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We are glad to share and exchange information with you.Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-31636249275183316552012-01-23T18:17:00.000-08:002012-01-23T19:09:30.960-08:00Samuel Gully<!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> 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classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Samuel S. Gully</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Birth: May 27, 1809 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, USA, Son of Robert Gully and Martha</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Death: Jul. 4, 1849 Crossing Plains, Nebraska, USA<span style="mso-no-proof:yes"><img src="file:///C:/Users/wrwlcw/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" alt="http://www.findagrave.com/icons2/trans.gif" height="13" width="3" /></span><br />Married:<br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">#1)</b> Jane Jones Frilick (22 Jun 1801New Bern, Craven, NC-19 Mar 1881 Clover Valley, Lincoln, NV), 9 Oct 1833 Johnston, NC</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:13.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -13.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>173.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>9 Oct 1833-<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Marriage Contract between Samuel Gully & Jane Frilick of JoCo for divers good causes, both parties thereunto moving, but being mindful of Est. & prop. Of Jane Frilick... in consideration of sum $1, pd. By Daniel Boon, sell negroes Laner & her 2 ch. Candis & Lizzy... also a bond by her brother James Frilick for the sum of $2,750.... Wit: C Christopher <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Signed Jane Frilick, Saml Gully, Daniel Boon Nov. Ct 1833</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">- Harriet Jane Gully 30 Apr 1840 Lawrence, MS – 1888 San Bernardino, SB, CA</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">* The fourth wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They married on August 2, 1859 in Salt Lake City. Harriet came to Utah, at the age of 9, with her father, <b>Samuel Gully</b>. The company was the Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849). They reportedly<a name="_ftnref14"></a> traveled in a group of 7 people:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">1<b>. Samuel Gully</b>, 40 years old, born 27 May, 1809.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">2. <b>Jane Jones Frilick Gully</b>, born on May 22, 1794.<a name="_ftnref15"></a> She died before April 13, 1881. She was probably Samuel’s first wife.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">3. <b>Martha Gully</b>, 13 years old, born April 1836, died 15 December 1851. Martha is Harriet's sister. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">4. <b>Ovanda Fuller Gully</b>, born 27 July, 1822, died 24 December 1856. This is a plural wife of Samuel Gully. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">5. <b>Samuel Gully</b>, infant, born 1849. This is the son of Samuel Gully and Ovanda Fuller Gully.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">6. <b>Harriet Gully</b>, 9 years old.<a name="_ftnref16"></a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">7. <b>Unknown</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Note that there is a reference in the Brigham Young Company in 1848 to a Sarah Ann Fuller Gully<a name="_ftnref17"></a>, which says: “Her husband Samuel Gully remained in Winter Quarters and died en route to Utah in 1849”.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">#2)</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> Ovanda Fuller(27 Jul 1822 Providence, Saratoga, NY-24 Dec 1856), 27 Jan 1846, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska</span></p> <h2 style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style=" font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:9.0pt;" >- Henrietta Gully 4 Mar 1845 Nauvoo, Hancock, Il – 29 Aug 1847 (died of consumption) Winter Quarters/Florence, Douglas, Ne #215 Mormon Pioneer Winter Quarters Cemetery</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style=" font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:9.0pt;" > </span></h2> <h2 style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:0in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">#3)</span><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:9.0pt;" > Hannah Elizabeth Fuller(24 Feb 1827Nauvoo, Hancock, Il-10 Aug 1847 Plains, Nebraska), 9 Jan 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">#4)</span><span style=" font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:9.0pt;" > Sarah (Sally) Ann Fuller(24 Oct 1815Saratoga Co, NY-15 Mar 1897 St George, UT), 29 Jan 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska<br /></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"><br />http://www.josephsmithspolygamy.com/JSWives/GeorgeDSmith-ToddCompton/ToddComptonsEightPossibleWives.html</span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></h2> <h2 style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style=" font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-size:9.0pt;" >4. MRS. G*****: </span></h2> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style=" Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" >● John C. Bennett, <em>The History of the Saints</em>, Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1842, 256.</span><a href="http://www.josephsmithspolygamy.com/JSWives/GeorgeDSmith-ToddCompton/ToddComptonsEightPossibleWives.html#_ftn5"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" >[5]</span></a><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><a href="http://www.josephsmithspolygamy.com/JSWives/GeorgeDSmith-ToddCompton/ToddComptonsEightPossibleWives.html#_ftnref5"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">[5]</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> Fawn Brodie asserts that Mrs. G***** was a woman named Sally Ann Fuller Gulley.[5] Research shows that Sally Ann Fuller did not marry Samuel Gully (not “Gulley”) until January 29, 1847 in Winter Quarters. (Thomas Milton Tinney, The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. Salt Lake City: Tinney-Greene Family Organization, 1973, 114.) Gully died in 1849 and Sally Ann went on to marry Elijah Knapp Fuller on September 8, 1850. Hence, John C. Bennett would not have known Sally Ann Fuller as Mrs. G***** during his stay in Nauvoo. (Fawn Brodie, <em>No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet</em>, 2nd rev. ed. New York, 1971, 469.) Brodie writes that “the Nauvoo Temple Record states that on January 29, 1846 [Sally Ann Fuller] was sealed to Joseph Smith Jr., “for eternity” and to [Samuel] Gulley [not Gully] “for time.” In fact, the Nauvoo temple record contains no such entry. See Lisle Brown, <em>Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: a Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841-1846</em>, Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2006, 120, 379.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Benjamin Freeman Bird, Son and Father of Pioneers by Julie Cannon Markham</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Late in the fall of 1840, Charles left his family in Nauvoo and served a short mission to North Carolina where he converted several people. Charles was known as a “fluent speaker, with a very likeable disposition and a strong testimony.” It is probable that Samuel Gully and his wife Jane were converted at this time. They arrived in Nauvoo in 1840 from North Carolina with a young son and daughter and an infant who had been born during their trip to Illinois.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Daniel Tyler “Incidents of Experience”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Chapter 4</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Mississippi 1841-1842</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">I now had to go out in my district and fill appointments which I had made; but when I returned at the end of two weeks, I learned that Mr. Knight had walked nearly half a mile and had been baptized. A goodly number of others had also been baptized, and we organized a branch of the Church with Samuel L. Gully (known as Lieutenant Gully, in the history of the Mormon Battalion), as presiding elder. All apostatized shortly afterwards excepting Elder Gully and a few others who had believed and were anxious to get baptized before this remarkable case of healing occurred, thus proving the truth of the revelation which says, "Those who seek signs shall have signs, but not unto salvation." Even the man who received this manifestation of God's power went back to the beggarly elements of the world, although he still bore testimony to the fact that he was healed, but said he "did not know whether Joseph Smith was a true prophet or an impostor."</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Samuel Gully was the owner of a Nauvoo store that also served as a meeting house, located on the corner of Parley and Hyde streets (E.C.I.F.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Interestingly, Jane Gully was listed as one of the few female craftsmen, working on the temple until its completion. Entries for</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Jane Gully showed she worked in February, March, April and May of 1846. Her work must have been critical, as most of the members of the Church had left Nauvoo by then.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDMfgjC2dpc1KIYcEXNlwYGmRvew_7NkDdwZ5Xf2tEDnDam_dsRdCHrGsFt16L-Z7ODomuERZnXfgawYtAEkYAwk8sGmONCWNcFo_E_htU4QKsfFVvKZpHlA7mrQi9H-DWawjHGgezjNb/s1600/mormon+battalian+pin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 121px; height: 121px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDMfgjC2dpc1KIYcEXNlwYGmRvew_7NkDdwZ5Xf2tEDnDam_dsRdCHrGsFt16L-Z7ODomuERZnXfgawYtAEkYAwk8sGmONCWNcFo_E_htU4QKsfFVvKZpHlA7mrQi9H-DWawjHGgezjNb/s400/mormon+battalian+pin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701023306186176754" border="0" /></a><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1AczEs9orQdeT7qyg9nSIt0fVO40CFOtBu9DG23SvNcUg5uRAcnE8qsknERAvrykcZ-F0V1Thk7S0Htj5W3OZGomLU7GYhKO4zDyANlt-ImEmF8Z3tnWTRx5wmzHXG_fHor6DKjU-E57h/s1600/mormon+battalian+map.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1AczEs9orQdeT7qyg9nSIt0fVO40CFOtBu9DG23SvNcUg5uRAcnE8qsknERAvrykcZ-F0V1Thk7S0Htj5W3OZGomLU7GYhKO4zDyANlt-ImEmF8Z3tnWTRx5wmzHXG_fHor6DKjU-E57h/s400/mormon+battalian+map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701023305528638898" border="0" /></a><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Despite Brigham Young’s support of the battalion, many of the members of the Church were suspicious, feeling that the federal government had not been sympathetic to their plight over the previous decade. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">SAMUEL GULLY is listed as Second Lieutenant. (Tyler’s list, SAMUEL L. GULLY, Third Lieutenant) Resignation accepted October 19, 1846, at Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Is also listed as 3<sup>rd</sup> Lieutenant under Davis; The Historical Record Volumes 7-9 by Andrew Jensen). </span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Samuel and his wife Jane and plural wife, Ovanda Fuller, had earlier received their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple, and their family would later intertwine with the Bird family.</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:10.0pt;" > </span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >In a puzzle I have not been able to figure out, Jane was not sealed to Samuel in the Nauvoo Temple, although</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Samuel was married and sealed to Ovanda. Not only is there no record of this sealing in existing Nauvoo Temple records, but Jane was later sealed to Benjamin Freeman Bird in 1852, an ordinance that likely would not have been performed if she had been sealed to Samuel.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84Riv8W-Yq7KRwQ26Q4TIt3baPeWovkrJLTwuDPCT0NhjeKbU-KOiydu_3U5N48zcdFHKIa4SvMg7pQ9-FOtwjkHSdkFrHXToE0M_W8tIQsQDtqbR9ubde_xQhQ56whux6T6fJu8jaiEb/s1600/summer+quarters.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84Riv8W-Yq7KRwQ26Q4TIt3baPeWovkrJLTwuDPCT0NhjeKbU-KOiydu_3U5N48zcdFHKIa4SvMg7pQ9-FOtwjkHSdkFrHXToE0M_W8tIQsQDtqbR9ubde_xQhQ56whux6T6fJu8jaiEb/s400/summer+quarters.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701023304556313234" border="0" /></a><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >On August 6, 1846 </span><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Samuel Gully was appointed as Assistant Quartermaster because there had been complaints about Quartermaster Sebert Shelton. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Saturday, August 22, 1846</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p> <h2 style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Fort Leavenworth</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >, Kansas</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >:</span></h2> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >James Pace and Samuel Gully arrived back at Fort Leavenworth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Colonel James Allen, the commanding officer of the Mormon Battalion, who was very sick, asked to meet with Quartermaster Samuel Gully in the afternoon about some private business.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>James Pace was assigned to watch over Colonel Allen while he sleeping.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Towards the evening, Colonel Allen was moved to his old quarters.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>James Pace and Samuel Gully went along.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The weather became cooler and Colonel Allen took a turn for the worse.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He could not speak.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>His niece attended to him during the night while Brothers Pace and Gully sat up with him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At one point Colonel Allen called Samuel Gully by name.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Those were the last words that Colonel Allen would speak.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >August 22, t</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >he battalion soon learned that Colonel Allen, who had remained at the fort because of illness, had died. Samuel Gully, promoted to lieutenant in the battalion, had remained at Fort Leavenworth with him and was at his side when he passed away. August 23, i</span><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >n the morning, at 6 a.m., Lieutenant Colonel James Allen, the commanding officer of the Mormon Battalion, died at Fort Leavenworth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Immediately, men in the army started to jockey for position to take over the command of the battalion.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Smith and Doctor George B. Sanderson were pushing Quartermaster Samuel Gully to leave, to rejoin the battalion.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Brother Gully resisted this request, stating that he was not under their command and he would not leave until he was ready.</span><span style=" font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >It appears from reading these journal entries that internal politics played a part in Samuel Gully’s removal as the company quartermaster. Being offended at this,</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:10.0pt;" > </span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >he resigned his commission.</span><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" > <span lang="EN-GB">On hearing of these orders, Lt. Smith and Dr. Sanderson changed their tunes and “in very smooth language, and with much sophistry” asked James Pace to take a letter from each of them to Brigham Young.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>James Pace also took a letter from Samuel Gully.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Prsdt B Young</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">My dear Sir</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">It becomes my painfull duty to announce to you the death of Lt. Col. Allen; he died <s>just</s> at 6 oclock this morning, with congestive fever, as the doctors say. He was sick eight days. This Sir is to us a very great loss in our present situation, as he was a good friend to us, as well as to our people.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">We are here alone, and on one to counsel with. Whose hands we are to fall in, is yet to us unknown. Our men having left this post, makes it our right to make our own officers, but as to its policy for us to so, is to me doubtfull, until we get to Genl. Kearney.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">I sat up with him [Col. Allen] last night and in the night he requested me to lift him & called me by name, and that was the last word he ever spoke.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Samuel Gully</span></i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >President Young wrote a letter in reply to Brother Samuel Gully.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This letter was full of warmth and encouragement.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He explained clearly the view of the brethren about the succession of command issue.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Colonel Allen had said “that if he fell in battle, or was sick, or disabled by any means, the command would devolve on the ranking officer, which would be the Capt of Company A, and B, and so one, according to letter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Consequently the command must devolve on Captain Jefferson Hunt, whose duty we suppose to be to take the Battalion to Bent’s Fort, or wherever he has received marching order for, and there wait further orders from General Kearney.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Unfortunately, this letter would not reach Brother Gully in time.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Wednesday, August 26, 1846</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p> <h2 style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Mormon Battalion in Kansas:</span></h2> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >The battalion broke camp at 7 a.m. and marched over hills covered with beds of limestone.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>John Steele wrote:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“The eye can wander for miles upon the vast extent of country uninhabited, save by the red man of the western wilds.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >While crossing Bluff Creek, one of Company C’s wagons, carrying a number of sick and women, tipped over.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The water was several feet deep and the banks were high.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Rescuers quickly jumped into the creek and pulled the passengers from the water.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Some were struggling to get their heads above the water.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Luckily, no one ended up hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Daniel Tyler helped to turn the wagon right side up and later caught a severe cold which he blamed on the incident.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The soldiers continued their march and camped along Little John Creek after a journey of about thirteen miles.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >At 5 p.m., Quartermaster Samuel Gully arrived from Fort Leavenworth with the sad, shocking news regarding the death of their leader, Colonel James Allen.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>His loss was deeply felt by all the members of the battalion.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>William Hyde wrote:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“This information struck a damper to our feelings as we considered him a worthy man, and from the kind treatment which the battalion had received from him, we had begun to look upon him as our friend.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Colonel Allen had “listened to the testimony of the servants of God, and had heard them bear record to the truth of the great work in which we were engaged, and from his appearance, his feelings were enlisted in our favor.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >William Coray commented, “Suffice it to say, that it caused more lamentation from us than the loss of a Gentile ever did before. . . . Capt.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>J. Allen was a good man, he stood up for our rights better than many of our brethren . . . was kind to the families journeying with us, fed private teams at public expense . . . In short, he was an exception among officers of the U.S. army.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .2in .4in .5in .6in .8in 1.0in 1.2in 1.4in 1.5in 1.6in 1.8in 2.0in 2.2in 2.4in 2.5in 2.6in 2.8in"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >The question naturally arose in the minds of the soldiers:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Who should now lead the battalion?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Some of the men did not feel that Captain Jefferson Hunt should assume command.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They wanted a man with more military experience.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>As William Hyde put it, they “were left in very peculiar circumstances.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Adjutant George P. Dykes was of the opinion that since they were enlisted by a U.S. officer, the right of command belonged to an officer of the regular army.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Captain Jesse Hunter and Adjutant Dykes were instructed to examine the law on the subject and to report back to the officers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Lieut. Samuel L. Gully of Company E was a great friend to the men of the Battalion. He had taken a stand against the non-Mormon officers who were ill-treating the men. When two of the men, John D. Lee and Howard Egan started for Council Bluffs with the checks of the Battalion, it was thought an opportune time for Lieut. Gully to resign and return to his family. Accompanying these men and Roswell Stevens, he left to join his family. The next year he started for Salt Lake City, but died on the plains.</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >May 4, 1847</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> A meeting was held in the evening at John D. Lee's house. </span><span style=" font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" ><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Samuel Gully was appointed as the Summer Quarters clerk. May 20, Several men went on a fishing expedition. They included Brother Burgess, Allen Stout, J. Anderson, J. Woolsey, Joseph Busby and Samuel Gully. They had "moderate" success. David Young found signs that a Sioux Indian had stolen one of John D. Lee's horses. </span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >June 18, 1847 </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">John D. Lee was asked to go quickly to Samuel Gully to administer to him. Brother Gully was cramped up and nearly dying. He soon recovered after the blessing. Others in Summer Quarters had a similar illness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="bold"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Heritage Gateways</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Summer Quarters, Nebraska 5-4-1847:</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"><br />A meeting was held in the evening at John D. Lee's house. Several resolutions were adopted. M.M. Sanders was to herd all of the cattle for $1.50 per day, payment in crops in the fall. All the sheep were to be penned up at night. A bridge was to be built over Mire Creek on Saturday for the cattle to pass over. Samuel Gully was appointed as the Summmer Quarters clerk. A gun fired three times was to be an alarm of distress.</span></p> <p><span class="bold"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" >Summer Quarters, Nebraska 5-20-1847:</span></span><span style=" Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" ><br />Several men went on a fishing expedition. They included Brother Burgess, Allen Stout, J. Anderson, J. Woolsey, Joseph Busby and Samuel Gully. They had "moderate" success. David Young found signs that a Sioux Indian had stolen one of John D. Lee's horses.</span><span style="Times New Roman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p> <p><span style="Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >6-27-1847 - Crockett</span><span class="bold1"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></span><span class="bold1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">- </span></span><span class="bold1"><span style="Times New Roman","serif";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:boldfont-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" >Summer Quarters, Nebraska:</span></span><b><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" ><br /></span></b><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" >A Sabbath meeting was held at John D. Lee's house. Isaac Morley, visiting from Winter Quarters, addressed the settlement on the subject of sel government. He was followed by talks from John D. Lee and Samuel Gully, and F.W. Cox. After the meeting was closed, several children were brought forth to be blessed. Isaac Morely gave instructions regarding the ordinance of blessing children. All the names, ages, and birthplaces were carefully recorded. Afterward, a rich dinner festival was given by the Lees.</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >About noon, October 19<sup>th</sup>, we took leave of John D. Lee and Howard Egan, who started with our checks for Council Bluffs, being accompanied by Lieutenant Samuel L. Gulley, ex-quartermaster of the Battalion, and Roswell Stevens.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >The stand Lieutenant Gully took against Lieutenants Smith and Dykes and Dr. Sanderson, at Fort Leavenworth, and subsequently had created such a prejudice among the non-Mormon officers that it was thought best for him to resign and return home. He had however established his character as a brave, noble-minded and undeviating friend to the Battalion, in whose memory the very name of Samuel L. Gully is associated with all the noble characteristics that grace a model officer. He would have sacrificed his life rather than be untrue to his friends. With a hearty shake of the hand and “God bless you, Brother Gully, and give you a safe journey to the bosom of your family and the church,” we bade him adieu and never saw him after. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Samuel Gully, John D. Lee and Howard Egan arrived back in Council Bluffs on November 20th, 1847. There Samuel was reunited with his two wives. Samuel had married Margaret thirteen years previously in North Carolina before missionaries found them. They had a son and two daughters. An 1842 census taken in Nauvoo lists Samuel and Jane Gully, and their three children, James, Martha and Harriet, all under eight. Just before the saints were driven from Nauvoo, Samuel had taken a plural wife, twenty-three year old Ovanda Fuller, who was from a large family of New York converts. Within two months of Samuel’s return from the battalion, he married Ovanda’s older sister Sarah, who at the age of thirty-two was considered a spinster.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >In March, families from Mt. Pisgah and other Iowa way-stations began arriving in Winter Quarters in preparation to launch their trek from the Elkhorn River, just west of the Missouri, as soon as enough grass for their cattle had sprouted. About this time President Young realized that he could not get the families of the battalion members west and properly care for them once in the</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >valley, since there were no provisions there and the families were too poor to take their own provisions. He made the decision to keep these families in Winter Quarters until the Great Basin was settled. Samuel Gully and other men were asked by President Young to remain behind with John D. Lee and oversee the community farm in Winter Quarters.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Samuel Gully’s wife Sarah Ann gave birth to a son in the spring of 1848, but the baby only lived a few weeks. Her sister Ovanda gave birth to a son a year later. Jane Gully’s ten-year-old son died about this time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Ten companies left Winter Quarters for the Salt Lake Valley in the summer of 1849. Forty-year old Samuel Gully captained the first company of over a hundred wagons and three hundred people. Traveling with the company were thirty pigs, sixty-two chickens, almost five hundred oxen, fifty cats and dogs, three hundred cows, thirty horses, one hundred sheep, various fowl, and one hive with one hundred and two bees. Samuel left Winter Quarters ahead of two large companies led by apostles Ezra T. Benson and George A. Smith, which traveled together. Upon reaching the Platte River towards the end of June, Samuel wrote these two men a letter and placed it in what he thought would be an obvious spot so they would know how far ahead he was.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Natives intercepted the letter, unaware of its contents, but they did get the letter into proper hands and it made its way to Salt Lake Valley the next year. Samuel wrote that the company was in “tolerable health,” although he mentioned that one man had died from cholera, a severe disease spread by contaminated food or water. He added, “I was taken quite sick by former exposure, and cold taken and settled over my system, in consequence of a hurt that I received at the Horn.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Another member of the company wrote that earlier while ferrying the wagons over a branch of the Elkhorn River, their raft began sinking. Captain Gully was assisting others in unloading cotton when the bail fell on him, pinning him between the timbers of the raft. After receiving a Priesthood blessing, he seemed to quickly recover from his injury.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Presdt. B. Young </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Dear Sir </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Allow me to introduce to your acquaintance Genl. G Blodget the bearer of this. Genl. G. accidentally fell into our company at the Mo. River and has traveled with us to this point. he now leaves us with his pack animals & leaves 4 wagons & Teams with the remainder of his Men, all in my charge. Genl. G has offered many friendly favors while we have been on the road and has acted the part of a Gentleman; any favors rendered him by yourself will [be] duly reciprocated by your friend. </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">I am sorry to inform you of the choleras being in our company. We have had several cases and lost 3 men of our company[.] Bro. Nelson Mc[C]Arty died at the Loup fork, Ambrose Kellogg at Prarie Creek, a Mr. [Moses] Hale on the Platt[e] 7 miles from this point. My desire is that we may no longer be troubled with this sad disease. Since we left Winter Quarters which was the morning of the 7<sup>th</sup> June the Horn on the 11<sup>th</sup> the rains have been so continued that it has prevented us from moving faster than we have and now we have had two nights of as heavy rains as I most ever saw, the Grass is Good, but the Roads most Horrid </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Messrs [James A] Livingston & [Charles A] Kinkead is now with us, with the Goods mentioned in my former letter, and they wish me to renew the wish for you to have them a House ready for them to put there Goods in when they arrive. They are extremely anxious to return to St Louis this fall in order that they make an early start the next spring with at least one Hundred thousand Dollars worth of Goods. The season is now so far advanced that they fear if they have to go through to the Vally & then have to retail them out, it will be too late for them to return and they are therefore willing to sell them sooner if possible and say if you or any other person will meet them this side of the South Pass they would sell them for much less than they would in the Vally say at least five thousand Dollars. They have with them near $30,000 at St Louis cost consisting of a Genl. Stock of Dry Goods, a very heavy stock of Hardware for building purposes, with Groceries &c &c </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Bro. Orson Spencer is now in our company and from the best I can learn has money with him sufficient to pay near half the amount. They will take Gold Dust at a Good rate </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">SAMU[E]L GULLY<br />Pr WM. HYDE</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">July 5<sup>th</sup> 1849 </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">President Brigham Young </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Sir </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Capt Gully after writing the above left it uncealed with a view, if possible of obtaining, news from Ft. Childs which might be of interest to you, but on yesterday the 4<sup>th</sup> he was taken with the Cholera, and died this morning, the 5<sup>th</sup> <u>inst</u> at 5 O.c[.] on which account I have signed his name above and forward to you this sheet. The Camp is now in tolerable health. We now expect to start on our Journey in the morning, have laid here two days </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Yours with respect<br />Wm Hyde</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >After crossing the river, which took six hours, he added to the letter, mentioning that one of his wives suffered a severe attack of cholera the previous night, but that she was well again. He promised to leave another note further along the trail and signed the letter, “Most respectfully, Your friend and servant, Sam’l Gully.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic;font-size:9.0pt;" >The following note was found on a grave by a later passing Company of Saints.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">27 Jun 1849 Mrs.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">Gully had quite a severe attack last night but I took it in time, and she is well again. We are now all safe on the South side of the Loup, no accident occurred as we crossed all in about six hours, (quick time.) When you reach the main Platte you will find another note from me.<br />Most respectfully,<br />Your friend and serv't.<br />SAM'L GULLY.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;"><br />Died of Cholera in the First "Camp of Israel," on the morning of the 22d of June, 1849, Elder Nelson McCarty, aged 37 years.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >From the journals of G. A. Smith and E. T. Benson:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >On our journey thus far we have passed seven graves…….Also Samuel Gully, captain of one hundred, in Brother O. Spencer’s company of Saints, lies 185 miles from Winter Quarters, in the open prairie, his grave neatly tufted over; died of cholera, July 5<sup>th</sup>, 1849, aged 39 years.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Traveling with his company was a freight train operated by James Livingston and Charles Kinkead. This train had left St. Louis earlier that year, carrying fabric, sugar, nails, and other items of trade intended for California. Realizing they couldn’t get to California and still return to St. Louis that fall because of the traveling conditions, they proposed that Brigham Young send</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >merchants to meet them east of the Rockies. There they would sell their five tons of goods at bargain prices. Since many of the Mormons had gold from California, there was cash available to buy these items. Captain Gully wrote a letter to President Young on July 3rd expressing the wishes of Mr. Livingston and Mr. Kinkead, stating that they had acted as gentlemen. Captain</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Gully mentioned two more deaths from cholera and described the terrible roads from heavy rain.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Samuel was buried alongside the trail, leaving three grieving widows and three children: Ovanda’s infant son, and Jane’s two daughters. It appears that Jane and her daughters, Martha and Harriet, returned to Winter Quarters. Perhaps Jane was the wife mentioned who had suffered from cholera, and in her weakened state, she felt she could not make it to the Valley that year.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >William Hyde was appointed to lead the company after Samuel’s death. Shortly afterwards, Brother Hyde also became deathly ill. His wife Elizabeth recorded that Mr. Kinkead and Mr. Livingston used medicines from their freight train to aid in his recovery, likely having attempted to save Samuel Gully’s life, also. The company reached the Salt Lake Valley at the end of</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >September.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;">From the Milo Andres Company: 3 Aug 1849 morning rainey, did not start till 8 O clock, fair through the day, road very bad for eight miles when we came to dry ground, also to the grave of Samuel Gully who died of Cholera 5th July 1849. he was well known to most of our camp and thus coming to his grave by the way side, before we had heard of his Death Caused a general halt. and we gazed with feelings of emotion on the spot of ground that contained his body. this evening we encamped again on the prairie having brought a little wood with us. traveled about 15 miles today.</span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Some time during this winter, seventy-two year-old Benjamin Freeman Bird married the fifty year- old widow Jane Gully, taking her and thirteen-year-old Martha and nine-year-old Harriet into his home. Together they prepared to cross the plains the following summer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Jane Gully Bird’s fifteen year old daughter Martha had died just before the previous Christmas (1851). Benjamin and Jane, with Jane’s eleven-year-old daughter Harriet, then moved to Springville.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >It was interesting to learn that Ovanda Fuller, one of the widows of Samuel Gully, remarried soon after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley. She and her husband settled in Springville, but she died at this time, leaving a seven-year-old son she had with Samuel, and two new little boys. Her husband raised Samuel with his own sons before taking two plural wives in 1859. Ovanda’s sister Sarah Ann also remarried, divorced, and then remarried again into a polygamous family.</span><span style=" mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Jane Frilick Gully Bird is shown living with Maribah Woods on the 1880 Census in Clover Valley, “Bird, Jane, 85, boarder, widow cancer of face, [birth] South Carolina.” A brief mention of Jane is included in a biography of Maribah and her husband Lyman, titled, </span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Italic","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-TimesNewRoman\,Italic"font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;" >The Woods Family of Clover Valley, Nevada 1869 - 1979, </span></i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >by Orilla Woods Haven, (copy found in BYU Special Collections BX 8670.1 .W864h 1979, ) “On other occasions the Woods home became a home for the unfortunate and homeless. A member of the initial migration into Clover Valley was Jane (Grandma) Gully, wo had been sealed to Maribah Ann's grandfather, Benjamin F. Bird. she had been taken into the famiy by Lyman and Maribah. An old lady at the time, she was given a home and provided with all her needs until her death at an advanced age.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Benjamin Freeman Bird, Son and Father of Pioneers by Julie Cannon Markham</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Despite Brigham Young’s support of the battalion, many of the members of the Church were suspicious, feeling that the federal government had not been sympathetic to their plight over the previous decade. However, William Bird, perhaps with the influence of his older brother Charles, enlisted. By July 10th, four companies were organized. Assigned to Company B along with William were Henry Bigler, Albert Smith and Guy Keyser. The company elected Jesse D. Hunter as their captain. Brother Hunter’s wife Lydia traveled with them as a laundress. Joining other companies were John Roylance, a British convert, leaving his wife and six children, and Samuel Gully. Brother Roylance, his wife Mary Ann, Samuel and his wife Jane and plural wife, Ovanda Fuller, had earlier received their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple, and their families would later intertwine with the Bird families.</span><span style=" font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:10.0pt;" > </span><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >In a puzzle I have not been able to figure out, Jane was not sealed to Samuel in the Nauvoo Temple, although</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman;font-size:9.0pt;" >Samuel was married and sealed to Ovanda. Not only is there no record of this sealing in existing Nauvoo Temple records, but Jane was later sealed to Benjamin Freeman Bird in 1852, an ordinance that likely would not have been performed if she had been sealed to Samuel.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ></span></p>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-17885230580082669882010-07-30T14:01:00.000-07:002011-10-31T18:38:44.771-07:00<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cwrwlcw%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cwrwlcw%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link 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class="MsoNormal">Mable Lambert Wilson</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIAuawzMZzXPe1L9qqZSbqKtFE0hPJm2kfqxX90JwIxiqf3RSysErwcEP2RSAh8rSkkctxE8rQTMcfzkqakW8ORT5w7jtsA7R6VEcWSPoNx4JK-WI7uTzwpJpjCu7GMsGyx1qNXXx6q6h/s1600/scan0014.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIAuawzMZzXPe1L9qqZSbqKtFE0hPJm2kfqxX90JwIxiqf3RSysErwcEP2RSAh8rSkkctxE8rQTMcfzkqakW8ORT5w7jtsA7R6VEcWSPoNx4JK-WI7uTzwpJpjCu7GMsGyx1qNXXx6q6h/s320/scan0014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499807769899436498" border="0" /></a><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Taken from her personal histories:<span style=""> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Mable was born 12 July 1909 and was the 6<sup>th</sup> of 9 children of John Lambert and Adeline Miller. Fred Dall was the oldest (27 Aug 1897), Mary (12 Nov 1899), Emily who died in infancy (12 Oct 1902), George (15 Feb 1905), Clarissa (19 Feb 1907), (Mable), John (28 Feb 1912), Maude (2 Dec 1913), and then Helen (11 Dec 1913). She was able to entertain herself, her aunt said even as a baby she would sit in a quilt and play by herself while the women quilted under the trees or in the house. Her grandfather Simon Miller passed away in 1911 when she was only two.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">When she was 3 ½ the family moved to Miami, Arizona a copper mining town where her father worked. There were a few Mormon families there so they had a Sunday School. If they had church she doesn’t remember. Meetings were held in a rented Hall but later a church was built in lower Miami. She lived across the street from the grade school so each evening the children would play on the school grounds if the weather was good. They played baseball mostly, boys and girls together, it took all to make enough to play.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Every summer her mother would gather the kids and off they went to visit relatives in the valley (Pima). Sometimes they took the train from Miami to Bowie and then on to Pima. They would pack a picnic basket and all their clothes packed in a trunk. They would play jacks, old maid and other card games. All the neighborhood kids loved to come over to the house. Her dolls were her favorite toys. She had two beautiful dolls that she took good care of and kept in a special drawer. One night she remembered being woke up and there was her mother and aunts making doll clothes. She was about 12 when she received her last doll, a porcelain German doll. In High School the young people would come over to her house to learn to dance, she had a phonograph for music. Her dad was always away on prospecting trips. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Her mother was a good cook and liked all food except for fish. Everyone always had a special birthday cake but says she never did like the white fluffy egg white frosting. She remembers her mother always giving her anything they wanted. Sometimes she would buy a large Hershey bar and break off the squares, most candy was about 5 cents a bag. Her mother used to sing the song ‘Put your shoulder to the wheel’ as she worked around the house.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Growing up most people would walk from place to place, some had a horse and buggy but others used a wagon when more than one or two went anywhere. My father walked all the time. The families first auto was a Studebaker. Her sister Clarissa bought a Chevrolet and her younger brother John and sister Maude stole it to visit relatives, they could barely see over the steering wheel, but they wrecked it and went home.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Fred Wilson and Mable Lambert were married 27 June 1925 in Miami, Arizona, she was only 16. They lived with his parents for a year while both continued to go to school.<span style=""> </span>Fred graduated a year later and Mable only finished her sophomore year. Fred’s folks sold the transfer business and their home and they left Miami to get a business in a more secure location than a mining camp. The family looked around in California for a month but were soon back in Miami. San Diego was very different then, a lot of open space and the buildings were only 5 stories high. Balboa didn’t have a zoo then, instead it was a large camping site with tents and small cabins, each had a place to cook and every day the fruit and vegetable truck came by with fresh produce. Long Beach was a big amusement park with rides. They ate a lot of Chinese food and drank a special tea (Tao Tea) it was Amelia’s favorite. The roads were not very good on the return and out of Yuma there were sand dunes and over the dunes was laid a plank highway with turnouts every so often. When you met someone, one would have to back up to a turnout, if one got off the plank road you were enviably stuck. The tires were terrible about 3 inches across and bullheads could cause a flat, always fixing flats. They camped along the road in route. Fred went to work for the Miami Commercial Company.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Amelia, Fred’s mother, wanted something to do to pass the long lonely hours away while her husband was away hauling goods to Chrisitile, an asbestos mining camp. The trip was 24 miles of dirt roads and would take all day to go to the mine and back if he got started early enough and the road wasn’t to bad. Amelia bought the Tiffany’s service station at Hill Top. She found it was to much for her so asked if Fred and Mable to come help in the Fall of 1926. After packing the few things they had they went to help Mother Wilson. The winter was early and bad and Mable was expecting so in December they went to Miami to stay with her folks. Billee Louise was born Sunday 13 March 1927. They had her blessed the first Sunday in April. When Billee was a month old the family returned to the mountain where it was still quite cold. The folks had bought a cow and Fred and Mable had learned to milk her with some trials. Mable said one day Fred tied a rope to the cow and then wrapped it around his own waist but must have pinched the cow because she took off and dragged him all over the corral. The owners of the other service station (Hills) decided there wasn’t enough room for two stations so they sold us theirs. For a time they had a store and service station at one and a restaurant and service station at the other. Fred Robert Jr was born in Miami 2 February 1929 and returned home as soon as the weather permitted. It was still cold and the baby had colic for several months. Mother Wilson was sick most of the time and was in the hospital in Globe.<br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2UvLSEnO8BMbO-auswRB0IcTuKa3noo7QFgc3lyTfrvfGqIZm6j0FC3dda141RtTA5qSAJZDDBqzPUwqyY-oViHZywgNwuhm5mrQFG4RyhKPrFU81IjdFAAbv7p2DeGdowr5SelUh8Zx/s1600/hilltop+Jimana+Inn+2.bmp"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2UvLSEnO8BMbO-auswRB0IcTuKa3noo7QFgc3lyTfrvfGqIZm6j0FC3dda141RtTA5qSAJZDDBqzPUwqyY-oViHZywgNwuhm5mrQFG4RyhKPrFU81IjdFAAbv7p2DeGdowr5SelUh8Zx/s320/hilltop+Jimana+Inn+2.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499807778980888626" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Fred Wilson-Mable Lambert Wilson-Fred Wilson Jr-Billee Louise<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Grandfather Wilson was a partner now in the White Mountain Stage Line and was one of the drivers. The depression was well on its way for most people in the U.S.A. but the family was getting along very well by working 18-20 hours a day. There was an engineering party surveying the Salt River Canyon planning a diversion dam for power for the mining companies who bought supplies and stayed making trips in and out of the river. This project kept the family on its feet. The cattle ranches in the area would get supplies also so they got along quite well.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">The 1<sup>st</sup> of June 1930 was a sad day for everyone, Mother Wilson (just 48 years old) died. A family lot in Tempe, Arizona was bought in the Tempe Butte Cemetery and a large stone made for the center of the plot with just WILSON engraved on it and a small marker for the grave.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">When Fred Jr was two when <span style=""> </span>the first contract for the new highway 60 was issued a the family got a permit from the San Carlos Indian Reservation to locate their place on the new highway. They built a store and service station. After a month they received a contract to run a boarding house and Company Store. Fred an Mable lived at Hill Top for 5 ½ years, then moved to Seneca Creek where the new highway 60 went through between Globe and Show Low and lived there many years. They enjoyed the camp and people and had a good place to live and plenty of everything. The children had Shetland ponies and all the trappings. They would saddle up and go visit friends at the mines some 10-12 miles away.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">On 10 February 1932 Norman Edward was born in Miami Inspiration Hospital. The road building was very slow but they had cows, chickens, pigs, and a nice garden. There was no place to go so they didn’t need money anyway. When Billie was 6 ½ she was brought to Bakersfield to stay with Aunt Maude to go to school where she received a good foundation. The next year they bought a house in Globe and sent the children to school there for 1 ½ years and then back to Fish Camp where they had a one room school.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Grandfather Wilson was quite a horseman so we all had a horse and would go with him to visit friends, Fred Sr didn’t like to ride. The family had a few head of cattle which were kept on the mountain about 2 miles from the Trading Post, so had to go look after them every few weeks. Norman was to small so he stayed home with his dad, he never liked to go even when he got older but said it was better than washing dishes. They would hunt for arrow heads each week. Norman was 11 when George came 12 January 1943.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQHyC96qr4UxCHg4Y-mMPnoLs58n8A1WPstDTyqIZwudJhPMtgnDE4bCfmkssOtIDjJGBaWIfDyzqI4JS9Y57lbHRdn-5kiFVh9wErqQKp8F1je17Gs7woqI86lp3bJRxsne7gTSCy-ca/s1600/Jimana+Inn+1951.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQHyC96qr4UxCHg4Y-mMPnoLs58n8A1WPstDTyqIZwudJhPMtgnDE4bCfmkssOtIDjJGBaWIfDyzqI4JS9Y57lbHRdn-5kiFVh9wErqQKp8F1je17Gs7woqI86lp3bJRxsne7gTSCy-ca/s320/Jimana+Inn+1951.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499807791705655570" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">The Trading Post at Seneca was sold in the Summer when George was 4 and moved to Lakeside where they bought 20 acres on the Lake front. It was nice there in the summer but very cold in the winter -20<span style=" Arial","sans-serif";font-family:";font-size:13pt;" >°</span><span style="">F. Fred went to work at a general store for awhile, worked as a fire guard one season, and worked for McNary Lumber Co. After he quit they bought a lease on a restaurant in Show Low but only had it a short time. Fred’s heart was bad so had to leave the high altitude. After school was out the family moved to Vista, California. This is where they met the Missionaries and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 2 December 1950. Fred, Mable, Norman, and George were baptized in a manmade lake (cow pasture pond). Fred Jr had joined the Navy and Billee Louise was married so weren’t with the family at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="">Norman was going into the Navy and the family returned to Pima, Arizona to take care of Mom Lambert who was no longer able to live alone. The family got a good foundation in church work there and met many nice people and relatives. Lived in Pima 4 ½ years till Mom Lambert decided to go live with her oldest son Fred Lambert in Oregon. The family moved to Van Nye, California with Billee Louise and Arthur Pearson. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">In 1951 Fred, Mable, and George traveled to Cardston, Alberta, Canada to a family reunion with the Dall family. While there they attended the temple. They met the missionaries for the church and they were poorly dressed and unkempt, at that time they served without purse or scrip in the mission field. On the way home they stopped at the Idaho Falls Temple on 5 July 1951 and were sealed as a family. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">In the 50’s they traveled by freighter to Puerto Rico to visit Billee Louise and family. As she remembers this was when she flew on an airplane for the first time when they flew home. Mable also traveled to Georgia through the southern states to visit the Pearson’s and her brother John. She enjoyed eating catfish but loved the beautiful big homes with the magnolia trees in full bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Moved to La Mesa, California where Fred worked and became a registered nurse and worked at the hospital. Mable spent here days working on her yard and garden. She had fig trees, citrus and a small garden, and loved her flowers. Mable never drove but relied on the bus system to get around and would travel to Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo. Here she would collect cuttings from the exotic vegetation and would take it home to propagate and develop here own garden. Family would visit and would spend time on the coast on the beaches playing and swimming, sometimes they would stay late to catch grunion by the light of campfires as they swam up and spawned on the beaches. She loved to visit Sea Port Village and picnic in the park. Sometimes family <span style=""> </span>would drive to the peer to tour a ship at dock, to Balboa Park to walk around or to visit one of the museums (free on Tuesdays), or to the zoo. Fred died of a heart attack 8 October 1974 and was taken back to Arizona and buried in the family plot in Tempe, Double Butte Cemetery. Mable lived alone in the house until she sold the house in 2005 and moved to Payson, Utah and moved in with her granddaughter Jennie Little. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Mable loves jewelry and has a very nice collection, mostly Indian, turquoise, coral, and silver. While in Arizona she compiled a collection of rugs, pottery and baskets.</span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOq3FcV8ERXcb9_jckaTaho9qadw5gaqyp4jFb14Tt6Qf8O3XqsMTyycTyqF8muMHJN-1lfhNL05z_fMe4LeKJdJlYwfM7ejKEZTVRyj6Nkbgd5rI5CGmo1TcUY8tcc2oK63uOsFGP3nKU/s1600/Grandma+Wilson+100th+bday.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOq3FcV8ERXcb9_jckaTaho9qadw5gaqyp4jFb14Tt6Qf8O3XqsMTyycTyqF8muMHJN-1lfhNL05z_fMe4LeKJdJlYwfM7ejKEZTVRyj6Nkbgd5rI5CGmo1TcUY8tcc2oK63uOsFGP3nKU/s320/Grandma+Wilson+100th+bday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499807777602912642" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Family has gathered several times to celebrate Mable’s life either at a family members home or the last two big gatherings in Park City, Utah for her 95<sup>th</sup> and 100<sup>th</sup> birthday, two books have been published from these events. I hope everyone remembers to stay in contact with Mable my grandmother and the Matriarch of the Wilson family. She has been such a great inspiration in my life and a source of knowledge and wisdom throughout my life. This was written in celebration of her 101<sup>st</sup> birthday.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPhOKqcf5v0Q8p3Jt_EQJOHIYnUHHJY1-f1EBDO4XNQZ1c0KT3BeicXpjhS7ImAuGYdkRJnOQUE04gv_IgygFX-Rhl2KllxQDMn4t4B47p9xjPepDR2Qof0cbqCswK1GxxRAiUzeT2NhC/s1600/July2010+299.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPhOKqcf5v0Q8p3Jt_EQJOHIYnUHHJY1-f1EBDO4XNQZ1c0KT3BeicXpjhS7ImAuGYdkRJnOQUE04gv_IgygFX-Rhl2KllxQDMn4t4B47p9xjPepDR2Qof0cbqCswK1GxxRAiUzeT2NhC/s320/July2010+299.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499807764148532946" border="0" /></a>Newest great great grandson Kale Andrew Wilson<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQHyC96qr4UxCHg4Y-mMPnoLs58n8A1WPstDTyqIZwudJhPMtgnDE4bCfmkssOtIDjJGBaWIfDyzqI4JS9Y57lbHRdn-5kiFVh9wErqQKp8F1je17Gs7woqI86lp3bJRxsne7gTSCy-ca/s1600/Jimana+Inn+1951.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2UvLSEnO8BMbO-auswRB0IcTuKa3noo7QFgc3lyTfrvfGqIZm6j0FC3dda141RtTA5qSAJZDDBqzPUwqyY-oViHZywgNwuhm5mrQFG4RyhKPrFU81IjdFAAbv7p2DeGdowr5SelUh8Zx/s1600/hilltop+Jimana+Inn+2.bmp"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOq3FcV8ERXcb9_jckaTaho9qadw5gaqyp4jFb14Tt6Qf8O3XqsMTyycTyqF8muMHJN-1lfhNL05z_fMe4LeKJdJlYwfM7ejKEZTVRyj6Nkbgd5rI5CGmo1TcUY8tcc2oK63uOsFGP3nKU/s1600/Grandma+Wilson+100th+bday.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIAuawzMZzXPe1L9qqZSbqKtFE0hPJm2kfqxX90JwIxiqf3RSysErwcEP2RSAh8rSkkctxE8rQTMcfzkqakW8ORT5w7jtsA7R6VEcWSPoNx4JK-WI7uTzwpJpjCu7GMsGyx1qNXXx6q6h/s1600/scan0014.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPhOKqcf5v0Q8p3Jt_EQJOHIYnUHHJY1-f1EBDO4XNQZ1c0KT3BeicXpjhS7ImAuGYdkRJnOQUE04gv_IgygFX-Rhl2KllxQDMn4t4B47p9xjPepDR2Qof0cbqCswK1GxxRAiUzeT2NhC/s1600/July2010+299.JPG"><br /></a>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-37948402234446532812010-04-26T07:47:00.000-07:002010-04-26T08:08:50.305-07:00Ransom's letter to brother Ruel<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAZPFZ54Ca4iepR8-1sES0lu_Lf-3amohJN-0EhmvfKoEQ7HrbyblzPnqPgOF18S0-jPw_WAICrzJYioNa9eszPrQVL_uCjd2pygCLFjXXcN2kuUfz3-JRwBP1SMMBXeSJKfqKgVgiB-L/s1600/Ransom+Potter.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 71px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAZPFZ54Ca4iepR8-1sES0lu_Lf-3amohJN-0EhmvfKoEQ7HrbyblzPnqPgOF18S0-jPw_WAICrzJYioNa9eszPrQVL_uCjd2pygCLFjXXcN2kuUfz3-JRwBP1SMMBXeSJKfqKgVgiB-L/s320/Ransom+Potter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464461818517375234" border="0" /></a><br />Ransom R. Potter<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1WLaxGzo3bXKjyDftJfE4vw5de2sgwdhVKnComrLdzfkSoH1PCiXrn6uss6dvB-ee0t2UVS1K-qoFX9xLqDoPLZzpVGyJORwfUb6RwruVoID2b6KGlVM5agS4Rerhn-IxYsGVMx56qZAJ/s1600/November+2009+Isaac+Smith+Potter.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1WLaxGzo3bXKjyDftJfE4vw5de2sgwdhVKnComrLdzfkSoH1PCiXrn6uss6dvB-ee0t2UVS1K-qoFX9xLqDoPLZzpVGyJORwfUb6RwruVoID2b6KGlVM5agS4Rerhn-IxYsGVMx56qZAJ/s320/November+2009+Isaac+Smith+Potter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464461809135272386" border="0" /></a><br />Isaac Smith Potter<br /></div><br /><img src="file:///C:/Users/wrwlcw/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-4.png" alt="" /><br />This is a typewritten transcription of a letter written to Ruel Potter (Ransom's brother) by Rhoda Ferrell Potter and Ransom R. Potter.<br /><br /><br />Addressed to: Mr. Ruel Potter (1)<br /> Naugatuk<br /> New Haven County<br /> Connecticut<br /><br />Post Mark: Princeton Mo. (2)}<br /> in manuscript<br /> December 17 (3)}<br /><br />Rate mark: 10 in manuscript.<br /><br />December the 11 Brother and Sisters (4) I now sit down to write a few words to you all<br />for I want to hear where you all be and how you git along and I did not know but you would like to hear whether we was in the land of the living yet, or not, so I shall try to tell you something about it. We went from New haven to Nauvoo (5) and as the Church (6) was going west nothing would do but we must go to, so we started for California with the rest, (6) went as far as Garden Grove a distance of nearly 2 hundred miles. there we stoped through the Summer, built a house planted about five Acres of corn, had a first garden. all things went along well un-till about the middle of July when Ransom was taken sick with the ague and fever which lasted but 1 week, then the Black Canker (7) set which seemed as if it would kill or at least eat his mouth up in spite of all we could do. his tounge teeth and so on were as black as the Chimney. all most at the last one of the Bretheren heard how he was and got on his horse and come to see him, said he could help him right off. Says he to me take a piece of Blue vitteral (8) as large as a pea: salt peter twice as large as a pea: Copper as twice as large that; one Table spoonful of Gun powder; Sharp vinegar, enough to dissolve it, put in a bottle cold together; shook up every time used; wash the mouth morning, noon and night; with a swab, then wait always after washing five minutes, then rense the mouth with salt and water; I had washed his mouth onely three or four times before the dead peices of flesh begun to come out as large as the end of my finger and he after a little begun to mend. then I was taken with the ague and fever, then Frank, (9) and in 3 or 4 days after Isaac.(10) Ransom he Baked once or twice tried to take care of us but his strength was not sufficient he was soon taken down with the bilious fever which run eleven days and left him as low as I ever see him. We though he could live he said he should not and begged of me not to try to do anything more for him onely give him drink, But every time that I could set up long enough I would rub him with flannel, wash him all over with saleratus water, (11) try to git something down him to strengthen him and he has finely got so as to work again but is not as well as he used to be. He complaints more, is not as strong. He had a large swelling under his Arm and under the same Arm he got annother coming. its the effects of the fever I suppose. I suppose it would be impossible to tell you how we looked and much more how I felt when the chill come which once a day the boys would call for Mother and I could not get off the bed to go to them. Ransom he lay thier with the fever some times crazy some times fainting. I used to stand by him untill I felt the Chill come on then I could do no more untill night when the fever left me. I had to git up off the bed sit by or stand by him to keep the breath of life in him. anxiety held me up in some degree. I think if he is careful now he will git his health again. I am well and the boys are getting quite smart. Emiline is married to William Miller (12) and has gone to the Bluff one hundred and fifty miles from here. I have not herd from her in some time. we expect a letter soon. we now live in a log house. I must say this is the handsomest country of land I ever see but I do not think it is as healthy as Ohio.(13) I wish you and we was both in Ohio. we shall not go on to California. I think if R gits his oxen and waggon I should rather go east to live, if you would meet us half way and get you a farm. I tell R if he has not gone west far enough to go jest as far as he wants to this time (14) but I believe he does not think it best to go on at least rather go to some healthy place he is doing first rate here and can do well for a year if health is spared him. The Boys send there best respects to all the cousins and often say they wish that they could see Frank (15) and Charles (16) and Lorren (17) and Elisabeth. (18) I shall send this to you Ruel and want you should take paines to find Garry (19) and let him read it and tell him to write soon to us and let us hear what he is doing and how he gits along and how his folks all do then we will write hi, I wish to be remembered to Father and Mother Potter, (20) Ann Smith (21) and her family and to all of our friends. We are living very comfortably here in Mosouria about forty miles from the Lower Camp. (22) when you write direct your letters to Princeton Post Office Mercer County<br />State of Mosouria. Clarissa (23) write soon, tell us all about the folks. Rhoda Potter (24) must tell you how much wheat is a bushel. Here its fifty cents and five bushels of corn is 1 Dollar shelled corn Pork 2 Dollars a hundred. They have Apples some few here, grapes, plumbs an abundance. the people here are kind to us, very kind indeed most of them well off;, since the mob drove the last company from Nauvoo there is many that’s poor and distressed at the camp, (25) their property taken and they left to suffer. I do think those that have comfortable homes had better not leave at presant that is to go to California. [Here the handwriting changes to a feminine hand] as I find some room I will write some two, it has been about fifteen months since I left you (26) and I have done some work since and been sick a good deal and lazy or not and am alive yet and expect to live as long as I can see any body alive. I want you should carry this up to Plymouth (28) and let father and mother read it and tel them that if they and we all live I think I shall see them again for I think I shall come down there but not to stay long. I want to see you all, I could do wel here I think better than any other country I was in. I could make property very fast but health is better but what I shall do I cannot tell as yet but I think some of going to Ohio as soon as I can get my team and wagonn (29) if I do I shall come down there soon after. I want you should write to me and tel me what oxen is worth good ones four or five years old and also cows and tell me whither they would be ready sale for cash. tell gary to write to me give me all the information you can. this is to you all write soon from Ransom R Potter (30) you all we have not heard one word from any of you since we left there. I wrote to Garry and Ann (34) I have wrote to Erastus (32) Emiline sent one letter to Lucy Potter but not a word have we got back.<br /><br /> There is no signature<br /><br /><br /><br />(The following are explanations to the numbered footnotes in the letter. The numbers as well as the explanation were added by an unknown person)<br /><br />The main body of the letter is written by Rhoda Farrell Potter. The last paragraph, after her signature is written by Ransom Robert Potter<br /><br />1. “Mr. Ruel Potter” is the brother of Ransom Potter. The Potter and Farrell families all lived in various towns in New Haven County Connecticut, except Ransom’s parents, who lived a short distance away in Litchfield County, Connecticut<br />2. “Princeton, Mo.” is the county seat of Mercer County, Missouri and is just south of the Iowa border. It is about 30 miles directly south of Garden Grove, Iowa. Both are on the east side of the Weldon River.<br />3. “December 17” (no year stated) The letter most likely was written in December of 1846. Ransom states that it has been fifteen months since they left New Haven. That would be September of 1845. Ransom, Rhoda, and Emeline all received LDS Temple ordinances in the Nauvoo Temple in December of 1845. (Nauvoo Endowment Records) (The Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register at the FHL in SLC, UT, gives February 6, 1846 as the date Ransom and Emeline were endowed. Rhoda was endowed on February 7, 1846, the same day she was sealed to William Miller) <br />4. “Bothers and Sisters” is a literal greeting. Although the letter is addressed to Ruel Potter, the letter was to be taken around and read by other family members including Rhoda’s brother, Garry Farrell.<br />5. “…went from New Haven to Nauvoo…” The Ransom Potter family had previously lived in Geauga Co, Ohio. They are in that county on the 1840 census and the births of their sons Issac Potter (1833) and Benjamin Franklin Potter (1837) are listed as Geauga County, Ohio (Pioneers and Prominent Men and the Springville Ward records respectively) It appears they went back from Ohio to New Haven County, Connecticut before moving west to Nauvoo.<br />6. “…started for California with the rest…” This is more evidence that the letter was written in 1846 rather than 1847. By December of 1847 it was quite clear to the Latter-day Saints that they were not going to California, but were going to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.<br />7. “Black Canker” From the diary of Priddy Meeks, a physician and a mormon pioneer from the same period:<br />“One case of Sister Erwin: the first I heard of her, she was about dying with what they called the Black Kanker in her mouth and throat. She did die in a few hours and we halted to bury her, and the daughter Rachel Erwin was found to have the same complaint and quite deep seated. I told them I thought I could cure her. My daughter Elizabeth waited on her while I doctored her and she was not long in getting well. The palate of the old lady’s mouth was eat up and the fauces of her mouth partly gone. All was in a mortified state. I am convinced that it was the diphtheria they both had.”<br />8. “Blue Vitteral” Blue vitriol is copper sulfate.<br />9. “Frank” is Benjamin Franklin Potter, 9-year-old son of Rhoda and Ransom Potter.<br />10. “Isaac” is Isaac Smith Potter, 13-year-old (in 1846) son of Rhoda and Ransom Potter.<br />11. “Saleratus water” is a solution of water and bicarbonate of soda.<br />12. “Emiline is married to William Miller…” Rhoda Emeline Potter is the daughter of Ransom and Rhoda Potter. She was the third polygamous wife of William Miller. They were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple February 7, 1846.<br />13. “I do not think it as healthy as Ohio…” The Potters had previously lived in Ohio for at least 7 years.<br />14. “I tell R if he has not gone west far enough to go jest as far as he wants to this time” It is probable that the Potter’s move west to Ohio was motivated by the desire to go west rather than any affiliation with the Latter-day Saints. The family was in Burton, Geauga County, Ohio by 1833, but Ransom was not baptized into the LDS Church until November of 1837.<br />15. “Frank” is the 16-year-old (in 1846) son of Ruel and Clarissa Potter.<br />16. “Charles” is the 13-year-old (in 1846) son of Ruel and Clarissa Potter.<br />17. “Lorren” is the 4-year-old (in 1846) son of Garry and Ann Farrell.<br />18. “Elizabeth” is the 2-year-old (in 1846) daughter of Garry and Ann Farrell. She would likely have been born while the Ransom Potter family was in New Haven, before they left for Nauvoo.<br />19. ‘Garry” is Ira Garry Ferrell, the younger brother of Rhoda Ferrell Potter. He lived in Prospect, New Haven County, Connecticut in 1850. (1850 Federal Census)<br />20. “Father and Mother Potter” are Lemuel and Lois Potter<br />21. “Ann Smith” is the sister of Ransom Potter. She is married to Hubbard Smith and lived in Naugatuck, New Haven County, Connecticut in 1850. (1850 Federal Census)<br />22. “…forty mile from the lower camp.” The lower camp is Garden Grove, Iowa. It was a camp for the Latter-day Saint refugees from Nauvoo in 1846. Princeton is directly south of Garden Grove.<br />23. “Clarissa” is Clarissa Forbes Potter, the wife of Ruel Potter.<br />24. “Rhoda Potter” This is her signature on the letter although there are six lines of postscript following her signature.<br />25. “…since the mob drove the last company from Nauvoo…” The last mob action in Nauvoo was in September of 1846.<br />26. “…fifteen months since I left you…” If the letter is written in December of 1846, they would have left New Haven in September of 1845.<br />27. “…something over 3,000 miles…” The trip from New Haven to Nauvoo by way of Ohio is about 1200 miles. Nauvoo to Garden grove is 150 miles, and Garden grove to Princeton is 30-40 miles. That adds up to less than 1500 miles.<br />28. “…up to Plymouth…” Ransoms’ parents, Lemuel and Lois Potter lived in Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut. (1850 Federal Census)<br />29. “…going to Ohio as soon as I can get my team and waggon…” Iowa was frontier country and as such, goods were not available for purchase, nor was there much of anyplace to earn money to purchase goods. Travelers went south into Missouri, both to earn money and to purchase needed supplies. In the diary of Priddy Meeks he records instructions from Brigham Young: “’Brother Meeks, you may take your family down to Missouri and make fit-out by next spring.’ Although it was strictly forbidden for men to take their families down to Missouri. He also said, ‘keep your eye skinned down there and if it gets too hot bring your family back to the Bluffs.’”<br />30. “from Ransom R. Potter” This is his signature on the portion of the letter. He also adds several lines of postscript.<br />31. “Ann” is Mary Ann Matthews Farrell, wife of Ira Garry Farrell (Rhoda Potter’s brother).<br />32. “Erastus” is Erastus P. Potter, the brother of Ransom Potter. He lived in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut in 1840 and 1850. (1840 and 1850 Federal Census)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Source:<br />Folders A-604-1 and A-604-2<br />Label: Potter, Ransom R.<br />Utah State Historical Society<br />Salt Lake City, UTBill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-11390571670859103002010-04-26T07:44:00.000-07:002010-04-26T07:46:51.493-07:00Potter Family<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cwrwlcw%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype 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I have not published the total findings that I have because it would be a small book. If you would like to read the entire story you can find it at <i style=""><u>Isaac Potter Research</u></i> by Aletta Moore<span style=""> </span>2008, <i style=""><u>Ransom Robert Potter History</u></i> by Lee H. Potter..<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom Robert Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on 4 March, 1807 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut and died November 15, 1884. Ransom Robert Potter’s parents were <b style="">Lemuel Potter</b> and <b style="">Lois Roberts</b>.<span style=""> </span>Ransom Robert Potter died on November 15, 1884 in Albion, Cassia County, Idaho. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Lemuel and Lois:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Unknown, born 1803<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Erastus Potter, born 1805<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom Potter, born 4 March 1807<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Anne Potter, born 1810<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom Robert Potter married for the first time to Rhoda Emmaline Farrell, who was born on 10 January 1807 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut to Benjamin Farrell/Ferrell and Patience Terrill. She died in Albion. They were married on September 25, 1825 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Their children were: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Unknown, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">died as a newborn 17 June 1826<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rhoda Emeline Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 18 May 1827 in Plymouth, Litchfield, CT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom Robert Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Isaac Smith Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> born on April 19, 1833<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Benjamin F Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> born 18 July 1836, and died on 5 July, 1922<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thomas Potter </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""> </span>born around 1843, and listed as “came with Ransom.”<a style="" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
<br />A new religion was formed “the Mormon Church” in 1830 and some of its members moved to Northern Ohio. It was here that the Potter family and Mormonism crossed paths. Ransom embraced the faith and was baptized in November of 1837. By 1840 the main body of the Mormon Church had moved further westward, but the 1840 census shows that Ransom was still living in Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We know that the family was in Burton, Geauga, Ohio in 1833 and 1836, when Isaac and Benjamin were born.<span style=""> </span>In the 1840 census they are in Quincy, Adams, Illinois<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
<br />Sept 29, 1841, Ransom sold his farm to<b style=""> </b>Johnson F. Welton and returned to Connecticut. He remained here until September of 1845 when he moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. We know he was in Illinois in early 1846 as Ransom, Rhoda and Emeline received their temple ordinances in the Nauvoo Temple.<span style=""> </span>By summer they were in Mercer County, Missouri where they had built a cabin and planted 5 acres of corn. As with many families, they stayed and worked in the area until they could purchase the necessary equipment and supplies to move on. They are recorded living here in the 1850 census.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom R. Potter came to Utah with the James McGaw Company in 1852.<a style="" href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Emelina Potter Miller<a style="" href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>, wife of William Miller came to this city with the first settlers and for ten years was a resident here; moving to Provo in 1860 where she has since resided. She was the principal weaver in the Miller household. During parts of the first year she and Mrs. Marilla Miller taught school in the village. William Mendenhall born in Millhundred, New Castle County, Delaware came to Utah in 1862 and laid adobes for the houses of Joseph Kelly and Ransom Potter. James Potter<a style="" href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> and Jacob Hentz built the first flour mill in Springville.<span style=""> </span>O.M. Allen was the miller. By the time the storm clouds began to gather and the wintry blasts to howl through the valley, ushering in the winter of 1853, our village had taken on quite an air of respectability. During the autumn of 1852 a number of immigrants had rolled through Main Street in their prairie schooners followed by their flocks to settle further south in the valley so that the main street village had the appearance of much travel. Many families had stopped here to cast their lot with the first comers among whom can be remembered Lorenzo Johnson, Huntington Johnson, the three Yogar brothers, Murdock McKenzie, Walter Bird, Henry Brooks, Gardiner Curtis and family, John, Samuel and Lucy Pint, Jerome and Olive Benson, laham Morris, George Marion, Joseph Kelly, Ransom Potter and family, Daniel Sumsion and family, Andrew Hamilton and family, John Maycock, Andrew Leslie, Newman Huckly and family, Elem Cheeney, Stephen Thornton, Horace Thornton, Joseph Bartholomew and family, William Robinson and family, Aseph Blanchard and family, Sanford Fuller, Aaron Whitmore and Mrs. Lucretia Warthen and family.<span style=""> </span>During the winter they had dances in Bishop Johnson’s house. He had a great big long room with two fireplaces in it. The men had to furnish the wood to burn in it. They used fires for heat as well as light, because candles were very scarce. They used tallow with string for candles. Towards Christmas much snow had fallen and the lake was frozen over, the men made bob sleds and crossed over the lake for wood for fuel and light. Indian trouble came to Springville in 1853 when an Indian squaw was caught stealing things in a pioneer house. The men fought with her and she was cut badly by a knife. When Bishop Johnson heard about it he sent Mr. Wild, Ransom Potter and William Smith to overtake them and offer them anything within reason. They found them encamped at the mouth of Payson Canyon and in a frenzy of excitement just before reaching the hostile camp, Wild and Potter were left with the horses and Smith, the interpreter, went to the red men shouting peace and making signs with his hands. They settled on payment of one beef, one gun and a pair of blankets. One Indian went back with them to get the things. They were able to get everything but the pair of blankets. No one had much bedding. The Indian got discouraged and went back to camp. The squaw died and this caused a war… <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
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<br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom Robert Potter married a second, plural wife: <b style="">Agnes Myrtle Milross</b>.<a style="" href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Agnes, age 16, was living with the Gardner family in the 1850 census, her parents had died in 1848. She was divorced from her first husband, John Halmagh Van Wagoner. He evidently treated her poorly and she left him soon after their marriage in 1854. In asking Agnes to become his plural wife, he promised her that he would always care and provide for her.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Ransom Robert Potter and Agnes Millross Potter were:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Heber Carlos Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 20 May, 1856 in Springville, Utah, Utah. Died on 3 April 1936 in Ashton, Fremont, Idaho.<span style=""> </span>Married Julia Deseret Hophines,<a style="" href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> who was born on 17 July 1854 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Utah. They married on 28 October, 1878 in Salt Lake City.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Anne Emmaline Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on 5 August, 1865 in Springville, Utah, Utah. She died on 11 August, 1945 She married Franklin Samuel Robbins on 4 December 1881 in Cassia, Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">James Monroe Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on 19 October 1867 in Coalville, Summit, Utah. Died on 11 May, 1943 in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho. Married Henrietta S. Bird on 9 January 1893 in Teton, Fremont, Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Near the mid-1860’s Ransom and Agnes moved to Coalville. It is not known if Rhoda moved with them or stayed in Springville where members of the family still resided. Ransom lived in a dugout on the banks of the Weber River about three miles north of Coalville. Ike Potter also moved his residence to Coalville.<b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">History of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Isaac Smith Potter who was born 19 April 1833 in Burton, Geauga, Ohio. He died on 1 August, 1867 in Coalville, Summit, Utah. He married four times. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">First Wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">His first wife was <b style="">Mary Ford</b>. They married in 1853 in Salt Lake City. Mary was born on December 15, 1837 in Caldwell County, Missouri and died on December 9, 1855 in Springville, Utah County, Utah, probably in childbirth. Her parents are <b style="">Jonathan Ford</b>, born 24 February 1802 in Ohio, and <b style="">Rachel Robertson</b>, born around 1805 in Ohio. Jonathan and Rachel married on 16 April, 1826 in Bartholomew, Indiana. Jonathan Ford would die on May 3, 1851 in Springville, Utah, Utah. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Jonathan Ford and Rachel Robertson Ford were:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ester Ford</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born around 1827 in Indiana.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sarah Ford</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on April 17, 1830 in Columbus, Batholomew, Indiana. She died on May 8, 1851. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Margaret Jane Ford</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 17 April 1830 in Bartholomew, Indiana. She married Aaron Johnson on May 8, 1854 in Springville, Utah County, Utah.<a style="" href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rachel Robinson Ford</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 10 October 1835 in Bartholomew, Indiana. She also married Aaron Johnson on 25 April, 1852 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. She died on 17 February, 1878.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mary Ford</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on 15 December 1839 in Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Moroni Ford</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 15 December 1837 in Caldwell, Missouri.<a style="" href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Isaac Smith Potter and Mary Ford were:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Isaac Smith Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on December 9, 1955.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Second Wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The second wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.) was <b style="">Asenath Annette Lawrence</b>. They married in 1855. She was born on February 22, 1940 in Parry Pike County, Illinois.<a style="" href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> She came to Utah, by herself, in the Robert Wimmer Company in 1852, where she is listed as Acenith Lawrence.<a style="" href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> She died on May 26, 1878 in Springville, Utah, Utah.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.) and Asenath include:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Emily Miranda Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 19 November 1855 in Springville, Utah, Utah.<a style="" href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> She married John Abelbert Warner (1852-1934) on February 16, 1874 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. They had children.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">James Franklin Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on April 19, 1857 in Springville, Utah, Utah. He married Elizabeth Jane Winters (1861-1951) and they had a child. He died on 10 May 1935 in Milford, Utah. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rhoda Maria Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 13 December 1859 in Springville, Utah, Utah. She married James T. Clyde (1856-1919) on 16 December 1877. They had children. She died on 13 February, 1944 in Salt Lake City. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rosalia Nancy Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 7 November 1861 in Springville, Utah, Utah. She married John Henry Ferre (1858-1943) on 23 June 1880 in Salt Lake City. They had children. She died on 21 January 1948 in Provo, Utah, Utah. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bertha Melissa Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on 13 January 1863 in Springville, Utah, Utah. She married David William Holdaway (1851-1939) on 13 January 1883. They had a child. She died in August of 1901 in Price, Carbon, Utah. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">William Wallace Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on 25 September 1865 in Coalville, Summit, Utah. He married Sarah J. Burrows (1869-1962). He died on 7 February 1926 in Heber City, Summit, Utah.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Third Wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The third wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.) was <b style="">Amelia Ann Brown</b> (1837-1899). They married on 12 February 1856 in Salt Lake City. Amelia Ann Brown was born on June 19, 1839 in Wilmington, Newcastle, Delaware. Her father was probably <b style="">Isaac Seal Brown</b>, born around 1801. Her mother was probably <b style="">Lydia Miller</b>, born around 1815. Amelia Brown and her family were living in Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Pottawattamie, Iowa, in 1850 and 1853.<a style="" href="#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Isaac Seal Brown was born on December 1, 1806 in Wilmington, Newcastle, Delaware. He married Lydia Miller on June 2, 1830. He died on August 17, 1852. Lydia Miller was born on March 4, 1814 in New Holland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She died on April 11, 1886.<a style="" href="#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Isaac Seal Brown and Lydia (Miller) Brown, besides Amelia, included:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">William Brown</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born around 1839<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Edward Brown</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born around 1843<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rebecca Brown</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born around 1840<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mary Brown</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born around 1837 in Delaware.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fourth Wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The fourth wife of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.) was <b style="">Harriet Jane Gully</b> born on April 30, 1840 in Laurence, Mississippi and died around 1888 in San Bernardino, California. They married on August 2, 1859 in Salt Lake City. Harriet came to Utah, at the age of 9, with her father, <b style="">Samuel Gully</b>. The company was the Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849). Samuel Gully was born on May 27, 1809, and died of cholera on July 4, 1849 while en route to Utah. He was captain of a hundred. Samuel was 40 years old at the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">They reportedly<a style="" href="#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> traveled in a group of 7 people: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Samuel Gully</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, 40 years old, born 27 May, 1809. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jane Jones Frylick Gully</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on May 22, 1794.<a style="" href="#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> She died before April 13, 1881. She was probably Samuel’s first wife.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Martha Gully</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, 13 years old, born April 1836, died 15 December 1851. Martha is Harriet's sister. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ovanda Fuller Gully</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born 27 July, 1822, died 24 December 1856. This is a plural wife of Samuel Gully. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Samuel Gully</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, infant, born 1849. This is the son of Samuel Gully and Ovanda Fuller Gully.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Harriet Gully</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, 9 years old.<a style="" href="#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Unknown</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Note that there is a reference in the Brigham Young Company in 1848 to a Sarah Ann Fuller Gully<a style="" href="#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>, which says: “Her husband Samuel Gully remained in Winter Quarters and died en route to Utah in 1849.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The children of Isaac Smith Potter (Sr.) and Harriet Jane Gully Potter were:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Martha Viola Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born on June 19, 1859 in Utah. She married George W. Wilson on December 25, 1873 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California. She died on November 7, 1888 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Harriet Emiline Potter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, born September 24, 1863 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California. She died in 1898. The birth place of this child indicates that Harriet may not have been living with her husband in the years before his death, which occurred in 1867. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Who was Isaac Smith Potter?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There are well known stories regarding Isaac (or Ike as he was apparently known) and, depending on the viewpoint of the author, the stories differ: some view him as a cattle thief and criminal, some as a possible apostate, some as a possible government (US) agent, and some as an individual who may have been, at least partially, wronged by others. But, the general outline of what happened remains the same. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ogden Standard Examiner</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, <i style="">Union Vedette, Deseret News,</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></b><b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">United States Congressional Serial Set, Salt Lake Daily Tribune<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Isaac Smith Potter, Terror or Terrorized? The Rest of the Story</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> By Helen Wilson Swim, great-granddaughter of Isaac.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Helen, comfortable in her Mormon religion, would show that, contrary to established belief, Ike Potter was not an apostatized Mormon and an outlaw, but was in good standing with the Church. According to Helen Swim, most if not all of Ike Potter's problems were due to a lustful and revengeful Bishop Aaron Johnson who used religion as a pretext for his misdeeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The story of how Ike Potter came to lie dead on the main street of Coalville, Utah, his throat slashed from ear to ear in "blood atonement" is more than one tale. It was the struggle between two strong men. One of the men was Ike Potter, to his family a hard-working and beloved husband of four wives and a faithful member of the Mormon Church. To others he was an apostatized Mormon, the outlaw leader of the Ike Potter Gang and a Ute Indian sub-chief during the Blackhawk War.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The other man was Aaron Johnson, friend and counselor to Brigham Young, Mormon bishop of Springville, Utah, and General in the Nauvoo Legion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The murder of Ike Potter, it could not be other than murder, rent a once united Mormon family down the middle. Those strong in their religion yet loyal to the memory of their ancestor shake their heads in disbelief that fanatics used their beloved Mormonism as an excuse to commit a heinous crime. Others, disillusioned with Mormonism, would blame the Church not only for the murder of their father but for most crimes both great and small committed in frontier Utah and Idaho. Where lies the truth? Let the reader judge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Aaron Johnson, with four wives and a gaggle of children in 1853, settled Hobble Creek, later Springville, Utah. Bishop Johnson would later be blessed with 12 wives, three of them being teenage sisters he married at one time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As his name implies, Squash-Head was an exceedingly ugly Indian, ugly in deed as well as appearance. It is generally believed that Squash, described as the terror of the neighborhood, had killed and cannibalized a Mormon child and the peculiar shape of his head (for which he was named) convinced many settlers that he and his relatives were subhuman.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""> </span>In 1856 Squash-Head and other Indians went on a rampage of horse and cattle stealing and threatening settlers. Squash-Head was captured and held in Bishop Johnson's house.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shackled and held prisoner in Bishop Aaron Johnson's house in Springville, mysteriously had his throat slit `from ear to ear,' his guards claiming he committed suicide with a common table knife with which he had been breakfasting. Even among the Mormons `it was darkly hinted at the time that some white person had done the bloody deed.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In 1853 the Jonathan and Rachel Ford family rolled into Springville. Ford was prosperous. He cultivated a large spread and owned a fine herd of cattle. Ford had been in Springville only nine months when he, a daughter and a son died of black canker [diphtheria.] Aaron Johnson helped the widow Ford sow her crops. For his efforts, he harvested two of Ford's daughters. Rachel and Margaret Ford were added to the bishop's storehouse of wives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">However, despite Bishop Johnson's importuning and going to the effort of proving his devotion by having one of her suitors castrated, the fairest plum of them all, Mary Ford, spurned the bishop's advances. She liked Ike Potter.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">,</span><a style="" href="#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In 1854 Ike Potter was 21. He farmed with his father, Ransom, in Springville, Utah and defied the cupidity of Bishop Aaron Johnson by marrying 16-year-old Mary Ford and also 16-year-old Asenith Lawrence. Mary Ford died in childbirth the 9th of December, 1855. Ike's father, Ransom, raised the child, Isaac Smith Potter Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In 1856 Ike Potter added another wife, 18-year-old Amelia Ann Brown. Then in February, 1858, Ike made plans to have Amelia Ann, Asenith Lawrence, and the dead Mary Ford sealed to him by Brigham Young for time and eternity in the endowment house in Salt Lake City [the Mormon temple was not yet completed.] Later that year, Isaac married for the last time. His final wife was Harriet Jane Gully.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">At the time Ike was going to be sealed, Bishop Johnson had eight wives. Johnson asked Ike Potter to let him, Aaron Johnson, be sealed to the dead Mary Ford for eternity. There was a confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ike Potter was sealed to Mary Ford. That same year Bishop Johnson also was sealed to Mary Ford.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shortly thereafter, Ike Potter's legal troubles started. Ike's defenders aver that Ike was a good man and that all his woes were due to the malice of Bishop Johnson. Ike's detractors maintain that Ike was a rustler, murderer and renegade. The reader may decide which story to believe. What is readily apparent is that Ike was sorely treated by Mormon courts and kindly treated by gentile judges.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In March 1862, Bishop Johnson's son-in-law, William Miller, accused Ike of stealing his horse. The case was tried before the father-in-law, Bishop Aaron Johnson. Ike was found guilty and fined $400. A year later, in March 1863, Ike and a couple of pals were charged with larceny (rustling?). The pals got off but before Ike could be tried on this count, he was charged with murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A man named T. T. Barney had a couple of his horses run off by a gang of Indians led by Ike Potter. Barney's bishop, Albert King Thurber, advised Barney to "go get what property he could and go to work." That was in September of 1862. Barney went to get his stock back and subsequently got himself killed. Ike Potter and two Indians, Dick and Schicho, were charged with murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The same bishop, Thurber, was to testify at the trial. Two days before he testified he noted in his journal that "John Barney and Benjamin came to see me, said that it was reported that five or six Indians were blacked up [in war paint.] They thought that they were seeking their or some other person's life in consequence of one Isaac Potter being arrested and to have a trial for the murder of one T. T. Barney. The Indians were supposed to be his accomplices." Whether this had anything to do with the verdict is open to conjecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The trial was before Judge Zerrubabbel Snow. Bishop Thurber's testimony was "of a confession of Barney, the first Tuesday in September, that he [Potter] was connected with a gang of thieves in Springville and that Potter was the Captain of the organization reaching through the territory and that two horses delivered to him [Barney] were run off...." Thurber's testimony then continued to where he had told Barney to go get his property.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The trial lasted three days. Ike Potter, Dick and Schicho were found: Not Guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Not long after this trial, Chief Black Hawk and his men led several attacks against gentiles [non-Mormons]. The Indians plundered government property while large numbers of armed Mormons cheerfully watched while the Indians robbed their mutual enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gen. Connor sent troops up Spanish Fork Canyon after the marauders. "But Mormons, including one Isaac Potter, a cattle thief who would later figure prominently in encouraging and even planning some of Black Hawk's raids, alerted the Indians and thus thwarted Connor's plan for a surprise attack.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shortly thereafter, in Magistrate Court before Judge George Bean, a friend of Bishop Aaron Johnson, Ike and Newell Knight were found guilty of stealing "Snednik's cattle." Knight was fined $50, and Ike was sent to prison. However, Ike spent only a short time in prison. Gen. Connor had the gentile judge, Drake, release Ike so he could help in peace negotiations with the Indians.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In 1866 Judge Bean and his friend Bishop Johnson exacted revenge on Ike Potter. "We sold him out of house and home at Provo for selling liquor to Indians and hiring them to steal cattle.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Now homeless, Ike went to Coalville, where his father, Ransom, was living below the town in a dugout on an island in the Weber River.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Many in the Coalville area viewed with alarm the presence of Ike Potter in their town. In October 1866, several prominent men of Coalville met and formed a resolve to be rid of Ike Potter. Those at the meeting were: Jacob Hoffman, Jackson Redding, William Smith, Charles Livingston, Dick Eldredge [sic], and Joseph Brim. They bided their time until the opportune moment came to strike. All the while stories of Ike Potter and his gang flew through the Mormon populace.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sometime after the beginning of the Blackhawk War, Indians told Mormons that Potter and his men instructed them `to go down to Sanpete, and gather up a large lot of the horses and cattle there and drive them down East. And, they would be there and trade the horses and cattle to emigrants, and get them money, tobacco, whiskey and horses that would be their own. So, they went and got the horses and cattle, and drove them where the men wanted and the men sold them the way they said.'<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The following summer, Potter was described by whites at the Uintah Agency as having been drafted as `War Chief by angry Utes, and along with a handful of white ruffians, he was frequently seen with Black Hawk's brother, Mountain, and sometimes with Black Hawk himself. That same year, the extent of Potter's involvement with the raiders began to come clear, as Mormons learned that `four whites' were `coleaging' with the raiders. Ike Potter was suspected of being with the Indians in June 1866, at the battle of Thistle Valley in Spanish Fork Canyon. There, Black Hawk's men fought a pitched battle with a force of Mormon Militia.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> By 1867 Mormons living nearest the Uintah Reservation were convinced `the notorious renegade' Isaac Potter was the leader of a band of Ute raiders who were assisted by 15 whites.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the spring of 1867 Ike Potter was again in trouble. Stephan Nixon gave Ike on March 4th an assignment of 45 sacks of grain to be delivered to the army at Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Ike didn't deliver. Instead he stowed the assignment in Cache Cave, a large cave in Echo Valley. Nixon, worried about the fate of his grain, filed suit on May 3 for non-delivery and had another man go get the grain. Ike was ordered to pay $135.90 plus court costs. The consensus in the valley was that Ike had tried to steal the grain, as there is no other explanation as to why he didn't fulfill his contract.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Near the end of June 1867, Ike, accompanied by Chief Black Hawk's brother, Mountain, showed up at the home of Coalville's bishop (mayor) William W. Cluff.<span style=""> </span>Potter and Mountain claimed that they represented Chiefs Tabby, Sowiette and other reservation Indians. They demanded 15 beefs and a lot of flour.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The mayor and other Coalville settlers gave the two very little. Cluff wrote to President Brigham Young, "Potter is part of an organized band of thieves that steal stock from the residents, travelers and ... coal haulers.... They had infested the area for a long time, call themselves Latter-day Saints and had frequently been arrested but because of their cunning they evaded the law.... The request by Potter was simply a scheme to give him greater influence with the Indians.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It was probably at this meeting that Mountain grabbed the mayor's hat and began taunting him. "An Indian pulled his hat off, raised it on a pole in the middle of the street and a war-dance was had around it.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""> </span>However, Cluff kept his cool and told them that he could spare only one beef and a little flour and that was </span><a href="http://it/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">it</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. Piqued, Potter and the Indians rode off.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Seeking revenge, shortly after the incident with Cluff, the Indians made an attack on a sawmill on Chalk Creek, <st1:metricconverter productid="15 miles" st="on">15 miles</st1:metricconverter> from Coalville. Two Indians were killed and two Mormons slightly wounded. Dispatches as to the incident read, "Ike Potter, a notorious renegade white man, was the principal leader of these Indians.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">During the next few weeks several incidents occurred that, though hard to place in precise chronological order, were significant to the saga of Ike Potter. The time was ripe for the Coalville Conspirators to strike. The opening gambit was a rustling charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sent packing by Bishop Cluff and then repulsed at the sawmill raid on Chalk Creek, Ike Potter was in a foul mood when he learned that another charge had been laid upon him. Jacob Huffman (Huffman,) one of the conspirators, claimed that he had found where an animal had been killed on July 20 about <st1:metricconverter productid="200 yards" st="on">200 yards</st1:metricconverter> from Ransom Potter's dugout home on his Weber River Island. Mr. Wheaton, a neighbor, was missing a lame-footed red and white ox. August Nelson would testify that he was camped near Ransom Potter's house the night of July 19. The next morning, just before sunrise, Nelson saw a man drive a red and white ox of four or five years old from the hills and put it in Potter's corral. Then Ike Potter and another man, Charles Wilson, put a rope on the animal, and Wilson led while Ike followed as they took the ox to the river. A shot was then fired. A key witness to the happening, John Y Greene (Green), who could testify as to the identification of the animal, never showed for the upcoming trial.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ike Potter felt it was a bad rap. When word reached him that he and two of his sidekicks, Charles Wilson and John Walker, were to be charged with rustling, the trio took off for Fort Bridger to get help from the soldiers at that post.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On the way to the fort, Potter and his pals met a group of miners headed for Coalville. Andrew Miller, one of the miners, related that at this meeting Potter said "that the people of Coalville accused them of stealing and they were going to Bridger to ask protection from the soldiers. If they could not get it there they would call in Black Hawk and clear out Coalville." The story as told and enlarged upon in Coalville caused considerable apprehension.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Potter got no help at Fort Bridger. He did get a letter from the post commander, Lt. Col. Amon Mills that was found in Ike's pocket after he was murdered. Col. Mills' letter read: "July 26th, 67. I have just received your note. If you are charged with any crime and are pursued the best thing you can do is to come in and surrender yourself to Judge Carter and let the law run its course. No one shall do you any unlawful harm if I can prevent it.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[30]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When Ike Potter left Fort Bridger he sent a letter to his father, Ransom, back at Coalville. The mail carrier was John Y. Greene, the same man that would fail to show up and testify at Ike's rustling trial. The story around Coalville was that Greene "intercepted" a letter between Ike Potter and his father. How a man sworn and paid to deliver the mail can intercept a letter is beyond me. But then again during the years of the Reformation, little escaped the All-Seeing Mormon Eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The letter, of which no copy has been found, was produced at the investigation after the death of Ike Potter. Bishop Cluff would testify that the letter stated "that he (Potter) had just received a letter from Colonel Mills who promised to protect him and that if the damned Mormons hurt him, he, Mills, would send them all to hell the damned sons-of-bitches.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">About this time, Potter and his gang powwowed with a group of Indians on the Bear River. Supposedly, Black Hawk was with this group. The Indians later reported that Ike Potter with eight to 10 other white men rode into their camp on Bear River and wanted the Indians to go to Coalville with them. Potter said they were going to have some fun. The Indians thought there would be trouble and refused to go. Potter told them that if they would go with him they would have all the beef, mutton and whiskey they wanted. In this manner, Potter was able to recruit six or seven Indians.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ike Potter had put the fear of the Lord into the people of Coalville. J.C. Roundy, the Summit County sheriff, had a warrant for the arrest of Potter, Wilson and Walker for the rustling of Wheaton's ox. But when on the afternoon of July 28, 1867, word reached Roundy that Ike Potter with 15 white men and some Indians was camped on his father's island below town, the sheriff felt it prudent to form a posse to serve the arrest warrant.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deputy Sheriff Hawkins called for help on Capt. Alma Eldredge of the Coalville Cavalry (Mormon Militia.) Eldredge and his company (about 13 men) accompanied Hawkins and sneaked up on and surrounded Ike Potter and his gang.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> "Four men were tapped for the job of exterminating Potter and his gang, Chester Staley, John Staley, William H. Smith and Alma Eldredge, all known to be accurate riflemen.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[34]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Apparently, Ike Potter and his gang didn't know that they had been sneaked up on as nothing happened that night. The next morning John Staley walked into the outlaw camp, served the warrant and accepted the peaceful surrender of Potter, Wilson and Walker. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The indictment was read before Judge George G. Snyder. The trio pled innocent and was released on bond and the trial set for July 31.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As previously noted, at the trial on the 31st, the conspirators' main witness, the mailman John Y. Greene, didn't show. Because of this, the case was continued until August 10. The prisoners were again released on bail.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The conspirators were frantic. Their pigeon was about to fly the coop. A man was sent galloping to Salt Lake City to get the help of the Danite Arza Hinkley. The conspirators got Isaac Shaw on behalf of his business partner, Williams, to allege that he also had a missing cow stolen by Potter, Wilson and Walker.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On August 1, Potter, Wilson and Walker came to the courthouse to answer to the new charges. Because Judge Snyder had an ongoing case, they were remanded to jail until the next day. Joshua Wiseman and James Mahoney were to guard them in the rock school building. The pigeons were back in the coop. Now, if only Arza Hinkley would get there in time.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Midnight, from the north hooves pounded down the main street of Coalville. Ten grim men reined in before the rock school. The door was kicked in. Wiseman and Mahoney scurried to one side. "Come out!" barked Arza Hinkey. The story as told by Judge R. N. Baskin:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"Isaac Potter, Charles Wilson and John Walker, residing at Coalville, were apostate Mormons. Walker was a boy about nineteen years of age. These three persons had previously been arrested for alleged thefts, and in every instance had been discharged by Judge Snyder, who at the time was probate judge of Summit County. In August of this year, they were again arrested on the charge of having stolen a cow. While they were under guard in the schoolhouse at Coalville, ten persons, armed, appeared about twelve o'clock at night at the building and ordered the prisoners to leave. Upon reaching the street they were placed in single file, a short distance apart, and in each intervening space two of the armed persons placed themselves. The others took positions at the front and rear of the procession thus formed. In this order they marched along the principal street of Coalville, through the mainly inhabited part of the town. Arriving at the outskirts, and their captors continuing to move on, Potter turned around and said to Walker: `John, they are going to murder us! Wouldn't you like to see your mother before you die?' Thereupon one of the armed men marching behind Potter thrust the muzzle of a shotgun against Potter's mouth. Potter in terror, shouted `murder!' Whereupon the armed man discharged the gun against the body of Potter at a range so close as to cause his instant death. At the discharge of the gun, both Wilson and Walker broke away and ran for their lives. Wilson was overtaken and killed at the edge of the Weber River. As Walker made his escape, a charge from a shotgun grazed his breast and lacerated his hand and wrist. He was wearing neither coat nor vest, and the charge set his shirt on fire and as he ran he extinguished the fire by the blood from his wounds. He was an athletic youth and soon distanced his pursuers. Although a number of shots were fired at him in the pursuit, he reached the river without further injury, swam across, and thereby escaped assassination. After numerous hardships he succeeded in reaching Camp Douglas, where the commanding officer, upon hearing what had taken place gave him support and protection.”</span><a style="" href="#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ike Potter lay dead on the main street of Coalville, a gaping wound in his chest, in blood atonement, his throat slit from ear to car. His 10-year-old son, Charley, looked down and three times called his father's name. He then would have taken his father home but was prevented from moving the body by men who would later say that no one claimed Ike Potter's body. The outlaw was buried face down outside the cemetery north of town.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Later, a dam covered the burial site. Still later, during a low-water year, the bones washed up at "Potter's Point," and for years were displayed in the Summit County sheriff's office. They were finally buried in an unmarked grave in the Provo, Utah, Pioneer Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Word of the murder was leaked to the gentile judge, John Titus. There were to be hearings. The two principal government witnesses were the escaped John Walker and a man known only as "Negro Tom."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">John Walker hung around Fort Douglas, letting his wounds heal and awaiting time to testify. Someone slipped him a note, "Your mother is deathly ill. Come immediately." He never made it to Coalville. He was never heard from again.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Negro Tom, who had been brought to the Territory by the Mormons as a slave, and lived many years in the family of Brigham Young and other dignitaries called upon some Federal officials and stated that he could give important evidence in regard to some of these murders. A few days after, his body was found upon the `bench' two miles east of the city, horribly mangled, his throat cut from ear to ear, and on his breast a large plaque marked: "Let White Women Alone.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In all such cases of assassination, Mormons can command abundant evidence that the victim has `insulted a Mormon woman.' Thus the best witness of these crimes was removed, and the proof put beyond the reach of earthly courts.</span><a style="" href="#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[36]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hearings were held before Judge Titus, but as the key witnesses were gone there was no testimony of substance. The guards Wiseman and Mahoney said that Potter and the others tried to escape and that they shot at the fleeing prisoners but didn't think they hit them. Bishop Cluff said that, accompanied by John Y. Greene, he left town about midnight to amputate the leg of a boy and didn't get back until after everything was over. All the other men of Coalville testified that when the shootings occurred they were home in bed. They mocked the judge and got away with it. The Danite Arza, Hinkley was installed as probate judge of Summit County. And that was the end of Ike Potter, the father of Lava's first permanent settler.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There is a story whispered among the Mormon Potters that provides some comfort. The story is that shortly after the death of Ike, daughter Anna Potter came running in from the privy shouting, "I saw daddy! I saw daddy!"<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When questioned, the child said she saw her father standing out by the privy. "He had a bandage around his neck and was wearing a green apron." The neck bandage is obvious. The green apron, to an adult practicing Mormon, signifies the endowment ceremony. The child's vision meant that Ike Potter died in good standing with his church and was in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The effect Ike’s murder had on the Potter family was profound, with elements of tragedy as well as redemption. Charlie Potter, Ike’s 10 year old son, when he saw his father’s body with its throat slashed ear to ear, swore he would seek vengeance on those responsible for the act. However, Charlie eventually fell in love with Finis Wakely, a faithful Mormon girl, and married her. He eventually became the first LDS Bishop in the Downey, Idaho region. Charlie also learned a few lessons from his father, as he was always kind to the Indians and gave generously to them. Charlie’s mother, Amelia, lived in fear the rest of her life, troubled by nightmares. She is buried in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, on the “Catholic” side of the cemetery. Ransom’s eleven year old son, Heber Carlos, remained bitter towards the LDS faith until later in life when his deceased wife came to him in a dream, where she, who had been a faithful member, implored him to join the church so they could be together in the next life. Apparently the love of his wife at that stage of his life overcame his resentment and he was baptized. Lastly, Ike’s death seems to have shaken the faith of the family patriarch, Ransom Robert Potter. There’s a copy of the ordination of Ransom to the office of Elder. At first glance it appears that this is an ordination certificate issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Indeed the printing says a much. It<span style=""> </span>says Ransom was ordained by A.H. Smith, E. C. Brand and W. W. Blair. At the bottom, the certificate is signed by W. W. Blair, President of the Pacific Mission and Alex W. Smith, Asst. Pres. of the Pacific Mission. It turns out, his Pacific Mission was part of an effort of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of<span style=""> </span>Latter-Day Saints (RLDS) to convert the followers of Brigham Young. W.W. Blair, was an apostle in the RLDS church, Alex W. Smith, was a son of Joseph Smith and RLDS member, and E.C. Brand was an RLDS member who left Utah and the LDS church in 1854. Maybe Ransom still had faith in the teachings of Joseph Smith but did not want to be a part of the LDS church, who many in the family, possibly including Ransom, blamed for Ike’s murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ransom Potter died November 15, 1884 in Albion, Idaho and is buried there in a field called Pioneer Cemetery. This plot of ground is high sagebrush on land presently owned by Larry Mahoney and located approximately two and one-half miles southeast of Albion, and around one mile west of the old Stage-Freight station is referred to as the Pioneer Cemetery. It is unfenced with two groups of unmarked graves, barely visible now due to the ravages of time and elements. In the first group lies buried six persons including Ransom R. Potter, born 1807 at Waterbury, Connecticut and died Nov. 15, 1883. His wife was Rhoda E. Farrell Potter. He was known as "Stiff-Neck Potter" and was a freighter between Kelton, Utah and Boise, Idaho on the old stage-freight route.</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">A passerby would not realize that anyone lay buried here in this small almost forgotten cemetery. All that remains are a few rocks used as markers and a rotting piece or two of lumber, which may at one time have been part of a fence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->
<br /> <hr size="1" align="left" width="33%"> <!--[endif]--> <div style="" id="ftn1"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Note that in the 1850 census of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Mercer County</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Missouri</st1:state></st1:place>, Thomas Potter is not living with this family.<span style=""> </span>He would have been about 7 years old. I am not sure if he is a brother or had some other relationship to the family.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn2"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Early LDS database, and Overland Pioneer Trail</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn3"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This is child we have as Rhoda Emmaline Farrell Potter. Information from Verla Ostbert, 12 April 1974, Film #164620:</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn4"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I am not sure who James Potter was – not the son of Ransom Potter and his second wife, who was not born until 1867, </p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn5"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Life Story of Agnes Millross by Verla Potter Ostbert</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn6"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Her name may be Hofheins.<span style=""> </span>She was first married to Nelson Lewis Brown, and had a child, George Newton Brown on 14 October 1869. They apparently divorced since he did not die until some years after she married Heber Carlos Potter.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn7"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Interestingly in the Pioneer Overland Trail database there is an “Infant Ford”, unaccompanied by any other people with the surname of Ford, who dies on the trail to <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place> with the Aaron Johnson family.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn8"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Moroni</st1:city></st1:place> and Mary were twins.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn9"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> From her gravestone. </p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn10"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Pioneer <st1:place st="on">Overland</st1:place> database</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn11"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Note that this child is not living with Aseneth in the 1870 census, although she does not marry until 1874.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn12"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> From the Early LDS database.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn13"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> From the Early LDS database.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn14"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Pioneer <st1:place st="on">Overland</st1:place> database</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn15"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This may be wrong, as some family history files have her birth date as around 1801, based on the Hebron Ward Record of Members.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn16"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> See Family Tree under individual members of this family for more information.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn17"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Possibly an older sister to Ovanda Fuller Gully, and another plural wife of Samuel Gully?<span style=""> </span>She was born on October 24, 1815 and died on March 15, 1897.<span style=""> </span></p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn18"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Peterson</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place>’s Black Hawk War.<span style=""> </span>p. 72.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn19"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Peterson</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place>’s Black Hawk War,<span style=""> </span>p. 73.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn20"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Potter, Charles. Potter Family History as told by Charley Potter to his eldest son Luther, undated, Provided by <st1:city st="on">Nancy</st1:city> Lee Hendricks, <st1:place st="on">Po</st1:place>tter descendant, August, 2001. </p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn21"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Helen Swim, p. 11</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn22"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Peterson</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place>’s Black Hawk War,<span style=""> </span>p. 38.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn23"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid., pp. 34-36.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn24"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid., pp. 302-305,</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn25"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid., pp. 206-207.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn26"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid., pp. 342-3.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn27"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Tullidge, Edw. W., Tullidge’s Histories, Volume II, <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Salt</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Lake</st1:placetype> <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">C</st1:placename>i</st1:placename>ty</st1:city></st1:place>, 1889, p. 142.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn28"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Hampshire, Bradley and Roberts, A History of<span style=""> </span><st1:city st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><st1:city st="on">Summit</st1:city></st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:city>, <st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on">Ut</st1:state>ah</st1:state> State Historical Society, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Salt</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Lake</st1:placetype> <st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><st1:placename st="on">C</st1:placename>i</st1:placename>t</st1:placename>y</st1:place></st1:city>, Utah, 1998, pp. 22-23. I have not seen this.<span style=""> </span>Inter-library loan. </p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn29"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Tullidge, p. 133.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn30"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref30" name="_ftn30" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[30]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Swim, p. 62.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn31"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid., p. 56.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn32"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref32" name="_ftn32" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid., p. 63.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn33"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref33" name="_ftn33" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Daughters of the <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Utah</st1:place></st1:state> Pioneers, Lesson for October, 1964. I have not seen this. </p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn34"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref34" name="_ftn34" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[34]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Bleyle, <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Krista</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">H.</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Salt</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Lake</st1:placetype></st1:place> Tribune, September 24, 1997. I have not seen this. </p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn35"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Baskin, R.M. Life in <st1:state st="on">Utah</st1:state> or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism, National Publishing Company, <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Boston</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">MA</st1:state></st1:place>, 1872, pp. 211-212.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn36"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="#_ftnref36" name="_ftn36" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[36]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid.</p> </div> </div> Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-48050369335313992012010-01-09T10:01:00.000-08:002010-01-17T17:20:00.936-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">My Fortin Family</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic;">by Patricia (Fortin) Wilson</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">This is the beginning of the Fortin Family History. Many of our French Canadian ancestors came from a small province called Perche in France. It was bordered on the North by Normandy, and on the South and East by Beauce.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">We find our ancestor first mentioned in <i>Memoires de la Societe Genealogique. </i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julien Fortin dit Bellefontaine</span><b> </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">was baptized at St Cosme de Vair, found at the border of the perche on the 9 February 1621. In 1650, 29 years old Julien embarked for New France, he was at sea for about 3 months. On the 11 November 1652, Julien married Genevieve Gamache at Cape Tourmente. They had eight sons and four daughters.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The second child of Julien and Genevieve, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Charles Fortin </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">was born in 1656 and married Xainte Cloutier on 11 November 1681 at Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada. Charles and Xainte Cloutier had 10 children. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Jean Baptiste Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, son of Charles and Xainte Cloutier, was born 25 September 1701 at L'Islet.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On 25 October 1723, he married Francoise Belanger. They were the parents of eleven children. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Charles Francois Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> born 13 January 1737, was the son of Jean Baptiste Fortin and Francoise Belanger. He was married on the 20 September 1761 to Louise Madeleine Pain, daughter of Jean Pain and Marie Josephte Brisson. They were the parents of 12 children. The second child of the Charles Francois Family, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Charles Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> was born 29 April 1763. He married Josephete Pelletier 5 July 1785 at L'Islet. Charles and Josephte had 6 children. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Charles Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, son of Charles and Josephte Pelletier, was married the 5 March 1810 to Marie Louise Bernier. They were the parents of 6 children. The last child of Charles and Marie Louise Bernier, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Majorique Fortin </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">was married on 9 February 1847 at St Henri to Theotiste Bussieres. Among their nine children, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Philias Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> was born on 24 August 1853. On the 28</span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> of June 1875, Philias married Arthemise Charbonneau, minor daughter of Moise Charbonneau and Aurelie Audet.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Philias Fortin and family came to Minnesota from Canada about 1885. They went to Stillwater, Minnesota. Philias was a carpenter, and helped build the prison. Later they moved to Duluth, Minnesota and settled on Park Point. Four children were born in Canada: Rosanna 1876, Amanda (Maude) 1878, Domina (Damon) 1880, and Hormidas (Medous)1881. The other children were born in Minnesota: Albert Joseph 1886, Clara 1887, Belle 1890, Virginia 1892, Agnes 1893, and Eugene 1895.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2Idias7-sM9ZYV3by3d_1eNxPpA30cuK-N8RjA6ltVX0TbiyGvMzl45CrJOnFfT_oN0OHEn51ULB3Y6CivmVbL0zomhQQy0ef9V3eVBVyY_YV6Sp_3Mpw_T-Q2xOyWAjUeIfTitAVbSH/s1600-h/Philias+fortin+family.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2Idias7-sM9ZYV3by3d_1eNxPpA30cuK-N8RjA6ltVX0TbiyGvMzl45CrJOnFfT_oN0OHEn51ULB3Y6CivmVbL0zomhQQy0ef9V3eVBVyY_YV6Sp_3Mpw_T-Q2xOyWAjUeIfTitAVbSH/s320/Philias+fortin+family.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427880605898894370" border="0" /></a><b><span style="font-style: normal;">A short history of Duluth</span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Little did Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, know that when he landed on Minnesota Point on June 27, 1696, that he marked the spot where almost 200 years later the canal would be dug through the point to allow ships to enter the harbor of St Louis Bay and open up the future world port of Duluth. Permanent settlers first came in 1850's. Indian villages dotted the area. The Sioux and Chippewa Indians lived along the wooden shores of Minnesota Point. In 1853 the land was still owned by the Indians, then in 1854 the Indians signed a treaty at La Pointe, giving up their tribal rights to the land. There came a steady migration of hardy pioneers to what is now called Duluth.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the place where our Ancestor Philias Fortin and family settled. Philias began to build rowboats and then set up a boatworks on 10 Street, there the family lived, one house on the property contained the boatworks. Arthemise Charbonneau deceased in Duluth, Minnesota, the 28 March 1907 at 48 years of age. Philias Fortin, 87 years old, of 1018 Minnesota Avenue, a resident here for 55 years, died in a local hospital.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Albert Joseph Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, son of Philias and Arthemise Charbonneau was married 7 February 1907 to Susan Belle Shearer, daughter of Samuel Shearer and Elizabeth Irvine. Their children were: Roy Archibald 1907, Milton Paul 1911, Helen Margaret 1913, Mary Elizabeth 1915, Catherine Jane 1917, and Virginia Agnes 1922.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxZ_myejbTtpA9OkbRKPyb1Y9O49KOq66RA1IEXAxJc7mUdvT3Pw-nS7KtK2e3smgq11HXNy06sikBXXGrMQrWx_Ai3hbne7JTiIRAdvBesndW-dzbDJIf-o1ut425zJIsir_qRSg6IU-/s1600-h/duluth+bridge+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxZ_myejbTtpA9OkbRKPyb1Y9O49KOq66RA1IEXAxJc7mUdvT3Pw-nS7KtK2e3smgq11HXNy06sikBXXGrMQrWx_Ai3hbne7JTiIRAdvBesndW-dzbDJIf-o1ut425zJIsir_qRSg6IU-/s320/duluth+bridge+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427882512668769858" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Fortin's set up a boatworks, and the Shearer's established a grocery store. Most supplies were obtained by rowing across the bay to the general store. At that time you could row across the bay or ride the “basket bridge”, which carried cars, horses, wagons, and pedestrians across the canal. A bridge was built in 1904 to 1929, the Aerial Bridge, carried all traffic across the canal. In 1929 the Aerial Ferry Bridge was remodeled to become the Aerial Lift Bridge. The Duluth Ship Canal, with its unique bridge, is the landmark for the Head of the Lakes. It salutes every ship entering and leaving the harbor. Duluth's historic Aerial Bridge, the famous landmark of the largest fresh water harbor in the world, has been honored by the National Register of Historic Places.</span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8lQRh9B5j2d7N1xtE5Gee5W9m132dfMqgY5e6ekUsFdwm4iRdiUP0RXfDTPGOcD4jEKxOuNeb66PTqLcYr-jVMK2gkIrJiRupJ1fE348FCRvaAkMmVMCtzm5DVTK0ChddWDkmcX2NPRv/s1600-h/Duluth10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8lQRh9B5j2d7N1xtE5Gee5W9m132dfMqgY5e6ekUsFdwm4iRdiUP0RXfDTPGOcD4jEKxOuNeb66PTqLcYr-jVMK2gkIrJiRupJ1fE348FCRvaAkMmVMCtzm5DVTK0ChddWDkmcX2NPRv/s320/Duluth10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424803191864646882" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-style: normal;">Newspaper article: Duluth Traffic Victim is Dead</span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mrs. Albert J. Fortin, 57 years old of 728 Lake Ave. So., died in a Duluth hospital from injuries received when she was struck by an automobile a month ago. The mishap occurred at 11:30 p.m. On March 30, accounted for the fourth traffic death of the year. Coroner J.W. Ekblad said that death was due to the accident.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mrs. Fortin had been a resident of Duluth for 54 years. She came from hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was 3 years old. Surviving are her husband Albert, two sons, Roy and Milton, four daughters, Mrs, Oliver Mann (Mary), Helen, Catherine and Virginia. A sister, Miss Jessie shearer, two brothers, William Shearer and Samuel Shearer, and five grandchildren. Died 1 May 1940.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Albert joseph Fortin 81, died Sunday 26 May 1968 in a Duluth Hospital. He was born in Stillwater and a Duluth resident 75 years. He retired from Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Co. Ore Docks, after 50 years. He is survived by two sons Roy and Milton, and four daughters, Helen M. Fortin, Catherine J. Fortin, Mrs Oliver Mann (Mary) and Mrs Arthur Lauth (Virginia). A sister Mrs. Wm. Plotnicky (Belle), seven grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Roy Archibald Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, son of Albert Joseph and Susan Belle Shearer, was born 23 May 1907. When growing up on Park Point his close friends were the Indians. When he was a young man he was nearly blinded by a gun shot in the face. Some occupations he had were, seaman, ore dock worker, sang and danced at theatre and later drove trucks. He met his wife Helen Gertrude Smith when he was 17 years old, they went together for 7 years and were engaged on 25 December 1931. They married 25 April 1932. They had one child: </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Patricia Yvonne Fortin</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEYuSRnXNL9vviUTUwhhvMMQ00XfTQg5htx-gCxMGVTO6EdYWeIRGZBUhtR9Fv1V75iWrLPX__g8kQmrvEOpjxUle_zqQ1A6eRHV1qH-JFOCoxzpl8FSg_o9UxlQBJFf_stbm3FQkjIBB/s1600-h/4+generation+fortins.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEYuSRnXNL9vviUTUwhhvMMQ00XfTQg5htx-gCxMGVTO6EdYWeIRGZBUhtR9Fv1V75iWrLPX__g8kQmrvEOpjxUle_zqQ1A6eRHV1qH-JFOCoxzpl8FSg_o9UxlQBJFf_stbm3FQkjIBB/s320/4+generation+fortins.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427882510654905554" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">4 generations - Albert, Roy, Patricia, Michael<br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Roy Archibald Fortin and Helen Gertrude Smith were divorced and both remarried at a later date. Helen Gertrude Smith Fortin Mahan, age 63, died Monday 22 January 1968 in a Phoenix, Arizona hospital. She had resided on Park Point for 35 years. Before moving to Arizona, she had resided in Chicago. Surviving are her husband Harry Mahan, a daughter, Mrs. Norman Wilson (Patricia), a brother David Smith, Rochester, Minnesota, and a sister, Mrs. William Watts (Ida), and four grandchildren. </span></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Roy Archibald Fortin, age 84, died Thursday 19 September 1991, in the Surf and Sand Health Center. He was born in Duluth and worked in the trucking business for 30 years. He owned his own truck. His trucking company eventually merged with Centry Trucking Company. His first wife, Helen Smith Fortin, his second wife, Jean Murley Fortin, and his third wife, Mary Betty Fortin, all died previously. He is survived by a daughter Patricia Fortin Wilson, of Springville, Utah, a brother, Milton, of Seattle, Washington, and four sisters, Mary Mann of Greenville, California, Virginia Lauth of Bremerton, Washington, and Helen and Catherine Fortin of Duluth, Minnesota, four grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.</span></span></p>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-84517714268518117322010-01-01T15:51:00.000-08:002010-01-13T06:49:02.057-08:00<div align="justify">George Washington Wilson was born 27 March 1845 in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Montery</span></span>, Highland Virginia. He traveled out West to seek his fame and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">fortune</span>. Married Martha Viola Potter Atkinson(1859-1888) 25 December 1875 in San <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Bernardino</span></span>, San <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Bernardino</span></span>, California. They had six children William Robert Wilson(1875-1956), Bertha Viola Wilson(1877-1910), Clara Olive Wilson (1879-1967), George Washington Wilson Jr(1881-1925), Maude Wilson(1883-1940), James Elbert Wilson(1888-1963). He died 27 February 1916 in Florence, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Pinal</span></span>, Arizona and is buried in the Tempe Arizona Double Butte Cemetery.<br /><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikFAOHUCYwM-bNQY6miXOrJJmii2iV49QegxpVmxyOl_Ce33DZ9LJ-qweITX40VF0oSDrA9U_Ru5Awiu39YMRDgyjdi4AU4vKhRfrw2pQKqRGg0BIPozOfyivEwVH7uYHOPpyMlWIGxMUQ/s1600-h/George+Washington+Wilson+1a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421924419240073058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 241px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikFAOHUCYwM-bNQY6miXOrJJmii2iV49QegxpVmxyOl_Ce33DZ9LJ-qweITX40VF0oSDrA9U_Ru5Awiu39YMRDgyjdi4AU4vKhRfrw2pQKqRGg0BIPozOfyivEwVH7uYHOPpyMlWIGxMUQ/s320/George+Washington+Wilson+1a.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Around 1883, Tempe’s town fathers, including Judge Charles Trumbull Hayden was first lobbying the Territorial legislature for a normal school, he knew that his chances would improve if the land for the proposed school was a gift to the territory. The bill to create the normal School would provided $5,000 for construction and $3,500 for two years operation expenses. However, the community of Tempe had to donate a site to the Territory for the school. The land Hayden wanted belonged to pioneer George Washington Wilson, a Tempe butcher of modest means who kept cattle on a 20 acre pasture awaiting slaughter. Hayden felt this was the perfect site for a normal school-five acres just south of Eighth Street (today’s University Drive). The five-acre plot, which was described as “a half-cleared patch of ground watered by the original Wilson Ditch…with a little trampled and thirsty alfalfa on it and plenty of cactus, creosote and mesquite grove,” was part of Wilson’s 20-acre pasture. Originally the bill had required a donation of only 5 acres. Funds were raised by the townsfolk in Tempe to purchase five acres of the pasture of George and Martha Wilson for $500. But apparently unknown opponents to the idea of a normal school raised the requirement to 20 acres before the bill was finalized. In the spirit that has characterized so many of the citizens of Tempe, then and throughout the history of Tempe, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Wilsons</span></span> gave up their entire 20 acres. In reality, they endowed the new school with 15 acres. Thus allowing 33 students to meet in a single room. </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421924429411386594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8rGg7DKXCYwhJCqOr_sikCnfJ3tEdPjMYr-zjqfjH2QAAcnFQ1hocF7RE7x0JKZaNJY1QwC9y7Ksq_pe5DvVF7W8G82WsyyTfFO4-GsFTADUB2qkHmpvdvgz3gv-QAyT9Y1yvsJ4Rylp/s320/tempe+normal.jpg" border="0" /><br />The institution opened the doors to it's four room school building for the first class of 33 students on February 8, 1886. The Normal School's original mission was to train teachers to serve in Arizona's public schools, and graduates were awarded a teaching certificate. Tuition was waived for all students who would sign a contract promising they would seek employment at those institutions. </div><br /><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421924416818141858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 314px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlwoP-ikrzUcot0BiVgreFee4SklxyQ6keksHaBR2-uZrAcaHtSi9HoQ-KLNmE-6UOy9pd3YDW2-4cUx6skKJS65g7XKS6px8rQkBHrC1yK7IXzmnONdP0-nRgJjY_jcvqL3DQXh6okPbh/s320/George+Washington+Wilson.jpg" border="0" /><br />Without George Washington Wilson, there would be no Wilson Hall today—and there would be no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">ASU</span></span>. Their cattle grazed on the school grounds for several years after the school opened in 1886, and Wilson strengthened his ties with the future university by working as maintenance supervisor for 25 years, until his death in 1916. During his years as caretaker—and security officer—he built a corral for the horse teams of the Normal School students. Tragedy struck the generous butcher in 1885, when the Wilson’s two-story house at the foot of Hayden Butte burned, and again in 1888, when his wife died in childbirth and left him to rear their six children alone. </div><br /><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421924422835231634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQyfq_i4o69XdHfgzrjQ7HSOumIjiReWgo5gM2sz00jKXv0tz9cX6FxNCDX7m0aBBSdCk12CMDegywXBrnyMUGUe7cp0DgEizwrXmYbwatIIpmsXQmfCemYJ3x_JNEKwgqLbPU28m_IeJK/s320/wilson+hall.jpg" border="0" /><br />In 1956, Wilson Hall was dedicated as a women’s residence and memorial to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ASU's</span></span> first benefactor. Just as progress changed pastureland to campus, growth transformed Wilson Hall from dormitory to office and classroom building in 1972. Today Wilson Hall houses offices for the College of Public Programs and the Graduate College. There’s a bronze plaque at the entry to the College of Public Programs commemorating the dedication of the building.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421934831454805538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnwAvp8riHd4bD8POrWVfsAN7UTkbONsRj4Rbadnkk5SjbxtS0GSF8jQIeSjRhno97LBpWPd1JMI0_CJKTEeaqGwDV7LTnzp25QMGgr6-S5iFoXynOryliQ9LKcIujACo8Bdd_mH5oTRjy/s320/George+Washington+Wilson+death+cert.jpg" border="0" /></div></div>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-1447091063138663722009-12-31T16:21:00.000-08:002010-01-13T07:03:50.261-08:00<div align="justify">The Wilson family comes from the area of Doe Hill Virginia, located in what is now Highland County, near the West Virginia border. Located West of the Tidewater and Piedmont regions to the East and has Shenandoah Mountain on the east and the Allegheny Front on the West. This area is beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains (known in Old Virginia as the “Transmountaine”). Its geographic features are therefore very much like those of the northern county. But since its valleys are crossed by the series of saddle-ridges that separate the waters of the Potomac from those of the James, the average elevation is greater and the climate is cooler. Rather than cross such a formidable physical barrier, most early settlers came southerly up the valley across the Potomic River from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Many followed the Great Wagon Trail, also known as the Valley Pike (U.S. Route 11 today). The first line between Pendleton and Augusta followed the cross-divide and was consequently a natural boundary.1, 2<br /><br />Even after Virginia and the other 12 colonies won their independence from Great Britain after the Revolutionary War, the area remained sparsely populated. The formation of Highland in 1847 was not so much because Pendleton and Bath were too long as because the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike had been opened in 1838. This circumstance gave the Highland area an important advantage. Engineered by Claudius Crozet through the mountainous terrain, it was a toll road partially funded by the Virginia Public Works. The Turnpike formed an important link between the upper Shenandoah Valley with the Ohio River.2, 1<br /><br />The most conspicuous events of the Indian wars were a battle near the head of the North Fork, the attack on the home of William Wilson on Jackson's River, and the building of Fort George on the farm of L. M. McClung. Control of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike became crucial during the American Civil War (1861-1865). By all accounts, documented in many letters home from young troops, a miserable winter in 1861 was spent by the Union and Confederate troops holding apposing high elevation positions along the road. The Battle of McDowell, May 8, 1862, the first Confederate victory of Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign was fought here, and the raids by Federal Cavalry in 1863 and 1864.1, 2<br /><br />It has been confusing to me trying to find out the county name for this area because of the growth of the state and the changing boundaries of the counties along with the creation of new counties throughout the early years of Virginia’s history. Here is a short history of what I could find for the Doe Hill area so I was able to place the proper county with the year of birth, marriage, and death of my ancestors. Highland County was formed from Pendleton County in 1847. Pendleton County was created in 1788 from Rockingham County. Rockingham County was established in 1778 from Augusta County. Augusta County was formed in 1738 from Orange County. Orange County was established in 1734 from a portion of Spotsylvania County. And finally, Spotsylvania County was established in 1721 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William Counties.<br /><br />Sources:<br />1. “The History of Highland County” by Oren F. Morton, 1922<br />2. From Wikipedia on Highland County, Virginia</div>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-88349436432886082852009-12-27T13:23:00.000-08:002009-12-30T11:56:49.362-08:00William Wilson Descendants<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:85%;" >Descendants of William Wilson</span></div><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1.</span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>William Wilson</strong></span> (b.1728-Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, USA; d.1802-, Pendleton, Virginia, USA)</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">sp: <span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Mary Devericks</strong></span> (b.1736-Rockingham, Virginia, USA; m.1755; d.1820)<br />..<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">2. </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>James Eli Wilson</strong></span> </span><span style="font-size:78%;">(b.1758-</span><span style="font-size:78%;">Rockingham, </span><span style="font-size:78%;">Virginia, USA</span><span style="font-size:78%;">; d.181</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> 0-Doe </span><span style="font-size:78%;">Hill, Pendleto</span><span style="font-size:78%;">n(now </span><span style="font-size:78%;">Highland), Vir</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ginia, USA</span><span style="font-size:78%;">)</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">..sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Elizabeth Hempenstall</span></strong> (b.1768-,Augusta, Virginia, USA; m.1785; d.1838-Doe Hill, PNH, Virginia, USA)<br />.....<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">3. </span><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Ralph Wilson</span></strong> (b.1790-Doe Hill, Rockingham, Virginia, USA; d.1871-Pleasants, West Virginia, USA)<br />.....sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Nancy Elizabeth Welch</span></strong> (b.1794-Doe Hill, Rockingham, Virginia, USA; m.1808)<br />........<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">4. </span><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">James Wilson</span></strong> (b.1808-Bull Pasture Mtn, Pendleton, Virginia, USA; d.1860-, Highland, Virginia, USA)<br />........sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Phoebe Hicks</span></strong> (b.1803-Doe Hill, Highland, Virginia, USA; m.1830; d.1869-, Highland, Virginia, USA)<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">............<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">5.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">George Washington Wilson</span></strong> (b.1845-Monterey, Highland, Virginia, USA; d.1916-Florence, Pinal, AZ, USA)<br />............sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Martha Viola Atkinson Potter</span></strong> (b.1859-Springville, Utah, Utah, USA; m.1873; d.1888-Phoenix, M, AZ, USA)<br />................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">6</span>. <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">William Robert Wilson</span></strong> (b.1875-San Bernardino,San Bernardino, CA, USA; d.1956-Vista, S, CA, USA)<br />.................sp: Ennis<br />.................sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Amelia Mercier</span></strong> (b.1882-Globe, Gila, Arizona, USA; m.1905; d.1930-Globe, Gila, AZ, USA)<br />....................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">7.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Fred Robert Wilson</span></strong> (b.1906-Globe, Gila,Arizona, USA; d.1974-La Mesa, San Diego, CA, USA)<br />.....................sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Mable Lambert</span></strong> (b.1909-Globe, Gila, Arizona, USA; m.1925)<br />........................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">8.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Norman Edward Wilson</span></strong> (b.1932-Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA)<br />.........................sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Patricia Yvonne Fortin</span></strong> (b.1932-Duluth, St Louis, Minnesota, USA; m.1953)<br />............................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">9.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">William Roy Wilson</span></strong> (b.1957-Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, USA)<br />.............................sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Laurie Colleen Smith</span></strong> (b.1961-Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, USA; m.1981)<br />..............................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">10.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Steven Cantrell Wilson</span></strong> (b.1984-Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, USA)<br />................................sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Brooke Devey</span></strong> (b.1984-Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; m.2008)<br />.................................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">11. </span><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Peyton Emmett Wilson</span></strong> (b.2009-West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, USA)<br />..............................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">10. </span><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Andrew Hiland Wilson</span></strong> (b.1986-Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, USA)<br />................................sp: <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Alyssa Arthur</span></strong> (m.2009)<br />..............................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">10.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Trisha Maree Wilson</span></strong> (b.1988-Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, USA)<br />..............................<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">10.</span> <strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Riley Fortin Wilson</span></strong> (b.1991-Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, USA)<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-43341650096746884702009-12-23T14:15:00.001-08:002010-05-07T17:34:01.854-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmRCXa6ZzKqbObQJJD07RXmRAWqPmlBNHRNa5lVb6C_L1vKbWgyRpm2tyzCYNbTF_lf-KPvPjrpM6vLd2J562_7HUHBfW1WIzS6SSeBoKRX8RxL1Y_9Xxhxg4L7mJdOptq1Bpw44Gip1d/s1600-h/n1301229879_55460_5626.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmRCXa6ZzKqbObQJJD07RXmRAWqPmlBNHRNa5lVb6C_L1vKbWgyRpm2tyzCYNbTF_lf-KPvPjrpM6vLd2J562_7HUHBfW1WIzS6SSeBoKRX8RxL1Y_9Xxhxg4L7mJdOptq1Bpw44Gip1d/s320/n1301229879_55460_5626.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559993240790002" border="0" /></a>My name is William Roy Wilson the son of Norman Edward Wilson and Patricia Yvonne Fortin. I was born in Phoenix, Arizona where my family stayed until my father transferred with his company and we moved to Farmington, New Mexico. I graduated from High School in Farmington and a year later left on a church mission to Puerto Rico (Spanish speaking). When I returned home I continued with my schooling and found a job with a local power utility company, Salt River Project. Three years later I met my eternal companion and we were married in the Mesa Temple.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJ9VudPWnwY-E_QFplxF6pZl0ncdZ04hIlciKompuVDU-Ch9XmmkmRu-lf-B9uU28TV41okNOkG948HeAZg-jMf66zNOcQ5etv1str_hwxtr8PrBAr-1VRhyoEFRGMej7lcsnhnLoab8y/s1600-h/cutting+the+cake.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJ9VudPWnwY-E_QFplxF6pZl0ncdZ04hIlciKompuVDU-Ch9XmmkmRu-lf-B9uU28TV41okNOkG948HeAZg-jMf66zNOcQ5etv1str_hwxtr8PrBAr-1VRhyoEFRGMej7lcsnhnLoab8y/s320/cutting+the+cake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559986223279714" border="0" /></a>I'm married to the adorable Laurie Colleen Smith the daughter of Emmett Ray Smith and Jacqueline Joan Hiland. We have four wonderful children Steven Cantrell Wilson, Andrew Hiland Wilson, Trisha Maree Wilson, and Riley Fortin Wilson. After working 23 years in Phoenix, Arizona we decided to make a change and moved the family to Montrose, Colorado where we currently live.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqe9flGbZOVm1V_HI2YUjPEUhZ-bD5PBUcZy9UUQhfqwQOWZarK0hlom-0oHRm7LmKBGuc7lxk8jSS3uTczQiMVODIyvbIjMcmb9sgfIumZcStfOK4psX7GUKBasj6-5vo7k2WisIaMyRo/s1600-h/2925_69154533909_636193909_1621577_2904986_s.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 86px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqe9flGbZOVm1V_HI2YUjPEUhZ-bD5PBUcZy9UUQhfqwQOWZarK0hlom-0oHRm7LmKBGuc7lxk8jSS3uTczQiMVODIyvbIjMcmb9sgfIumZcStfOK4psX7GUKBasj6-5vo7k2WisIaMyRo/s320/2925_69154533909_636193909_1621577_2904986_s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418564932840312498" border="0" /></a>Our four lovely children Steven, Riley, Trisha, and Andrew<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmFqETnnGeHZbtHqsSDW4OSQEFrvkw_zkaw9B0YY900wT85izA6fi4gmHC0lENpi4KZMPElkQKnhetsRLAjd3k9Jb0fQQvLdce0AeDrc1j5wF0fZqWg0n0re2bJAkeI-rmb-0WbU1OZ-ip/s1600-h/100_1063.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmFqETnnGeHZbtHqsSDW4OSQEFrvkw_zkaw9B0YY900wT85izA6fi4gmHC0lENpi4KZMPElkQKnhetsRLAjd3k9Jb0fQQvLdce0AeDrc1j5wF0fZqWg0n0re2bJAkeI-rmb-0WbU1OZ-ip/s320/100_1063.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559980921626866" border="0" /></a>This was taken in Park City , Utah<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQN7OI8ESujQ9zjcJtHMN2Lp1Uhq4v5KsU1ADAx3ArDe-TxYwgjAP5aD7tDlP9tATnqqkgRo7cInHP00WapPTEhKTZ_00Ox4Dq_8Afh0J3DyaWppJTipKfe0Nyg-w_Py_xjIS-8j4lE_u/s1600-h/n634826107_675558_4566.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQN7OI8ESujQ9zjcJtHMN2Lp1Uhq4v5KsU1ADAx3ArDe-TxYwgjAP5aD7tDlP9tATnqqkgRo7cInHP00WapPTEhKTZ_00Ox4Dq_8Afh0J3DyaWppJTipKfe0Nyg-w_Py_xjIS-8j4lE_u/s320/n634826107_675558_4566.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418564041086255554" border="0" /></a>Brooke and Steven married in the Bountiful Temple<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4UXHP0zYZpSaP6u5fP8lDxd_lsrvKt3bVCIQSwR5vMysHIXWoSGaEUc6Z7EK5u6yUFGUDkgPg-H0aP17qDs3SzrTtAAqhskG_uH1e4BfVZEZ7utr6uccLKsRJw4tnKRS-R3lu1X4F05r/s1600-h/4579_84661596107_634826107_1729695_7215063_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4UXHP0zYZpSaP6u5fP8lDxd_lsrvKt3bVCIQSwR5vMysHIXWoSGaEUc6Z7EK5u6yUFGUDkgPg-H0aP17qDs3SzrTtAAqhskG_uH1e4BfVZEZ7utr6uccLKsRJw4tnKRS-R3lu1X4F05r/s320/4579_84661596107_634826107_1729695_7215063_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559970071444178" border="0" /></a>Peyton Emmett Wilson<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkev5HPl27Gs4qQaPvRNuyhZy-ZhUm1t-vIT-1OlLFR11680RoirVdL9PEluet3o30G7e0DWFGrJSg08LU7dEPV3b5h1WWbsLk5gsbbOUwAQv0YO_CNAClni1YPRqm6bqhL41qPmy-V-0Y/s1600-h/p_b_s@temple+lights.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkev5HPl27Gs4qQaPvRNuyhZy-ZhUm1t-vIT-1OlLFR11680RoirVdL9PEluet3o30G7e0DWFGrJSg08LU7dEPV3b5h1WWbsLk5gsbbOUwAQv0YO_CNAClni1YPRqm6bqhL41qPmy-V-0Y/s320/p_b_s@temple+lights.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559543976157730" border="0" /></a>Peyton, Brooke, and Steven in 2009 Christmas photo<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9NkyR1ytG98HuZv5z_shJKL6x5kM8MivAwwh2O6Zbmr9NiQpfSDkAZ1yLAk7XIHgK0qoa8rWjU0hpvx5e9_EuL4aeIUSXAOGLZ6xJtWAJ53re07IoSWv7O-VKb6Ec4ALKtiiDF0ajClc/s1600-h/6694_219740655653_529520653_7842233_6514001_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9NkyR1ytG98HuZv5z_shJKL6x5kM8MivAwwh2O6Zbmr9NiQpfSDkAZ1yLAk7XIHgK0qoa8rWjU0hpvx5e9_EuL4aeIUSXAOGLZ6xJtWAJ53re07IoSWv7O-VKb6Ec4ALKtiiDF0ajClc/s320/6694_219740655653_529520653_7842233_6514001_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559559102263458" border="0" /></a>Andrew and Alyssa married in the Jordan River Temple<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmJcbKYKj4vOC3CGX8p7TJ5uOoLQgN5qUhyphenhyphenjJIuNbldk7hzkayQbU_HkYbQXmI4X5W5pjr_Qel2xkYj-ejCMbYCqWl64DXODYWNMSK0QRNYuG-eOlFOzJBlYPlesfhisk42B9jV2rzEAh/s1600-h/a&a_xmas09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmJcbKYKj4vOC3CGX8p7TJ5uOoLQgN5qUhyphenhyphenjJIuNbldk7hzkayQbU_HkYbQXmI4X5W5pjr_Qel2xkYj-ejCMbYCqWl64DXODYWNMSK0QRNYuG-eOlFOzJBlYPlesfhisk42B9jV2rzEAh/s320/a&a_xmas09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418559558949966418" border="0" /></a>Andrew and Alyssa 2009 Christmas photo<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now that you have met my family I'll be introducing you to other ancestors of ours. Some of the surnames in our family tree are: Cantrell, Carrier, Dall, Fortin, Hiland, Hunt, Lambert, Markley, Miller, Smith, and Wilson.<br /></div></div>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3384620336734281617.post-51622307759896685592009-12-23T07:15:00.000-08:002009-12-23T07:31:07.307-08:00Welcome<div style="text-align: justify;">I am pleased to be able to bring this blog to my family and relatives where ever you may be. Genealogy has been an interest of mine for years and I enjoy visiting family and looking through their pictures and reading the articles they have in their albums. I will be posting a different individual or family with pedigrees, pictures and other information. I am hoping that everyone will enjoy what is posted and will be open to suggestions and corrections. We have several members in the family that do research and are willing to share what they have. With this age of computers it has made things easier to share.<br /></div>Bill and Laurie Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06260904447060926935noreply@blogger.com0