Isaac Chauncey Haight and Eliza Ann Price

Isaac Chauncey Haight and Eliza Ann Price

Taken from Sheppard Family History compiled by Linda Cranney and Susan Fredrickson

Isaac Chauncey Haight was born on May 27, 1813, in Windham, Green County, New York. He was the son of Caleb and Keturah Horton Haight, the sixth child out of eight according to an Ancestral File group sheet. Isaac was described in a history DeVaun wrote about him as being 5 feet 10-1/2 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, having a dark complexion with black hair, having quick perception and being a good organizer and fine military man with an endur¬ing and nervous temperament. Isaac’s father Caleb was a farmer, and Isaac attended school in the winter and helped his father and brothers on the farm in the summer. He wrote that he had a “bouyant spirit” and “did good in all the gay amusement of the circle in which I was brought up.”

When he turned 18 years old, he became a zealous convert to the Baptist church and even prepared to go to Burma to preach to the heathen. He later decided that this desire “grew out of my passions being excited by reading the stirring missionary appeals for young men to go to convert the heathen,” and he wanted nothing to do with those who preached for hire.

The winter that he was 21 years old, he developed pleurisy. His health was so affected that he could not labor on the farm the next summer so continued on with school in preparation for teaching. When he was 23, he married Eliza Ann Snider of Moravia, Cayuga County, New York, on December 31, 1836. He taught school that win¬ter, and then the couple moved in with Isaac’s father and helped work the farm. Their first child, Caroline, was born in December 1837 in Moravia.

Being of a religious bent of mind, Isaac had reflected on the situation with the Christian churches and in his studies decided they had become corrupted. In this frame of mind in the winter of 1838, he heard Elder Pelatiah Brown bear his testimony that “God had set up His kingdom and had again called men by revelation to preach the Gospel of Christ.” The spirit bore testimony to Isaac of this truth. After further study, he became convinced that the gospel had been restored. On March 3, 1839, Isaac and Eliza Ann “were buried in the waters of baptism for the remission of sins, much to the mortification of our friends.” The weather was so cold that their clothes froze to their bodies, but their hearts were “warm with the spirit of God.” After walk¬ing a quarter mile to change their clothes, they were confirmed, and Elder Brown immedi¬ately ordained Isaac an elder. Isaac wrote how he felt his weakness, coming from his sectarian background, to immediately preach the restored gospel. Elder Brown continued his mission. It was two years before Isaac gained enough confi¬dence to speak in public, but in the meantime, “I never failed to bear testimony to the truth on all occasions in private circles. . .” Many of Isaac’s friends tried to convince him of his “errors,” and the leadership of the Baptist Church tried to reclaim him. He gladly answered their charges as an opportunity to preach the restored gospel. He was eventually cut off from the Baptist church for heresy. Elder Brown returned in the spring 1841, and together he and Isaac built up a branch of 40 members, among whom were Isaac’s parents, a brother and two sisters (probably Julia, David and Catherine). Isaac was called to preside over the branch there. The next winter he went on a mission to Green County, his birthplace, for three months and had the pleasure of baptizing his cousin, Mr. Carbine. On his return, he felt it was time to gather to Nauvoo and began preparations to leave.

On June 7, 1842, Isaac, Eliza and five-year-old Caroline started for Nauvoo in a company with nine wagons. The heavily loaded wagons slowed progress, and Isaac was persuaded to take charge of the company’s goods and travel with them by water. He left Eliza and Carolina to travel with the company and had a lonesome trip by canal and river to Nauvoo, arriving July 5. His family and the rest of the company arrived on July 24. They stayed in someone else’s home. In August, Isaac was seriously ill with a fever for five weeks. Eliza was ill for two weeks as well, but they finally recovered. They moved into their own house in October of that year.

In June 1843, Isaac left Eliza and Caroline for a mission to Washingtonville, Orange County, New York, a town about 50 miles northeast of New York City. On the way he visited his brother, Hector Caleb, somewhere a few miles from Freeport, Illinois. When and why Hector came out to Illinois we do not know, but Isaac found him “much prejudiced against the people called Mormons, knowing nothing but hear-say about them,” according to Isaac’s journal. After hearing Isaac’s teaching about the gospel, Hector’s prejudice softened, and he wanted Isaac to preach to the neighbor¬hood. Isaac stayed almost a month to preach, and then proceeded on to New York. Hector eventually was baptized and moved to Nauvoo. Hector Caleb is an ancestor to Elder David B. Haight, the apostle, thus making Elder Haight DeVaun’s third cousin. The Ancestral File lists Hector’s baptism date as November 27, 1834, but that is not consistent with Isaac’s comments in his journal or the fact that Isaac had not heard of the gospel until 1838 even though he apparently lived near Hector before then. It would be strange that if Hector was baptized in 1834 he would not have shared this with Isaac.

On his mission, Isaac visited his and Eliza’s parents. He arranged for his par-ents to travel back to Nauvoo to join the Saints, Isaac going with them on his way home from his mission. Keturah, Isaac’s mother, was quite feeble and traveled by boat and was cared for by her niece and son. When they arrived in Nauvoo, they went to Isaac’s home. Isaac and the rest of the company came by wagons and arrived ten days later. Less than a month after her arrival in Nauvoo, Keturah died on November 18, 1843.

In December 1843, Isaac was chosen to be one of forty trusted men to be ap-pointed special police to watch over Nauvoo and guard the safety of Joseph Smith. John D. Lee and William and James Pace were also members of this group. In early spring 1844 the guard was dismissed as Joseph felt he could guard himself. Isaac was a member of the Nauvoo Legion and involved in the defense of Nauvoo. He was one of the twenty close friends of the Prophet who were chosen to accompany him to Carthage. Within four miles of Carthage, the party was met by the governor of Illinois, and they were forced to return to Nauvoo to deliver the arms of the Nauvoo Legion over to the Governor’s officers. About 2 a.m., June 28, while Isaac C. Haight was guard¬ing the Nauvoo Temple, he was the first to be told of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum when George Grant brought this message to Nauvoo.

Three months later, on September 13, 1844, another daughter was born to Isaac and Eliza, Temperance Keturah. In October 1845 Isaac was appointed to go to New York to do some business for members of the church and himself. While en route, both coming and going, he again visited his and Eliza Ann’s families. On December 14 he returned to find his family well after his traveling more than four thousand miles in two months. Just five days later on December 19, 1845, Isaac and Eliza received their endowments. On the same day Isaac’s father, Caleb, his brother Hector and Hector’s wife Julia and his sister Julia and her husband William Van Orden all also received their endowments. Isaac recorded, “My soul rejoices in the things of the kingdom. Well might David say that one day in the House of My God was worth a thousand.”

In the planning of the exodus from Nauvoo, Isaac C Haight was appointed a captain of ten and ordered to get his company over the river. He was also a guard at the temple, and on February 10, 1846, the temple caught fire from the stove fittings in the roof, and the fire was extinguished with much difficulty. On February 11, Isaac became ill and could not lead his company across the river. Isaac was appointed to assist those having problems disposing of their property in order to go west, and his work was done under dangerous conditions among the mob violence. On April 11, 1846, he watched several families cross the river and wished he could also leave, recording the following: “I have but little prospect of getting away very soon as we have no chance to sell our land. My mind is filled with great anxiety about getting away, but my trust is in the Lord that he will open the way for us to get away from this wicked nation stained with the blood of the prophet.” Isaac, Eliza, their two daughters and Isaac’s father left for the west a couple of months later, crossing the Mississippi on June 2, 1846. On June 6, the delayed companies chose Isaac C. Haight to lead them across Iowa. They arrived near Council Bluffs on July 12, 1846. On July 13, 1846, Isaac attended the recruiting meeting for the Mormon Battalion. Isaac volunteered, but he was not chosen because Brigham Young wanted his service to build homes and care for the needs of the wives and children of the men who went into the Army. He was ap¬pointed one of the bishops in Winter Quarters and also as a policeman. He also helped lay out the city of Winter Quarters.

His family was living in a covered wagon, and Eliza and Keturah became dan-ger¬ously ill during September. By November, Isaac moved his family into a house and on November 19, 1846, a son, Isaac Chauncey, was born; however, the baby died on December 2. During the winter, Isaac held many positions of responsibility in dealing with the challenges of meeting the needs of the community and planning for the trip west in the spring.

On June 13, 1847, Isaac and his family left Winter Quarters. Isaac was captain over the first ten wagons in the Daniel Spencer unit of a hundred wagons. The journey across the plains and over the mountains was hard but uneventful until September 16 when his wagon broke on the last steep climb. The repairs delayed them, but they ar¬rived at the fort in Salt Lake on September 22, 1847, “our cattle worn out and all of us tired of traveling.” By the end of October, Isaac move his family into a home he had helped build.

The next summer on June 5, 1848, another son was born to them, David Snyder Haight. In August of 1848 Isaac was involved in a rescue party to help some of the Saints coming to Utah. On May 16, 1849, Isaac took as a second wife Mary Murry the widow of William Murry. In November 1849, Isaac was appointed to be a member of the Southern Exploring Company, a party of fifty under the leadership of Parley P. Pratt which was to explore the area which became Southern Utah. They left the end of November and returned the beginning of February 1850, having endured dangerous conditions due to the wind, snow and Indians. Isaac wrote that two days after his re¬turn, on February 4, 1850, “I was called to take my seat in the General Assembly, the State of Deseret, as a member of the House of Representatives.”

On April 6, 1850, Isaac was called to go on a mission to England with five others. Isaac thought this hard after the difficult winter he had spent but was willing to go for the Gospel’s sake. He left on April 19, 1850, just over two weeks before another daugh¬ter was born to Eliza Ann on May 5, 1850. On the way to New York City, he went by way of his family home and spent about a week visiting with his sisters and the mother and sister of Eliza Ann. He met his companions in New York City, and together they sailed for England on August 10 on board the Lady Franklin, arriving in Liverpool dur¬ing the night of September 11. According to information in the Ancestral File, by the time Isaac arrived in Liverpool, his second wife Mary had born him a son, Isaac, born sometime before August 1850.

During his mission, Elder Haight was assigned to labor as a traveling Elder in the Birmingham Conference and later presided over the Cheltenham Conference. He left Liverpool February 10, 1852, on the ship Ellen Marie, being in charge of 369 immi¬grating Saints. The ship arrived in New Orleans on April 6, 1852, and Isaac accom¬panied the group to Salt Lake, after which he returned to England to finish his mission. Isaac was released from his mission on January 8, 1853, after having made many con¬verts. He was entrusted with over $36,000 in gold English coins to buy provisions for a large group of Saints immigrating to Utah. He arrived in New York City on January 24, 1853, exchanged the gold for U.S. currency and began his purchases. After obtain¬ing the extensive supplies needed for the needs of a thousand emigrants to cross the plains, he gathered everything at Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi north of St. Louis. The company of Saints began arriving in St. Louis on April 30, 1853. After all were assembled and preparations made, the companies left Keokuk on June 20 and 21, 1853. Returning missionaries were company captains under Isaac. Isaac arrived home in Salt Lake on August 29 and found all well with his family. He met each of his companies as they came into the valley, helped them to get settled and accounted to them and to Brigham Young to the penny for the money entrusted to him.

Just a little over a month after his return from his mission, Isaac was appointed by Brigham Young on October 8, 1853, to move to Iron County to take charge of the iron works. “I had much rather have stayed here but am willing to obey the counsel of my Brethren.” The Southern Exploring Company, of which Isaac had been a member, had found large deposits of iron ore near where they had camped. The Iron Mission had been established under the leadership of George A. Smith in 1851 at Parowan and at what became Cedar City while Isaac was in England. Erastus Snow had studied the iron foundry business in England while on a mission and raised money among English and Welsh Saints. He and Franklin Richards invested the money in what became the Deseret Iron Company. Newly arrived converts who had appropriate skills in mining, smelting and casting iron were encouraged to settle in Cedar City. Many of those who were in Isaac’s company that he led across the plains had these skills and were chosen to help in the iron works.

Just over a week after his call to go south, on October 16, 1853, Isaac married two more wives, Eliza Ann Price and Annabella Sinclair MacFarlane, apparently on the advice of Brigham Young. Annabella was 41 years old, was born in Scotland and had apparently come to Utah with her parents and several of her siblings. Her first hus¬band had died in Scotland in 1846, and she had three children ages six to ten. Eliza Ann Price was born in England and was 20 years old. Isaac had met Eliza Ann on his mission to England and probably Annabella as well. He was 40 years old at this time. Four days later, on October 20, 1853, Isaac, having settled his personal affairs, left Salt Lake City with his family to move to Cedar City.

We know very little about Eliza Ann Price other than what is on group sheets. She was born on May 13, 1833, in Kington, Hereford, England, which is very close to the border with Wales. Her parents were John and Mary Jane Johnson Price, and she was apparently the second or third of three daughters. DeVaun seemed to remember her mother (Hazel Haight) telling her that Hazel’s grandmother (Eliza Ann Price) was supposed to have been a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of England before she emigrated to Utah. DeVaun remembered Hazel saying how proud Eliza Ann was and how Hazel remembered brushing her grandmother’s long, long hair. We do not know how accu¬rate the lady-in-waiting story is or if it has been embellished over the years, but we know that Eliza Ann was baptized in May 1850 at age 17. She met Isaac while he was on his mission to England and probably immigrated with Isaac’s company of English saints. There is no information on our group sheets to suggest that any of her imme¬diate family joined the church or came with her to Utah. In any event, at age 20 she began her married life as one of two new wives to Isaac Chauncey Haight, and four days later the family moved to Cedar City.

Isaac and his family arrived in Cedar City on November 1, 1853. The weather was bitterly cold. On the journey south, Eliza Ann had been run over by a wagon and was seriously hurt. Fortunately, she fully recovered. Isaac began building a home and taking over as manager of Deseret Iron Company. The home was large enough to house all his wives and children. Reportedly, the wives all got along very well and were good friends their entire lives, as were the children. Isaac was elected mayor of Cedar City on December 5, 1853, at 40 years of age. The iron business did not go well. The furnace was rebuilt four times in the next year due to the difficulty in finding ma¬te¬rials able to withstand the heat necessary for smelting. In the meantime Isaac had been made a high councilor. In 1854, Isaac became the first postmaster for Cedar City. In March 1855, Isaac was re-elected mayor for two years. At the same time, some suc¬cess in iron production was finally realized. In May 1855, Brigham Young came down to visit and organized a stake covering Cedar City, Harmony and other southern Utah settlements. Isaac was chosen to be stake president. Brigham Young commended him for what they had been able to accomplish with the iron works in spite of difficult cir¬cumstances. In August 1855, Isaac was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly which met in Fillmore from December 1855 to January 1856. He was also elected to represent Iron County in the writing of a constitution for the hoped for State of Deseret and traveled to Salt Lake City for this purpose in March 1856. Production problems in 1856 resulted in little iron produced. Isaac was again elected to the legislature, meeting in Salt Lake City. At these sessions, the members were required to repent and be re¬bap¬tized before any business was done. Much reformation was preached along with the business of the session. When Isaac returned to Cedar City in January 1857, he brought the zeal of this reformation with him to his stake.

In 1857 Isaac was involved in helping establish a settlement on the Rio Virgin which became the community of Washington for the purpose of growing cotton. In May, after traveling down with one of the first parties, he organized a ward and or-dained a bishop in his capacity as stake president. By this time in 1857, four more child¬ren had been born into the Haight family in Cedar City. Eliza Ann Snyder bore her last two children, both sons, in 1854 and 1856 with only the younger one surviving. Eliza Ann Price bore her first two children also in 1854 and 1856: Rosalie Jocosia on October 22, 1854, and Isaac Chauncey on October 21, 1856.

In the summer and fall of 1857, word reached the southern Utah settlements of the coming of an army to put down what was thought to be a Mormon rebellion. There were fiery sermons preaching of the need for preparation for defense of family and church. Martial law was declared, and the militia was called up and commanded to be prepared for anything. The Indians were recruited as possible allies against the “Gentiles.” The Saints and the leaders were determined not to be driven out again. The southern settlements in Utah were particularly sensitive to the threat because many Saints there had personal experience of the Missouri and Illinois persecutions. Isaac C. Haight was lieutenant colonel in the militia, second in command to Colonel William Dame, bishop of Parowan. It was common for church leaders to be civic and military leaders as well.

Into this charged atmosphere in August 1857 came an emigrant wagon train, apparently two trains joined together for protection, following the southern route to California. Many families in the train were from Arkansas, but there were some who called themselves Missouri Wildcats. They could not buy supplies easily as the people had been instructed to conserve their grain and resources against a coming war. In the course of their travel towards Cedar City, members of the train antagonized the Indians and made vile boasts of participating in past persecutions of the Mormons as well as threats of future actions. Wild stories and rumors surrounded the progress of the train until many felt something needed to be done to protect themselves from these threats. Isaac C. Haight was involved in the meetings and discussion as to what to do. A mes¬senger was sent to ask directions from Brigham Young, but the reply to let the train pass at all costs came too late. When Indians attacked the train at Mountain Meadows in early September and insisted on militia help, John D. Lee was called in as well as some of the militia. The end result was that orders were given and followed that re¬sulted in a tragic massacre in which only 18 small children survived. Who gave what orders and who was responsible for what was never completely established. It is cer¬tain that absolute obedience to orders of both church and military leaders was ex¬pected. Isaac Haight was not there when the massacre occurred but was involved in the passing on and receiving of orders. In the aftermath, all were horrified, a pact of secrecy was agreed upon and the Indians were blamed. No mention of the affair is mentioned in Isaac’s diary. After the message from Brigham Young was received, much effort was made to pacify the Indians and protect further trains passing through. Isaac was 44 years old at this time.

In the meantime, work at the iron works was suspended due to the priority of taking care of the harvest and the grain in preparation for possible war. Just a few months later, on January 24, 1858, Isaac was sealed to another wife, Elizabeth Summers, by Brigham Young in Salt Lake City. She was 33 years old and had been born in England. Isaac was involved in the legislature and helping to prepare the settlements for war. Isaac had an opportunity to discuss with Thomas L. Kane, with whom he was acquainted from Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, conditions in Utah before Colonel Kane went to try to intercede for the Mormons in Washington. Isaac was also instructed to ex¬plore the White Mountains for a place of refuge if the Saints needed to flee. The iron works began producing again for a time. With an agreement between Brigham Young and federal officials in June 1858, the threat of war was averted. There were some church inquiries into the massacre issue, but apparently whatever was privately said and chastisement received, no official acts were taken at that time.

In October 1858, Brigham Young advised Isaac to shut down the Deseret Iron Company. The assets were gradually liquidated and the remaining equipment was auctioned off in December 1861. In spring 1859, federal officials began to make in-quiries into the matter of the massacre, and Isaac and others went into hiding for a month during May 1859 until the judge and his associates left to return to Salt Lake. Isaac and the others were returning home when they stumbled at night into the camp of the very officials they were hoping to avoid. They were held until morning so that their horses could be checked to see if they were stolen, and then the group was re-leased. Isaac felt as if their enemies eyes had been blinded so as not to recognize them. In July 1859, Isaac requested that he be released as stake president because of his being hunted by “his enemies.” He had to go into hiding again later that same year.

Between 1858 and 1861, Eliza Ann Price bore three more daughters in Cedar City. Elizabeth Summers, the newest wife also bore three children in Cedar City, the last being born in 1862. Very few significant entries are made in Isaac’s diary in 1860-61 other than concerning some bad health he had, including an illness called “asiatic cholera.” The last entry of his diary concerned the marriage of Temperance Keturah Haight, his daughter by Eliza Ann Snyder, to Daniel Sinclair MacFarlane, his stepson by Annabella Sinclair, on February 12, 1862.

Isaac is reported to have been involved in the organization of a Female Benevolent Society in Cedar in 1862 and was a delegate to the legislature. However, as time went on, bits of evidence about the massacre would surface, and public opinion and federal investigation drove many identified participants into hiding. By 1863, Eliza Ann Price and her family had moved to Toquerville while Eliza Ann Snyder and Annabella apparently remained in Cedar City. Elizabeth Summers died in December 1863 in Cedar City, leaving her two surviving children behind. When Isaac essentially went into exile is not clear, but it was probably sometime between 1863 and 1870. His public life with his family essentially came to an end while he was in his 50’s because of the need to hide from federal officials and former friends and associates who had turned against him.

By 1870, the blame for the massacre seemed to crystallize around John D. Lee, for his part on the scene, and Isaac C. Haight, for not restraining him. This was a convenient consensus, and both men were formally excommunicated from the church on the same day, October 8, 1870. How much time Isaac was able to spend with his var¬i¬ous families we do not know. Isaac during his exile lived in Manassa, Colorado, in California and in Thatcher, Arizona, assuming his mother’s maiden name of Horton. He must have managed visits to Eliza Ann in Toquerville because five more children were born to them there between 1863 and 1872, two daughters and three sons, for a total of ten children, all of whom lived to maturity and all but one who married.

Isaac was apparently able to clear himself enough with the church leaders that he was rebaptized in March 1874 in St. George and had his blessings restored. He ap¬parently spent some time doing temple work in the St. George Temple at one point. We have very little information about what Isaac’s life was like in exile. Isaac wrote his son Isaac Chauncey Jr. in 1871 giving instructions on a trip to Manassa, Colorado, to visit him. Isaac Chauncey Haight died September 8, 1886, in Thatcher, Arizona. Ac¬cord¬ing to his son-in-law’s diary quoted in The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Isaac died from an “affection of the lungs,” and no family member was present. He was 74 years old, having been in hiding for much of the last two decades of his life.

Life was difficult for Eliza Ann Price Haight and her children in Toquerville during that time. She tried raising silk worms, but the silk industry venture was not successful. She also tried raising cotton without much success. In Eliza Ann’s bio-graphy in Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, the situation is described as follows:

“Their circumstances were extremely difficult for she had to provide for her family from raw materials, like clothes, soap, bread, vegetables raised from seed, wool carded and clothes made for winter. She also had to learn to get along with the Indians.”

In Isaac C. Haight Jr.’s obituary, the responsibility and hard work of his status as the oldest son of ten children with his father being away much of the time was de-scribed. He helped keep up the farm and provide for the family and as a result did not receive much formal schooling. It is probable that all the children needed to pitch in to take care of the needs of the farm and the family. Starting in 1874, the children started marrying and leaving home although not all married before Eliza Ann died. Isaac C. Haight, Jr. married Elizabeth Mary Kleinman who was also from Toquerville on February 25, 1880, when he was 24 years old. Eliza Ann died in Toquerville on March 4, 1911, at the age of 77.

A few thoughts about Mountain Meadows: On September 11, 1999, President Hinckley dedicated a new monument at Mountain Meadows in ceremonies involving descendants of both the wagon train and the Iron County Militia in an effort to con-tinue the healing process. The monument and improvements around it were built by the Church with the assistance of thousands of hours of donated labor from a thousand local members and friends. Following are some quotes from President Hinckley at the dedication:

“I sit in the chair that Brigham Young occupied as President of the Church at the time of the tragedy. I have read very much of the history of what occurred here. There is no question in my mind that he was opposed to what happened. Had there been a faster means of communication, it never would have happened and history would have been different. That which we have done here must never be construed as an acknow¬ledgement on the part of the Church of any complicity in the occurrences of that fateful and tragic day. But we have an obligation. We have a moral responsibility. We have a Christian duty to honor, respect and to do all feasible to remember and recognize those who died here.”

“This is not a time of recrimination or the assigning of blame. No one can ex-plain what happened in these meadows 142 years ago. We may speculate, but we do not know. We do not understand it. We cannot comprehend it. We can only say the past is long since gone. It cannot be recalled. It cannot be changed. It is time to leave

the entire matter in the hands of God who deals justly in all things. His is a wisdom far beyond our own.”

Sources: “History of Isaac C. Haight,” Tom Foley; excerpts from a copy of Isaac C. Haight’s journal; “Life History of Isaac Chauncey Haight: My Great-Grandfather,” DeVaun Dix Sheppard; The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Juanita Brooks; “Isaac Haight plays important role in Cedar City’s colorful history,” Iron County Record, November 14, 1974; A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876, edited by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks; Saints in Exile, David R. Crockett; History of the Church, Vol. 6, Joseph Smith; The Red Hills of November: A pioneer Biography of Utah’s Cotton Town, Andrew Karl Larson; The Story of Utah, John Henry Evans; “The Iron Mission” and “Mountain Meadows Massacre,” Morris A. Shirts, Utah History Encyclopedia; Obituary of Isaac Chauncey Haight, Iron County Record, May 27, 1927, transcribed by Isaac Chauncey Haight Family Organization; Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, p. 1182; “Let the book of the past be closed,” John L. Hart, Church News, September 18, 1999.