Richard Grow Lambert

Other Events:

• AFN: AF 4J1N-L6

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1928 BIRTH: CA,Alameda Co-Oakland: Richard Grow Lambert born 21 Jun 1928

MARRIAGE: Richard Grow Lambert md to Delores Hogan [no date or place shown]

1996 DEATH: CA,Mendocino Co: Richard Grow Lambert died 31 July 1996

HISTORY: CA,Mendocino Co-Ukiah: US Public Rcds for Richard G Lambert bn June 1928, street address: 1396 Yokayo Dr, Ukiah, Mendocina CA, 95482; phone 707-462-0540, Rcd #888561916. Household members: Lee A Lambert, Leeann H Lambert age 46 bn 1961, Leslie Lambert, Richard G Lambert, Richard G Lambert age 79 bn 1928.

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1901 BIRTH: UT,Salt Lake Co-Salt Lake City: Isaac Leroy Waddel Lambert born 20 January 1902, the son of James Cannon Lambert and Mary Mcallister Waddell

1930 CENSUS: CA,S-F Co-San Francisco Blk 1356: Anc.com Img 14, pg 7B, April-Dw 91/129-2845 Pierce St:
LAMBERT, Leroy W-head 28/UT (UT,Scot) md at 25-auto trimmer, renting; Margaret G
wife 24/OR (UT,UT) md at 22, no occ; Richard-son 1 9/12-CA (UT,OR)

1964 MARRIAGE #1: AZ,Maricopa-Mesa: nAF says md Emma Schreiner 8 September 1964 [bn 11 March 1904, Nuernberg, Mittelfranken, Bavaria, Germany; died 21 May 1986 [no place shown], buried 24 May 1986 Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa Co, AZ [bap 10 April 1912, E 23 June 1926 SL, SP 5 June 1913 SS Chariton Josiah Stringham 11 Aug 1926 SL Temple [md this date]

1927 MARRIAGE: Isaac Leroy Waddel Lambert md Margaret Esther Grow 27 August 1927; children Richard Grow Lambert; James Grow Lambert

1970 DEATH: AZ,Maricopa Co-Phoenix: Isaac Leroy Waddel Lambert died 4 June 1970

Isaac married Margaret Esther Grow 27 Aug 1927, Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States. Margaret (daughter of David Henry Grow and Mary Luetta Rawson) was born 10 Apr 1905, La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States; died 4 Jul 1963, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States. [Group Sheet]

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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

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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]

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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."

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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]

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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

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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