-
October 17, 2011,
-
Leave a comment,
-
Author:
ehoopes
-
Categories:
- Kanarraville Utah, - Utah, Rocena Platt's Family
Tags: Albert B. Griffin, Ash Creek, Brigham Young, Charles Dalton, Elisha H. Groves, Erastus Snow, Fort Harmony, John D. Lee, John H. Willis, Josiah Reeves, Kanarraville UT, Lorenzo W. Roundy, missionary work, Samuel Pollock, Walker War, William R. Davis, Willis Young
The year 1861, John D. Lee’s first settlement was located on Ash Creek. This was abandoned during the Walker Indian War in 1853. Then was resettled in the fall of 1853, by John D. Lee, Charles Dalton, Elisha H. Groves, William R. Davis with their respective families. They raised a crop there in 1854, then spent the winter of 1854-1855 on Ash Creek. Then the settlement changed location in accordance of suggestions of Brigham Young who advised that a settlement […]
-
October 11, 2011,
-
Leave a comment,
-
Author:
ehoopes
-
Categories:
- Berryville, (Glendale) Utah, - Dixie Utah, - Kanarraville Utah, - Rebecca Rocena Beck Berry, - Tennessee, - Utah, - William Shanks Berry, Births, Childhood, Deaths, Early Days in the Mormon Church, Emigration, Homesteading, Illnesses Injuries & Trials, Personality and Interests, Professions, Rocena Platt's Family, Spanish Fork Utah
Tags: - Rebecca Rocena Beck Berry, Amelia Shanks Berry, Andrew Gregerson, Apostles, Armelia Berry, B. H. Roberts, Black Hawk War, Chattanooga TN, Conflict between settlers and Indians, Dave Hinson, Diamtha Allen, Dr. Middleton, Grafton UT, Hannah Forsyth Beck, Hannah Margaret Berry, Henry Thompson, Hyrum Stevens, J. H. Gibbs, James R. Hudson, Jesse F Williams, John William Berry, Joseph Berry, Joseph Ellison Beck, Joseph Smith, Lucilla Snell, Margaret Beck, Marion Lynn, Mathias F. Cowley, missionary work, Missions, Mormon church, Mountain Meadow Massacre, Mrs. Jacobson, Nauvoo Illinois, Orson Hyde, Palestine, persecution, Philadephia, Pricilla Roundy, Relief Society, Richard Palmer, Robert Madison Berry, Silver Reef Mining Camp, Tennessee, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Thirza Thurber, W. S. Berry, William Alfred Berry, William Shanks Berry
Written by her daughter Harriet L. Berry in her 75th year. In the year of 1840, Orson Hyde was ordained as Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, and was sent on a mission to Palestine without purse or script, to dedicate that Holy ground for the return of the Jews. On arriving in Philadelphia, Hyde was without means to cross the mighty ocean. Being full of faith in […]
-
October 2, 2011,
-
Leave a comment,
-
Author:
ehoopes
-
Categories:
- Cane County Tennessee, - Kanarraville Utah, - Tennessee, - Utah, - William Shanks Berry, Deaths, Illnesses Injuries & Trials, Newspaper Clippings, Rocena Platt's Family
Tags: Andrew J. Talley, B. H. Roberts, Dave Hinson, Henry Thompson, Hohenwald TN, J. H. Gibbs, J. R. Hudson, James M. Kirkham, Kanarraville UT, Martin Condor, Miles L. Jones, missionary work, Missions, Mormon church, Rachel Ann Condor, Rube Mathis, Tennessee, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Thomas Garrett, Visey Jane (Haley) Condor, W. S. Berry
Erection by the church of a little monument at Cane Creek, Tennessee, last June recalled in the minds of many saints in that section and others knowing of the event, a happening which many years ago shocked the entire Church membership. It was the brutal killing of two missionaries and two faithful friends of James Condor, August 10, 1884. The elders killed were John H. Gibbs of Paradise, and William S. Berry of Kanarra. The two others were Martin Condor […]
by Carl E Hayden Tribune Staff Writer KANARRAVILLE, Iron County–How does little Kanarraville feel about having been tossed into the limelight through interest in 26 Californians discovered camping in nearby winter-bound Sprint Creek Canyon? CALM AND COLLECTED. “They say they were harried by overgrown California,” one of Kanarraville’s 250 residents, who prefers to remain anonymous, said. “They seem tobe doing nothing untoward, and are welcome to our quiet.” ON U.S. HIGHWAY 91 about 14 miles south of Cedar City, Kanarraville […]