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2 FEB 1854 – 3 JUL 1901
BY - Marjorie Crosby Gibson Sanchez
Gavin Andrew Crosbie was born on February 2, 1854 in a small village called Hazelbank, in Lesmahagow, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland and lived in a row house with his grandparents where the River Clyde flowed in his backyard. He loved horses, particularly Clydesdales, he sang, played the violin and he stuttered. Those who knew of him loved him.
He was named after his father Gavin Andrew whose family lived 11 doors away from the Crosbie Family. The Andrew Family lived in Dwelling No. 20 and the Crosbie Family lived in Dwelling No. 31. The “Andrew Grand-parents” are John Andrew and Elizabeth Margaret Lawson. Guy’s father Gavin was a coal miner and his mother Agnes was a cotton loom weaver. His father and mother did not stay together. She married her second husband John Nelson on April 3, 1857 but Gavin’s father died on April 25, 1857. The two brothers continue to stay with their grand-parents Robert Gray and Helen (Francis) Crosbie’s when their mother remarried John Nelson, a coal miner, who later became a spirit merchant. In 1868 Guy and his brother Robert are adopted by their grandparents Robert Gray and Helen (Francis) Crosbie and are given the last name of Crosbie.
Gavin’s name is Scottish Gaelic for “Guy” and he went by “Guy Crosby” in America. His older brother Robert Philip Crosbie, went by “Curly Bob and last name was spelled Crosby.”
Many events are taking place in Gavin’s life that brings Josiah Rodgers Crosbie, Robert Philip Crosbie, James Francis Crosbie, John Francis Crosbie and Gavin to America. In the next few pages cover this group of Crosbie’s and the life of our Gavin “Gavin” Andrew Crosbie (sometimes spelled Crosby).
The Crosbie’s lived next to the Bridge where "William Wallace” hid from the British. Our Crosbie family lived by the River Clyde in Kirfieldbank and Hazelbank. It was said Wallace and Marion Braidfute , his wife, were married at Kentigren Church in Lanark. Wallace's violent assassination of the High Sheriff of Lanark was carried out as revenge for the killing of his wife according to Blind Harry's 15th century poem.
Their grand-parents Robert Gray Crosbie and Helen Francis raised fourteen children who were:
Elizabeth Crosbie born August 9, 1828 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
John Francis Crosbie born November 12, 1830 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Agnes Wilson Crosbie born April 1, 1833 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Robert Francis Crosbie born July 11, 1835 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Margaret Gray Crosbie born February 9, 1837 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (and died close to June 1841 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland – Drowned in the River Clyde.
George Francis Crosbie born May 11, 1839 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Herriet Crosbie born November 1840 Kirkfieldbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland - died before June 1842
Twins: Josiah Rodgers Crosbie and Harriot Crosbie born June 4, 1842 Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
James Francis born December 6, 1847 Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Robert Philip born January 3, 1849 Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (a grandson)
Herriet Crosbie born December 23, 1849 Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Helen Crosbie born January 31, 1851 Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
“GUY” Gavin Andrew Crosbie born February 2, 1854 Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The aunts and uncles treated Robert Philip and Guy as their brothers.
1861 Scotland Census found at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family History Library Film No.: 0103868.
The last five children’s birth records of this family are found on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Lanark Branch records recorded also showing baptisms. The baptism records appear in the Church Millennial Star.
It is a Scottish custom to keep repeating a name until the child lives and carries the spirit on.
There was another story told that Robert Gray and Helen (Francis) Crosbie had triplets but there are no records. Perhaps the idea came from the fact that George Francis and the twins Josiah Rodgers and Harriot were all christened the same day.
Picture of Hazelbank and the River Clyde was taken from the air. The picture was gift from Maxine Joan Holt Schuyler Nations granddaughter of James Francis Crosbie and Helen Aird.
This was a picture of James Francis Crosbie's home in Hazelbank.
Robert Gray Crosbie sons were taught the trade as coal miners and the daughters became cotton weavers. Their son John Francis Crosbie was taught the trade of a Tinsmith by his father-in-law John Ludlow/Laidlaw. The Industrial Revolution of production cotton weave workers was starting up in the late 1700's. Due to the heavy water flow on the River Clyde New Lanark was a prime location where one of the factories was built. The art of New Lanark below was painted by famous Scottish Artist John Winning who married Christian (Christina) Gray the sister of Margaret Gray our Guy Andrew Crosbie's grandfather Robert Gray Crosbie's mother.
Picture New Lanark by famous Scottish Artisit John Winning
All the Crosbie children started working at an early age due to the size of the family and the production factories were taking over gradually moving the long time gifted home weavers out, such as Guy’s grandfather Robert Gray Crosbie, who was a “Damask Loom Weaver”. Also many demands were being placed on American cotton growers to produce more and more crops to meet the needs of those factories.
“Damask Loom Weavers wears”
Guy's Grandfather Robert Gray Crosbie would pack his wears on his back walk from Hazelbank all the way to Strathaven so he could sell his wears to pay their rent; a distance of 20 miles round trip. It's about 3 hours and 30 minute walk one way. In between the walk to and from he would sit to eat his packed lunch, sell his items then walk back home. The whole trip would be about 7 hours of walking round trip. Helen Francis Crosbie had the name “Sniffie Nell.” She at the time liked her sniff.
Their children slept in beds that were stacked with four beds to an alcove closet. As I see it there was not much room to toss and turn around when one was sleeping. So children Elizabeth, John Francis, Agnes, and Robert Francis had married by 1858. The child Margaret Gray and two of the children named Harriet’s have died so that left six children remaining at home plus other grandchildren who came to stay or visit once in a while who lived in their row house.
“Alcove style beds”
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Guy and his brother Robert attended school in Hazelbank and was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic that they would use later in life.
Robert Gray Crosbie family were all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints of “The Lanark Branch and met at The Motherwell Conferences”, and the records show Guy was baptized a member on January 27, 1868 by his grandfather. Those records are a few pages ahead.
Individuals can find Robert and Helen (Francis) Crosbie's family becoming members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints records recorded and found on Film No. 0104154 at the Family History Center Item 9 Record of members, 1844-1886 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lanark Branch (Lanarkshire). Glasgow Conference Record Scotland British Mission. Record of Members 1844-1857 Libr. No. 972. Record of Members 1848-1855 Libr. No. 946. Record of Members 1850-1886 Libr. No. 971 Page 8 of 16.
Robert and Helen (Francis) Crosbie's deaths at Family History Center LDS FHL Film No. 0104154, Item 9 Record of members, 1844-1886 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lanark Branch (Lanarkshire).
Church Members
Church members were sailing for the United States and once in New York traveled another 2,118 miles to Wyoming and Utah. The railroad was coming from California and from the east to meet in Utah. The Church Leader Brigham Young was negotiating with the railroad for his members to have jobs also for those arriving.
Helen Spowart’s, future wife of Robert Philip Crosbie, parents Thomas Spowart and Catherine (Spowart) were very strong active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was in charge over the Dunfermline Branch and had meetings in his home. Thomas came from a very wealthy family of coalmine owners in the Torryburn, Fife, Scotland area and his father was unhappy with him because he chose to marry beneath his social ranks and then Thomas became a member of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His wife Catherine’s last name was Spowart as well but the two families were not related.
A lot of the convert members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Lanark, Motherwell, and Dunfermline Scotland Branches had already moved to America. Many were talking seriously about immigrating to the United States and on into Wyoming and Utah. Between church sponsoring and the family members using their savings they were leaving in good size groups. One of these groups had Helen Spowart’s sister, Jean “Jane” Ellen immigrating to America. Jane had left in 1866 where she met James H. Sneddon and married while at sea on board of the USS American Congress that arrived in New York on July 5, 1866. He was a widower with a son name Robert from his first marriage to Janet Morris. They arrived September 26, 1866. Brigham Young needed members of the church to work on the railroad and James Sneddon was one of them.
Upon arriving in Utah, the James Sneddon family was sent to Uintah, Weber, Utah, which is located south of Ogden and twenty-five miles north of Salt Lake City. It is near here where the railroad companies were laying lines for the transcontinental lines crossing the United States. Not wanting the railroad companies to bring in undesirable railroad workers, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church made arrangements with the railroad companies to furnish the labor for part of the line in Utah which gave members work and new members when they arrived. The promised money the Railroad companies agreed to pay the workers did not come through, so the men were mostly paid in kind from the church storehouses. All members gave ten percent of their earnings and fast offerings for the storehouse to be successful and allowed all members to be treated as equals. It allowed Zion to grow.
Josiah Crosbie and Mary Waldie marry on October 22, 1869 in Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Their first child Mary born May 23, 1870 in Hazelbank and in 1871 they are living by his older brothers and their father in Hazelbank.
Guy in 1871 went to work at the age of 17 in the coal mines and a lodger living in the home of Thomas Harrison in dwelling 44 in the small village of Townfoot, Auchenheath, Lanarkshire Scotland about 2.7 miles southwest of Hazelbank. Robert Philip was there working in the mine also and living as a lodger in Jane Brown home with her family in dwelling 45.
1871 Scotland Census,[Page 10 Film # 104039]
I have toured the insides of a coalmine in Park City. It is dark and I wanted out quickly. Back in the time our family was working in the coalmine life exceptance was 49 years old. Death of coal workers' were caused by pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly called black lung, and silicosis. CWP is associated with coal mining. Some mines were very hot and wet, or hot and dusty.Children were working in coalmines as early as 8 years old. I cannot imagine letting my 8 year old son work in a dark mine at the age of 8 but it was real for those people to survive and maintain.
To understand more go to the following website: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2017/08/30/occupations-19th-century-coal-miners/
In 1871 the Spowart’s lost a daughter Catherine, known as Katy. Their daughter Christina had a dream encouraging her to emigrate to America where she would find the man she was to marry. In 1871 she said “goodbye” to her family and boarded the ship. Her sister, Jane met her at the depot in Uintah, Utah to persuade her to stay with them instead of going on to Salt Lake City. The mine in Almy, Wyoming, had opened up earlier in 1869 and James was working in Almy. Christina helped her sister pack and load her things in a wagon and moved close to Jane's husband James Sneddon at the mining town. It was in Almy that Christina met James Harrison Bowns, a widower, with three little girls. They were married on November 27, 1871. James Harrison Bowns became Bishop.
Letters were send home to Scotland, from the daughters, to their father Thomas telling them about the area and work.
There were rich mining veins owned by the railroad and they were sending men ahead to develop those coalmines for their railroad. These coalmines in this area were extremely dangerous because of deadly gases that were building up in the mine.
Josiah Rodgers and Mary Crosbie had moved to Edinburgh for a short period when their son Thomas was born on November 16, 1871.
Across the bridge Robert Philip Crosbie is living in Dunfermline working at the Spowart Mining Company and attending the church meetings at Thomas Spowarts home in 1873. Robert is attending church meeting in Thomas Spowart’s who is the Branch Leader for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Dunfermline. It is more likely Gavin and Josiah are attending those meetings too.
On August 22, 1873 Robert marries Helen at the Free St. Andrews Church in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
St. Andrews
Robert Philip Crosbie was living at Townhill when living in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
ROBERT PHILIP CROSBIE AND HELEN SPOWART MARRIAGE LICENSE
Marriage Record: Marriage Record Certificate No. 124, found at the Family History Center - LDS Film No. 0300266, on page 62, 1873, Marriages in the Burgh of Dunfermline, in the County of Fife, Scotland, on 22 August, 1873 at Free St. Andrews Church, Dunfermline, after banns according to the forms of the Church of Scotland. (Signed) Robert Crosbie, Coalminer, Bacholar. Age 22, residence of Townhill, Dunfermline. Parents: Robert Crosbie, Damask Loom Weaver & Helen Crosbie maiden name Francis (Signed) Helen Spowart, Power Loom Weaver, Spinister. Age 20, residence of North Chapel Street, Dunfermline.
Parents: Thomas Spowart, Coalminer and Catherine Spowart maiden name Spowart. Certificate signed by Andrew Brydie a minister. (Signed) John Burt and Mary Sharp, Witnesses. The above Marriage was Registered at Dunfermline on the 25th day of August, 1873 by R.A. Wilson, Assistant Registrar.
Shortly after on September 23, 1873, Helen’s parents Thomas and Catherine Spowart and friends Charles and Catherine Beveridge immigrated to America then on into Almy, Wyoming.
Letters are coming to Helen from Jane, Christina, and her parents about the church and work there in America.
Josiah, Robert Philip and Guy yearn more and more to go to America. All they can think about was their plans to make the trip together to the United States then on into Wyoming and Utah.
The family's membership records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Scotland are finished from the book by “Elva Crosbie Dean”, the granddaughter of Josiah and Mary (Waldie) Crosbie, who mailed to me in 1991. We met in 1963 at her parents, Robert and Martha Emma (Fielding) Crosbie, whose home was in Provo, Utah.
Elva Crosbie Dean above compiled her information from two membership records and Conference minutes as appeared in “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star”
The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star was the longest continuously published periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was printed in England from 1840 until 1970, when it was replaced by the church-wide Ensign. It was primarily aimed at British Latter-day Saints.
Picture of Crosbie’s The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints Baptism Records
These records show some members were cutoff. Cutoff met lack of knowledge or lack of understanding the standards of the Lord’s way or laws. They either walked away or they worked very hard to be reinstated. The Crosbie feelings ran deep and knew the church was true and they had strong testimonies burning inside that made them desire to read and study the Bible and Book of Mormon even harder to stand as members in the church. It met a great deal to them. They sat higher standards for generations to come.
Here is a copy of Gavin's church record from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Lanark Branch Records. This record shows Gavin Crosby birth and baptism. His baptism was done by his grandfather Robert Gray Crosbie. This record is when he legally took on the name Crosbie or Crosby.
Helen Spowart Crosbie’s parents kept writing home saying her father and Charles had found work in the coal mines at Almy, Uinta, Wyoming.
Again Uncle Josiah, Robert Philip and Gavin were yearning to make the move. Josiah wanted to make the move soon his family was growing and Mary was expecting, Robert and wife, and Gavin were as anxious in making the journey too.
Robert and Helen receive exciting news she was expecting so they moved close to his mother Agnes and her family in Rigside, Douglas, Scotland, and he found work at the Wilson Coalmine Company where his step-father John Nelson was working. Their little step-brother George Neilson had passed-away in October 1873. Their Aunt Harriett (Crosbie) Baxter had lost her newborn twin little girls Martha and Harriett in November of that same year. Their step-brother James Neilson later marries the daughter of Mr. Robert Wilson the mine owner.
On January 31, 1874, Catherine “Kate” Crosbie was born to her proud parents Robert Philip Crosbie and Helen Spowart.
Mary (Waldie) Crosbie gives birth to her and Josiah’s third child Elizabeth on February 22, 1874 in Hazelbank.
On LDS FHL Film No. 0329052 – Lanark Scotland Births
1874 Births In the Parish of Douglas in the County of Lanark – No. 18 – Catherine Crosbie – Birth: 31 Jan 1874 at 9hr. P.M. Rigside. Father: Robert Crosbie Coal miner. Mother: Helen Spowart. Robert Crosbie the father present. Registered: February 24th. At Douglas by James Scott, register.
There is no record showing where Guy is living or working at this time but as said before you can bet he is close by the family. Josiah and his family are living close to his parents in Hazelbank as are his Crosbie brothers, John Francis Crosbie, Robert Francis Crosbie, George Francis Crosbie and James Francis Crosbie. They all carry their mother’s maiden name except Josiah Rodgers Crosbie who has the middle name from his Aunt Marion (Crosbie) Rodger’s husband Josiah Rodgers.
Their plans are set in motion they have decided Josiah, Robert and his family will go first. Helen (Spowart) Crosbie’s parents are already there in Almy, Wyoming as we know. We also know Mary has given birth to little Elizabeth "Betsy." Helen is anxiously anticipating the thought of seeing her parents as well as showing them their new baby Kate....
Shipping Records for Josiah Crosbie, Robert Crosbie, his wife Helen, child, Kate Crosbie leaving Glasgow, on the S.S. Anglina, LDS FHL Film No. 0175749.
Uncle Josiah, Robert, his wife Helen and baby Kate took the train to Glasgow then board and sailed on the S.S. Anglia and landing in Castle Garden, New York, New York, on August 25, 1874. From there they take the train to Almy, Wyoming.
Glasgow, Scotland Harbor
Josiah Rodgers Crosbie
Josiah Crosbie is the 6th person from top on the Passenger List for S.S. Anglia
S. S. Anglia
Robert Philip and Helen (Spowart) Crosbie Family
Robert, Helen, and Kate are on 5th from the bottom on passenger list
When they set sail they were not traveling with church members or there is no such log that has been found. There is no diary of their voyage to Garden Castle, New York, New York or the journey by train Almy, Wyoming. When Helen (Spowart) Crosbie got off the train she faces blowing winds, flying tumbleweeds, and sagebrush. She sat on her suitcase and trunk with baby Kate in arms and cries for her beautiful beloved Scotland.
Helen’s mother Catherine Spowart died September 14, 1874 in Almy, Wyoming, shortly after she Helen arrived.
Helen’s mother Catherine Spowart died September 14, 1874 in Almy, Wyoming, shortly after she Helen arrived.
Then by letters from sister Nellie we know that Mary (Waldie) Crosbie, her children, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth (little Betsy), and Gavin who walked to Auchenheath Railroad Station 2.7 miles then traveled to Liverpool, board and sailed on the S.S. La Victoria from Liverpool arriving in Castle Garden, New York, New York on November 5, 1874. The voyage must have been very cold it was November.
Shipping Records for (wife of Josiah) Mary Crosbie, children, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth (called Little Betsy) & Gavin Crosbie leaving Liverpool, England on the S.S. Victoria, LDS FHL Film No. 0175750.
S. S. La Victoria
Mary is No. 28 at the top with Mary, Thos, Eliza below her then Gavin is No. 6 close to the bottom of the page
Almy, Uinta County, Wyoming
Glasgow Scotland Harbor to Garden City, New York
Here are a few more pages of history that I used from Elva Crosbie Dean’s story and an individual may find and read the book which can be found at website:
hughadamson.com/Crosbie/FilesHistory/Crosbie%20Waldie%20Fielding%20Whittle%20Story.pdf
Mary Waldie describes looking out the train window noticing the Chicago Fire 3 years earlier in 1871.
Guy, his brother Robert Philip Crosbie, and their Uncle Josiah Rodgers Crosbie and family attended The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days there in Almy Ward. Christina Spowart, Helen’s sister’s husband became Bishop James H. Bowns. He was mine Foreman of No. 4 mine in Almy. He later became General Mine Inspector for the Utah Fuel Company and elected County Commissioner 1902-1905 in Carbon County, Utah. It is James H. Sneddon, the husband of Jane Spowart and a sister of Helen that recommended Robert Philip and Guy to the railroad. Bowns and Sneddon will separate Robert Philip Crosby and Guy in the future before 1900.
Gavin "known as Guy" was in Almy, Unita, Wyoming two months and 1 day went he was in a mining accident.
Josiah and Mary have a son Josiah on March 12, 1875 Almy, Wyoming.
Robert Philip and Helen were on Almy Ward records showing they were still living in the ward in 1879 but Robert Philip was not at home at the time their son Robert Crosbie born on November 26, 1875 Almy, Wyoming or their second son John was born October 8, 1877 also in Almy, Wyoming.
On November 15, 1877 Mary gives birth to their son John Waldie Crosbie in Almy, Wyoming.
It is time for Robert and Helen to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah to go through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Endowment House on October 10, 1878. The Endowment House was a temporary place to continue temple work until the temple was built.
The Union Pacific Railroad gained control of the Utah Central Railroad in 1878, and in 1881 merged it with the Utah Southern Railroad and Utah Southern Railroad Extension to form the Utah Central Railway, a Union Pacific subsidiary that ran south from Ogden to Frisco. Guy and Robert Philip Crosbie were working for the Utah Central Railway.
Brigham Young’s Utah Central Railway started in Ogden and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1870. Later, as The Utah Southern Railroad, it was extended 13 miles to Sandy, Utah by September of 1871. It was then extended to Lehi by the Fall of 1872, and reached York (27 miles south of Provo) in April 1875. There remained for several years. York, Utah was a prominent terminal and railroad center on the old Utah Southern Railroad approximately fifteen miles north of Nephi and four miles south of Santaquin. York lasted for several until the next terminal was established to the south Juab. York was then promptly abandoned. The town named York was later changed to Mona.
Gavin and Robert Phillip Crosbie worked with James Leavitt Latimer who was born September 4, 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland the son James Bone Latimer and Margaret Reid Dougal. Some of his children were born in Beaver, Utah. Also, they worked with Alexander Graham who was also born in Scotland I wondered could he be related to us through his Grandmother Helen Francis whose mother was Bridget Graham. Others they worked with were Abraham Kimball son of Heber C. Kimball, Robert Watson his foremen and Bishop Callister. Bishop Callister was over the team of horses. Our Gavin loved working with the horses. The rail-line entered Juab County by June 1879.
John Leavitt Latimer was the road master of the railroad when I entered the service, but was succeeded by James Latimer, a well-seasoned and competent track-man with heart as big as his feet. He was the sincere friend of the working man who did his work rightly. The majority of the Maintenance of Way employees were of Scottish and Scandinavian extraction. The McGregor’s McCardell’s, McMillan’s, Crosby’s, Odd’s, Garrett’s, etc., where there. One day there was a wreck on the line and I was instructed to call the two section gangs at my station to be ready with food and blankets. When the work train arrived to pick them up, although I had called them two or three times, they were tardy and held the wrecker. “Where are the men?” asked the road master somewhat nettled. “Just leaving the section house”, I replied. “They celebrated Robbie Burns’ birthday last night till the wee hours.” “Hot Mon (Hot man), that’s the third time they’ve celebrated his birthday so far this year.
He was road-master for more than twenty years. James became a citizen of United States 21 May 1881 just 6 days after Guy Crosby did his on the 15th.
A roadmaster is a managerial position, working on a railroad. In this job, you are assigned a specific territory, and are responsible for the maintenance and repairs of all tracks within your roadway. Your duties include performing inspections and managing the quality of the railroad tracks in your territory.
TRACK LABORER – JOB DESCRIPTION. Position Summary: Performs hard physical labor using hand tools and equipment to: construct, alter, repair, maintain, and demolish railroad tracks, associated structures and components. ... It could include handling ties or rail with a crew (90 to 100 lb.)
Track gang employees work sometimes over 1000 miles from home for 8 days on and 8 days off work, with the travel days to and from work on their own time, leaving only 5 or 6 days actually at home, and put in long hours outside in bad weather conditions to repair and maintain tracks, as do the local track repair people ...
Jim Latimer of Oasis was unanimously chosen president and manager of the Railroad Man’s Sheep Company with wisdom and sound practical judgment. Some twenty years later he dies.
Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland on or around January 25. It commemorates the life of the bard (poet) Robert Burns, who was born on January 25, 1759. The day also celebrates Burns' contribution to Scottish culture. His best known work is Auld Lang Syne.
James was in charge of the construction of the railroad going south to Nephi when it was at a place called York (now known as Mona) in Utah County.
The terminal being at Nephi they moved to this. They lived on Main Street in the house next to the Goldbrough Hotel. But being a railroad man, he wanted to be closer to this, so they purchased in the southwest part of town.
John W. Young who was in charge of construction work, including track laying, came to the camp and asked the two young men if they wished to go to work at the track laying, at a wage of $2.00 a day and board, their pay to be received when the track was laid into Salt Lake City. John W. Young was a son of President Brigham Young.
James Hill and James Latimer new one another in Scotland.
Thomas Callister was a Bishop that was born in the Isle of Man. He worked for the railroad, lived in Fillmore, and passed away in 1880. He served on the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah Twenty-First Session, in 1874 for the Juab and Millard Counties.
His daughter Mary Maranda Callister married Edward Leo Lyman the son of Apostle Amasa Mason Lyman who is related to our family by the marriage of his son Edward Leo Lyman who married Lousia Maria Tanner who is the sister of Sydney Tanner.
Charles Odd lived in the section home and he was a very meticulous man, thrifty and frugality. He married Agnes Graham in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, 22 Dec 1881, just one month before her 18th birthday. They lived at Burnt Corral a little railroad stop about 20 miles south of Leamington. There were 4 houses that all belonged to railroad workers. In 1896 they moved to Kaysville, Utah.
Jesse W Fox was the General Surveyor. With the completion of the Pacific railroads in 1869, Brigham Young and other Utah capitalists constructed the Utah Central Railroad to connect Salt Lake with those lines. Jesse W. Fox was employed as engineer in the enterprise. Mr. Fox is mentioned as a stockholder in the Utah Southern Railroad running from Salt Lake through Provo to Juab, which he also served as Chief Engineer, in like capacity he was employed in the construction of the Utah Southern Extension Railroad to Frisco. In 1881 all three lines were consolidated and Mr. Fox became chief engineer of the system.
Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 2, p. 270 - Indexed in the Utah, familysearch.org, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900. There is ability to view the index online.
Robert Watson and Eliza Elliot – Robert was born 19 Aug 1826 a Dundee, Forfar… Scotland to Robert Watson and Agnes Robertson. He died 21 Mar 1891 in Springville, Utah, Utah. He married Eliza Elliott 17 Mar 1857 Eliza born 10 May 1836 at Nottingham, Notts, England to Joseph Elliot and Dorothy Wardle. She died 10 Dec 1914 at Springville, Utah, Utah. Eliza joined the church in England against the wishes of her family. At the age of 16 sailed along from Liverpool for America on 25 May 1856, landing at Boston, June 30, 1856. She proceeded to Iowa City and thence to Des Moines where she waited three weeks to join a Handcart Company to cross the plains. She joined the Martin Handcart Company. The Company made a start and then stopped again for two weeks at Winter Quarters. The company was caught in heavy snow in Wyoming and had to be rescued and many died from exposure. They arrived in Salt Lake City 30 Nov 1856. She married Robert Watson, Jr. 17 Feb 1857. She was the mother of five sons and four daughters…
Joseph Smith Black was living in Deseret Ward and Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Joseph was known as J.S. Black and Robert Watson both moved from Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah to the town of Deseret. Both Black and Watson worked on the railroad with Robert and Guy Crosby. Joseph was sentenced for 75 days for polygamy.
Abraham A. Kimball mentions Robert Watson who is the witness on Guy Crosby's citizenship. Robert was from Scotland.
Now this is where I started understanding Uncle Glen Merchant’s story of how our Guy and Electa (Twitchell) met.
Millard County History - Page 498: The railroad was built through Leamington in the year 1879 and extended as far as Milford. Among the first men to come with the railroad were: James Latimer, roadmaster; Bob and Guy Crosby, just over from Scotland, and Alexander Graham who worked on the section.
In 1875 there was a train terminal at York and needed the railroad extended from York (now known as Mona) to Frisco. It was moved to Nephi. New mine strikes were opening up in the Beaver County area. As a child I remember where the old terminal in Mona was and would always look for it as we traveled to Beaver.
1800 – 1900 Black Rock History: Chapter 3 Reference of Abraham Alonzo Kimball Diary – Son of President Heber C Kimball.
Black Rock Springs (Co-op Ranch) to find railroad surveyor but they had gone to Beaver River. Webb was at the ranch establishing a trading post for Bishop Callister to supply railroad teams so we obtained quarters for ourselves and horses, awful cold and windy.
10 Dec 1879 – After breakfast we set out for Smith Ranch some 6 miles (10 kms) distance, on arriving there the Surveyors had just set out to work so we found them all along the line. We found the chief Jesse W Fox at the Lameraux Ranch (this is where our great-grandmother Electa Twitchell, a servant and her brother Big John Twitchell, a farmer laborer are working in the STAR PRECINIT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH IN 1880) of Riverside Station where we got some dinner and remained all day boarding with the Surveyors, received the promise of a job of grading (next spring.)
Black Rock Spring was owned and operated by a cooperative of the LDS Church. They were also in the process of setting up a store for the first time. The need for building a store would have been the direct result of the coming of the railroad.
The next spring, Kimball returned to do grading work, but he began at Yellow Banks Stage Station about 3 kms (Uncle Glen Merchant shared that this Yellow Banks Stage Station is where our great grandmother Electa Twitchell meets our great grandfather Guy Andrew Crosby.) north of present-day Milford. See the 1875 map on page 13. In his diary, Kimball mentions where the track layers were, only where the graders were building up the railroad bed. Briefly jumping ahead, the first passenger train arrived at Milford on May 15, 1880, so we can assume the tracks were first laid to Clear Lake in March and to Black Rock sometime in April, 1880.
Before going further into the Black Rock Story, a little more history of Frisco and Milford is in order. Kimball (Abraham Alonzo Kimball) also helped finish the railroad grade right up to Frisco. He was like a private contractor of today and he ran a crew of men and teams with scrapers. He also had a few choice comments about the situation at Yellow Banks, gentle swearing, Milford and Frisco, that are worth mentioning. His last camp was very near Frisco. Parts of his diary went like this:
7 Mar 1880 - Antelope Spring Sunday March 7th 1880. Arose early… arriving at Yellow Banks 3 p.m. where our job was….. spent afternoon in fitting up camp by tearing down an old log house and putting up the same, also putting up tent.
Yellow Banks March 8th The boys arrived with hay and grain from the end of the track so after dinner the boys wen up the river to shut off the water as it was ruining our job…. Some of the boys was inclined to profane the name of god so I proposed to them that the ones who done the swearing should do the praying which was agreed to. I was surprised to find that in one week’s time the swearing was about done away with. So much so that I had to offer prayer occasionally myself.
8 Apr 1880 - Thursday April 8th 1880 …..Moved camp to Milford 2 ½ miles (4 kms) to commence another job, worked hard all day moving, put up a good camp and was awful tired. Milford is a town consisting of one Quartz Mill, one Smelter and so 12 houses and one store and saloon and one barn and several camps of railroad (workers)…..
19 May 1880 – Wednesday May 19th 1880. Went to Frisco which is a noted mining camp but of low grade society, mostly Irish (and) 5 to 8 hundred inhabitants…..
Sunday May 30th 1880 …..returned at dinner time, found cook and all gone from home so I shaped dinner for 5 of us, then went out to see the bears dance as some Italians came along with two trick bears, all went off nicely, good dancing….
Sunday June 13th 1880 After breakfast washed and cleaned up and set out for the Bonanza Mine one of the greatest bodies of ore known….. then hitched our team up and drove to Frisco where we called at the post office, also done a little trading as the stores were in full blast failing to observe the Sabbath day, being a mining camp composed of Jack Mormons, Jews and Gentiles.
Near Frisco June 17th Commenced loading up to start home so after dinner the teams set out for Milford, the cook (Miss Prons) set out for the cars to ride down on them. On arriving I met J. W. Fox, Surveyor so he wished me to return to Frisco with him so we proceeded on train to my old camp and from thence by wagon to layout the depot which was accomplished at the bottom and of Main St….. The engine had gone to Milford taking cook so the construction boss (Watson) (Robert Watson who is a witness on Guy Citizenship Record) said we could take a couple of flat cars down having to brake being heavy grade….. Making the trip in 37 minutes some 13 miles (21 kms) without aid of steam (engine).
23 Jun 1880 – John Twitchell, age 19, a farm laborer, Electa Twitchell, age 17, servant at the W. G. Lameraux Ranch at the STAR PRECINIT ON THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL CENSUS.
Uncle Glen Merchant told me stories in the early 1960's about Guy Andrew Crosbie and Electa Malinda Twitchell. That Guy worked hard days dealing with windstorms, rain, heat, lifting hot iron, eating dust, dragging ties with a team of horses, dealing with jack rabbits, snakes, and other wild animals.
Guy Andrew and Electa Twitchell married on February 22, 1881 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. They also lived in Milford as well as belonged to the Deseret Ward. They lived in the community of Deseret also that is 10 miles south of Delta, Utah.
Anciel Twitchell, Electa’s father, had a ranch and lived in Manderfield (also known as Indian Creek) on the left side of I-15 highway going south toward Beaver. Her father and grandfather Ephraim Twitchell served in the Mormon Battalion.
Yellow Banks to Manderfield is a good 1 hour 24 minute drive by car or a 13 hours 43 minutes good long walk.
A friend of the Crosbie and Spowart family, Charles Beveridge, on one occasion in 1881 went down into the mine to make an inspection, and as he was coming up the shaft, he heard a terrible roar. He knew immediately what is was, and threw him-self down to the ground, clutching the railroad tracks. The blast and fire went over him, but his hands’, face, and ears were badly burned. His shoes and clothing were completely burned off him, but wherever his LDS garments covered him, his skin was untouched, and was as white as ever. Was it a miracle? I think so! After his recovery, he became a little stooped which is understandable. He was no longer 6 feet 2 inches tall, but he never complained. His condition was such that he would be unable to continue in the mines, so he became Postmaster, and along with that, he carried all kinds of musical instruments. (he is able to play all of them).
He also had a candy counter, which of course, was his daughters pride and joy. It was the largest mine accident west of the Mississippi and could be felt all the way to Salt Lake City Valley some 88 miles away. That explosion took the lives of our Uncle Josiah Rodgers Crosbie, age 39, and his friend John Barton, age 34 who were both killed that evening. John Barton was the first husband of Jane Beveridge the daughter of Charles and Catherine Beveridge that came with Thomas and Catherine Spowart to America. Jane (Beveridge) Barton after John’s death entered in plural marriage with James Harrison Bowns.
On March 4, 1881, gases in the Central Pacific Mine number 3 exploded, killing 38 miners. On March 10, the Cheyenne Weekly Leader reported the disaster: A terrific explosion occurred last night between 9 and 10 o'clock in the Central Pacific mine, killing 35 Chinamen and 3 white men.
A HORROR IN WYOMING.
TERRIFIC COAL MINE EXPLOSION AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
TWO WHITE MEN AND THIRTY-FIVE CHINAMEN KILLED — THE MINE ALL ON FIRE. FUTILE REPORTS TO RECOVER THE BODIES OF THE DEAD — NUMBER OF MEN INJURED.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 4 — A special from Evanston, Wy., to the Tribune says: “The gas in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron company’s mine No. Two, at Almy station, on the Union Pacific road, exploded at 8.45 last evening, throwing the flames many hundred feet high out of the main slope, carrying away the buildings around the mouth of the shaft, and setting the machinery buildings on fire. About 15 minutes before the explosion from 10 to 30 white men and 50 Chinamen went down to work for the night. At two a.m. 17 Chinamen, more or less seriously injured, had been rescued, many with limbs broken and badly scalded. About 20 dead Chinamen have been discovered, but have not yet been brought up.
No white man has yet been found, and there are no hopes that any are alive. The jar of the explosion was plainly felt at Evanston.”
A dispatch from Cheyenne says the night shift consisted of 50 Chinamen and five whites. Two of the whites were brought out in a crippled condition, and 15 Chinamen were rescued through the ventilating shaft, all of whom were more or less injured. It is believed that 35 Chinamen and two white men, are now in the mine which is on fire. The mine is owned by the Central Pacific railway, and was being worked at its full capacity. The accident will cause a suspension of work for a year.
Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) Mar 5, 1881
Frightful Explosion in a Coal Mine –
Forty Men Killed.
A fearful explosion took place in mine No. 2 last night. The cause is not definitely known, but it is supposed to be by gas generated by fire in the abandoned mine No. 1, which has been burning for the past six years, and is separated from mine No. 2 by wide walls only. The explosions completely demolished all the buildings over the main stope and, setting fire to these, burned them, together with the engine and other houses adjoining. There were sixty Chinamen and four white men in the mine. Of the latter, Mr. Gillespie, John Barton and Josiah Crosby were taken out dead, and Charles Beverage alive, but very dangerously burned, but may recover. Twenty-five Chinamen have been brought to the surface, all badly scalded and many with broken limbs. The balance are probably dead. The white men were all married and leave large families. The fire in the mine is now out, and everything possible is being done for the recovery of the balance of bodies and for the injured.
Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Mar 7, 1881.
September 24, 1881 A clock rises from the ashes. It seems that the impetus behind the clock in the courthouse Tower was the Great Fire of 1881., one of the selling points of the idea was that the bell of the clock could be used to summon residents in case of another fire. Southern Utonian
John Francis Crosbie in April 1882 came to visit his family in America. He came to check on Mary Waldie Crosbie first, to see what this new country might have to offer, and traveled to Leamington to visit Guy and Robert Philip. He stayed and the visit was recorded on Leamington Church Record. He was back in Scotland when his mother died. Helen Spowart’s father Thomas Spowart also visited in 1882 with Robert Philip and Helen telling them all the news possibly at the same time John Francis Crosbie did.
On May 6, 1882, Electa gives birth to their first child, a little girl Essie Elvira in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. Guy’s family can be found in the Deseret Ward Record, Leamington, Ward Records, and the Beaver Ward Records.
Josiah and Mary’s daughter Elizabeth “Little Betsy”, age 8, dies on July 18, 1882 in Almy, Wyoming. Robert and Helen’s little boy is named Josiah was born on August 3, 1882. Their Uncle James Francis Crosbie sails on September 2, 1882 from Liverpool with 662 other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He also visits Mary then travels to Leamington, Utah to see Guy and Robert Philip and tells them that their Grandmother Helen (Francis) Crosbie died on July 4, 1882 in Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland when their Uncle James Francis Crosbie comes in September of the same year. James was at his mother’s bedside when she passed away on July 4, 1882.
6 May 1882 – Guy and Electa Crosby’s first born Essie Elvira Crosby is born in Beaver, Utah (these dates are from Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake LDS FHL Film No. 0025885.)
Milford kept the railroad profitable until 1882 or 1883 when the mine faltered, and the railroad with it. However, the farmers worked together with the newspaper to draw investors to continue the railroad. The church building there burned destroying records up to 1883.
Jane Beveridge, the widow of their friend John Barton who died with Josiah she is the daughter of Charles and Catherine Beveridge, the friends of Thomas and Catherine Spowart. She also enters into a plural marriage with Christina Spowarts husband James Harrison Bowns’ on August 9, 1883 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Male individuals could not enter into plural marriage unless he had enough income to provide for the families.
Guy and Electa Crosby were visiting Salt Lake City, Utah in July 1883.
William Anciel Twitchell Sr married Ruth Greenwood on Christmas Day, in 1883 in Beaver. At this time he was working for the railroad.
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Electa has given birth to their first son Guy LeRoy Crosby who was born on January 19, 1884 in Beaver, Beaver, Utah. – Guy and Electa Crosby’s first son Guy LeRoy Crosby is born in Beaver, Utah (these dates are from Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake LDS FHL Film No. 0025885.) My Dad laughed saying if my Dad new he could of be collecting Social Security a year earlier.
On May 14, 1884 Guy registered his mark and branding iron showing as “79” on the Right Hip of the Thigh and was living in Milford, Beaver County, Utah.
Guy’s brother Robert registered his mark and branding iron the same day. The mark was “RC” on the right shoulder and he was living in Leamington, Millard County, Utah.
On 15th of May 1884 Guy became a US citizen, witnessed by Curly Bob. Robert Philip, also known as Curley Bob, and their foreman as well as a good friend Robert Watson, also from Scotland, went to Salt Lake City with Guy when he became a citizen of the United States on 15 May 1884.
“Certificate of Citizenship #31
United States of America Territory of Utah -
Be It Remembered, That on the 15th day of May in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Four, Guy Crosby late of Scotland, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, at present of Beaver County, in the Territory aforesaid, appeared in the Third Judicial District Court of the United States, in and for Utah Territory, and applied to the said Court to be admitted to become a Citizen of the United States of America, pursuant to the directions and requirements of the several Acts of Congress in relation thereto. And the said Guy Crosby having thereupon produced to the Court such evidence, made such declaration and renumeration, and taken such oath as are by the said Acts required; thereupon it was ordered in the said Court that the said Guy Crosby be admitted, and he was accordingly admitted by the said Court to be Citizen of the United States of America.
By the Court: John A. Hunter, Judge
Wit: Robert Crosby Robert and Watson
Ref. Vol. 22. p. 172 - 15 May 1884.”
1884 – Robert Philip and Helen’s daughter Margaret was born 26 December 26, 1884 in Leamington, Utah.
1885 - The brothers get word that their grandfather Robert Gray Crosbie has died on August 3, 1885.
1885 - Then Guy and Robert Philip’s Uncle John Francis Crosbie makes another trip to see Mary Waldie Crosbie in Wyoming and Robert and Guy in Leamington, Utah and stays a while, even fines work. Again he does not stay but returns to Hazelbank.
1 Sep 1885 – Essie Elvira Crosby was blessed and given a name.
4 Sep 1885 – Guy Andrew Crosby is re-baptized and confirmed record on Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake by W. Iverson and confirmed by J S Black (these dates are from Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake LDS FHL Film No. 0025885.)
Robert Philip Crosby worked with other to organize "The Leamington Irrigation Company:
Book F
Pages 155-158
Recorded September 29th 1886 This Indenture made the 11 day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight-Hundred and Eighty-Six between the undersigned the parties of the first part and The Leamington Irrigation Company the party of the for the second part witnesseth that whereas The Leamington Irrigation Company has been duly incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Utah, and it is intended by this instrument its transfer to the said party of the parties of the first part which they and each of them have and The property and rights to property hereinafter described. And whereas said corporation has been formed for the purpose of managing, controlling and regulating the use of said described property, and rights to property for the benefit of such stockholder in accordance with the articles of agreement and in conformity with the By-Laws of said corporation hereto fore adopted.
Now, therefore, know all men by their presents, that the said parties of the first part and each of them whose names are hereunto subscribed in consideration of certificates of stock in said incorporated company hereafter to be inspired to them, then, and each of their heirs and assigns, in conformity with the By Laws of said corporation heretofore adopted, do hereby grant bargain, sell, transfer, remise, release and quit claim unto the said party of the second part its successors and assign, and all and each of their right, title, interest claim and demand whatsoever in law as Equity of, in, or to all their individual primary rights, in and to the water of Sevier River in Leamington Precinct, Millard County, Territory of Utah, and all and each of their interest in and to the main canal, known as the Leamington Irrigating Canal and all and each of their interest to the, ditches, dams, fumes, gates and other means to divert and control said waters for domestic and Irrigation purposes, togather with all and singular the rights, claims, here dilaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging to have and to hold the said premises with their appurtenances unto the said party of the second part it’s successors and assigns forever.
In witness whereof the said parties of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
in the Presence of: Louis Nielson
Abraham Sorenson
Sealed
Sealed Robert Crosby
B.P. Textorious
Lewis H. Stout
Y.P. Johnson
Geo. Morrison
Lens Nielson
C.C. Johnson
John Talbot
William Keller
A. O. Sorenson
J. H. Strange
Richard Pay
Thomas Morgan
Dan Radford J.
(?) Radford
Peter (X his Mark) Habel
James R. (X his Mark)
Ross A. Nielson
A. M. Wooley
C. Overson
Charles L. (X his Mark) Green
Recorded September 29th 1886
Territory of Utah, County of Millard, September 29th 1886
He the undersigned citizens of the United States and over the age of twenty-one do this 29th day of September 1886 claim and locate 1500 feet in length and 600 feet in width on this mineral boundry.
Guy and Electa had their third child, Melinda Idonna Crosbie, on the May 16, 1887, in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.
Robert Philip and Helen’s daughter Agnes Helen is born on September 6, 1887 in Leamington, Utah.
On September 9, 1887 he registers his mark and branding iron as “GU” locating it on the left ribs and his residence as Section 41 of the Utah Central Railway.
The brothers learn from James Francis Crosbie that their step-father John Nelson died on May 26, 1888. James Francis Crosbie and his family come to America with church members on June 1888. He goes to work for the Union Pacific at the Roundhouse in Ogden, Utah.
Guy with friends loaded an old railroad shack that was from a group of old used houses for railroad crews in Deseret City, placed it on skids attaching it to a team of horses pulled it across the desert to use for a store in Leamington, Millard County, Utah. His home was separate. Across the dirt street in Leamington was the railroad tracks. There was a large field between his brick home and church and school that sat on the same side of the street. Robert Philip Crosby family lived in a railroad box car across the street from Guy and Electa. Their children would walk to and from school together. The boys in Leamington would come to the store wanting a treat from his store. They would tease him calling out “You Penny Pinching Old Scotsmen”. He would disappear go down into his root cellar bring up some freshly polished apples for each one of them. Guy would hold dances behind the store which had a hard dirt floor with old wood benches in a U shape on Friday or Saturday evening after the town folks worked hard through the week. He would play the violin. Robert's family would sing.
Robert Philip and Helen’s son William T. Crosby was born on December 7, 1889 in Leamington, Millard County, Utah.
In September of 1890 Guy has 80 tons of hay in Millard County, Utah.
Guy and Electa’s fourth child Anciel Robert Crosbie was born on August 28, 1892 in Leamington, Millard County, Utah.
In 1892, their friend Robert Logan Scott’s father-in-law, their boss James Bone Latimer of Deseret, moved his family due to polygamy, into Old Mexico to the Mormon Colony of Colonia Juarez and remained. Robert Logan Scott moved there also. So is Robert Logan Scott related to John Francis Crosbie’s wife Catherine Laidlaw, mother. I have never checked to see if there may be a connection.
It was on May 26, 1893 Guy Crosby sold land to James McGarry, his brother-in-law for $200.00 Section 10-15-4.
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Then on November 10, 1893 the same year Guy and Electa are living in Millard County sold lots 10 and 11 block 1 range 1 in Section 22 of Township 29 containing 9 acres known as “The Messenger Property” in North Creek to Thomas B. Davis for $450.00.
Guy sell land to his brother Robert Crosby on August 11, 1894 for $100.00.
Guy and Electa’s fifth child, James McGarry Crosbie, also known as “Vic”, and was born on September 18, 1895 in Leamington, Millard County, Utah. He was named after Electa’s older sister Elizabeth’s husband James McGarry.
Young Guy LeRoy Crosby Guy Andrew Crosby's son had a riding accident. There was talk of amputating his legs but the parents would not let that happen. Guy LeRoy's youngest sister Wanda and her husband Glen Merchant would come over in the evenings to Guy's place in North Creek and help him with feeding the stock after Guy's children had grown and left home.
Name: Anciel R. Crosby
Father: Guy Crosby
Mother: Electa Twitchell
Date and Place of Birth: 13 Aug 1898 - Leamington, Millard County, Utah
Baptism: 14 June 1906
By Whom: Moses Edwards
Confirmation: 14 June 1906
By Whom: Moses Edwards
Received: July 1, 1906
18 Sep 1895 - Record of Children Blessed by Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS Film#: 0025642)
Name: Crosby, Victor
Father: Guy Crosby
Mother: Electa Twitchell
Date of Birth: 18 Sept 1895
Place of Birth: (Blank)
Blessed: (Blank)
By Whom: (Blank)
Electa gets word that her father, Anciel Twitchell, had fallen into the fireplace and died on December 3, 1898 in Manderfield about 6 miles north of Beaver. Then Guy’s Uncle John Francis Crosbie dies on December 23, 1898 in Ogden, Utah.
For more information go to website:
grandmalaurel.blogspot.com/2015/12/anciel-twitchell-and-louisa-samantha.html
Agnes Helen Crosby, daughter of Robert Philip and Helen (Spowart) Crosby had special memories of her and Melinda Idonna walking back and forth to school together. Her family lived in a Railroad Box Car across the street from her Uncle Guy's house. Her eyes sparkled as she remembered her childhood in Leamington. She and Melinda Idonna were the same age and she remembered Melinda would say her entire name so fast that it would sound like she said, “me not a Crosby”.
Another remember was Henry (Russell) Talbot would carry Essie Elvira’s books to and from school always walking ahead of them. Essie Elvira’s friend Henry (Russell) Talbot dies on October 17, 1897 of complications from diabetes.
Essie Elvira became extremely sick with pneumonia in February. She was a very healthy child. This pneumonia came on quickly, she would go in and out of a delirious state. She told her mother that Russell was there and she was leaving with him. She died February 19, 1899.
Guy and Electa started selling their property in Leamington on February 26, 1898 to George Finlinson but did not leave Leamington, Millard, Utah until after their trip to Manti, Sanpete, Utah to enter as a family in the Manti Temple.
The letter is a four page letter but I only shared portions of the letter from Ethel Colton (Ethel is from the Talbot Family.)
Electa gave birth to an infant little girl born March 1, 1899 and died on the same day just after Elvira's death.
Guy finished buying the cemetery 308 Plot C in the Mountain View Cemetery in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah on June 6, 1899 and receives the deed.
Anciel Twitchell’s will was probated in Beaver on July 11, 1899.
Russelleta Talbot and Electa bump into each other in town stood talking for a while talking about their children Russell and Essie Elvira. It was shortly thereafter Guy and Electa started thinking about going through the temple and made appointment with their Bishop. Next they prepared to travel to Manti to go through the Manti Temple. They prepared their clothing, gathered supplies, made sure the wagon and team of horses would be ready for the big event.
Plans for this trip:
Leamington, Utah to Nephi, Utah approximately 28.5 miles.
Nephi, Utah to Moroni, Utah about 22 miles.
Moroni, Utah to Manti, Utah about 20 miles.
An aerial view Leamington, Utah to Manti, Utah.
The Crosbie and Talbot families were going to travel approximately 170 miles round trip. The train would of taken much longer. The first day they traveled 28.5 miles from Leamington, Utah to Nephi, Utah. They stopped to feed their horses, feed their families, and rested for the night. Then the next morning they left Nephi, traveling onto Moroni, Utah some 22 miles and did the same they fed the animals, fed their families, and rested for the night. Again they got an early start the next morning to continue traveling about 20 miles to Manti, Utah. They spoke with the temple authorities and special prayers were made through the night. The next morning, February 22, 1900, the families entered the Manti Temple. The families stayed approximately 3 days before starting back to Leamington, Utah. It would have been 9 to 12 days round trip. Guy LeRoy would have been 16 years old, Melinda Idonna about 13 years old, then Anciel Robert would have been 8 years old, James McGarry would have been 5 years old.
On June 23,1900, Guy and Electa was living in a home on G Street that they bought in Beaver and they bought 210 acres of land at North Creek which was later divided between Guy LeRoy, James McGarry (Vic), and Wanda. Also Guy would play his violin at many special community events. Guy's brother, Robert and his wife Helen had moved to Ogden, Weber, Utah and were living on Wall Street.
Record of Children Blessed by Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS Film#: 0025642)
Name: Crosby, Juanita (in life goes by Wanda) (Her birth certificate shows Crosby not Crosbie)
Father: Guy Crosby
Mother: Electa Twitchell
Date of Birth: 6 Nov 1900
Place of Birth: Beaver, Beaver County, Utah
Blessed: 4 Feb 1906
By Whom: Moses Edwards
Birth Certificate
Series 83773
Page 5
Entry No. 159
Female
Caucasian
Birth: 11/5/1900
Parents: Guy Crosby/Electa Crosby
Residence: Beaver
Recorder: Ellen Baldwin
Guy was out by Dog Valley (a place just north of Cove Fort, if going south there is a rest stop close to the exit to Cove Fort cutoff that area is Dog Valley) and came across a large hole. He went down into the hole looking for minerals. There was a strong smell of toxic fumes and he managed to get himself out of the hole and home. A few days or so he died of quick consumption.
On July 17, 2006 KSL News reports: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Interstate 15 in west-central Utah was shut down late Monday by a wildfire that also prompted an evacuation in the Cove Fort area.
The Dog Valley fire burned over 8,000 acres -- 12 1/2 square miles -- north of Cove Fort in Millard County.
The blaze, which started Sunday, came within one-half mile of Cove Fort on Monday and the area was evacuated from 2:30 p.m. until late Monday, said Lisa Reid, Bureau of Land Management public affairs specialist. The blaze was burning northwest, away from Cove Fort, she said.
I-15 was closed in the area at 3 p.m. and remained closed late Monday.
The blaze was being fought by about 59 firefighters, aided by seven engines and a helicopter.
The interstate also was closed for nearly 11 hours Sunday and early Monday by the 2,900-acre (4.5 square miles) Ranch fire further south near Pintura. Some lanes still were restricted Monday as the fire burned on both sides of the highway.
The Oak City fire has burned about 3,830 acres, or nearly 6 square miles, in western Utah's Millard County. Two unoccupied summer mobile home had burned along with another that was in the process of being moved.
No homes were threatened Monday, and engines were in place for structure protection, the BLM said.
The cause of the fire, which started Sunday, was under investigation. The fire was burning in pinon, juniper, sage, gamble oak and mahogany brush.
GAVIN "GUY" ANDREW CROSBIE "CROSBY" born and raised in Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland when I started my correspondence, interviews, and research in 1959. Now they shorten his birth place as Hazelbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At seventeen he lived in Auchenheath. By age 20 he sailed to America. Traveled 2,118 miles to Almy, Uinta, Wyoming. He then traveled with the railroad to Central Utah, then on to Milford and Frisco, Utah. Lived in Almy, Wyoming, Beaver, Milford, Deseret, Leamington, Beaver, and North Creek, Utah.
Resources:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Almy Ward Records, p. 1.
Marriage Records of Uinta County, Wyoming, 1870-1900, compiled by Phyllis J. Dunlap Martin, Complied February, 1983, Orig: County Clerk Office, Evanston, p. A-24.
Ogden City, Weber County Index to Cemetery and Burieal Records, A-Z Vol. II. This record confirms that Thomas was born June 11, 1819, the son of George Spowart and Christina Wilson in Fifeshire, Scotland. (The actual record appears to read “Fifield” but no doubt should have been “Fifeshire.”) The burial location is E/5/36.
“Thomas Spowart”, Catherine Spowart, Margaret McCartney Jewett
Contribution from the following are greatly appreciated:
Teenie and Minnie Bowns Cox (personal records)
LaVaun and Zella Cox (photos)
Marlene Cos Dimond (biographies, compiled records)
She finished what Teenie and Minnie had began
Submitted by Janet Porter
Creation Irrigation System in Leamington filed Abstract of Deeds, Fillmore, Millard, Utah
Utah Historical Society 300 S Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, Utah
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family History Library 35 North West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
Kate B. Carter, Heart Throbs of the West
The Families Crosbie, Waldie, Fielding, Whittle By Elva Crosbie Dean
100 Years of History of Millard County, Utah LDS FHL Book US/CAN 979.245 H2d pg. 498
A History of Millard County, Utah LDS FHL US/CAN 979.245 H2L pg 170
1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, Kirkfieldbank, Hazebank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. 1871 Auchenheath, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Census. Rigside, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland Census.
1880 Almy, Uinta, Wyoming Federal Census
1880 Star Precinit, Beaver, Utah Federal Census
1880 Beaver, Beaver, Utah Federal Census
Juab County, Millard County, Beaver County, Carbon County, Weber County, Utah Federal Census
Mountain Veiw Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah
Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Evanston Cemetery, Evanston, Uinta, Utah
Sunnyside Power Plant Cemetery, Sunnyside, Carbon, Utah
Gavin "known as Guy" was in Almy, Unita, Wyoming two months and 1 day went he was in a mining accident.
Josiah and Mary have a son Josiah on March 12, 1875 Almy, Wyoming.
Robert Philip and Helen were on Almy Ward records showing they were still living in the ward in 1879 but Robert Philip was not at home at the time their son Robert Crosbie born on November 26, 1875 Almy, Wyoming or their second son John was born October 8, 1877 also in Almy, Wyoming.
On November 15, 1877 Mary gives birth to their son John Waldie Crosbie in Almy, Wyoming.
It is time for Robert and Helen to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah to go through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Endowment House on October 10, 1878. The Endowment House was a temporary place to continue temple work until the temple was built.
The Union Pacific Railroad gained control of the Utah Central Railroad in 1878, and in 1881 merged it with the Utah Southern Railroad and Utah Southern Railroad Extension to form the Utah Central Railway, a Union Pacific subsidiary that ran south from Ogden to Frisco. Guy and Robert Philip Crosbie were working for the Utah Central Railway.
Brigham Young’s Utah Central Railway started in Ogden and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1870. Later, as The Utah Southern Railroad, it was extended 13 miles to Sandy, Utah by September of 1871. It was then extended to Lehi by the Fall of 1872, and reached York (27 miles south of Provo) in April 1875. There remained for several years. York, Utah was a prominent terminal and railroad center on the old Utah Southern Railroad approximately fifteen miles north of Nephi and four miles south of Santaquin. York lasted for several until the next terminal was established to the south Juab. York was then promptly abandoned. The town named York was later changed to Mona.
RAILROAD CREW
Gavin and Robert Phillip Crosbie worked with James Leavitt Latimer who was born September 4, 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland the son James Bone Latimer and Margaret Reid Dougal. Some of his children were born in Beaver, Utah. Also, they worked with Alexander Graham who was also born in Scotland I wondered could he be related to us through his Grandmother Helen Francis whose mother was Bridget Graham. Others they worked with were Abraham Kimball son of Heber C. Kimball, Robert Watson his foremen and Bishop Callister. Bishop Callister was over the team of horses. Our Gavin loved working with the horses. The rail-line entered Juab County by June 1879.
John Leavitt Latimer was the road master of the railroad when I entered the service, but was succeeded by James Latimer, a well-seasoned and competent track-man with heart as big as his feet. He was the sincere friend of the working man who did his work rightly. The majority of the Maintenance of Way employees were of Scottish and Scandinavian extraction. The McGregor’s McCardell’s, McMillan’s, Crosby’s, Odd’s, Garrett’s, etc., where there. One day there was a wreck on the line and I was instructed to call the two section gangs at my station to be ready with food and blankets. When the work train arrived to pick them up, although I had called them two or three times, they were tardy and held the wrecker. “Where are the men?” asked the road master somewhat nettled. “Just leaving the section house”, I replied. “They celebrated Robbie Burns’ birthday last night till the wee hours.” “Hot Mon (Hot man), that’s the third time they’ve celebrated his birthday so far this year.
He was road-master for more than twenty years. James became a citizen of United States 21 May 1881 just 6 days after Guy Crosby did his on the 15th.
A roadmaster is a managerial position, working on a railroad. In this job, you are assigned a specific territory, and are responsible for the maintenance and repairs of all tracks within your roadway. Your duties include performing inspections and managing the quality of the railroad tracks in your territory.
TRACK LABORER – JOB DESCRIPTION. Position Summary: Performs hard physical labor using hand tools and equipment to: construct, alter, repair, maintain, and demolish railroad tracks, associated structures and components. ... It could include handling ties or rail with a crew (90 to 100 lb.)
Track gang employees work sometimes over 1000 miles from home for 8 days on and 8 days off work, with the travel days to and from work on their own time, leaving only 5 or 6 days actually at home, and put in long hours outside in bad weather conditions to repair and maintain tracks, as do the local track repair people ...
Jim Latimer of Oasis was unanimously chosen president and manager of the Railroad Man’s Sheep Company with wisdom and sound practical judgment. Some twenty years later he dies.
Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland on or around January 25. It commemorates the life of the bard (poet) Robert Burns, who was born on January 25, 1759. The day also celebrates Burns' contribution to Scottish culture. His best known work is Auld Lang Syne.
James was in charge of the construction of the railroad going south to Nephi when it was at a place called York (now known as Mona) in Utah County.
The terminal being at Nephi they moved to this. They lived on Main Street in the house next to the Goldbrough Hotel. But being a railroad man, he wanted to be closer to this, so they purchased in the southwest part of town.
John W. Young who was in charge of construction work, including track laying, came to the camp and asked the two young men if they wished to go to work at the track laying, at a wage of $2.00 a day and board, their pay to be received when the track was laid into Salt Lake City. John W. Young was a son of President Brigham Young.
James Hill and James Latimer new one another in Scotland.
Thomas Callister was a Bishop that was born in the Isle of Man. He worked for the railroad, lived in Fillmore, and passed away in 1880. He served on the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah Twenty-First Session, in 1874 for the Juab and Millard Counties.
His daughter Mary Maranda Callister married Edward Leo Lyman the son of Apostle Amasa Mason Lyman who is related to our family by the marriage of his son Edward Leo Lyman who married Lousia Maria Tanner who is the sister of Sydney Tanner.
Robert Logan Scott born April 18, 1853 in Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, son of John Ferguson Scott and Ann Shields. This man had 9 months of schooling education in Scotland and put to work in the factory by the age 10. He was baptized in the LDS Church December 5, 1871 by Thomas Godfrey. The ice in the River Clyde had to be broke for his baptism. He was confirmed by Alexander Rankin. When he arrived in 1875 went to work for U.P. work train at very laborious work.
He emigrated to Utah and there married Catherine Latimer, the daughter of James Latimer, also from Scotland, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, August 11, 1876. He obtained work as a Section Boss on the railroad near Deseret, Millard County, Utah, and homesteaded a farm there.
He emigrated to Utah and there married Catherine Latimer, the daughter of James Latimer, also from Scotland, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, August 11, 1876. He obtained work as a Section Boss on the railroad near Deseret, Millard County, Utah, and homesteaded a farm there.
Alexander Stewart Graham – lived in Deseret, Millard, Utah. Moved to Baker City, Oregon for four years, then to Kaysville, Utah, then sent to Leamington, Utah in 1877, where he was promoted to section foreman in Leamington, Millard County, Utah. Sunday School meetings was held in their home. He faithfully gathered his little family together once a week and took them several miles by hand-car to this Sunday School. His son Alexander Jr., age 7, Was killed in a train accident and Alexander, himself, died in 1881.
Charles Odd lived in the section home and he was a very meticulous man, thrifty and frugality. He married Agnes Graham in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, 22 Dec 1881, just one month before her 18th birthday. They lived at Burnt Corral a little railroad stop about 20 miles south of Leamington. There were 4 houses that all belonged to railroad workers. In 1896 they moved to Kaysville, Utah.
Jesse W Fox was the General Surveyor. With the completion of the Pacific railroads in 1869, Brigham Young and other Utah capitalists constructed the Utah Central Railroad to connect Salt Lake with those lines. Jesse W. Fox was employed as engineer in the enterprise. Mr. Fox is mentioned as a stockholder in the Utah Southern Railroad running from Salt Lake through Provo to Juab, which he also served as Chief Engineer, in like capacity he was employed in the construction of the Utah Southern Extension Railroad to Frisco. In 1881 all three lines were consolidated and Mr. Fox became chief engineer of the system.
Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 2, p. 270 - Indexed in the Utah, familysearch.org, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900. There is ability to view the index online.
ROBERT WATSON
Robert Watson and Eliza Elliot – Robert was born 19 Aug 1826 a Dundee, Forfar… Scotland to Robert Watson and Agnes Robertson. He died 21 Mar 1891 in Springville, Utah, Utah. He married Eliza Elliott 17 Mar 1857 Eliza born 10 May 1836 at Nottingham, Notts, England to Joseph Elliot and Dorothy Wardle. She died 10 Dec 1914 at Springville, Utah, Utah. Eliza joined the church in England against the wishes of her family. At the age of 16 sailed along from Liverpool for America on 25 May 1856, landing at Boston, June 30, 1856. She proceeded to Iowa City and thence to Des Moines where she waited three weeks to join a Handcart Company to cross the plains. She joined the Martin Handcart Company. The Company made a start and then stopped again for two weeks at Winter Quarters. The company was caught in heavy snow in Wyoming and had to be rescued and many died from exposure. They arrived in Salt Lake City 30 Nov 1856. She married Robert Watson, Jr. 17 Feb 1857. She was the mother of five sons and four daughters…
Joseph Smith Black
Joseph Smith Black was living in Deseret Ward and Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Joseph was known as J.S. Black and Robert Watson both moved from Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah to the town of Deseret. Both Black and Watson worked on the railroad with Robert and Guy Crosby. Joseph was sentenced for 75 days for polygamy.
Abraham A. Kimball mentions Robert Watson who is the witness on Guy Crosby's citizenship. Robert was from Scotland.
Now this is where I started understanding Uncle Glen Merchant’s story of how our Guy and Electa (Twitchell) met.
Millard County History - Page 498: The railroad was built through Leamington in the year 1879 and extended as far as Milford. Among the first men to come with the railroad were: James Latimer, roadmaster; Bob and Guy Crosby, just over from Scotland, and Alexander Graham who worked on the section.
In 1875 there was a train terminal at York and needed the railroad extended from York (now known as Mona) to Frisco. It was moved to Nephi. New mine strikes were opening up in the Beaver County area. As a child I remember where the old terminal in Mona was and would always look for it as we traveled to Beaver.
1800 – 1900 Black Rock History: Chapter 3 Reference of Abraham Alonzo Kimball Diary – Son of President Heber C Kimball.
Black Rock Springs (Co-op Ranch) to find railroad surveyor but they had gone to Beaver River. Webb was at the ranch establishing a trading post for Bishop Callister to supply railroad teams so we obtained quarters for ourselves and horses, awful cold and windy.
10 Dec 1879 – After breakfast we set out for Smith Ranch some 6 miles (10 kms) distance, on arriving there the Surveyors had just set out to work so we found them all along the line. We found the chief Jesse W Fox at the Lameraux Ranch (this is where our great-grandmother Electa Twitchell, a servant and her brother Big John Twitchell, a farmer laborer are working in the STAR PRECINIT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH IN 1880) of Riverside Station where we got some dinner and remained all day boarding with the Surveyors, received the promise of a job of grading (next spring.)
Black Rock Spring was owned and operated by a cooperative of the LDS Church. They were also in the process of setting up a store for the first time. The need for building a store would have been the direct result of the coming of the railroad.
The next spring, Kimball returned to do grading work, but he began at Yellow Banks Stage Station about 3 kms (Uncle Glen Merchant shared that this Yellow Banks Stage Station is where our great grandmother Electa Twitchell meets our great grandfather Guy Andrew Crosby.) north of present-day Milford. See the 1875 map on page 13. In his diary, Kimball mentions where the track layers were, only where the graders were building up the railroad bed. Briefly jumping ahead, the first passenger train arrived at Milford on May 15, 1880, so we can assume the tracks were first laid to Clear Lake in March and to Black Rock sometime in April, 1880.
Before going further into the Black Rock Story, a little more history of Frisco and Milford is in order. Kimball (Abraham Alonzo Kimball) also helped finish the railroad grade right up to Frisco. He was like a private contractor of today and he ran a crew of men and teams with scrapers. He also had a few choice comments about the situation at Yellow Banks, gentle swearing, Milford and Frisco, that are worth mentioning. His last camp was very near Frisco. Parts of his diary went like this:
7 Mar 1880 - Antelope Spring Sunday March 7th 1880. Arose early… arriving at Yellow Banks 3 p.m. where our job was….. spent afternoon in fitting up camp by tearing down an old log house and putting up the same, also putting up tent.
Yellow Banks March 8th The boys arrived with hay and grain from the end of the track so after dinner the boys wen up the river to shut off the water as it was ruining our job…. Some of the boys was inclined to profane the name of god so I proposed to them that the ones who done the swearing should do the praying which was agreed to. I was surprised to find that in one week’s time the swearing was about done away with. So much so that I had to offer prayer occasionally myself.
8 Apr 1880 - Thursday April 8th 1880 …..Moved camp to Milford 2 ½ miles (4 kms) to commence another job, worked hard all day moving, put up a good camp and was awful tired. Milford is a town consisting of one Quartz Mill, one Smelter and so 12 houses and one store and saloon and one barn and several camps of railroad (workers)…..
19 May 1880 – Wednesday May 19th 1880. Went to Frisco which is a noted mining camp but of low grade society, mostly Irish (and) 5 to 8 hundred inhabitants…..
Sunday May 30th 1880 …..returned at dinner time, found cook and all gone from home so I shaped dinner for 5 of us, then went out to see the bears dance as some Italians came along with two trick bears, all went off nicely, good dancing….
Sunday June 13th 1880 After breakfast washed and cleaned up and set out for the Bonanza Mine one of the greatest bodies of ore known….. then hitched our team up and drove to Frisco where we called at the post office, also done a little trading as the stores were in full blast failing to observe the Sabbath day, being a mining camp composed of Jack Mormons, Jews and Gentiles.
Near Frisco June 17th Commenced loading up to start home so after dinner the teams set out for Milford, the cook (Miss Prons) set out for the cars to ride down on them. On arriving I met J. W. Fox, Surveyor so he wished me to return to Frisco with him so we proceeded on train to my old camp and from thence by wagon to layout the depot which was accomplished at the bottom and of Main St….. The engine had gone to Milford taking cook so the construction boss (Watson) (Robert Watson who is a witness on Guy Citizenship Record) said we could take a couple of flat cars down having to brake being heavy grade….. Making the trip in 37 minutes some 13 miles (21 kms) without aid of steam (engine).
23 Jun 1880 – John Twitchell, age 19, a farm laborer, Electa Twitchell, age 17, servant at the W. G. Lameraux Ranch at the STAR PRECINIT ON THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL CENSUS.
Taking Tracks North from Milford to Yellow Banks, Utah
Max Yarbrough traded this picture of Guy and Electa Crosby for Melinda Idonna Crosby's. Melinda's picture was donated by Judge Otho Murphy in Moab, Utah in the 1963.
Uncle Glen Merchant told me stories in the early 1960's about Guy Andrew Crosbie and Electa Malinda Twitchell. That Guy worked hard days dealing with windstorms, rain, heat, lifting hot iron, eating dust, dragging ties with a team of horses, dealing with jack rabbits, snakes, and other wild animals.
Guy Andrew and Electa Twitchell married on February 22, 1881 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. They also lived in Milford as well as belonged to the Deseret Ward. They lived in the community of Deseret also that is 10 miles south of Delta, Utah.
Anciel Twitchell, Electa’s father, had a ranch and lived in Manderfield (also known as Indian Creek) on the left side of I-15 highway going south toward Beaver. Her father and grandfather Ephraim Twitchell served in the Mormon Battalion.
Yellow Banks to Manderfield is a good 1 hour 24 minute drive by car or a 13 hours 43 minutes good long walk.
Floating Gang or Track Gang
Hand Car Crew
A friend of the Crosbie and Spowart family, Charles Beveridge, on one occasion in 1881 went down into the mine to make an inspection, and as he was coming up the shaft, he heard a terrible roar. He knew immediately what is was, and threw him-self down to the ground, clutching the railroad tracks. The blast and fire went over him, but his hands’, face, and ears were badly burned. His shoes and clothing were completely burned off him, but wherever his LDS garments covered him, his skin was untouched, and was as white as ever. Was it a miracle? I think so! After his recovery, he became a little stooped which is understandable. He was no longer 6 feet 2 inches tall, but he never complained. His condition was such that he would be unable to continue in the mines, so he became Postmaster, and along with that, he carried all kinds of musical instruments. (he is able to play all of them).
He also had a candy counter, which of course, was his daughters pride and joy. It was the largest mine accident west of the Mississippi and could be felt all the way to Salt Lake City Valley some 88 miles away. That explosion took the lives of our Uncle Josiah Rodgers Crosbie, age 39, and his friend John Barton, age 34 who were both killed that evening. John Barton was the first husband of Jane Beveridge the daughter of Charles and Catherine Beveridge that came with Thomas and Catherine Spowart to America. Jane (Beveridge) Barton after John’s death entered in plural marriage with James Harrison Bowns.
On March 4, 1881, gases in the Central Pacific Mine number 3 exploded, killing 38 miners. On March 10, the Cheyenne Weekly Leader reported the disaster: A terrific explosion occurred last night between 9 and 10 o'clock in the Central Pacific mine, killing 35 Chinamen and 3 white men.
A HORROR IN WYOMING.
TERRIFIC COAL MINE EXPLOSION AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
TWO WHITE MEN AND THIRTY-FIVE CHINAMEN KILLED — THE MINE ALL ON FIRE. FUTILE REPORTS TO RECOVER THE BODIES OF THE DEAD — NUMBER OF MEN INJURED.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 4 — A special from Evanston, Wy., to the Tribune says: “The gas in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron company’s mine No. Two, at Almy station, on the Union Pacific road, exploded at 8.45 last evening, throwing the flames many hundred feet high out of the main slope, carrying away the buildings around the mouth of the shaft, and setting the machinery buildings on fire. About 15 minutes before the explosion from 10 to 30 white men and 50 Chinamen went down to work for the night. At two a.m. 17 Chinamen, more or less seriously injured, had been rescued, many with limbs broken and badly scalded. About 20 dead Chinamen have been discovered, but have not yet been brought up.
No white man has yet been found, and there are no hopes that any are alive. The jar of the explosion was plainly felt at Evanston.”
A dispatch from Cheyenne says the night shift consisted of 50 Chinamen and five whites. Two of the whites were brought out in a crippled condition, and 15 Chinamen were rescued through the ventilating shaft, all of whom were more or less injured. It is believed that 35 Chinamen and two white men, are now in the mine which is on fire. The mine is owned by the Central Pacific railway, and was being worked at its full capacity. The accident will cause a suspension of work for a year.
Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) Mar 5, 1881
Frightful Explosion in a Coal Mine –
Forty Men Killed.
EVANSTON, (Wyoming), Mar. 5.
A fearful explosion took place in mine No. 2 last night. The cause is not definitely known, but it is supposed to be by gas generated by fire in the abandoned mine No. 1, which has been burning for the past six years, and is separated from mine No. 2 by wide walls only. The explosions completely demolished all the buildings over the main stope and, setting fire to these, burned them, together with the engine and other houses adjoining. There were sixty Chinamen and four white men in the mine. Of the latter, Mr. Gillespie, John Barton and Josiah Crosby were taken out dead, and Charles Beverage alive, but very dangerously burned, but may recover. Twenty-five Chinamen have been brought to the surface, all badly scalded and many with broken limbs. The balance are probably dead. The white men were all married and leave large families. The fire in the mine is now out, and everything possible is being done for the recovery of the balance of bodies and for the injured.
Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) Mar 7, 1881.
Yellow Banks is North of Milford, Utah
Evanston City Cemetery
September 24, 1881 A clock rises from the ashes. It seems that the impetus behind the clock in the courthouse Tower was the Great Fire of 1881., one of the selling points of the idea was that the bell of the clock could be used to summon residents in case of another fire. Southern Utonian
John Francis Crosbie in April 1882 came to visit his family in America. He came to check on Mary Waldie Crosbie first, to see what this new country might have to offer, and traveled to Leamington to visit Guy and Robert Philip. He stayed and the visit was recorded on Leamington Church Record. He was back in Scotland when his mother died. Helen Spowart’s father Thomas Spowart also visited in 1882 with Robert Philip and Helen telling them all the news possibly at the same time John Francis Crosbie did.
On May 6, 1882, Electa gives birth to their first child, a little girl Essie Elvira in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. Guy’s family can be found in the Deseret Ward Record, Leamington, Ward Records, and the Beaver Ward Records.
Josiah and Mary’s daughter Elizabeth “Little Betsy”, age 8, dies on July 18, 1882 in Almy, Wyoming. Robert and Helen’s little boy is named Josiah was born on August 3, 1882. Their Uncle James Francis Crosbie sails on September 2, 1882 from Liverpool with 662 other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He also visits Mary then travels to Leamington, Utah to see Guy and Robert Philip and tells them that their Grandmother Helen (Francis) Crosbie died on July 4, 1882 in Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland when their Uncle James Francis Crosbie comes in September of the same year. James was at his mother’s bedside when she passed away on July 4, 1882.
6 May 1882 – Guy and Electa Crosby’s first born Essie Elvira Crosby is born in Beaver, Utah (these dates are from Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake LDS FHL Film No. 0025885.)
Milford kept the railroad profitable until 1882 or 1883 when the mine faltered, and the railroad with it. However, the farmers worked together with the newspaper to draw investors to continue the railroad. The church building there burned destroying records up to 1883.
Jane Beveridge, the widow of their friend John Barton who died with Josiah she is the daughter of Charles and Catherine Beveridge, the friends of Thomas and Catherine Spowart. She also enters into a plural marriage with Christina Spowarts husband James Harrison Bowns’ on August 9, 1883 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Male individuals could not enter into plural marriage unless he had enough income to provide for the families.
Guy and Electa Crosby were visiting Salt Lake City, Utah in July 1883.
William Anciel Twitchell Sr married Ruth Greenwood on Christmas Day, in 1883 in Beaver. At this time he was working for the railroad.
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Electa has given birth to their first son Guy LeRoy Crosby who was born on January 19, 1884 in Beaver, Beaver, Utah. – Guy and Electa Crosby’s first son Guy LeRoy Crosby is born in Beaver, Utah (these dates are from Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake LDS FHL Film No. 0025885.) My Dad laughed saying if my Dad new he could of be collecting Social Security a year earlier.
Deseret Ward and Stake Records (Guy LeRoy Crosby birth shows 19 Jan 1884)
On May 14, 1884 Guy registered his mark and branding iron showing as “79” on the Right Hip of the Thigh and was living in Milford, Beaver County, Utah.
Guy’s brother Robert registered his mark and branding iron the same day. The mark was “RC” on the right shoulder and he was living in Leamington, Millard County, Utah.
On 15th of May 1884 Guy became a US citizen, witnessed by Curly Bob. Robert Philip, also known as Curley Bob, and their foreman as well as a good friend Robert Watson, also from Scotland, went to Salt Lake City with Guy when he became a citizen of the United States on 15 May 1884.
“Certificate of Citizenship #31
United States of America Territory of Utah -
Be It Remembered, That on the 15th day of May in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Four, Guy Crosby late of Scotland, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, at present of Beaver County, in the Territory aforesaid, appeared in the Third Judicial District Court of the United States, in and for Utah Territory, and applied to the said Court to be admitted to become a Citizen of the United States of America, pursuant to the directions and requirements of the several Acts of Congress in relation thereto. And the said Guy Crosby having thereupon produced to the Court such evidence, made such declaration and renumeration, and taken such oath as are by the said Acts required; thereupon it was ordered in the said Court that the said Guy Crosby be admitted, and he was accordingly admitted by the said Court to be Citizen of the United States of America.
By the Court: John A. Hunter, Judge
Wit: Robert Crosby Robert and Watson
Ref. Vol. 22. p. 172 - 15 May 1884.”
1884 – Robert Philip and Helen’s daughter Margaret was born 26 December 26, 1884 in Leamington, Utah.
1885 - The brothers get word that their grandfather Robert Gray Crosbie has died on August 3, 1885.
1885 - Then Guy and Robert Philip’s Uncle John Francis Crosbie makes another trip to see Mary Waldie Crosbie in Wyoming and Robert and Guy in Leamington, Utah and stays a while, even fines work. Again he does not stay but returns to Hazelbank.
1 Sep 1885 – Essie Elvira Crosby was blessed and given a name.
4 Sep 1885 – Guy Andrew Crosby is re-baptized and confirmed record on Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake by W. Iverson and confirmed by J S Black (these dates are from Deseret Ward/Deseret Stake LDS FHL Film No. 0025885.)
Robert Philip Crosby worked with other to organize "The Leamington Irrigation Company:
Book F
Pages 155-158
Recorded September 29th 1886 This Indenture made the 11 day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight-Hundred and Eighty-Six between the undersigned the parties of the first part and The Leamington Irrigation Company the party of the for the second part witnesseth that whereas The Leamington Irrigation Company has been duly incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Utah, and it is intended by this instrument its transfer to the said party of the parties of the first part which they and each of them have and The property and rights to property hereinafter described. And whereas said corporation has been formed for the purpose of managing, controlling and regulating the use of said described property, and rights to property for the benefit of such stockholder in accordance with the articles of agreement and in conformity with the By-Laws of said corporation hereto fore adopted.
Now, therefore, know all men by their presents, that the said parties of the first part and each of them whose names are hereunto subscribed in consideration of certificates of stock in said incorporated company hereafter to be inspired to them, then, and each of their heirs and assigns, in conformity with the By Laws of said corporation heretofore adopted, do hereby grant bargain, sell, transfer, remise, release and quit claim unto the said party of the second part its successors and assign, and all and each of their right, title, interest claim and demand whatsoever in law as Equity of, in, or to all their individual primary rights, in and to the water of Sevier River in Leamington Precinct, Millard County, Territory of Utah, and all and each of their interest in and to the main canal, known as the Leamington Irrigating Canal and all and each of their interest to the, ditches, dams, fumes, gates and other means to divert and control said waters for domestic and Irrigation purposes, togather with all and singular the rights, claims, here dilaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging to have and to hold the said premises with their appurtenances unto the said party of the second part it’s successors and assigns forever.
In witness whereof the said parties of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
in the Presence of: Louis Nielson
Abraham Sorenson
Sealed
Sealed Robert Crosby
B.P. Textorious
Lewis H. Stout
Y.P. Johnson
Geo. Morrison
Lens Nielson
C.C. Johnson
John Talbot
William Keller
A. O. Sorenson
J. H. Strange
Richard Pay
Thomas Morgan
Dan Radford J.
(?) Radford
Peter (X his Mark) Habel
James R. (X his Mark)
Ross A. Nielson
A. M. Wooley
C. Overson
Charles L. (X his Mark) Green
Recorded September 29th 1886
Territory of Utah, County of Millard, September 29th 1886
He the undersigned citizens of the United States and over the age of twenty-one do this 29th day of September 1886 claim and locate 1500 feet in length and 600 feet in width on this mineral boundry.
Guy and Electa had their third child, Melinda Idonna Crosbie, on the May 16, 1887, in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.
Robert Philip and Helen’s daughter Agnes Helen is born on September 6, 1887 in Leamington, Utah.
On September 9, 1887 he registers his mark and branding iron as “GU” locating it on the left ribs and his residence as Section 41 of the Utah Central Railway.
The brothers learn from James Francis Crosbie that their step-father John Nelson died on May 26, 1888. James Francis Crosbie and his family come to America with church members on June 1888. He goes to work for the Union Pacific at the Roundhouse in Ogden, Utah.
Guy with friends loaded an old railroad shack that was from a group of old used houses for railroad crews in Deseret City, placed it on skids attaching it to a team of horses pulled it across the desert to use for a store in Leamington, Millard County, Utah. His home was separate. Across the dirt street in Leamington was the railroad tracks. There was a large field between his brick home and church and school that sat on the same side of the street. Robert Philip Crosby family lived in a railroad box car across the street from Guy and Electa. Their children would walk to and from school together. The boys in Leamington would come to the store wanting a treat from his store. They would tease him calling out “You Penny Pinching Old Scotsmen”. He would disappear go down into his root cellar bring up some freshly polished apples for each one of them. Guy would hold dances behind the store which had a hard dirt floor with old wood benches in a U shape on Friday or Saturday evening after the town folks worked hard through the week. He would play the violin. Robert's family would sing.
This picture is how I remember Leamington in the early 1960's however the picture of Leamington is from the Utah Historical Society was taken during the period of time Guy and Electa were living there with their family.
Virginia (Crosby) Holzer the daughter of Uncle Vic (James McGarry) and Aunt Edna (Green) Crosby sent this picture to me.
Robert Philip and Helen’s son William T. Crosby was born on December 7, 1889 in Leamington, Millard County, Utah.
John Francis Crosbie moves from Scotland. He opens up a Tinsmith Shop on Washington Avenue in Ogden, Utah. Many pictures and correspondence were given to me by Lawrence Sorensen Crosbie the grandson of John Francis Crosbie. Another one of those pictures was the ONLY picture of Robert Gray Crosbie.
In September of 1890 Guy has 80 tons of hay in Millard County, Utah.
Guy and Electa’s fourth child Anciel Robert Crosbie was born on August 28, 1892 in Leamington, Millard County, Utah.
In 1892, their friend Robert Logan Scott’s father-in-law, their boss James Bone Latimer of Deseret, moved his family due to polygamy, into Old Mexico to the Mormon Colony of Colonia Juarez and remained. Robert Logan Scott moved there also. So is Robert Logan Scott related to John Francis Crosbie’s wife Catherine Laidlaw, mother. I have never checked to see if there may be a connection.
It was on May 26, 1893 Guy Crosby sold land to James McGarry, his brother-in-law for $200.00 Section 10-15-4.
Guy and Electa Crosby buys home 26 May 1893 property in Leamington.
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Guy's brother Robert and family lives in a Railroad Box Car across the road from Guy's place.
(Abstract of Property in Leamington furnished by David Crosby)
Then on November 10, 1893 the same year Guy and Electa are living in Millard County sold lots 10 and 11 block 1 range 1 in Section 22 of Township 29 containing 9 acres known as “The Messenger Property” in North Creek to Thomas B. Davis for $450.00.
Picture located for me by "Ghosttown Bob Town" and I, "thank you."
Guy sell land to his brother Robert Crosby on August 11, 1894 for $100.00.
Guy and Electa’s fifth child, James McGarry Crosbie, also known as “Vic”, and was born on September 18, 1895 in Leamington, Millard County, Utah. He was named after Electa’s older sister Elizabeth’s husband James McGarry.
Young Guy LeRoy Crosby Guy Andrew Crosby's son had a riding accident. There was talk of amputating his legs but the parents would not let that happen. Guy LeRoy's youngest sister Wanda and her husband Glen Merchant would come over in the evenings to Guy's place in North Creek and help him with feeding the stock after Guy's children had grown and left home.
Name: Anciel R. Crosby
Father: Guy Crosby
Mother: Electa Twitchell
Date and Place of Birth: 13 Aug 1898 - Leamington, Millard County, Utah
Baptism: 14 June 1906
By Whom: Moses Edwards
Confirmation: 14 June 1906
By Whom: Moses Edwards
Received: July 1, 1906
18 Sep 1895 - Record of Children Blessed by Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS Film#: 0025642)
Name: Crosby, Victor
Father: Guy Crosby
Mother: Electa Twitchell
Date of Birth: 18 Sept 1895
Place of Birth: (Blank)
Blessed: (Blank)
By Whom: (Blank)
Electa gets word that her father, Anciel Twitchell, had fallen into the fireplace and died on December 3, 1898 in Manderfield about 6 miles north of Beaver. Then Guy’s Uncle John Francis Crosbie dies on December 23, 1898 in Ogden, Utah.
For more information go to website:
grandmalaurel.blogspot.com/2015/12/anciel-twitchell-and-louisa-samantha.html
Agnes Helen Crosby, daughter of Robert Philip and Helen (Spowart) Crosby had special memories of her and Melinda Idonna walking back and forth to school together. Her family lived in a Railroad Box Car across the street from her Uncle Guy's house. Her eyes sparkled as she remembered her childhood in Leamington. She and Melinda Idonna were the same age and she remembered Melinda would say her entire name so fast that it would sound like she said, “me not a Crosby”.
Another remember was Henry (Russell) Talbot would carry Essie Elvira’s books to and from school always walking ahead of them. Essie Elvira’s friend Henry (Russell) Talbot dies on October 17, 1897 of complications from diabetes.
Essie Elvira became extremely sick with pneumonia in February. She was a very healthy child. This pneumonia came on quickly, she would go in and out of a delirious state. She told her mother that Russell was there and she was leaving with him. She died February 19, 1899.
Guy and Electa started selling their property in Leamington on February 26, 1898 to George Finlinson but did not leave Leamington, Millard, Utah until after their trip to Manti, Sanpete, Utah to enter as a family in the Manti Temple.
The letter is a four page letter but I only shared portions of the letter from Ethel Colton (Ethel is from the Talbot Family.)
Electa gave birth to an infant little girl born March 1, 1899 and died on the same day just after Elvira's death.
Guy finished buying the cemetery 308 Plot C in the Mountain View Cemetery in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah on June 6, 1899 and receives the deed.
Anciel Twitchell’s will was probated in Beaver on July 11, 1899.
Russelleta Talbot and Electa bump into each other in town stood talking for a while talking about their children Russell and Essie Elvira. It was shortly thereafter Guy and Electa started thinking about going through the temple and made appointment with their Bishop. Next they prepared to travel to Manti to go through the Manti Temple. They prepared their clothing, gathered supplies, made sure the wagon and team of horses would be ready for the big event.
Plans for this trip:
Leamington, Utah to Nephi, Utah approximately 28.5 miles.
Nephi, Utah to Moroni, Utah about 22 miles.
Moroni, Utah to Manti, Utah about 20 miles.
An aerial view Leamington, Utah to Manti, Utah.
The Crosbie and Talbot families were going to travel approximately 170 miles round trip. The train would of taken much longer. The first day they traveled 28.5 miles from Leamington, Utah to Nephi, Utah. They stopped to feed their horses, feed their families, and rested for the night. Then the next morning they left Nephi, traveling onto Moroni, Utah some 22 miles and did the same they fed the animals, fed their families, and rested for the night. Again they got an early start the next morning to continue traveling about 20 miles to Manti, Utah. They spoke with the temple authorities and special prayers were made through the night. The next morning, February 22, 1900, the families entered the Manti Temple. The families stayed approximately 3 days before starting back to Leamington, Utah. It would have been 9 to 12 days round trip. Guy LeRoy would have been 16 years old, Melinda Idonna about 13 years old, then Anciel Robert would have been 8 years old, James McGarry would have been 5 years old.
On June 23,1900, Guy and Electa was living in a home on G Street that they bought in Beaver and they bought 210 acres of land at North Creek which was later divided between Guy LeRoy, James McGarry (Vic), and Wanda. Also Guy would play his violin at many special community events. Guy's brother, Robert and his wife Helen had moved to Ogden, Weber, Utah and were living on Wall Street.
Record of Children Blessed by Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS Film#: 0025642)
Name: Crosby, Juanita (in life goes by Wanda) (Her birth certificate shows Crosby not Crosbie)
Father: Guy Crosby
Mother: Electa Twitchell
Date of Birth: 6 Nov 1900
Place of Birth: Beaver, Beaver County, Utah
Blessed: 4 Feb 1906
By Whom: Moses Edwards
Birth Certificate
Series 83773
Page 5
Entry No. 159
Female
Caucasian
Birth: 11/5/1900
Parents: Guy Crosby/Electa Crosby
Residence: Beaver
Recorder: Ellen Baldwin
Guy was out by Dog Valley (a place just north of Cove Fort, if going south there is a rest stop close to the exit to Cove Fort cutoff that area is Dog Valley) and came across a large hole. He went down into the hole looking for minerals. There was a strong smell of toxic fumes and he managed to get himself out of the hole and home. A few days or so he died of quick consumption.
On July 17, 2006 KSL News reports: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Interstate 15 in west-central Utah was shut down late Monday by a wildfire that also prompted an evacuation in the Cove Fort area.
The Dog Valley fire burned over 8,000 acres -- 12 1/2 square miles -- north of Cove Fort in Millard County.
The blaze, which started Sunday, came within one-half mile of Cove Fort on Monday and the area was evacuated from 2:30 p.m. until late Monday, said Lisa Reid, Bureau of Land Management public affairs specialist. The blaze was burning northwest, away from Cove Fort, she said.
I-15 was closed in the area at 3 p.m. and remained closed late Monday.
The blaze was being fought by about 59 firefighters, aided by seven engines and a helicopter.
The interstate also was closed for nearly 11 hours Sunday and early Monday by the 2,900-acre (4.5 square miles) Ranch fire further south near Pintura. Some lanes still were restricted Monday as the fire burned on both sides of the highway.
The Oak City fire has burned about 3,830 acres, or nearly 6 square miles, in western Utah's Millard County. Two unoccupied summer mobile home had burned along with another that was in the process of being moved.
No homes were threatened Monday, and engines were in place for structure protection, the BLM said.
The cause of the fire, which started Sunday, was under investigation. The fire was burning in pinon, juniper, sage, gamble oak and mahogany brush.
Obituary donated by David Crosby
Funeral Card donated by Paul Yarbrough
GAVIN "GUY" ANDREW CROSBIE "CROSBY" born and raised in Hazelbank, Lesmahagow, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland when I started my correspondence, interviews, and research in 1959. Now they shorten his birth place as Hazelbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At seventeen he lived in Auchenheath. By age 20 he sailed to America. Traveled 2,118 miles to Almy, Uinta, Wyoming. He then traveled with the railroad to Central Utah, then on to Milford and Frisco, Utah. Lived in Almy, Wyoming, Beaver, Milford, Deseret, Leamington, Beaver, and North Creek, Utah.
Resources:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Almy Ward Records, p. 1.
Marriage Records of Uinta County, Wyoming, 1870-1900, compiled by Phyllis J. Dunlap Martin, Complied February, 1983, Orig: County Clerk Office, Evanston, p. A-24.
Ogden City, Weber County Index to Cemetery and Burieal Records, A-Z Vol. II. This record confirms that Thomas was born June 11, 1819, the son of George Spowart and Christina Wilson in Fifeshire, Scotland. (The actual record appears to read “Fifield” but no doubt should have been “Fifeshire.”) The burial location is E/5/36.
“Thomas Spowart”, Catherine Spowart, Margaret McCartney Jewett
Contribution from the following are greatly appreciated:
Teenie and Minnie Bowns Cox (personal records)
LaVaun and Zella Cox (photos)
Marlene Cos Dimond (biographies, compiled records)
She finished what Teenie and Minnie had began
Submitted by Janet Porter
Creation Irrigation System in Leamington filed Abstract of Deeds, Fillmore, Millard, Utah
Utah Historical Society 300 S Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, Utah
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family History Library 35 North West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
Kate B. Carter, Heart Throbs of the West
The Families Crosbie, Waldie, Fielding, Whittle By Elva Crosbie Dean
100 Years of History of Millard County, Utah LDS FHL Book US/CAN 979.245 H2d pg. 498
A History of Millard County, Utah LDS FHL US/CAN 979.245 H2L pg 170
1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, Kirkfieldbank, Hazebank, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. 1871 Auchenheath, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Census. Rigside, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland Census.
1880 Almy, Uinta, Wyoming Federal Census
1880 Star Precinit, Beaver, Utah Federal Census
1880 Beaver, Beaver, Utah Federal Census
Juab County, Millard County, Beaver County, Carbon County, Weber County, Utah Federal Census
Mountain Veiw Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah
Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Evanston Cemetery, Evanston, Uinta, Utah
Sunnyside Power Plant Cemetery, Sunnyside, Carbon, Utah
