“The Osborn Files” The History of the family of Charlotte Osborn Potter, Her children, and her ancestry

Written and complied by

Steven G. Mecham

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THE CHARLOTTE OSBORN POTTER FAMILY

The children of Charlotte Osborn Potter at the time of her death remembered their mother as a kind and indulgent mother and the instrument in the hands of God of their conversion to the Gospel of Christ (1). Her story and the lives are her children are intertwined and hence this record contains an accounting of their lives.

Charlotte Osborn, was born April 14, 1795 in Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont, the eldest daughter of Justus Osborn and Susannah Dickerman(2).

She was found living with her family in Pawlet, Vermont in 1800 (3), but the family moved to Pomfret Township, Niagara County, New York between 1809 or 1810 (4).

She moved with her family from Chautauqua County, New York westward to Erie County, Pennsylvania, settling in Fairview Township some time between 1815 and 1816. She along with her father attended the first Methodist class held in his log cabin in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1817(5).

She met and married David Potter Jr. in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1817 (6). They settled in then, Troy Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which later became Avon Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (7). In 1820, the area was still more or less frontier, so settlements and counties were in flux Their first child, Benjamin Potter was born in 1818 (8), a daughter, Esther Potter, was born in 1819 (9). Neither child lived to adulthood. David and Charlotte Potter were found living next to David’s older brother, Willis Potter and his young family in Troy Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio in 1820 (10). Another daughter, Sarah, was born to them on February 13, 1820 (11).

Another son, Chester Potter, was born to this couple on 20 October 1822. Other children born in Avon Township, Lorain County Ohio, included: Lorenzo Potter, born June 24, 1824; Viana Potter, born August 22, 1825 (12). Some time about 1827 Charlotte’s brother, Jacob Osborn relocated to Lorain County, Ohio from Erie County, Pennsylvania (13). David Potter’s older brother, Willis Potter relocated to Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio before 1840(14).

A daughter, Calista Potter, was born in 1828, in Elyria, Lorraine, Ohio, followed by a son, Newell Potter, born October 28, 1830 (15). David Potter and his family were found living next to Jacob Osborn and his family in Avon Township in 1830 (16). Amasa Potter was born January 10, 1833 (17), followed by his sister, Elizabeth Potter on December 18, 1835 (18).

In 1838, David Potter moved his family from Lorain County, Ohio, to Allen County, Indiana, near present day Fort Wayne (19)(20). Here he cleared the thick woods and “made a good farm” with much effort and personal sacrifice (21).

While clearing the thick woods, David Potter stumbled on some Indian artifacts, his son Amasa Potter records, “As we cleared up the farm and commenced to cultivate it, we found a small mound, in attempting to remove it, and level the land we came to a hard cement or burnt bricks. With considerable effort we succeeded in picking through it and came upon several ancient relics, all in a fair state of preservation. We found three copper kettles of about twelve quarts each, and we used them in our family for buckets for many years. We found in the same place two sets of carpenter’s tools. They were in a fair state of preservation and we cleaned them up and used them in the family many years. The metal in them was very hard, though the rust had nearly spoiled some of the small tools. There were three saws in the lot, but they were very much injured by rust. They had a heavy copper back in them which was not injured by rust. My father cleaned one of the saws so that he could use it and it was so hard that he could saw iron almost as well as wood with it. We found many stone implements that had been used for warfare, and two carpenter’s foot adzes which we cleaned up and used; also a hollowing adze for digging out canoes out of trees , which my father cleaned and gave to me. I have it through all my life and have it now as a relic, and hundreds of people have seen and handled it (22).”

Charlotte’s oldest daughter, Sarah Potter, did not travel with them to Indiana. Desirous of obtaining an education, in 1836 at the age of sixteen, she became a member of the Oberlin Institute, as it was called then. Her parents, being poor and blessed with a large family, she was obliged to support herself. This she did by teaching school and by working in the families of the professors that taught at the Institute (23). She remained in Avon Township and attended Oberlin College (24)between 1837 and 1842 (25). The Potter family was found living in Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana in 1840 (26). It was here that their youngest son, Leonard, was born October 22, 1840.

In 1841, Elder Arnold Potter (27), an LDS missionary, from Nauvoo, Illinois (28), came preaching in Allen County, Indiana. David Potter, his brother, and wife Charlotte went to hear him preach and were convinced that he taught the true gospel of Jesus Christ. They were baptized into the Church in 1841(29). Later four of their children were baptized into the Church the same year (30).

Heavy persecution commenced for the Saints, so David Potter sold his home and moved to Nauvoo City, Ill., where the Saints were building up a fine city on the banks of the Mississippi river (31). Amasa Potter’s journal account recorded that the family moved to Nauvoo in 1842 (32). Charles Lamone Green (33), father of Allen Madison Green (future husband of Viana Potter) joined the Mormon Church in Allen County, Indiana in 1832 and resided there until relocating to Morey’s settlement, Illinois in 1841 (34). It is highly probably that the Green and Potter families may have known each other while living in Allen County, Indiana. The Charles Green family had relocated to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa in 1843. It was here that Charles Green’s son, Allen Madison Green (35), met and married Viena Potter in about 1843.

While living in the Nauvoo area, David and Charlotte Potter and their family became well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. Of the family’s first meeting with the Prophet, AmasaPotter wrote: “In the year 1842 I was moving with my parents from Indiana to Nauvoo, Illinois, and one bright sunny day as we came within three miles of the city we met a buggy with two men in it. The buggy turned out of the road and stopped. My father [David Potter Jr.] was driving out team and he stopped the horses. The man in the buggy asked if we were going to Nauvoo. Father replied that we were. The gentleman in the buggy said, “No doubt you have heard of Joseph Smith the Prophet”. Mother [Charlotte Osborn Potter] then answered, “We have come five hundred miles to see him.” “I am that man!”, replied the person in the buggy who acted as spokesman, and then called us all up to the side of the buggy, and shook hands with us, and gave Father some instructions about where to go to purchase some land and to settle near the City (36).” When the Prophet spoke outdoors, he often began his talks by asking the Saints to pray for the wind or rain to be calmed until he got through speaking. At a conference held in Nauvoo on April 8, 1843, the Prophet began an address by saying: “I have three requests to make of the congregation: The first is, that all who have faith will exercise it and pray the Lord to calm the wind; for as it blows now, I cannot speak long without seriously injuring my health; the next is that I may have your prayers that the Lord will strengthen my lungs, so that I may be able to make you all hear; and the third is, that you will pray for the Holy Ghost to rest upon me, so as to enable me to declare those things that are true (37).”

On one occasion Amasa Potter recalled being present at a powerful sermon when the Prophet Joseph preached to a large group of Saints in Nauvoo:

“When [the Prophet] had spoken about thirty minutes there came up a heavy wind and storm. The dust was so dense that we could not see each other any distance, and some of the people were leaving when Joseph called out to them to stop and let their prayers ascend to Almighty God that the winds may cease blowing and the rain stop falling, and it should be so. In a very few minutes the winds and rain ceased and the elements became as calm as a summer’s morning. The storm divided and sent on the north and south of the city and we could see in the distance the trees and shrubs waving in the wind, while where we were it was quiet for one hour, and during that time one of the greatest sermons that ever fell from the Prophet’s lips were preached on the great subject of the dead” (38).

Charlotte’s eldest daughter, Sarah, married David Wirt (39) who also attended Oberlin college (40) on April 3, 1845 at Oberlin College, in Lorain County, Ohio by Professor Carles G. Finney (41). Sarah had lived and worked in the home of Professor Finney prior to her marriage to Mr. Wirt.

Calista Potter remained in Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana, where she married William Watson Jr. (42) on June 21, 1848(43).Calista Potter Watson would remain in Allen County, Indiana for the rest of her life (44). Her husband, William Watson, passed away before August 3, 1885 in Cedar Creek Township and Calista Potter Watson died between 1890 and 1900 (45). Calista’s family would remain in Cedar Creek Township for several generations (46).

From Amasa Potter’s journal, he records that the Potter family was living on the west side of the Mississippi river in Allen County, Iowa in 1845 (47). David Potter’s brother, Arnold Potter was the Branch President of the Sand Prairie Branch (48) in Lee County, Iowa, in March 1845, presiding over 49 members (49). There is evidence that David Potter’s family were members of the Sand Prairie Branch during this time period (50).

David and Charlotte Potter both received their Patriarchal Blessings from William Smith, brother to the Prophet Joseph Smith on June 27, 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois (51).

Amasa Potter recorded in his journal the following entries:

“I remember the years 1845 and 1846, were very trying times for the Latter Day Saints in Nauvoo. There were thousands down sick down sick with chills and fever, and mobs were upon every side, robbing them and burning their houses, and driving them from their lands. I remember the Saints crossing the river on the ice in the month of February 1846. And there was a great amount of suffering and hundreds died through exposure and want of food and clothing.”

“My parents lived at this time on the west bank of the Mississippi River. My mother was very sick and we looked for her to die every day. One day as the children were all present watching over mother as she was too low to speak, a person came to the house in a great hurry, and walked straight to Mother’s bed and said not a word to any of us, but spoke to her and these are the words the person said, “Dear Sister, in the name of the Messiah I lay my hands upon your head and bestow upon you the blessings of life, health and strength, and I do rebuke the destroyer, in the name of Jesus Christ, and say you will live and not die and shall go to the Rocky Mountains and live to a good old age.” And this person went out of the house without saying a word to any of us, and Mother got up and dressed herself and was healed…and that complaint never returned on her again. This person was dressed like a woman”…

“….And in the month of July 1846, I came with my parents west three hundred miles to Council Bluffs. My parents stopped on Silver Creek and built a house to winter in, and when all was comfortable at home, my Father sent my brother Newell and myself down to the State of Missouri, forty miles to work for means to get an outfit to cross the plains in 1847. We worked here at a town called Savanna, but when spring came we had not earned means sufficient to take us al the way, so father concluded to stay until the year 1848, so we worked until the spring of 1848 (52)”.

David and Charlotte Potter lost their second eldest son, Lorenzo Potter, who passed away Oct. 1, 1847, presumably in Iowa (53).

In his journal dated 18 January, 1848, Wilford Woodruff wrote, “Two petitions were presented to the meetings [at Kanesville, Iowa] for signatures, one for a county in the Potawattame tract of land in Iowa and the other for a post. And the people were signing them daily.” Just two days later a petition to the Iowa legislature for the organization of a county on the Pottawattamie lands was read and signed by many. In addition, a letter to the postmaster general for the establishment of a post office, near the Log Tabernacle was read and signed. It included the request for semi weekly mail service from Kanesville to Austin, the northwestern Missouri village. This petition was followed by eighteen hundred signatures, all males. That Brother Brigham and the Saints were eager for this petition to be granted can be ascertained by the fact that a number of the signatures are those of boys (54). David Potter, along with his sons, Amasa, Chester, Leonard, and Newell signed this petition, which was dated January 20, 1848 (55). Allen Green, husband of Viena Potter Green and his father and several of his brothers also signed this same petition, while living in Kanesville, Iowa in January 1848 (56).

Amasa Potter continued with his account of the migration to Salt Lake, “By this time, we had got a yoke of oxen and wagon, two cows. We hitched the cows on the lead and started out for west. We joined Lorenzo Snow’s company on the Elkhorn River and we traveled in Ezra Chase’s ten all the way through to Salt Lake….. (57)”

Viena Potter Green and her husband, Allen Madison Green traveled with his parents in the Silas Richards Company in 1849 but on August 24, 1849, they left with eight other wagons on their own and traveled ahead of the Silas Richards Company on into Utah (58).

Not all the family went west with David and Charlotte Potter. Newell Potter remained in Andrew County, Missouri in 1850, farming with his cousin, William Potter, son of Arnold Potter (59).Chester Potter, also did not follow the family on to Utah. He remained in Pottawattimie County, Iowa in 1850 (60). He died presumable in Iowa in June 1851 (61).

Amasa Potter continued from his journal account: “…When we came into Salt Lake Valley in September 1848, we found some corn, and potatoes and other vegetables growing and doing well. They had raised some small grain and that was harvested, but there had not been enough raised to keep those people that were already in the valley. My father’s provisions gave out in January 1849, so we did not have any bread for six months until the emigration came in going to the gold mines in California. Then we got plenty of bread, bacon, and sugar, tea and coffee and most all kinds of tools. We could buy almost at our own price, as the emigrants had changed off their jaded teams for fresh ones and most of them packed their horses and mules and left their whole outfit and sold it for just what they could get….”

“…The year 1850 I made preparations to go to the gold mines in California, but my father came to me and persuaded me to stay with him another year as he was all broken down with hardships and privations, so I stayed with him another year. January 1851, my father took sick and called me to his bedside. He said, “I am going to leave you, and I want to bless you”. The he took me by the hand and said, “My son, you are the only boy that has stayed with me and helped me in my old age, and you shall be blessed more than all your brothers, and you will be prospered of the Lord in all your lawful undertakings through life.” After giving me a blessing, he said, “Take care of your aged mother, your sister and brother, and teach them in the ways of truth.” And then he turned in bed and within one minute, he was dead. He was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery (62).”

David Potter Jr. died January 11, 1851 of consumption at the age of 58 years (63) and was buried in the Salt Lake Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah (64).

After David Potter’s death, Charlotte Potter and three of her children were found living in the household of Peter Dustin (65) in Salt Lake City in May/June of 1851 (68). It is not known what the relationship was between Mr. Dustin and Charlotte Potter, but it is likely that he took her into his home as she was recently widowed; the LDS leaders counseled their members to shelter and look after the widowed and orphaned children during this time period. Charlotte’s daughter, Viana Green and her family were also found living in Great Salt Lake City during this time period (67). They later moved to Brighton Township, Sacramento County, California between 1851 to 1852.

On May 1, 1852, Amasa Potter bade his mother, sister, and brother adieu and started on his journey to work in Sacramento, California (68), where his brother in law, Allen Madison Green had settled (69). Newell Potter, Amasa’s older brother later joined him in work in California in 1853.

Many of the Mormon pioneers, before leaving Nauvoo in 1846 for the Great Salt Lake Basin took out their own individual endowments in the original Nauvoo Temple. David and Charlotte Potter apparently did not have this opportunity to do so. When the Saints arrived in Salt Lake, there was no available temple wherein they could perform their endowments. Though not a temple, between its construction in 1850 and its eventual destruction in 1883, the Council House on Temple Square served as Utah’s first established location for administration of sacred ordinances for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (70). The building of the Council house was considered as urgent as the building of the Kirtland Temple. In the first meeting held on the temple block in Salt Lake City, Heber C. Kimball admonished the saints of the importance of the edification of the council House. He stated that while constructing in Kirtland every construction team went once a week to build the Temple. He advised that they do the same for the Council House because “this building [is] as important as that” (71). Charlotte Osborn Potter took out her own endowments in the old Council House on March 8, 1852 (72).

On Sunday, August 29, 1852 the revelation on celestial marriage (known as Doctrine and Covenants section 132) was first made public. It was read in the conference held in Great Salt Lake City, and Apostle Orson Pratt delivered the first public discourse on that principle (including the belief in plural marriage (73).

Several weeks later Charlotte Potter participated in a sealing ordinance in which she was sealed to John Kempton (74) on September 15, 1852(75). Descendants of John Kempton do not believe that she was actually sealed to John Kempton, rather was sealed to her first husband, David Potter, with John Kempton serving as a vicarious proxy for Mr. Potter(76). Family consultants at the Family History library are unsure as to the exact relationship between Mr. Kempton and Charlotte Potter(77). There is no other evidence of a civil marriage between the two. Mr. Kempton died a few months later on Dec. 1852 in Salt Lake City, Utah (78).

Charlotte Osborn Potter was sealed to John Hammond (79) as a plural wife on January 19, 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah (80). Mr. Hammond had settled in Cottonwood, in South Salt Lake.

Charlotte’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth, went to work for Joseph and Abiah Kelly who lived in Cottonwood. Joseph’s wife, Abiah, was not in good health, and developed “quick consumption” and died in August 1853 in Cottonwood, Utah. Abiah, on her death bed, asked Elizabeth to marry Joseph Kelly (81) and to raise her two young boys, Oscar and Virgil (82). Joseph Kelly and Elizabeth Potter were married and sealed together as husband and wife in Cottonwood, Utah by Apostle George A. Smith on November 26, 1854. The sealing was later ratified in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on April 21, 1856 by Heber C. Kimball (83).

Charlotte Potter was enumerated in the Utah Territory Statehood Census of 1856 while living in South Cottonwood and also as Charlotte Hammond while living in Provo (84). Amasa Potter returned home from working in California late in 1855 and helped move his mother and brother Leonard to Provo, Utah where he bought a farm, house and lot (85). The 1856 Statehood Census was purposely inflated by territorial authorities as they wanted statehood, hence Charlotte was enumerated three times on this particular census record (86). Charlotte’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth Kelly had relocated to Springville, Utah County, with her husband Joseph Kelly (87). Mr. Hammond died in South Cottonwood, Dec. 27, 1858.

Soon after their marriage, David and Sarah Wirt embarked on a life time of missionary work and evangelization of the mid west, sharing nearly fifty years of the toils and joys of the Home Missionary life at the front in ten different states and territories (88).

In 1853-1854 at Henry, Illinois; 1855-1856, Amboy, Illinois; 1857 saw Mr. Wirt’s Seaman’s Chaplain at Toledo, Ohio; 1858-1859, missionary at Allegan, Michigan; 1860-1863, Lamont, Michigan; 1865 and 1866, Portland Michigan; 1867, New Baltimore, Michigan; 1868, South Haven, Michigan; 1869-1870, Fort Dodge, Iowa; 1871-1872, Northwestern Iowa as general missionary; 1873, Bloomington, Wisconsin; and with headquarters at Ripon they wrought on until 1877 in Wisconsin; 1878-1879, Desplanes, Illinois; 1880, Chebance, Illinois; 1881 to 1887, North Dakota occupied their energies (89). While engaged in Home Missionary Work on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad in North Dakota, the home was on the bleak prarie, a mile or more from any other dwelling. Nearly a mile from the house a hill gradually rose to the height of about 150 feet above this valley. This hill was named by Sarah Wirt the “Hill Mizar”. Hither she often resorted when the weather permitted, Bible in hand, to spend hours in sweet communion with heaven. The Churches then being organized by her husband in the land of the Dakotas were stronger and holier for those prayers (90).

Sarah Wirt spent most of her years in frontier places were the conditions of life were at the hardest, hardships many and comforts few; much of trial, much of endurance, much of self denial had been her appointed lot (91).

Charlotte’s son, Amasa Potter married Miss Helen Calkins of Payson, Utah on February 29, 1856, nearly five weeks later he was called to serve on an LDS mission to Australia on April 6, 1856. He bid farewell to his wife and mother in May 1856 and set forth to California to set sail to Australia where he served over three years, apart from his new bride and aged mother. He arrived back home in Payson, Utah on July 8, 1859 and reported his mission to the people of Payson a week later, on July 15, 1859 (92). Elizabeth Potter Kelly’s husband, Joseph also served a mission in Australia, leaving June 24, 1856, and returning home to Springville September 1, 1857 (93).

By 1860 Charlotte Potter relocated to Payson, Utah (94) where two of her sons lived with their young brides. Amasa and Newell Potter had both married Calkins sisters, daughters of Israel and Lovina Wheeler Calkins. Amasa had married Helen Marr Calkins, Newell married Helen’s younger sister, Indamora Calkins in about 1854 and was sealed to her October 25, 1862 in the Endowment House.

Joseph and Elizabeth Kelly established their homestead on 160 acres in Hobble Creek Canyon in 1862. Joseph Kelly established the ranch for raising pure blooded horses. Joseph Kelly worked at his cabinet shop at Second West and First North in Springville before moving to the ranch. The homestead was home for Joseph and Elizabeth until he died in 1886 and she in 1904 (95).

In the winter of 1862, early 1863, Bishop J. B. Fairbanks visited with Amasa Potter and counseled him to enter into the Patriarchal order by taking on a second wife and so with some reluctance, Amasa set about to be faithful to that counsel. He volunteered to go to Omaha, Nebraska with his team and help bring back a group of Scandinavian converts back to Utah.

From his journal account he recorded: April 24, 1863. I started with four yoke of oxen and a wagon with nine others. William McClellan was our captain from Payson. We joined John R. Murdock’s company of 65 wagons and 460 yoke of oxen, 75 men comprised our company. We traveled up Provo Canyon to the Weber and through Echo Canyon and across the plains to the hills to Laramie and down the Platte River to Omaha, averaging 20 miles a day, making 50 days in the trip down to the Missouri River. The emigrants were waiting in camp for us to arrive, as

they had got there a week before. They were nearly all Scandinavians, and most of them could not speak a word of English, so when the wagons were loaded but mine, there were left 24 Swedes to go with some wagon, and Murdock said the only chance was for me to take them on their goods on the wagon and piled it full to the bows.

Our company started out for the mountains. I had two invalids in my wagon that had to ride all of the time, and the two weighed 400 pounds. I found at the first night’s camp that my passengers could not speak a word of English, and I felt very sick of them at first, but as I was cook of our Payson ten, and had to sit up long evenings to bale beans and bake bread, the girls would help me with my cooking, for there were five large young women in my wagon, and they were anxious to learn the English language and I was anxious to learn the Swedish, so I gave them words to learn and they gave me words of Swedish. By the time we got up the Platte River, I could talk very fair Swedish to them. We got along much better the latter part of our journey.

There was one young lady that formed an attachment to me and I in turn for her. Her name was Cecelia Parsons. When we came home, she stopped at Cottonwood to visit some relatives. I came on home and all of our emigrants scattered out in the country. Now we had made the trip to the Missouri River and back in less than four months. Nothing serious had happened to any of us on the whole journey (96).”

On May 13, 1864 Amasa Potter and Cecelia Parsons (Ph’rson) traveled to Salt Lake City and were sealed in the Endowment House with the consent of Amasa’s first wife, Helen Calkins Potter (97).

During the winter of 1864-1865 a small pox epidemic broke out among the Indians in the vicinity of Manti. A large number of them had died. The Indians believed the whites to be in league with the Devil and had caused the sickness. They set out to kill all the whites(98). The Indians fought a guerrilla type war, attacking and ambushing the whites in surprise attacks. They killed many, mutilating and torturing those who fell into their hands. Stock was stolen from the fields and meadows of the whites. Men tilled their farms with guns in hand. No one was safe outside the forts from Payson south to Cedar City(99).

Payson was under little less than martial law. Every man was required to attend roll call on the public square every day at sunset, and no one was allowed to go away from home without the permission of the post commander, Col. W. C. McCelland. A strict military guard was kept day and night all through the summer (100).

In the spring of 1866 a large force of militia was sent from Utah County and other adjoining counties to protect the people of Sanpete County. Charlotte’s sons, Newell and Amasa both served in the Utah Territorial Militia, Newell serving as a private in Daniel Stark’s company of infantry branch, and Amasa serving as a private in A. G. Conover’s Company of Calvary branch of the militia. Both enlisted in May 1866 in Provo, Amasa was discharged July 18, 1866, Newell was discharged August 29, 1866(101).

The Payson volunteers and fifteen others had an engagement of three hours duration with seventy five or eighty Indians in the early part of June at Gravely Ford on the Sevier River. Two of the forces were slightly wounded.

Three days later, July 4, 1866, a company of 15 mounted men was sent out to relieve those already in the field, joining other mounted troops from all Utah County. The entire company of cavalry, sixty in all, were commanded by Capt. Jonathan S. Page of Payson.

The first company of ten men sent out into the Indian campaign returned to Payson on July 18th and received a warm welcome from the citizens of Payson. Another company of troops started th on August 16 to relieve the company then in the field (102).

The Black Hawk War came to an end in 1867, some two years after it had started. The Indians had warred upon about 27 settlements along the Wasatch front. They finally saw their cause to be hopeless and knew they could not win against the great number of white men, compared to their few warriors (103).

Between 1867 and 1872, Charlotte’s son, Amasa Potter served three two year terms as an Alderman on the Payson City Council (104).

Newell’s wife Indamora passed away September 13, 1869 in Payson at the age of 28 years old due to consumption (105). Newell Potter had taken a second wife, Mary Leona Cloward (106), marrying her in the Endowment House on Nov. 7, 1868 (107). Charlotte Potter’s youngest son, Leonard Potter, also died of consumption in late January 1870 (108) and was buried on February 1, 1870 in the Payson City Cemetery (109). He was thirty years old and unmarried at the time of his death.

Charlotte Potter, age 75 years, passed away a few months later at the home of Cecelia Parsons Potter, (Amasa Potter’s second wife) on July 25, 1870 in Payson, Utah County, Utah (110). Incidently, she was counted in the 1870 Federal Census on the date of her death (111). She was buried in the Payson City Cemetery. Her children blessed her memory as a kind and indulgent mother and the instrument in the hands of God of their conversion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ (112).

While farming in 1870, Amasa Potter came across a curious mound of dirt on his property. He recorded the following, “About a mile northwest from Payson, Utah, there was a group of ancient mounds, five in number. They were situated on about twenty five acres of land in the richest part of the farming field and some of them measured from three to five hundred feet in circumference and about fifteen feet high. One of these mounds was on my land, and as I desired to move it and level my farm, I commenced in the year 1870 to haul it away. I hauled 600 loads of dirt from the mound and while working I came upon some hard cement and dug around it. With some effort I pried it open and found it to be a cache of wheat and implements used by the ancients in pottery. I took out the wheat and found some of it bright. This I cleaned, took it home, and planted it in a drill in the garden. To my great astonishment it came up and grew. I tended it carefully all summer and it grew a large, stout stalk, and was different from any other wheat that we grow in this country. It was a great yielder, produced 60 heads from one grain’s planting, and there were 64 grains in one head, which would make about 100 bushels per acre in good rich soil. I sent some of it to the patent office, Washington, and this was their report on it- they called it the ancient Mound wheat- and is likely to prove a great benefit to the American farmers (113).”

Amasa, who at the time was serving as an alderman of Payson city, gave some of the seed to Orwell Simons, who was serving as Mayor of Payson. Orwell Simons gave some of the seed to Peter Winward of Payson. John C. Whitbeck obtained some of the seed from Peter Winward in 1875 and took it to Levan, Utah. Hans C. Kofod, of Levan, later obtained seed of this wheat from Mr. Whitbeck. It was known as Koffoid wheat and was referred in previous publications by the United States Department of Agriculture and by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station until 1919. The name was changed to Kofod upon learning the correct spelling of Kofod’s name (114).

Amasa Potter also found other Indian artifacts in the same region, “near where we found the wheat we came upon two skeletons, one a female and one a male. We dug around them with care and saved all of the bones. I cleaned them up and had them put together in the anatomical form of a skeleton. There were some things buried with them, but we did not find any gold or silver. There was a pipe with the male skeleton and the stem of it was inserted between his teeth. There was also a streak of rust from his right hand down his side, which we believe to have been a sword that had all gone to rust. The smoke pipe weighted five ounces and was made of sand stone and drilled out. We found needles for sewing clothes, made of bone, also lasts for making shoes, all in good shape, made of flint. We found also a sun glass and when we cleaned it and polished it we could light a pipe from the heat of the sun as easily as by any glass made now-a - days. We found several kinds of cloth in this place and the colors were all bright in them, but the cloth was so decayed that it could not bear handling. All of these things were in cement, so the wet could not get into them, and it was judged by Dr. Palmer [Dr. Edward Palmer] that all of these things had lain here fourteen hundred hears. We sold all our cabinet of ancient relics to him for $250 and he took them to Washington. The male skeleton measured six feet and the female five and a half. They were judged to be white people, as the skulls were not like Indian skulls. The mound had five rooms in it and the walls were made of adobes eighteen inches long, eight inches wide and four inches thick, laid up in mortar with cut straw in the mortar. The walls were plastered and hard finished in all the rooms and there were pictures of different animals in bright colors on the walls. We found several stone jugs and jars, one that would hold thirty gallons. They had these large ones to store their provisions in, as some of them had decayed meal or flour in them when found. Then there were many wills or mortars in the mound that were used to grind flour and meal in. There was a quantity of corn in the ear, found in one of the rooms, but it had been charred by burning, as the house had been burned and then covered with earth. We found several clay pipes that had been sued for conducting water in the house, some of them two inches in diameter and in a good state of preservation.”

“Now I have described in short one mound that I moved off from my land. There are four other mounds nearby, and so far as they have been unearthed we find walls of houses in all of them similar to the one described and skeletons and bones of nearly all kinds of animals. It has been said that the ancients had no horses, but we found bones that Doctor Palmer pronounced horse bones, and he was a scientific man” (115).

Julia Judson Wirt, daughter of Amasa Potter’s sister, Sarah Wirt, was working as a Telegraph operator in Dubuque, Iowa in the 1870’s (116) and became interested in her uncle’s archeological finds and corresponded with Dr. C.C. Parry of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences regarding the recent exploration of the mound near Utah Lake situated on her uncle’s property(117).

Edward Palmer, who worked as one of the “field assistants” for the Mound Exploration Division of the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology in the early 1880’s (118) and who had bought the relics from Amasa Potter hotly contested most of Amasa Potter’s claims concerning the origins of the relics found on his property, stating that “from the evidence left behind in the ruined Indian dwellings, that they appeared to belong to the same class of Indians as the Moquis of Arizona, a people simple in all their wants and habits, yet plain Indians.” He asserted that Amasa Potter made such fantastic claims regarding the finds on his property “with the idea of proving that these ruins belonged to the ancient race known to the Mormons as Nephites, who are said to have been a great people, cultivating wheat and acquainted with the use of Iron” (119). Amasa Potter never did recant his version of the findings of the ancient relics on his property.

Viena and Allen Green and their family remained in the Brighton area in California for about 15 years. It is unclear why they left California but it could be that a poor “post gold rush” economy or the yearly flooding of the Sacramento River contributed to their decision to leave California (120).

In 1879 Charlotte’s daughter, Viena and her husband and two of their married children and their families were in route to Texas to either buy or homestead land in Texas when they were robbed by Mexicans. They lost their horses, wagons, and food supply, leaving them stranded in Arizona (121). They first went to Tombstone and then settled in Pine Canyon Mills, Arizona, a sawmill in the Chiricahua Mountains. Allen Green took a contract for cutting logs for the sawmill (122).

The Potter Hotel was established in 1881 by Amasa Potter at an address that is known today as 85 North Second West. In those days, his location was Potter Street at Main Street.

The exact year he went into business is found in a diary he kept. In it he said, “I have concluded this year to keep a hotel (123)”.

At the time he owned a large two story house, he fitted up eleven rooms and put up a sign which read, SAN DIEGO HOTEL, AMASA POTTER, PROPRIETOR.

He purchased a three seated light wagon drawn by horses to meet the trains and carry passengers to and from the depot.

The Potter Hotel had five bedrooms upstairs with a hall running lengthwise, north to south. There were three bedrooms on the main floor, two outside stairways and two fireplaces.

The parlor, used upon very rare occasions, was furnished with a sofa, a what-not in the corner that held shells, sparkling pieces of ore and some keepsakes. There was also a center table upon which were placed books. A chandelier hung over the table. It burned kerosene.

There was a mantel at one end of this room. Heat was provided by a large stove with isinglass windows in the door. There were comfortable rockers, a couple of spring cots and an organ. Large pictures hung on the walls. The dining room had a large round stove for heating and a long table where everyone was served. Public dances were also held here.

The dishes and food were kept in the pantry. The kitchen had cupboards, tables to wash dishes on, a flour bin and a six hole stove with a reservoir and a warming shelf. On the back porch there was a fifty foot well with a rope to draw the old oaken bucket up and down.

A bowery was built from the porch out over the back yard where the fruit and corn could be prepared for drying for winter use. The milk cellar was a few steps from the kitchen. It was built half underground with boards and dirt over the top. Inside, a few steps down, there was a revolving rack in the center where the butter could be kept cold and the milk pans could be placed for the cream to rise.

Mr. Potter raised his own pork, chickens, eggs, etc., and also had an orchard where all kinds of fruit and berries were raised. He had a garden where vegetables grew. He charged fifty cents a meal. The tramps frequenting the area knew a free meal was served from the back porch. There was a white picket fence around the place with an arbor over the gate. A board walk led from the gate to the house (124).

On March 6, 1881, Cecelia Parssons Potter, Amasa’s second wife took ill with jaundice and suddenly passed away at the young age of . Helen Potter gathered all of Cecelia’s children and brought them into her home for her to take care of for a time but by 1884, Helen Potter suffered immensely from rheumatism and could no longer care for the younger children and it became necessary for Amasa to farm out some of Cecelia’s younger children to live with friends and family members. Annistacia Potter Christensen years later wrote of that experience:

“Aunt Helen contracted rheumatism and couldn’t care for the little ones while the older children were in school and she kept the hotel going too, so my father decided to adopt my brothers and sisters out to live in other good Latter Day Saint homes. Emma went to live with the Calvins in Payson; Christina was taken by Mrs. Bills in Payson; Alma who was about two years old was taken by a couple by the name of William Driggs; and John Argyle took James Franklin to live with his family until he was twenty one years old. Theses children were expected to share their property with the families they stayed with until the time they left their homes. When they left I was broken hearted and cried myself to sleep every night for a long time but was consoled by my brother George Melbourne who stayed on the farm to help Father and by letters written to m by my sister Sarah. I didn’t see the others until I grew up and started having my own family (125)”.

Newell Potter and his young wife, Mary Cloward Potter had four children by 1880 (126).On August, 19, 1881, Newell Potter’s second wife, Mary Leona Cloward passed after giving child to their second daughter, Mary E. Potter, who was born August 8, 1881 and who died the same day, leaving him with a young family to raise by himself (127).

Charlotte’s brother, Phillip Osborn, who lived in Erie County, Pennsylvania had lost contact with Charlotte’s family for many years. He placed an advertisement in the Saturday issue of the Deseret News, dated March 1, 1884 requesting information on the family of David and Charlotte Osborn Potter (128).

There must have been some communication between Phillip Osborn and his nephew Amasa Potter, for Amasa Potter and his sister Viana Potter Green did Temple work for some of their kindred dead. Amasa Potter records in his journal, “September 1, 1884, I went to the Logan Temple in company with my sister Viana Greene. She had come from Arizona for herself and the dead. We gave in our names in the Temple on Monday, Sept. 1, 1884, and on Tuesday I was baptized in the font for 10 names of my dead relatives. On Wednesday, we went through the endowments for my father and my sister went through for my mother and had them sealed over the alter. On Friday, [September] 5th, I did the endowment for my brother, Lorenzo Potter, he had not married before death. I had a wife sealed to him and had him ordained to the Melchizedek Priesthood” (129).

Amasa and Viana also did the work for their grandfather, Justus Osborn (130), and for their uncle, Thomas Osborn (131), and also of their aunt, Hannah Osborn VanCamp. The information of these family members were most likely provided by correspondence between Amasa Potter and his uncle Phillip Osborn.

Helen Calkins Potter, Amasa Potter’s first wife passed away on March 16, 1890 of the grippe. Amasa Potter married Esther Ellsworth Daly, a widow that he had hired to help him with his hotel on November 17, 1890 in the Manti Temple.

By 1887, Rev. David Wirt and his wife Sarah Potter Wirt had relocated to Eastern Oregon, where their ministries had called them to serve (132). Later, they would serve in Tiburon and Kenwood, California (133) together, until Sarah’s passing on February 6, 1895 (134) . While she was anxiously engaged in the work of the Lord, sharing in her husband’s ministry, her greatest love was for her children and was heard to say at the time of her passing, “I have found my home in the hearts of my children” (137). Her earthly remains were laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery, near Oakland, California (136). Rev. Wirt died of enteritis, in Oakland, Cal., June 16 1900, aged 78 years, 8 months, and 14 days (137) and was buried next to his wife.

After the death of her husband in February 1897, Charlotte Potter’s daughter, Vienna Potter Green eventually moved in with her widowed sister, Elizabeth Potter Kelly and her family in Springville (138) and lived there until her death which occurred on April 18th in 1904 (139).

By 1900, Newell Potter had moved in with his daughter, Melvina Tervort and her husband Henry and their family (140). On September 15, 1904, Henry Tervort, Melvina’s husband suddenly passed away at the age of 41 years, due to heart problems and dropsy (141). He and Melivina had two additional daughters born to them since 1900 (142), hence Melivina was left to support herself, her eight living children and her aged father, Newell Potter.

Elizabeth Kelly passed away in Springville on June 26, 1905 at the age of 70 years, 7 months and 15 days (143). Amasa Potter passed away Mar. 23, 1911 of pneumonia at the age of 78 years (144), and Newell Potter, the last surviving child of David and Charlotte Potter, passed away in Payson, Dec. 24, 1912 of La Grippe [a form of influenza pandemic] at the age of 82 years (145).

Sources of Information

(1)Deseret News Semi-Weekley Edition, Issue: August 2, 1870, page 10, column 4

(2) Family History Library Special Collections, film no#1,255,545, Endowment House Records, Endowments Book A, page 32: Charlotte Potter, born Pollett, Rutland, Vermont, 14 April to Joshua and Susanna Osborne.

(3)1800 Federal Census of Pawlett, Rutland, Vermont Head of Household: Osburn, Justin Free white males ages 26 through 44: one (Justus Osborn) Free white females ages 16 through 25: one (Susannah Osborn) Free white males ages under 10: two (presumably Cornelius Osborn and Joseph Osborn) Free white females ages under 10: one (presumably Charlotte Osborn)

(4)1810 United States Federal Census of Pomfret Township, Niagara Co., New York Head of Household: J. Osborn Free white males ages 26 through 44: one (Justus Osborn) Free white males ages 10 through 15: one (Presumably Cornelius Osborn, b. 1795) Free white males ages under 10 years: three (Presumably Joseph b. 1799, Jacob b. 1801, Phillip b. 1807). Free white females ages 26 through 44: one (Presumably Susannah Dickerman Osborn, b. 1777). Free white females ages 10 through 15: one (Charlotte Osborn, b. 1795). Free white females ages under two: two ( Presumably Elizabeth b. between 1808 and 1811 and Hannah b. 1810).

(5)“History of Erie Conference”, Vol. 1, by Rev. J.N. Fradenburgh, D.D., LL.D., 1907, Derrick Publishing Company, Oil City, Ohio.

Page 339 Our Church at Girard

In 1816 there was no Methodist society nearer Girard than Bristol on the west, North East on the east, and Meadville on the south. In the fall of that year Rev. George Stuntz, a local preacher, preached at the house of Giles Rodgers who lived on the Reed farm. This was said to have been the first Methodist sermon ever delivered in Girard Township. The text was: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up”. The place was then an almost unbroken wilderness. In 1817 Ira Eddy and D.D. Davidson were appointed to the circuit and formed the first class at Justus Osborne’s. The members of the class were Giles Rodgers and wife, Mrs. Cole-formerly Silverthorn,----Alexander Nichols, and Justus Osborne and his daughter Charlotte. Mr. Osborne was the leader. For six years meeting were held in his log cabin, a building 20x24 feet in size, with puncheons for flooring and paper windows. This modest house was long the resting place for wear pioneer intinerants…….

(6) There has been many unconfirmed marriage dates for David and Charlotte Potter varying between 1815 to 1817, and occurring in New York and Avon Township, Ohio. The author has found no source to validate such claims. It seems likely that they were probably married in 1817 in Erie County, PA since Frandenburgh cites Charlotte as attending one of the first Methodist classes held in her father’s cabin in 1817 (see note).

(7) “Township Number 7 in Range 16 of the Western Reserve received its first permanent American settlers during 1814 from Montgomery County, New York, led by Wilbur Cahoon. The township was administered by Dover Township and was part of Cuyahoga County. In 1818, Township Number 7 was organized and first named Xeuma, then later Troy Township. In 1824, Lorain county was created, and the name of Troy Township was changed to Avon Township. An Avon post office was established in 1825. Eventually, the entire township was incorporated as the city of Avon”.

(8) The family has given the birth date of Benjamin as 1816, it seems likely to the author that this could have occurred between 1817 to 1818.

(9)The family has given the birth date of Esther as 1818. It seems likely to the author that this could have occurred between 1818 to 1819.

(10)1820 Federal Census of Troy Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Head of Household: David Potter Free white males of 26 and under 45 years:1 (this represents David Potter Jr.) Free white females under ten years:1 (this represents Sarah Potter) Free white females of 26 and under 45 years: 1 (this represents Charlotte Potter). No. of individuals engaged in Agriculture:1

Head of Household: Wyllys Potter Free white males of 26 and under 45 years:1 Free white females under ten years:1 Free white females of 26 and under 45 years:1 No. of individuals engaged in Agriculture:1

(11)Information provided by Christine Paige of Jackson Hole, Wyoming:

Sarah Corbain Potter Wirt  born 13 Feb 1820 in Sheffield, OH (I have a note that she was born in a log cabin)  when her family departed west with Joseph Smith, she went to Oberlin College, where she studied from 1840 to 1845  Married Rev. David Wert (latter changed to Wirt) at Oberlin College 3 April 1845 (so I suspect she was not married previously)  David Wirt was a minister and “home missionary” with the Congregational Church.  They had 9 children, including my ancestor Arthur Dana Wirt (as an aside, the youngest, Rev. Loyal Lincoln Wirt was a missionary in Alaska and Australia and wrote “Alaskan Adventures” about crossing from Nome to Katmai by sled dog to bring supplies to the Nome gold camps.)  Based on their children’s birth places, David and Sarah were in Oberlin through 1847; Rehobeth, OH approx 1849 to 1851; Amboy, IL approx. 1853-1856; Ligonier, IN in 1858; Lamont, MI 1860-1863. At some point they relocated to California.  Sarah died 15 June 1900 in Oakland, CA and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. There is a Wirt family headstone there for David, Sarah, and several of their children.

(12) 1900 Federal Census of Springville, Utah County, Utah, enumeration date: June 9, 1900

Name Relation Birthdate Age Birthplace Father’s B-place Mother’s B-place Green, Vienne Aunt Aug 1825 74 OH NY VT

(13) Lorain County, 1827 An Old Record

The following has been transcribed for the Internet in January of 2004 by Sue Simonich, with permission from Dorothy Painter, the author, for the Lorain County Genealogical Society. This record was originally extracted by Wm. N. Briggs, from Lorain County Cort House records and published in the "Elyria Independent Democrat Newspaper as a serial piece. The goal was to list all the early pioneering people of Lorain county.

An old record, "We have before us a document exhumed from the old records in the courthouse, by Wm. N. Briggs, containing the names of the white male inhabitants in each township in Lorain County in 1827.

The assessment was taken by John Pearson, who certifies it to be correct. We propose to publish the entilre list, as a matter of public interest. It will be seen that there are but few now living in any of the townships who resided there forty six years ago. The list will be continued through several issues.

Elyria Independent Democrat, dated July 30, 1873, Avon Township: Jacob Orsborn

(14) 1840 Federal Census of Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio, FHL no# 0020171.

Head of House hold: Wyllis Potter Free White males 10 to 15 years:1 Free white males 15 to 20: 1 Free white males 20 to 30:1 Free white males 40 to 50:1 Free white females 10 to 15:2 Free white females 15 to 20:2 Free white females 50 to 60:1 Total no# of individuals in family:9

(15) see note # 145 Death Certificate of Newell Potter

(16)1830 Federal Census of Avon Township, Lorain Co., Ohio Head of Household: Jacob Osborn Free white males 30 and under 40: one (Jacob Osborn) Free white males 5 and under 10: one Free white males under 5 yrs of age: one Free white females of 30 and under 40: one (Marvel Osborn) Free white females of 10 and under 15: three

Head of Houshold: David Potter Free white males under 5 years: 1 (This represents Newell Potter) Free white males 5 years and under 10: 2 (this represents Lorenzo and Chester Potter). Free white males 30 and under 40:1 (this represents David Potter Jr.) Free white females under 5 years:2 (this represents Calaista, Viana). Free white females 10 and under 15: 1 (this represents Sarah Potter). Free white females 30 and under 40 yrs:1 (this represents Charlotte Potter).

Total no# of family members: seven individuals.

(17)Taken from “The Life and Times of Amasa Potter, pg. 1,“I was born in the town of Avon, Jan. 10, 1833”

(18) 1900 Federal Census of Springville, Utah County, Utah, enumeration date: June 9, 1900

Name Relation Birthdate Age Birthplace Father’s B-place Mother’s B-place Kelley, Elisabeth Mother Dec 1835 64 OH NY VT

(19) Taken from “The Life and Times of Amasa Potter”, page 1, “when I was five years old, I moved with my family to the State of Indiana, Allen Co., near Fort Wayne.

[note that Amasa Potter was born in 1833, hence from this account, the family moved to Indiana in 1838].

(20) The Latter Day Saint’s Millennial Star, Vol. LIX, Liverpool, Edited and published by Rulon S. Wells, 1897. Page 141 “Mound Discoveries”, In the year 1838 my father [David Potter Jr.] moved to the State of Indiana, twelve miles northeast of Fort Wayne, and bought a farm on Cedar Creek in Allen County…-Amasa Potter”.

(21) Take from “The Life and Times of Amasa Potter”, pg. 1, “Here my father cleared the thick woods and made a good farm at great cost.”

(22) The Latter Day Saint’s Millennial Star, Vol. LIX, Liverpool, Edited and published by Rulon S. Wells, 1897. Page 141 “Mound Discoveries”, In the year 1838 my father [David Potter Jr.] moved to the State of Indiana, twelve miles northeast of Fort Wayne, and bought a farm on Cedar Creek in Allen County…-Amasa Potter”.

(23) Taken from the Memorial book of Sarah Potter Wirt, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

(24) Oberliln is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, founded in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers, and was one of the first institutions of higher education to admit women and blacks. It was established as a nondenominational religious community and to train missionaries for the settlement of the West. It is now a prestigious liberal arts college and music conservatory. In the middle of the 19th Century, the college and community were active in the abolition movement and underground railroad.

(25) “Seventy Fifth Anniversary of General Catalogue of Oberlin college 1833-1908, Including An Account of the Principal Events in the History of the College with Illustrations of the College Buildings”, Oberlin, Ohio, April 1, 1909.

Page 781: The entries, translated from abbrieviations, read: Potter, Sarah C. (Mrs. David West [sic]; enrolled ’37-’38 preparatory course, ’40-’42 literary course; from St. Joseph, Indiana.

(26)Federal Census of Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana

Head of Household: David Potter Free males 40 yrs and uder 50:1 [this represents David Potter Jr.] Free white males 15 yrs and under 20: 1 [this represents Lorenzo Potter] Free white males 10 yrs and under 15:1 [This represents Newell Potter] Free white males 5 years and under 10: 1[this represents Amasa Potter] Free white males under 5 yrs: 1 [this represents Leonard Potter] Free white females 40 years and under 50:1 [this represents Charlotte Potter] Free white females 10 yrs and under 15 years:3 [this represents Calista Potter, Viana Potter and possibly Elizabeth Potter] Free white females 5 years and under 10:1 [This represents Elizabeth Potter]

(27)Arnold Potter (January 11, 1804 – April 2, 1872) was a self-declared Messiah and a leader of a schismatic sect in Latter Day Saint movement . Potter referred to himself as Potter Christ.

Potter was born in Herkimer County , New York . At age 19, he married Almira Smith. By 1835 Potter had moved with his wife and children to Switzerland County , Indiana . On November 10, 1839, Potter and his family were baptized by missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints .

In April 1840 Potter and his family moved to Nauvoo , Illinois to join the main gathering of Latter Day Saints . On April 24, 1840 Potter was given the Melchizedek priesthood and ordained to the priesthood office of elder by Joseph Smith, Jr. On June 1, 1840 Potter received a patriarchal blessing from church patriarch Joseph Smith, Sr.Potter settled in Sand Prairie , Iowa , where Potter was the presiding elder of the church. In January 1845 Potter became a seventy in the church.

In 1848 Potter traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as a Mormon pioneer . By 1856, he had moved from Utah Territory to San Bernardino , California . On March 16, 1856 Potter received a call to serve as a missionary in Australia from LDS Church president Brigham Young . Later that year, Potter left California for Australia on the ship Osprey.

Potter later claimed that during his trip to Australia, he underwent a "purifying, quickening change" whereby the spirit of Jesus Christ entered into his body and he became "Potter Christ, Son of the living God". During his time in Australia, Potter wrote a book which he said was dictated to him by angels ; it was described by Potter as the book from which all people were to be judged at the Final Judgment .

Potter returned to California by October 1857. A Latter-day Saint observer described Potter's re-appearance in the community:

Wednesday 21 October 1857—Arnold Potter, who calls himself Potter Christ, appeared in our streets today with a brand on his forehead which had been put in with India ink. The words which can be read at quite a distance, are “Potter Christ—The Living God—Morning Star”. To the right of the inscription is a star, below a cross. He appears very desirous of winning followers. It is said there are several apostates about to join him.[1]

By 1861 Potter and some of his followers had left California with the intention of settling near Independence, ,_Missouri, the traditional location of Zion for the Latter Day Saints. They settled at Saint Marys in northwest Mills County, Iowa . When Saint Marys was destroyed by flooding in 1865, they moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa . Potter spent his days wandering the streets in Council Bluffs wearing a long white robe and became a local oddity. Potter's followers in Council Bluffs were described as "few but devout". The men wore black robes and the women eschewed normal grooming practices. Potter and his followers held enthusiastic prayer meetings which would often culminate in Potter declaring a new revelation from God.

In 1872 Potter announced at a meeting of his church that the time had come for his ascent into heaven . Followed by his disciples, Potter rode a donkey to the edge of the bluffs, whereupon he leapt off the edge. Potter died in the attempt to ascend into heaven and his body was collected and buried by his followers.

(28) 1840 Federal Census of Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. The census shows the family of Arnold Potter residing in Nauvoo, living next to Sidney Rigdon.

(29) In Endowment House records, Charlotte Potter gives the date of her baptism as July 18, 1838, however this is probably an error, as Arnold Potter, the missionary who converted the family, himself was not baptized until November 10, 1839. Amasa Potter records his baptism as occurring July 12, 1841. Hence it is likely that both David and Charlotte Potter were baptized some time prior to this date. The orbituary of Charlotte Osborn Potter found in the Deseret New- Semi Weekly edition of August 2, 1870 states at the time of her death that she had been a member of the Church for 29 years (see note #112), placing the year of her baptism in 1841.

(30) Taken from “The Life and Times of Amasa Potter, “ In the year 1841, an Elder from the L.D.S. Church, by the name of Arnold Potter, who I later learned was my uncle, came preaching in that part of the country. My father and mother went to hear him preach and were convinced that he taught the true gospel. They were baptized. Later four of their children were baptized.”

(31) Taken from “The Life and Times of Amasa Potter”, “Heavy persecution commenced for the Saints, so my father sold his home and moved to Nauvoo City, Ill., where the Saints were building up a fine city on the banks of the Mississippi river.”

(32) Taken from the Life and times of Amasa Potter”, “Leading Events, I here mention some of the leading events that transpired through life”…”3. Moved to Nauvoo in 1842 and acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith two years.

(33) Charles Lamone Green

Born, Otsego County, New York 7/4/1802 Marries – Mary Emmoliza Ellis – Montgomery Co., New York 1823 Age 21 Allen Madison Born – Otsego Co., New York 1824 Age 22 Mary Catherine Born – Cattaraugus Co., New York 1827 Age 25 Sarah Born – Otsego Co., New York 1828 Age 26 Asa Madison Born – Allegany Co., New York 1828 Age 26 Clarinda Born – Allen Co., Indiana 1832 Age 30 Henry Nathaniel Born – Allen Co., Indiana 1833 Age 31 Baptized – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Indiana 1834 Age 32 Lavina Born – Allen Co., Indiana 1834 Age 32 Moroni M. Born – Allen Co., Indiana 1835 Age 33 Martha Ann Born – Allen Co., Indiana 1837 Age 35 Ordained an Elder in Kirtland, Ohio 1838 Age 36 Twins – Charles Lamoni & Charles Alma

Born in Allen Co., Indiana 1841 Age 38 Mission to Indiana ? ? Located to Nauvoo (Morley Settlement) Il. 1841 Age 38 Located to Montrose, Iowa (Directly across from Nauvoo) 1843 Age 40 Ordained – Quorum of Seventies (Q16) – Nauvoo, Il 1845 Age 43 Endowed – Nauvoo, IL 1846 Age 44 Located to Ferryville (Omaha) Nebraska 1846 Age 44 Asa Madison dies and is buried in Ferryville, Nebraska 1848 Age 46 Arrived in Salt Lake Valley (Silas Richards Company) 1849 Age 47 Identified in National Census – Nephi, Utah 1851 Age 49 Works on “Old Mud Fort” – Deseret, Utah 1865 Age 63 Mary Emmoliza Dies at Old Mud Fort 1865 Age 63 Marries Sarah Jane Warren – Salt Lake City, Utah 1870 Age 68 George Putman Born – Oak City, Utah 1873 Age 71 Lyman Allred Born – Rabbit Valley, Utah 1876 Age 74 Charles Lamone Green Dies – Rabbit Valley, Utah 12/25/1879 Age 78 Mary Ann Born – Rabbit Valley, Utah 1880 - (34) Taken from the biography of Moroni Green, son of Charles Lamone Green and brother to Allen Mornoi Green which reads: Allen was a native of New York, Moroni was born in the town of Pike November 8, 1835. His family moved to Nauvoo, when he was six years of age, and in 1843, the family moved to Montrose, a town on the west bank of the Mississippi River, nearly across from Nauvoo…..

(35) Allen Madison Green was born Sept. 29, 1824 in Otsego County, New York, the son of Charles Lamone Green and Mary Emmoliza Ellis. He died February 1897 and was buried at Riggs Settlement-dos Cabezas, Cochise, Arizona.

Allen Madison Green

Born, Otsego County, New York 9/29/1824 Marries – Lavina (or Vienna) Potter 1843 Age 19 1st Child Born – Iowa 1845 Age 21 Anastasia Born – Iowa – Dies Within A Year 1846 Age 22 Anastasia (Annis) Born - Iowa 1847 Age 23 Asa Madison Born - Iowa 1849 Age 25 Allen Green Leaves the Silas Richards Company (Early) 8/26/49 Age 25 Located in Salt Lake County, Utah 1850 State Census 1850 Age 26 Located in Brighton (Sacramento) California 1852 Census 1852 Age 28 Elizabeth Ellen Born – Brighton California (or Oakland California) 1852 Age 28 George Putnam Born – Oakland California 1854 Age 30 Newell Dayton Born – Brighton California 1856 Age 32 Allen Madison Jr. Born – Brighton California 1858 Age 34 Anastasia (Annis) Dies – Brighton California at the Age of 11 1858 Age 34 Alice Josephine Born – Brighton California 1860 Age 36 Ida May Born – Brighton California 1862 Age 38 Charlotte Josephine (Lottie) Born – Brighton California 1865 Age 41 Alice Josephine Dies in Brighton California 1870 Age 46 Located in Brighton California – 1870 Federal Census 1870 Age 46 Started for Texas – (When Charlotte was 14) 1879 Age 55 Robbed and left with nothing in Arizona / Worked Cutting Timber 1879 Age 55 Located in Pine Canyon Mills, Pima Co., Arizona – 1880 Census 1880 Age 56 Registered to Vote in Dos Cabezas, Cochise Co., Arizona 1890 Age 66 Allen Madison Green Dies – Dos Cabezas, Cochise Co., Arizona 1897 Age 73 (36)Amasa Potter, “A Reminiscense of the Prophet Joseph Smith”, Juvenile Instructor 29, No. 4, Feb 15, 1894, page 131-132.

(37)History of the Church, 5:339; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Apr. 8, 1843, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Willard Richards and William Clayton.

(38)Amasa Potter, “A Reminiscense of the Prophet Joseph Smith”, Juvenile Instructor, Feb 15, 1894, page 132.

(39) The Congregation Year Book, 1901. Issued, Under the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, by its Publishing Committee, and containing the General Statistics of Those Churches for the Last Previous Year., Vol. 23, Published by the vote of National Council, Portland, Oregon, 1898.

Page 48: Wirt, David, son of George and Catherine {May) Wirt, was born in Perry Township, Ohio, 1821, Oct. 2. Studied, Oberlin College, 1841-4; on account of ill health, left college and worked at saddlery until 1847; colporteur in northern Ohio, 1847-8. Licensed by German Reformed Church, Uniontown, 1848, May; studied theology with his uncle; called to Rehoboth, 1848,, October, serving five congregations, one at Postoria, where he resided, 1849-50; ordained 1849, Feb. 25. Left German Reformed Church, 1850, September; pastor, Congregational, Hartford, Ohio, 1850, November to 1851, December; Mt. Liberty, 1851, December, to 1853, September; Henry, Ill., 1853, October, to 1855, January; Amboy, 1855, January, to 1856, April; Toledo, Ohio, Seamen’s chapel, 1856, June, to 1857, October; Ligonia, Ind., 1857, October, to 1858, November; Allegan, Mich., 1858, November, to 1860, May; Lamont, 1860, June, to 1862, June; general home missionary, Muskegon Valley, residence, Lamont, 1862, June, to 1863, November; pastor, Portland, 1863, December, to 1865, December; New Baltimore, 1865, December, to 1867, February; South Haven, 1867, April, to 1869, May; Fort Dodge, Ia., 1869, May, to 1871, May; general home missionary, Northwestern Iowa, residence, Fort Dodge, 1871, May, to 1872, May; pastor, Bloomington, Wis., 1872, July, to 1873, July; West Rosendale, 1873, August, to 1875, April; Markesan, 1875, May, to December; Oakfield, 1875, December, to 1876, December, residence, Ripon, 1873-6; Plymouth, 1877, May, to 1879, May; Des Plaines, Illn., 1879, May to 1880, June; Chebanse, 1880, November, to 1881, June, residence, Chicago; general home, North Dakota, residence: Cleveland and Jamestown, 1881, June, to 1887, November; and Eastern Oregon, 1887, December, to 1888, October; pastor, Medical Lake, Wash., 1888, October, to 1890, June; Port Gamble, 1890, July to September; Thburon, Cal., 1891, July to 1892, September; Kenwood, 1892, November, to 1894, April, residence, Pendleton, Ore., 1887-1894. Married, 1845, April 3, Sarah Corbin, daughter of David and Charlotte (Osborne) Potter, of Sheffield, Ohio. Of nine children, eight are living, one daughter, a missionary in Siam, and a son, Rev. L.L. Wirt, lately superintendent, home missions in Alaska. Died of enteritis, in Oakland, Cal., 1900, June 16, aged 78 years, 8 months, and 14 days.

[The name Wirt has gone through several spelling changes. David Wirt changed the spelling form Wert to Wirt because it was confused with “West”. Wert traces back through his father, George Wert in Pennsylvania to Lt. J. Jacob Wert who fought in the Revolution, but emigrated from northern Alsace, where his antecedents spelled the name Wirth. ~Christine Paige- Jackson Hole, Wyoming]

(40)"Seventy Fifth Anniversary of General Catalogue of Oberlin College 1833-1908, Including An Account of the Principal Events In the History of the College With Illustrations of the College Buildings", Oberlin, Ohio, April 1, 1909.

Page 1038 :The entries, translated from abbreviations, read:

Wert, David; enrolled ‘42-’45 preparatory course; from Massillon, Ohio.

(41) Taken from the Memorial Book of Sarah Potter Wirt, “When she was married by Prof. Charles G. Finsey in 1845 to David Wirt, she was in the third year of the Ladies Course”.

(42) William Watson Jr, son of William Watson Sr., was born in Ohio, in about 1826.

(43)FHL film no# 2,111,101 Allen County, Indiana Marriage Records, 1B, 1C, 2, 1834-1853 Page 66: “To All who shall see these Presents, Greetings, Know ye that an person legally authorized to solemnize matrimony is hereby licensed to join in marriage as husband and wife William Watson and Calista Potter and for so doing this shall be his sufficient authority.

Witness, R.E. Hemming, Clerk of the Allen Circuit Court and Seal of the Said Court this 20th day of June 1848.

R.E. Hemming, Clerk

Indiana To wit Allen County,

This certifies that I joined in marriage as husband and wife, William Watson and Calista Potter on the 21st day of June 1848

Edmund Hall, Recorder

(44) 1850 Federal Census of Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana, Enumeration Date:Jan. 2, 1850

House Name age gender Occupation Birthplace no# 2878 William Watson Jr. 23 M Laborer Ohio Calista 22 F Ohio Samuel 3 M Indiana Margaret 2 F Indiana Susan 1 F Indiana

1860 Federal Census of Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana, enumeration date: July 12, 1860

House Name age gender Occupation value of value of Birthplace no# real estate personal Pro. 2878 William Watson 33 M Farmer $1300 $400 Ohio Calista 32 F Ohio Samuel 12 M Indiana Margaret 10 F Indiana Susan 8 F Indiana Rebecca 7 F Indiana John 6 M Indiana David 4 M Indiana Sarah 2 F Indiana

1870 Federal Census of Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana, enumeration Date: Aug. 2, 1870

Name age gender Occupation value of value of Birthplace real estate personal Pro. Watson, William 44 M Farmer $500 Ohio , Calista 42 F keeping house Ohio , Samuel 20 M works on farm Indiana , Margaret 19 F at home Indiana , Susan 18 F at home Indiana , Rebecca 18 F at home Indiana , David 12 M works on farm Indiana , Mary 9 F Indiana , William 3 M Indiana

1880 Federal Census of Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana, enumeration Date: June 8, 1880

Name age Relation Occupation Birth place Father B-place Mother B-Place Watson, William 52 Head Farmer Ohio Maryland PA , Calista 52 wife keeping house Ohio NH Mass , David 24 Son farmer IN OH OH , Mary 16 Daug IN OH OH , William 13 Son Farmer IN OH OH , John A 7 Son IN OH OH

(45) Index of Wills, Scovill- Z, Allen County, Indiana, FHL no# 2,116,461

William Watson

August 3, 1885

I, William Watson of Allen County, Indiana do make and publish this my last will and testament.

1st It is my will that all my just bills~ to paid out of the proceeds of the sale of such part of my personal property as may be necessary to satisfy said claims.

2nd I will and bequeath to my wife, Calista Watson, all my property both real and personal to be owned and controlled by her and for her use during her natural life.

{The real estate aforementioned consists of the east half of the north west quarter of section one in Township No# thirty two north named L thirteen east 80 acres also the north half of the east half of the northwest quarter of same section~40 acres.}

3rd It is my will that at the death of my wife all of said real estate taken be left by my wife shall ____ to and be the property in fee of my three sons jointly to wit, Daniel Watson, William Watson, John Watson and it is my will that the three sons above named shall before any division is made of the above mentioned lands jointly pay to my daughter, Margaret Watson the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to Susan Carol one hundred and fifty dollars~ to Rebeccah Rowey-one hundred dollars~to Mary Watson three hundred dollars.

My son Samuel Watson has received his full share in advance and is therefore not to receive a part of the estate for described.

I hereby appoint my wife Calista Watson the executrix of this, my last will and testament, without bond or ____, and I have to my said wife the exclusive guardianship, control, and education of my two infant sons, William and John Watson.

Dated this 7th day of March AD 1884. Signed by him the said William Watson in our presence and signed by us in his presence the date above mentioned.,

William Watson (Seal)

Attest: Mathias Hallapeter

Calista Watson’s name appears in the Allen County, Indiana Directory of 1890 living in Cedar Creek Township. (Allen County, Indiana, 1890, Fort Wayne, IN, USA; M. M. Graham, 1892). Her name is not found on the 1900 Federal Census records of Cedar Creek Township, Allen Co., Indiana as many of her children are found. Hence she died between the years 1890 and 1900.

(46)1900 Federal Census of Cedar Creek, Allen County, Indiana, Enumeration Date: 16 June 1900

Name Relation Birthdate age Birthplace Father B-place Mother B-place Rowey, John K Head Nov 1845 54 Ohio PA PA , Rebecca wife Apr 1853 47 Indiana PA PA , Daisy M. daugh Apr 1883 17 Indiana OH IN , Corma P. daug. Sep 1884 15 IN OH IN , Josephine daug Jan 1886 14 IN OH IN , Flossie daug Apr 1890 10 IN OH IN

The census also indicates that John and Rebecca Rowey have been married for 18 years that Rebecca is the mother of 4 children, 4 of whom are living in 1900. John Rowey’s occupation is that of a farmer.

1900 Federal Census of Cedar Creek, Allen County, Indiana, Enumeration Date: 14 June 1900 No of family in the order of visitation: 82 ~family of William Watson Name Relation Birthdate age Birthplace Father B-place Mother B-place Watson, Wm Head Jan 1867 33 Indiana OH OH , Bertha wife Sep 1869 30 IN OH OH , Harry son Sep 1891 8 IN IN IN , Annis M. dag Jul 1895 4 IN IN IN The census record also indicates that William and Bertha Watson have been married nine years, that Bertha is the mother of three children, two of which are living in 1900. William’s occupation is that of a farmer.

No of family in the order of visitation: 83 ~family of Samuel Watson Name Relation Birthdate age Birthplace Father B-place Mother B-place Watson, Samuel Head July 1846 53 IN OH OH Census record indicates that Samuel Watson is single, works as a farm laborer.

No of family in the order of visitation: 84 ~family of David Watson Name Relation Birthdate age Birthplace Father B-place Mother B-place Watson, David Head Feb 1856 44 IN OH OH , Evaline wife Feb 1863 37 IN OH OH The census record indicates that David and Evaline Watson have been married for 14 years, that they have no children born to them within 14 years of marriage as of 1900. David’s stated occupation was that of a farmer.

No of family in the order of visitation: 85 ~family of David Luttman

Name Relation Birthdate age Birthplace Father B-place Mother B-place Luttman, David Head Jan 1855 45 OH PA PA , Mary wife Aug 1861 38 IN OH OH The census record indicates that David Luttman and his wife have been three years, but have no children born to them as of 1900. David Luttman’s stated profession is that of a farmer.

No of family in the order of visitation: 110 ~family of Margaret Watson Name Relation Birthdate age Birthplace Father B-place Mother B-place Watson, Margaret Head Sept 1849 50 IN IN OH , Grover C. Son Jan 1887 13 IN IN IN Census record indicates that Margaret is widowed, that she is the mother of four children, three of which are living in 1900.

(47) Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter, pages 1,2

“I remember the years 1845 and 1846, were very trying times for the Latter Day Saints in Nauvoo…..“My parents lived at this time on the west bank of the Mississippi River….” (48)Early Branches of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1830-1850, by Lyman D. Platt : Sand Prairie, Lee, Iowa, 15 Mar 1845, Arnold Potter, President; David McKee, clerk; 49 members.

(49)Times and Seasons, City of Nauvoo, March 15, 1845, Vol. 6, page 840: Elder Arnold Potter, President of the Sand Prairie Branch, Represents the same in good standing, containing forty nine members….David McKee, Clerk.

(50)The “Tabernacle Post Office” Petition for the Saints of Kanesville, Iowa, written by Maurine Carr Ward and Fred E. Woods, page 182:

Name Iowa Branch Comments Potter, Amasa Sand Prairie Son of David, age 15 Potter, David Sand Prairie Potter, Leonard Sand Prairie Son of David, age 10 Potter, Newell Sand Prairie Son of David, age 18

[ The authors of this report state that the names of those who signed this petition were extracted at some time from the original petition pages found in the Brigham Young Office files, Church Archives, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The list was also checked against five other sources including: “The Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: 1830-1848” by Susan Easton Black; “Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” by Susan Easton Black; “Iowa Branch Index: 1839-1859” by Ronald G. Watt; Winter Quarters Wards Index to Membership Lists: 1846- 1848” ; and “1850 Census: Pottawattamie County, Iowa” by Beverly Boileau.]

(51) Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter.

A Patriarchal Blessing of David Potter Son of David and Elizabeth , born Rensselaer, County, New York Jan. 9, 1793 Presented to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Nauvoo The City of Joseph on the 27th of June 1845, recorded by B.E. Elliott. Given by William Smith

Beloved Brother: I lay my hands upon your head to confer upon you a Patriarchal blessing. Which blessing shall afford unto thee comfort, and reveal many things for thous hast desired to understand the knowledge of God. And to inherit a Celestial Glory. And because of these good desires of thine heart thou shalt be comforted. And the Devil who has sought to lay temptations in the way shall not have power over thee. Thou shalt be able by the assistance of the Spirit of god, to thwart all his plans, and save thyself from his grasp.

Although his evil devices has hindered thee much, and brought distress upon thee in despoiling thy goods and wresting from thy hands the fruits of thy labors, yet there shall be restored unto thee fourfold, in the own due time of thy Lord, and thy family shall be rewarded for all their deprivations and afflictions, in a manner that shall not increase their poverty, but will give unto thee the true riches of earth, and also of Heaven upon thee, as enemies have arisen; But thou shalt behold Zion prosper and better days are thine, and for thy household.

Thy days although numbered, because of thy faith and works of Righteousness will be lengthened out. And if thou art faithful, in keeping the commandments of God, thou shalt realize the fulfillment of this blessing and possess a greater fullness of the spirit of God, that will be a light to thy feet, and a lamp to thy path, and the true knowledge of God shall be unfolded, and the mysteries of His Kingdom revealed. For by day and by night it shall be thy guide, andthou shalt enjoy great blessings.

The gift of wisdom and knowledge, speaking of other languages, the interpretations therof, and many more of the spiritual gifts and blessings too numerous to mention are laid up in store for thee. And even it hath not entered the heart of man to express, Angels have desired to look into them, but were deprived of the privilege, and prophets died without the sight. Yet thou shalt understand them all, when thou art perfected in thy salvation, and gathered with the Israel of God, to the Zion of God. In the last days because thou art of that family from whom descendeth the power of the Holy Priesthood, not of the holiest of all for the less is blessed of the better; For thou art a descendant of Levi, and that tribe that administered in outward ordinances, the highest order of that priesthood, being that of the Bishopric. As revealed in these last days.

Thou shalt be exalted and made high, and none shall take thy crown, for I seal upon thy head, the blessings of eternal life, a salvation that is eternal, everlasting and immortal with an irrevocable decree in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

A Patriarchal Blessing of Charlotte Potter Daughter of Justice Osborne and Susannah, born Kirtland Co., Vermont April 14, 1795 Given by William Smith, Patriarch Nauvoo, City of Joseph June 27, 1845 A.Milliken, Recorder

Dear Sister, because thou art made a partaker and sharer in labors and toils of thy husband, I lay my hands upon your head to confer upon you a patriarchal blessing. That thy heart also may be comforted and that thy spirit may no longer be depressed, and cast down for yet in time to come, there are many good things that await thee in thy journey and many blessings in heaven in store for thee.

Thou art numbered with the house of Israel, and as one of the daughters of Abraham that will take thy place in that day when thou comest into the Kingdom of Abraham, and posseth thine inheritance. Thou art not only a descendant of Abraham, but an Ephramite by blood, descending through the loins of Ephraim. Thy Fathers have wandered in the wilderness, they came in a path that was not known, and by a strange way. It was this seed that found the land of promise this side of the mighty waters, their blood being now mingled with all the nations of the earth; yet by the everlasting covenant made and promised unto the Fathers of old. This seed shall be gathered out from among all nations wheresoever they have been scattered, and driven. And although they have been dead and slain upon the valleys yet they shall live and enjoy a spiritual life. For they shall come forth from their graves even all that slept, and they that are alive upon the earth, mingling with the living shall inherit and fulfillment of this promise, and with this seed thou art numbered. And of this promise thou art saved. None shall take thy crown or place. Thy children and friends shall call thee blessed, and in the last days thou shalt consider it. For in a good old age thou shalt witness these things and thy heart shall be filled with the blessings of the gospel by visions and dreams, thou shalt be comforted. And by the spirit of God shalt thou be led all the day long, and it shall be said of thee thy faith hath made thee whole, and thou shalt rejoice over Zion, in the day of her exaltation, and thy name with all thy posterity shall be remembered there.

As a mother in Israel if thou art faithful in doing the will of God over thine household, thou shalt sit down in Zion in the midst of them all, and they shall call thee blessed. Thine name shall be had in everlasting remembrance, and be named upon thy posterity after thee. And the glory and the power of this salvation, none shall wrest from thy hands, for Israel upon thee dear sister, by the authority of the Holy Priesthood a salvation, which is after the power of an endless life, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

(52)Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 2

(53) Family Data Collection- Individual Records Name Lorenzo Potter Parents: David Potter, Charlotte Osborne Birth Place: Elyra, Lorain, Ohio Birth Date: 24 June 1824 Death Date: 1 Oct 1847

(54)The “Tabernacle Post Office” Petition for the Saints of Kanesville, Iowa, written by Maurine Carr Ward and Fred E. Woods, page 151

(55)The “Tabernacle Post Office” Petition for the Saints of Kanesville, Iowa, written by Maurine Carr Ward and Fred E. Woods, Page 182:

Name Iowa Branch Comments Potter, Amasa Sand Prairie Son of David, age 15 Potter, Chester Potter, David Sand Prairie Potter, Leonard Sand Prairie Son of David, age 10 Potter, Newell Sand Prairie Son of David, age 18 [ The authors of this report state that the names of those who signed this petition were extracted at some time from the original petition pages found in the Brigham Young Office files, Church Archives, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The list was also checked against five other sources including: “The Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: 1830-1848” by Susan Easton Black; “Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” by Susan Easton Black; “Iowa Branch Index: 1839-1859” by Ronald G. Watt; Winter Quarters Wards Index to Membership Lists: 1846- 1848” ; and “1850 Census: Pottawattamie County, Iowa” by Beverly Boileau.]

(56)The “Tabernacle Post Office” Petition for the Saints of Kanesville, Iowa, written by Maurine Carr Ward and Fred E. Woods, Page 182:

Name Comments: Green, Allen Son of Charles, age 18 Green, Charles Green, Asa Green, Moroni Son of Charles, age 12 Green, Nathaniel Son of Charles, age 15

(57)Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 2

(58)Green family Reunion Notes 2008-Lincoln City, Oregon, by Jon Green:

We all know, or should know, that Charles Lamone Green accepted the gospel early in LDS Church history and is listed in many early Church documents that place him in and around the Nauvoo, IL area and that he traveled with the saints to the Salt Lake Valley in 1848. He traveled in the Silas Richards Company of 1849 and his family is listed as:

 Charles (46) with his wife Emmoliza (43)  Clarinda (17)  Nathaniel (15) This is Henry Nathaniel  Lavina (15) Lavina and Nathaniel are both listed as 15 but Lavina was a year younger than Nathaniel  Moroni (13)  Martha Ann (11)  Lamoni (8) This is Charles (Lamoni) Jr. The four oldest children of Charles and Emmoliza are not listed in the roster of the Silas Richards Company.

The older two girls, Mary Catherine & Sara, were 20&21 years old and most likely married. Asa M. had died in 1848 and is buried near what is now Omaha Nebraska. Our GGGrandfather, Allen Madison Green, in 1848 was married and most likely had children but in further research it became evident that Allen Madison, even though unlisted in the roster, was traveling with the Silas Richards Company. The following excerpt is from Silas Richards to Brigham Young. Written from “near Crab Creek – Aug. 24, 1849, it reads: “I think Proper to inform you that, nine wagons left our company yesterday on their own responcibility, and without our council, and traveled ahead. Yesterday being Sunday, we rested and had meeting as usual [.] the names of those that went on are, as follows, three brothers by the name of Thompson, Mr Poor, (these are not members of the Church I believe) [Joel] Harvy & Hutchens, claim to be members, they have not been disposed to observe, and comply with our camp rules. are profane (except Bro [S.] Hutchins) and incline to be disorderly, the only excuse they offer for leaving is that they do not wish to tie their cattle at night.-they intend being in the valley 3 week[s] ahead of us, my opinion is that the Gold is their principal inducement west, also Allen Green.”

(59)1850 Federal Census of Jefferson, Township, Allen County, Missouri, enumeration date: 14 Nov. 1850

House no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birthplace 747 William Potter 26 M Farmer NY Meary 27 F VT Lydia 7 F MO Arabell 4 F MO (infant) 1/12 M MO Newel Potter 21 M OH

[William Potter, born 30 Aug 1826 in Herkimer, New York, was the son of Arnold Potter and Almira Smith. Newell Potter was the son of David Potter and Charlotte Osborn]. Though the above mentioned Census record places the approximate age of birth for William Potter at aprox. 1824, It is the author’s personal belief that this is William Potter, son of Arnold Potter. I make that assumption on several factors:

1- The relationship between Newell Potter and William Potter as cousins. I have gone through new.familysearch.org and familysearch.org looking for any other children or descendants of David Potter Sr. and Elizabeth Vaughan who would have been named William and born about this time period, and there is only one individual, William Potter, son of Arnold Potter who falls into this category. 2- www.earlylds.com lists a William Potter, born 30 Aug 1826 born in Salisbury, Herkimer, New York, under residence of 1845, it liststhat he was a member of the Sand Prairie Branch, Lee Co., Iowa- source of this information is “The Iowa Branches Members Index 1839-1859, Volumese I & II “ by Ronald G. Watt, Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1991. 3- Submitters to new.familysearch.org have listed a Julia Balchelder (born 1823) as a wife to William Smith with a marriage date of 22 Nov 1846 or 12 Dec 1846, with location of marriage occurring in Massachusetts, there is no references cited from when these claims are made, it seems highly improbable to the author that this is the William Smith who was in Sand Prairie Branch, Lee Co., Iowa in 1845. Lester Mangum of Pocatello submits the marriage date of Dec. 17, 1846 of William Potter and Julia Batchelder in Wakefield, Middlesex, Mass, in the Pedigree Resource file, but again offers no specific references for such. 4- The Sons of Utah Pioneers Card index, 1847-1850 lists a “William Potter, birth date: 30 Aug 1824 in Salisbury, New York”, yet there is no William Potter listed on the Mormon Pioneer Overland travel index from 1847 to 1868, indeed the history of William Potter seems to disappear after this finding in the 1850 census. 5- We do know from Amasa Potter’s journal that Amasa and Newell were sent by their father to Savannah, Missouri which is in Allen County, Missouri in 1847 to work. Amasa’s journal indicates that he returned with the family at Winter Quarters in 1848 and emigrated to Utah with his parents, but there is no mention of Newell his brother. Newell Potter and William Potter were both members of the Sand Prairie Branch in Lee County, Iowa in 1845, of which William’s father, Arnold was branch President. Hence from the above mentioned facts presented, it seems logical to the author to conclude this William Potter found in the cited census record is the same William Potter, born to Arnold and Almira Smith, born Aug. 30, 1826.

(60)1850 Federal Census of District #21, Pattowattamie County, Iowa, Enumeration Date: October 5, 1850. Roll M432_188, page 1063, Image 218.

House no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birthplace 677 Chester Potter 30 M None Ohio

(61)Family Data Collection- Individual Records Name: Chester Potter Parents: David Potter, Charlotte Osborne Birth Place: Avon, Lrnn, Ohio Death Date: June 1851

(62) Taken from Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 3

(63)US Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index: Surname: David Potter Year: 1850 County: Salt Lake County State: UT Age:58 Gender:M Month of Death: Jan State of Birth:NY ID #: mrt197_265080 Occupation: Laborer Cause of Death: Consumption

(64)Utah Cemetery Inventory Name: David Potter Birth Date: 9 Jan 1793 Birth Place: Pittstown, New York Death Date: 11 Jan 1851 Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah Burial Date: 11 January 1851 Cemetery: Salt Lake City Cemetery Source: Sexton Records Grave Location: C-11-4—

(65)Dustin, Peter (Male) Birth: Dustin, Peter (Male) Date: April 19, 1781 Place: Grafton, New Hampshire Parents: Dustin, Peter (Male) Father: Dustin, John Jr. Mother: Webster, Sarah/Sally Marriage Information: Dustin, Peter (Male) Spouse: Tubbs, Azuba Date: September 11, 1803 Church Ordinance Data: Dustin, Peter (Male) Baptism Date: 1831 Officiator: Parley P. Pratt Baptism Date: June 9, 1830 Patriarchal Blessing Date: June 7, 1835 Officiator: Joseph Smith Sr. Ordained Elder Date: June 6, 1831 Ordained High Priest Date: October 5, 1832 Place: Jackson County, MO, USA Officiator: Oliver Cowdery Ordained High Priest Date: December 10, 1833 Temple Ordinance Data: Endowment Date: March 30, 1852 Temple: Endowment House in Salt Lake City

Places of Residence: Dustin, Peter (Male) Jackson, Clay, Caldwell, MO Payson, Utah, UT, 1850 Comments: Dustin, Peter (Male)Peter was called to be Branch President in Missouri.. Peter was called to be on the high council in Missouri. Peter labored as a missionary in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in 1832. Peter was called to labor with James Emmett in 1834. Peter labored in Upper Canada in 1835. Comments: #21. Peter served as president of the Blue River Branch in Jackson Co., Missouri. Comments: #31. Peter served a mission in 1835.

(66) 1850 Federal Census of Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. [Enumerated in May/June 1851]. Roll M432_919, page 103B, Image 214, Enumerator: B.H. Young

House hold no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birthplace 510 Peter Dustin 70 M Farmer N.H. Charlotte 56 F VT Amasa 18 M OH Elizabeth 16 F OH Leonard 13 M IN

[In the 1850 Utah Census which was enumerated in May/June 1851, David’s widow, Charlotte Potter and their children, Amasa, Elizabeth, and Leonard are all enumerated with the last name Dustin with the head of household, Peter Dustin.]

(67) 1850 Federal Census of Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. [Enumerated in May/June 1851

House hold no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birthplace Allen Green 25 M Laborer NY Viena 24 F OH Annis 3 F IA Asa 2 M IA Amasa Potter 18 M OH

(68) Life and Times of Amasa Potter, 1833-1911, page 3.

(69)1860 Federal Census of Brighton Township, Sacramento County, California, enumeration date: July 7, 1860

House no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birthplace 1776 A Green [Allen Green] 34 M Farmer NY V Green [Viana Green] 33 F OH A Green [Asa Green] 11 M IA E Green [Elizabeth Green] 7 F CA Geo Green 6 M CA Newell Green 4 M CA A Green [Allen M. Green] 2 M CA Alice Green 4/12 F CA

[Missing from this census record is daughter Annistacia Green, who was born in Iowa in 1847. Amasa Potter, on return home from his mission to Australia in 1858, worked for a period of time in the Sacramento, California area. He makes this touching journal entry dated October 22, 1858: “On the 22nd, new came to me that Anastacia Greene was very sick and wanted to see me. I got a bottle of sweet oil, consecrated it in the woods, as I went to the place. When I arrived she was very low. The house was full of people. They told her I had come. She roused up and reached her hand to mine and said, “I want you to bless me before I die.” I ordered all in the house to be seated, then I anointed her with oil and blessed her. In a short time, she was dead. The people all wondered at the ordinance. They asked me if I was a Catholic Priest. They buried her under a live oak tree on the banks of the American River, in a lonely place. This young lady was my neice…”]

1870 Federal Census of Brighton Township, Sacramento County, California. Enumeration date: July 7, 1870

Name Age Gender Occupation Real Estate Personal Pro. Birthplace Green, Allen 45 M Farmer $600 NY , Viana 44 F Keeping house OH , Asa 21 M Farm hand IA , George 16 M Farm hand CA , Newell 14 M at home CA , Allen 12 M at home CA , Ada 8 F at home CA , Lottie 5 F at home CA

(70)http://orca.byu.edu/Journals/2003%20Final%20reports/_rel/bradshaw.pdf

“The Council House as a House for Sacred Ordinances in the Early Church” by Gil Bradshaw, Faculty Mentor: Fred E. Woods, Church History and Doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_House

The Endowment House was an early building used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to administer temple ordinances in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. Prior to the building of Endowment House, after the construction of Salt Lake City's first public building, the Council House, the Mormons used its top floor for administering temple rituals in 1852. When this arrangement proved impractical, Brigham Young directed Truman O. Angell, architect of the Salt Lake Temple, to design a temporary temple. Completed in 1855, the building was dedicated by Heber C. Kimball and came to be called the Endowment House.

(71)Journal History March 25, 1849- source cited in the PDF file, “The Council House as a House for Sacred Ordinances in the Early Church” by Gil Bradshaw.

(72) Family History Library, special collections, Endowment House Records, film no# 1,255,545: Endowments, Book A, page 32, Monday, March 8, 1852, Officiator: Snow. Charlotte Potter, born 14, April 1795-Pollett, Rutland, Vermont, daughter of Joshua and Susanna Osborne. Baptized 12 July 1838.

(73) “Church Chronology, A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”, complied by Andrew Jenson, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1914,page 46

(74)Conquers of the West: Stalward Mormon Pioneers, Vol.2, Edited by Florence C. Youngberg, complied by the National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, 1999.

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Name : John Kempton Birth Date: 7 Sept 1777/8 Parents: William and Ruth Damon Kempton Jr. Death date: 18 Dec. 1852 Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah Arrival: 1847 Spouse: Mary Sanders Marriage Date: 19 Feb 1801 Marriage Place: Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Married 2nd: Hannah Bradford, Date: 12 Nov. 1818, Farmington, Kennebec, Maine. Married 3rd: Persiller Billings Ensign (wid), Date: abt. 1850; Married 4th: Charlotte Osborn Potter (wid), Date: abt 1852. John’s father and great grandfather participated in the American Revolution to win freedom for America. John’s father was a gunsmith and later a tavern owner. He was also operator of a major bridge in and out of New Bedford, so he probably had some education whether formal or from his father’s businesses. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a journeyman carpenter building hosues. By the time he was 21, he completed his apprenticeship. By 1798, he was living in the Wareham area. In 1806 John and Mary moved to Farmington, Maine, where Mary died. In 1834, John was baptized a member of the Mormon Church. A short time later John served a short mission and was active in the Church. At various times they are found in Ohio and Nauvoo. He and his wife were involved in Temple work. They were in Winter Quarters prior to June 1847. John is listed as being in Salt Lake in early 1848 before any companies had left Winter Quarters. John was apparently called upon to speak many times in meetings. He was a hard worker and a very spiritual man and well liked by everyone. He knew personal tragedy with the loss of two wives and eight children….

Submitted by Brenda McConkie.

John Kempton is found in the 1850 Census enumeration, age 72, b. MA, carpenter with his last wife Persilla Billings Ensign at Salt Lake, Utah (page 75, family 100). He died on 18 Dec. 1852 at SLC and is buried in the cemetery there.

1850 Federal Census of Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, M432_919, page 76A, image 155. Name no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birth place 100 John Kempton 72 M Farmer Mass Persiller 57 F Mass Emma Ensign 18 F NY

(75)Family History Library Special Collections, Film no# 0183,393. Index of Sealings,

John Kempton #779- September 15, 1852- Endowment House

John Kempton, born 8 Sept. 1778 in New Bedford, Bristol, Mass- sealed to Persiller Billings, born 2 June 1793 in Conway, Berkshire, Mass, wife of Zopher Ensign (dd), who was born 23 Nov. 1785.

Charlotte Osborn, born Pollet, Rutland, Vermont, 14 April 1795, wife of David Potter (dd), who was born 10 Jan 1793 at Fisburn, Montgomery, NY.

(76) Email from Bill Kempton to Steve Mecham, dated Feb. 25, 2010, “I have read elsewhere that the early Endowment House records are often ambiguous for today’s interpretations since proxy and live sealings were recorded in the same books and in the same manner. My suspicion is that –as suggested- John was probably a proxy for Charlotte’s husband, David Potter. So John Kempton was probably not actually married to Charlotte either as his temporal or celestial spouse-hence the reason why the extractor for the Temple Index Bureau didn’t list John as being sealed to her. Additional evidence for no marriage-at least a temporal one- was that there is no historical record known where Charlotte was listed with the last name Kempton, nor does she ever appear in any household list associated with John Kempton.”

(77) E-mail from Laprele Hall to Steven G. Mecham, dated Feb. 23, 2010, “I went to the Family History Library today and looked at the Endowment House records and found the requested endowment records….I asked several different workers there to interpret this information and they said it could mean that John Kempton was sealed to two different widows on Sept. 15, 1852 or that he was proxy for the husbands of those women.”

(78) Salt Lake City Utah Cemetery Records, 1848-1992

Name: John Kempton Birth Date: Sept. 18, 1788 Birth Place: N. Bradford, Mass. Death Date: 18 Dec 1852 Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah Plot:294-D-2-1-E-1 Burial Date: 18 Dec 1852

(79) Excerpts from the Pioneer History of John Hammond, written by Hilda Watkins Gaucher, and presented at Campt Juniper, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Feb. 1974.

“Very little is known of the early life of my great grandfather, John Hammond, though his church records have him born in Chelmsford, Essex, England, July 22, 1795.

From Church records and vital statistics, we do know that he settled in Malone, Franklin Co., New York where he married on Dec. 15, 1819, Mary Lovisa parker, daughter of Isaac and Anna Parker. They had 4 children who lived to maturity…

John and Lovisa joined the Church in 1836 and they moved with their family to Kirtland Ohio that same year. They knew of the hard times of the church during the next two years.

At a meeting of the Seventies in the House of the Lord in Kirtland on the 6th of march 1838, the moving of the Saints from Kirtland to Missouri in accordance to the commandments and revelations of God, was spoken of and agreed that the councilors should discuss the subject and meet again in four days. At the meeting on the 10th of March much was said on the subject and while the discussion of going in a body was ensuing, the Spirit of the Lord came down in mighty power and some of the Elders began to prophecy that the Quorum should go in a body, pitching their tents along the way. It was soon made manifest to all present that this was the will of the Lord and that they should proceed immediately to make preparation for the journey.

On March 13th, at another meeting, under the direction of Hyrum Smith, a constitution was drawn up and names of heads of families were taken. One of the rules stated that “every man shall be the head of his own family and see that they are brought into subjection according to the order of the Camp”. Another rule adopted later was “the horn will blow at 4 am for the rising and at 20 minutes past 4 for prayer every morning, at which time every overseer shall see that the inmates of his tent are in order that prayer may commence throughout the Camp at the same time, immediately after the blowing of the horn. John Hammond was chosen as one of the overseers . His tent contained about 18 persons and had two teams of wagons…..

….On July5th the camp commenced organizing on a lot near the House of the Lord. Between four and five hundred people made preparations to spend the night in their tents and to be ready to start on the 870 mile journey the next day….

…John Hammond had his own problems on the journey. Notes from the diary read:

Tuesday, July 10th: Brother John Hammond broke his wagon, the only accident.

Wednesday, July11th: John Hammond broke his wagon and was left behind to repair it and did not get up to the encampment tonight.

July 12th: John Hammond overtook us in the morning on horseback, his wagon had broken again the third time, so it could not be easily mended. The Council advised him to go back to the brethren in New Portage to assist him in exchanging it for another, or let him have one to go up to Zion with, and have it returned to them, as he has now fallen so far behind that we could not well assist him without hindering many others.

July 15th: John Hammond who was left behind joined us again.

Aug 6th: John Hammond lost of his horses in the night, the first one that had died during the journey.

Aug. 23rd : John Hammond was expelled from the Camp for not standing at the head of the family, his wife making much disturbance in the tent of which Bro. Hammond was the overseer.

John and his family left the Camp and stopped in Western Ohio, near the city of Dayton, having met with an accident. He soon continued to eastern Illinois, where he remained when he heard that the Saints had been expelled from Missouri. While there, he was visited by the Prophet Joseph Smith, who stopped overnight on his way to Washington. John soon moved to Golden Point, near Nauvoo, and was a friend and neighbor to the Prophet….

John and his two younger daughters and Lovisa left with the exodus, settling in Pattawattime on Pigeon Creek and on to the valley in 1848 with one of Brigham Young’s companies with Daniel H. Wells as Aide-de-Camp.

The Company consisted of 1229 souls with 397 wagons, 74 horses, 19 mules, 1275 oxen, 699 cows, 184 loose cattle, 411 sheep, 141 pigs, 605 chickens, 37 cats, 82 dogs, 10 geese, 2 hives of bees, 8 doves, and 1 crow. They left the Elkhorn river, Nebraska June 1, 1848 and arrived in the Great Salt Lake in 1848.

The Hammonds were blessed by not having any of their family die on the journey, although they had other difficulties. Once they lost their oxen all day. When evening came they still hadn’t found them and John decided that the Indians had taken them. Lovisa knelt down and prayed to the Lord to show them where the oxen were. When she arose, she asked John to go with her, and when she led him to a patch in the willows, they found the oxen tied with leather thongs. They journeyed on their way with thankful hearts.

…The Hammonds settled in South Cottonwood, near Union in Salt Lake City…

…In 1853 John Hammond took a second wife, Charlotte Osborn Potter. Charlotte had eleven children by her first husband who had died two years earlier. He married a third wife on the 9th of March 1857 and six days later took his fourth wife, Jane Romriel by whom he had two daughters, the second being born eight months after he died. He died the 27th of December 1858 in South Cottonwood.

Backman & Cook eds. Kirtland Elders' Record (1985), Appendix, p.86

John HAMMOND (1795-1859). Born at Chelmsford, Essex, England. During late 1820s and early 1830s, resided at Malone, Franklin, NY. Resident of Kirtland 1837-1838. Ordained elder 22 Oct 1837. Traveled with Kirtland Camp 1838. Elder endowed in Nauvoo Temple Feb 1846. Died at South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, UT.

(80) Family History Library Special Collections, Endowment House Index of Sealings, Film no# 0,183,393

John Hammond #998- January 19, 1853

John Hammond, born 22 July 1795 in Chelmsford, Essex, England- sealed to: Charlotte Osborn, born 14 April 1795, Pollett, Rutland, Vermont.

(81) Joseph Kelly was born Feb 4, 1806 in Butler County, Ohio, the son of . He first married Lydia Morrison Dec. 24, 1826 (she passed away 20 Feb 1836 in Bloomfield, Adams, Illinois). He then married Matilda Hull August 9, 1836 in Adams County, Illinois. The marriage was solemnized in the Nauvoo Temple Feb 7, 1846 by Heber C. Kimball. He married Abiah Huckins Feb. 7, 1846 in the Nauvoo Temple. Matilda Hull Kelly died Dec. 20, 1848 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Abiah Huckins Kelly died Aug. 25, 1854 in Cottonwood, Utah. He married Elizabeth Potter Nov. 26, 1854 and married Thankful Lucy Pine 22 April 1856 in the Endowment House, the same day he was sealed to Elizabeth Potter in the Endowment House. He left for an LDS mission to Australia from Springville, Utah June 24, 1856 and returned home to Utah September 1, 1857. He divorced Thankful Lucy Pine Sept. 13, 1859. He was excommunicated from the Mormon Church Nov. 8, 1874 [We do not know why he was excommunicated from the Mormon Church, although descendants of Joseph state that there was some kind of disagreement with the local Bishop Aaron Johnson after Joseph returned from his mission to Australia] and died at the age of 80 in Springville, Utah August 9, 1886. He was reinstated into the Mormon Church in 2009 upon petition for reinstatement approved by the First Presidency of the LDS Church.- found on the Family Tree of John Kelly found on Ancestry.com, John Kelly, Kaysville, UT- [email protected]

(82) The Life of Virgil Kelly, in the Possession of George D. Kelly, 538 W. 400 N, Brigham City, Utah, 84302: “ when Virgil was two weeks old the Indians burned their cabin. Joseph Wrapped Abiah in blankets and laid her in the snow. As she was not in good health and as a result of exposure, she developed what was then called “quick consumption”. She lingered until Virgil was two years old. She died in August 1853 in Cottonwood, Utah, and was buried in the Cottonwood Cemetery, but her remains later were moved to Springville, Utah by Virgil Kelly in 1905. In November after Abiah’s death, Joseph married Elizabeth Potter, a 19 year old girl who had worked for the Kelly’s. Abiah on her death bed asked Elizabeth to marry Joseph and raise her two boys, Oscar and Virgil”.

(83)”The Unauthorized Missionary Journal of Joseph Kelly, 1856-1857”, Indexed and Edited by George Dayton Kelly, June 2005, found on the Family Tree of John Kelly found on Ancestry.com, John Kelly, Kaysville, UT- [email protected].

Page 19: Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths of Joseph Kelly (written in his own hand).

Marriages: Joseph Kelly, son of George and Elizabeth Kelly, born October 4th, 1806, Butler Co., Oho Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of David and Charlotte Potter, born Dec. 18, 1835, Lorain Co., Ohio. Sealed Nov. 26, 1854, George A. Smith, GSLC at the Alter by H. C. Kimball April 21st 1856.

[Being sealed or married for time and all eternity outside the confines of the Temple was a practice allowed by church leaders at this time in history. Those who had the authority to seal couples for time and all eternity would visit people in their local communities and perform this ordinance of the Holy Temple on their behalf. However such couples were given strict orders to have this ordinance ratified by repeating it in the closest available Endowment House.- Taken from chapter 10- “the History of John Nay Jr. and Thankful Lucy Pine” written by Wilma O. Nay and John C. Nay” http://www.whitneyfamilyhistory.com/pdfs/chapters/10JohnThankfulLucyText..pdf.]

(84)Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Charlotte Potter State:UT County: Salt Lake County Township: South Cottonwood Ward Year: 1856 Page: 583 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

Utah Census, 1850-1890 Name: John Hammond State:UT County: Salt Lake County Township: South Cottonwood Ward Year: 1856 Page: 578 Data Base: UT 1856 Statehood Census Index

Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Charlotte Hammond State:UT County: Utah Township: Provo City Year: 1856 Page: 1002 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Amasa Potter State:UT County: Utah Township: Provo City Year: 1856 Page: 1002 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Leonard Potter State:UT County: Utah Township: Provo City Year: 1856 Page: 1002 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

(85) Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 3,4 :I commenced to get ready to start home to Utah. I sold my five lots in Sacramento City, and the first of October, 1855, I started across the Sierra Nevada Mountains…..Here I met my dear old mother, sister, and brother, which I had left in tears four years before, and I had been blessed as my father predicted on his dying bed. I moved our folks to Provo and spent the winter of 1855 very pleasantly…..

(86) Charlotte Potter Osborn is yet enumerated a third time on the 1856 Utah Statehood Census, this time as residing in Fort Union, Salt Lake County, with her son, Leonard Potter. Fort Union was a township which later merged with South Cottonwood in the metro region of Salt Lake County.

Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Charlotte Hammond State:UT County: Utah Township: Fort Unon Year: 1856 Page: 593 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Leonard Potter State:UT County: Utah Township: Fort Union Year: 1856 Page: 593 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: John Hammond State:UT County: Utah Township: Fort Union Year: 1856 Page: 593 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

(87)Utah Census, 1850-1890. Name: Elizabeth Kelly State:UT County: Utah Township: Springville Year: 1856 Page: 1032 DataBase: UT 1856 Statewood Census Index.

(88) The Memorial Book of Sara Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

(89) The Memorial Book of Sara Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, page 16.

(90) The Memorial Book of Sara Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, page 6.

(91) The Memorial Book of Sara Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

(92) Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter pages 5, 41, a full accounting of Amasa’s three year mission to Australia is found in this work.

(93) ”The Unauthorized Missionary Journal of Joseph Kelly, 1856-1857”, Indexed and Edited by George Dayton Kelly, June 2005, found on the Family Tree of John Kelly found on Ancestry.com, John Kelly, Kaysville, UT- [email protected]. A full accounting of Joseph Kelly’s mission to Australia can be found in this reference.

(94)The 1860 Utah Census enumerated Charlotte living alone as Charlotte Potter in Payson age 65 b VT.

1860 Federal Census of Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory, Enumeration Date: Aug. 28, 1860

House no# Name Age Gender Occupation Birthplace 1776 Charlotte Potter 65 F VT

1806 Amasa Potter 26 M Farmer IN Hellen Potter 25 F NY 1807 Newell Potter 28 M Farmer IN Indamora Potter 19 F NY

(95) Article in the Deseret News entitled, “Rich in Color” by Dorothy O. Rea

[Note: this article errors in the death year for Joseph Kelly, he died August 9, 1886 in Springville, Utah. Source: Utah Cemetery Index. Name: Joseph Kelly; Birth date: 4 Feb 1806; Birth place: Butler county, Ohio; Death Date: 9 Aug 1886; Death place: Springville, Utah; Cemetery: Springville City Cemetery; source: Sexton/Grant; Grave Location: Blk 58, Lot 3, pos. 2]

(96) Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 41-42

(97)Taken from the Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 42. Sissa Nilsdotter was born in Malmous County, Sweden in 1841. When coming to Utah her name became Americanized to Cecelia Nilsson or Cecelia Parsons.

(98)”Peteetneet, A History of Payson, Utah”, by Madoline C. Dixon, 19974, Press Publishing Company, Provo, Utah. Page 18

(99)”Peteetneet, A History of Payson, Utah”, by Madoline C. Dixon, 19974, Press Publishing Company, Provo, Utah. Page 112

(100)”Peteetneet, A History of Payson, Utah”, by Madoline C. Dixon, 19974, Press Publishing Company, Provo, Utah. Pg 112

(101) Veteran Memorial burial index card of Newell Potter Name: Newell Potter Rank: Pvt. Organization: Daniel Stark’s Co. Inf. Branch: Ut. Ter. Mil. Period of Service: Blackwawk Date of Enlistment: 11 May 1866 Date of Discharge: 29 August 1866 Date of birth: 1830 Date of Death: 1912 Place of Burial: City: Payson County: Utah Place of Burial City: Payson Plot location: Bl. 18 L.12

Veteran Memorial burial index card of Amasa Potter Name: Amasa Potter Rank: Pvt. Organization: A G. Conover’s Co. Cav. Branch: Ut. Ter. Mil. Period of Service: Blackwawk Date of Enlistment: 1 May 1866 Place: Provo, Utah Ter. Date of Discharge: 18 July 1866 Place: Provo, Utah Ter. Date of birth: 10 January 1833 Death: 23 March 1911 Place of Burial: City: Payson County: Utah Place of Burial City: Payson Plot location: Bl 5 L.5

(102)”Peteetneet, A History of Payson, Utah”, by Madoline C. Dixon, 19974, Press Publishing Company, Provo, Utah. Pg 112

(103)”Peteetneet, A History of Payson, Utah”, by Madoline C. Dixon, 19974, Press Publishing Company, Provo, Utah. Pg 20.

(104)Tullidge’s Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 3, 1883, by Edward William Tullidge, page 408.

(105) US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880, Roll: M1807_1 Schedule 2, Persons who died during the year ending 1st June 1870 in Payson, County of Utah, enumerated by me, William P. Applely, Asst. Marshal

Name: Indamora M. Potter Gender: Female Race: White Married Status: Marrried Occupation: Keeping house Place of Birth: New York Estimated birth year: abt 1842 Age:28 Cause of Death:Consumption Month of death: September [1869] Census Year: 1870 Census Location: Payson, Utah, Utah Page: 58 Line: 5 Roll: M1807_1

(106) Mary Leona Cloward was born Nov. 4, 1852 in Payson, Utah daughter of William Cloward and Rebecca Ann Searle, and died August 19, 1881.

(107) Newell Potter married Mary Leona Cloward on Nov. 7, 1868 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. It is unclear to the author if he was still married to Indamora Calkins Potter at this time or if he had separated from her. Payson City Cemetery records list her name as “Indanora Calkins” and her burial plot is different from that of where Newell Potter and Mary Cloward Potter were buried, yet the US Federal Census Morality schedule gives the name of Indamora Potter, suggesting that she is still married to Newell Potter.

PAYSON CITY CEMETERY RECORDS Name Birth date Death date Location Blk Lot Pos Calkins, Indanora 10/28/1840 9/13/1869 20_23_7

(108) US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880, Roll: M1807_1 Schedule 2, Persons who died during the year ending 1st June 1870 in Payson, County of Utah, enumerated by me, William P. Applely, Asst. Marshal

Name: Leonard Potter Gender: Male Race: White Married Status: Single Occupation: Farm laborer Place of Birth: Indiana Estimated birth year: abt 1840 Age:30 Cause of Death:Consumption Month of Death: January [1870] Census Year: 1870 Census Location: Payson, Utah, Utah Page: 58 Line: 6 Roll: M1807_1

(109) Payson City Cemetery records:

Name Birth date Death Date Location Potter, Lenard 10/22/1840 2/1/1870 5_8_7

(110)Payson City Cemetery records

Name Birth date Death Date Location Blk Lot Pos

Potter, Charlotte 4/14/1775 (1795) 7/25/1870 5_8_1

(111)1870 Federal Census of Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory, Enumeration Date: 25 July 1870

No# Name Age Gender Occupation Real Personal Birthplace Estate Property

74 Potter, Amasa 37 M Farmer $500 $800 Indiania , Helen 34 F Keeping house NY , Newell M 9 M @ school UT , Amasa D 5 M @ school UT , Imodomora 3 F @ home UT Wright, Sarah 12 F Domestic England 75 Potter, Cecelia 30 F Keeping house Sweden , Sarah E 5 F @ home UT , George 2 F @ home UT , Charlotte 75 F Visitor N. Hamp. Parson, Chasta 55 F Domestic Sweden

Charlotte Osborn is found staying with her daughter in law, Cecelia Parsons Potter. Chasta (Charista) Parsons is the mother of Cecelia Parsons Potter.

(112)Deseret News Semi-Weekley Edition, Issue: August 2, 1870, page 10, column 4: “In Payson, Utah County, July 25, 1870, Charlotte Potter, aged 75 years, 3 months, and 11 days, Deceased was born in Rutland County, Vermont. She had been a member of the Church for over 29 years. She was a woman of great faith and was universally respected. She was the mother of eleven children, six of whom belonged to the church, all of whom mourn her loss and bless her memory as a kind and indulgent mother and the instrument in the hands of God of their conversion to the gospel of Christ.”

(113) The Latter Day Saint’s Millennial Star, Vol. LIX, Liverpool, Edited and published by Rulon S. Wells, 1897. Page 141

(114)Clark, J. Allen, Carleton, R. Ball, and John H. Martin. Classification of American Wheat Varieties. Washington, D.C., U.S. Dept. Agriculture, 1922. Page 98.

(115) The Latter Day Saint’s Millennial Star, Vol. LIX, Liverpool, Edited and published by Rulon S. Wells, 1897. Page 142

(116) 1870 Federal Census of Dubuque Ward 1, Dubuque County, Iowa

Name Age gender Occupation Birthplace Wirt, Julia 22 F Telegraph Operator Ohio

(117)Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Volume II, 1876-1878, Davenport, Iowa, published by J.D. Putnam, 1877-1880, page 167.

(118) “Edward Palmer: Present before the Creation of Archaeological Stratigraphy and Associations, Formation Processes, and Ethnographic Analogy”, Journal article by Marvin D. Jeter; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 41, 1999.

“Dr. Edward Palmer (1830? -1911) was probably the first hired, and definitely one of the most active and productive of the “field assistant’s” for the Mound Exploration Division of the Smithsonian’s Bureau of Ethnology in the early 1880’s. For this project he worked primarily and most intensively in eastern Arkansas, but also in eastern Tennessee, near the Mississippi River in Louisiana, Mississippi, and western Tennessee, and on forays into other states in the Southeast and Midwest, between 1881 and 1884. This “Mound Survey” eventually resulted in the demolition of the myth of a lost race of “Mound Builders” who had not been Indians native to eastern North America…”

“Palmer was not primarily an archaeologist, was not physically strong, did not get along well with the stern taskmaster Thomas (who took over the project after Palmer’s first field season), and did not work again in archaeology after leaving this project. Yet he brought to the Mound Survey the experiences of a varied background that led him to try a number of innovative approaches, which we can now see as halting, often flawed, but sometimes provocative precursors of methods of data collection and interpretation that only became more or less standardized much later, in the twentieth century….”

(119)Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Volume II, 1876-1878, Davenport, Iowa, published by J.D. Putnam, 1877-1880, page 167.

(120)Green family Reunion Notes 2008-Lincoln City, Oregon, by Jon Green:

Although the Green “clan” was in the Brighton area for about 15-years, it is unclear why they left. I could assume that a poor “post gold rush” economy or the yearly flooding of the Sacramento River contributed to the exodus but it is clear that they didn’t move together as a group. Allen Madison took his youngest children with him to Arizona but others migrated to Southern California, Idaho & Utah.

(121) “The Life of Charlotte Josephine Green” From James L. Amalong, Wilcox, AZ, contributed to this project by Jon Green.

(122) 1880 United States Federal Census of District 1, Pine Canyon Mills, Pima Co., Arizona, Enumeration Date: June 15, 1880, family history film no# 1,254,036

No# Name Gender age Relation Marr Occup Birth place Father’s B-place Mother’s B-place 66 Green, Geo M 26 Head X Lumberman CA OH OH , Elizabeth F 20 wife X Keeping house UT Eng UT , Rose F 2 Daug S at home UT CA UT , Eva F 1 Daug S at home AZ CA UT 68 Green, Allen M 56 Head M Lumberman NY NY NY , Viana F 56 wife F keeping house OH OH OH , Charlotte JM F 15 niece F at home CA CA CA 69 Green, Allen M 22 Head M Lumberman CA NY NY . Lilian F 16 wife F keeping house UT UT UT

(123) Life and Times of Amasa Potter, page 46 a.

(124)”Peteetneet, A History of Payson, Utah”, by Madoline C. Dixon, 19974, Press Publishing Company, Provo, Utah. Pg 208- 209, Potter Hotel (San Diego Hotel) written by Annice Potter Christensen, DUP Lessons.

(125) “Erastus Snow Christensen, 1874 1943, A Family History” written by Steven G. Mecham and Verda Christensen Murphy, page 26.

(126) 1880 Federal Census of Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory

Name age gender Relation Occupation B-place Father’s B-place Mother’s Birthplace Potter, Newell 42 M Head Farmer Ohio ____, Mary L. 27 F wife keeping house UT PA NY ___, Melvina 10 F daug UT OH UT ___, James N. 9 M son UT OH UT ____, David Wm 7 M son UT OH UT ____, Maurice 1 M son UT OH UT

(127)Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index Name: Mary Potter Birth Date: Nov. 1852 Death Date: August 19, 1881 Cemetery: Payson

PAYSON CITY CEMETERY RECORDS Name Birth date Death date Location Blk Lot Pos Potter, Mary 11/0/1852 8/19/1881 18_12_3S Potter, Mary E. 8/8/1881 8/8/1881 18_12_4-5

(128)Deseret News, Saturday edition, dated March 1, 1884, “Information Wanted- Mr. Phillip Osborne, from Erie, PA, desires to obtain information from any of the family of David or Charlotte Potter, who came to Utah from Ohio among the earliest emigrants. Charlotte Potter is a sister of Phillip Osborne, whose address is Erie, PA.”

(129) Life and Times of Amasa Potter, 1833-1911, page 47.

(130) Logan Temple Records for Baptisms for the Dead (GS 177, 837).

Justus Osborn, b. 1765 in Rutland, VT, died 1871. Heir: Amasa Potter. Relation: Grandson. Baptized 2 Sept. 1884 in the Logan Temple. Proxy: Amasa Potter

Thomas Osborn, b. 1815, in Erie County, PA., d. 1835. Heir: Amasa Potter. Relation: Nephew. Baptized 2 Sept. 1884 in the Logan Temple, confirmed the same day. Proxy: Amasa Potter.

Hannah Osborn, b. 1810 in Rutland, VT., d. 1841. Heir: Viana Potter. Relation: Niece. Baptized 2 Sept. 1884 in the Logan Temple; confirmed the same day. Proxy: Vianna Potter. Received initiatory work and endowment 5 Sept. 1884 and was sealed to Lorenzo Potter, brother to Amasa Potter on 5 Sept 1884 in the Logan Temple.

(131) The only record that we have of Thomas Osborn, the son of Justus Osborn, born 1815 in Erie County, Pennsylvania and who died in 1835 is from the Logan Temple record submitted by his nephew, Amasa Potter. It is the author’s belief that Amasa Potter had been in correspondence with a living uncle, Phillip Osborn, of Erie County, Pennsylvania between March 1, 1884 and before Sept. 2, 1884 who had provided the details of Thomas Osborn’s birth and death.

(132) The Congregation Year Book, 1901. Issued, Under the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, by its Publishing Committee, and containing the General Statistics of Those Churches for the Last Previous Year., Vol. 23, Published by the vote of National Council, Portland, Oregon, 1898, page 48

(133) The Memorial Book of Sarah Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Page 16

(134)The Memorial Book of Sarah Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Page 6

(135)The Memorial Book of Sarah Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Page 17

(136)The Memorial Book of Sarah Potter Wirt, 1820 to 1895, in possession of Christine Paige, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Page 6

(137)The Congregation Year Book, 1901. Issued, Under the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, by its Publishing Committee, and containing the General Statistics of Those Churches for the Last Previous Year., Vol. 23, Published by the vote of National Council, Portland, Oregon, 1898, page 48

(138) 1900 Federal Census of Springville, Utah County, Utah, enumeration date: June 9, 1900

Name Relation Birthdate Age Birthplace Father’s B-place Mother’s B-place Kelley, George Head Jan 1860 40 UT Ohio Ohio , Emma wife Feb 1869 31 UT Illin MO , Alice daugh July 1898 1 UT UT UT , Ruth daugh July 1898 1 UT UT UT , Elisabeth Mother Dec 1835 64 OH NY VT Green, Vienne Aunt Aug 1825 74 OH NY VT

Census record indicates that George Kelly is a farmer by occupation, he has been married for three years, Emma his wife is the mother of three children, three of whom are living at the time of this census. Census records indicate that Elisabeth Kelley is married, has been married for 44 years [at the time of this census, Elizabeth Kelley was widowed, her husband Joseph Kelley died in 1885], that she is the mother of ten children, eight of whom are living at the time of this census. Census records indicate that Vienne Green is married, has been married for 60 years [at the time of this census, Vienne Green was widowed, her husband Allen Madison Green died in 1897] was the mother of ten children, five of whom are living at the time of the census.

(139)Utah Burial Results:

Green, Vienna Birth: 8/22/1820 Death: 4/18/1904 Place of Birth: Levan, Ohio Place of Death: Springville Cause of Death: Old Age Grave Locator: Springville City Cemetery Blk 58, Lot 3 Source: Sexton/Grant Relatives: Osborn, Sharlott (Mother)

(140)1900 Federal Census of Payson, Utah County, Utah, Enumeration date: 21 June 1900 Name Relation Birthdate Age Birthplace Father’s B-place Mother’s B-place Tervort, Henry Head June 1862 37 Utah Germany England ____, Vina wife Feb 1870 30 Utah Iowa Utah ____, Henry G son Apr 1889 11 Utah Utah Utah ____,Lucile Daug Dec 1890 9 Utah Utah Utah ____, Dora Daug May 1892 8 Utah Utah Utah ____, Morris M Son Dec 1893 6 Utah Utah Utah ____, Jennie Daug Dec 1895 4 Utah Utah Utah ____, Ray Son Jul 1898 1 Utah Utah Utah Potter, Newell F in Law Nov 1830 69 Iowa NY Iowa

Census records indicate that Henry and Melvina Tervort have been married 13 years (year of marriage 1887) and that Melvina is the mother of 6 children, six of whom are living in 1900.

(141)State of Utah – Death Certificate Full Name: Henry A. Tervort Sex: Male Marriage Status: Married Birthdate: June 16, 1863 Birth Place: Payson, Utah Occupation: Farmer and Laborer Age at time of Death: 41 years, 2 months, 29 days Father’s Name: Henry Tervort His Birth place: Germany Mother’s Maiden Name: Rosina Savage Place of Birth: London, England Informant: John F. Tervort, Payson, Utah Date of Death: Sept.15, 1904 Place: Payson, Utah Cause of Death: organic heart and dropsy

(142)1910 Federal Census of Payson, Utah, Utah, Enumeration date: April 27, 1910

Name Relation Age Married Birthplace F- Birth Place M-Birth place Tervort, Vina Head 40 widowed UT Ohio UT ____, Gazell Son 21 Single UT UT UT ____, Lucile Daug 19 Single UT UT UT ____, Dora Daug 17 Single UT UT UT ____, Morris Son 16 Single UT UT UT ____, Jennie Daug 14 Single UT UT UT ____, Ray Son 11 Single UT UT UT ____, Minnie Daug 9 Single UT UT UT ____, Vera Daug 7 Single UT UT UT Potter, Newell Father 78 widowed OH Rhode Island VT

(143) Death certificate of Elizabeth Kelly Full Name: Elizabeth Kelly Sex: Female Marriage Status: Widow Birthdate: Dec. 11, 1834 Birth Place: Indiana Occupation: Age at time of Death: 70 years, 7 months, 15 days Father’s Name: David Potter His Birth place: New York Mother’s Maiden Name: Place of Birth: Informant: T.R. Kelly, Springville, Utah Date of Death: June 26, 1905 Place: Springville, Utah Cause of Death: senility

(144) Death certificate of Amasa Potter: Full Name: Amasa Potter Sex: Male Marriage Status: Married Birthdate: Jan. 10, 1833 Birth Place: Ohio Occupation: Farmer Age at time of Death: 78 years, 2 months, 13 days Father’s Name: David Potter His Birth place:Rhode Island Mother’s Maiden Name: Charlotte Osborne Place of Birth: Vermont Informant: J. Fred Potter, Bancroft Idaho Date of Death: March 23, 1911 Place: Payson, Utah County, Utah Cause of Death: pneumonia

(145)Death certificate of Newell Potter Full Name: Newell Potter Sex: Male Marriage Status: Single Birthdate: October 28, 1830 Birth Place: Ohio Occupation: None Age at time of Death: 82 years, 1 months, 26 days Father’s Name: David Potter His Birth place:Rhode Island Mother’s Maiden Name: Charlotte Osborn Place of Birth: Vermont Informant: Vina Tervort, Payson, Utah Date of Death: March 23, 1912 Place: Payson, Utah County, Utah Cause of Death: La Grippe

Payson City Cemetery Records:

Name Death Date Location Potter, Newell 12/24/1912 18_12_3-4

Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index Name: Newell Potter Death Date:24 Dec 1912 Cemetery: Payson