This person's information was combined while in Ancestral File. The following submitters of the information may or may not agree with the combining of the information: CHRISTINE T./BILLS/ (2110946) EMMA JANE/NELSON/ (2115043) JERALL VEE/BARKER/ (2157408) SANDRA PRATER/THORNTON/ (2355547)
Martha Atkinson married to Thomas Thornton and mother of Joseph Atkinson Thornton appears in Family Trees in Ancestory.com showing her birth as 8 Jul 1813 in Clawthorpe, Westmoreland, England. It appears in the collection called "Askew Family From Cumberland to Wadena" Owner mjlee163
As of May 2013 we were not able to find any sources for Edward Todd.
Elizabeth Atkinson Braithwaite
MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE RECORD
a. 1st Marriage: Manti, Sanpete, Utah: Marriages
Remarks- The marriage records do not start until 1888, so I can not get an exact date for their marriage. From the newspapers in Manti, Elizabeth is not mentioned until 1885 as opening up a millner shop where Robert Braithwaite repaired shoes.
b. 2nd Marriage: England and Wales Civil Registration Index; ancestry.com
Remarks- Niether Edward Todd nor Elizabeth Braithwaite show up in the index from 1894-1900
BIOGRAPHY: CENSUS RECORDS
a. 1890 Manti, Sanpete, Utah Census;
Remarks- The 1890 census was almost completely destroyed by fire. Utah is not one of the states to survive.
MARRIAGE RECORD This is from Karen Braithwaite of Sandy, Utah. (She thinks Elizabeth had two marriages and Elizabeth died in California. First marriage: Isacc Brunel, 2nd marriage: Edward Todd. I can see no proof of this.)
a. 1st Marriage: Manti, Sanpete, Utah: Marriages
Remarks- The marriage records do not start until 1888, so I can not get an exact date for their marriage. From the newspapers in Manti, Elizabeth is not mentioned until 1885 as opening up a millner shop where Robert Braithwaite repaired shoes.
b. 2nd Marriage: England and Wales Civil Registration Index; ancestry.com
Remarks- Niether Edward Todd nor Elizabeth Braithwaite show up in the index from 1894-1900Elizabeth did not have any children.
BIOGRAPHY: Clealund Durfee, 62, longtime resident of Spanish Fork, and Aurora, died Tuesday at his home in Lander, Wyoming of a heart attack. He was born May 7, 1902, in Aurora, the son of John D. and Sabrina Draper Durfee. He attended Aurora schools, later moving to Provo with his family. He married Durfee, Alta Amelia Braithwaite Dedrickson December 28, 1931 in Provo. The marriage was solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple June 14th, 1954
For a number of years he worked for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. At Spanish Fork. Since 1942, he had been an employee of the Geneva Steel Co. For the past year he had been employed at the Lander, Wyoming plant. An active member of the LDS Church, he held the office of High Priest at the time of his death. He also served in the Elder's Quorum presidency and in the senior Aaronic Priesthood program. He also served as a ward genealogical committee chairman. At Lander he was group leader and supervisor of the High Priests Quorum.
Surviving are his widow of Lander, one son, John C. Durfee, Salt Lake City, and daughter Kaye Durfee, serving an LDS Mission Denmark; five grandchildren; one brother, Clefton Durfee, Salt Lake City, and one sister, Mrs. Frank (Louise) Rooney, Provo.
Funeral services were conducted January 25, in the Spanish Fork Tenth Ward for Clealund Durfee
Pedigree of
10-Clealund DURFEE [1902-1964]
09-John Duvaldi DURFEE [1879-1959] and Sabrina Eliza DRAPER [1878-1959]
08-Jabez DURFEE [1828-1883] and Celestia CURTIS [1832-1891]
07-Edmund DURFEE [1788-1845] and Magdalena PICKLE [1788-1850]
06 Perry DURFEE [1765-1800] and Annie SALISBURY [1766-1867/1868]
05-James DURFEE [1730-1813] and Ann (Annie) BORDEN [1743-1816]
04-Benjamin DURFEE [1709-1793] and Amey CHASE [1705-abt 1750]
03-Benjamin DURFEE [1679-1754] and Prudence EARL [1681-1733]
02-Thomas DURFEE [1643-1712] and Ann HILL []
01-Job DURFEY [1613-] and Judieth BORDEN [abt 1613-]
Burial:
Spanish Fork City Cemetery
Spanish Fork
Utah County
Utah, USA
Plot: 70.40 .04
Record added: May 17 2004
By: John Warnke on FindAGrave.comBIOGRAPHY: From Dedrickson Family website: Clealund DURFEE was born 7 May 1902 in Aurora, Sevier, Ut. He died 21 Jan 1964 in Lander, Fremont, Wy and was buried 25 Jan 1964 in Spanish Fork, Utah, UT. Clealund married Alta Amelia DEDRICKSON on 28 Dec 1931 in Provo, Utah, Ut.
He attended Aurora schools, later moving to Provo with his family. For a number of years he worked for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. At Spanish Fork. Since 1942, he had been an employee of the Geneva Steel Co. For the past year [before his death], he had been employed at the Lander, Wyoming plant.
An active member of the LDS Church, he held the office of High Priest at the time of his death. He also served in the Elder's Quorum presidency and in the senior Aaronic Priesthood program. He also served as a ward genealogical committee chairman. At Lander he was group leader and supervisor of the High Priests Quorum.
Todd Blood has put up a Durfee webpage at MyFamily.com. Ask him for a signon at tblood@lds.net
They had the following children:
M John Clealund DURFEE
F Kaye Lucille DURFEE
Alta Amelia Braithwaite Dedrickson (twin)
BIOGRAPHY: Funeral services for Alta Amelia Dedrickson Durfee, 73, who died of a heart attack Monday, Jan 12, 1981, at her home in Spanish Fork, will be Friday at 11 a.m. in the Spanish Fork 10th LDS Ward Chapel. She was born April 12, 1907 in Spanish Fork, a daughter of Theodore and Eleanor Braithwaite Dedrickson. She married Clealund Durfee on December 18, 1931 in Provo, and the marriage was solemnized later in the Manti LDS Temple. He died January 21, 1964. She received her education Spanish Fork schools and was graduated from Spanish Fork High School and later from a beauty school. She worked as a beautician in Spanish Fork and Lander, Wyo. She was also attendant at Wyoming State Hospital and Utah state Hospital, retiring from her latter.
Active in the LDS Church, she was Sunday School, Beehive teacher in the YWMIA and Relief Society visiting teacher.
Survivors include one son and one daughter. John C. Durfee, Sandy; Mrs. John [Kaye] Warnke, Santa Clara, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers and three sisters, Gilbert Dedrickson, Royal Dedrickson and Mrs. Wendell [Rudy] James, all of Spanish Fork; Mrs. Hazel Ostler, California, and Mrs. Ruth Granger, Salt Lake City.
Friends may call at Walker Mortuary Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. or Friday one hour prior to services. Burial will be in Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
— Page 4; The Herald; Provo, Utah; Wednesday, January 14, 1981.
Note: Place of Birth - Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah. Daughter of Theodore Dahl Dedrickson and Eleanor Braithwaite. Place of Death - Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah. Married Clealund Durfee on December 28, 1931 in Provo, Utah, Utah.
Burial:
Spanish Fork City Cemetery
Spanish Fork
Utah County
Utah, USA
Plot: 70.40 .03
Record added: May 17 2004
By: John Warnke on FindAGrave.comBIOGRAPHY: From Dedrickson Family website: Alta Amelia DEDRICKSON [Parents] was born 12 Apr 1907 in Spanish Fork, Utah, Ut. She died 1 12 Jan 1981 in Spanish Fork, Utah, UT and was buried in Spanish Fork, Utah, UT. Alta married Clealund DURFEE on 28 Dec 1931 in Provo, Utah, Ut.
ORD: IGI 1988. Lived in Spanish Fork, formerly Wyoming (one year). Attended Spanish Fork, Utah High School. Active in sports, ball games and dancing. Attended Moogh Beauty College, Salt Lake City. Retired. Previously employed Utah State Hospital, Provo; also worked Spanish Fork, Utah. Hobbies are needlework, needlepoint, textile painting, ceramics. Enjoys gardening, outdoors and traveling. Served L.D.S. Church as MIA and Sunday School teacher, Relief Society visiting teacher.
Buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery. See her personal history for more details.
They had the following children:
M John Clealund DURFEE
F Kaye Lucille DURFEE
BIOGRAPHY: Book: Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers By Florence C. Youngberg, Published 1998, Agreka Books, ISBN:188810631X
Pages 221 and 222
George McNeil Beemus
Born: 11 Jan 1837, Louistown, Fulton, Illinois
Parents: Lineus and Martha Amelia Jewel Beemus
Died: 15 May 1906, Gunnison, Utah
Arrived in Valley: 1863, Handcart
Married: Margaret Jones
Date: Aug 1865, Salt Lake City, Utah
Born: 19 Feb 1843, Raglan, Wales
Died: 10 Apr 1890, Gunnison, Utah
George, after his arrival in the valley by handcart, went on to Gunnison where he settled. At first they lived in the fort at Fort Wales. He made three trips back East to bring immigrants to the Valley and then on to Gunnison. He also brought freight and supplies from Council Bluffs.
He built a rock home, being a fine rock mason and stone quarrier. He helped build many of the early homes.He also farmed. He was known as a “water witch”, able to locate where to sink a well.
He was well liked by the youth of the area, building a swing and doing other things which endeared him to them.
Children:
Mary Martha b. 6 Sep 1866
George Thomas b. 25 Aug 1867
Sarah b. 25 Mar 1869
Harriet Matilda b. 18 Apr 1870
Diana Elizabeth b. 28 Sep 1872
John William b. 29 Oct 1874
Ira Lynus b. 29 Aug 1875
Charles David b. 12 Apr 1877
Abram Franklin b. 29 Feb 1880
Isabell b. 17 Jul 1882
Margaret Emily (twin) b.4 Jul 1885
James Martin (twin) b. 4 Jul 1885
Submitted by: Orr Hill
BIOGRAPHY: William F. Cahoon An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.118 William F. Cahoon, eldest son of Reynolds Cahoon and Thirza Stiles, was bern in Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio, November 7, 1813. October 16, 1830, just before his seventeenth birthday, he was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder Parley P. Pratt. October 25, 1831, he was ordained a priest under the hands of Oliver Cowdery in the town of Orange, Ohio. During the next twelve months he was occupied making boots and shoes for the elders who were being sent out to preach the gospel and for a group of brethren who were seeking a place in which they could establish new homes. After the party arrived in Missouri the latter part of June, William was asked to remain there to help them get settled. It was not until the latter part of October that he was able to start back to the home of his father. He arrived there November 17, 1834, happy to join with his family again. On the fourteenth day of February 1835, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was organized and William was called as one of the members of the first quorum. He was ordained to the office of a Seventy on February 28, 1836. After this he was employed in building the Kirtland temple. On January 17, 1836, he married Nancy Miranda Gibbs, daughter of Aaron and Prudence Gibbs. They were married in company with two other couples. The ceremony, performed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, was witnessed by several hundred persons. It was done to establish the precedent of public marriage by the Church, instead of taking out a license from the county court. The marriage notice was published several times previously in the Church, a custom which was allowed by the laws of the state. In the spring of 1838, William, his wife, Nancy, and a daughter born February 23, 1837, traveled to Missouri in company with his father's family. William states that he left a good seven-room house, all finished and furnished and owned by himself, that he could not dispose of. He turned the key and locked the door and left, knowing it would soon be taken over by unscrupulous men. After a long and toilsome journey, they arrived in Far West on May fifth and rejoiced to find the Saints prospering and in good spirits. In the fall he moved his family to Adam-ondi-Ahman where he commenced to build a log house, but was compelled to stop his building because of harassment. Again, it was a time of grief and trouble. Food was scarce. They could not get their corn ground, so in order to make meal for their bread, they punched holes in pieces of tin and grated the ears of corn on this. After a great deal of distress and skirmishing, they were forced to sign a deed of trust for all they possessed, and were banished from their homes and the state of Missouri. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.119 Arriving at Quincy, Illinois, they found people who treated them with respect and kindness. William found employment, later moved to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, and in the spring of 1842 gathered with the Saints in Nauvoo where he began work on the temple as a carpenter and joiner. He also built a small home for his family. The same unrelenting hatred that possessed the people in Missouri followed the Church to Nauvoo, but work on the temple progressed in spite of the harassment. September 23, 1845, William was sealed to his second wife, Mary Casson, in the partially, completed edifice. He continued to work on the temple and in the endowment rooms until February 3, 1846. He then began to repair wagons for the use of the departing Saints. William, his family, and his brother Daniel and family left Nauvoo on February 15, 1846, in company with the Nauvoo Brass Band. Their first stop was Sugar Creek in Iowa. Here they joined Brigham Young's camp. William writes: "We had a hard time, it was very cold weather, wet, snow and frost, but the Lord sustained us and we journeyed west, pitching our tents by the way. We reached a place called Garden Grove, and I was appointed to oversee the house-building and keep the roll of the workmen. We built houses and laid out farms. I remained at this place engaged in the work until the thirteenth of May when I left my family at this place and took my team and my brother Daniel's family and traveled west in Brother Spencer's company until the nineteenth. Then I, with several more of the brothers, started back to Garden Grove for our families." By July sixth, after much prep- aration and trading, they made a start for the camp in the wilderness, reaching the main camp Saturday, August first. On the fifth they traveled to a place afterwards called Cutler's Park where they remained until the twenty-first day of March 1849. During the intervening time, William went back to bring his father's family to Cutler's Park, and all were continually engaged in making preparations and obtaining provisions for the last of their journey across the Plains. They arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in September 1849. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.120 From the time of William's arrival, he spent most of his time working either for the public works or the Church. He was foreman of the carpenters who worked on the Tabernacle, worked on the woolen mill in Canyon Creek and with his father built the old Daniel Wells home on South Temple Street. William died April 13, 1893, in Salt Lake City. He was the father of eleven children. —Blanche MossBIOGRAPHY: William F. Cahoon An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.118 William F. Cahoon, eldest son of Reynolds Cahoon and Thirza Stiles, was born in Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio, November 7, 1813. October 16, 1830, just before his seventeenth birthday, he was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder Parley P. Pratt. October 25, 1831, he was ordained a priest under the hands of Oliver Cowdery in the town of Orange, Ohio. During the next twelve months he was occupied making boots and shoes for the elders who were being sent out to preach the gospel and for a group of brethren who were seeking a place in which they could establish new homes. After the party arrived in Missouri the latter part of June, William was asked to remain there to help them get settled. It was not until the latter part of October that he was able to start back to the home of his father. He arrived there November 17, 1834, happy to join with his family again. On the fourteenth day of February 1835, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was organized and William was called as one of the members of the first quorum. He was ordained to the office of a Seventy on February 28, 1836. After this he was employed in building the Kirtland temple. On January 17, 1836, he married Nancy Miranda Gibbs, daughter of Aaron and Prudence Gibbs. They were married in company with two other couples. The ceremony, performed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, was witnessed by several hundred persons. It was done to establish the precedent of public marriage by the Church, instead of taking out a license from the county court. The marriage notice was published several times previously in the Church, a custom which was allowed by the laws of the state. In the spring of 1838, William, his wife, Nancy, and a daughter born February 23, 1837, traveled to Missouri in company with his father's family. William states that he left a good seven-room house, all finished and furnished and owned by himself, that he could not dispose of. He turned the key and locked the door and left, knowing it would soon be taken over by unscrupulous men. After a long and toilsome journey, they arrived in Far West on May fifth and rejoiced to find the Saints prospering and in good spirits. In the fall he moved his family to Adam-ondi-Ahman where he commenced to build a log house, but was compelled to stop his building because of harassment. Again, it was a time of grief and trouble. Food was scarce. They could not get their corn ground, so in order to make meal for their bread, they punched holes in pieces of tin and grated the ears of corn on this. After a great deal of distress and skirmishing, they were forced to sign a deed of trust for all they possessed, and were banished from their homes and the state of Missouri. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.119 Arriving at Quincy, Illinois, they found people who treated them with respect and kindness. William found employment, later moved to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, and in the spring of 1842 gathered with the Saints in Nauvoo where he began work on the temple as a carpenter and joiner. He also built a small home for his family. The same unrelenting hatred that possessed the people in Missouri followed the Church to Nauvoo, but work on the temple progressed in spite of the harassment. September 23, 1845, William was sealed to his second wife, Mary Casson, in the partially, completed edifice. He continued to work on the temple and in the endowment rooms until February 3, 1846. He then began to repair wagons for the use of the departing Saints. William, his family, and his brother Daniel and family left Nauvoo on February 15, 1846, in company with the Nauvoo Brass Band. Their first stop was Sugar Creek in Iowa. Here they joined Brigham Young's camp. William writes: "We had a hard time, it was very cold weather, wet, snow and frost, but the Lord sustained us and we journeyed west, pitching our tents by the way. We reached a place called Garden Grove, and I was appointed to oversee the house-building and keep the roll of the workmen. We built houses and laid out farms. I remained at this place engaged in the work until the thirteenth of May when I left my family at this place and took my team and my brother Daniel's family and traveled west in Brother Spencer's company until the nineteenth. Then I, with several more of the brothers, started back to Garden Grove for our families." By July sixth, after much prep- aration and trading, they made a start for the camp in the wilderness, reaching the main camp Saturday, August first. On the fifth they traveled to a place afterwards called Cutler's Park where they remained until the twenty-first day of March 1849. During the intervening time, William went back to bring his father's family to Cutler's Park, and all were continually engaged in making preparations and obtaining provisions for the last of their journey across the Plains. They arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in September 1849. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.120 From the time of William's arrival, he spent most of his time working either for the public works or the Church. He was foreman of the carpenters who worked on the Tabernacle, worked on the woolen mill in Canyon Creek and with his father built the old Daniel Wells home on South Temple Street. William died April 13, 1893, in Salt Lake City. He was the father of eleven children. —Blanche Moss
William Farrington CAHOONBIOGRAPHY: Birth: Nov. 7, 1813
Harpersfield
Ashtabula County
Ohio, USA
Death: Apr. 6, 1883
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA
Alternative death date: April 4, 1893.
William... a member of Zion's Camp, was a son of Reynolds Cahoon and Thirza Stiles. He came with his parents to Kirtland in 1825, and heard the Elders (Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt and others) preach the gospel.
He was baptized Oct. 16, 1830, by Parley P. Pratt, was ordained a Priest and filled a mission to the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in 1832-1833, filled another mission in 1833, and in 1834 went to Missouri with Zion's Camp, returning to Kirtland Nov. 17, 1834. When the first quorum of Seventy was organized the following spring he was ordained a member of that quorum.
He labored on the Kirtand Temple until that building was completed in 1836.
Married Nancy Marinda GIBBS January 17, 1836 in Kirtland, Geauga (now Lake County), Ohio. The Prophet Joseph Smith performing the ceremony.
● Father of Nancy, Mary, Lerona, John, Prudence, Thirza, William, Daniel, Joseph, Henry, Stephen, and Andrew.
Married Mary Wilson DUGDALE September 23, 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
● Father of James, Samuel, Mary, and George.
On Feb. 15, 1846, he crossed the Mississippi River and joined the companies of saints on Sugar Creek, arriving in the "Valley" Sept. 24, 1849. (LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4, pp.687-88).
Pedigree - Chart.
Family links:
Parents:
Reynolds Cahoon (1790 - 1861)
Thirza Cahoon (1789 - 1866)
Children:
Nancy Ermina CAHOON (1837 - 1838)*
Mary Annie CAHOON (1837 - ____)*
John Farrington CAHOON (1840 - 1910)*
Prudence Sarah Ermina CAHOON Angell (1843 - 1871)*
Thirza Vilate CAHOON Angell (1845 - 1913)*
James Cordon Casson CAHOON (1847 - 1918)*
William Marion CAHOON (1848 - 1931)*
Daniel Coyton CAHOON (1850 - 1851)*
Samuel Casson CAHOON (1851 - 1854)*
Joseph Mahonri CAHOON (1853 - 1932)*
Mary Ellen Casson CAHOON (1853 - 1854)*
George Edward Casson CAHOON (1857 - 1868)*
Stephen Tiffany CAHOON (1858 - 1886)*
Andrew Carlos CAHOON (1861 - 1862)*
Burial:
Salt Lake City Cemetery
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA
Maiden surname from Sealing Record
Nancy Maranda Gibbs in Sealing Record. Birth date from Washing and Anointing Record only and recorded as 27 Jul 1817 in Sealing Record.
BIOGRAPHY: William F. Cahoon An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.118 William F. Cahoon, eldest son of Reynolds Cahoon and Thirza Stiles, was bern in Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio, November 7, 1813. October 16, 1830, just before his seventeenth birthday, he was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder Parley P. Pratt. October 25, 1831, he was ordained a priest under the hands of Oliver Cowdery in the town of Orange, Ohio. During the next twelve months he was occupied making boots and shoes for the elders who were being sent out to preach the gospel and for a group of brethren who were seeking a place in which they could establish new homes. After the party arrived in Missouri the latter part of June, William was asked to remain there to help them get settled. It was not until the latter part of October that he was able to start back to the home of his father. He arrived there November 17, 1834, happy to join with his family again. On the fourteenth day of February 1835, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was organized and William was called as one of the members of the first quorum. He was ordained to the office of a Seventy on February 28, 1836. After this he was employed in building the Kirtland temple. On January 17, 1836, he married Nancy Miranda Gibbs, daughter of Aaron and Prudence Gibbs. They were married in company with two other couples. The ceremony, performed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, was witnessed by several hundred persons. It was done to establish the precedent of public marriage by the Church, instead of taking out a license from the county court. The marriage notice was published several times previously in the Church, a custom which was allowed by the laws of the state. In the spring of 1838, William, his wife, Nancy, and a daughter born February 23, 1837, traveled to Missouri in company with his father's family. William states that he left a good seven-room house, all finished and furnished and owned by himself, that he could not dispose of. He turned the key and locked the door and left, knowing it would soon be taken over by unscrupulous men. After a long and toilsome journey, they arrived in Far West on May fifth and rejoiced to find the Saints prospering and in good spirits. In the fall he moved his family to Adam-ondi-Ahman where he commenced to build a log house, but was compelled to stop his building because of harassment. Again, it was a time of grief and trouble. Food was scarce. They could not get their corn ground, so in order to make meal for their bread, they punched holes in pieces of tin and grated the ears of corn on this. After a great deal of distress and skirmishing, they were forced to sign a deed of trust for all they possessed, and were banished from their homes and the state of Missouri. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.119 Arriving at Quincy, Illinois, they found people who treated them with respect and kindness. William found employment, later moved to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, and in the spring of 1842 gathered with the Saints in Nauvoo where he began work on the temple as a carpenter and joiner. He also built a small home for his family. The same unrelenting hatred that possessed the people in Missouri followed the Church to Nauvoo, but work on the temple progressed in spite of the harassment. September 23, 1845, William was sealed to his second wife, Mary Casson, in the partially, completed edifice. He continued to work on the temple and in the endowment rooms until February 3, 1846. He then began to repair wagons for the use of the departing Saints. William, his family, and his brother Daniel and family left Nauvoo on February 15, 1846, in company with the Nauvoo Brass Band. Their first stop was Sugar Creek in Iowa. Here they joined Brigham Young's camp. William writes: "We had a hard time, it was very cold weather, wet, snow and frost, but the Lord sustained us and we journeyed west, pitching our tents by the way. We reached a place called Garden Grove, and I was appointed to oversee the house-building and keep the roll of the workmen. We built houses and laid out farms. I remained at this place engaged in the work until the thirteenth of May when I left my family at this place and took my team and my brother Daniel's family and traveled west in Brother Spencer's company until the nineteenth. Then I, with several more of the brothers, started back to Garden Grove for our families." By July sixth, after much prep- aration and trading, they made a start for the camp in the wilderness, reaching the main camp Saturday, August first. On the fifth they traveled to a place afterwards called Cutler's Park where they remained until the twenty-first day of March 1849. During the intervening time, William went back to bring his father's family to Cutler's Park, and all were continually engaged in making preparations and obtaining provisions for the last of their journey across the Plains. They arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in September 1849. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.120 From the time of William's arrival, he spent most of his time working either for the public works or the Church. He was foreman of the carpenters who worked on the Tabernacle, worked on the woolen mill in Canyon Creek and with his father built the old Daniel Wells home on South Temple Street. William died April 13, 1893, in Salt Lake City. He was the father of eleven children. —Blanche MossBIOGRAPHY: William F. Cahoon An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.118 William F. Cahoon, eldest son of Reynolds Cahoon and Thirza Stiles, was born in Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio, November 7, 1813. October 16, 1830, just before his seventeenth birthday, he was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder Parley P. Pratt. October 25, 1831, he was ordained a priest under the hands of Oliver Cowdery in the town of Orange, Ohio. During the next twelve months he was occupied making boots and shoes for the elders who were being sent out to preach the gospel and for a group of brethren who were seeking a place in which they could establish new homes. After the party arrived in Missouri the latter part of June, William was asked to remain there to help them get settled. It was not until the latter part of October that he was able to start back to the home of his father. He arrived there November 17, 1834, happy to join with his family again. On the fourteenth day of February 1835, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was organized and William was called as one of the members of the first quorum. He was ordained to the office of a Seventy on February 28, 1836. After this he was employed in building the Kirtland temple. On January 17, 1836, he married Nancy Miranda Gibbs, daughter of Aaron and Prudence Gibbs. They were married in company with two other couples. The ceremony, performed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, was witnessed by several hundred persons. It was done to establish the precedent of public marriage by the Church, instead of taking out a license from the county court. The marriage notice was published several times previously in the Church, a custom which was allowed by the laws of the state. In the spring of 1838, William, his wife, Nancy, and a daughter born February 23, 1837, traveled to Missouri in company with his father's family. William states that he left a good seven-room house, all finished and furnished and owned by himself, that he could not dispose of. He turned the key and locked the door and left, knowing it would soon be taken over by unscrupulous men. After a long and toilsome journey, they arrived in Far West on May fifth and rejoiced to find the Saints prospering and in good spirits. In the fall he moved his family to Adam-ondi-Ahman where he commenced to build a log house, but was compelled to stop his building because of harassment. Again, it was a time of grief and trouble. Food was scarce. They could not get their corn ground, so in order to make meal for their bread, they punched holes in pieces of tin and grated the ears of corn on this. After a great deal of distress and skirmishing, they were forced to sign a deed of trust for all they possessed, and were banished from their homes and the state of Missouri. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.119 Arriving at Quincy, Illinois, they found people who treated them with respect and kindness. William found employment, later moved to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, and in the spring of 1842 gathered with the Saints in Nauvoo where he began work on the temple as a carpenter and joiner. He also built a small home for his family. The same unrelenting hatred that possessed the people in Missouri followed the Church to Nauvoo, but work on the temple progressed in spite of the harassment. September 23, 1845, William was sealed to his second wife, Mary Casson, in the partially, completed edifice. He continued to work on the temple and in the endowment rooms until February 3, 1846. He then began to repair wagons for the use of the departing Saints. William, his family, and his brother Daniel and family left Nauvoo on February 15, 1846, in company with the Nauvoo Brass Band. Their first stop was Sugar Creek in Iowa. Here they joined Brigham Young's camp. William writes: "We had a hard time, it was very cold weather, wet, snow and frost, but the Lord sustained us and we journeyed west, pitching our tents by the way. We reached a place called Garden Grove, and I was appointed to oversee the house-building and keep the roll of the workmen. We built houses and laid out farms. I remained at this place engaged in the work until the thirteenth of May when I left my family at this place and took my team and my brother Daniel's family and traveled west in Brother Spencer's company until the nineteenth. Then I, with several more of the brothers, started back to Garden Grove for our families." By July sixth, after much prep- aration and trading, they made a start for the camp in the wilderness, reaching the main camp Saturday, August first. On the fifth they traveled to a place afterwards called Cutler's Park where they remained until the twenty-first day of March 1849. During the intervening time, William went back to bring his father's family to Cutler's Park, and all were continually engaged in making preparations and obtaining provisions for the last of their journey across the Plains. They arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in September 1849. An Enduring Legacy, Volume Four, p.120 From the time of William's arrival, he spent most of his time working either for the public works or the Church. He was foreman of the carpenters who worked on the Tabernacle, worked on the woolen mill in Canyon Creek and with his father built the old Daniel Wells home on South Temple Street. William died April 13, 1893, in Salt Lake City. He was the father of eleven children. —Blanche Moss
William Farrington CAHOONBIOGRAPHY: Birth: Nov. 7, 1813
Harpersfield
Ashtabula County
Ohio, USA
Death: Apr. 6, 1883
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA
Alternative death date: April 4, 1893.
William... a member of Zion's Camp, was a son of Reynolds Cahoon and Thirza Stiles. He came with his parents to Kirtland in 1825, and heard the Elders (Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt and others) preach the gospel.
He was baptized Oct. 16, 1830, by Parley P. Pratt, was ordained a Priest and filled a mission to the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in 1832-1833, filled another mission in 1833, and in 1834 went to Missouri with Zion's Camp, returning to Kirtland Nov. 17, 1834. When the first quorum of Seventy was organized the following spring he was ordained a member of that quorum.
He labored on the Kirtand Temple until that building was completed in 1836.
Married Nancy Marinda GIBBS January 17, 1836 in Kirtland, Geauga (now Lake County), Ohio. The Prophet Joseph Smith performing the ceremony.
● Father of Nancy, Mary, Lerona, John, Prudence, Thirza, William, Daniel, Joseph, Henry, Stephen, and Andrew.
Married Mary Wilson DUGDALE September 23, 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
● Father of James, Samuel, Mary, and George.
On Feb. 15, 1846, he crossed the Mississippi River and joined the companies of saints on Sugar Creek, arriving in the "Valley" Sept. 24, 1849. (LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4, pp.687-88).
Pedigree - Chart.
Family links:
Parents:
Reynolds Cahoon (1790 - 1861)
Thirza Cahoon (1789 - 1866)
Children:
Nancy Ermina CAHOON (1837 - 1838)*
Mary Annie CAHOON (1837 - ____)*
John Farrington CAHOON (1840 - 1910)*
Prudence Sarah Ermina CAHOON Angell (1843 - 1871)*
Thirza Vilate CAHOON Angell (1845 - 1913)*
James Cordon Casson CAHOON (1847 - 1918)*
William Marion CAHOON (1848 - 1931)*
Daniel Coyton CAHOON (1850 - 1851)*
Samuel Casson CAHOON (1851 - 1854)*
Joseph Mahonri CAHOON (1853 - 1932)*
Mary Ellen Casson CAHOON (1853 - 1854)*
George Edward Casson CAHOON (1857 - 1868)*
Stephen Tiffany CAHOON (1858 - 1886)*
Andrew Carlos CAHOON (1861 - 1862)*
Burial:
Salt Lake City Cemetery
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA
BURIAL: Send a photo of tombstone to Marilee Cahoon - marileecahoon@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY: Reynolds Cahoon
Birth: Apr. 30, 1790
Cambridge
Washington County
New York, USA
Death: Apr. 29, 1861
South Cottonwood
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA
A veteren of the War of 1812, and one of the first to accept the gospel of Christ by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio. Baptized by Parley P. Pratt and within a year was called by revelation to travel to Missouri and "preach the gospel" without purse or script (D&C 52:30). A counselor to Presiding Bishop Newel K. Whitney, and later as a counselor in the Stake Presidency in Kirtland.
In 1834 the Prophet named and blessed Reynolds's seventh child, Mahonri Moriancumer. The Prophet explained, "The name I have given your son is the name of the brother of Jared (in the Book of Mormon); the Lord has just shown (or revealed) it to me."
The family journeyed to Missouri and settled among the Saints in the Adam-ondi-ahman Stake, until Governor Lilburn Boggs's extermination order forced them to flee to Illinois.
Reynolds served on the building committees for the Nauvoo House, the Mansion House, and the Nauvoo Temple. However loyal, when the Prophet Joseph fled to begin his persuit of journeying to the Rocky Mountains, Cahoon and others called him a coward and the Prophet felt obligated by the Saints to return. Joseph was soon killed by the Carthage mob.
Cahoon journeyed with the Saints to the Rocky Mountains where he died many years an upstanding member of the Church.
Family links:
Children:
William Farrington CAHOON (1813 - 1883)*
Burial:
Salt Lake City Cemetery
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA