MARY LOWRY ~ CHIEF WALKARA'S CHOIC FOR LIFE ~~~ (from our archives)

 

Although there are other photographs claiming to be of Chief Walker,

 this is said to be the only one that is positively documented as him. 

On March 13, 1850, Manti Bishop Isaac Morley baptized Walkara. Membership in the LDS Church, however, did not change Walkara's basic nature. He traded on the membership when it was convenient. His ties to the church, he concluded, entitled him to two things - priesthood "medicine" and a white wife. Several years passed before Walkara and three other Indians were ordained elders in the church priesthood organization.

He was not so successful in obtaining a white wife. At one juncture, he decided that Bishop Lowry's daughter, Mary, was a good choice. He dressed to the nines and went to the Lowry home when he thought Mary would be alone and placed a blanket, some moccasins, a beaded headband and other items on the table, followed by a crude proposal. He offered her furs and cowhides with hoofs and long horns - even a "white man's teepee."

Terrified of antagonizing the chief, Mary blurted that she was promised to another man. The name that came to mind was her brother-in-law, "Judge Peacock," who had married her twin sister. Walkara, according to several accounts, plunged his knife hilt-deep into a table and said he would take the matter to Brigham Young.

Young, in fact, promised Walkara that if Mary "is not already married, you may have her." Young knew what the chief did not - that Mary and her brother-in-law had rushed to Nephi immediately and wed. With polygamy in full sway, it was a logical solution to the problem.


The Walker War ended through an understanding personally negotiated between Young and Walkara during the winter of 1853 and finalized in May 1854 in Levan, near Nephi, Utah. In his contemporary work Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West (1857), photographer and artist Solomon N. Carvalho gives an account of the peace council held between Walkara, other native leaders in central Utah, and Brigham Young. Carvalho took the opportunity to persuade the Indian leader to pose for a portrait, now held by the Thomas Gilcrease Institute, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although immediate hostilities ended, none of the underlying conflicts were resolved. Walkara died in 1855 at Meadow Creek, Utah.

At his funeral, fifteen horses, two wives, and two children were killed and buried along with him.

Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkara#CITEREFBailey1954

Mary Artimesia Lowry Peacock
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Birth:  Mar. 14, 1834 Liberty Clay County Missouri, USA Death:  Apr. 17, 1910 Sterling Sanpete County Utah, USA OBITUARY: The Manti Messenger, Friday 22 April 1910: Death of Mary L. Peacock. Mary Lowry Peacock wife of late Judge George Peacock died in Sterling Sunday after an illness of several weeks, at the home of her son John L. Peacock. She was one of the oldest settlers in that place and was the mother of ten children. She was a sister of John Lowry, a Manti pioneer now a resident of Springville. She was born in Missouri in November 1834 and came to Utah with her parents in 184?. The funeral was held from the Manti Tabernacle Wednesday and a large crowd of friends and relatives attended. Family links:  Parents:   John Lowry (1799 - 1867)   Mary Wilcox Lowry (1802 - 1859)  Spouse:   George Peacock (1822 - 1878)*  Children:   Daniel Movell Peacock (____ - 1895)*   John Lowry Peacock (1855 - 1918)*   George Peacock (1857 - 1909)*   Brigham James Peacock (1858 - 1920)*   Susan Lucretia Peacock Richards (1861 - 1961)*   Clarence Abner Peacock (1864 - 1918)*   Rosabella Peacock (1866 - 1867)*   Ariel Aroldo Peacock (1870 - 1910)*   Delroy Lynn Peacock (1874 - 1933)*   Mary Luella Peacock Tennant (1879 - 1902)*  Siblings:   Sarah C. Lowry Peacock (1820 - 1892)**   James Hazard Lowry (1825 - 1913)*   Hyrum Madison Lowry (1827 - 1847)*   John Lowry (1829 - 1915)*   Abner Lowry (1831 - 1900)*   Susan Lucretia Lowry Petty (1834 - 1859)*   Mary Artimesia Lowry Peacock (1834 - 1910)   George Moroni Lowry (1836 - 1865)*   Sarah Jane Lowry Higgins (1839 - 1875)*   Elizabeth Eunice Lowry (1841 - 1846)*   William Mahonri Lowry (1844 - 1846)*   William Alexander Lowry (1854 - 1854)** *Calculated relationship **Half-sibling Burial: Manti Cemetery Manti Sanpete County Utah, USA Plot: Lot 12 Block 14 Plat B Maintained by: Scott Keele Originally Created by: vaunamri Record added: Mar 18, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34944943	Added by: Cathy Peacock Added by: Dawnetta Cemetery Photo Added by: Beeswax   Photos may be scaled. Click on image for full size. - vaunamri  Added: Apr. 22, 2011

L.D.S. SEMINARY 1892

 

LARS CHRISTIAN LARSEN DOMGAARD AND METTE KIRSTINE CHRISTENSDATTER ~~~(from our archives)

 

 

HAMILTON SIXTH GRADE 1948 ~ Marsden Allred Teacher

 

 

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

 

CARRIE HAFEN BECOMES A LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE

 

NAUVOO TEMPLE 1846

 After the extermination order was issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, the Latter-day Saints were forced from their Missouri homes in the winter of 1838-39. After spending the remainder of the winter in Quincy, the Saints settled on the bank of the Mississippi in Commerce, Illinois.

Joseph described Commerce as “so unhealthful, very few could live there; but believing that it might become a healthful place by the blessing of heaven to the Saints, and no more eligible place presenting itself, I considered it wisdom to make an attempt to build up a city.”¹The name Nauvoo means “beautiful situation.”

The reconstructed Nauvoo Temple.
Photo courtesy of Derek J. Tangren

After Nauvoo began to be constructed, the Lord again commanded the Saints to begin building a temple in January 1841.² Daniel H. Wells, who at the time was not a church member, donated the site on which the temple originally stood.³  Wells later joined the Church and became a counselor to President Brigham Young in the First Presidency.

The Saints were to “come ye, with all [their] gold, and [their] silver, and [their] precious stones, and with all [their] antiquities; and with all who have knowledge of antiquities, that will come, may come, and bring the box-tree, and the fir-tree, and the pine-tree, together with all the precious trees of the earth; and with iron, with copper, and with brass, and with zinc, and with all [their] precious things of the earth; and build a house to my name, for the Most High to dwell therein.”⁴

The temple was built through the members' tithes of time and money. The temple building inspired some of the women in Nauvoo to organize a society to help support its construction. The organization was officially formed as the Relief Society in March 1842.

Brigham Young spoke of the necessity to complete the temple when he said, “If we do not carry out the plan Joseph has laid down and the pattern he has given for us to work by, we cannot get any further endowment—I want this to sink deep into your hearts that you may remember it…We want to build the Temple in this place, if we have to build it as the Jews built the walls of the Temple in Jerusalem, with a sword in one hand and the trowel in the other.”7 On November 30, 1845, the attic of the temple was sufficiently completed to allow that portion to be dedicated and endowments were given in that area of the temple throughout the winter of 1845-46.8 The entire temple was dedicated privately by Joseph Young on April 30, 1846, and publicly by Orson Hyde the following day.9 However, most Saints living in Nauvoo had gone west by this time. Melted glass from original Nauvoo Temple. Photo (2004) by Kenneth Mays. The temple was the target of arson on October 9, 1948, the fire allegedly being started by Joseph B. Agnew. Afterward, a tornado came through Nauvoo and knocked down one of the walls. The remaining walls were dismantled for safety reasons and the stones were used to construct other buildings in Nauvoo. The Nauvoo Temple under construction. Photo by Kenneth Mays. In the General Conference of April 1999, President Gordon B. Hinckley announced that the Nauvoo Temple would be rebuilt. Peter and I were happy to be able to go to Nauvoo when the new temple was being built.    Our nephew, Terry Hafen was there and was the crane operator.  His wife Sherry was also  visiting.  We were able to go inside through a tunnel on the east side.  The floors and  windows were all complete.  We haven't gone back since. Everyone knew Terry as the crane operator.  He took us everywhere; the graveyard, and also the school across the river.

ORANGE SEELY HOME ~~~ As Recalled by Sarah Rasmussen Anderson

 

Orange Seely Home In Mt. Pleasant   ~~~ by Sarah Rasmussen Anderson 

I was raised in the Orange Seely Home in Mt. Pleasant.Uncle Orange built the house.  It was located at the corner of 5th West and Main Street.The walls were 2 feet thick, and the rooms 20 by 20ft. When Uncle Orange moved over to Castle Dale, he sold the home to his parents J. W. Seely and Clarissa Jane Wilcox Seely who lived in a log cabin with a thatched roof.

After J. W. died, his wife Clarissa Jane needed someone to help her and so my grandma, Miranda Seely Peel Oman, who was her daughter, went to live with her as my grandfather Chris Peel had also died.

Grandma took care of her mother for eight years, and when Clarissa Jane died, the brothers and sisters all voted for the house to go to her (Miranda), as she was a widow and needed a place to live.  Then when my grandmother got older, she asked my mother (Jennie Peel Rasmussen) to move in to be with her in her later years. But my mother was killed in a car accident, so that changed things and Uncle Fred Peel got the house.

In due time, Fred found it necessary to sell the house, and some time after that the new owners razed it to make room for a commercial establishment. 

My uncle Azel Peel told me how he shed tears every day when he'd pass by and see how that well-built home had been destroyed.  And I have cried many times because that was my home too.  The big locust tree that grew by the home was a seedling brought across the plains and planted there.  It was destroyed and cut down.  Some townspeople begged the owners not to cut the tree down as it was a landmark, but they did anyway.  

Taken from "A legacy of Love" Justice Azel Seelye Family Organization ~ February 1995