[Uncle] Lorenzo Wesley ROUNDY son of Shadrach and Bestey QUIMBY ROUNDY

Lorenzo Wesley ROUNDY
Born: 18 Jun 1819 Spafford, Onondaga, New York.
1-Married: Adaline WHITING (1822-1845) 1843 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
1-Married: Susannah WALLACE (1820-1892) 16 May 1847 a long Mormon Trail.
1-Married: Priscilla RARRISH (1833-1914) 22 Apr 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Death: 24 May 1876 Lee's Ferry, Coconino, Arizona.

(Taken from note by great grandchild of Matilda Ann Roundy the daughter of Lorenzo and Susannah)

Lorenzo Wesley, born June 18, 1819 in Spafford. Lorenzo married Adeline (Adaline) Whiting (1822-1845) on May 1, 1843, in Nauvoo. After the death of Adeline, Lorenzo married Susannah Wallace (1820-1892) May 16, 1847, in Nauvoo, according to his bio-sketch in the appendix of The Roundy Family in America. On April 22, 1857, in Salt Lake City, Lorenzo took as a plural wife Priscilla Parrish (1833-1914). Lorenzo was the father of 18 children. Lorenzo drowned in the Colorado River in 1876. Depending on which written source one reads, his death by drowning occurred on May 24,1876, May 25, 1876, May 27, 1876, May 28, 1876, or September 24, 1876. [His body was never recovered.] Lorenzo, according to LDS records, was baptized in 1837. According to the Early Church Information File Lorenzo was ordained a Seventy 8 April 1854 by Lewis Robbins and served in the 2nd Quorum of the Seventy, yet other LDS records claim he became a High Priest in May of 1845. When he was endowed in the Nauvoo temple on 22 January 1846 he was listed as a Seventy. Lorenzo received his Patriarchal blessing from Patriarch John Smith on 30 December 1845 in Nauvoo, his lineage "House of Joseph". Lorenzo was an early Pioneer of Southwestern Utah. Called as one of a group of missionaries to labor in the Southern Utah Native American Mission in October of 1853, Lorenzo became an able leader much depended upon by Brigham Young. Lorenzo was the founder of "Upper Kanab", helped build the first sawmill in Washington County, and was a leader during periodic troubles with the Indians. Lorenzo helped investigate the circumstances of the Mountain Meadow massacre. He was called to serve as a member and leader of exploration trips into northern Arizona. Lorenzo hosted Brigham Young while on his annual visits to Southwest Utah, helped locate and buildup several settlements and was a bishop at Kanarraville. According to a brief sketch Jared Curtis' wife, Elizabeth J. D. Roundy, provided George Knapp Collins for his Spafford, Onondaga County New York, Lorenzo was "a member of the (Utah) Nauvoo Legion....He was superintendent of the Co-operative Mercantile Institution in Kanarra, Iron County, Utah, was two or three time elected to the Legislature, was ordained Bishop in 1860, and was finally made President of the Southern Colony of Mormons".

Mormon Miracle

Lorenzo Wesley Roundy (1819-1876)

son of Shadrach ROUNDY (1789-1872) and Betsey QUIMBY (1795-1880)

Uncle of Charles PARKER (1853-1935).
Relationship to Lark's children 3 great grand Uncle.

pictured Lorenzo Wesley Roundy


H. Gail Pollock Family History Research.

In September of 1870, Brigham Young and a company of 40 men which included Lorenzo Wesley Roundy, John D. Lee, Jacob Hamblin and Brigham Young, Jr. Major John Wesley Powell the explorer of the Colorado River was also a member of this party for at least part of the trek. September 7-9 1870, while the exploring company was traveling from Peter Shirt's (aka Peter Shurtz) abandoned fort/ranch on the Paria River towards Kanab. John D. Lee records: "at 8 the co. was again on the role. Bro. Stewart & myself on the lead with the buggy by permission of Prest. Young. Ascended the Mountain where the evening before a miraculous accident occurred with Bishop L. W. Roundy. While descending, one of his horses got one of their hoof fast between 2 rocks which threw the animal down & the other one over that one & the carriage pressing was in the air. Fortunately, [it was?] caught by two men who was behind. [They?] held on to it until the springs were all wrenched out of place, throwing the driver, Bishop Roundy, 40 feet down the precipice. In a moment all was right up with care, nothing hurt. Major Powell, who witnessed the scene, rode up to me & said that he saw a miracle....Said that if he had been in the States, he would have expected to have seen a man's neck broke, a pair of horses killed & a carriage stove to atoms at least. But with you Mormons, in a moment all is up again & nobody hurt. Within 12 miles of Kanab the company halted." Peter Shirt's cabin/fort/ ranch on the Paria River is about 40 miles east of Kanab, Kane County, Utah. Shirt's was asked/forced to abandon his remote and unauthorized outpost by the church during a prior time of Indian troubles.

(Taken from a section headed by "From John D. Lee's diaries #3,#4 and #5". )