Chapter VI. MORONI WARD FAMILY Moroni Ward Eliza Voss Ward Moroni Ward Phebe Zundel Ward SECTION I. of age, working on the farm. herding cattle and sheep, and attending school during the winter. Dur- MORONI WARD ing his boyhood days he lived with the family of (2 Moroni Ward was born June 8, 185 1, at Dwight HardinR for three years. Harrison Grove, Iowa He was the fifth son of On the 18th of November, 1872. he married George and his wife Ann Trulock Ward He was born while his parents were crossing the Ellza \Toss in the Salt I<ake City "Old Endowment House " Daniel €I Wells officiated and the ceremony plains on their way to Utah. was witnessed by Joseph F. Smlth Eleven children In the sprlng of I853 they settled in Willard, were born of this union, three sons and eight daugh- Utah, where Moroni lived until he waq 2 1 yearv ters Numbers In patinth di\ignate the gener'ition IO hiih I hey iiio\~crd to Mutldy ('reek (now Woodruff, that name belong5 such I ) Liorge \\'elton Ward (2) his Idaho) It was while living at this place he received c h i 1 d re n, (3) grandchild~i.n (4) great g~andchildicn (5) great great gr3ndlchildren (0) great great great grdntlchildrcn a tnis\ionary call from President John Taylor to and so on, covering Ilving generations fill a niision among the Lamanites who were then I located on the banks of the Bear River a little north daughter of Thomas and Lucy Haddon VOSS.She and east of the present site of Tremonton, Utah. emigrated to Willard, Utah, with her parents and This call was made February 9, 1873 He was set married Moroni Ward in the Endowment House, apait for this miwon by Piesident Lorenzo Snow Salt Lake City She has shared with her husband and left for his field of labor March 17, 1878. all the hardships and vissisitudes of a strenuous frontier life. When the call came to her to labor Here under the direction of Moroni Ward and among the Lamanites, she was awed as she had al- other Lattei Day Saint missionaries the Lamanites ways been fearful of Indians, but she accepted the were taught to till the soil using ox teams in plow- call graciously. ing the ground It was here that dry farming was begun It has proved to be successful to the extent She was a member of the Presidency of the Wash- that this community of 1,amanites under the person- akie Ward Relief Society for a number of years. al diiection of Moroni Ward operated one of the Later she was called as a mcmbcr of the Malad Stake first headers to come to this part of the state Relief Society Board. After moving to the Riverside of L‘tah About the year 1880 the colony aban- Ward to reside. she was selected and labored in the doned this location and was moved to a point three Bear River Stake Relief Society Stake Board for sev- and one-half miles south of the town of Portage eral years. onto a tract of land owned and operated by the Brigham City Co-op, which is now the present site She passed away September 24, 1943. Her life of Washakie should be a living testimony to her children, rela- tives, and friends that she has lived a consistent life Moroni was ordained a High Priest by Oliver G. as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lit- Snow, August 29, 1881. and set apart to serve ter Day Saints. She has lived according to its teach- as second counselor to Bishop Isaac E D Zundel ings and by so doing, has received many blessings of the Washakie Ward, which position he held until and many have been glad to call her mother through h’ovember 1888 when he was released to return 11 e r 1ov 1n g kindness to them. home after an absence of eleven years September 25 1883. he married Phebe Maria Phebe Maria Zundel, the first child of Isaac Zundcl daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth J. Zundel and Elizabeth Harding Zundel, was born in Wil- lard, Utah, on August 12, 1866. At the age of in the Logan Temple, she being his second or plural wifc She was the mother of nine children, five sons three she moved with her parents to Plymouth, Utah. When she was about seven years of age, her father and four daughters. was called by the Church authorities to establish He built a house and moved his family to Wood- an Indian Mission and colony at the present site of ruff, April 6, 1889. In June 1889 he was set apart Elwood, Utah, on the Malad River. The water of as first counselor to Bishop T. A Davis. He labored the Malad River proved satisfactory for irrigation, in that capacity until April 1890, when he was and after three years the Indian colony was moved to called to take his family and live and labor among the present site of Washakie, Utah, near the Utah- the Indians again, at Washakie. Idaho state line. This was a very hard trial for his family, as Phebe married Moroni Ward, September 23, they would be the only white people in the place: 1884, in the Logan Temple. Soon after their mar- the family consisted largely of girls, making it doubly riage they moved to Washakie, where he presided hard. However, they left their home April 7, 1890, over the Indian Mission. For many years she la- and took up their abode once more among the In- bored among the Lamanite colony with her hus- dians at Washakie At June 1890 conference of the band, teaching them the gospel, as well as the art Malad Stake. he was ordained a bishop and set of homemaking. While in Washakie, seven of her apart to preside over the Washakie Ward by Dresi- nine children were born, two of whom passed dent Lorenzo Snow and he has held this position away while there. ever since He has spent more than 22 years in trying to educate the Lamanites to be industrious, to be In 1903 she and her family moved to Riverside, honest, truthful and virtuous, and taught them the where two more children were born. She held the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ In his words, office of Relief Society President for many years, also “I have had great JOY and satisfaction in my labors, serving as secretary of that organization. She was having been assisted by the Lord at all times I have also President of the Primary Organization in River- seen many grand manifestations of His power and side. might. ” She was always willing to assist in caring for The Indian colony operated under this individual the sick and needy. She assisted doctors in bringing system under his supervivion until the spring of many babies into the world. No task was ever too 1902, when he was again released from this mis- big, but what she willingly gave of herself. Her sion and his oldest son George Ward, was called to home was always open to travelers, and many of fill his father s place Moroni Ward was then made the church authorities were given food and lodging. Second Counselor in the iMalad Stake Presidency hc No one ever went away hungry. In her declining had niovcd his two families to the Riverside Ward years she pieced quilts, crocheted and did a lot of where he erected two homes He resided here until hand work for her children and grandchildren. Her his death, which occurred March 16, I927 He was words of council were an inspiration to all. buried in the Willard Cemetery She was a devoted mother and wife, Aunt Phebe, Eliza Voss Ward was born in Rugby, Warwick- as she was lovingly called by her family and friends, shire, England, February 18, 1852. She is the died on May 6, 1957 in Riverside, Utah. Funeral 85 services were held in the Riverside Chapel and in- and cattle, buying and selling. He kept the telephone terment was in Willard. Utah. for 28 years. He weighed and received beets for U. ‘3 1. Sugar Co. until 1929. This is how he gained some of the richest experiences of his life. Children of Moroni Ward and Eliza Voss Ward. April 18, 1894, he married Mary Ann Morris in the Logan Temple. He was a ward teacher and SECTION 11. assistant superintendent in the Sunday School of GEORGE MORONI WARD the Portage Ward. He fulfilled a stake mission in the Bear River Stake. He was president of the George George Moroni Ward was the first child of Mor- Welton Ward family reunion for 30 years. He moved oni and Eliza Voss Ward, born at Willard, Utah, to Riverside, Utah, on May 29, 1929. September 8, 1873. He was baptized in the Bear River September 18, 1881, by Moroni Ward. In Had George M. Ward accomplished nothing 1889 he was ordained a Deacon at Woodruff Ward, more in his fife for the public welfare than being Idaho, and served as a Counselor in the Deacon’s able to speak thf Shoshone Indian language. he had Quorum. January 27, 1891 he was ordained a the ability to meet people in every walk of life and Priest by 0 C Hoskins. January 3, 1893, he was make them feel at home in his presence He was a ordained an Elder by Enoch Harris and was Set- Powerful expounder of the word of the Lord as re- retary of the Quorum until March 16, 1896.