Margaret Esther Grow

Notes:

1905 BIRTH:OR,Union Co-LaGrande: Margaret Ester GROW born 10 April 1905

MG: Family records of Mary Luetta Rawson Grow: Margaret Ester bn 10 Apr 1905, LaGrande,Union Co, OR; md J Leroy W Lambert on 27 Aug 1927.

1910 CENSUS: OR, Union-Cove: Anc.com Img 3, film #1375303,pg 12, Dw# 28/32: Margaretta GROW age 5 born Oregon daughter of Mary L GROW, a widow

1920 CENSUS: OR,Union Co-Cove City: Ance.com Img 11, pg 22, 4 Jan, Farm 100/100: Margaret GROW age 14 bn Oregon, step-dau to and living with John M Mitchell and mother Mary L [Rawson Grow] Mitchell





Autobiography of Mary Luetta Rawson Grow: Margaret and my boys all married here (California) CK

Margaret married Isaac Leroy Waddel Lambert 27 Aug 1927, Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States. Isaac was born 20 Jan 1902, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; died 4 Jun 1970, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States; was buried 9 Jun 1970, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. Richard Grow Lambert was born 21 Jun 1928, Oakland, Alameda, California, USA; died 31 Jul 1996, Mendocino, Mendocino, California, United States.
2. Living

Notes:

BIR,MG,DTH,BUR: Family records of wife Mary Luetta Rawson Grow & Lois Owen Chapman: resealed to parents 9 Nov 1950-IF Temple. Also shows an "L" aft 1st sealing date. Mary Luetta shows md & sealed in Logan Temple.



1900 CENSUS: ID,Bingham Co-Ammon: Anc Img 7-8, pg 17B, June 1900, Dw 302,306:
GROW, David H-head 27/UT bn Nov 1872 (PA,Ind) md 6yrs, fireman railroad; Mary L-
wife 24/UT bn Aug 1875(IL,IL) md 6yrs 4/4 children living; David J-son 5/ID bn
July 1894 (UT,UT); Mary L-dau 4/ID bn May 1896; Img 8: Cora-dau 2/ID bn May
1898; Daniel H-son 0/12-ID bn May 1900

David married Mary Luetta Rawson 1 Nov 1893, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. Mary (daughter of Arthur Morrison Rawson and Margaret Angeline Pace) was born 10 Aug 1875, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States; died 1 May 1965, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States; was buried May 1965, Cove, Union, Oregon, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1875 BIRTH:
,MG,DTH,BUR: Fam Grp Sheet-rep: Lucy Rawson Harmon gdau, fam rcds: David Henry Grow, rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen-cous, pg161: Rawson Fam Gen Bk, possession of Pam Hallmark Wagner.

1910 CENSUS: OR, Union-Cove: Anc.com Img 3, film #1375303,pg 12, Dw# 28/32:
GROW, Mary L 36/UT (IL,ILl) widow, dressmkr,st home-own home;
Jesse D-son 15/ID (UT,UT) S, school, no occ; Luella M-dau
13/ID-school; Pearl C-dau 11/ID school; Bert D-son 9/ID-school;
Fred W-son 7/OR,school; Margaretta-dau 5/OR

1920 CENSUS: OR,Union Co-Cove City: Ance.com Img 11, pg 22, 4 Jan, Farm 100/100:
MITCHELL, John M-head 63/UT (Eng,Eng) md general farmer, own with mortgage;
Mary L-wife 44/UT (IL,IL) md no occ; Frederick GROW-stepson 17/OR
(UT,UT) no occ; Margaret GROW-stepdau 14/OR (UT,UT)

1934 HISTORY: WA,King Co-Seattle: US City Directories: Looks like she here:
Mary L Grow (David H wid) h 1420 4th Ave W Apt B5 [lots of other Grows too]

NOTES: "Mary Luetta Rawson Grow": told by dau Margaret (Lambert),pg157-Rawson Fam Gen Bk, possession of Pam Hallmark Wagner:

In 1851 Rawson fam went to Ogden, Pace fam sent to Payson. Evidently the Rawsons went to Payson for a time also, for their son Arthur Morrison & Pace dau, Margaret, became endeared to each other; in 1859-at 19 and 17 respectfully, were md. Aft 1st child bn moved to Ogden, 2 more children bn. Moved to St. George for a time. Another child bn. Again ret to Ogden, or Harrisville, where rest of fam bn-8 girls & 4 boys. 8th child: Mary Luetta Rawson Grow, born 10 August 1875 in Harrisville.
"Mother, wht do you remember most abt time you lived in Harrisville?" "Not much of anything. Just going to school and helping mother." "That is where you learned to knit & sew?" "Yes, I was with mother all day long. I didn't go to school until I was 11, & everything mother did around the house, I learned to do with her. She taught me to crochet, to knit & sew. When she sat down to work I would do whatever she did. If she wd knit, I wd knit; if she wd sew, I wd sew; if she wd crochet,I wd crochet. This is the way we would spend our time."
"How old were you when you made your 1st dress?" "I was 12. I cut out the pattern & material & made the dress all by myself." "You also learned to cook and make bread?" "Yes, as I said bef, everything mthr did,I did. I learned to cook, wash, make the soap we used & to do all the things mthr did." "How abt preserving the fruit?" "We all worked together to pick & prepare the fruit. We had trees on our place, wked together during the day picking fruit, in the evening helped to prepare it for drying."
"I remember Grandfather Rawson not wanting his girls to curl their hair." "Father was very strict how we girls dressed & wore our hair. He told us how we should dress & wear our things. He was very kind to us, but when I was old enough to go to school, I wanted to have curls in my hair, as I saw the other girls have. One eve, I put my hair in curlers. It was just abt prayer time when I had finished. I marched into the room with the curls in my hair. Fthr sd, "What is the matter with your hair, dau? If God wanted you to have curls, he wd have made them for you bef you came here. March right into the other room & take them out." I left the fam waiting for me, while I went in & combed my hair the way it should have been."
When mthr was 12 yrs, her fthr took her & her 3 brthrs to ID to homestead some land. While the men cleared the land of sage brush & planted crops, mthr cooked & kept house for them. When crops were planted, grandfthr began to build new home. It was a wonderful experience for mthr to help get the new house ready for her mthr & have all of the fam united once more. They had to travel 5 mi to the nearest church, so meeting were being held in Grndfthr's home & he became Br Pres.
The new community was named Ammon, their home was the gathering place for all the young people. Grndmthr loved to sing & dance, & she composed many songs for their enjoyment. Before long, they had a chapel built & grndfthr made Bishop. Mother taught Sunday School, then became sec, which office she held until her mg. Sev fams moved into the community. Among them was the Grow fam.
"Mother, what did the young people do to amust themselves in those days?" "Well, we had horseback riding, riding in the carts, things like that. Every- thing we did, we tried to make fun out of it. All the young people joined together & we were all sociable. We all had our work to do all the time, but we tried to make fun out of our work."
"How abt dancing-where did you go to dance?" "We had a place in the valley which was shady and nice & they fixed it up so we could dance there. We also went to dances in other communities north of us; sometimes we went to Idaho Falls west of us." "How did you travel?" "Sometimes we went by horseback; sometimes we went in a big wagon; sometimes we went by carriage or surrey."
"Where did you 1st meet Dad?" "Well, we had a home in ID & just one mi frm our home was my sis's home. One day I was going to visit my sis, & when I came to the gate a little way above her place, I saw a young man walking along. He had a smile on his face. I looked at him as though I expected him to say something. He caught on & sd, "How do you get across this crk?" I told him how to cross. He looked so wonderfully nice to me, as I looked at him, that I almost fell in love with him & I sd to myself, "If you don't get this young man for my beau, it won't be my fault." So that way, we got to talk & we had a nice little visit then. By the next Sun, the whole fam had arrived, & the young people had gotten acquainted with each other. He & my bro became friends & planned a little carriage ride aft Sun School. So my bro took me aside & whispered to me what they had planned to do. He sd to me, "If you don't mind, I wd like you to ride with him." I sd, good, go ahead. That suits me. So we had our carriage ride & all became good friends."
This young man who stole the heart of my mthr was David Henry Grow, son of Wm Moyer Grow of Huntsville. The Grow home was across the street frm the McKay home, & David O & David Henry were boyhood friends. David was named for his grndfthr, Henry Grow Jr, who was architect of tabernacle roof. Though it was not his ancestors, but his sweet smile that did the trick, that carriage ride was the beg of a sweet courtship, which culminated in mg in Logan Temple 1 Nov 1893. Mthr was 19, fthr 21.
A very memorable event in their lives just bef the wedding was a trip to SLC with Grndmthr Grow to the ded of the SL Temple 4 Apr 1893. Aft their mg, they returned to Ammon & built a home on the land given them by Grndfthr Grow. Mother resumed her church activities, working in RS as a visiting tchr.
During the next 7 yrs, 4 children bn: Jess 26 Jul 1894, Louella 6 May 1896, Pearl 14 May 1898, & Burt 6 May 1900. She continued to work in RS, taught Sun School class for a time & served as Pres of the MIA.
My father was then transferred by the railroad to OR, where Grndfthr Rawson had gone for his health. A small group of church members had formed a new twnshp, which they named Nibley, aft Charles W Nibley. Mother again was MIA Pres & helped nurse our neighbors thru a typhoid epidemic, which finally spread to the family. Though 5 died, our fam was spared, & on 11 Oct 1902 her 3rd son was born.
When father regained his health, moved his family to LeGrande OR, where the 6th child Margaret born on 10 Apr 1905. The following year on 14 July 1906, father was struck & instantly killed by a passenger train, & mother moved the family to Cove OR to be near her mother & brothers, where she purchased a home. Mother relates:
"The 1st Sun aft I moved into our new home, a knock came at our door, and it was Bishop John A Abbott and his two counselors, Joseph C Pixton & Joel H Orten & their wives, bringing a wonderful spirit with them. They told me the way to overcome my grief was to work & keep busy. They invited me to come out to all the meetings & be a teacher in Primary & Sunday School. I was never without work & the children always had plenty. I always tried to pay a full tithing & felt this contributed a hedge of safety to our daily lives."
Mother was a Sunday School & Relief Society teacher for a few yrs, then was Primary Pres for 6 yrs. Then the Bishop said he was going to give her a promotion and called her to be the president of the Relief Society. Then it became her job to care for the sick, and she spent many nights sitting up with the sick, while working to support her family.
About this time, Fred contracted rheumatic fever and remained under a doctor's care without much improvement. On 25 Mar 1915, Louella md IA Hallmark, & shortly thereafter, mother and Jess took Fred to Ogden, hoping to improve his health. Mother had him prayed for in the Temple, and he immediately improved and soon was able to attend school. Pearl and Margaret joined them there at the end of the school term.
During WWI my eldest brother Jess enlisted & mother went back to LaGrande to see him off. She secured a position in the hospital there, where she remained until aft the war.
On 1 Jan 1909 Pearl married CA Fowers in Ogden. At this time we returned to our home in Cove OR, where mother worked in RS, taking charge of the Temple clothes and care of the dead. Loved by all, she was ready to help anyone in need and on Sun afternoons, our home became a gathering place for the young people.
The next yr mthr became MIA president and was until we sold our home in Cove and returned to Ogden UT. Here we were members of the new18th Ward, where mother helped to organize the MIA, serving as a counselor until 1924, when she joined her two eldest sons in Oakland CA.
On 24 Jun 1925, Burt married Marion Shaefer and one year later, Jess married Lyda Fahay. The family now consisting of mother, Fred and myself, now moved to Berkley Branch. There, at an MIA party, J Edward Johnson introduced me to a young man who later became my husbund, Leroy Lambert 27Aug 1927.
Mother then moved to San Francisco, where she became active in SF Ward. On 28 Nov 1931, Jess's wife, Lyda passed away and mother went to Seattle to care for his 4-yr old son, until Jess married Phoebe Desilet a year later.
Upon returning to San Francisco, mother again became active in the ward and was later set apart as work director by Elder Needham Lambert on 4 Dec 1938. On July 28 1940, Elder Gordon Owen gave mother a special blessing which has since instilled in her a desire to live worthy of the promised blessing.
Shortly thereafter, Louella became very ill and mother rushed to Walla Walla WA to care for her until her death 28 Jan 1941. On 2 Aug 1941 Fred md Beatrice Wardell Coons. This marriage was later solemnized in SL Temple by Pr Waddoups 3 Oct 1951. During this time mother served as Magazine agent and aided their bazaars with her handiwork and pastries. In 1951, when the Church Authorities requested all members to attend the ward they lived, mother transferred to the Sunset Ward, where she served faithfully until ill health forced her release, but she continued to aid the Relief Society's many programs.
"Now mthr, would you like to add something in conclusion?" "I have always tried to live the best I know how, and I know when we try to live the Gospel and do the things we've been called to do, we learn our lessons, and I would say to others to live as near as what Jesus taught us to do and all will come well, not seeking for position, but striving only to live a good life." Mother now has 3 sons and 2 daughters living, and 11 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren. My testimony is that the Lord lives and blesses us in all that we undertake to do, if we have righteous desires in our hearts. "Amen."

Notes:

BIR,MG,DTH: Source: Lois Owen Chapman, daughter of Joseph and Mary Abigail Grow Owen, 269 Rosewood Avenue, SLC (1966), AF 1C5m-5R: bur Ammon Cem, bapt 12 Oct 1967-CK

1842-1867 HIST: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, by Frank, 1913 p903: Wm Moyer Grow bn 30 May 1842 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, PA. Md Esther Coffin 2 Jul 1865 at Huntsville UT, dau of Wm B Coffin and Abigail Starbuck, the latter a pioneer 3 Oct 1853 in Harmon Cutler Co. Children: Mary Abigail (Joseph H Owen), Wm N; James A(Maud Hays); David H md Mary Luette Rawson Oct 1893); Jessee M (Christa Edith Empey); Horace I (Rosella Rounds); Cyrus L (Cecelia Yittings); Chas E; Esther E (L.C. Poulter).
Assisted in locating Huntsville, Utah. In 1867 he moved to western Oregon and on the way assisted in making the first brick manufactured at Boise City, ID; later engaged in mining from Umatilla OR to mines of northern Idaho. Returned to Huntsville 1871 and moved to Ammon, near Idaho Falls ID in 1880. Farmer.
Family Group Sheets by Wm Moyer Grow: Wm Moyer Grow bn 30 May 1842 in Merion, Norristown, Montgomery Co, PA. His parents were Henry Grow and Mary Moyer. He married Ester Coffin July 2, 1865 and had 9 children. He was a farmer and lived in Huntsville,Weber Co UT and Ammon, Idaho Falls Co, ID. He died Mar 11 1932 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville Co, ID. Buried at Ammon, Bonneville Co, ID.
He was baptized 1853, and Temple ord data show bapt 12 Oct 1967 and 15 Nov 1968 SLC Temple. End Aug 8 1863 and Dec 21, 1874. Sealed to parents Dec 15 1959 SLC Temple, Sealed to Spouse Dec 21, 1874.

1900 CENSUS: ID,Bingham Co-Ammon: Anc.com IMg 3, pg 12, 16 Apr, dw 268/271:
GROW, William-head 58/PA, bn May 1842 (PA,PA) md 35 yrs-farmer;
Esther-wife 55/Ind (Ind,Ind) md 35 yrs, 9/9 children living; Jesse-son
24/UT, bn Oct 1875 (PA,Ind)S-farm laborer; Charles-son 17/ID bn Nov 1882
farm laborer; Effie-dau 14/UT bn Apr 1886.

William married Esther Hunt Coffin 2 Jul 1865, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States. Esther (daughter of William Barney Coffin and Abigail Starbuck) was born 15 Aug 1844, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States; died 20 Dec 1920, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried , Ammon, Bonneville, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1844 BIR,1865 MG,1920 DTH,BUR: Fam rcds-Lois Owen Chapman. Shows after sealing to husand date, an "L". ??
LDS Fam Hist Suite 2, computer software: Esther Hunt Coffin bn 15 Aug 1844-Richmond, Wayne, IN; md William Meyer GROW (Wm Mowyer GROW) 2 Jul 1865; dd 14 Dec 1920. ORD: Bap Aug 1852, 26 Sep 1967 SL; E: 21 Dec 1874; SP 4 Nov 1949 IFALL

1844 BIR,1865 MG,1920 DTH,BUR: Obit, Ammon ID, Dec 1920:

Feb 4--Following services at Ogden, the body of Mrs Esther Coffin Grow was brought here, where a funeral was held at the Ammon Ward chapel, Bishop Leonard Ball presded and made the closing remarks. Other speakers were Ephraim Empey, John Empey, and James Southwick. The ward choir furnished the music. Interment was in the Ammon Cemetery.
Mrs Grow was born in Wayne County, Indiana, Aug 15, 1844. The family moved to Illinois and thence to Council Bluffs, IA, where hr father died. She and her mother crossed the plains in 1852, locating on the corner of Twenty-fourth & Wall streets in Ogden, remaining there until 1860, when they went to Huntsville. She was married to Wm Grow in 1865 and 2 yrs later they moved to Albany OR, where they resided for 4 yrs. They them came to Ammon ID where they have resided since.
Besides her husband, she is survived by the following children: Mary Abbie Owen Hyde; Jesse and Charles Grow-Idaho Falls; William Grow-Willistown ND; Horace Grow-Roberts; James Grow and Mrs. Effie Poulter-Ogden UT; also 39 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.




Notes: from a note in mother's things-old: Miss Ava Johnston, Rt 5 Box 598, Dallas 9, TX - Gardner, Coffin, Starbuck

Notes:

1840 BIR,1859 MG,1923 DTH,BUR: Fam Group Sheet, Arthur Morrison Rawson fam rcds, rep: Lucy Rawson Harmon, gr daughter, submitted by self, show bap as 17 Jun 1848. Also Fam Group Sheet, "Personal 'Living' records of Horace Strong Rawson & Rawson Old Fam Bible Early Mormon Hist Handcart Co of 1847-1878, rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen, submitted by self.

NOTES: "A Short Story of Arthur Morrison Rawson" as told by himself & finished by another fam member pg 145 of Rawson Fam Gen Bk cc Pam Hallmark Wagner:

I, Arthur Morrison Rawson, was the 9th child of Horace Strong & Elizabeth Coffin Rawson. I was born 17 June 1840 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co, Ill. When I was about 2 yrs old father moved to Lima Branch in the Yelrome Stake where we resided until the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846.
We 1st stopped at Mt Piscus where we planted a crop & stayed until June or July, then we came to Kainsville & settled abt 2 mi up Muskcrat Crk, 1 mile west of Old Indian Mill. There we cleared off a nice farm where we lived one yr. Fthr sold out to Wm Coffin, mthr's cousin & we made another home abt 1/2 mi west, where we lived until spring of 1850 when we sold to a Mr Wolfe, & then we started for the Valley of the Mtns.
We joined Pres Wilford Woodruff's Co & were in Capt E Whipple's 10 fams. I helped to drive. Experiences while traveling...one day when we were traveling up the Platt Rvr, dogs got aft an old buffalo & he started toward the train, frightened a team of horses & in a few minutes a doz or more teams were running in all directions. Our dear old mthr was in the wagon, sick with cholera, but she took no harm, for our team did not run, but there was a terrible excitement, cattle bellering, men hollering & women crying. One woman was run over & badly hurt. Soon got everything in shape & arrive in SL pretty well tired out but glad to get there.
We all went to Ogden & settled between 8-9th Streets until Ogden City layed out, when we moved houses & everything we could on lots, in the city, lying just south & east of where the PO is no located.
The winter of 1850 I attended school in Browns Fort. The next yr I went to school in the 1st one built in this part. Early spring I hired out to John Thomas to drive a team & plow his farm, then I worked for Edward Bunker, helping him get his crops in. I went to sev different schools, then we moved to Kaysville & bought a farm from Allen Taylor near the foot of east mtns, nr Bares saw mill-put a large crop in & planned for a splendid harvest, but in July, the swarm of grasshoppers destroyed all the crops, so in the fall we moved to Farmington, where I went to school. Next spring we rented land & planted corn & raised a fine crop. This was the hardest time we ever had in the valley. We saved some corn & fodder for Br Clark & ourselves, but we lost most of ours, as well as everyone who turned their stock out onto the range-most had to that winter.
In the spring of 1857, we sold out & moved to Payson UT. I worked for my bro Daniel, went to school, then worked for the Church, helping Joseph & Brigham Young take care of the Church stock. We drove them west of town on the lake shores, as that was good feed grass, then to the east shore. We stayed home at night, then rounded the poor cattle & drove them to parts that had the best feed. In that way, we saved nearly all of the Church herd. In the spring I went to work for the Bishopric, working in the canyon lumbering & making roads & working on the meeting house.
24 May 1857 - ordained a Seventy by Daniel B Rawson. That fall Johnson's army came to UT & our Militia was called out to keep them from coming into the valley. I was kept home to haul wood & ride express. My bro was brought home with rheumitism & I looked after him & my bro Daniel's fam, besides my mthr & fthr & others.
I had sown part of the winter wheat & after getting Wm's crop in & fthr's work done, I went up Provo Canyon & contracted 2 mi of road for the summer. After putting up hay, I went to Camp Floyd & made dobies until I earned $300 in gold. Ran a wagon & peddled while, then hired out to Br Thorn to thrash wheat at Payson, then went to Ft Ephraim & thrashed.
3 Feb 1859 - md Margaret Angeline Pace, living in Payson until 1860 when we moved to Ogden. We have raised a fam of 10 children, burying 2. The above was taken from the Autobiography of Arthur Morrison Rawson. He dd 28 Feb 1923 in Ogden; was bur in Ogden City Cem. He was 5'10" tall, abt 180 lbs, dark complected & hair. He was a Patriarch (1915). He was elected constable & served 20 yrs in Harrisville. He was a SS teacher for 16 yrs, ordained HP & Bishop 15 Nov 1891 at Rexburg ID by Heber J Grant & set apt to preside over the Ammon Ward in ID. He was ordained a Patriarch 9 June 1901 by Mathias F Cowley in the Union Stake & sustained Patriarch on 20 Oct 1915.



1880 CENSUS: UT,Weber Co-Harrisville, film #1255339 pg 591c, Dw(11-02, FS.org-must chk real census):
RAWSON, Arthur 39/IL (NY/VA) farmer, md

1889-1891 HIST: Encyclopedic Hist of the Church, Andrew Jensen, p 22, also Treasures of Pioneer History V2 p486, says almost the same thing, except "part of great Snake River Valley, in which nearly all inhabitants are farmers and stock raisers":

"Ammon Ward is an outgrowth of Iona...suggested by the Book of Mormon, honoring Ammon, son of King Mosiah and a great missionary to the Lamanites. As the Snake River Valley filled up with Latter-Day Saints, and a number of families located south of Iona, these were organized into a Branch of the Church 26 Nove 1889, called S Iona Branch, with Arthur M RAWSON as presiding Elder. This Branch was organized as a ward in 1891, with Arthur M RAWSON as Bishop..."

1889-1913 HIST: Treasures of Pioneer History v2 p486: The first public school building was log structure and used for church and school purposes. It was built on same property as marker (shown on same page) ...and where present church and shool buildings are located. The land where the RAWSON home was located is in private hands, so this marker was placed on church grounds where it could stay for all time. It says:
"This village, first called South Iona, was settled by Latter-day Saints. A branch of the church was org Nov 26 1889, with Arthur M Rawson as presiding Elder. Later he became Bishop. On 12 Feb 1893, the Ward was changed to Ammon, honoring the son of King Mosiah of the Book of Mormon history, a great missionary to the Lamanites. The first public building was made of logs and was erected on this site to serve as both church and school. The present brick meeting house was built in 1912-13"...Bonneville Co ID

1900-02 HIST: Heart Throbs of the West v8 pg 185-86:
"As people moved ever westward to seek new frontiers of trade, adventure and land, so did LDS become colonizers of other states beside Utah. In 1889 David Eccles and John Stoddard became interested in lumber business in N Powder OR, a thriving town on Old OR Trail between Baker and LaGrande. These 2 men org OR Lumber Co...mills were immediately built at N Powder, Pleasant Valley, Hood River, and Baker. Among the employees were LDS. The missionaries from San Diego CA, who labored in OR as early as 1851, began to seek out these saints and encourage them in church work.
In 1900 Charles W Nibley and George Stoddard purchases an 8,000 acre tract of land in the Grand Rhonde Valley...made a settlement on it....Arthur M Rawson was the first permanent settler. There were 9 LDS families located there when a townsite was surveyed and named "Nibley" in honor of Charles W. A frame building, a meeting house, was constructed in 1901. The branch was organized Mar 17, 1901. Samuel Southwick was president of the branch. When Union Stake was org pm 9 Jun 1901, William J. Rawson was chosen as bishop of Nibley Ward.
By 1902 Nibley was a thriving Mormon settlement and many more families moved in. Among these were the Rawsons, Sargents, Roundye, Dewell, Wm David Hanks, Joel H Orton, HJ Neilson, Reuben Hiatt, Francis Hiatt... Joe Lae GROW (??) ...and other families.
One of the early pioneers of Nibley used to say, "We were never lonely; we could laugh at anything because no tragedy came our way. Did the wind blow terrifically? Oh, es but we laughed at that too. Our social life was enjoyable. We knew it took us all to have a good dancing party, so we all came. The young folks of Cove and nearby towns, who were not of our faith, came to join in our social life. Mr. Marion L Carter, not a member of our church, was violinist and he also wrote a poem about our town. Then there Geo R Lyman with dancing feet and and happy heart, who also had a violin and Wm David Hanks at the piano, we had music fit for a king. Babies were parked on the bed almost under the heap of coats, plenty of food and fun."

Arthur married Margaret Angeline Pace 3 Feb 1859, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. Margaret (daughter of James Edward Pace and Lucinda Gibson Strickland) was born 14 Sep 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States; died 18 Feb 1929, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried Feb 1929, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1842 BIRTH: ILL,Hancock Co-Nauvoo: Margaret Angeline Pace was born 14 September 1842, daughter of Horace Stron Rawson and Elizabeth Coffin

1859 MARRIAGE: UT,Weber Co-Ogden: Arthur Morrison Rawson md Margaret Angeline Pace 3 February 1859

1900 CENSUS: ID,Bingham Co-Ammon: Anc Img 7-8, pg 17B, June 1900, Dw 301,305:
RAWSON, Margaret-head 57/Ill bn Sep 1842 (TN,SC)md 40yrs 11/12 children living,
own farm, home; Samantha-dau 16/UT bn Mar 1884
On same page is Cyrus L GROW-head 21/UT bn Mar 1874 (MO,Ind)md 1yr
herding sheep; Cecelia-wife20/UT bn Sep 1874 (Sweden,Sweden)md 1 yr
1/1 child living; Cyrus R-son 7mos-ID bn Jan 1900; Sophia ZETTING-m in law
60/Dnmk bn Jan 1840 (Dnmk,Dnmk)wid 5/7 children living [whp is this?]
Next page: 303,307: August ZETTING 28/UT bn Aug 1871 (Swed,Dnmk)
md 7yrs traveling salesman, renting; Susanna-wife 27/UT bn Oct 1872 (Eng,
IL)md 7yrs 3/3 children living; Charles F-son 6/UT bn Mar 1894 UT,UT);
John A-son 4/UT bn Jan 1896; Lucy S-dau 1/ID bn May 1899

1929 DEATH,BURIAL: UT,Weber-Ogden: Margaret Angeline Pace Rawson died 18 February 1929; buried Ogden City Cemetery

Family Group Sheet, Arthur Morrison Rawson family records, rep: Lucy Rawson Harmon, granddaughter, submitted by Lucy, page 143 of Rawson-Coffin Family Genealogy, copy of Pam Hallmark Wagner

Notes:

1817 BIR,MG,DTH,BUR: TIB, LDS Biog Encyc, Jenson Vol3 pg94, Pioneers & Prom Men of UT, Esshom pg 903, Nauvoo Temple Endow Reg 1845-46, Pers rcds self-AF: bur City Cem

1817-1851HIST: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, pg 903:

Henry Grow, son of Henry and Mary Riter Grow of Philadelphia PA, born 1 Oct 1817 at Norristown, near Philadelphia, and came to Utah 1 Oct 1851, with James Cummings company.
He married Mary Moyer in 1834, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Moyer, born 1818.

1817-1891 HIST: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, by Andrew Jensen, Vol 3, p 94 (paragraphed by Pam Wagner):

Grow, Henry, a prominent Elder in the Church, was bn Oct 1 1817, at Philadelphia PA, the son of Henry Grow and Mary Riter. His great grandfather, Frederick Grow, and his wife emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania before the war of the revolution, took up a large tract of land and made it into five farms of 60 acres each, dividing the same among his 5 children, 4 sons and 1 daughter. This great grandfather was in the war of the revolution.
Henry Grow was the youngest of 7 children, 5 girls and 2 sons. He learned the trade of a mill-wright and bridgebuilder, after which he superintended the bridges, culverts, etc., on the Norristown and Germantown railroads, both in construction and repairing the works.
Becoming a convert to "Mormonism," he was baptized in the Delaware river, Philadelphia, in May, 1842, by Wm Morton. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Ill., in 1843, where he worked on the Nauvoo Temple until it was finished. He passed through all the troubles of those days and was one of the members of the Nauvoo Legion. He was one of the remnants that remained at Nauvoo after the departure of the Twelve, with the advance companies of the Saints for the West, but in April 1846, before the vanguard of the pioneers had got barely on their journey, the anti-Mormons began to rise and the mob outrages on the Saints were terrible.
Henry Grow was in the famous battle of Nauvoo. While this battle was going on, he heard a voice one night distinctly say: "Get up and get out of here in the morning." He arose in the morning, hitched a yoke of cattle to his wagon, put in utensils, bedding and tent, leaving everything in the house, got his wife and 3 children in the wagon, and had moved about 50 yards from his house when the mob fired a 12-pound ball through the house,which was a frame building. After the entrance of the mob into Nauvoo he crossed over to Montrose, Iowa, where he had his family in a tent during the battle.
Starting on his journey westward, he traveled alone with his family across the prairies of Iowa to Winter Quarters and then went to Kimball's 6 miles above, where he built himself a house and settle for a year, but in the fall of 1847, after the departure of the pioneer companies, he moved with his family into Missouri, locating on the Little Platte, 20 miles above Weston, where many of the old Missouri mobocrats dwelt. There he kept the saw and grist mill, called Lester's mill, in repair and did other carpenter work. In the spring of 1851 he and his family again came up the Missouri River, bound for the Valley; he was organized in Capt James Cumming's hundred, Alfred Cordon's 50 and Kishop Kesler's 10. Orson Pratt commanded the other 50. On account of high water, the Sweetwater, below Independence Rock, the company was surrounded by a war party of Cheyennes and had a narrow escape from being destroyed by the savages. The next day, above Independence Rock, they met a 1000 Snake Indian warriors waiting for the Cheyennes.
Henry Grow arrived in Great Salt Lake City on his birthday, Oct 1 1851, and located at Mound Fort, north of Ogden. In 1852 he was called to Salt Lake City by President Young to work for him in building mills, bridges, etc. In 1853 he built the first suspension bridge built in Utah across the Weber river. In 1854 he went to work at Sugar House to build the sugar works under Bishop Fred Kesler, and in 1855 he assisted in building the 2 saw mills in Big Cottonwood canyon, known as A and B. In 1856 he moved a saw mill from Cottonwood to the forks of City crek, 7 miles above Salt Lake City, for Pres Brigham Young, and the same fall he went up Big Cottonwood again and framed and put up Mill D, sawed 2 logs and left Dec 17, 1856, with 5 men on 7 feet of snow with snowshoes. It took them 2 days to get out of the snow at the risk of their lives. In 1857 Elder Grow went up and Mill E, at the head of Big Cottonwood canyon, near Silver Lake; in 1858 he went to Provo and put up temporary buildings at the time of the move; he also built the suspension bridge over the Provo river. In 1859 he tore the works out of the old grist mill at the mouth of Canyon Crekks and placed the cotton and woolen machinery in the mill for Pres. Brigham Young. This was the first machinery of the kind put up in Utah, and this machinery was afterwards taken down to St George. In 1861 he built a suspension lattice bridge across the Jordan river. At the time of putting up the theatre he built a water wheel on the water ditch opposite Dr Sprague's house to hoist all the rock and timbers for the theatre. He also made the heavy beams and principal rafters out of plank for the work and fitted up the footlights.
During the following years he did a great deal of mill work for Pres Young at different places. In 1863 the Pres called on him in regard to the construction of the big tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Asked him if he could construct a large bowery after the same structural work as the Jordan bridge, drawing the outline on the ground with his umbrella, and he also asked Br Grow how large he could build it. Br Grow replied, "150 ft wide andas long as you want it." Then they figured out the design and the dimensions of the contemplated building and Br Grow built the Tabernacle according to the directions given him by Pres Young; the building was finished in 1867.
In 1868 the President called on Br Grow to put up the ZCMI building; the plan was drawn by Obed Taylor and the work of construction was superintended by Henry Grow throughout. From that time till the spring of 1876 he had charge of all the carpentry work on the Temple Block.
In 1876-77 he filled a mission to the US, laboring principally in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and visited all his relatives and the old family homestead. On his return from that mission he was engaged in tearing down the Old Tabernacle and erecting the Assembly Hall, superintending the practical work under Architect Obed Taylor. It was completed in 1879. Later Elder Grow built 2 block houses for Pres John Taylor and supertended all the buildings and carpentry work for the Church, including the scaffolding and hoisting apparatus for the Temple.
In 1880 he was called by Pres Taylor to go east to look at improvements of paper mills for the purpose of putting up a new paper mill at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. After visiting the principal cities in the east, he returned home and drafted and commenced the building of the new Deseret Paper Mill at the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon. This paper mill was completed and put in running order in 1883.
Br Grow became known as a skilful mechanic and an experienced practical builder and was well liked by all the hands who worked under his superintendency; among all his works the roof of the Big Tabernacle in Salt Lake City is the most unique and stupendous of his works.
Soon after he joined the Church Elder Grow was ordained to the Priesthood; he was ordained a Seventy in 1844, at Nauvoo, Ill., and for many years he acted as one of the presidents of the 30th Quorum of Seventy and was a member of the Nineteenth Ward, Salt Lake City. He was also active in military affairs, and served as a member of the Salt Lake City council from 1870 to 1876. In the East he married 2 wives, Mary Moyer, who bore him 6 children and Ann Elliott, who has borned him 7 children. After arriving in Utah he married Julia Veach, who bore him 14 children. Thus he became the father of 27 children. Br Grow died Nov 4, 1891, in Salt Lake City, as a highly respected citizen and a faithful member of the Church.

1817-1891 HIST: Biography of Henry Grow, dictated to Elaine Poulter by her grandfather, Wm Moyer Grow, as a school project in 1928, spellins is as was dictated:

Henery Grow, the Superintendent of the Temple Block, was born in Noristown, Phil,Penn, Oct 1, 1817. His parents were Henery Grow and Mary Riter. His grandparents emigrated from Germany to Penn. before the War of the Revolution and took up a large tract of land. He made it into five farms of 60 acres and gave it to his five children, 4 sons and 1 daughter. The estate still remains in the family.
Frederick Grow was in the Revolutionary War. The British army camped within a mile of his farm house. Henery Grow, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest of 7 children, 5 daughters and 2 sons, John Wood and Henery. He served his apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner of his native state Penn. Later he superintended all the bridges, culverts, etc. on the Norristown and Germantown Railroads, both in contracting and repairing the work, under the direction of Geo. G Whitmere, President of the road and Ex Mayor of Phil. Henery Grow was baptized in the Delaware River, Phil. in 1842 by Wm Morton. He emigrated to Nauvoo in March 1843, reached Nauvoo May 15. His first mark there was building a barn for Patriarch Hyrman Smith, then worked on Nauvoo Temple till it was completed. Here they received the endownence. He passed through the trials of those days with the other LDS. He served as a member of the Nauvoo Legion. He was one of the five to remain behind after the departure of the Twelve with the advanced companies of the Saints to the Rocky Mountains. The covenant made between the four comissioners of the state of Ill. namely Gen. Worden of the State Militia, Senator Douglas, W.B. Warren and J McDanyal and the Mormon Apostals gave ample time for the removal of the saints from Nauvoo, but in April, before the Pioneers had scarcely started on their journy west, the anti-Mormons began their horrid outrages on the saints, notwithstanding the fact they were living up to their part of the contract , and W.B. Warren commanding the Ill. volunteers said in a report to Queery Whig on May 20, 1846, "are leaving with all possible haste. during the week 400 teams and 1350 souls have gone and others are preparing to leave as fast as possible. Not withstanding this statement from their commander of the volunteers, a mob marched upon the doomed city Sep 19, 1846 and began the battle of Nauvoo, which lasted 3 days, in which Henery Grow fought to protect his people, under the command of Gen. D H Wells of Col. Butler. The mob of 200 well armed men and 13 pieces of artillery, camped about one block in front of Grows house. The 1st night they were camped there, while Grow was lying on his bed, he heard a voice distinctly say, "Get out of here in the morning." He arose, hitched up a yoke of oxen to his wagon, put in some bedding, a tent and utensels and a few things, leaving all his other earthly possessions, took his wife and 3 children and left. He had gone about 50 yds. from the house when the mob fired a 12 lb. cannon ball at the house. They crossed the River to Montrose, Iowa, where they family remained in the tent during the battle. From the starting point toward the Rockies he traveled alone with his family to Winter Quarters arriving late in October.
He built a log cabin in Winter Quarters, then went to Kimbals 6 miles above where he built himself a house and settled for a year, but in the fall of 1847, after the departure of the pioneer companies, he moved with hs family into Missouri on the Little Platt 20 miles above Weston, where lived many of the Mobocrats. While here he kept the Saw and grist mill in repair, and other carpenter work for 2 years for Col. Estel, who later sold out to Halladay and Warner, well known merchants in early history of Salt Lake City. Grow worked with them till spring in 1851 when they made another start toward the Valleys of the Mountains. They were organized in Cap. James Curmings hundred, Alfred Gardens 50, and Bishop Keslers 10.
On account of high water the companies headed the Horn river, and came on to the Pratt below Laramie on the sweetwater below Independance Rock, here they were surrounded by a war party of Cheyennes.
Keslers 10 became seperated from the other 10. They succeeded in getting a message to Capt Cardon who was camped with the remainder of his 50 at Independence Rock, and sent relief to bring them together again. Next day, they met 7,000 Ssnake Warriors waitin for the Sheyennes. Henery Grow arrived in Salt Lake on his birthday Oct 1, 1851. He immediately went to work, working 1 year on the Public Works under Miles Ronney. He next worked on the old Tabernacle where the Assembly Hall now stands, also building a saw mill, as the winter was mild. In 1853 he built the 1at suspension bridge in Utah across the Ogden river for Jonathan Browning. 1854 he began work at Sugar house to build the Sugar Works under Bp. Kesler.
1855 he built the Sawmills A and B in Big Cottonwood.
In 1856 he moved a Saw mill, from Chases Mill in the Big Field up City Creek 7 miles for Pres. Brigham Young. The same fall,[he] went up to Big Cottonwood, fraimed and put put up a mill D, sawed same logs and left Dec 17 in company with 5 other men on snow shoes for home. It took them 2 days to get through as the snow was deep. They had many narrow escapes.
1857 he built Mill E at the head of Canion near Silver Lake.
1858 he went to Provo and put up the temperary buildings for the Moore and also the suspension bridge across the Provo river.
1858 he tore works out of the old grist mill, at the mouth of Canion Creek and placed the cotton and woolen machinery in the mill by request of Brigham Young. Thie was the first machinery of the kind in Utah. It was later taken to St. George.
1861 he build suspentian (Lattices) bridges across the Weber and Jordan Rivers which were still in use 35 and 40 years after. Then he build the first Salt Lake Theatre (which is still good and being used). He put up a water wheel in the ditch, by this the rock and timber was hosted to guild this theater. He also made the heavy beams and principle rafters, out of plank for the building and fitted up the foot lights.
In 1863 & 4 he done a great deel of mill work, as the request of Pres Brigham Young, at different places. and next year Pres Young called on him about the contruction of the SL Tabernacle. He designed the shape, planned and put it up and finished it in 1867. It is the largest dome shaped building west of Chicago. The outside dimensions of this Tabernackle are: length 250 ft., width 105. Inside it measures 232 ft by 132 height to ceiling 65 ft. The roof rests on 44 colums averaging 20 ft high and is self supporting. The gallery extending around the building is 18 ft wide. The seating capasity is 9,000.
1868 Pres. Young called on him to build the ZCMI (a large store in Salt Lake). The plan was drawn by O Taylor and superintended by Grow. From this time till spring of 1876, he had charge of the carpenter work on the Temple Block. Then he went to build the ware house attached to the ZCMI.
At the Oct. conference 1876 he was called to gon on a mission to preside over the Penn, Delaware, Maryland Conferences and left Salt Lake Nov 1, 1876. During this mission he visited the old homestead and relatives. He left Phil. for Salt Lake June 12,1877 and on his return was immediately engaged to tear down the old Tabernacle and build the Asembly Hall (which is used now), superintending the work. O Taylor was the architect. The Hall was completed in fall of 1878. He built 2 houses for Pres. Taylor and superintended the carpentry for the Church including the Scafolding and hoisting apparatis for the Temple.
1880 he was called by Pres Taylor to go east to look improvements of Paper Mills, with the view of putting up a paper mill a the mouth of the Big Cottonwood which was completed 1883. (the first in Utah) To get this necessary information he traveled through Chicago, Ill, Cleveland, Ohio, Buffalo, N.Y., Sspringfield Mass, Aalbany, Boston, Phil, and Pittsburg. He came back and built same.
For over 30 years he was employed in building out of State. He was known as a skilled Mechanic and practical builder. He served as city counslemin with Mayer Daniel H Wells in 1870-1876. He was also active in Church work and social affairs of S L City. He died in Salt Lake Nov 4, 1891.

OTHER MGS: Ancestral File ver 4.17 Apr 1997:
1. Nancy Ann Elliott 1 Aug 1837, SLC Utah, SS 9 Jan 1852
2. Mary Elizabeth Veach 20 Dec 1852, no place shown nor sealing
3. Ann Midgley, 9 Nov 1856 (div) SLC Utah, SS 9 Nov 1856 EH
4. Julia Melville Veach 17 Apr 1858, SLC Utah, ss 16 Aug 1858 Pg 21 (Pres. Office is what I showed)
CK OUT
5. Sarah Rawlings no date or place; written by side by Pam Wagner is Emily Sarah Rawlings, md 21
Mar 1870 to Henry Grow bn abt 1851 [Upton Noble,Smrset,Eng] ??, submitted by Lorraine
Norlund, 532 Joyner, Ridgecrest CA 93555 - only shown in these notes, not added (CK OUT)
6. Amanda Melvina Baker, no date or place nor sealing - just in these notes (CK OUT)

c1863 HIST: OUR PIONEER HERITAGE, V10 p99: ..."Along the road thru Stringtown, traveled many wagon trains, bound for California and the gold mines, and farmers going to town (Ogden) had to get across also[Weber River]...about 1863 a bridge was framed at a mill a few miles east of SLC and possibly 50 miles from the river crossing, by a man named Henry Grow.The material used...was 4x12 inch plank, framed up and down the side diagonally and pinned at the crossing with 2-inch wooden pins. It was set upon log abutments and was abt 12 feet high, 14 feet wide, the river between abutments being over a hundred feet wide."
V11 p75: "...4 men should share equally in the laurels [of bldg the magnificent Tabernacle on Temple Square]: Brigham Young for his forsight in realizing the need for such a building & his genius in planning it; Wm H Folsom for his masterful handling of the exterior; Henry Grow who directed the building of the unique and distinguished roof, and Truman O Angell, who with great finesse completed the interior."

Henry married Mary Moyer 24 Jan 1834, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. Mary was born 28 Apr 1817, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died 1 Oct 1883, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; was buried 5 Oct 1883, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1818 BIR,1834 MG,1883 DTH,BUR: Pers rcds-Henry Grow, AF:1C5K-RL, dau of Charles and Elizabeth Moyer

Notes:

1809 BIR, 1833 MG, 1850 DTH: Marcia Nelson Jan 2000 letter-pedigree of her family. He was the son of James Coffin and Sally Starbuck Coffin.
AF v4.19 (internet): Wm Barney Coffin dd 9 June 1850, Indian Mills Br., Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA
LDS Fam Hist Suite 2, computer software: bir,dth-same as above. md Abigail Starbuck 21 Sep 1833-Richmond, Wayne, IN. ORD: E 7 Feb 1847-Nauvoo; SS 9 May 1870 EHOUS. Lived Nauvoo 1845-46, died while crossing the plains.

William married Abigail Starbuck 26 Sep 1833, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States. Abigail (daughter of William Starbuck and Esther Coffin) was born 1 Jun 1813, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States; died 11 Dec 1891, Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States; was buried Dec 1891. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1813 BIR, 1833 MG, 1891 DTH: Marcia Nelson, Jan 2000 letter, pedigree of her family. She is dau of William Starbuck and Esther Coffin.

1813-1891 HIST: "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Vol 1, pg 630-31-International Soc of Dau of Utah Pioneers..."

Abigail was bn Richmond Indiana in 1813, little more is known of her early life. She md Wm Barney Coffin in 1833. Abigail lost her first baby at eleven months, the baby was by the hearth and fell into the fire. She died as a result of her burns.
They moved to Indianna. They were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They received much criticism from their parents and friends. They moved to Nauvoo.
They were driven into Missouri to Winter Quarters, from there, driven to Council Bluffs. Wm caught small pox and died 4 June 1850. Before he died, he said, "Abigail, this is the true church. Take the children and go into the West."
Two years later, she and her family started on the long journey westward. She used one cow and one ox for a team, her son Nathan, drove the wagon. They arrived in the Valley in 1852.
Abigail practiced as doctor and midwife in Ogden. When called, she would saddle her old horse and go where needed. Many times the cold would penetrate her very bones.
Abigail moved to Cambridge, Idaho and established a mercantile store. She had to travel to Ogden every two wks for dry goods. She would take eggs and butter for her neighbors and would trade for necessary items.
Abigail was known from Fort Hall, Idaho to Ogden, Utah as a midwife. She spent her last days with her son, Nathan, in Cambridge, and passed away Dec 11 1891, leaving her family, their most precious possession, a memory of their wonderful, courageous mother.

ORD: LDS Fam Hist Suite 2, computer software: Bapt 8 Oct 1968 SLAKE, Endow 7 FEb 1846 NAUVOO (must have been bapt earlier (CK OUT), SS: 9 May 1879 EHOUS; SP 21 Jan 1959 [no temple listed]

Notes:

1799 BIR,1825 MG,1882 DTH,BUR: Fam Group Sheet, "Pers Living rcds Horace Strong Rawson & "Rawson Old Family Bible" Early Mormon History Handcart Co of 1847-1878, pg 5 of Rawson Genealogy Book, rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen, subd by self.
Rawson Family Memorials, Horace Strong Rawson rcd bk & Logan Temple sealing rcds Bk B C to pg 392 pg 207 Rawson Genealogies cc Pam Hallmark Wagner: Horace dd 12 Oct & endowed 22 Mar 1862. Ped Chart in same bk shows Horace dd Farr West, Utah. Shows earlier sealing for children - 16 Oct 1895.

1882 DTH: Obit-Daily Herald 14 Oct 1882:

Funeral Services over the remains of the late Patriarch Horace Strong Rawson were held at the fam res Thursday afternoon, 12 Oct 1882. The services were conducted by Bishop N C Flygare. Aft opening hymn, Patriarch Samuel Eggleston engaged in prayer. The assembly, which was very large, was addressed by President D H Perry. Elders Joseph Hall, Lorin Farr, S Eggleston & Bishop Flygare, all of whom have been acquainted with the
deceased for many yrs, some for a qtr of a century & one, Elder Lorin Farr had known him for 40 yrs.
Father Rawson was one of the earliest recipients of the Gospel as revealed to the Prophet, having embraced it in 1831, & was identified with much of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He bore an excellent charactor for honesty & uprightness. His faith was unimpeachable. His last words to his family were "Hold fast to these glorious principles of truth".

NOTES: "A SHORT SKETCH OR BIOG OF HORACE STRONG RAWSON," by himself in his own handwriting, no date, finished by Wm J Rawson. See Bk of Rem pg 7-Pam B Wagner. Also included is a talk given by Horace at a fam reunion in Ogden, blessings given by him to his children, & baptisms & sealings done at the Endowment House in SLC. Here are the highlights of his story:
Nothing very particular transpired in my childhood, only what is common until War of 1812 with Gr Britain. In 1813 the British came over Niagra Rvr & burned Buffalo City & sev other towns & drive the inhabitants off the frontiers, my Fthr & his fam with the rest, but they again returned & in 1819 my Father & his fam moved by water down the Allegany Rvr to Pittsburg, then down Ohio Rvr to the Falls, just below Cincinnati.
Father: Baptist preacher dd 17 Sep 1824 WA Co Ind-54, leaving my mthr with 6 children, Horace to help mother. Mother: dd 16 May 1825, 35 yrs old, WA Co, Ind-Horace to care for children till grown.
9 Oct 1925, married and moved to Randolph Co, Ind, bought a qtr section of land-nice farm.
1831: baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Levi W Hancock, confirmed by Zebede Coultrin. Bore testimony to congregation.
Moved to Jackson Co, MO with Saints, ordained a teacher by Wheeler Baldwin, Br Pres. Mobs hurt & destroyed-saints began to fight back some. "Limon Wite", captain of militia, turned sword over to Co. Boggs, & everyone ordered to lay guns down on Temple lot in Jackson Co. Saints left Jackson Co, some moving to Lafayette Co, Easton & found friends.
Spring 1834 moved to Clay Co, MO & people friendly till Joseph arrived, then hostilities began again. Saints protected by Lord when mobs came in night-hail storm destroyed their arms.
1836: Heard Joseph speak first time. Church moved to Caldwell Co & settled down until 1838, was commenced again. 8000 men called against Farr West & "Diamon". Prophet betrayed by Hinckel. Boggs issued extermination orders. Joseph & followers to be shot, but Gen Donophen frustrated this by not having anything to do with.
1837: (Says 1857) Moved to Nauvoo, Ill. Says 1845, driven to Nauvoo (confusing), houses burned.
1841: Ordained an Elder by Charles Rich & Simeon Carter. 1842, moved to Lima, where ordained a High Priest by Isaac Morley, Br Pr, serving on the High Council & preside over HP Quorum. The Prophet was martyred.
1846: Forced to leave Nauvoo & cross the desert, stopping at Council Bluffs, where 500 men, including Horace's oldest son, Daniel, marched to help US fight Mexicans.
1850: Moved to Odgen City, re-baptized by Elder Glasgo at organization of the branch, again on the High Council & elected selectman for city council.
1855: moved to Farmington, presiding over HP.
1856: moved to Payson by Brigham Young. (Driven from our homes 5 times in 27 years) Church grew from 6 to over 100,000 in 1859. Organized into a terr gov, with Brigham Young as governor. 1857: Army of 13,000 men sent by US to oppose saints agn. Signed by H.S.Rawson & appears to be in his hand, written in fam rcd bk in the hands of William J Rawson, Murray UT.

1799 BIR, 1825 MG, 1882 DTH: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p 1121:
Horace Strong RAWSON, son of Daniel Rawson and Polly Strong of NY, bn 15 Jul 1799, Oneida Co NY. Came to UT 16 Oct 1850, Wilford Woodruff Company.
Md Elizabeth Coffin 9 Oct 1825, who was bn 1807. Children: Mary Ann Olive bn 8 Oct 1826 m John Garner; Daniel Berry bn 16 Dec 1827 m Nancy Boss; Samantha Priscilla bn 26 Apr 1830 m Chas Hancock; Wm Coffin bn 13 Jan 1832 m Eliza Jane Cheney; Oriah bn 15 Mar 1834 dd young; Sariah bn 15 Mar 1834 m James Owens; Chloe Ann bn 15 Aug 1836 m CB Hancock; Caleb Linsey bn 5 Mar 1839, dd young; Arthur Morrison bn 17 Jun 1840 m Margret Pace; Sariah Urinda bn 8 Feb 1844 m Orvil R Child; Cyrus bn 15 Jun 1846 m Mary Dixon; Horace Franklin bn 9 Oct 1848 m Malinda Hancock; Elizabeth bn 21 Aug 1853 m Myron Butler. Family home in Ogden Utah.
Member of the High Council of Weber Stake. Weber Co selectman; member Ogden City Council, Justice of Peace 7 years. Died 10 Oct 1882

Horace married Elizabeth Coffin 9 Oct 1825, Washington, Indiana, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of William Coffin and Mary Duncan) was born 18 Oct 1807, Montgomery, Virginia, United States; died 21 Apr 1890, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried Apr 1890, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1807 BIRTH: VA,Montgomery Co: Elizabeth Coffin born 18 October 1807, dau of William Coffin and Mary Duncan

1825 MARRIAGE: IND,Washington Co: Horace Strong Rawson md Elizabeth Coffin 9 October 1825

1890 DEATH,BURIAL: UT,Weber Co-Ogden: Elizabeth Coffin Rawson died 21 April 1890; buried Ogden

"NE Hist. Gen Reg Vol 35-376, Vol 24 pg 149 & Amer Quaker Gen by Hinshaw, Vol 1 pg 778, Rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen, subm by self pg 219 of Rawson Gen-cc Pam Hallmark Wagner. This page shows Elizabeth bn 18 Oct, dd 27 April, endowed 22 Mar 1862.
LDS Fam Hist Suite 2, computer software: Elizabeth Coffin bn 18 Oct 1807-Montgomery VA, Md Horace Strong RAWSON 9 Oct 1825; dd 21 Apr 1890. ORD: Bapt 1832, Temple bapt 27 May 1964-SLAKE; E: 3 Feb 1846 NAVOO; SS 27 Sep 1852, 22 Mar 1862; SP 10 Jan 1962 IFALL



NOTES: On page 219, a note was written by "Lois" ?, which said she put ? aft fam names & added last two children-more research to be done on this family. Right clues not found at that time after 10-15 yrs search.

Notes:

1811 BIRTH: TN,Putnam Co-Double Tree: James Edward Pace born 15 June 1811, son of James Pace and Mary Ann Loving [IGI, using PAF Insight 27 July 2004 [I had found Rutherford Co, but it was further west] to ck out

MARRIAGE:

1888 DEATH: AZ,Pima-Thatcher: James Edward Pace died 6 Aug 1888 [today, Graham Co - 1888, it was still Pima Co re Map Guide to US Federal Census 1790-1920 by Wm Dollarhide]

James married Lucinda Gibson Strickland 21 Mar 1831. Lucinda was born 16 Jun 1805, Abbeyville District, South Carolina; died 11 Mar 1898, Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1805 BIRTH: SC-Abbeyville: Lucinda Gibson Strickland was born 16 June 1805, dau of Warren Gibson Strickland and Mary Anderson [re PAF Insight 27 July 2004-to check] Says Stricklin for last name on large pedigree chart by Fred Grow in Rawson-Coffin Gen book, copy in possession of Pam Wagner.

1831 MARRIAGE: James Edward Pace md Lucinda Gibson Strickland 21 Mar 1831 [no place shown]
[IGI Search on PAF Sight 27 July 2004: md Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co, TN-ck out]

1897-98 DEATH: UT,Washington Co-Washington [sev places show St George]: Lucinda Gibson Strickland died 11 March 1898 [or Mar 1897 by IGI search on PAF Insight 27 July 2004]