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By Robert Raymond
Alonzo Pearis Raymond is the son of Pearis Raymond and the grandson of the Paul Raymond of Bristol and Lincoln in Addison county, Vermont. Alonzo lived during a time when U.S. territory would stretch further and further west until filling all the land from the east coast to the west. Alonzo pioneered areas from Vermont to California and several places in between.
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| Date | Event |
| 14 Feb 1821 |
Alonzo P Raymond is born in Bristol, Vermont, the
son of Pearis and Rebecca. Several different years are given for
Alonzo's birth. It often appears that when asked his birthdate, Alonzo
reports 14 Feb 1821, but when asked his age, he gives wildly
conflicting
ages! The earlier the source was created, the more credibility I give
it.
Sources for the different years is presented below. I think that 1821
is correct. 1814: In the 1870 U. S. Census, Alonzo reports his age to be 46. Kate B. Carter, 20th century author, gives 14 Feb 1814 as Alonzo's birthdate in several books. The Mormon Battalion, 19xx, p. 126; Treasures of Pioneer History, 1955, Vol. 4, p. 513. 1819: The following sources give or suggest an 1819 date.
|
| 1823 |
Saritta A. Raymond b. about 1823 in Addison Co., Vt., sister
of Alonzo. (LoganB85, p. 405.) Death records for the town
of Bristol made in 1919, specify "Abigail S." (BrisDeath) |
| 26 Mar 1824 |
William Wallace Raymond b. in Bristol, brother of
Alonzo. (ECIF, film 1750708, "Raymond - William W. 586".) |
| abt. 1825 |
Nelson Raymond b. in Lincoln, Addison, Vermont, brother of
Alonzo. (LoganB85, p. 404.) |
| May 1826 |
Oscar P Raymond b. in Lincoln, son of Pearis. |
| 9 Jan 1827 |
Clarinda Cutler, future wife
of Alonzo is born at Amboy, Oswego Co., New York to Harmon
Cutler and Susannah Barton.(ECIF, film 1750708, "Raymond - Clarinda
449.") |
| 20 Feb 1827 | Abigail S. Raymond, daughter of P[earis] .
& R. Raymond, dies at age of 4 and is buried in Briggs Hill
cemetery. (BrisDeath) |
| 14 Mar 1827 |
Oscar P. Raymond, son of P[earis] . & R. Raymond,
dies at age of 10 and is buried in Briggs Hill cemetery.
(BrisDeath) |
| 18 Mar 1831 |
Clarinda G. Raymond b. in Lincoln, sister of Alonzo. Compiled
genealogies sometimes specify the name as "Clarinda C.", but this is
incorrect as the sources cited here show. (LoganE85, p. 164A.)
Apparently, Clarinda G. never marries, so after Alonzo marries Clarinda
Cutler, there are two Clarinda Raymonds living in the same or adjoining
households. Original records specifying Clarinda C usually refer to
Alonzo's wife, not his sister.
In one 1885 record, Clarinda's sister Louisa specifies the
name
as "Clarinda Jeffries Raymond." (LoganSS85, p. 240.) One record
specifies
her birth information as 9 Mar. 1830, Bristol, Vermont. (ECIF, film
1750708,
"Clarinda Raymond 451.") |
| 1832 |
Thurston and James Chase and others built the 4th forge in
Bristol, which was located on the stream called Baldwin's Creek. “This
stream of water was never quite sufficient for the purpose of
manufacturing iron, especially in a dry time. But it was prudently
managed for the time it was in operation. Philo S. Warner Esq.
purchased one half and he and Thurstin Chase ran it for a few years
together and made it profitable, but it is now [ca. 1850] gone to decay
and not used.”
(Check if History of Addison County is the source.) Baldwin Creek runs alongside the block of Chase/Raymond properties on Bald Hill. It is likely that members of both families learned the craft of milling, as several descendants are known to practice the trade in later years. |
| 26 Jan 1834 | Adeline Hatch born in Lincoln, Addison Co., Vermont to Hezekiah Hatch and Aldura Sumner. Her mother died when she was 8. (Adeline and Alonzo's sister, Louisa, both will marry George Barber.) (Pioneer, p. unknown.) |
| 9 Jan 1835 |
Louisa Elizabeth Raymond b. in Lincoln, dau. of Pearis.
(No source. Check patriarchal blessing.) |
| 1840 |
Sisson Chase, a missionary of the newly established Church of
Jesus Christ, arrived in Lincoln. He converted many members in that
area, including Francillo and Mariam Durfee, Josephus and Melinda Hatch
(Melinda was Francillo's sister), several members of Josephus' family,
Lucina Roberts (the daughter of Francillo's oldest sister Polly), Royal
and William R. Durfee (sons of Francillo's brother Jedediah) (Durfee "Josephus Hatch lived upon the farm now owned by Charles C.
Dunshee. His son Jerry, a graduate of Middlebury College, became a
Mormon priest." (HisAdd,
p. 406 Abram Hatch "is the son of Hezekiah Hatch and Aldura Sumner, and was born Jan. 3, 1830, in Lincoln, Addison county, Vermont, in a pleasant farm house near the foot hill of the Green Mountains. He is the fourth son of a family of five sons and two daughters. ... Abram ... had reached the age of ten years when Elder Peletiah Brown came to that section of country, preaching "Mormonism." The entire family, consisting of his grandfather and grandmother, father, mother and their children, joined the Church." (JensonBio, Vol. 1, p.359.) |
| 1 June 1840 |
1840 U.S. Census |
| 6 Aug. 1840 |
Harmon Cutler took
his entire family and household effects in wagons of his own make
and started on a long journey to Illinois. The trip occupied fifty
days, the end of which found them at Nauvoo. (Cutler Memorial and
Genealogical History, compiled by Nahum S. Cutler, 1889. p. 255.) |
| 7 Nov 1840 |
"A conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints is held in Lincoln, Addison, Vermont. Elder Pelatiah Brown
was chosen to preside over the conference and J. S. Gleason, secretary.
President Brown opened the conference with a short lecture and prayer,
after which Brother H. Hatch, J. Houston, B. Miller were set apart for
the ministry by the voice of the Conference. They were ordained elders,
Brother A. Smith was ordained a Priest, and Brother S. Chase was
ordained a Deacon. Brother S. C. Chase [or S. A. Chase?] was chosen by
the voice of the Conference to preside over the Lincoln Branch of the
church." (Mission, pp. 144-145.) |
| Fall 1840 or August 1842 |
Two conflicting dates: Abram Hatch's mother died in 1840, and in the fall of that year the family moved to Nauvoo. (JensonBio, Vol. 1, p.359.) In August 1842 the Hatch family of Lincoln moved to Nauvoo. (Pioneer, p. ?.) In the fall of 1840, after Abram Hatch's mother died, "the family moved to Nauvoo, where his father bought property, opened up a farm on the prairie and built a brick house on Mulholland street, in the city, three blocks east of the Temple; he died in 1841. Abram became a member of the Nauvoo Legion and served with the posse under Col. Stephen Markham and Sheriff Jacob Backenstos in 1845." (JensonBio, Vol. 1, p.359.) |
| 5 June 1841 | Francillo Durfee was ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood
by Sisson Chase. (Durfee) |
| 9 August 1841 |
During a conference under the
direction of John Taylor and George A. Smith, the name of
the Iowa Stake was changed to the newly reorganized "Zarahemla Stake."
John Smith remained as president with David Pettingrew and Moses
Nickerson
as counselors. (Reference Book for Nauvoo Family History and
Property Identification Department, Nauvoo Restoration
Incorporated,
1990. FHL 977.343/N1 K2r. pp. 225-226. May be quoting from Journal
History for that date.) While Alonzo and the Pettigrews were
friends
after the Mormon Battalion, I have found no evidence thus far linking
the families together in Zarahemla (near present Montrose), Iowa. |
| February? 1842 |
The Nauvoo 1842 census,
probably enumerated in February, shows no Raymonds in Nauvoo. While it
is known to be incomplete, I believe it strengthens the assumption that
Alonzo had not reached Nauvoo this early. (FHL 977.343/N1 K2n v.1.) |
| April 1842 |
Alonzo P. Raymond baptized a member of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Sisson Chase and
confirmed by Isaac Houston. (Lehi, p. 39; Smith, p. 30.) His obituary
states that "while yet a boy working on his father's farm [he] was
converted to the faith of the Latter-day Saints under the ministry of
Ezra Chase and Isaac Chase and was baptized by Sisson A. Chase. He
immediately made up his mind to join the saints in Illinois and went by
boat to Buffalo, N. Y. and thence across the country to Nauvoo." (Journal, 16
Aug. 1904, p. 1.) His grandson, William Goodwin Raymond reported that
"he was the first of his family to join the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day saints. Shortly after his baptism he was determined to join
the saints in Illinois. His family tried to persuade him not to do so
but he left his home as a young man and [went to] Nauvoo." (Goodwin) Some compiled genealogies state that Alonzo's mother, Rebecca, was baptized 7 April 1840, but this is the date Clarinda Cutler Raymond was baptized and is inconsistent with the information above about Alonzo. (Lehi, p. 30.) If Alonzo was the first to join the Church, then Rebecca was baptized in April 1842 or soon afterwards. |
| Date | Event |
| Spring? 1842 |
Alonzo Raymond travels to Nauvoo. According to
his obituary, "his parents followed him to Nauvoo in the same year." (Journal, 16
Aug. 1904, p. 1.) Perhaps they came in the "Vermont Party," mentioned
below. According to Nauvoo Restoration, Inc., Alonzo was a tenant on the property at Kimball 1st addition, Block 4, Lot 53, Lot 4. (See map.) |
| June 1842 |
Residents of Nauvoo with
Bristol/Lincoln connections are: Ebe[neze]r Durfey (2nd ward) James Huston (2nd ward) [May have no relation to Isaac Houston] Ezra Chase with Tirzah, Eliza, Nancy Charlotte, Dianna, (under 8:) Dudley, Newton, Juliett (3rd ward) Residents of Nauvoo with Tiverton/Little Compton, Rhode Island connections are: Isaac Chase (Ezra's brother) with Phebe, Clarissa, Rhoda (3rd ward) Jabez (Ebenezer's 2nd cousin) with Elizabeth, Julia, George, Savilla, Rosanna (4th ward) Also in Nauvoo, in the 3rd ward are: Harman Cutler with Lucyann W, Clarinda (Alonzo's future wife), Royal J., (under 8:) Samuel B., Bengn L., Orson P. P., and Susanna. ([Nauvoo Wards] Record of members, 1841-1845, FHL film 889392, item 1.) The Cutlers live on Kimball 1st addition, Block 6, Lot 31, just a couple of lots away from Alonzo. (Cutler, p. 28a.) |
| Summer 1842 |
Sometime in the summer of 1842, Sisson Chase led
the "Vermont Party" of newly converted members of the Church of Jesus
Christ to Nauvoo. (Durfee) |
| 11 Oct 1842 |
Elder Brown arrives with a camp of fifty
Mormons from Addison County, Vt. All in good health and spirits and
well pleased with the city of Nauvoo and the country generally. ("More
Mormons," The Wasp , Nauvoo, Illinois, 15 October 1842, p. 2 as
quoted in Deaths and Marriages in "The Wasp" Newspaper, Nauvoo,
Illinois, April 16, 1842 to April 26, 1843 , compiled by Linda
Haslam, 1993, p. ?. LDS Historical Department Library, call # CL BOOK
AREA M277.7343 D2852 1993.) I'm guessing the "Vermont Party" led by Sisson Chase and the Addison County, Vermont party with Elder Brown are one and the same. |
| May 1843 |
David Pettegrew moves family
back to Nauvoo after failure of Zarahemla community. He and son James
Phineas suffer sickness for a season until the fall of 1844. (Endure,
Vol. 3, p. 208.) |
| 14 Aug 1843 | Peariz Raymond of Lincoln and Paul Raymond Jr. of Bristol deed property to Paul Raymond of Bristol. (BrisDeeds, v. 10, p. 312.) Pearis' might have moved to Nauvoo sometime close to this date. (Alonzo history; Journal, 11 Jan. 1916, p. 1.) |
| 1843 |
Alonzo Raymond tenant (renter) of Kimball 1st
addition, Block 4, Lot 53, Lot 4. (Nauvoo Restoration, Inc. Land and
Records Office records.) This location is in the Nauvoo 9th
ecclesiastic ward. (Nauvoo Ward Divisions 1842, Nauvoo Restoration,
Inc., 1971. FHL 977.343-N1 E7md.) And it is located in the Nauvoo 3rd
civil ward. A map
showing this location is available with other Raymond documents
elsewhere on this website. |
| 1843 |
Pearis Raymond pays Nauvoo city taxes.
(Nauvoo Social History Project Master Index, Nauvoo Restoration,
Inc., 1982. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Historical
Dept. Library, CL Fiche M277.73 N3145 1982. Fiche card 5, Reference
1843 3 4946.) |
| 28 Nov 1843 | Pearis, Rebecca, and Alonzo are all in Nauvoo and
sign the Missouri Redress petition made by the Church to congress.
All sign on page 11, which historians feel contains signatures from
residents of Nauvoo's 3rd civil ward. (The Nauvoo Journal ,
Vol. 1 1989?, No. 3/4 July/October, pp. 58-60, 80. FHL 979.343/N1 H25N) |
| 1 Jan 1844 |
Pearis Raymond buys 100 acres in Appanoose Township (T.7N.-R.8W.), Hancock county from Robert D. Foster. He paid $1200 for 80 acres in the northeast corner of the NE quarter of section 34 as well as 20 acres, the N ½ of the NE ¼ of the SW ¼ of section 15. (Hancock County Deed Records, Vol. M, 1845, pp. 235-236. FHL Film 954600) |
| 1843-1850 |
Paul Raymond, father of Pearis,
dies. According to Alonzo, his grandfather Paul Raymond
dies about 1839. (LoganB85, p. 404.) But the 1840 census shows he's
still alive and has moved from Paul Jr.'s house to Pearis's house.
And Peariz and Paul Jr. deed property to a Paul Raymond in 1843. By
the 1850 census, he is gone. |
| 27 June 1844 |
Joseph Smith, prophet of the Church of Jesus
Christ, is killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. Alonzo is in Nauvoo
when the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum Smith are brought from Carthage.
(San Diego Mormon Battalion Visitors Center, Alonzo P. Raymond history.) |
| 22 Dec 1844 | Alonzo P. Raymond is made a member of the 14th quorum of
seventy in Nauvoo. (Seventies, 14th quorum, pp. 3, 17.) |
| Abt 1844 | Nelson Raymond, brother of Alonzo dies, according to his brother Alonzo, 40 years later. (LoganB85, p. 405.) Might this have been in Nauvoo? |
| 1 Jan 1845 |
Possible marriage date of Alonzo and
Clarinda Cutler. This date may not be correct. The only source I
can find for it is one of Alonzo's pension applications from the 6
December 1887. He specifies the marriage date as First day of Jan. (or
Jun.) 1845 and the location as Council Bluffs, Iowa, which can't be so
since he wasn't in Iowa in 1845. He specifies Clarinda's death as 10
September 1862, which disagrees with Barber's journal. This source is
long after the fact and has known inaccuracies, so it is suspect.
(Pension,
6-Dec-1887.) |
| 28 April 1845 |
"A Blessing by John Smith, Patriach, upon the head of A P
Raymond son of Pearis & Rebecca, born Feb 14th 1821, Bristol,
Vermont. Br. Alonzo..." He is declared to be of the house of Levi.
(Bless45) This was probably in Nauvoo, but historical records might
shed light on where John Smith was on this date. |
| 27 Jan 1846 |
Rebecka [sic] Raymond receives her temple endowment in the
Nauvoo temple before noon; this record says she was born Nov'r. 13,
1792 (no other info. given). (NauvWA, p. 323.) Rebecca Pierce and Isaac Chase are sealed in the Nauvoo temple at 4:15 pm; this record (shown below) says she was born Nov. 13, 1791, but is somewhat unclear regarding her birthplace. (NauvSeal, pp. 213-214.) The mistake of placing Rhode Island as a county in New York indicates sloppy record keeping. Rebecca might have been born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, since it is accepted that her parents were born there. Or maybe her parents had already moved to New York (as it is assumed they did). Or perhaps her parents moved with the Chases from Little Compton to Colrain, Massachusetts; perhaps the ditto marks for Rebecca were added prior to Isaac's information and apply to "Coldrain," Franklin, Massachusetts. |
| 213 (C) | Sealings Temple Nauvoo Hancock Co. Illinois | 214 | ||||||||||||
| Names | When Born | Where Born | Solemnized By |
Place | Time When | Witnesses | Remarks | |||||||
| M. | D. | Y. | Town | County | State or Nation | When | M. | D. | H. | Y. | ||||
| 20 √Chase, Ezra √ | Feb. | 4 | 1796 | Coldrain | Franklin | Massachusetts | A.M. Lyman | Nauvoo | Jan. | 27 | 1.40 | 1844 | B. Young | |
| 2021Tirza
Wells |
July |
24 |
1796 |
Greenfield |
do. |
do. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
p.m. |
" |
O. Pratt |
|
| 2 √Chase,
Isaac √ |
Dec. |
12 |
1791 |
Little Compton |
Rhode Island |
New York |
A. M. Lyman |
Nauvoo |
Jan. |
27 |
4.15 |
1844 |
H. C. Kimball |
|
| 3Rebecca
Pierce |
Nov. |
13 |
1791 |
do. |
do. |
do. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
p.m. |
" |
John Smith |
|
According to a deed made more than four months later (5 June 1846), Rebecca is still married to Pearis Raymond at the time she is sealed to Isaac Chase. The following helps explain why she was sealed or "celestially married" to Isaac Chase while still "terrestrially married" to Pearis Raymond.
|
|
| 7 Feb 1846 |
Alonzo
RAYMOND and Clarinda RAYMOND receive endowments in the Nauvoo temple.
(NauvEnd, p. 48.) This source is a 1924 transcription of early
memorandums
found with the Nauvoo temple record which was subsequently annotated
with maiden names. The original record does not explicitly indicate
that the two were married. Most sources specify this as the sealing
date for Alonzo and Clarinda. Some indicate the date as the marriage
date,
while others cite December 1845. It seems likely that Alonzo and
Clarinda
were endowed and sealed on this date. I haven't found any source, yet,
for the December marriage date. |
| 1 May 1846 |
Public dedication of the
Nauvoo Temple. |
| 20 May 1846 |
David Pettegrew and family leave Nauvoo in
Captain Morley's company. David leads a group of fifty. (Endure, vol.
3, p. 209.) |
| 25 May 1846 |
Harmon Cutler, having retrofitted his wagons and
in company with others loaded up his unsold worldly effects, crossed
the Mississippi river, journeyed across the State of Iowa, and located
at what is now Council Bluffs, arriving there the 16th of July. (Cutler
Memorial, p. 255.) As Alonzo's wife, Clara Cutler Raymond, is Harmon's
daughter, I assume the Raymonds travelled with Harmon's
group. Louisa's obituary says no more than that they left in 1846 and
arrived in Council Bluffs, Iowa that same year. (Journal, 11 Jan. 1916,
p. 1.) |
| 5 June 1846 |
Perus Raymond and Rebecca his wife deed to
Thomas Wilson of county of Schugler ... Pearis Raymond and Rebecca his
wife ... $200 ... Part of section 34 in Township No. ... 7N 8W
in NE corner ... 80 acres ... Also 20 acres N1/2 of NE1/4 of SW1/4 of
sect. no. 15. (Hancock Co. Deed Records, Vol. 20P, 1846, FHL Film
954602,
p. 487.) Is it possible that the Raymonds leave together after this
sell and still make it to Council Bluffs in time for Alonzo to
volunteer for the Mormon Battalion? I assume Pearis and Rebecca stayed
behind to sell their land and Alonzo was travelling with the Cutlers. |
| Date | Event |
| 16 July 1846 |
Harmon Cutler and others arrive at what is now
called Council Bluffs. (Cutler Memorial, p. 255.) |
| July 1846 |
David Pettegrew reports his family arrives at
Council Bluffs on the last day of July. Brigham Young asks him to go
join the Mormon Battalion as a kind of "helmsman," or chaplain.
(Endure, Vol. 3, p. 209.) More likely than the last day of July, David
may have meant the last part of July or the last day of June
since the battalion departs on 20 July. Alonzo likely arrives and establishes camp with the PETTEGREWs, the CUTLERs, and his brother Wallace on the Little Mosquito at a settlement called Springville. This location is not too far from the Indian mill on Mosquito Creek. See "Council Bluffs, 1846-1852." |
| Date | Event |
| July? 1846 | "While at Council Bluffs Alonzo Pearis became
afflicted with what doctors said was an incurable disease and told him
he had not long to live. He was, of course, very despondent about this
and one day while sitting down to rest after walking a short
distance--for the least exertion seemed to cause him great fatigue--he
was approached by Heber C. Kimball who, putting his hand on Alonzo's
head, inquired what was troubling him. He told Heber of his affliction.
Brother Kimball then asked him why he didn't enlist with the battalion
of five hundred men who had been called for a march to Mexico in
defense of the flag of his country. This question seemed to him to be
foolish on account of his physical condition. He expressed himself to
Brother Kimball, who now told him to go and promised he should recover
and be able to make that eventful march." (Goodwin.) "While following the Saints in their hegira [exodus] to the west, he was one of the first to respond to the call of the United States for the Mexican war and was a member of the famous Mormon Batallion. At that time he was in poor health. Heber C. Kimball promised him that he would return to his wife and parents sound and well and this prophecy was fully realized." (Journal, 16 Aug. 1904, p. 1.) |
| 16 July 1846 | Alonzo enlists in the Mormon Battalion in Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory. He is a private in Company D with Nelson Higgins, Captain. (BattServ, A. P. Raymond; Pension, 24-Feb-1886.) The mustering grounds are close to the point that Mosquito Creek emerges from the bluffs onto the Missouri River flood plain. This is close to the current Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs. |
| 20 July 1846 |
The Mormon Battalion departs. Alonzo
Pearis is a private in Company D, as is Abner Chase and James P.
Pettigrew. James' father, David Pettigrew, oldest member of the
battalion, was asked by Brigham Young to go and serve as chaplain, or
as Brigham Young put it, "helmsman." He served in Company E. There are
a couple of Browns in D; I don't know if they are connected. Also in
Company D is William Dorris Hendricks, one of the youngest members of
the battalion, an Anita Wiser Raymond ancestor. (Endure, Vol. 3, p.
209.) A map
showing the route of the battalion's march is available elsewhere
on this website. |
| 24 July 1846 |
"Fri., July 24, Rocky Port, Missouri, 5 miles
. ...Alonzo Raymond took his place on the march as he had recovered
from his illness. He believed Heber C. Kimball's promise was
fulfilled." (MorBatt, p. 18.) "After a few days during which he rode in a wagon he was able to take his place in the ranks of the infantry and the promise of the Prophet of God was literally fulfilled. He recovered fully and upon reaching California he was a strong and vigorous." (Goodwin) |
| 30 July 1846 |
The Mormon Battalion encamps in the woods. About
ten o’clock that night a heavy storm arises and trees are thrown down
in every direction around the camp, but not one in their camp. In the
morning they find the timber whirled around in every direction. It was
truly miraculous that no one was injured or killed. (Endure, Vol. 3, p.
209.) |
| 4 Aug 1846 |
In his journal, David Pettegrew reports, that
"on the 4th day of August, Brothers Hyde and Taylor, Pratt and Little
came into our camp, which day and the next we drew our clothing money.
We sent forty dollars to the family." (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 209.) |
| 19 Aug 1846 |
David Pettegrew received a letter from the
Patriarch, John Smith, saying, "Inasmuch as you have left
wife and children and all things that are near and dear to promote the
interest of the Redeemer's kingdom here on the earth, the Lord thy God
hath given his angels charge over thee; thou shalt be preserved and not
a hair of thy head shall fall by the hand of an enemy; thy life and
health shall be preserved; thou shalt return in peace to thy family;
...Therefore, I say unto thee,
fear not, neither be troubled about thy family, for they shall be
sustained. I seal and confirm all these blessings, with every desire
of thine heart, upon thee and thine, by virtue of the Priesthood vested
in me, in the name of thy Redeemer, Amen. (Signed) John Smith."
(Endure, Vol. 3, p. 210.) |
| 23 Aug 1846 |
After Parley P. Pratt returned
from Fort Leavenworth with the advance pay received by the church on
behalf of members of the Mormon Battalion, Brigham Young spoke at
Council Point, probably near the camps of many of their families. He
explained the object of the meeting was to tell of the church's central
camp on the other side of the river and their arrangements for living.
He told them they had the privilege of living by themselves, and
attending their own herds, but if
they got into difficulty, they must not come upon [the church]
for help. His principal object in coming over to speak to them
was to induce them to unite with them [physically and financially] in
the principles of self preservation, including all business matters
pertaining to their present [financial and physical] salvation. No
people under heaven of his acquaintance would have entered the United
States Army under the circumstances their people had. "It is the
invisible hand of the Almighty that is favoring Israel. I
will tell the people here what to do with the means [thus] received and
if they fail to do it, we shall be released from our obligation to look
after them."
[If they united together,] the Bishop and High Council would
do them the favor of assisting them in expending their funds [buying
supplies at wholesale prices] and would have the privilege [and
responsibility] of waiting on them till the church got them [across the
plains] where they wanted to go. He warranted that they would get
double the goods for their means by obeying counsel to what they would
were they to have the expending of it [themselves]. |
| 24 Aug 1846 |
Pearis Raymond calls on
Dr. W. Richards at Ira Oviatt's and took Alonzo's full twenty
dollars advance pay for Alonzo's wife, who was present, and
wanted all her money as she was "capable of taking care of it herself."
Elizabeth Pettigrew wanted to collect her husband David Pettigrew's pay
as well as her son, James Phineas Pettigrew's. While she also declared
herself able to take care of it herself, the forty dollars was sent to
Harmon G. Cutler, her son-in-law, who also counseled her to take all
her money. (JH, 24
Aug. 1846. Emphasis added.) |
| Before Sep 1846 |
Pearis Raymond dies. According to family records, he dies near Mesquite River, Omaha, Nebraska. I haven't found the origin of this information. Since Pearis and his family are known to have lived on and around Mosquito Creek, Iowa, it is likely the reference is actually to Mosquito Creek. More information linking the Raymonds to the Springville Branch on Mosquito Creek is found in this history. For a map of the area, see "Council Bluffs, 1846." (LoganB85, p. 404; Journal, 11 Jan. 1916, p. 1.; SLC10, pp. 66-67.) |
| 31 Aug 1846 |
Alonzo is near Council Grove on march to Sante
Fe. (Pension, 18-Nov-1893.) |
| 23 Sep 1846 |
The pioneers in Cutler's Park
begin moving to Winter Quarters. Work begins on a grist mill on Turkey
Creek at the northern end of the community. |
| 12 Oct 1846 |
David Pettegrew's battalion group, bringing up
the rear with the sick, reaches Sante Fe. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 212.) |
| 30 Oct 1846 |
David Pettegrew reported they marched sixteen
miles through sand chiefly, and in some places the sand was so deep
that the men were obliged to assist the team
with ropes, etc. They camped by the side of a small town with
a water-powered gristmill. David was unimpressed with the
mill's design and workmanship. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 214.) |
| 4 Nov 1846 |
At reveille the corpse of the latest to die was
borne in silence before the lines. David Pettegrew
says that "all was silent and we were standing on an elevated
point on the banks of the river, the occasional ripple of the waters
and the barren and desolate land around us made the scenery
solemn and produced a feeling of solemnity in almost every bosom.
At this place our rations were again reduced." Already at three-quarter
rations, they were reduced to nine ounces of flour per day,
one and a half pounds of fresh meat and ten ounces of pork once in four
days. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 214.) "While on this march of the Mormon Battalion, Alonzo Pearis, with his comrades, suffered greatly for food and water. Many died and were buried on the lonely trackless wastes over which they traveled. To deceive the wild animals, fires were built over the graves, yet some of the bodies were dug up and devoured by the wild beasts." (Goodwin) |
| 21 Nov 1846 |
"21st—We again took up the line of march and
traveled twelve miles and encamped in a valley. Here we carried most of
our water two miles and but little of that could be got. 22nd—We traveled twenty-one miles and encamped without water. 23rd—Early in the morning by daylight we started and traveled fourteen miles. Here was a little water which a few men got to drink, but could not get enough for all to drink so we were obliged to march on further, a distance of twenty-six miles, making in all forty miles that we traveled this day and part of the night. We encamped and found some water and were glad to see it." - David Pettegrew. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 216.) |
| 16 Dec 1846 |
The battalion reaches Tuscon. (Endure, Vol. 3,
p. 218.) |
| 18 Dec 1846 |
"18th—This morning we took up our march for the
Hela [Gila] River, but between us and that place was a vast desert
without water or feed for the mules. We traveled forty-five miles and
encamped without water. 19th—We started without water and traveled all day and part of the night and encamped without water. We were by this time nearly all of us so weary and fatigued that we could scarcely get along, the weather being very warm. Towards evening men might be seen lying down on the road, overpowered by fatigue and thirst. This day and part of the night we traveled fifty-two miles. 20th—We traveled eighteen miles and came to a place where some water was lying in pools from the rain, and from the dryness of the soil must have fallen a good while ago." - David Pettegrew. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 219.) |
| 25 Dec 1846 |
Christmas day was no different than any other.
They marched for 24 miles and camped without water. (Endure, Vol. 3, p.
219.) |
| 31 Dec 1846 |
Alonzo camps on Rio Gila. (Pension, 18-Nov-1893.) About this time Alonzo becomes afflicted with chronic rheumatism. (Pension, 24-Nov-1885.) Philemon C. Merrill stated, "that the first indication that came to my Special Notice in the case of Alonzo P. Ramond contracting his rheumatism was some time about the 19 of January in the year of 1847 at a place cald Warners Ranch in California. There was a dredfull wind & varey coald rain Storm. The wind blew all the tents down & he there tuck a dredfull coald & it Setled in his limbs. I was Sagt of the Comand & Start? him? (illegible) guard to mount? (illegible) & he was reported to me as unfit for dutey in consequence of this he was released from duty & went on the Sick list with many others. At the Same Time the command had become almost nude in consequence of there long march and were illy prepard for a Storm of that Severity." (Pension, 31-July-1886. Underlining present in the original.) |
| 1 Jan 1847 |
The year 1847, so significant in Mormon pioneer
history, dawned insignificantly for the battalion. They commenced the
new year by packing their knapsacks and traveling thirteen miles
through thick brush and over rough roads. They camped on the banks of
the Gila River. Rations were soon reduced to one ounce of floor per day
with two ounces of pork. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 220.) |
| 16 Jan 1847 |
"Colonel Cooke feared a complete disaster; with
sixty miles left to go he envisioned possible
collapse for his exhausted soldiers. If indeed they toppled over
from thirst and hunger, they were rolled under a bush or rock,
their buddies pressing on. Finally, on January 16, Carrizo Creek
was reached, the men gorging themselves on the pure, cold liquid. Then,
without rest, the strongest men and teams headed back to the desert
with water for their fallen comrades." (Endure, Vol. 6, p.304.) "On one eventful day as he [Alonzo] dragged his weary body along, he noticed a comrade who had crawled under a scrub bush apparently to die. Unable to render any help he left him there, but on reaching camp a short distance ahead he filled his canteen with water and returned to save his fallen comrade. He was in time to save him and bring him back to the camp. This man remained in Califormia and years later related this incident to a nephew of Alonzo Pearis Raymond." (Goodwin) |
| 22 Jan 1847 |
The battalion reaches Warner Ranch. (Endure,
Vol. 6, p. 305.) |
| 27 Jan 1847 |
"We shortly came in sight of the Pacific Ocean,
which to us was a good sight as we had performed a long and tedious
march and suffered many hardships and privations both with weariness,
hunger, thirst and cold; most of us were barefoot and our clothes were
very ragged." - David Pettegrew. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 221.) |
| 29 Jan 1847 |
The battalion reaches the San Diego Mission.
(Endure, Vol. 3, p. 221.) |
| 28 Feb 1847 |
Alonzo stationed at San Luis Mission U Cal
(Pension, 18-Nov-1893.) |
| 23 Mar 1847 |
The battalion reaches Pueblo de Los
Angeles.(Endure, Vol. 3, p. 222.) |
| 3 April 1847 |
Rebecca Peirce
and Samuel Williams are sealed by President Brigham Young at
Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska. (NauvSeal, pp. 777-778.)
Some of the sealings in the record book around this time are noted
as "for time only." I assume this marriage was for "time and eternity." |
| 777 W |
Sealings |
and Marriages |
778 |
| Name | When Born | Where born | Solemnized By |
Place | When Solemnized | Witnesses | Remarks | |||||||
| [5606] | M. | D. | Y. | Town | County | State &c. | M. | D. | H. | Y. | ||||
| 7 √ Williams, Samuel |
Mar. |
22 |
1789 |
Russell |
Hamden |
Massachusett |
Prest. B. Young |
Winterquarters |
Apr. |
3 |
Eve |
1847 |
Willard Richards |
|
| 8 √ Rebecca Peirce |
Nov. |
13 |
1791 |
____ |
___ |
Rhode Island |
" |
(Nebraska) |
" |
" |
" |
" |
John Neff |
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| Date | Event | ||||
| 21 April 1847 |
Samuel Williams moves across
the river. (WillS, p. 159.) I assume Samuel has been living in Winter
Quarters and moves back east of the Missouri. Perhaps Rebecca Pearce
Williams was already living in Springville, Pottawattamie, Iowa and
wanted to remain there. |
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| 30 April 1847 |
Alonzo stationed at Angeles Cal (Pension,
18-Nov-1893.) |
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| 8 May 1847 |
"On the 8th day of May an express came in from
Santa Fe and from Washington, United States, bringing news from the
States, also instructions from the President
to the General, also some letters from the Church to some few
men of the battalion, by which we learned a few items concerning
the brethren and the families left back at Council Bluffs. Although the
information was but little, yet we were glad to hear from the Church."
- David Pettegrew. (Endure, Vol. 3, p. 223.) |
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| 15 June 1847 |
Near Los Angeles, Cal., Alonzo incurred an
injury to his left side by being thrown from a horse and by being
kicked. (Pension, 17-Aug-1886.) |
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| 30 June 1847 |
Alonzo stationed at Cuidad Los Angeles N Cal
(Pension, 18-Nov-1893.) |
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| 16 July 1847 |
After their 2,000 mile march to California, the men of the Mormon Battalion are discharged at Los Angeles, Cal. (Pension, 24-Feb-1886; Journal, 16 Aug. 1904, p. 1.) The Pettegrews and Alonzo are anxious to go back to their families . (Midvale, p. 19.) | ||||
| 22 July 1847 |
The former members of the battalion organize and
set off for the Great Salt Lake Valley. Some stayed at the Sacramento
River. About 100 pressed on towards the Great Salt Lake Valley.
"[Travelled] 140 miles and came to the sink of St. Mary's River, up
that river to the rise, thence to Fort Hall, from thence 200 miles to
Salt Lake." (Endure, Vol. 3, pp. 225,228.) "This journey was not made
without subjecting him to great dangers and hardships." (Goodwin) |
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| 24 Sept 1847 |
"Captain Lytle finds a note from David Pettegrew
in Pace's group stating they caught up with Captain Hunt on 20
September. Lytle and his company passed the Hastings Cutoff on
September 26 and ...thought the advance groups had gone that way.
Lytle's group camped a little west of the hot springs. "When they reaced the hot springs, they learned Captains Pace and Hunt did not go on the Hastings route and were only slightly ahead." (MorBatt, p. 179.) |
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| 29 Sept 1847 |
The Lytle soldiers reached Goose Creek and found
water and good grazing for thier animals. (MorBatt, p. 179.) |
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| 6 Oct 1847 |
Lytle's group arrives at Fort Hall where they
were able to buy bacon and buckskins. All three groups are in Fort
Hall. (MorBatt, p. 179.) |
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| 7 Oct 1847 |
Captain Pace and ten men left Fort Hall for the
valley. (MorBatt, p. 179.) |
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| 16 Oct 1847 |
Alonzo, David and James Pettegrew, and the rest
of their party arrive in the Great Salt Lake Valley. They find their
families are still back on the Missouri River. They begin plans to set
out at once to join them. (APRaym;
Goodwin; Midvale, p. 19; MorBatt, p.
179.) |
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| 17 Oct 1847 |
The High Council of Great Salt Lake City decide
that because of his advanced age, Brother David Pettigrew had better
remain in Salt Lake and not try to go on to the Missouri to his family
this season. Alonzo and James P. Pettigrew decide to return East to
fetch their families. David Pettigrew will later become bishop of the
10th ward on 22 Feb 1849 and spends the remainder of his life in Salt
Lake. (JH 17-Oct-1847; Endure, Vol. 3, p. 226.) |
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| 18 Oct 1847 |
"Two days after arriving thirty-two men
from the Hancock-Sierra company, whose families were not in Salt Lake
Valley, left on October 18 to go east. The names of twenty-six men in
this group are
known: Reddick N. Allred, Elisah Averett, Jeduthan Averett, Robert
Bliss,
Edward Bunker, Augustus Dodge, John martin Ewell, Levi W. Hancock,
Robert
Harris Jr., Abraham Hunsaker, William Hyde, Charles Jameson, Hyrum
Judd,
Andrew Lytle, William Maxwell, Levi H. McCullough, James Myler, George
W. Oman,
James Pace, David Pettegrew, David P. Rainey, Alonzo P. Raymond, George
W. Taggart,
Luther T. Tuttle, Daniel Tyler, Joseph White." (MorBatt, p. 180. Also,
Endure, Vol. 3, p. 228.) |
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| ? |
About this time the
Springville Branch suffered an episode of apostacy. A man by the name
of McCarry who professed to be some great one had converted a good many
to his kind of religion. It appears that he understood the slight of
hand, the black art, or that he was a magician or something of the kind
and had fooled some of the ignorant in that way. Several were drawn in
to strange delusions in some unaccountable way that was a mystery and a
misery. As soon as the said McCarrey saw that he was found out in his
devilment he made his way to Missouri on a fast trot. The following
were charged and cut off from the church, but repented and were
restored by baptism. All continued faithful afterwards. (Whipple, pp.
71-74.)
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| Abt. 1 Dec 1847 |
Samuel Williams' long-
time friend, Nelson Wheeler Whipple, arrives from Garden Grove and
finds Samuel comfortably situated. His boys and Wallace Rament had just
returned from Missouri with some hogs and other property they had
earned in St. Joseph or thereabouts. Nelson stays the night and
appreciates the kind treatment from the Williams. The next morning
Nelson finds a place in the hollow on Little Mosquito Creek to build
his house. This occurs about two weeks plus a day or two prior to the
return of Brother Edward Bunker from the Mormon Battalion. (Whipple,
pp. 69-71.) |
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| 2 Dec 1847 |
Harmon Cutler,
son of Harmon & Lucy Ann Pettegrew Cutler born Springville
Potawatamie Co Ioway. (SLC10, p. 66.) |
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| 18 Dec 1847 |
Members of the Battalion arrive in Winter
Quarters about sundown. They had made the journey from
Salt Lake Valley to the Missouri River in two months. Some of the
company found their families in Winter Quarters, while others were
in Council Bluffs or Mt. Pisgah. Alonzo found his family all
well, but anxious to be on their way across the plains. The soldiers,
although respectable, were unavoidably dirty and ragged, yet
they found a warm welcome from their people and Mormon authorities.
From De Los Angeles to Kanesville the way they traveled was
twenty-seven
hundred miles. Their four-thousand mile journey was over. (Endure,
Vol. 3, p. 228; APRaym ; Goodwin.) |
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| 27 Dec 1847 |
Brigham Young is sustained as the president of
the Church of Jesus Christ in the new log tabernacle in Kanesville.
("Winter Quarters: Church Headquarters, 1846-1848," Ensign ,
Sept. 1997, p. 51.) President Young acknowledges and welcomes back the
members of the Battalion. |
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| Winter 1847-48 |
"We lived through the winter very comfortable
allthough our food was not of the most delicate. But we had enough of
it. It consisted mostly of corn bread and
bean porrage or pottage. The corn we had to grind by hand in
a little mill of Bro. Lishes. This was rather tedious, but we had
but very little else to do except go to meetings, parties, visit our
friends, and so on." (Whipple, p. 74.) "During this winter a large house was built at Kainsville for holding meetings in and all were called to do something towards it. I made the sash for the windows and worked one day on the house. After it was finished their was held in it what they called a Soldiers Jubilee for the Mormon Battalion who had just returned from California. They had a high time." (Whipple, p. 75.) |
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| 2 Jan 1848 |
Samuel Williams is a High Priest
in the Springville Branch, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. (WillS, p.
21.) The High Priests of the Springville Branch for 1848-1851 are Joseph Mecham, Samuel Williams, Thomas Barisess?, Daniel Stanton, John Stevens, William Woodland, Joseph S. Siske(Fish?), Benjamin Ellsworth, Isaac Houston, Joseph Grover, Elijah Wilson, William A(H?). Histon(Heston?), Thomas A Curtiss. (Pottawatomie Co. Iowa High Priests Record, 1848-1851. Original in Historian's Office. 1939. Pages 4,8. FHL Film 7794 item 2.) Ezra Chase and Sisson Chase live in the Highland Grove Branch. Isaac Houston confirmed Alonzo when he was baptized back in Vermont. Sisson Chase baptized him. About this time, Samuel Algar accuses Joseph Meekham, the Springville Branch president, of lying and other things and got up a kind of fuss through which he was set aside and Samuel Williams is appointed to the place. Father Williams calls Nelson Whipple and Joseph Lish as his counselors. As Bro. Williams is sick a good deal of the time, Nelson attends to much of the business. (Whipple, p. 71.) Nelson served until he left the Springville Branch (probably in the Spring of 1849 when he moved next to the Coons on the emigration road). He was replaced by Bro. George Tiffany. (Whipple, Anor pp. 39,40,42.) Members of the branch may have included: (men) Nelson Wheeler Whipple, Samuel Williams, Samuel Williams' boys, Wallace Rament, Joseph Lish, Numan Williams, Joseph Meekham, Samuel Algar, Haward, Sisson A. Chace, Daniel Stanton, Sylvanus Colkins, John Atchison, Eldridge, Jonathan Haywood, Harmon Cutler, (women) Lucy Stanton, Haward, Widow Pulsipher and daughter, Meriah Atcherson, Harriet Stanton, Carline Stanton, Constanza Stanton, Mrs. Sisson A. Chase, Seien A. Chase (a mother upwards of 60 yrs. old), Harmon Cutler's girls. (Whipple, pp. 69-73.) |
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| 20 Jan 1848 |
Samuel Williams signs petition for a post office
in Pottawattamie, Iowa. (WillS, p. 21.) |
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| 5 May 1848 |
Samuel Williams and probably Rebecca move into
their new house. (WillS, p. 159.) |
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| 6 April 1848 |
General Conference of the church
was held in the Kanesville tabernacle. (Route from Liverpool to
Great Salt Lake City ..., Frank Piercey, Franklin
D. Richards-pub., James Linforth-ed., Frank Piercy-ill., p.
114.) |
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| 29 Dec 1848 |
Alonzo's first child, Mary Elizabeth Raymond,
born at Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Lehi, p. 12; LoganS85, p. 289.) Family
group records indicate 1849, but this may be because the Lehi record is
hard to read. |
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| May - June 1848 |
At the request of the U.S. Indian agent, those
left in Winter Quarters (many have gone West) go back across the
Missouri to Kanesville and other settlements. |
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| Summer 1848 |
Gerua, sister of Nelson Whipple is sick all
summer with the dropsy and canker and suffers much. She dies in
September and was buried in the grave yard on the hill at a point of
timber near Nelson's house. A man named Jeffs is struck by lightning at
this place and instantly killed. (Whipple, Anor p. 39.) |
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| 1848 |
Clarinda G. RAYMOND is baptized into the Church
of Jesus Christ according to a report from her sister, Louisa RAYMOND
BARBER in 1885. (LoganE85, p. 164A.) Another record says she was
baptized 29 Jun 1851. (ECIF, film 1750708, "Clarinda Raymond 451".)
This second record is a transcription of a transcription of a record
supposedly made at the time, but I am thus far unable to locate the
original record. (I have searched FHL films 26675, 26642, and 26851.) I
think Clarinda G. was probably first baptized in 1848 or earlier. |
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| Winter 1848-49 |
The winter was very severe for six weeks. The
frost flew in the air every day and the snow was about two feet deep. A
man could not go very far without freezing. The saints helped one
another. Bro. Perry DURFEE lent Nelson WHEELER a team and driver to
haul his wood that winter. He did not charge for it, neighter would he
take anything. They held dancing parties in the branch school house. On
14 February 1848 about 20 of them enjoyed themselves first rate.
(Whipple, Anor p. 39.) |
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| 6 Dec 1848 |
Alonzo's brother, William "Wallace" RAYMOND
marries Almira CUTLER. ("History of Amina Ann RAYMOND STEPHENS," Eric
K. EMFIELD, 2002. Available elsewhere on this website.) |
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| 17 Apr 1849 |
Zecheriah, son of Harmon and Lucy Ann PETTEGREW
CUTLER born Springville Potawatamie Co Ioway. (SLC10, p. 66.) |
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| 31 May 1849 |
Rebecca PEARCE WILLIAMS' son-in-law, Samuel Eli
WILLIAMS, obtains a marriage license while living in Springville,
Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Samuel WILLIAMS performs the marriage of
Samuel Ely to Mary GALOWAY on 3 June 1849 at the GALOWAY house in
Springville Branch. (WillS, p. 21.) Samuel E. WILLIAMS buys Nelson
WHIPPLE's old house at the head of the hollow on the prairie. (Whipple,
Anor pp. 38-39.) |
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| Fall 1849 |
The potato rot frost made its appearance in that
area and destroyed nearly all the potatoes that season. (Whipple, Anor
p. 40.) |
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| 21 Nov 1849 |
Amina Ann Raymond, daughter of W'm Walice and
Almira Raymond born at Springville, Potawatamie Co., Ioway. (SLC10, p.
66.) Harman Cutler's daughter Lucy Ann is
also born in Springville, so he and his family probably live
close to William Wallace Raymond. (SLC10, p. 67.) |
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| Nov 1849 |
William Wallace Raymond is rebaptized by Samuel
Williams. (Lehi, p. 38.) |
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| Winter 1849-50 |
A great many social parties are held which made
the winter pass off quite agreeably. (Whipple, Anor p. 40.) |
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| Spring 1850 |
Nelson Whipple recounts, "I was fully employed
gunsmithing and getting some money as I had nothing towards an outfit
for a journey of a thousand miles and I did not think of going to the
Valley that season. But to my surprise, as I was out of doors one
morning a man, Alonzo Rament, was passing the house, asked me if I was
going to the Valley that summer. I answered, No I have not team nor
anything else towards an outfit. Says he, as he passed on in a hurry, I
will let you have one good yoke of oxen towards a team if that would do
you any good. I hallored after him and said if he would do that I would
be sure to go. He said I could depend upon his word for the oxen. I
went into the house and told my wife and we made preparations from that
hour to go that summer." (Whipple, Anor p. 40.) Those who emigrated early in the season depended on corn to feed their horses on the plains. It was quite remarkable that this spring there is very little corn that would grow. Throughout the country, very little corn would sprout. This made the price increase from 50 cents per bushel to two dollars and a half until the early eimgration had passed. (Whipple, Anor p. 41.) |
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| 28 May 1850 |
Samuel Williams and family depart for the
valley. (WillS, p. 22.) With him in the David Evans company are Mrs.
Samuel Williams, Alonzo P Raymond, Phineas Pettigrew and wife, and
several members of the Hatch family. (Plains) According to the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (1847- 1868) Database (Plains ), members of the David Evans company
include
Other families in the company were Bair (Belinda Jane, Catharine Elizabeth, John, Lucinda Amanda, Lucinda Owens, Lola Ann, Louise Marie), Ballinger, Barows (Ethan), Buys (Edward), Campbell (Rosette), Clyde (George W., William Morgan), Coleman (Elizabeth, George, Martha Jane, Prime, Rebecca, Sarah Thornton, William), Earl (Sarah, Sarah Syphers, William), Evans (Abigail, Amanda, Barbara Ann Ewell, David, Henry, Joseph, Martha, Sarah, Susannah), Ewing, Farrer (Margaret, Mary, Mary Stubbs, Roger, Roger Jr., Thomas), Fawcett (George William, Hannah Isabel, Jane Corner Smith, Nephi Robert, William), Field (John, Susannah Cooper), Hall (Edward, Mary Ann, Nancy Eleanor Ballinger, Sarah Jane), Hinckley (Eliza, Eliza Jane Evans, Ira Nathaniel, ancestor of Church president Gordon B. Hinckley), Judd (Joel), McArthur (Emeline), McGary (Charles, Charlotte Earl, Eliza Melissa, Ellen, James, Jane, Sarah, William Henry), McKinney, Millet (Joseph), Phelps, Rose, Smith (Ann Coleman, Caroline, Joseph Johnson), Stowell (Hannah, William Rufus Rogers), Thornton (Charlotte), Whipple (Mary, Miranda, Nelson Wheeler, Susan Jane). (Heart, pp. 396-455; Plains .) William Wallace Raymond and Harmon
Cutler and their families remain in Springville.Samuel Williams household crosses the plains, including Rebecca, Clarinda, and Louisa. (Journal, 11 Jan. 1916, p. 1.) "[Louisa], a native of Vermont, came to Salt Lake City with her parents in her early childhood, her father, Pierce Raymond, dying on the plains before arriving at the end of his journey, and, after a life of beneficent usefulness, she [Louisa] now resides at Logan at the age of sixty-fix years, being the mother of eight children." (Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont, and Oneida counties, Idaho , A. W. Bowen & Co., 1904. Page 30. FHL Film 362668.) Biographies or autobiographies are available for the following members of the David Evans 1850 Company:
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| 1850 |
After Samuel Williams leaves
the Springville Branch, he is replaced as branch president by George
Tiffany. After a time Harman Cutler serves as branch president. He was
the last, as the branch was afterwards merged with the Carterville
Branch. (Whipple, Anor p. 42.) |
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| 9 June 1850 |
Nelson Whipple recorded, "Having
made the best arrangements I could for the trip, made my wagon,
laid in my flour meal, bacon, candles, sugar, coffee, tea, clothing,
etc., etc., on the 9th day of June 1850, we set out for the
Great Salt Lake Valley, the place we had long desired to see. "My team was one yoke of good little oxen, loaned me by my friend Alonzo P. Rament, and one yoke of cows, a tenatable light wagon, and a very good fitout for the journey. My cows had never been yoked before and did not go very well of course, but they soon got learned, so I could drive them without leading. "My fitout I made all in the spring of '50, not having anything towards it three months before. The first night we stopped at Bro. Tiffanys, 4 miles from where we started from." (Whipple, Anor p. 42.) |
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| 10 June 1850 |
"The next morning we bid goodbye
to our friends that were going back, and went on down the river to a
place called Bethleham, and camped to await the arrival of others and
to be organized for traveling, etc. "Brother Tiffany went a long ways with us and when he turned to go back our feelings were such that we could not bid him goodby, but he knew our feelings, for he felt the same. "The company that left Springville when I [Nelson Whipple,] did were: Samuel Williams, Samuel E. Williams Jr., Numan B. Williams, Mary Williams, wife of S. E. Williams, and [Rebecca Pearce Raymond Williams,] the second wife of Samuel Williams Sr. Jeremiah Hatch and family and two sisters, Lorenzo D. Hatch, Abraham Hatch, Phinias Pettegrew (Alonzo's friend from Battalion days) and wife [and] Alonzo Rament." (Whipple, Anor p. 42.) |
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| 12 June 1850 |
"In a few days, Bro. O. Hyde and
Bro. Joseph Young and some others came down and examined our
wagons and our fitouts, organized us into 10's, 50's, 100's,
appointed captains, etc. Bro. David Evans was captain of the
first 50 and John Blair of the 2nd 50. There were 105 wagons in
all." (Whipple, Anor p. 42.) Lorenzo Hill Hatch and brothers Jeremiah and Abram cross the Missouri River with three wagons, five yoke of oxen, seventeen cows, clothes, tools, and provisions for their outfit. Jeremiah has a wife and two children. His sister Elizabeth travels with him. Lorenzo, Abram, and their sister Adeline travel together. They travel in the company of Captain David Evans. (LHatch, pp. 12-13.) "We crossed the river very well without accident, except an old cow that was fool enough to jump over board and came near upsetting the boat and caused us to drift down stream a long ways below the landing, but we tied up and got ashore. "The Omaha Indains were about there very plenty and some were afraid of them, but they manifested no disposition to do anybody any harm or their property. "We went 6 miles from the river and camped on a small creek where the mosquitoes were so thick they like to run us all crazy. "On that night the cholera appeared among us. One Joe Millet that was with the Hatch boys was taken sick about dark and was very bad through the night. But nobody seemed to take much notice of him and did not know what ailed him." (Whipple, Anor p. 43.) |
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| 13 June 1850 |
"The next morning he [Joe Millet] got pretty
near over it and we went on for several days." Nelson Whipple.
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| 15 June 1850 |
The Bishop David Evan's Company starts for Utah
after being organized. The cholera soon broke out in
camp. (Evans, pp. 51-52.) |
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| Summer 1850 |
"As we passed along, the great number of new
graves by the roadside was truly astonishing. We met scattering
remnants of [California] companies going back as so many had died. The
few that was left had turned back for home, thinking that they had got
quite enough of gold hunting." Nelson Whipple. (Whipple, Anor
p. 44.) "People were stricken down on every side." Barbara Anne Evans, wife of David Evans. (Evans, pp. 51-52.) "We had not gone far before we saw a grave with the name of Charlott Thornton on the head board. A young woman with which we were all acquainted. We soon came to a camp where two or three had died. One the wife of D. B. Dilley. "At this many were much alarmed, but this did no good. For we had to face the cholera if we turned back. And if we went on we could run away from it." Nelson Whipple. (Whipple, Anor p. 43.) |
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| Summer 1850 |
"After traveling a day or two we
came to the old Paunee Willage on the South side of the Platt
river. Here we stopped early in the afternoon and Samuel Williams
and his brother and myself went to examine the Village and get
some wood for the night. "Their wigwams or houses were built quite substantial of cedar wood [that] they had floated down the Platt from Grand Island, a good many miles above. There was not timber in sight of the Village. There were pieces of ground that they had cultivated and raised much corn, but had no fences. There were large holes, like wells dug into the sandy soil where they had deposited their corn. The Indians were all gone having been driven away by the Sioux Indians. "While we were looking about I began to feel cold and a deathly feeling came upon me. I got two small sticks of [fire] wood and started for camp, a distance of perhaps forty or fifty rods, but before I got there I dropped my wood and made my way the best I could for the wagon, and when there I told my wife that something ailed me and I thought it was the cholera. "She was alarmed at this of course and thought she should be left a widow in short order. She asked me if she could do anything for me. We had a wooden match box full of some kind of pills. I told her to give me some of them. She gave me the box and I took one half of them at once and had Father Williams come and administer to me with some others and for a few hours I suffered much. But after that I seemed to feel alittle better and told my wife I would take the balance of those pills and did so. ... Through the night, I was so restless that I could not lie in one position a single minute, but rolled and tumbled in the wagon. And finally that was not big enough. I got out upon the ground and rolled there for hours." "In the morning I was comfortable again." "At the time I was the worst the day before, Mr. Robert G. Williams, a brother of Phinius Pettegrew's wife, was lying in the wagon next ours. He had the cholera and died. I saw him breathe his last, but it did not alarm me at all as to my situation and I do not know as I thought of dying while I was sick. In the norming I was able to letter a tomb board of cedar that Bro. P. Pettengrew had shaved out in good style for that purpose." "After I had the cholera we passed on day after day. We saw many graves of the California emigrants and of many of our people that had started before us." Nelson Whipple. (Whipple, Anor pp. 43-44.) |
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| 27 June 1850 |
Eliza Jane Evans Hinckley, wife of Ira Hinckley
and #1 child of David Evans, passes away leaving
a baby daughter. (Evans, p. 18.) "There were five deaths in our company, my husband's oldest daughter, Mrs. Ira Hinckley, was one among them. That was a trying time." Barbara Anne Evans. (Evans, pp. 51-52.) "There were some 5 or 6 died of this disease in our company on the forepart of our journey, the names of which I will give as far as I can remember: Cholette Thornton, Sister D. B. Delley, Mr. Robert G. Williams, Miss Emeline McArthur, Sister Hinckley, wife of Ira Hinckley, and daughter of Bishop David Evans." (Whipple, Anor p. 44.) |
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| Summer 1850 |
"The [discarded] property on the plains this
year was enormus in consequence of the much sickness and so many
starting out that knew [nothing] about what they needed on such a trip
or how they could along best. I am speaking of the gentiles. Wagons,
wagon irons, axes, guns, chains, beds, shirts, quilty, paints, tools of
almost every description, kegs, barrels were strewn along in great
abundance." (Whipple, Anor p. 45.) |
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| Summer 1850 |
"Nothing of note occurred until we got near the
south fork of the Platt where one of the oxen of
Bro. A. P. Rayment's that I had, lay down while traveling along
and died in five minutes. This left me in a bad situation as
there were very few spare cattle in the company. "For a few days Bro. Rament put on another yoke of his oxen but soon found his load too heavy to spare any team and the Captain took a cow of Ethen Burrows that was able to work and let me have her to work with the other ox for quite a long distance until we got up to Scotts Bluffs where one night as I was on guard an ox came limping into our camp. I took him and tied him up and in the morning examined him but could see nothing the matter of his front foot, but he walked quite lame. "Captain Evans told me to take him along to a trading post that was a short distance ahead and trade him for a cow or something that would help out for a team. I did so and got for the ox, a cow, and put her into yoke and worked her on for about 300 miles when her feet got very sore and I put her into the loose herd and Bro. Evans let me have a two year old heifer until we got to the Valley. "The feet of all the cows got very bad. I used to throw mine down and clean out the dirt and gravel and cloth and tar and nail on sheet iron shoes. Those would stay on about a week when I would have to do the same thing again." (Whipple, Anor pp. 44-45.) |
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| "I had heard of the vast number of buffaloes
along the Platt, so that the teams could hardly get
along for them but we did not see anything of the kind. Some
few were seen along the road and one or two killed, but they were
very wild and hard to catch." (Whipple, Anor p. 45.) |
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| "We experienced some of the most terrible storms
along the Platt, that I had ever known in any country. But we received
no particular damage by them. Very few cattle died out of the company
and the health of the people was
good, after we got away from the cholera, which was about 200 miles
from the Missouri River." (Whipple, Anor p. 45.) |
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| "We had, generally, peace in the
camp and very little difficulty or contentions. After we passed
the South Pass, as it is called, the Captain told his company
that if they felt like dancing to dance and enjoy ourselves as
he felt as though we were delivered from under the hands of our
enemies who would not have the power to abuse us as they had before
done." (Whipple, Anor p. 45.) |
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| Summer 1850 |
"Had it not been for that [horrible disease,
cholera], we should have had a pleasant journey. After we arrived at
Laramie, we all enjoyed good health." Barbara Anne Evans.
(Evans, pp. 51-52.) "We had some cases of cholera and buried five or six of our numbers. However the trip was a pleasant one." Lorenzo Hill Hatch. (LHatch, p. 13.) |
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| 13 Sep 1850 |
"While we were on the Sweet Water we met Ansen
Call and others who told us to take the new road that was called the
Golden Pass which turned up [passed up?] the
Weber River from the mouth of Echo Canyon and over into Parleys Park
and down Parleys canyon. What his object was in telling us to go that
way, I do not know. But the road was almost impassable, much worse, we
were told, than the other way. But notwithstanding, we got over and on
the night of the 13th of Sept. 1850 we came down Parleys canyon into
the Valley or near it and camped. "I was wet to my hips as I had to lead the heifers on the lead and wade at every crossing, what was not a few. After we had camped late in the night they got up a dance and those that felt like dancing joined in. But I did not, but went to bed anxious for morning to come that I might see what was before me." Nelson Whipple. (Whipple, Anor pp. 45-46.) |
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| 14 Sep 1850 |
"In the morning I walked up the bluff or bank at
the mouth of the canyon to look about. The first thing I noticed was a
good lot of snow on the vast mountains on the east of the Valley. I
next began to look for Grat Salt Lake City, as I was told I could see
it from that point. I discovered something at a distance of about one
mile to the north that looked like a few low huts or cabins which I
supposed must be the City, or a portion of it. I saw a small part of
Great Salt Lake and the islands in it which all looked barren and
dreary and desolate. "The whole view had the most lonely and isolated appearance that could be. My feelings were the most singular that I ever had when reflected for a moment on the condition of a handfull of people here located at least one thousand miles from all civilized inhabitants in this steril and desolate region of the Rocky mountains, to sustain themselves and become an independent nation which I knew they had to do some where in these mountains. "After pondering here awhile alone I returned to camp. They were hitching us to start, some for the City, and some went south and some went and scattered and I never saw all of them again. Father Williams, Alonzo Rament, Samuel Williams and myself, and some others went to the City. "I found on going to the City that it was about 6 miles from where I took my first view of it, instead of one or two as I had supposed. As we went towrds town things began to look more cheering. We passed where Brigham was building a grist mill at the mouth of Parleys canyon. Here there were houses and gardens and to our astonishment all vegetation was as green as ever when two nights before in Parleys Park ice was near one inch thick in the morning. "As we passed along we had to go through what was called the Big Field or piece acres where we saw corn and potatoes in abundance and some wheat that was not cut yet, although it was the 14th of September. This encouraged us seeing that things would grow here to sustain man and beast. "When I had fairly got into the City I looked upon the adobe buildings as mean, temporary mud houses which they had built to serve till they could do better. ... [I went] to Bro. Pettegrews where Father Williams and the rest had stopped." Nelson Whipple. (Whipple, Anor p. 46.) |
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Great Salt Lake City, Salt Lake,
Utah
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| 15 Sep 1850 |
David Evan's Company arrives in the Great Salt
Lake Valley. (Evans, p. 52.) "We were just three months on our journey across the plains, a long tedious time of it as every one well knows that has crossed those plains with ox teams or hand carts, as many have done. Our provisions held out well and our cows gave a little milk all the way, and in short we got along very well, I suppose. But it was the hardest three months of my life." Nelson Whipple. (Whipple, Anor p. 45.) The Hatches arrive the 17th of September 1850. Jeremiah is very sick when they arrive, but he soon recovers. The Hatches remain together and rent a house in the Third Ward, cut some hay in the Big Field, and get a lot in the 10th Ward. Lorenzo is rebaptized and commences anew to keep the commandments of God. They go to work and build a house 32 x 16 feet, one and a half stories high in the winter of 1850-51. (LHatch, p. 13.) Abram Hatch crosses the plains in 1850 with his brothers and their families. They would spend that winter in Salt Lake City. (JensonBio, Vol. 1, p.359.) |
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| 29 Sep 1850 |
Alonzo P Raymond [re-]baptized in the
Salt Lake 10th ward by David Fairbanks, bishop of the 1st ward. This
day Bishop Fairbanks also [re-]baptizes James P. Pettegrew, David
Evans, Bashary A Evans, Lorenzo H. Hatch, Ryrena Ewell, Emma Evans,
Daniel S Thomas, Martha Thomas, Malinda Loverage, John Mower, Alexander
H Loveridge, Charity Lewis, James P Terry, Hannah Terry, Sarah An
Mower, Elisha Faebon. (SLC10, p. 39.) |
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Alonzo P. Raymond pays $7.00's labor in
tax to the building of a school house in the 10th ward. (SLC10, p. 42.) |
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In the 10th ward, block 25 is the public square.
On block 26, J.P. Pettegrew lives on lot 6, Daniel Tyler on 7, and
David Pettegrew on 8. A. P. Raymond lives on block 30, lot 4.
His neighbors are D. Thomas and John Cheany. (SLC10, p. 44-45.) |
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| 2 Nov 1850 15 Nov 1850 |
1850 U.S. Census Meanwhile, back in district No. 21, Pottowatamie. Co., Iowa on 2 Nov 1850 Luke Johnson's 1850 U.S. Census enumeration records the Samuel Williams household, including his wife, Rebecca, and Samuel's son, Newman, and Rebecca's daughters, Clarinda and Louisa. Since Nelson Whipple's journal shows that Father Williams and household were in Utah at this date, I assume that friends, relatives, or neighbors provided the information. Likewise, on the 15th his enumeration includes the families of Alonzo Pearis Raymond and William Wallace Raymond, even though Alonzo's family had already gone. Wallace probably reported the information for Alonzo's family. Since the data collected is supposed to reflect the official census date of 1 June 1850, perhaps Alonzo's departure was not until after that date. Or perhaps Luke Johnson was under the understanding to include any person who had resided in the enumeration district during the year. For transcriptions of these census entries, see "The Paul Raymond Family in the 1850 Census". Pearis' children:
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| 31 Dec 1850 |
Rebecca Williams has a dropped letter in the Great Salt Lake City post office. (DesNews,
11 Jan. 1851, p. 190.)
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| 1 Jan 1851 |
A list of the members of the 10th ward includes
the following and their families: David Pettegrew, James P. Pettegrew,
Lorenzo H. Hatch, Jeremiah Hatch, and Alonzo P. Raymond. Alonzo's
household includes himself, Clarinda, and Mary E. Raymond. (SLC10, pp.
48-
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| 30 Jan 1851 |
Alonzo's second child, Susannah Rebecca Raymond,
born at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. (LoganS85, p. 289.) Family records sometimes give the year as 1850. This is not correct as the 10th ward membership list taken 1 Jan 1851 only includes the first child, Mary E. (SLC10, p. 50.) Further, Alonzo's 1850 census Iowa enumeration excludes Susannah and when he is enumerated again in Utah in 1851, Susannah is 3 months old. Thus, Susannah was probably born after 1 Oct 1850. Family records often give the birth date as January or June. The June date must be incorrect because Susannah Rebecca is blessed on 6 April 1851. (SLC10, p. 37.) |
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| 30 Mar 1851 |
Lucy Ann Pettegrew
Cutler, daughter of Harmon & Lucy Ann Pettegrew Cutler, born in
Springvielle Potawatamie Co Ioway. (SLC10, p. 66.) |
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| 6 April 1851 |
Mary Elizabeth and Susannah Rebecca Raymond,
daughters of Alonzo P. and Clarinda Raymond are blessed in the Salt
Lake 10th ward by Bishop [David] Pettegrew and
Daniel Tyler. Bishop Pettegrew also blesses Wm. Williams Pettegrew,
son of James P. and Seline Pettegrew. (SLC10, p. 37.) |
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| 27 Apr 1851 |
Elyszibeth L [Louisa Elizabeth] Raymond is
rebaptized in the 10th ward by Daniel S Thomas and confirmed by David
Pettegrew and Daniel Tyler. She is reported to have been born in
Briston [Bristol], Ver, Jan 9 (or 2, it's hard to read), 1835. (SLC10,
pp. 58-59.) |
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| May? 1851 |
1851 Utah Census The 1850 U.S. Census is not taken in Utah (or Deseret)
Territory until 1851. Samuel Williams household includes Rebecca,
Clarinda [G.], and Louisa ( |
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| 1 Jun 1851 |
Samuel Williams is sealed to a third wife,
Henrietta Nelson by Brigham Young in the Presiden't Office. (WillS, pp.
24-
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| 29 Jun 1851 |
Clarinda [G.] Raymond is baptized by Seth Taft
and confirmed by J. Gibson and J. Oakley in Salt Lake. Clarinda's birth
information is listed as 9 Mar. 1830, Bristol, Vermont. (ECIF, film
1750708, "Clarinda Raymond 451".) Seth Taft is the bishop of the Salt
Lake 9th ward. Thirty-five years later, Louisa reports that Clarinda G.
Raymond was baptized in 1848. (LoganE85, p. 164A.) If that is true,
then Clarinda's baptism of this date was a rebaptism. Rebecca Williams is rebaptized and reconfirmed the same day by the same individuals. Rebecca's birthdate is listed as October 1791 and the place as Sangersfield, New York. (ECIF, film 1750726, "Rebecca Williams [Card #]378".) |
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| 13 July 1851? |
The ward met at the school house. A motion was passed to declare the sale of the land in the ward farm by Alonso Rayment as null and void. (SLC10, p. 62.) The record doesn't state why the transaction would be rejected. Assuming Alonzo was in Midvale by the winter of 1851, this attempted sell may mark the time when Alonzo began his move. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31 July 1851 |
Rebecca Williams, wife of Samuel Williams,
passes away from "palsy" and is buried in the Salt Lake City cemetery.
( [Salt Lake City] Cemetery Records, [Interment?] Book A , p.
5, 1851, #132. FHL Film 1299167.) |
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| 1851 |
"Having spent the winter in Salt
Lake City, Abram [Hatch] moved to Lehi, Utah county, in 1851,
and assisted to build a grist mill at the mouth of American Fork
canyon. ...He made his home in Lehi till 1867 and assisted materially
in the development of the place." (JensonBio, Vol. 1, p.359.) |
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| Date | Event |
| Fall 1851 |
"On his return to Utah he [Alonzo P. Raymond]
lived at Salt Lake City for a while and later had a home at Jordan and
at Lehi for eight or ten years." (Journal, 16
Aug. 1904, p. 1.) Alonzo and James P. Pettigrew arrive in Salt Lake with their families. They stay for about a year before pioneering the area that would become known as Midvale, Utah. (Midvale, p. 19.) At the time, Midvale was known as East Jordan. The first people to settle present day Midvale knew each other in Nauvoo, Illinois in the early 1840's: the Pettigrew, Raymond and Cutler families. Harmon Cutler married Lucy, the daughter of David Pettigrew, Alonzo P. Raymond married Clarinda, the daughter of Harmon Cutler. His brother, William W. Raymond, married Almira, sister of Clarinda Cutler. (See, "Relationships among the Raymonds, Cutlers, and Pettegrews.") In the fall of 1851, Alonzo P. Raymond and James P. Pettigrew moved their families to the east side of the Jordan River (part of the West Jordan precinct, even though it was on the east side of the river), thus becoming the first settlers of what is now known as Midvale. (Midvale, p. 19.) According to the records, the Pettigrews and the Raymonds were the first and only settlers here the first winter (1851-1852). They settled on the east side of the Jordan River, between the river on the west and the hill on the east at a point about a mile west of the original Midvale First Ward meetinghouse, and immediately north of the road that runs east and west between Midvale and West Jordan. Many histories incorrectly state that David Pettigrew and Wallace Raymond also settled the area in 1851. Jensen (vs. Jenson) states, "All previous histories of Midvale list Alonzo and Clarinda Raymond and David and Emily Pettigrew as the first settlers on the east side of the Jordan River. However, research of available records shows David Pettigrew (no wife Emily) as living in Salt Lake and James Pettigrew and Alonzo Raymond both living in the West Jordan [precinct] area." (Midvale, p. 19; Jenson, p. 498; Tales of a Triumphant People , Francis W. Kirkham and Harold Lundstrom, editors, 1995. SUP Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.) |
| 19 Jan 1852 |
The Caanan (West Jordan) ward was established.
(Mormon Historical Maps, collection in a 3-ring notebook,
U.S./Canada Reference Desk, FHL.) |
| 19 May 1852 |
A P Raymond works on the Big Kanjon [Canyon]
ditch for the 1st ward with a group of members in the 10th ward.
(SLC10, p. 63.) If Alonzo was working with members of the 10th ward, was he living in the 10th ward or in Midvale? A clue may be found in The Cutler Family, which states, "Midvale finally grew eastward when men finished digging the canals that brought water from Big Cottonwood Canyon through Fort Union." (p. 37) |
| June 1852 | Wallace Raymond, wife Almira Cutler and family cross the plains in the 12th wagon company of the year. Harmon Cutler was captain over the 12th company, called the Independent (Springville) Company. The company consists of 262 saints, 231 oven, 222 pounds of ammunition, 171 cows, 154 sheep, 63 wagons, 47 arms, 28 spades and shovels, 20 dogs, and 17 horses. Near Fort Laramie, Wyoming the wagon train is attacked by Indians who take all their horses. They continue on with their oxen. They arrive in the Salt Lake Valley near the last of September of 1852 (Cutler states 3 October 1852). (Pioneer, p. 1873, 2926; LoganS85, p. 437; Cutler, p. 30.) |
| 21 June 1852 |
A. P. Raymond, one of the proprietors of the
Salt Lake 10th ward farm, petitions for the right to build a grist mill
on the farm's irrigation ditch.
June 21st 1852(SLC10, p. 209.) If Alonzo's house was in the 10th ward, was he living in the 10th ward or in Midvale? |
| 24 Jun 1852 |
On the 24th he was authorized to build a mill if
he used the water only when not used for irrigating. But the owners
reserved the right to enlarge the race and use the additional water
flow for their own and to exert control of the water for any purpose,
and to hold the mill liable for all damages occurred. (SLC10, p.
209-210.)Whereas A.P. Raymond, one of the Proprietors of the Tenth |
