Arthur Morrison Rawson

1840 - 1923  (82 years)

• Name	Arthur Morrison Rawson
  Born	17 Jun 1840	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Feb 1923	Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
  Died	28 Feb 1923	Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
  Person ID	I1929	Wagner-Thomas | Hallmark
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	Horace Strong Rawson,   b. 15 Jul 1799, Scipio, Onieda, New York ,   d. 10 Oct 1882, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Coffin,   b. 18 Oct 1807, Montgomery, Virginia, United States ,   d. 21 Apr 1890, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 82 years)
  Married	9 Oct 1825	Washington, Indiana, United States
  Family ID	F659	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Angeline Pace,   b. 14 Sep 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States ,   d. 18 Feb 1929, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 86 years)
  Married	3 Feb 1859	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Lucinda Elizabeth Rawson,   b. 9 Mar 1860, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States ,   d. 6 Nov 1941, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States  (Age 81 years) + 2. Amanda Jane Rawson,   b. 14 Oct 1861, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 13 Feb 1947, Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States  (Age 85 years) + 3. Margaret Ann Rawson,   b. 20 Jan 1864, Harmony, Utah, Utah ,   d. 3 Aug 1954, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 90 years) + 4. Martha Amelia Rawson,   b. 4 Apr 1866, Harmony, Utah, Utah ,   d. 16 Apr 1900, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 34 years)   5. Arthur Franklin Rawson,   b. 7 Apr 1869, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 26 Mar 1874  (Age 4 years) + 6. Dora May Rawson,   b. 14 Jun 1871, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 10 Oct 1936, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States  (Age 65 years) + 7. William John Rawson,   b. 21 Aug 1873, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 17 May 1958, Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  (Age 84 years) + 8. Mary Luetta Rawson,   b. 10 Aug 1875, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 1 May 1965, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States  (Age 89 years)   9. Horace Edward Rawson,   b. 25 Apr 1877, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 30 Oct 1946, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 69 years)   10. James Daniel Rawson,   b. 3 Feb 1879, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 14 Aug 1959, Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  (Age 80 years)   11. Laura Rawson,   b. 26 Jul 1882, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 6 Jan 1958, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 75 years)   12. Samantha Priscilla Rawson,   b. 30 Mar 1884, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States ,   d. 7 Apr 1958, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 17 Jun 1840 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Married - 3 Feb 1859 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Buried - Feb 1923 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States Died - 28 Feb 1923 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• Sources

  [S340] Internet: International Genealogical Index, 0445110. Margaret Angeline Pace; Spouse: Arthur Morrison Rawson; Marriage: 03 FEB 1857 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church; Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Jul 2004