Elverie Rawson

Notes:

1904 BIR, 1925 MG,ORD: Rawson-Coffin Family book, cc poss of Pam Hallmark Wagner, pg 154. Md Clifton B Canfield 16 Sep 1925

Notes:

1873 BIR,1895 MG,1958 DTH,BUR,ORD: Family Group Sheet, rep: Lucy Rawson Harmon, niece,submitted by Ida Rawson Russell, and Family records of Arthur Morrison Rawson, submit, in Rawson-Coffin Family book, cc poss of Pam Hallmark Wagner, pg 154.
Rawson-Coffin Family book, cc poss of Pam Hallmark Wagner, pg 143: Submitted by Lucy Rawson Harman show endowed on 18 Dec 1893.

1900 CENSUS: ID,Bingham Co-Ammon: Anc Img 6, pg 17B, June 1900, Dw 292,293:
RAWSON, William-head 26/UT bn Aug 1873 (unk,unk)md 4yrs-farm laborer own
home, farm; Nancy-wife 23/UT bnJan 1877 (Eng,UT)md 4yrs 2/3 children
living; Ida M-dau 3/ID bn Sep 1896; Iva V-dau 2/ID bn Dec 1897

NOTES: "A Biography of William John Rawson" compiled by Ida Rawson Russell, dau, page 155 of Rawson Family Genealogy Book, copy of Pam Hallmark Wagner:

My father, Wm John Rawson, born Aug 21 1873 at Harrisville,Weber Co,Utah, son of Arthur Morrison & Margaret Angeline (Pace) Rawson. The summer he was born his father bought some land in Harrisville and moved his family there from Ogden. They built a house on the bank of the creek. It was made of logs and the windows were small openings with cloth tacked over them and a quilt tacked over the door frame for a door. 2 yrs later his father built an adobe house with board floors, doors and windows. They were very happy in this new home. His father was a carpenter by trade and was away from home so much of the time, so a great deal of responsibilities of the farm work fell on father, as he was the oldest son.
In 1886 when father was 13, his father's family, with several other families, moved from Harrisville on up to Idaho and settled near the little town of Iona, not far from Idaho Falls. This was a new country, sparsely settled and covered with sage brush. It had to be cleared and irrigation ditches made before any crops could be planted. They worked hard and spent many long hours pioneering this country. Their homes were made of logs they hauled from the canyons, with dirt floors and roofs and small openings for windows.
They went to Church at a branch of the church at Iona until one was organized, with Grandfather as presiding Elder at the ward called South Iona. The next yr they built a church house and Grandfather was ordained a High Priest and Bishop by Heber J Grant, on Nov 15 1891. He was given the privilege of naming the new ward, and he named it Ammon, honoring the son of King Mosiah in the Book of Mormon. Father was sustained as Sec of Sunday School.
The young people there had to make their own recreation which consisted mostly of parties, dances and buggy rides in the summer, skating and sleigh riding the usual dances and parties in the winter. Father was always fond of horses and boasted of having the fastest team in town and he seldom lost a race. In the winter the snow was so high they raced over the fences.
Father was chosen to go to Logan to take a course in the MIA work. He was there one term. Before going there he was Ward Clerk and Pres of the YMMIA and after he returned, he was made First Assistant to the Pres of the Stake Board, a position he held as long as lived in Ammon.
Father and Mother grew up together there in Ammon. Mother was Nancy Ett Southwick. She was sec of YWMIA when Father was Pres of the YMMIA. They were married Dec 18, 1895 in the Logan Temple and their first home was in two rooms of his father's house, living their for 5 yrs. Their first three children were born there, 3 girls, the third girl died of croup when 9 months old.
In 1900, a group of Latter-day Saints from around Idaho Falls decided to go to Oregon, near LaGrande, and settle on a large tract of land there. 23 families, including Grandfather Rawson's family, Father and Mother, and several of Father's brothers and sisters with their families. There was a branch of the Church at LaGrande and on June 9, 1901, Father was ordained a High Priest and Bishop by Mathias F Cowley and set apart as Bishop of a new ward. The town was called Nibley, in honor of Charles W Nibley, who was at that time a Counselor to the Stake Pres.
Our home there was on a 5-acre plot and we had a nice frame house, a large barn, well house, granery and a fruit and vegetable cellar. We had fruit trees, a garden plot, plasture and flowers and shrubs were everywhere. Everything grew so fast in this nice climate. Our happiness here was not to last. The families had been promised that the land would belong to them after they had farmed their alloted land 5 yrs, but through a breach of contract, they were all ordered to move. Their houses were all torn down, with the exception of our house, which was moved down to the river bottom and was there yrs later.
The spring of 1905, Father rented a 700 acre farm at Wallow, Oregon. The crops were good there, but there was a money panic, and it was necessary to give up this farm. We then moved to Nampa, Idaho, but that venture proved unsatisfactory.
In 1910 Father moved his family to Odgen, Utah to 537-29th St, in the 9th Ward. His first position there was Ward Teacher, then teacher in the Parent's class in Sunday School, and then as Superintendant of Sunday School, holding this position for 7 yrs, at which time the ward was divided.
Our home was in the new ward and Father was released from Sunday School and set apart as Counselor to the Bishop of the new ward, the 18th Ward. He held that position for 2 yrs. He was in the weatherstripping business at this time, and many of his jobs were in Salt Laake, so he decided, in Nov of 1927, to move his family there.
He rented a house on 17th South, in the Waterloo Ward. It was while living here that they started doing work for the dead. The next yr they bough a home on 9th East and 13th South, in the HawthorneWard. Father and Mother were called on a 6-month mission to do endownment work for the dead and did one name each week, never missing an assignment. About this time, Father was chosen as chairman of the Genealogical Committee for the Ward.
Father took a class in research and spent many hours in the Genealogical Library. He also helped the ward members with their research work. He has a typewritten list in his Book of Remembrance of 346 names that he and Mother did the endownment work for while they were living in the HawthorneWard.
After Father retired they moved out to Taylorsville, where they could have a small acreage and farm animals. He was appointed to the Genealogical Committee and in a short time had a fine group doing Temple Work. They had the honor of doing more ordinance work than any other group had ever done in that ward. He was asked to work on the Stake Genealogical Board. He took care of the Sealings for the Stake.
He was called to be a Temple Officiator, to work 3 nights each week. Sometimes he worked 5 nights in a week. He also spent several days a week at the Genealogical Libraary, and was also responsible for seeing the work was done for all names sent in from the Family Organization, and was Pres of the Rawson Fam Org as long as he lived. Estella Rawson Christensen was the Secretary.
After Father had worked 4 yrs at night in the Temple, he was asked to work days, his official calling being of helping the brethren get ready to receive their first Endownments as Missionaries or their wedding day or when they came with their family to receive the greatest blessing ever to come to them, their Temple Marriage. It was a wonderful feeling Father had, knowing he had a small part in helping members to take this step forward on their way to Eternal Life. Father would talk for hours about this experience in the Temple and the friends he had made through this work.
He often spoke of his friendship with President David O McKay, which began during this assignment. He worked in the Temple 11 yrs and asked to be released when his health became so bad that he could not be depended upon to be there every day. He was honorably released as a Temple Ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple on April 18, 1957. He always said that he could not have held so many church positions if Mother had not been willing for him to away from home so much.
They had 11 children, one died as an infant. The other 10 are all living in Utah, except the oldest son, James. Father said that Mother did most of the raising of the family. She was such an understanding mother and regardless of our age, she seemed to make us feel our problems were important.
When I was small, I was always so proud of Father sitting on the stand, to the best looking one. On Dec 18, 1955 was their 60th wedding anniversary. On May 17 1958, he passed away and the family took part at the services as much as possible. He was buried in the Taylorsville Cemetery.

1873 BIR: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jensen, Vol 4, p 655:

William John RAWSON, Bishop of the Nibley Ward, Union Stake, Oregon, from 1901 to 1906, was bn 21 Aug 1873 in Harrisville,Weber,UT, a son of Arthur (says Archer) Morrison RAWSON and Margaret Angeline PACE. He was baptized 4 Aug 1881, ordained High Priest and Bishop 9 Jun 1901 by Mathias F COWLEY.

Heart Throbs of the West, V8 pg 186:

In 1900 Charles W Nibley and George Stoddard purchases an 8,000 acre tract of land in the Grand Rhonde Valley...made a settlement on it....Arthur M Rawson was the first permanent settler. There were 9 LDS families located there when a townsite was surveyed and named "Nibley" in honor of Charles W. A frame building, a meeting house, was constructed in 1901. The branch was organized Mar 17, 1901. Samuel Southwick was president of the branch. When Union Stake was org pm 9 Jun 1901, William J. Rawson was chosen as bishop of Nibley Ward.
By 1902 Nibley was a thriving Mormon settlement and many more families moved in. Among these were the Rawsons, Sargents, Roundye, Dewell, Wm David Hanks, Joel H Orton, HJ Neilson, Reuben Hiatt, Francis Hiatt, Gjettrup, Southwick... Joe Lae GROW (??) ...and other families.

William married Nancy Ett Southwick 18 Dec 1895, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. Nancy was born 18 Jan 1877, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States; died 9 Nov 1962, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; was buried 12 Nov 1962, Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1877 BIR, 1895 MG, 1962 DTH,BUR,ORD: Rawson-Coffin Family book, cc poss of Pam Hallmark Wagner, pg 154: Dau of James Nephi & Mary Ett (Norton) Southwick

1900 CENSUS: ID,Bingham Co-Ammon: Anc Img 6, pg 17B, June 1900, Dw 292,293:
RAWSON, William-head 26/UT bn Aug 1873 (unk,unk)md 4yrs-farm laborer own
home, farm; Nancy-wife 23/UT bnJan 1877 (Eng,UT)md 4yrs 2/3 children
living; Ida M-dau 3/ID bn Sep 1896; Iva V-dau 2/ID bn Dec 1897
Next door 291,292-Nancy's parents: SOUTHWICK, James-head 46/Eng
bn May 1854 (Eng,Eng)md 25yrs imm 1864, farmer own home, farm with
mortgage; Mary-wife 44/UT bn May 1856 (MO,MO)md 25yrs 7/13 children
living; Seretta-dau 15/UT bn Apr 1885 at school; Leroy-son 13/UTbn Feb
1887 at school; Mabel-dau 11/ID bn May 1889 at school; Bertha-dau 7/ID
bn Feb 1893 at school; Emma-dau 3/ID bn Feb 1897

Notes:

1840 BIR,1859 MG,1923 DTH,BUR: Fam Group Sheet, Arthur Morrison Rawson fam rcds, rep: Lucy Rawson Harmon, gr daughter, submitted by self, show bap as 17 Jun 1848. Also Fam Group Sheet, "Personal 'Living' records of Horace Strong Rawson & Rawson Old Fam Bible Early Mormon Hist Handcart Co of 1847-1878, rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen, submitted by self.

NOTES: "A Short Story of Arthur Morrison Rawson" as told by himself & finished by another fam member pg 145 of Rawson Fam Gen Bk cc Pam Hallmark Wagner:

I, Arthur Morrison Rawson, was the 9th child of Horace Strong & Elizabeth Coffin Rawson. I was born 17 June 1840 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co, Ill. When I was about 2 yrs old father moved to Lima Branch in the Yelrome Stake where we resided until the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846.
We 1st stopped at Mt Piscus where we planted a crop & stayed until June or July, then we came to Kainsville & settled abt 2 mi up Muskcrat Crk, 1 mile west of Old Indian Mill. There we cleared off a nice farm where we lived one yr. Fthr sold out to Wm Coffin, mthr's cousin & we made another home abt 1/2 mi west, where we lived until spring of 1850 when we sold to a Mr Wolfe, & then we started for the Valley of the Mtns.
We joined Pres Wilford Woodruff's Co & were in Capt E Whipple's 10 fams. I helped to drive. Experiences while traveling...one day when we were traveling up the Platt Rvr, dogs got aft an old buffalo & he started toward the train, frightened a team of horses & in a few minutes a doz or more teams were running in all directions. Our dear old mthr was in the wagon, sick with cholera, but she took no harm, for our team did not run, but there was a terrible excitement, cattle bellering, men hollering & women crying. One woman was run over & badly hurt. Soon got everything in shape & arrive in SL pretty well tired out but glad to get there.
We all went to Ogden & settled between 8-9th Streets until Ogden City layed out, when we moved houses & everything we could on lots, in the city, lying just south & east of where the PO is no located.
The winter of 1850 I attended school in Browns Fort. The next yr I went to school in the 1st one built in this part. Early spring I hired out to John Thomas to drive a team & plow his farm, then I worked for Edward Bunker, helping him get his crops in. I went to sev different schools, then we moved to Kaysville & bought a farm from Allen Taylor near the foot of east mtns, nr Bares saw mill-put a large crop in & planned for a splendid harvest, but in July, the swarm of grasshoppers destroyed all the crops, so in the fall we moved to Farmington, where I went to school. Next spring we rented land & planted corn & raised a fine crop. This was the hardest time we ever had in the valley. We saved some corn & fodder for Br Clark & ourselves, but we lost most of ours, as well as everyone who turned their stock out onto the range-most had to that winter.
In the spring of 1857, we sold out & moved to Payson UT. I worked for my bro Daniel, went to school, then worked for the Church, helping Joseph & Brigham Young take care of the Church stock. We drove them west of town on the lake shores, as that was good feed grass, then to the east shore. We stayed home at night, then rounded the poor cattle & drove them to parts that had the best feed. In that way, we saved nearly all of the Church herd. In the spring I went to work for the Bishopric, working in the canyon lumbering & making roads & working on the meeting house.
24 May 1857 - ordained a Seventy by Daniel B Rawson. That fall Johnson's army came to UT & our Militia was called out to keep them from coming into the valley. I was kept home to haul wood & ride express. My bro was brought home with rheumitism & I looked after him & my bro Daniel's fam, besides my mthr & fthr & others.
I had sown part of the winter wheat & after getting Wm's crop in & fthr's work done, I went up Provo Canyon & contracted 2 mi of road for the summer. After putting up hay, I went to Camp Floyd & made dobies until I earned $300 in gold. Ran a wagon & peddled while, then hired out to Br Thorn to thrash wheat at Payson, then went to Ft Ephraim & thrashed.
3 Feb 1859 - md Margaret Angeline Pace, living in Payson until 1860 when we moved to Ogden. We have raised a fam of 10 children, burying 2. The above was taken from the Autobiography of Arthur Morrison Rawson. He dd 28 Feb 1923 in Ogden; was bur in Ogden City Cem. He was 5'10" tall, abt 180 lbs, dark complected & hair. He was a Patriarch (1915). He was elected constable & served 20 yrs in Harrisville. He was a SS teacher for 16 yrs, ordained HP & Bishop 15 Nov 1891 at Rexburg ID by Heber J Grant & set apt to preside over the Ammon Ward in ID. He was ordained a Patriarch 9 June 1901 by Mathias F Cowley in the Union Stake & sustained Patriarch on 20 Oct 1915.



1880 CENSUS: UT,Weber Co-Harrisville, film #1255339 pg 591c, Dw(11-02, FS.org-must chk real census):
RAWSON, Arthur 39/IL (NY/VA) farmer, md

1889-1891 HIST: Encyclopedic Hist of the Church, Andrew Jensen, p 22, also Treasures of Pioneer History V2 p486, says almost the same thing, except "part of great Snake River Valley, in which nearly all inhabitants are farmers and stock raisers":

"Ammon Ward is an outgrowth of Iona...suggested by the Book of Mormon, honoring Ammon, son of King Mosiah and a great missionary to the Lamanites. As the Snake River Valley filled up with Latter-Day Saints, and a number of families located south of Iona, these were organized into a Branch of the Church 26 Nove 1889, called S Iona Branch, with Arthur M RAWSON as presiding Elder. This Branch was organized as a ward in 1891, with Arthur M RAWSON as Bishop..."

1889-1913 HIST: Treasures of Pioneer History v2 p486: The first public school building was log structure and used for church and school purposes. It was built on same property as marker (shown on same page) ...and where present church and shool buildings are located. The land where the RAWSON home was located is in private hands, so this marker was placed on church grounds where it could stay for all time. It says:
"This village, first called South Iona, was settled by Latter-day Saints. A branch of the church was org Nov 26 1889, with Arthur M Rawson as presiding Elder. Later he became Bishop. On 12 Feb 1893, the Ward was changed to Ammon, honoring the son of King Mosiah of the Book of Mormon history, a great missionary to the Lamanites. The first public building was made of logs and was erected on this site to serve as both church and school. The present brick meeting house was built in 1912-13"...Bonneville Co ID

1900-02 HIST: Heart Throbs of the West v8 pg 185-86:
"As people moved ever westward to seek new frontiers of trade, adventure and land, so did LDS become colonizers of other states beside Utah. In 1889 David Eccles and John Stoddard became interested in lumber business in N Powder OR, a thriving town on Old OR Trail between Baker and LaGrande. These 2 men org OR Lumber Co...mills were immediately built at N Powder, Pleasant Valley, Hood River, and Baker. Among the employees were LDS. The missionaries from San Diego CA, who labored in OR as early as 1851, began to seek out these saints and encourage them in church work.
In 1900 Charles W Nibley and George Stoddard purchases an 8,000 acre tract of land in the Grand Rhonde Valley...made a settlement on it....Arthur M Rawson was the first permanent settler. There were 9 LDS families located there when a townsite was surveyed and named "Nibley" in honor of Charles W. A frame building, a meeting house, was constructed in 1901. The branch was organized Mar 17, 1901. Samuel Southwick was president of the branch. When Union Stake was org pm 9 Jun 1901, William J. Rawson was chosen as bishop of Nibley Ward.
By 1902 Nibley was a thriving Mormon settlement and many more families moved in. Among these were the Rawsons, Sargents, Roundye, Dewell, Wm David Hanks, Joel H Orton, HJ Neilson, Reuben Hiatt, Francis Hiatt... Joe Lae GROW (??) ...and other families.
One of the early pioneers of Nibley used to say, "We were never lonely; we could laugh at anything because no tragedy came our way. Did the wind blow terrifically? Oh, es but we laughed at that too. Our social life was enjoyable. We knew it took us all to have a good dancing party, so we all came. The young folks of Cove and nearby towns, who were not of our faith, came to join in our social life. Mr. Marion L Carter, not a member of our church, was violinist and he also wrote a poem about our town. Then there Geo R Lyman with dancing feet and and happy heart, who also had a violin and Wm David Hanks at the piano, we had music fit for a king. Babies were parked on the bed almost under the heap of coats, plenty of food and fun."

Arthur married Margaret Angeline Pace 3 Feb 1859, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. Margaret (daughter of James Edward Pace and Lucinda Gibson Strickland) was born 14 Sep 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States; died 18 Feb 1929, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried Feb 1929, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1842 BIRTH: ILL,Hancock Co-Nauvoo: Margaret Angeline Pace was born 14 September 1842, daughter of Horace Stron Rawson and Elizabeth Coffin

1859 MARRIAGE: UT,Weber Co-Ogden: Arthur Morrison Rawson md Margaret Angeline Pace 3 February 1859

1900 CENSUS: ID,Bingham Co-Ammon: Anc Img 7-8, pg 17B, June 1900, Dw 301,305:
RAWSON, Margaret-head 57/Ill bn Sep 1842 (TN,SC)md 40yrs 11/12 children living,
own farm, home; Samantha-dau 16/UT bn Mar 1884
On same page is Cyrus L GROW-head 21/UT bn Mar 1874 (MO,Ind)md 1yr
herding sheep; Cecelia-wife20/UT bn Sep 1874 (Sweden,Sweden)md 1 yr
1/1 child living; Cyrus R-son 7mos-ID bn Jan 1900; Sophia ZETTING-m in law
60/Dnmk bn Jan 1840 (Dnmk,Dnmk)wid 5/7 children living [whp is this?]
Next page: 303,307: August ZETTING 28/UT bn Aug 1871 (Swed,Dnmk)
md 7yrs traveling salesman, renting; Susanna-wife 27/UT bn Oct 1872 (Eng,
IL)md 7yrs 3/3 children living; Charles F-son 6/UT bn Mar 1894 UT,UT);
John A-son 4/UT bn Jan 1896; Lucy S-dau 1/ID bn May 1899

1929 DEATH,BURIAL: UT,Weber-Ogden: Margaret Angeline Pace Rawson died 18 February 1929; buried Ogden City Cemetery

Family Group Sheet, Arthur Morrison Rawson family records, rep: Lucy Rawson Harmon, granddaughter, submitted by Lucy, page 143 of Rawson-Coffin Family Genealogy, copy of Pam Hallmark Wagner

Notes:

1799 BIR,1825 MG,1882 DTH,BUR: Fam Group Sheet, "Pers Living rcds Horace Strong Rawson & "Rawson Old Family Bible" Early Mormon History Handcart Co of 1847-1878, pg 5 of Rawson Genealogy Book, rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen, subd by self.
Rawson Family Memorials, Horace Strong Rawson rcd bk & Logan Temple sealing rcds Bk B C to pg 392 pg 207 Rawson Genealogies cc Pam Hallmark Wagner: Horace dd 12 Oct & endowed 22 Mar 1862. Ped Chart in same bk shows Horace dd Farr West, Utah. Shows earlier sealing for children - 16 Oct 1895.

1882 DTH: Obit-Daily Herald 14 Oct 1882:

Funeral Services over the remains of the late Patriarch Horace Strong Rawson were held at the fam res Thursday afternoon, 12 Oct 1882. The services were conducted by Bishop N C Flygare. Aft opening hymn, Patriarch Samuel Eggleston engaged in prayer. The assembly, which was very large, was addressed by President D H Perry. Elders Joseph Hall, Lorin Farr, S Eggleston & Bishop Flygare, all of whom have been acquainted with the
deceased for many yrs, some for a qtr of a century & one, Elder Lorin Farr had known him for 40 yrs.
Father Rawson was one of the earliest recipients of the Gospel as revealed to the Prophet, having embraced it in 1831, & was identified with much of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He bore an excellent charactor for honesty & uprightness. His faith was unimpeachable. His last words to his family were "Hold fast to these glorious principles of truth".

NOTES: "A SHORT SKETCH OR BIOG OF HORACE STRONG RAWSON," by himself in his own handwriting, no date, finished by Wm J Rawson. See Bk of Rem pg 7-Pam B Wagner. Also included is a talk given by Horace at a fam reunion in Ogden, blessings given by him to his children, & baptisms & sealings done at the Endowment House in SLC. Here are the highlights of his story:
Nothing very particular transpired in my childhood, only what is common until War of 1812 with Gr Britain. In 1813 the British came over Niagra Rvr & burned Buffalo City & sev other towns & drive the inhabitants off the frontiers, my Fthr & his fam with the rest, but they again returned & in 1819 my Father & his fam moved by water down the Allegany Rvr to Pittsburg, then down Ohio Rvr to the Falls, just below Cincinnati.
Father: Baptist preacher dd 17 Sep 1824 WA Co Ind-54, leaving my mthr with 6 children, Horace to help mother. Mother: dd 16 May 1825, 35 yrs old, WA Co, Ind-Horace to care for children till grown.
9 Oct 1925, married and moved to Randolph Co, Ind, bought a qtr section of land-nice farm.
1831: baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Levi W Hancock, confirmed by Zebede Coultrin. Bore testimony to congregation.
Moved to Jackson Co, MO with Saints, ordained a teacher by Wheeler Baldwin, Br Pres. Mobs hurt & destroyed-saints began to fight back some. "Limon Wite", captain of militia, turned sword over to Co. Boggs, & everyone ordered to lay guns down on Temple lot in Jackson Co. Saints left Jackson Co, some moving to Lafayette Co, Easton & found friends.
Spring 1834 moved to Clay Co, MO & people friendly till Joseph arrived, then hostilities began again. Saints protected by Lord when mobs came in night-hail storm destroyed their arms.
1836: Heard Joseph speak first time. Church moved to Caldwell Co & settled down until 1838, was commenced again. 8000 men called against Farr West & "Diamon". Prophet betrayed by Hinckel. Boggs issued extermination orders. Joseph & followers to be shot, but Gen Donophen frustrated this by not having anything to do with.
1837: (Says 1857) Moved to Nauvoo, Ill. Says 1845, driven to Nauvoo (confusing), houses burned.
1841: Ordained an Elder by Charles Rich & Simeon Carter. 1842, moved to Lima, where ordained a High Priest by Isaac Morley, Br Pr, serving on the High Council & preside over HP Quorum. The Prophet was martyred.
1846: Forced to leave Nauvoo & cross the desert, stopping at Council Bluffs, where 500 men, including Horace's oldest son, Daniel, marched to help US fight Mexicans.
1850: Moved to Odgen City, re-baptized by Elder Glasgo at organization of the branch, again on the High Council & elected selectman for city council.
1855: moved to Farmington, presiding over HP.
1856: moved to Payson by Brigham Young. (Driven from our homes 5 times in 27 years) Church grew from 6 to over 100,000 in 1859. Organized into a terr gov, with Brigham Young as governor. 1857: Army of 13,000 men sent by US to oppose saints agn. Signed by H.S.Rawson & appears to be in his hand, written in fam rcd bk in the hands of William J Rawson, Murray UT.

1799 BIR, 1825 MG, 1882 DTH: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p 1121:
Horace Strong RAWSON, son of Daniel Rawson and Polly Strong of NY, bn 15 Jul 1799, Oneida Co NY. Came to UT 16 Oct 1850, Wilford Woodruff Company.
Md Elizabeth Coffin 9 Oct 1825, who was bn 1807. Children: Mary Ann Olive bn 8 Oct 1826 m John Garner; Daniel Berry bn 16 Dec 1827 m Nancy Boss; Samantha Priscilla bn 26 Apr 1830 m Chas Hancock; Wm Coffin bn 13 Jan 1832 m Eliza Jane Cheney; Oriah bn 15 Mar 1834 dd young; Sariah bn 15 Mar 1834 m James Owens; Chloe Ann bn 15 Aug 1836 m CB Hancock; Caleb Linsey bn 5 Mar 1839, dd young; Arthur Morrison bn 17 Jun 1840 m Margret Pace; Sariah Urinda bn 8 Feb 1844 m Orvil R Child; Cyrus bn 15 Jun 1846 m Mary Dixon; Horace Franklin bn 9 Oct 1848 m Malinda Hancock; Elizabeth bn 21 Aug 1853 m Myron Butler. Family home in Ogden Utah.
Member of the High Council of Weber Stake. Weber Co selectman; member Ogden City Council, Justice of Peace 7 years. Died 10 Oct 1882

Horace married Elizabeth Coffin 9 Oct 1825, Washington, Indiana, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of William Coffin and Mary Duncan) was born 18 Oct 1807, Montgomery, Virginia, United States; died 21 Apr 1890, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried Apr 1890, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1807 BIRTH: VA,Montgomery Co: Elizabeth Coffin born 18 October 1807, dau of William Coffin and Mary Duncan

1825 MARRIAGE: IND,Washington Co: Horace Strong Rawson md Elizabeth Coffin 9 October 1825

1890 DEATH,BURIAL: UT,Weber Co-Ogden: Elizabeth Coffin Rawson died 21 April 1890; buried Ogden

"NE Hist. Gen Reg Vol 35-376, Vol 24 pg 149 & Amer Quaker Gen by Hinshaw, Vol 1 pg 778, Rep: Mary Estella Rawson Christensen, subm by self pg 219 of Rawson Gen-cc Pam Hallmark Wagner. This page shows Elizabeth bn 18 Oct, dd 27 April, endowed 22 Mar 1862.
LDS Fam Hist Suite 2, computer software: Elizabeth Coffin bn 18 Oct 1807-Montgomery VA, Md Horace Strong RAWSON 9 Oct 1825; dd 21 Apr 1890. ORD: Bapt 1832, Temple bapt 27 May 1964-SLAKE; E: 3 Feb 1846 NAVOO; SS 27 Sep 1852, 22 Mar 1862; SP 10 Jan 1962 IFALL



NOTES: On page 219, a note was written by "Lois" ?, which said she put ? aft fam names & added last two children-more research to be done on this family. Right clues not found at that time after 10-15 yrs search.

Notes:

1811 BIRTH: TN,Putnam Co-Double Tree: James Edward Pace born 15 June 1811, son of James Pace and Mary Ann Loving [IGI, using PAF Insight 27 July 2004 [I had found Rutherford Co, but it was further west] to ck out

MARRIAGE:

1888 DEATH: AZ,Pima-Thatcher: James Edward Pace died 6 Aug 1888 [today, Graham Co - 1888, it was still Pima Co re Map Guide to US Federal Census 1790-1920 by Wm Dollarhide]

James married Lucinda Gibson Strickland 21 Mar 1831. Lucinda was born 16 Jun 1805, Abbeyville District, South Carolina; died 11 Mar 1898, Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1805 BIRTH: SC-Abbeyville: Lucinda Gibson Strickland was born 16 June 1805, dau of Warren Gibson Strickland and Mary Anderson [re PAF Insight 27 July 2004-to check] Says Stricklin for last name on large pedigree chart by Fred Grow in Rawson-Coffin Gen book, copy in possession of Pam Wagner.

1831 MARRIAGE: James Edward Pace md Lucinda Gibson Strickland 21 Mar 1831 [no place shown]
[IGI Search on PAF Sight 27 July 2004: md Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co, TN-ck out]

1897-98 DEATH: UT,Washington Co-Washington [sev places show St George]: Lucinda Gibson Strickland died 11 March 1898 [or Mar 1897 by IGI search on PAF Insight 27 July 2004]