Charles Washington Averett and Elizabeth Coates

MOUNTAINVILLE The Round Hills or Round Knolls as they have been known since the first settlers homesteaded in the vicinity of the five small round hills, are situated just to the southeast of thc, center of the valley between Mt. Pleasant and Fairview. The hills are chiefly gravel formation covered with brush and cedars. The little farming community to the east and north of these very distinctive hills took its name from them. Later the name of Mountainville was given to the small community. As far as has been determined, Washington Averett and his wife Elizabeth Coates were the first to homestead in this community. Their homestead lay directly east of the Round Hills. It is not known the exact year he took up the land, but it has been ascertained that it was before 1877. He built a home that was located, close to where Doug and Julie Shelley now live. Charles Washington Averett was a farmer and lumberman, son of Juththan and Polly, was born in Perry County, Alabama, July 13, 1836. In 1852 the family came to Utah and located in Salt Lake City. In 1860 they removed to Springville, where Charles assisted in constructing a threshing machine, which he ran there; and in the fall of 1861 he brought it to Mt. Pleasant. He served in the Black Hawk war and was in many skirmishes. His first wife was Elizabeth Coates, daughter of Joseph and Ann Dutton Coates and niece to John and Sarah Higginbotham Coates. They were married February 24, 1862 and had nine children: Charles W., William, John, Frank, James, Annie, Mary, Emma and Delia. His wife died April 25 o 1891 and he was married again October 1, 1891 to Emily Seeley Coates, a widow of George Coates who was his first wife's brother. Emily was a daughter of William and Elizabeth Seeley, born in Nashville, Iowa. (History of Sanpete and Emery Counties) Jacob Christensen bought Washington Averett's land and built an adobe house down at the northeast corner of the hills for his first wife, Inger Kristine Thomsen. His second wife, Ingerborg Anderson, lived in the house built by Mr. Averett up by the choke cherries.

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