Ephraim's Rescue, Elizabeth Simpson Haigh Bradshaw & Sarah Ann Haigh Standley

 

How grateful I am that I know my ancestor’s names. Tonight Vance and I were watching the movie, “Ephraim’s Rescue” and all of a sudden my third great grandmothers name, Elizabeth Simpson Bradshaw was mentioned and then they proceed to act out her story. It was amazing.  The feeling I had while watching this person portray my ancestor and show her faith and knowledge that God lives and keeps His promises made me glad to be related to her.  I loved Elizabeth’s comment when her son, Richard Paul who was six years old at the time asked who was going to help them cross the river and her reply was, “God helps those who first help themselves.”  Then to see Elizabeth’s faith in action as she started crossing the river even though it was deeper than she was tall was inspiring. Her history mentions as she started across the river she was carried some distance down stream and it looked like death was inevitable for both her and her son, but she continued to struggle and finally reached the opposite side. Exhausted she raised her arm to the square to bear witness that God had protected and saved both her and her son.  During the movie I could feel of her testimony and faith.  She had been given a blessing and promised that all of her children would reach Zion and wanted to acknowledge the Lord’s hand in saving them. Elizabeth is a great example and someone that I can gain strength from when I am faced with difficult times and decisions.

At 48 Elizabeth was widowed twice and because of her strong desire to follow the Prophet she gathered her five children ranging in age from six to nineteen and prepared to board the ship Horizon and sail to America.  While waiting in the harbor Elizabeth’s two brothers came aboard to make a final effort to persuade her to remain in England where they offered to take care of her and her children financially. They told her that they would never want for anything money could buy since they were financially wealthy as their father’s family had invented the grandfather clock and owned and operated large factories that manufactured time clocks. Elizabeth’s reply was “I am going to Zion.  The gospel is true, and Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God.” She then began the six week long journey by sea, a train ride from New York to Iowa and 1300 miles by handcart to Utah.

Another incident that shows Elizabeth’s faith was when her 17-year-old son Samuel was brought into camp and pronounced dead, and to all appearances it was true.  But Elizabeth’s faith remained strong as she insisted that all of her children would reach Zion. So she asked the Elders to anoint him with oil and administer to him and they did.  He recovered.

Years later Elizabeth’s children said, their mother never complained and instead would say, “The Lord knows best.”

 There was one detail wrong in the movie.  Elizabeth carried Richard Paul across the North Branch of the Platt River on her shoulders October 19, 1856.  It was winter and extremely cold at that time where in the movie they portrayed it during a warmer period.  The Platte River is the same river that Elizabeth’s daughter, 19 year old Sarah Ann Haigh (my great great grandmother) made 32 trips across the river carrying 16 people on her back. Sarah Ann said, when she came out “her wet skirt would freeze so that icicles jingled as she walked.”  Unlike her mother Elizabeth who was a very small dainty woman, Sarah Ann was only five feet tall herself but the short heavy type who after reaching the Salt Lake Valley said when talking about how small their food portions were, “Even that didn’t make me thin.” Towards the end while in desperate conditions Sarah Ann said to herself, “Could this be the end? Would the Lord lead us over that long hard road, just to let the whole company perish in the storm and cold?”  That was not the end. Sarah was soon to meet Franklin Standley, one of her rescuers.  Several months later they married on April 5, 1857 in Brigham Young’s office.

I am proud to be a descendant of both of these women.  For their courage, strength of character, desire to be of service to others, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I am truly grateful.

Thomas Tanner 1807-1878

Tanner, Thomas (Jun 28, 1807 – Jul 28, 1878) by Thomas Tanner Sr.

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Born: June 28, 1807; Newbury, Berkshire, England

Married: Mary Cruse

Died: July 28, 1878; Toole, Toole, Utah

Immigration Date: September 17, 1853; Claudis Spencer Co.



Thomas Tanner, Sr.



I, Thomas Tanner, was born in the town of Newsbury, Berkshire, England, June 28, 1807. I am the son of Thomas Tanner and Jamina Munford. In the Spring of 1831, I married Mary Cruse, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Cruse. We were married in the old Newbury church. By my wife Mary Cruse we had nine children born alive--also one untimely birth caused by my wife's catching the small pox, also one miscarriage.



Thomas our first child was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England, Aug. 9, 1831. James Mumford Tanner was born in the village of Wyfield, Berkshire, the home of my wife's parents the 14th day of July 1833.



William was born in Newbury, Oct. 12th 1836. He died of consumption and was buried in the western of the southern graveyard of the Old Church burying ground Newbury, Berkshire, England, in the year 1845.



George was born in Newbury, Oct. 13th 1839. He died in Tooele and was buried in the Tooele Cemetery. He died on the 14th of April 1872, leaving his widow, Martha Graner, and four children, George, Thomas, John and Elizabeth.



Ebenezer was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England, March 6th 1842.



Joseph was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England, July 7th 1844.



Alma was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England, May 7th 1847.



Mary the intended name of the girl was born in the village of Wooburn Green, Buckenamshire, England. She died on the day of her birth, 1849, and was buried in the Wooburn Church burying ground.



Me and my wife, Mary, were both baptized members in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Elder Carter of Hampstead, in the Spring of 1843. I was ordained to the office of Elder by Elder Wm. Major Oct. 22nd 1843. We removed our family from the town of Newbury to Wooburn Green in 1847. I baptized several persons which were organized the Wooburn Green Branch of the London Conference consisting of eleven members. I was ordained the President of said branch by Elder Thomas Margetts, then President of the London Conference and Elder Thomas Squires, the President of the Newbury Branch.



Mr. Thomas Howard, his wife and family being members of the Wooburn Branch and about to emigrate to Council Bluffs, the winter quarters and the gathering place of the Saints driven from Nauvoo, preparatory to their journey to the Salt Lake Valley. He, Thomas Howard, proposed to take our family with him and he would bear all of expenses and we all should be as one family, all of us should share alike. We sailed from Liverpool on board the ship "Olympus", in charge of Captain Wilson, bound for New Orleans, America, on the fourth of March, 1851. Mr. Howard had made a calculation of what our expenses would be and stated to me that he was sufficiently prepared to bear them but as soon as the vessel had set sail he signified that he had done all he could for us and we were not to expect anything more from him. We arrived in New Orleans in the month of April 1851, after about six weeks voyage.



Win. Howell, Thomas Smith, Thomas Bradshaw and Win. Henshaw, these were the Presidential Committee of Saints. We came by steamer to St. Louis about the 9th of May 1851. My wife, Mary, gave birth to her last son in St. Louis, Sept. 24th who died on the 30th of the same month. My wife, Mary Cruse, died in St. Louis the following month Oct. 11th 1851. They were both buried in the St. Louis Cemetery, America.



I was married in St. Louis by Elder Gibson to Ann Newman, the daughter of Allen and Sarah Newman whose maiden name was Sarah Cooper of South Witham, Linconshire, England, Oct. 10th 1852. We with the first family all left St. Louis for Utah, crossing the Missouri River on the __th of July, arriving in Salt Lake Valley. We camped about four miles from Salt Lake City.



My wife, Ann Newman, gave birth to her first son Valison, Sept. 17th 1853. We crossed the plains in an ox team purchased in St. Louis by Bro. Thomas Carter and acquaintance from Newbury Branch expressly for our journey to Salt Lake City. We brought with us from St. Louis in the team purchased for us my wife's brother Win. Newman's widow Sister Newman, her two sons, William and Stephen, her daughter, Sarah Ann, Lucy Frances, a sister who emigrated from England with the family and remained in the family until her death in Salt Lake City. Our wagon was pretty well filled, with heavy laden and caused us much annoyance and ill convenience. It was a very trying lesson and experience to our family, but kind providence brought us through as is the saying "it was by the skin of the teeth". We came in company with Henry George, David Wigins, Thomas Atwicks, Sister Westall. They were all from the Newbury Branch. Sister Westall, a widow, remained in Council Bluffs with her daughter, a wife of George Canning, a tailor by trade from the town of Newbury. They were living in Council Bluffs with her daughter. We traveled across the plains in "Claudias Spencer's" train of about forty wagons. We left Salt Lake City to come to Tooele City, Nov. 5th 1853. Since that time we have continued in Tooele to date 1878.



Maroni was born in April 21st 1856.



Jemina Munford was born in Nov. 19th 1859.



Allen Newman was born in March 27th 1862.



With my wife, Ann, we received our endowments in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1860. Both my wife's, Mary Cruse and Ann Newman, were sealed to me by President Brigham Young. I was ordained a High Priest by President Galasher, March 22nd 1864. My father and mother died in the town of Newbury, Berkshire, England and were both buried in the Western part of the south graveyard of Newbury Old Church burying ground. My father was born in the year 1771 and was 43 years of age. My mother was born in the year 1772 and lived till she was 70 years old. They had 13 children, eight of them died in childhood. I expect they are all registered in the Old Newbury Church records.



Frances the oldest child was born in the year 1795 in the month of Sept.



Sarah was born in or about 1800. She died in London about the year 1827.



James was born in July 1809. He was drown off the coast of China. The ship was homeward bound for London, the vessel sank in the night, and all aboard perished, about the year 1828.



Hannah was born in May 1811. She with her husband and family of eleven children were all living in London, England in the year 1860. 1 have not heard from them or my sister Francis since that time. If I ever have the opportunity I purpose to be baptized especially for my father and mother, for my son William, for my sister Sarah and for my brother James. If I cannot myself, I hope some of my children will, and also seal my mother to her husband, my father, Thomas Tanner. I knew and have seen my father's brothers, William and George, and also his sisters, Francis and Hannah. William, Francis and Hannah were living in Hampstead some few miles distant form London on the Tetenaham Court Road. In company with mother, we paid them a visit in 1823. William had two daughters of the oldest was named Susanah, the youngest named Anna or Nancy. He said a little previous to our visit lost his only son, William, who died in a decline. I don't know if Hannah ever had family. Frances Nash was a widow, she was living with her only son who was married and carrying on his father's trade, plumber, glarierand, painter. George had a little homestead in West Woodhay in Hampshire joining the County of Berkshire about four or five miles from town of Newbury. He had two wives, his first wife had several children, none of them lived to grow up. After her death, he married his second wife. She had one son named Thomas, he also died in childhood. My father had a sister by marriage her name was Smith. She had several in family all of whose given names commenced with the letter J, all I can remember of them was John, James, and Johannah. They lived in Newton or Berclere Hampshire which I think was the home of my grandfather Thomas and the birth of my Father. My Mother, Jemina Munford was born in the village or small town of Thatcham, three miles from the town of Newbury on the London Road, in the county of Berkshire. Some of my Mother's brothers families live in the neighborhood or vicinity of Salthill, near Maidenhead and Windsor in the county of Berkshire. The genealogies of all whom I have written might be traced through the church records. In all the parish church records in the vicinity of the birth place or the dwelling places where they have resided previous to within about the last thirty years the parish churches were the only places where in all births, marriages, and deaths are strictly recorded. Since or about that time the English law makes is imperative for every district in all the countries to provide a public register where in all births, marriages and deaths are strictly registered and under penalties for neglect to do so. It would require a fee of from one shilling or up to half a crown to get the church clerk or sexton to search the records. They dare not refuse to do so--but I think they can demand a fee.



As a preface or introduction to the following writing I would say that I expressly write what I understand to be the truth for my own special gratification. I do not write purposely to be antagonistic to anyone for I do not wish any of my writings to come under the observation of any outside of my family--not because I am ashamed of what I write--for what I understand to be truth--I write the same regardless of the opinion, ideas or judgements of any person to my family or to anyone else whom might chance to read what I write, I do not wish you to accept as truth what I write because I am your father, only as you can clearly comprehend the same to be true.



Written by Thomas Tanner, Sr., Tooele City, 1878.

Frances Lovina Harris History

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Frances Lovina Harris

I was born in San Bernardino, California, November 6, 1856. I was the second child of of Daniel and Lydia H. Harris. I was named for my two grandmothers, Frances Harris, and Lovina Harris.

My Mother's maiden name was Harris, but she was not related to my father.

When I was a year and a half old my parents moved from California to Southern Utah. They settled in the town of Washington, Washington County. Mother's health was poor because of the bad water so they moved from there to Parowan, Iron County. My father's people had settled in Fillmore, Millard County, so our family soon moved there. My brother, Charles Franklin, was born in Fillmore, May 24, 1869. Soon after this, our family and that of my grand-parents, moved to the western part of Millard county to near the Sevier River. The place was called Deseret, because of the desert looking valley.

My father was a farmer, also raised horses and cattle. It was at this place that I remember first seeing Indians. I remember an Indian coming to our house and asking for bread. Mother told him she didn't have any bread. The Indian said, "You lie," and went to the fire place, where Mother had some bread baking in a bake over. He arted to take the lid off, when mother picked up a stick of wood and hit the Indian with it. He quickly drew his gun and pointed it at her. We children were terrified, and all screamed and clung to Mother, but she just stood and looked him in the eye. When he saw she was not afraid, he turned and walked out of the house. He later said that Mother was a brave squaw and that was the reason he didn't shoot. I also remember going for a boat ride on a canal, with my parents and how seasick I got.

Later my father and his brother, Jake, were asked to return to California along with some other men to gather up some horses they left there. While they were doing this, they were arrested for stealing horses. My father and two other men were tried and sentenced to serve two years in prison. Mother was left with four small children to care for. Sister Orissa was born a few months after my father left.
Mother's people wrote and urged her to come to Dixie and they would help her if she would apply for a divorce, which she did. Mother's brother, Silas Harris, came after us and we moved to Harrisburg, Washington County. This was in the fall of 1862. I remember the first night out - the howling of the coyotes frightened me so much I couldn't eat or sleep.

One Day we all had to get out of the wagon and walk up a long steep hill. This was the first time I had ever seen acorns. They grew on scrub oak all along the road. My uncle stopped while we gathered some. We put them in a small tin churn and in the evening when we camped, we would roast the acorns over the camp fire and eat them. Mother told us after we moved to Beaver that the place where we gathered our acorns was North Creek Hill, north of Beaver.

My grandfather Harris and family, along with a few other families had settled on Cottonwood Creek and it was later called Harrisburg. We lived there about two years. When grandfather and his family and his two sons, John and Silas and their families moved to Glendale, Kane County.
We have lived here about a year when the Indians began to make trouble. The people moved their log houses close together and made a fort for protection. Between the houses cedar poles were set close together in an upright position to form a wall. The corrals were on the outside of the fort.
The now fell very deep that winter. I remember seeing uncle John Harris breaking a road with four oxen, hitched to the wagon, going up and down the street. The animals were afraid of Indians. There was a span of mules which would give the alarm in the night by a peculiar whistle when they smelled Indians. The people lived under a great strain at this time because of the Indians. Still they enjoyed themselves and had good times.

I was baptized there by Bishop John Berry. I remember on Sunday mother and others coming home from church very much excited. A friendly Indian had ridden up to the church building and told Bishop Berry that two of his brothers and the wife of one of them had been killed by the Indians as they were returning home from Salt Lake City. A rancher had found the bodies and sent word by the indian. They had been dead about three days when found. The Indians had taken their horses, bedding and animals away. Their faithful dog had stayed by the bodies and kept wild animals away. The Indians were making trouble in other small towns at the time, so President Brigham Young advised them to move to larger towns for protection.

Everyone began to prepare to move by fixing the wagons, mending harnesses and making boxes to pack clothing and other articles. They boys who were old enough were sent to the range to gather cattle. Some beavers were killed and divided up. Part of this was dried, or jerked, and part of it was cooked. The women were just as busy as the men.

The company traveled together and were led by John D.L. Pearce of Washington County who had been sent to bring them out. One day at noon while we were camped by a deserted ranch house, several Indians rode up to the camp, an done of them was wearing a shirt that had been taken from the body of one of the Berry brothers. Bishop John Berry drew his gun and would have shot the Indian, but the men prevented it. However, he did grab the Indian's arrows and broke them over this knee.

At another time the Indians were going to ambush the wagon train, but this was prevented by our scout, Mr. Pearce, who rode ahead and was awarned of the nearness of the Indians by his horse putting back its ears. This ambush was led by an Indians called Charlie Howd, who had been raised by Simeon Howd of Beaver, an dhe had gone back to live with the Indians.

Out family went back to their old home in Harrisburg. It was here that I attended my first school.
My oldest brother, Duayne, with other boys herded cows in the summer. They had to go bare-footed and the red sand became very hot during the day. We stayed here until 1866 when mother married Samuel D. White, of Beaver. They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake. The morning they started for Dixie to move the family to Beaver, they were stopped at Jackson County and told of the raid at Lee's Ranch up South Creek that morning by Indians and advised to return to town, which they did and waited until the next day.

Samuel White built a lumber room for mother on the lot occupied by his other family.

The first school I attended in beaver was taught by Daniel Tyler at his home. When I was in the third reader, Julia P. Murdock (now Julia M. Farnsworth) was my teacher. Tihs school was held in a new brick building, called the Central School Building. This school building was also used as an amusement hall and the first mutual meetings were held there. Lucinda Lee Dalton was my teacher for one year.

The last school I attended was taught by Richard Horn. This was the fifth reader. At that time the schools were graded by the reader - first reader, second reader and so on. I went to work in the Beaver Woolen Mills before I was sixteen and worked here for four years. The factory would shut down about Christmas and open again in the late spring.

I was eleven years old when my sister Amelia White was born and my stepfather died when she was a few months old.

A few years after this we moved to the place where I am now living.

I was married to Wm. Henry Jones, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Simons Jones, from North Wales. We were married in the St. George Temple, March 14, 1877.

The summer before I was married I spent in Leeds, Washington County, with my grandparents. I got a lot of pleasure out of that visit. They were such dear old people.

The summer after we were married, we lived on President John R. Murdock's farm. In the fall we moved to town and lived in two rooms of father Jones' house. My oldest child Della was born here on February 4, 1878.

My next two children were born to us while living in this house, Lydia Lovina and William. The latter died when a year and a half old. Two more children were born to us, Franklin and Ernest. Franklin died when he was six weeks old and Ernest lived but seven months.

My husband died December 18, 1886 and I thought no on had ever had as much trouble as I. My mother and brother Frank brought me home to live with them.

Life Sketch/Obituary Charles Franklin Harris

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Obituary of Charles Franklin Harris
Unknown Newspaper probably The Beaver Press
Community Honors Citizen with last Rites


Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the West Ward Chapel for Charles Franklin Harris, 81, who passed away here, Tuesday March 18th, 1941 at the home of his son Leroy W. Harris. Councilor Milo Baker of the Ward Bishopric was in charge.

A large audience of friends, relatives & neighbors from all parts of southern Utah gathered to pay tribute in honor of the deceased, and stood in silent tribute as the casket was ushered into the room and placed among a bower of beautiful flowers.

The opening number was "O My Father," rendered by a ladies quartett [sic], Mrs. Thelma Barton, Mrs. Katherine Miller, Mrs. Kathleen Farnsworth and Bertha Swindlehurst, accompanied by Mrs. Fay Stevens at the piano.

Invocation - George A. Parkinson

Patriarch George Paice was the first speaker and read the life history of Brother Harris the text of which follows:

Life History

Charles Franklin Harris was born April 23, 1859 in Fillmore, Utah and was the son of Daniel Harris and Lydia Harris Harris.

The first two children Duwayne and Frances were born in San Bernardino, Calif., but the family moved from that city to Fillmore in March 1858 and after living there about three years moved to Desert [sic] where his sister Orissa was born.

When Frank was about four yers [sic] old the family moved to Harrisburg, Washington Co.,and later to Glendale, Dane Co. and sometime afterward returned to Harrisburg.

In October 1866 the family settled in Beaver, the mother was kept busy carding wool, spinning it into yarn and weaving it into cloth.

At the age of 14 Frank was very ill with Typhoid fever but through faith and prayer, good medical skill and careful nursing he was restored to health.

He was naturally of a religious nature and took active part in the L.D.S. Church and held various offices in the Prieshood [sic]. At the age of 16 he was a ward teacher which position he held most of his life since. Not many years afterward he became a counselor to William Ashworth who was president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association in Beaver.

Later on he served for two years in the Stake Sunday School board with Reinhard Maeser and Bro. William Burt. They visited the wards nearly every Sunday. In March he was chosen counselor for Bishop George Munford in the Beaver Second Ward.

In 1891 the two Beaver Wards were consolidated with George Munford Bishop, Charles F. Harrison and Robert Stoney Jr. counselors. Frank held this position until the fall of that year when he was called on a mission to England. He was set apart by Apostle Heber J. Grant and left Salt Lake City October 8, 1891. Brother Jay Thompson too his black as counselor in the bishopric.

Prior to his mission on September 23, 1891 he married Mary E. Gunn of Adamsville in the Manti Temple. She taught school during his absence. After filling a very successful two year mission he returned home in November 1893.

Early 1894 he was again chosen counselor to Bishop George C. Munford, Orson White was the other counselor. On May 22, 1895 he and his wife were made happy by the arrival of twin sons. When they were blessed they were given the names of Ray William and Leroy Wilford. Ray lived only two weeks.

About 1897 Brother Harris and family moved to Frisco where he had employment. He was superintendent of the Sunday School nearly all the time they lived there, five years, and was a ward teacher most of the time also. They were blessed with another son while there, Thomas G. Harris.
In 1902 they moved back to Beaver and enjoyed living in a nice little home they had purchased in the northwest part of town. He engaged in farming against as he had also bought land with money he earned at Frisco.

In February 1904 this wife contracted a bad cold which turned in to pneumonia and she passed from this life February 29th leaving her husband and two little boys, LeRoy and Thomas. This was a great trial but his mother and widowed sisters and their families helped them a great deal in their lonely condition.

Bro. Harris was a true Latter Day Saint and proved his implicit faith in the Gospel in his good works. He was a strict tithe payer and kept up his fast offerings and was a liberal donater [sic] to worthy causes. He found joy in giving money to missionaries who left Beaver. He was a man of high ideals and taught his children correct principles.

He served faithfully as a High Priest for 51 years and was a counselor to Charles D. White, President of the quorum for a number of years and for seven years was second counselor to President Jacob T. Tanner, but owing to failing health he was released from that position in August 1940 when the Presidency of the Quorum was reorganized.

He was a member of the Beaver Stake High Council for a number of years and labored as a Stake missionary in all the wards of the stake except Milford.

Being a man of good judgment he held various civic positions. He was chairman of the District school board for four years and after the consolidation of the schools was President of the county School Board for several years.

He was chairman of the County Commissioners for 10 years and was a city councilman for six years. Having served under 3 different mayors. Was president of the State Bank of Beaver county for three years after serving as a bank director many years.

That last 30 years of his life he was troubled some with asthma which was more severe during 1940. The last few months he had had a slight paralysis of the throat which at last proved serious, but he was fortunate in having good eyesight and good hearing to the last.

And now in looking back over this long and useful life of nearly 82 years, we admire him for his honesty and sincerity in all his undertakings and now that his earthly race is ended we realize what a wonderful mission he has filled in mortality and the great amount of good that has been accomplished by Brother Charles Franklin Harris.

A vocal solo, "Just for Today," was then sang by Reed Moore, accompanied by Doris Whornham.
Stake President S. Taylor Farnsworth was the next speaker and he commented upon the history and remarks of Brother Paice and added that he was honored at being asked to speak and told of the help he had received from the fine example of the life led by the deceased.

Elder Milton Gentry followed and spoke words of encouragement to the sons and grandchildren to keep forever in mind the teachings of their departed loved one.

Brother Baker then thanked all present and all those who assisted in making a successful funeral service.

The ladies quartett [sic] then sang "I know that My Redeemer Lives."
Benediction was offered by C. Dennis White.
Interment was in the Mountain View Cemetery under the direction of the Southern Utah Mortuary. The grave was dedicated by Thomas W. Gunn.

Life Sketch/Obituary of Moses Harris

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Obituary of Moses Harris
Deseret Evening News
March 27, 1890, page 3:

DEATH OF MOSES HARRIS.

Yet Another Aged Veteran Passes Away.
Moses Harris, the subject of this sketch, was born July 20^th, 1798, in Somerset County Pennsylvania. He was the son of Silas and Annaretta Wright Harris. His Ancestor was among the first of New England. In an early day his father moved into Indiana and settled in Cork County. There Moses became acquainted with Fanny Smith, whom he married Jan. 1^st, 1824, and who still survives him, aged 86 years. Both were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on February 23^rd, 1833. He, in company with his brother-in-law, Sm. Hawks, gathered with the Saints in Missouri in the summer of 1836, and stopped through the winter of 1836 and '37 at Charlton, Missouri, and in the following spring located on Crooked River, Caldwell County. He suffered with the Saints in the persecution of 1838, and in the inclement months of March, 1839, with a one-hose wagon, in which had be stowed the most necessary household goods, with several children, he set out for Illinois, leaving all the balance of their property a prey to the mobbers. He finally settled about five miles west of Montrose, Iowa, in a very destitute condition. He was ordained a High Priest under the direction of the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo.

The season before the exodus of the Saints from Illinois he moved on a farm nearer Montrose which he had retained. About the first of May, 1846, he took up the line of march with the Saints for the West, and arrived at Council bluffs about the time that Colonel Allen called on the Twelve for 500 volunteers to go to California. He gave up his eldest son, Silas, who was the main support of the family in response to the call of the Twelve, to enlist in the battalion. At the Bluffs he located on Little Pidgeon Creek. In October, 1848, his son arrived from California and, with his assistance, the family were prepared to cross the plains in R.N. Allred's company, in 1849. After they had crossed the Loup Fork, his sister, the wife of William Hawk, was killed in a stampede.

He arrived in Salt Lake valley on the 16^th of October and settled in Bountiful, ten miles north of Salt Lake City, where he remained until the spring of 1851, when he joined the company of Charles C. Rich and Amaza Lyman to go to San Bernardino to form a settlement. At that place he purchased forty acres of land at #10 per acre, but not having it quite paid for when the settlement was broken up, he got no title for it and so lost it with the improvements he had made. He started on his return to Utah in the fall of 1857 in Jefferson Hunt's company, and settled in Washington, Washington County, Utah, in February, 1858. In the spring of 1859 he moved to Harrisburg, which place was named after him by President Brigham Young, he being the only settler there at that time.

In May 1864 he moved with his son John to Berry Valley (now Long Valley), Kane County, Utah, and located at what is now the town of Glendale, where he remained until driven out by the Indians in June 1867. He returned to Harrisburg where he remained about three years, and then assisted in building up the town of Leeds, three miles eat of Harrisburg. From this place he moved back to Glendale, Long Valley, and settled near his son Silas, at which place he departed this life March 15^th, 1890, after an illness of thirty days, caused by an attack of influenza, which settled in his stomach, causing severe pain. He finally passed peacefully away a few minutes before midnight, aged 91 years, 7 months and 25 days.

He leaves a posterity now living of five children, [55] grandchildren. Father Harris' long and eventful life, after gathering with the Saints in Missouri, was mostly spent in opening up new settlements. He was very unassuming, and was honest and upright in his dealings with his fellow man, always quietly performing all duties required of him. He was very temperate in his habits. He never faltered nor murmured under all the trying scenes he was called to pass through, and was ever ready to bear a strong testimony to the truth of this Latter-day work. It can truly be said of him, "He has fought the good flight, he has kept the faith," and will come forth in the morning of the first resurrection and inherit all the blessings sealed upon his head in the Temple of the Lord, wherein he passed through all the ordinances given in those scared places. WARREN FOOTE.

1850 Census, Moses Harris

1850 Utah County Utah Federal Census
Page 140:

Silas Harris	26 M	Laborer	200	Ind.
Saria	17 F			Mo.
Silas	2/12 M			Des.
John Harris	22 M	Farmer	200	Ind.
Nancy	19 F			Ill.
Mary Ann	1/12 F			Des.
Moses Harris	52 M	Farmer	180	Penn
Fanny	46 F			Virg.
Lidia	18 F			Ind.
William J.	14 M			Mo. Information was obtained from this website

Life Sketch Daniel Duane Harris

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Birth:  Oct. 8, 1854 San Bernardino San Bernardino County California, USA Death:  Jul. 4, 1930 Beaver Beaver County Utah, USA Life Sketch of Daniel Duane Harrris Daniel Duane Harris was born in San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California on October 8, 1854. He was the oldest child of Daniel and Lydia Harris Harris who three years earlier (1851) with their respective families had settled in the San Bernardino area as part of an expedition headed by Charles Rich and Amasa Lyman. This Mormon Church venture was part of a planned "colonization" expansion effort in the Western United States. Up to this time, San Bernardino was probably the most distant of all Latter-day Saint settlements from Utah's Salt Lake Valley. Daniel and Lydia were married in San Bernardino on October 5, 1853. In 1857, this Southern California colony was abandoned rather hastily, as direction came from Salt Lake City for all colonists to return to Utah to protect the more central communities from an "invasion" by the "Johnston's Army", which was enroute from the East to put down the "so-called" Mormon rebellion. By this time, Daniel Duane had a sister, Frances Lovina, born to Daniel and Lydia on November 6, 1856. As the San Bernardino residents returned, they stopped first at Utah's southern most settlement of Washington in Washington County, where some families established permanent homes. However, most families gradually dispersed throughout the various settlements of the Territory. Lydia's parents, Moses and Fanny Harris moved about ten miles north of Washington to found the new settlement of Harrisburg, named in honor of Moses. Daniel and Lydia with their children Daniel Duane and Frances Lovina soon followed Lydia's parents to Harrisburg. Very shortly, the young Harris family moved to Parowan in Iron County, a distance of about seventy-five miles, and after a brief stay continued northward to Fillmore in Millard County, where Daniel Duane's younger brother Charles Franklin was born, on April 23, 1859. The next move took the family to Deseret about 30 miles west of Fillmore where they intended to farm desert land using water from the Sevier River. In Deseret the fourth child was born to Lydia and Daniel, a daughter, on March 31, 1861, and given the name of Cynthia Orissa. Some time in 1861, Daniel Duane's father Daniel, as part of a group of former San Bernardino colonists, returned to California attempting to recover livestock which had been left behind four years earlier. The mission did not go as planned for Daniel. Apparently, difficulties ensued and Daniel was arrested for stealing horses, perhaps his own, resulting in having to serve a two-year jail term. This incident and perhaps other disagreements caused a rift to come between Daniel and Lydia. Having to care for her four children alone, Lydia returned to Southern Utah to live with her parents in Harrisburg and later in Glendale in Kane County for a period of five years. Lydia's parents encouraged her to divorce Daniel, which she did. Years later, Daniel Duane related to his own children of herding cows near Leeds and Harrisburg and through the Gap (where Quail Creek leaves the Harrisburg area and flows into the recently created Quail Lake about one mile above the Virgin River). He said that the weather was so extreme that his feet became blistered by the hot earth and rocks. Following his period of incarceration in California, Daniel returned to Utah. Daniel Duane recalls that his father came once a year and gave money to his mother Lydia, from wages he had earned while working in the mines (perhaps at the iron mines near Cedar City or somewhere in Nevada where mining was just beginning ). In 1866, Daniel Duane's mother Lydia married Samuel Dennis White, a resident of Beaver in Beaver County, located about one hundred miles north of Harrisburg. Samuel was a freighter by trade in the Beaver area and also was one of the agents who met wagon trains on the plains of Wyoming to assist immigrants in completing their journey to Utah. On November 21, 1867, Lydia gave birth to her fifth child, Amelia Abigail White. However, Lydia's marriage to Samuel White lasted for just two years. He died in 1868. Daniel Duane's mother Lydia, now age thirty-five would not marry again. Beaver was to be the permanent home for Lydia and her five children. Many years later Daniel Duane recalled that at age fourteen he was required to be the "man of the house" and also had to do a "man's work from now on". Therefore, as a young man he was involved in the freighting business, driving a team and wagon to support his mother and family. On June 15, 1881, at the age of twenty-seven, Daniel Duane Harris married Francis Elizabeth Tolton, a local school teacher, twenty-two years of age. Francis was the daughter of Edward and Mary Ann Tomlinson Tolton. The families of both of these individuals were immigrants to the United States from England after having joined the Mormon Church in the mid 1840's. Francis was born in Ephraim, San Pete County, Utah on September 14, 1859, and had come to Beaver with her parents about 1866. Daniel Duane and Francis' first home in Beaver was a two-room log cabin with dirt floors and a dirt-covered roof. A single fireplace was used for cooking and for heating. Water for the home was obtained from an irrigation ditch several blocks away, which had been diverted from the Beaver River, which flowed from the snow-covered peaks of the Tushar Mountains east of Beaver. Some fifteen years later, a well was dug to provide water for the home. Through the years, eight children were born to Daniel Duane and Francis Elizabeth Tolton Harris: Walter Smith, 1882; Clara, 1884; Orville Duane 1887; Earl Tolton, 1889; Ambrose, 1892; Edward Daniel, 1894; Frank 1897; and, Lafayette, 1902. In 1902, Daniel Duane constructed a new home for his large family, a four room log house, at which time the original home was razed. Some time later two more rooms, made of concrete, were added to the back of the house. Daniel provided a living for his family mainly by farming and by raising both dairy and beef cattle. Francis had received fifteen acres of land north of Beaver as part of her inheritance from her parents' estate, which was being farmed. Daniel purchased additional acreage from Charles White which greatly enlarged the family farm. Edward recalls that his father had a total of approximately eighty acres of land along North Creek. In conjunction with other Beaver area cattlemen, Daniel shared a summer range on the high meadow land in the mountains to the east, where he developed the Wiregrass Springs area as part of his own pastureland. Besides his farming and cattle enterprises, Daniel had a freighting business, hauling goods by team and wagon between various communities in the Beaver area. The largest town at the time was Frisco, a booming mining town near Milford, some twenty-five miles to the west. With a population of some 1600, its Horn Silver Mine was producing extremely high grade ore. Daniel, with his oldest son Walt, would cut timbers from the mountains near Beaver, strip them of bark, cut them to various lengths and deliver them to the mines, to be used in shoring up the extensive under-ground shafts and tunnels to prevent cave-ins. For many years, Daniel hauled freight from the Milford railyard to Beaver for his brother-in-law John Franklin Tolton, who operated a mercantile store in Beaver. During winter-time, when the snow was deep, timber was cut by broad-axe to be used for ties in constructing the railroad as it extended throughout Southern Utah from Milford. Daniel was known as a "skilled lime-burner" as he assisted Frank White in building lime kilns in the mountains for the making of lime. It was critical that fires in the kilns be kept extremely hot for up to three days in order to produce lime from the heated limestone. When finished, the lime was sold for fifty cents a bushel. Together with some of his older sons, Daniel would stay in the mountains for as long as two weeks in order to produce enough lime to be sold to local craftsman for as much as one hundred dollars. Faithful in religious matters, Daniel enjoyed attending his church meetings. For several years he was a member of the Beaver Stake High Council of the LDS Church which required him to be a regular speaker at the various churches in the area. Having had less than a year of formal education, his son Edward recalls that his father would occasionally ask him for assistance in preparing his sermons. Most of the children of Daniel Duane Harris recall that their father was very strict and stern in relating to them, that he required them to work long and hard in the fields, that there was not much time for play. He was not one to display his emotions, but he did have a sense of humor. This strictness caused conflict with some of his sons, resulting in them leaving home for several years. One son, Ambrose, spent several years working on ranches and doing mining and trapping in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. While away from home, ‘Brose died during the world-wide influenza epidemic in 1918. This must have been a rather tense time for Daniel Duane Harris, both emotionally and financially. His son Earl was a soldier on the battlefield in France. Another son, Edward was serving in New Zealand on a church mission which required sending him about fifteen dollars a month. To have Ambrose's body returned in a sealed casket (due to the strict health code imposed) cost $1500. Just a year earlier the family home had burned, with most of the household furnishings and personal possessions being lost. To rebuild the home, another $3300 needed to be borrowed, even with friends in the community helping. In later years, Daniel Duane told his son Edward that his approach at rearing children, in being strict and trying to conquer them, was incorrect. In their adult lives, most of Daniel's sons were able to make peace with their father. Earl recalls that at one time his father suffered from an abscessed hip, and in order to find relief, spent weeks at a time bathing in mineral hot springs, requiring Earl to work throughout the summer for High White for seventy-five cents a day to support the family. Francis Elizabeth had a temperament which was just opposite that of her husband, Daniel. She was a very gracious and loving individual. She had attended school in Beaver through the ninth grade, an exceptional feat for the time. She was a good speller, had an extensive vocabulary, and had taught school for several years. Frequently, she entertained audiences by giving dramatic readings. Her son Earl recalls that during his childhood years in their two-room cabin, "there were pleasant nights with the family around the hot stove while the temperature outside was zero", and that on these occasions the "tradition of learning poems and sayings, acting, telling stories and speaking decisively was promoted." Several of her sons, especially Orville, Earl and Edward must have been greatly influenced by their mother, since they were also good story tellers. Francis participated in the local LDS Church activities and fulfilled assignments in various organizations. For many years she was President of the Women's Relief organization where she gave much compassionate service to the members of her ward. As a youth she and her brother John always won the foot races on the annual Fourth of July celebrations. The Harris Family home still stands in Beaver today. After the fire of 1917, only two of the rooms remained, those constructed of concrete. In reconstruction, the two rooms became the front part of the house, and for many years it was the family home of Orville and Hester Neal Harris and their three daughters. Daniel Duane Harris died in Beaver on July 4, 1930 at age seventy-five. Francis Elizabeth Tolton Harris died in Beaver shortly thereafter on December 7, 1930 at age sixty-six. Both are buried in the Beaver City Cemetery. -source: Information in this sketch has been obtained from Earl T. and Edward D. Harris as recorded by Shirley Harris DeLapp from the Silas Harris, Jr. record published by the Silas Harris, Jr. Family Organization and from various family members.

Perry Francis Ford Headstone

Perry Francis Ford:

Perry F Ford                                                                        
Residence: Clinton County, Indiana
Occupation:                        
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 07 March 1864 Enlisted in Company B, 123rd Infantry Regiment Indiana, Union on 07 March 1864 Died on 28 January 1865 in Nashville, TN                                                                        
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. (INRoster) Published in 1865-66 by Holloway

Dates may be off but still interesting.

Margaret Angus Robinson

Margaret Angus was also the parent that was a dedicated mother.  Her daughters were determined to go to Utah.  She could not let them go alone.  So she went to Salt Lake with her daughters and George stayed with his son George and planned to go to Utah in the spring.  Thus, the family was separated for the winter.  The reunion of this family just didn’t happen.  George died in the spring and her son George grew up and spent the remainder is his life in Iowa.

George Robinson

George Robinson brought his family into the Church and America as his first priority.  He stayed behind in Iowa because of the absence of a child.  When they came to Iowa, pulling their hand carts, little George ran away from camp.  His father went in search for him.  He did succeed in finding where he was.  It appears a man induced him not to go to Salt Lake.  He made great promises if he would live with him.  He would give him horses, money etc., and soon he would be rich.  Father tried hard to get George to go with him to camp, but George would not go.  He died in the spring and never made it to Utah.

Elizabeth Robinson Condie

Elizabeth Robinson came with her parents and a brother George, and a sister Dorothy, from England.  She traveled with the Martin Handcart Company to Salt Lake Valley, and gave birth to twelve children, nine living beyond eight years old.  She was a dedicated mother, spending her full efforts to being a mother and wife.  It has been said that she told her children about her life, memories and experiences.  We have no record of these details.  She only went to Salt Lake City on one occasion in about 17 years (according to Gibson’s Journal) for a pleasure trip.  She died when the youngest was only about 6 years old.  She made the family her first priority.

Helen Sharp Condie Conversion

Helen Sharp had blue eyes, rather dark hair, and she was tall also.  Some of their 12 children had dark hair but others had red and blond hair.  So, apparently the red hair in the family is from the Condie side of the family tree. When the elders were looking for a place to hold their meetings they went to Thomas Condie at the Crown Inn and he rented them one of his buildings.
      Many of the townspeople were attending their meetings so Helen attended also.  She was the first of the family to be converted and baptized by Elder John Sharp. Helen was persecuted by her friends and her husband was very bitter about her joining that wicked sect.  He did not allow her to be confirmed for six month.  She prayed continuously to her Heavenly Father to help her to endure all the trials and be able to overcome evil.  When her husband was converted and was ready to go to America she settled up the indebtedness with the help of their son Gibson.  Helen then began to pack up their belongings and hired a team to take them and their luggage to the depot seven miles away.   After bidding goodbye to all her family and friends, she left her native land. They took the train to Glasgow, where they met Thomas, and all boarded a steamer for Liverpool.

Thomas Condie Conversion

Thomas Condie was a great reader of the Bible and he had a good memory and quoted passages in the Bible to prove, in his own way, that Mormonism was not true but from the devil.  In November Elder Sharp was appointed to preside over the branch.  He and others came to the house and spent many hours discussing the Bible and the new religion.
       “One night a voice repeated to him ‘thrice sundry times’ the scripture found in Isaiah, 54th chapter, last three verses.  “15- Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.  16-Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the ‘waster to destroy’.  17- No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.  After this manifestation he had a fervent testimony all of his life. Thomas wanted to emigrate to America with the body of the church.

Gibson Condie Description of Liverpool

Gibson Condie “I would have the privilege of seeing England.  The people never thought of going a hundred miles away from home. They would be astonished going that distance.  There are folks in Scotland that were born and died in the same town. They do not care for traveling.  They’re satisfied where they are.  I was surprised in Liverpool, there was Bands of Music and Brass instruments would play in the Streets on Sunday.  It was different in Scotland where I was raised.  Any kind of Instrument playing on Sunday was forbidden.  They were very strict in observing the Sabbath Day, more so than in England.  They would not allow anyone to go fishing, playing ball or playing marbles.  If you was to shave yourself or blackening your shoes or if any kind of play whatever it was strictly forbidden.  Those of that land would be prosecuted and punished.

Thomas & Ann Smith Palmer

Thomas Palmer was the only member of the family who accepted the Gospel at that time and came to Zion.  He was then twenty years of age.  About four years before leaving England he married Ann Smith, the 12th May 1844.  She was a faithful girl who also had joined the Mormons and was willing to sacrifice home, family, and friends in order that she might go to Zion, the promised land, and worship God as her conscience dictated and live under the radiant light of the Church.

Frances Starkins Palmer Baptism

Frances Starkins was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Daniel Brown on the17th of September, 1850, and confirmed by Henry Squires in the St. Albans Branch.  This shows a strength of character, to be able to make such a decision.  It must have been a shock to her parents and family as she was the only one of the family to join.  What was their reaction to this step she had made?  Was it bitterness and sending her from them, as many did, or did they accept her decision and allow her to still mingle with them?  It wasn’t for long, as on the 16th of December, 1850, she emigrated to America with other new members of the church, and was never to see her family again in this life.

Anna Christine Knudsen Forsgren

Anna Christine Knudsen and her parents must have been in the same company as Peter A. Forsgren. This quote “Peter A. Forsgren, Jens Knudsen (Anna Christine’s father), and --Sorensen were unanimously proposed and accepted to give these talks” is from a journal of the trip by ship.  Peter and Anna Christine were married in Keokuk upon their arrival there.

In an unusual home industry requiring the attention of the whole family, Christine Forsgren made 130 yards of silk during the 1880’s using a loom her weaver husband, Peter Forsgren – Mormonism’s first convert in Scandinavia – made for her.

Sarah Jane Ingram Smith

Sarah Jane Ingram or Jane, as she was called, was born in Worcestershire, England on the 9th of June, 1836. They came to St. Louis but were not there but a short time when the Black Measles broke out and both (parents) died within a week, leaving three small children, Richard 8 yrs old,  Jane 6 yrs. and Frances Ann 2 yrs., as orphans.

Her uncle used to do a lot of trading horses and cattle, one night he came and told Richard and Jane to put the horses in the stable. They heard a strange noise and ran to the house. The horses ran away in the woods. The uncle was angry, and was going to whip them but their aunt would not let him ­ so he went to see what it was and found a large wild hog in the stable, it came after him so he did not say anything to them. After that they soon moved from there.

They were acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith and saw him and his brother, Hyrum, after they were martyred.

William & Susanna Griffiths Ingram Emmigration

William Ingram and Susanna Griffiths were strong and good honest workers. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when it was first brought there (England). They emigrated to America in the year 1841 coming over in a sailing vessel [Yorkshire]. They experienced stormy weather but the sailors said not to worry they would be all right as there were a lot of Mormons on board the vessel.

Daniel William Smith

Daniel William Smith was the seventh child of eight children born to William Smith and Elizabeth Longhurst. We don't have his exact birth date, but his certificate of Baptism gives his baptism date as 8th October 1792. He was baptized in the Sherington Parish, county of Buckingham, England. Of the eight children, we know that his two brothers and three (possibly four) of his sisters died as children. We have a record of his oldest sister, Maria, marrying Robert Coleman.

Daniel & Sarah Wooding Smith

Sarah Wooding Smith, at age 48, was not only a widow, but death had claimed eight of her eleven Children, two of which- Mary Ann (10) and John Wooding (8)--had died within days of their father. Six of her other children---Ann, James William, William, Mary Ann b. 1833, Daniel, and Jabez--had died in England as children. Only three of her eleven children remained--George (who was still in England), Samuel, and Jane Louisa.

"She will always be remembered by the people in the Salt Lake City community in her time for her charity toward the poor, the homeless, and the weary as they pioneered their way into this Rocky Mountain retreat. It was at her home that the Ingram orphans, Richard, Sarah Jane, and Frances Ann found “shelter, food and love." (Later Sarah Jane and Frances Ann became her daughters in-law when they married Sarah's son, Samuel.)

On 5 August 1845 Daniel, Sarah and their son, Samuel Smith, had their Patriarchal Blessing given them by Patriarch John Smith. Exactly one month and five days later, Daniel died either in or on the outskirts of Nauvoo.

In order to clarify what future genealogists may think is an error in Sarah Wooding Smith's records, I might mention that her daughter Jane Louisa and Jesse Turpin were sealed by Brigham Young at his home on 8 January 1850. At the same time, Sarah was sealed to her deceased husband, Daniel Smith. Then, though it seems strange to us in this day, Sarah Wooding Smith and Jesse Turpin, her son-in-law, were married for time. This was a marriage in name only; and, although we don't know just why this was done, apparently there were several instances when this occurred. Sarah lived with her daughter, Jane, and her husband the remainder of her life.