraggled travelers who passed through towns and cities. …Ridicule was sometimes combined with threats of violence. …Many forces contributed to the suffering in the Kirtland Camp.
“Accidents and illness constantly afflicted the pioneers. Some persons were crushed under wagon wheels; others succumbed to disease… They perspired by day and slept on cold and sometimes damp terrain by night. They forded streams, climbed up and down inclines, and followed rutted roads and trails, continually weakened by fatigue, a meager and changing diet, and polluted drinking water.
“’In the midst of their suffering and afflictions, they turned to their Heavenly Father for help. Throughout the journey, elders administered to the sick and the injured; diarists reported that through the power of the priesthood, many of the afflicted were instantly healed.’”
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS Church, p 178-9
1838 July 6 Ohio, Kirtland Kirtland Camp, over 500 Mormons left Kirtland for Far West. "south through
Hudson & Akron, then westward to Wooster, Mansfield & Bucyrus ... past
Springfield towards Dayton."
The Heavens Resound p358, Milton V. Backman Jr
[Quoted in the Kirtland Letter]
& Times & Seasons v1 #5 77, 2
1838 July 6 Ohio "... Towards Chester, south from Kirtland, ... seven miles ... The feelings of
the brethren on leaving Kirtland and parting with those who were left
behind were somewhat peculiar,"
Doc History of the Church, vol 3 ch 9 & Times & Seasons
Date Place Event & Source
1838 July 7 Ohio, Chester "The road between Chester & Aurora, through Russell & Bainbridge, in
Geauga Co.was bad & somewhat hilly... Andrew Lamoreaux's wagon broke down twice"
[Joshua & Ann Cross LAmoreaux stayed in Chester, Ohio. akrc]
History of the Church, B. H. Roberts
1838 July 7 Ohio, Aurora Kirtland Camp "... camped in Aurora ... 13 miles from Chester
Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9
1838 July 8 Far West D&C 117, 118, 119, 120
1838 July 8 Four new apostles were called, and the law of tithing was revealed.
Church History in the Fullness of Times, LDS, p181
1838 July 8 Sunday Ohio, Aurora Kirtland Camp, Public meeting 11:00 Heads of families called together
instructed to keep their families in more strict subjection.
Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 9
1838 Aug 9 Fox Island, Maine Crockett - Wilford Woodruff made an apostle while in Fox Islands “…must
leave for foreign mission, …baptized …nearly 100 persons on island …devil raged …some terrified” That year he took a group of 58 saints nearly 2000 miles to Illinois …2 ½ months.
Wilford WOODRUFF Daily Journal (I have &) quoted in
Scott, Donna, The Crockett Family of Maine p12-14
[This must have been the time when he went to England and baptized the 600 Brethren –Rowley- See entries for Mar 1840- Mar 1841. Also see Jan 1845.]
1838 Sep 14 Illinois, Springfld Lamoreaux - Kirtland Camp, "We came this day to (the seat of government
for Ill)18 miles, crossing several small creeks, ... thru Rochester, 575 miles from Kirtland.
Doc. History of the Church v 3, ch 10
1838. Kirtland Camp ... John Lamoreaux was "Expelled." [I assume from the Camp]...
Also Andrew L was " Expelled from Far West, soon after arriving"(?)
Biographical Note from Kirtland 150 Year Reunion
NOTE: [Were they expelled or did they settle their accounts and leave. Expulsion may have been for something as simple as hearing of the trouble in Far West and deciding to stay in Springfield. Abigail is said to have died in Springfield in 1839.]
1838 Illinois, Springfld Abraham Lincoln elected to the state legislature & was living in Springfield
video by Dan Dalton
1838 Oct 21 Missouri Extermination order issued by Lilburn W Boggs, Governor of Missouri
D&C sec 124 is answered. Joseph is told to go to Washington, Build temples,
Baptize for the dead, etc.
D & C 124
1838 Oct 27 Missouri “Governor Liburn W. Boggs …infamous ‘extermination order’ …stated in part,
‘The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary…”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 46
1838 Oct 30 Missouri Haun’s Mill Massacre
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 46
1838 Dec 1 Missouri The Prophet and others were sent to Liberty Jail after being arrested and
ordered killed at Far West. From there they were taken to Independence,
and Richmond then to Liberty Jail in Clay County.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 50
“While their Prophet remained imprisoned, over 8,000 Saints crossed from Missouri east into Illinois to escape the extermination order. They were forced to leave in the cold of winter…”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 51
QUINCY, ILLINOIS
Lamoreaux were in Quincy.
“The Latter-day Saints who made their way to Illinois received a warm welcome from generous citizens in the town of Quincy. Following the return of the Prophet Joseph Smith from his confinement in Liberty Jail, the Saints moved up the Mississippi River about 35 miles. There they drained the large swamps in the area and began to build the city of Nauvoo beside a bend in the river. …Church members lived in relative peace secure in the fact that a prophet walked and labored among them. Hundreds of missionaries called by the Prophet left Nauvoo to preach the gospel. A temple was constructed, the temple endowment was received, wards were created for the first time, stakes were established, the Relief Society was organized, the book of Abraham was published, and significant revelations were received. For more than six years, the Saints displayed a remarkable degree of unity , faith, and happiness as their city became a beacon of industry and truth.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 55
1839
Date Place Event & Source
1839 Jan 26 “Concerned about the stranded poor [in Missouri after the extermination
order] LDS leaders & members met to discuss …move everyone from the State of Missouri… “Still fresh in their minds was the evacuation of Kirtland, …the ‘Kirtland Camp’ wagon company.” “…the conference officially voted ‘it is the duty of those who have to help those who have not.’ …A clerk drafted the covenant & 214 signed their names to it. [Are any of our people on it?]
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign July 1997, 40-53
“The Latter-day Saints who made their way to Illinois received a warm welcome from generous citizens in the town of Quincy. Following the return of the Prophet Joseph Smith from his confinement in Liberty Jail, the Saints moved up the Mississippi River about 35 miles. There they drained the large swamps in the area and began to build the city of Nauvoo beside a bend in the river. …Church members lived in relative peace secure in the fact that a prophet walked and labored among them. Hundreds of missionaries called by the Prophet left Nauvoo to preach the gospel. A temple was constructed, the temple endowment was received, wards were created for the first time, stakes were established, the Relief Society was organized, the book of Abraham was published, and significant revelations were received. For more than six years, the Saints displayed a remarkable degree of unity, faith, and happiness as their city became a beacon of industry and truth. “Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 55
[NOTE: Parley P Pratt was in Quincy in 1838-39, so were the Smith Families. Did the Lamoreaux' follow them there?]
1839 Feb Quincy, Illinois Br Lamoreaux was sent from Quincy ""Previous to our sickness in Quincy, my
or Mar husband sent Bro. Lamoreaux to Missouri under strict instructions to see
Joseph and Hyrum, or find out where they were before he should return. ... Br Partridge and Br Morley came to our house from Lima to see if Br Lamoreaux had either written or returned. ... he arrived in Quincy and sent to us word that he had seen neither Joseph or Hyrum." p 300
Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother L M Smith
[This is probably David Burlock Lamoreaux.]
1839 Mar Joseph Smith Jr & Company were still in the Liberty Jail
D & C 121, 122, 123
1839 Quincy, Illinois Joseph Smith is allowed to escape from Liberty Jail, in Missouri
1839 Apr 22 Quincy, Illinois Joseph Smith was "Reunited with family at Quincy, Illinois
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee p xlii
1860. "Abraham Lincoln Springfield" video by Dan Dalton
1839 Illinois, Springfld Abraham Lincoln lived "Upstairs at Spells Store"(Springfield) between
1837-1860, 1842 md Mary Todd, lived above Globe Tavern. 1847 elected
to congress (Washington) [from the video]
[What was he doing about all this injustice? He was sympathetic but not as sympathetic as Douglas.]
1839 May 20 Springfield, Illinois, David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux first child, Jane Ann, born. . . . . . . [Dies same year.]
Family Group Record
Date Place Event & Source
1839 Apostles leave for mission to British Isles
1839 Illinois, Springfld, David B Lamoreaux & family choose to stay with John Mc Lamoreaux.
These two families move to Springfield
History of D B Lamoreaux -handwritten, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~
Isabelle's notes
1839 Missouri, St Louis David B Lamoreaux & remainder of John Mc Lamoreaux family moved to
St. Louis, Missouri. (In this year the family separated. Since leaving Canada
they had stayed together. No reason is given for separation.)
History of D B Lamoreaux -handwritten Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~
(Isabelle's notes)
1839 Springfield, Illinois Abigail Ann Losee Lamoreaux died prob. 1839, prob. at ?. . . . . . . .
Archive Family Group Record
“Members of Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation are now actively researching available documentary sources in an effort to identify the names of individuals buried at this location.
Confirmed and Possible Burials, and Sources
Individuals Buried in Far West Cemetery, research by Mike Riggs and Leslie Brooks
52 NAME LAMOREAUX (LOSEY) ABIGAL ANN – BIRTH 1778 – DEATH 1839 - AGE 61 PLACE OF DEATH UNKNOWN
WHERE: MAY HAVE DIED AT AOA [Adam-Ondi-Ahman] OR FW [Far West] BEFORE EXODUS
Source: BACKMAN KIRTLAND PROFILES, Page 44. “
MMFF's Archaeological Dig South of the Cemetery
[This is a listing for Abigail’s death in Far West Graves Index. It doesn’t say she is buried there.
It looks like it was taken from a history.]
[Where is Abigail Ann Losee Lamoreaux buried? This doesn’t say. Maybe Deborah Leithead was not the only one to reach Far West... This may also be why John & David left the Kirkland Camp with no further explanation! Abigail, as well as they ,were listed as land owners in Missouri. 61 is not young to be traveling like that. I wonder what happened.
[NOTE: Abigail is listed as a property owner in Missouri 1831-41. She died after that.
Find out when that was. Why are they not on any census in 1840?]
1839 Joseph Smith & Saints move to Commerce, later named Nauvoo
1839 July 22 Quincy, Illinois “As the Saints began to construct homes and to plant crops, many of them
became ill with the ague, an infectious disease that included fever and chills. The sick included most of the twelve and Joseph Smith himself. On 22 July 1839 the Prophet arose from his bed of sickness with the power of God resting upon him. Using the power of the priesthood, he healed himself and the sick in his own house, then commanded those camping in tents in his door yard to be made whole. Many people were healed.
…One of the great days of faith and healing…
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 56
1839 Oct 29 The Prophet Joseph Smith left Nauvoo to present Mormon grievances to the federal government.
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee p xlii
1830’/40’s Missouri Lamoreaux are listed as land owners in Missouri [Where?]
John & Abigail Lamoreaux (& son A W) David B Lamoreaux, Andrew L
Lamoreaux,Henry E Lamoreaux, Sarah Lamoreaux, Abigail Lamoreaux
Mormon Land Ownership in Missouri ... 1831-1841,
Wayne J Lewis 1981 (A Thesis)
1839 Dayton, Ohio Lamoreaux - Andrew L Lamoreaux swore, "that in 1839 or '40, while
President Joseph Smith, Elder Rigdon, Judge Higbee, Orrin P. Rockwell & Dr Robert D Foster were on their way to Washington, called at [Andrew’s] witness' house in Dayton, Ohio; that the evening was spent very agreeably, except some dissatisfaction on the part of certain females with regard to the conduct of Dr Foster. ... about 8 o'clock, ... he came in & interrupted President Smith ... the company were invited to Mr Brown's the next door whither they all repaired. at ... President Smith told him not to deny it, for he saw it himself , and was ashamed of it. Foster confessed it was true and promised to reform."
Doc. Hist. of the Church, vol 6: 21, "Nauvoo Expositor"440, 3
Date Place Event & Source
1839 Dayton, Ohio Lamoreaux - Joseph Smith, the Prophet blessed Andrew Lamoreaux
concerning his future mission to France and his death before he returned.
"Short History of Andrew Lamoreaux
1839 Dayton, Ohio Lamoreaux - "... Joseph Smith, during his tour to Washington in 1839,
stopped with [the Andrew L Lamoreaux Family] in Dayton, Ohio, and before leaving laid his hands on Elder Lamoreaux and blessed him, and prophesied upon his head, that he would go on a mission to France, learn another tongue and do much good, but that he would not live to return to his family, as he would fall by the way as a martyr. The Prophet wept, as he blessed him & told him these things adding that it was pressed upon him & he could not refrain from giving utterance to it, ..."
A Letter to George A. Smith by Erastus Snow quoted in Jensen's
Biographical Encyclopedia v 3 p 666
1839 Nov 28 The Prophet Joseph Smith arrived in Washington, D.C.
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jessee p xlii
1839 Vinal Haven, Me Crockett - Elizabeth Brackett Crockett Died (see 1849 May 13) Donna Scott, The Crockett Family of Maine
Note: [Wilford Woodruff first arrived in Fox Island in 1837. James Crockett & Elizabeth (Eliza) Brackett both died in Vinal Haven. James joined the LDS Church but did not “go west with The Saints. “ Did Elizabeth join or die too early?]
[See Dec 1837 for Fox Island info.]
1839 Dec 14 Fox Island, Waldo, Crockett - Lydia Young Crockett baptized LDS - [Taught by W Woodruff] Maine Archive Sheet for David Crockett, & Lydia Young
[My notes say “baptized by Wilford Woodruff” but he was in Eng before Mar 1840. ??? When did W Woodruff leave Fox Islands for England???]
1840
Date Place Event & Source
1840 Vinal Haven Crockett - Census for Maine lists James, David, & many Crockett
Census record, 1840 Maine
1840 Liberty, David Burlock Lamoreaux family moved to Liberty
[prob Missouri] History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux
Isabelle's notes
1840 Springfield, Ill David Burlock Lamoreaux family on census David and Mary Ann only
Next door to Mary Ann’s brother William Gribble listed with 3 teenagers
“David Lumoreau, 1 male 20-30, 1 female 20-30”
“Wm Gribble, 1 male 20-30, 2 male 15-20, 1 female 15-20”
[This tells a sad story, David & Mary Ann had a child this year. Was the census taken before the birth or after the death? Mary Ann’s brothers & sister are listed alone, where are the parents? Do they all take care of each other? ]
1840 Census, Springfield, Sangamon, Ill found by Isabelle Cluff
at & –24 July 2003
WILFORD WOODRUFF & THE “600 UNITED BRETHREN”
1840 Mar 1-5 Rowley - Wilford Woodruff inspired “to go south: for the Lord had a great work for
me to perform there, as many souls were waiting for His word.” “…I again took a coach and rode through Dudley, Stourbridge, Stourport, and Worchester, then walked a number of miles to Mr. John Benbow’s Hill farm, Castle Frome, Ledbury, Herefordshire. …This was a farming country in the south of England…”
“…there was a company of men and women – over 600 in number – who had broken off from the Wesleyan Methodists, and taken the name of United Brethren. They had forty-five preachers among them, and for religious services had chapels and many houses that were licensed according to the laws of the land. This body of United Brethren were searching for light and truth… and were calling upon the Lord continually to open the way before them and send them light and knowledge, that they might know the true way to be saved”.
[William and Ann Rowley were part of this group.]
“He [John Benbow] had in his mansion a large hall which was licensed for preaching, and he sent through the neighborhood that an American missionary would preach at his house that evening.”
Wilford Woodruff’s Journal as quoted in Rowley Family Histories,
[Note: The William & Ann Rowley residence, Mars Hill, was probably one of the meeting houses mentioned. Later a “conference” was named for it. See, 1842]
Date Place Event & Source
1840 Mar 19 Fox Island, Crockett - David Crockett baptized LDS [He was taught by W Woodruff]
Waldo, Maine Archive Sheet for David Crockett, & Lydia Young
[My notes say “baptized by Wilford Woodruff” BUT WW was in Eng at the time.]
1840 Apr 8 Fox Island ,Crockett - Alvin Crockett son of David & Lydia baptized LDS Waldo, Maine Archive Sheet for David Crockett, & Lydia Young
Note: [Our Crocketts joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints They were baptized [or taught??] by Wilford Woodruff on Fox Island. Most left Maine between 1841 & 1844. Wilford Woodruff brought the gospel to them and they believed what he said when he preached of gathering the saints to “Zion.” David & Lydia (Young) Crockett & their family had children born in Nauvoo in 1844 & 1845. Another child was born in Iowa in 1847 & another in Salt Lake City in 1850. Next they moved to Payson Utah & where their last two were born there in 1852 and 1855.] Donna Scott, The Crockett Family of Maine
1840 May 6 near Birchwood, ,Eng Rowley - Ann Jewell Rowley baptized and confirmed into LDS Church
Night-Gale Bowery Wilford Woodruff Journal Also in Rowley Family Histories
NE of Cradley “According to some accounts, Ann Jewell was seven months pregnant with
her first son, John, when she was baptized. John would be born two months later on July 14. Apostle Woodruff, seeing her condition, commented to the probable amusement of those present that he was baptizing two members into the Kingdom of God, mother and child. “Family tradition tell that Elder Woodruff remembered the incident and commented on it when he later saw the little fellow on a return visit to the Rowley home.”
“If the account were accurate, it might help settle the disputes date of John’s birth which has been variously presented as being in either 1840 or 1841. If Ann Jewell was pregnant with John at the time of her baptism, then John would have been born in 1840. It appears, however, that John believed his birth year to be 1841. This is the date John gave to the patriarch who pronounced his patriarchal blessing in 1863.”
Rowley Family Histories
[Wilford Woodruff was at sea in 1841.]
1840 MAY 24 Taperdy, H, Eng Rowley - William Rowley Baptized; One of the 600 "United Brethern"
meeting at John Benbow’s farm converted by Wilford Woodruff
“Baptized May 24, 1840 at Tapperdy: William Rowley”
Wilford Woodruff Journal, vol 1 p 388
“Wiford Woodruff… baptized about 1,800 people in England. He kept in touch with every one of these people, writing each one a letter at least once a year!”
Lynda Cory Robison, Boys Who Became Prophets, p26
NOTE: [If this is true, he should have written to Ann Jewell Rowley & the Crocketts (if he also wrote to the ones he baptized in Maine.) Where are these letters?]
“May 24th, Sunday. I walked to Old Storridge Common to attend a camp meeting. I preached in the morning, and Bro (Levi) Richards in the evening, after which we Broke bread unto the saints, and also ordained 3 priests viz., George Allen, James Williams, John Meeks, and 1 teacher William Williams. I baptized 3 who were confirmed by Bro Richards. We spent the night at Bro William Smith at Tapperdy. 7 miles
Wilford Woodruff Journal, vol 1 p 452
Date Place Event & Source
1840 MAY 25 Mars Hill, W, Eng Rowley - WILFORD WOODRUFF spent the night at William & Ann Rowley’s
(4 miles from Tapperdy)
“May 25th. We Spent the day in looking up the aged and infirm and baptized as many of them as would receive our testimony. I baptized 6 and Bro Richards confirmed them. One was 80 years of age. We preached at Dunns Close and spent the night at William Rowley. 4 miles
Wilford Woodruff Journal, vol 1 p 452
“According to family sources, all of the Rowley youngsters who were of age were also baptized. We do not know… how many of William’s children born to Ann Taylor joined the church. By 1840, all but Eliza & Hannah were old enough to marry and live on their own. Of William and Ann Jewell’s children none were old enough for baptism till August1845.” Rowley Family Histories, p 18
Date Place Event & Source
1840 June 21 Froome’s Hill, Hr, Eng Rowley - Froome’s Hill Conference, British Mission, Herefordshire,
England,organized June 21, 1840 consisting of former members of the United Brethren congregation who had been converted to the truth of the gospel largely through the efforts of Apostle Wilford Woodruff. The name of this conference was changed to Mars Hill in 1844.”
Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS
Froome Castle “Froome, Castle (St Michael), a parish, in the union of Ledbury,
hundred of Radlow,county of Hereford, 7 miles (N.N.W.) from Ledbury: continuing 183 inhabitants. This parish, which is watered by the river Froome, comprises 1474 acres; the surface is varied with hills and dales: the soil is a rich loam, alternated with clay, resting on a limestone gravel in the arable lands, and the meadow and pasture lands are rich and luxuriant. The road from Ledbury to Bromyard intersects the parish from south to north. There are extensive quarries of limestone and of freestone of good quality for building. The living is a rectory, valued in the kings books at “Pounds”5. 13. 4., and in the gift of the Rev. W. J. Lyell: the tithes have been commuted for (pounds)270, and the glebe contains 55 ¾ acres.”
Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England
1840 Oct 23 Lima, Adams, Illinois John Mc Lamoreaux & David Losee [Abigail's brother?] +5 Losee's
attend conference at Lima Branch, Hyrum Smith presiding.
"John Lamoreaux Eld Recommended."
"Record of Members of the Lima Branch", Film #007,646 p 7
[John is the only Lamoreaux listed. akrc]
1840 Dec 13 Springfld, Illinois David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux second child, Sarah Jane born.
Family Group Record
[NOTE: David & Mary Ann seem to have stayed in Springfield May 1839 thru Dec1840
However, they are not on Ill census. Or any census that year, for that matter.]
1840 Ohio Andrew Lamoreaux on a Mission in Ohio
Film #250,236 Miss Rec - also J H of Church 17 Dec 1940
[There is a mission to Ohio listed in 1838. ] [Is this that same mission?]
1840 Dec 17 Dearfield, Warren, Ohio Andrew L Lamoreaux is serving a mission in Dearfield writes of his ministry
from July 1838 till 17 Dec 1840. He is also listed as an agent for the Times & Seasons.
Henry Lamoreaux is also an agent.
"Times & Seasons" v 2 #9 339, 11
Andrew L Lamoreaux, Mission to Ohio
Film #250,236 Miss Rec
1840 About Haws - Gilbreth & Hannah Whitcomb Haws first learn about the Church of
Jesus Christ of LDS Son William Wallace Haws had been born 5 years before 18 Feb 1835, in Green Township, Wayne Co, Illinois. He was the 7th of 14 children, 6 girls & 8 boys. “Previous to this time they hadn’t affiliated with any church.”
“My father [William Wallace Haws] spent his childhood in Illinois, on a ranch. It was located about 20 miles from Xenia, Ill., in the northwestern part of Wayne Co. My grandparents had a herd of sheep, some cattle, and a farm. …some distance from Nauvoo, his family hadn’t suffered the brunt of the persecution. …leaving his friends, …brothers and sisters to join a most unpopular cause was a grave and difficult decision to make. But, he did wish to gather with Saints, so he began to make some preparations.
“However, they didn’t leave Wayne Co. until May 1847. They traveled in a northwest direction through Illinois, crossing the Mississippi River into Iowa, then went west past the first encampment of the pioneers at Garden Grove, which was about 150 miles from Nauvoo, and traveled on 100 miles to Mt Pisgah where they stayed for the winter.
“My father [William Wallace Haws] was 12. Their outfit consisted of one horse team, which Grandfather [Gilbreth Haws] drove, and several ox teams, which Grandfather [Grandmother?] and the children managed. In the spring of 1848, they went to Council Bluffs, which was located on the east side of the Missouri River, then on to Winter Quarters. They crossed the Missouri River in Lorenzo Snow’s Company. At Winter Quarters they camped to make preparations to go west with the first company of the season.”
“…5 months later 23 Sept 1848 …arrived in SL Valley.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
SAILING
1868. “From 1840 to 1868, virtually all LDS emigrants crossed the Atlantic and Pacific
in sailing ships. …The most important type of sailing vessel in which LDS emigrants traveled was the
packet ship, the workhorse of the passenger service, …she had to withstand the violence of brutal seas and the stress imposed by hard case masters who strove to keep a schedule under all conditions. Her crew were often called ‘packet rats’ because of their dubious backgrounds.
“Packet ships were sturdy, full-bodied, and somewhat tubby in appearance.
“…in a 51 year period not one LDS emigrant company was lost in the Atlantic. …between 1847 & 1853, 59 such vessels were lost, with all who were on board.” “…fear of the ocean often submerged all other hardships.” “…the safety record of these vessels was remarkable. Masters and passengers often attributed the safe voyages to the hand of Providence, and to the fact that the ships were usually dedicated and blessed before embarking. Many of the vessels were eventually lost at sea, but not while transporting Latter-day Saints.
“…uniquely organized… Large companies were divided into wards, each with its own presidency.
“In the early years, emigrants supplied their own food. Later maritime legislation required shipping lines to provide a daily ration. Few emigrants could afford cabin fare, and sleeping accommodations in steerage were rude and usually overcrowded. …both space and privacy were very limited. …sea travel remained quite primitive.
“…a mock-up of steerage quarters …is a confined areas with tiered bunks ranged along each side. A ladder or steep stairs provided the only exit, and during storms the quarters were ‘hatched down’ to prevent water from flooding the hold. The only light came from a few lamps hanging in strategic locations and shedding a dim glow. The only sanitary facilities were buckets or chamber pots. Some later packets had water closets built on the main deck, but during severe storms – sometimes lasting for days – steerage passengers were hatched down and could not get to the deck. It is easy to imagine the resulting chaos and stench.
“Overcrowding compounded the misery of seasickness, dysentery, cholera, and other diseases. Many emigrant companies exceeded 500 passengers. Between decks, these men women & children huddled together in a heaving, rocking craft, suffering in body and spirit. Even under the best conditions and discipline, the situation created a fertile environment fir the spread of disease.”
“…the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in all their vastness created feelings of awe, loneliness, and apprehension. Converts to the church who had never been far from home soon found themselves at the mercy varying winds and uncompromising waves. At night, lying in their berths, they could hear the creaking and straining noises of the ship, the flap of canvas, the wind whistling through the shrouds and rigging, and the shouting officers and crew… Below deck, the emigrants little world was dark and confined. It was a discordant symphony of children’s crying, the retching and vomiting of the sea sick, the muttering and groaning of despairing companions and, above all, the waves crashing against the hull and over the deck.”
“Sometimes ships were becalmed for days, creating water and food shortages.”
“To combat disease, tedium, and discouragement, LDS emigrants established patterns of shipboard living. Scrupulous sanitation was emphasized, including frequent fumigation and sprinkling of lime (used as a bleaching) in living quarters. To promote health, leaders insisted that in warm and calm weather, everyone – sick and well – spend time on deck in the air and sunshine. Religious services, prayer meeting, entertaining events, games, instruction classes, reading, and needlework were helpful distractions.
“Under Sail to Zion” , Conway Sonne, Ensign July 1991, p 7
1841
Date Place Event & Source
Missionary Work “During this period, the Prophet called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
to go to England on Missions.”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 56
Standard Works “During the Nauvoo Period… some of the writings that later became
the Pearl of Great Price were published.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 58
Temple Work “Only 15 months after founding Nauvoo, the First Presidency, obedient to
revelation, announced that the time had come to erect…” a temple.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 58
1841 January 19 Nauvoo, Illinois Joseph Smith receives revelation to build a temple in Nauvoo for restoration
of blessings – after a time baptisms for dead only acceptable in the temple.
D&C 124:25-55
1841 Feb Nauvoo, Ill Evacuation for the temple foundations are started.
1841 Mar D&C 125 - Saints in Iowa counseled to gather to Nauvoo.
1841 Spring Adam-Ondi-Ahman, Elder John Taylor met in a conference at to advise the saints to leave
Missouri & see if they needed help.
The Diary of James Leithead*
1841 Mar 19 Mars Hill, Rowley – Wilford Woodruff spent the night at William Rowley’s.
Suckley Parish Wilford Woodruff: “Sis Baylis let me have a pair of black kid gloves of her
own make. I walked to Dunscolse visiting many Saints by the way laying hands upon the sick &C. All appeared happy to see me, as I had baptized most of them about a year since.” “I preached at Dunsclose at the house of Edward J. Jinkins to a crowded congregation. A wicked rabble disturbed the meeting much. I felt constrained to sharply reprove them in the power of God. The Saints contributed 6 shillings for me.
Mars Hill, I spent the night with Br Rowley. …Distance of the Day 6 miles”
Suckley Parish Wilford Woodruff’s journal, vol 2, pp 65-66
Rowley - “This entry in Apostle Woodruff’s journal, with it’s reference to a “Wicked Rabble,” provides historical support for a story recorded in Rowley family histories that does not appear in the Woodruff journal. William G Rowley, a grandson of William & Ann Jewell, recalled the following incident, which he said was related to him by Ann Jewell –
“One night while Elder Woodruff was staying at their home, a mob of men came to their door and Grandpa opened the door and asked them what they wanted. They said they wanted Woodruff, but they were told that Bro Woodruff had gone to bed. This did not satisfy them. They said, “We want Woodruff, and we are going to get him.” Grandpa said, “If you get him it will be over my dead body.” Members of the mob then took hold of Grandfather and dragged him out into the yard, where they beat him until he was unconscious. While the mob was dragging Grandfather away, he called to Grandmother, telling her to close and lock the door, which she did.
“After they had beaten Grandfather, until they were afraid he was dead, and finding the house locked up, they departed afraid to break into the house by force.
“When Elder Woodruff arose in the morning, finding (Grandfather) bruised and in bad condition, he advised them to sell out and move to America and to Zion.”
Rowley, Roberta Benson, History of William Rowley and Ann Jewell, p 3-4
[This may have been the night William wouldn't let the mob have W. Woodruff so they beat William.]
1841 census lists E. Jenkins and T Smith? at Dunns Close as closest neighbors of Rowley family.
NOTE: [A “C” or “E” Jenkins signed William & Ann marriage register.]
Date Place Event & Source
1841 Mar 22 Stanley Hill, Rowley - William Rowley received the Aaronic Priesthood, ordained-Deacon
Suckley,W, Eng.
1841 April 6 Nauvoo, Ill. Joseph Smith presided over the laying of the Nauvoo Temple corner stone.
1841 Apr 25 Ohio, Kirtland "…the case of J Lamoraux was presented to the quorum for ordination it was
voted he should be ordained to the office of an Elder"
Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p55 Lyndon W Cook &
Milton V Backman Jr
[There was a Jacob, a Joshua, & 2 John's. Which is this?]
1841 May 11 Ohio, Kirtland One of the John Lamoreaux s in Ohio - "…a charge was preferred against
Elder John Lamoreaux for unchristian conduct manifested to different females by F Knapp the case was taken up and tried he right hand of fellowship was withdrawn and he had untill the next sabbath to make restitution. the quorum met the following Sabbath Brother Lamoreaux came forward and made his confession the hand of fellowship was restored"
Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record p55-6 Lyndon W Cook &
Milton V Backman Jr
[NOTE: Our Lamoreaux left Ohio in 1838. There were at least two John Lamoreaux's. Also, two months later F Knapp was charged with "slander" against another Brother, found guilty and censured.]
1841 Mars Hill, Suckley, Rowley - 1841 Census lists WILLIAM ROWLEY 56 ag Lab
before Worchester, Ann Rowley 34 Hannah Rowley 14
July England Louisa Rowley 4 Elizabeth Rowley 2
[It does not list JOHN yet.] [William had been married before to Ann Taylor & had an older family, some married. Where are they listed?]
1841 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo Temple is begun – baptismal font is dedicated
1841 July Nauvoo, Ill D&C 126 - Nauvoo
1841 July 9 Fox Island, Crockett - Wilford Woodruff Crockett born to David Crockett &
Waldo, Maine Lydia Young “Pres Woodruff gave him his blessing & named him.”
Archive Sheet for David Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
[Where was W Woodruff at this time? How could he be back and forth, Fox Island and Mars Hill?]
1841 July 14 Suckley, Worc, Eng Rowley - John Rowley Born to William Rowley & Ann Jewell
prob Mars Hill Certificate in my possession
1841 July 17 Philadelphia, Penn Asay - Joseph Asay Marries Sarah Ann Pedrick
“From Parmer Asay, a grandson, comes the story of Joseph at the early age of 18, desiring to marry the young lady of his choice, Sarah Ann Pedrick, 5 years his senior. Joseph’s parents objected because of his youth and didn’t think he was mature enough to take on the responsibility of marriage and family. The young lovers thought otherwise, so ran away to the city of Philadelphia, where they were married 17 July 1841. They lived there for a while, & their first child, William, was born in that city.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1841 Oct 13 Eng prob Cambs. Gadd - Samuel Gadd is baptized. [Where & by Whom?] Family Group Record
[Samuel & some of the older children joined the church and wanted to immigrate to Utah.
His wife didn’t join at this time but went with them in the Willie Handcart Co in 1856.]
Samuel Gadd “joined the church in May 1841 & was ordained an elder the same year.”
“He was Presiding Elder at Bessemus & at Cambridge. He often had to walk 12 – 14 miles to church. …Brigham Young …urged the Saints to emigrate to US… where hand carts would be provided …[Samuel] felt the urge to join the Saints in the valleys of the mountains.
“History of Samuel Gadd,” by grandaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
Date Place Event & Source
1841 Oct Maine to Nauvoo Crockett - “In 1841 the family had a strong desire to be associated with
the main body of the church. The entire family, with team and wagon started for Nauvoo, at which place they arrived in October of the same year. In Nauvoo they were eyewitness to and sharers of the manifold hardships that were endured from the year mentioned until the great exodus in 1846.” “ …fever” “…banished …settled in Davis Co Iowa, …farming shares until the spring of 1849.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Crockett, Alvin was the only one who was not sick that first year in Nauvoo and therefore at age 12, took care of the entire family.
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
The Crockett family left Maine between 1841 & 1844. Wilford Woodruff brought the gospel to them and they believed what he said when he preached of gathering the saints to “Zion.” Persecution was rather fierce in this area.[Fox Island, Maine] Relatives & friends who didn’t join the church made it quite miserable for them. A plan of the old cemetery at Vinalhaven shows several of the family members who did join the church were buried at an angle as a final insult to them for being Mormons. This was done so that the deceased could not rise up and see the risen Lord on the day of resurrection.
According to Donna Scott in her book The Crockett Family, David & Lydia (Young) Crockett & their family left Maine to join the saints in Ohio but they were already leaving to come to Nauvoo. They were in Nauvoo about 2 years.
1841 Fall Adam-Ondi-Ahman, Lamoreaux - James Leithead, [married to a cousin of D.B. Lamoreaux]
Missouri drove his family in a wagon "300 miles through a country of hostile
people.." as they fled Adam-Ondi-Ahman to come to Nauvoo. "I moved to Nauvoo, bought a lot and built small frame house and worked at anything I could get to do, assisted to build the Nauvoo Temple."
The Diary of James Leithead*
1841 Fall Cincinnati, Ohio At conference, "Father" (John McCord) Lamoreaux called on mission to
Cincinnati, Ohio. Andrew was there too.
"Diary of Reddick N Allred", DauUtah Pioneers v5 p 302(Feb 1956)
1841 Fall Cincinnati, Ohio “Father” [John McCord] Lamoreaux “…laboring on” mission after the
Conference.
“Diary of Reddick N Allred” quoted in;
Daughters of Utah Pioneers Vol 5 p 302
[Find this & write quote.]
1841 Nov 8 Nauvoo, Ill Temple Fount dedicated – 21 Nov 1841 all river baptisms stopped
Life in Nauvoo, p 67
[Baptisms for the dead start in Nauvoo Temple Nov 1841]
1841 Nov 21 All river baptisms for the dead are stopped.
1841 Nauvoo, Hancock, Ill Deborah Lamoreaux Leithead does temple work for Joshua & Elizabeth
Hancock, Ill Lamoreaux, Grandparents; James Lamoreaux, a brother, Joshua Lamoreaux, a cousin.
Nauvoo Temple Bapt Rec. Film #183,376 pp 102, 117
“Nauvoo Baptisms for the Dead”
[This must have been only baptisms… Live endowments were done in Nauvoo only??. Not work for the dead?? Ck dates Deborah did not do her parents, Joshua & Ann Cross Lamoreaux's work they were still alive. Joshua joined the RLDS Church in 1877 & was active in Ohio.]
1842
Date Place Event & Source
1842 July 4 Burlington Co, NJ Asay - William Pedrick Asay is born, 1st child of Joseph Asay & Sarah
[Later married Sarah Jane Fullmer & Arminda Alice Hendricks & Hildegarde Chlarson.]
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
WP Asay “…ran away to the city of Philadelphia, where they were married 17 July 1841. They lived there for a while, & their first child, William, was born in that city.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
Asay, Joseph’s father “Isaac was a successful farmed of Mercer Co., New Jersey, at the time of his death, 10 Dec 1889. His will, proved 27 Dec 1889, names 12 of his children among whom he divided his money and property, leaving each close to $600 with the exception of Joseph, whose heirs were given ‘one dollar’ with the explanation – ‘my son Joseph having already had his full share of my estate.’ Whether this was the fact or just an excuse to cut Joseph off because of his affiliation with the ‘Mormons,’ is not certain. The latter view has always been held by family.”
Death Certificate & Will of Isaac Asay as listed in:
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1842 Lima, Ill? David B Lamoreaux ordained an Elder “Ordained Elder by Amos Cox at
Lima, Ill."
[NOTE: WHERE DID I get THIS? PS - I wrote it in at Oct 1840.]
1842 Wentworth Letter written– Articles of faith
1842 Joseph Smith goes into hiding
1842 May 4 Endowments given in “Upper Room” in 1846 only in the temple
Life in Nauvoo,
1842 May 21 Liberty , MO David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 3rd child, Abigail Ann born.
Family Group Record
[Note: Liberty in Clay Co., Missouri across the river from Independence] [or there is a Liberty, Ill.?]
184? July 1 Where is he? “Elder Andrew Lamoreaux is requested to come to Nauvoo, to answer to
Before 1843 certain charges that are preferred against him.”
“Times & Season,” vol 3 #17 & #21
184? Aug 1 “The charges preferred against Elder Andrew L Lamoreaux, in this paper,
Before 1843 July 1st, has been withdrawn, & he is restored to fellowship.”
“Times & Season,” vol 3 #17 & #21
1842 Nauvoo, Ill David B Lamoreaux moved to Nauvoo
History of D B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux ~ also on film#
1842 Nauvoo, Ill David B Lamoreaux is listed as tenant on Property
“T7 R8, Sec 31, Tenant (1842)” – This is just east of Old Nauvoo limits.
Nauvoo Land Records, July 2002
1842 Hancock Co, Ill Taxes – David B Lamoreaux – Hancock C 7.8 sec 31 205
tenant John Kemp 71
Nauvoo, Ill John M Lamoreaux – Nauvoo Temple Committee – Carpenter time
Book C p 370 - Andrew book D p 23
My Nauvoo Notes – [Find this.]
1842 Aug 20 Nauvoo, Illinois Lamoreaux - Nauvoo Tax rolls filed this date listing:
David Lamoreaux as a tax payer in [Not on 1840 Nauvoo tax roll.]
"David Lamoreaux, value of cattle, 10, value of horses " (from 40 above),
value of wagons " (from 40 above), value of ?locks " (from 10 above), value of water?? " (from 25 above), Mon(e)y lone? " from previous page, Stock in trade " (from previous page or L), At?? a?? of property not S?? 20, Amt of Personal Property 30, Resid??? " (from 7N8 above)"
Nauvoo Tax Assessor 1842, p205, Film #007706, MFHC
[No other Lamoreaux are listed on this roll. John & Andrew are not listed either year, 1840 or 1842.
**Look for other Nauvoo People there: Crockett, Reed, Byam, Haws, Coleman
Nauvoo Tax Assessor, 1840 & 1842, p205; Film #007706, MFHC.
1842 Sept D&C 127 - Directs - keeping records of Baptisms for the Dead.
Joseph Smith glories in persecution and tribulations.
1842 Sept 6 D&C 128 - Further directions on Baptisms for the Dead.
*1842 Oct? Lima, Illinois David B Lamoreaux ordained an Elder "Ordained Elder by Amos Cox at
Lima, Ill."
1842 OCT 29 Suckley, WORC, ENG Rowley - Son Samuel born to William Rowley & Ann Jewell
prob Mars Hill Certificate in my posession
1842 Nov Illinois Haws - Hannah Whitcomb Haws was baptized Nov 1842 by Elder Jefferson Hunt
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1843
Date Place Event & Source
1843 Jan “Elder Lamoreaux requests a letter of recommendation from the conference to
the church at Nauvoo, as he was under the necessity of returning home. Voted that he is in good standing and fellowship, that his request be granted.” [Prob Andrew]
“Times & Season,” vol 4 #12 189, 5
1843 Jan 18 Newtrenton, Indiana “Elder Lamoreaux represented the Newtrenton Branch, as numbering 25 in
good standing. …as well as at Lawrenceburg Miami town.”
“Times & Season,” vol 4 #12 189, 5
1843 Feb 1 Newtrenton, Indiana “Elder Andrew L Lamoreaux writes from Newtrenton, Franklin, Indiana
…the work is rolling forth in the area…”
“Times & Season,” Feb 1, 1843
1843 Feb D&C 129 - about discerning angles of light & spirits
1843 Mar 28 Nauvoo, Ill Reed - Delia B (Reed) Curtis received a Patriarchal Blessing,
From Hyrum Smith in Nauvoo.
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1843 Apr 2 Ramus, Illinois D&C 130
1843 May D&C 131
1843 May Chester, Geu, Ohio Joshua & Ann Cross Lamoreaux, John’s brother, Deborah’s parents have 3
land memorials registered near Kirtland, Ohio
Copy of Deeds
[They seem to have stayed in Ohio when the Church left. Their daughter Deborah Leithead was in Nauvoo, Iowa, Utah. A son, Andrew, received a Pat Blessing in Nauvoo in 1845.]
1843 May 8 from Nauvoo Letter from B Young to W Woodruff in England: Please send us a bell for
the temple. Cast of Bronze; clear tone of middle C.
Source???
[Rowleys were in Eng taught by WW at this time. Did they give to the bell fund? & Barretts & etc too?]
1843 Summer "The Prophet during that summer received the revelation on Celestial
Marriage, but was not immediately made public, although rumors were plentiful in regard to it."
The Diary of James Leithead
“Joseph Smith realized his time on earth was short, so while the was still under construction, he began giving the endowment to selected faithful followers in the upstairs room of his red brick store.”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 60
1843 June 11 Lima, Ill? Lamoreaux - “…a conference was held at Lima, and the branch reorganized
under the direction of Elder H.C. Kimball. …’The Lima Branch met in conference pursuant to appointment at the house of Amos Cox…”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah,
“Because Morley settlement was a half way place between Nauvoo and Quincy, the Morley Settlement people of the settlement often had distinguished guests.
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106
“Also upon the records of membership were found the names of David Losee, Lydia Losee,… …Cordelia said that the Losee family came to Morley Settlement about 1843 and …there were 9 in the family.”
“…David & Lydia Losee must have come to the Morley Settlement in 1842… Isaac & Sarah [Losee; oldest son] lived in Lima.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
MORLEY SETTLEMENT
Lamoreaux/Losee were in Morley Settlement.
[There was much persecution in the smaller communities like Morley.]
Lamoreaux - Crockett – Morley's Settlement is abt 25 miles south of Nauvoo, both in Hancock Co. Lima is 2 miles south-east of that across the county line in Adams Co. D.B. Lamoreaux's family was there some time in 1842 and Mar 1845. Children were born in Springfield in May 1839 & Dec 1840 and in Liberty May 1842. Springfield in abt 100 miles south-east from Lima. Liberty is abt 240 miles east of Springfield, or 175 miles south west of Lima. The Leithead family was in Adam-Ondi-Ahman March 1838 till 18??. John Mc Lamoreaux seems to be in Nauvoo Oct 1844 till at least Jan 1846. [Source?]
“At a conference held in Nauvoo April 6, 7, & 8th [what year?]… in spite of the mobs …in July or later …Isaac Morley was advised by Brigham Young to move his family to Nauvoo for greater safety. …September 10th, an armed mob entered (Morley.) The children were so frightened they never forgot that day. Most of the men were away.” P 114
“’The mob have burned all the houses on the south side of the brook, and left last evening for Lima.’ [Pres Solomon] Hancock said that the mob had threatened to return as soon as it was light the next day and burn everything south of Nauvoo. The mob did not return and fulfill their threat.” In Nauvoo: “There were three of four families living in many of the homes but there were not many complaints.”
Clare B Christensen, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 116-8
“At Nauvoo, the Council of Twelve Apostles issued the following notice to the brethren in and around Nauvoo: 1845 Sept 12 ‘To the Brethren in and about Nauvoo, Greeting: The Council of the Church requests every man who has a team to go immediately to the Morley Settlement, and act in concert with Pres Solomon Hancock in removing the sick, the women and children, goods and grain to Nauvoo.’ Men with 134 teams responded…”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 116-7
See Sept 1845
[Adams Co. - D.B. Lamoreaux's family was there some time in 1842 and Mar 1845. Children were born in Springfield in May 1839 & Dec 1840 and in Liberty May 1842. Springfield in abt 100 miles south-east from Lima. Liberty is abt 240 miles east of Springfield, or 175 miles south west of Lima. The Leithead family was in Adam-Ondi-Ahman March 1838 till 18??. John Mc Lamoreaux seems to be in Nauvoo Oct 1844 till at least Jan 1846. There seems to have been a lot of travel between these settlements, attending conferences & etc. Family members probably stayed at each other’s homes.]
[Abigail’s bro David & Lydia Losee’ family was in Morley Settlement. Did the Lamoreaux’ have their own place there or stay with their cousins, one of the Losee family at Morley or Lima? John is listed at a conference with his bro-in-law, David Losee, at Lima.]
[Crocketts were there too, when?. Where were others here: Reed, Byam, Haws, Coleman?]
1843 July D&C 132 on Celestial Marriage is recorded. It was revealed 1831.
1843 Nov Illinois Haws - Hannah Whitcomb Haws was baptized Nov 1842 by Elder Jefferson Hunt
“Gilbreth was baptized Nov of the following year. Also 2 daus were baptized in 1843”
Hannah & Gilbreth (Haws) lived on a ranch located about 20 miles from Xenia, Ill, in the northwestern part of Wayne Co. They had a herd of sheep, some cattle and a farm.”
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1843 Dec Morley Settlement David Burlock Lamoreaux ordained a High Priest by Solomon Hancock
Adams, Illinois, Early Church Records Index &
[or Hancock Co.] Lima Records of Kimball Erdman
1843 Dec 17 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew Lamoreaux ordained a High Priest
Early Church Records Index & Records of Kimball Erdman
184? England to Nauvoo Temple bell Shipped from Eng & up the. . . . Mississippi River.
Stolen by ruffians on the way, recovered & delivered to the Saints.
Olive W Burt "Ring out Wild Bells", Children's Friend, July 1976
1844
Date Place Event & Source
1844 Mar 12 Nauvoo, Crockett - Deborah Athenia Crockett born to David Crockett & Lydia
Hancock, Ill Young,dies as an infant.
Archive Family Group Record Sheet for David Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
[The Crockett family had children born in Nauvoo in 1844 & 1845.]
1844 Mars Hill, Worc, Eng Rowley - Frome’s Hill Conference of the LDS Church name changes to
near Cradley Mars Hill Conference “Mars Hill Conference, British Mission, was a
continuation of the Frome’s Hill Conference (Herefordshire, England, organized in 1840) but the name was changed in 1844 to the Mars Hill Conference, which functioned until Aug. 14, 1848, when the limits of the conference having extended to other parts of Herefordshire, the name of the conference was changed to that of the Herefordshire Conference.”
Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ LDS
184? Temple bell Shipped from Eng & up the. . . . Mississippi River.
Stolen by ruffians on the way, recovered & delivered to the Saints.
Olive W Burt "Ring out Wild Bells", Children's Friend, July 1976
[Did Rowleys, & etc help contribute for the bell? Is there a list?]
1844 Dayton, Ohio In actions against Dr Foster, Andrew L Lamoreaux was sworn. [against Do Foster] “Said
that in 1839 or ’40, while President Joseph Smith, Elder Rigdon, Judge Higbee, Orrin P Rockwell & Dr Robert Foster were on their way to Washington, called at witness’ house in Dayton, Ohio: …”
Documentary History of the Church, vol6: 21-
“The Nauvoo Expositor,” 440, 3
1844-1846 Nauvoo., Ill John McCord Lamoreaux & David B Lamoreaux owned land in Nauvoo.
Maps of Nauvoo
1844 Apr 15 A.L. Lamoreaux called on a mission to Indiana.
B H Roberts, Comp History of the Church v6 p339
Film #250,236 Missionary Rec.
[See entries from Times & Seasons 1842 & 1843.]
1844 June D&C 135
1844 June 27 Carthage, Ill Joseph Smith & Hyrum Smith are martyred in the Carthage Jail
D&C 135
“Even after the murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith, when the Saints realized they must shortly leave Nauvoo, they increased their commitment to completing the temple. The attic of the unfinished temple was dedicated as a part of the structure where the endowment would be administered. …Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball, and others of the Twelve Apostles remained in the temple day and night, sleeping no more than about four hours a night.” “Almost 6,000 Latter-day Saints received their endowments before leaving Nauvoo.”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 60
1844 July 1 England hears of Joseph Smith’s Death
1844 July Nauvoo, Ill Two weeks after martyrdom work resumes on the temple
Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell"
Saints stayed to finish & Dedicate the temple.
1844 An election year in USA. Slavery was a big issue. The Saints threatened to
upset the balance. The Saints threatened to upset the balance.
[It this the year that the big fight in Gallatin occurred?]
1861. Abraham Lincoln in Springfield 1837-1860;
“Abraham Lincoln” video by Dan Dalton
[What was he doing about all this injustice? He was sympathetic but not as sympathetic as Douglas.]
Missionary Work “During this period, the Prophet called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to go to England on Missions.”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 56
The Standard Works “During the Nauvoo Period… some of the writings that later became the Pearl of Great Price were published.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 58
Temple Work “Only 15 months after founding Nauvoo, the First Presidency, obedient to revelation, announced that the time had come to erect…” a temple.
“Our Heritage, A brief History…Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p58
1844 Sept 21 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux initiated into Masons Lodge
"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"
[Joseph Smith Jr recognized some truths in the Masonic Lodge – so he and many others joined the Masons.] [Add notes on Masons.]
1844 Sept 23 Morley Lamoreaux -“…61 year old David Losee [Abigail’s brother] died. His funeral
must have been held in the grove and he was buried somewhere at Morley.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
1844 Oct 3 Hancock Co, Ill David B Lamoreaux, carpenter, - Masons Lodge
1844 Oct 5 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux passed in the Masons Lodge
"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"
1844 Oct 5 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux – Joins Masons Lodge –
1844 Oct 5 prob Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux – Masons Lodge – physician – 51
[Was he a Dr.? …and was he51??!]
1844 Oct 8 Nauvoo, Ill John McCord Lamoreaux ordained High Priest
Early Church Records Index
John McCord Lamoreaux ordained High Priest “by President [Henry
W] Miller &council in Nauvoo”
Also listed - Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Rec, pg 78”
“Source: High Priest Rec, Qrm orgnzd at Nauvoo, 1840, LDC”
& “Nauvoo 5th Ward, pg 148.” arc
1844 Oct 6,7,8 A.L. Lamoreaux called on a mission in Church Conference
Early Church Rcrds Indx–Film #250,236 Missionary Rcrds
1844 Oct 17 Hancock Co, Ill David B Lamoreaux, carpenter, - Masons Lodge
1844 Dec 25 Nauvoo, Ill David Burlock Lamoreaux initiated into Masons & passed
"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"
1845
Date Place Event & Source
1845 Jan England Wilford Woodruff & wife & daughter arrive from America
[Which time? He was there in 1840.]
1845 Rowley - Louisa Rowley daughter of William Rowley & Ann Jewell, is
Baptized LDS
Rowley Family History,
1845 Jan 11 Suckley, Worc, Eng Rowley - Richard Rowley Born to William Rowley & Ann Jewell
prob Mars Hill Certificate in my possession
1845 “At its peak in 1845, Nauvoo was home to more than 11,000, mostly Latter-Day Saint residents.”
“From NY to Utah, Seven Church Headquarters,”
“The Ensign,” August 2001, p 52-58
[Adams Co. D.B. Lamoreaux's family was there some time in 1842 and Mar 1845. Children were born in Springfield in May 1839 & Dec 1840 and in Liberty May 1842. Springfield in abt 100 miles south-east from Lima. Liberty is about 240 miles east of Springfield, or 175 miles south west of Lima. The Leithead family was in Adam-Ondi-Ahman March 1838 till 18??. John Mc Lamoreaux seems to be in Nauvoo Oct 1844 till at least Jan 1846. There seems to have been a lot of travel between these settlements, attending conferences & etc. Family members probably stayed at each other’s homes.]
1845 Morley Settlement David B Lamoreaux is listed in Nauvoo H Priest Register as having been
ordained High Priest: 1845 in Morley Settlement, Ill by S. Hancock, A.M. York
Nauvoo Land records, “Nauvoo High Priest Rec, pg 78”
“Source: HP Rec,Qrm orgnzd 23 Apr 1848, SLC, Utah, LDC Arc”
Also listed HP Quorum, SLC: 5 Feb 1851
1845 Mar 3 Lima, Ill David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 4th child, William Henry, born.
[Morley Settmnt] Dies 4 days later.
Family Group Record
1845 Mar 7 Lima, Ill David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 4th child, William Henry, dies, 4 days old.
[Morley Settmnt] Family Group Record
[John McCord Lamoreaux’s brother-in-law David Losee’ family was in Morley Settlement. Did the Lamoreaux’ have their own place there or stay with their cousins, one of the Losee family at Morley or Lima? John is listed at a conference with his bro-in-law, David Losee, at Lima.] [Lima is pronounced with a long “i” Like a lima bean.]
1845 Apr 6 Manchester, , Eng Rowley -General Conference of LDS Church at Manchester, , Eng.
Mars Hill as represented by G.P. Waugh
1845 Wayne Co, Ill Haws - Gilbreth & Hannah Whitcomb Haws - In 1845 …some elders
visited them & told them that the saints were being mobbed & driven from their homes, & advised the Haws family to go west with the saints. The Quorum of the Twelve had proposed to the governor of Ill that the saints would leave the state next spring. To carry out this proposal the beautiful City Nauvoo was turned into a workshop; the sound of hammer and anvil could be hear early and late as they turned raw materials into wagons, harnesses and yokes for the oxen.
“As Hannah and her family lived in Wayne Co, Ill. Which is some distance from Nauvoo, their family hadn’t suffered the brunt of the persecution. To leave their friends to join a most unpopular cause was a very grave and difficult decision to make. They left Wayne Co in May 1847. With a small branch of the church organized in Wayne Co. they traveled in a northwest direction thru Ill., crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, then went past the first encampment of the Pioneers at Garden Grove, which was about 150 miles from Nauvoo, then traveled on 100 miles to Mt Pisgah where they stayed for the winter.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1845 Apr 23 Nauvoo John Lamoreaux –In Nauvoo, lot - Kim 71 – see R C 2105 -
Suit – neighbor
My Nauvoo Notes
1845 Apr 29 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew Lamoreaux son of Joshua & Anna Lamoreaux receives his
pat. blessing from John Smith
Film #392,666
[There were two Andrew Lamoreaux in Nauvoo. The uncle, David’s brother, seems to be referred to as Andrew L.]
1845 Nauvoo, Ill Endowments first performed in Nauvoo Temple
1845 May Nauvoo, Ill Capstone of temple set
Lois L Tanner "Old Bell, Temple Bell"
1845 June 5 Nauvoo, Crockett - Barbara Young Crockett born to David Crockett & Lydia Young
Hancock, Ill Archive Family Group Record Sheet for David
Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
1845 June 26 Nauvoo Reed - Delia B (Reed) Curtis received a Patriarchal Blessing, from John Smith
Nauvoo Mary S Reed (Crockett) received a Patriarchal Blessing, from John Smith
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1845 July 25 Nauvoo? John Lamoreaux received Patriarchal Blessing from John Smith
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1845 July 25 Nauvoo? Lamoreaux - Lamoreaux, Catherine, wife of John received Patriarchal
Blessing from John Smith
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
Date Place Event & Source
1845 Aug 25 Nauvoo, Ill Andrew Lamoreaux's 6th child, William George born
Family Group Record of Leanna S Rogers?
“At a conference held in Nauvoo April 6, 7, & 8th [what year?]… in spite of the mobs …in July or later …Isaac Morley was advised by Brigham Young to move his family to Nauvoo for greater safety. …September 10th, an armed mob entered (Morley.) The children were so frightened they never forgot that day. Most of the men were away.” P 114
“’The mob have burned all the houses on the south side of the brook, and left last evening for Lima.’ [Pres Solomon] Hancock said that the mob had threatened to return as soon as it was light the next day and burn everything south of Nauvoo. The mob did not return and fulfill their threat.”
In Nauvoo: “There were three of four families living in many of the homes but there were not many complaints.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 116-8
[There was much persecution in the smaller communities like Morley.]
1845 Sept Morley Settlement “…arsonists torched Morley’s settlement, 27 miles south of Nauvoo”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign July 1997, 40-53
[See June 1843 & Sept 1844]
1845 Sept 12 Morley Settlement “At Nauvoo, the Council of Twelve Apostles issued the following notice to
the brethren in and around Nauvoo: ‘To the Brethren in and about Nauvoo,
Greeting: The Council of the Church requests every man who has a team to go immediately to the Morley Settlement, and act in concert with Pres Solomon Hancock in removing the sick, the women and children, goods and grain to Nauvoo.’ Men with 134 teams responded…”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 116-7
[Had David & Mary Anne Lamoreaux left yet? Their baby was born here in Mar 1845. What about Crockett?]
1845 Sept 21 Rowley - Mars Hill Conference met “in the parish of Suckley,
Worcestershire”conference consisted of 466 members, 11 branches
1845 Sept/Dec Rowley – Mars Hill & Hereford shire LDS Church Conference, 1845
H. ARNOLD was clerk
Film #1183,516; Millennial Star excerpts 1845 item #7;
[All entries for Mars Hill are from Rowley Family History, unless otherwise stated.]
[*English Law required a license to preach. Find the license for Mars Hill.]
1845 Oct 6 “On Monday October 6th, a general conference of the church was held in the
Nauvoo, Illinois nearly completed Nauvoo Temple….”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
1845 Oct 8 “On the 8th, a circular was issued to the church and to the world in general,
announcing the intention of the church to move from Nauvoo.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
1845 November Nauvoo, Ill "…finishing the temple, ... intend to hang a bell"
A visitor to Nauvoo, The Burlington Hawkeye, Nov 20, 1945
1845-6 Winter Nauvoo, Ill "Various rooms of the temple were dedicated ... for ordinance work
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 368
1845-1846 Nauvoo "After the death of the Prophet & Patriarch, and the return of the Apostles
Winter most of whom were in the Eastern States, work on the Temple was pushed
with vigor and in the fall of 1845 and winter of 1846 was so far completed that endowments were given to hundreds of the Saints. Work o the Temple was continued all winter preparatory to leaving in the spring which had been determined upon because of the continued persecutions heaped upon us."
Diary of James Leithead
1845 Dec 10 “The Saints at Nauvoo were hurrying to complete the temple. It was to be
the largest, most elaborate and unique structure then in western United States. Late in the afternoon on December 10th, the temple opened for endowments. Church leaders and their wives comprised most of the 30 or more who entered the temple that afternoon. Part of the group did not complete the ordinance until after midnight so the dates were not clear. …The temple was not open on Sunday but it was on Christmas. …They used all their olive oil and consequently there were no more endowments done until Monday the 29th. “So few of the women had white dresses that they were not even mentioned. The women wore white petticoats under their robes.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
1845 Dec 14-15 Manchester, Eng Rowley - Special Conference at Manchester, , Eng. Mars Hill.
Members =659. 24Elders, 28 Priests,14 Teachers, 8 Deacons
Film #1183,516; Millennial Star excerpts 1845, item #7;
1845 Dec 23 Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - John & Catherine Lamoreaux & Andrew L receive Endowments
They were in the “second company” of the day there were 18 people listed in
the second company. There is a first & third company mentioned that day.
Isabella received hers 30 Jan 1846. [The prophet’s birthday!]
Nauvoo Temple Records, Film #183,371 p33
Also listed in Nauvoo Land records, “NT End Rec pg 50”
[Who else was in Nauvoo Temple? See: Nauvoo Sealing Book A p401, #2850 p409]
1845-6 Winter Nauvoo, Ill "Various rooms of the temple were dedicated ... for ordinance work
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 368
1846
Date Event & Source Place
1846 Jan 20 Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - "Bro Lamoreaux" Temple Worker (not David)
Nauvoo Temple Records
[Who is this? The options are John, Andrew, Henry, _______]
1846 Jan 23 Nauvoo, Ill David Burlock & Mary Ann Lamoreaux receive endowments
Nauvoo Endowments 1840-1846 - Temple Records, Film #183,371
1846 Feb 2 Nauvoo, Ill NAUVO Exodus began "I counseled the brethren to procure boats
Days of ... in readiness ... to go ... within 4 hours, at least."
Exodus Brigham Young, History of the Church v 7 p 578
Quoted in Church News 1979
“The evacuation of Nauvoo was originally planned to take place in April 1846. But as a result of threats that the state militia intended to prevent the Saints from going west, the Twelve Apostles and other leading citizens hurriedly met in council on 2 Feb 1846. They agreed that it was imperative to start west immediately,…”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 69
1846 Feb 4 Mississippi River First family crossed the river leaving Nauvoo, others follow
B H Roberts, Comp Hist of the Church v 3 p 40
Quoted in Church News 1979
“…the exodus began on 4 Feb. Under the direction of Brigham Young ….
Late winter weather and an exceptionally rainy spring.”
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, 1996, p 70
“The long planned move …began Feb. 4th. The Mississippi River did not freeze over as a rule, but the weather had been so cold, the river had a crust of ice thick enough to carry loaded wagons. SO the first company to leave Nauvoo crossed the great river on the ice….
“Sugar Creek was 7 miles from Nauvoo.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, ch 8
“The Company of the Twelve began crossing the Mississippi River on 4 Feb…plan was to reach the Missouri River by mid-April, plant crops along the way for those coming behind, establish camps… and ‘dispatch a swift company across the mountains with seeds…for a spring and summer crop’ - all in 1846. But the trek across Iowa was so fraught with delays,
“…the Twelve concluded the main camp would winter on the west bank of the Missouri.”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
“Pres Young led the first big company of Saints, the Camp of Israel, from Nauvoo.”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
“It took the Saints 131 days to travel the 310 miles from Nauvoo to the settlement in western Iowa where they would pass the winter of 1846-7 and prepare for their trek to the Rocky Mts. This taught …more quickly cross the 1000 miles of the Great American plains …following year in about 111 days”
“A number of settlements of Saints stretched along both sides of the Missouri River. The largest settlement, Winter Quarters, was on the west side in Nebraska.” 3,500 settlers in log cabins and dugouts of willows and dirt. 2,500 Saints lived in and around Kanesville, on the Iowa side. Malaria fever, no fresh food, cholera epidemics, scurvy, toothaches, night blindness, sever diarrhea. Hundreds died.
Women: cleaning, ironing, washing, quilting, write letters, meals, families, theological discussions, dances, Church meetings, parties, frontier revivals. Men: worked together, discussed travel plans, future sites for Saints, round up herds, forage on plains, worked in fields, guarded perimeters, constructed flour mill, readied wagons, prepared fields, planted crops for next group of Saints.
Mormon Battalion left Iowa.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, p 71-72
1846 Feb 5 Sugar Creek 9 Children born 1st night on Sugar Creek
B H Roberts, Comp Hist of the Church v 3
Quoted in Church News 1979
1846 Feb 8 Nauvoo, Ill Private Dedication of Nauvoo Temple by Brigham Young.
A. Baugh, Church History Seminar, June 1997
1846 Feb 15 Sugar Creek Brigham Young & family crossed the river then on to...Sugar Creek
Brigham Young, History of the Church v 7 p 578
Quoted in Church News 1979
1846 Feb 24 Sugar Creek Extremely cold, Mississippi River frozen over saints drove their wagons
over the ice
B H Roberts, Comp Hist of the Church quoted in Church News 1979
1846 Feb 28 Mississippi River “Two weeks after the first crossing, the river froze over for a time.
Though the ice was slippery, it supported wagons and teams and made the crossing easier. But the cold weather caused much suffering as the Saints plodded through the snow.. In the encampment at Sugar Creek On the other side of the river, a steady wind blew snow that fell to a depth of almost eight inches. Then the thaw caused the ground to be muddy. Around, above, and below the elements combined to produce a miserable Environment for the 2,000 Saints huddled in tents, wagons, and hastily erected shelters…”
“Our Heritage, A brief History…LDS”,1996, LDS Church, p 70
1846 Mar 1 “…order was given and the camp began it’s move toward the west. ‘Camp of Israel…’”
“Isaac Morley was an older man and remained in Nauvoo for a more favorable time.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
[Did our people stay in Nauvoo “…for a more favorable time”? Where were they all?]
Date Place Event & Source
1846 Spring Iowa “William Clayton’s …’Come, Come Ye Saints,’ (was) written while
crossing Iowa in the spring of 1846...”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign July 1997, 40-53
1846 Apr-May-June Nauvoo - “…the main exodus took place, when about 11,000 departed in small clusters.
They crossed Iowa… By Aug, Nauvoo was almost emptied of Saints, except for 600 to 1,000 who lacked the means to leave or were too ill to head west. Many were new arrivals …found Nauvoo all but deserted.
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
184? Mar 22 Leominster, H, Eng Rowley - 2nd Division of Mars Hill Conference met at Leominster, Herfor,
Eng. 8 branches represented
184? Mar 29 Cradley, Here, Eng Rowley - Mars Hill conference held; 11 branches represented
1846 Spring Iowa "Myself and others hired a flat boat and when spring opened,
commenced ferrying across the river, which we continued until the majority were across. Having no team or wagon for the trip, I hired a man and team to take me and wife to Bentonsport on the Des Moines River in Iowa. I there went to work ... anything to make an outfit out for the journey, ... "
The Diary of James Leithead
1846 Apr 5 ‘Members of the advance, exploratory company head west.”
[They reach SLC July 24.]
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1846 April 30 Nauvoo, Ill The temple; "The main court of worship was prepared...” The building was
dedicated by Joseph Young.”
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 369
1846 May 1 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo Temple publicly dedicated, O Hyde & W Woodruff
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 369
1846 May 11 Suckley, Worc, Eng Rowley - Thomas Rowley BORN to William Rowley & Ann Jewell
prob Mars Hill Family Group Record
1846 June 14 “The Company of the Twelve began crossing the Mississippi River on 4 Feb
…plan was to reach the Missouri River by mid-April, plant crops along the way for those coming behind, establish camps… and ‘dispatch a swift company across the mountains with seeds…for a spring and summer crop’ - all in 1846. But the trek across Iowa was so fraught with delays, broken plans, exhaustion, and sickness that the camp did not reach the Missouri until 14 June.
“…problems caused by their hasty departure from Nauvoo slowed their progress, as did melting snow, heavy rains, swollen creeks, and mud everywhere – as deep as the wagon bottoms. …the camp inched it’s way west, establishing farms at Garden Grove & Mount Pisgah …arriving at Council Bluffs …two months behind schedule. …encampments sprawled over high bluffs and open prairie in sight of Pottawattamie Indian Villages …too late for an over-the-mountains expedition.
“…the Twelve concluded the main camp would winter on the west bank of the Missouri.”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1846 July 21 Mormon Battalion march out.
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1846 Nauvoo, Ill David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux 5th child, Martha Elizabeth, born.
Family Group Record
NOTE: [Why did they stay so long in Nauvoo? Sick child? Pregnant wife? Elder members of the family?
Most Saints had gone before this. Stayed to defend Nauvoo? Poor? Or All.]
Nauvoo Temple Bell Notes:
There seems to be some confusion as to whether the Temple bell was rescued from the temple or from a local church where it had been removed to. It may have even been taken from the thieves as it was lowered to be taken to a local church. The bell was probably rescued by David Lamoreaux between May, when the temple was dedicated, and Sept 1846 when there is another bell recorded as being there. The bell mentioned in Nauvoo in mid Sept. was not the Temple Bell as it was located in the observatory station of the tower, not the belfry. This one was “a steam boat signal bell.”. WHEN? EXACTLY WAS THIS?
As you read the following entries, be aware that the Temple was burned 19 Nov 1848, the bell came across the plains in 1847. Also, we aren't sure who brought the bell all the way to Salt Lake. It appears that David Lamoreaux brought it some distance; maybe to Liberty Pole (?) or Winter Quarters (?).He and his family are not listed with any emigrating company but say they arrived in 1850. Several sources say he took it across the plains to Utah. Most agree that it came with him from Nauvoo. It is doubtful he would leave his family in Iowa and take the bell across the plains all the way to Utah. He may have brought it with his family to Iowa, or Winter Quarters, or etc. That in itself would be a major feat.]
1846 "Before Nauvoo, Illinois "Andrew Lamoreaux and his brother David, who had been chosen to bring the
all the bell to Utah, returned to Nauvoo 'one stormy night and gathered in secret and
saints left" without horses pulled the wagon to the church and lowered the bell,'" "After the Temple was burned by an angry mob, the bell was used to summon Protestant worshipers until two Mormons rescued it one night and carried it west."
Robert Anderson, Ogden Standard-Examiner
20 Oct 1984, Church News p 4
[This seems to indicate that it was between February, when the first saints left, and September, when the last left.]
1846 Nauvoo, Ill "A minister, having it in mind for his own church, removed the bell one night
"during David B Lamoreaux & his brother Andrew learned of the bell's removal and
Mormon decided to recover it & take it west with them. With the help of Daniel H Wells
exodus" & others, they succeeded in locating the bell; & late one night they let it down from the new tower. They buried it in a boggy marsh with only a piece of chain above ground ... There it remained until David was ready to leave Nauvoo. It made such a heavy load in his wagon that his family had leave to walk most of the way across the plains.
Kimball Erdman found in Nauvoo - Gateway to the West p 76-77
[NOTE: The Lamoreaux's arrived in Salt Lake, 1850, according to family records. The Bell was there 1847!?]
1846 "Before Nauvoo, Illinois Lamoreaux - "Andrew Lamoreaux and his brother David, who had been
all the chosen to bring the bell to Utah returned to Nauvoo 'one stormy night and
saints left" gathered in secret and without horses pulled the wagon to the church and
lowered the bell,'"
"After the Temple was burned by an angry mob, the bell was used to summon
Protestant worshipers until two Mormons rescued it one night and carried it west."
Robert Anderson, Ogden Standard-Examiner
20 Oct 1984, The Church News, p 4.
Note: [Temple burned after Bell reached Salt Lake Valley]
1846 - after Nauvoo, Ill “…we left our city, Temple & Bell well" "There was a plan afoot to steal it (the
exodus bell). “... D B Lamreaux got a few of his friends together & disguised them as
members of the mob by use of face masks. He took his own light wagon onto the scene; and just as the vandals were lowering the bell from its tower to the ground this wagon moved under it. In a flash the brethren were off while those about them supposed they were cooperating in the theft. A few minutes later the mistake was discovered, but too late for the mob to find it. ... They [David & group] proceeded to the willows on the banks of the Mississippi River, and hid it there, then proceeded to submerge it into the mud along those banks. ... The treasure remained there for several months."
Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958
taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)
1846 after Nauvoo, Ill The bell "was apparently taken from the temple & placed in a local protestant
evacuation church.We owe recovery of the Nauvoo bell to the Lamoreaux family. Shortly
of Nauvoo before they left Nauvoo for the West, according to family sources, 'one stormy
night men gathered in secret & without horses pulled the wagon to the Church & lowered the Bell, pushed & pulled the wagon by hand to the edge of the Mississippi River & carefully concealed it in the water. Andrew and his brother David were chosen to bring the bell to Utah.'
Lois L Tanner, Ensign Feb 1981 p 15
from Maud Lamoreaux Card, From Edith Smith Elliott
1846 "after Nauvoo, Ill "... the cherished bell was taken from it's towers by unfriendly hands & hung in
saints left the belfry of the Methodist church. This grieved the saints across the great river
... one stormy night a few of the brethren gathered in secret, and without horses pulled the wagon to the Church & quietly lowered the Bell. Then pushing & pulling the wagon by hand to the edge of the Mississippi River, they carefully concealed the wagon & the bell beneath the dark waters. Later they rescued it & pulled it on across the river. ... Lamoreaux wagon ... contained the Nauvoo Temple Bell."
Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell" quoting Lamoreaux letter
1846 "after Nauvoo, Ill "David Burlock Lamoreaux drove his wagon underneath the bell, lowered it
evacuation" and delivered it to the Church, it's rightful owner. It was the Lamoreaux family (Feb or Sept?) who hauled it in their wagon the long distance across the plains, and they
willingly walked much of the way to do so."
Mary Grant Judd, “Relief Society Magazine,” January, 1942
1846 Sept Nauvoo, Ill Cannons made from steamboat shafts are placed on the North of Mullholland St
... under the command of “Capt Lamareux” [Andrew?]
B.H. Roberts, The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 36
[I think Capt Lamoreaux was Andrew. David & Andrew usually did things together but Andrew, the older brother, was usually the leader, so David may have been part of the company.]
Date Event & Source Place
1846 Sep 10-13 Nauvoo, Illinois Lamoreaux - "firing on both sides mob and Saints" Capt. Lamareux's Co,
called to help Gates & Cutler Co
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 363
1846 Sept 14 Nauvoo “…LDS encampments by the Missouri River, …send back wagons to help
people in Nauvoo. This was 2 weeks before news reached them about the battle of Nauvoo and the poor camps. “…A small wagon train, …20 wagons …headed out 14 Sept picking up men & provisions along the way. Most men in the rescue train had relatives they hoped to find & bring west. …reached Montrose on 6 Oct
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
1846 mid-Sept Nauvoo - ‘…in what became known as the Battle of Nauvoo, armed men invaded Nauvoo
and forced hundreds of LDS men, women, and children, too sick to travel, across the river. There the refugees set up scattered camps for two miles along the river banks above the town of Montrose, Iowa (later known as the poor camps.) Few had tents or wagons or adequate food.
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
Nauvoo, Ill A bell and bass drum were used by a lookout to warn the saints of
mob forces approaching.
"McGavin p. 241"
1846 Sept 16 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo - "The city of Nauvoo will surrender ... tomorrow 17 of Sept at
3:00 p.m." "Mormons ... to leave the state ... as soon as they can cross the river." They were promised protection from violence till thy left.
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 365
The “…Saints either leave Nauvoo or risk being slaughtered in its streets.”
“’For the salvation of the Church,’ Pres Young…”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1846 Sept 17 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo - Surrender of Nauvoo
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 365
[Who was still there? Crockett & Byam, Reed, Coleman? Capt Lamoreaux was still there Sept 10-13. It was about this time that the bell was rescued. B Young didn’t ask for it till Sept 26 & 27.]
David & Mary Anne Lamoreaux had a child born in Nauvoo in 1846. Which month? Were they still here when it was surrendered? Andrew was the Capt. Lamoreaux defending Nauvoo in Sept 1846. I think they were here, cause the bell was. When did the temple bell leave? It was replaced with another for a while. I think they may have left, when the bell was requested, and taken the bell to Brigham Young in Iowa or WQ later in Sept. 1846. See …26-27 Sept?]
1846 Sept 18 Nauvoo , Ill "About 20 of the mob... surrounded my wagons and ordered myself
and family off in 20 minutes ..." He requested 30 minutes. He was refused time to pack. Their guns were taken. "The mob went through the temple and up to the dome of the tower, ringing the bell, shouting and hallowing.."
Thomas Bullock (1846), "Journal History"
Also in “The Deseret News,” 17 June 1939 [See Note 1846 Sept 3rd week, Col Kane]
1846 Sept Nauvoo, Ill “Few days after final exodus"... Climbed to observation section of
3rd week the tower found; "a bass drum and a steam boat signal bell ..."
Col Thomas L Kane, The Mormons: A Discourse, (1850) p 8
The Mormon Pioneers, E Cecil Mc Gavin p 131
Note: [This bell was not the Temple Bell as it was located in the observatory station of the tower, not the belfry. See other entries for clarification.]
Date Place Event & Source
1846 Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - "A minister, having it in mind for his own church, removed
"during the bell one night David B Lamoreaux & his brother Andrew learned of the bell's
Mormon removal and decided to recover it & take it west with them. With the help of Daniel H
exodus" Wells & others, they succeeded in locating the bell; & late one night they let it down
from the new tower. They buried it in a boggy marsh with only a piece of chain above ground ... There it remained until David was ready to leave Nauvoo. It made such a heavy load in his wagon that his family had to walk most of the way across the plains.”
Kimball Erdman found in Nauvoo - Gateway to the West p 76-77
[NOTE: Probably to WQ. The Lamoreaux's arrived in Salt Lake, 1850, according to family records. The Bell was there 1847! Or did David leave family here & take it??? NO His dau walked so it could ride.]
1846 - after Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - “…we left our city, Temple & Bell well" "There was a plan afoot to steal it
exodus (the bell).... D B Lamoreaux got a few of his friends together & disguised them as
members of the mob by use of face masks. He took his own light wagon onto the scene; and just as the vandals were lowering the bell from its tower to the ground this wagon moved under it. In a flash the brethren were off while those about them supposed they were cooperating in the theft. A few minutes later the mistake was discovered, but too late for the mob to find it. ... They [David & group] proceeded to the willows on the banks of the Mississippi River, and hid it there, then proceeded to submerge it into the mud along those banks. ... The treasure remained there for several months."
Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958
taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)
1846 after Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - The bell "was apparently taken from the temple & placed in a local
evacuation protestant church. We owe recovery of the Nauvoo bell to the Lamoreaux family.
of Nauvoo Shortly before they left Nauvoo for the West, according to family sources, 'one
stormy night men gathered in secret & without horses pulled the wagon to the Church & lowered the Bell, pushed & pulled the wagon by hand to the edge of the Mississippi River & carefully concealed it in the water. Andrew and his brother David were chosen to bring the bell to Utah.' [NOT: Maybe to WQ.]
Lois L Tanner, Ensign Feb 1981 p 15
from Maud Lamoreaux Card; From Edith Smith Elliott
1846 "after Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - "... the cherished bell was taken from it's towers by unfriendly hands &
saints left” hung in the belfry of the Methodist church. This grieved the saints across the great
river... one stormy night a few of the brethren gathered in secret, and without horses pulled the wagon to the Church & quietly lowered the Bell. Then pushing & pulling the wagon by hand to the edge of the Mississippi River, they carefully concealed the wagon & the bell beneath the dark waters. Later they rescued it & pulled it on across the river. ... Lamoreaux wagon ... contained the Nauvoo Temple Bell."
Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell", quoting Lamoreaux letter
Date Place Event & Source
1846 "after Nauvoo, Ill Lamoreaux - "David Burlock Lamoreaux drove his wagon underneath the bell,
evacuation" lowered it and delivered it to the Church, it's rightful owner. It was the
(Feb or Sept?) Lamoreaux family who hauled it in their wagon the long distance across the plains,
and they willingly walked much of the way to do so."
Mary Grant Judd, Relief Society Magazine, January, 1942
1846 Sept 26 Winter Quarters Lamoreaux - "... the bell was raised from it's murky hiding place & taken
to WQ where it rang for celebration & funeral alike." "David's [Lamoreaux] 6 year
old daughter said, 'The Bell made a full load for our wagon, so I walked all the way that the Bell might ride."
Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958
taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)
[David Lamoreaux family did not go to Salt Lake till 1850, so this must refer to their travel to Iowa.??]
"The first Co. will carry the bell, ..."
"Journal History" organized by date
also in Exodus to Greatness, P Nibley 1949, p 368
[Note: The bell appears to have been in Winter Quarters for a while. See following entries; 11, 17 & 21 June 1847.]
NOTE: [We aren't sure who brought the bell all the way to Salt Lake. The Temple was burned 19 Nov 1848, The 6th Lamoreaux child was born this day in Iowa City, Iowa. The bell came across the plains in 1847. The Lamoreaux's arrived in Salt Lake, 1850, according to family records. It appears that David may have brought it to Liberty Pole(?) or Winter Quarters(?) ]
1846 Sept 26 ?? Mississippi River Temple bell raised from the mud of the Mississippi River & taken to WQ
to Winter Quarter Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958
taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)
1846 Sept 27 Winter Quarters B Young, a letter sent to Nauvoo from Winter Quarters "... as you will
to Nauvoo have no further use of the Temple bell, ...forward it to us ..." asap
"Journal History", organized by date
also in Exodus to Greatness, P Nibley, 1949, p 245
1846 Sept 28 Nauvoo, Ill Nauvoo is surrendered. – Letter from B Young requesting the bell.
1846 Oct early “…the Pottawattamie High Council across the river from Winter Quarters sent off
a 2nd rescue company …reached the poor camps near the end of Oct …transported
anyone still in the poor camps who needed assistance.”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
1846 Oct 6 A “…rescue train…reached Montrose on 6 Oct… Numbers of the poor Saints …had been moved away from the river camps to nearby villages or farms. …Thomas Kane …found ‘not more than 640’ Saints there languishing in awful conditions. ‘Almost all of them …crippled victims of disease.’ …unable to take care of their sick, …no bread to feed their children. ‘…bivouacked in tatters.’”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
1846 Oct 9 “The Lord sent assistance to these poor people… Quail flocks flew near the camps and
flopped onto the ground in the morning and afternoon. Like ancient Israel, …picked up quail in their hands & soon had as mush cooked quail as they wanted to eat.
“At 3 PM on the day of the quail miracle, Church trustees working in Nauvoo to sell Church properties …gave to the needy Saints shoes, clothing, molasses, salt pork, & salt.
…had solicited funds from towns along the Mississippi River… At 4:30 PM [the rescue train] …started return trek. …157 people & 28 wagons.” to WQ, Nebraska.
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
[This entry is from Thomas Bullock Journal for these dates. FIND IT.]
1846 Oct 9 Iowa Pioneer - Miracles of the quails to feed starving saints
late 1846? ... just across the river Lightning strikes the temple frightening evil revelers.
after mobs Thomas L. Kane, The Mormons a lecture, March 26, 1850
took temple quoted by Lois L Tanner, "Old Bell, Temple Bell"
WINTER QUARTERS
[Which families were in Winter Quarters? Lamoreaux, Haws, Crockett? Byam…]
It took the Saints 131 days to travel the 310 miles from Nauvoo to the settlement in western Iowa where they would pass the winter of 1846-7 and prepare for their trek to the Rocky Mts. This taught …more quickly cross the 1000 miles of the Great American plains …following year in abt 111 days”
“A number of settlements of Saints stretched along both sides of the Missouri River. The largest settlement, Winter Quarters, was on the west side in Nebraska.” 3,500 settlers in log cabins and dugouts of willows and dirt. 2,500 Saints lived in and around Kanesville, on the Iowa side. Malaria fever, no fresh food, cholera epidemics, scurvy, toothaches, night blindness, sever diarrhea. Hundreds died.
Women: cleaning, ironing, washing, quilting, write letters, meals, families, theological discussions, dances, Church meetings, parties, frontier revivals. Men: worked together, discussed travel plans, future sites for Saints, round up herds, forage on plains, worked in fields, guarded perimeters, constructed flour mill, readied wagons, prepared fields, planted crops for next group of Saints.
Mormon Battalion left Iowa.
“Our Heritage, A brief History …Latter Day Saints”, p 71-72
“…problems caused by their hasty departure from Nauvoo slowed their progress, as did melting snow, heavy rains, swollen creeks, and mud everywhere – as deep as the wagon bottoms. …the camp inched it’s way west, establishing farms at Garden Grove & Mount Pisgah …arriving at Council Bluffs[Miller’s Hollow or Kanesville, named for Col Thomas Kane] …two months behind schedule. …encampments sprawled over high bluffs and open prairie in sight of Pottawattamie Indian Villages …too late for an over-the-mountains expedition.
Winter Quarters “…divided into 5 acre blocks… Houses were built on the outside of each block, with gardening areas reserved for the inside of the block. Wells were dug, wide streets laid out… In November, because of increasing theft by nearby Indian tribes, the city grew to the north as several southern blocks were evacuated to form a line of defense. …The quality of homes varied widely from large, sturdy, two-story dwellings with solid floors, oak shingles, windows, and chimneys of prairie sod or brick, to inadequate cabin shanties without doors, floor, of full roofs. Some families lived in snow-covered tents, poorly heated covered wagons, or mere dugouts or caves in nearby bluffs or riverbanks.
“Home furnishings were meager, even crude. Most furniture had been either left behind in Nauvoo or long since discarded or traded away. A typical household contained barrels, chests for tables, an occasional wooden chair, trunks, and homemade bedsteads.” “…the Camp of Israel transformed into a prairie city in barely two months. By the end of 1846, Winter Quarters consisted of 538 log cabins, 83 sod houses, and a population of 3,483, which grew to 4,000 in 1847.
“Approximately 7,000 Latter-day Saints spent the winter of 1846-47 at the ‘Bluffs’ …4,000 in WQ & 3,000 on the east side of the Missouri. In addition, some 2,500 Latter-day Saints were scattered along the Iowa trail, while about 1,700 were in Missouri, mostly in St Louis.”
“With winter fast approaching, most of the refugees had used up their provisions, many were sick and exhausted, and death began to stalk the camp with almost indiscriminate abandon. Few crops had been planted, provisions were meager, and the amount of money forthcoming from the Mormon Battalion was unknown.
“The pioneers had no choice but to band together and support one another. President Young called upon the Latter-day Saints ‘to unite with us in the principles of self-preservation’ so that the camps could be made as self-sufficient as possible. In the fair and equitable distribution of what little they had lay the temporal salvation of all. Many were asked to make incredible sacrifices, some wore out with giving. …the welfare of all prevailed over the interest of the individual.
“By far their greatest physical resource was their massive herds of livestock. …Winter Quarters economy was built on a general barter system, with cattle being the most popular item of exchange.”
“All were encouraged to plant private gardens,… Those with trades and skills were encouraged to set up shop. They also built a basket factory, a flourmill, black smith, carding-machine house, tailors, shoemaking, etc. Men “were encouraged to go to Missouri to labor as hired hands… fence building, threshing and cleaning wheat, painting, plowing, milking, & stump clearing.”
Mormon Battalion money was considered “a manifestation of divine providence coming at just the right time for the purchase of provisions and goods in St Louis for their winter supply.”
The need to “provide better care for the poor and hungry in camp initiated a major change in Church administration… The change allowed bishops to offer more personal care…”
“The wintry exodus, shortage of provisions, inadequate medical treatment, exposed river habitation, lack of fruits and vegetables, and general impoverishment caught up with the camp, and a deadly scourge began to ravish the Saints. …river-region sicknesses …scurvy …clouds of misquotes …malaria …pneumonia, tuberculosis …women
sitting ‘in open tents keeping flies off their dead children’ while waiting for the grave digger.” “…Church leaders encouraged those who were completing cabins & who had enough room to provide shelter for the less fortunate.”
“Elder Lorenzo Snow said, ’Well persons could not be found to take care of the sick. A general spirit of lamentation and sorrow pervaded.’” “…they were dying in epidemic proportions. …it is estimated that a minimum of 723 died between June 1846 ND May 1847 in settlements on both sides of the Missouri River and back along the Iowa trail.”
“The exodus would ever be more trial than trail. …God would have a tested people, …redeemed in the fire of their wilderness afflictions. While some left the Church during these difficult times, most remained faithful and committed to the cause of Zion. ‘We are willing to take our full share of troubles, trials, losses and crosses, hardships and fatigues, warnings and watchings, for the kingdom of heaven’s sake,’ Pres Young… ‘Come, calm or strife, turmoil or peace, life or death, in the name of Israel’s God we mean to conquer or die trying.’”
“Yet if the air of WQ was saddened by the moans of the sick and the sound of the grave digger’s shovel, it was also brightened by choirs, music, and the voices of children. …WQ put on a happy face and an active appearance.” “Makeshift schools… Singing & dancing schools …concerts, Musical performances, and songfests…”
“…Sunday worship services ..frequently held outdoors.. After the ringing of the Nauvoo Temple bell, …women outnumbered… And because of pervasive sickness, women were often found nursing, aiding, and comforting the sick and dying…”
The Pioneer Camp left 5 Apr 1847. The Emigrating Camp left in June. Thousands left behind began planting seeds & gathering provisions. “’All preparation and organization …is for journeying and not for a permanent location at Winter Quarters.”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
[This article has a great bibliography.]
1847
Date Place Event & Source
1847 Jan 14 Pres B Young received a revelation on “”The Word & Will of the Lord
concerning the Camp of Israel in their journings to the West’ …the Lord declared …that the westward trek must be ‘under the direction of the 12 Apostles’ ‘My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them”
D&C 136 quoted by Richard, E Bennett, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1847 Iowa The Crockett family had a child born in Iowa in 1847.
Family Group Sheet
NOTE: [Kanesville is in Iowa & Winter Quarters is in Nebraska on the other side of the river. The area was all called “The Bluffs.” See section on WQ in 1846.]
1847 April 5 Pioneers - “…delayed beyond their 22 Mar 1847 departure deadline, the advance,
exploratory company – ‘the Pioneer Camp’ – finally rolled out of WQ on 5 April 1847. The company was then delayed at the Elkhorn River, 20 miles west… 11 days later” …they left. “2 months later almost to the day, Elders PP Pratt & John Taylor …led a party of 1553 men, women & children – ‘the Emigration Camp’ – in” their wake.
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
Winter Quarters First party, with Brigham Young & 143 Men, 3 women, 2 children left WQ
to cross the plains
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin
NOTE: It is confusing. There are many ‘leaving’ dates. Each place they left was meant to be the final departure. There were many delays.]
"The first Co. will carry the bell, ..."
"Journal History" organized by date
also in Exodus to Greatness, P Nibley 1949, p 368
[Note: The bell appears to have been in Winter Quarters for a while. See following entries; 11, 17 & 21 June 1847.]
1847 Mar 13 Dover, Crockett - David William Crockett born to David Crockett & Lydia Young
Davis, Iowa Archive Family Group Record Sheet for David
Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
Date Event & Source Place
1847 April 16 Instructions from "The 12" to those who followed the "pioneer group", prob Winter Quarters
"The first Co. will carry the bell, ..."
Bell not there yet. “50 miles from Winter Quarters”
"Journal History" organized by date
also in Exodus to Greatness, P Nibley 1949, p 368
NOTE: [Was the Nauvoo Temple bell with pioneer group or with this group?]
1847 Mid April Winter Quarters First party, with Brigham Young, 143 Men, 3 women, 2 children; left to cross
the plains
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin
1847 May Haws – See entry after June 1840 - “However, they didn’t leave Wayne Co. [Illinois] until May 1847. They traveled in a northwest direction through Illinois, crossing the Mississippi River into Iowa, then went west past the first encampment of the pioneers at Garden Grove, which was about 150 miles from Nauvoo, and traveled on 100 miles to Mt Pisgah where they stayed for the winter.
“My father (William Wallace Haws) was 12. Their outfit consisted of one horse team, which Grandfather drove, and several ox teams, which Grandfather [Grandmother?] and the children managed. In the spring of 1848, they went to Council Bluffs, which was located on the east side of the Missouri River, then on to Winter Quarters. They crossed the Missouri River in Lorenzo Snow’s Company. At Winter Quarters they camped to make preparations to go west with the first company of the season.”
“…5 months later23 Sept 1848 …arrived in SL Valley.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
Gilbreth & Hannah Whitcomb Haws “…left Wayne Co in May 1847. With a small branch of the church organized in Wayne Co. they traveled in a northwest direction thru Ill., crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, then went past the first encampment of the Pioneers at Garden Grove, which was about 150 miles from Nauvoo, then traveled on 100 miles to Mt Pisgah where they stayed for the winter. …family 6 dau 7 sons from 2 months to 22 years, …oldest son is 16 …outfit = one team of horses several teams of oxen.”
“Spring of 1848, they went to Council Bluffs, …then to Winter Quarters with Lorenzo Snow’s Co.”
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1847 June 1 Pioneer - First party, with Brigham Young. Brigham's birthday at Ft Laramie
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin
1847 June 11 Temple Bell left Winter Quarters in a wagon Winter Quarters,
Ruth Savage Hilton, "Our Grand-Mother Jane" 1958 Nebraska
taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage) p21-23
[Note: The bell appears to have been in Winter Quarters for a while. It was supposed to be with the first company. There is a quote stating that the bell is in Salt Lake in Aug & the company Patty Sessions was with didn’t arrive till Sept. If so, why is it just leaving WQ in June? See following entries; 17 & 21 June 1847.]
Date Event & Source Place
1847 June 17 Parley P Pratt states the companies are ready to start. They are waiting,
provided Col Scott could get the cannon, the boat, and the Temple bell at South West Bank
ready. Bro. Scott had received instructions a long time before to get of the Elkhorn River
these ready ... "... Col Scott is instructed to forward immediately, cannon, Winter Quarters
boat & bell.
"Journal History" organized by date
1847 June 21 "the cannon and temple Bell has come ..." "we have been waiting almost Liberty Pole, 12 mi E
two weeks for the cannon" of Elkhorn River
Patty Sessions Journal
1847 June 22 Organized to start "Temple Bell heading middle line North Platt River 40 m
P Sessions Journal west of Winter Quarters
1847 June 23 Emigrating Co's leave Liberty Pole - 9 AM, Nauvoo Temple Bell leads North Platt River
P Sessions Journal Liberty Pole
1847 June 25 Lamoreaux - David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux's daughter Martha Elizabeth dies Where?? [WHERE were they? Were they at Liberty Pole? The bell left Liberty Pole on the 23rd.]
NOTE: [Jane Savage knew Jane Lamoreaux and knew that “she had to walk so the bell could ride.” How far did the Lamoreaux's go with the bell? Where did child, Martha, die 25 June 1847? They had a son born in Nauvoo in 1846. John Mc Lamoreaux was in Pottawattamie June 1848. David had a child born in Iowa City, Iowa, in Nov 1848. They had another child die "on the trail" in 1850. They arrived in SLC 19 Nov 1850]
NOTE: [Liberty Pole is just west of Iowa, a few miles out of WQ. It may be that the Lamoreaux family brought the bell there and stayed there till 1850 – OR what?] They had a child born in Iowa City, Iowa, in Nov 1848, so they were that far at least. Something more about it must be written down. I want to find it.]
1847 June 28 Pioneers - "prayers night & morning at the ringing of the bell" On the trail
P Sessions Journal
1847 July 24 Vanguard Pioneer Co Enter Salt Lake Valley Salt Lake, Utah
[Nauvoo bell was with them? Or first Pioneer group?]
1847 July Mormon Battalion released from service in the west. Some stayed on in the West
duty & traveled back towards WQ.
Ensign, July 1997, p 40
1847 Early Aug Two groups left Salt Lake to aid pioneers on the trail Salt Lake Valley
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 195
1847 Aug 18 A letter to Brigham Young, "I have 2 large cannons ... the temple bell Salt Lake, Utah
and a boat."
Charles C Rich, Nauvoo Restoration
[Note : Charles Rich is quoted in a letter from Lynell Dewey, Nauvoo Rest. Inc saying the bell come across in his company. She believes it was with his Co.]
1847 Sept 19 P.P. Pratt, John Taylor & Co arrive in SLC. Patty Sessions is in this group Salt Lake Valley
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 195
1847 Oct 31 “Pres Young and other members of the advance company return to Winter WQ, Iowa
Quarters after identifying the site of the new Church headquarters near the Great Salt Lake.
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1847 Nov 14 Pres Young announces plans to begin abandoning Winter Quarters in the WQ, Iowa
spring of ernment had demanded that they “vacate Indian lands.”
If able go west or if not go back across the river.
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1847 Dec 5 12 Apostles met on Iowa side of the river, prayerfully select first Kanesville, Iowa
Presidency
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1847 Dec 27 Brigham Young is officially sustained president of the Church Kanesville, Iowa
[Kanesville later renamed Council Bluffs.]
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 195
1848
Date Event & Source Place
1848 Jan 11 Lamoreaux - Mary Anne Gribble Lamoreaux receives her patriarchal blessing
from Isaac Morley. WHERE? in Iowa??
Patriarchal Blessing Index [I have this?] Where was he, then?]
[When did Isaac Morley leave Nauvoo? Where was he in Jan 1848? Mary Ann didn’t get to Utah till 1850.]
1848 Jan 24 Gold is found at Sutter’s Mill California
Hartley, William G ,”On the Trail in September,” Ensign
1848 Lamoreaux - Andrew L Lamoreaux crossed the plains with the 3rd division
or Willard Richards Co.
Journal History 31 Dec 1848, Suppl p 19, also Film #298,441
1848 Mar “Saints not yet ready to make the trek west begin moving east across the Missouri
River to Miller’s Hollow, renamed Kanesville.”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1848. Because of Gold Rush – economy in Kanesville booms “…gives many Kanesville, Iowa
previously too poor to migrate an opportunity to head west.”
Kanesville later renamed Council Bluffs. [See 24 Jan 1848]
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1848 Spring Haws - In the spring of 1848, they went to Council Bluffs, which was located on the east side of the Missouri River, then on to Winter Quarters. They crossed the Missouri River in Lorenzo Snow’s Company. At Winter Quarters they camped to make preparations to go west with the first company of the season.”
“…5 months later23 Sept 1848 …arrived in SL Valley.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
Gilbreth & Hannah Whitcomb Haws “…left Wayne Co in May 1847. With a small branch of the church organized in Wayne Co. they traveled in a northwest direction thru Ill., crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, then went past the first encampment of the Pioneers at Garden Grove, which was about 150 miles from Nauvoo, then traveled on 100 miles to Mt Pisgah where they stayed for the winter. …family 6 dau 7 sons from 2 months to 22 years, …oldest son is 16 …outfit = one team of horses several teams of oxen.”
“Spring of 1848, they went to Council Bluffs, …then to Winter Quarters with Lorenzo Snow’s Co. At Winter Quarters they camped to make preparations to go west with the first company of the season. …321 souls, 99 wagons, 20 horses, 3 mules, 388 oxen, 188 cows, 38 loose cattle, 139 sheep, 25 pigs, 158 chickens, 10 cats, 26 dogs & 2 doves.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
Date Event & Source Place
1848 Spring Utah - Crickets plague & Sea gulls Miracle Salt Lake Valley
Mormon Pioneers, E C McGavin p 213
1848 May Haws – “…several companies left Winter Quarters for the Rocky Mountains, Hannah & Gilbreth’s family was among them. The trip was difficult. They washed clothes in cold water, used buffalo chips for fuel.
…saw many herds of buffalo. Hannah helped drive the wagons, they sang & danced around the camp fires, & took turns in family prayers. The Company arrived in Salt Lake Valley on Sept 23, 1848, aprox 5 months after they started.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1848 May-July Pioneers - Members of the First Pres leave WQ for the Salt Lake Winter Quarters
Valley, each leading a group of pioneers.
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1848 June 2 Lamoreaux - John Mc Lamoreaux listed as a member of the High Priest Group in … Pottawattamie, Iowa Pottawattamie, Iowa
Film #007794A
“…arriving at Council Bluffs …encampments sprawled over high bluffs and
open prairie in sight of Pottawattamie Indian Villages…”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign p 40-53
1848 July Pioneers - “By 3 July 1848, some 3,000 LD Saints had departed for the Iowa
Salt Lake Valley…Those not ready to go west …some 3,000 Saints moved to new surroundings eastward across the Missouri; the evacuation continued through the spring and early summer. Most settled temporarily in Iowa near Miller’s Hollow, below the east bluff of the river, where the townsite was laid out in 1847. …renamed Kanesville in April 1848 in honor of their non-LDS friend Col Thomas Kane. …Kanesville was destine to be a major Church gathering place, fitting-out station, & a springboard to the Great Basin. It became a layover town where those too poor, tired, discouraged, or unprepared could delay their journey a year or more, plant & sow crops, procure teams & outfits… After these pioneers left …new arrivals from the East or from over seas would take their place…” After the discovery of gold in Calif., Kanesville economy boomed. Church members prospered by selling land, goods, services, provisions & livestock to the emigrants. “Some found the comforts of eastern Iowa a more difficult temptation to resist than their earlier trials and sufferings.”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1848 Jul 17 Rowley - Jane Rowley BORN to William Rowley & Ann Jewell Suckley, Worc, Eng
prob Mars Hill
1848 Aug 14 Rowley - Mars Hill Church Conference boundaries enlarged, name Herefords, Eng
changed to Herefordshire Conference
1848 Sept 6 Gadd - Mary Ann Gadd is born 6th child of Samuel & Eliza Chapman Gadd Orwell, Camb, Eng
The children were Alfred, Jane, William (prob died), William, & Samuel.
Later they had Sarah 1850, Isaac & Daniel 1854.
Family Group Record
1848 Sept 23 Haws - “…5 months later23 Sept 1848 …arrived in SL Valley.” Salt Lake Valley
Gilbreth Haws “bought one of the little abode houses in an old fort which had been
built by the pioneers the year before. This house consisted of one room 12 feet square. It contained a fireplace and had 2 port holes about 10 inches square on each side of the chimney. The roof of the house was made of logs across which willows and rushes were piled. These were covered with dirt. The floor was also dirt.
“Just after the family arrived in the valley, father [William Wallace Haws] was sent to the Sessions Settlement, 10 miles north of the city, to take care of his father’s stock, grazing them on some leased land until the family was located on a place of their own.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
Pioneers - Leaving Council Bluffs [Kanesville]: “It was a tedious journey for the young children to be crowded into a tightly packed wagon but they were all too young to walk much. They traveled about 15 miles per day.” “They passed Fort Laramie.” “There were problems in crossing the larger streams.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
The Company arrived in Salt Lake Valley on Sept 23, 1848, aprox 5 months after they started. …Hannah
& Gilbreth bought one of the little adobe houses in the old fort. …one room 12 feet square (built last year by the pioneers) …a fireplace …2 port holes abt 10 inches square on each side of the chimney. ...the roof of the house was made of logs across which willows & rushes were piled & then covered with dirt. The floor was also dirt.
“The old fort was formed by a great many of these little houses built together in the shape of a square with a space in the center, all doors opening into the square. Spaces were left for gates on the east and west side of the fort. No windows were put into the houses for fear that the Indians, who were numerous and had attacked the fort, might again do so. There were port holes on the otter walls to provide openings for guns in case of an attack.
Food was very scarce this first year in Utah. Few crops had been planted and the harvest was meager. They were able to buy a little corn for making bread & sometimes a beef would be killed and a little rationed to each family. …dried buffalo meat was pounded and made into gravey & soup. …at times the family felt quite hungry.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1848 Oct 2 Lamoreaux - John Mc Lamoreaux is mentioned in a letter to Brigham Young. Pottawattamie,
Since our last letter “…on the 1st day of July,… Father Lumouraux moved here, Iowa
and died of a short illness.”
Journal History of the Church, Oct 2, 1848, p 2
1848 Nov 18 Haws - William Wallace Haws was baptized in City Creek, by Br E Strong. Salt Lake City
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1848 Nov 19 Nauvoo Temple burned by a mob Nauvoo, Ill
1848 Nov 19 Lamoreaux - David & Mary Ann Lamoreaux's 6th child, David Albert born Iowa City, Iowa
Family Group Record
1850. Lamoreaux - "Having no team or wagon for the trip, I hired a man and team to take
me and wife to Bentonsport on the Des Moins River in Iowa. I there went to work
...anything to make an outfit out for the journey, and in the spring of 1850 started
across the plains in Captain Andrus' company of over fifty wagons, ... "
The Diary of James Leithead
[Note: Lamoreaux, David & Mary Ann may have been with them.]
1848 Dec Haws – three daughters married men of the Mormon Battalion who just arrived in Utah.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1849
Date Event & Source Place
1849 Feb 14 Rowley - William Rowley Death; 64 years Laborer Suckley, Worc, Eng
Influenza 8 days Certifird "at Suckley" (Mars Hill)
England, Death Index 1st quarter 1848; Film #534,547 sub-district Leigh,
Family Group Record
Death Certificate, It says 15 Feb 1849.
1849 Feb 15 Rowley - William Rowley, died 15 Feb 1849, at Suckley, male, 64 years, labouer,
influenza, 8 days, certified, “The mark of Ann Rowley, present at death,
residence, Suckley” Registered 17 Feb 1849, Chas Rowberry, registrar,
Registration district, Martley, sub-district of Leigh, in county of Worchester
Certificate of death from London register Office, #273
Application #3452A, July 11, 1979. [I have copy from Shirley.]
Date Event & Source Place
[1849] Feb 20 Rowley - William Rowley is buried. Suckley, Worc, Eng
(family group sheet) lists death as 1848 Feb 14
This can’t be since he didn’t die till 1849.
PROVO
1849 March 12 Haws - Hannah & Gilbreth Haws Family “together with 30 other families Provo, Utah
called were to go to Utah Valley to settle the place which was called Vineyard.
After 3 days of travel they arrived at the Provo River, March 12 1849 where they were met by Tipanogos or Ute Indians, who would not let them go across the river until the interpreter had made a treaty with them that the white men would not drive the Indians from their land. The treaty made, the company established the Provo Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, March18, 1849 with John S Higbee as pres.
“…immediately began to prepare the fertile soil for the planting of crops.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
“The Haws farm …took up most of the north campus of BYU. One of the practice fields is named ‘Haws Field’” Gilbreth Haws Gazette, Jan 1997, p7
“…Gilbreth Haws family, together with 30 other families, was called Provo, Utah
to go to Utah Valley to settle the place that is now know as Provo. …arrived at Provo River
12 Mar 1849 …45 miles without incident. They were met by Tipanogos, or Ute Indians, who would not let the colonist go across the river until the interpreter had made a treaty with them that the white men would not drive the Indians from their lands.” W W Haws “stated in his diary that he reached Provo the 1st of April. Perhaps he was still caring for his father’s stock and lingered to bring them along later.
“This same fall and winter the Indians became hostile and made many raids on the settlers. Loss of livestock and property was heavy. It became so bad that a company of white men was organized to fight the Indians. Several Indians were killed, and the rest fled to the mountains. … (William Wallace) states in his diary that he went to the battlefield the last day of the battle. It was indeed an adventurous experience for a boy of his age.
“In the fall of 1851 (Gilbreth) moved across the Provo River on land about a mile above the bridge. (WW) helped him clear the land and worked on the land for the next two years.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1849 Apr 3 Haws - “…settlers started to build a fort.” Provo, Utah
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1849 April Crockett - family “traveled to Missouri River …April until 4 July 1849
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
[Note: James Crockett & Elizabeth (Eliza) Brackett both died in Vinal Haven. James (& Elizabeth?) joined the LDS Church but did not “go west with The Saints. “]
1849 June 4 Haws – Mattilda Haws died & was buried on a little knoll near the river. Provo, Utah
(later moved)
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1849 July 4 Crockett - David Crockett Family left Missouri for Great Salt Lake with Wilard Richards Co.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Crockett - The travelers had a hard time finding water. One day Lydia knelt in
prayer and asked to be led to water. She got up & asked for a shovel & said she
would tell them where to dig for water… and she did.
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1849 July 24 Utah - Nauvoo Temple bell rings in The Bowery to celebrate anniversary of Salt Lake, Utah
coming of the Saints into the valley.
1849 Oct 8 Haws - Gilbreth & Hannah Whitcomb Haws 14th child born, Gilbreth Oliver, Provo, Utah
2nd white child to be born in Provo, Gilbreth went to Salt Lake & brought back
a midwife by the name of …”Mother Angel”
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
PERPETUAL EMIGRATION FUND
[Rowley & Gadd borrowed money from the PEF.]
1848. PEF - “…capitalizing on a money infusion produced by Gold Rush travelers in Utah, the
First Presidency created the Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF), …Attenders at the Oct
1849 conference gave their approval
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
1849 Oct 12 PEF - First Presidency announces PEF “’Ye poor and meek of the earth, lift up your heads
and rejoice in the Holy One of Israel, for your redemption draweth nigh; but in your
rejoicings be patient, for though your turn to emigrate may not be in the first year ,
or even the second, it will come,…’”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
PEF - “The first to gather were those with sufficient means to pay their own way. Thousands of poor possesses the zeal but lacked the means. The church proposed a joint-stock company, The British & American Commercial Joint Stock Co. Didn’t work. Next, Church leaders petitioned Queen Victoria to assist needy LDS to emigrate to Vancouver Islands. Polite response, no help. Gold Rush of 1849 created profitable new trade. Perpetual Emigration Fund set up in Sept 1849. A revolving fund used to purchase oxen, inexpensive wagons, and bare essentials to transport immigrants from the railroad terminus at Iowa City to great Salt Lake City. Oxen sold in Utah & money to be paid back as able. First to aid Saints leaving Nauvoo. 1852 emphasis shifted to Europe Saints. Tens of thousands of members emigrated… Between 1852 & 1887, 1/3 of all Saints who came from Europe were aided in some way by the PEF (Bloxham, p 180) quoted in Rowley Family History
Costs were extremely high for the times. Businessmen in Iowa pushed prices ever higher. Ave price in 1855 was $130 per person. Rowley Family History, p 34-35
“The cry of our poor brethren in foreign lands for deliverance is great, the hand of the oppressor is heavy upon them, and they have no other prospect on earth through which they can hope for assistance.
Millennial Star, vol 13, pp 51-52: quoted in Rowley Family History, p 34
“In your elections of the Saints who shall be aided by the Fund, those who have proven themselves by long continuance in the Church shall be helped first, whether they can raise any means of their own or not… if they have not a sixpence in the world.”
Millennial Star, vol 17, pp 814-15: quoted in Rowley Family History, p 36
“The cry from our poor brethren in foreign countries for deliverance is great, the hand of the oppressor is heavy upon them, and they have no other prospect on earth through which they can hope for assistance,’ said the Presidency. ‘The P. E. Fund is designed to deliver the honest poor, the pauper, if you please, from thraldom (i.e., bondage) of ages, from localities where poverty is a crime and beggary an offence against the law, where every avenue to rise in the scale of being to any degree of respectable joyous existence is forever closed, and place them in a land where honest labor and industry meet a suitable reward, where the higher walks of life and open to the humblest and poorest, and where they can lay a foundation for indissolubly uniting themselves and their children in the progressive scale of human existence.’”
The source of this is; James R Clark, ed., Message of the First Presidency (1965), 2:181-82.
Quoted in, William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 11
“By early 1855 the fund was out of money, with about $57,000 owed to it.” …also that year there was widespread drought & famine in Utah. “…some type of low-cost transportation was badly needed… Pres Young proposed that carts pulled by people replace expensive wagons pulled by expensive teams of oxen. …A choice became clear: create handcart brigades or suspend operations. ‘Let them come on foot, with handcarts or wheelbarrows’ was the emigration program for 1856…”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 11
NOTE: [See 1856 for Rowley emigration thru the PEF and Handcart Co.]
Date Event & Source Place
1849. Crockett - Alvin Crockett, “Crossed the planes in 5th company or Ezra T Benson’s Company.
J. H Dec 31, 1849 supplement p (10?)”
Utah Immigration Index, Family History Center Film #298,440
1849 Oct 19 Crockett - David Crockett Family arrive Great Salt Lake, Alvin’s 18th B-day. Salt Lake Valley
Settled in 1st Ward.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, p 418
1849 Fall/Winter “This same fall and winter the Indians became hostile and made Provo, Utah
many raids on the settlers. Loss of livestock and property was heavy.
It became so bad that a company of white men was organized to fight the Indians. Several Indians were killed, and the rest fled to the mountains. … (William Wallace) states in his diary that he went to the battlefield the last day of the battle. It was indeed an adventurous experience for a boy of his age.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1850
Date Event & Source Place
1850 Haws – “…settlers moved farther northeast, where the city of Provo now Provo, Utah
stands,& built another fort. That summer the Indians again threatened to attack.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1850. Lamoreaux - “…David Burlock Lamoreaux [father of Archibald O Lamoreaux]
& family …crossed the plains from Nauvoo Illinois to Salt Lake City …taking with
them the bell from the Nauvoo Temple.” [THIS CAN NOT BE TOTALLY ACCURATE
BECAUSE: The bell was there in 1847. The Lamoreaux family was there in 1850.]
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1850. Lamoreaux - "Having no team or wagon for the trip, I hired a man and team to take
me and wife to Bentonsport on the Des Moines River in Iowa. I there went to work
...anything to make an outfit out for the journey, and in the spring of 1850 started
across the plains in Captain Andrus' company of over fifty wagons, ... "
The Diary of James Leithead
[Note: Lamoreaux, David & Mary Ann may have been with them or may have done something similar. Where was Andrew at the time? John was in Pottawattamie, Iowa.]
Date Event & Source Place
1850 Mar 14 Salt Lake City, Crockett - Norman Victor Crockett born to David Crockett & Lydia Young
Archive Family Group Record Sheet for David Lydia Crockett, 1806
1850. Census – Utah County, Utah –
Crockett - David = household of 4 - real wealth $150 Page 10 No 77
David Crockett 44, M Farmer, Maine Lydia 39, F Maine Alvin 20, M Farmer Maine Sabra 18, F Maine
Census 1850, USA – Utah
Membership of LDS Church, Fiche #6031596
1850’s early Payson, Utah Crockett - David Crockett Family sent to Payson, Utah area.
Alvin Crockett went to California to look for gold for short time.
David Crockett first mayor of Payson, Utah.
Lydia Young Crockett became a midwife.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
1850 Provo, Utah Haws – “…settlers moved farther northeast, where the city of Provo now stands,
& built another fort. That summer the Indians again threatened to attack. Walker,
the Ute Indian Chief, & his tribe camped around the fort outnumbering the Mormons 4 to 1.
After the Indian attack waned, there were roads to build, timber to cut, ditches to dig, food to harvest, clothes to make. They all learned new skills and improvised. The young men learned to tan leather and make their own shoes; many of the tools used were hand made. The women learned to spin, weave, knit & sew with limited equipment. The limited varieties & amounts of food taxed the ingenuity of the women who tried to cook tasty nourishing meals in iron kettles over fireplace coals.”
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1850. Asay - No record of the family has been found either in Burlington or Mercer Co, NJ
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1850 Spring SLC James Leithead in SLC - says, "… in the spring of 1850 started across the
plains in Captain Andrus' company of over fifty wagons, ... "
The Diary of James Leithead
[Note: David & Mary Ann may have been with them.??]
1850 May 27 Nauvoo - Tornado blew over the last standing wall of Nauvoo Temple
The Rise & Fall of Nauvoo p 369
1850 June 26 on the trail Lamoreaux - David & Mary Ann's 3rd child, Abigail, 8, dies "on the
way & buried in a roadside grave "
Pioneers - Leaving Council Bluffs [Kanesville]: “It was a tedious journey for the
young children to be crowded into a tightly packed wagon but they were all too
young to walk much. They traveled about 15 miles per day.”
“They passed Fort Laramie.” “There were problems in crossing the larger streams.”
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, p 106-7
[See: 1848 for more Winter Quarters/Kanesville info & July 1856 for more crossing the plains info.]
1850 Sept 10 Utah Lamoreaux - David & Mary Ann enter valley Salt Lake Valley,
Edith I Lamoreaux
1850 Nov 16 SLC, Utah Lamoreaux - David & Mary Ann enter Salt Lake Valley
D B L History
1850 Nov 17 Asay - Joseph Asay is baptized into the LDS Church
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
[Am I sure of this date? Was it earlier? Check it out.]
Hornerstown, NJ “Joseph Asay must have been interested in religion, and strong in his
convictions to have joined such an unpopular church in those days.”
Asay - “’In 1837 Elder Benjamin Winchester preached the first Mormon sermon in Ocean County [New Jersey] in a school house in New Egypt…& neighboring places… a large number joined the society at Hornerstown, where they finally built a church and where a good many respectable people adhered to the faith.’ “No record of any other Winchester could be found… nor of an Elder Parmer.” [They named a son after Theodore Parmer.]
A History of Monmouth & Ocean Co.s of NJ as quoted in:
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
“Of the group at Trenton, …Joseph married Sarah Ann Pedrick and they had ten sons and daughters.
…the first to move west was Joseph and family of eleven [This author seems to get mixed up. Is it 10 or 11?] children in 1859. It was in the late fifties that two humble Elders, Winchester & Palmer called at the home of Joseph and Sarah Ann and brought and brought them the gospel message. It’s truths were accepted and they soon began a long trek by ox team to Utah. They crossed the plains in the company of Brigham H Young and upon arriving in Utah settled for a time in Salt Lake City. They were later called by Pres. Brigham Young with others to settle in the ‘Muddy Creek’ in Nevada. (from Journal History of Church 1867.)”
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
“From Parmer Asay, a grandson, comes the story of Joseph at the early age of 18, desiring to marry the young lady of his choice, Sarah Ann Pedrick, 5 years his senior. Joseph’s parents objected because of his youth and didn’t think he was mature enough to take on the responsibility of marriage and family. The young lovers thought otherwise, so ran away to the city of Philadelphia, where they were married 17 July 1841. They lived there for a while, & their first child, William, was born in that city.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1850 Nov 19 Salt Lake, Utah Lamoreaux - David & Mary Ann's 7th child, Mary Ann Josephine born
3 days after arrival in SLC.
Family Group Record
1850 Dec Payson, Utah Crockett - “…Brigham Young had advised David Crockett & David Fairbanks
Peteetneet,to head for Peteetneet. …delayed till spring …not sufficient water …turned east and became the first settlers of Pond Town… After 2 years …reconsidered water situation …welcomed back.” “Pre Brigham Young named Peteetneet Creek ‘Payson’ … first spelled ‘Pacen’.” Pond Town became Salem.
Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah”
1851
Date Event & Source Place
1851 Payson, Utah Crockett - David Crockett head for Peteetneet. (Payson) …delayed till
spring …not sufficient water …turned east and became the first settlers of Pond Town…Peteetneet, Pond Town later became Salem. “The colonists at Peteetneet were among the first to use irrigation as a means of watering their crops.
”Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah”
PIONEERS
“…hardships fired their enthusiasm and deepened their commitment to gather to Zion” “the greatest number of emigrants would leave in 1855 & 1856.
Rowley Family History, p 27
“To all saints in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the adjacent islands and countries, we say emigrate as speedily as possible to this vicinity …bring with you all kinds of choice seeds, of grain, vegetable, fruit shrubbery, trees and vines …the best stock of beast, bird and fowl of every kind; also the best tools of every description and machinery for spinning, or weaving, and dressing cotton, wool, flax and silk, etc … So far as it can be consistently done, bring models and drafts, and let the machinery be built where it is used… “
The Millennial Star, vol 10, pp 81-88 quoted in Rowley Family History
Church leaders frequently counseled unmarried youth intending to emigrate, that they wait until they had reached Zion to select a companion. Ann Jewell Rowley counseled her teenaged daughter, Louisa, not to fall in love with a man whose faith was not sufficient to carry him to Zion. Rowley Family History, p 27
1851 Apr 2 Suckley, Worc, Eng Rowley - England Census, County of Worc, Parish of Suckley,
Hamlet of Alfrick Ann Rowley, head of house, widow, 44 no occupation, born in Worc,
Leigh.
Children all no occupation born in Suckley, Worc, Eng Louisa, dau 13
Elizabeth, dau 12 - John, son, 9 - Samuel, son, 8 - Richard, son, 5
Thomas, son, 4 Jane, dau, 2
Eliza Rowley, 27 listed as unmd lodger, frock maker, with Richard & Suzannah
Jones family born at Suckley [Eliza is Wm’s child – was she living with a sis & bro-in-law? She dies crossing the plains with Ann & kids.]
`England 1841 Census, Suckley, Worchester, England, Film #464,205
Rowley - “Six years passed in hardship after Williams death…” “…accounts left by Ann Jewell and her children inform us that the years following the Rowley conversion grew increasingly difficult. Persecution toward Mormons severed vital business connections and threatened the Rowleys’ economic survival. Two very poor crop years – likely 1845 and 1846 – broke them. They were forced to sell their home at Mars Hill, with all it’s possessions, at public auction. The only item that Ann Jewell held back was their feather bed.
“We do not know many details about their lives during these difficult years. Some family histories suggest that William was badly injured when he was thrown from and run over by a produce wagon. If the account is accurate, his leg and hip were crushed, and he lay bedridden for many months while Ann struggled to support the family. William was in his 60’s and did not have the stamina and vigor of young manhood to help him recover quickly. Ann Jewell continued to bear children during these critical years, one in 1846, and another in 1848.
“William Rowley died in Feb 1849, at GE 64.” Ann “widowed at age 42. The ages of her 7 children ranged from 7 months to 12 years.”
“The parish ‘poor fund’ provided Ann with 7 shillings a week. The amount was barely enough to purchase flour for the family’s meals. …Ann Jewell was an accomplished seamstress… she made smock frocks, gloves, stockings, and whatever else she might sell. Her oldest daughter, Louisa was… able to obtain work as a maid.” John & Samuel “…worked at a brick kiln located some miles from their home.
Rowley Family History, p 24-25
Date Event & Source Place
1851 June 14 Vinal Haven, Me Crockett - James Crockett Died in Maine
Archive Family Group Record Sheets for father Isaac &
James Crockett, 1750, submitted R A Larson.
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1851 Sept 21 “First Pres issues a strong call for Saints still in Iowa to gather to Zion.
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1851 Kanesville, IA Pioneers - “Some found the comforts of eastern Iowa a more difficult
temptation to resist than their earlier trials and sufferings.” Church Authorities reminded the Saints they were still gathering to Zion. “’There is no more time for the Saints to hesitate. …What are you waiting for? Have you any good excuse for not coming? No! …We wish you to evacuate Pottawattamie (County) and the (United) States, and next fall be with us.’” “In response, most LDS in 1852 pulled out …Approx 5,500, …twice as many as in any other year.”
“Of the several thousand LDS who used Kanesville as their jumping-off point …half were British converts.”
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1851 Fall Provo, Utah Haws - “In the fall of 1851 (Gilbreth) moved across the Provo River on land
about a mile above the bridge. (W W ) helped him clear the land and worked on the land for the next two years.”
“In 1852 Father’s older brothers went to Calif. to get work in the mines. It was about this time he met Barbara who later became his wife.
“The Ute Indians went on the warpath again in 1853.’
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1851 Oct 5 Asay - Emmer (Emma) is born, 6th child (dau) of Joseph Asay & Sarah Ann Burlington Co, NJ
Pedrick [Later married Kendall Asa Fletcher. Died 14 Feb 1901.]
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
1852
Date Place Event & Source
1852 PEF – “By 1852 ‘all the exiles from Nauvoo who wished to come had been removed
to Zion,’ which meant that ‘the obligation of the Nauvoo pledge of 1846 had been faithfully discharged.’ …to open the European… By 1852, some 30,000 Saints living in the British Isles were waiting to emigrate. From 1852 to 1856, PEF expended …$625,000 in 1856 currency in emigrating the ‘poor saints’ from Europe to the Salt Lake Valley.”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
[NOTE: For more PEF info see July 1849.]
1852 Haws - William Wallace - “In 1852 Father’s older brothers went to Calif. to get work in the
mines. It was about this time he met Barbara who later became his wife.
“The Ute Indians went on the warpath again in 1853.’
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
PAYSON, UTAH
1852 Feb 25 Crockett - Emer Crockett born to David Crockett & Lydia Young Payson,
Archive Family Group Record Sheet for David Utah, Utah
Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
1852 Spring Crockett - David Crockett returned to Peteetneet (Payson)- after 2 years. Payson, Utah
…reconsidered water situation …welcomed back. Peteetneet,
Lydia Young Crockett was a mid-wife. “…learned to talk to
the Indians …carries on her work as a nurse & midwife.”
Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
1852 June 20 Crockett - Alvin Crockett married Mary Sophia Reed. Her ring was made of the gold he found in Calif. “When Alvin came to Payson from California he met …Payson’s first school teacher …Mary Sophia Reed” “He distinguished himself in the military organization of that day; Which was called both The Nauvoo Legion & The Salt Lake Militia. He was a “Minuteman” & tricked Johnson’s army into thinking they were a much larger group than they were. They also had to “…protect the white people from the fierce attacks of the Indians. He was a …Colonel for 12 years” “Alvin was kind & friendly to the Indians …when he was on guard, either day or night, the Indians never molested them.”
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Info also listed in: L D S Biographical Encyclopedia, p 418
Crockett - “…Mary would card wool into rolls & spin the yarn, card the wool into quilt batting and make her own dyes …weave the cloth …knit stockings” “…living in Payson in an unfinished house; one log room with out a door or windows. They had willows on the roof, ready to be covered with dirt, and a heavy rain came down the night the baby was born.” Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1852 Nov 12 Crockett - Alvin Crockett & Mary S Reed Crockett sealed
TIB Card for Alvin
[The Crockett family had a child born in Salt Lake City in 1850. The Crockett family moved to Payson Utah where their last two were born there in 1852 and 1855.]
1853
Date Event & Source Place
1853 Jan 1 Payson, Utah Crockett - Fort Peteetneet, (Payson) incorporated into a city. David Crockett
elected 1st Mayor of Payson. 1853-54. Re-elected 1855-56 & 1857-58.
Alderman 1859-60.
Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
1853 Jan 2 Burlington Co, NJ Asay - Theadore Parmar Asay is born, 7th child of Joseph Asay & Sarah
Ann Pedrick
[Later married Mary Jane Winsor & Mary P Dutton. Died 13 Mar 1913.]
[He was named for the missionary that taught & baptized them.]
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
1853. Council Bluffs, Iowa Kanesville is renamed Council Bluffs by non-LDS
Bennett, Richard, E, “Winter Quarters,” Ensign 40-53
1853 Feb 27 Salt Lake City Crockett - David Crockett & Lydia Young are sealed - Endowment House
End House records
1853 June 8 Payson, Utah, Utah Crockett - Mary Sophia Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1853 Provo, Utah Haws – “…grasshoppers destroyed part of their late crop.”
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1853 Provo, Utah “The Ute Indians went on the warpath again in 1853.’
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
Haws - “The Mills’ farm was located at the mouth of Provo Canyon. The Black Hawk Wars broke out …they were forced to return to town. Here Barbara met & married a young man named William Wallace Haws, Dec 1, 1835. They lived in Provo where 8 children were born to them.” “Her husband served in the Walker Indian War & for it today, she now receives her pension.”
“Biography of Barbara Belinda Mills Haws” from her grand daughter, Yeteve
1853 Dec 1 Haws - William Wallace Haws married Barbara Belinda Mills: Bishop J.O. Duke Provo?
They lived at Bro Mills home & Farmed. “That year, 1853, grasshoppers
destroyed part of their late crop.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1854
Date Place Event & Source
1854 Payson, Utah Crockett - “Mayor David Crockett …caused a dam to be built at the spring
…three miles south of Payson. Water could be stored in this man-made
lake & used as needed.”
Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
1854 Sept 6 Provo Haws - William W Haws first child, Hannah Jane, born
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1854 Oct 24 Payson, Utah, Utah Crockett - Alvin David Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1855
Date Place Event & Source
1855 Feb 13 Payson, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett received Patriarchal Bless.
Payson, Utah David Crockett received Patriarchal Bless.
Payson, Utah Lydia Y. Crockett received a Patriarchal Blessing,
Payson, Utah Mary Sophia R. Crockett received Patriarchal Bless.
All from Isaac Morley
Pat Bless Index. (I have copy of each, akrc)
1855 Mar 13 Payson, Utah, Utah Crockett - Enos Samuel Crockett born to David Crockett & Lydia Young
Archive Family Group Record Sheet for David
Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
1855 Spring Salt Lake Valley had a bad draught & the crickets.
1855 Utah “…widespread drought and famine withered the Utah Saints’ resources…”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 5-17
1855 Utah Crop destroying grasshoppers “…settlers had to go on half rations.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1855 Aug 6 Farmington, UT Lamoreaux - Nancy M Orrell, [Lamoreaux] received Patriarchal Blessing from
Isaac Morley
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1855 Oct 6 Burlington Co, NJ Asay - Twins; Aaron & Eleazer Asay are born, 8th & 9th children of Joseph Asay & Sarah Ann Pedrick
[Aaron later married Serepta Earl & Myra I Hatch. Died 30 Oct 1818.]
[Eleazer later married Emmalina Z. Winsor & Harriet Hatch.
Died 13 Oct 1932.]
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
1856
Date Place Event & Source
1856 Feb 18 Payson, Utah Crockett - David Crockett received a Patriarchal Blessing
Payson, Utah Lydia (Young) Crockett received a Patriarchal Blessing
Both from John Young
Patriarchal Blessing, copy of original & typed
1856 Feb 20 Payson, Utah Reed - Deila (Reed) Curtis received a Patriarchal Blessing
Payson, Utah Mary Sophia (Reed) Crockett received a Patriarchal Blessing
Both from John Young
Patriarchal Blessing, copy of original & typed
1856. Territorial Census Index, Utah
Crockett - Lists: Alvin, 1070; David, 1066; Lydia, 1066; all in Payson City
Census record, USA Utah Territorial
[Check for other surnames.]
1856 Provo, Utah Haws William W Haws worked with Bro-in-law Shadrack Holdaway & father-in-law
Mills building a saw mill 1 mile north of their farm. Living in own house. 2nd child was born. Sold interest in mill in 1857 & went back to farming
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
[William W Haws received Patriarchal Blessing from Isaac Morley some time around this time. See copy in life history. It says something about his youth.]
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1856 Rowley - “Six years passed in hardship after Williams death…” “hardships fired their enthusiasm and deepened their commitment to gather to Zion” “the greatest
number of emigrants would leave in 1855 & 1856
Rowley Family History, p 34
1856 Rowley - Ann Jewell Rowley indebted to the perpetual Emigration Fund of the Church
of Jesus Christ of LDS; Children: Louisa, JOHN, Samuel, Richard, Jane, & Eliza
“Perpetual Emigration Fund,” Film #25,686
PEF - “The first to gather were those with sufficient means to pay their own way. Thousands of poor possesses the zeal but lacked the means. The church proposed a joint-stock company, The British & American Commercial Joint Stock Co. Didn’t work. Next, Church leaders petitioned Queen Victoria to assist needy LDS to emigrate to Vancouver Islands. Polite response, no help. Gold Rush of 1849 created profitable new trade. Perpetual Emigration Fund set up in Sept 1849. A revolving fund used to purchase oxen, inexpensive wagons, and bare essentials to transport immigrants from the railroad terminus at Iowa City to great Salt Lake City. Oxen sold in Utah & money to be paid back as able. First to aid Saints leaving Nauvoo. 1852 emphasis shifted to Europe Saints. Tens of thousands of members emigrated… Between 1852 & 1887, 1/3 of all Saints who came from Europe were aided in some way by the PEF (Bloxham, p 180)
Costs were extremely high for the times. Businessmen in Iowa pushed prices ever higher. Average price in 1855 was $130 per person.
Rowley Family History, p 34-35
“The cry of our poor brethren in foreign lands for deliverance is great, the hand of the oppressor is heavy upon them, and they have no other prospect on earth through which they can hope for assistance.
Millennial Star, vol 13, pp 51-52: quoted in Rowley Family History, p 34
“In your elections of the Saints who shall be aided by the Fund, those who have proven themselves by long continuance in the Church shall be helped first, whether they can raise any means of their own or not… if they have not a sixpence in the world.”
Millennial Star, vol 17, pp 814-15: quoted in Rowley Family History, p 36
NOTE: [See July - Oct 1849 for more details on PEF.]
Date Event & Source Place
1856 May 1 Liverpool, Eng Rowley - Ann Rowley & family on ship “Thornton”
“On Thursday, May 1, 1856, Ann Jewell Rowley, widowed, age 46, a mother with seven children, boarded the ship Thornton, at Bramby Moor Docks, Liverpool, England. Ann’s stepdaughter, Eliza Rowley, accompanied her. Eliza was unmarried, age, 32.”
“The Thornton was a three-masted sailing vessel with three decks. …chartered by the Perpetual Emigration Fund… 764 English, Scotch, and Danish Saints. …Among the passengers were William & Ellen Oman McKay and their son David, father of future Church president…
Rowley Family History, p 37
Date Event & Source Place
1856 May 4 Rowley - Ann Rowley & family sailed from ENGLAND on the ship "THORNTON"
Louisa 18? Elizabeth 16 John 14 Samuel 12
Richard 11 Thomas 10 Jane 7
[Eliza, 32?, was with them, too.] Brit Miss p16?
[See details of journey in Rowley Family History, Appendix pp290-350.]
Samuel & Eliza Gadd & children including dau Mary Anne (6) were on same ship
& Emma James (16) [John Rowley later married both ladies.]
1856 May 4 Gadd - Samuel Gadd “heard and received the message or Mormonism. He decided to immigrate to Utah. Mary Ann was seven…when they left Eng. Although her mother had not joined the church, her father and the three oldest children had, and rather than separate the family, her mother decided to come to America with them.
Samuel & Eliza Gadd -“They left Liverpool, 4 May 1856, on the ship ‘Thornton’ and, after 6 weeks on the ocean, arrived at New York, 14 June 1856.”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by dau, Mary Luella R Laws
1856 Jun 14 New York City, USA Rowley & Gadd – The ship the "THORNTON" docked at Castle Gardens,
NYC, after 40 days on the high seas. This is a Saturday. …spent the weekend on the ship… allowed to go into NYC to attend Church services if they wished, & were visited be John Taylor.”
Rowley Family History, p 40
1856 June 14 NYC, USA Gadd - Samuel & Eliza Gadd -“They left Liverpool, 4 May 1856, on the ship
‘Thornton’ and, after 6 weeks on the ocean, arrived at New York, 14 June 1856.”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
1856 Jun 17 Rowley & Gadd - “The following Tuesday, they transferred their baggage
to a steamboat. and later transferred to the Erie Railroad. By the end of the day… they were traveling west by rail. They traveled by rail all the next day…”
Rowley Family History, p 40
1856 Jun 19 Rowley & Gadd - “On Thursday, …they transferred to the steamboat Jersey
City & steamed west across Lake Erie toward Toledo, Ohio…”
Rowley Family History, p 40
1856 Jun 22 Rowley & Gadd - “By Sunday… they arrived in Chicago.”
Rowley Family History, p 40
1856 Jun 26 Chicago, Ill. Rowley & Gadd - Thursday – Start rail journey to Iowa City
Rowley Family History, p 36
Handcart Companies
Pioneer - “We cannot afford to purchase wagons and teams as in times past. …make hand-carts, and let the emigration foot it, draw upon them the necessary supplies, having a cow for every ten. They can come just as quick, if not quicker, and much cheaper - can start earlier…”
“Of course, you will perceive the necessity of dispensing with all wooden chests, extra freight, luggage, etc. They should only bring a change of clothes…”
Millennial Star, vol 17, pp 813-15: quoted in Rowley Family History, p 36
“By early 1855 the fund was out of money, with about $57,000 owed to it.” …also that year there was widespread drought & famine in Utah. “…some type of low-cost transportation was badly needed… Pres Young proposed that carts pulled by people replace expensive wagons pulled by expensive teams of oxen. …A choice became clear: create handcart brigades or suspend operations. ‘Let them come on foot, with handcarts or wheelbarrows’ was the emigration program for 1856; ‘let them gird up their loins and walk through, and nothing shall hinder or slay them.’”
During 1856, five separate handcart companies reached Utah. The last two, the Martin & Willie Companies suffered many deaths due to traveling too late in the season, taking double the number of people they should have, and being caught by heavy blizzards in Wyoming.
Handcart pioneer Priscilla Evans said of her journey, ‘People made fun of us as we walked, pulling our handcarts, but the weather was fine and the roads were excellent. (We) thought it was a glorious way to go to Zion.’
“Altogether, the 10 handcart brigades moved some 3,000 Saints to Utah; …In theory and practice, to have people pull handcarts to Zion was a workable system, tailored to provide low-cost transportation for healthy people who could not afford high-priced wagons and teams.”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, p 11
“Between 1856 and 1860 ten handcart companies traveled to Utah. …to reduce expenses so that financial aid could be extended to the greatest number of emigrants. … only 100 pounds of flour and a limited quantity of provisions and belongings into a cart and then pulled …across the plains.”
Our Heritage, A brief History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
WILLIE HANCART CO.
Date Place Event & Source
1856 Jun 27 Iowa, USA Rowley & Gadd – In outfitting camp. Levi Savage said wait till spring. “We
really didn’t have much choice. There was no work here for us to keep ourselves through the winter, and our families had to live. ‘We must put our trust in the Lord as we have always done,’ …and that was that.”
Emma James, quoted in Rowley Family History, p 46
[She later married John Rowley.]
Gadd - Samuel Gadd served as a guard in Iowa City
“History of Samuel Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
1856 July 15 Gadd - Samuel & Eliza Chapman Gadd & family of 9: ages; twins not yet 2, 5, 7, 10, 12,
14, 17, & the oldest turned 19 today. Most of the children had a birthday on the trail.
“…left Iowa City …in Captain Willies Handcart Co. for the long trek across the plains. Mary Ann passed her 8th birthday on the Platt River. The company expected to reach Salt Lake before winter set in but it came much earlier than usual & was very severe. Many hardships were endured.
“Mary Ann, with rags covering her feet, led her snow blind mother for three days as she pulled the handcart. During this time she carried an ox hoof & at each camp she would roast it & eat the part that was roasted. This was all she had to eat during those three days.”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
1856 July 15 Iowa, USA Rowley & Gadd - WILLIE HANCART CO. leaves; 500 people, 120 handcarts,
5 wagons, oxen, cows, & beef
“On Friday, 15 July, a Sheriff appeared with a warrant to search the wagons. He was looking for women who had been retained against their wishes. He found none, and left the camp in peace.”
“Though it was still early in the summer, it was late in the season for travel across the plains.” “The poor, however, had little option.” “…the arrival of this company of Saints was not expected at Iowa City. …1,620 Saints for whom no provisions had been made. Most were poor and would have to travel by hand-cart. More than 250 hand-carts had to be built… The Willie company was under way by 15 July. …Each person was allowed to carry only 17 pounds of personal possessions. That included clothing, blankets, and all personal effects. …Painful as it was …to give away their few remaining possessions, it is likely that those things not needed would have been discarded somewhere along the way.”
“Pioneer journals describe the clutter left alone the wagon roads by those who found that they could carry only what was absolutely needed.”
“Each hundred had 5 large tents, sleeping 20 persons to a tent. …20 handcarts – one for every 5 persons – and a large wagon drawn by three yoke of oxen…”
“The camp generally arose at 4:30 a.m., had breakfast, packed for travel by 7:30 a.m., and departed. In the midday summer heat, they halted to rest for several hours where there was water and shade, then continued on in the afternoon. In the evenings they sought campsites with ample wood and water.
“The average daily travel was 14 to 17 miles.”
Rowley Family History, p 40-1
1856 July 20 Iowa Rowley & Gadd - Sunday, “…Saints remained in camp. They were visited by
local inhabitants… One man told Pres Willie he would tear their tent down.
Others tried to start arguments. …the Saints held a meeting …to teach their visitors about their beliefs and explain why they were traveling west. When the meeting ended, the visitors were ‘perfectly docile and returned home.’”
Rowley Family History
1856 July 22 SLC, Utah Crockett - David Crockett married 2) Lucinda Sophronia Ellsworth, sealed
in Endowment House (They had children in 1858, 1859 in Payson &
1864, 1869, 1875 in Logan, Utah.)
Archive Sheet for David Crockett, 1806 & Lucinda
Lucinda was a schoolteacher.
Dixon, M C, Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
Date Event & Source Place
1856 July 30 Rowley & Gadd - “a respectable gentleman from the city of Walnut Creek came Walnut Creek
to the camp with 15 pairs of children’s boots that he wished to donate to the
travelers. And so the camp rolled on.”
Rowley Family History, p 44
1856 Aug 11 Rowley & Gadd - “…27 days out of Iowa City, 3½ months out of Liverpool, Missouri River
the Willie Co. crossed the Missouri River …Florence, Nebraska… They had
300 miles of dusty road behind them, and Zion lay 1,000 miles in the distance
before them.”
Rowley Family History, p 44
Rowley & Gadd -Sometimes, along the trail, buffalo would stampede. Cattle at times ran off with them. Late one night 30 of their cattle disappeared… “We had a guard around them, but, no one knows when or where they went.” They didn’t have enough oxen to pull the wagons. They yoked their cattle & finally had to load some of the flour onto the hand-carts for people to transport. This caused a three day delay and slowed their progress the rest of the trip. Rowley Family History, p 48
1856 Sept 4 “The first 200 miles of the trip all went well. The scenery was beautiful & game was plentiful,
but on Sept 4, their cattle were run off by Indians & this was a real calamity causing their food supply to run low. A herd of buffalo stampeded close to them …Captn Willie was forced to cut their food rations & their carts were falling to pieces because of bad roads, …they spent valuable time mending them. There was a great deal of sickness, & because of food supply being low & constant walking, many were unable to stand it.
“History of Samuel Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
1856 Sept 12 Rowley & Gadd - Pres. Franklin D Richards & returning missionaries over took
the Willie Co. There were no extra supplies to give.
Rowley Family History, p 50
1856 Sept 24 Rowley & Gadd - “the company passed Chimney Rock, marking half-way point
between Florence & Salt Lake Valley.
Rowley Family History, p 51
1856 Oct 1 Fort Laramie, Wy Rowley & Gadd - Camp reached Fort Laramie. Some members stayed there
rather than go on. The independent wagons were left here. They tried to buy
provisions “charged to the Church’s account, but did so without success. The next day, rations in camp were cut. …men received 14 oz of flour per day, women 12 oz, children 9 oz, infants 4 oz.”
Rowley Family History
1856 Oct 4 Gadd - “Mary Ann [Gadd], with rags covering her feet, led her snow blind mother
for three days as she pulled the handcart. During this time she carried an ox hoof & at each camp she would roast it & eat the part that was roasted. This was all she had to eat during those three days.
“On Oct 4, 1856 her brother Daniel, age 2 died, when they were 6 miles from Cassa, Platt, Wyoming. Her father and two of her brothers died during the trip to Utah. Her father contracted a cold while on guard duty at Iowa City & was never completely recovered. The lack of proper food & the constant walking & pulling of the handcart made him so ill he was placed in a wagon; when his family next saw him, he was dead. He and one [of his sons] were 2 of 13 who were buried in one grave.
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
1856 Oct 9 Gadd - Samuel Gadd “was ill …A cold he had contracted in Iowa City never cleared up Wyoming
& he grew worse until the morning of Oct 9, 1856, he was placed in a wagon to ride. When his family saw him again, at noon, he was died. The company was at Glenrock, Converse, Wyoming, at this time, & he was buried Oct 10 near there. He was 41 years old at his death & had truly given his life for the Church…”
“History of Samuel Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
Samuel Gadd had helped carry women & children across the Platt even with his cold & all.
Heart Throbs of the West, by Katie B Carter
1856 Oct 10 Rowley & Gadd - At a trading post just west of Laramie, the camp picked up 37 buffalo robes purchased for them by Franklin D Richards. “…they were woefully inadequate. …extreme cold.”
Rowley Family History, p 44
Rowley - “John Rowley was 16, [15] but he had been doing a man’s work day by day since leaving Iowa City. He pushed a handcart over 1,000 miles. Rowley family history relates that at one crossing of the Sweetwater, John helped to carry children across the stream in the freezing water and helped women pull their handcarts across. By evening his wet clothes were frozen to his skin, and his mother had to warm him carefully to remove the frozen clothing.
“On another evening he stood sentry duty in the freezing weather until all the stragglers came into camp. Exhausted, he lay down in the snow, and his hair froze to the ground. He lay there waiting to die. One of the company captains came along and gave him a painful kick. When he groaned, they realized he was still alive and placed him on the sick wagon, preserving his life.”
Rowley Family History, p 61
1856 Oct 10 Rowley & Gadd – Willie Handcart Co – Rations were cut again - …men received 10 oz of flour per
day, women 9 oz, children 6 oz, infants 3 oz.”
“History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
1856 Oct 15 Rowley & Gadd - “dire circumstances…” Many sick, failing in health & have to ride in the wagons.
“Though the suffering was intense, worse lay ahead.”
Rowley Family History
1856 Oct 19 Wyoming, USA Rowley & Gadd - The first snow - Eliza? Rowley dies: Willie Handcart Co
Willie Co’s last flour was used up on Oct 19. “…as they camped that note, it began to snow & continued all nite & the next day.They were forced to travel thru 18 inches of snow on the level. At the time they were 16 miles from wood or water.”
“History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
“Late in the afternoon, the Willie Co stalled near the last crossing of the Sweetwater
River… could hear the creaking of wagon wheels. A single light wagon… ‘Tears streamed down the cheeks of the men and the children danced for joy. As soon as the people could control their feelings they all knelt down in the snow and gave thanks to God for his kindness and goodness to them.’
Mary H Wright quoted in Rowley Family History, p 55
Handcart - “The wagon carried enough flour for a single day’s ration to the handcart company, and nothing else.” “…the express wagon had barely enough supplies to keep them selves alive.” The real service they provided was hope.” “Babies and children were crying from hunger; parents were gaunt and apathetic. Some were obviously dying, and of others limbs had frozen black and were rotting.”
Rowley Family History, p 56
[Most of the Rowley s had frost bite to some degree or another & had to be cared for while they recovered. But, all, lived long, healthy lives. Stepsister Eliza, who had always been sickly is the only one lost on the journey.]
Handcart - “Super human effort was required to get the Willie Co started once more.
And the worst was yet to come. Six rescue wagons stayed with the company, meaning a few of
those in the worst condition were able to ride. But most walked.”
Rowley Family History, p 60
Date Event & Source Place
1856 Oct 21 Gadd & Rowley – “…they were met by a team with provisions. The food reached them just in time, as the company had not eaten for 48 hours. There was great rejoicing in camp that night. Strong men wept, & after all had eaten, songs of Zion were to be heard for the first time in many days. With hearts filled with gratitude, they knelt to pray. After getting over South Pass, it was warmer & they were able to make better time. On Oct 26, Samuel, …10 years old …died near Sweatwater, Wyoming. [Eliza] saya that of all her children he was the most anxious to reach Zion, but it was not to be. A few days later [is when father Samuel] also died.
“They arrived in SLC in November 1856 & decided to locate at Nephi.”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
1856 Oct 23 Rowley & Gadd - “the company climbed 5 miles up the Rocky Ridge near the Continental Divide
continental divide in a blinding snow storm. ‘Several men were near frozen through
the day.’ …wagons carrying the sick lagged far behind, arriving in camp late in the night. The cost of progress was immense. That night 13 members of the company froze in their tents.”
Rowley Family History, p 60
Handcart - “’I remember …I could see a grave which had been dug to bury those that had died during the day. I counted 14 bodies in this one grave. The grave was dug shallow, as no one had the strength to dig it very deep, and the soil was frozen hard. They were buried in the clothes in which they died. Two more members of our company died while these fourteen were being buried.”
Mary H Wright quoted in Rowley Family History, p 61
“The task was simple. Keep moving. To stop was death.” “Rescuers were Sometimes harsh… many travelers were in a state of apathy, many too sick & exhausted to move. Others had given up hope. But they must move. The lives of all depended on their ability to keep the handcarts rolling.”
“For the next week the company pushed westward, reaching supply points set up by the rescuers. …receiving additional wagons & supplies as they neared Fort Bridger.”
Rowley Family History, p 62
“Only once did my courage fail. One cold, dreary afternoon, my feet having been frosted, I felt I could go no farther, and withdrew from the little company and sat down to await the end, being somewhat in a stupor.
“After a time I was aroused by a voice, which seemed as audible as anything could be, and which spoke to my very soul of the promises and blessings I had received and which surely should be fulfilled and that I had a mission to fulfill in Zion. I received strength and was filled with the spirit of the Lord and arose and traveled on with a light heart.” Susannah Stone, 26, single, quoted in Rowley Family History, p 62
1856 Oct 26 Gadd - Eliza Chapman Gadd- “Samuel …10 year old son, died when they were a little west of Pacific Springs in the northern part of Sweetwater, Wyoming. …of all her children, he was the most anxious to reach Zion.
Eliza “took charge of her family & their meager belongings & took up the journey… She was snow blind for three days & had to be led by her 8 year old daughter, Mary Ann as she helped pull her cart. TO know that hers was the full responsibility & to see her children barefoot & without wraps in that severe cold weather must have tried her sorely.
“History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
1856 Nov 3 Handcart - Rowley & Gadd - 50 wagons with good teams! Everyone could ride.
Handcarts were discarded. For 7 more days they traveled.
Rowley Family History, p 62
They tied their handcarts to the back of the wagons.
“History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
1856 Nov 9 Salt Lake City, UT Handcart – Rowley & Gadd - In the Morning: the train formed up, mustering all remaining dignity before rolling into the city.
Rowley Family History, p 61
Salt Lake City, Utah Ann Rowley & Family, members of Willie Handcart Co. Arrived in SLC
Nephi, , Utah - Ann & 3 youngest children move: others stay in Nephi
John Rowley (16) “was placed in the home of Daniel H Wells, whose family was willing to care for John while his frozen limbs mended. He remained with them through the winter. The wells family also employed Elizabeth (age 18) as a servant. She receiver room and board for her labors, enabling her to remain near John and assist with his care.”
Rowley Family History, p 71
[The members of the Rowley family needed medical care after the handcarts arrived. They each went different ways. Some were boarded with valley families. Some were worked instead of being cared for. It was difficult. They had stayed together all thru the journey only to be split up. Ann could not care for them all.]
“66 members of the company had died on the way. In Salt Lake homes were opened to the weary travelers & every effort was made to comfort & care for them. Clothing & other needed things were given to them freely.
“History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
1856 Nov Gadd - “They arrived in SLC in November 1856 & decided to locate at Nephi. [Eliza Chapman Gadd] took charge of the family & their meager belongings & took up the journey with nothing to look forward to, not even having the Gospel to comfort her as did others. It must have been a sore trial to her to see her children without shoes or warm clothing, in the severe cold weather. After enduring the hardships & sorrows of the Mormon Pioneers, she decided to embrace the Gospel. She was baptized soon after they reached their destination.
“Mary Ann [Gadd] did house work & tended babies [age 8] for her board. Her mother [Eliza Chapman Gadd], brothers & sisters gleaned wheat & thrashed it to make flour for bread. The straw was bleached and braided into hats which were sold to help make a living.
Mary Ann Gadd – “At one place where Mary Ann worked, she worked from morning till night, the lady being so strict that she required her to knead the bread for one hour by the clock … then after a hard day’s work, when her employer had gone to bed, Mary Ann had to stand beside her bed & comb her hair, even tho she was so tired she could hardly stand. …The only pay she received was her food.
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
Eliza Chapman Gadd “supported her family by doing many kinds of hard work. She became an expert at braiding straw, making hats for both men & women.”
Heart Throbs of the West, by Katie B Carter
Eliza, age 45, never remarried, “was set apart as a midwife… She was fearless & her duties called her at all hours of the day & nite. She would go to any part of town sometimes with an escort & sometimes alone. There were many Indian scares at the time, & while they never had any serious trouble in Nephi there were good & bad Indians around most of the time. On one occasion when the alarm came that Indians were coming …[her children] were watering a patch of tall sugar cane on their lot. [Eliza] …told them to stay where they were in the tall cane & they would be as safe as in the house. It [was] …a false alarm.”
“History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
Eliza Chapman Gadd “was set apart as a midwife. She was very capable and willing to do the work. She would take care of a delivery & care for the mother & baby during the time the mother was in bed for the small amount of $2 or if they did not have money, she would gladly take whatever they could give. On one occasion, …after her last call …the father [of the baby] said, ‘Well, Sis Gadd, I don’t know when I will ever be able to pay you for your services.’ [Eliza] turned to the table, on which was lying 2 eggs, picked one up & said, ‘I’ll take this egg for my breakfast & consider it paid.’ She brought a total of 2,00 babies into the world in 35 years…”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
Eliza Chapman Gadd “was very quite & did not care much for the social side of life, but she loved to go to church. “History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by granddaughter Mabel Gadd Kirk
THE WILLIE & MARTIN HANDCART COMPANY
Rowley & Gadd were in the Willie handcart Company.
“I was in that company and my wife was in it… We suffered beyond anything you can imagine and many died of exposure and starvation, but did you ever hear a survivor of that company utter a word of criticism? …(We) came through with the absolute knowledge that God lives for we became acquainted with him in our extremities.
“I have pulled my handcart when I was so weak and weary from illness and lack of food that I could hardly put one foot ahead of the other. I have looked ahead and seen a patch of sand or a hill slope and I have said, I can go only that far and there I must give up, for I cannot pull the load through it… I have gone on to that sand and when I reach it, the cart began pushing me. I have looked back many times to see who was pushing my cart, but my eyes saw no one. I knew then that the angles of God were there.
“Was I sorry that I chose to come by handcart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay, and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Handcart Company.” William Palmer, quoted in David O McKay, “Pioneer Women,”
Relief Society Magazine, Jan. 1948, 8 as quoted in “Our Heritage” LDS, 1996.
1856 Nov 29 Payson, Utah, Utah Crockett - Ozro Ozias Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1857
Date Place Event & Source
1857 Jan 10 Trenton, NJ Asay - “Next day, bid farewell to the brethren and took the train for Trenton,
New Jersey. …Saturday 10th. Joseph Asay came with a carriage and conveyed
me about four miles into the country to his house. …
1857 Jan 11 Asay - Sunday 11th. . Preached to a small congregation in a schoolhouse,
returned with brother Asay, and spent the evening in instruction,
several of the saints from Trenton being there.”
Autobiography of Parley P Pratt, as quoted in:
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1857 Payson, Utah, Utah Crockett - Enos Samuel Crockett son of David Crockett & Lydia Young, dies
Archive Sheet for David Crockett, 1806 & Lydia Young
1857. Payson, Utah “David Crockett was re-elected Mayor and took office early
in 1857 to serve the last of three consecutive terms”
(See reference for 1853.)
Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
Date Event & Source Place
1857 July 24 “It was during a July 24 celebration that year (1857) at Big Cottonwood Utah
Canyon that the Saints received word that the U.S. Army was on its way to Utah.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1857 Aug 30 New Jersey Asay - “…on this day and two proceeding days, meetings were held in the woods
near Hornerstown by the Elders of the Eastern States Mission—…The saints
comprising Hornerstown Branch are not very numerous … We fully expected to have listened to Capt. Reamer, Elder Robbins and Elder Asay, who were on the stand, but this privilege was denied. Picnic held by Saints Monday afternoon on the Camp Grounds.
Journal History of Church as quoted in:
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1857 Oct 7 Burlington Co, NJ Asay - Jerome Asay is born, 10th child of Joseph Asay & Sarah Ann Pedrick [Later married Nancy Meeks. Died 6 Oct 1940.]
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
1857 Oct William W Haws- the U.S. Army was on its way to Utah.
W W Haws “…was called with a company of 50 men to meet the approaching
army to determine their intent.” He didn’t return till Christmas time.
He was able to spend the winter home. “At this time he sold his place in
Provo to Pres Young… He then bought a lot near 4th ward school House.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1857 Parowan, I, Utah Rowley - Ann Jewell Rowley, widow, Marries Andrew Baston & Moves to:
1857 Dec 23 Parowan, I, Utah Rowley - Andrew Baston Dies age 48, Married less than 1 year
1858
Date Place Event & Source
1858 Spring US Army moves into Utah - “…a general exodus south. Salt Lake City
was virtually a ghost town. As the people moved south, Hannah (Whitcomb Haws) provided shelter to many as they moved thru Provo. The atrocities of Missouri & Nauvoo were deeply imprinted on their minds.
“…arrangements for the approaching army to pass thru the city by way of Emigration Canyon. …the army under the command of Col Albert S Johnston marched thru SLC without incident & set up camp at Camp Floyd, some 20 miles southwest of the city. The troops remained there for several years.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1858 May Haws - William W Haws was “again called out by the militia to go into the Echo Canyon, Utah
mountains to watch the movement of the approaching army and to help
build fortifications at the narrows of Echo Canyon. These men had orders to maintain this position
by force of arms against any invasion attempt.”
“With the peaceful arrival of the army, members of the church who were in the militia were permitted
to return home ..in July. That fall he worked in the canyon getting out lumber and building a new home.
3rd child born in Dec.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1858 Oct 21 Payson, Utah, Utah Crockett - Lydia Lovera Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1859
Date Event & Source Place
1859 Nov 12 Payson, Utah Crockett - The Crocketts had moved - “…I moved to Payson & bought a home of
David Crockett, paying for it during the winter…”
Memoirs of John R Young, p 117
1859 Nov 14 Logan, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett ordained to 1st High Council
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1859 Oct 14 Endowment House Rowley - Ann Jewell Rowley marries Luke Ford & is sealed to William Rowley
same day.
1859 Dec 30 Rowley - William & Ann son John Rowley MD 1)Frances Banks ?
1860
Date Place Event & Source
“By 1860 …For 3 years, Utah War problems had caused the Church to all but halt the movement of new Saints to Utah, so, like a dam ready to burst, increasing numbers of European Saints anxiously sought some way to emigrate. By then the PEF accounts were drained, the handcart method was losing support, and the average cash cost for covered wagon transportation from Florence, Nebraska, to SLC, Utah, was $50 per person for cattle, wagon, & outfit. …Pres Young… inspired to create a brilliant new transportation system… Utahns sent wagons down to the Missouri River valley to pick up needy emigrants and bring them back to Utah – ‘down-and-back’ wagon companies.” Utah members were given tithing credit for sending wagons, oxen, drivers & flour east. The flour was unloaded at 4 stations along the trail for use on the trip back. “Nearly 4,000 LD Saints in Scandinavia, England, & the US made plans to emigrate. …chartered trains, boats, & ships to meet a clockwork schedule designed to put emigrants at Florence, NB in time to meet the Utah down-and-back wagon companies there. …during May, June & July… a provisions store, a warehouse, campsites, corrals, & a weighing machine. Those who could not afford outfits signed up to travel in one of the Church’s down-and-back wagons.”
William G Hartley, “How Shall I Gather?,” Ensign Oct. 1997, 11
Logan, Utah
1860 Logan, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett moved wife & 4 children to Logan, Cache Valley
Alvin was Logan’s 1st Mayor, served for 15 years. Also Sheriff 21 years, & chief of police.
Made his & family own shoes by splitting wooden pegs to hold together, Builder, contractor for first long dugout leading from Logan to Bear Lake, Idaho. Road used for many years
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
David & Lydia Crockett followed the family there.
Lydia Crockett attended the sick all over the Cache Valley. She delivered over 1000 babies; was Relief Society Pres & rode on the 24 July parade. (Year?)
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
Dixon, M, Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
1874. Logan, Utah Crockett - Mid-wives “The first & one of the best of these women was
Mrs David Crockett, better known as Sis Lydia Crockett. She came from Payson in 1860
& lived in the valley until 1874, when she died, at the age of 73. Mrs Crockett was the most successful and widely known mid-wife of her time. …spent a lot of her time nursing out when any disease was prevalent
Smith, Ruth, Hist of Disease & Medical Care, Cache Valley
Dixon, M, Peteetneet Town, A History of Payson, Utah
When Lydia Y Crockett was called out to midwife… “Grandfather would always come for Lydia to …keep house. Grandmother was always impressed with events before they happened. …Whenever in need Grandmother would go before the Lord and her need was met…
“Mother Lydia,” A Family History Page from AO Lamoreaux’s Book
1860 Mar 29 Asay - Amos Asay is born, 11th child of Joseph Asay & Sarah Ann Burlington Co, NJ
Pedrick [Died 25 Oct 1936.]
Archive record for Joseph & Sarah Ann by Elezer Asay
1850-1860 From New Jersey Asay “…two humble Elders, Winchester & Palmer called at the home of
Crossing the plains Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay and brought them the gospel message. It’s truths were accepted and they soon began a long trek by ox team to
Utah. They crossed the plains in the company of Brigham H Young and upon arriving in Utah settled for a time in Salt Lake City. They were later called by Pres. Brigham Young with others to settle in the ‘Muddy Creek’ in Nevada.
(from Journal History of Church 1867.)”
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
1860 June 3 Nephi City, Utah Gadd - Eliza Chapman Gadd received Patriarchal Blessing from Wm Cazier
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1860 Sept 14 Crossing Plains Asay - “Some of the family maintain that they came by boat to Council Bluffs,
Iowa, and there joined the party of Capt. Brigham H. Young, a freighter, coming to Great Salt Lake City by ox-team, and arriving 14 Sept 1860. …record of their trying experience across the plains was not kept. With children
ranging in ages from 18 years of the oldest, William, to the youngest, Amos, amere babe in arms, many discouraging and trying days must have been endured.”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
Asay“ - They arrived in the valley before winter weather over took them. They lived in the city for a while, later moving south on the Jordan River, where they farmed, and also did some fishing in the river, selling the fish in the city.” “A Mr Blythe remembered the Asay boys peddling fish in SLC”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1860 Oct 21 Logan, Cache, Crockett - Delia Ann Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Utah Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
1861
Date Place Event & Source
1860. Rowley - John Rowley divorce Frances Banks [or visa versa.]
1861 Crockett - Alvin moved his family to Cache Valley (This appears to be earlier.)
SLC, Utah Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, p 418
1861 Oct 25 Crockett - Alvin & Mary Sophia Crockett endowed & sealed in Endowment House
TIB Card for Alvin
1861 Dec Gadd - sealed
1862
Date Place Event & Source
1862 Dec 20 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay (20) married Sarah Jane Fullmer (15)
Family Group Record
1863
Date Place Event & Source
1863. Logan Crockett - Alvin Crockett sustained member of 1st High Council in Logan till
Death.– also city Marshall & school Trustee
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, p 418
1863. Asay - The oldest son William Pedrick [Asay] remained in Salt Lake City when the
family moved to Nevada, and for a time was Pres. Brigham Young’s body guard. He married Jane Fullmer in 1863 and after moved by way of Long Valley to the Gila Valley in Arizona, settling in 1875 at the _____.
Ten children were born to them.”
[Later married Arminda Alice Hendricks.]
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
1863 Apr 21 Nephi, Utah Rowley - John Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing from Wm Cazier
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
4. Haws - William W Haws – “got a job herding cattle for the Utah Stock Co in the Zintie Valley.
When he heard that trouble with the Indians had broken out again, he returned to Provo.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1863 Dec 26 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay sealed to Sarah Jane Fullmer
Family Group Record
1861-1865 Hendricks - “Being a border state, Kentucky was caught up in the throes of the Civil War …James Hendricks wore as did … brothers James & … [The paper is cut & unreadable.] “In later years a grand… asked Jimmie if he had … anyone while serving … a soldier. His answer, “…my knowledge.”
“Earlier on a … note, James William Hendricks married Lucy Susan Stinson in a Jan 6 … ceremony. Briefly …young couple lived for a short time in Todd & Logan Co’s before establishing themselves on a 175 acre farm near L[oui?]sville, Kentucky. TO this union were born …14 children… only 8 grew to maturity.
“Long Live the Hendricks Family,” Graham Co Days & Ways, Eastern Ariz Courier
1864
Date Place Event & Source
1864 Jan 17 Nephi, Utah Gadd - Mary Ann Gadd received her Patriarchal Blessing from Wm Cazier
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1864 Sep 10 Nephi, Utah Rowley - John Rowley [25] married Mary Ann Gadd [16] performed by J Piper
Later sealed in Salt Lake Endowment House April 1866
“It is possible that the couple met in the home of David Udall, the husband of John’s older sister. For whom Mary performed house work.” 1st child born in Nephi, Apr 1865; 2nd & 3rd in Parowan, 1866-68.
Back to Nephi in the winter of 1869 till 1888.
Rowley Family History, p146
They had both been in the Willie Handcart Co. They lived in Nephi for a while then moved to Parowan for a while then back to Nephi.
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
“At the age of 16, [Mary Ann Gadd] was married to John Rowley & they settled in Parowan. Together they …endured the hardships of the early pioneers. Their home was quite a way from the fort …many times they gathered with the other settlers at the fort when the Indians were unfriendly.
“Later they returned to Nephi where her mother [Eliza Chapman Gadd] was still living. Here her husband started the first plaster of paris mill in Utah. She was the mother of …7 sons & 5 daughters.
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
[John Rowley laid most of the water pipes in early Nephi, Utah. He had a very unique method of doing this. He was able to pour, mold and drop the pipes in the ditch in one step. His mold was shaped sorta like a donut maker & ran along forming the pipe in the middle and laying it in one step as the process solidified.
See also Rowley Family History p 155. Ask g-grandson Ken Rowley for more details]
1864 Sept 15 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay son Henry born and dies
Family Group Record
1864 Dec Settling the “Muddy” Asay - “’Down on the Muddy,’ was a familiar phrase among the members of
the Asay family. Grandpa Joseph and most of the family were there.”
“The Muddy”
“In Dec of 1864, Anson Call founded a small colony on the Colorado River… [for] Church immigration from Europe to Utah via Panama, the Gulf of California and up to the head …Colorado River, and also to bring freight more cheaply, …to settlers in Utah by water …warehouse was built at Call’s Landing in Feb 1865, but owing to the completion of Union Pacific Railroad in 1889, the plan …was abandoned.” P 7
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
See also 1866-7
1865
Date Place Event & Source
1865 Jan “The Muddy” Asay - Brigham Young asked for the Muddy of Virgin River to be settled in 1864
Nevada to try & raise wheat & cotton. Several more people joined in Jan. 1865. Now 45 Families. Spring wheat withered & died in the heat. Marketing was difficult. There
was no lumber to build with. “Malaria took a toll of lives”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1865 Apr 18 Nephi, Juab, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd child, Eliza Jane born
Family Group Record
1865 Aug 4 Logan, Utah Crockett - Militia formed, Alvin appointed Colonel.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1865 Aug 5 Logan, Utah Lamoreaux - David Burlock Lamoreaux appointed brigade Surgeon
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1865 Aug 7 Logan, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett elected 1st county sheriff – served 21 years
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1866
Date Place Event & Source
1866 March 5 Logan, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett elected 1st Mayor of
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
Ricks, Joel E, The History of a Valley
1866 Apr 28 SLC, Utah Rowley - John Rowley is sealed to Mary Ann Gadd
in Salt Lake Endowment House April 1866
Rowley Family History
1866 Jun 14 Parowan, I, Utah Rowley - Ann Jewell Rowley - Luke Ford dies, age 76, leaving Ann Jewell a
widow for the 3rd time. Ann Jewell was know as "GRANDMA FORD"the rest of her life.
1866 July 3 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Sarah Ann born
Family Group Record
1866 July 10 Crockett - Colonel (Alvin) Crockett is instructed to proceed to Millvill & take measures
to secure the horse & cattle in south of county.
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1866 Sept 9 Parowan, Iron, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd child, Sarah Ann born
Family Group Record
1866 Fall “The Muddy”, Nevada Asay – “The Muddy” - “Bishop Leithead (about the fall of 1866) wrote from
St Thomas: ‘Many are nearly naked for clothing. We can sell nothing we have for
money: and the cotton, what little there is, seems to be all our hope in that direction.” [See 1864]
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1866 Fall Haws - William W Haws – “took a contract to put up telegraph poles from Summit to Millard Co;
he says he set 1,100 poles.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1866 Nov 29 SLC, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett md 2) Annie Naomi Peel in End House, Sealed.
They had children 1867, 1869, 1871, 1874, 1876, & 1877, in Logan.
Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Annie Naomi Peel
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
1867
Date Place Event & Source
1867 Settling the “Muddy” Asay – “’Down on the Muddy,’ was a familiar phrase among the members of
the Asay family. Grandpa Joseph and most of the family were there.”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1867 Jan Asay - more people were asked to go to the Muddy. “The following persons were selected to go on a mission to the southern part of the Territory – about one hundred families – among them ‘Joseph Asay and three sons.’”
Asay - “All of the family did not go, …Grandfather Joseph, Edwin and Isaac…Three of the younger boys, Aaron, Eleazer, & Jerome…they told of their experiences there, with out their mother. Grandmother, Sarah Ann remained in Salt Lake City, working with Dr. Anderson, according to Parmer Asay, and taking a course in mid-wifery which would be needed in the frontier settlements. It is thought she joined the others a year or two later.” P 9 Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
Asay - “…upon arriving in Utah settled for a time in Salt Lake City. They were later called by Pres. Brigham Young with others to settle in the ‘Muddy Creek’ in Nevada. (from Journal History of Church 1867 Oct. p 1 Monday Semi Annual Conference continued: The following persons were selected to go on a mission to the southern part of the Territory – about one hundred families – among them ‘Joseph Asay and three sons.’) They lived at Overton, Nevada for a time. They were later called to settle at the junction ot the Virgin and Colorado Rivers. They remained there two years. Pres. Young and party visited them here and had them move back to Utah beginning late in December 1870.” [See 1864 & Dec 1870]
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
1867 Feb 8 Crockett - Alvin Crockett’s Logan militia receives an order requires constant vigilance to
guard against possible Indian attack.
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1867 abt Crockett - Lydia L Crockett “when only eight years old …going to Farmington to visit
her father’s second wife’s family, the Peals, …on the return trip the wagon tipped over at night about ten miles from Logan. Lydia was carried wet (from a mud puddle) to a camp fire nearby to dry. Not long after this rheumatism developed, which followed her thru life. Heart trouble too, appeared before her marriage in 1878.” She had at least two events where she was blessed that she would live as long as it was desirable.
“Mother Lydia,” A Family History Page from AO Lamoreaux’s Book
1867 Spring Haws - William W Haws – “traded his home in Provo for a place out of town.” Apr 3 dau born
“That fall …went to Echo Canyon to work on the railroad.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1867 Sept 13 Parowan, Iron, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd child, John Sylvester born
Family Group Record
1868
Date Place Event & Source
1869. “From 1840 to 1868, virtually all LDS emigrants crossed the Atlantic and Pacific
in sailing ships.” (See entry for 1840)
“Under Sail to Zion,” Conway Sonne
1868 March 5 Crockett - Alvin Crockett re-elected Mayor of Logan, Utah Logan, Utah
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1868 Oct 23 Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Franklin born SLC, Utah
He dies Sept next year.
Family Group Record
1869
Date Place Event & Source
1869 Feb 12 Asay - “Dear Sirs; …from this far distant portion of the vineyard. …Bro Asay and co.
are busy fishing; the fish are abundant. …The Saints on the Muddy are getting on finely… The people of St Joseph have …moved [townsite] four or five times… the destructive fire of last fall, some have become almost discouraged. When we left they were busy planting gardens, fruit trees, vines, etc.
Letter to the editor of Deseret News from D.G.B. 1869 quoted in:
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1869 May 9 Asay - “We are having pleasant weather, cool breezes at night, …Our wheat crop
looks promising. Regret that very little cotton will be raised… owing to lack of water. The grasshoppers were seen in myriad’s a few days ago in the air, flying east. Our people in this settlement are cheerful and happy… Bro. Joseph Asay & myself have found a tolerable road to Junction City through the mountains without having to cross the Virgin River. A little labor would make it a good road… Edwin”
report from St Thomas, Muddy to Deseret News May 1869:
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1869 Asay - “…we learn that the Powell Expedition… arrived safely at the mouth of the Rio Virgin on the Colorado River 30th ult. “ “Sept 13, 1869 – ‘Major J.W. Powell… completed exploration of the path pursued…”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1869 “Federal land office opened in Utah, …Salt Lake. Before this time it was impossible to homestead land under federal law. The settlers were of necessity squatters, one of three claimants to the land along with the Indians & the US Government.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1869 Aug 7 Logan Crockett - Alvin Crockett re-elected county sheriff – served 21 years
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1869 Aug 30 Asay - Journals of the journey say, “to the mouth of the Virgin River, where we
found three white men and a boy fishing with a net.” “…who were Joseph Asay
and his two sons…”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay p12-13
1870
Date Place Event & Source
1870 Mar 17 Asay - “Pres Young & party made a pleasure excursion to the mouth of the The Muddy
Virgin River. We were accompanied by Bishop Leithead & a number of citizens of this place. …A
good Ferry boat has been built by the people of the Muddy, who went 70 miles for the lumber.
“Mr Joseph Asay & family, consisting of wife & 10 sons, are living on the ground, & are irrigating a small tract. …He is catching flood wood & fish. …which he furnished the camp”
“…desolation …We should have had some feed for our horses, but Bro Asay has had 4 oxen kept here for a month, which had eaten up all the feed with in …10 miles. ….They looked very hungry, & stood waiting for grass to grow” George A Smith [A photo was taken that day. See p 14b]
“The water was muddy & mineral to the taste.” All 10 sons were not on the Muddy.
“Living on the ground” means removing the wagon boxed to set them on the ground. Living out of their covered wagon boxes.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay p13-14
1870 Apr 19 Logan, Cache, Utah Crockett - Roxana Catherine Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1870. Crockett - David Crockett, Cache Co, Logan City 2nd Ward
None of my other Crocketts are listed - David = household of 7; real wealth $700
Census, Utah 1870 (Index only?) Membership of LDS Church, Fiche #6031596
1870 May 25 Nephi, Juab, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd child, Zina Cordelia born Family Group Record
“In the 1870’s John [Rowley] built a good adobe home for his family in Nephi, & purchased
160 acres of land NE of town. In order to farm the property, John had to get water from Salt Creek, 2 miles away. He dug a ditch that ran the entire distance. …he later explained that the ground on the hillsides thru which he had to ditch, was so loose that water turned on it would soak in about 4 feet. …he once came close to loosing a horse while digging the ditch. The horse sank into the ground until ‘it was almost out of sight,’ & could only be rescued by throwing a chain around it & pulling it out with a good team.”
John “planted a large orchard & many acres of alfalfa & wheat. ..In those days hay & grain were harvested with a cradle sythe. It was considered a day’s work to cut one acre of wheat. John, however, was able to cut as much as 5 acres in a day.”
“John Rowley was an industrious, progressive man. He constructed a plaster of Paris mill in Nephi. To power the mill, he built a 30-foot water wheel. The wheel was driven by water flowing thru a 12 inch square wooden flume. …driving the gear shaft & stones that crushed gypsum rock taken from a nearby hillside.”
“…crushed gypsum was super heated to drive off the moisture. ‘Father invented a scraper which was run by water power, which stirred the plaster of Paris while it cooked. The finished product was then shipped by railroad car to SCL”
“John donated hundreds of dollars worth of plaster to the Church to be used in construction of temples. He also built a cane mill or molasses press in Nephi & transported much of the product east to Sanpete Co. where he traded it for grain & other necessities.”
“John also owned a carpenter & blacksmith shop. …neatly organized.
Rowley Family History
1870 July 6 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Joseph born
He dies April next year.
Family Group Record
1870 Nevada Asay - “Congress took …territory from the western borders of Utah & Arizona, adding it to.
…the settlers were asked for 3 years of back taxes, …threatened to confiscate teams & wagons.”
Dec 14, 1870 – Church Pres gave instructions to move. …abandon the location & look for new homes.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay p12-13
“In good faith we had already paid our taxes to the state of Arizona. We had our own Probate Judge, & all other county officers, & had even sent delegates to the Arizona Legislature. We had four small Mormon settlements on the stream; St Thomas, Overton, St Joseph, & West Point. …We made many improvements; many miles of water ditch,” fruit trees, cotton wood trees, a grist mill, planted cotton. “…Pres Young gave us the priviledge of abandoning the country if we were unanimous in doing so.” We agreeded to vacate in the Spring of 1871. Long Valley had been abandoned & was very badly broken down & overgrown. “…it was determined to move as a ward and resettle Long Valley.” “…as wards without breaking up our Organization.” St Thomas went to Glendale; etc.
“The Diary of James Leithead”
1870 Dec Asay move - Back to Utah from ”The Muddy” in Nevada
Asay - “They were later called to settle at the junction of the Virgin and Colorado Rivers. They remained there two years. Pres. Young and party visited them here and had them move back to Utah beginning late in December 1870. …They made their home at Mt Carmel, from which base the boys all went out and found wives and married …from 1870 to 1875.”
“They settled in a group at Asay’s Ranch on the head of the Sevier River. They remained in a body there for nearly 30 years, Engaged in raising cattle. Father Joseph Asay died at Mt. Carmel, October 3, 1879 and is buried there. The oldest son William Pedrick [Asay] remained in Salt Lake City when the family moved to Nevada, and for a time was Pres. Brigham Young’s body guard. He married Jane Fullmer in 1863 and after moved by way to Long Valley to the Gila Valley in Arizona,
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
1871
Date Event & Source Place
1871. Crockett - Alvin Crockett called on a mission back to Fox Island, Maine. He served two missions there.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
1871 Mar Mt Carmel, Utah Asay – Settlements in Long Valley, Kane Co, that had been abandoned because
of Indian threats were taken over by “The Muddy” group. Berryville became Gglendale; Windson became Mt Carmel. “…a difficult time at first …living on pig weeds & greens & buckwheat cakes & sour corn for that 1st year. Their best crop was turnips & they became very tired of turnip soup.”
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay p12-13
1871 Apr 30 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Joseph ((9 months) dies
Family Group Record
1871 Oct Haws - William W Haws – “while at General Conference at SL City he was called on a mission.
He left Salt Lake to fill a mission in the United States. …southern part of Illinois.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1871 Haws – Several Haws “sons were called on missions leaving wives & children behind for (Hannah) to help care for.” One son Caleb died on his mission; results of small pox.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1872
Date Place Event & Source
1872 Winter Provo, Utah “Because of the cold winter in Provo, …late spring before much could be done
on the farms. All the women & children had to help out with the planting, irrigating, weeding, and harvesting. Hannah (Whitcomb Haws) learned to sew on a sewing machine in April 1872.”
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1872 Feb Haws - William W Haws home from his mission. – “
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1872 Feb 7 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child William born
Family Group Record
1872 Mar 23 Nephi, Juab, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd child, Amy Elizabeth born Family Group Record
1872 Mar 23 Cache Co, Utah Census of county lists 9,798 people
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1872 Crockett - Alvin Crockett left for a mission to Fox Islands
Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, p 418
1872 Aug Crockett - Alvin Crockett - “A school district was created and the first school election was held in Aug 1872, The following were elected as the school trustees: Charles O Card, Alvin Crockett, & Robert Davidson.” …”David Crockett’s name appeared among those of the early ones who took parts in the little plays.”
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1873
Date Place Event & Source
1873 Apr 6 Logan, Cache, Utah Crockett - Hyrum Enos Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1873 Oct 7 Rowley - John Rowley married also 3)Emma James Johnson
Emma, 33, mother of 7 children; had also been in Willie Handcart Co
“It was the rule of the day that widows & orphans were to be provided for by taking them into the families of honest, virtuous men, who were good providers. …John & Emma were to have 2 daughters of their own. They lived together for only 2 or 3 years. …john built Emma a home on the corner of the farm next to town…”
“’My mother did not like the idea of father marrying another woman, but the Lord had commanded it in the time of Joseph Smith, & it was not unlawful, so she accepted it & did her part & did it well.’ Jesse Rowley”
Rowley Family History
1874
Date Place Event & Source
1874 Feb 18 Nephi, Juab, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd child, Jesse Noah born John Rowley - “One year …crops did not grow well. John knew that his family
would need all the wheat he had raised during the season, & worried that tithing his harvest would cause them to go hungry. …he seemed to hear a quiet voice saying, ‘Pay your tithing, John.’ He left his work immediately & loaded a tenth of his wheat onto a wagon, delivering it to the bishop at the tithing lot. …the bishop said …he had a large surplus of apples, & that he would like John to take them & see what he could do with them. John unloaded his wheat, filled his wagon with apples …He received from the sale of these apples enough to replace the wheat he tithed, pay the bishop for the apples, pay hie tithing on the sale of the apples & provide apples for his family for the winter.” Rowley Family History, p152
Family Group Record
1874 Mar 20 Orderville, Utah Asay - “The United Order was established at Mt Carmel in accordance
with the instruction of Brigham Young. Due to some strong opposition the order
among the settlers, those in favor of it established a new community 2 miles up the valley. The new settlement was named Orderville. …became one of the most nearlt self sustaining communities in Utah. But sentiment for private ownership became strong & the order was disbanded in 1884.
Several Asay’s were agreeable to the order at Orderville including Joseph & Sarah Ann Asay.
From a letter by Sarah Ann to a son: “As for the order, I can’t say much. Some are leaving, they are binding them up too tight. We are as well off where we are. …we thought we would join once, but the boys thought they lived too poor, so we gave it up. I think we will make a good place of the ranch, we have plenty of water... There are 450 joined the order, they are going all the time.” .” They did not actually join the order.
Members of the family say Joseph Asay had a small store others say he sold machinery in Beaver.
The ranch is on the creek, north & over the mountain from Long Valley. It is called Asay Ranch & the creek is called Asay Creek still today. Highway 89 crosses Asay Creek. Sarah Ann Pedrick Asay wrote several letters to her sons. Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay p19
1874 Apr 1 Haws - William W Haws – “sold my farm to Father for $650.00.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1874 Apr 8 SLC, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Warren born
He dies next month.
Family Group Record
1874 Oct 29 Logan, Cache, Utah Crockett - Frank Waldon Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Family Group for Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
1875
Date Place Event & Source
1875 Asay - The oldest son William Pedrick [Asay] remained in Salt Lake City when the family moved to Nevada, and for a time was Pres. Brigham Young’s body guard. He married Jane Fullmer in 1863 and after moved by way of Long Valley to the Gila Valley in Arizona, settling in 1875 at the _____. Ten children were born to them.” [Jane died & he later married Arminda Alice Hendricks.]
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
1875 Apr 17 Haws - William W Haws – “became a member of the Provo Police force for a year.
…he was paid $2 per day. …his salary was $85 per month when he resigned the
following spring to resume work on his farm.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1875 Oct 25 St George, Utah Rowley - John Rowley married also 4)?Emma Orissa Johnson, “Emma’s Oldest daughter …Ozella was 17 years old. We presume that the
marriage was condoned by mother Emma, who knew John to be a faithful & honorable man, and that it was approved by Mary Ann. …Ozella moved into the home with John & Mary Ann.”
“Mother Emma… dropped the Rowley name & …was known as Emma Johnson…”
“Two years later, in Apr 1877, John married another of Emma’s daughters, Orissa Jane Johnson. She was two months short of her 16th birthday when they married in the St George Temple.”
Rowley Family History
1875 Nov 8 Provo, Utah Haws - William W Haws married 2)Martha Barrett – “It was while he was on
the police force that he met his 2nd wife.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
A new story… Martha liked to go to town and see the fountain. She would sit and run her hand under the fountain. One of the police men watched her and fell in love with the red haired beauty from the park. [from Laura Hardy – June 2001]
1876
Date Event & Source Place
1876-88 Nephi, Juab, Utah Rowley - John Rowley & Mary Ann Gadd 6 more children, born in
Family Group Record
1876 Feb 1 Beaver, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child May born
Dies next year
Family Group Record
1876 Feb 10 Logan, Cache, Utah Crockett - Henry Wallace Crockett born to Alvin Crockett & Mary Sophia Reed
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1876-77 Asay - “In 1869 a Federal land office opened in Utah, …Salt Lake. Before this time it was impossible to homestead land under federal law. The settlers were of necessity squatters, one of three claimants to the land along with the Indians & the US Government.
1876-77 “an office opened in Beaver, Utah. It took years for people to really get started homesteading their land. Joseph died in 1879 & his patent was not issued until Dec 10 1890 from USA to Sarah Ann [Pedrick] Asay. As it took 5 years to prove up on the homestead, she did not make application until 1885.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1877
Date Place Event & Source
1877 Mar 2 Provo, Utah Haws – When Hannah (Whitcomb Haws) was 71, her husband Gilbreth Haws died.
He is buried in the Provo Pioneer City Cemetery.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1877 Apr 10 Utah Rowley - John Rowley married also 5)Orissa Jane Johnson
“Mother was living in two rooms of a large adobe house out on the
homestead, north-east of Nephi, and Father’s other 2 wives, Ozella & Orissa, lived in the other part of the same house. The three women took turns cooking in the long kitchen with a long table in it where we all ate together for some time. When I became old enough to realize the situation, I helped to put a partition wall through the kitchen so Mother had her home and family to herself.
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1877. Lamoreaux - Industries were set up for building the Logan Temple
David B & A.O. Lamoreaux worked on sawmill & carpentry
Larkin, M A, History of the L.D.S. Temple in Logan, Utah
1877 Dec Haws - William W Haws – “Spent most of his time on the farm, in the winter Provo, Utah
“supplementing by hauling lumber., he froze his feet and was unable to
work for several months.“
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1878
Date Place Event & Source
1878 Jan 24 St George, Utah Rowley - John Rowley was sealed to his parents and had his children sealed
to him “These trips to the temple were not completed in a day or an afternoon as
they are now. Travel to St George required several days. Each temple session lasted a day.
Going to do several endowments probably required at least 2 weeks of travel & temple attendance.
Rowley Family History
1878 July 5 Spanish Fork, Utah Haws - William Barrett received Patriarchal Blessing from Ch W Hyde Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1878 Oct 1 Haws - William W Haws – “George returned from a trip to Arizona, where we hoped
to live in peace without fear of harassment.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
“These were trying times for LDS. Pres Brigham Young had died, so the church’s enemies felt it a good time to strike with a vengeance against polygamy. Some of Hannah’s sons had to leave Provo & move to Mexico.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1878 Oct 23 Mt Carmel, Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Estella born Family Group Record
1878. Crockett - Lydia Lovera Crockett, age 19, taught school in Logan
At age 18 she was Sec of YLMIA – at 19 she taught school a year
In the little old rock school house just west of Thatcher Bank.
“Mother Lydia,” A Family History Page from AO Lamoreaux’s Book
1878 Dec 26 Salt Lake City, Crockett - Lydia Lovera Crockett married Archibald Orrell Lamoreaux
Utah Same day as bro Ozro O Crockett md Ruth Clarkson Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett, TIB Card for Lydia says End & sld in End House
“The two couples made the trip together by team & covered wagon, staying nights along the way with relatives & friends, and returning to Logan on New Years Eve in a big storm.”
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
“…their marriage in the old Endowment House the day after Christmas, the quiet wedding at her father’s home on New Year’s day 1879 is still remembered.”
“Mother Lydia,” A Family History Page from AOL’s Book
“…by Apostle Daniel H Wells in the Endowment House. We made the trip to S.L. by wagon. My brother Ozro & Ruth Clarkson went with us, as they were going to be married, too. We had a very pleasant trip although it turned quite cold and the night we reached Farmington after dark, it was a regular blizzard, wind and snow. Staid at Henry Steeder all night went into S.L. the next day… Reached home New Year’s eve.”
“Mother Lydia,” A Family History Page from AOL’s Book
1879
Date Place Event & Source
1879 Jan 1 Haws - William W Haws – “Sold my place where I lived to Hezekiah Smart, for $899.00
and my meadow and pasture to David Jak for $535.00
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1879 Jan 10 SLC? Lamoreaux - Archibald & Lydia L Crockett Lamoreaux - “We rented a room in the
Maugham house, just east of tabernacle square …moved in & began house keeping. Two months,
then a house just opposite the Blanchard Hotel. Lived there till 10 Nov.
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1879 Feb Haws - William Wallace Haws – “went to SLC to buy an outfit prior to moving to Arizona.
It took some 3 months to complete preparations for the Arizona journey.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1879 Apr 1 Haws - William W Haws started for Arizona– “…with a team of horses for one wagon and two yoke of oxen for a second wagon. They also had a small herd of milk cows. Aunt Belinda, Fathers first wife drove the horse team, and Father drove the oxen. In the company with them were 2 older sons …and their families. Other families made up parts of a larger party.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1879. Haws - Barbara Belinda Mills “came to Arizona in 1879 with her children & Husband, & settled where the town of Cooley now is. Barbara was at Fort Apache one day trading, when some Indians who had left the reservation attacked the Fort. They fought all day & hung around the country for about 2 weeks. …family had to go to Showlow, here they fortified an old sawmill to withstand the Indian attacks.
“Biography of Barbara Belinda Mills Haws” from her grand daughter, Yeteve
Yeteve tells of Barbara being jealous of Martha.
1879 Aug Fort Apache, AZ Haws - William W Haws – “got a job putting in wood for the quarter master at
the U.S. Army post at Fort Apache.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1879 Aug 7 Logan, Utah Crockett - Alvin Crockett re-elected county sheriff – served 21 years
Tullidge, Edw. W., Tulllidge’s History, Vol II
1879 Sept Willow Springs, AZ Haws - William W Haws – “…moved his family to Willow Springs to be
close to the oats and hay he had planted in early summer.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1879 Oct 30 Mt. Carmel, Kane, UT Asay - Joseph Asay (1823) dies. Age 56.
My Family Group Record [3rd or 30th?]
“Father Joseph Asay died at Mt. Carmel, October 3, 1879 and is buried there.
Asay, Eleazer, Definitely Known Asay History Beginnings
1879 Nov 10 Lamoreaux - Lydia & Archibald Lamoreaux moved into a house he built in Logan. The next
day their first child was born.
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
A.O. Lamoreaux did any kind of work he could get. …Hauled lumber all summer. Earned lumber for house… built it himself. “Long before we were married, he had bought a lot on what was called the Island, one half block east of Father’s. …When married still owed $30 on it. On 9 Nov kept a hot fire all day and night to dry the plaster.
The next day the 10th cleaned house & moved in. The next day our first child was born.
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1879 Nov 11 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Archie Orrell Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
“..warm winter up till then but that night had a big snow storm. It was a cold long winter & we were not fixed very well …it took all we could make to move it. But we got on fine and were happy.”
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1880
Date Event & Source Place
1880 Jan Showlow, AZ Haws - William W Haws – “helped Bro Jasop move a steam powered saw mill
into the Showlow area.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1880 Apr Pima, Arizona Haws - William W Haws – “and son George and family moved to Smithville on the
Gila River in southern Arizona. Smithville is now know as Pima…”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
Barbara Haws went back to Utah to visit while her husband went to some other part of the country to get a start again & where the Indians were not so bad. He settled in Pima, Arizona where they lived a year, then moving to Central, Arizona. Her husband went to Mexico, & she was left alone to make a living for herself & her youngest child… She lived in Central from abt 1881 to abt 1891. She worked at Fort Grant for the commanding officer for 3 years. …She made several trips to Utah & Mexico.”
“Biography of Barbara Belinda Mills Haws” from her grand daughter, Yeteve
1880 Oct 28 Logan Lamoreaux - Archibald O Lamoreaux received patriarchal blessing
Patriarchal blessing by Joel Ricks
1880 Aug 21 Haws - Hannah Whitcomb Haws died …in Provo …age 74
She is buried in the Provo Pioneer City Cemetery.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1880 Dec 2 St George, Utah Rowley - John Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing from W D Perkins
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1881
Date Place Event & Source
1881 Winter Lamoreaux - A.O. Lamoreaux “worked up at the Temple Sawmill cooking for the men
who were hauling lumber for the Temple.
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1881 Feb 5 Tempe, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Earnest born
Dies age 4.
Family Group Record
1881 Apr 15 Willow Springs, Arizona Haws - Wlliam Wallace & Martha Barrett Haws – child Charles James born in Willow Springs, Arizona
Family Group Record
1881 July Haws - William W Haws – “Indians broke out, stealing and molesting. Father felt it
wise to move his family to Cooley Colony where they would have greater safety.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1882
Date Event & Source Place
1882 Jan 1 Forest Dale, AZ Haws - William W Haws – Martha Barrett Haws “& her children moved into a house
Father had built between Nov 9 & Jan 1 at Forest Dale. But that fall, Father was
informed that Forest Dale was on the Indian Reservation. It thus became necessary
to pull up stakes and find a new home.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1882 Apr 17 Huntsville, Kentucky Hendricks – “2 Mormon missionaries, John W Taylor & Jacob G Bigler
Preached the gospel in the Huntsville area to many families, including the
Hendricks. Teaching Lucy & the girls was no difficult task but Father James was another matter. James didn’t have time to listen… the missionaries …took turns plowing while the other one taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ.” James, Lucy & 3 daughters including Arminda Alice were baptized 17 Apr 1882.
“Long Live the Hendricks Family,” Eastern Ariz Courier
1882 June 5 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Ray Delos Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1882 Aug 13 Rowley - John Rowley married also Sarah Elizabeth Steed
1882. The Edmonds Act was passed by Congress. See 1887 for Edmonds—Tucker Act
1882 Apr 17 Huntsville, Kentucky Hendricks – “2 Mormon missionaries, John W Taylor & Jacob G Bigler
Preached the gospel in the Huntsville area to many families, including the
Hendricks. Teaching Lucy & the girls was no difficult task but Father James was another matter. James didn’t have time to listen… the missionaries …took turns plowing while the other one taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ.” James, Lucy & 3 daughters including Arminda Alice were baptized 17 Apr 1882.
“Long Live the Hendricks Family,” Eastern Ariz Courier
1882 Dec 14 Smithville, (Pima) AZ Haws - William W Haws – “Father made a quick trip to Gila Valley, in
southeastern Arizona to look at the country. Deciding to move to the Gila Valley, Dec 14,
he left Forest Dale with one team and a wagon load of household goods, taking
mother (Martha) and her family with him.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1882 Dec 19 Pima, Graham, Arizona Haws - William Wallace & Martha Barrett Haws - Child Joseph Forrest born in Pima “Dec 19 they camped on the top of a mountain between Black River and
Ash Creek, where mother gave birth to her 3rd child …Father acted as doctor, nurse,
mid-wife, baby-sitter, and everything else.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1883
Date Place Event & Source
1883 Jan 1 Arizona Haws - William W Haws – “Father got mother located among friends at Smithville
(Pima) Then on Jan 1, 1883 he started back to Forest Dale to get the rest of
the family.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1883 Feb 1 Pima, AZ Haws - William W Haws – “began the cycle anew. …crops could be planted a month or
2 earlier. While in northern Arizona it was clearing the land of scrub oak and a
straggling pine and rocks; here the obstacle was the mesquite bush, a formidable foe.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1883. Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Lydia & Archibald Lamoreaux sold house in Logan for $600 moved to
Preston Idaho 80 acre farm.
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
Preston, Idaho
1883 Feb 9 Lamoreaux- AO & LL - Moved to Preston, Idaho. It was a 80 acre, dry farm, not fenced.
Had to fence it to save 20 acres of 36 bushels of grain. Planted shade trees,
watered them from the well. Built a mostly underground coop for chickens …
eggs froze & burst.
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1883 Apr Haws - William W Haws – “helped move and set up a sawmill in a canyon near Mt Graham.“
While there he found a swarm of wild bees which he brought home.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1883 Spring Lamoreaux -“In the spring of 1883 after the birth of her second child, Ray Delos,
Lydia Crockett Lamoreaux left her childhood home, her parents, …to live in Preston,
Idaho. Archie & her brother, Ozro buying 160 acres of farm land together.
“Mother Lydia,” A Fam Hist Page from AOL’s Book
1883 Aug 13 Rowley - John Rowley married Sarah Elizabeth Steed (46) in the Logan temple
Family Records
1883 Aug 23 Tempe, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Jane born
Dies next year.
Family Group Record
1883 Aug 29 Tempe, Arizona Asay - Sarah Jane Fullmer Asay, wife of William Pedrick Asay dies
He has now buried a wife and 5 children – 2 more die in the next 2 years
1883 Dec 31 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Archibald O Lamoreaux “…got lost on a hunting trip at Swan Lake,
20 miles north of Preston & nearly froze to death.’ …toes & fingers had to be amputated.
Scott, Donna, The Crockett Family of Maine
Lamoreaux/Crockett - “Archie & Ozro decided to go hunting deer to …help out our provisions. Ruth was sick… Ozro stayed home…Archibald.O. went alone. “20 miles north …Swan Lake …expected Mr Beckstead to meet him. New country, saw a deer, the dog chased it off & he followed; killed the deer, started back to his horse… too cold …looked for something to make a fire. Hands & feet froze. The dog kept him awake during long cold night… New Years Eve.
Next morning, found his horse, rode to Mr Beckstead’s… worked with him all night put him on a train & sent him home. Telegraphed his father, David B Lamoreaux. The R.R. ran thru out land. They carried him in. No one was home, I was at Ozro’s. My boys came home he sent them for me. I went home alone not knowing if I’d find him alive or not. Soon there was a crowd. Put him on the train with his dad for Logan. Archie said ‘I had a dream’ Take off my little fingers. Next week they took off his toes/feet.
Our baby, *Ray got sick, pneumonia, I took him to my sister Delia’s. The Bishop rented a house for us & moved us. As soon as Ray was well enough I took him there. The town had a benefit dance for us & raised $175. Friends brought money, coal, wood, food. One night three personages appeared at his side, two men & a boy. I had fallen asleep, Archie was anxious for me to see them. He woke me & they were gone. It was such a comfort to him and he felt so happy.”
Archie got some better, Lydia “came down with inflammatory rheumatism, also neurology, had to have some teeth pulled. A terribly cold winter. The walls of the house were damp… so we moved up to fathers… The Dr said to go out for a walk in the June air as soon as we could.
“The first time we went out for a little walk, …Archie on his knees with a stick to help, the ground was gravely and his knees tender; I could just walk slowly by his side, very thin, no color in my face; Orrell with us and Ray not quite two following behind on his knees, with a stick, doing as daddy did.” [Breaks your heart to read it.]
The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
Lydia Crockett’s husband Archibald O Lamoreaux “was caught in a blizzard while deer hunting near Preston ID. When found 24 hours later his limbs were so badly frozen that to save his life, it was necessary to amputate nearly half of both feet. The little fingers on both hands were also cut off.” Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1884
Date Place Event & Source
1884. Crockett - Alvin Crockett listed as Farmer & brick layer, 5th Ward, Canyon Road.
Utah Gazetteer, 1884 Logan City.
1884 Feb 12 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Rayden Alvin Lamoreaux was born to *Archie & *Lydia
Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald * Lydia
1884 June-July Lamoreaux - Archibald O & Lydia Lamoreaux attended Dedication of the Logan Temple
Scott, Donna, The Crockett Family of Maine
Lamoreaux - “Archibald.O. suffered a great deal… By the time the Logan Temple was dedicated …we were able to go …Oh how thankful we were to be able to be there.” Soon after they were able to go home to Preston. Ozro & Ruth had been doing chores. Neighbors & friends put in 7 acres of wheat so they had bread for that year.
Ozro did much of the work, Archie’s bro Henry & dad David B came …sometimes A.O.’s sisters came to help. The Diary of My Grandmother Lydia Lavera Crockett
1884 Jul 22 Tempe, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Jane dies
Family Group Record
1884 Sept Graham Mts, Ariz Haws - William W Haws – “took up a ranch near Ash Creek at the foot of Mt Graham
built a house and made some improvements. He moved his 2nd wife and family there Nov 1.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1884 Oct 7 SLC, Utah Rowley - John Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing as part of a setting apart[?]
for his misson? from Heber J Grant
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1884 Oct 11 Rowley - John Rowley went on a mission back to England.
“Mother cared for us children while Father went on a mission to England. Uncle Thomas Rowley took care of Father’s plaster of paris mill during Father’s absence the few months he was gone. Father was gone from 11 Oct 1884 to 6 June 1885 during which time he suffered no persecution because of having more than one wife, but after he returned, Mother had to take charge of the mill and family while Father had to stay in hiding.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1885
Date Event & Source Place
1885 Jan 1 Arizona Haws - William W Haws – “At Stake Conference at St David, (son) George had learned the
U.S. Marshalls had intensified their campaign against polygamy and were moving
into Arizona to prosecute polygamist families. Hatred of the Mormons had grown in intensity. The fires of persecution had been fanned by lies, rumors, and ignorance.”
“Weary of the constant moving and threat of imprisonment and separation from his family should he be caught, Father (W W Haws) immediately moved his families to town and made preparations to go to Mexico, where he hoped to live in peace with his loved ones. …members of the church had already moved into the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Church authorities were negotiating with the Mexican president for land.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1885 Jan 25 Haws - William W Haws – “started on horseback for Mexico in company with Bro Ira B Llamre.
“Since the colonists couldn’t arrange for enough land in one tract to meet their needs, they split up into two camps, some renting land at Hannas (Colonia Diaz) and some at Cases Grandes (Juarez).
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1885 Feb 10 Central, Graham, Arizona Haws - William Wallace & Martha Barrett Haws family in Arizona.
Child, Laura Phoebe, born about 2 weeks after William W Haws
left to go check out Mexico.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1885 Feb 23 Central, Arizona Haws - Martha Barrett Haws received Patriarchal Blessing from Wm McBride
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1885 June 6 Nephi, Utah Rowley - John Rowley returns from mission to England.
“Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] cared for us children while Father [John Rowley] went on a mission to England. Uncle Thomas Rowley took care of Father’s plaster of paris mill during Father’s absence the few months he was gone. Father was gone from 11 Oct 1884 to 6 June 1885 during which time he suffered no persecution because of having more than one wife, but after he returned, Mother had to take charge of the mill and family while Father had to stay in hiding.
“One day the family were working out in the garden, when the Deputy Marshall McLellan came. He served papers on Mother and my sister Lizzy. While he was doing this, mother motioned for me to tell Aunt Orissa & Aunt Ozella to hide themselves and their children. They ran to the house and he never found them. Later Mother told me to take them to Salt Creek Canyon, which I did, then later to Richfield. When Father came home and learned what had happened, he got wagons and teams, loaded them with the things they needed, went to Richfield for his other families and took them and started to Arizona. Mother and my sister Lizzy went to Provo to appear in court to comply with the law. Nothing could be proven against them so they were released.
“The first time Marshall McLellan came he saw a girl near the foothills. He, supposing she was another wife, began to chase her. She ran home and told her father that Mr Rowley was chasing her. Her father came over to make trouble with Father, but he learned that it had been the Marshall who did the chasing, so he got after him. When the Marshall with a companion came again, Mother and we children were the only ones there. He said, ‘I have come to search the burg.’ Mother opened the door and invited him in.
“When Father was in Arizona, Mother had full charge of the mill and the children. We all worked under her direction and did very well. The mill had to run day & night while we had water power to run it.
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1885 June 6 Rowley - John Rowley returned home from Mission to Eng.
“John was not able to appear in public after his mission. …Like others hiding
from the federal marshals, John was part of the “Mormon Underground”
Rowley Family History
1885 June 14 Arizona Hendricks – “Due to …persistent anti-Mormon bias that existed …the Hendricks family
…move to far away Arizona where they could worship in freedom & among other Saints.” They
“entrained” for Arizona on July 14, 1885 & were greeted by Elder Bigler at Bowie. No trains went from Bowie
to Globe so Mr Bigler to them by wagon to Central, where they stayed until a farm was located and purchased.
Then James Hendricks built “the first shingled roof & lumbered floor house in the (Thatcher) community, the
rest having dirt floors and roofs.” Presently located on Palmer Lane.
Oldest naughter Nancy was the first school teacher, in a chicken coop on the Carpenter farm.
“Long Live the Hendricks Family,” Eastern Arizona Courier
1885 June Thatcher, Arizona Hendricks – James William & Lucy Susan Stinson Hendricks arrive in Thatcher, Arizona. Came from Butler Co, Kentucky. Only 8 of 9 families “busy grubbing mesquite stumps & building & re-building rock-brush dams. Bought 160 acre farm of Andy Carlson, on Thatcher’s western outskirts. Adapted to the Arizona style of irrigating & etc.
“Long Live the Hendricks Family,” Graham Co Days & Ways, Eastern Ariz Courier
1885 June 27 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Lydia L C Lamoreaux received patriarchal blessing Patriarchal blessing, John Boice
1885 July 4 Tempe, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Sarah Jane Fullmer child Earnest dies
Dies age 4. William has now buried a wife and 7 children.
Family Group Record
1885 Asay - Sarah Ann Pedrick Asay petitions for land.
”1876-77 a Federal Land office opened in Beaver, Utah. It took years for people to really get started homesteading their land. Joseph died in 1879 & his patent was not issued until Dec 10 1890 from USA to Sarah Ann [Pedrick] Asay. As it took 5 years to prove up on the homestead, she did not make application until 1885. Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1885 Aug Arizona Haws - William W Haws returned to Arizona from Mexico. He “spent
2 weeks cutting lucern, putting up hay, rounding up stock, and making
preparations to return to Mexico with his youngest family(Martha’s). With one team, a wagon, a riding horse, and a few head of cattle, Father, Mother and the four children left for Mexico, Aug 25, 1885. They reached their destination on Sept 14, 1885.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1885 Sept 12 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Archibald Orrell Lamoreaux received patriarchal blessing
Patriarchal blessing, John Boice (See June 27, 1885)
1885 Sept 13 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Ray D Lamoreaux received patriarchal blessing
Patriarchal blessing, John Boice
1885 Sept 14 Juarez, Chi, Mexico Haws - William W Haws and 2nd wife, Martha Barrett, reached Mexico.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1885 Oct 15 Logan, Utah Lamoreaux - Nancy M Orrell Lamoreaux received Patriarchal Blessing from
John Smith
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1886
Date Place Event & Source
1886 Feb 12 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Rayden Alvin Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
1886 Feb 21 Juarez, Chi, Mexico Haws - W W Haws spoke in church & Baptized 3 people
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1886 July 28 Logan, Utah Rowley -John Rowley married also Belinda M Kendrick (31)
She was in the same group coming from Eng when John returned from
his mission in Eng. He settled her in Mayfield, 60 miles SE of Nephi.
They had 4 children.
Rowley Family History
1886 Aug 28 Asay - William Pedrick Asay (42) marries Arminda Alice Hendricks (almost 16)
Family Group Record
1887
Date Event & Source Place
1887 - The Edmonds Tucker Act – Anti?? “Testvath – no vote – church property ceased
1862 Bigamy Law $500 or 5 yrs in jail – not enforced by Lincoln
1887 - The Edmonds Tucker Act – Anti “Testvath – no vote – church property ceased
1885 Apr ordered to leave soon / later - 1 year settled in wrong area -
2nd year Earthquakes – but they opened up springs for water - 75% polygamy in colonies
1910 Diaz retired as Pres / dictator of Mexico – 1912 July 28 Rebels – Pres Romney gives orders for exodus.
[These notes are written on the back of a map of Mormon Colonies in Mexico. I didn’t
write down where found. It was in 1990’s at Mesa Family Hist Center.]
1887 Mar 24 Jarez, Cvhi, Mexico Haws - William Wallace & Martha Barrett Haws family in Jarez, Mexico Child, William Gilbert, born
Family Group Sheet
1887 May Juarez, Chi, Mexico Haws - William W Haws was called as “one of several men called to go with a
team and wagon to meet the Mexican Saints being moved from the
interior of Mexico to the colonies.”
“Shortly after this trip Father began his move to Corrales”
“Travel of some 150 miles south... Among these converts was a
widow, Gertrude Paex, & her children
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1887 May 24 Corrales, Mexico Haws – William Wallace & Martha’s 5th child born
“Shortly after this trip Father began his move to Corrales”
“He got to the saw mill about 9 PM. Mother had ridden in a carriage with
Erastus Snow. They stayed that night in a shanty Father fashioned for her
at the mill site.” He brought some of his stock
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1887 June 1-3 Corrales, Mexico Haws – WW – Took another load of belongings – and WW & Martha &
children arrived at Corrales. They stayed till he died 8 years later. Busy,
cutting & hauling wood for a house, Building calf & hog pens, trips to Strawberry, Mexico to harvest his crops, taking care of grain in Juarez & Casas Verdes Valley, establishing a reputation as shoemaker & rock mason
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1887 July 6 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Guy Vivian Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
1887 Aug Corrales, Mexico Haws – William Wallace – hired a Mexican to help build house, 3 rooms “The home
also doubled as a chapel for the next few years.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1887 Nov 11 Thatcher, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Arminda Alice Hendricks child Mabel Asay is born
Family Records
1888
Date Event & Source Place
1888 Feb 13 Crockett - Alvin Crockett was arrested for having 2 wives & sentenced to six months
to May 24 in Jail – which he served. “Alvin didn’t think it was right to run away from things.
…He was allowed two months off for good behavior (the Cooper Act) & had to pay a fine.”
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
(Specific dated from Donna Scott)
“Arrested on charges of unlawful cohabitation. …six months incarceration in the penitentiary.”
Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, p 418
“Alvin didn’t think it right to run away from things.” “He served sentence rather than hide.”
Scott, Donna, The Crockett Family of Maine
1888 Mar 1 Mexico Haws - William Wallace Haws – May 1887 “Among these converts was a widow,
Gertrude Paex, & her children.”
Oct 3, 1887, “Wrote letter to Apostle Erastus Snow in regards to Sis Paex.”
Mar 1, 1888 “Went to fast meeting in forenoon. In the evening was married to Sis Paex about 8:00.”
Chloe says they were in Colonia Juarez at the time & he moved her & her children to Corrales & built her a home.
They had 3 children born in 1888, 1891, & 1893. My g-ma Martha Haws Rowley says it was very hard to leave her bro & sisters when they left Mexico in 1912.
“William Wallace Haws Daily Journal,” edited by Chloe Haws Lunt
1888 July 21 Nephi, Utah Rowley & Gadd -“Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] had a small bunch of sheep
that we had gathered at Nephi and she sold them and got money to help along. My sister
Luella was born while Father [John Rowley] was gone to Arizona.
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1888 Sept 29 Pima, Graham, Arizona Rowley - John Rowley & Orissa son Ernest Exile born in Arizona
Child born on their way to exile in Mexico.
Family Group Sheet
Rowley - John Rowley - “During this time my brother, Jacob Leslie, took sick with diphtheria and died. [He died 21 Dec 1888] I remember how Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] doctored his throat and what great anxiety she suffered through his illness. I also remember that he was buried in a lonely spot in the corner of the homestead near the Nephi City cemetery.
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1888 Oct 22 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - Lydia Hazel Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
1888 Corrales, Mexico Haws - William Wallace Haws – spent the year clearing & fencing land,
digging ditches, cutting logs, building cellars & milk room & corrals, “…it was necessary
to make frequent trips to Strawberry, Mexico to care for the crops he had planted there.”
“During March, Father had planted wheat & oats & prepared the soil for other crops. He went to Juarez 2 weeks shearing sheep.”
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1888 Dec 21 Rowley - John & Mary Ann - “When Father [John Rowley] was in Arizona, Nephi, Utah
Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] had full charge of the mill and the children. We all worked under her direction and did very well. The mill had to run day & night while we had water power to run it. Mother sewed sacks all night to keep us supplied with sacks to put the plaster of paris in, when it cooked enough. One time when we ran out of wood for the furnace, Mother bought a car of coal to burn the furnaces at the mill.
“During this time my brother, Jacob Leslie, took sick with diphtheria and died. [He died 21 Dec 1888]
I remember how Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] doctored his throat and what great anxiety she suffered through his illness. I also remember that he was buried in a lonely spot in the corner of the homestead near the Nephi City cemetery.
“Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] had a small bunch of sheep that we had gathered at Nephi and she sold them and got money to help along. My sister Luella was born while Father [John Rowley] was gone to Arizona. He came back, sold out, got teams & wagons, & took us all to Arizona. We went thru the city of Nephi at night time to keep from being seen by the officers. The next evening as we were camped, the officers came and asked if we were from Nephi. Mother replied, ‘We came through Nephi.’ Which we did, for we had been living on the other side of town. …Mother drove one team and wagon all the way to Arizona.”
[All this with a baby born in July and a son died in Dec. in the middle of it!]
“Father’s wife, Belinda Hendrick lived in Sanpete Co, …I remember her as we traveled to Arizona. …She always said Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] was her best friend. After we got to the town of Central, Graham, AZ, we stayed there and Father took the other families down into Mexico. About 2 years later, Mother and we children went to Mexico with Father who came back for us. My sister, Zina, married Parley Johnson. She died soon after we got to Mexico. [23 Mar 1890]
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
“They arrived in Mexico in the fall of 1889.” [See also 1889]
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
1889
Date Event & Source Place
Plural Marriage
“Tho many have been critical of plural marriage, it was clearly sanctioned by the Lord during that era, & was the means of expanding & strengthening the Church. We are inheritors of the blessings earned by these people through their faith & diligence.”
Rowley Family History, p151
[See entries for plural marriages for facts & feelings of my ancestors who participated in this practice. I grew up with no adverse thoughts on the practice. My ancestors seemed to have had good experiences and/or seemed to have handled it well. No bitterness was made know to me as a child. Some adults, since, have mentioned bad feelings but they are usually bitter people who don’t have good things to say about anything. Therefore, I was able to accept plural marriage as a revelation from God that is no longer in practice. This changed when the US made laws against it. In my opinion, the laws against it were ‘ex-post facto laws.’ What were these good people supposed to do? Leave their wives & families just because it was now illegal to marry more than one wife. It had been legal when it was done. No wonder my ancestors stood by their choices and supported their families, even to the extent of serving time in jail and eventually leaving this country, exiled again, this time to Mexico, for their righteous beliefs.]
See: David Burlock Lamoreaux:May 1856 - Alvin Crockett: Nov 1866 - Joseph Asay: Aug 1886
John Rowley: Oct 1873; Oct 1875; Apr 1877; Aug 1883; July 1884 - William Wallace Haws: Nov 1875;
See also; entries of families leaving Utah & Arizona to go to Mexico & then leaving Mexico in 1912
See; WW Haws entries as he moves to Arizona starting in Oct 1878, & to Mexico Jan 1885;
1862 Bigomy Law $500 or 5 yrs in jail – not enforced by Lincoln – Utah was not part of US
1887 - The Edmonds Tucker Act – Anti “Testvath – no vote – church property ceased
1885 Apr Polygamist ordered to leave soon / later -
1 year settled in wrong area -
2nd year Earthquakes – but they opened up springs for water -
75% polygamy in colonies
1910 Diaz retired as Pres / dictator of Mexico –
1912 July 28 Rebels – Pres Romney gives orders for exodus.
[These notes are written on the back of a map of Mormon Colonies in Mexico. I didn’t write down where found. It was in 1990’s at Mesa Family Hist Center.]
1888. Rowley & Gadd “…the officers were after the polygamist families. …so it was impossible for them to stay in Utah any longer. [They]…left for Old Mexico …drove a team …over rough roads & thru dangerous streams with her youngest baby in her arms.
[Find the article on Lee’s Backbone in the Honeymoon Trail info. To add here.]
“When they crossed at Lee’s Ferry, they drove each team onto the boat & were ferried across.
Then the boat was anchored & the team driven onto the bank. When the team Mary Ann [Gadd Rowley] was driving reached the bank, they discovered that the boat was not anchored and was beginning to float down stream. This left her & the children in the wagon on the boat while the horses were starting onto the bank. Her husband [John Rowley] who was standing on the bank, turned pale. He urged the horses to pull. They had to work hard but finally the boat was pulled onto the bank & anchored safely. She said it was only thru faith & prayers that they were saved, as it was more than the team could do without help.
“They arrived in Mexico in the fall of 1889.”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
“Most of those fleeing to Mexico traveled the north-south wagon road through …Panguitch, & Kanab. Skirting the east side of the Grand Canyon & continuing south thru the Mormon settlements …Flagstaff, Joseph City, Snowflake & Taylor. They probably turned east or west & traveled around the Apache Indian area, tho the Arizona Indian wars had really ended 2 years earlier then the notorious Apache Chief Geronimo, was imprisoned.
[The next entries seem to be from the first trip John took. Mary Ann & Belinda & kids were still in Utah. See entry for 1889 Mar 23, for the other trip.]
“…water was carried in large wooden barrels strapped to each side of the wagon. Signs were posted …showing how far …the next source of water.
“…they arrived at a water hole only to find it had dried up. …they passed on thru the night, hoping to find water before the heat of the next day set in. Soon after dawn they came across a pool of stagnant water, …they… allowed their animals to drink a bit, & the animals became ill< & suffered thru the day. It was not untill afternoon that they met other wagons with a good water supply. …By evening they reached the next source of water, & had to remain several days, recovering from the effects of thirst & fatigue.” Martha
“…they had to stop for a day or two at a time so the women could bake & wash clothing, while John & the boys did needed repair work... The family traveled about 525 miles in 1888, reaching …Pima, in southeastern Arizona where they halted for the remainder of the season. …Sept, …Orissa gave birth to a baby boy …they named the boy Earnest Exile Rowley.”
“To support his family while they rested in Pima, John set up a blacksmith shop & repaired freight wagons … He took as his pay, cows, flour & other necessities the family would need. …In the spring of 1889, they continued on… perhaps to Bowie, & Bisbee & then across the border into Mexico. The distance from Pima to the newly established colonies in Mexico was about 200 miles. …crossing the arid mesas in northern Chihuahua, John & his wives reached the Mormon settlement at Colonia Diaz…”
Rowley Family History
Date Event & Source Place
1889 May 10 Haws - Erastus Snow Haws born to WW & Martha Barrett Haws in… Pacheco, Chihuahua, Mexico
Family Group Sheet
[Juarez is just across the border from El Paso. But Colonia Juarez, Colonia Dublan & Cases Grandes are south west from there on the railroad line. Colonia Diaz is just north of these. Southwest from here are Corrales, just south of Colonia Pacheco. Colonia Garcia is just south of that. They are in the southwestern most area of Mormon colonization. Chuichupa is the only other site south of these.]
1889 Nov 11 Rowley - John Rowley – “…Diaz & Juarez were only in their 4th year of existence Diaz, Mexico
when John & his families rolled in off the mesas on Nov 11, 1889.”
“A few permanent homes …most …Lived in their wagons while they constructed adobe homes, usually one room at a time. Frame & rock houses would follow in the next decade. …they were always building, expanding, improving on what they had.” Rowley Family History
[See Rowley Family History p 162-4 for a history of the Mexican Colonies.]
1890
Date Place Event & Source
1890 Jan 6 Thatcher, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Arminda Alice Hendricks
child Lucy Stusan Asay is born
Family Group Record
1890 Apr 9 Thatcher, Arizona Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Hildagard child John H is born
Family Group Record
1890 Mar 23 Diaz, Mexico Rowley - [John Rowley] was gone to Arizona. He came back, sold out, got teams
& wagons, & took us all to Arizona. We went thru the city of Nephi at night time to keep from being seen by the officers. The next evening as we were camped, the officers came and asked if we were from Nephi. Mother replied, ‘We came through Nephi.’ Which we did, for we had been living on the other side of town. …Mother drove one team and wagon all the way to Arizona.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
To avoid arrest, John “rode his horse at a distance from the wagons. One evening as he joined the family for dinner, however, deputies came upon them suddenly. He was unable to escape. Thinking quickly, he pulled his hat down over his eyes & went to the back of the wagon, appearing to be busy fixing something. One of the hunters rode directly up to him, asking him if he knew John Rowley, & if he had seen him. He told the deputy he hadn’t seem John Rowley. Satisfied, they rode off, leaving the family to finish their dinner.
“During the year 1890, the danger of persecution under the law prohibiting plural marriages was at it’s peak. The following year, Pres Wilford Woodruff would issue his Manifesto, signaling the decline of plural marriage in the Church.”
Rowley Family History
“Father’s wife, Belinda Hendrick lived in Sanpete Co, …I remember her as we traveled to Arizona. …She always said Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] was her best friend. After we got to the town of Central, Graham, AZ, we stayed there and Father took the other families down into Mexico. About 2 years later, Mother and we children went to Mexico with Father who came back for us. My sister, Zina, married Parley Johnson. She died [23 Mar 1890] soon after we got to Mexico.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
“As had been the case 2 years earlier, john & his family reached southern Arizona by fall, & decided to winter there.
“With Mary Ann & the children settled …John & son Heber headed towards Mexico with one team & wagon, driving livestock ahead of them. Returning for Mary Ann the next spring, John commenced the remainder of the move that had occupied nearly 3 years. They finally arrived in Mexico in September 1891. For a time, Mary Ann’s family lived in their wagon on the lot in Colonia Diaz where Bilinda & her children were housed. Then John built them a house on a 12 acre farm. As he had in Nephi, he added to the farm a rain mill and a molasses mill.”
Rowley Family History, p 167
“Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] & we children lived in a little one room house with a dirt roof. We had a covered wagon close by where I [Jesse] slept. I was sick in the wagon on my 17th birthday, and I remember Mother coming out to see how I was. Father [John Rowley] built a mill on our 12 acre plot adjoining town & we lived there for a while. It was there that James and I had malaria fever. …One time my brother Samuel had typhoid fever. Charles Fillerup and I administered to him, & Bro Fillerup promised him that he would walk again. The next day he did get up and walk, then a few hours later, he died.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
John & Mary Ann Gadd Rowley & family – “They arrived in Mexico in the fall of 1889. They settled in a fertile valley called Diaz, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. They cleared some land & planted grain. They used rocks & abodes to build their homes.
“Soon after their arrival one of her married daughters died leaving 2 babies. This sorrow added to the gloom & desolation of a strange land, but thru it all she prayed for strength & thanked God for her blessings. “History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by daughter Mary Luella Rowley Laws
John went into the hills to find stones to “dress” for mill stones. “he ‘dressed’ the stones with a hammer & chisel, cutting ridges into the grinding surfaces of the stones.”
Rowley Family History p 166
1890 Franklin, Arizona Hendricks – “During the latter part of the 1890s the Model project
in the now Franklin areas enticed no few Safford Valley farmers including, James Hendricks, to cast their lot in this ambitious project. Before leaving Thatcher, Lucy & James Hendricks had given each of their married daughters 20 acres of land & other items; the balance …divided among other members of the Hendricks family.
“Long Live the Hendricks Family,” Eastern Arizona Courier
1890 Dec 10 Asay - Isaac Asay (1797) dies. [Joseph’s dad]
Archive record for Isaac & Phebe by Susan Asay,
[I think this is off a year see 1898 Dec 10.]
1890 Dec 10 Asay - Federal Land office… Utah. It took years for people to really get started homesteading their land. Joseph died in 1879 & his patent was not issued until Dec 10 1890 from USA to Sarah Ann [Pedrick] Asay. As it took 5 years to prove up on the homestead, she did not make application until 1885.
Flossie W. Asay, The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay
1891
Date Place Event & Source
1891 Feb 18 Colonia Diaz, Mexico Rowley & Gadd – “Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] & we children lived
in a little one room house with a dirt roof. We had a covered wagon close
by where I slept. I was sick in the wagon on my 17th birthday,[18 Feb 1891] and I remember Mother coming out to see how I was. Father [John Rowley] built a mill on our 12 acre plot adjoining town & we lived there for a while. It was there that James and I had malaria fever. …One time my brother Samuel had typhoid fever. Charles Fillerup and I administered to him, & Bro Fillerup promised him that he would walk again. The next day he did get up and walk, then a few hours later, he died.” [3 Apr 1897]
“We traded the old rock house (the mill) for a house in town where Mother lived and raised chickens and made butter. When she got a few dozen eggs and some butter ready, she would walk to the store & trade them for other things she needed.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1891. Sept Colonia Diaz, Mexico Rowley - John Rowley & Belinda Kendrick child, Edith Myrtle, born in
[She died there in 1892.]
Family Group Sheet
Mary Ann Gadd Rowley family – “They finally arrived in Mexico in September 1891. For a time, Mary Ann’s family lived in their wagon on the lot in Colonia Diaz where Belinda & her children were housed. Then John built them a house on a 12 acre farm. As he had in Nephi, he added to the farm a rain mill and a molasses mill.”
Rowley Family History, p 167
NOTE: [John Rowley moved his wives down to Arizona and Mexico in groups. His 14 year old son, Jesse, helped drive the wagons on the long & dangerous trip.]
The Mexico Colonies
Haws & Rowley families went to the Colonies to avoid persecution.
“According to the plan laid down by Church authorities, the colonies were expanded to include four locations about 50 miles farther south in the Sierra Madre Mountains alone the border of Sonora State. John Rowley was among those called to go to Colonia Pacheco, to help build up the colony.
“ …Jesse Noah recalled that the evening before John & his wives left for Pacheco, John showed Jesse how to do some basic arithmetic so the boy could figure out how much flour & bran to give in return for the wheat he took into the mill. Jesse had never attended school.
“With the move to Pacheco, the families of John Rowley were spread throughout the colonies – Mary Ann in Diaz, Belinda in Dublan, & Ozella & Orissa in Pacheco. He built each family a home & built mills in both Diaz & Pacheco, enabling each family, by hard work, to be self sustaining."
“The mill in Pacheco is described as being on the point of a hill. John dammed a nearby creek, furnishing water to drive the big mill wheels.” He built a portable molasses mill that he took around the area & worked “on shares” earning part of the finished product.
John Rowley “a man who was always willing to sacrifice to support his children in events of importance to them. …Martha Ann remembers her father traveling 46 miles over rough mountain roads, in a horse-drawn wagon, to allow her to take part in a Primary Conference.
Rowley Family History, p 167
1891 May 10 Preston, Idaho Lamoreaux - David Crockett Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
1891 Nov Mexico Haws - William Wallace – WW made frequent trips hauling lumber in all kind of weather,
sleeping on the ground & etc. He had colds & headaches. On one of these trips in Nov, his eyes got infected badly, almost lost his sight, he suffered from it the rest of his life.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
1892
Date Place Event & Source
1892 June 24 Nephi, Utah Gadd - Eliza Chapman Gadd dies
Eliza Chapman Gadd “was set apart as a midwife. She was very capable and willing to do the work. She would take care of a delivery & care for the mother & baby during the time the mother was in bed for the small amount of $2 or if they did not have money, she would gladly take whatever they could give. On one occasion, …after her last call …the father [of the baby] said, ‘Well, Sis Gadd, I don’t know when I will ever be able to pay you for your services.’ [Eliza] turned to the table, on which was lying 2 eggs, picked one up & said, ‘I’ll take this egg for my breakfast & consider it paid.’ She brought a total of 2,00 babies into the world in 35 years…”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
1893
Date Place Event & Source
1893 Mar 5 Pacheco, Mexico Haws - Martha Barrett Haws received Patriarchal Blessing from
Henry Lunt
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1893 Mar 5 Pacheco, Mexico Haws - William W Haws received Patriarchal Blessing from
Henry Lunt
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1893 June 15 Hatch, (Asay Springs) Utah Asay - William Pedrick Asay & Arminda Alice Hendricks child James H Asay is born
Family Group Record
1893 Fall John Rowley contracted pneumonia “Jesse Noah believed that a chest injury
which John sustained while installing the windmill led to his early death. It was also felt that John’s efforts to improve the dam across the river at Pacheco had weakened him. He & his sons had worked in the cold water for hours placing logs in the dam.”
“…2 nights before his death, he sang his children to sleep. A month after he passed away, his last child was born. “ “…John was a great lover of Christmas. According to his children, he would see that Santa visited his families even if he had to sell a good horse or cow to raise the money. Martha Ann: …her father loved the sounds of children playing near him as he worked, & he encouraged them in their play.”
Rowley Family History
1893 Oct 7 Pacheco, Mexico John Rowley dies (52). [A month later his last child, Katie May, is born.]
“The premature death of their father & provider was to transfer the full burden of survival onto the shoulders of John’s capable wives & children.
Apostle Geo Teasdale spoke at his funeral.
John’s 6th wife, who did not move to Mexico, died the same day as John.
Rowley Family History
“Father [John Rowley] died in Pacheco & I was on my way out on the desert to cut wild hay when Mother sent for me to come & take her to the funeral. We drove all night & the next day at Juarez we got a fresh team from George Haws to go on up to the burial. When we were ready to return, Aunt Ozella gave me Father’s watch & his family record.”
“We traded the old rock house (the mill) for a house in town where Mother lived and raised chickens and made butter. When she got a few dozen eggs and some butter ready, she would walk to the store & trade them for other things she needed.”
“While Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] was living in Diaz, Aunt Ozella’s oldest daughter, Emma Sylvania, lived with her & went to school. This showed that there was peace & harmony in the families. Mother lived in peace in Diaz until the exodus from Mexico. Then she went to Blanding to lie in 1912.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
“In 1893, her husband (John Rowley) died leaving her (Mary Ann Gadd Rowley) with a large family to raise. The youngest was 5… Thru her hard work & faith in God, they were able to live & prosper. Although she was not set apart as a mid-wife, she brought many babies into this world. …Her own children seemed to think a baby couldn’t be born with out Mother Rowley.”
“The little town of [Colonia] Diaz grew & prospered. In a comfortable home, amid beautiful surroundings, she was happy with her children about her. …She worked as a Relief Society teacher. …always willing & on hand in sickness & trouble.
“In July 1912, she with the rest of the saints, was driven from their homes by Mexican bandits.
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
“Mary Ann, John’s 2nd wife, to whom he was married longest, 29 years…”
Rowley Family History
1893 Nov 9 Pacheco, C Mexico John Rowley & Orissa child, Katie May born 2 months after his death in
Family Group Record
1893 Dingle, Idaho Lydia (Crockett) & Archibald Lamoreaux living in southeast corner of
Idaho near the Utah & Wyoming border, next to Bear Lake. Dr Hoover
said Lydia must move to Calif or Ariz. Friends were in Ariz so they decided
to go south.
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1894
Date Place Event & Source
189?? WHERE? Jesse Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing some time in the 1890’s from S Claredge
Before 1894 Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1894 Mar 2 Colonia Diaz, Mexico Mary Ann Gadd Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing from Henry Lunt
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1894 Mar 2 Colonia Diaz, Mexico Jesse Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing from Henry Lunt
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1894 Apr 1 Dingle, Idaho Nora Estalle Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald * Lydia
Trek to Arizona
1894 Lydia & Archibald Lamoreaux moved their family to Arizona. Money was obtained for the trip
by selling the farm in Dingle for $2000. “Last minute preparations had taken longer than anticipated… 3 year old Dave had wondered off. …the start was delayed until the next day. …The proposed journey was a long one, through a little traveled and desolate region, and the group did not inspire confidence. Dad [Archibald O Lamoreaux] was 36 years old, but badly crippled. His feet were round stumps that rested on thick blocks of leather covered wood. He could move around only with the help of a crutch and a cane or by crawling on his knees. Mother [Lydia L Crockett] was 35, and so sick she was bedfast in one of the wagons much of the trip. Five children were in the party, …eldest was 14 years, …youngest an infant of three months. …Ray Delos, age 12, …nearly 1,000 miles of mountains, deserts and rivers to cross…” “Hyrum E Crockett, mother’s 22 year old brother, …planned to go along and become a school teacher in Arizona."
“…All the families earthly possessions were in two wagons, one a new Bain wagon, Because it had springs, a large double bed was placed inside the new wagon for the parents to use.
“Eleven horses were included in the little caravan, two of them saddle horses. There was a team on each wagon and the other horses trailed behind, herded usually by Orrell or Ray. To obtain food and protect themselves from Indians, animals, and outlaws, the family carried a .44 caliber carbine with an octagonal barrel, a muzzle loading 10 gage shotgun and a revolver.
“…a hand plow, shovels, hoes and pitchforks were among the items carried in the second wagon. Drinking water and grain for the horses added to the bulk. One saddle and six harnesses were also carried.
“Camp on the second day was about 40 miles from Dingle. That night several of the horses broke their hobbles and disappeared. The next day Dad set off in pursuit… he dispatched …a nephew …to bring the family back to regroup before starting again.
Nearly a month later they began again. “Dad found Uncle Hite …and convinced him that he should continue the journey with them. …Dad(Archibald) drove the lead wagon. …Uncle Hite followed with the second wagon some 100 – 200 yards behind to avoid the dust, while extra horses brought up the rear.”
“…the little company followed a course to the East roughly parallel to the Wasatch Mountains. …this plateau region which averages over 5,000’ in elevation, is almost devoid of signs of civilization. Utah Highway #3 [US 89?] …closely approximates the route taken by the family.
“One of their first camp sites was the town of Almy
“At Evenston they crossed the old Mormon Trail
“Dad (Archibald) led his party towards the majestic Uinta Mountains that blocked travel to the south. …highest mountains in Utah …only major mountain range in US with an east – west axis …five tallest peaks towered over 13,000’ …deep amphitheaters …alpine lakes …a wild and difficult place. South of the Uintas was a forested area where plateau summits rose from 9,000’ to 11,000’ high. …A guess is that he traveled south from Evanston and passed the Uintas on their eastern flank.
“Roads were few and poor, frequently nothing but wagon tracks, and easily lost in dust, sand or hard ground. …with out road signs it was impossible to tell which ones led to the next town and which ones wandered off to isolated ranches or mining claims. But by primitive navigation, watching the sun and studying the stars plus inquiring of people along the way…”
“After… the Uinta Mountains the family’s route was southwest to Vernal, Utah and then into the state of Colorado. Here their path again turned south, zigzagging back and forth near the Utah-Colorado border. Plodding along at one or two miles an hour… Hills, mountains, rivers and sandy washes slowed the troupe’s pace.
“Dad(Archibald) did not follow the usual route to Arizona. The shortest and most traveled route through Utah was via Logan, Farmington, …Provo, Nephi, …Panguitch. …Dad had reasons …1 More feed for the horses …2 Cooler weather 3 Safety. Dad(Archibald) wanted to avoid crossing the Colorado River. Stories of …Lee’s Ferry…
“The round-about trek …took them across …the Colorado Plateau …that covers parts of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. …there were other rivers to ford. They crossed the Uinta and Green Rivers in Utah, the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers in Colorado, the San Juan in New Mexico and in Arizona the Little Colorado, the black, the White and the Gila Rivers.
“The day to day routine consisted of breaking camp at sun up and traveling until sundown. …chores …gathering firewood as they rolled along. …to save time when they pitched camp …hobble the horses, feed them grain, and put bells on the lead horses. …build a fire …cooking …bacon, potatoes, mutton, bottled fruit and Dutch oven biscuits were the staples… Oftentimes fresh vegetables, corn, peas and string beans purchased from ranchers …fish & game …rabbit or prairie hen …an occasional wild turkey… Sunday was a day of rest.
…the boys wore clothing in keeping with Western frontier …cooper riveted pants …”Levi’s” and similar type jackets. Heavy flannel shirts, button shoes and black felt hats with narrow brims …Dad(Archibald) did not wear shoes, the stubs of his feet rested on squares of wood two inches thick, covered with leather and laced to his ankles. Mother was the epitome of feminine style in long gingham dresses that dragged the ground and she shaded her eyes with poke bonnets typical of that day.
“By 1894 the Indians had been moved to the reservations but they still presented problems. Renegade groups roamed the West, pilfering, robbing and making themselves disliked and distrusted by both white and red men. …The Uintas were friendly and on occasions Dad(Archibald) bought feed from them. …these Indians were fond of practical jokes. On one occasion they indicated they wanted seven year old Guy in exchange for some grain.
“…near Chimney Rock in northwestern New Mexico. The family awoke one morning and found all their horses gone…Orrell and Ray started out on foot … soon they found two of them, still hobbled, but in the custody of two Indians. The boys with the aid of a few pieces of chewing tobacco got these horses back and returned to camp. Dad & Uncle Hite rode off looking for the others and rounding them up, …all but one. The missing animal was a blooded bay mare about three years old and the best horse Dad(Archibald) owned. …a group of renegade Navajo Indians had driven the horses away during the night and, it was believed, still held the missing mare.
“Riding bare-back, alone and unarmed he went to the Indian village. There in the corral with the Indian ponies was his little bay mare. Dad (Archibald) said not a word but rode to the corral and without dismounting opened the makeshift gate and entered the corral. Approximately 15 armed Indians watched in sullen silence as he …looped a rope around her neck and led the little mare out of the corral …No one made a move to stop him.
“…The band of Indians was an outlaw group with little respect for law of property. Someone explained that it was the Indian’s superstitious fear of deformed persons that saved Dad from death or injury.
“As a rule the Indians were friendly …helped to break the monotony …Sometimes an Indian would entertain them for an hour or more. …Often times they stopped the caravan and asked for presents… usually …tobacco, coffee, flour or meat…” Dad(Archibald) had special tins that were always almost empty. This discouraged large losses. They were spectacular in bright colors If only a red or yellow rag tied around their head. They had beautiful blankets, “buckskin trousers and moccasins and were bare from the waist up …black hair, dark skin with a reddish cast and their faces often smeared with paint marks, …a primitive and strange look, a mixture of cunningness, defiance, boldness, and cruelty.
“Once while stopped, for a noon meal …Indians …quickly down the canyon in single file and headed straight for the family. …Riding into the camp they reigned in their horses and got off and proceeded to eat everything they could find that was edible. As soon as they finished eating they unceremoniously got on their horses and rode away.
Fear of Indians caused another person to join the troupe. One day near Shiprock, New Mexico a young man” Bob, 30 years old, asked Archibald if he could join the group through the reservation. He paid for his way by giving them a horse. He rode with them for about a month. They stopped to help a rancher put up his hay. Bob disappeared mysteriously outside of Holbrook. He volunteered to scout ahead & was never seen again. The sheriff and his deputies came to meet them and told them of a bank robber on the loose… he fit Bob’s description.
Other problems include an angry ram attacking Dave, water shortages, entertainment on the way, hunting game, illness, bad roads. Their path from Holbrook followed “US Highway 66, then south to Gallup, New Mexico nearly 100 miles away. …They followed the Little Colorado River to …Woodruff…” From here they had to descend into the Gila Valley. Mother, Lydia L C Lamoreaux’s, words… “we camped for a few days… advised to leave one wagon and …one or two of the horses strayed off… traveling with a bunch of men with freight wagons… from Black River on …the roads were just awful hills, and almost solid rock for miles.’ Through Woodruff, Snowflake, Showlow, through the largest yellow pine forest in US, to McNary & Fort Apache. From pines to cactus, over the Gila Mountains, near Mt Graham, to “the sandy river bottom of the Gila River covered with mistletoe infested cottonwood trees, thorny mesquite brush, thick growths of willows, …greenish yellow creosote bushes, …prickly pear cactus, cholla, sand & rock… a rather rough looking paradise.”
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
Date Event & Source Place
1894 July Archibald O. (Lamoreaux) ..age 37 was badly crippled and Lydia, age 36, so ill that much of the time she had to rest in a bed mounted on one of the wagons. …left Dingle, Idaho …5 children ranging in age from 14 to 3 months… …took 12 weeks to travel 1000 miles to east central Ariz.”
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1894 Aug 3 Pacheco, Mexico William Wallace Haws – “My wife, Martha, brought me 2 babies born at 3:00,
girls, Mary & Martha.
“William Wallace Haws,” by Chloe Haws Lunt
Chloe had been given the middle name of Martha, but when the twins were
born her father asked her if she would give the name to her new little sister
so the twins could be named after their mother and her twin.”
See history written by Chloe Haws Lunt
“Pacheco (Colonia Pacheco), Juarez Stake, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, is situated in the Corrales Basin in the heart of the Sierra Madres Mountains in the headwaters of the Rio Piedras Verdes, 35 miles south west of Colonia Juarez… The colonist of Pacheco raise corn, potatoes, alfalfa, fruits, cattle and hogs, and also manufacture a very fine grade of cheese. All three of the L.D.S. mountain settlements raise a very fine quality of vegetables. The lands surrounding Pacheco, are as a rule, fertile and productive, although in places quite rocky. The altitude of the settlement is about 7000 feet above sea level and only a small part of the land adjacent to the river is irrigated from that stream, while other lands are irrigated from small adjacent to the town-site. Dry farming is carried on successfully in the valley both above and below the settlement.
“Pacheco was first settled by L.D.S. colonists in the spring of 1887… The mountain slopes are covered with pine, oak, juniper, maple and other trees. …The Pacheco Ward was organized Feb 12, 1890… the settlement being named in honor of General Carlos Pacheco, who had used his influence in the interest of the saints… in the early days of Latter-day Saint colonization in Mexico.”
Encyclopedic History of the Church of LDS, Andrew Jenson, p 627
1894 Oct 20 Eden, Arizona Archibald. O. & Lydia Lamoreaux arrived in Eden, Ariz… Gila Valley
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
”On October 20, 1894 about sundown the little caravan reached Eden, [Arizona]…the home of Aunt Jane & Uncle Alvin Kempton …still ten miles short of their destination… the next morning [they] started for Thatcher.” [They had several aunts & uncles near.]
For $600 Archibald bought 40 acres in Matthewsville. Lydia was councilor in Mutual, sec for Relief Society. Archie was ward chorister. [Lamoreaux’ got our musical talent from Nancy M Orrell. She had a beautiful voice & much talent.]
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1895
Date Place Event & Source
1895 Feb 13 William W Haws – “went to the head of the ditch to plow – very disagreeable.”
Tho bad weather slowed the work it didn’t stop WW from working.
Diary of “William Wallace Haws,” edited by Chloe Haws Lunt
1895 Feb 14 William W Haws – “plowed all day. It was so cold that ice cikles hung to my beard all day.”
Diary of “William Wallace Haws,” edited by Chloe Haws Lunt
1895 Feb 21 William W Haws – Last entry in diary “Wallace’s birthday.” Because of exposure
to the elements, he contracted fever and chills which led to phenomena.
Diary of “William Wallace Haws,” edited by Chloe Haws Lunt
1895 Mar 6 Pacheco, Chi, Mexico William Wallace Haws dies leaving Martha B Haws a widow
with 7? Children, the youngest twin girls age 9 months
Family Group Record
1895 Aug 3 Pacheco, Chi, Mexico Haws – Twin girls, Mary & Martha born to William Wallace & Martha
Barrett Haws Family Group Record
1895 July 16 Thatcher, Utah William Pedrick Asay & Arminda Alice Hendricks
child Miltha Asay is born
Family Group Record
1895 Nov 6 Matthewsville, Arizona Muriel Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
Archive FG Sheet for Archibald & Lydia
“With the birth of Muriel, her eighth child, …great fear that death might snatch from them their mother (Lydia). For days her life hung on a thread… Malaria fever, …followed by dropsy of the heart which seemed incurable.
“Mother Lydia,” A Family History Page from AOL’s Book
1896
Date Place Event & Source
1896 Oct 19 Provo, Utah Phoebe Colburn Barrett received Patriarchal Blessing from John Smith
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1897
Date Place Event & Source
1897 Apr 3 Colonia Diaz, Mexico Rowley & Gadd - Jesse N Rowley writes: “…One time my brother
Samuel had typhoid fever. Charles Fillerup and I administered to him, &
Bro Fillerup promised him that he would walk again. The next day he did get up and walk,
then a few hours later, he died.” [3 Apr 1897]
“We traded the old rock house (the mill) for a house in town where Mother (Mary Ann G Rowley) lived and raised chickens and made butter. When she got a few dozen eggs and some butter ready, she would walk to the store & trade them for other things she needed.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
1897 Apr 26 Matthewsville, Arizona Douglas Byam Lamoreaux was born to Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1898
Date Place Event & Source
1898 March Annie N P Crockett, 2nd wife of Alvin, died, age 51.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
1898 Apr 20 Thatcher, Utah William Pedrick Asay dies
1899
Date Place Event & Source
1899 June 1 Mary S R Crockett died age 66 years 9 months.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
1900-01
Date Place Event & Source
1901 July 29 Duncan, Arizona Arminda Alice Hendricks married 2) James Alonzo McGrath
Family records
1901 Aug 13 Thatcher, Arizona Archie & Lydia Lamoreaux sold farm in Matthewsville, Moved to Thatcher
[see 1901 Aug 2] There were other moves, Hubbard, back to Thatcher, & Mesa
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1901 Aug 14 Matthewsville, Arizona Mary Vatis Lamoreaux was born to *Archie & *Lydia Lamoreaux
Lamoreaux, Harold, “A Trek to Arizona” 1959
1902
Date Place Event & Source
1902 July 9 Alvin Crockett died. He had 18 children.
Hopkins, Roxana Crockett, Biography of Alvin Crockett
Alvin “…awakened his daughter …his stomach pained him. …When she arose …she found her parent sitting in an arm chair, quite dead. …the features of the dead man were serene & peaceful.”
Logan Paper article as quoted by
Scott, Donna H, The Crockett Family of Maine
1902 Aug 4 Verden, New Mexico Arminda Alice Hendricks & James Alonzo McGrath child Richard born
Family records
1902 Oct 19? Alvin Crockett died Logan, Cache, Utah
Archive Sheet for Alvin & Mary Crockett
1903-1911
Date Place Event & Source
1903 Nov 17 David Burlock Lamoreaux received Patriarchal Blessing from Logan, Utah
L H Hatch
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1904 Apr 16 Colonia Diaz, Mexico Jesse N Rowley received Patriarchal Blessing from J A Little
Patriarchal Blessing, Original & Typed copy
1904 Oct 15 Verden, New Mexico Arminda Alice Hendricks & James Alonzo McGrath child Rose born
Family records
1907 Mar 29 Verden, New Mexico Arminda Alice Hendricks & James Alonzo McGrath child Alonzo born
Family records
1908 Feb 3 James William Hendricks dies Franklin, Arizona
Buried in Franklin Cemetery.
1909 Sept 21 Verden, New Mexico Arminda Alice Hendricks & James Alonzo McGrath child William bon
family records
1912
Mormon Colonies in Mexico Exile
“When the rebel War broke out between Madero and Diaz it was understood by both parties that our people would remain neutral and they were assured that they would not be disturbed. But when Huerta seized the reigns of government and Corranza took the field as leader, conditions became so violent that president Taft advised all Americans to leave Mexico. Still the Mormon Colonies hesitated, hoping the War would soon pass and peace return with out their having to abandon their homes. But it was not to be as the strife went on and robbing and plundering of our people became frequent by both parties, property rights were not respected and life was not secure. Conditions were becoming unbearable and it was possible resistance to unjust demands would be made and then a general massacre of the Mormon people would undoubtedly follow. To avoid that calamity, it was deemed best to sacrifice homes. On the 28th of July 1912 just as our Sabbath meeting a messenger arrives and gave Pacheco notice that the entire community must be ready to leave at seven o’clock the next morning.
“Then there was hurrying to and fro and sighs and tears and rustling of feet in kitchen and parlor, in yard and street. Wagons had to be coupled together and the beds put on. Every vehicle in town was brought into use. At last when all was done that could be done in the darkness of night, the worried, anxious community sank down for a few hours rest. Then we were awakened from our fitful slumbers by the rumbling of a storm that swept in furry over the mountains. All day the rain poured until every hollow was a river, and no more could be made. What the results of the day’s tarrying would be no one could tell. However, Monday night brought rest and when Tuesday morning bright and clear came, all accepted it as a good omen, and the pilgrimage started in a more cheerful mood.” “Twenty-two wagons were loaded up, all crowded full with aged and the young, but mostly with women and children, as many of the men were in the mountains looking after stock. Promptly at 7 AM the train moved with tearful eyes. About 300n persons bade adieu to their earthly all, the homes of comfort ant the graves of their loved ones. At Correllos, we were joined by another small company of refugees. Then commenced in earnest the hard days drive of 35 miles to Pearson. Nine miles out a Company of rebel Calvary dashed across the road, halted our train, demanded our guns and ammunition, upon a given solemn promise of protection their demands were complied with, and we were permitted to pass on and reach Pearson without further interruption, but too late for the train for El Paso.
“The inhabitants of Pearson had abandoned their homes and they were thrown open to us and [we] found a grateful shelter for the night. On Wednesday the 31st of July we were put on [train] Cars at Pearson. There were a limited number of cars and in order to take all of the refugees, the cars were packed to the uttermost limit of their varying capacity. About 10 AM the cars moved with their load of human freight, and at sunset reached Cuidad Juarez. It was dark when we passed the custom house and swept into EL Paso and here a wonderful reception greeted us. Automobiles, street cars, and citizens, vehicles were placed free at service. Everything was done that could be done to make us welcome we were soon transferred to the lumber camp two miles from El Paso, where we were served with a plentiful supper. True, we were crowded, for the multitude was great and in the throng the sick people and aged could not help but suffer, and several of our sisters were rushed to the hospital, the excitement and fatigue precipitating their confinement, but the kindly and skillful assistance given at the hospital to mothers and babies saved their lives. Soon after our camping in the lumber yard we had a heavy rain and the roads became a mud puddle making it very unpleasant for several days.”
“I feel thankful to the good citizens of El Paso for the aid and sympathy they gave us. And I feel thankful to our government and William H Taft, for the prompt appropriation of the very sufficient sum of $100,000 to be used in giving aid to the American refugees who were expelled from Mexico. Of these people about 4000 were Later-day Saints.”
“[We] were furnished with a railroad pass… There was sorrow mixed with joy when we parted with our friends and fellow sufferers, the Colonists. We went to Mexico for a common cause, and for 25 years we had toiled together and had become endeared to each other by the sacrifice we had made, and as a finishing touch to our experience, we had drunk together from a bitter cup of expulsion from our homes.”
“The Life Story of William Morley Black,”
Date Place Event & Source
1912 Rowley – Haws -Pancho Villa forces the Saints out of Mexico. The are exiled again. This time
back into the US. They live in tent cities in El Paso Texas. The Saints were furnished railroad
passes many went to stay with friends and families; many stayed to see if they would be
able to go back to their homes in Mexico.
28 July 1912 Pacheco, C, Mexico Rowley – Haws - “…just as our Sabbath meeting a messenger arrives and
gave Pacheco notice that the entire community must be ready to leave at seven o’clock
the next morning.”
“The Life Story of William Morley Black,”
1912 July 28 Rebels – Pres Romney gives orders for exodus. [Source? On back of map MFHC 1990’s]
NOTE: [Martha Barrett Haws and several of her children, including her 16 year old twins, Mary & Martha, were among this group of Saints. They eventually went back to SLC to stay with a sister(?) Where she died a few years later from a brain tumor.]
1912. Blanding, Utah Gadd & Rowley - “ Mother [Mary Ann Gadd Rowley] … lived in peace in Diaz
until the exodus from Mexico. Then she went to Blanding to live in 1912.”
“The Life Story of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by son Jesse N Rowley
“In July 1912, she with the rest of the saints, was driven from their homes by Mexican bandits. Mary Ann, in company with some of her children, returned to Utah.
“She lived in Provo for a few years & then went to Blanding, San Juan, Utah. …In May 1924, she returned to Provo to visit some of her children. Here, her health failed her & at age 76, she died of cancer of the liver…”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
Epilog – Death of the Pioneers
[Many died along the way;]
Date Event & Source Place
184? William Rowley in England before they could emigrate, leaving Ann Jewell Rowley
with 7 children to bring to Utah by her self on the Willey Hand Cart Co
1856 Samuel Gadd died in Wyoming part of the Willey Hand Cart Co
1877 Mar 2 Provo, Utah Gilbreth Haws – When Hannah (Whitcomb Haws) was 71, her husband Gilbreth Haws
died. He is buried in the Provo Pioneer City Cemetery.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1880 Aug 21 Hannah Whitcomb Haws died …in Provo …age 74
She is buried in the Provo Pioneer City Cemetery.
“Hannah Whitcomb Haws,” compiled by Lillian Haws Scott, Feb 1995
1893 Oct 7 John Rowley in exile in Mexico. John & his 7 wives had 32 children. Mexico
1895 Mar William Wallace Haws in exile in Mexico.
Alvin Crockett, quietly in his sleep at home in Utah.
Ann Rowley
1892 June 24 Eliza Chapman Gadd dies Nephi, Utah
1908 Feb 3 James William Hendricks dies Franklin, Arizona
Buried in Franklin Cemetery.
1924 Nov 18 Mary Ann Gadd Rowley dies Provo, Utah
Family Group record
. …In May 1924, she returned to Provo to visit some of her children. Here, her health failed her & at age 76, she died of cancer of the liver…”
“History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley,” by Mary Luella Rowley Laws
“Mary Ann Gadd Rowley widow of John Rowley formerly of Nephi died Tues at the home of her son James Rowley. Born in Cambridgeeshire Eng …came to Utah on the ill-fated handcart Co of 1856 …although only 8(?) years old …walked the entire distance across the plains. Funeral services …4th Ward chapel …interment will be in the Provo city cemetery.”
Obituary, “Desert News, 20 Nov 1924, p 4
[Mary Ann Gadd Rowley, born in England, crossed the plains in the Willie Handcart Co. Left Utah when persecution over Polygamy became too great. At age 40, drove her own wagon to Arizona & on to Mexico, with children ages; 0,2,7,9,12,14,16 & others, adults. Then, as a widow, having to leave Mexico during ‘The Exile”. She outlived 5 of her children.]
1927 Mar 21 Lucy Susan Stinson Hendricks dies Franklin, Arizona
Buried in Franklin Cemetery.
1928 Dec 26 Arcuibald.O. &Lydia moved to Mesa, Ariz. Mesa, Arizona
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1930 May 30 Lydia L Crockett Lamoreaux died Phoenix, Ariz.
Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1941 Aug 12 Long Beach, Archibald.O. Lamoreaux Died
Calif. Scott, Donna Hopkins, The Crockett Family of Maine
1975 May 25 Flora Home, Florida Arminda Alice Hendricks Asay [McGrath] dies at almost 105 years old
Born Aug 2 1870. Crossed the plains from Kentucky to Arizona with her family at a teenager to be near the Saints. Crossed back to Florida to be near her child.
family records
[See other timelines under family name headings for more details on each line.]
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
[Not complete: see individual entries and other timelines for more details.]
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Gibbons.
Asay, Flossie W., The Descendants of Joseph and Sarah Ann Asay, [before 1965] Mabel & Sybil had copies of this
book. Mabel Asay Lamoreaux was one of the contributors to it’s research.
Some sources listed here are:
Deseret News: several dates
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report from St Thomas, Muddy to Deseret News May 1869:
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Baugh, A, Church History Seminar, June 1997
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to 1912,” As found among Martha Haws Rowley’s keepsakes, Talks of Colonial Life
“Biography of Barbara Belinda Mills Haws” I received from her grand daughter, Yeteve Pace, abt 1995
Bullock, Thomas (1846), "Journal History"
"The Burlington Hawkeye", Nov 20, 1945, a visitor to Nauvoo
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Carter, Katie B, Heart Throbs of the West, DUP
Census, 1840 = Springfield, Sangamon, Ill found by Isabelle Cluff at & –24 July 2003
Christensen, Clare B, Before & After Mt. Pisgah, Salt Lake City, 1979, [I have several pages copied.]
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, Early Church Record Index
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House Records, SLC Film #__________-
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Latter Day Saints”, 1996
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Church News, 1979, Roberts, B H, Comp Hist of the Church v6 p339,
The Deseret News, 17 June 1939
Dewey, Lynell, a letter, Nauvoo Restoration Inc, Rich, Charles C, quoted
"Diary of Reddick N Allred", Dau of Utah Pioneers v5 p 302 (Feb 1956)
"The Diary of James Leithead*, I have a copy of this.
Deeds
Doc. History of the Church, vol 6: 21 The "Nauvoo Expositor"440, 3
Elliott, Edith Smith, & Card, Maud Lamoreaux, Letters to Lois L Tanner,
Ensign Magazine, Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, July 1997, p 40, William G Hartley, “On the Trail in Sept.”
Ensign Magazine, Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, July 1997, p 40-53, Bennett, Richard E., “Winter Quarters”
Ensign Magazine, Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, July 1997, p 32-53
Ensign Magazine, Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, July 1991, p 6-15, Sonne, Conway, “Under Sail to Zion” ,
Erdman, Kimball, found in Nauvoo - Gateway to the West
Erdman, Kimball, Records of
Family Records, Family Group Records
Film #007794A
Gilbreth Haws Gazette, Jan 1997, p7
Hartley, William G, ”On the Trail in September,” Ensign Magazine, Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, July 1997, p 40
Hilton, Ruth Savage, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958, taken from journal of Jane Mathers (Savage)
History of the Church v 7 p 578, quoted in "Church News" 1979, Brigham Young
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Journal History of the Church, 17 Dec 1940, organized by date.
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Kirk, Mabel Gadd, “History of Samuel Gadd,” by a granddaughter
Kirk, Mabel Gadd, “History of Eliza Chapman Gadd,” by a granddaughter
Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans, History of D B Lamoreaux, handwritten copy, See Isabelle's notes.
Laws, Mary Luella Rowley, “History of Mary Ann Gadd Rowley” by daughter
Lewis, Wayne J, Mormon Land Ownership in Missouri ... 1831-1841, 1981 (A Thesis)
Maps of Nauvoo
McGavin, E Cecil, The Mormon Pioneers
Missionary Records, Film #250,236
"Nauvoo Baptism for Dead", Film #183,376 p 102, 117
Nauvoo - Gateway to the West p 76-77, Kimball Erdman found in
Nauvoo Restoration Inc, Rich, Charles C, quoted in a letter from Lynell Dewey,
Nauvoo Sealing Book A p401, Film #2850 p409
Nauvoo Tax Assessor 1840 &1842, p205, Film #007706, MFHC
Nauvoo Temple Baptism Rec. Film #
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Nibley, P, Exodus to Greatness, 1949
"Official minutes of the Nauvoo Lodge"
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Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Rich, Charles C, quoted in a letter from Lynell Dewey, Nauvoo Restoration Inc.
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Savage, Jane Mathers, journal of, Ruth Savage Hilton, Our Grand-Mother Jane 1958
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"Short History of Andrew Lamoreaux
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"Times & Seasons" v 2 #9 339, 11
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Young, Brigham, (quoted in), History of the Church v 7 p 578, "Church News" 1979
My notes are in [Brackets]. akrc
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