LDS Proxy Baptism Record of "Joseph Sooy": On 12 June 1872, Samuel Clark (1798-1885) was baptized by "proxy" in the LDS Endowment House (as the "Grandson") for his deceased "Grand[father]", "Joseph Sooy--who was listed as being born in "New Jersey". Samuel Clark was baptized by "Samuel H. B. Smith" [Samuel Harrison Bailey Smith, 1838-1914], and confirmed by "Pres. D. H. Wells" [Daniel Hanmer Wells, 1814-1891]. This information was recorded in the "Salt Lake Temple and Endowment House Record: Baptisms - Records - Dead, 25 May 1871 - 11 Oct 1872 (FHL Special Collections Film # 1149519).
Historical Information about the "Endowment House"
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Endowment House Facts:
Prior to the construction of the Endowment House, temple ordinances were being given on a regular basis in Salt Lake beginning in February 1851. This was done in a variety of locations including Brigham Young's office, the Council House, and the top of Ensign Peak.
Recognizing the need for a separate dedicated structure for the administration of the endowment, the Endowment House was built on the northwest corner of Temple Square to function during the construction of the Salt Lake Temple.
At the time of its dedication, President Brigham Young declared that the Endowment House was "The House of the Lord."
The Endowment House was designed by Church architect Truman O. Angell.
The two-story Endowment House featured a washing and anointing room, "garden room," "world room," and "terrestrial room" on the main floor with a "celestial room" on the upper floor.
A year after the Endowment House was constructed, it was enlarged to include a baptistry, which was dedicated on October 2, 1856.
Baptisms for the dead were administered in the Endowment House until 1876, the year before the St. George Utah Temple (1877) was dedicated. Endowments for the living were performed there until 1884, the year the Logan Utah Temple (1884) was dedicated. And sealings of living couples were performed there until 1889, the year after the Manti Utah Temple (1888) was dedicated.
Endowments for the dead were not performed in the Endowment House, which were reserved for the temple only.
In 1889, President Wilford Woodruff had the Endowment House razed. The Church had three operating temples by then, and the Salt Lake Temple (1893) was nearing completion.Joseph Sooy is listed in New FamilySearch, PI#: LCTJ-BLZ.
Martha Leek is listed in New FamilySearch, PI#: LZ25-QT6.
"John Fushee Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"James Garner [the son of Thomas Garner] was born in Stafford County, Virginia between 1717 and 1726 and is thought to have been the youngest son of Thomas and Mary (Bushnell) Garner. ...He married Elizabeth---, possible Freeman, and they are said to have had a large family of children. ...The only definitely known issue of James Garner was: 1) John Fushee Garner; others may have been 2) James Garner..., 3) Bradley Garner..., 4) Peter Garner..., 5) Henry Garner..., 6) Elizabeth Garner...." (pages 109-112)
"John Fushee Garner was born December 25, 1749 in Prince William County, Virginia, in that part which later became Fauquier. This date is found in two places--in a family Bible in the possession of some of his descendants and in a sworn statement which he made in 1833 when applying for a Revolutionary pension. Tradition says he was named for a friend of his father's who was a Captain. This was evidently Captain John Foushee of Northumberland County, Virginia, who was appointed a Captain of Militia in 1749, the year of John F. Garner's birth. James Garner may have served in the militia under Captain Foushee, who would have been twenty to thirty years his senior. Captain John Foushee, son of a French Huguenot who settled in the Northn Neck, is not known to have lived in Prince William but he did live for some years in Northumberland and Richmond counties and died in Halifax County in 1769. The French form of the name was Fouche. However, the American spelling generally became Foushee. The son of James Garner usually wrote his name 'John F.' The few times it was found spelled out (always by others than John F. himself) it was 'Fushee' or 'Fooshe.'
"June 13, 1789, John F. Garner bought 250 acres of land in Randolph County from John Garner of Moore County. June 27, 1793, John F. Garner received a grant of land from the State of North Carolina--200 acres in Randolph County on Deep River and Richland Creek. James Garner was one of the chain bearers for the survey. A grant of 200 acres of land in Moore County on Bear Creek to John Fushee Garner may have been to a namesake of the first John Fushee Garner. The claim was entered May 15, 1795, John F. Garner sold to Benjamin Williams what appeared to be all of his land in North Carolina--450 acres. In that year he moved to Tennessee.
"In the minute books of Randolph County we find that John F. Garner frequently served on juries from 1779 until 1793. On March 8, 1790 he was appointed a justice, a position which he evidently held until his departure from the county in 1795, since he is frequently mentioned as being one of the justices present at the court and as being responsible for making lists of taxable property during those years. In one instance he was referred to as 'Captain John F. Garner.' His property was apparently in the extreme southeastern corner of Randolph County for in 1791 there was a reference in the Randolph minutes to 'John Garner's Meeting House at the county line.'
"In 1795, according to his own statement, John F. Garner, moved to Sevier County, Tennessee, and in 1796 to Blount County. He acquired a large farm about ten miles northeast of Maryville near the junction of Little River and Ellijoy Creek. This farm contained about 800 acres at the time of his death. Three hundred acres of it are still in the possession of some of his descendants, the Henrys, but 500 acres went out of their possession many years ago. John Garner was buried in the latter part, together with a grandson, James Garner, and at least two of his wives. Some say all three of the wives are buried there--and others that one of them died before he left North Carolina. The graves have been plowed over for many years.
"A number of real estate transactions involving John F. Garner were noted in the Blount County records. June 24, 1816, he sold to William Garner, his son, 157 acres on Ellijoy Creek, 'being part of a tract granted by the State of Tennessee to the said John Garner by Grant No. 2494.' On January 27, 1825, John F. Garner gave to his son, William, 90 acres of land on Ellijoy Creek. April 13, 1832, he sold to Andrew Perry two acres on the waters of Little River. June 6, 1833, he sold to John Henry Sr. 20 acres on Ellijoy Creek for $120. On October 9, 1837, August 25, 1838 and March 30, 1839, he sold tracts of land to Hugh Henry ranging from 2 acres for $25 to 155 acres for $800.
"Also there were several sales of slaves. January 6, 1820 he sold a Negro girl, Mary, age 6 years, to William Lowery for $271. May 25, 1835, he sold to his son, William Garner, 4 slaves for $1000. The bill of sale reads in part as follows: '...the following described negroes for life: Abe, the son of Fereby, between 20 and 25 years of age, Rachel, a girl about 20 years old and Minerva and Fae the first between 4 and 5 years old, and the other about eight months--together will all the issue may hereafter spring from the female part of the above negroes...' Somewhat baffling are three other bills-of-sale between John F. Garner and his son-in-law, Samuel Henry, since all three seem to be for the same set of salves, which had also been bequeathed to Samuel Henry in John F. Garner's will. The first bill is worded in part as follows: 'For and in consideration of the sum of $700 to me in hand paid...I have bargained and sold...to Samuel Henry 5 negro slaves for life, children of Fereba and named as follows: Peggy, Alexander, Jane, Bill and Polly...Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of March 1835.' The following month on April 13, 1835, John F. Garner made his will which stated that Samuel Henry was to have these salves, for which he was apparently to pay $500. Then four years later on March 14, 1839, appears another bill-of-sale as follows: 'J.F.Garner for $724 to Samuel Henry 6 negroes, five of which, children of old Feraby, the other a grandchild of hers, one girl about 17 years old, called Peggy and her child about 3 months old named Rachel. One boy, Elexander about 15 years old, one girl called Jane about 13 years old, one named William, about 11 and one girl named Polly about 8 years old. Slaves for life and I do hereby warrant the said negroes to be healthy, to have and to hold the said negroes, Peggy, Elexander, Jane, William, Polly and Rachel unto the said Samuel Henry his heirs forever...' May 28, 1839, there is a bill-of-sale in which no names are given but they seem to be the same negroes. Three of them were allowed Henry as his part and all of them were to be delivered after John F. Garner's death. Also on January 25, 1836 John F. Garner sold to William Ragan for $300 a Negro woman named Fereby, 48 years old.
"Family tradition says that John F. Garner was a man of unquestioned character and common sense. Among records collected a few years ago by the WPA is one which shows that John F. Garner served one year as a justice of the peace in Blount County, his commission having been signed by Governor Sevier. Austin P. Foster in a book entitled 'Counties of Tennessee' states that John Garner was one of the early lawyers of Blount County. Also the records show that he served numerous times on juries.
"John F. Garner was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting in 1782 when 33 years old and the father of five children. ...On [his] application [for a Revolutionary War pension] John F. Garner was issued on February 25, 1833, Pension Certificate No. 6189, rate $30.00 per annum, beginning March 4, 1831 by Act of June 7, 1832, East Tennessee Agency. The last pension payment was made on September 18, 1839 at the Pension Agency in Knoxville, East Tennessee, to George Haddon, as attorney for the pensioner.
"A few years ago through the efforts of Zelah R. Farmer of Washington, D.C., a descendant of John F. Garner's daughter, Mary, wife of Nathan Farmer, and Herbert S. Garner, of Maryville, Tennessee, a descendant of John F. Garner's son, James, a marker was placed to the memory of their ancestor in the Henry-Headrick Cemetery, about ten and one-half miles from Maryville and about one-half mile from his actual grave. The following account of this event appeared in the Maryville paper: 'John F. Garner Marker: The marker to the grave of this Revolutionary soldier was unveiled by the DAR on May 18, 1941 at the Henry-Headrick Cemetery, near the mouth of Ellijoy Creek [Blount County, Tennessee]'....
"John F. Garner was married three times. He married first in 1770 Nancy Whittle (born in 1752), who is thought to have been the mother of all his children. Her parentage is unknown but is seems likely she was a sister of James Whittle, a prosperous farmer and neighbor of John F. Garner in Randolph County, North Carolina, who died in 1824. The second wife of John F. Garner was Betsy Donaldson and the third, Gracie Conrad. We find him listed in the Census for the year 1830 as living alone. On April 13, 1835 at the age of nearly 85 and one-half years he made his will. His death occurred on November 25, 1839.
"John F. Garner had issue: 1) James Garner; 2) Mary Garner; 3) John Garner; 4) Elizabeth Garner; 5) William Garner; 6) Jane Garner; 7) Bradley Garner; 8) Dolly Garner. All these, except Jane, are listed as children of John F. Garner in a Bible in the possession of the Henry family, some of his descendants. Jane is listed separately as the wife of James Henry, but descendants of both families say she was a daughter of John F. Garner." (pages 112-118)The gravestone of John F. Garner appears on the website FindAGrave, Memorial # 41933540, and is located in Headrick-Henry Cemetery in Blount County Tennessee. This gravestone contains the following inscription: "John F. Garner Pvt [Private] Gholson's Co. N.C. [North Carolina] Mil Rev War [Militia, Revolutionary War]."
John F. Garner is listed in FamilySearch Tree, PI#: LHHH-NHW.
"Nancy Whittle" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"John F. Garner was married three times. He married first in 1770 Nancy Whittle (born in 1752), who is thought to have been the mother of all his children. Her parentage is unknown but is seems likely she was a sister of James Whittle, a prosperous farmer and neighbor of John F. Garner in Randolph County, North Carolina, who died in 1824. The second wife of John F. Garner was Betsy Donaldson and the third, Gracie Conrad. We find him listed in the Census for the year 1830 as living alone. On April 13, 1835 at the age of nearly 85 and one-half years he made his will. His death occurred on November 25, 1839.
"John F. Garner had issue: 1) James Garner; 2) Mary Garner; 3) John Garner; 4) Elizabeth Garner; 5) William Garner; 6) Jane Garner; 7) Bradley Garner; 8) Dolly Garner. All these, except Jane, are listed as children of John F. Garner in a Bible in the possession of the Henry family, some of his descendants. Jane is listed separately as the wife of James Henry, but descendants of both families say she was a daughter of John F. Garner." (pages 117-118)The gravestone of "Nancy A. Whittle Garner" is listed in FindAGrave, Memorial # 63589489, and is located in the Garner Family Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee.
Nancy Whittle is listed in New FamilySearch, PI#: LCL6-J64.
"Mary (Polly) Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"Mary (Polly) Garner was born October 8, 1774, in North Carolina, probably in that part of Guilford County which later became Randolph County, and died September 8, 1846 in Washington County, Illinois. About 1790 she married Nathan Farmer, son of Joseph and Mary (Henby) Farmer, born February 18, 1768 in Perquimans County, North Carolina and died April 24, 1849 in Washington County, Illinois. In North Carolina they lived chiefly in Randolph County, but possibly also in Rowan and Surry counties. About 1811 or 1812 they moved to Blount County, Tennessee. They appear to have left Tennessee before 1830 as they are not listed in the Blount County Census for that year. Since one of their younger children married in Indiana, it seems possible that they lived in that state a few years and moved to Washington County, Illinois, near Beaucoup before 1840. On November 7, 1845, Mary Farmer and her husband, Nathan, gave power of attorney to Josiah Gamble of Blount County, Tennessee, to collect her interest in the estate of John F. Garner from Samuel Henry, her brother-in-law, who was administrator of the estate. This power-of-attorney was executed in Washington County, Illinois. The obituary of Green Farmer, son of Nathan and Mary Farmer, reveals that they had twelve children, all of whom reached maturity. However, only eight of them are definitely known as follows: 1) John Farmer; 2) Lewis Farmer; 3) Elizabeth Farmer, married March 21, 1824, Blount County, Tennessee, John Tate; 4) Green Farmer; 5) Jennie Farmer, married May 5, 1829, Blount County, Tennessee, Oran D. Martin; 6) Nathan Farmer; 7) James Whittle (or Wintal) Farmer; 8) William Farmer." (pages 153-154)
"John Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"John Garner, born February 6, 1776 in North Carolina, married Rachel Henry in Blount County, Tennessee, October 17, 1798. Three of John F. Garner's children married Henrys, all offspring of James Henry, Sr., a Revolutionary soldier. A descendant of John Garner said that they were cousins of Patrick Henry. John Garner moved to Anderson County, Tennessee, where he is said to have become a prosperous and respected farmer. He owned 372 acres of Clinch River bottom land and Copper Ridge timber land and 23 slaves. For four years he was Register of Deeds. He died there about 1855, as his will was probated in February, 1855. His executors were his sons, Pleasant H. Garner and Hugh Garner. A descendant has stated that John Garner had fourteen children, five sons and nine daughters." (pages 168-169)
"Elizabeth Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"Elizabeth Garner, born June 13, 1779 in North Carolina, died April 3, 1826, Blount County, Tennessee. She married in Blount County, Samuel Henry, born October 12, 1777, died June 13, 1867, son of James Henry, Sr." (page 169)
"William Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"William Garner, was born August 11, 1781 in North Carolina, died in 1860 in Blount County, Tennessee. The 1850 Census lists him as a doctor and his wife as having the name of Dolly. A William Garner married Dolly Williamson in Randolph County, North Carolina, January 5, 1809. William Garner is said by his descendants to have been a soldier of the War of 1812. He was one of the first men over the breastworks at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend when General Andrew Jackson fought the Indians and was also with Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, where the Kentucky and Tennessee 'squirrel hunters' defeated the British under General Pakenham with the loss of only a handful of men. On the way back from New Orleans, as they walked through the woods, nearly all of the men cut walking sticks from hickory bushes and carved their name and the date on them in honor of 'Old Hickory'. William Garner's stick was handed down to one of his descendants, Joseph Farmer of Lilliwaup, Washington.
"The will of William Garner was dated February 7, 1860 and probated in June, 1860." (page 171)
"Jane Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"Jane Garner, born November 17, 1783, died December 4, 1820; married James Henry, born November 30, 1782, died September 5, 1847, son of James Henry." (page 175)
"Bradley Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"Bradley Garner, born March 6, 1786, is said to have joined a wagon train going West at the age of 14 years and was never heard from again. John F. Garner in his will left his son his plantation but the executors reported a few years later that they had not been able to find him, and the land eventually found its way into the Henry family, also descendants of John F. Garner." (page 175)
"Dolly Garner" is listed in the book "Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia", by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood, 1952, (FHL Film # 1033596 Item #2), as follows:
"Dolly Garner, born October 1, 1788, died before 1839, married James Williamson." (page 175)
Joseph Moon is listed in New FamilySearch, PI#: LCMH-YT9.
Ann Brown is listed in New FamilySearch, PI#: LZLZ-V14.