1803-1872-Ephraim Twitchell Sr.

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Ephriam Twitchell, son of Joshua and Sarah Miller Twitchell, was born May 19, 1803, at Dummerston, Windham, Vermont. When Ephraim was two years of age, his parents with all of the children moved from Vermont, to the Ohio Valley, Meigs county. When Ephraim was eight years old his father, Joshua, died in 1811 from a war injury and two years later his mother, Sarah, died in 1813 from a stroke.

Ephraim, being the youngest of the family grew to manhood in the care of his brothers and sisters. In Ohio he became a farmer and a stockman, as well as a shoemaker. At the age of twenty, he married Phoebe Melissa Knight of Massachusetts, May 1, 1824. Four of their children were born in Ohio; Anciel, Celestia, Eunice, and Celinda. Their third baby, Eunice, died in infancy.
One day when Ephraim was away from home, and his wife was confined to bed with a new baby, the renegades came, but did not kill any of them. They carried them into an orchard close by and left them.

Ephraim, with his family, left Ohio and moved to McDonough County, Illinois. He was one of the first settlers in that section. He purchased a farm and built a home for his family. Here five sons were born; James, Ephraim, Edwin, Orrin and Joshua.

In the spring of 1842, Ephraim, his wife and family, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In a short time they were being persecuted by the mob. They left this territory and moved to Nauvoo to be with the body of the Saints. They were unable to sell their home, so Ephraim buried a container of written documents at each corner of the land, in case any member of his family might return. In Nauvoo, their daughter, Amanda, was born November 29, 1844.

"Found in the Nauvoo church records, Phoebe Melissa Knight Twitchell's Patriarchal Blessing, 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois. Father Silas Knight, Mother Emma, born June 14, 1804, Massachusetts."

In February, 1846, their daughter, Celestia, died at Nauvoo. The same spring of 1846, they were driven from their homes with other Saints. They settled in the vicinity of Kay Creek near Council Bluffs, Iowa. The following spring they farmed for a season on government land. They raised a large crop of potatoes and about a thousand bushels of corn, helping in this way to get food for the Saints that would come later.

In the early spring of 1848, Ephraim and his family took part in the most remarkable religious emigration of modern times. They accomplished the long and hazardous journey across the plains with ox team, finally arriving in Utah.
On the way, at Winter Quarters, when the call came for the Mormon Battalion to help in the war against Mexico, their son, Anciel, was one of those who joined the Battalion and marched all of the way to California.
James Ephraim was a lad of thirteen years, yet he drove an outfit of two yoke of oxen, and took his turn like his father in standing guard during the perilous journey. Edwin and Orrin were eleven and nine, and their assignment was to drive a bunch of sheep across the plains.
Ephraim and family came to Utah in the Ezra Chase Company, arriving in late September, 1848, in what is now the present city of Ogden, Utah. There was already an old log shack on the site, which had been erected by mountain men and trappers. That winter Ephraim built a log cabin for their protection. It was the first of its kind erected at that place.

Sarah Celestia, their daughter, was born here October 22, 1848, being the first white child born in Ogden.

Ephraim Twitchell was a man of strong character, very energetic and a thorough American. In the spring of 1849 the family became influenced with the California gold rush. They then left Utah and went to California. Their son, Anciel, was still in California. While crossing the Humboldt River in Nevada, they had to use the wagon boxes for boats, paddling them across and swimming the stock. In their further journey, coming to the Sierra Nevadas, they drove over the hard snow as on pavement. This being the Donner Pass, where three years before the Donner Party had perished.

The winter of 1849-50 was passed on the Sacramento River at Vernon, where Ephraim took up a placer claim. He took out one hundred and fifty dollars of gold and then abandoned it.

Ephraim aided in the erection of the first American House built in Sacramento, California, receiving ten dollars a day for his labor. Going from that place to the now historic Sutters Mill, he received twenty dollars a day at first, then later he was offered a large sum to haul sawlogs to Sutters Sawmill with two yokes of oxen and an old Spanish cart, but he refused the offer. He was anxious to become established in a home of his own.

In 1852, while carrying eight hundred dollars in fifty dollar gold slugs in a belt buckled around him, he was attacked by the noted Mexican bandit, Joaquin, who had just broken out of Stockton jail. Ephraim saw him in time, however, to draw his pistol in advance of the robber, who then gave spurs to his horse and rode off without his expected booty.

When the United States assumed possession of the land, Ephraim's family was the first to raise the American Flag. The Spanish had been troublesome, causing the little colony of settlers under Ephraim's direction to do much drilling with arms, and although the Spanish declared that they should not raise the flag, they had a celebration and the flag-raising without having any need to protect themselves with arms.

While the family were in California, Ephraim's son, Anciel, and son-in-law, James Puffer, Eunice Celinda's husband, purchased a Spanish land grant in the vicinity of San Bernardino, which they lost as they could not pay for it.

Ephraim's brothers, Joshua and William, went on to California with him. Phoebe Melissa's two sisters, Arsula and Caroline Knight, came to California also. Ephraim's brother, William, married Arsula. Although none of these folks ever joined the Church.

Ephraim, while going to town with a team, saw a man walking in the road ahead carrying a satchel and a cloak. When he got in to ride, he said, "Take your family back to Utah where the body of the Saints are." Ephraim answered, "My boys will not go with me." The stranger then said, "Yes, they will, every one of them." After dinner at the Inn, the man disappeared, leaving his cloak on the spring seat of the wagon.

It was kept in the family for many years. This story is true for as the stranger predicted, the entire family moved back to Utah in 1857, and there Ephraim continued to be identified with church work. They returned to southern Utah and settled in Beaver. They were among the first to pioneer the town and county of Beaver.

Phoebe Melissa Knight Twitchell died at Beaver, Utah, the next spring, March, 1858. She was sealed to Ephraim on October 25, 1862, in the Endowment House and her endowments were done for her October 28, 1880, at the St. George Temple by her granddaughter, Beatrice Twitchell Heaps. Her grave is said to have been the first in the Beaver Cemetery.

The first few men and women were sent to Beaver the year before in 1856, to colonize there. While the town and fields were being surveyed, some of the citizens began locating on nearby streams that flow into the valley. Ephraim's family located on Indian Creek which enters Beaver on the north. It was later called Manderfield.

The Indians were thick and hostile. They took advantage of the settlers, and expected to pasture their horses in the fields. They would help themselves to a share of everything food and all. They also would steal and drive away the animals. The settlers never knew when their families were safe. Ephraim and his sons knew the language of the Indians, and acted as interpreters on many occasions.
Ephraim served in the Black Hawk War under the command of Captain Hunt, having many exciting experiences in combats with the Indians in that section. It was decided to call the Indians together and help feed them at the Tithing Office yard, and hold sort of a pow-wow, and appoint a recognized chief from among them. Most of the Indians agreed to this idea and they were much better.

Ephraim was first Presiding Elder of the Church at Indian Creek, Utah. This office he held for several years. While he was in San Bernardino, he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Ephraim married Sarah Jane Hadden on January 7, 1860, of Adams County, Illinois. To this marriage were born seven children; Annie Marua, Sanford, Lorenzo, Delora, Rosetta, Ephraim, and Olive. After Ephraim's death, Sarah Jane remarried and with her family moved to Idaho to live.

Ephraim Twitchell died December 23, 1872, at Beaver, Utah. He was buried in the Beaver Cemetery at the side of Phoebe Melissa. Ephraim was an honest good man. He led a wonderful life that was filled with much happiness, but also much sadness. He was truly a good Latter-day Saint and loved his family much, protecting them with his life.

We can surely all be proud of being the descendants of our early English emigrant ancestors. Benjamin Twitchell, who came to the Massachusetts Colony in very early days of the colonial period, and each generation that followed. They have all helped to make America a better place in which to live, battling patriotically for the Union in every war in which the country has been engaged, from the early Indian Wars and the Revolution, to the Spanish American War. The first and second World Wars and the Korean War have taken their toll. Thus, showing our true "Pioneer Spirit of Love of Freedom.

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Born 19 May 1803 - Dummerston, Windham, Vermont
Deceased 23 December 1872 - Indian Creek, Beaver, Utah, United States, aged 69 years old
Buried - Beaver, Beaver, Utah

Parents

Joshua Sr Twitchell 1750-1816
Eunice Sarah Miller 1760-1813

Spouses and children

Married 1 March 1824, Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, United States, to Phoebe Melissa Knight 1804-1858 with
M Anciel Twitchell 1825-1898
F Celestia Ursula Twitchell 1827-1846
M Son Twitchell 1830-1840
F Eunice Twitchell 1830-1830
F Eunice Celinda Twitchell 1832-1898
M James Ephraim Sr Twitchell 1834-1917
F Sarah J. Knight Twitchell ca 1835-
M Edwin Twitchell 1836-1907
M Orrin Twitchell 1838-1921
M Joshua Twitchell 1842-1931
F Amanda Twitchell 1844-1907
F Sarah Celestia Twitchell 1848-1932
Married 7 January 1860, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, to Sarah Jane Hadden 1839-11892 with
F Annie Marus Merua Twitchell 1861-1907
M Sanford Twitchell 1862-1939
F Utana Twitchell 1862-
M Lorenzo Twitchell 1864-1922
F Delora Lucille Twitchell 1866-
F Lucetta Rosetta Twitchell 1868-1914
M Ephraim Jr Twitchell 1871-1936
F Oliva Olive Twitchell 1872-1942

Siblings

F Mary Ann Twitchell 1783-1828
M Joshua Twitchell 1784-1828
M Joshua Twitchell 1785-1794
M Edward Twitchell 1785-1864
F Louisa Twitchell 1791-1869
M Joshua Twitchell 1794-1867
M William Twitchell 1797-1864
F Meroc Twitchell 1799-1872
F Maruah Twitchell 1802-1863

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19 May 1803 : Birth - Dummerston, Windham, Vermont
Sources:
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Millennium File - Heritage Consulting - 1,7249::0 - 1,7249::108611840
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards - Ancestry.com - 1,5510::0 - 1,5510::6799
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Utah Cemetery Inventory - Utah State Historical Society, comp. - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.Original data - Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.Original data: Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake Ci - 1,5232::0 - 1,5232::32407
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com - 1,60525::0 - 1,60525::1254191
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - 1870 United States Federal Census - Ancestry.com - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record - 1,7163::0 - Year: 1870; Census Place: Beaver, Beaver, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1610; Page: 9A; Image: 22; Family History Library Film: 553109 - 1,7163::14623833
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Web: Utah, Find A Grave Index, 1847-2012 - Ancestry.com - 1,70627::0 - 1,70627::110788
1 March 1824 : Marriage - Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, USA
1 March 1824 : Marriage (with Phoebe Melissa Knight) - Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, United States
Sources:
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Millennium File - Heritage Consulting - 1,7249::0 - 1,7249::108611842
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Family Data Collection - Individual Records - Edmund West, comp. - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. - 1,4725::0 - Birth year: 1804; Birth city: Tolland; Birth state: MA - 1,4725::1482995
7 January 1860 : Marriage (with Sarah Jane Hadden) - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1870 : Residence - Beaver, Beaver, Utah Territory, United States
Sources: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - 1870 United States Federal Census - Ancestry.com - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record - 1,7163::0 - Year: 1870; Census Place: Beaver, Beaver, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1610; Page: 9A; Image: 22; Family History Library Film: 553109 - 1,7163::14623833
23 December 1872 : Death - Indian Creek, Beaver, Utah, United States
Sources:
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Millennium File - Heritage Consulting - 1,7249::0 - 1,7249::108611840
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards - Ancestry.com - 1,5510::0 - 1,5510::6799
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Utah Cemetery Inventory - Utah State Historical Society, comp. - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.Original data - Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.Original data: Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake Ci - 1,5232::0 - 1,5232::32407
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com - 1,60525::0 - 1,60525::1254191
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Web: Utah, Find A Grave Index, 1847-2012 - Ancestry.com - 1,70627::0 - 1,70627::110788
--- : Burial - Beaver, Beaver, Utah
Sources:
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Utah Cemetery Inventory - Utah State Historical Society, comp. - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.Original data - Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.Original data: Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake Ci - 1,5232::0 - 1,5232::32407
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com - 1,60525::0 - 1,60525::1254191
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Web: Utah, Find A Grave Index, 1847-2012 - Ancestry.com - 1,70627::0 - 1,70627::110788

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Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Millennium File - Heritage Consulting - 1,7249::0 1,7249::108611840
Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards - Ancestry.com - 1,5510::0 1,5510::6799
Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Utah Cemetery Inventory - Utah State Historical Society, comp. - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.Original data - Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.Original data: Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake Ci - 1,5232::0 1,5232::32407
Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com - 1,60525::0 1,60525::1254191
Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - 1870 United States Federal Census - Ancestry.com - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record - 1,7163::0 Year: 1870; Census Place: Beaver, Beaver, Utah Territory; Roll: M593_1610; Page: 9A; Image: 22; Family History Library Film: 553109 1,7163::14623833
Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Web: Utah, Find A Grave Index, 1847-2012 - Ancestry.com - 1,70627::0 1,70627::110788
Name Source: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 - Yates Publishing - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived - 1,7836::0 Source number: 5603.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GRG 1,7836::1246693

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Individual: Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Ancestry Family Trees - This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. - Ancestry Family Tree - trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=24988180&pid=38384
Spouse 1:
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Millennium File - Heritage Consulting - 1,7249::0 - 1,7249::108611842
- Ancestry.com - www.Ancestry.com - Family Data Collection - Individual Records - Edmund West, comp. - Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. - 1,4725::0 - Birth year: 1804; Birth city: Tolland; Birth state: MA - 1,4725::1482995

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MARGARET FRANCES MOORE TWITCHELL

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LIFE HISTORY OF' MARGARET FRANCES MOORE TWITCHELL
- by Emily Twitchell Hanks

Houston Moore left his wife Thursa and baby Margaret to go to war (Mexican and U.S.). He was lost and did not return until Thursa, thinking him dead had married a Mr. Brown. Then when she and Mr. Brown had one child, Manford, Houston came home. When he found what had happened, he stepped out of the picture and was never heard of again.

Margaret Frances Moore was born 9 June 1839 tn Jackson County' Missouri-.During the 1849 gold rush, Thursa left her mother and father Miller in Missouri to go to California with her husband, Mr. Brown. Margaret was ten years old when her mother Thursa (and Manford about four years old) died of cholera on the way to California.
The family went on to California and Margaret took care of her baby sister, Louisa, for about a year. Not having even a nipple, she fed the baby milk through a goose quill. They became attached to each other and it was sad when they were parted. They were parted because Mr. Brown went for go1d, leaving Margaret and Louisa with the Ephraim Twitchell family, who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . When Mr. Brown failed to return, the Twitchells then gave little Louisa away to folks by the name of Shepherd. Margaret never saw her little sister again. One can easily imagine the sorrow and loneliness of poor little golden-haired - blue-eyed Margaret whose mother was dead, her father lost to her, her step-father who went after gold lost and perhaps dead, and then the baby sister she had cared for so young and whom she had become so attached to, snatched away never to be seen again. Feeling so lonely and unloved in a strange country,awqJ t llvVsf uv ushe renembered her grandnother and grandfather Mifler back in tr{issouri andwondered if she would ever see them agai-n, but she never did. She could remenberherself and her nother going to see her grandparents, but bei-ng so young, shecould not renernber where they lived-, only that to get therel they had to go overa big ri-ver by way of a high bridge to grandmotherrs place, and that grandmotherwas very good to her. She would 1ie awake at night and think how good it wouldbe to see some kind of relative; how wonderful it would be if she could acci-dentally meet her own father. Then she said she would go into a reaT day dreamas she lay there. She imagined she would know her father immediately. Her mother had described him in detail and had said he was an Irishman with red hair.Margaret continued living with the Twitchells, keeping busy and helpingwith the housework and running errands of all kinds. Even at this early age shes-rn'^rod hcr oree,t,talent for nurSing the sick in the family. Then one npre Sorrowcame to her. She got that dread sickness Malaria. She had regular attacks ofit but gradually got better and when she later came to Utah, a higher climate,the attacks becane feweri however, it always made her weak and tired. When she was seventeen years old she married one of the Twitchell boys, James Ephraim who was twenty-two. In San Bernardino Valley they built a three-room house of brick. Then when they were persecuted with the Mormons, they

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left California. They, with all the Ephraim Twitchell family, went to Southern Utah and settled in Beaver. This was in 1857. According to Margaret's younger daughter, Celinda, Margaret and James E., Celestia was the first" girl baby born in the town of Beaver. When Celestia was five years old and Margaret had two younger children, Willis and Amanda, Jarnes Ephraim took another wife in polygamybv the nane of Frances Ellen Manhard (Fanny).It seened that life was not meant to be easy for Margaret, but she wasm:do sf.rono in character to stand t,he hardshi6< rnd di <ennnin*.monf g. It isnltJuaqs pacc" tn cleqro ''^Ur hUsband With another woman, bUt JameS E. waS quite SUre hewas right, so Margaret made the best she could of the bargain, though it meantsharing everything they had and living alone most of the time. But in spite ofall this, Margaret had great talent with which she cheered and helped others,and this was a means of brightening her om life. She kept very busy raisingher children and nursing the sick in the neighborhood. Even though she weighednn1 .. QO nnrrnde She WaS WOfth 1nSnrr t,imps ovAr he' r.?6i -L+ 'i- ^n-l d f^- *r"^ annVtlI.y 7W Pvullup t plfs Wop Wva Ull luallJ UlulqD v v gf, t19f wEISfIU rrr Svrq f,vlshe did anong her fel-lowmen.Margaret had other tafents and that was a beautiful singing vo ice. Becauseof her visits and her many songs, everlone in the toinm lovingly called herrrAunt Margaret.rr Many a time she entertained the people on their programs withher beautiful songs. A11 the children loved her. Because of her early child-hnnd enrror,r- she -'^ 1,-'r^-^+.tndino and s.imnathetic ta all children. Ifltvuq Jvf Jrwt P-fu WdD VsIJ uIIusIDUolrUllIE; qllu pJulyfnr qomc repson - at-ra Aidn l+ -^+ to S;nda.v School snne ,Sirndn.,r- n flOCk Of Childfenr Difs ulul u E]9 u w uulruuJ pvlrv vqrrqqJ , 4came to her house to see what was the rnatter.In the early history of the tornm of Beaver, the Indi-ans were thick andoften hostile. Margaret was truly a peacemaker among the Indians as nell- as amongher associates. Because she was good to the Indians, they sometirnes took ad-vantage of her and expected her to let them pasture their horses, and they helpedthemselves to a share of everything, food and all.Margaret and James E. lived in Beaver 1r8 years and had eleven children.Margaret lost four young children in death: Thursa, two and a half years old,'.'-i+1" +.'^hnirl forrsl; Millie, three months old with pneunonia; Margaret andw r url uJ yrrNellie at birth. Janes E. and Fannv also had eleven children, maklng 22children in all for James E.]lllean Mprogrof. lc f:mi'lrr r^rnc:ll ornr,m.qnd.qll merripd ovconf. f.ha rrnitnoasJ-,vvllgll l'1@! Baf u u u r4rrrrrJ wuJ aar Bf v wll sllu ala]-'n.' T{rroJr :nd qsst of the children had left the old tor^m, Margaret, James E.vv J ,and Fanny moved to Manila, Utah, where most of the children were. With the-rnnart.r ='l-l snli --.1 -: antrnl-.rg qho r.trs nni. rronrr hgnnrr ovaonf, f,n hats,r v}Jsa ury orr vvrut AIIU III A llVW UWUItUIJ t DlIv W@D flv u vef J llqPyJ v^vvyu uv vuwith her children.She r,ras 66 years old when she moved to Manila and seven years later shedied at the age of 73 years. tr'ive years later James E. died at the age of BJ.Si v rroqrq I nf.or tr'snnrr di od :t. i.h^ - -^ ^f n /Ul-2! JU4l D ra uvf f olll-J qleu o u ulls oBU wl I +.Margaretts children were born in Beaver, Utah: Celestia Ursulla, Willis,Phoebe Arnanda, James Ephrairn, Janford Mari-on, Thursa Lucetta, Celinda Jane,!1il1ie Ernestine, l[argaret, William Houston, Nellie.
# tg "^- 1_-/.0-/-*t (rwrcrtrut)Serrnue,1 Iluston }irtore anr-l I{il1iarn Carrofl ivloore served in the2nd Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers, also known as Znd RegrtMissouri lt{orrnted Riflemen under Co1. Sterling price during theMexican warr They enrolred Augo 3t 1845 at Keytesville, ilo. fora period of 12 months. They mrrs tered into service Aug:. 9 r isl{gat Fort Leavenworth. Both rvere in Captain I{m. c" Holieyrs CompanyMrfColonel Sterling Price and his command of cavalry, who leftthe garrison two days in advance of us, (members of the MormonBattalion who left on Aug. 12trr) were encamped at Stone Coal Creek,r,vhen we arrived there..,Af ter our encampment, a furi_ous hurricane,accompanied by rainr hai1, viwid lightning and peals of thunder, likethe constant roar of heavy artilleryr met us from the west. Beforeit reached us we beheld in the distance a }reavy dark cloud illuminedonly by the viwid lightning, whi-le ollr ears were saluted with corr-tinuous rolling thunder and the sweeping of the windo lihen thestorm reached us only fiwe or six out of over one hundred tents wereleft standitg, and it took six men to each tent to hold it" Ttrreewagons l{ere upset, two of rvhich were heavy government baggagewagons; the other, a" light two-horse carriage, was srightry injufed.. .. The authorr (Sergeant Daniel Tyler) being unable to stand andbrace against the strength of the ga1e, was driwen some twelve orfifteen rods to a pateh of willows flaitened by the wind like lodgedgrain, nearly to the ground. He fe11 to his face, held to thewillows with his right hand, ancl placed his left arm over the backof his head, at the same time putling the rvillows over the back ofhis head to -shield it from the pelting hai1. His hat, like manyothersr was blown arvay at the "o*re.,""ment of the storm... Duringthe storm his (cor. Price I s ) animals rr'€r.€ scattered in al1 directions,and seweral clays were spent in searching before they could berecovered. The result r+as a portion of Price I s cavalry cl id notowertake the Battalion until after we arrived at santa Fe.rr"After reaching the Arkansas, (river) r. traveled up the riwerabout one hundred mi1es, and then crossed it at a. point rrrhere theroad branchedr one road leading up the riwer to Bentrs Fort and theother to Santa Fe. After crossing the riwer we owertook fivecompanies of Colonel Sterling Pricels regiment from western Missouri.tt" The first division of the Battalion arrived at Santa Fe onoctober 9e, 1845. on their approach Gen" Doniphan, the commander ofthe pos t , ordered a salute of one hundrecl gtrns to be f ired from theroofs of houses, in honor of the Mormon Battalion. The seconddivision arriwecl on the 12th of Octobero When Co1. price with hiscawalry command which left Fort Leavenworth two or ttrree days aheadof us, arrived at Santa Fe, he was received withorrt any publicdemonstration, and when he learned of the salute which had been fLredin honor of .the tMormonsr he was greatly chagrinnecl and enraged.r'(fne abowe descriptions taken from t'Concise I{istory of theMormon tsattalion in the Mexican Har tt by Sergeant Daniel Tyler,a Battalion participant. )samrrel Huston ancl 1r:il1i-am carroll were lrorrorabl-v cliecharged onsept " 25, IBI+7 at Ft. Leavenworttr. ,'chariton ;";;a;, at;.1 3"11t tothe Mexican war 75 as good and true men as ever unsheathed irr"i. swordsupon the fielcl of battle. They suffered muctr from the hardships andprivations which-they y*erp, compelled to unclergo in that dis-tant1,, barrenand inhos 1>i tal;1e country. Fatigue r disease and death hacl made sucl'fearful rawage! upon the company that only about half of the menlived to return to their tiomes. rr (Uistory of l{orvard and Chariton Cos. )