Isaac and Camilla Smith

Isaac SMITH  1857-1914 and Harriet Camilla ENSIGN 1859-1930 

Pictures and articles borrowed from familysearch

Pictures: clockwise Sarah Elizabeth SMITH EVENS 1860-1923, Isaac SMITH 1857-1914, John Wooding SMITH 1862-1884, Susannah SMITH EVANS 1864-1953.

"Isaac Smith was born in Brigham City... He was the son of Samuel Smith and Sarah Jane  natives of England....he grew to be an industrious hardworking citizen.  He held many positions of responsiblility in his youthful days."

"When a youth he learned the trade of Cabinetmaker but quit to become a member of a surveying party that was surveying the route of the Utah and Northern through Bear River Canyon."

 "In 1876 he decided to obtain an education and therefore attended the University of Utah.  He worked hard to get along studying part of the time and teaching the rest of the time.  "

"When the Box Elder Stake was organized in 1877 he became second counselor"  [Age 19.]

 Camilla SMITH with 1st of  her 12 children - Isaac Samuel SMITH 1878-1936

"In the [December] 1877 he married Harriet Camilla Ensign, daughter of M. L. Ensign and Mary Dunn.  At April Conference he was called on a mission to Great Britain he left on the fifth of May, the same year.... He returned home in April, 1880." [Age 20.]

"Parkinson had been a missionary companion of Isaac Smith and he dwelt at length upon the fidelity and faithful work of the departed while laboring as a missionary."

"Dr. W. B. Parkinson said it was hard for him to say anything on this sad occasion as he had been a life [long] companion of Pres. Isaac Smith.  They had labored together as companions in the British mission in 1879.  When it comes to honorable living, no man ever breathed that lived the life of a Latter-day Saint more than this man, said the speaker." 

Isaac Smith

"In the spring of 1881 he moved to [Logan, Utah] to clerk in the Whole sale department of Z.C.M.I.  In ... 1884 when the Logan First ward was divided into three wards, Isaac Smith was appointed Bishop of the seventh ward..." [Age 26, the second of three children died a month later.] 

"...He had lived here since 1881, when he come to Logan from Brigham City, and since that time had been prominently connected with the affairs of  Logan...Last year he was ordained a patriarch."

"[In] 1890 he was sustained as second counselor to President Orson Smith of Cache Stake [Age 32, father of eight living children.] [Then Apostle Merrill was named as President Isaac Smith was second counselor....When Joseph Morrell was named successor [Isaac Smith] was named his first counselor...In 1906 [Isaac] Smith became President [Age 48.]....He remained in that position until 1911." 

Isaac and Camilla Smith in front of Logan Utah home 1898

Camilla SMITH with 9th of her 12 children - George Ensign SMITH 1898-1967

“During his labors with the Z.C.M.I. Mr. Smith was invoice…hardware and crockery departments and later the clothing department.  He was on the road as general sales man for about five years, after which he ran a branch store for the institution on Main street.”

Isaac SMITH standing in Center of Store

Isaac SMITH standing by himself at right

Isaac SMITH behind counter on left

" He leaves two wives and sixteen children, nine by his first wife and seven by the [third]."

" Two families survive Mr. Smith including two widows and [sixteen

] children.  His first wife was Miss Camilla Ensign of Brigham City, who survives him here.  His [third] wife, who was Elizabeth Fuhriman, resides in Riverdale, Ida."

"Isaac Smith is survived by two families, on live in Logan and the other in Riverdale, Idaho.  Beside his wife, Mrs. Camilla Smith, they are the following children: Dr. Isaac Smith [age 35], W.R. Smith [age 29], Wesley E. Smith [age 25]. Sarah Ann Lewis [age 22], Theron E. Smith age 20], Leona E. Smith [age 18], George E. Smith [age 16], Malcolm W. Smith [age 13], and Ruby E. Smith [age 8]."

"The family which survives Mr. Smith at Riverdale are Mrs. Elizabeth Fuhriman Smith, his wife and the following children; Jacob I. Smith [age 18], Joseph F. Smith [age 16], Welland Smith [age 15], Ingraham Smith [age 13], Elva Smith [age 9], Oliver Smith [age 5], Clyde Smith [age 7 months]."

Camilla Smith with her surviving daughters Leona, Sarah Ann called Dolly, and Ruby.

Surviving sons of Isaac and Harriet Camilla Ensign

(The name of Ensign given in the new paper as George E. Smith) 

first wife of Isaac Smith

 

Other wives of Isaac Smith - Annie Elizabeth Carlisle - second and Elizabeth Fuhriman - third 

" Bishop C. W. Nibley [Presiding Bishop of the LDS church] and Elder Charles H. Hart [First Council of the Seventy] were present to represent the general Church authorities."

"The Speakers were President John A. Widtsoe [then of the Seventy, later a member of the Quorum of the Twelve],  Elder Joseph E. Cardon [President] of the Central states Missionl...who was formally a counselor of Isaac Smith in the Stake Presidency; Dr. W. B. Parkinson, Elder C. H. Hart, Bishop C. W. Nibley and Bishop B. G. Thatcher...Dr. Parkinson had been a missionary companion of Isaac Smith...Bishop C. W. Nibley said he know of no man in the church who was more humble and obedient right; nor who had done more to deserve praise and a reputation for sterling qualities." 

The Ice House located on Smith property in Logan, Utah - Isaac pictured just right of door

"Upon retiring from [the off of Stake President] he devoted himself strictly to his business affairs which he had neglected somewhat, and he worked to make things go, applied himself so diligent in fact that his health was undermined and his finally became seriously il someweeks ago.  He was a man who had devoted much of his time to service of the public and he did it unselfishly and without reward for he died a comparatively poor man."

"At the present time he was engaged in a produce, cold storage and Ice business." 

Ice House - Isaac Smith pictured left of door

"President John A. Widtsoe spoke first.  He said that in the death of Isaac Smith, he had lost a lifelong friend and personal counselor and advisor.  He said he has always found a joy in the life labors of this good man.  He spoke of the deceased as one who possessed many virtues that go to make up a complete life.  Pres. Smith has been a man who has done much in this valley to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Pres. Widtsoe said that it was Isaac Smith who first taught him tht man cannot serve tow masters.  He involved the blessings of God upon the family of the departed."

Camilla Smith at age 67 with grandson Sidney Hendricks

Harriet Camilla Ensign Smith 1859-1930

The Places They Lived

The Places We have Lived

Lee and Wanda Reasor

Wanda Myrl ROBERSON and Garland Lee REASOR 

1- Apr 1942, lived in a furnished apartment in Louisville, Kentucky for about 5 weeks after marriage

2- June 1942, another furnished apartment in Louisville for two weeks during an extended furlough

3- July 1942, in San Antonio, Texas, Wanda had a garage apartment and I visited on week-ends
4- Chickasha, Oklahoma lived in a hotel room
5- Houston, Texas, a furnished apartment
6- Winter of 1942, Hondo, Texas we shared a motel with another couple
7- June 1943, Coral Gables, Florida, a furnished apartment.
8- Wayne, Michigan an upstairs apartment with the entry through the family’s living room, very dirty
9- 1943-44, Wayne, Michigan, an unfurnished house. We bought furniture and sold it when we left. Bought our sterling silverware here.
10- 1944-1945, Caribou, Maine, we lived in two connecting rooms in an old hotel
11- 1945, Manchester, New Hampshire, lived in a hotel

Garland Lee REASOR and twin brother Gordan Lloyd REASOR

12- December 1945, lived in a rented place in Buechel, Kentucky
13- Rented a different place in Buechel, Kentucky, bought the sewing machine
14- 1946, St Matthews, Kentucky, purchased our first home. Gathered used furniture and bought the dining room suite
15- 1947, had Rube (Reuben Roberson) build us a house on 1.3 acres in Fern Creek, Kentucky. The house was 24 x 30, one floor with basement and a cistern for water supply.
16- March 1951, returned to USAF and moved to Houston, Texas
17- 1951, San Antonio, Texas in a rented apartment
18- 1952, Topeka, Kansas, lived in a large two story rented house
19- 1952, Bellflower, California , Wanda shared a rented house with the family of a crew member, while I was in Japan
20- 1952, Bossier City, Louisiana rented a duplex
21- 1953, Bossier City, Louisiana, rented a house on Olive Street

22- 1954, Bossier City, Louisiana, bought a new house on Christy Street

23- 1955, Sacramento, California, rented an old two story house for month of December

24- 1956, Carmichael, California bought a beautiful new home on Stanton Circle

25- 1956-1957, Biloxi, Mississippi, rented both sides of a duplex in base housing

26- 1957, Merced, California lived for 2 months in a used trailer that we bought in Biloxi

27- 1957, Spokane, Washington purchase a new home because it was the only one we could find with a main floor family room

28- June 1959, Provo, Utah purchased a new home in Edgemont

29- Sept 1960, Orem, Utah had a new home built because the people in Provo would not accept our family

30- August 1962, San Antonio, Texas we rented a home in Red Horse Ridge outside the base

31- 1962-63, moved to base housing on Randolph AFB. Our only experience with on base housing.

32- Aug 1963, Aurora, Colorado, we bought a used expensive house

33- Jan 1966, back to Spokane, Washington in a rented house until our old house could be vacated

34- March 1966, Spokane, Washington moved into the house we bought in 1957

35- June 1976, Dunn Rovin, Greenbluff, Washington, moved into our new house we built from scratch

Greenbluff

eight additional grandchildren yet to be added

In the past 35 years we have lived in 35 different homes. My mother has lived in two homes in the past 55 years.

LDS Mission Kiribiti

36- 1982, Kiribiti, moved into a modernized native house on Moroni Community School campus
37- 1983 returned to our home on Greenbluff, Spokane, Washington

38- 1983 returned to our home on Greenbluff, Spokane, Washington

This completed Lee’s list but we need to include a couple more moves.

LDS Mission Nauvoo

39- 1989, Nauvoo, Illinois lived in a small restored pioneer home while serving mission
40- 1990, moved back to their beloved Greenbluff home

41- 2004, sold Greenbluff home and moved to Handy Road with daughter Cheryl

Dunn Roving

PIC-NIK PARTY July 24 1857

Pres. Brigham Young respectfully invites Shadrach Roundy and family

REGULATIONS.

You will be required to start so as to pass the first mill, about four

Miles up the Kanyon, before 12 o’clock, on Thursday, the 23rd, as no per-

son will be allowed to pass that point after 2 o’clock, p.m. of that day.

All persons are forbidden to smoke cigars or pipes, or kindle fires, at 

any place in the Kanyon, except on the camp ground.

The Bishops are requested to accompany those invited from their res-

pective Wards, and see that each person is well fitted for the trip, with 

good, substantial, steady teams, wagons, harness, hold-back and locks

capable of completing the journey without repair, and a good driver, so as

not to endanger the life of any individual.

Bishops will, before passing the first mill, furnish a full and 

complete list of all persons accompanying them from their respective Wards, and 

hand the same to the Guard at the gate.

GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, July 18, 1857.

Shadrach Roundy was one of the 'Original Pioneers' and at this time was Bishop of the 16th Ward in Great Salt Lake City.  

"The Sixteenth Ward was located between South Temple and Second North, and Ran from Second West on the East, to the Jordan River on the west.  A large part of the land was lowlands and covered with water, but after turning the three channels of City Creek into one channel in 1856, and conveying the water along North Temple Street directly to the Jordan River, nost of the lowland near the river was reclaimed and settled.  Originally, the middle channel of City Creek ran through the Sixteenth Ward.  That part of the ward lying west of Ninth West between North Temple and Second North was not inhabited.  Later it was known as 'Agricultural Park,' and still later it was designated as the State Fairgrounds...."

"...The organization of the ward dates from 1849.  Isaac Higbee was ordained bishop on February 22, 1849, but acted only for a few weeks.  On April 14, 1849 Shadrach Roundy was ordained bishop...."

"...The 16th Ward was the second ward to organize a Relief Society.  It was organized by Bishop Roundy on the tenth of June 1854, and was known as 'The Benevolent Society' (probably so-named in memory of the first Relief Society of the Church organized by the Prophet Joseph Smith.) until January 27, 1855, when the name was changed to the Relief society."

"Pattie Sessions was called to serve as the first president.  She was Utah's most famous midwife who safely delivered over two-thousand women in childbirth, having been set apart for this work by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo...."  (Tales of a Triumphant People, A History of Salt Lake County, Utah 1847-1900.)

July 24, 1857

"Holiday traffic jams have a long Utah history. On July 23, 1857, the logging road leading to Silver Lake (now Brighton) in Big Cottonwood Canyon was crowded with guests invited to a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers. By mid-afternoon, 2,587 people, riding in 464 carriages and wagons, with 1,360 horses, mules, and oxen to pull them, had passed up the canyon road.

Serenaded by brass bands from Salt Lake City, Springville, and Ogden, the people set up camp near the lake. Companies of the Nauvoo Legion (the Utah militia) paraded and drilled. At sunset, a bugle call summoned the people to prayer. Brigham Young spoke of the arrival of the pioneers, and how God had blessed them to create a garden in the desert. A prayer of thanksgiving was followed by an evening of dancing in three plank-floored boweries built for the party."

"Pioneer Day began with breakfast prepared over hundreds of small campfires. The American flag flew from treetops and from nearby rocky peaks. Just after 9:00, rounds were fired from a small brass cannon in honor of Mormon leaders, and again an hour later to salute a parade of 10- to 12-year-old boys. For the most part, the crowds relaxed in small groups, went swimming and boating, or played on swings suspended from tree limbs.

About noon, four dusty horsemen – Abraham O. Smoot, Judson Stoddard, Porter Rockwell, and Elias Smith – arrived in camp, bringing the news for which Pioneer Day, 1857, is best remembered: The displeasure of the federal government with what they believed were conditions of anarchy in Utah had reached the boiling point. A large portion of the United States Army, estimated at 2,500 men, were marching toward Utah, beginning what we know today as the Utah War...." 

"....Daniel H. Wells, a counselor to Brigham Young and future mayor of Salt Lake City, announced the news to the assembled campers. They recognized the gravity of the situation, but there was no panic, no angry speeches, and no dampening of the celebration. Soon enough the people of Utah would turn to defending their homes and families against what many considered to be an unlawful, unjustified mob invasion, but for the rest of that Pioneer Day they would celebrate the success of their ten years in the wilderness."

"The evening was spent in songs and toasts, 'after which,' according to reporter George D. Watt, 'dancing and general hilarity continued to a late hour.'

"Camp was broken early on the morning of July 25th, with a long and orderly train of wagons and carriages proceeding down the mountain and back to the city."  (By: Ardis E. Parshall - November 19, 2008)

Ancestry Chain: TR, Lark, Kirt DeMar WOOD 1923-1987, Laura Elizabeth PARKER 1889-1971, Charles PARKER 1853-1935, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY 1829-1912, Shadrach ROUNDY 1789-1872.

Thanks to Uncle Hugh for sharing this invitation.