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Number 37 Jackson County, Missouri Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 People and Places Mormon Prisoners in Richmond, Missouri Addenda by Annette W. Cutis

It has come to my attention that I neglected to put a byline on the Richmond Missouri articles in the last issue. Many people will recognize it as the research and writing of Annette Curtis, however, for the record Annette is generally the researcher for, and author of, the articles without bylines. [Other authors are welcomed!]

In the last issue, on pages 6 and 7, I quoted Ebenzer Their mother’s sister Elizabeth who took James Henry to Robinson and Edward Partridge concerning the raise as her own was then the wife of Sidney A. Gilbert. unfinished brick courthouse in Richmond where most of These close family ties play an important part historically the Mormon prisoners were kept and where the court in the way things happened. Intermarriages with non- hearing convened. Mormon families also played a significant part in the Ebenezer Robinson wrote: “Tuesday November 13 succession of events. a space on the south end of the floor in the courthouse Of the three Rollins siblings, James Henry married was appropriated for the use of the court, which into a family who were members. Mary Elizabeth convened on that day, with Austin A. King on the bench, married a man who did not join the church but who and Thomas C. Burch, state’s attorney, when the followed the church migrations and whose family prisoners [Joseph and Hyrum Smith and the others who remained friendly. Caroline married a member who were first taken to Independence], together with those apparently became disaffected. She died in the early confined in the courthouse, were arraigned for trial ... .” 1850s, hence we know very little about Caroline, while [The Return 2 (March 1890), p. 234.] we know considerable about James Henry and Mary E. who lived long, went to Utah and told their stories. In a sketch of the life of James Henry Rollins, Mary Elizabeth was also acquainted with Lilburn dictated by him to his daughter, Mary Osborn, and later Boggs. While living in Independence, she helped Peter re-written in 1924 by his youngest daughter, Idah M. Whitmer who was a tailor living in Lilburn Boggs’ home. Rollins Hamblin, with the assistance of Melissa R. Lee She helped to make “fine ruffled bosum shirts” for Heyborn [typescript HBLL], we can learn more about Lilburn Boggs and assisted in other sewing there. These that incident. First I will summarize a little, very positive associations would be very beneficial later. The informative background information from that sketch. associations affected the actions of Caroline’s husband as you will see, and even the actions of Lilburn Boggs. John Porter Rollins died about 1820 or 1821 leaving a widow and three small children who were James Henry In Far West after the Battle of Crooked River and Rollins (1816-1899) and two younger sisters, Mary Haun’s Mill, James Rollins tells of preparations made to Elizabeth and Caroline Rollins. The reader will defend themselves. Gen. Clark had not yet arrived but remember the actions of the girls in Independence in Rollins credits the army to Clark. “We tore down many 1834 in gathering the Book of Commandment pages. log houses and made breastworks of them.” He then Page 2 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION tells of the surrender: namely Mrs. George Harris and my aunt Bogg’s army appeared on Goose Creek with five Elizabeth Gilbert. I charged them severely for thousand men [an exaggerated estimate, it only talking to such men as they were our enemies, seemed like 5000, closer to 500 – awc]. I was and had come to destroy us as a people. They on guard most of the night, which was a little said to me, “Why Henry, we will not hurt them. rainy and very dark. The captain of the guard We did not come to destroy the women; but told me he would go home to get something to wanted the men to be subject to the law.” These eat and would return in a short time. But he did men went riding over the town after this, while not return; he buried his own sword and did the brethren were giving up their arms in the not appear among us any more. The next square [south of town], and prisoners were being day, as we were all gathered at the breast-works, taken out of their number that were in the we seen four men approaching us from the army square. Joseph and Hyrum were taken prisoners with a white flag. Two of us boys were ordered and threatened by many of the officers of the to go and meet them with a flag of truce, namely army to be shot or hung, but General Donaphan James H. Rollins and Chauncey L. Higbee. A and Atchison who were at the head of the considerable fuss was made by Hinkle to get a Liberty Grays, said they would leave the army piece of white cloth. At length, one man tore off entirely if such proceedings were carried out. ... his shirt flap, and tied it on a stick, and we both About this time [prisoners being taken] the started, armed with our pistols, and knives, Lightner brothers came up with a wagon, a myself carrying the flag. We went and met the prairie schooner, and they took Cleminson and men who were coming up from the army; they family, and Adam Lightner and my sister, his were to wit, a Mr. Huggins, a Mr. Gingell [sic] wife [Mary Elizabeth (Rollins) Lightner], and and two of the Pomeroy brothers. They talked family into this wagon. I was assisting them in very saucey to us because we met them with loading their bedding and they plead with me to arms, they having none. I told them that we did go with them, and take my young wife [Evaline not know what kind of men we were to meet. (Walker)] along, whom I had married on the They asked many questions regarding the people previous September 4, 1838. They finally that were in Far West, [Gov. Boggs wanted] persuaded me to go and they secreted me in the Sister Adam Lightner and family, John bottom of the wagon lying with my face Clemison’s family to come out of town and they downward, and they threw bedding on top of would kill all the rest. I told them that Mrs. me, and when they left I was in this position and Lightner was my sister [Mary Elizabeth Rollins], remained thus until we had passed safely and she did not want to go and leave the town, through the army, and for several miles distance, and I said I would stand by her regardless of life when I was relieved of this tiresome position. or death. Soon after this the army came up near We camped some 15 miles distance from Far our breast-works which was west of the town West that night in the open prairie, and made our [confused in direction, it was south], nearly half beds on the ground, and when we awoke in the a mile. Here they formed themselves into a morning there was 2 or 3 inches of snow above hollow square. Col. Hinkle had given up the us. town to General Clark, [sic, Gen. Lucas, Clark was not there yet] and others of the army, and The group proceeded on through Richmond and we were ordered first to march out to the army arrived at Pomeroy ferry. The women and children were and give up our arms. We marched out, playing taken in the yowl [small boat] and the wagon and team in with the band, Washington’s death march. We the ferry boat. Lightner and Rollins crossed together marched into the hollow square. At this time I after the small boat came back for them. The river was saw, as I turned around, two of the Jackson filled with floating ice. They went on to Abner / Abiah County mob whom I knew, namely Tom Wilson Lightner’s house near Lancaster, Missouri where he and William Baker. They jumped the barricade stayed about 5 days before a man named Raglin from with the horses. I then threw my drum from my Daviess County came looking for Mr. Rollins to pay for shoulders and gave it a kick which rolled it into land. Then two other men from Richmond came looking the square and followed these men up into town, for him as a witness. Rollins continues: where I found them before [his stepfather] John They then ordered me to get on to one of the M. Burk’s tavern talking with two women, horses behind one of them. It was snowing very MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 3

hard at the time. We went to the river where the settled, I obtained a horse, saddle, and bridle, ferry boats were lying awaiting their return. We and started, with my wife on the same horse, for crossed the river among the flowing ice. The Far West, 36 miles distance. It was quite cold, ferryman, Mr. Harwood, grinning at me, by and we had to ride and run alternately to get whose means I was traced to Lightner’s house. warm until we arrived, wearied at Far West in I then mounted as before behind one of the the night safely. We had not been home long, soldiers, and arriving at Richmond court house, Beaugard appeared in Far West and exacted my when General Clark appeared at the door, the step-father’s hotel [Burk], my father-in-law’s men saying, “here is the man you sent us for.” hundred acres of land [Walker], and 40 acres of He said, “You get down off the horse, and go in my own land, at least a thousand dollars worth the bull pen where sure enough there I found of other property for security for the five some 40 or 50 of our brethren... hundred dollars for my bail, or he would take me I was called the next morning when court back to prison. Some of the land that he wanted had convened and the state prosecutor read the lay 3 miles from Haun’s Mill. I had not heard charges which were treason, murder, arson, whether my wife’s father would consent to larceny, burglary. He asked me if I was guilty Beaurgard’s requirements or not. of any of these. I told him, “No, sir, I am not About this time, my wife’s brother, William guilty of none of them.” About 11 o’clock the Walker, brought a horse, saddle, and bridle and Prophet Joseph and Hyrum were brought portmanteau [a large bag], and told me to take into the court department which was situated the horse and skip. Beaugard, that evening, took on the same floor were we were kept. A pole me up stairs and told me if I didn’t produce was stretched across to keep us back from those men to go my security the next day, he Judge King and his court. I stood, close to the would take me back to prison. That night I pole, at the back of Joseph and Hyrum, and the saddled up the horse and mother gave me $16 to lawyers Donaphan and Atchison. A man was start with. C. L. Higbee and myself started brought in as witness against me, by the name of together. The young people at Far West had Odel, who testified that I had burned his house. gathered at a house half a mile out of town to bid I spoke openly, as I stood behind Joseph and us good-bye. We left them and rode 25 miles Hyrum, that he was a curly headed liar. Joseph that night and came to a deserted house. After turned his head toward me and said, “Shaw, feeding our horses some corn that was in the Henry, don’t say anything.” This saying caused crib, we laid down and remained there until some consternation in the court room. What was daylight and pressed on our journey, and at done about it, I don’t remember. We were kept sunset that day we crossed the mouth of the prisoners for several weeks. Grand River, 100 miles from Far West, when we put up at a house on the south side of Grand Isaac Allred had agreed to bail Rollins out after the River, where we stayed all night. Next morning hearing ended but could not. Rollin’s young wife rode we started on our journey towards Quincy. We from Lexington. He says she was dressed in a black silk stopped again that night and put up at a hotel, dress and looked very beautiful. She had been left at when we learned that the Mississippi River was Lightner’s all this time. Rollin’s brother-in-law, full of ice, and were not able to cross. A great Nathaniel Carr, was one of the guards while the young many of our people were there. C. L. Higbee couple were allowed to stay in Gudgels Hotel. parted with me here. This is the fifth day of our Nathaniel Carr was married to Caroline Rollins. journey. I followed down the river alone About 10 o’clock in the day I succeeded in obtained a crossing down the river at Clarksville, obtaining bail. My bail was fixed for all these and the same day I crossed the Illinois River 20 crimes and I was signed by the notorious miles from the city of Alton. I crossed that river Beaugard Methodist preacher, [and] Nathaniel and got to Alton a 9 o’clock that night having Carr, my brother-in-law. Soon after this was rode the same horse 350 miles in 5 days.

The Beaugard that James Henry Rollins refers to is probably Samuel Bogart who was a Methodist minister as well as a militia leader. How that relates to Nathaniel Carr, I am not sure – Aha, two people! Note next paragraph. The Lancaster where Adam Lightner’s brothers took the family was probably Lexington. The Lighter family was from Lancaster County, Penn. which may have caused confusion. — Annette Curtis Page 4 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Family Inter-relations among Some Missouri Mormon and Gentile Families by Annette W. Curtis

Keziah Ketura Van Benthuysen married John Porter married Margaret Weston, sister of Samuel Weston. Rollins. John Porter Rollins died about 1820 or 1821 in The relationship is not quite that way. John's sister, a shipwreck during a terrible storm while in Canada on Margaret Cleminson, had married Samuel Weston. business leaving her with three small children. They It is not surprising that both John Cleminson with were James Henry Rollins (born 1816 NY); Mary his wife Lydia (Lightner) and Samuel Weston and his Elizabeth (born 1818 NY) and Caroline (the youngest). wife Margaret (Cleminson) moved westward to the Keziah’s sister Elizabeth Van Benthuysen married future Jackson County. Samuel Weston and family were Algernon Sidney Gilbert in 1823 or 1829. Elizabeth among those settling in the area on Indian lands before took James Henry to raise as her own. Mary Elizabeth it was opened for white settlement. He was a contractor and Caroline also lived with the Gilbert family and their for the building of the permanent courthouse and was a mother Keziah was part of the extended family. member of the governing body of the county of Jackson. Mary Elizabeth Rollins was 10 years old when they Pearl Wilcox in Jackson County Pioneers (page moved to Kirtland, Ohio and she was living with the 276) says “The first proposed incorporation [of the Gilbert family. They had been there two years when town of Independence] involved a petition signed by 2/3 they heard of the Book of Mormon and Mary Elizabeth, of the taxable inhabitants of the town and approved on age 12, borrowed the only Book of Mormon in the area May 7, 1832. This set up a government for the town from Father Morley. She was so earnest in reading it apart from the county government. It set the city limits that Father Morley let her keep it. She and her mother, as all of the SW ¼ and the S ½ of the NW ¼ of Section Keziah, were baptized in October 1830. The Gilberts 2 Twp 49 Range 32. The first trustees of this proposed were baptized in Nov. 1830 or in 1831 in Ohio. incorporation were John Smith, Jones H. Flournoy, Algernon Sidney Gilbert (1789 CT-1834 Clay Co. John Clemison, John Modie, and Richard McCarty. MO) became a Mormon merchant in Independence while John Cleminson was well established in Jackson County his partner Newel K. Whitney ran their store in Kirtland, by 1832 and probably not yet a Mormon convert. Ohio in the early 1830s. The extended Gilbert family John Cleminson came to Jackson County. After A. S. Gilbert died from had come with his cholera when part of Zion’s Camp stayed with them in father to St. John’s, Clay County in 1834, Elizabeth and the children had to New Brunswick, make it on their own. Keziah remarried in Jan 1835 but Canada, then to her children remained with Elizabeth Gilbert until they Louisville, KY, and married. Later we find Elizabeth Gilbert in Mary later to Lexington, Elizabeth (Rollins) Lightner’s household. Lafayette Co., Mo. He While living in Missouri they became acquainted taught school and was with the Lightner family (non-Mormon). Mary a cabinet maker and Elizabeth Rollins married Adam Lightner in 1835 in carpenter. John Liberty [no record found, so possibly in Caldwell Cleminson served as County], Missouri. His older sister Lydia Lightner clerk of the Caldwell had been married to John Cleminson in Lafayette County circuit court and ex-officio Recorder of County on 5 Jan 1823 by Samuel Weston. Although Deeds through the exodus in 1839. John Cleminson was Adam Lightner was never baptized LDS he remained among over 40 men called to be examined as witnesses with Mary Elizabeth and with or near the Mormons, by the state at the hearing in Richmond. going far enough to seek work. Mary Elizabeth Rollins The Cleminsons remained in Caldwell County, Lightner tells of their moves and their trials both of which Missouri after the exodus and were living in Rockport were many. The mix of Mormon and non-Mormon gave Township for the 1840 census. He was living in them both advantages and additional dangers. Montrose, Iowa in 1842 when he wrote Joseph Smith John Cleminson was in what later became Lafayette asking for reconciliation. They went to Galena Illinois County as early as 1821. Some sources have said “until 1852.” They left Illinois in the fall of 1851, went (originally from Jenson, I think) that John Cleminson to Missouri to winter and outfitted for the trip west in MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 5 the early spring. [Note contradiction in year.] The The reoccurrence of given names throughout the emigrant Company went through Indian Territory, New various families as well as the interweaving of families Mexico and Arizona After losing some cattle so there can be quite confusing. I have found a lot of conflicting were not enough to pull the wagons they got to Tucson information, some of which is obviously wrong and stayed several months, finally arriving in San conjecture. Therefore, please expect some errors and Bernardino County where they farmed for five years and conflicts in this. then went to El Monte in 1857. The “Sources / References” includes more information, places to find further information and will An outline of the families and other bits of serve as a list of sources I used. I have not footnoted information for reader reference will help to make better where each bit came from. This is not intended to be sense of the stories as you read them here and elsewhere. scholarly but only to be helpful.

Three (3) Children of John Porter ROLLINS (1792 NH - ca 1820) & Keziah Ketura Van Benthuysen (1796 NY - 1877) [md2 to John M. Burk]

Rollins, James Henry (Independence Br) born 1816 May 27 NY died 1899 Feb 7 Lyman, Uintah Co Wyo. (living with children) raised from age 4 or 5 by Elizabeth vanBenthuysen Gilbert (wife of Sidney A.) bap 1832 June 1, abt 1½ bks w of temple bk, Jackson Co., Mo. 1838/39 indicted for Daviess Co., cause to Boone Co. He lived for a time in Calif. before settling at Minersville, Utah. (Polygamous marriage in 1851 to Hannah Humes, 13 children) Md 1838 Sep 4 Caldwell Co., Shoal Creek Evaline Walker (d/o Oliver & Nancy Walker)(bro William) SEE ALSO WALKER FAMILY born 1823 May 16 at Winchester, Randolph Co. IN died 1912 Sep 25 Lyman, Wyo. 10 CHILDREN 1 Horace Algernon Rollins born 1839 June 30 Alton, Iowa died 1839 Nov 6 2 John Henry Rollins born 1841 Feb 17 Lee, Iowa died 1887 Oct 19 Ariz. married Mary Pierson & Nancy Melinda West 3 Mary Amelia Rollins born 1843 Dec 27 Nauvoo, Ill. died 1917 SLC married John Wesley Osborne & Collins Rowe Hakes 4 Ephraim Edward Rollins born 1845 July 7 Nauvoo, Ill. died 1848 Aug 19 5 Nancy Evaline Rollins born 1849 Feb 16 SLC, Utah died 1854 Oct 5 6 Melissa Keziah Rollins born 1851 July 13 Cajon Pass, San Bernardino, CA died 1949 Sep 1 Caliente, Lincoln Co., NV married John Nelson Lee & Charles M. Heybourne 7 Charles Lyman Rollins born 1854 Nov 10 San Bernardino, CA died 1916 Sep 16 Lyman, Uinta, WY married 1875 Minersville UT to Ada Dotson 8 James Watson Rollins born 1856 May 23 San Bernardino, CA died 1917 Dec 10 Lyman, Uina, WY married Harriet Ann Eyre 9 Ida Minerva Rollins born 1862 Oct 2 Minersville, Beaver Co, UT died 1918 Oct 5 at Rock Springs, WY married Wallace Hamblin

Rollins, Mary Elizabeth born 1818 Apr 9 NY died 1913 Dec 17 Minersville UT at 95 baptized LDS 1830 Oct. went to Independence fall 1831 with Gilbert family married) 1835 Aug 11 Liberty Mo [no record found in Clay, Lafayette or Jackson counties] Adam Lightner born 1810 PA of Liberty MO died 1885 UT 10 CHILDREN SEE LIGHTNER Page 6 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Rollins, Caroline born 1820 May 1 Lima, Livingston County, NY died 1853 [abt. June] Farmington IL (west of Peoria) or 1856 Apr 15 Farmington, Iowa / died abt 1857 Apr 17 (See 1840 Iowa census tidbits [see p. 12]. Not found in 1850. Van Buren Co. In 1847 Nathaniel Carr found with household of 10 [rootsweb].) married) bef 1838 to Nathaniel Carr / Nathaniel John Kerr b. 1818[?] d. ? [alt dates: 1804-1862] The name of Nathaniel Carr appears among the numerous signers at a special meeting of the Kirtland Relief Society held on 2 Jan 1837 published in the Messenger and Advocate in March 1837. He was among those called as witnesses for the state at the Richmond, Mo. hearing. He interacted in the release of her brother James Henry Rollins from jail in Richmond, Missouri. [It is highly unlikely that he was born in the 1830s or died before he was married as some sources say.] James Rollins says he visited his sister Caroline at Farmington, Iowa in Feb 1846 in one of this trips to take people west from Nauvoo. It was the last time he saw her. She died (most likely in 1853) at Farmington, Iowa (or Ill.) and was attended 5 wks by her sister Mary Elizabeth Lightner leaving 4 ch, 2 boys & 2 girls. She “died strong in the faith of Mormonism” – M.E. Lightner. CHILDREN: Mary Jane 15, Frances 13, Orlando 11, William 7. Mary took Mary Jane with her and was to send for the others later. A descendent of Mary Jane gives the parents of Mary Jane as “Robert Kerr & Caroline Lightner.” [see p. 10] 1 Mary Jane Kerr born 1839 Dec 20 MO / 1838 died 1918 Jan 9 married Dewitt Clinton Howe 1870 Carriage maker in Fairbalt Co., Minn. 2 Frances Kerr born about 1841 / 1841 Jan 27 died 1860 May 18 married Alexander McCray 3 Orlando Kerr born about 1843 Illinois / 1842 Farmington, Van Buren Co, IA died 1876 Mar 3 4 William T. Kerr born about 1847 Iowa / 1846 Apr 16 Farmington, Iowa died 1920 Aug 5 Virginia Iowa Kerr born and died 1848 Farmington, Van Buren Co., Iowa

Keziah Ketura (Van Benthuysen) born 1796 NY died 1877 Jan 29 Horse Shoe Bend, Utah married 1) 1814 OR 1815 to John Porter Rollins SEE ROLLINS married 2) about 1831/1832 Zuriel Bunnell married 3) 1835 Jan 22 by Edward Partridge in Clay Co., Mo. “John M. Burk to Keziah Bunnell” Clay Co., Bk A p. 142 Filed Feb 25 SEE BURK

John Mattias Burk born 1793 Feb 4 OH died 1853 Jun 2 UT (Independence Br) married 1) 1821 Abigail Fellows Charles Allen Burk born 1823 Kirtland, Ohio Abi Salina Burk born 1825 married 2) 1835 Jan 22 Clay Co.“John M. Burk to Keziah Bunnell” Clay Co., Bk A p. 142 Filed Feb 25 Keziah Keturah (Van Benthuysen) Rollins Bunnell 1870 living in Utah with Phoebe’s family CHILD [half sister to Mary E. Rollins Lightner] Phoebe Jane Burk born 1836 Liberty, Clay Co, Mo died 1914 May26 Ogden, UT married 1854 Dec 28 Box Elder Co, Utah Edwin Bingham born 1832 May 5 VT died 1903 Feb 25 Ogden, Weber Co, Utah [sometimes as Brigham] he came from Utah to help Lightners and others go west

Algernon Sidney Gilbert born 1789 New Haven, Connecticut often “Sidney A.” died 1834 nr Liberty, Clay County, Mo. when Zion’s Camp brought cholera to the area. married 1829 Sep 21 Cuyahago Co., Ohio or 1823 Sep 21 or 30 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 7

Elizabeth Van Benthuysen born 1800 Aug 5 Albany, New York died 1891 July at Minersville, Beaver Co., Utah CHILDREN (apparently none survived) 1 Loyal

John CLEMINSON born 1798 Dec 28 Eng. died 1879 @ 80 in El Monte, California He had a sister Margaret born about 1787 (daughter of James (abt 1759 Eng) and Agnes Sands Cleminson (abt 1763 Eng)) who married Samuel Weston (1783 Oct 24 Ire. - 1846 Dec 18 Independence Mo.). married 1823 Jan 5 by S. Weston in Lafayette Co., Mo. [Bk. A, page 2, recorded 12 Feb 1823] Lydia LIGHTNER born 1800 July 11 PA died 1873 Aug 11 @ 73 Sister of Adam Lightner [Jr,], see LIGHTNER section for his family. CHILDREN, 4 dau & 2 sons & 3 infant deaths 1? Mary Cleminson born 1823 (Nauvoo Temple endowments 1846) 1 Laura Cleminson born 1825 Oct 4 Mo. lived in Nauvoo, Redress petition married George W. Durfee living 1850 in Illinois 2 Mary Margaret Cleminson born 1829 Apr 25 / 1823 Apr 23 married abt 1850 to Edward F. Miller 3 James Cleminson born 1833 Aug 7 4 Lydia Ann Cleminson born 1836 Mar 24 Mo. lived Nauvoo died 1925 June 27 Covina CA married Samuel Sylvester Reeves born 1827 Aug 22 lived San Diego, Calif. pioneer Children: Lydia Minnetta and Minnie Reeves Snodgrass b. 1867 5 Diantha Cleminson born 1839 Feb 23 married by 1860 to James D. Durfee 6 John Cleminson Jr. born 1842 Dec 8, Hancock Co., IL died 1917 July 24 California

Adam Lighner [Sr.] born 1776 of Lancaster, Pennsylvania [s/o John] died 1824 Sept 18 at Lexington, Mo. [Lancaster PA Journal obituaries, 4 Feb 1825] [see p. 11] married by 1800 Mary Trout born abt 1779 Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Penn. CHILDREN (10) 1 Lydia LIGHTNER born 1800 July 11 PA died 1873 Aug 11 CA married 1823 Jan 5 by S. Weston in Lafayette Co., Mo. [Bk. A, page 2, recorded 12 Feb 1823] John CLEMINSON / Clemenson SEE CLEMINSON

2 Abiah T. Lightner born: 1801 Oct 22 PA died CA 2nd Brigade (Mo.) in Osage War. married 1830 July 1 Lafayette Co., Mo. by R. Fristoe [Bk. A, page 8, recorded 5 July 1830] Jemima Snelling This is probably the “Abner living [1838] near Lancaster” but it was Lexington, Mo. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is where they came from. 3 Rachael Lightner born 1804 Feb 29 PA married 1826 Dec 24 by R.D. Morrow in Lafayette Co, Mo. [Bk. A, p. 6, recorded 27 Jan 1827] Hiram C. Meek 4 Isaac Lightner born 1807 Oct 22 PA In Civil War.

5 Adam LIGHTNER born 1810 Apr 14 PA baptized in St. James Episcopal Church died 1885 Aug 30 Minersville, Beaver Co., Utah He was never baptized Mormon. Grocer in Far West. married) 1835 Aug 11 Liberty Mo [no record found in Clay, Lafayette or Jackson counties] Mary Elizabeth Rollins born 1818 Apr 9 Lima, Livingston Co., NY died 1913 Dec 17 UT Page 8 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Some of the moves and events in their lives were:

Mary E. Rollins was baptized LDS 1830 Oct. and went to Independence in the fall of 1831 with Gilbert family. After the Caldwell County period they moved to Louisville KY abt 1838/9 since the authorities were looking for him during or after the Richmond hearing. Then they went to Alton, Illinois to join James H. Rollins. Soon after the birth of Florentine (1843 or 1844) a lightning strike stunned all of the family and demolished the house they were living in. The family moved to St. Croix Falls after John was born (1847 or 1848). 2 boys died 1848 Sep 12 or 1847 Sep 20: Miles 10 ½ & Florentine 3 ½ from a doctor’s “root” medicine. Others who tasted the root became very sick. The Lightners moved to Stillwater MN then to Wisconsin side of Lake St Croix then Stillwater and thereabouts. Algernon Sidney was 4 weeks old (1853) when Mary cared for her sister at Farmington in Iowa [sometimes given as in Illinois] for 5 weeks before Caroline died. [The Farmington they lived in was in Iowa. – awc] They seemed to fare best while managing hotels. It was no longer a good income in 1861 when the Civil War took their lodgers. Even before that she wrote Henry and they went to Hannibal, Mo. to wait for word from Henry, which did not come. The 1860 census caught them both in Hannibal and in Minnesota. In 1863 the Adam & Mary E. Lightner family went to St. Louis & on to Utah with European emigrants. Mary’s journal entries on that trip are very informative. Family members who made the trip were: Adam Lightner, Mary E., his wife & 5 children from Dakota, Minn. also Eliza Gilbert from Dakota, Minn. and Edwin Bingham from Minersville, Utah. In 1864 Adam Lightner and their son John went to California for awhile. 10 CHILDREN of Adam & Mary Elizabeth (Rollins) Lightner 5-1 Miles Henry Lightner born 1836 June 18 Far West, Caldwell Co, MO died abt 1848 / 1847 Sep 20 5-2 Caroline Keziah Lightner born 1840 Oct 18 “Half Breed tract” in Iowa, vicinity of Nauvoo, IL. died 1910 Dec 21 married 1858 Oct 18 to Thomas C. Jewell. 1880 living Springfield, Ill. 5-3 George Algernon Lightner born 184_/2 Mar 23 Nauvoo died abt 1842/3 Pontusuc 5-4 Florentine Matthias Lightner born 1843 May 3 /1844 Mar 23 IL died abt 1848/47 from root 5-5 John Horace Gilbert Lightner born 1848 Galena / 1847 Feb 19 IL died 1923 Nov 29 married 1870 Louisa Abigail Burk 5-6 Elizabeth Lightner born 1849 April 3 Stillwater, Washington Co, MN died 1927 CA married 1865 Utah to Joseph Orson Turley 5-7 Mary Rollins Lightner born 1851 / 1850 April 9 at Willow Creek, Wis died 1928 Dec 26 married Wm. Jenkins Carter after his death married cousin George Rollins 5-8 Algernon Sidney Lightner born 1853 Mar 25 WI or MN. died 1853 Nov 16/10 Willow River, WI 5-9 Charles Washington Lightnerborn 1857 Mar 17 Minn. died 1932 Oct 21 married 1883 Lydia Williams 5-10 Adam Jr. (10th child) born 1861 Oct 28 at Chisago, Chisago Co., MN died 1890 Sep 21 Utah

6 Jeremiah Lightner born 1813 July 6 married 1835 Mar 10 by a JP in Lafayette Co., Mo. [Bk. A, p. 16, recorded 25 Mar 1835] Jane White 7 Lucy Ann Lightner born 1816 Jan 19 8 Hyrum / Hiram Lightner born 1817 Nov 20 [a Hiram was in the Missouri Militia in the Mormon War] married 1846 May 21 by J.L. Yantis in Lafayette Co., Mo. [Bk. A, p. 43, recorded 26 Aug 1846] Mary Levisay [probably Livesay family whose name was used for Levasy, Missouri (note spellings) ac] 9 Missouri Lightner born 1820 Dec 30 10 John Lightner born 1823 Nov 27 Mary E. says that one of her husband Adam’s brothers, a Unionist, was killed at Lexington, Missouri in the Civil War, possibly John or Isaac. MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 9

Oliver Walker born 1782 died 1843 married 1803 Nancy Creessy — widow in Nauvoo, Illinois They lived in Jackson, Clay and Caldwell counties in Missouri. 1 John R. Walker born 1804 NY Ancestral File is of no help. It says b. 1804 May wounded at Haun’s Mill 13 NY; died 1813 July 1; married 1825 Mar 1 to married ? ? Nancy (name appears in only 1 of 3 deeds Susanna Ennis. [died 12 yrs before married!] in 1845/6) [see sidebar]

2 William C. Walker born abt 1805 / 1807 NY [AF] married [bef 1845] / 1832 Feb 6 [AF] Rachel / Rachel Wright [AF]

3 Mary Ann Walker born 1808 Dec 13 [AF] married) 1824 Mahlon / Mallin/ Merlon Johnson born 1803 NJ s/o Jacob Jr. died 1858 Lived in Jackson, Clay and Caldwell counties left redress petition; at Haun’s Mill 11 Johnson Children

4 Dionetia / Denecia / Donitia Walker born 1815 single 1845

5 Nancy Reeder Walker born 1817 Ohio died 1847 Winter Quarters [AF] married 1834 prob Indiana / Randolph Co., Indiana [AF] Horace Martin Alexander born 1812 died 1817 lived in VA & KY and in Clay and Caldwell counties MO (name given as William in a deed 1845) CHILDREN included: Frances Evaline Alexander born 1836 Sep 1 nr Liberty, Clay Co MO Nancy Alexander born 1839 Madison Co IL & others later

6 Evaline/ Eve E./ Evelin Walker born 1823 married 1838 Caldwell County, Missouri James Henry Rollins born 1816 SEE ROLLINS

SOURCES / REFERENCES: ROLLINS An address at BYU, April 14, 1905, typescript, BYU. “Testimony of Mary Elizabeth Lightner.” “Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, autobiography” published in The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 17 (July 1926): 183-205, 250-260. This may be found online at www.ldshistory.net/pcmerlmauto.htm. Caldwell County Deeds, Book B, pages 102-103, 107-101 Heirs of Oliver Walker. A sketch of the life of James Henry Rollins, dictated by him to his daughter, Mary Osborn, and later re-written in 1924 by his youngest daughter, Idah M. Rollins Hamblin, with the assistance of Melissa R. Lee Heyborn [typescript HBLL] The Return 2 (March 1890), p. 234. (James Henry Rollins) Census 1870 Utah Terr., Beaver Co., Minersville M583, roll 1610, page 27. Edwin Bingham 37 Trader $200re $600pp VT; Phebe 34 MO; Edwin F. 14 drives team UT; Bertrand A. 13; Phebe K. 11; Ida E. 8; May ? 5; Henry D. 3; Kesiah Burke 74 NY.

Bob Juch’s Kin - James Henry Rollins & Evaline Walker – www.juch.org/gedpagefam/fam02939.asp Page 10 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Site found using a Google search for “Nathaniel John Kerr” – in RootsWeb homepages: Frank2 - aqwg05 - Generated by Ancestral Quest. Includes LDS Temple data Census 1840 — see “1840 Iowa Census Tidbits” on page 12 herein Census 1860 Minnesota, Chisago County, Wyoming twp. M653, roll 573, page 17 De Wit Howe 38 VT, wheelwright $600re $300pp; Mary J. [nee Kerr] 21 MO; Albert 4 MN; Simon 2 MN; Frank 6/12 MN; William KERR 13 Iowa. Census 1860 Minnesota, Washington County, Marine twp. M653, roll 576, page 411. Orlando Kerr 17 , raftsman, living in hotel. Census 1870 Minnesota, Rice County, Faribalt. T132, roll 9, page 346. Howe, Dewitt 49 VT Carriage maker $200 pp; Mary J. [Kerr] 30 MO, keeping house; Albert D. 14 MN, clerk in store; Franklin 10 MN at school; Edwin 3 MN; Fred ? [or Franklyn] 5/12 MN January.

LIGHTNER Census 1840 — see “1840 Iowa Census Tidbits” on page 12 herein Census 1850, Wisconsin, Croix Falls County, Croix Falls. M432, roll 1006, stamped page 4b, line1 Adam Lightner 40 farmer PA $500; Mary 30 NY; Caroline 10 Iowa; John 3 IL; Elizabeth 1 Wis.; Elisabeth Gilbert 32 NY. Census 1860 Minnesota, Washington County, Marine Twp. 5 June 1860 M563, roll 576, p. 407b. Adam Lightner 50 MO Hotel Keeper; Mary E. 40 NY; John 13 IL; Elizabeth 11 MN; Mary 9 MN; Charles 7 MN; Elizabeth Gilbert 65 NY. Census 1860 Missouri, Marion County, Hannibal. 29 August 1860 M653, roll 632, page 827. Adam Lightner 50 PA, no occupation; Mary 40 NY; John 13 IL; Elizabeth 11 Wis; Mary 10 Wis; Charles 8 Minn.; Elizabeth Gilbert 55 NY. Census 1870 Utah, Beaver County, Beaver. M593, roll 1610, p. 17. Adam Lightner 62 carpenter $300re $150pp PA; Mary E. 51 school teacher NY; John 22 carpenter IL; Charles 12 at home MN; Adam 8 MN. Census 1880 Utah, Beaver County, Minersville. T-9, roll 1335, page 26.2 ED2. Census 1880 Illinois, Sangamon County, Springfield. T-9, roll 249, page 191C Thomas Jewell 44 DC, Attorney; Caroline [nee Lightner] 39 Iowa keeping house; Thomas 21 MN dept city clerk [?]; Ellen 18 IL married, at home; Mary 15 IL; Maude 13 IL; Bertha 8 IL; Phelix Camson son-in- law 33 Ire, Clerk; Olive Camson g-dau 3 mos IL.

See Deseret Evening News Sept. 8, 1885, page 2 for obituary of Adam Lightner.

October 24, 2000 posting on Genealogy.com by Carolyn King Gerik: “I have an Adam Lightner 45 born Penn Cabinet Maker born ca 1812 with wife Mary E 38 NY born 1819. This info is from Inhabitants of Marine in the County of Washington Township, Territory of Minnesota 16 Oct 1857. Issue [sic, others] listed: Caroline, John, Elizabeth, Mary R., Charles W., another Elizabeth [Gilbert] 50 yrs old, Frances Kerr [Caroline’s daughter], Charles Smith.” E-mail [email protected] “My relationship is Robert Kerr and Caroline Lightner parents of Mary Jane Kerr who married Dewitt Clinton Howe in Marine. Mary Jane was born 20 Dec 1839 in MO. I had an aunt that said the Howe family were Mormons, but never gave it much credence. Most of the Howe family were Church of Christ.”

History of Lafayette County, Missouri, 1881, pages 209, 211, 212. In the first county bill of expenses in 1821 July 24, Adam Lightner was paid for furnishing the circuit court with houses, two terms, 3 days each term at $1.50 per day — $9.00 and another entry “To Adam Lightner, for furnishing county court with houses two terms, at $1.25 per day, 3 days in all — $3.75. On 1821 April 24 “a license was issued to Adam Lightner to keep a ferry across Tabo Creek, for which he paid a tax of two dollars. The ferriage rates fixed by the court were: For one passenger, three cents; horse, three cents; cattle, three cents each; hogs or sheep, two cents each; carriage or cart, twenty-five cents; wagon and team, thirty-seven and a half cents.” “July 24 [1821], Abel Owen and Henry Renick were appointed to lay off Snia-bar township into suitable and convenient road districts. And the same day a license was granted to Adam Lightner, to keep a tavern [lodging, MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 11 food and drink, an hotel]; for this license he paid $12 per year. The same day also Michael Ely was licensed to sell merchandise; this license cost $30 per year.

Adam Lighner (born 1776 s/o John, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania) died 1824 Sept 18 at Lexington, Missouri. Lancaster [PA] Journal obituaries, 4 February, 1825: “At Lexington, Missouri, on 18 September last, Adam Lightner in his 49th year, formerly of Leacock Township, Lancaster County, leaving widow and 9 children.” – GPC, Baltimore book. [posted by Paul Lightner Whitehouse on Genealogy.com] [I have not verified this source. - awc]

CLEMINSON Far West Record, page 255 short biography

History of the Church, vol. 3, page 210 (John Cleminson was among the men examined at the Richmond hearing), page 410 (three persons to be brought out of the city [Lightner family] before they should massacre the rest), footnote pages 359-360 (John Cleminson signed certificate that Gen Clark had modified the terms, allowing the Mormons until spring to leave).

Jackson County Pioneers by Pearl Wilcox, page 276. Independence Becomes a City – The first proposed incorporation involved a petition of May 7, 1832. The first trustees of this proposed incorporation of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, were John Smith, J. H. [Jones Hoy] Flournoy, John Cleminson, John Modie, and Richard McCarty.

BYU Studies - Online Indexes for short biography of John Cleminson

USGENWEB Project for biography of John Cleminson, Los Angeles County, California.

See records of Nauvoo Temple Endowments: 31 Jan 1846 Cleminson, Lydia born 11 July 1800 Cleminson, John born 28 Dec 1798 Cleminson, Mary born 23 Apr 1823

Wagon Tracks, Volume 8 (1995) Number 3, pages 7-11 “John James Cleminson Diary: Part 1” The article includes a picture of John & Lydia Ann (Lightner) Cleminson from a tintype taken in California about 1865, about 15 years after they made the trip. Family members making the trip in the early 1850s were: John, Lydia and 6 children (Laura, Mary Margaret, James, Lydia Ann, Dianta, and John). It took about a year for them to make the trip from Independence, Missouri to California. Samuel Sylvester Reeves went with them, drove a wagon for his passage and married Lydia Ann after they arrived.

Census 1840 Missouri, Caldwell County, Rockport twp. roll 221, pag 183. Cleminson, John 1 male 40-50 [John], 1 male age 5-10 [James]; 1 female 40-50 [Lydia]; 2 females under 5 [Lydia Ann & Diantha]; 2 females 10-15 [Mary Margaret & Laura]. Census 1850 Illinois, Carroll County Carroll twp. M432, roll 99, page 392. George W. Durfee 27 OH farmer; Laura [nee Cleminson] 25 MO; Charles A. 3 IL; Lydia Cleminson 14 MO. Census 1860 California, Los Angeles County, El Monte township, page 266 Reeves, S. S. 30 KY farmer $150pp; Lydia [nee Cleminson] 24 MO keeping houses; Alice A. 7 CA; Mary G 5 CA; Ellen 3 CA; Lueetta[?] 10/12 CA; T. B. Goodnight 23 MO day laborer; James D. Durfy [Durfee] 21 IL day laborer; Dorintha Durfy [nee Cleminson] 21 MO housekeeper; and 6 male Indian day laborers ab CA. Clemenson, John 60 Eng farmer $500re $300pp; Lydia [nee Lightner] 60 PA house keeper; James 27 MO farm laborer; John 18 IL farm laborer; Edward F. Miller 27 NY farmer $140pp; Mary [nee Mary Margaret Cleminson] 30 MO house keeper; Henrietta 8 IL; Eugene 5/12 CA. Page 12 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION 1840 Iowa Census Tidbits M704, roll 102. Half-breed tract (later Lee County, Iowa) [pages after Fort Madison which ends p. 190 thru page 217] in Township 66 North, Range 5 West: (page 199) Amasa Lyman, James Lemon, Nathan Tanner, Calvin Beebe (page 200) Brigham Young in Township 66 North, Range 6 West: (page 201) Wheeler Baldwein, Israel Barlow, David Pettigrew, Wiley Alred, Henry & Louis Zabriska in Township 67 North, Range 6 West: (page 204) Timothy B. Clark [Timothy Baldwin Clark, aka Father Clark] (page 205, li. 11) Henry Rollings [sic, Henry Rollins] 1 male aged 20-30, 1 female aged 15-20 (page 205, li.21) John Burke [step-father of J. Henry Rollins, Mary Elizabeth Lightner & Caroline Carr/Kerr] 1 male 45-50 [John], 1 male 15-20 [possibly Caroline’s husband, Nathaniel Carr] 1 female 40-50 [Keziah], 1 female 10-15 [Caroline should be 20] and 1 female under 5 [possibly Caroline’s daughter, Mary Jane]. Van Buren County begins on page 259 and ends on page 279. Farmington (page 277, line 11) Adam Lightner (3 employed in manufactures or trade) males: 1 age 30-40 [Adam]; 3 age 20-30; 1 under 5 yrs [Miles age 4]. females: 1 age 20-30 [Mary E.]; 1 age 15-20; 2 under 5 yrs. [The couple about 20 could be Caroline and Nathaniel Carr, with their 2 girls under 5 and two more men working as carpenters.] [This census was completed in August 1840. According to Mary they moved to Farmington in November. One of those dates is wrong. The census and her account would indicate that 6 adults and 3 children lived in one room, or maybe part of them slept in the shop room. – see Mary’s account below.]

Left: The Half Breed Tract. Notice Commerce and Montrose. Below: Lee County, Iowa and environs. Notice Montrose. Notice Farmington on the De Moines River just barely west of Lee County called the Half Breed Tract in 1840.

Annotated Excerpt from the Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner As soon as my husband was able to be around so as to take care of our boy [they had subsisted on corn meal and molasses too long - awc], I went from house to house and procured a number of scholars for lessons in painting. We went to board with a private family at four dollars a week for both of us. I continued teaching until I had sixty dollars, besides paying board. I felt quite rich. Although in poor health, yet I traveled through the hot sun to different houses, some a good distance from others, to get means to go to Montrose [in Iowa across the Mississippi River from MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 13

Nauvoo], where I might find my mother [Keziah Burke], for I was near to be confined the second time [about to have her second baby]. So we took deck passage to Montrose (which was across the Mississippi River from Nauvoo) and found Mr. Burt [sic, John Burk or Burke, her step father] had moved ten miles from there, onto what was called the half breed tract. We hired a team and went there, we found them living in a small log hut, only one room in it. We were joyfully received, and on October 18th [1840], my daughter Caroline Keziah was born. When she was three weeks old we moved to Farmington, ten miles from the half breed tract, [see maps above] situated on the Des Moines River. Mother lent us a bed, knives and forks, gave us a few quarts of flour (for she had but little herself) and some other necessities, while an Irishman gave us a bushel of potatoes and some squash. [Mary Lightner Autobiography, UG&HM 17 (1926), p.201 - p.202] We commenced housekeeping [in Farmington, Iowa] in two rooms, one Mr. Lightner used for a shop, as there was no one there that could make furniture. The people gladly let him have all the tools and lumber he wanted, and would take his work for pay. We did well for nearly two years. I obtained work from a tailor and earned all my clothes, and the children, for we were anxious to save enough to get a home of our own, which we did by building a frame house composing one large room, which we expected to add to as we were able. In the meantime he bought a great deal of choice lumber to season for bureaus, tables, etc. Finding our house not in a healthy part of the place, we sold it for two hundred dollars cash, and as he wanted mahogany and some other things that he could not get at home, he went to Montrose for them. He had been there but a short time when a steamboat came in and brought the report that the bank where our money was deposited had failed and we only got twenty-five dollars for our hundred. We were about discouraged, but this was not all, for on looking out one morning, he found his kiln, in which he was seasoning his lumber, on fire. Not a plank was saved. What to do to pay our debts and live, with winter coming on, we did not know. While in this dilemma [about 1842?], Mr. Burt [John Burk], my step-father, came over from Nauvoo to visit us, he saw our situation and offered us a home with him until we could do better. It seemed a "God-send" to us, and we gladly hailed the opportunity. So in January [1842 or 1843], we, Mr. Burt, myself and two children, crossed the Mississippi River on the ice. It was late in the evening and he did not dare to take his team. So we walked across the river and up the hill near the Temple where he lived. Next morning the ice was all broken up, and it was days before he could get his team across. On the 23rd of March [1842 or 1843] I was confined with my third child, we called him George Algernon. Mr. Lightner had settled up his business in Farmington, paid his debts by giving up all his tools, etc., which left us poor indeed, but as some of the brethren owed us nearly two thousand dollars, we thought we could get some of it to help us, but those that owed us the most, took the benefit of the bankrupt law and refused to pay us. One man offered to let us have a barrel of pork and a coffee pot, if we would give him back his note of five hundred dollars, which we held. We did this and was very thankful for it; but not for long, for when we opened the barrel we found the meat sour and full of weevils. [Mary Lightner Autobiography, UG&HM 17 (1926), p.202 - p.203] My husband could get no work [in Nauvoo], and I commenced teaching painting to Julia Murdock Smith, to Steven Mark's daughter; and to Sarah Ann Whitney. I also procured a lot a block below the Prophet Joseph Smith's mansion; but as we could get no more work in Nauvoo. Mr. Lightner found a job cutting cord wood, 15 miles up the river, at a place called Pontusuc. [Pontoosac is on the Mississippi River in Illinois directly east of Fort Madision, Iowa and ENE of Nauvoo.] He got a little log room with a floor made of logs split in two, and very rough. Page 14 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Public Land Survey System

Note the “principal meridian” and the “base line.” Also note the R1W, R2W, etc. of the principal meridian and the T1S and T2S of the base line markings on this drawing. See T2S, R2W expanded (a township). The township/range block is commonly called simply a township or sometimes a survey township to prevent confusion with the political or named township in the mid-west.

Caldwell County is North of the base line and West of the 5th Principal Meridian. Caldwell County is 3 townships high and 4 townships wide. In other words Caldwell County, Missouri is18 (3x6) miles North-South and 24 (4x6) miles East-West. Put in those terms no wonder the Mormons were upset by the size of the county!

The township squares are divided into sections, each 1 mile square. The sections are numbered within a township from the upper right corner to the lower right in an alternating manner. (1 to 6 are numbered from right to left, 7 to 12 from left to right, etc.) These one mile squares we call sections. To describe a location, a section is quartered, then the quarters are quartered again. The location of the star in the accompanying figure would be described as the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, section thirteen, township two south, range two west. The shorthand for this is SE ¼, SE ¼, NE ¼, sec 13, T2S, R2W, or even more simply as the SE SE NE Sec 13 T2 R2. “Quarter” or “qr” are also used for ¼. [My thanks to geology.isu.edu/geostac/Exercise/topomaps/plss.htm for the graphic and the basis for this explanation.] 40 rods = 660 feet = 1/8 mile 40 by 40 rods = 10 acres ( right illustration) MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 15

CALDWELL COUNTY DEED BOOKS REVEAL HISTORICAL FACTS A few selected entries transcribed Nov 2005 by Annette W. Curtis

In compiling information for a new book on early Caldwell County land transactions I went to the oldest deeds (not the then current transactions) filed after the 1860 Caldwell County courthouse fire. I think some of them will be of interest to Missouri Mormon Frontier readers so I will include a few in this issue. I still have considerable work to do on this project. The first set illustrates a transaction between Mormons in 1837 and the disposition of that land in 1839 during the Mormon expulsion to someone who would buy it from a Mormon and finally a sale within the year to someone who lived in the county and may have farmed the land. The 1845 deeds by the heirs of Oliver Walker, then in Hancock County, Illinois, illustrate a Caldwell County, Missouri land sale which was made well after their expulsion from Missouri and while they were living in and around Nauvoo, Illinois. They also include some Mormon owned land in Livingston County. The Oliver Walker heirs sold a considerable amount of land to George Walter in the 1840s. I think this George Walter is the person sometimes named as a member who left the church and stayed in Missouri. This would explain his contacts and location in Caldwell County at the critical time for acquiring Mormon land. Note that one of the heirs was married to James Henry Rollins. Notice also that the attorney [likely as power of attorney] is Adam Lightner who is the husband of Rollins' sister, Mary Elizabeth. Adam Lightner became part of the Mormon community and he was never baptized, but he and his wife stayed with the Mormons. Adam Lightner had been a grocer in Far West. His sister Lydia had earlier married John Cleminson who became Mormon and we only assume that Lydia did also. The last in this group of deeds concern George M. Hinkle. The first deserves more research and concerns debts. The other deed is for an interesting sale of Mormon owned land in 1861. John M. Hinkle was in Iowa and a buyer for his land contacted him there, well after one would expect activity on the subject to have ceased. Note that Hinkle wanted it abundantly clear that he was THE George M. Hinkle who had been a noted Mormon in Caldwell County. This sale would indicate that Hinkle paid the taxes in the intervening years. One would also expect that the land would not have set idle and that he would have rented the land to someone who lived in Caldwell County, at least for part of the years between 1839 and 1861. Unfortunately deeds will not tell us that. No land ownership plats were published before about 1877 and even if there were, they would not tell us who used the land. Dates to keep in mind: Haun’s Mill attack occurred on 31 Oct 1838. The Richmond hearing was in November of 1838. The Mormons were ordered to leave Missouri in October and November of 1838. All of the deeds (and alas, marriage records too) recorded in Far West were lost in the 1860 courthouse fire. The book and page in which the early deeds were recorded is interesting but not helpful for accessing an extant document.

Book A, pages 460-461 — John & Rhoda Cooper to Pierce Hawley – 1837 $100 W ½ SE NW Sec 15, T55 R29 (20a) & 10 a. in Sec 10, T55 R29 SW of NE of SE This Indenture made and entered into this 23rd day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven by and between John Cooper and Rhoda Cooper his wife of the County of Caldwell and State of Missouri of the first part and Pierce Hawley of the County of Caldwell and State of Missouri of the second part. Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars to us the said party of the first part by the said party of the second part paid and sold and by these presents doth give grant bargain sell and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever a certain lot piece or parcel of land lying and being the West half of the South East fourth of North West forth of Section No. fifteen Township No. fifty five North of the baseline and West of the fifth principal meridian Range No. twenty nine containing twenty acres also ten acres in Section No. ten in Town- No. fifty five in Range No. twenty nine commencing at the South West corner of the North East fourth of the South East quarter of Section No. ten running forty rods North thence forty rods East thence forty rods South thence forty rods West to the Page 16 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

place of beginning containing ten acres to have and to hold the above described tract piece or parcel of land and bargained premises with the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said party of the second part and [to his heirs and] assigns forever and the said party of the first part [Bk. A, page 461] for themselves their heirs executors and administrators hereby covenant to and with the said party of the second part and their heirs and assigns the said tract piece or parcel of land and bargained premises and every part parcel thereof unto him the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns doth and will forever warrant and defend against the right title claim interest or estate of all and every person or persons whatever by these presents. In witness whereof the said party of the first part herewith have set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. John Cooper (LS) State of Missouri Rhoda Cooper (LS) County of Caldwell Be it remembered that on this 23rd day of December A D 1837 before me Isaac Higbee one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid personally appeared John Cooper and Rhoda his wife who are personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within and foregoing deed as having executed the same as parties thereunto and severally acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned she the said Rhoda being by me first made acquainted with the contents thereof and examined separate and apart from her husband whether she executed the said instrument of writing freely voluntarily and without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband acknowledged and declared that she executed the said deed and relinquishes her dower in the said lands and tenements therein mentioned voluntarily freely and without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband. Isaac Higbee (seal) State of Missouri County of Caldwell I, John Cleminson Clerk of the Circuit Court and ex-officio Recorder within and for the County aforesaid do certify that the within deed from John Cooper and wife to Pierce Hawley was filed in my Office October 19th 1839 and was duly recorded in Book D, pages 273 & 274. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Far West the day and year last aforesaid. John Cleminson Filed for record, Dec. 17th 1866. Clerk & ex-officio Recorder Lemuel Dunn Clerk & Recorder By H. B. Nelson Deputy.

A:459-460 — Pierce Hawley & Sally to Henry Root – 1839 Feb 1 $75 W ½ SE ¼ NW ¼ Sec 15 T55 R29 (20a) SW ¼ of NE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 10 T55 R29 (10a) [x marks this ¼ of ¼ of ¼]

This Indenture made this twenty first day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine between Pierce Hawley and Sally his wife of the one part and Henry Root of the Town of Dewitt, County of Carroll and State of Missouri Witnesseth that the said Pierce Hawley and Sally his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Seventy five dollars to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained and conveyed and confirmed and doth by these presents grant bargain sell convey and confirm unto Henry Root his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Caldwell and State of Missouri viz, it being the West half of the South East fourth of North West fourth of Section No. fifteen Township fifty five North of the baseline and West of the fifth principal Meridian Range number twenty nine containing twenty acres also ten acres in Section number ten in Township number fifty five Range number twenty nine commencing at the South West corner of the North East fourth of the South East quarter of Section No. ten running forty rods North thence forty rods East thence forty rods South thence forty rods West to the place of beginning containing ten acres. To have and to hold the above described tracts or parcels of land and bargained premises with the appurtenances thereunto belonging in MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 17

anywise appertaining to the Said premises unto the said Henry Root his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Pierce Hawley and Sally his wife the aforesaid premises unto the said Henry Root his heirs and assigns against the claim or claims of all and every person whom-soever do and will warrant and forever find by these presents. In witness whereof the said Pierce Hawley and Sally his wife parties of the first part and hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year just above written. Signed sealed and delivered in the Pierce Hawley (seal) presence of E. B. Cabell, Sally Hawley (seal)

State of Missouri County of Chariton Be it remembered that on this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty nine before me the undersigned Clerk of the Circuit court within and for the County of Chariton & State of Missouri came Pierce Hawley and Sally Hawley whose names are subscribed to the foregoing deed as having executed the same and severally acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. She the said Sally Hawley being by me first made acquainted with the contents thereof and examined separate and apart from her husband whether she executed the said deed and relinquishes her right title interest and estate in the said lands and tenements therein mentioned voluntarily freely and without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband acknowledged and declared that she did execute the said deed and relinquishes her right title interest [page 460] and estate in and to the said lands and tenements therein mentioned freely and voluntarily and without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband. Taken and certified and given under my hand on this same day and year last aforesaid. Edward B. Cabell Clerk State of Missouri County of Caldwell I, John Cleminson Clerk of the Circuit Court and ex-officio Recorder within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the within deed from Pierce Hawley and wife to Henry Root was filed in my Office 19th October 1839 and duly recorded in Book D, pages 274, 275 & 276. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court at Far West the day and year last aforesaid. John Cleminson Filed for record Dec 17th 1860. Clerk & ex-officio Recorder. Lemuel Dunn Clerk & Recorder, By H. B. Nelson, Deputy.

Pierce H awley’s purchase from John & Rhoda Cooper was sold by Root to Kezer at his purchase price, $ 7 5 A:465-6 — Henry Root of Carroll Co. to Frederick Kezer of Caldwell Co. 1839 Oct 19 $75 W ½ SE NW Sec 15 T55 R29 (20a) 10 a in Sec 10 T55 R29 – SW NE SE Recorded at Far West on 19 Oct 1839 in Book D pages 276 & 277. Filed for record Dec 17th 1860.

B:102-103 — Heirs of Oliver Walker to George Walters 1845 Nov 7 $425 Lot 2 of the NW ¼ Sec 7 T56 R25 (Livingston County) (95.07a) E ½ SE Sec 1 T56 R26 (80a) E ½ NE & E ½ SE & SW NE & NW SE Sec 12 T56 R26 S ½ W ½ NE Sec 28 T56 R29 (40a) [same as SW NE] S ½ NE NE Sec 28 T56 R29 (20a except ½ acre in SE corner) S ½ NW NE Sec 28 T56 R29 (20a) (in all about 500 acres) This Indenture made and entered into this twenty seventh day of November A.D. eighteen hundred and forty five by and between Adam Lightner Attorney in fact for Nancy Walker, John R. Walker, William C. Walker and Rachel his wife, Mahlon Johnson and Mary Johnson his wife, Donitia Walker, Horace M. Page 18 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Alexander and Nancy his wife, James H. Rollins and Evelina his wife (lawful heirs and of full age to the Estate of Oliver Walker deceased) of the county of Hancock and State of Illinois of the first part and George Walters of the County of Caldwell and State of Missouri of the second part Witnesseth that the said part of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred and twenty five dollars to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have this day bargained and sold and by these presents does bargain sell alien release confirm convey and transfer unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever all the following described pieces or parcels of land situate lying and being in the County of Caldwell and Livingston and State of Missouri to wit. Lot No. two of the North West quarter of Section No. Seven Township No. fifty six in Range twenty five (in Livingston County) containing ninety five & 7/100 acres. Also East half of South East quarter of Section No. one in Township fifty six of Range twenty six containing eighty acres, Also the East half of the North East quarter and East half of South East quarter and South West quarter of North East quarter and North West quarter of South East quarter of Section No. twelve Township No. fifty six and Range No. twenty six. Also the South half of the West half of the North East quarter of Section twenty eight, Township fifty Six and Range twenty nine containing 40 acres, Also, the South half of North East quarter of North East quarter of Section twenty eight, Township fifty six and Range twenty nine containing 20 acres except a half acre lying in the South East corner Also the South half of the North West quarter of the North East quarter of Section twenty eight, Township fifty six and Range twenty nine containing twenty acres, containing in all five hundred acres be the same more or less. To have and to hold the said tract of land together with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining unto the said George Walters his heirs and assigns forever to his and their proper use and benefit and the said party of the first part covenants to and with the said party of the second part that the said party of the first part is seized in fee of said land above described and have good right to sell and convey the same in manner and form as in this deed written and that the said land is free from all incumbrance and the said party of the first part by the power invested bind the said Nancy Walker, John R. Walker, William E. Walker and Rachel his wife, Mahlon Johnson and Mary Johnson his wife, Danilia Walker, Horace M. Alexander and Nancy his wife, James H. Rollins and Evelina his wife forever to warrant and defend the above granted and sold land to him the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever free from all lawful claims or claims of any person or persons whatsoever. In testimony whereof, the said party of the first part have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals this the day and date above written. [widow] Nancy Walker (seal) [son] John R. Walker (seal) [son] William Walker (seal) [dau-in law] Rachel Walker (seal) [son-in-law] Mallin Johnson (seal) [daughter] Mary Johnson (seal) [dau] Dionita Walker (seal) [son-in-law] Wm. Alexander (seal) [daughter] Nancy Alexander (seal) [son-in-law] James Rollins (seal) [daughter] Evelin Rollins (seal) By Adam Lightner (seal) the Attorney

State of Missouri County of Caldwell Be it remembered that on this 17th day of November A.D. 1845 personally appeared before me Joseph C. Hord Clerk of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid Adam Lightner who is personally known to me to be the person who is the Attorney in fact for the grantors named in the foregoing deed and who acknowledged the signing and sealing the foregoing instrument of writing to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of said court at Office in Kingston this day and date last above written. I. C. Hord, Clerk MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 19

State of Missouri By I. H. Bryam D. C. County of Caldwell I Elliot Roberts Clerk of the Circuit Court and ex-officio Recorder within and for the County aforesaid do certify that the within and foregoing deed of conveyance was filed in my Recorders Office for record on the 17th day of November AD 1845 and the same was duly recorded by me in Book G, at page 160 & forward. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at Office in Kingston this the 8th day Dec’r A.D. 1845. Elliot Roberts, Recorder By J. H. Bryan, D.C. Filed for record Sept 9th 1861 Lemuel Dunn Clerk & Recorder. By R. B. Nelson Deputy

B:107-108 — Nancy Walker wife of Oliver Walker deceased, John R.Walker, William Walker & Rachel Walker his wife, Mary Ann Johnson, Horace M. Alexander and Nancy Alexander his wife, James H. Rollins and Eveline Rollins his wife (heirs) all of Hancock Co IL to George Walter 1846 May 7 $355 S ½ NE qr NW Sec 29 T56 R 29 (20a) S ½ NE NE Sec 28 T56 R29 (19.5a) [except ½ acre in SE corner] S ½ NW NE Sec 28 T56 R29 (20a) S ½ NE Sec 11 T 56 R 26 (76a) E ½ NE qr & E ½ SE qr, SW qr of NE qr & NW SE all Sec 12 T56 R26 (240a) E ½ SE Sec 1 T56 R26 (80a) Lot no. 2 NW qr Sec 7 T56 R25 [Livingston County] [95.07a] Recorded 6 June 1846 in Kingston in Book C at page 237 & forward. Filed for record Sept 9, 1861.

B:109-111 — Nancy Walker, John R. Walker and Nancy his wife, William Walker and Rachel his wife, Malon Johnson and Mary his wife, Horace Alexander and Mary his wife, James H. Rollins and Eveline his wife, Donitier Walker heirs of the Estate of Oliver Walker deceased all of Hancock Co, IL. to George Walters of Caldwell Co., Mo. 1845 Dec 15 $50 SE and SW qrs of NE qr Sec 11 T56 R26 [same as S ½ NE Sec 11 T56 R26 (76a) included in a later deed (recorded on previous page B:107- 108)– awc] Recorded 18 Feb 1846 in Kingston in Book G at page 216 & forward. Filed for record Sept 9, 1861. Page 20 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

These deeds from the heirs of Oliver Walker beg for some analysis. On page 3 of this issue is a quote from James Henry Rollins saying, “I had not heard whether my wife’s father would consent to Beaurgard’s requirements or not.” In November 1838 Bogart had required, as part of the money for Henry’s bail, his “father-in-law’s 100 acres of land.” Henry’s father-in-law was Oliver Walker. “100 acres” must have been a number out of faulty memory or was not intended to include all his land. Oliver Walker had purchased over 400 acres from the government. It is time to get out the graph paper and do some sketching for each of these deeds, as I have shown above. It appears that the 1846 deed was made to combine the two 1845 deeds and to correct a land description, and it adds the name of a wife for John R. Walker. These deeds convey about 500 acres of land belonging to the estate of Oliver Walker in 1845. Now compare those descriptions to the land he purchased from the U.S. government. In 1836 Oliver Walker entered about 320 acres of government land for which the U.S. patents were issued in September 1838. Those pieces were: 75.17 acres in Livingston County, Lot 2 NW Sec 7 T56 R25 [same but note acreage] & in Caldwell County T56, R26 – SW NE & E ½ NE Sec 12 (120a) & NW SE & E ½ SE Sec 12 (240a) & E ½ SE Sec 1 (80a). These legal descriptions are well verified by 1) the Caldwell County original land ownership plat, 2) the U.S. Land Patents and 3) they are listed in the History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri. Looking up the Original entries from Clark V. Johnson’s index or using the U.S. land entry and patent data by location which I have compiled (but not yet published) gives the original patentees as indicated in the illustration above. When and how these lands parcels came into Oliver Walker’s ownership will take more research. We might assume that Oliver Walker purchased land from other Mormons in the period of 1838-1845 to provide them with cash. Maybe, maybe not.

B:105-106 --- Atty for WW Phelps to George Walter 1846 Apr 20 $105 E ½ SW Sec 1 T56 R29 (80a) & E ½ NE Sec 1 T56 R29 (80a) & SE NE Sec 33 T57 R29 (40a) & 1 house and lot being the SE ¼ of Block 44 in Far West (1a) & SE SE Sec 9 T56 R29 (40a).

This Indenture made and entered into this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six by and between Adam Lightner as Attorney for W. W. Phelps and Sally Phelps by virtue of Power of Attorney of the County of Hancock and State of Illinois of the first part and George Walter of the County of Caldwell and State of Missouri of the second part, Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and five dollars to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part - receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged has bargained sold and conveyed and by these presents do bargain sell convey and confirm unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever to wit: the East half of the South West qr of Section No. one Township fifty six Range twenty nine containing eighty acres, Also the East half of the North East qr of said Section containing eighty acres more or less, Also the South East qr of the NE qr of Section thirty three Township fifty seven Range twenty nine containing forty acres more or less, Also one house and Lot being the South East quarter of Block number forty four in the town of Far West in the County aforesaid containing one acre more or less, Also the South East quarter of the South East quarter of Section No. nine Township no. fifty six and Range No. twenty nine. To have and to hold the same with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining with the said George Walter of the second part his heirs and assigns forever the said Adam Lightner as Attorney for W. W. Phelps and Sally Phelps party of the first part hereby covenant that their heirs executors and administrators will warrant and forever defend the title to the said premises and every part thereof to him the said party of the second part their heirs and assigns against the lawful claim or claims of all or every person or persons whatsoever claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof. In witness whereof the said Adam Lightner by virtue of Power of Attorney has set their hand and seal the day and year first written. W. W. Phelps (seal) Saly Phelps (seal) State of Missouri By Adam Lightner Attorney County of Caldwell MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 21

[attest by Wm. E. Marquam, J P. of said county]

State of Missouri County of Caldwell I Elliot Roberts Clerk of the Circuit Court and ex-officio Recorder within and for the county aforesaid do certify that the within & foregoing deed of conveyance was filed in my office for record on the 21st of April 1846 and the same was duly recorded by me in Book G at page 280. In testimony hereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Office in Kingston this the 22nd July 1846. Elliot Roberts Recorder By John Bryan Deputy Filed for record Sept 9th 1861. Lemuel Dunn Clerk & Recorder By H. B. Nelson, Deputy.

B:111-113 --- Jno. Skidmore, sheriff of Caldwell Co, Mo. (judgment vs George M. Hinkle and Arthur Morrison) to George Walter by Sheriff’s sale 1839 Nov judgment, advertised 1840 Feb, sold 1841 Mar S? SW SW Sec 24 T57 R29 (20a) & NE NW Sec 8 T56 R29 (40a) & NE NW Sec 18 T56 R29 (40a) This Indenture made and entered into by and between Jno Skidmore Sheriff of Caldwell and State of Missouri of the first part and George Walter of said County and State aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that whereas on the ~ day of November 1839 there was issued from the Clerks Office of the Caldwell Circuit -- an Execution in the following words to wit: State of Missouri County of Caldwell, The State of Missouri to the Sheriff of Caldwell County. Greeting, whereas George Walter the 18th December 1839 obtained Judgment before Albert Jetty[?] Justice of the Peace against George M. Hinkle & Arthur Morrison for the sum of one hundred and seventeen dollars 22/100 on which said Judg’t an execution issued to the constable returned not satisfied and whereas a Transcript of said Jugt has been filed in my Office as the law requires These therefore command you that of the Goods and chattels and real estate of the said George M. Hinkle & Arthur Morrison you cause to be made[?] the debt aforesaid and also his costs and that you certify how you execute this writ. Witness John Cleminson Clerk of said court with the seal thereof affixed at Office this 15th Nov 1839. John Cleminson Clerk. And on the 10th day of February 1840 the following notice with five others were stuck up in the most public places in the county as the law requires and twenty days before the day of sale which said notice is in the following words to wit: Sheriffs Sale. By virtue of one execution to me directed issued from the Clerks Office of the Caldwell Circuit Court in favor of George Walter & against George M. Hinkle & Arthur Morrison I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for ready money on the 9th day of March next at the Court House in the town of Far West between the hours of nine of the clock AM and five of the PM of said day and while the circuit court is in session all the right title and interest and claim of the said Hinkle & Morrison of in and to the following described land to wit: S ? of SW qr of SW qr Sct 24 Township 57 Range 29. NE qr of NW qr Sct 8 Township 56 Range 29 NE qr of NW qr Sct 18 Township 56 Range 29 to satisfy said execution Given under my hand this 10th day of February 1846. John Skidmore Sheriff of Caldwell county. And the aforesaid land was put accordingly while the Circuit Court of Caldwell County was in session at the Court House door put up at public sale, and thereupon George Walter became the highest and best bidder for the sum of five dollars and said land was struck off to him accordingly. Now therefore by virtue of the authority to me vested I do hereby convey and transfer unto the said George Walter his heirs and assigns all the right, title claim & interest which the said Hinkle & Morrison had in & to the above described land. To have & to hold unto said George Walter his heirs & assigns forever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my – and seal this 9th day of July 1840. John Skidmore (LS) Sheriff of Caldwell County State of Missouri County of Caldwell In the Caldwell Circuit Court July Term 1840. John Skidmore Sheriff in and for Caldwell County produced here in open court a deed of conveyance to the following described tract: S ½ of SW ¼ of Sec 24 Township 57 Range 29, also NE ¼ of NW ¼ of Sec 8 T56 Range 29 to George Walter and Page 22 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned and the same is ordered to be certified for record. Witness Elliot Roberts clerk of said court with the Seal thereof affixed at Office this 14th day of July 1840. Elliot Roberts Clerk State of Missouri County of Caldwell I Elliot Roberts Clerk of the Circuit Court and ex-officio Recorder within and for the county of Caldwell do certify that the within deed from John Skidmore Sheriff to George Walter was filed in my office July 14th 1840 and duly recorded in Book D, pages 464 & 465. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said court at Office this the day & year aforesaid. Elliot Roberts Clerk & ex-officio Recorder Filed for record Sept 9th 1861. Lemuel Dunn Clerk & Recorder By H. B. Nelson Deputy

B:73 — George M. Hinkle, Scott Co, Iowa to Marshall Comstock of Livingston Co, Mo. 1861 Feb 29 $175 NE SE Sec 18 T56 R27

This Deed of Indenture made and entered into on the 29th day of February 1861 by and between George W. Hinkle late of Caldwell County State of Missouri known by Elder Hinkle in the late Mormon Church driven from said Caldwell County, of the first part & Marshall H. Comstock of Livingston Co Mo of the second part, Witnesseth: That the party of the first part for the sum of one hundred & seventy five dollars to him in hand paid by the party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged by said first party, the saide first party hath bargained & sold & by these presents does bargain and sell to said second party & to his heirs & assigns the following land, to wit: The North West qr of the South East qr of Section eighteen (18) of Township fifty six (56) North of Range twenty seven (27) West in said Caldwell County in the State of Missouri and all other lands owned & entered in said Section 18 by said George M. Hinkle the said first party. To Have and to Hold unto said Marshall H. Comstock and unto his heirs and assigns forever, and further said Hinkle does agree he is seized in fee simple title of in & to such land & premises above sold & that he will warrant - defend the same in fee simple title against all lawful claims. In witness said Hinkle hereunto subscribed his name & affixs his seal on the day and year above written. James Cummins Georg M. Hinkle (seal) John Burk

State of Iowa Scott County, To wit: Be it remembered that on the 29th day of February 1861 personally came before me a Notary Public in & for said county George M. Hinkle the grantor in said deed above signed to me known to be said grantor & personally known to me and in due form acknowledged the due execution of this deed to said Comstock. I further certify said Hinkle is an old man & always has borne the reputation of the party hr purports to be & to have been driven out of Missouri as he states in said deed foregoing & by request of the agent of said Comstock now present before me said party was duly sworn and also testifies he is the said George M. Hinkle and entered such land at Lexington in Missouri. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal at said county on the day & in the year last aforesaid. Hans R. Claussen Notary Public for Filed for record August 15th 1861 Scott County Iowa Lemuel Dunn Clerk & Recorder. By H. B. Nelson Deputy. MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 23 Clay County, Missouri Marriage Records

These Clay County marriages may be of special interest to some of the readers of this periodical. They were gleaned from Clay County, Missouri Marriages 1821-1881 by Rudena Kramer Mallory, 1996. I wasn’t looking for this but stumbled across them while looking for the 11 Aug 1835 marriage of Adam Lightner “of Liberty” to Mary Elizabeth Rollins. Was that marriage simply not recorded or was the marriage in Caldwell County, not Liberty and Mary E. was confused. You would think she would know where she was when she was married.

All are in Book A [chosen by officiant name recognition and performed in 1834, 1835 and 1836] Page Groom Bride marriage date date filed officiant 119 Durfe, Jabez Brackenbery, Elizabeth 3/03/34 3/04/34 Alpheus Gifford 121 Sandford, Joel Williams, Elizabeth 1/12/34 3/01/34 G.M. Henkel 125 Taylor, John Burkel, Nancy1 4/03/34 4/15/34 A.S. Gilbert 128 Eames, Ellis Gibbs, Olive 6/05/34 6/14/34 Alpheus Gifford 129 Kies, Harrison2 Herrick, Eliza 4/12/34 4/15/34 David Whitmer 129 Page, Loren Clark, Eliza 9/14/34 10/17/34 Calvin Beebe 139 Marvin, Edmund3 Sherwood, Lory 10/12/34 1/02/35 Thomas B Marsh 140 Sagers, Harrison Madison, Lucinda 12/22/34 3/09/35 Lyman Wight 141 Dodson, John Brace, Gerusha 12/18/34 3/09/35 Lyman Wight 142 Burk, John M. Bunnell, Keziah 01/22/35 2/25/35 Edward Partridge 146 Ketchum, Joseph Parsons, Sophia 4/05/35 6/09/35 Loren Page 148 Shepherd, Samuel Swartout, Charity 6/07/35 6/13/35 Lyman Wight 149 Voorhees, George W. Sumner, Anna 7/08/35 7/11/35 Lyman Wight 152 Lee, Francis Johnson, Jane Vale 10/02/35 10/12/35 Thomas L Laflesh 152 English, Charles Whiting, Lydia 5/24/35 8/18/35 Hiram Page 164 Allen, Joseph Morley, Lucy 9/02/35 9/07/35 Lyman Wight 162 West, Nathan Pollett, Adaline L. 3/13/36 6/06/36 Hiram Page 163 Owens, Alvin Davidson, Sarah 5/08/36 6/06/36 Isaac Higbee 168 Slingolin, John Wilcox, Sabey 8/07/36 9/23/36 Alpheus Gifford 170 Poorman, John Bancroft, Nancy 5/29/36 8/04/36 Lyman Wight 170 Prier, Abel4 Vorous, Saree 5/31/36 8/04/36 Lyman Wight 171 Hor, Allen March, Lucinda 6/20/36 8/04/36 Lyman Wight 171 Dimmel, St. Cleare Keyzer, Celina 8/03/36 8/04/36 Lyman Wight 173 Gregg, Matthew Lewis, Anna 12/30/36 11/10/36 Morris Phelps 175 Head, Norvill More, Sarah5 12/11/36 12/17/36 Lyman Wight 176 Cowen, Horace Sagers, Desdamonia 10/16/36 1/07/37 W.W. Phelps

You didn’t know the Mormons were about to populate the earth in Clay County, Missouri, did you! Seriously, were any of these people not members? It does not necessarily follow that the people being married are of the same religion as the officiant since sometimes anyone qualified will do. I do not recognize the names Matthew Gregg, Dimmel St. Cleare or John Dodson. Surely Hor and Slingolin are misspellings! In the 1836 Clay County tax list I did find a John Slerigesle or Slingesland as a landowner. Anyone heard of any of these people? [Annette at [email protected]]

1 Also as Eleanor Burkett.

2 He is also found as William H. H. Keyes. Eliza Herrick is a daughter of Lemuel.

3 He is also found as Edward Marvin. She as Laura Sherwood.

4 Also as Able Prior. Her name may be Sarah Voorhees.

5 Is Sarah More / Moore the same as Sarah Curry? Which one is right, if any? Page 24 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

INDEX — Numbers 36-37

A Bent, Lemuel, prisoner, Bunnel sheriff (1839), 36:5 Keziah, 37:6 37:21–37:22 African American LDS Bernhisel, Dr., 36:13 Keziah Ketura (Van size, 37:14 members, 36:11–36:18 Billington Benthuysen) Rollins, Camson Alexander Ezekiel, prisoner, 36:5 37:6 Olive, 37:10 Frances Evaline, 37:9 Bingham Zuriel, 37:6 Phelix, 37:10 Horace & Mary, 37:19 Bertrand A., 37:9 Bunnell Carn, Daniel, prisoner, Horace M. & Nancy, Edwin, 37:6, 37:8, 37:9 Keziah, 37:23 36:5 37:17, 37:18, 37:19 Edwin F., 37:9 Burch, Thomas C. Carr. see also Kerr Horace Martin, 37:9 Henry D., 37:9 state's attorney, 36:7, Caroline (Rollins), 37:3, Nancy, 37:9 Ida E., 37:9 37:1 37:6 Nancy Reeder (Walker), May ?., 37:9 Burk. see also Burke Nathaniel, 37:3, 37:6 37:9 Phebe, 37:9 Abi Salina, 37:6 Carr / Kerr, Caroline, Randolph, 37:19 Phebe K., 37:9 Abigal (Fellows), 37:6 37:12 Allen Phoebe Jane (Burk), Charles Allen, 37:6 Carter Joseph, 37:23 37:6 John, 37:13 Mary Rollins Lucy (Morley), 37:23 Black, Susan Easton, 36:11 John M., 37:6, 37:23 (Lightner), 37:8 Allred Bogard hotel in Far West, Wm. Jenkins, 37:8 Isaac, 36:7, 37:3 Samuel, 37:20 37:3 Chase, Darwin, prisoner, prisoner, 36:5 Methodist preacher, tavern in Far West, 36:5 James 37:3 37:2 Clark prisoner, 36:5 Bogard [as Beaugard] John Mattias, 37:6 Eliza, 37:23 Martin C. Methodist preacher, Keziah, 37:23 Father, 37:12 prisoner, 36:5 37:3 Keziah Ketura (Van Gen., 36:4, 37:1, 37:2, Wiley, 37:12 Boggs, Lilburn Benthuysen) Rollins, 37:11 William associations in 37:5 arrives at Far West, prisoner, 36:5 Independence, 37:1 Louisa Abigail, 37:8 36:4 told of 46 arrested, Book of Commandments, Phoebe Jane, 37:6 Timothy B., 37:12 36:4 pages gathered by Rollins Burke. see also Burk Claussen, Hans R. Arthur, Michael girls, 37:1 John, 37:12 Scott County, Iowa Clay County farm, Book of Mormon, 37:4 Kesiah, 37:9 notary, 37:22 36:10 Book of Mormon Keziah, 37:12, 37:13 Clawson Atchison Witnesses Burkel, Nancy, 37:23 Bishop T. A., 36:16 Gen., 37:2 burial places, 36:10, Burkett, Eleanor, 37:23 Moses, prisoner, 36:5 lawyer at Richmond, 36:11 Burt [sic, Burk] Clay County, Missouri, 37:3 Bozarth John M., 37:13 Mormon marriages, Squire 37:23 B slaveowner, 36:12 C Clemenson. see Cleminson Babbit, to carry letters, Brace, Gerusha, 37:23 Cleminson Cabell, Edward B. 36:5 Brackenberry, Elizabeth, Adam Chariton County Baker 37:23 family to California, clerk, 37:17 William (of Jackson Branstetter, Daniel J., 37:4 Cahoon, Brother County), 37:2 36:10 census sources, 37:11 Jane Manning at his Baldwin Brown, Ebenezer, prisoner, Dianta, 37:11 home, 36:14 Caleb, prisoner, 36:5 36:5 Diantha, 37:7, 37:11 Caldwell County, Missouri Wheeler, 37:12 Bryan family 1860 courthouse fire, Bancroft, Nancy, 37:23 I. H. leave Far West, 37:2 37:15 Barlow 1845 Caldwell family research sources, clerk & ex-officio Hugh, 36:17 County deputy 37:11 recorder, 37:15–37:21 Hugh J., 36:11 clerk, 37:18 James, 37:7, 37:11 deeds reveal historical Israel, 37:12 John James & Agnes (Sands), facts, 37:15 Beaurgard. see Bogard 1846 Caldwell 37:7 deputy clerk, Beck, Thomas, prisoner, County deputy John, 37:4, 37:7, 37:11, 37:16–37:19 36:5 recorder, 37:21 37:15 deputy recorder, Beebe Buchanan, John, prisoner, Caldwell County 37:16–37:22 Calvin, 37:12, 37:23 36:5 clerk & Recorder, land sales, 37:16, 37:17 Isaac, 37:19 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 25

37:16, 37:17 D Ely, Michael, 37:10 37:2 family, 37:2 English Goodnight, T. B., 37:11 Daniels, Sheffield, Jackson Countian, Charles, 37:23 Goose Creek, 37:2 prisoner, 36:5 37:4 slaveowner, 36:12 Grant, George D., prisoner, Davidson, Sarah, 37:23 John & Lydia Ann Lydia (Whiting), 37:23 36:5 Dear, Cleora, 36:18 (Lightner) Eyre, Harriet Ann, 37:5 Gray, Darius Aiden, 36:18 Dimmel picture, 37:11 in Missouri, 36:17 Celina (Keyzer), 37:23 John James Gregg St. Cleare, 37:23 F diary of trip to Anna (Lewis), 37:23 Dodson Far West, Missouri California, 37:11 Matthew, 37:23 Gerusha (Brace), 37:23 defense preparations, John Jr., 37:7 John, 37:23 37:1 Laura, 37:7, 37:11 Doniphan surrender, 37:2 H Lydia, 37:11 Gen., 37:2 Farmington, Iowa, 37:6 Hacking, 36:19 Lydia Ann, 37:7, 37:11 lawyer at Richmond, Lightner family to, Diane Coleen, 36:19 Lydia (Lightner), 37:4, 37:3 37:13 James LaVerle, 36:19 37:7, 37:15 Dotson, Ada, 37:5 on map, 37:12 Hakes Lydia [nee Duffy, Louis Faust, James E., 36:11 Collins Rowe, 37:5 Cleminsonn], 37:11 gggson of Jane Fellows, Abigal, 37:6 Mary Amelia (Rollins), Margaret, 37:7 Manning James, Fitch, Joseph, Mr. & Mrs., 37:5 married Samuel 36:11 36:12 Half Breed Tract, Iowa, Weston, 37:4 Dunham, Jonthan, Flournoy 37:12 Mary, 37:11 prisoner, 36:5 Jones H., 37:4 Burk family to, 37:13 Mary Margaret, 37:7, Dunn, Lemuel Jones Hoy, 37:11 map, 37:12 37:11 1861 Caldwell Follett, King Hallett, Clark, prisoner, Clemison. see Cleminson County clerk & prisoner, 36:5, 37:31 36:5 Coleman, Ron, 36:11 recorder, 37:22 Fort Madison, Iowa, 37:13 Hamblin Colvin, William, 37:19 1861 Caldwell Frampton, David, prisoner, Ida Minerva (Rollins), Comer, Nathan, 36:10 County recorder, 36:5 37:5 Commerce, Illinois 37:19, 37:21 Idah M. (Rollins), 37:1, on map, 37:12 Caldwell County 37:9 Comstock G clerk, 37:16, 37:17 Wallace, 37:5 Marshall H. of Gardner, Edward J., 36:16 Durfee Harris Livingston County Gates, Jacob, prisoner, Diantha (Cleminson), George (Mrs.), 37:2 1861 land sale, 37:22 36:5 37:7 George W., prisoner, Connor, John, 37:19 Genesis Group, 36:11, Dorintha [nee 36:5 Cooper, John & Rhoda 36:17, 36:18 Cleminson], 37:11 Martin (1783-1875) land sale, 37:15, Gerik, Carolyn King, Elizabeth burial place, 36:10 37:16 37:10 (Brackenberry), 37:23 Harwood, ferryman, 37:3 Covey, Benjamin, Gibbs George W., 37:7, 37:11 Haun's Mill, 37:15 prisoner, 36:5 Luman Jabez, 37:23 man wounded, 37:9 Cowdery prisoner, 36:5 James D., 37:7, 37:11 Hawley Elizabeth Ann Olive, 37:23 Laura (Cleminson), 37:7 Pierce (Whitmer), 36:10 Giddins, Lita Little, 36:11 Laura [nee Cleminson], land sale, 37:15 Oliver (1806-1850) Gifford, Alpheus, 37:23 37:11 Pierce & Sally burial place, 36:10 Gilbert land sale, 37:16, Cowen A. S., 37:23 37:17 Desdamonia (Sagers), E Algernon Sidney, 37:4, Head 37:23 Eames 37:6 Anthony, prisoner, 36:5 Horace, 37:23 Ellis, 37:23 Eliza, 37:8 Norvill, 37:23 Creesy, Nancy, 37:9 Olive (Gibbs), 37:23 Elizabeth, 37:1, 37:2, Sarah, 37:23 Curry, Sarah, 37:23 Earl, John T., prisoner, 37:10 Henderson, James M., Curtis 36:5 Elizabeth (Van prisoner, 36:5 Annette W. Eastlin Benthuysen), 37:4, Henkel, G. M., 37:23 author of MMFF Josephine (Mrs.), 36:16, 37:5, 37:7 Herrick, Eliza, daughter of articles, 37:1 36:17 family, 37:8 Lemuel, 37:23 Bill & Annette, 36:17, Edwards, Elisha, prisoner, Loyal, 37:7 Heyborn, Melissa R. (Lee), 36:19 36:5 Sidney A., 37:1, 37:5, 37:1, 37:9 William J., 36:11 Eldredge, Ira, Utah 37:6 Heybourne emigrant company, 36:12 Gingell, Mr. (Missourian), Page 26 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Charles M., 37:5 Hacking, 36:19 Mary, 37:10 Land, legal descriptions, Melissa Keziah Jensen, 36:19 Maude, 37:10 37:14 (Rollins), 37:5 Mormon prisoners in Thomas, 37:10 Lee Higbee (1838), 36:4 Thomas C., 37:8 Francis, 37:23 C. L., 37:3 Mormon Visitors' Johnson Jane Vale (Johnson), Chauncey L., 37:2 Center, 37:31 Jane Vale, 37:23 37:23 Francis, prisoner, 36:5 closed for Mahlon & Mary, 37:17, John Nelson, 37:5 Isaac, 37:16, 37:23 remodeling, 36:18 37:18 Melissa Keziah John S., prisoner, 36:5 programs at (2004), Mahlon / Mallin / (Rollins), 37:5 Hinkle 36:18 Merlon, 37:9 LeMon, Douglas, 36:19 Col., gave up Far West, Noland House, 36:4 Mary Ann, 37:19 Lemon, James, 37:12 37:2 Iowa Mary Ann (Walker), Levasy. see also Levisay, George M., 37:15. see 1840 census tidbits, 37:9 Levisay also Henkel, G. M. 37:12 Merlon & Mary, 37:19 Levisay, Mary, 37:8 1839 judgment Scott County, 37:22 Jones, Benjamin, prisoner, Lewis, Anna, 37:23 against, 37:21 Ivins, Anthony W., 36:16 36:6 Liberty Grays, 37:2 1861 land sale, 37:22 Liberty, Missouri, Jail, names Danite, 36:5 J K 36:7 Holbrook, Chandler, Lightner Jacobs, Robinson Kerr. see also Carr prisoner, 36:5 Abiah T., 37:7 Ray County 1849 Caroline (Rollins), 37:6 Hor Abner, 37:2, 37:7 clerk, 36:10 census sources, 37:9, Allen, 37:23 Adam, 37:4, 37:5, 37:7, James 37:10 Lucinda (March), 37:23 37:10, 37:12, 37:15, Bolin, 36:14 Frances, 37:6, 37:10 Hord, Joseph C. 37:23 Ellen Madora, 36:14 Mary Jane, 37:6, 37:10 1845 Caldwell as attorney, 37:17, Isaac, 36:12 Nathaniel John, 37:6, County clerk, 37:18 37:19, 37:20 died 1891 Nov, 37:9 Howe death 1824 36:15 Orlando, 37:9 Albert, 37:9 Lexington, Mo., son of Jane & Isaac, Robert, 37:10 Albert D., 37:10 37:11 36:14 Virginia Iowa, 37:6 DeWit, 37:9 family, 37:2 worked for Brigham William, 37:9 Dewitt, 37:10 Lafayette County Young, 36:14 William T., 37:6 DeWitt Clinton, 37:6 business, 37:10 Jane, 36:12 Ketchum Dewitt Clinton, 37:10 Adam & Mary Jane Manning, 36:11 Joseph, 37:23 Edwin, 37:10 Elizabeth (Rollins) Jane (Manning), 36:12 Sophia (Parsons), 37:23 Frank, 37:9 moves and events, children, 36:14 Keyes. see also Kies Franklin, 37:10 37:8 death, 36:15, 36:16 Eliza (Herrick). see also Fred ?, 37:10 Adam & wife, Mary Life History, 36:12, Kies Mary J. [nee Kerr], Elizabeth (Rollins) 36:13 William H. H., 37:23 37:9, 37:10 leave Far West, 37:2 picture, 36:15 Keyzer, Celina, 37:23 Mary Jane (Kerr), 37:6 Adam Jr. (b. 1861), Jerry, 36:14 Kezer, Frederick Simon, 37:9 37:8 Jessie, 36:14 land sale, 37:17 Huggins, Mr. Adam [Sr.], 37:7 Mary Ann, 36:12, 36:14 Kies. see also Keyes (Missourian), 37:2 Algernon Sidney, 37:8 Miriam, 36:14 Harrison, 37:23 Hulet, Sylvester, prisoner, brothers, 37:3 Silas, 36:12, 36:14 Kilpatrick, Henry, 36:16 36:5 to Far West, 37:2 Sylvester, 36:12, 36:14, Kimbell, George, prisoner, Humes, Hannah, 37:5 Carolin Keziah, birth, 36:17 36:6 Hunter 37:13 Violet, 36:14 King Bishop O. F., 36:16 Caroline, 37:10 Jensen Austin A. Bishop Oscar F., 36:16 Caroline Keziah, 37:8 Andrew, source, 36:10 on the bench, 36:7, Jesse D., prisoner, 36:6 census sources, 37:10 J. Rees & Virginia 37:1 Huntington, William, Charles, 37:10 (Urry), 36:19 Judge Austin A. 36:17 Charles W., 37:10 Jewell judge at court of Charles Washington, Bertha, 37:10 inquiry, 36:6 37:8 I Caroline Keziah Elizabeth, 37:8, 37:10 Independence, Missouri (Lightner), 37:8 L family, 37:4 Mission History 1883- Caroline [nee Lightner], Laflesh, Thomas L., 37:23 family research sources, 2005, 36:19 37:10 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 37:9 Mission President Ellen, 37:10 37:3 Florentine Matthias, MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 27

37:8 Manning 36:6 George Algernon, 37:8, Angeline, 36:12, 36:13 Miller O 37:13 Eliza, 36:12, 36:13 Edward F., 37:7, 37:11 Odel, witness called at Hyrum / Hiram, 37:8 Isaac Eugene, 37:11 Richmond hearing, 37:3 Isaac, 37:7 death, 36:16, 36:17 Henrietta, 37:11 Osborn, Mary, 37:1 Jane (White), 37:8 wife, 36:17 Mary Margaret Osborne Jemima (Snelling), 37:7 Isaac Lewis, 36:12, (Cleminson), 37:7 John Wesley, 37:5 Jeremiah, 37:8 36:13 Mary [nee Cleminson], Mary Amelia (Rollins), John, 37:8, 37:10 in old age, 36:15 37:11 37:5 Ray County 1849 picture, 36:15 Minersville, Utah, 37:5 Owen, Abel, 37:10 commissioner, Isaac Lewis "Lew", Missouri Mormon Frontier Owens 36:9, 36:10 36:12 Foundation Alvin, 37:23 John Horace Gilbert, Jane, 36:12 Annual Meeting notice, Sarah (Davidson), 37:23 37:8 Lucinda, 36:12, 36:13 37:31 Zedekiah, prisoner, 36:6 John of Lancaster, Peter, 36:12, 36:13 board & officers (2005), Penn., 37:11 Sylvester, 36:12 37:31 Louisa Abigail (Burk), Manning family, trip to Missouri Mormon Frontier P 37:8 Nauvoo, 36:13 Foundation, board & Page Lucy Ann, 37:8 Maps officers (2005), 36:19 Ebenezer, prisoner, 36:6 Lydia, 37:4, 37:7, 37:15 Half Breed Tract, Iowa, MMFF publications, 36:18 Eliza (Clark), 37:23 Lydia (Williams), 37:8 37:12 Modie, John, 37:4, 37:11 Hiram, 37:23 Mary, 37:10 Lee County, Iowa and Montrose, Iowa, on map, (1800-1862) burial Mary E., 37:10 environs, 37:12 37:12 place, 36:11 Mary Elizabeth, 37:6 Richmond, Missouri Moore, Sarah, 37:23 Loren, 37:23 Mary Elizabeth planning, 36:4 More, Sarah, 37:23 Parks, Gen., 36:3 (Rollins), 37:2, 37:4, Sanborn, 36:8, 36:9 Morley Parsons, Sophia, 37:23 37:7, 37:12 Sanborn, 36:1, 36:2 Father, 37:4 Partridge excerpt from March, Lucinda, 37:23 Isaac, prisoner, 36:6 Caroline, 36:11 autobiography, put Markers Lucy, 37:23 Edward, 37:1, 37:19, in context, 37:12, Richmond, Missouri, Morrison 37:23 37:13 planning, 36:3 Alexander B., 36:11 prisoner, 36:6 Mary (Levisay), 37:8 Marquam, Wm. E. Arthur on Richmond jail Mary R., 37:10 Caldwell County JP 1839 judgment experience, 36:7 Mary Rollins, 37:8 (1846), 37:20 against, 37:21 Peck Mary [Trout], 37:7 Marsh, Thomas B., 37:23 Reed, 37:31 Miles Henry, 37:8 Marvin N Pendry, Jesse, 36:16 Missouri, 37:8 Edmund, 37:23 Pettigrew Nauvoo, Lightner family Rachael, 37:7 Edward, 37:23 David, 37:12 to, 37:13 Lindholm, August P., Laura (Sherwood), prisoner, 36:6 Nauvoo Temple 36:16 37:23 Phelps endowments Livesay. see also Levisay, Maynard, Silas, prisoner, Morris, 37:23 Cleminson, 37:11 Levasy 36:6 prisoner, 36:6 Nelson Lucas, Gen., 36:4, 37:2 McCarty, Richard, 37:4, W. W., 37:23 H. B. Lyman 37:11 W. W. & Sally, 37:20 1861 Caldwell Amansa McCray 1846 land sale, 37:19 County deputy chained, 36:4 Alexander, 37:6 Pierson, Mary, 37:5 recorder, 37:21, Amasa, 37:12 Frances (Kerr), 37:6 Pollett, Adaline L., 37:23 37:22 dismissed, 36:7 McCrea. see also McCray Pomeroy brothers (2), Caldwell County prisoner, 36:6 McKay, Barrie & Elaine, Missourians, 37:2 deputy clerk, 37:16, Caroline (Partridge), 36:18 Pomeroy ferry at 37:17 36:11 McLean, Ellen M. (Mrs.), Lexington, Mo., 37:2 R. B. Eliza, 36:11 36:17 Pontoosac, Illinois, 37:13 1861 Caldwell gift of flour to, 36:11 McRea, Alexander, Pontusuc, Illinois, 37:13 County deputy prisoner, 36:6 Poorman recorder, 37:19 Meek John, 37:23 M Newberry, James, prisoner, Hiram C., 37:7 Nancy (Bancroft), 37:23 Madison, Lucinda, 37:23 36:6 Rachael (Lightner), 37:7 Pratt Mallory, Rudena Kramer, Newman, Elijah, prisoner, Merrill, Albert, 36:17 Parley P. 37:23 36:6 Miles, Daniel S., prisoner, autobiography cite, Page 28 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

36:8 37:1 37:9 story, 36:12 chained, 36:4 Richmond Jail, 36:1, family research sources, prisoner, 36:5 36:2 37:9 S on Richmond jail Second Batist Church Harriet Ann (Eyre), Sagers experience, 36:7 location, 36:8, 36:9 37:5 Desdamonia, 37:23 taken prisoner, 36:4 tornado 1878, 36:2 Henry, 37:2, 37:3, 37:12 Harrison, 37:23 where wrote part of vacant log house, 36:1, Horace Algernon, 37:5 Lucinda (Madison), history, 36:2, 36:8 36:2 Ida Minerva, 37:5 37:23 Price, Gen. Sterling, 36:4 Rigdon J. Henry Salt Lake City, Utah Prier Sidney names Allreds, 36:5 City Cemetery Abel, 37:23 chained, 36:4 prisoner, 36:6 Jane Manning James, Saree (Vorous), 37:23 daughter of, 36:7 on Richmond jail bail 36:11 Prior ill in Richmond, Mo., out, 36:7 Sandburg, Peter J., 36:16 Able, 37:23 36:7 wife to Richmond, Sanford Sarah (Voorhees), 37:23 prisoner, 36:5 Mo., 36:7 Elizabeth (Williams), Prisoners in Richmond, taken prisoner, 36:4 James H., 37:2, 37:8 37:23 Mo., 36:5, 36:6 Ripley, Alanson, prisoner, James H. & Emeline, Joel, 37:23 Public Land Survey 36:6 37:19 Sevier, R. System, 37:14 Riverview Ward, 36:17 James H. & Evelina, Ray County 1849 Roberts, Elliott 37:17, 37:18 recorder, 36:10 1840 Caldwell James H. & Eveline, R Shearer County clerk & 37:19 Ragin, man from Daviess Daniel, prisoner, 36:6 recorder, 37:22 James Henry, 37:1, County, Mo., 37:2 Norman, prisoner, 36:6 1845 Caldwell 37:4, 37:6, 37:9, Reeves Shepherd County recorder, 37:12, 37:15, 37:20 Alice A., 37:11 Charity (Swartout), 37:18, 37:19 his life, 37:1 Ellen, 37:11 37:23 1846 Caldwell skips bail, 37:3 Lueetta[?], 37:11 Samuel, 37:23 County recorder, taken prisoner, 37:3 Lydia Ann (Cleminson), Sherwood 37:21 James Henry & wife 37:7, 37:11 Laura, 37:23 Robinson Evaline (Walker) Lydia Minnetta, 37:7 Lucy, 37:23 Ebenezer leave Far West, 37:2 Lydia [nee Cleminson], Skidmore, John cite to article by, James Watson, 37:5 37:11 1839 Caldwell 36:8 John Henry, 37:5 Mary G., 37:11 County sheriff, described Richmond John Porter, 37:6 Minnie, 37:7 37:21 Jail, 36:7, 36:8, death, 37:1, 37:4 S. S., 37:11 Slerigesle, John, 37:23 37:1 John Porter & Keziah Samuel Sylvester, 37:7, Slingesland, John, 37:23 prisoner, 36:6 Ketura (Van 37:11 Slingolin on Richmond jail Benthuyseon) Renick, Henry, 37:10 John, 37:23 experience, 36:6, children, 37:5 Rich, Thomas, prisoner, Sabey (Wilcox), 37:23 36:7 Keziah Ketura (Van 36:6 Smith George, 36:7 Benthuysen), 37:4, Richmond, Missouri Alexander, (as George W. 37:6 brick courthouse, 36:1, Elexander), 36:5 chained, 36:4 Mary Amelia, 37:5 36:2 Charles, 37:10 prisoner, 36:5 Mary Elizabeth, 37:1, description, 36:2 Emma taken prisoner, 36:4 37:4, 37:5, 37:7, 37:23 description 1838, letter to Emma, 36:5 Mrs. George Mary (Pierson), 37:5 36:6, 36:7, 37:3 Frederick, 36:4 dau. of Sidney Melissa Keziah, 37:5 history, 36:7 Hyrum Rigdon, 36:7 Nancy Evaline, 37:5 courthouse (1800-1844) burial Rockwell, Orin Porter Nancy Melinda (West), 1914-present, 36:7 place, 36:11 1849 mission, 36:11 37:5 first log, 36:7 chained, 36:4 Rollins Root, Henry, 37:17 Gudgels Hotel, 37:3 prisoner, 36:5 Ada (Dotson), 37:5 land sale, 37:16, historic sites, 36:2 taken prisoner, 36:4 Caroline, 37:1, 37:4, 37:17 Jail, 36:8, 36:9 John 37:6 Roundy, E. J. D. description by Jackson Countian, Charles Lyman, 37:5 on Isaac Manning, Ebenezer Robinson, 37:4, 37:11 Ephraim Edward, 37:5 36:17 36:7 Joseph F. Evaline (Henry's wife), Elizabeth J. D., 36:16 Mormon prisoners in spoke at Jane James 37:3 records Jane (1838), 36:4–36:8, funeral, 36:12 Evaline (Walker), 37:5, Manning James MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 29

Joseph III, 36:4 Trout, Mary, 37:7 William, 37:3 burial place, 36:10 Joseph Jr. Turley William & Rachel, Peter Jr. [IV] (1809- letter to Emma, 36:4, Ebenezer (Lightner), 37:19 1835) 36:5 37:8 William C., 37:9 burial place, 36:10 prisoner, 36:5 Joseph Orson, 37:8 William C. & Rachel, Whitmer & Co. Livery, rebuked the guards, 37:17, 37:18 36:1 36:8 U Waller, George, 37:19 location, 36:8, 36:9 taken prisoner, 36:4 Walter. see also Walters Whitney Utah emigrant company Joseph Jr. & Emma George, 37:17, 37:18, Newel K., 37:4 Eldredge, Ira, 36:12 give work to Jane 37:21 Sarah Ann, 37:13 Haight Company, Manning, 36:14 land sale, 37:19 Wight, Lyman, 37:23 Pioneers of 1847, Nauvoo mansion Walter, George, 37:15 chained, 36:4 36:12 house, 36:13 Walters. see also Walter prisoner, 36:5 Spencer, Daniel (1847), welcome the George, 37:18, 37:19 taken prisoner, 36:4 36:12 Manning family, land sale, 37:17 Wilcox 36:12 Wandell, Charles Wesley, Pearl, quoted, 37:4 Joseph Jr. & Hyrum V 36:13 Sabey, 37:23 graves, 36:16, 36:17 Van Benthuysen West Williams prisoner, 37:1 Elizabeth, 37:4, 37:7 Adaline L. (Pollett), Elizabeth, 37:23 at Richmond hearing, Keziah Ketura, 37:4, 37:23 Lydia, 37:8 37:3 37:6 Nancy Melinda, 37:5 Wilson taken prisoner, 37:2 Voorhees Nathan, 37:23 Gen., 36:4 Joseph Sr. (1771-1840) Anna (Sumner), 37:23 Weston Tom (of Jackson burial place, 36:11 George W., 37:23 Margaret (Cleminson), County), 37:2 Julia, 36:5 Sarah, 37:23 37:7 Wunderlick, Otto, 36:16 Julia Murdock, 37:13 Washington Samuel, 37:4, 37:7 Mother [Lucy], 36:14 prisoner, 36:6 White, Jane, 37:8 Y President Joseph F., Vorous, Saree, 37:23 Whitehouse, Paul Lightner, Yantis, J. L. of Lafayette 36:16 37:11 County, Mo., 37:8 Samuel Harrison (1808- Whiting, Lydia, 37:23 W Young, Brigham, 36:12, 1844) Whitlock, Andrew, Walker 37:12 burial place, 36:11 prisoner, 36:6 Dionetia [or variant Jane Manning at his Tamu, 36:11 Whitman, William, spelling], 37:9 home, 36:14 Snelling, Jemima, 37:7 prisoner, 36:6 Donilier, 37:17, 37:18 Younger Snodgrass, Minnie Whitmer Donitier, 37:19 Joseph W., prisoner, (Reeves), 37:7 Christian (1798-1835) Evaline, 37:5 36:6 Spencer, Orson, 36:13 Evaline / Eve E. / burial place, 36:10 Stebbings David, 37:23 Evelin, 37:9 Z Anthony, 36:12, 36:13 John R., 37:9, 37:17, (1805-1888) burial Zabriska Sarah, 36:12, 36:13 37:18, 37:19, 37:20 place, 36:10 Henry, 37:12 Stillwater, Minnesota, 37:8 John R. & Nancy, 37:19 forced to take Louis, 37:12 Stout, Allen J., prisoner, Mary Ann, 37:9 baggage to Far Zabriski 36:6 Nancy, 37:17 West, 36:3 Henry, prisoner, 36:6 Sumner, Anna, 37:23 Nancy (Creesy), 37:9 home, 36:1 Swartout, Charity, 37:23 Nancy Reeder, 37:9 home description, Nancy [widow of 36:2, 36:3 Due to text changes T Oliver], 37:19 home location, 36:8, 36:9 after the initial data Tanner Nancy (widow of home picture, 36:3 entry and human John T., prisoner, 36:6 Oliver), 37:19 letter to The Saints errors, if the name is Nathan, 37:12 Oliver, 37:9, 37:15, Herald 1887, 36:3 not found on the Sidney, prisoner, 36:6 37:20 Elizabeth Ann, 36:10 indicated page try the Taylor Caldwell County family history book to page after or the page John, 37:23 land, 37:3 be published, 36:18 before. I have tried to Nancy, 37:23 deeds, 37:20 Jacob C. (1800-1856) catch all of the Thomas estate, 37:17, 37:18 burial place, 36:10 changes but may not Daniel S., prisoner, 36:6 heirs, 37:9 John have. – awc Tippets heirs, land sale, (1802-1878) burial Alvin G., prisoner, 36:6 37:17 Rachel, 37:9 place, 36:11 Page 30 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION An Unmarked Smith Family Member Grave

Lucy (Salisbury) Duke Whalen was a daughter of left 5 sons and 2 daughters and her second husband, Mr. Katharine (Smith) Salisbury who was a daughter of Whalen. A tintype of Lucy Salisbury Duke with her Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Lucy’s father, daughter Emma from Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Wilkins Salisbury, was a member of Zion’s Camp and the photograph album may be the only picture of Lucy. family eventually moved to Caldwell County. It is After 113 years it is time to mark Lucy’s grave. The known from several sources that Lucy is buried under cemetery committee has given permission to place a some “rough creek stones” near Katharine in the Webster marker for Lucy. Carla Duke is spearheading the project. Cemetery, Hancock County, Illinois. Lucy met Samuel Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation plans to Duke in Montrose, Iowa when the Salisburys brought contribute to the effort. This is an invitation to others to their family across the Mississippi River on a raft as they participate also. were moving from Nauvoo in 1847. Lucy was 13 and To contribute to a marker for Lucy Salisbury Duke Sam was 19. Lucy was born October 3, 1834 in Kirtland, Whalen, write to Carla Duke, 4363 Hunt Road, Ohio and died in Burlington, Iowa on October 18, 1892. Burlington, Iowa 52601, checks to Lucy Salisbury Duke Her obituary was in the Burlington, Iowa Hawkeye Whalen cemetery marker or you may contribute through newspaper and in the Carthage, Illinois Republican. She MMFF.

“The Missouri Mormon Experience: From conflict to understanding” An Academic and Commemorative Conference A collaboration of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Columbia, Missouri Stake and The Missouri State Archives. September 8-9, 2006 at the Missouri Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri.

The conference marks the 30th anniversary of then- City. You are invited to attend and make this a part of Gov. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s signing of an executive your own historical church history tour. order in 1976 officially repealing the Mormon “extermination” order issued in 1838 by Governor Tentative Schedule of Events Lilburn W. Boggs. This is also 175 years since the Friday, Sept. 8 establishment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day 4 pm Opening Ceremony in Capitol rotunda Saints in Missouri. The Missouri State Archives has 5 pm Commemoration of acts of understanding and enabled and supported research on Missouri’s Mormon service to early Mormons. Tribute to U.S. Sen. past. The unveiling of the recent Missouri-Mormon “Kit” Bond. document digitization project which is a collaborative 6 pm Dinner and Entertainment historical endeavor sponsored by both organizations and led by Missouri Archivist Kenneth Winn is scheduled to Saturday, Sept. 9 coincide with this conference. 9 am Welcome and plenary session: Overview of The Missouri Capitol was built in 1921 and features Missouri Mormon History in House of world-renowned murals, including a depiction of the Representatives Chamber. Mormon conflicts. All events are scheduled to be held 10-12 Concurrent sessions in Capitol hearing rooms. in the Missouri Capitol building. 12-1 Lunch & Capitol tours Nauvoo, Liberty, Independence, Carthage and Haun’s 1-3 pm Concurrent sessions Mill are each less than a three hour drive from Jefferson 3-4 pm Plenary Session

Query On the Web King Follett was arrested and brought to the Visit our website at www.mmff.net. Our courthouse in Richmond while Reed Peck was webmaster is Ron Romig. Also good stuff on testifying. What day was that? A descendant, Joann FarWestHistory.com Follett Mortenson, would like to know. MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 Page 31

MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER Independence VC FOUNDATION The Independence Mormon Visitors’ Center is is a duly organized expected to be reopened this spring. Many people are GENERAL NOT FOR PROFIT looking forward to it. The interior will be entirely new. The beloved picture of Christ will not return. Did you CORPORATION know that the Independence Visitors’ Center has the under the Laws of Missouri same size footprint as the Temple which Joseph Smith planned to build in Independence was to have? The Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation is a Christmas just isn’t Christmas in Independence nonsectarian organization dedicated to collecting and without the glow of lights all through the trees around preserving information related to the Mormon the Visitor’s Center and the beautiful decorations and experience in western Missouri during the 1830's. frequent Christmas programs inside. Many of us will The purposes of MMFF are stated in the By- celebrate the reopening! Laws as follows: 1. To promote the research, documentation, Caldwell County verification, renovation and restoration of events The Caldwell County Historical Society has new and sites associated with the Missouri Mormon officers. The county has taken back the building the Frontier. library was in. Everything is now in storage. Diane 2. To preserve documents, photographs, artifacts, sites and other historical memorabilia associated Forsythe will answer the questions she can. – Diane F. with that period. At the last Haun’s Mill archaeological dig in 3. To facilitate the gathering and preservation of November the letter “n” was found, a piece of lead genealogical information from the affected printer’s type. Why there, was the lead type melted for geographical area. bullets, washed down or lost in transit? – Ron Romig

President — Alta Short Vice President — Ronald E. Romig MMFF Annual Meeting Corresponding Secretary — William J. Curtis The Annual Meeting of Missouri Mormon Frontier Recording Secretary — Nancy Harlacher Foundation will be held on Tuesday, January 10, 2006, Treasurer — Irvin Mathews not the 9th as the post card said, at 7 p.m. Mea culpa. Historian — Mary Diane Forsythe The LDS Mission Office building at 517 West Walnut in Board Members — Independence will be the place, lower level entrance on Ida Mae Burkhardt, Annette Curtis, the South side. This has been the place for our monthly Larry Harlacher, Dave McEwen, Ron Putz, meetings for which we are thankful, but we do miss the Kenneth Short, Don Stacker Ex-Offico Board Members — welcoming smiles of the young sister missionaries James L. Hacking, Diane C. Hacking, Hugh greeting us at the VC. This is the year for election of Barlow, Diane Barlow, Dave Aamodt, Alex officers and board members. Baugh, Susan Easton Black, Clark V. Johnson, The slate from the nomination committee is: Board John Mark Lambertson, Roland Sarratt, Mark members to remain the same. The same officers with Scherer these exceptions. Nancy Harlacher, and Larry, have a heavy workload and decline. Bill Curtis has said he is All meetings, including Board meetings, are open. willing to record the minutes again. Irvin Mathews will You are invited to come and bring other interested be leaving within the year and the name of Annette people to any of our meetings. Curtis is submitted for treasurer in his place. NEWSLETTER Nominations will be accepted from the floor. Please send news and articles for the newsletter to Annette Curtis at 714 North Main, Independence MO MMFF Membership 64050-2828 or mail to MMFF at P.O. Box 3186, 64055. It is renewal time for MMFF Memberships if the top line on your address label does not end in 06 or life. Home e-mail address: [email protected] That applies to most of us. Besides contributing to the Publications editor: Annette W. Curtis continuance of this worthwhile organization, one of the principal benefits of membership is the periodicals A special has been proposed for 2006. which come out at least two per year. Page 32 Number 37 Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Membership INSIDE Mormon Prisoners in Richmond, addenda ...... 1 Keep the newsletter coming to you. Memberships Family Inter-relations ...... 4 are for the calendar year. New memberships are Rollins, Cleminson, Lightner, Gilbert, Walker welcomed anytime. 1840 Iowa Census / Half Breed Tract ...... 12 Public Land Survey System ...... 14 Caldwell Co. Deeds reveal history ...... 15 Interested people are invited to attend MMFF Hawley, Lightner, Walker, Hinkle functions. Call Alta Short at (816) 257-5588 or Ron Mormon marriages in Clay Co., Mo...... 23 Romig at (816) 229-7981 or (816) 833-1000 for more INDEX for #36 & #37 ...... 24 information. News Items ...... 30 Membership & Publications forms ...... insert

MMFF meetings are the 2nd Tuesday evening at the ANNUAL MEETING Corrected NOTICE Independence LDS Mission Office building 10 Jan 2006 (see p. 31 for details)

MMFF - NW Chapter meetings will be quarterly. For dates and events contact Diane Forsythe. It is membership renewal season again. If the first line in your address label does not end in 06 or life, then it is time to This issue is not as dull as it looks. There are some Renew your Membership. good things in it to ponder.

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A Short History of Caldwell County by Bertha Booth, 1936, reprinted with new index 1998. 65 pages, index, paperback, 5 ½ x 8 ½ ISBN: 0-9720011-0-7 Price $5.00 plus postage.

Early Independence, Missouri “Mormon” Tour Guide by Ronald E. Romig, illustrated by Henry Inouye, revised 2003. 45 pages. Paperback, 9.5 x 11" ISBN 0-9720011-6-6 Price $6.00 plus postage

An Index to Early Caldwell County, Missouri, Land Records edited by Clark V. Johnson and Ronald E. Romig, 2002. Revision of 1994 limited edition by Clark V. Johnson. xxiv, 242 pages, 12 township plats, maps of Far West, current road map. Spiral, 8.5 x 11" (2nd printing) ISBN: 0-9720011-5-8 Price $25.00 plus postage. New Printing, Revised

Jackson County, Missouri Mormon Historic Sites by William J. Curtis, 2002, 2004. Heavily illustrated with photographs, 65 pages including index, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5" ISBN 0- 9720011-8-2 Price $5.00 plus postage. REVISED 2004

1836 Clay County, Missouri State Tax List: All Taxpayers and Land Owners Are Identified, Including Mormons, and the 1835 Tax Law. Transcribed, annotated and indexed by Annette W. Curtis, 2003. xx, 125 pages, spiral, soft cover, 8.5 x 11" ISBN 0-9720011-7-4 Price $15.00 plus postage. NEW

Early Jackson County Missouri: The “Mormon” Settlement on the Big Blue River: A Guided Tour Through Time by Ronald E. Romig., illustrated by Henry K. Inouye, Jr. 1996. vii, 34 pages; spiral binding, 8/5x11" ISBN 0-9720011-2-2 4th Printing Price $9.00 plus postage.

MMFF Newsletters 1-23, 1993-1888 with Index, cumulation of first 23 back issues bound for handy reference, about 270 pages. Paperback, 8.5 x 11" ISBN 0-9720011-3-1 Price $20.00 plus $4.55 postage.

To complete the set of our periodical publication, back issues of Missouri Mormon Frontier are available, Issues 24 through 34 (348 pages). $3 per issue or $30 for the complete set. Inquire about binding and shipping costs.

Available as print-on-demand: Archaeological Reconnaissance of a Caldwell County, Missouri, Log House. (Rich Log House) 8.5 x 11" paperback, comb binding. $10.00 plus postage. 2001 Dig Report on Cemetery South, Far West, Missouri by Paul DeBarthe, Tovia Cohen and Tehau DeBarthe, 2002. 34 pages, ill., some color. 8.5x11" paperback, comb binding. $10.00 plus postage.

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! I would like to join MMFF for the 2006 Calendar Year G New G Renewal

G Regular $15.00 G Family $20.00 G Sustaining $25.00 G Sponsor $100.00 G Student $8.00 (full time HS & college to age 25) G Patron $250.00 G Life $1000.00

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G Rich Log House Fund $ G Un-designated $

G David Whitmer House Marker Fund $ G Marker Fund, un-designated $

G Richmond Prison Sites Marker Fund $ G Lucy (Salisbury) Duke Whalan $

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MEMBERSHIPS Memberships come due in January. PERIODICAL I’ll try to do better since I realize this is the only tangible benefit many receive from membership. Do you have something you would like to share with others? Mail to our PO Box or directly to Annette Curtis, 714 N Main, Independence MO 64050-2828 or E-mail it to me at [email protected].

MARKER FUNDS – pick your favorite or donate to the first need. Donations are needed to get the new marker projects accomplished. ‚ The David Whitmer house marker will be a wall plaque on the outside of a building (in the $500 price range). ‚ The marker for the Richmond prison sites will be an upright, free standing historical marker similar to the Alexander Doniphan home marker in Liberty (in the $2000 or more range). ‚ The Witnesses marker which is in the planning stage will also be in a place without a wall to put it on. As soon as arrangements are made we would like to proceed quickly. ‚ Donate to the Lucy (Salisbury) Duke Whalen grave marker through MMFF or directly (see page 30)