FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY Sunday, April 25 1907

 The Salt Lake Tribune.  

Salt lake City, Utah Sunday Morning April 25 1907. 

FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY,

SUNDAY, APRIL 25 1847.

Shadrach Roundy [pictured] 

(Thought to have been the eldest member of the Pioneer Band.  From a tin type loaned by his granddaughter , Mrs. Oliver Gallup.)

          A quiet Sunday was passed in the pioneer camp.  Services were held in the afternoon, and an address was delivered by  President Brigham Young, standing near the wagons.  in the course of his remarks he gave some further counsel upon the mode of traveling and the care to be taken in being prepared for danger each night.
          At night Thomas Woolsey, Thomas Brown, John Brown, Porter Rockwell, John S. Higbee and Joseph Matthews were named as the official buffalo hunters on the trip, as they had horses not attached to any teams.  the following were also maned as foot hunters: John Pack, Phineas H. Young, Tariton Lewis, Joseph Hancock, Edmund Ellsworth, Roswell Stevens, Edson Shipple, Barnabas Adams, Ben Streart and Jackson [can't read the reat of this line]...
          The hunters were named because the game was becoming plentiful, and it was the desire of the leaders to have killed only what was needed in the camp, and it was also their idea to prevent promiiscouous hunting by the whole party.  On sunday afternoon several antelope passed near the camp.

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          Shadrach Roundy, whose portrait appears with this issue, was probably the eldest of the 143 Original pioneers of Utah.  He was born in Windham county, Vermont, on New Year's day, 1789, and died in Salt Lake July 4, 1872.  Although 58 years of age when the band made its march across the plains, yet he was always to the front in all the undertakings and adventures of the pioneers.  In the military organization of the band he was major on the staff of Lieut.-Gen. Brigham Young.  Mr. Roundy was also a captain of one of the companies of fifty. 

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          Nathaniel Thomas Brown was shot at Council Bluffs, Ia., in February, 1848, just as he was preparing to travel across the plains again to Utah.  He is among those of the original pioneers of Utah whose picture cannot be obtained.

          Jacob D. Burnham, another member of the band, died in California in 1850: /Carlos Murray was killed by the Indians on the Humboldt river in  1853, and George Mills did in salt Lake in 1854.  They were all prominently identified with all the doings of the pioneer train in its march to Utah. 

Not mentioned in the article is our cousin Horace Datus ENSIGN [Jr.] who was 20 years old  in 1847.   Born 8 August 1826 Westfield, Massachusetts - Died 1 September 186+6 Ogden, Utah.   

Monuments and Markers - This Is The Place

This Is The Place Monument

Salt Lake City

The names of grandfather Shadrach ROUNDY and uncle Horace Datus ENSIGN Jr. can be found on this Monument. See Biographies published in the Church News.

Dedicated: July 24, 1947

Cost: about $400,000
Sculptor: Mahonri M. Young
Size: Base (86 long, 66 feet tall);
Brigham (18 feet tall)
Number of figures: 74 persons; over 140 animate objects

This is the Place Monument was completed and dedicated on 24 July 1947 - exactly one hundred years after Brigham Young arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. The main group of pioneers had entered the valley two days earlier. ROUNDY and ENSIGN were with the early group.

The Monument is open during daylight hours year-round. Old Deseret Village and the Visitor's Center are open between Memorial and Labor Days - Tuesday through Saturday, on some Saturdays before the season, and on selected evenings during the Christmas season. There is an admission charge to Old Deseret Village.

Erected and Dedicated to the First Company of Pioneers
to Enter the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in July 1847
Listed are uncle Horace Datus ENSIGN and grandfather Shadrack ROUNDY

(pictured a 5th great-grandson COOK, REASOR, WOOD, Kirt DeMar WOOD, Laura Elizabeth PARKER, Charles PARKER, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY, Shadrach ROUNDY)

7 ROUNDY / Quimby

Church History in the Family - Original 1847 Pioneer Company

SMITH/HAWKES family
WOOD/PARKER family

Church News

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Biographies of the original 1847 pioneer company

Published: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009

Editors note: The following are biographies of the 143 men, 3 women and 2 children comprising the first pioneer company that left the Elkhorn River April 7, 1847. They were organized into hundreds, fifties and tens. Along the way, the group's size changed several times and not all those who started completed the journey because of various changes in duties. However, Church historians have determined that the credit for blazing the trail should go equally to all who began.

[On this family history blog I include only the histories of the two original pioneers who are a part of our family.]

Ensign, Horace Datus – (7th Ten) Born May 8, 1826, at Westfield, Hampden Co., Mass., to Horace Datus and Mary Brunson Ensign. His parents joined the Church in 1843. The senior Ensign died in September 1846 in Winter Quarters. Datus, the oldest son, was baptized Dec. 6, 1846 at Winter Quarters. He was a carpenter and mechanic, and served as night guard. After arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, he started back to Winter Quarters but met his family in the Daniel Spencer Company. He continued with this company to the valley, arriving Sept. 22, 1847. He was assigned to assist in repairing the Goodyear Fort in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah. In 1850, he married Eliza Jane Stewart. He participated in the so-called Echo Canyon war, delaying Johnston's army in 1856-57 from entering the Salt Lake Valley. Ensign later settled just south of the Goodyear Fort on the Weber River. Because of the river's overflow, he had to rebuild and eventually located on what became a city park. When that happened, he was given another parcel of property, where he built another home and lived there until his death, in Ogden on Sept. 1, 1866, at age 40.

Horace Datus ENSIGN Jr. is the 3rd great-grand uncle of TRW. Their common ancestors are Horace Datus ENSIGN and Mary BRONSON.

Roundy, Shadrach – (13th Ten) Born Jan. 1, 1789, Rockingham, Windham Co., Vt., to Uriah and Lucretia Needham Roundy. He married Betsy Quimby in about 1814. After hearing the gospel preached, he traveled to Fayette, N.Y., in the winter of 1830-31 to meet Joseph Smith, after which he was baptized. He gave of his resources to build the Kirtland Temple. He later moved to Missouri. He was captain of the police in Nauvoo and once intercepted an attempt to kidnap Joseph Smith. He was appointed a major in the first pioneer company. A member of the advance party, he was one of three men to plow the first furrow's in the Saint's newfound home. While returning to Winter Quarters, he met his son, Lorenzo Wesley, enroute to Salt Lake Valley in the company of Orson Spencer. So father and son traded places and Shadrach spent the winter of 1847-48 in the Salt Lake Valley. There he became a member of the first high council and the Territorial legislature. He was the first bishop of the Sixteenth Ward and served from 1849-56. He crossed the plains five times to assist poor immigrants. He was one of the founders of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Association. He died in Salt Lake City on July 4, 1872, at age 83.

Shadrach ROUNDY is the 4th great-grandfather of JR.