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Teancum Taylor. Known as T. Taylor, Teancum Taylor was the son of
John Taylor and Eleanor Burkett. He was born in Ray County, Missouri,
Dec. 21, 1836. He came to Utah when he was about eighteen years of age.
In 1859, he married Mary Jane Hiatt.
He came to Ashley Valley Sept. 16, 1877, his family being the fourth white family to settle there. He was the first man to bring a load of pine logs into the valley, from what is now known as Taylor Mountain. The mountain was named for him. He was the first known person to enter Mt. Dell (Dry Fork), and lived there for a number of years. He died November, 1907.
Mary Jane Hiatt Taylor, She was born Dec. 21, 1842, in the state of Iowa. She came to Utah when she was twelve years of age. She married Teancum Taylor in 1859 at Mill Creek, Salt Lake City. She was the mother of fifteen children. Her son, Reuben Taylor, was the third white child born in Ashley Valley. He was born Sept. 11, 1878. Mary died in Vernal in 1914.
Clarissa Jane Taylor, She was born July 4, 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois. She came to Utah with her parents in 1850 when she was five years of age. She married Teancum Taylor on Aug. 15, 1860 at Ogden, Utah. She was the mother of fourteen children. She died Nov. 29, 1925 in Vernal.
~From the "Builders of Uintah" compiled by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Heber Timothy, sixth of twelve children, was born Apr. 2, 1861 in Wales. When he was one year old, his Mormon parents, John Griffiths Timothy and Martha Davis Timothy, emigrated to Utah. In 1890 Heber married Esther Elizabeth Vernon, a Mormon convert from Kentucky. They had ten children. They came to Ashley Valley in 1879. Heber wrote from memory his personal account of the settling of Ashley Valley because, "there were no historians in this country until S.R. Bennion and R.S. Collett came here in 1887. His account was published in the Vernal Express and excerpts follow:
In 1879 I resided in Wallsburg, Wasatch County. On the 12th of November, 1879, I went to Heber City with my brother John's ox team, to assist W.G.B. Reynolds move his family and household goods to Hatch Town, later known as Vernal. On the 14th of November 1879, all being ready, we yoked our oxen, which consisted of three yokes of oxen, hitched two yoke to one wagon and one yoke to another. Bob Reynolds drove four and I drove two to the mouth of Daniels Canyon that night, to the residence of Martin Oaks. Mr. Oaks played the fiddle and we danced. In the morning we started up the canyon, joined by Martin Oaks and family, consisting of his wife, Abigail, sons William and Edwin and Sarah M. (Fletcher).
In Daniels Canyon the road crossed the creek seventy-two times in fifteen miles. The stream was considerably frozen, the road rough, and cold winter weather made travel very slow. We reached the head of Strawberry Valley Nov. 19, with snow 15 inches deep. This evening I froze my toes. We were joined here by Ben and Eph Green and several others, having ox teams and loose cattle and saddle horses. On Nov 25 we pulled up Red Creek Hill. The hill was steep, the trail icy and slick so that it required 14 yoke of oxen to draw one wagon up the hill. We moved about a half mile that day. We went north to the Duchesne where Tabiona now stands. There for the first time we got out of the snow. We had bare ground to travel on until we got to Rock Creek. There a snow storm came on and we had winter until Mar 20, 1880. Dec. 4 we entered Ashley Valley through a gap in the west. Travelling down the valley, our wagons were singing on the frozen snow. We arrived at Hatch Town on Dec 7th, having been on the road twenty-two days.
We took up our abode in a one-room log cabin, dirt roof and dirt floor, which belonged to Calvin Henery, situated about one-half mile west and one-half mile south from the co-op corner. There were nineteen souls wintered there. They were W.G. Reynolds and family, Martin Oaks and family, George Brown and family who joined us here, Bob Reynolds, Otto Peterson, who joined us at the head of Daniels Canyon, and myself. We hauled a few loads of wood for fuel to do us through the winter, then turned our oxen loose to go where they would. We never saw them anymore until spring or late winter. This winter was known as the hard winter. During the month of December the snow fell in the valley to a depth of about sixteen inches, but it was not as ordinary snow is, the extreme cold froze the snow into crystals, some of them were six inches long. We would walk through it with ease and the crystals or sword blades as we called them, would rattle like ice.
He then tells of the hard winter and of W.G. Reynolds making a pair of burrs to grind flour and the trip to Green River, Wyoming to get flour. They arrived with the flour about May 25th. "Chopped wheat became scarce, in fact the common people ate the last of their chopped wheat for breakfast, when about three o'clock the same day the teams arrived from Rock Springs with flour. When I say that the common people lived on chopped wheat, that is what I mean; only they added a little salt to suit their taste. They never had any vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, beets, etc. Neither did they have butter, cheese, milk honey, molasses, jellies or fruit of any kind; they lived on chopped wheat and salt.
Since that day I have been told that there were a few families in the valley who had sufficient flour and a variety of food during the hard winter but they kept it hid. If that be true, they lost the valuable opportunity of a lifetime to demonstrate their love for their fellowmen. I heard a man offer twenty dollars for a hundred pounds of flour. He could just as well have offered one hundred dollars. Evidently, those who had flour, had they known that he was going to starve to death, would have let him keep his money as long as he lived and given him wherewith to eat. In April of 1880, after the snow had gone out of the valleys and foot hills, I could cross the Ashley Stream at Silver Gate, stepping from one stone to another, and not get my feet wet.
In the early eighties the settlers declared there was not enough water in the Ashley Creek to justify extending the upper canal south of the Bingham Street The question was warmly debated but was settled at a meeting by Elder Jeremiah Hatch; who in his prophetic way predicted in the name of the Lord that if the settlers would lay aside their selfishness and go to work and build canals that the day would come when the upper canal would extend to Green River and that there would be sufficient water to irrigate all the land that would come under it. Since that predication was made, in my judgement, the natural flow of the water in Ashley Creek has increased at least four fold. The canal has been extended fourteen miles , and as far as the people have gone the water has been supplied. The high line canal is in the proper place, and the farmers will adopt it, and selfishness dies either with it's evil deeds or with the body, sufficient water will be added as needed, until that prediction of Uncle Jeremiah Hatch will be literally fulfilled.
P.S. I have written the above article July 28, 1929 from memory.
Heber filled an LDS mission in Wales in 1893-95 and he became recognized as an outstanding scripturist. About 1910 he moved his family to Roosevelt where he made gypsum. He died March 10, 1933. His wife died Oct. 12, 1942. Children were: Vern, Lewis, Weston, Parley, Evan, Presley, Harden, Esther, Lynn and Talintha.
~Excerpts from "Builders of Uintah", courtesy of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
He came to Ashley Valley Sept. 16, 1877, his family being the fourth white family to settle there. He was the first man to bring a load of pine logs into the valley, from what is now known as Taylor Mountain. The mountain was named for him. He was the first known person to enter Mt. Dell (Dry Fork), and lived there for a number of years. He died November, 1907.
Mary Jane Hiatt Taylor, She was born Dec. 21, 1842, in the state of Iowa. She came to Utah when she was twelve years of age. She married Teancum Taylor in 1859 at Mill Creek, Salt Lake City. She was the mother of fifteen children. Her son, Reuben Taylor, was the third white child born in Ashley Valley. He was born Sept. 11, 1878. Mary died in Vernal in 1914.
Clarissa Jane Taylor, She was born July 4, 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois. She came to Utah with her parents in 1850 when she was five years of age. She married Teancum Taylor on Aug. 15, 1860 at Ogden, Utah. She was the mother of fourteen children. She died Nov. 29, 1925 in Vernal.
~From the "Builders of Uintah" compiled by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Heber Timothy, sixth of twelve children, was born Apr. 2, 1861 in Wales. When he was one year old, his Mormon parents, John Griffiths Timothy and Martha Davis Timothy, emigrated to Utah. In 1890 Heber married Esther Elizabeth Vernon, a Mormon convert from Kentucky. They had ten children. They came to Ashley Valley in 1879. Heber wrote from memory his personal account of the settling of Ashley Valley because, "there were no historians in this country until S.R. Bennion and R.S. Collett came here in 1887. His account was published in the Vernal Express and excerpts follow:
In 1879 I resided in Wallsburg, Wasatch County. On the 12th of November, 1879, I went to Heber City with my brother John's ox team, to assist W.G.B. Reynolds move his family and household goods to Hatch Town, later known as Vernal. On the 14th of November 1879, all being ready, we yoked our oxen, which consisted of three yokes of oxen, hitched two yoke to one wagon and one yoke to another. Bob Reynolds drove four and I drove two to the mouth of Daniels Canyon that night, to the residence of Martin Oaks. Mr. Oaks played the fiddle and we danced. In the morning we started up the canyon, joined by Martin Oaks and family, consisting of his wife, Abigail, sons William and Edwin and Sarah M. (Fletcher).
In Daniels Canyon the road crossed the creek seventy-two times in fifteen miles. The stream was considerably frozen, the road rough, and cold winter weather made travel very slow. We reached the head of Strawberry Valley Nov. 19, with snow 15 inches deep. This evening I froze my toes. We were joined here by Ben and Eph Green and several others, having ox teams and loose cattle and saddle horses. On Nov 25 we pulled up Red Creek Hill. The hill was steep, the trail icy and slick so that it required 14 yoke of oxen to draw one wagon up the hill. We moved about a half mile that day. We went north to the Duchesne where Tabiona now stands. There for the first time we got out of the snow. We had bare ground to travel on until we got to Rock Creek. There a snow storm came on and we had winter until Mar 20, 1880. Dec. 4 we entered Ashley Valley through a gap in the west. Travelling down the valley, our wagons were singing on the frozen snow. We arrived at Hatch Town on Dec 7th, having been on the road twenty-two days.
We took up our abode in a one-room log cabin, dirt roof and dirt floor, which belonged to Calvin Henery, situated about one-half mile west and one-half mile south from the co-op corner. There were nineteen souls wintered there. They were W.G. Reynolds and family, Martin Oaks and family, George Brown and family who joined us here, Bob Reynolds, Otto Peterson, who joined us at the head of Daniels Canyon, and myself. We hauled a few loads of wood for fuel to do us through the winter, then turned our oxen loose to go where they would. We never saw them anymore until spring or late winter. This winter was known as the hard winter. During the month of December the snow fell in the valley to a depth of about sixteen inches, but it was not as ordinary snow is, the extreme cold froze the snow into crystals, some of them were six inches long. We would walk through it with ease and the crystals or sword blades as we called them, would rattle like ice.
He then tells of the hard winter and of W.G. Reynolds making a pair of burrs to grind flour and the trip to Green River, Wyoming to get flour. They arrived with the flour about May 25th. "Chopped wheat became scarce, in fact the common people ate the last of their chopped wheat for breakfast, when about three o'clock the same day the teams arrived from Rock Springs with flour. When I say that the common people lived on chopped wheat, that is what I mean; only they added a little salt to suit their taste. They never had any vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, beets, etc. Neither did they have butter, cheese, milk honey, molasses, jellies or fruit of any kind; they lived on chopped wheat and salt.
Since that day I have been told that there were a few families in the valley who had sufficient flour and a variety of food during the hard winter but they kept it hid. If that be true, they lost the valuable opportunity of a lifetime to demonstrate their love for their fellowmen. I heard a man offer twenty dollars for a hundred pounds of flour. He could just as well have offered one hundred dollars. Evidently, those who had flour, had they known that he was going to starve to death, would have let him keep his money as long as he lived and given him wherewith to eat. In April of 1880, after the snow had gone out of the valleys and foot hills, I could cross the Ashley Stream at Silver Gate, stepping from one stone to another, and not get my feet wet.
In the early eighties the settlers declared there was not enough water in the Ashley Creek to justify extending the upper canal south of the Bingham Street The question was warmly debated but was settled at a meeting by Elder Jeremiah Hatch; who in his prophetic way predicted in the name of the Lord that if the settlers would lay aside their selfishness and go to work and build canals that the day would come when the upper canal would extend to Green River and that there would be sufficient water to irrigate all the land that would come under it. Since that predication was made, in my judgement, the natural flow of the water in Ashley Creek has increased at least four fold. The canal has been extended fourteen miles , and as far as the people have gone the water has been supplied. The high line canal is in the proper place, and the farmers will adopt it, and selfishness dies either with it's evil deeds or with the body, sufficient water will be added as needed, until that prediction of Uncle Jeremiah Hatch will be literally fulfilled.
P.S. I have written the above article July 28, 1929 from memory.
Heber filled an LDS mission in Wales in 1893-95 and he became recognized as an outstanding scripturist. About 1910 he moved his family to Roosevelt where he made gypsum. He died March 10, 1933. His wife died Oct. 12, 1942. Children were: Vern, Lewis, Weston, Parley, Evan, Presley, Harden, Esther, Lynn and Talintha.
~Excerpts from "Builders of Uintah", courtesy of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
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George Wardle
From Day By Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847
Saturday, June 26
"...George Wardle was a survivor of the pioneer company of 1847. He lived in Vernal, Unitah county, and wrote an interesting letter to The Tribune full of pioneer reminiscences. Mr. Wardle was born in Leek, Staffordshire,England, February 3, 1820. He joined the LDS church in 1839, emigrated to Nauvoo in 1842 and passed through all the difficulties incident to the time, arriving at Winter Quarters in 1846. He left there with the other pioneers and was with the party in all its travails and hardships. He was one of the advance company to enter the valley with Orson Pratt and was the first to go to work whipsawing for lumber. He and George A. Smith were among the first to plant potatoes in the valley.
Mr. Wardle was a great musician, one of the earliest singers in Utah and was a member of the Nauvoo brass band. He, with James Smithers, conducted the singing for the ceremonies incident to the laying of the cornerstone of the Salt Lake temple in 1853, and was deeply interested in all branches of music. He also taught dancing at Marcy R. Thompson's log house and among his early pupils were George Q. Cannon, Joseph Fielding Smith and others. Until a few years ago there were many alive who used to dance at Mrs. Thompson's and nearly everyone remembered George Wardle. He died November 25, 1901 in Vernal, Utah.
~Donated by Wiley Smith
Sarah Curtis Wimmer
By Great Grandson Oather R. Roper
Sarah Curtis was born 16 June, 1840, at Washington, Tippecanoe, Indiana, the seventh child of Benjamin Gardner Curtis and Maria Dunn. Benjamin Gardner Curtis was born 6 December 1802 in Stephentown, Rennselaer, New York and Maria Dunn was born 20 March, 1808 in Franklin, Brown County, Ohio.
Benjamin Gardner Curtis and Maria Dunn Curtis joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April of 1833, and received their endowments in the Salt Lake Endowment House on December 6, 1862. In her later years Sarah related that her mother's family, the Dunn's were very much against the Curtis family joining the church and even more against them moving to Nauvoo to join the Saints. Sarah's father made arrangements with a brother-in-law to give him a milk cow if he would take the family by wagon part way to Nauvoo. The morning they were to leave they discovered the cow had been poisoned and was dead. The family was determined to go to Nauvoo, so each family member took a bundle of personal belongings on their back and they began to walk. The brother-in-law seeing their intent softened his heart and took them the distance he had previously agreed.
How long the family lived in Nauvoo is not known, but their eighth child was born in Nauvoo on 14 October 1843, and a ninth child was born in March of 1846, so they were in the city prior to the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and we know they left with the other Saints when they were driven from their homes by the mobs.
I, Oather Roper, as a lad of about 9 or 10 years of age had a very special experience which I have always remembered and which was a strong testimony to me in my youth. Great Grandmother Sarah Wimmer related to several of us that she was present in Nauvoo when the members of the church gathered about two months after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. At that time there was dissention as to whom should assume the leadership of the Church. Sarah testified that she stood within a distance of about fifteen feet of the wagon where where Brigham Young stood before that large group of Saints. At that time the mantle of the Prophet fell upon Brigham and he had the very appearance of Joseph and his voice sounded like the Prophet.
The mobs became anxious to drive the Mormons out of Nauvoo. The Curtis family was among the early groups who crossed the Mississippi River to Montrose, Iowa taking as many of their belongings with them as they could. Gardner Curtis was a devout, loyal man and was willing to do anything the leaders of the church required of him. It was reported that he and several other men made several trips across the river taking guns and ammunition for future use if they should be needed.
Sarah related that the family moved across the mississippi river with the main body of families leaving their Nauvoo homes during the cold winter of 1846. It was uncomfortable living in their wagons and makeshift tents. She told of nine babies being born in their camp, during the cold sub-zero weather with very little protection.
As spring came the came was in need of meat to supplement to their meager diet. One morning a large flock of quail, estimated o be several thousand in number, flew into their camp. The birds seem to be exhausted as if they had flown for hours. They were so tired that they did not fly and the saints could pick them up from the ground or trees where they had landed. They were cautioned by their leaders to only kill as many birds as they could use, not to be wasteful and kill more than they would eat before the meat spoiled, because the quail had been sent to them by God.
In recent years someone posed a question to the Ensign Question and Answer section "Was the quail story a fableor did it actually happen?" Several people responded with accounts from Mormon diaries to attest the truth of the story.
After the stronger and better prepared Saints had crossed the river the church leaders realized that about 600 older people and unfortunate families who had no means of transportation were still in Nauvoo, and were being harrassed by the mobs. They had driven some of the older people to the river and thrown some into the cold water, almost killing them.
Brigham Young called and appointed several men to return to Nauvoo to attempt to sell property and personal belongings which had been left in Nauvoo in an effort to get money to buy wagons and oxen for those still left in the city. Gardner Curtis was one of the men selected to help with this effort, and responded immediately to the call even though his wife was resentful and felt he should have remained with his family so they could begin their trek west with the early groups.
Those who were left in Nauvoo were told by the mobs if they were caught outside of Nauvoo they would be severly punished. After some time the men who had been sent back to dispose of property had made considerable progress, but were still looking for ways to raise money. One day in the first part of August these men were approached by a man who had purchased some of the Mormons farms east of Nauvoo. He told them he would pay them well if they would help him harvest his grain fields. The Mormons explained to the man they feared for their lives if they left the city, but he told them he was a prominent citizen of the area.
~Submitted by Hugh Roper webpage
John & Charlotte (Flueitt) Winn, John Winn was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Feb 3, 1852. He moved to Franklin, Idaho, where married Charlotte Flmitt on Jan 13, 1880 at Preston, Idaho. They came to Ashley Valley in 1883, making their home in Ashley Ward. He engaged in farming and did lots of freighting from Price in the early days. Was trustee of Union School District for several years. Died April 6, 1931.
Mrs. Charlotte (Flueitt) Winn
Born at Franklin, Idaho, Feb 3, 1863. She was the daughter of Mary Ann Day and William Flueitt, who had joined the L.D.S. Church in England and migrated to the west. She married John Winn in 1880. Mrs. Winn was an active member of the Relief Society, being counselor in the Ashley Ward preidency for many years. She died Dec 16, 1943.
-From 'The Builders of Uintah' courtesy of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Transcribed by Lori Reynolds Weinstein
From Day By Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847
Saturday, June 26
"...George Wardle was a survivor of the pioneer company of 1847. He lived in Vernal, Unitah county, and wrote an interesting letter to The Tribune full of pioneer reminiscences. Mr. Wardle was born in Leek, Staffordshire,England, February 3, 1820. He joined the LDS church in 1839, emigrated to Nauvoo in 1842 and passed through all the difficulties incident to the time, arriving at Winter Quarters in 1846. He left there with the other pioneers and was with the party in all its travails and hardships. He was one of the advance company to enter the valley with Orson Pratt and was the first to go to work whipsawing for lumber. He and George A. Smith were among the first to plant potatoes in the valley.
Mr. Wardle was a great musician, one of the earliest singers in Utah and was a member of the Nauvoo brass band. He, with James Smithers, conducted the singing for the ceremonies incident to the laying of the cornerstone of the Salt Lake temple in 1853, and was deeply interested in all branches of music. He also taught dancing at Marcy R. Thompson's log house and among his early pupils were George Q. Cannon, Joseph Fielding Smith and others. Until a few years ago there were many alive who used to dance at Mrs. Thompson's and nearly everyone remembered George Wardle. He died November 25, 1901 in Vernal, Utah.
~Donated by Wiley Smith
Sarah Curtis Wimmer
By Great Grandson Oather R. Roper
Sarah Curtis was born 16 June, 1840, at Washington, Tippecanoe, Indiana, the seventh child of Benjamin Gardner Curtis and Maria Dunn. Benjamin Gardner Curtis was born 6 December 1802 in Stephentown, Rennselaer, New York and Maria Dunn was born 20 March, 1808 in Franklin, Brown County, Ohio.
Benjamin Gardner Curtis and Maria Dunn Curtis joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April of 1833, and received their endowments in the Salt Lake Endowment House on December 6, 1862. In her later years Sarah related that her mother's family, the Dunn's were very much against the Curtis family joining the church and even more against them moving to Nauvoo to join the Saints. Sarah's father made arrangements with a brother-in-law to give him a milk cow if he would take the family by wagon part way to Nauvoo. The morning they were to leave they discovered the cow had been poisoned and was dead. The family was determined to go to Nauvoo, so each family member took a bundle of personal belongings on their back and they began to walk. The brother-in-law seeing their intent softened his heart and took them the distance he had previously agreed.
How long the family lived in Nauvoo is not known, but their eighth child was born in Nauvoo on 14 October 1843, and a ninth child was born in March of 1846, so they were in the city prior to the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and we know they left with the other Saints when they were driven from their homes by the mobs.
I, Oather Roper, as a lad of about 9 or 10 years of age had a very special experience which I have always remembered and which was a strong testimony to me in my youth. Great Grandmother Sarah Wimmer related to several of us that she was present in Nauvoo when the members of the church gathered about two months after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. At that time there was dissention as to whom should assume the leadership of the Church. Sarah testified that she stood within a distance of about fifteen feet of the wagon where where Brigham Young stood before that large group of Saints. At that time the mantle of the Prophet fell upon Brigham and he had the very appearance of Joseph and his voice sounded like the Prophet.
The mobs became anxious to drive the Mormons out of Nauvoo. The Curtis family was among the early groups who crossed the Mississippi River to Montrose, Iowa taking as many of their belongings with them as they could. Gardner Curtis was a devout, loyal man and was willing to do anything the leaders of the church required of him. It was reported that he and several other men made several trips across the river taking guns and ammunition for future use if they should be needed.
Sarah related that the family moved across the mississippi river with the main body of families leaving their Nauvoo homes during the cold winter of 1846. It was uncomfortable living in their wagons and makeshift tents. She told of nine babies being born in their camp, during the cold sub-zero weather with very little protection.
As spring came the came was in need of meat to supplement to their meager diet. One morning a large flock of quail, estimated o be several thousand in number, flew into their camp. The birds seem to be exhausted as if they had flown for hours. They were so tired that they did not fly and the saints could pick them up from the ground or trees where they had landed. They were cautioned by their leaders to only kill as many birds as they could use, not to be wasteful and kill more than they would eat before the meat spoiled, because the quail had been sent to them by God.
In recent years someone posed a question to the Ensign Question and Answer section "Was the quail story a fableor did it actually happen?" Several people responded with accounts from Mormon diaries to attest the truth of the story.
After the stronger and better prepared Saints had crossed the river the church leaders realized that about 600 older people and unfortunate families who had no means of transportation were still in Nauvoo, and were being harrassed by the mobs. They had driven some of the older people to the river and thrown some into the cold water, almost killing them.
Brigham Young called and appointed several men to return to Nauvoo to attempt to sell property and personal belongings which had been left in Nauvoo in an effort to get money to buy wagons and oxen for those still left in the city. Gardner Curtis was one of the men selected to help with this effort, and responded immediately to the call even though his wife was resentful and felt he should have remained with his family so they could begin their trek west with the early groups.
Those who were left in Nauvoo were told by the mobs if they were caught outside of Nauvoo they would be severly punished. After some time the men who had been sent back to dispose of property had made considerable progress, but were still looking for ways to raise money. One day in the first part of August these men were approached by a man who had purchased some of the Mormons farms east of Nauvoo. He told them he would pay them well if they would help him harvest his grain fields. The Mormons explained to the man they feared for their lives if they left the city, but he told them he was a prominent citizen of the area.
~Submitted by Hugh Roper webpage
John & Charlotte (Flueitt) Winn, John Winn was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Feb 3, 1852. He moved to Franklin, Idaho, where married Charlotte Flmitt on Jan 13, 1880 at Preston, Idaho. They came to Ashley Valley in 1883, making their home in Ashley Ward. He engaged in farming and did lots of freighting from Price in the early days. Was trustee of Union School District for several years. Died April 6, 1931.
Mrs. Charlotte (Flueitt) Winn
Born at Franklin, Idaho, Feb 3, 1863. She was the daughter of Mary Ann Day and William Flueitt, who had joined the L.D.S. Church in England and migrated to the west. She married John Winn in 1880. Mrs. Winn was an active member of the Relief Society, being counselor in the Ashley Ward preidency for many years. She died Dec 16, 1943.
-From 'The Builders of Uintah' courtesy of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Transcribed by Lori Reynolds Weinstein
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