Church History Biographical Database

 Church History Biographical Database

Includes 32 of our Early Pioneers

7 Missing from Database

Died before and in Nauvoo, and on the trail.

1839 joined Michigan - Adaline RAWSON 1811-1841 Nauvoo

(1844) joined Engalnd - William INGRAM 1790-1844 St Louis

(1844) joined Engalnd - Susannah GRIFFITHS 1811-1844 St Louis

1841 joined Engalnd - Daniel William SMITH 1792-1845 Nauvoo

1844 joined Massachusetts - Horace Datus ENSIGN 1797-1846 Winter Quarters

Arrived in Deseret 1869,

 they sent ahead, four teenage children who had been born in the Church,

1848 joined Engalnd - Henry WORLEY 1827-1914

1848 joined Engalnd - Catherine WILLMORE 

Friend Magazine Sep 1993 pg 34

Evaline DUNN HUNSAKER

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RELIEF SOCIETY MAGAZINE. [January 1918]

EVALINE DUNN HUNSAKER. MOTHER OF SEVENTEEN CHILDREN.

 The subject of this brief sketch is certainly an unusual mother. Great has been her mission here on earth and well and faithfully has she performed the same. 

Evaline Dunn was born September 12, 1853, in Brigham City, Utah, her father Simeon A. Dunn being- one of the first settlers of Brigham City, and who lived in the Old Fort together with President Lorenzo Snow and others. Her mother was HarrietAtwood Silver who joined the Church in Lowell, Mass., and leaving all her family and friends for the gospel's sake she went to Winter Quarters where she met and married Simeon A. Dunn. [Simeon Adams DUNN was a widower caring for 3 of his 5 young children.] They emigrated to Utah in 1848. Seven children were born to them—three sons and four daughters, viz., Sarah S., Simeon A., Emaline and Evaline (twins), Charles Q., Harriet and Henry who were also twins. 

Harriet Atwood Silver Dunn died Jan. 1, 1858, leaving her seven children without a mother's care. 

Evaline was only four years old at the time of her mother's death. She with the other children were left to the care of their father and [her] older sister (Susannah Dunn), whose mother was 

UNUSUAL MOTHERS

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also dead, and who was only fourteen years of age when these little brothers and sisters were left to her care.

In the midst of poverty, the hard times and privations incident to the early pioneer life in Utah, the children all young—-were subjected to a life of hardship that may be imagined only by persons acquainted with such .scenes.

On Oct. 5, 1868, in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Evaline was united for time and for eternity to Allen Collins Hunsaker. Soon after her marriage, she moved with her husband to Honeyville, where they lived for about eleven years, when they settled in Elwood, Utah, being among the first settlers and again pioneering a new country. Her husband was a farmer and sheep man. He was presiding elder of the branch for over ten years and always received encouragement and help from his wife.

Seventeen children were born to them, namely, Simeon A., Lewis, Eva L., Lily M., Emaline M., Harriet V., Ethel, Adeline (who died in infancy). La Titia, Margaret, Susie, Aleen, Nephi (died at two years), Oscar (died at three weeks), Lorenzo S., Amy, and Harold (died in infancy). Thirteen of the seventeen children born to them are now grown to maturity and all except one (Lorenzo S.) are married and have all had that ordinance performed in the temple.

Surely the teachings, the example, the loving counsel of our parents have not been in vain.

The writer has this to say: If I ever do anything wrong in this life, if I do not keep the commandments given to us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it will not be because my mother or father have failed to teach me, both by example and precept, every principle of the gospel. Oh, I am so grateful for my parents. If I can only be half as good as my mother, how happy I will be!

Sister Evaline is a faithful member of the Church, bemg a worker in the ward Relief Society and helping in every way she can. She is the grandmother of 74 children and has four greatgrandchildren.

Besides rearing her own family she now has three of her grandchildren whose father (Simeon A.) died in 1902 and their mother in 1904. She has taken these children, the oldest being seven years old, and cared for them until they are now grown to young manhood and womanhood. The eldest, Simeon V. Hunsaker, has enlisted at our country's call and is training in the navy Two of her sons, Simeon A., and Lewis have filled honorable missions, the first to Germany and the latter to England.

For almost forty-nine years she has been a constant companion, a true and devoted wife and a loving mother. Long may she yet remain to be a source of inspiration to her posterity.

Aleen Hunsaker Thomas.

Grandfathers in the First and Second Quorums of Seventy

First Quorum of Seventy- John Davis PARKER [see the first column]

Ancestry Chain:  John Davis PARKER 1799-1891, Charles PARKER 1853-1935, Laura Elizabeth PARKER 1889-1970 , Kirt DeMar WOOD 1923-1987, Lark, TR. 

Second Quorum of Seventy - Shadrach ROUNDY [see the first column]

Ancestry Chain: Shardrach ROUNDY 1789-1872, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY 1829-1912, Charles PARKER 1853-1935, Laura Elizabeth PARKER 1889-1970 , Kirt DeMar WOOD 1923-1987, Lark, TR. 

Same two Grandfathers in the Council of Fifty:

John D. PARKER joined (19 Mar 1844) the Council of Fifty prior to June 27, 1844, under the leadership of Joseph Smith. Later released do to Old age.

Shadrach ROUNDY joined (1 Mar 1845) the Council of Fifty following after June 27, 1844, and under the leadership of Brigham Young. Died 4 Jul 1872.

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. 

Tidbits on [uncle] Lauren Hotchkiss ROUNDY son of Shadrach and Betsey QUIMBY ROUNDY

Shared by H. Gail Poulock, From JOURNEY TO ZION, VOICES FROM THE MORMON TRAIL, by Carol C. Madsen, Deseret Book, 1997, Trail Excerpt:

"...we traveled until we had come down out of the hills onto the Platte again. As we were coming along one evening just before camping time we saw three bears on the other side of the river near a thicket of brush. Smoot, the captain, called to me to get ready and go with him and kill them. Accordingly I got my gun which was empty and loaded it with a double charge as I knew it would stand it, and took my pistol - a single barrel - in case I got into a close fight, and went with him. By the time we got started there were three more boys who had got ready also and went with us. Their names were Charles Chipman, George Peacock, and Lorin Roundy.

Well by the time we got across the river the bears had gone into the brush so that we could not see them, but we had three large dogs with us which we put on their tracks and into the brush they ran, but when they got to the bear they were so astonished they would not even bark at them. When we got pretty well up to the brush, Smoot charged right up, thinking I suppose, to get the first shot, but when he saw the bear he was about like the dogs. He was so excited he forgot he had a gun but hollowed, 'Here she is boys, come and shoot her quick'. Accordingly we ran as fast as we could right up to the brush, but when we got there the brush was high enough that we could not see them on foot. Just at this time the old bear noticed Smoot on his horse and she paid no more attention to the dogs, but came from them to us with a vengeance. This excited Smoot the more, and he hollowed 'take care, boys, run - here she comes. She is a fifteen hundreder,' and turning his horse he laid the whip and away he went with a vengeance.

This so alarmed the boys that they all turned and ran as fast as they could, leaving the bear and me to settle our little difficulties as best we could. In the moment of their running by me and leaving me to fight it out alone, I though of Daniel Boone's companions running and leaving him alone in like circumstances..." Obviously, they had entered grizzly country.

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Shared by H. Gail Poulock, From OUR PIONEER HERITAGE, Vol ?, section on Bands and Orchestras, page 123:

"In 1857 an invitation was sent by Governor Young to the various towns in Utah County to join Salt Lake County in celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Pioneer's entrance into Utah. The celebration was to be held at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Some twenty teams, headed by the band in their fine new wagon, went from Springville. Lauran H. Roundy, who was the possessor of some very fine horses, was teammaster. It took them one day to reach their destination and the celebration went on for three days. On the morning of July 22nd, the group gathered in front of Johnson's home and just as old sol shot his golden rays into the valley, the procession started with the band playing and their flags flying. The present road across Provo Bench was marked off that day for future travel. That night they camped at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. The evening was spent in contests by various bands, among the number being the famous Nauvoo Brass Band. The next day the long train wended it way up to the beautiful valley at the head of the canyon where tents were pitched under the spreading branches of towering pines. The next day was never forgotten by those present. There was a battery of artillery that kept the echoes ringing from day break until eight p. m. A fine program was carried out while dancing, feasting and merriment was kept up until the wee hours of the twenty-fifth. It was on this date that A. O. Smoot and Porter Rockwell rode into camp sunburned and travel-stained, to impart the startling news that Johnston's Army was on its way to Utah. Immediately everyone left for home to prepare to meet them." Another example of Lauren spelled wrong.

Church History in the Family - Nauvoo the Beautiful

2005 Wedding in the Nauvoo temple:
1989 Baptism in the Mississippi at the end of Parley Street, Nauvoo:
1988-1990 Grandparents serving mission in Nauvoo:

Still standing Simeon Adams DUNN home the first two story home built in Nauvoo:
DUNN spice box on display at Scoffield bakery, was found when renovating the DUNN home:

Ancestors who lived in Nauvoo:
1-2 John Davis PARKER and second wife Almeda Sophia ROUNDY (married in Nauvoo temple 1846.)

3-4 Shadrach ROUNDY and wife Betsey QUIMBY and family. name children

5-6-7 Near by Marcy Jane LUCAS with non member husband John WILLIAMS and family including Polly WILLIAMS (DAVIS). name children

8-9 Daniel William SMITH died in Nauvoo 1845 and Sarah WOODING and children. name children

10 Samuel SMITH with first wife Mary Ann LINE and children. name children

11 Sarah Jane INGRAM orphaned child living with uncle and aunt along with her older brother Richard and little sister Fanny.

12-13-14 Brief stay in 1846 Horace Datus ENSIGN and wife Mary BRONSON with six of their 7 children including teen aged Martin Luther ENSIGN. Horace died at Winter Quarters 1846. Two of Horace's brothers had families in Nauvoo. They were brother Samuel ENSIGN and Mary Everett GORDON and half brother Isaac ENSIGN and Mary BRYANT (grandparents of Sarah Delight STOCKING WOODRUFF).

15-16-17 Simeon Adams DUNN his first Adaline RAWSON died in Nauvoo 1841, their living children Adaline DUNN HAWS married at age 15 in Nauvoo, Mary DUNN (ENSIGN) and Betsy DUNN (HAWS). Simeon's second wife Margaret SNYDER she and son Simeon died in Nauvoo 1846, her daughter Susanna born in Nauvoo 1842.

SEE Robert Grover's Nauvoo slide show: http://www.groverphoto.phanfare.com/4699531#imageID=101327650

Church History in the family - Delight wife of Wilford Woodruff

[Delight was second cousin to my great grandmother Harriet Camilla ENSIGN SMITH]

SARAH DELIGHT STOCKING [WOODRUFF]

Born: 26 Jul 1838, Canton, Bloomfield, Conn. daughter of John Jay Stocking and Catherine Emeline Ensign Died: 28 May 1906, South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah

She was know as Delight. Her mother died when she was only 2'/z. Her father then married her mother's sister, Harriett Ensign. Her step-mother aunt raised her. The family converted to the `Mormon' faith in 1843 and moved to Nauvoo in 1844. Their family was in the 1st" party leaving Nauvoo in February 1846, but they struggled In Iowa, several members of the extended family died, including Delight's Grandparents. At some point on the trail, Delight and several members of their party became very sick As an act of faith she asked her father to baptize her. Her father thought the ordinance would only hasten her death, but she insisted She was baptized the first time and had to be helped out; baptized again and she walked out on her own power, baptized a third time and she was almost instantly healed On seeing this, the other sick were also baptized in this manner and the disease was checked A large Indian also tried to steal Delight. He was in the camp and made a grab for her, but she quickly scrambled under a wagon and spread the alarm.

Upon arriving in the valley in 1850, the family lived in West Jordan briefly and then became one of the original settlers of Fort Herriman. At that time parents often betrothed their children at an early age. In Nauvoo Delight had been promised to Wilford Woodruff. In Harriman, when any young men came to see Delight, her step mother compelled them to sit nearby so she could hear every word they said When her father saw the young men calling, he said that the time had come for marriage. He hitched up the team and took Delight to Salt Lake. Wilford Woodruff and Sarah Delight were married by Brigham Young in the Endowment House on July 31, 1857. Delight was 19, Wilford 50. She was Wilford's 5'h wife.

She learned quickly the role of a plural wife. Delight lived at the Valley House, Salt Lake's first Hotel, with Wilford's other wives. She shared a stove with the oven going through the wall with another wife. It is said that Delight made good bread and when she put the bread in the oven to bake the other wife would sometimes pull it out on her side and eat it. In 1860, Wilford bought a house in Ft. Harriman, where he moved his wife Sarah Brown. Delight gave birth to Marion in 1861 in Salt Lake City. In July of 1862, Delight moved to Ft. Herriman to help tend Wilford's cattle interest there and to be closer to her father. However, she was back in Salt Lake in 1865. Delight gave birth to 6 more children: Emeline (1863), Ensign (1865), Jeremiah (1868), Rosanna (1871), John Jay (1873) and Julia Delight (1878). In addition she also cared for an Indian boy. In 1875 Wilford bought Delight a house and 10 acre farm on 3'd East, near W South (today it is 13'h South). The next few years were difficult for all of Wilford's families as he was in hiding because of Polygamy laws for several years. His first wife died during this persecution. When he was able to come out he was only seen publicly with Emma, his second wife. However, he was conscientious in writing to, caring for and attending to the needs of all his wives and children. All of his descendants honored his name. Delight kept herself busy with her family. She found time for church duties particularly in Relief Society and M.I.A. The farm was subdivided and sold in 1892 to become the North Waterloo Addition. On Wilford's death in 1898, she received her share of the estate. When her youngest daughter married, she made her home with her unmarried son, John She was a sweet woman, with a good disposition, modest and unassuming She passed away at the age of 67.
(www.wilfordwoodruff.org)

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Sarah Delight Stocking Woodruff

by Julia Woodruff Parks

from Carter, ed., Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 10, pp. 236-38

Sarah Delight Stocking Woodruff was born July 26, 1838 in Canton, Hartford County, Conn., the daughter of John J. Stocking and Catherine Emeline Ensign, converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1843. The family moved to Nauvoo in September 1844 where Sarah's father followed his trade as tailor for a short time, but was compelled to take any work available to obtain supplies for their intended journey with the Saints. They left Nauvoo and traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. Stocking harvested twenty acres of wheat. This wheat was used for food on their journey to the Salt Lake Valley.

During the journey, Sarah's mother became ill with cholera and died. Wrapped in a sheet and covered with a thick bark from a nearby tree, her body was placed in the earth and covered with dirt and rock. The cholera epidemic was increasing and the sick were not recovering. Sarah was very ill and pleaded with her father to baptize her in the river, explaining that she knew if he would do so she would be made well, but if he did not, she would die. Her father decided to do as she asked, although he was fearful her death might be hastened as a result of the baptism. He carried the child in a chair to the river bank. News spread through the camp, and many of the company gathered to witness the ceremony. Some remonstrated with him, but he explained that Sarah's faith was strong and he must comply with her wishes. She was taken in his arms into the water where he baptized her three times. After the third immersion she was healed and walked from the water unaided.

After many trials, one of which was the attempted abduction of Sarah, the family arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake September 12, 1850. Mr. Stocking married his deceased wife's sister, Harriet, who was very strict and severe with the children, and required them to work hard, which training they later appreciated. The Stocking family settled in Fort Herriman, and seven years after her arrival in the Valley, Sarah married Wilford Woodruff in the Endowment House July 31, 1857, Brigham Young performing the ceremony. She moved into the Valley House and made her home with his four other wives.

As the Woodruff family grew, Sarah moved to a ten-acre farm on Third East near Tenth South. Here her family earned their living. She became the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters. One child died in infancy, and one was an Indian boy she raised who was given to her husband by a tribe. Sarah found time for Church duties, particularly Relief Society and M.I.A. When her youngest daughter married and left home, Sarah moved to Big Cottonwood where she made her home with her unmarried son, John J. She was characterized as a woman of sweet disposition, modest and unassuming. After being an invalid for more than two years, she died May 28, 1906, at Big Cottonwood, and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Church History in the family - Eliza R. Snow School

Almeda Sophia ROUNDY attended Eliza R. Snow's School
in the Red Brick Store at Nauvoo

Eliza R. Snow’s private school met in the upper room of Joseph Smith’s red brick store in Nauvoo, Illinois. From 12 December 1842 to 17 March 1843, the Roundy sisters Almeda Sophia and Samantha attended Eliza R. Snow’s school. Thirty-seven students from the age of four to seventeen were enrolled. Some of Sophia and Samantha’s class mates were four of Joseph and Emma Smith’s children, five of Newel K. Whitney’s children, one of William Marks’ children, three of Vinson Knight’s children, and two of the Partridge children. Sophia turned 14 just before the close of the school. On the last day of school, both Samantha and Sophia wrote a tribute to Sister Snow.

Almeda Sophia ROUNDY

"The time has now arrived when it falls to my lot to bid you farewell as a teacher; it is with feelings of regret that I do so. I would still wish to continue under the guidance of one who I feel is possess’d [sic] of every qualification necessary to instruct the useful mind in all the branches of useful knowledge. I am not insensible to the interest you have manifested in my behalf, but have witnessed it with pleasure, and my desire is, that I may have as great an interst for myself and endeavor as far as possible to profit from the instructions given me. Receive my heartfelt gratitude for every kindness bestowed upon me; and may the time not be far distant when I shall again sit under the sound of your voice and listen to all the good advice and every instruction which you may deem proper to give me. Excuse all imperfections and receive these lines as a token of that high regard which I feel for a kind and affectionate teacher."

(signed) Sophia Roundy.

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, editor, The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxy Snow (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1995), 72.

Ancestry Chain: TR, Lark, Kirt DeMar WOOD, Laura Elizabeth PARKER, Charles PARKER, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY.

“With pleasure now I take my pen, to write these humble lines In token of respect for one, whose heart with wisdom shines Whose words of admonition given, have caused me to rejoice And pray that I, like thee might make intelligence my choice, I feel that nobleness of mind, is what the Lord admires, And from they pen effusions flow, which oft my heart inspires; I feel an anxious wish arise that I like thee might be In time the favor’d one of heaven, to write sweet poetry, I now return my thanks sincere, for kind attention giv’n And pray that thy reward may be, rich blessings sent from heav’n; May all they future days be crown’d with peach and happiness Thy works obtain for thee at last, a robe or righeousness.”

(signed) Samantha Roundy.

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, editor, The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxy Snow (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1995), 72-73.

Samantha Roundy was 18 when the school closed.

Utah Statehood 1896

(Call number MS d 5373 Description Autobiography Martin Luther Ensign. Historical Department-Church Archives 50 East North Temple Street, East Wing Salt lake City, Utah 84150 phone (801) 240-2272.)

Letter written by Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831-1911) regarding the 1896 Utah Statehood events. These are hard to read please help fill in the blanks.

See: UT Statehood post for transcript.

Click on the letters to enlarge and read.

Martin Luther ENSIGN was 16 years old when he arrived in Utah with his widowed mother Mary BRONSON ENSIGN and siblings September 22, 1847.

Ancestral Chain: Martin Luther ENSIGN, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN, George Ensign SMITH, Camilla SMITH, Lark, TR.

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". )

Our grandfather Anthony COLBY - is grandfather of Prophets

Our Relationship to the Prophet Joseph Smith

(our common ancestors 1. Anthony and Susanna COLBY)

1. Anthony COLBY (abt. 1606) Of Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts and is wife Susanna HADDON (abt 1806) of Boston, Suffolk, MA.

Our tenth great grandparents Anthony and Susanna COLBY had eight children, two of them are our ancestors, another is a ancestor of the Prophet Joseph SMITH Jr. Making us cousins of Joseph SMITH Jr. and his mother Lucy MACK.

2. Isaac COLBY (6 Jul 1640) Salisbury, Essex, MA [brother / sisters]

2. Sarah COLBY ( Abt 1635) Cambridge, Middlesex, MA

2. Mary COLBY(19 Sep 1647) Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts

3. Dorothy COLBY (15 Jun 1677) Amesbury, Essex, MA, daughter of Isaac COLBY
[1 cousin to Sarah BAGLEY / 1 cousin to Phillip SARGENT]

3. Sarah BAGLEY (2 Mar 1662/1663) Boston, Suffolk, MA daughter of Sarah COLBY

3. Phillip SARGENT Sr. (12 Aug 1672) Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, son of Mary COLBY
[1 cousin to Sarah BAGLEY / 1 cousin to Dorothy COLBY]

4. Martha HADLEY (23 Oct 1704) Amesbury, Essex, MA, daughter of Dorothy COLBY.
[2 cousin to Ebenezer MACK and 2 cousin to Phillip SARGENT who was her husband]

4. Ebenezer MACK (8 Dec 1697) Lyme, New London, CT

4. Phillip SARGENT Jr. (9 May 1731) Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts
[2 cousin to Ebenezer MACK and 2 cousin to Martha HADLEY who was his wife]

5. Martha SARGENT (14 Jul 1725) Amesbury, Essex, MA
[twice 3 cousin to Solomon MACK]

5. Solomon MACK (15 Sep 1732) Lyme, New London, CT

6. Moses QUIMBY (29 Sep 1755) Kingston, Rockingham, NH
[twice a 4 cousin to Lucy MACK]

6. Lucy MACK (8 Jul 1775) Gilsum, Cheshire, NH

7. Betsey QUIMBY (29 Jun 1795) Lunenburg, Essex, VT
[twice 5 cousin to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

7. Joseph SMITH, Jr. (23 Dec 1805) Sharon, Windsor, VT

8. Almeda Sophia ROUNDY (7 Mar 1829) Spafford, Onondaga, NY
[twice 5 cousin 1 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]
[twice 5 cousin to Joseph F. SMITH]

9. Charles PARKER (30 Dec 1853) Centerville, Davis, UT
[twice 5 cousin 2 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]
[twice 7 cousin to Joseph Fielding SMITH]

10. Laura Elizabeth PARKER (24 Jan 1889) Kanarraville, Iron, UT
[twice 5 cousin 3 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

11. Kirt DeMar WOOD (12 Dec 1923) Hurricane, Washington, UT
[twice 5 cousin 4 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

12. Lark
[twice 5 cousin 5 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

13. TR
[twice 5 cousin 6 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

Church History in the Family - Doctrine and Covenants

1. D&C 124: 141
   141 And again, I say unto you, I give unto you Vinson Knight, Samuel H. Smith, and Shadrach Roundy, if he will receive it, to preside over the ^abishopric; a knowledge of said bishopric is given unto you in the book of Doctrine and Covenants.

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

Shadrach ROUNDY

Son of Uriah Roundy and Lucretia Needham. Married Betsy Quimby (born 1795 in Vermont) 22 June 1814. [Betsey was the daughter of Moses QUIMBY (1755-1840) and Hannah KENNEDY (1756-1805).] Ten children: Lauren Hotchkiss, Julia Rebecca, Lorenzo Wesley, Lauretta, Samantha, Jared Curtis, Almeda Sophia, William Felshaw, Nancy Jane, and Malinda. Moved to Onondaga County, New York, by 1815. Baptized 23 January 1831. Ordained elder 16 May 1832 by Orson Hyde and Samuel H. Smith. Moved to Kirtland by 1834. Worked on Kirtland Temple. Received blessing for working on Kirtland Temple 7 March 1835. Ordained seventy in Kirtland about March 1836. Moved to Far West, Missouri, by 1838. Present in Far West 26 April 1839, when members of Twelve Apostles left for missions to England. Expelled from Missouri 1839. Located temporarily in Warsaw, Illinois, 1839. Moved to Nauvoo about 1840. Appointed by revelation to assume bishopric under leadership of Vinson Knight 19 January 1841. Member of Nauvoo Legion 4 February 1841. Ordained high priest by 1842. Temporary member of Nauvoo high council 1842. Initiated into Masonry 1842. Nauvoo policeman 29 December 1843. Member of Nauvoo Mercantile and Mechanical Association 13 January 1845. Appointed by Brigham Young to organize company of one hundred to locate in California October 1845. Plan did not materialize. Bodyguard to Joseph Smith. Member of Council of Fifty. Received endowment 25 December 1845. Left Nauvoo for West 1846. Arrived in Salt Lake Valley July 1847. Member of Salt Lake high council 1847-48. Assisted in bringing poor emigrants from Midwest to Salt Lake Valley. Bishop of Salt Lake Sixteenth Ward 14 April 1849-56.

The Golden Rule

When I searched lds.org for a primary message on the Golden Rule I found family help. Pat Graham, “Sharing Time: Live the Golden Rule,” Friend, Sep 1987, 12 Pat Graham, “Sharing Time: Live the Golden Rule,” Tambuli, Oct 1989, 6 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets (Matt. 7:12). A fable is a story meant to teach a moral lesson. The characters are often animals. And although the story could not have happened the lesson is valuable. “The New Animal” is a fable with a very important lesson. The New Animal By Diane Bohn A new animal was coming to live in the zoo, and the other animals were excited. One morning a big truck backed up to an empty cage, and out stepped the new animal. The other animals stared in amazement. The new animal did not look like any animal that they had ever seen before. He had a long neck and a long tail, and when he opened his mouth, he barked. One by one the other animals turned away from the cage. Because the new animal was so different, they were not sure how to treat him. The new animal was very lonely. The other animals ignored him, so he had no one to talk to. He was so sad that he could not eat. The zookeeper began to worry. People stopped visiting the zoo because the new animal was sad and the other animals hid in the backs of their cages. One day the elephant heard the new animal barking to himself. “The new animal does have a good trunk,” he told the giraffe. “It’s not as long as mine but is really quite nice.” The giraffe stretched her neck to take a closer look. “Look at his strong neck. He can reach as high as I can.” The lion was looking quietly at the new animal’s mane. “My goodness! He has an excellent mane—almost as thick as mine.” Just then the zebra trotted by the cage. “His coat has a very nice pattern,” she said. “And his horns are curved just right,” the mountain goat said, “just like mine.” When the monkey came swinging from the trees, he said, “Look at that handsome tail. I wonder if the new animal would like to play tag?” Finally the duck waddled by the cage. “What fine feet you have. You probably can swim faster than I can,” she said. The new animal stopped crying and thanked the duck for the compliment. Soon all the animals were talking together. They felt much happier. Even though the new animal looked different, the other animals had all found something about the new animal that they liked. Instructions 1. Mount animal parts on heavy paper, then color and cut out.

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Mick Reasor

2. While telling story, put parts together as each animal discovers how he is like the New Animal. 3. Tell what you think the moral of the story is. Sharing Time Ideas 1. Make copy of new animal parts for each child to color and cut out. Or put together for younger children, then make copies for them to color. 2. As you tell story have children hold large pictures of other animal. 3. Involve the children as you carefully lead the discussion into differences among people as well as among animals. For example: “All children with blue eyes raise their hands.” “Those with freckles stand.” “Those who can whistle, hold hands.” Be sensitive to situations in class in which you can give support to children. Lead to the conclusion that we can find something that we like about everybody. 4. Discuss the Golden Rule (Matt. 7:12). Who taught us this? Challenge children to apply the Golden Rule during the week and report their experiences.

Pony Express Rider

Uncle John Calvin ENSIGN (1829-1907) Pony Express rider.
Deseret News 1907-o7-02
Calvin was the son of Horace Datus ENSIGN and Mary BRONSON, brother of Martin Luther ENSIGN.

Church History in the Family - Mormon Battalion - Gilbert Hunt

Corp. Gilbert HUNT

A member of the Sick Detachment of the Mormon Battalion.
HUNT married at Fort Pueblo, Colorado abt Mar 1847 Lydia A. GIBSON
the daughter of George Washington GIBSON. [Lydia married Mr. HUNT at Fort Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado in 1847 she was there with her parents and the Mississippi Saint her was there with the Mormon Battalion.]

Birth:	Apr. 11, 1825 Albion Edwards County Illinois, USA
Death:	Nov. 14, 1858 Cottonwood Salt Lake County Utah, USA
Son of Charles Jefferson Hunt & Celia Mounts Married Lydia Ardelicia Elinor Gibson, 23 Apr 1847 GILBERT HUNT, Corporal. On detached service 17th of September, 1846, by order of Acting Lieutenant Colonel A.J. SMITH. Mustered out with detachment to date July 16, 1847. (This muster-out remark, and all to the same purport, are marked on the official roll with an asterisk; the footnote reads as follows: "It is not conclusively shown where this detachment was mustered out. Evidence on file indicated that it was stationed at or near Great Salt Lake at time of M.O., but travel pay has been allowed in each case from Los Angeles, so the detachment was evidently considered as having been M.O. at that place the same as the balance of the Company.' GILBERT HUNT was a son of the Captain [Jefferson Hunt] of the Company. Family links: Parents: Jefferson Hunt (1803 - 1879) Celia Mounts Hunt (1805 - 1897) Spouse: Lydia Ardelicia Gibson Hunt (1826 - 1915)
Burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA Plot: F_7_13_4W … while being detained at Pueblo, Colo, she [Lydia GIBSON a teenage daughter of Mississippi Saint George Washington GIBSON] met and married to Gilbert Hunt who was also a member of the Mormon Battalion, but had been detailed to assist in taking care of some sick, who were in camp for rest, and not able to travel, but soon followed the first company westward. Soon after they were called to join a company under Chas C. Rich and Amasa Lyman to settle San Bernardino, Cal., returning to Salt Lake City after several years, when on Nov. 14, 1858, Mr. Hunt died, leaving Mrs. Hung with four young children. Four months later she gave birth to her fifth child. She had lost two children while living at Cottonwood.… Washington County News 1915-03-18 Lydia (Ardelicia or Elenor) GIBSON HUNT

Church History in the Family - Utah War

Language of the Mormon pioneers, by George w. Givens

dugway - n. slang term for a simple dug-out road.
"Martin Luther Ensign, a missionary returning to Utah from a mission remembered seeking out his family after their move south to escape Johnston's invading army. He found them as they were returning home.' Started for home on July 4th. we met the Army on 6th in the narrows of the Jordon river and were Delade for a half day because we could not pass them on the dugway. It was very hot & we suffered for water for our selves & teems continued our Journey in the afternoon arrived at our home in Brigham City July 10th 1858.' " (BYU Studies, Journal Vol. 29, No. 4, category: Pioneer Period, "The Move South," by Richard d. Poll.)

I [Susanna DUNN HUNSACKER] went with my father [Simeaon Adams DUNN] in the move south in January 1858, after my second mother died and left me at the age of fifteen with my father and his little ones. I remember, before we moved south, we filled our homes with straw so if the soldiers came to take possession, we could fire them, and they could not take them as they had done in Nauvoo. When we moved south, I met Heber C. Kimball and he asked me if I thought we would ever get back to Brigham City. I told him I did not know but I hoped so. He said, “I promise you that you will get back, and soon, and no harm will come to you.” We moved back to Brigham City in July. (Personal history of Susannah Dunn Hunsacker.)

The Dunn Family--My grandparents, Simeon Adams Dunn and Harriett Atwood Silver were married at Winter Quarters, January 3, 1847, by President Brigham Young. They arrived in Utah September 28, 1848, and established their home in Brigham City. On December 31, 1857, to their family were added twin babies, Harriett and Henry Silver. The tiny girl died shortly after birth, and two days later, on January 2, 1858, the mother, Harriett, closed her eyes in death, having given her life for her family and the religion she had espoused. Twice before, this good husband and father had been called upon to lay away a devoted wife and .companion. This time his heart was almost broken as he placed the form of his lovely young wife in the crude, home-made casket and laid her lifeless baby daughter in her arms.

Three months later, in April 1858, the call came for all Saints to leave their homes in northern Utah, and journey southward. Simeon Adams Dunn loaded a few provisions and household effects into his covered wagon, assisted his motherless children to their place in the wagon box, and cracking his long whip over the backs of his oxen, commenced his journey. He had also provided a wagon for his eldest daughter [Mary DUNN ENSIGN] and her three little girls [Mary Adaline, Georgianna, Emma Lovinia], and they traveled together. The husband and father of this little family, Martin Luther Ensign, at that time was serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [in England].

As they proceeded on their way, baby Henry became very ill. They camped on Kay's Creek, (now Kaysville) and there they saw the life depart from their lovely three-months-old baby son and brother. The father made his little family as safe and comfortable as possible in this temporary camp, and with a sad and heavy heart slowly wended his way back to the lonely grave in the Brigham City Cemetery. Very near to it he dug a very small, new grave, and in it tenderly laid the remains of his baby boy.

He found the town empty, except for a few men who had remained behind, ready at a moment's notice to touch a match to the homes and buildings if the enemy should enter the city. He went into his house, expecting to spend the night there, but it was so quiet and lonely it was more than he could endure, so he went to the stable, laid down by his faithful oxen, and spent the night near them. Early the next morning he was on his way to rejoin his family. He found them safe and well and they continued their journey as far south as Payson, where they made their camp and remained until the Saints were counseled by the Church leader, to return to their homes.

From the diary of my father, Charles Oscar Dunn, who was four years old at the time of the move, I quote: "On our return home we passed the soldiers at the point of the mountain. It was a great sight to see them march by us. As we watched them pass, the wind blew my hat off and it rolled down a steep dugway and into the Jordan River, so I had to go on home without a hat, which made me very sad. We reached home alright but found all of our possessions gone, and our house empty."--Eva Dunn Snow. (Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol.10, p.259-260.)

Samuel SMITH family
When Jennett Maria Smith first baby was two weeks old, the United States armies were expected to wipe this people (Mormons) off the earth and the people were told by church leaders to move south to Utah County. She was too ill to travel so was left behind with one or two other women who were also too ill. Only one man, the sheriff, was left to guard the town. After a week or so, her husband, Samuel returned, being so worried about her, and moved her south on her bed.

Francis HAWKES went to the mountains and serve as a baker for the Mormon defenders. It was around this time Francis' first wife Georgina Maria Maddsen and their child Georgina Mary Hawkes died.

Church History in the Family - Mormon Battalion - Alpheus Peter Haws

Sgt. Alpheus Peter Haws (1825-1906).
His wives 1. Adeline DUNN (1830-1852) and 2. Betsy DUNN (1838-1937) are 3rd great grand aunts. They are the oldest and the youngest full sisters of Mary DUNN ENSIGN.

Birth:	Oct. 15, 1825 Essex Ontario, Canada
Death:	Nov. 5, 1906 Santa Rosa Sonoma County California, USA
Son of Peter Haws & Charlotte Harrington Married Adaline Dunn [1845 sealed Nauvoo at age 15.] Married Betsy Dunn (Adaline's sister), [married 1854, .at age 15. Divorced.] 81 years old. Sgt. Co. D Mormon Batt. IA Vols. Mexican War. Information from L Haws, Berkeley, CA. ALPHEUS P. HAWES, Sergeant. (Tyler's list, ALPHEUS P. HAWS, Fourth Sergeant) Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal. 1870 US Census 45 year old Alpheus P Haws living in Grass Valley, Lander, Nevada with wife 34 year old Betsy, 16 year old Laura A. Haws, 13 year old Adaline G. Haws, 17 years old D C Haws, 4 year old W Haws and 2 year old Lola A. Haws. 1900 US Census 74 year old Alpheus Haws living in Oakland City, Alameda, California. Appears to be a veterans Hospital. States birthdate as Oct 1825, born In Canada, parents born in New York, immigrated in 1838, married in 1880. * Mormon Battalion members
Burial: Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Santa Rosa Sonoma County California, USA =============================== Adeline DUNN and Alpheus HAWS BIOGRAPHY: 279.3/Ea85m Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1830-1848 By Susan Easton Black. p. 679 Gives birthdate as June 19, 1829. Reference: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46; Family Group sheet father and spouse; TIB BIOGRAPHY: "500 Wagons Stood Still: Mormon Battalion Wives" by Shirley N. Maynes 1999. pp 256-259 Adeline Dunn Haws--Husband: Alpheus Peter Haws--4th Sergeant-- Company D Adeline Dunn was born June 19, 1830 in Belleville, VanBuren County, Michigan to Simeon Adam Dunn and Adeline Rawson. The family was early converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois to be near the Church Headquarters. It was in Nauvoo where Alpheus and Adeline become acuqainted and were married. They both received their temple endowments on December 24, 1845 and were sealed to each other on January 30, 1846. They were members of the Nauvoo 4th Ward. The family of Alpheus Haws had come from Canada and his father, Peter, was 1st Counselor to the Second Bishop of the Church George Miller. He and several other men were commanded by the Lord to build the Nauvoo House. D&C-124:66-72. After Alpheus and Adeline were married, they left Nauvoo with the Saints in their western migration. "On March 27, 1846--When their company reached Shoal Creek in the Cariton River region, where for three weeks they were delayed by the freshets, the camp was more thoroughly organized. Companies of hundreds, fifties, and tens were formed, and captains appointed over them. Each company had its own commissary, and Henry G. Sherwood, was the Commissary General. Peter Haws was one of the contracting commissaries. The Apostles, who had hitherto been acting as captains of companies, were relieved of those commands and made presidents of divisions. The camp consisted of two grand divisions, presided over by Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball; the former as President and General-inchief, directing the whole." (Our Pioneer Heritage, DUP publication Vol 5-pp69-70) By June the Haws and Dunn Families had reached Council Bluffs, Iowa. At the time of their arrival, President Brigham Young and other church leaders were recruiting men to enlist in the Mormon Battalion. Alpheus volunteered his services and became 4th Sergeant in Company "D" under the command of Captain Nelson Nelson [should read Captain Nelson Higgins]. He, and his future brotherin- law, Luther Tuttle, were both members of Company D. The evening before the Battalion left, July 19, 1846, Alpheus, Luther and John Buckman returned to Council Bluffs, where Luther Tuttle married Abigail Haws, sister of Alpheus. Adeline remained in Council Bluffs with her father and mother. In 1848 Simeon and Adeline Dunn, including their daughter, Adeline Dunn Haws, left Iowa, in the Brigham Young Company for the Salt Lake Valley. This division of 1229 Saints commenced their journey at the Elkhorn River, June 1, 1848, and arrived in Salt Lake September 20 to 24, 1848. [There are several errors here. Adeline Rawson Dunn died in Nauvoo, as did Simeon's 2nd wife, Margaret Snider. Simeon married Harriet Atwood Silver in Council Bluffs and she and 3 of Simeon's daughters crossed the plains in 1848. Adeline remained in Council Bluffs. She appears with Alpheus and his parents in the 1850 Census for Pottawattamie County, Iowa.] [Alpheus was discharged from the Mormon Battalion in July 1847.] After reaching Salt Lake Alpheus and Adeline were together again after a two and half year separation. Sadly, Adeline died January 11, 1852. Her burial place is unknown. Adeline did not leave any children. [Adeline's two infant children had died - Alpheus Peter Jr. (1849-1853), Thomas (1851-1852).] Alpheus married Adeline's sister, Betsey, and settled in brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah and reared a family of ten children. Alpheus and Betsey were baptized and confirmed members of RLDS Church on July 31, 1867 at Lander County, Nevada, by C.E. Brand. Alpheus had taken a plural wife, charlotte, and she was baptized and confirmed a member of the RLDS Church on the same day. The Alpheus Peter Haws family moved to California. Alpheus Peter Haws was born October 15, 1825, in Gosfield, Essex, Ontario, Canada to Peter Haws and Charlotte Harrington. Alpheus died November 3, 1906 and is buried in the Franklin Rural Cemetery (South of Santa Rosa, California Memorial Park on Franklin Street). Members of the Finley Park ward were assigned a service project to clean up and restore this cemetery, and while working on their project, they found a large tombstone with Sergeant Haw's name written on it. The present day Mormon Battalion organization is working with the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Restoration Advisory Committee to place a Mormon Battalion plague near his tombstone. Information obtained from a brief history written by David R. Freebairn and members of the Finley Park Ward Committee, Santa Rosa, California-Compilers file. L.D.S. Church records History Luther Tuttle-Utah State Historical Society Utah-Index sextion-compilers files Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War 1846-48 by Sgt Daniel Tyler- Roster of Company D pp122-123 and Journey from California to Salt Lake pp305-325 Heart Throbs of the West--Daughters of Utah Pioneer Publication- Dunn Family Crossing the Plains in Brigham Young Company 1848 Vol 9 pp482-483 Family Group Sheet Family Group Record obtained from the Peter Haws family-compilers file