Great-Grandpa Herbert was an OddFellow ...

 

What is the IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows)? 

From their webpage, the Odd Fellows are an organization that promotes personal and social development. For members, the fellowship emphasizes a "leaving of the old life and the start of a better one and of helping those in need."  As indicated in the image above, the Odd Fellows were established in the United States in 1819, but they were documented as far back as 1730 in England. The IOOF is still around today! The command of the IOOF is to "vist the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educated the orphan." Members are dedicated to the following purposes:

• To improve and elevate the character of mankind by promoting the principles of friendship, love, truth, faith, hope, charity and universal justice.
• To help make the world a better place to live in, by aiding each other, the community, the less fortunate, the youth, the elderly, and the environment in every way possible.
• To promote goodwill and harmony amongst peoples and nations through the principle of universal fraternity, holding the belief that all men and women regardless of race, nationality, religion, social status, gender, rank and station are brothers and sisters.

Mom/Margie's grandfather (Grandpa Norman's dad), Herbert Lavar Norman, was an Odd Fellow. In his history, he makes several mentions of his involvement and the impact they had on his life. Here are a couple excerpts: 

On April 18, 1918, I joined the Odd Fellow's Lodge in Brigham City. That fall, along in November (1918) I took the flu. There was a terrible amount of flu then. There were many, many people dying with it. They took me home from work. The doctor got there and told the fellow who took me home to get me to bed and take care of me. They fixed me up and asked me if we had any liquor in the house. Mother (Louella) said she didn't know what it was, but I had just purchased a case of something for Fred Rassmussen. He got me part of that, and he rubbed me with it. He then made a "hot toddy" for me. The Odd Fellow's Grand Noble got a nurse who stayed for three hours. Then he got another one, and she stayed for a couple of hours. That is the way it was for two or three days. At least they had someone there to take care of me night and day. When I got so I could go out, I went to pay the nurses because I felt they were the first ones who should be paid. I asked each nurse how much we owed them, and each one replied , "Nothing". The Odd Fellow's Lodge had taken care of all the expenses including the coal we had to buy from the lumber yard. I always maintained if it hadn't been for the Lodge, I wouldn't be here today. I paid them back. I couldn't do it all at once, but I did it as fast as I could. I figured if they could do that much good for me, they could do that much good for someone else. (See Quarantine for the full flu story). 

One day the Eagles Lodge had their Convention in Lovelock, and they went in the hole with their finances. They didn't make enough money to clear themselves out of it so they had to put on a home dramatic play. "Too Many Parents" was the name of it. One of the fellows they had in the play couldn't do his part so they came and asked me if I would take the part of the aristocratic old southern gentleman.  I did just to help them out. We practiced and practiced on it and finally we put it on. No one could tell it was me. But Mirriam was just a little girl, and she was pretty smart. When I came on the stage for my part she said "There's my Daddy." 

Herbert served as Grand Master of the Odd Fellows Lodge. On October 31, 1931 Herb had a meeting with the Odd Fellows in Salt Lake City ... he arrived home late the next day to baby Bonnie Lou just having been born. When he finished up his term as Grand Master, he was elected to be the representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge in Springfield, Illinois in 1933. The next year he was elected to the Sovereign Grand Lodge in Toronto, Canada. Herb and Louelle went to Arizona for a job at the end of 1952... 

When I came home one night from work, I told Mother there was a party down to the Oddfellows' and Rebekahs' Lodge Hall. We decided we would go to it. When we got there it was open, and we went up to the door. I told the people in there who we were and showed them our card and reciepts. They invited us in. A little while later the superintendent for the government on the canal project came in. He looked at me and asked why I hadn't told him I was a member of the Lodge. When the Lodge opened, he had Mother and I go to the middle of the floor and he introduced us as a Past Grand Master and Past President of Utah. We were certainly honored. From that day on, anything I wanted to do on the job, all I had to do was suggest it.

In the history given at his funeral in 1986 his daughter Mirriam wrote " Dad joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows while they were living in Brigham City, Utah. He remained very active in the organization until it became difficult to drive because of the deterioration of his eyes. He served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Utah. He was Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge for 2 years and served as Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Utah for 6 or more years. He was given the Meritorious Service Award for his years of service.

A Odd Fellow Meritorious Service Jewel may be awarded to an Odd Fellow for meritorious service performed on behalf of Odd Fellowship beyond the usual and customary duties of membership.

mer·i·to·ri·ous  /ˌmerəˈtôrēəs/   

adjective

deserving reward or praise.

"a medal for meritorious conduct"

Looking through old documents (Dec 2020) 

Chris found the letter from the lodge requesting the medal ...

The Odd Fellows were "fellows" ... it was for the men, but there was a women's branch, the Rebekahs. Louella was part of this group. In the fall of 1952, Louella was elected to go to Dallas, Texas as a representative for the Rebekah Lodge IOOF and she was quite active in the group over the years as well.

Army Pictures and Paperwork

 

There has already been a post about Grandpa Rex Norman's military service (In the Army Now) which showcases some family furlough photos and portions of his written history. As we continue to research, additional photos and documents have been uncovered. So here's a few more peeks into Grandpa Rex's military service. Two new photos (above) and some paperwork (below, click on any image to enlarge).

This record shows the duties/positions, work experience and prior education 

as well as dates entering and leaving the service.

We found it interesting to note on the discharge papers, that Grandpa Rex was only 5'7" and 151 pounds. This also includes "Decorations and Citations" and we are grateful he didn't need to go into action overseas!

Certificate of Appreciation 

This was the pouch that Grandpa kept these papers in.

Home Sweet Norman Home

Grandma Zada Norman and baby Nelva 1939

Rex and Zada got married in April 1938. They lived in Fairview for the first year. Their first apartment was one large room. A small bedroom and a little pantry. Grandma writes in her history that she used to hide behind the kitchen stove to bathe in a round tub.  Nelva was born there March 20, 1939.

Grandpa Rex wrote in his history ~  On July 13, 1938, I went to work for the State Road Commission and a highway survey crew. We were now able to rent us a house of our own in Fairview, for the amount of $5.00 a month. We did have to buy a kitchen range (coal) with a hot water reservoir attached. We lived there until the spring of 1939, at which time our first daughter, Nelva Loy was born. This was on March 20th, and eleven days later we moved to Mt. Pleasant, Utah. We now had to pay $15.00 for our apartment. 

Then Rex got a job with Young & Smith Construction Company and they moved out to Thompson, Utah (near Green River). There wasn't adequate housing, so Rex and his father built a little trailer (pictured above) which became home and it was nice to have it on wheels ... as it traveled!

Rex wrote ~ The job was out in the middle of the desert at a railroad junction. There was no housing available there so Dad decided to build me a trailer house. As I had no money to buy material, I made arrangements with a lumber company for the materials and in return gave the trailer house as security for the loan. I went out to the job alone for the first week and lived, ate, slept and did my book work in the car. I came home after about 10 days and Dad had built the trailer except for some painting and the clearance lights. We worked late into the nights getting it ready and able to leave on Monday morning with all our possessions inside. 

After Thompson, they went to Emery. From Emery, they went to Rockville, which is at the entrance to Zions Park. They had lots of company and sometimes would have to eat in shifts in the little trailer.

From Rockville, they moved to Ogden and parked the trailer at Aunt Leolas. Then they moved into a (Zada's history says motel, Rex's says cabin) for a bit while the trailer house was used out at a job by Rex's Dad. The construction company didn't have any work after that, so Rex and Zada went back to Mt. Pleasant and parked the trailer at Rex's parent's house. 

When spring came, Rex had a job with Morrison & Merrill, paid $100 a month. They rented an apartment at 140 Girard Ave in Salt Lake City. Melvin and Berthell got a job nearby, and slept out back in the trailer house and Zada cooked for them. 

The war was on, and Rex was drafted. Zada had two little girls now (Margie born November 7, 1942) and was pregnant again. Zada moved in with Rex's parents in Mount Pleasant.  She ended up renting a house north of the Theater in Mt. Pleasant and Rex was able to come there a few times. That house was sold to become a car dealership, so they rented another house where Zada had a big garden. 

The war ended, and Rex was coming home. The owners of the home they were renting needed it back, so there was a scramble for somewhere new. They looked to Salt Lake and found an immaculate white frame house with red shutters at 4568 Boxelder Street in Murray. They bought it. 

They quickly replaced the old coal stove with natural gas. The school and church was about a mile away (a new church building was built later, which was much closer). There was a root cellar out back with a dirt floor and cement walls, it kept vegetables fresh all winter. There was a wooden play house above the cellar, where the kids would play. 

After Nelva graduated, they bought a lot and Zada's brother Bert built their home at 2665 Spring Hollow Drive. They moved in October 1959. Zada had a decorator from Sears come help get things set up just right.  This was the house that the Westra kids knew as "Grandma and Grandpa Norman's house". 

Memories from Jen: I remember the steep side slope on the West. We'd run down it going so fast! There was a covered cement patio with cushy chairs where we'd spend many evenings with family. Grandpa had a barbeque grill tied-in directly to the gas line, I hadn't seen that before, all other BBQs needed a propane tank. There was a peach tree and raspberry bushes. There was an elementary school nearby that we'd go play at when we visited. I remember the laundry chute ... dropping things down it to someone waiting below. There were poles down the stairs, and we kids would run down the stairs and grab the bottom pole and swing around. All except one of the cousins (Emily?) whose arm would pop out of socket if she did it. Sometimes some kids would stand on one side, and some on the stairs on the other side, and we'd pretend we were in jail. The old sewing machine with the foot pedal was there in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs. The family room downstairs had some of Grandpa's deer heads/antlers hung on the wall. I remember Grandma's glass table in the living room ... I was always a little afraid someone was going to fall on it and break it! She had a lot of little breakable knick-knacks around too. I remember a little glass swan I loved to look at. Grandpa had collected rocks and polished them, and he had a nice arrowhead collection too.

Memories from Wendy: As a child, going to Grandma’s house always meant wonderful, delicious meals. I will never forget her wonderful home-made rolls! She filled a little blue bowl with home-made strawberry jam to spread on the piping hot rolls. Grandma had the most wonderful garden and we loved to pick raspberries at her house and fruit from her fruit trees. I’ll always remember how immaculate Grandma’s house was with everything in its place. I remember Christmas parties and family gatherings and playing with our cousins in Grandma's back yard. I remember rolling down the hill on the side of Grandma's house, blowing bubbles through spools, and bowling with milk jugs on her back porch.

... more memories? Send them to blackhambunch@gmail.com and I'll add them!

Quarantine!

Mom received an email from Cousin Nikki ...

Hi Margie and LaMar, I hope you are doing well during all this craziness. You might find this interesting. Years ago I went to Grandma and Grandpa Norman's house and they let me scan a bunch of photos in their albums. I remember Grandpa telling me about a time when their family was quarantined because they had caught an illness. He remembered being stuck at home for a while and he and his brother weren't allowed outside of their yard. Here is the picture of them during this time. Notice the cross in their window. He said that let people know the family had been quarantined. I think it was most likely the Spanish Flu. It seems like the math works out on the years.

Mom's Response~ Thanks Nikki! Ive never seen the first picture and the explanation of the cross on the door! Yes, on the terrible Spanish Flu in 1918, when Rex would have been about 3 and Gordon 18 months younger.  I remember when my Grandma Norman (Louella) told me that she and Herb were too sick to even care for the boys. And that it was the members of the Oddfellows and Rebekahs service organization that stepped in to help and care for them and their two little boys. Grandma said she doesn't know what they would have done without that help. So Grandma and Grandpa became members of the organization their whole life, as I remember, and held offices.

Taken from Herbert Lavar's Autobiography ...
That fall, along in November (1918) I took the flu. There was a terrible amount of flu then. There were many, many people dying with it. They took me home from work. The doctor got there and told the fellow who took me home to get me to bed and take care of me. They fixed me up and asked me if we had any liquor in the house. Mother (Louella) said she didn't know what it was, but I had just purchased a case of something for Fred Rassmussen. He got me part of that, and he rubbed me with it. He then made a "hot toddy" for me. The Odd Fellow's Grand Noble got a nurse who stayed for three hours. Then he got another one, and she stayed for a couple of hours. That is the way it was for two or three days. At least they had someone there to take care of me night and day. I went unconscious, and the doctor asked Mother if we had any relatives around. She said the nearest was in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. He said she had better get them because I couldn't live. That was an awful thing to tell her. 

The girl that was at the depot came and got the two boys and took them down to her house to take care of them. They were homesick and lonesome so she brought them back the next morning, and they had the flu. Mother was still up and going. I was unconscious for thirteen days, and when I became conscious I had a hemorrhage. I bled the washbasin nearly full of blood. They got the doctor to our home, and he packed my head in snow (there was snow on the ground because it was just a little before Thanksgiving). He finally got it stopped. Mother asked what she should do if I had another one.He said to get him and get him fast. About an hour and a half later I had another one. They finally got a hold of him, and I was still bleeding when he got there. He finally got it stopped and shook his head. He told Mother she had better get the folks because I could not make it. She asked what she should do if I had another one. He said I couldn't survive another one. That made Mother feel awful bad. I could hear what they were saying, but I couldn't say anything. An hour or two later, I had a third hemorrhage. They got the doctor and he came in a hurry. When he came in and took care of me, he said to Mother, "Mrs. Norman, if he can make blood as fast as he has been making it lately, he will be well." He said I was in better shape than when he first came down. It had turned red instead of black. That was the last hemorrhage I had, but I laid there and couldn't do anything. I got to feeling better so was able to sit up in a chair. We still had the nurses there, and Mother came down with the flu. She was expecting another baby, and it was quite a turmoil. 

When I got so I could go out, I went to pay the nurses because I felt they were the first ones who should be paid. I asked each nurse how much we owed them, and each one replied , "Nothing". The Odd Fellow's Lodge had taken care of all the expenses including the coal we had to buy from the lumber yard. I always maintained if it hadn't been for the Lodge, I wouldn't be here today. I paid them back. I couldn't do it all at once, but I did it as fast as I could. I figured if they could do that much good for me, they could do that much good for someone else. 

From Grandpa Rex Norman's History (this would have been a later quarantine)...

I was the oldest. I started school at the age of six. I can remember when my brother and sister both came down with Scarlet Fever. We were quarantined for over a month. The kids would bring my schoolwork home and place it on our fence for me. Dad had to live away from home during that period of time. I remember after about four weeks the doctor came and examined them and going over their bodies he found a couple of scales and kept us in for another week. We were sure mad and we called him Dr. Quack. We then had to fumigate the whole house. We had to stuff all the cracks and openings with rags and would do part of the house at a time.

(More from Mom) I remember when we were little kids on Boxelder St. and had measles and mumps, etc., how the county health dept. (?) came and put up a quarantine notice on your front door. I don't know when that practice was discontinued. We'll all have to do some research on those interesting times.

Ancestor's Immigration to Utah

Colton had an assignment in school, to spotlight how/when an ancestor came to Utah. Time to turn to Grandpa Westra! He got back to us with tons of information, and I mentioned that other grandkids might likely have similar assignments in the future, and that he had gone to so much work, that we should keep the document handy.

Immigration to Utah

Westra and Norman Ancestors

The following table provides a list of Westra and Norman Ancestors, listed in order of first immigration to Utah. Relationships are listed with respect to LaMar, Joseph LaMar Westra, and Margie, Marjorie Norman. Those ancestors who immigrated to Utah between 1847 and 1868 can be found on the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel website, see Notes 19. All of the ancestors in the following table can be found in the Family Tree part of the Family Search website, see Notes 20, Family Tree = (FT). 

Names	Dates	From – To	Notes
Elam Cheney & Hannah Compton	Oct 1847	Illinois – Utah	17
Agnes Baird (Adamson)	1848	Scotland – Utah	16
Moses Martin Sanders & Mary Jane Sparks	1849	Illinois - Utah	8, 10
Aaron Cheney & Mehitable Wells	1849	New York – Utah	18
Thomas Guymon & Sarah Gordon, and son Noah	1850	Illinois – Utah	21, 13
Henry Weeks Sanderson & Rebecca Ann Sanders	1850	Illinois - Utah	9, 12
Amanda Armstrong Fausett	1850	Illinois - Utah	10, 11
William Hurst & Susannah Webley	1852	Illinois – Utah	22
Edmund Wheeler Howell & Sarah Vail	1852	Iowa - Utah	6, 23
Archibald Anderson	1855	Scotland – Utah	14
Agnes Adamson	1856	Scotland – Utah	15
Archibald Erskine & Ann Jack McFarlane	1860	New York – Utah	2
Samuel Roberts & Mary Peat	1866	England - Wyoming	24
Robert Cushing & Carolyn Ayers	1866	England - Utah	3
Henry Charles Cushing	1866	England - Utah	4
John Cushing & Elizabeth Bird, and Laura Cushing	1874	England - Utah	25
Mons Anderson Norman & Julia Sharlotta Johansen	1886	Sweden - Utah	5
Solon Huff McGee & Emily Lucretia Robinson	1899-1900	Missouri – Utah	26
Ate Obes Westra & Geeske Egberts de Haan	Apr 1907	Netherlands – Utah	1

(1) Notes for Ate Obes Westra

Ate Obes Westra is LaMar’s paternal grandfather. He was born in 1868 in Achlum, Friesland, Netherlands. He met Geeske, who had been baptized earlier. Ate was baptized a member of the LDS church, 12 Apr 1902 in Groningen, Netherlands. He married Geeske in Oct 1902, and they had three children and immigrated to America in 1907, on the ship: The Canada, arriving in Portland, Maine, and came to Utah. Those three children died in Salt Lake City, shortly after they arrived. Ate and Geeske would have seven more children, and three of those children died young also. They resided in the Forest Dale Ward, 2256 So. 8th East in SL, which had a large population of Dutch immigrants. 

(1) Notes for Geeske Egberts de Haan

Geeske Egberts de Haan is LaMar’s paternal grandmother. She was born in 1878 in Niekerk, Groningen, Netherlands. She was baptized into the LDS church 19 Oct. 1901. She met Ate Obes Westra at the church in Groningen. They were married in Oct 1902. Geeske was Endowed 12 Feb 1908, SL Temple

(2) Notes for Archibald Erskine & Ann Jack McFarlane

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1828 and 1826) and married (1851) in Scotland and converted to the LDS church, and were baptized in 1852, and immigrated to the US. They came with one daughter on the ship: the S.S. Samuel Curling. It sailed from Liverpool, England on Sunday, April 22, 1855, and arrived in New York in 1855. They lived in New York City, N.Y. and Boston, Mass. A son and daughter were born in New York. The family came to Utah in 1860 with the Charles Ross Company.  Archibald was a tailor and had a sewing machine. Brigham Young asked him to make canvas covers for the wagons and the hand carts. In SLC, Archibald was the tailor for Brigham Young and made coats and dresses for Brigham Young's daughters. Archibald was a soldier and went to the Black Hawk Indian War. 

(3) Notes for Robert Cushing & Caroline Ayers

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1828 and 1823) and married (1852) in England and converted to the LDS church, and were baptized in 1848 and 1850 in England. They immigrated from England to the US in 1866 on the American Congress. They came to Utah, most likely in 1866 with two sons, Henry and James. The family settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

(4) Notes for Henry Charles Cushing

Henry was born in England in 1855 and Immigrated to Salt Lake City from England in 1866, age 11 with his parents, see Notes (3). Occupation: shoemaker. He was the first husband of Laura Cushing, LaMar’s great grandmother. Henry and Laura had three children in Salt Lake City, 1876-1880. Henry died in April 1880. Laura remarried in 1882, to Samuel Albert Hunt, and LaMar’s grandmother, Olive Laura Cushing was born of that marriage in 1882. Samuel deserted the family, and Laura had Olive sealed to Henry Charles Cushing.

(5) Notes for Mons Anderson Norman & Julia Sharlotta Johanson 

These are Margie’s Great Grand Parents. They were born (1859 and 1858) and married (1877) in Sweden. They had four children in Sweden, 1879-1885. Mons and Julia converted to the LDS Church and were both baptized 6 Oct 1886 in Sweden. The family emigrated the next day, 7 Oct 1886, to England, on the ship: Milo, where they are listed with the surname: Nauman. They sailed a week later, to America, 13 Oct 1886 on the ship: British King, where they are listed with the surname: Naumon. Mons changed his name to Mons Anderson Norman. They settled in Mt. Pleasant, Utah where they had 8 more children: 1887-1904. Most of the family are buried in Mt. Pleasant. The mother of Mons Anderson Norman, Hannah Olsson, came to America also, and died in 1888 and is buried in Fountain Green. Two siblings of Mons also immigrated, with immigration dates listed as 1883, and 1884, and 1908, with no source details. 

(6) Notes for Edmund Wheeler Howell

Edmund is Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Father. He was born 1817 in New York. See Notes (23). United Ancestries has Edmund's death place recorded as Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Other records show that Edmund's death was at the Platte River in Nebraska while crossing the plains. (1852)

(7) Notes for James Sanderson 

James is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Father. He was born 1804, and married 1827 in Massachusetts to Mary Jane Sparks and was converted to the church in New York in 1841 by his wife's brother, Quartus. He journeyed towards Nauvoo in fall of 1842 and stopped at Pittsburg. He arrived in Nauvoo in the summer of 1843. He worked on the Nauvoo Temple, Seventies license 21 Apr 1844, Good bass drummer. He moved to St. Louis in late 1844 to find work. He and his son, Henry, found employment there in the shoemaker industry. He brought his family down to St. Louis in early spring of 1845. They moved to a farm on the river, where the family sickened, and James died. New Era article on son Henry has death date for James as 16 Sep 1845. See Notes (8) and (9). 

(8) Notes for Mary Jane Sparks (Sanderson)

Mary Jane is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Mother. She was born 1809, and married 1827 in Massachusetts to James Sanderson, see Notes (7). James died in 1845 in St. Louis. Mary Jane is listed also in FT with a marriage to Moses Martin Sanders, in 1847 in Winter Quarters, her daughter in law’s father. However, she immigrated to Utah with the surname of Sanderson. She immigrated with Moses Martin Sanders and a daughter, age 16, and a son of Moses Martin Sanders. See the trail, Allen Taylor Company, 1849. The sealing of Mary Jane to Moses Martin Sanders was later cancelled, approved by President George Albert Smith.

(9) Notes for Henry Weeks Sanderson & Rebecca Ann Sanders

Henry Weeks Sanderson & Rebecca Ann Sanders are Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. Henry was born in 1829, in Massachusetts, and Rebecca was born in 1832, in Illinois. They married in 1850 in Iowa. One story about Henry: his parents were induced by a friend of theirs to add the middle name of Weeks, which was the surname of that friend. They were promised some valuable present, but this was never fulfilled. Henry’s middle name is listed also in some records as Wicks or Wix. He resided in Nauvoo from 1843 to 1846, helped in building the Nauvoo temple, was personal friend to Joseph Smith and family. He joined the Mormon Battalion in 1846. He entered the Great Salt Lake Valley just behind the 1847 pioneers. He returned east with Brigham Young's company late 1847, and married Rebecca in 1850 and came west again in 1850 with Rebecca, and with his mother in law and 4 siblings of Rebecca, in the Warren Foote Company Wagon Train. He lived at West Jordan, Union Fort, Fort Supply (Wyoming), Fillmore and Fairview, Utah. He engaged in many wars with the Indians in all of his residences. Information found in New Era of October 1989, "Nauvoo Teenager", pages 44-47. Autobiography started: Fairview, Jan 1884, continued until 1889 where he wrote much of it while serving time in the Utah Penitentiary for unlawful co-habitation. He died in Fairview in the home of his wife, Rebecca Ann. He is buried between his two wives in the northeast quadrant of the Lower Fairview Cemetery.

(10) Notes for Moses Martin Sanders

Moses Martin Sanders is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Father. He was born in 1803, in Georgia. He married Amanda Armstrong Fausett in 1826 in Tennessee. They are listed in FT with 12 children, 1826-1853. Moses Martin Sanders married again, in 1847 in Winter Quarters to Mary Jane Sparks, see Note (8), who was the mother of his son in law. Moses Martin Sanders and Mary Jane Sparks immigrated to Utah in 1849, with a daughter, age 16, of Mary Jane, and a son of Moses Martin Sanders. See the trail, Allen Taylor Company, 1849. Moses Martin Sanders was known also by the name of Moses Masters Sanderson. He was ordained an Elder and Seventy 6 May 1839 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois. His first wife, Amanda Armstrong Fausett, would immigrate to Utah, a year later, in 1850, with most of her children., see Notes (11). 

(11) Notes for Amanda Armstrong Fausett

Amanda Armstrong Fausett is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Mother, see Notes (10). She was born in 1810, and married in 1826, both in Tennessee. Her husband, Moses Martin Sanders, took a second wife, and immigrated to Utah in 1849 with the second wife and one son. Amanda immigrated the next year, in 1850, in the Warren Foote Company Wagon Train, with her daughter, Rebecca, and Rebecca’s husband, Henry Weeks Sanderson, and four siblings of Rebecca, see Notes (9). United Ancestries has her name as Amanda Armstrong FAUCETT. Patriarchal blessing 21 Sep 1844 by Patriarch John Smith.

(12) Notes for Rebecca Ann Sanders

Some sources have birth place as Irving Township,Montgomery,Kane,Illinois. Pioneer: Summer of 1850, Warren Foote Company Wagon Train. See Notes (9). 

(13) Notes for Lucinda Harris Guymon 

Lucinda is Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Mother. See was a Pioneer: 8 Sep 1850 in the Aaron Johnson Wagon Train. See Notes (21). She came with her grandparents, and with her father, Noah. Her mother, Mary Dickerson Dudley, had died in 1845 in Nauvoo. The family moved to American Fork, and then to Springville. 

(14) Notes for Archibald Anderson

Archibald is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Father. He was born in 1805 and married (1826) both in Scotland. He joined the Mormon church in 1847, and came to the US on the ship: S. Curling, and to Utah in 1855, in the Milo Andrus Company. In 1856, his wife Agnes and three sons, Archibald, John and James joined him. 

(15) Notes for Agnes Adamson 

Agnes is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Mother. She was born in 1804 and married (1856) both in Scotland. She joined the Mormon church in 1847. She sailed from Scotland 23 March 1856 on the sailing ship, Enoch Train, with three teen age sons, and travelled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Daniel McArthur handcart company, arriving 26 September 1856. Her husband had made the trip in 1855, see Notes (14). The family moved to Spanish Fork in 1857, and to Fairview in 1880.

(16) Notes for Agnes Baird (Adamson)

Agnes is Margie’s 4th Great Grand Mother. She was born in 1781 and married (1799) both in Scotland. She married William Adamson, and in 1848, she was a widow. She immigrated to the US and to Utah in 1848 in the Willard Richards Company with two sons, Alexander and Dougal Adamson. 

(17) Notes for Elam Cheney and Hannah Compton

These are Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Parents. Elam was born in New York, in 1825, and baptized into the LDS Church in 1838 at age 12, and Hannah was born in England in 1804. She had married Edmund Wattis in England in 1824, and they had four children in England, 1825-1834. Edmund and Hannah converted to the LDS Church and were baptized by LDS Apostle, Wilford Woodruff in 1840. They immigrated to the US in 1842 on the Ship Chaos. Edmund died in 1844 in Nauvoo. Hannah then married Elam Cheney in 1845 in Nauvoo. They crossed the plains and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 4 Oct 1847 in the Jedediah M. Grant Company. Their first child was born 10 days after they arrived in Utah. This child was one of the first babies born to LDS Parents in Utah. That child died soon after she was born. Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Mother was born in 1849, in Salt Lake City, Hannah Matilda Cheney. Hannah Compton was a widow, 21 years older than Elam Cheney. Elam would later marry four more wives, and have 43 more children. 

(18) Notes for Aaron Cheney and Mehitable Wells 

These are Margie’s 4th Great Grand Parents. They were both born in 1787, in Maine and New York, and married in 1807 in Vermont. Some in the family were baptized into the LDS Church in 1834. They moved to New York and then to Iowa, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1849 with a son and his wife and an infant daughter, in the George A. Smith Company. Another son of Aaron and Mehitable, Elam had come two years earlier, see note (17). In the same pioneer company, with Aaron, was Aaron’s second wife, Sarah Griffith. 

(19) Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Website 

Those ancestors who immigrated to Utah between 1847 and 1868 can be found on the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel website. The railroad came to Utah in 1868, so any ancestor coming to Utah after that date will not be listed on this website. To see more details about any ancestor listed on this website, enter into the search box, only the surname of your ancestor. A list will come up with all of the Pioneers on the website with that surname. Go to the ancestor you want to know more about, and click on his or her name. You might see sources, with journals, and perhaps a link to the Family Search website for that ancestor, see Notes (20). 

(20) Family Search Website 

The Family Tree part of the Family Search website is a common tree for all mankind. You will have to sign in to this website with your LDS Account, username and password. When you are on the website, click on Tree to get to Family Tree. To find any deceased ancestor in Family Tree, click up on Find and input a name and one date. For any ancestor, you can see their family, and there may be sources and memories and photos about that ancestor. 

(21) Notes for Thomas Guymon and Sarah Gordon 

These are Margie’s 4th Great Grand Parents. They were born (1787 and 1791) and married (1809) in North Carolina, and moved to Tennessee. Sarah was baptized into the LDS Church in 1835. They came west in the Aaron Johnson Company, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1850 with a son, Noah, and two of his wives, and six children, including Lucinda Harris Guymon, who was Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Mother, see Notes (13). 

(22) Notes for William Hurst and Susannah Webley 

These are Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1813 and 1812) and married (1831) in England. Some in the family were baptized into the LDS Church in 1843. The family immigrated to the US in 1849, on the Ship: The Ashland, with the parents and three children. They crossed the plains three years later, in the James Jepson Company, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1852 with three children. 

(23) Notes for Edmund Wheeler Howell and Sarah Vail 

These are Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1817 and 1818) and married (1836) in New York. Edmund was baptized into the LDS Church in 1841. The family moved to Iowa and immigrated to Utah in 1852, in the David Wood Company, and Edmund died after one month on the trail. Sarah arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1852 with four children, and settled in Fairview, Utah. 

(24) Notes for Samuel Roberts and Mary Peat 

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1830 and 1829) and married (1852) in England. Samuel was baptized into the LDS Church in 1861. The family immigrated to the US in 1861, on the Ship: American Congress and they crossed the plains in 1866, with six children, and settled in Afton, Wyoming. 

(25) Notes for John Cushing and Elizabeth Bird 

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1815) and married (1836) in England. Elizabeth converted to the LDS Church in England in 1853. John and Elizabeth immigrated in 1874 from England, with their youngest child, daughter Laura, born 1853, who was LaMar’s Great Grand Mother. From the personal history of Laura Cushing, written 12 July 1933: 'Father, mother and myself left Liverpool on the Steamer Wyoming 2 Sep 1874 in Elder John C. Graham's company, arriving in Salt Lake City 23 Sep 1874.' Four of Laura’s older siblings had immigrated earlier, 1864-1870.

(26) Notes for Solon Huff McGee and Emily Lucretia Robinson

These are Margie’s Great Grand Parents. Solon was born in 1853 in Tennessee, and Emily was born in 1855 in Mississippi. They married in 1876 in Missouri, and 10 children were born 1877-1897 in Missouri and Oklahoma. Solon and Emily were baptized into the LDS Church in 1898. They moved to New Mexico and then to Utah, 1899-1900. 

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