Johan(John) Anderson and Nilla Hakensdotter

 

Johan Anderson and Nilla Hakensdotter

Johan Anderson was born on April 4th, 1829 in Ljunga, Kronoberg, Sweden to Anders Pettersson and Stina Joransdotter. Johan was the third Child born to the family, but the only child to live past 4 years of age.  As a young man, Johan worked as a traveling salesman. He would travel from county to county in Sweden taking orders for clothing and having them filled by a manufacturer. While traveling he met his bride, Nilla Hoken Hakensdotter, and they married about 1852. After they married they made their home in Kronsberg county in Sweden. He made his living as a bricklayer. Here he bought some land, but during the war between Germany and Denmark(1864) times became very hard and he was unable to keep up the payments on the land and lost it. So the family moved to Denmark (Vedslet, Vedslet, Skanderborg, Danmark). 

At this time they were blessed with 5 children. This was in the spring of 1867. The following winter was very cold and Johan made his way back to Sweden to straighten up some business. He was forced to travel on land as the water was frozen (this seldom happened). Johan wasn’t heard of for some time, causing Nilla much fear for his safety. Their second child, a daughter Hannah, seeing the sorrow of her mother, went to the Lord in prayer for comfort to her mother. And it was made known to her of her father’s safety. Hannah told her mother that father would return safely on a certain night and that he would be carrying a sack over his shoulders and he would say that he was tired. So on the night he came Hannah would not go to bed because she knew he would come, and that night he came and said the things she had foretold. 

They could not find employment, but Johan and Nilla were expert weavers, so they purchased a loom and went to work in their own dwelling. The two of them kept the loom running 24 hours a day, each operating for 6 hours at a time. Nilla did both the spinning and weaving to make the cloth. John(Johan) made suits and sold them. There were now 8 children in the family and after they became old enough to work it wasn’t long before they had a home paid for in Denmark. 

It was later the same year when Hanna heard of the Mormon missionaries. She had a desire to hear them. When she heard their teachings the spirit bore witness of the truth to her and Hannah came home with the testimony that she knew they had the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This caused the family to investigate the Gospel and this is how they heard and received the Gospel. Although Hannah was not the first to join the church, she did later because of working away from home. Hannah also had it made known that she would never come to Zion and she died with typhoid fever before she had a chance to come to America. 

After joining the Church they were encouraged to come to Zion so they started to prepare to come to America, and in the years 1878 and 1879 John and the living 6 children were able to immigrate to America. They sold their home, but it only provided funds for 4 of them to travel, so John, Niels, Annie and John Jr. were the first to cross the ocean. They left June 19, 1978 and arrived in SLC on July 19, 1978.  Johan, Neils, and Anna were all employed by Mr. James Gordon in Mill Creek. Johan and Niels each received $20.00 a month and Anna received $10.00 a month, they were given free board and room. They sent their earnings to Nilla and the other children. 

When spring came, Johan and Niels went into Spanish Fork Canyon cutting ties, while John Jr. was left with old lady Jepperson to herd cows. By June they had saved enough money for two more fares, and this time Nilla and Johanna came to Utah. They arrived July 19, 1879. Two months later they sent for Alfred and Emma. Johan didn’t have enough money for their fares, but he borrowed from a friend. By November, 1879 they were all together in Utah.

They settled at Spanish Fork. A year later they bought land in Benjamin and moved there. Their first home was a dugout, but it wasn’t long until they were able to build a good home. They were all very ambitious and had been very successful. 

All the children married members of the church. Niels went on a mission to Denmark. John(Johan) became careless in the church for a few years. He attended the Josephite Church. Seeing the faith and prayers of some of his children and also seeing one of his grandchildren restored to health through an administration by the Elders, he received a testimony of the gospel. He became interested in the Church again and was re-baptized. He was a faithful member the remainder of his life. 

John and Nilla were sealed in the temple and had most of their children sealed to them. John Anderson died in Benjamin 10 March 1905 and was buried in the Spanish Fork Cemetery. Nilla went to Alberta Canada with some of her children. She lived in Taber with daughter Anna until She died and was buried in Taber, Alberta on 19 April 1909.

Abraham Losee

ABRAHAM LOSEE.

Abraham Losee, one of the early pioneers of Utah, was born in Holderman Township, Upper Canada, September 6, 1814. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at an early date and was with the main body of Saints throughout all their persecutions until their removal to the Rocky Mountains, being intimately acquained with the Prophet Joseph Smith. In the year 1848, he drove a team across the plains for Bishop Whitney, and was married in the same year, after reaching Salt Lake City, to Mary Elizabeth Lott. She also had been with the Saints in the East, and had lived with the Prophet's family and worked for him when 13 years of age. After having worked on the Church farm at Salt Lake City for two years, he was called to remove and settle in Utah Valley, by Brigham Young. Bringing his family with him, he came and lived in what is now known as Lehi field, for the first winter in a covered wagon, having four men boarding with him. From then until his death he remained a citizen of Lehi and served as a City Councilman for several years. Having reared a family of eight, two boys and six girls, he died October 25, 1887, being 73 years old. His Wife died in May, 1888, at the age of 60 years. They remained faithful church members and progressive citizens until their death.

David Losee and Lydia Huff

Lydia Huff and David Losee

Lydia Huff, the 2nd great grandmother of Charles Reid Bird (my grandfather), was born on June 16, 1797 in Eucunea, Dutchess County, New York (near modern Poughkeepsie). 

David Losee, the 2nd great grandfather of Charles Reid Bird, was born on September 10, 1783 in Oyster Bay, New York.  (You may see a collection of historical photos from Oyster Bay here.)

On June 12, 1812, David married Lydia Huff.  (Using modern highways, they were born over 100 miles apart.)  Together, they had nine children, whom they raised as Quakers:

Abraham (born September 6, 1814)
Isaac (born October 5, 1816)
Mary Jane (born October 4, 1820)
Jemima (born September 30, 1823)
John (born March 25, 1826)
Rebecca (born July 31, 1828)
Sarah (born March 27, 1831)
Lydia (born July 24, 1837)
Matilda (born July 24, 1837)

The last two girls were twins.

On August 8, 1840, David and at least Abraham with him, were baptized members of the LDS Church.  Lydia also joined the church during her lifetime, but my records don't show whether she joined the church at the same time that David and Abraham did.  Isaac joined the church about six months later. 

After joining the LDS Church, David and his family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, the then headquarters of the Church.David passed away on September 23, 1844, just three months following the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith.  We have looked for David's headstone in several cemeteries around Nauvoo and cannot find his headstone.

Following David's death, Lydia received her endowments in the Nauvoo Temple on February 6, 1846 (two days after the start of the exodus from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City, Utah). 

Ultimately, Lydia was buried in Manti, Utah.  I can find no record of her crossing the plains, but Abraham crossed in the Heber C. Kimball company in 1848; one can guess that Lydia traveled with her oldest son.

Permelia Darrow

Permelia Darrow and Cornelius P. Lott

Permelia Darrow was born 15 Dec 1805 in Bridgewater, Susquehanna, PA. She  was a schoolteacher prior to her marriage. She rode 20 miles on horseback to get to her school. 

Permelia married Cornelius Peter Lott, 27 April 1823 in Bridgewater. Her husband, Cornelius Lott, was born 27 Sep 1798 in New York, the son of Pieter Lott  b. 1 May 1774, NJ and Jane Smiley b. abt. 1777, NY. Cornelius and Permelia lived in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, where the first seven of their children were born. Later, they moved to Kirtland, OH, where their son, Joseph, was born in 1839. 

It was probably while they lived in Ohio that they became joined to the Latter Day Saints Church (commonly known as the Mormon Church whose founder was Joseph Smith.)    It appears that Permelia Darrow and Cornelius Lott were the only members of their respective families that joined the LDS church. 

From Ohio, they moved to Illinois, where Permelia gave birth their third son, Peter Lyman, in Pike County in 1842. In 1845, at Nauvoo, IL, Permelia and Cornelius buried their four-month old son, Cornelius. Their youngest son, and the last of eleven children, Benjamin, was born in Salt Lake City, UT, in 1848. 

All of the children that lived to adult age, along with their parents became prominent members of the Mormon Church. Malissa Lott, the oldest daughter became one of the wives of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church. (See below.)

Records show that Cornelius practiced polygamy and probably had 6 wives. Other researchers list these as: Permelia Darrow (11 children), Narcissus Rebecca Faucett/Fauset (1 child), Charity Dickinson, Jane Rogers, Elizabeth Smith, and Elizabeth Davis.

Cornelius and his eldest son, John, were among those chosen to accompany Brigham Young on his journey to Salt Lake City, completing their trip in Jul 1847. Permelia and her nine children remained in Iowa. Two of her children, Harriet Amanda and Joseph Darrow died in Oct 1847, just ten days apart, and her grandson, Lyman Cornelius (son of John Smylie) died the following month. Permelia joined a company in 1848, led by Heber C. Kimball, and traveled to Salt Lake City. After being reunited with his family for less than a year, Cornelius Lott died 6 Jul l849.

 Permelia later moved to Utah Valley, near her second daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and lived in a  covered wagon. In the spring of 1851, Permelia joined the Lehi Colony, where she and her family lived in a log cabin with a dirt floor. Her children later recalled long nights when coyotes howled in the yard. Indian trouble forced them to move to the safety of the fort, and when they could leave, they built a four-room, two-story house.

Permelia loved her fruit trees and flowers, and had a beautiful flower garden. She was also known for her willingness to help the sick and needy. Permelia died at the age of 70, and was buried next to husband in Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Children of Permelia Darrow and Cornelius Lott.

1. Malissa Lott b. 9 Jan 1824 Tunkhannock, Luzerne, PA. On 20 Sep 1843 in Nauvoo, IL she became the 12th wife of Joseph Smith. The FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File of Ancestry.Com shows that Smith had a total of 21 wives. The following information is written in the book, "The Mormon Experience, A History of the Latter-day Saints" by Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton; "The number of women so sealed to Joseph Smith is not known. One biographer listed forty-eight, but many of these were undoubtedly wives in name only, officially 'sealed' to him for the future life but not living with him conjugally in the present. As for the others, abundant discussion has failed to establish whether or not Smith actually cohabited with them, and the lack of evidence of children from these relationships has not clarified the question. Several women later did testify that they were wives in the full sense of the word. Emily D. P. Partridge said she 'roomed' with him, and Melissa Lott Willes testified that she was his wife 'in every deed'.The testimony of Melissa Lott Willes can be found in: "Affidavit of Melissa Willes, 4 August 1893, in Raymond T. Bailey, 'Emma Hale, Wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith' (Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, 1952), pp 98-100."After Joseph Smith assassination in Nauvoo in 1844, Malissa moved to Utah with her mother in 1848. On May 13, 1849, she married Ira Jones Willes. The following is written about Mr. Willes and is taken from the "Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia", Volume 4, Miscellaneous Biographies by Winn, Dennis Wilson.
   "Willes, Ira Jones, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company B, was born Jan. 21, 1812, in the State of New York, a son of Eleazer Willis and Achsah Jones. Ira joined the Church in early days and was with the saints in many of their persecutions. Having arrived on the Missouri River as an exile, together with the rest of the saints from Illinois, he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion in July, 1846, and marched as a private in Company. B to California. In 1849 (May 13), after his discharge as a soldier and his arrival in Utah he married Malissa Lott Smith, a young widow of the Prophet Joseph Smith and moved to Lehi, where he purchased a farm and became actively engaged in farming. He was accidentally killed Dec. 5, 1863, while crossing Dry Creek, near Lehi, by a load of wood overturning and burying him in the ice, together with his nine year old son, Cornelius."Some researchers show that Malissa married a third time to John Milton Bernhisel. Bernhisel was a very prominent church member who served as a delegate to congress from the Utah territory and fought very hard to have Utah admitted as a state. I have not been able to find any substantial proof of Malissa's marriage to Bernhisel.
2. John Smylie Lott b. 23 Mar 1826 in Springville, Susquhanna, PA. John Smylie Lott was an active member of the church and apparently took advantage of the polygamy aspect of the church. Records show that he married Mary Ann Faucett, 5 Apr 1846; Clarissa Cemantha Rappleye, 22 Jan 1859; and Docia Emmerine Molen 20 Jun 1862. He had children with all three women. He died 4 Aug 1894 in Joseph, Sevier, UT.
3. Mary Elizabeth Lott b. 9 Mar 1827, Susquehanna County, PA. Mary Elizabeth married Abraham Losee, 12 Nov 1848. This marriage had an issue of 6 daughters and 2 sons. Mary died 18 May 1888.
4. Almira Henrietta Lott b. 15 Dec 1829 in Bridgewater, Susquehanna, PA. On 13 Nov 1849, she married John Riggs Murdock in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT.
   The following is found in Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Biographies, Parkinson, William Chandler"Murdock, John Riggs, president of the Beaver Stake of Zion from 1877 to 1891, is the son of John Murdock and Julia Clapp, and was born Sept. 13, 1826, in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. His father and mother joined the Church in November, 1830, being among the first converts to "Mormonism" in Ohio; and they became closely associated with the Prophet Joseph. The mother died in 1831, leaving a family of five children, including a pair of twins, a boy and a girl (Joseph and Julia), born at their mother's death. The twins were adopted by the Prophet and his wife and tenderly fostered. When the boy was a year and a half old, he caught the measles, and through exposure took cold and died at the time the Prophet was mobbed at Hiram in 1832. Julia remained in the family until she had grown to womanhood. After his mother's death John R. was sent with [p.305] Caleb Baldwin, sen., to Jackson county, Mo., where he lived in the family of Morris Phelps. After the Saints were driven out of Jackson county, he was baptized by his father in Clay county in the year 1834; he also passed through the mobbings and persecutions in Caldwell county. His father, after spending about five years on missions, married again, when John R. left Brother Baldwin and rejoined his father's family, with which he removed from Quincy to Nauvoo. Here he worked on the Prophet Joseph's farm about four years, and was still in the Prophet's employ at the time of the martyrdom; in the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846, John R. came west with Father Cornelius P. Lott. On his way he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, and as a private in Company B he marched all the way to San Diego in California. After serving his time he made his way, in company with many other Battalion boys, to Great Salt Lake valley, and arrived on the present site of Salt Lake City, Oct. 12, 1847, after a tedious journey of twelve hundred miles with pack animals. He spent the winter in the "Old Fort" and married Almira H. Lott, daughter of Cornelius P. Lott. In the spring of 1851 he settled in Lehi, Utah county, being one of the early settlers of that place; and among the several positions filled by him here was that of mayor of the city. In 1856 he took a most active part in rescuing the hand-cart companies, who were perishing in the snow storms. When he brought in some of the suffering emigrants he found the snow on the Big Mountain fifteen feet deep. To many of those who crossed the plains before the Union Pacific Railroad was built, the name of John R. Murdock is very familiar. He was sent east five times as a captain of Church trains after the poor, namely in 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1868. He also carried the mails from the Valley to Independence, Mo., as an employee of the B. Y. X. Company, and in that capacity he made two round trips to the States in 1857, in unprecedented short time. In 1358 he went to Omaha as an escort to Col. Thos. L. Kane, making the round trip of 2,120 miles with the same animals in 42 traveling days. He also brought trains of merchandise for Livingston & Bell in the early days. Altogether "Captain Murdock," as he was familiarly called in early days, made eleven round trips across the plains, and has brought more "Mormon" emigrants to Utah than any other leader. He is credited with making a better record than any other man known in bringing ox and mule trains across the plains and over the mountains. In the spring of 1864 he was called and ordained to the office of a Bishop by President Brigham Young and sent to preside in Beaver, Beaver county. He occupied that position until 1877, when the Beaver Stake of Zion was organized, and he was chosen and set apart as its president. This responsible position he filled for fourteen years. He has served eight terms in the Territorial and one in the State legislature. He was also a member of the Constitutional convention, which framed the State constitution in 1895. He has also served as probate judge of Beaver county and as a colonel in the Iron County Military District. From the first Elder Murdock was one of the representative and leading men in the Church and community at large. He has occupied many positions of honor and trust in the Territory and State, and is now in his old age highly respected and beloved by the people."Almira Henrietta Lott died 16 Dec 1878 in Beaver City, Beaver, UT.
5. Permelia Jane Lott b. 2 Oct 1832 in Bridgewater, Susquehanna, PA.
   Permelia Jane married Abram Hatch, 2 Dec 1852 in Lehi, Utah, UT. The following is from Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
   Volume 1, Biographies, Smart, William HenryHatch, Abram, president of the Wasatch Stake of Zion from 1877 to 1901, is the son of Hezekiah Hatch and Aldura Sumner, and was born Jan. 3, 1830, in Lincoln, Addison county, Vermont, in a pleasant farm house near the foot hill of the Green Mountains. He is the fourth son of a family of five sons and two daughters. His grandfather (Jeremiah Hatch) was a soldier of the Revolution and served under General Washington. Abram received a common school education in the rural district schools of Lincoln and Bristol, and had reached the age of ten years when Elder Peletiah Brown came to that section of country, preaching "Mormonism." The entire family, consisting of his grandfather and grandmother, father, mother and their children, joined the Church. His mother died in 1840, and in the fall of that year the family moved to Nauvoo, where his father bought property, opened up a farm on the prairie and built a brick house on Mulholland street, in the city, three blocks east of the Temple; he died in 1841. Abram became a member of the Nauvoo Legion and served with the posse under Col. Stephen Markham and Sheriff Jacob Backenstos in 1845. During the exodus of 1846 he rendered efficient service as captain of the numerous flat-bottomed ferry boats employed to cross the Mississippi river carrying the fleeing multitude. He was also in the first company that moved west in the main "Camp of Israel" which made its rendezvous on Sugar creek, and he drove a wagon for Joseph C. Kingsbury. He assisted to build the temporary settlement of Garden Grove, visited Missouri, and later made a trip to Pennsylvania to see some of his relatives who had identified themselves with the Rigdonite movement. He again joined the exiled Saints at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and assisted his brother Lorenzo to harvest a crop on "Brigham's Farm," near Winter Quarters, after which he went to the settlements of Missouri and there helped his brothers to earn a traveling outfit with which they with their families crossed the plains in 1850. Having spent the winter in Salt Lake City, Abram moved to Lehi, Utah county, in 1851, and assisted to build a grist mill at the mouth of American Fork canyon. Dec. 2, 1852, he married Miss Permelia Jane Lott, after which he made his home in Lehi till 1867 and assisted materially in the development of the place. He engaged in farming and stock-raising, and also kept a hotel. In 1861, in company with Captain John R. Murdock, he made a trip to the States for the purpose of bringing immigrants across the plains and buying and freighting merchandise for his store. They also freighted goods for others, and found it a profitable business. In 1863, he again went back to the Missouri river for the same purpose as in 1861. On both trips he drove a mule team in the train. Altogether he has made eleven trips between the Missouri river and Utah. In 1864-67 he filled a mission to Great Britain, where he labored as a traveling Elder in the Birmingham conference, later as president of the Manchester pastorate, and still later as president of the Birmingham pastorate. He also visited Switzerland, Germany and Holland. Returning to America, he crossed the Atlantic ocean in the steamship "Great [p.360] Eastern." He arrived home in August, 1867, and a few weeks afterwards he was called by Pres. Brigham Young to go to Wasatch county to act as presiding Bishop. He was ordained and set apart to that office Dec. 2, 1867. Under his wise and practical management Wasatch county soon became a prosperous and desirable locality and Heber City especially grew to be a town of importance. When the settlements of the Saints in Provo valley, or Wasatch county, were organized into a Stake of Zion, in 1877, Abram Hatch was appointed its president, and in that capacity he served about a quarter of a century. His duties as president were necessarily various, active and continuous. "He took a leading part in all measures adopted for the development of the resources of the county, and utilized them for building up the Stake and promoting both the material, moral and spiritual welfare of the people, in improving Church property, superintending the erection of public edifices, building roads, bridges, irrigating canals, etc." He also established a ranch in Ashley valley, where settlements of the Saints, that have since grown into a Stake of Zion, were founded. Pres. Hatch has served several times in the Utah legislature, has acted as probate judge of Wasatch county and been elected to many other offices within the gifts of the people. (See also Tullidge's Histories, Vol. 2, Bio. p. 187.)
   Permelia Jane Lott died 28 Nov 1880 in Heber City, Wasatch, UT.
6. Lucinda Alzina Lott b. 4 Mar 1834 in Tuckhannock, Luzerne, PA. She married William Sydney Smith Willes, 23 Apr 1852 in Lehi, Utah, UT. Lucinda and William had ten children.
   William Sydney  was born 18 Mar 1819 in Jefferson, Cole, MO, the son of Eleazer Willes/Willi and Achasah Jones. He practiced polygamy being married to both Lucinda Alzina Lott and Docia Emmerine Molen. He married Docia 15 Feb 1857. William died 3 Feb 1871 in Lehi, UT.
   Lucinda Alzina Lott died 18 Aug 1910 in Lehi, Utah, UT.
7. Harriet Amanda Lott b. 30 Mar 1836 in Tunckhannock, Luzerne, PA. d. 5 Oct 1847 at age 11.
8. Joseph Darrow Lott b. 18 Feb 1839 in Kirtland, Lake, OH. d. 15 Oct 1847 at age 8.
9. Peter Lyman Lott b. 2 Nov 1842 in Pittsfield, Pike, IL. Peter married Sarah Hannah Snow, 23 Dec 1862. Other researchers show that they had an issue of 9 children.
   Peter Lyman Lott died 1 Mar 1906 in Lehi, Utah, UT.
10. Cornelius Carlos Lott b. 30 Sep 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock, IL and died 6 Jan 1845.
11. Benjamin Smith Lott b. 16 Nov 1848 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT. Benjamin married Mary Abigail Evans 25 Oct 1869. They had 8 children.
    Benjamin Smith Lott died 26 Mar 1923 in Lehi, Utah, UT.

Cornelius Peter Lott

Cornelius Peter Lott (September 22, 1798 – July 6, 1850) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement, father of one of Joseph Smith's plural wives,^[1] a member of the Council of Fifty and a Danite leader.^[2]

Early life and marriage

Lott was born in New York City, to Peter Lott and Mary Jane Smiley. His grandfather, also named Cornelius Lott, was sheriff of Somerset County, New Jersey, and served as Captain of the Middlesex County Men in the American Revolution.^[3][4]

Lott married Permelia Darrow^[5] on April 27, 1823. Sometime before 1834, both joined the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints). They moved to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1836.^[6] He later took on additional, plural wives as well.

Settling Missouri

See also: Mormon War (1838)

In 1838, the Lotts moved to Missouri and settled near Haun's Mill. During the 1838 Independence Day celebrations in Far West, Missouri, the military band passed in review of three men acting as Generals: Lott, Jared Carter, and Sampson Avard.^[7] Lott was involved with a rogue band of Mormons called "Danites", and during the 1838 Mormon War he led a Danite raid against a farm near Adam-ondi-Ahman. The farm had been harboring weapons and ammunition for a Missouri mob.^[8]

Settling Nauvoo

In the winter of 1838 - 1839, the Lotts were driven from Missouri with the rest of the Latter Day Saints. They settled in Pike County, Illinois, forty miles south of the main body of Saints in Nauvoo, in 1839, before moving to Joseph Smith's farm just southeast of Nauvoo.

Once in Nauvoo, Lott took over management of Smith's farm and purchased some adjacent land, on which he built an eight-room farmhouse.^[9][6] While there, he served as a Captain of Smith's bodyguard^[6] and received his endowment with W.W. Phelps and Joseph Fielding.^[10] In addition, Joseph Smith proposed marriage to Lott's daughter, Melissa.

Years later, Joseph Smith III, who was a boy at the time, recalled that the "rather old" Lott (then in his mid-forties and possibly with prematurely gray hair^[11]) "was still strong and muscular and was usually willing to demonstrate his strength."^[12] Smith related that not long after arriving in Nauvoo, Lott came to his father's red-brick store to purchase supplies. Joseph Smith had spent most of the afternoon wrestling with customers and had "thrown" all of them. When Lott walked in, carrying "a threatening-looking blacksnake whip that seemed to challenge all comers,"^[12] Smith challenged him to a match. After Lott threw aside the whip and accepted the challenge, Smith was unable to throw him.^[12][13]

Plural marriage

Lott practiced plural marriage. On January 22, 1846, he married three women: Elizabeth Davis,^[14] Rebecca Fossett, and Charity Dickenson. Elizabeth left while the family was in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.^[15] Rebecca left before the birth of their child, whom he never met. Charity appears to have stayed with him.

In 1848 he married Eleanor Wayman and Phebe Crosby Peck Knight, Hosea Stout's mother-in-law and widow of Joseph Knight.^[9]

Settling Utah

In late Spring 1848, Lott served as a captain in Heber C. Kimball's company, an early group crossing the plains. Mary Fielding Smith, a single mother and widow of Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum, was a member of the company. Lott told her that she should stay back until she could gather others to help her and her children make the journey. He said she would be a burden on the company.^[16] She refused, and according to her son, later church president Joseph F. Smith, Lott humiliated her throughout the trek. Joseph F. Smith despised Lott for his actions.^[17]

Once in the Salt Lake Valley, Lott and his families lived in a two-room house at the southwest corner of Third South and State Street in Salt Lake City. He managed a church farm in the Forest Dale area.^[18] One of his daughters married William S. S. Willes.

Lott died in 1850, of either dysentary or fatigue.

Temperence Keller

Temperence Keller Penrod-
Birth: Nov. 18, 1817 Rowan County North Carolina, USA
Death: Nov. 15, 1893 Provo Utah County Utah, USA

Temperance Keller

When the saints decided to go west Temperance and David had six children, all born in Union, Illinois. Two more children were born to them in Hancock, Iowa. As mob violence and persecution became greater, their lives were in danger from day to day. They began getting things together to start the long trek to the Promised Land, where there were no mobs or persecution. David was a wagon maker by profession. When they arrived at the Missouri River and many of the saints who had started the journey with ill prepared wagons and outfits, were held up because of broken parts, mostly wheels and tires, he was asked to remain there and repair them so the Saints could continue West. Temperance and David remained here for about a year after which they joined the Orson Hyde Company of 1849 and resumed the journey.

On the way to Utah they buried Soloman by the roadside. They covered him in a grave with rocks and sagebrush so the coyotes and Indians couldn't find it. During the journey Temperance became very ill with Cholera, in fact, she was so very ill they did not expect her to recover, so the wagon train moved on without them, leaving one man and woman to take care of her and the family. Through their great faith and prayers to their Heavenly Father, she was restored to health and was soon able to travel and they were able to catch up with the company. They arrived in Utah with the Company in 1849. They remained in Salt Lake for about a year, and then came with other families to Provo, moving into the Old Fort. While living at the Fort another son was born. They named him David Nephi

Later they moved to their own home, a four roomed adobe house located between 3rd and 4th West on Center Street in Provo. In this house it is presumed that the other four children were born.

David was a stock raiser and farmer. He kept sheep and after the shearing was done Temperance would wash the wool and prepare it, then spin it into year to make stockings, shawls, and other things for her family and also very often for needy families. It is said by neighbors and people far and near that Temperance was an Angel of Mercy. She went out in all kinds of weather to help the sick, taking with her food and medicine for the needy. In fact, she was in a way a mid-wife. She was always generous with others and would willingly share food and clothes with those not so fortunate as she.

During her life she was afflicted with asthma. After the death of her daughter Olive, who was married to George Meldrum, she took their infant daughter and raised her. After the death of her husband, and when the children were all married, it was lonesome for her living so far away from them, so they all pitched in a built her a two roomed house on a piece of land between Nephi and Amasa's homes. The boys built the new house for her without her knowing they were building it. When it was completed with paint and everything, they went to her home and said, "wouldn't you like to go for a ride"? Indeed she did, but the ride lasted so long she finally asked if it wasn't time to be getting home. In the meantime the others had moved her belongings to her new house. Imagine her joy and surprise when they took her to her new home.

The home her sons built for her still stands at 12th North between University Avenue and First East. She lived her for the remainder of her days. She is buried in the Provo City Cemetary
Information was sent to Diane Hawkins by Fran Ward from California
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1817 born Rowan Co, North Carolina
1830 Census Union Co, IL
1832 Married David Penrod Union Co, IL
1840 Census Union Co, IL Baptized
1880 Census Provo, Utah Co,Utah
1893 Death Provo, Utah Co, Utah
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Parents:  Abraham Keller (1783 - 1854) and Sarah Hinkle Keller (1785 - 1826)
Spouse:  David Penrod (1815 - 1872)*
Children:  William Lewis Penrod (1832 - 1916)*  Soloman Penrod (1834 - 1849)* Elizabeth Penrod Wall (1836 - 1925)*  Sarah Evelyn Penrod Prescord (1840 - ____)* Christiana Penrod Smith (1842 - 1902)*
Israel Penrod (1843 - 1910)* Abraham Penrod (1844 - 1893)* Polly Elmina Penrod (1847 - 1848)* David  Nephi Penrod (1850 - 1915)* Temperance Penrod Evans (1852 - 1934)* Minerva Olive Penrod  m (1855 - 1879)* Ephraim Penrod (1857 - 1865)* Amasa Lyman Penrod (1858 - 1953)* *Point here for  on
Burial: Provo City Cemetery Provo Utah County Utah, USA Plot: Block 3, Lot 10

David Penrod

David Penrod
Birth: Jan. 9, 1815 Illinois, USA

Death: Feb. 26, 1872 Provo Utah County Utah, USA (Buried in Provo, Utah, Cemetery)
Son to Lewis and Polly Penrod. David and Temperance had 13 children, 7 boys and 6 girls.

HISTORY OF DAVID PENROD
1815-1872
Written by Mary P. Young

David was born 9 January 1815, in Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois, son of Lewis and Polly Beggs Penrod. He married Temperance Hinkle Keller. She was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, 17 November 1817.
A study of the Federal Census records shows us that David's grandfather, Samuel Penrod Sr., came to Illinois sometime before 1817. The family is not listed in the 1812 Census, so it was between those dates when they came.
David's father, Lewis, was married to Polly Beggs and his mother's name was Polly, but we do not know her maiden name. This Polly was the wife of Samuel Penrod Sr.; there are eight Penrod heads of families listed in the 1818 Census for Union County, Illinois. According to the group sheet we have for Samuel's father, John Penrod Sr., they seem to be brothers of Samuel Penrod Sr. David joined the Mormon Church and was a very intelligent and religious man; he accepted the Gospel in all its fullness, lived it, and taught it to his family.