Shadrach Roundy - A Complete History by Marilyn 'Mari' S. Jackson

Shadrach Roundy - A Complete History by Marilyn 'Mari' S. Jackson

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SHADRACH ROUNDY

Born 1 January 1789

To Uriah Roundy and Lucretia Needham

Married Betsy Quimby

Died July 4, 1872

Our Grandfather, Shadrach left us a legacy of love, perseverance and righteousness. The following record comes from many different sources, too many to include all the names and sources. Wherever possible, they have been included in an effort to keep the record accurate as well as complete. (Please send any corrections, additions, deletions etc. to Marilyn Jackson, PO Box 527, Escalante, Utah, or feel free to email me at (staranch@hotmail.com). Love to all….

BIRTH

Born the first day of January, 1789 in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont. He was the son of Uriah Roundy (born 27 October 1756, Norwich, Conn.) and Lucretia Needham (born 9 Sept 1760 Norwich, Conn.) Following his marriage to Betsy Quimby (born 29 June 1793, Lunenburg, Essex, Vermont), he moved to Onondaga, New York, and it was while living here that he first heard about the Mormon Church.

He must have been favorably impressed with what he read concerning the new religion; for in the winter of 1830-31 he set out on horseback to visit the Prophet Joseph Smith at his home in Fayette, Seneca County, New York. So much impressed was he with the Prophet and his teachings that he applied at once for baptism, and was honored by having Joseph Smith, himself, attend to the ordinance. His wife [Betsey Quimby], and his children who were of age, were also baptized.

Jared Carter came to Stafford, New York in January 1832, baptizing Shadrach Roundy’s family with some of his neighbors’ families of the Free Will Baptist Church. Shadrach was one of its Board of Trustees (Zerah Pulsipher, Elijah Cheney, Shadrach Roundy) organized a branch of the LDS Church in that area. They had been reading and studying the Book of Mormon. Shadrach had gone to see the Prophet Joseph Smith, and was baptized by him, shortly after the Church was organized. Zerah Pulsipher was ordained an Elder and set apart to preside over their branch (some quotes taken from the Autobiography of John Pulsipher – BYU – Provo, Utah.)

BAPTIZED

by the Prophet Joseph Smith – the first year after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Church was organized – January 23 1831. He loved and followed the Latter-day Prophets for the rest of his life.

MARRIAGE

When he was about 25 years old, he married Betsey Quimby of Essex, Vermont, who bore him ten children - four sons and six daughters.

ORDAINED ELDER by Orson Hyde and Samuel H Smith – 16 May 1832 The Church was less than a year old when Roundy became a member; and on March 16, 1832, he was ordained an elder under the hands of Elders Orson Hyde and Samuel H. Smith.

The following account is taken from the Journal History of the Church. The first years written by the Prophet Joseph Smith himself, the remainder by Brigham Young, Willard Richards, Franklin D. Richards and others.

HELPED BUILD THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE

The first temple constructed by the Church was at Kirtland, Ohio. Shadrach received a special blessing for his help March 7, 1835, for consecrating his property so that the temple might be built. He received a special Washing and Anointing January 25, 1836, just before the dedication of the Kirtland Temple.

October 31, 1835. “After dinner I [Joseph Smith, Jr.] rode out in company with my wife and children, Brother Don Carlos and others. We visited Brother Roundy and family, who live near Willoughby. We had an interesting visit,”..”Footnote. This is Shadrach Roundy who afterwards became prominent in Church affairs…He removed with the New York Saints to Ohio, settling near Willoughby, where the Prophet frequently visited him.”

December 9, 1835 … “A few days since Elder Shadrach Roundy brought me a quarter of beef. And may all the blessings named above be poured upon their heads for their kindness to me.”

In April 1836, the family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, the headquarters of the Church at that time. He received a license to preach the Gospel on April 26, 1838 in Kirtland, and here Brother Roundy spent much of his time in assisting in the construction of the first temple of this dispensation. Because of his great devotion to this cause, the Prophet of the Lord gave him, among a few others, a special blessing.

President Sidney Rigdon was appointed to lay on hands and bestow blessings in the name of the Lord. The following are the names of those who were blessed in consequence of their labor on the house of the Lord in Kirtland and those who consecrated to its upbuilding:

Sidney RigdonMaleum C. Davis

Joseph Smith, Jun.F. G. Williams

Joseph Smith, Sen.Oliver Cowdery

Newel K. WhitneyReynolds Cahoon

Hyrum SmithJared Carter

Jacob BumpArtemus Millet

Shadrach RoundyAlpheum Cutler

Amasa LymanDon Carlos Smith

And 101 more.

Kirtland was not long to be the home of Shadrach Roundy. His help was needed in Missouri; and thither he went with his family and took up his abode in the city of Far West, Caldwell Co. Subsequently he removed from Missouri, where he shared with the Saints in their persecutions, and afterward located temporarily in Warsaw, Illinois

MARCH 1836 Ordained a High Priest – a member of the High Priest Quorum of Nauvoo.

A member of the first Presiding Bishopric of the LDS Church (D&C 124:141)

1836 Ordained a SEVENTY – a member of the Second Quorum of Seventies

29 JANUARY 1839 – assisted worthy poor church members out of Far West

January 29, 1839 … a memorable meeting was held in Far West at the call of Brigham Young at which the following occurred, “On motion of President Brigham Young, it was resolved that we this day enter into a covenant to stand by and assist each other to the utmost of our abilities in removing from this state, and that we will never desert the poor who are worthy till they shall be out of the reach of the extermination order of General Clark, acting for and in the name of the State.

Following a discussion relative to the means to be employed in this removal, it was resolved, “that a committee of seven be appointed to superintend the business of our removal and to provide for those who have not the means of moving, till the work shall be completed.” One of the seven men chosen on this committee was Shadrach Roundy and faithfully he discharged his duty. Others were William Huntington, Charles Bird, Alanson Ripley, Theodore Turley, Daniel Shearer, Jonathon H. Hale. He assisted until all the Saints had been evacuated from Missouri and had found places of refuge within the confines of the state of Illinois.

26 APRIL 1839 – HELPED LAY CORNER STONE for FAR WEST TEMPLE

April 26, 1839… “Early in the morning, soon after midnight, Brigham Young and the Brethren with him arrived at Far West, and proceeded to transact the business of their Mission according to the following minutes: “business taken care of, “The Twelve then offered up vocal prayer in the following order: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith. After which we sang Adam-ondi-Ahman, and then the Twelve took their leave of the following Saints, agreeable to the revelations, biz: Alpheus Cutler, Elias Smith, Norman Shearer, William Burton, Stephen Markham, Shadrach Roundy…”

June 1, 1839 p-2. “Letters of Recommendation were voted to William Wightman, Albert Allen, Shadrach Roundy.

Upon their arrival in Illinois, the Roundys made Warsaw a temporary abiding place but in 1840 they removed to Nauvoo. From this time forward until the death of Joseph and Hyrum in Carthage Jail, Shadrach Roundy was closely associated with the Prophet in almost every activity engaged in. As previously stated, he was appointed to be one of his bodyguards, as well as being an assistant aide-de-camp to Joseph Smith, Lieutenant General of the Nauvoo Legion

CAPTAIN OF POLICE IN NAUVOO [Illinois]

About the year 1840, he removed to Nauvoo, where he served as Captain of the Police. In times of imminent danger and persecution, he acted as special guard around the person of the Prophet Joseph. On several occasions he was on duty without sleep or rest. His love for the Prophet was so great that he would have given his own life freely in defense of his beloved friend and brother.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” was a declaration of the Master, and by this criterion Shadrach Roundy is entitled to a place among the most lovable and loyal characters of this dispensation. While he was not called upon to make the supreme sacrifice and thus become a martyr to the cause, if that offering had been necessary he would gladly have given his life for the founder of Mormonism or for any others of the Lord’s anointed. He was true as steel and fearless as a lion. At Nauvoo he was one of the Prophet’s bodyguards, and was with him whenever danger threatened, and his fidelity was rewarded by the Prophet Joseph in the supreme confidence he had in him.

On one occasion when the Prophet had been notified that his life was in danger, he sent for Brother Roundy and instructed him to place on guard near his home a trusty man. The watch must be kept up all night as it had been reported that kidnappers were coming by water to steal Joseph away in the darkness. The watchman was placed at the gate with instructions to admit no one, while Shadrach Roundy stood guard on the river bank. Hearing a noise, he rushed to the gate in time to see William Law inside and others in the act of entering. With a hickory walking cane in his hand, Brother Roundy threatened the men with it and they withdrew. William Law explained that the gentlemen were merchants who wanted to see some mummies Joseph was reputed to have. Roundy replied that if they were gentlemen, they would have come at “gentlemen’s hours.” The Prophet from his room overheard the conversation and commended Brother Roundy and his companion for the courage displayed. It is well here to observe that William Law was second counselor to Joseph in the First Presidency. He had become disaffected and was seeking to take the life of the Prophet; eventually he and others were successful in achieving their purpose.

BODYGUARD FOR THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH

An Aide-de-Camp in the Nauvoo Legion – he helped protect the Prophet from harm by mobs, several different times and is mentioned over 30 times in the Prophet’s personal diary.

January 19, 1841. 124th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants. “And again, I say unto you, I give unto you Vinson Knight, Samuel H. Smith and Shadrach Roundy, if he will receive it, to preside over the bishopric; a knowledge of said bishopric is given unto you in the book of Doctrine and Covenants.”

February 4, 1841. Following are the minutes of a meeting held this day by the Nauvoo Legion: “Among the Guards and Ass’t Aids-de-Camp, Shadrach Roundy is listed. The Legion at its organization was composed of six companies.

June 7, 1841. Joseph the Prophet started very early for Monmouth, 75 miles distance. “Taking Mr. King along with me, and attending him during his sickness.” “Accompanied by Charles C. Rich, Amasa Lyman, Shadrach Roundy, and others. We traveled very late, camping about midnight on the road.”

Shadrach was with the Prophet when the latter was arrested and taken from Nauvoo to Monmouth, a distance of 75 miles. The treatment accorded them was anything but what could have been desired, as they were compelled to travel very late and “camped about midnight in the road.”

March 10, 1842. Following is Joseph the Prophet’s Journal entry: ‘Gave instructions concerning a deed to Stephen Markham, Shadrach Roundy and Hiram Clark, and letter of attorney from Miss Smith to Edward Hunter and did a great variety of business…”

To those who doubt that the full endowment antedates the building of modern temples erected for that purpose, the following bit of evidence may tend to dissipate their doubts and confirm the faith of the believers in this historical reality: “I can testify that on the third day of May, 1842, Joseph Smith, the Prophet, called upon five of us, Shadrach Roundy, Noah Rogers, Dimick B. Huntington, Daniel Cairns, and myself to meet with him (the Prophet) in his business office, the upper part of his brick store. He told us that the object he had was for us to go to work and fix up that room preparatory to giving endowments to a few elders that he might give unto them all the keys of power pertaining to the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods.

“We therefore went to work making the necessary preparations, and everything was arranged representing the interior of a temple as much as the circumstances would permit, he being with us dictating everything. . .I know of a surety that room was fitted up by his order which we finished in the forenoon of the said 4th of May, 1842. (Signed, Lucuis N. Scovil.)”

HOME

A possible owner of the Simion A. Dunn Home, existing in Nauvoo today (Nauvoo Land Records), Simion A. Dunn, Joshua Smith and Shadrach Roundy were charged with “causing a riot” by James A. Ferguson, owner of the Nauvoo Expositor, and they placed their homes as security for any damages caused.

JULY 14 1842

On the 14th of July [1842] in the company of 50 to 100 brethren, waiting for a meeting to start, "Whilst together Joseph [Smith], who was with us, he told us of many things that would transpire in the mountains. After drinking a draft of ice water, he said 'Brethren this water tastes much like the crystal streams that are running in the Rocky Mountains which some of you will participate of. There are some of those standing here that will perform a great work in that land.' Pointing to Shadrach Roundy, Anson Call and a number of others.... shall go and assist in building cities from one end of the country to the other, and shall perform as great work as has ever been done by man, so that nations of the earth shall be astonished, and many of them will be gathered in that land and assist in building cities and temples, and Israel shall be made to rejoice." (Prophecies of Joseph Smith, p.158 - History of the Church, V.5 p.85.

Helped to build the City of Nauvoo and the Nauvoo Temple - a Captain of the Nauvoo Police Force - delivered many important dispatches for the Prophets. (1840 -1846)

(Church History continues) …”Here again we are impressed with the complete confidence of the Prophet of the Lord in Brother Roundy. It is worthy of note that Brother Roundy was present at the laying of the cornerstone of the temple at Far West, and that he witnessed the ordination of Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith to the apostleship upon that occasion. It will be recalled that those events transpired in fulfillment of a prophecy given by the Prophet Joseph and in refutation of a predication to the contrary by enemies of the Church.

From the information we have at hand, it seems apparent that Elder Roundy was a very practical man. Religion to him was “common sense,” and functioned not only on the Sabbath day and during hours of worship, but also found expression in every act that conduces to the welfare of man in every walk of life. To him the building of a canal, the beautifying of the landscape, making a hundred blades of grass to grow where formerly there was but one, or any other material contribution bestowed in the name of the Master and in the interests and for the betterment of humanity, were acts to be listed in the category of religion as much so as saying a prayer or delivering a sermon. It may be the Savior had some such idea in mind when he said: “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.” (Matt. 10:42.) Much of the life of this good man was devoted to practical things.

December 27, 1842. “The following is the Prophet Joseph’s Journal entry for this day: At nine in the morning started in custody of Wilson Law for Springfield in company with Hyrum Smith, Willard Richards, William Clayton, and Henry G. Sherwood, who had obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the Master in chancery, as no write could issue. The Clerk of court having been elected to the Senate. There was considerable snow and traveling heavy, but we arrived at Brother Samuel’s in Plymouth, a little after sunset, and we were soon joined by Edward Hunter, Theodore Turley, Dr Tate and Shadrach Roundy…”

January 6, 1843. A group of men signed a Writ telling that the Prophet was with the Nauvoo Legion all day and up till nine of the night on the 6th of May and 7th of May 1842. Shadrach Roundy was number 4 on the list.

January 11, 1843. “Under this date, Joseph the Prophet journalizes as follows: ‘I rode out with Emma this morning, designing to go to Brother Isaac Russell’s and apologize for breaking his carriage on our return from Springfield, but broke a sleigh shoe, and returned home, where I received a visit from a company of gentlemen and ladies from Farmington, on the Des Moines River, who left at 2 ½ in the evening.

I directed letters of invitation to be written from myself and Lady for a dinner party at my house on Wednesday next, at 10 in the morning to be directed to Brothers Wilson Law, William Law, Hyrum Smith, Samuel Bennett, John Taylor, William Meeks, Peter Haws, Orson Hyde, Henry G. Sherwood, William Clayton, Jabez Durfey, H. Tate, Edward Hunter, Theodore Turley, Shadrach Roundy, Willard Richards, Arthur Milliakin, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Alpheus Cutler, Reynolds Cahoon, and ladies, also Mr. Levi Moffat and Carlos Granger and Ladies, my mother Lucy Smith, and sisters Eliza R. Snow and Hannah Ellis…”

July 8, 1843. “The Nauvoo Municipal Court sat, and approved of the copies of the evidence heard on the habeas corpus, and revised it for the press. In the afternoon Shadrach Roundy started with the affidavits of Hyrum Smith, Parley P. Pratt, Brigham Young, Lyman Wight and George W. Pitkin to carry to the Governor.”

July 9, 1843. “In the evening, Shadrach Roundy started from Nauvoo to Springfield to carry further affidavits and see Governor Ford.” affecting the welfare of the Prophet and the Church; but the governor was absent and the paper were turned over to Judge Adams. The trip there and back was on the back of an old decrepit animal; but the method of transportation, however primitive, was of small moment to Shadrach Roundy when duty called. The Committee who had been appointed for removing the poor from the state of Missouri, viz.: William Huntington, Charles Bird, Alanson Ripley, Theodore Turley, Shadrach Roundy, Daniel Shearer, and Jonathan H. Hale, met in the evening of that day (January 29, 1839), at the house of Theodore Turley, and organized by appointing William Huntington chairman, Daniel Shearer treasurer, and Alanson Ripley clerk, and made some arrangements for carrying into operation the business of removing the poor. President Brigham Young got eighty subscribers to the covenant the first day and three hundred on the second day.

Friday, July 13, 1843. “Shadrach Roundy returned from Springfield, and reported that the Governor was gone to Rock River, and he therefore left the affidavits in the care of Judge Adams—(Having started with an old decrepit animals and rode him all the way there and back again.). He also reported that General Moses Wilson of Missouri had started from Jacksonville for Washington City.”

Tuesday, July 18, 1843. “Joseph the Prophet was engaged in making hay on his farm.”…”Elder Richards wrote the following to President Brigham Young…’Sunday 8 July 1843, this eve Shadrach Roundy started for Springfield with affidavits…”

Friday, December 29, 1843. “At 4 P.M. I met with the City Council…having selected 40 men to act as city policeman, they met with the council, and were sworn into office, to support the constitution of the United States and the State of Illinois, and obey the ordinances of the City, and the instructions of the Mayor, according to the best of their ability. Names of police called by Captain Jonathan Durham, as follows: Jonathan Dunham, High Policeman; Charles C. Rich, 1st Lt.; Hosea Stout, 2nd, Lieut.; Shadrach Roundy, 3rd Lt…”

Thursday, 31—Mr. Turner’s bill of the 16th instant passed the senate. It sent the poor brethren a hundred-dollar bill from jail, to assist them in their distressed situation.

March 7—this day a meeting of the Church of Latter-day Saints was called for the purpose of blessing, in the name of the Lord, those who have heretofore assisted in building, by their labor and other means, the House of the Lord in this place.

The morning was occupied by President Joseph, Jun., in teaching the Church the propriety and necessity of purifying itself. In the afternoon, the names of those who had assisted to build the house were taken, and further instructions received from President Smith. He said that those who had distinguished themselves thus far by consecrating to the upbuilding of the House of the Lord, as well as laboring thereon, were to be remembered; that those who built it should own it, and have the control of it.

After further remarks, those who preformed the labor on the building voted unanimously that they would continue to labor thereon, till the house should be completed.

It was only a short time after his arrival, however when mobocracy again became rampant, as it had been in Jackson County, and its intensity increased until the Saints were ordered from the entire state of Missouri.

Monday May 27, 1844. “About 8 a.m. I started on horseback with a few friends, went by the Temple, and pursued my course towards Carthage thinking it best for me to meet my enemies before the Circuit Court, and have the indictments against me investigated. After I had passed my farm on the prairie, most of the following brethren joined my company and the remainder soon after my arrival in Carthage, Viz: 13-Shadrach Roundy.”

Tuesday June 18, 1844. “Shadrach Roundy, a policeman, reported at 10 p.m. after I had retired, that a man by the name of Norton had threatened to shoot me, an examination was immediately had, but no proof found…”

Friday June 28 1844. “Joseph’s bodyguard, (June 28, 1844) Shadrach Roundy says that Vinson Knight was one of Joseph Smith’s first body guards; so also was Albert P. Rockwood. Alpheus Cutler was Captain but not Captain of the Guard. Each of the Guards was Captain. William Marks was nominated as one of Joseph’s Guards, but did not accept the nomination, and never was qualified, so states Shadrach Roundy, who was nominated by Joseph in Marks' stead and who was qualified, (R. L. C.) Albert P. Rockwood and Colonel of heavy dragoons, commander of the guard and consolidated staff and drill master of the Nauvoo Legion, so he says himself.” (The above was copied from lead pencil notes on the margin of the Deseret News of Dec. 9, 1857.)

PATRIARCHAL BLESSING given June 29, 1844

He was given a blessing that he would be able to "confound all thy enemies and not a hair of thy head shall fall to the ground by them... Thou shall have an inheritance in the land of Zion... (plus many other choice blessings) many other choice blessings)."

Shadrach was fearless and a part of many of the trials of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints;

CONTINUED TO DELIVER MAIL FOR THE CHURCH

Brother Shadrach continued to helped build the City of Nauvoo, and the Nauvoo Temple. As Captain of the Nauvoo Police Force and fleet horseman, he delivered many important dispatches for the Prophets during this time.

MASON

A member of the Nauvoo Masonic lodge serving as Seignior Warden.

THE PROPHETS MURDERED

Shadrach was a member of the group Joseph and Hyrum Smith counseled with the night before they went to Carthage. He was with the men that rode with them to Carthage, and the men that returned their bodies to Nauvoo.

Tuesday October 8, 1844. “…President Brigham Young then appeared and proceeded to select from the High Priest’s Quorum to go abroad in all Congressional Districts of the United States, to preside over the branches of the Church as follows:…”…Number 60 Shadrach Roundy.”

Friday January 31, 1845. “A meeting was held in the Seventies Hall, Nauvoo for the purpose of forming a mercantile and mechanical association, Elder John Taylor acted as chairman, Twelve trustees were elected to control the association. Viz: Daniel Garn, Samuel Bent, Shadrach Roundy, Charles C. Rich, John D. Lee, Lucius N. Scovil, Joseph Worthen, Joseph Horne, Hosea Stout, Edward Hunter, Gustavus Williams and Charles A. Davis.”

March 1, 1845 - A member of the “Council of Fifty” started by President, Joseph Smith.

Wednesday Sept. 24, 1845 p.3. “The setting for this day was the Carthage Jail. ‘The Court not being ready for trial, the company proceeded to the jail where Joseph and Hyrum Smith were martyred. The blood of Hyrum still stained the floor where he fell and breathed his last; the walls were marked with bullet holes. Elders John Taylor and Willard Richards showed the other brethren the position in which the brethren stood to defend themselves at the time of the martyrdom.”

After the trials of the brethren and their innocence established, a committee was selected to move families.

“Names of committee selected by the council to move families, goods, etc. into Nauvoo, Sept. 25, 1845. Parley P. Pratt, Orson Spencer, Charles C. Rich, Benjamin F. Johnson, Lucian Woodworth, George Miller, Erastus Snow, Peter Haws, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Amasa M. Lyman, Willard Richards, George A. Smith, John Taylor, Joseph Young, Newel K. Whitney, Almon W. Babbitt, Theodore Turley, George P. *****, William Clayton, John D. Lee, Hosea Stout, John Scott, Isacc Morley, John D. Parker, Shadrach Roundy, Solomon Hancock, Levi W. Hancock, (six other men) Jesse P. Harmon, (13 men) Stephen Markham, (9 other men.) Brigham Young, President, Willard Richards, Clerk.

Saturday October 11, 1845. “The council met at Elder John Taylor’s in Nauvoo. The Brethren joined in prayer and wrote a circular for the agents to take abroad with them. In the afternoon President Brigham Young remained at home, being worn down with fatigue.

At 7 p.m. President Brigham Young met for council and prayers. After prayer the brethren finished an extract from the conference minutes for the circulars. Also appointed additional captains of hundreds making 25 companies, as follows: lst, the Twelve, 2nd Samuel Bent, 3rd, Alpheus Cutler, 4th Isaac Morley, 5th Shadrach Roundy…”

It was in the fore part of February 1846, that the first exiles from Nauvoo left the city. A few days later a temporary organization was effected in the camps of the beleaguered Saints and Shadrach Roundy was made captain of the 5th Company, consisted of one hundred men. Upon that occasion President Young instructed the captains to raise money in their respective companies, for purchasing of tents and wagon covers, and informed the Pioneer company that it would be their duty to prepare roads, locate suitable campgrounds, dig wells when necessary and ascertain where hay and corn could be purchased for the camp, and that “every family must call on the Lord night and morning at every tent and wagon.” The chief responsibility was placed upon the captains to see that these instructions were followed.

RECEIVED HIS ENDOWMENTS IN THE NAUVOO TEMPLE 25 DEC 1845

SHADRACH and BETSEY WERE SEALED IN THE NAUVOO TEMPLE 22 JANUARY 1846.

Wednesday, February 18, 1846. The Company and camps organized. All of the instruction for the camp given. “Elder Parley P. Pratt called out the companies of the Twelve. Captain William Pitt called out the Musicians, Captain George Miller, Shadrach Roundy, Charles C. Rich, Charles Shumway, Peter Haws, Samuel Bent, and Daniel Spencer called out their respective companies.

Those not organized were instructed to join the pioneers and all to organize into companies of tens. I told the Brethren they were the best set of fellows in the world, still there was a great chance for improvement; I blessed them in the name of the Lord.”

Monday, March 9, 1846. “Capt. Samuel Bent, Peter Haws, Shadrach Roundy arrived in camp in the afternoon with their companies. Captain Shadrach Roundy encamped three and a half miles ahead. The weather had been extremely pleasant and the sky clear for some days. Richardson’s Point, Camp of Israel 55 Mils from Nauvoo, March 9, 1846.”

In Nauvoo he was captain of the police force for number of years, and when the Saints were driven from their homes and departed into the wilderness in search of a new home, Shadrach Roundy was entrusted with responsible matters relating to the welfare and convenience of the weary pilgrims as they traversed hill, plain and desert areas, on toward the setting sun.

Thursday, April 2, 1846. “Orrin P. Rockwell left the camp for Nauvoo, with a mail of about 20 letters, in company with Shadrach Roundy, and Charles Decker, President Young rode forward to the next encampment and found the roads bad. Owing to the number of teams that were absent after grain and for other purposes, the first company was unable to roll out according to the decision of the council…”

Sunday April 1846 p. 4. “Elder S. Roundy stated that Joseph Young had sold his house and lot for $650, and that the anti-Mormons of Nauvoo had secretly held a meeting in opposition to mobocracy, but had not closed their business when he left.

President Young received a letter from Elders George A. Smith and Amasa M. Lyman, announcing that thirteen wagons were encamped at Point Pleasant, unable to come up at present. They felt willing that the Temple should be sold to assist the poor, if the council thought it best.

Sunday April 26, 1845, p.3. “Shadrach Roundy arrived in camp, three and a half days out from Nauvoo, bringing a mail of 28 letters, among them one from Elder Orson Hyde, informing President Young that a wealthy Catholic Bachelor wished to purchase the Temple and thereby immortalize his name; he would probably give $200,000 for it. If he bought the Temple, he would also buy other property, but not otherwise. Brother Hyde had offered to lease it to him, but he would not lease. Brother Hyde was afraid the Temple would fall into the hands of enemies, as borrowed means were being called for, and numerous obligations were rolling in upon the trustees without means to liquidate them. Elder Hyde asked, if it would not be better to sell the Temple at Nauvoo and also the Temple and Church Property at Kirtland, Ohio, and with the proceeds assist the Saints to emigrate westward…”

Thursday April 30, 1846. The day was rainy. The camp was nearly destitute of bread stuff; the creeks were so high that teams could not cross nor mills grind. Shadrach Roundy left the [wilderness] camp for Nauvoo. He carried a mail of 59 letters, one to the Saints coming westward, telling them what they needed for an outfit and where they could best obtain it. He also carried a lengthy communication to Elders Orson Hyde and Wilford Woodruff concerning the circumstances of the camp. The letter written in reply to Elders Hyde’s letter requested him (Hyde) to forward some of the means brought by Elder Woodruff from England, or the avails of the Temple, if sold, Elder Hyde was congratulated on the opportunity he enjoyed of bearing some of the responsibilities and burdens which for years had been borne by President Brigham Young and his immediate associates.

The Temple at Nauvoo was dedicated this evening ... an evidence of the willingness of His people to fulfill his commandments and build His Holy House even at the risk of their lives and the sacrifice of their earthly goods …

Saturday November 14, 1846. Frosty last night; mild day. Elder Heber C. Kimball and President Brigham Young furnished Dr. Willard Richards some help to put up his house, as did also Shadrach Roundy.

Saturday March 13, 1847. Afternoon, President Young met with the brethren of the Twelve also John Young, Alpheus Cutler, Reynolds Spencer, Daniel Russell, Winslow Farr, Thomas Bullock, John D. Lee, James W. Cummings, Willard Snow and Shadrach Roundy, when many questions were asked pertaining to the government of affairs after the Pioneers should leave. It was agreed upon that Winter Quarters should be stockaded; that the brethren should labor unitedly; that a guard should be kept up that the women whose husbands are in the army [Mormon Battalion] should be emigrated with the companies that follow the Pioneers.

SERVED AS BISHOP OF THE 5TH WARD AT WINTER QUARTERS

After arriving at Winter Quarters on the Missouri River, Elder Roundy was frequently called into the councils of the Church, presided over by President Young, for the purpose of considering matters of importance pertaining to the entire “camp of Israel.”

Friday April 16, 1847. The Pioneers assembled at the rear of President Brigham Young’s wagon and were addressed by George A. Smith, Heber C. Kimball, Newel K. Whitney and President Brigham Young. They were formed into a circle around the President and counted; there were 143 men. The camp was organized with Captains of Hundreds, fifties and tens as follows: Captains of Hundreds, Stephen Markam, Albert P. Rockwood, Captains of fifties, Addison Everett, Tarlton Lewis, James Cass, John Pack, Shadrach Roundy, Captains of tens … The organization being completed the Pioneers broke camp at 2 o’clock p.m. and started on the eventful journey for the Rocky Mountains. They traveled that afternoon about four miles and camped in a line a few hundreds from timber, on the river bank where there were plenty of cottonwoods and rushes.

Saturday, April 17, 1847. The weather at the Pioneer Camp was severely cold, with a strong wind. The Pioneers started at 9 o ‘ clock and traveled until nearly noon the distance covered being about eight miles. They camped close by a cottonwood grove, and the men felled hundreds of the trees to feed to the teams that the corn might by this means be saved.

At five o’clock p.m. the people of the camp were called together and organized in military order as follows: Brigham Young was elected Lt. General; Stephen Markham, Colonel; John Pack and Shadrach Roundy, Majors …”

“Sunday, April 25. The pioneers arose at the sound of the horn, attended to their cattle and observed the Sabbath as a day of rest and meditation, prayer and praise. All was harmony, peace and love in the camp and a holy stillness prevailed through the day. The principal sounds heard were the tinkling of cowbells and the screams of wild geese as they flew past the camp. The sky was beautiful and a south wind was blowing. The brethren took all their teams out to feed, leaving a few men to watch them.

The order of the camp was that there should be no fishing, hunting or unnecessary labor of any kind on the Sabbath. Four antelope appeared in sight of the pioneers on the plain on the opposite side of the river. The brethren could see them with the naked eye, but much better through spyglasses. The sides and bellies of these animals were white and their backs brown. These were the first antelope and elk that some of the brethren had ever seen.

A meridian observation of the sun gave for the latitude of the camp 41 degrees 20 minutes 31 seconds on the right bank of the Loup fork, four miles above the ford. This place of encampment was also 14 miles from the Platte, and it was said that if the travel should be continued along the Loup fork 100 miles farther west the pioneers would not be 30 miles north of the Platte.

About 5 p.m. the brethren were called together to worship. President Young called on the choir to sing “The Land Was Once a Garden Place”. Heber C. Kimball offered prayer, after which several of the brethren spoke briefly, expressing their feelings. While George A. Smith was relating the Prophet Joseph’s instructions not to kill any of the animals or birds or anything created by Almighty God, merely for the sake of destroying it, a large wolf came out of the woods on the right of the camp and walked leisurely within about 50 rods of the wagons, as much as to say: “The devil and I are determined to prove whether you will practice what is taught.” All the brethren saw the wolf, but the meeting was continued, and President Young gave instructions chiefly in reference to the folly of conforming to Gentile customs on an expedition like that of the pioneers.

After dark the twelve and some others met together opposite the president’s wagon to organize a company of buffalo hunters, whose duty should be to hunt as the pioneers proceeded on their journey. It was ascertained that there were eight horses in the company which were not attached to teams, and so eight men were selected to hunt on horseback, namely: Thomas Woolsey, Thomas Brown, John Brown, Orrin Porter Rockwell, John S. Higbee, Joseph Matthews, and two others. Next 11 men were selected to hunt on foot, namely: John Pace, Phineas H. Young, Tarlton Lewis, Joseph Hancock, Edmund Ellsworth, Roswell Stevens, Edson Whipple, Barnabas L. Adams, Benjamin F. Stewart, Return Jackson Redden and H. Glines. It was also decided that the twelve should have the privilege of hunting whenever they desired to do so. After some remarks in regard to having caution in chasing the wild buffalo, etc, the company was dismissed.

The hunters were named because the game was becoming plentiful and it was the desire of the leaders to have killed only what was needed for the camp, and it was also their intent to prevent promiscuous hunting, by the whole party. On Sunday afternoon several antelope passed near the camp.

On April 17, 1847, the people of the camp were called together and placed under a military organization.

Sunday May 30, 1847. At 8 o’clock a.m. the thermometer stood at 64 Fahrenheit in the Pioneer Camp. The morning was calm and the clouds breaking away. The deep blue sky was seen in places. This day the Pioneers appointed as a day of fasting and prayer; the Saints met in prayer meeting in the forenoon and in the afternoon there was some preaching and exhortation. The sacrament was also administered. In the course of the day, the Twelve, with a few others, including Brother Roundy retired to a small circular level spot surrounded by the bluffs made two excursions among the bluffs, where all called upon the Lord. There they knelt in humility before the Lord and invoked his blessings upon the exiled Saints, and particularly upon the brethren in the army. President Young was mouth and the spirit of the Lord rested upon him and all those present.

Monday June 21, 1847. [This date may be in error, as Shadrach Roundy did not enter the Salt Lake Valley until July 22, 1847 then returned 15 August 1847 for this occasion on 31 AUG 1847.] When the company of fifty met the Pioneers, Captain Lorenzo Welsey [Wesley] Roundy returned with them to Winter Quarters and his father, Shadrach Roundy who was returning eastward with the Pioneers took Captain Roundy’s place as Captain of the lst ten and returned to the valley. Eighth Company, 2nd fifty, first ten.

Tuesday July 13, 1847. Following are the names of those who went ahead in Elder Pratt’s company to look out and make a road: Orson Pratt commanding, Stephen Markham, aid. Shadrach Roundy number 34.

Friday July 13, 1847 … Thus Shadrach Roundy, Seth Taft, Stephen Markham, Robert Grow and Albert Carrington were appointed a committee to look for a place for planting.

It will be recalled that a company of Mormons entered the Salt Lake Valley on the 22nd of July 1847, two days before President Young and his group arrived. A meeting was held at which Orson Pratt both prayed and spoke, giving thanks to God for having preserved the pioneers on their journey to the mountains; and in his prayers he dedicated to the Lord the camp and the ground upon which they stood. Following the meeting, Shadrach Roundy was appointed to head a committee whose duty was to locate a place for planting potatoes, corn, beans, and other crops. It is worthy of note that Brother Roundy is accredited with being one of the three to turn over the first sod in Salt Lake Valley. Usually, however, we think of William Carter, alone, as being entitled to that distinction. Thomas Bullock writes that “at 12 o’clock the first furrow was turned by Capt. Taft’s Company,” but adds that Taft’s plow broke. He however, does not mention any other name. From other sources, we learn that William Carter, George W. Brown and Shadrach Roundy took part in plowing the first furrows ever made by white men in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. This plowing was done where the Centre Theatre now stands. The soil was dry and several plows were broken but the plowing was continued. At 2 p.m. some of the men who had been appointed for that purpose commenced to build a dam across City Creek in order to convert water on to the land which was being plowed. After soaking the ground the plowing was easy.

SHADRACH WAS IN THE FIRST COMPANY OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS THAT CAME TO UTAH - 22 JULY 1847

Shadrach helped select the place for the first crops to be planted by the Pioneers. One of three to plow the first ground, and helped to plant the first crops in the Salt Lake Valley – 23 July 1847 (age 58 – the second oldest man in the Vanguard Company.) Family related how difficult it was for him to protect those precious seeds, as he traveled through storm and hunger to protect them for planting.

He and Betsey had buried three of their children, two daughters-in-law, and a grandchild before coming to the Salt Lake Valley.

Sunday, August 15, 1847. A wagon team was to return to Grand Island and there wait for the other company. (The horse teams which would start a few days later.) Shadrach Roundy and Tunis Rappleye were voted in as Captains of the Company.

Scarcely a month had passed after the arrival of Elder Roundy in the valley when he and Tunis Rappleye were delegated by President Young to return to Winter Quarters with the teams to bring to the Salt Lake Valley the next spring some of the Saints who had no other way of coming. Instructions were given these two brethren in a letter written by Brigham Young in behalf of the Council of Twelve, from which the following excerpt is taken: “In regard to the teams under your charge, it is our wish that the men who accompany them will use all the care and diligence that they can to preserve them and keep them in good condition, that you will not give way to an over anxious spirit, so that your spirits arrive at Winter Quarters, before the time that your bodies can possibly arrive there; but whenever you arrive at a good place for feed, let your cattle rest and fill themselves, that they may be prepared to go over the barren portion of the country, and use your best endeavors to provide meat at these times and places, that you may not be delayed on the other portion of your route.

You will therefore use all necessary caution and prudence, that you may be enabled to pursue your journey in peace and safety, not losing any of the property entrusted to your charge, and you shall be blessed by day and by night. Be of good cheer, and we will soon be with you and return with you to your homes.” In behalf of the Council, Brigham Young, President and Willard Richard, Clerk

Accompanying Elders Roundy and Rappleye were some missionaries and a detachment of U. S. soldiers who were returning to the east, some of whom were engaged as teamsters. The day after leaving Salt Lake City, Elder Roundy called a meeting for the purpose of organizing the company, consisting of 71 men, after the pattern initiated by President Young while en route to the mountains.

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Tuesday August 17, 1847. Elder Howard Egan’s journal, “This Company is intrusted to the commands of Shadrach Roundy and Tunis Rappleye. The list of men an teams composing same is as follows: 50 men, 32 wagons, 14 mules, 16 horses and 92 yoke of oxen…” “After camping the brethren were called together by Captain Roundy for the purpose of organizing. The Captain briefly stated the manner of organization of the camp when we left Winter Quarters and it was unanimously voted to organize this camp after the same pattern. Which was done as follows: Second division: Shadrach Roundy, Captain first ten.

Tuesday August 31, 1847. Patty Sessions writes, “We traveled all miles up hills and over rocky roads the worst we have found. After camping for the night we met more pioneers. Among them were Shadrach Roundy, Chauncey Loveland, and John L. Gleason. They brought us good news from the Valley.”

After traveling for nearly two weeks, Captain Roundy met his family on their way to the Great Basin; and he returned with them, leaving John G. Smith as captain of the second division of the company, in his place.

Tuesday, September 9, 1847. High Council chosen to act to pass such laws and ordinances as shall be necessary for the peace and prosperity of the city for the time being, if such there need to be, etc. #9 Shadrach Roundy.

Sunday October 3, 1847. A stake of Zion was organized and sustained. Shadrach Roundy a member of the High Council. October 4, 1847. The High Council met for the first time. Shadrach Roundy was present.

Soon after his arrival in the Valley, Elder Roundy was made a member of the High Council, and at a council meeting held on October 17, 1847, he with two others, Henrey G. Sherwood and Albert Carrington, was appointed to adjudicate claims in the “Old Fort,” and two days later he was given the responsibility to see that the water on the east side of the fort was kept in its channel.

When the Sixteenth Ward of Salt Lake City was organized in February, 1849, Isaac Higbee was sustained as Bishop; but his incumbency lasted only until April 14 of the same year, when Shadrach Roundy was appointed to succeed him. He served in this capacity until his failing health required his resignation. Under his administration the first building in the Sixteenth Ward, for combined Church and school purposes, was erected.

Tuesday, October 19, 1847. “It was decided that Shadrach Roundy should see that the water on the east side of the Fort was kept in its channel. The council then adjourned till tomorrow evening at candle light.

Wednesday, October 20, 1847. The High Council of Great Salt Lake City met according to adjournment in Amasa M. Lyman’s house. John Young, Thomas Grover, Edson Whipple, Shadrach Roundy and Abraham O. Smoot were absent and the vacancies were filled from the bystanders.

Sunday November 14, 1847. “Shadrach Roundy spoke for the plaintiff and Lewis Abbot for the defendant” Tuesday, November 16, 1847. The President and council of the Stake in Great Salt Lake and the High Council wrote a letter to the California saints. Shadrach Roundy signed as High Councilman. Sunday October 8, 1848. Charles C. Rich then rose and stated that there was a vacancy of one in the High Council and presented the remaining eleven. Shadrach Roundy #5. (Thomas Grover is not mentioned.)September 24, 1848.

Friday July 21st 1848 Orson Pratt Journal: “Sent out several pioneers to see the chance for feed and wood to make coal, among the rest, Shadrach Roundy, C. P. Lott, They returned in the evening reporting feed poor and that President Young’s Company had crossed the river about 10 miles from this place and was camped on the south side of the river having poor feed…Today Shadrach Roundy was appointed Captain of the 10 that Brother Heber C. Kimball traveled with in place of Brother Joseph Hovey, who was unwell and not able to act. Sunday December 24, 1848. War of extermination to be held against raven’s hawk, owl or eagle, etc. Shadrach Roundy in the second Company headed by John Pack.

Emigration of 1848. December 31 Supplement 1848. Third Company, John Pack, Captain of Hundred, Shadrach Roundy Captain of ten ... February 16, 1849 - Friday. High Council organized with Shadrach Roundy #5. Also listed Feb. 19 as set apart, and April 9 as a member. Saturday April 14, 1849 Shadrach Roundy was ordained Bishop of the 16th Ward of the Great Salt Lake City by Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards at Heber C. Kimball’s home. Sunday May 13, 1849. He gave a lecture on farming.

Saturday May 26, 1849. Organization of the Nauvoo Legion. Jesse P. Harmon Captain of the first Company of said Battalion. Shadrach Roundy, first Lt. (This company of men consists of men who are Silver Greys over fifty years of age.)

Tuesday December 11, 1849 p.2. Shadrach Roundy mentioned as going home with group of men going on missions. P4: Two days journey on the other side of Laramie, while we were baiting our horses at noon, on the banks of the Platte, we spied a large body of Indians, who came sweeping down a gentle sloping hill east of us. When they first appeared they were about three-quarters of a mile from us, and they were mounted upon excellent chargers, they came with the rapidity of an arrow. It gave us little time enough to gather our horses and prepare ourselves to meet our belligerent visitors. Captain Roundy ordered the horses to be gathered and securely tied to the wagons. General grant acted with great promptness and decision, immediately forming us into a line, leaving two of our number to tie up the horses. They then showed great intrepidity, every man standing at his post undaunted. The efforts of the Indians were to either break our line or turn our flank; but being repulsed at all points; they were brought to a dead halt, about a rod and a half in front of us. During this and for sometime after they were shaking out the priming from their firearms and priming them anew. Many placed their arrows to their bow strings the lances in rest and were wetting the ends of their arrows with their mouths that they might not slip too quick from the finger and thumb … (after they found they couldn’t intimidate the party, they accepted a gift of food and left.)

While still serving as bishop, Elder Roundy, as captain accompanied thirty-five men, mostly missionaries, across the plains. He was on a trip to the east to attend to business for the Church. At one time he took occasion to reprimand members of the party for fast traveling. The travel log showed coverage of forty miles in one day - fast traveling for a caravan of lumber wagons.

When at Winter Quarters, Elder Roundy and four other brethren addressed a letter jointly to the “Frontier Guardian” as follows: “December 24, 1849, Mr. Editor: Messrs. Shadrach Roundy, Jedediah M. Grant, John S. fuller, Abraham O. Smoot, George D. Grant, and Russell Homer, wish through the columns of your highly esteemed paper to inform the public generally, and more especially those who are desirous of going to, or sending good or packages, to the Great Basin or the valley of the Sacramento, that they are and will be prepared to accommodate passengers who may be disposed to visit the gold region the ensuring season, or merchants who wish to send merchandise to the Great Salt Lake City. Our passenger and freight trains will both leave as early in the spring as there will be sufficient grass on the plains to sustain animals. Light wagons will be used and so arranged as to accommodate three passengers and the drivers including fifty pounds of baggage to a person . . . the point chosen to start from is on the Missouri, eighteen miles from Kanesville . . . Those who cast in their lot with us may expect the proprietors to use every exertion to render them as comfortable as the nature of the journey will admit of. Yet we do not wish anyone to think that it is a play spell to cross the mountains, neither do we desire to hold out any inducements but those which are substantially true, as we are desirous of proving ourselves worthy of the confidence reposed in us by the highest authorities of the State of Deseret, under whose direction we organized and from whom (in connection with all our friends) we look for strength, influence and support to aid us in our arduous undertaking.

“Prices for hauling goods to Great Salt Lake, twelve dollars and fifty cents per one hundred and fifty dollars for a ton.

“Those wishing a through ticket will do well to secure it by the first of April as the company wish to make up their trains as early as possible in the spring.”

Sunday June 30, 1850. We started early and passed the Justis Moss Company of 13 wagons, a part of Elder Woodruff’s Company, and also came up with Shadrach Roundy’s Company of 26 wagons and camped with them that night. Four of the company had died, the rest were all tolerably well. Sister Buss was in the Company. James Pace Captain. Richard Sessions, First fifty; David Bennett Capt. Of 2nd Fifty, Second fifty, John Hardison Redd, Mary Hardison and family, page 6 of supplement 1840 p 24. Supplement 1850 Shadrach Roundy captain of Freight Train.

At a special meeting held June 10, 1854, a Relief Society was organized by Bishop Roundy and counselors, known as a “Benevolent Society.” To make clothes for the Indians."

Four times Brother Roundy brought companies of poor emigrants to the Salt Lake Valley, and after their arrival he did all within his power to make them feel comfortable and happy in their new environment.

To Brother and Sister Roundy were born ten children; and in addition to these, they reared ten other motherless children. This kindness was a great tribute to their bigness of heart.

FIVE TIMES HE CROSSED THE PLAINS, BRINGING IMMIGRANTS AND FREIGHT TO THE SALT LAKE VALLEY.

BISHOP OF THE 16TH WARD OF GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, AND MEMBER OF THE FIRST HIGH COUNCIL OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE STAKE OF ZION.

Shadrach helped form several mercantile businesses, one was ZCMI in Salt Lake City. Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution was formed and incorporated in 1870, to provide for the needs of the people. A Branch store was opened in Logan, Utah in 1873 and consolidated into the Mercantile Palace in downtown Salt Lake City in 1876. (In 1886 the Church sold its ZCMI stock during the polygamy conflict).

Shadrach was a member of the first Legislators for the Deseret (Utah) Territory – serving in the Senate.

He was Captain of the SILVER GRAYS Company of the Nauvoo Legion of Men over age 50 and continued to work in the Salt Lake Valley.

An INDIAN WAR VETERAN and Farmer

SHADRACH 1850 - 1872

The Salt Lake City Years By Gail Pollock

The survey and platting of Great Salt Lake City was begun on August 2, 1847. Numbered ten acre blocks, each with eight numbered 10 X 20 rod lots containing 1.25 acres, were prepared for the dispensing of lots to the 1847 pioneers. Lot #1 was located on the southeast corner of blocks, the other lots of a given block were numbered sequentially clockwise, so that Lot #8 was situated north of Lot #1. Distribution of “inheritance” lots may have begun as early as August 7, 1847. An early plat map of the city shows that Shadrach Roundy and his three sons, Lauren, Lorenzo and Jared were given lots which together made up the south half of block #101. Shadrach and Betsey inherited the southeast corner Lot #1, situated on the northwest corner of the intersection of North Temple and what was then 3rd West streets. Lauren owned Lot #2, adjacent and west of Shadrach’s lot. Lorenzo owned Lot #3, north and adjacent to Lauren’s lot. Jared owned Lot #8, north of and adjacent to Shadrach’s lot. Originally the Shadrach Roundy family inherited four contiguous city lots totaling 5 acres. For a variety of reasons turnover of “inheritance” lots was high in the early years. A plat map of the city prepared a few years later name only Shadrach Roundy and Dimick Huntington as still owning their Block #101 lots (see further discussion given later) Orderly planning required the house to be built in the center of lots and set back 20 feet from the wide city streets.

From The Gospel in Action, by Thomas C. Romney, page 199. Speaking of Shadrach’s tenure as bishop of the Sixteenth Ward which began on April 14, 1849: “He served in that capacity until his failing health required his resignation. Under his administration the first building in the Sixteenth Ward, for combined church and school purposes was erected. At a special meeting held June 10, 1854, a Relief Society was organized by Bishop Roundy and counselors, known as the ‘Benevolent Society,’ to make clothes for the Indians.” The Relief Society, founded and discontinued in the Nauvoo years, was not reorganized as a church wide organization until 1867. The Sixteenth Ward was organized in February, 1849. In 1849 a log meeting house-school house was erected. In 1854, while Shadrach was still the bishop, a larger adobe ward building was constructed which served until 1872. This larger meeting house was erected on the corner of First North and Fourth West on land donated by Shadrach. This 1854 church house was replaced by an even larger rock building in 1872. From the Jubilee History of Latter Day Saints Sunday Schools, 1849-1899, published by Deseret Sunday School Union, Salt Lake City, 1900: “In the spring of 1853, the bishopric of the (16th) ward organized a Sunday School and placed John Pulsipher in charge. This School was discontinued some time later.” While Shadrach served as bishop of the Salt Lake City 16th Ward both a Relief Society and a Sunday School were organized though neither were lasting. The 16th “Ward Square”, later known as “Union Square”, served for years as a favorite camping site for emigrants, then was the first campus site of the University of Deseret, and later the site of West High School.

Found in My Life’s Review, a Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Johnson, Grandin Book Co., Provo, 1997, on page 119, the following statement: “I was now called by the Presidency to be ordained Bishop of the 16th Ward, but as I suggested Br. Shadrach Roundy as an older and better man, he was ordained.”

From LDS Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Vol. 1, writing about Frederick Kesler:

“Kesler, Frederick, second Bishop of the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City.....He was ordained Bishop April 7, 1856 and presided over the Sixteenth Ward for 43 years.”

From Family History Library Film 972374: Book of Remembrance, Sixteenth Ward, Riverside Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, is a filmed copy of this 1945 book. At the beginning of this book is a nice plat diagram of the original Sixteenth Ward. The names of the owners of individual lots are shown on this map. Union Square and the sites of the original 1849 log meeting house, 1854 adobe chapel, 1872 rock chapel, and an even later chapel are indicated. The ward was made up of 10 acre blocks, usually divided into eight same sized rectangular lots. The Shadrach Roundy lot is on the southeast corner of the block which fronts First North Street on the south and is bounded by 3rd West Street on the east and 4th West Street on the west. The Union Square block is situated east, across 3rd West Street, from the “Roundy block”. To repeat, the Roundy lot and home was on the northwest corner of the intersection of First North Street and 3rd West Street of early Salt Lake City. The original Roundy land holdings, as shown on an early plat map of Salt Lake City, consisted of the four 1.25 acre lots which made up the south half of this block. This plat map names as owners; Shadrach Roundy, the lot on the southeast corner of the block, and “Lorin H.” Roundy as the owner of the lot on the southwest corner of the block. Jared Curtis Roundy’s lot was the lot just north of Shadrach lot, and Lorenzo Wesley Roundy’s lot was the lot just north of Lauren’s lot. These were probably original “inheritance” lots. Sometime later, after the Roundy brothers begin farming in Davis County, the lots belonging to Lorenzo Wesley and Jared Curtis were sold or assigned to others, and Shadrach then seemed to own or control the two lots facing First North Street. The 1854 adobe ward and 1872 rock chapel were located on the southwest corner of this block, on land donated by Shadrach and Betsey, and previously owned by Lauren H. . If so, then Shadrach once owned two adjoining 1.25 acre lots which made up the southern most quarter of his block. (Note, what was 3rd West Street in early Salt Lake City is now 4th West)

The author has a poor picture of Shadrach’s and Betsey’s Salt Lake City, 16th Ward home.

This picture is also found in Jesse Lenard Warner’s booklet The Roundy Family. The house is a two story structure, reasonably sized, with fireplace and chimney at each end, the roof has a shallow slope. Rather it is frame, brick or adobe can’t be discerned. A women, possibly Betsey, is standing in the open front door which is shaded by a small brush roofed porch. There are four front facing windows upstairs, and a larger window on each side of the door on the ground floor. The house is set back from a gated picket fence, and on each side of the path from gate to front door are young but tall, possibly poplar, trees. The edge of another sizable building can be seen on the left. The author does not know when this picture was taken.

One page of this Book of Rembrance has a well made drawing of the 1854 adobe ward house. Following are selected excerpts from this book:

“Shadrach Roundy became the second bishop on April 14, 1849 with John S. Higbee as First and Levi Jackman as Second Counselors. On October 5, 1849 John S. Higbee was called on a mission, and Levi Jackman became First Counselor and Joseph Fielding as Second Counselor.”

Found under the heading BISHOP ROUNDY: “During the period that Shadrach Roundy was Bishop the ward was continually being augmented by emigration from foreign countries, many of who were convert from Wales who came into the Valley with Captain Daniel Jones in 1849, when he returned from a most successful mission to his native land.....(then follows a list of early ward members including)....Shadrach Roundy and sons....”

Under the heading First Sunday School and Relief Society: “Under direction of Bishop Roundy, the first meeting and school house was built in the Ward in 1849, and then later in 1854 a larger building of adobe was erected. The first Sunday School was organized by him in 1853 with John Pulsipher as Superintendent and his wife as Assistant. The first Relief Society (then known as a Benevolent Society) was organized June 10, 1854 with Patty Sessions as President and Mary Pulsipher as First and Judith H. B. T. Higbee as Second Counselors, Mercy R. Thompson, Secretary and Betsy Roundy as Treasurer. Before being replaced as Bishop he (Shadrach) made a survey of the Ward for provisions on hand and turned in the following report to Presiding Bishop Hunter on March 20, 1856.....Number of persons in Ward 490, number of bushes of wheat 124, corn 71½ , potatoes 322½, beans 1½, barley 5.75, number of pounds of flour 6,255, corn meal 1917, meat 1316, acres of land to seed 771½ , cash on hand $719.15.”

“Brother Levi Jackman was acting Bishop of the Ward while Bishop Roundy was on a foreign mission for the church.” This statement likely refers to Shadrach leaving on October 19, 1849, as Captain of the eastbound “Missionary Company”, wintering at the Missouri River, and finally getting back to the Salt Lake Valley on September 10, 1850. Found under:

“Bishopric Chronology.

Date Bishop First Counselor Second Counselor

February 22, 1849 Isaac Higbee (No Counselors)

April 14, 1849 Shadrach Roundy John S. Higbee Levi Jackman

October 5, 1849 Shadrach Roundy Levi Jackman Joseph Fielding

October 19, 1856 Frederick Kesler George C. Riser William Derr”

Also, found under headline “Ward Bishops” are pictures of all the Sixteenth Ward Bishops up to 1945, including a picture of Shadrach Roundy, and their service tenures as follows:

“Shadrach Roundy Frederick Kesler

Bishop April 14, 1849 Bishop October 18, 1856 7 years 6 months 42 years 8 months”

Note, Church Historian, Andrew Jenson, as quoted above, in his LDS Biographical Encyclopedia claims, as do other sources, that Kesler “was ordained Bishop April 7, 1856”. The above dates suggest that Shadrach served some months after this ordination date?? Bishop Kesler kept a book known as the First Bishops Book, from 1856 to 1882. This book lists fast offerings and distributions, teacher report meetings, excommunications, Bishop’s Courts, repeat baptisms and confirmations, names of contributors to the Deseret State Telegraph Lines and the names of those who worked on various ward and church projects. The Book of Rembrance has as a concluding statement on Shadrach:

“Was a Captain of the Silver Grey’s and one of the first settlers of the 16th Ward.... Bishop Roundy died in Salt Lake City, July 4, 1872 as a true and faithful member of the church.”

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This line bound section comes entirely from gleanings from Family History Library microfilm 0026679. This film reproduces minutes, membership records, ordinances, etc., of the Salt Lake Stake 16th Ward during the periods when Shadrach Roundy and Frederick Kesler served as bishop. Also, apparently, some portions of Keslers First Bishops Book. Selected excerpts taken from this microfilm follow next.

Section 1, of a ordinance passed by the Great Salt Lake City council reads, “ Be it ordained by the city council of Great Salt Lake City that said city be, and is hereby divided into school districts corresponding in number and boundary with the several bishops wards”. The ward bishops were to call meetings to elect three member Boards of Trustees, to help the bishop develop and direct the ward schools. But plans for a 16th ward school seems to have begun prior to this 1851 city ordinance. From minutes of a 16th Ward meeting held October 26, 1850: “The ward convened at the house of Bishop Roundy to take into consideration the propriety of building a School House for the ward. The bishop said his mind was to build a log house and dispose of it when we get a better. Motioned by Zerah Pulsipher that we build a log house 16 by 18. Voted unanimous It was agreed that said house be built by a tax on all property in the ward taxing lots in the ward at 25 cents each. Zera Pulsipher Elnethin(sic) Eldridge & Charles Foster was appointed the building committee. After which Bishop Roundy exerted (for exhort?) the Brethren to a faithful discharge of every duty obligatory upon them that we might enjoy the blessings flowing from the same with other appropriate remarks.” This school house was quickly built.

“December 18 (1855).....Bishop Roundy asked the Brethren if they were satisfied with the house to which the Brethren responded yes. After which a vote of thanks was given to the committee for the dilagence in erecting the house. Zera Pulsipher was appointed to superintend the school afairs. After which it was voted that the school be supported by a general tax on the inhabitants of the ward & William C. Stains be asessor & collector & treasurer of the ward.”

“January 13, 1851 The bishop called the Teachers of the ward together to instruct them concerning the visiting the Brethren & Sisters in the ward. He exerted the Brethren to visit in the spirit of meekness. To exert the Brethren to pray in their families pay their tithing attend the meetings in the ward etc. etc. after the teachers expressed their views on the subject of teaching the Bishop laid his hands on the heads of Thomas Jeremy, Harrison Burgess, Wm. Thompson & Zera Pulsipher and blest them that they might be faithful and dilagent in the discharge of their duties as Teachers. After which Bishop Roundy said that he wanted his blessing Brother Z. Pulsipher then laid his hand on the head of Bishop Roundy & blest him after which all the Brethren said amen.” Zerah Pulsipher, who lived in Rockingham, Vt., at the same time as Shadrach, was one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventy, a general authority.

These records have minutes taken at many “Teachers Meetings”, in which members of the Bishopric attended. Teachers were assigned to each block in the ward and at these meetings reported on the conditions, welfare and harmony of the people living on their block.

“February 4 1853 The inhabitants of the 16th Ward met at 6 PM to make arrangements to build a School House etc. The meeting was opened with singing and prayer by Levi Jackman after some remarks by Bishop Roundy.....It was agreed that Bishop Roundy hire a Teacher for the next quarter & agree to pay in such things as we have to pay in such as prod(uce) After which the Bishop & his counselors was voted in the building committee of the School House. It was agreed that the work of the house comence on Monday the 9th instant. Thomas R Hawkins was appointed as asessor and collector of the ward. The Brethren agreed to haul sand clay rock sleepers & lumber on the ground immediately. Dismist by prayer by S. Roundy.”

So in early 1853 plans for building a better School and Ward Meeting House were finalized. It would seem unlikely this was another interim building, and more likely the planning for the “1854 Adobe” ward school and meeting house.

On July 3, 1855, arrangements were made by the bishop to add a font for baptisms. On “July 2nd 1855 the bishop with J. A. Bouk C. Rodeback & Thos. Cottam – boy & team– was called upon to fetch & get willows for a bowery to celebrate the 4th of July.” On “August 2nd 1855 Being the first Thursday in the month the Bishop and several Brethren & Sisters met at the 16th Ward School House for the purpose of blessing children & fasting & prayer. After meeting being opened by singing & prayer the Brethren spoke and the spirit of God was in our midst and we enjoyed ourselves well.”

These records contain minutes of Bishops Courts where Shadrach presided. In the last half of 1855, for example, 16th Ward Bishops Courts were held June 27, September 1, October 10, October 29, and December 8. As examples, excerpts from two court proceedings are given below. The October 10, 1855, court was a case between husband and wife, wherein the wife complained that her husband was always drunk and when drunk physically and mentally abused her. Excerpt:

“Bishop Roundy arose spoke upon the subject that had brought us together – and that he had labored considerable to reconcile the parties & settle the difficulties – but all in vain. He then again urged them yet to settle the difficulty but they could not agree....”

Second, a bishops court convened February 25, 1856, “before Bishop Roundy”, involved a disagreement over a trade between the parties. Excerpt:

“Bishop Roundy – This is a matter of long standing – the parties have had a deal of talk on the subject – it has been investigated before referees – but they are not satisfied Now we wish you to be truthful and honest – speak the truth without mystifying – let the truth be brought forth and the matter will soon be settled....”

These minutes have records of marriages, bills of divorce, first baptisms and re-baptisms, and the blessing of small children. On February 15, 1852, fourteen children were blessed by “Bishop S. Roundy Levi Jackman and Joseph Fielding. Some of these ordinances which deal with Roundy’s follow:

1) A blessing given “Henriett daughter of Henry & Nancy Lindsay born Oct 15 1852.” This was Shadrach’s and Betsey’s grandaughter and the daughter of Nancy Jane.

2) “Biram A. Roundy born in Nauvoo, Illinois”, was baptized by Joseph Fielding in March of 1854. “Biram” was probably Byron Donalvin Roundy, Sr., the son of Lauren Hotchkiss and Johanna Carter.

3) “Lylla J. Roundy daughter of L. H. and Jane. Born Dec. 25, 1865, in Utah, baptized Oct 1 1874 by John Cottam, confirmed Oct 1 1874 by L. Jackman.” Lylla J. = Lillian Jane, Shadrach had died prior to this baptism.

4) Under “Baptisms on Saturday – August 11th 1855 by S. Roundy Bishop confirmed Sunday August 12th by S. Roundy Levi Jackman & Wm. McIntyre....Nancy Jane Roundy Lindsey (born)U. S. Geaugua Co. Ohio.”

On a undated survey of 16th ward members the following vital information:

1) “Lindsay, Nancy Jane born May 22, 1835 in Ohio”

“Henryett born October 15, 1852 in Utah”

2) “Roundy, Shadrach born January 1 1789, in Vermont, Farmer”

“Roundy, Betsy born June 29, 1795 in Vermont”

Shadrach and Betsey contributed goods, services and money to the church, 16th ward and poor. Some examples of their generosity follow:

1) In 1865, a list of cash donations, to support a man from the 16th Ward who was going to Denmark on a LDS mission, is found in Bishop F. Keslers 16th Ward Book. Shadrach whose name appears first on this list gave three dollars, the largest donation listed.

2) During the years 1856-1863, Sharach Roundy is named regularly as a donor of money and goods on Bishop Kesler’s “Account of Fast”, which offerings were to assist the needy in the 16th Ward. Shadrach’s offerings included flour, potatoes, tea and other goods.

3) In 1856, Shadrach Roundy, then 67 years old, was credited for working ½ day on the “Big Cottonwood Canal” project. Sixteenth Ward members were not likely to benefit directly from the completion of this project. Perhaps this was a LDS church project.

Shadrach Roundy seems to have been replaced as the bishop of the 16th ward in April of 1856, rather than in October of 1856 as indicated in “ Remembrances “of the 16th Ward quoted prior. These records and minutes make clear that in the spring of 1856, Bishop Frederick Kesler was fully in charge of the ward, presiding over Bishop’s Courts and other ward functions. In these records under the heading of General History is clear evidence that Kesler promptly replaced Roundy soon after the April 1856 conference as given next:

“General History”

“Frederick Kesler appointed Bishop of the 16th Ward at the general conference April 7, 1856. He immediately comenced the duties of his office, by calling an extra fast in the middle of the month for the benifit of the poor as many were intirely destitute....” A monthly fast had been “established some years previous”, likely under Shadrach’s tenure as ward bishop. Also in this general history, in response to a visit by Jedediah Morgan Grant and the ongoing reformation of 1856-57: “The bishop commenced rebaptizing the people of the 16th Ward March 4th 1857.” We could assume that the 16th Ward Roundy’s were baptized again at this time.

One last quote from this “General History”: “ Sept. 28th 1857, Bishop Kesler (also a Major in the Nauvoo Legion) was called upon to raise 25 able bodied men which was done by calling out the entire Batalion which constitute the male members of the 16th Ward & selecting the best prepared for a speedy march....” This would be men called to defend the mountain passes and canyons leading into Salt Lake Valley from “Johnston’s Army” which was then marching towards Utah. It is not likely that Shadrach, at age 68, would have been selected for hard duty, but he may have mustered and been assigned to a more passive duty.

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As a further example of a bishops duties in the 1850's; the Deseret News, of September 14, 1850 and other issues carried a notice of the names of the distribution agents for the paper. After listings names such as “Joel H. Johnson, Mill Creek, Ezra T. Benson, Tooele” this notice ends with “and all the acting Bishops in the city. Unless subscribers advise us to the contrary, we shall send their papers to our agent nearest their residence.”

From the 1850 census for Salt Lake County: (Note this census was not begun until 1851)

Name Age Birthplace

Shadrach Roundy 62 VT

Betsey 55 VT

Jared C. 24 NY (not married in 1850)

Nancy 15 Ohio

From the 1850 census for Davis County:

Name Age Birthplace

Lorin Roundy 33 NY

Jane 19 Canada (2nd wife, Jane Anne Koyl)

William 5 Ill (son, William Heber)

Julie ½ Des (daughter, Julia Rebecca, b.1849, d. 1852)

Lorenzo W. 31 NY

Susannah 30 Canada (2nd wife, Susannah Wallace)

Miran 7 Ill (son, Myron Shadrach)

Wesley 3 Des (son, Wallace Wesley)

Melinda 1 Des (daughter, Malinda Elizabeth)

Byron Donalvin Sr. not listed. Perhaps he was living in SLC with Shadrach and Betsey, although he was not listed as domiciled in Shadrach’s home. The ages given in this census do not always seem right, perhaps because the 1850 census for Utah did not begin until April 1851. Des = Deseret. A girl, “Harriet Coyle”, age 15, was listed as living with Lauren and Jane. Perhaps a sister or another relative of Jane’s living with them. Federal Census data for other years will be appended.

Shadrach was one of twelve men to draw up and sign a petition headed: “Great Salt Lake City, January 12, 1851.” This petition reads in part: “To the Honorable City Council of Great Salt Lake City....Gentlemen: We, your petitioners, members of the Grand Jury of Great Salt Lake County...represent to your Honorable Body that that part of the city known as ‘Old Fort’ is a nuisance to this city, a filthy, unwholesome place, fit for nothing, only a cage for unclean beasts, and hardly that. We, your petitioners, therefore, pray your honorable body to pass a law that the same shall be demolished....” For the full text of this petition by the grand jurors see, Salt Lake City Council Book A, 1851-1859, page 12, as reproduced on Family History Library microfilm 0179775. The next day (January 13) an entry in the LDS Journal History, 1851, page 3, reads: “The City Council of Great Salt Lake City passed an ordinance for the removal of buildings, fences, poles, etc., from the ground occupied by the ‘Old Fort’...” So Shadrach served on the Salt Lake County Grand Jury, which appears in part to be made up of men that served with Shadrach in the Salt Lake Stake High Council. Soon after Brigham Young’s company entered the Salt Lake valley in the fall of 1848 permission was granted for the Saints to move out of the forts and build on their “inheritance” city lots.

On April 5, 1851 the Deseret General Assembly dissolved and the provisional government of the “State of Deseret” merged into that of the Territory of Utah. The first Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory convened at the Council House on September 22, 1851. Shadrach is said to have served in the first Utah Territorial Legislature. Shadrach, as noted above had served in the Senate of the Provisional Government of Deseret. I have found no contemporary evidence that Shadrach ever served in the Utah Territorial legislature.

A January 30, 1851, city ordinance divided Great Salt Lake City into four municipal ward. On April 7, 1851, “Shadrach Roundy was appointed Butcher in the 3rd M Ward”. Each ward had a butcher appointed. The third municipal ward was that portion of the city west of East Temple Street and North of South Temple Street. Source: Great Salt Lake Council, Ordinance Book A.

From BYU Studies, Vol. 20, Winter 1980, in an article by D. Michael Quinn. In minutes of a Council of 50 meeting held August 25, 1851, it was commented that: “S. Roundy was appointed a mission East two years ago and never made a report, if the (council) wants it he is ready to make a report.” This mission was probably related to the attempt to establish the “Carrying Company” and the “Swiftsure Line”.

The LDS church requested a listing of the heads of households and the ward to which each belonged in 1852. This brief census, also know as the “Bishops Report of 1852” was enumerated by the several ward bishops. According to Early Church Information File cards both Lauren Hotchkiss and Lorenzo Wesley were recorded as residing in the North Cottonwood Ward. Lauren was listed elsewhere in the “Bishops Report of 1852” as living in the Palmyra (read Spanish Fork) Ward. It is possible that the Roundy brothers had a property or business interest in the North Cottonwood Ward area, but more likely they were just engaged in off-season employment or a temporary calling. Jesse Lenard Warner, in his The Roundy Family writes that the Parrish family had a farm at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, however, Lorenzo Wesley Roundy did not marry Priscilla Parrish until 1857.

From Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 16, No 1, Spring 1983, in an article entitled Forgotten Relief Societies, by Richard L. Jensen, is found a discussion of the organization of “Benevolent Societies” in 1854 to clothe and feed the Indians. A Sixteenth Ward Benevolent Society was organized on June 10, 1854, under the direction of Bishop Shadrach Roundy who called the ward sisters together, acting on advise given prior by Brigham Young. A number of wards formed “Benevolent Societies” prior to and after Brigham Young encouraged them. The clothing of the Native Americans was mostly confined to 1854, after which these societies turned their attention to helping the needy in their respective wards. With the coming of the reformation of 1856-1857 and then the “Utah War” there was a retreat from pluralism. This and the discontinuity of wards caused by the “move south” led to the discontinuation of most of these early Utah “Relief Societies” and several other organized cultural societies. In her calling as treasurer Betsey Roundy often purchased the cloth and other articles needed to make the clothing for the Native Americans.

From the Biography of George Gwillym Bywater, as quoted in LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, compiled by Andrew Jenson: “Nov. 27, 1854, he (G. G. Bywater) was married to Martha Jones, eldest daughter of Rees and Martha Jones, by Bishop Shadrach Roundy of the Sixteenth Ward.”

From Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions, edited by Donna Toland Smart, Utah State University Press, Logan Utah, 1997, several quotes. Patty’s entry for January 19, 1855 reads: “I have been to see the Bishop (Shadrach Roundy) he told me he would apoint a meeting for the sisters next week as the Presd (President Brigham Young) had caled on us to do somting for the poor said we had clothed the squaws and children firstrate we now must look after the poor in each ward.” Eight days later Patty’s entry for January 27, 1855, reads: “....went to the female society of benevolence Bishop Roundy there had a good meeting received much good instruction from him.” Here the Indian Benevolent Society is changing into a ward Relief Society to aid the poor and sick and provide a venue for faith promoting meetings for the sisters. Betsey Quimby Roundy continued to serve as treasurer of this society until at least November of 1856. On June 29, 1855 Patty’s entry reads: “Went to a pic nic ragcarpet party to Bishop Roundys.” This party was surely a ward relief society working party.

Patty Bartlett Session also states in her diaries that she and members of her family went to Shadrach Roundy’s residence to celebrate the fourth of July and observe the legion parade and other festivities from his lot in 1856 and 1857. Did other neighbors and friends convene at Shadrach’s and Betsey’s lot to celebrate the fourth of July, and possibly other holidays, as a regular occasion for some years, or was Shadrach’s home merely along the parade route? Remember that the 1854 “Adobe School and Meeting House” was built on land once owned by and just west of Shadrach’s and Betsey’s lot, and as mentioned elsewhere in 1855 Shadrach, as ward bishop and other 16th Ward members gathered willows for “a bowery to celebrate the 4th of July”. It is possible that ward members gathered at the church grounds which was adjacent to Shadrach’s home.

The Family History Library microfilm 908218 titled: Salt Lake City, 16th Ward Records 1853-1890 was examined. These records consist mainly of a partial listing of 16th Ward members, and baptism records for the ward. Among the members listed: 1) “Roundy, Elizabeth D., rec. 19 Sept. 1886, St. David, St. Joseph Stake”, and 2) “Roundy, Lylla J., b. 25 Dec. 1865, d. of L. H. Roundy and Jane, bap. 1 Oct. 1874, 16 Ward by John Cottam.” Lillian Jane Roundy, Granddaughter of Shadrach and Betsey, born 25 Dec. 1865, was called “Lylla”. The records of baptisms were examined, Shadrach apparently did not perform many baptisms in his ward. One person baptized by Shadrach was Frederick Kesler, Jr., who was “baptized by S. Roundy 23 Sept. 1855.” According to an Early Church Information File card: “ Roundy - Biram A.,” born “1844" in “Nauvoo, Illinois” was baptized “Mar. 1854" in “Salt Lake City, Utah” by “Shadrach Roundy”, Record No. “16th Ward MS” page “filled in Re. Bapt 1808 page 106”, confirmed by “Joseph Fielding”. Apparently, Shadrach baptized his grandson Byron Donalvin Roundy, Sr., in the 16th Ward in March of 1854.

Family History Library microfilm 485555 which is a filming of the Utah Territorial Militia Muster Rolls for the years 1849-1870, contains some dates when Shadrach mustered with his company of Silver Greys. This militia, really the reorganized Nauvoo Legion, was organized in 1849 as the military appendage of the Provisional Govenment of Deseret. The following information about Shadrach was found on these muster rolls:

On the muster roll of “Company B, Silver Grey Battalion of Infantry, Nauvoo Legion. Commanded by Major David Pettigrew, Reynolds Cahoon Captain of the Company”. Mustered in “Great Salt Lake City ”, on October 15, 1855, this roll lists Shadrach Roundy as a private in this company. Shadrach’s equipment on this day was listed as consisting of: “1lb powder, 2lbs lead, a power horn” but no sword.

On a muster roll of “Company A, Silver Grey Battalion, commanded by Major David Pettigrew. Reynolds Cahoon Captain commanding”. Which muster took place in Great Salt Lake City, July 4, 1857. Shadrach Roundy is listed as a private in the third platoon of Company A. Shadrach’s equipment this day consisted of: “1 musket, 6lbs lead, 1 sword”. This muster was probably in anticipation of a 4th of July celebration and parade, and just precedes general knowledge that a federal army was marching to Utah to escort newly appointed governor Cummings and to put down a supposed Mormon rebellion in Utah.

Shadrach’s name was not seen earlier than the 1855 muster date nor after the 1857 muster date amongst these records. One wonders if 68 year old Shadrach, and his company of Silver Grey’s, performed any form of active duty during the “Utah War”. While listed as a private in these muster rolls, Shadrach had been commissioned a “First Lieutenant” to the Silver Grey’s

at the original April 1849 reorganization of the Legion in Utah.

From The Roundy Family in America; page 232: “Repeatedly the local (Salt Lake) newspapers mentioned his (Shadrach’s) activities and public services. It might be mentioned that he would be called upon to serve on a jury, or head a committee to destroy rats or other rodents, or preach a sermon in church, or attend a prayer circle, He could do any of these things and many more with equal efficiency.... During the latter part of his life he was a Patriarch. He was Captain of the ‘Silver Greys’ in the Nauvoo Legion......When Utah became a Territory of the Union in 1851, Shadrach was elected to its first legislature. He crossed the plains five different times to assist the poor immigrants to the Mormon Mecca in the Great West......Shadrach Roundy engaged in the mercantile business in Salt Lake City, the same occupation he had devoted his attention to in Nauvoo. Shortly after the Mormons arrived in the Great Basin, ‘gentiles’ flocked in. Inevitably trouble developed between the two groups.....It was during this period of bitterness and strife that Shadrach and the other merchants of Salt Lake got together in conjunction with Church officials and organized the Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution. It was incorporated in 1869, being established to make it possible for church members to trade with one another rather than with their enemies. The Mormons claimed it was co-operation for self-defense. Brother Roundy was a large stock holder in the Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution.” Shadrach would have been 80 years old at the time of incorporation. In anticipation of the coming railroad service, Brigham Young and church leaders encouraged Mormon business men and shop owners to combine inventories and business buildings to form the ZCMI organization. Shadrach, as a member of the intermittently active Council of 50 may, even at his advanced age, have voted with this Council for the establishment of ZCMI, complying with the will of Church authorities. The minutes of this General Council show that it met and voted for, thus ratifying, the establishment of this Co-Operative enterprise. Brigham Young always strived and hoped for economic independence for the Great Basin Saints, and hoped that ZCMI and other Co-Op ventures would allow goods produced in Utah by cottage and larger industries to remain competitive with goods arriving by rail.

From BYU Studies, Vol. 20, Winter 1980: “On October 9, 1868, the Council of 50 met and voted to establish Zions Co-Operative Mercantile Association.”

ZCMI was originally organized around Salt Lake City’s Mormon merchants, who contributed their inventories in exchange for stock in ZCMI. ZCMI originally functioned essentially as a wholesale outlet. A ledger is appended to Shadrach’s 1850 Journal captioned: “S. Roundy & Co.” Shadrach was said to be engaged in the mercantile business and this is likely why he functioned in the organization of, and is said to have became a stockholder in, ZCMI. At its organization Shadrach is not named on a listing of the major stockholders. Mormon merchants would have been prone to join this church sponsored business since LDS merchants not joining would have had to continue without the identifying icons, and would have been boycotted by other church members. Shadrach’s handwriting, as seen on this ledger page and in his 1850 trail side journal, is legible and attractive, his spelling is better than that found in most of the period journals and diaries of early church members.

The “Silver Greys” were a company of older legionnaire’s (partly ceremonial?). The Nauvoo Legion was reorganized April 28, 1849, and further organized in April 1852. The legion was organized under the direction of Generals C. C. Rich and Daniel H. Wells. Wells was ranked Lieutenant General and was the overall commander. The legion as organized consisted of two cohorts. The first cohort was a cavalry organization, and the second infantry. The “Silver Greys” were a company of men over 50 years old in the second or infantry cohort. This “Silver Grey” company was commissioned as the first company, first battalion, first regiment, and was commanded by Captain Jesse P. Harmon. I do not know much about Shadrach’s service period or duties in the company. Shadrach was listed as a private in a company of Silver Grey’s which mustered in 1855 and 1857. The Legion in Nauvoo had “Silver Greys” when Shadrach would have qualified. During the subsequent exodus and at Winter Quarters there are references to Silver Grey activities.

Shadrach biographies, including the one dictated by Shadrach and appended to his 1850 Trail Journal, say that he was a High Priest quorum teacher (probably in the Sixteenth Ward).

Shadrach and Betsey took in a number of children who needed a home, nurturing, and providing for. It is claimed that over the years they took in and raised in their home ten children. Some of these children were Shadrach’s and Betsey’s motherless grandchildren. Grandchildren taken in for nurturing, at least for some period(s), include grandsons, Byron Donalvin, Sr., William Heber, and Myron Shadrach, Sr., and granddaughters, Lillian Jane and Henrietta. A nine year old Native American boy named Edwin was living with them in 1860 (see the 1860 federal census for Salt Lake County). The following item in the Pioneer Memorial Museum as described in An Enduring Legacy, Vol. 1, page 60, allows a good example of Shadrach’s and Betsey’s charity towards needy children:

“No. 4584. Large White Sugar Bowl with Lid. Belonged to Ann Hagerty, who was born November 28, 1819. She married Robert James Wright and while they were in Nauvoo, Lydia Ann Wright was born. The family departed Nauvoo while Lydia was a baby, arriving in Utah in October, 1850. Just two weeks after their arrival both parents died. Lydia was taken into the home of Bishop Shadrack Roundy and here is where she lived until she was sixteen years of age and capable of earning her own living. At the time of her departure from his home, Bishop Roundy presented her with this sugar bowl, the only preserved possession of her mother.” Dr. Milton R. Hunter in The Roundy Family in America states that Shadrach and Betsy took in an orphan named “Lydia White”. Lydia last name was definitely Wright.

The following information about Lydia Ann Wright and her family was found in the 16th Ward records as reproduced on Family History Library microfilm 0026679:

“Robert Wright son of Alexander and Sarah Wright born in Oxford Village Cheshire County Pennsylvania Feb. 10th 1816 died in the 16th ward of Great Salt Lake City Utah Territory Nov 1st 1855. Ann Wright daughter of William and Ann Hagarty born in the township of Newgarden Cheshire County Pennsylvania November 28th 1819 died in the 16th Ward Great Salt Lake City Nov. 12th 1855

The following was took from a Book of the above Robert Wright the(se) are the births of his children

Joseph Henry Wright Born October 11th 1842

Sarah Amanda Wright Born April 7th 1844

Robert J. B. Wright Born August 6th 1848

George Washington Wright Born October 28th 1850

William Franklin Wright Born July 6th 1853

Lydia Ann Wright Born March 15th 1855”

Found a few pages later: “An Inventory or Schedule of Robert Wright’s goods appraised by Bishop Shadrach Roundy Levi Jackman Nov 16th 1855” Then follows lists of property given to Lydia Ann Wright and her sister Sarah. The lists include mostly inexpensive common items of clothing, bedding, and kitchen articles. Lydia’s list includes “one plate, one glass plate, one small plate, two glass tumblers”. Then there was this list:

“Betsy Roundy received of Robert Wright deceased – one set of plates, one bucket, one sack, one dress, one dish, two bowls, two pans, one bed quilt, one old sheet, one dress pattern, one cap, two old towels, one handkerchief, one picture, to yarn, eight lbs of wool, twelve yards of calico, one lb of thread, one pair of candlesticks, one bed quilt, three yards of jeans, one whiplash, one stove, six yards of cloth, two jugs, one pepersauce bottle, one set of plates, one set of cups, two pieces of old curtin, one old coat, one tin pale, one tin pale (repeat?) three fourths of a yard of satinette, one dress pattern, one flat iron, one musketoe bar, one under shirt, one (stand?) cloth, one bottle, one brass kettle, fourteen yards of calico, three yards of satinette, six lights of glass, one book, one keg, two & a half yards of jeans, one small (side?) of upper joiner tools.”

The stove was valued at $40, the total value of the goods Betsey receive from the Wright estate was $139.57. “Lights of glass” are small window panes. Since lists of properties were specified for both Lydia Ann and her sister, Sarah Amanda, and because the Special Utah Territory Census of 1856 lists both a “Lydia A.” and a “Sarah A.” as members of Shadrach and Betsey’s household it seems likely that Sarah Amanda Wright was also taken in by Shadrach and Betsey for at least some months. Lastly, from these minutes: “Lydia Ann daughter of Robert & Ann Wright born March 15th 1855 at Filmore Andrew Co. Mo. Blessed by S. Roundy & Levi Jackman Dec. 6, 1855”

In the April 2, 1897, issue of The Deseret News, there is a column submitted by Shadrach’s daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Jefford Drake Roundy, titled Shadrach Roundy: The Part Played by Him in the Early Days of Utah’s History. At the end of this biography Elizabeth writes: “I have a sword and musket that he brought with him; also have a bake kettle and two chairs that was used crossing the plains in 1847 which I will lend the committee for Jubilee if they wish. All I ask is that they be taken care of and returned to me at the close of the Jubilee.

Elizabeth J. D. Roundy

422 West First North, Salt Lake City.”

Jesse Lenard Warner, in a footnote on page 93 of his The Roundy Family, writes: “During the Centennial the family loaned the Daughters of the Utah (Pioneers ?) the sword presented to Shadrach Roundy by the Prophet Joseph Smith. They failed to keep it tagged and it lost its identity and it is lost in a bunch of swords in the same unidentified condition in the museum, although it was to be returned it was never returned.”

From the 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census reports for Utah one can roughly gauge Shadrach’s economic progress during his Utah years. In 1850 his reported net worth was $400. The entire amount was due to his “real wealth” (read land). In 1860 he reported his net worth to be $3000, of this $2000 was the value of his real wealth and $1000 was personal wealth. By 1870 Shadrach had a real wealth of $4000 and a personal wealth estimated at $200. I am not sure how much inflation or deflation may have taken place between 1850 and 1870, but it seems Shadrach had a gradually increasing net worth. I would guess that financially he was a little better off than the average Salt Lake City household, but not a “large stock holder” in ZCMI. Throughout his Mormon years Shadrach seems to have been a generous person.

From the Deseret Evening News, July 5, 1872: “DIED, Of old age, at 7 o’clock yesterday (Fourth of July) at his residence in this city, SHADRACH ROUNDY, aged 83 years, 6 months and 4 days....He resided in the state of New York, when the church was organized. Hearing of the work, and learning that the Prophet Joseph Smith had moved to Kirtland, Ohio, he visited that place, made the acquaintance of the Prophet, became convinced that the doctrines were of God and was baptized by him. He then returned to his home and emigrated his family to Kirtland......With the bulk of the people he remained at Quincy, Illinois until Nauvoo was selected as the new point at which the Saints should gather, when he removed thither....and was the first man to break the sod of the Great Salt Lake Valley with that great emblem of civilization, the plow....In 1849 he took a mission with President J. M. Grant to the States, to assist in gathering up the poor saints, and returned the next year.....For some years his health has been feeble, but, thought weak in body, he was always strong in Spirit. He never appeared in better health than about ten days ago, and thinking himself stronger then he was, exerted himself in his garden, caught cold and was prostrated. His passage from the world was like the falling asleep of a child....... The funeral will take place at 10 o,clock tomorrow morning, at Ballo’s Music Hall, in the 14th Ward. The friends of the deceased are invited to attend.” Ballo’s Hall, also known as Ballo’s Music Hall, was named after Delmonico Ballo who had a band. Ballo Hall was located at First South and between First and Second West.

Shadrach was buried in the Salt Lake cemetery. A new marker at his grave site gives the date of his death as July 2, 1872, which the author believes is a mistaken date obtained from the appendix of the Roundy Family in America, one should note that on page 234 of this book his death date is correctly given as July 4, 1872. Shadrach’s birth and death occurred on national holidays. His obituary is consistent with him being born January 1, 1789, and would seem to agree with McLellin’s journal entry as to where he was baptized - but is another source that claims he was baptized by Joseph Smith. Andrew Jenson and other biographers write that Shadrach and his younger brother Uriah, in the winter of 1830-31, rode horseback the ~50 miles from Spafford, New York to Fayette, where they met Joseph Smith were taught the gospel and were soon baptized. According to his obituary he lived, probably briefly, in Quincy, Illinois, after leaving Missouri in the spring of 1839.

From data compiled for and furnished by Nauvoo Restoration Inc, Land and Records Office, this excerpt without source or date:

“Quite a number of the friends of Bishop Shadrack Roundy, deceased, met at the residence of his widow, Mrs. Betsy Roundy, Sixteenth Ward, on Sunday, June 29, to celebrate her eighty-sixth birthday.” The author has seen Betsey’s birth year given as 1795. Since Betsey died on March 28, 1880, the above would be an argument for a birth year of 1793.

SHADRACH ROUNDY - SOME BIOGRAPHICAL

INFORMATION, DATES, ORDINATIONS & CALLINGS

Shadrach was probably born on January l, 1789. His birth place was Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont. A January 1, 1879, birth date agrees with his age as given in his obituary, is consistent with the birth dates of older sister Lucy who was born March 9, 1787, and his younger sister Naomi who’s birth date is given as February 11, 1791 (see Roundy Family in America). A birth year of 1789 is also in agreement with a statement that he was 25 when he married Betsey Quimby on June 22, 1814, but would be at variance if Shadrach and Betsey were married on February 27, 1815 as stated in Rockingham town records.. The alternative dates are January 1, 1788, as recorded in Rockingham town records, and the statement in his dictated biography that he was in the “80th year of his age” in August 1870. The Family History Library microfilm # 0028757 which contains the Rockingham,VT, vital records and deeds for the years 1790-1804 has a very legible record in Volume 2, page 902, of the birth dates of all twelve of Uriah’s and Lucretia’s children, apparently all recorded at once and after the birth of Matilda in 1803. If there are church or other records which also give Shadrach’s birth date as January 1, 1788, and were written on his birthday or soon after his birth the author could understand how an error might occur. Believing it likely that the recorder was in a year long habit of dating documents 1788 and forgot that it was the first day, or days, of 1789. However, the author got the impression that birth records, as recorded by the town clerk into the Rockingham records were initiated and supplied by the parents, although it is possible they were copied from a ministers list or church records.

Shadrach’s father was Uriah Roundy and his mother was Lucretia Needham. Shadrach was the fifth born of 12 children, having 3 brothers and 8 sisters. Shadrach’s father, Uriah Roundy. Sr., was born in Norwitch, New London County, CT, October 27, 1756. According to The Roundy family in America Uriah was the youngest of John and Mary (Bass) Roundy’s five children. However, convincing research reported in a 1990 monograph by Jesse Lenard Warner, titled The Roundy Family conclude that Uriah’s mother was not Mary Bass. Warner provides good evidence that Uriah’s father, John Roundy, married four women; his first wife was Deborah Johnson, his second wife, who’s name is not know, was the mother of Uriah and his full brothers Almond and Elmarich (or Elmariah) and his full sister Mary. John Roundy’s third wife was Mary Bass and his fourth, and last wife, was Sarah Harwood. John had children John, Jr., and Deborah by his first wife Deborah Johnson, a daughter, Clarissa, by Mary Bass, and a daughter, Edna, by Sarah Harwood. On March 20, 1797, Uriah filed a certificate recorded by the Rockingham town clerk which reads: “This is to certify that Uriah Roundy is of and belongeth to the Universalist Society in this town and contributes to the support of the same”. This certificate allowed Uriah to avoid the town “Ministers Tax”, by claiming his preference for or belief in the Universalist Church. Uriah, Sr., a veteran of the Revolutionary War, died in Rockingham, Windham Co.,VT, May 1, 1813.

Shadrach’s mother, Lucretia Needham of Norwitch, CT, was born September 9, 1760. Lucretia died in Michigan, December 6, 1848. She married Uriah Roundy, Sr., March 16, 1780. Frail and old, Lucretia in 1840-41 petitioned the Federal Government for a pension available to widows of Revolution War veterans, via a 1838 enabling act of congress, but her petition was ruled invalid. For the several legal documents dealing with Lucretia’s petition, and the federal governments denial, see Jesse Lenard Warner’s The Roundy Family, pages 35-42.

1813. Sometime after his fathers death in 1813, Shadrach, his mother, and all or most of his siblings still living in Rockingham moved from Rockingham to Spafford, Onondaga County, New York, where Shadrach’s older brother Asahel had settled in 1807. Shadrach sold land he owned in Rockingham on December 12, 1814. Shadrach’s oldest child Lauren Hotchkiss Roundy was born in Spafford on May 21, 1815/1816.

1814. Shadrach married Betsey Quimby of Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont, on June 22, 1814, (or May 22, 1814) in Rockingham according to The Roundy Family in America and LDS sources. Rockingham town records give their marriage date as February 27, 1815. They were the natural parents of 10 children. Betsey Quimby was his only connubial (mortal) wife. Betsey was married to Shadrach for 58 years. Betsey Quimby was born June 27, 1793, (alternative birth dates of 1795 and 29 Jan.1795 are found in the LDS Early Church Information Files) in Lunenburg, Vermont. She was the daughter of Moses and Hannah (Kennady/Kennedy) Quimby. Betsey was baptized in 1832 by Orson Hyde. Betsey died March 28, 1880, at her residence in the Salt Lake City, Sixteenth Ward, at age 86. At her death Betsey, the mother of 10 children, had 71 grandchildren and 73 great grandchildren. According to Betsy’s obituary in the Deseret News, March 29, 1880 issue: “During the past (last) three years she was sorely afflicted, being almost entirely helpless....funeral services at the 16th Ward school-house Tuesday morning, March 30th, at 10 a.m.” Family oral history claim that Shadrach declined a suggestion by church authorities that as Bishop he should be exemplary and take a plural wife. To paraphrase what the author was told by his mother, Zora Bell (Roundy) Pollock, Shadrach replied something like: I am the father of ten, have taken in an raised ten more, and am the father of a ward, and that should be enough. According to Vilate Roundy McAllister, Shadrach spurned plural marriage by telling the Church authorities that: “I am a Bishop in Israel and I have one wife, and if I can do right by her and by my children, I’ll take my chances with a just God.” However, the author does not think Shadrach or Betsey were opposed in principle to the “principle”. According to church marriage records Shadrach was sealed to three of Betsey Quimby’s sisters on December 7, 1870. Gerald B. Haycock, of Sandy, UT, told the author that these sealing of Betsey’s sisters to Shadrach took place December 7, 1880, if so these plural marriages took place after both Shadrach and Betsey had passed away. These three daughters of Moses and Hannah Quimby were, Lydia born June 13, 1781, Mary born June 5, 1785, and Roxane born in 1799. Two of Shadrach’s sons, Lorenzo Wesley and Jared Curtis, also served as ward bishops and both entered into plural marriages. Two of Shadrach’s daughters, Samantha and Almeda Sophia, were married to John D. Parker. Apparently both daughters married Parker on February 3, 1846, in Nauvoo, however, they were endowed under the name Parker in December, 1845. John Davis Parker (1799-1891) was born in Saratoga County, New York and may have been known by the Spafford Roundy’s. Nearer Shadrach’s age than his daughters, Parker, like Shadrach, was a Kirtland Seventy, served in the Nauvoo “Old Police”, served as a Captain of “100" in the camp of Israel and was an active Mason in the Nauvoo Lodge. If Shadrach was sealed to Betsey’s sisters on December 7, 1870, one might speculate that as Shadrach was waning, Betsey urged him to be sealed to her three sisters who had remained outside the church and had died prior. Finally, by the time the church had espoused plural marriage from the pulpit, Shadrach would have been in his sixties, and his age may have figured in his decision to remain monogamous in mortality.

Shadrach was a member of a 1825 six member, and a 1828 four member Board of Trustees for the Free Will Baptist Church in Spafford. This at a time when most Americans were unaffiliated with an institutional church.

Shadrach traveled to investigate the Mormon church and was baptized by William E. McLellin on January 30, 1832, in or very near Kirtland. Some biographers and church historians say otherwise, so the circumstances of Shadrach’s baptism for membership are disputed. Shadrach’s dictated 1870 biography reads: “ in the town of Spafford Onondaga County there he received the truth and the love of it through the spirit of inspiration In October he moved to Pencilvania to whare a large number was added to the Church During Winter in April moved to Ohio....” Shadrach’s obituary reads: “He resided in the state of New York when the church was organized, and learning that the Prophet Joseph Smith had moved to Kirtland Ohio, he visited that place, made the acquaintance of the Prophet, became convinced that the doctrines were of God and was baptized by him. He then returned to his home and emigrated his family to Kirtland.” Joseph Smith stayed the night of October 8, 1833, with Shadrach at Elk Creek, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Shadrach seems not to have moved to the Kirtland, Ohio, area until 1834. McLellin’s diary reads “....I baptized Shadrach Roundy from New York”. McLellin’s wording may not allow one to be certain Shadrach was domiciled in New York in January of 1832. However, the author thinks Shadrach was living in Spafford, N.Y. in January of 1832, and had traveled to Ohio to investigate the Church more fully and possibly to evaluate what prospects the Kirtland area offered. Satisfied, he was baptized by McLellin, sold his Spafford property in March of 1832, and soon moved his family closer to Kirtland.

1832. Shadrach, according to LDS records and the literature, was ordained an Elder by Orson Hyde and Samuel H. Smith, on March 16, 1832, or May 16, 1832. Perhaps an abbreviation of March was mistaken for May or conversely. Hyde and Smith, as companions, left Kirtland in March of 1832 on a mission to the eastern states. They visited Spafford, N.Y., preached, regulated and added members to the branch at Spafford and then “hastened on to Boston”. After preaching in the New England States they returned, reaching Kirtland in December 1832. Careful reading of the 1832 missionary diaries of Smith and Hyde and other pertinent source materials by Renee Mounteer have proved that on March 17, 1832, Hyde and Smith were still in Pennsylvania. From William Felshaw History, which, may be found on Family History Library fiche 6018185, one reads: When William and his wife were contacted by the Mormon elders, both joined the new founded religion. They were baptized in the town of Spafford, Ondaga (sic) County, New York on May 20, 1832, by Orson Hyde.” Form these and other consideration a May 16, 1832 ordination date seems correct. Further clues to this ordination date may be found in the claim that Shadrach’s wife Betsey was baptized in 1832 by Orson Hyde, and that Shadrach’s future son-in-law, John Davis Parker, is said to have been baptized by “Shadrach Roundy and Stephen Burnett” on May 1, 1832

1833. Shadrach was living at Elk Creek, Erie County, Pennsylvania in October, 1833. Apparently they lived there less than two years. In Rediscovering History: Mormons in Erie County Pennsylvania 1832-1833, by Cheryl Harmon Bean and Pamela Call Johnson, the authors state that Orson Hyde mentions visiting Shadrach’s sister by the name of “Baird” on 17 March 1832 at Quincy. This was while Hyde was on his 1832 eastern mission. Modern maps neither list or show a Quincy in Erie County. Shadrach’s sister, Hannah, married Silas Beard (or Baird) and his sister Naomi married John Beard (or Baird). This may explain why Shadrach’s family lived for some time in Elk Creek. It seems reasonable that Shadrach would have stayed with his sister while going to and returning from Kirtland in early 1832, and why Hyde may have been aware of the relationship. If Shadrach did have a sister living near Elk Creek it seem possible his family may have stayed with them for some portion of the time they resided in Erie County. Considering Shadrach’s large family and that he was able to take in guests at Elk Creek one would guess that he built, bought or rented a home there.

1834. Shadrach was still living in Elk Creek, PA, on February 26, 1834. Shadrach’s and Betsey’s daughter, Nancy Jane, is said to have been born in Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio on May 23, 1834 (or 1833). A birth year of 1834 for Nancy Jane is the more probable as it would agree with Shadrach’s dictated biography that he “in April moved to Ohio”, and the above statements paraphrased from Robert’s History of the Church, which have Shadrach and family residing in Elk Creek in late 1833 and early 1834. Willoughby, known as Chagrin before 1834, is perhaps four miles west of Kirtland.

1836 Shadrach was anointed January 25 or 28, 1836. This was also a time of covenant making, washings, sealings, confessions, etc. It is likely that Shadrach also experienced these privileges at this time.

Shadrach was ordained a Seventy and later ordained a High Priest, while in the Kirtland area. A biographical note says Shadrach was: “ordained seventy about March, 1836”. Shadrach was a member of the second quorum of Kirtland Seventies. It should be noted that compiled data on Shadrach Roundy obtained through the Nauvoo Restoration Inc., Land and Records Office, included the following: “Ordained High Priest: March 1836 in Kirtland by Hazen Aldrich.”

1836. A biographer writes that Shadrach and family moved to Kirtland in April, 1836.

1836. Shadrach received his license to preach the gospel on April 16, 1836, at Kirtland.

1836-38. Shadrach moved his family from Kirtland to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, or vicinity. He was at Far West and participated in a High Council Court on April 28, 1838, placing him in Missouri months before the Seventies of “Kirtland Camp” left Kirtland for Far West. A biosketch claims Shadrach moved to Caldwell County in 1836. If true, he lived in Kirtland proper briefly.

1839. January 29, 1839, Shadrach was one who pledged to help the poor and frail Saints out of Missouri. He was appointed to a committee of eleven to stay behind to aid and oversee the removal of all who wished to follow the Church to Illinois.

1839. Shadrach on moving from Missouri, in the spring of 1839, probably lived temporarily in Quincy, Illinois, and perhaps briefly in or near Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois.

1840. Shadrach and family were living in Nauvoo, Illinois by 1840, where he is said to have worked as a merchant. Shadrach had a wood working shop in Nauvoo. Was this carpenter shop a major source of livelihood? His Masonic records list his occupation in Nauvoo as a “farmer”. Shadrach’s and Betsey’s son, William Felshaw, is recorded as having died in Nauvoo on August 14, 1839.

1841. Shadrach was called by revelation to be a member of a Presiding Bishopric on January 19, 1841. He was sustained as a councillor to ward (or regional?) bishop, Vinson Knight, during conference, on October 8, 1841, but never served in a Presiding Bishopric.

1841. Shadrach was “received into the (Nauvoo) High Priest Quorum: 24 Oct. 1841.”

1841. On February 4, 1841, Shadrach was made one of the assistant aid-de-camp to General Joseph Smith, which was at the rank of captain. The 12 aid-de-camps served as part of Joseph Smith’s personal staff, but they were also his bodyguard, sometimes called his “lifeguards”.

1842. Shadrach was appointed one of 17 men who made up a “Night Watch”, shortly after May 19, 1842, (the day the “Night Watch” was authorized by the Mayor, Joseph Smith).

1842. August 6, 1842, Shadrach was pointed out as one “who shall do a great work in that land”,

referring to the Saints future Zion in the mountain west. See the several versions of the “Rocky Mountain Prophecy”.

1842 Shadrach served as a temporary member of the Nauvoo High Council. Shadrach apparently served on several High Council meetings or courts on a pro tem basis in 1842-1843.

1842. Shadrach was initiated in to Masonry on May 5, 1842, and was raised to Master Mason on May 14, 1842. The York Rite Freemasons were first organized in Nauvoo in December 1841. Eventually most priesthood holders affiliated. Shadrach was affiliated with the Nauvoo Lodge. Shadrach served as the Senior Warden of his lodge during the late Nauvoo years.

1843. Shadrach became a member of a 40 man police force in Nauvoo, known later as the “Old Police”, these hand picked men were sworn into office on January 29, 1843, by the Mayor, Joseph Smith.

1844. Shadrach was a member of a High Council in Nauvoo on June 15, 1844, probably as a temporary member substituting.

1844. June 28, 1844, Shadrach was one of twelve bodyguards who escorted the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum Smith into Nauvoo.

1844. Shadach received his Patriarchal Blessing in Nauvoo on July, 29, 1844.

1844. On October 8, 1844, Shadrach was chosen as one of 85 High Priest, by Brigham Young, to go and preside over branches and build up stakes in all congressional districts. Subsequent events disallowed filling this calling.

1845. On January 31, 1845, Shadrach was elected one of 12 trustees to the Mercantile & Mechanical Association of Nauvoo.

1845. March 1, 1845, Shadrach was appointed to the Council of 50, no doubt with Brigham Young’s approval.

1845. In September 1845, Shadrach was one of the men called by Brigham Young to help move persecuted outlying saints into Nauvoo.

1845. On October 11, 1845, Shadrach was appointed a Captain of 100 in the Camp of Israel.

1845. On December 25, 1845, Shadrach was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple.

1846. On January 22, 1846, Betsey Quimby Roundy was sealed to Shadrach Roundy at 5:55 PM, by Heber C. Kimball, in the Nauvoo Temple. Shadrach and Betsey also received their second anointing at 7:30 PM on this date in the Nauvoo Temple, Isaac Morley officiated.

1846. March - May, 1846 Shadrach carried mail and messages between Nauvoo and the camps in Iowa.

1846-47. Shadrach was ordained, sustained and served briefly as Bishop of the Winter Quarters fifth ward.

1847. March 23, 1847, Shadrach was named to a Committee of 10 men to “locate the city bounds” of Winter Quarters.

1847. On or before April 16, 1847, Shadrach was chosen to be one of the 1847 Pioneers. He was chosen to be a “Captain of 50" during the Pioneer trek on this day.

1847. On April 17, 1847, Shadrach was made one of two Majors in the military organization of the Pioneer company. He was major of the 2nd division, which was under H. C. Kimball.

1847. On July 13, 1847, Shadrach was chosen one of 47 men to serve in a vanguard company which reached Salt LakeValley on July 22, 1847.

1847. On July 22, 1847, Shadrach enters the Salt Lake valley. He is chosen one of a committee of five to select the planting sites, and was among the threesome that turned the first sod in the new Zion.

1847. On August 16, 1847, Shadrach was chosen to be one of two Captains, returning east with ox teams to help more Saints to the valley. He only went part way before returning to Salt Lake Valley. Some Shadach bio-sketches claim he was made “Captain of the 2nd Division”, presumably replacing H. C. Kimball who spent the winter of 1847/1848 at Winter Quarters.

1847. On October 3, 1847, Shadrach was sustained, at a church conference in Salt Lake City, a member of the first High Council in the Great Basin. This Council was chosen by Brigham Young and other members of the twelve while they were en route to Winter Quarters. As an active member of this High Council he served on various committees, as the Old and New Forts were being built and a city was being planned.

1848. Shadrach, as company Captain of twenty wagons, made a trip back east as far as western Nebraska, where his “back teams” met and then helped struggling Saints on to Salt Lake City. They left Salt Lake City on May 23, 1848, and got back to Salt Lake in early September 1848.

1848. Shadrach was sustained again to the Salt Lake Stake High Council on October 8, 1848.

1849. Shadrach was named supervisor to oversee the building of the Salt Lake Fort in the first years after settlement began in the Salt Lake Valley. He also personally maintained the ditch bringing City Creek water to the fort. Shadrach continued as a dominant personality in early Salt Lake City, serving on committees, juries, crews, and attending to the needy.

1849. February 1849, the Great Salt Lake Stake was reorganized and Shadrach was again made a High Councillor.

1849. On April 14, 1849, Shadrach became the Bishop of the Sixteenth Ward in Salt Lake City. Alternative dates for his ordination as 16th ward bishop are “April 16, 1849" and “May 1849".

1849. Shadrach was “elected”, seated, and served as one of the senators in the senate of the provisional government of Deseret.

1849. On October 19, 1849, Shadrach was chosen as company Captain for the first group of missionaries called from the Valley and leads them, and a few who were called on church business, back to the Missouri River.

1849-50. December-January 1849-1850. Shadrach becomes one of a group of 5 or 6 proprietors of the “Great Salt Lake Carrying Company” and “Swiftsure Line” who advertise and try to launch these ventures.

1850. During the period from early June 1850, to September 10, 1850, Shadrach as a company Captain leads saints, and possibly brings freight, from Iowa to Salt Lake City. This company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on the 10th of September. [LDS Family History contains his journal of the trip.]

1851. Shadrach, it is claimed, served as a member of the first Utah Territorial Legislature, after Utah was made a Federal Territory in 1851. [I doubt that Shadrach openly served. He was a Council of 50 member and may have had limited service in what historians call the “ghost government”.]

1856. Shadrach was released as Bishop of the Sixteenth Ward, reportedly because of failing health. April 7, 1856, was the date that his replacement, Frederick Kesler, was voted on to become the next bishop of the 16th ward during a general conference session, but Shadrach may have served as Bishop until October 19, 1856.

1868-69. Shadrach is said to have helped organize the ZCMI co-operative, and to have been a stockholder in ZCMI. ZCMI was organized in October, 1868, and began operations soon after.

1852? Shadrach was Captain of the “Silver Greys”, a company in the Nauvoo Legion Infantry Cohort made up of men over 50 years of age. The Nauvoo Legion was reorganized in 1852.

? In Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Shadrach is credited with being a “Veteran of Indian wars”.

? Shadrach was a High Priest quorum teacher, probably in the Salt Lake 16th ward.

? Shadrach is said to have been a church patriarch in his later years. As example Susan Easton Black in her Who’s Who in the Doctrine and Covenants, in a biography of Shadrach, writes “In his later years he was ordained a patriarch”. Gerald B. Haycock of Sandy Utah, has told the author that he had searched LDS sources in Salt Lake City, and could find no record of Shadrach being ordained a patriarch, nor any record of a patriarchal blessing given by him.

1872 Shadrach died on July 4, 1872, his memorial service was on July 6th, he was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. His name is listed on the Brigham Young monument as one of the original Pioneers.

Shadrach, who was quite capable of writing a Last Testament and Will, died intestate. On Family History Library microfilm 425669, which contains copies of the Salt Lake County District Courts probate proceedings, is found in Book D, page 395:

“1872 Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake, Probate Court for said County In the matter of the estate of Shadrach Roundy, deceased

Oct. 23rd On this day came Betsey Roundy and filed a petition in words and figures to wit:

To the Hon. Elias Smith Probate Judge in and for Salt Lake County Territory of Utah

The undersigned your petitioner respectfully represents that she is the widow of Shadrach Roundy who departed this life intestate on the fourth day of July 1872 possessed of property consisting of lands, chattel and personal effects which should be administered on for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of the said deceased and hereby waiving her right under the Statutes of the said Territory to administer on the estate of her husband the said deceased she respectfully asks that Letters of Administration be issued from the said Court to Jared C. Roundy son of the said Shadrach Roundy deceased with full power and authority to administer on and settle up the business of said Estate according to law and for this your petitioner will ever pray.

Salt Lake City October 23rd 1872

Betsey Roundy

Upon consideration of said petitioner the Court appointed the said Jared C. Roundy Administrator of the Estate of the said deceased and upon his filing a bond with approved security and taking and subscribing an oath for the faithful performance of his duties as Administrator of said Estate Letters of Administration were issued to him in word and figure to wit:

Territory of Utah, Probate Court, County of Salt Lake for said County

In the matter of the Estate of Shadrach Roundy deceased

Know all whom it may concern by these presents that I Elias Smith Probate Judge in and for said County in conformity with the Statutes in such case made and provided have appointed and by these presents do constitute and appoint Jared C. Roundy administrator of the Estate of Shadrach Roundy deceased with full power and authority to administer on and settle up the business of said Estate according to law under the direction of the Probate Court for said County or the Judge thereof

In witness where of I hereunto set my hand and cause the seal

Seal of said Court to be affixed the 23rd day of October A D 1872

E. Smith Probate Judge”

Shadrach’s and Betsey’s Children

Briefly and in order of birth:

1) Lauren Hotchkiss, born May 21, 1815 (or 1816) in Spafford, New York. The Roundy Family in America states that Lauren married Johanna Carter in 1843 in Nauvoo. Nauvoo Marriage Records 1842-1845, as found on Family History Library microfilm 0581219, read: “Laurin Roundy and Joanna Carter were joined in marriage, in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, upon the16th day of October 1842, by John Taylor, Elder.” Johanna died in Winter Quarters 5 February 1847. After the death of Johanna, Lauren married Jane Ann Koyl (or Koyle) in Salt Lake City. After the death of Jane Ann Koyl he married Martha Jane Edmondson in November 1868. Lauren and Johanna were the parents of 2 children; Byron Donalvin born January 29, 1844, and William Heber born February 5, 1846. Lauren and Jane Ann were the parents of 8 children but only six lived to maturity. Lauren and Martha Jane were the parents of 3 children. Lauren was named after an uncle, Lauren Hotchkiss, who married Shadrach’s just older sister Lucy. Lauren died March 11, 1900, in Knightsville, Utah. Lauren was baptized in 1833 by Curtis Hodgeson, and was rebaptized in Spanish Fork on 14 August 1852 by William Pace. Lauren was ordained a Seventy 24 November 1844, by Henry Jacobs, and became a member of the 13th Quorum. He and first wife Johanna were endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on 7 January 1847. Lauren was ordain a High Priest in 1851, Stephen Markham officiator. Lauren served as a counselor to bishop William Pace in Spanish Fork. Lauren was a member of the rescue party which went to the aid of the Willie and Martin handcart companies in fall of 1856. His name, spelled “Loren Roundy”, is displayed at the LDS Center at Devil’s Gate, Wyoming. Lauren great pastime and hobby was the breeding, and training of fine horses and in having matched teams and stylish buggies and buckboards.

2) Julia Rebecca, born April 5, 1817, in Spafford. She is said to have died unmarried at age 20 in Warsaw Illinois. If she died in Warsaw it was probably in 1839, and she would have been at least 21 years old if the birth date above is correct. LDS Ancestral Files indicate she was “sp-Joseph Smith”. An Early Church Information Card indicates that Julia was proxy baptized in Nauvoo by her mother Betsey Quimby Roundy under the name Julia Rebecca Whitney. A BYU, Lee Library, pedigree chart printed via the Internet gives the year of Julia’s death as 1837, but does not name the place where Julia died.

3) Lorenzo Wesley, born June 18, 1819 in Spafford. Lorenzo is listed as being a member of the Priests Quorum, in the lesser priesthood, on a March 21,1842 roll. According to The Roundy Family in America, Lorenzo married Adeline (Adaline) Whiting (1822-1845) on May 1, 1843, in Nauvoo. Nauvoo Marriage Records, as found on Family History Library microfilm 0581219, read: “Lorenzo D. Roundy and Adeline Whiting were joined together in the City of Nauvoo, Illinois, upon the first day of May 1842, by Amasa Lyman, Elder.” After the death of Adeline, Lorenzo married Susannah Wallace (1820-1892) on May 16, 1847, in Nauvoo, according to his bio-sketch in the appendix of The Roundy Family in America. (The author has marginal doubts that he was married in Nauvoo in May of 1847.) Family histories claim that Lorenzo married Susannah while crossing the plains in the summer of 1847. On April 22, 1857, in Salt Lake City, Lorenzo took as a plural wife Priscilla Parrish (1833-1914). Lorenzo was the father of 18 children. Lorenzo drowned in the Colorado River in 1876. Depending on which written source one reads, his death by drowning occurred on May 24,1876, May 25, 1876, May 27, 1876, May 28, 1876, or September 24, 1876. The author's great grandmother, Matilda Ann Roundy, was the daughter of Lorenzo and Susannah. Lorenzo, according to LDS records, was baptized in 1837. According to the Early Church Information File, Lorenzo was ordained a Seventy 8 April 1854 by Lewis Robbins and served in the 2nd Quorum of the Seventy, yet other LDS records claim he became a High Priest in May of 1845. When he was endowed in the Nauvoo temple on 22 January 1846 he was listed as a Seventy. Lorenzo received his Patriarchal blessing, No. 1599, from Patriarch John Smith on 30 December 1845 in Nauvoo, his lineage “House of Joseph”. Soon after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, he removed to the Roundy farm near today’s Centerville in Davis County where he farmed for several years and where ten of his children were born.

Lorenzo was an early Pioneer of Southwestern Utah. Called as one of a group of missionaries to labor in the Southern Utah Native American Mission in October of 1853, Lorenzo became an able leader and much depended upon by Brigham Young. Lorenzo helped found and/or buildup several settlements, especially Kanarraville, in Southwestern Utah. Lorenzo was the founder of “Upper Kanab”, helped build the first sawmill in Washington County and pioneered in Long Valley and Kanab in Kane County. He was a leader during periodic troubles with the Indians. Lorenzo helped investigate the circumstances of the Mountain Meadow massacre. He was called to serve as a member and leader of exploration trips into northern Arizona. Lorenzo built a large two-story brick home in Kanarraville where he hosted Brigham Young when Young passed through on his annual visits to Southwest Utah. Lorenzo was ordained bishop of Kanarraville, serving for several years before his untimely death required a replacement. He built the first gristmill in Kanarraville. In Kanarraville he owned a store and later became president of the Co-operative store there. Lorenzo, according to family stories was jovial, amiable, respected and revered, and although not very concerned about material things or his property seemed nevertheless to prosper. According to a brief sketch, Jared Curtis’ wife, Elizabeth J. D. Roundy, provided George Knapp Collins for his book titled Spafford, Onondaga County New York, Lorenzo was “a member of the (Utah) Nauvoo Legion .... He was superintendent of the Co-operative Mercantile Institution in Kanarra, Iron County, Utah, was two or three time elected to the Legislature, was ordained Bishop in 1860, and was finally made President of the Southern Colony of Mormons”.

4) Lauretta (also Laurette or Laura), born November, 1822 in Spafford. Married David Hamer (or Hamel) Beck in 1841 in Nauvoo. They had 10 children. The author has read that David Hamer Beck was not a member of the LDS church. Lauretta died in 1910 in Sacramento, CA. A pedigree chart downloaded from BYU’s Lee Library lists Lauretta’s birth as November 1821/1822, and her death date and place as October, 18, 1907, in Salt Lake City.

5) Samantha, born June 2, 1824, in Spafford. Married John D. Parker on February 3, 1846 at Nauvoo. Samantha died July 12, 1906 in Upper Kanab. Her grave stone in the Kanarraville cemetery reads “1824-1906”. According to family stories and biographies Samantha fell off a hay wagon when she was nine and was injured. This accident was thought to be the reason that she was physically stunted, frail, and never had children. Samantha, known to friends and family throughout her adult life as “little grandma” was the constant companion of her sister, Sophia, who was known by family and friends as “big grandma” As sister wives of John Davis Parker they were always together, at work, play or while hosting their many friends. After the death of their husband, both Samantha and Almeda Sophia lived out their last years with Sophia’s daughter, Matilda, at upper Kanab

John Davis Parker, who was born in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY, on November 22,1799, died in Kanarraville, Utah, on February 27, 1891. John married Shadrach’s and Betsey’s daughters Samantha and Almeda Sophia on the same day. According to written and oral family history, it was understood that he should marry frail and undersized Samantha when he married Almeda Sophia. Written histories of John state that he was baptized into the LDS church on May 1, 1832, by “Shadrach Roundy and Stephen Burnett”. John shared much in common with Shadrach during the Nauvoo years, body guard of the prophet Joseph Smith, Legion, Policeman, Mason, etc. John was a wagon maker by trade, at Brigham Young’s request, he remained five years on the Iowa side of the Missouri River, making wagons for Latter Day Saint families going to Utah. John and his family finally arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on August 28, 1852. John, according to family history, was raised in upstate New York by a well to do aunt where he was well schooled and learned something of several languages. John left his aunt's home early, and was said at age 13 to have joined the army to fight in the war of 1812. John first wife was Harriet Sherwood, who was said to be deaf and therefore dumb, they had four children who all died in infancy. John and Harriet latter divorced and John married the Roundy sisters in Nauvoo and later brought the family to Utah. After arriving in Utah, John and his family soon moved to Davis County, then moved to Morgan County, and finally settled in Kanarraville in Iron County in the 1860's. John served in the legislature of Utah Territory and as a probate judge. John, an ever faithful member of the LDS church, died in Kanarraville on the 17th of February, 1891, when more than 90 years old. He and his wives, Samantha and Almeda Sophia, are buried in the Kanarraville cemetery.

6) Jared Curtis, born January 5, 1827, in Spafford. Jared’s name appears on the rolls of the lesser priesthood as holding the office of a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood, under the title “Names of Teachers, Jany 6th 1844”. Jared Curtis arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on September 25, 1847. Married Lovise (also Lovisa) Jenne as his first wife in January 1852. A marriage date of February 26,1852, is given by Lovisa’s in her autobiography. He later married as plural wives, Eliza (Elizabeth) Jane Snyder, a first cousin to Lovise, in 1855 (alternate date May 9,1856); Ellen (called Nellie) M. White, a resident of Coalville, Utah, on December 20, 1883; and a somewhat older women, Elizabeth Jefford Drake Bellam Davis, on January 17, 1879 (or January 17, 1869). Elizabeth Jefford Drake was a talented English women who is well known for her work in the Relief Society and other women’s organizations and committees. Elisabeth was very successful in getting women’s signatures on various petitions and the reading of “Memorials” etc. She traveled with, corresponded with, and was a close friend of Eliza Roxcy Snow. Elizabeth was temporarily successful in her efforts to have the birthday of the Prophet Joseph Smith celebrated annually. Jared and Lovise had 9 children. Jared and Eliza had 1 child, a daughter named Lucy. Soon after Lucy’s birth Eliza left Jared. Jared and Ellen had 5 children. Jared and Elizabeth Drake had no children. Jared was perhaps asked to marry Elizabeth Drake, who his first wife Lovise, referred to as an “old women” and seemed not to like. Jared seems mostly to have worked at farming and freighting. Jared Curtis is said to have died accidentally on May 21 or 22, 1895, in or near St. David, Arizona. An alternate death date for Jared is May 24, 1897. Lovisa Jenne in her autobiography indicates that Jared died following an illness.

Jared was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple February 6, 1846. Jared was ordained a High Priest in 1856. Jared served first as Presiding Elder and then as the ward bishop in Wanship, UT, from July 9, 1877 - 1885. A thumbnail sketch Jared’s wife Elizabeth provided George Knapp Collins for his history of Spafford, NY, states that Jared “took part in all of the Indian Wars, was at one time Sheriff of Summit County .... and at one time was Justice of the Peace”. Jared is named as a private in the Territorial Milita muster rolls of 1851 and 1852. In June of 1857, Jared served 8 days in Grant’s Life Guards “in an expedition against the Utah Indians”. Other sources claim Jared served as Sheriff of Summit County and was a “commander in the Black Hawk war”. Jared lived for a period in Salt Lake Valley after his arrival in Utah in 1847. After he maried Lovisa he lived and farmed in Centerville with or near his brothers, then was called to Carson Valley, NV, but was recalled in the fall of 1857 because of the “Utah War”. After living at Centerville again, he and his family moved to Wanship, Summit County, UT, where he remained until moving to St. David, AZ, to avoid being arrested as a polygamist. He died in Arizona, where he had been living with Ellen, just before plans to return to Utah and reunite with Lovisa materialized. In her autobiography Lovisa praises Ellen White who treated the aging Lovisa well and fairly.

7) Almeda Sophia, born March 7, 1829, in Spafford. Married John D. Parker on February 3, 1846, in the Nauvoo temple. They were the parents of 10 children. Almeda Sophia died September 29, 1912, in Upper Kanab (Alton) UT. A pedigree chart obtained from BYU’s, Lee Library, gives Sophia’s death date as September 25, 1912. Her grave stone in the Kanarraville cemetery reads: “1829-1912”. In later life friends and family called Sophia “Big Grandma”.

8) William Felshaw, born November 1831, in Spafford, NY. Died August 14, 1839, in Nauvoo. Nauvoo Restoration Inc. records list a “William F. Roundy” as having died in Nauvoo. William was recorded as under eight years of age and dead when the “Spring of 1842” special Nauvoo census was made by the Aaronic Priesthood. There was a man named William Felshaw who was an early convert to the LDS Church. This William Felshaw was born on February 3, 1800, in Granville, Washington County, NY. An alternative birth date for this William Felshaw is January 1, (Shadrach’s birth date) 1800. Granville is about 40-50 miles from Rockingham, Vermont, where Shadrach was born and lived until about 24 years old. Shadrach’s oldest brother Daniel married as a second wife Ruth Beard on December 23, 1821 in Spafford. Ruth Beard was born in Granville in 1799. Finally, this William Felshaw, who was a carpenter and wood worker by trade, lived in Spafford, Onondaga County, NY, when he and his wife, Mary Harriet Gilbert were converted to the LDS church and there baptized on May 20, 1832, by Orson Hyde. Shadrach is said to have had a carpentry shop in Nauvoo, perhaps Shadrach and this William Felshaw worked together in Spafford. William and his wife lost there first four children at birth, their fifth child, Julia, was born in Spafford on June 27, 1832. It seems near certain that William Felshaw Roundy was named after this William Felshaw, perhaps because all his children who were born before William Felshaw Roundy’s birth had died as infants. Later both Shadrach and William Felshaw worked on the Kirtland Temple, served in Nauvoo bishoprics, and lived in Nauvoo’s 4th municipal ward.

9) Nancy Jane, born 1833 - 1836 in Willoughby, Ohio. The Roundy Book in America gives Nancy Jane a birth date of 23 May 1833 (1834). A listing in Shedrech [sic] Roundy’s Co, Camp Journal 1845 gives Nancy Jane’s birthday and birth place as May 21, 1833, Chagrin, Ohio. Chagrin was at about the time of Nancy’s birth renamed Willoughby. Early Church Information Files gives her birth date as 21 May 1834. Elsewhere her birth date is given as being in May of 1835 or 1836. Married first Henry D. Lindsay (or Lindsey) in 1852, and they had one daughter named Henrietta. Her marriage to Henry was brief, ending in a divorce granted February 27, 1857. Nancy then married Calvin Ichabod Foss and they moved to California leaving young daughter Henrietta with Shadrach and Betsey. Calvin and Nancy Jane were the parents of 8 children who were mostly named after Nancy Jane’s living and dead family members. Nancy Jane died in Sacramento, CA, on July 6, 1885. Cause of death was said to be due to tuberculosis. She was buried first in Sacramento’s Helvetia Cemetery, and then because of new construction, her body was exhumed and interred again in the Odd Fellow Cemetery in Sacramento. The 1850 federal census for Utah shows that Nancy Jane was born in Ohio. From a family history print out and a descendant chart obtained from BYU’s, Lee Library, birth dates for Nancy Jane are given as “20 May 1836, Willoughby, Lake, OH.”, and “23 May 1834, Willoughby, Lake, OH” and state that she died in Sacramento, CA. (Note: The Roundy Family in America, states that Nancy Jane died in San Francisco, CA)

10) Malinda, born June 23, 1838. Malinda died March 8, 1842, in Nauvoo. According to LDS Ancestral Files, Malinda was born in Willoughby, Ohio or Nauvoo, Illinois on June 23, 1838 and died in Illinois. Birth places seem unlikely as Mormon Nauvoo didn’t exist in 1838 and Shadrach participated in a High Council trial in Far West, Missouri, on April 28, 1838. In Shadrech [sic] Roundy’s Co. Camp Journal 1845, the scribe writes that Malinda was born in Caldwell County, Missouri, on June 23rd. According to Milton R. Hunter, Malinda died at age three in Nauvoo, being consistent with the above birth and death dates (See The Roundy Family in America, page 235).

According to Milton R. Hunter (The Roundy Family in America), Shadrach’s seven children who lived to maturity and married all raised large families. The author believes Samantha was childless. Shadrach and his descendants seem to account for all, or nearly all, of the early Utah Roundy’s who were members of the LDS church. The 1874 Salt Lake City Directory lists a: “Roundy - Adelbert, storekeeper, res. 13th Ward, 1st S. S. side betw. 1st and 2nd Sts. E.” According to The Roundy Family in America index this Adelbert, who had four children born in Salt Lake City, was the grandson of Shadrach’s older brother Asahel. Rather Adelbert or members of his family joined the LDS church has not been determined by the author. Adelbert moved on to Australia where he was a “merchant”.

The dates, spelling and vitals for Shadrach’s and Betsey’s ten children taken in the main from the republished monograph, The Roundy Family in America, compiled by Everett E. Roundy, as republished by the W. W. Roundy family. Some alternative dates, spelling and places were obtained from descendant charts obtained through the Lee Library at BYU and other church or vital records and family history sheets.

Shadrach’s Brothers and Sisters

Data on Shadrach’s Siblings taken from The Roundy Family in America, and listed in birth order. In some cases., alternative birth dates found in Rockingham town records are also given:

Daniel, born December 1, 1780, Rockingham, Vermont. Daniel died December 3, 1847. Married first Laura Hoyt. Married his second wife Ruth Beard December 23, 1821, at Spafford. N,Y. Daniel and Laura Hoyt had one child named Lucretia. Daniel and Ruth had seven children; Jay, Jane , Daniel Curtis, Spencer Beard, Porter W., Francis, and Wallace.

Hannah, born June 19, 1782, in Rockingham, Vermont. Married Silas Beard June 28, 1804. Their four children were named, Franklin, Lucretia, Lovina and Maria.

Asahel, born July 29, 1784, in Rockingham, Vermont. Asahel died February 1, 1857, in Spafford, N. Y. Married Hannah Weston, January 19, 1809. They were the parents of nine children named; Lucretia, Gordon N., Mary Ann, Lizana (Lizania), Nancy M., Asahel Madison, Uriah, Franklin (Franklyn), and Charles Orlando. Asahel was the first of Uriah’s and Lucretia’s children to move to Spafford, N.Y. Arriving in Spafford in 1807, Asahel became a prominent citizen and developer in and around Spafford. Asahel was Captain of Militia and held many offices in Spafford. Asahel was a successful business man.

Lucy, born March 9, 1787, in Rockingham, Vermont. According to Rockingham town records Lucy was born March 11, 1787. Lucy died June 2, 1850. Lucy married Lauren Hotchkiss in Spafford. They had five children named, Velona Roundy, Calista Minerva, Julia Howard, Ephraim Cook, and Mary Lucretia, all born in Spafford, N. Y.

Shadrach, born January 1, 1789, in Rockingham, Vermont. According to Rockingham town records Shadrach was born January 1, 1789.

Naomi, born February 11, 1791, in Rockingham, Vermont. According to Rockingham town records Naomi (written “Naomy”) was born February 11, 1790. Naomi died June 7, 1820. Naomi married John Beard in Spafford. They had four children named; Lucy, John, Porteus, and Naomi.

Lucretia, born March 6, 1793, in Rockingham, Vermont. Lucretia died unmarried.

Mariah (Maria), born May 10, 1794, in Rockingham, Vermont. Maria died in 1890 in Wisconsin. She married John Hutchens in 1816 in Spafford, N. Y. They were the parents of seven children, Allen Sabin, Phineas C., William, John B., Charles Augustus, Maria Antoinette, and Oliver Cromwell.

Uriah, born April 10, 1796, in Rockingham, Vermont. Uriah (Jr.) died in Iowa in 1870. His first marriage was to Polly Lyon in Spafford. He later married Rena Bristol. Uriah had at least nine children who were named, John, Mary, David Lafayette, Washington, Jannette, Asahel (or Acel), Alma, Zebedee, and Martha Jane. Apparently, Uriah Jr. was the only other member of Shadrach’s immediate family to join the Mormon church. According to the Nauvoo Journal, Vol. 5, Fall 1993 issue, page 86: “Uriah Roundy was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church in 1833 by Lyman Johnson”, possibly in Erie County, Pennsylvania. If correct this would mean that Uriah was baptized a year or more after Shadrach became a member. On page 86 of Record Book A, as recorded on Family History Library microfilm 0581219, one reads, “Uriah Roundy received an Elders Licen. June 3, 1844”. According to records obtained from Nauvoo Restoration Inc., Uriah baptized Mehitable Edminster a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Kennebec County, Maine, in 1841, suggesting he served a proselyting mission prior to obtaining this Elders License in 1844.

After the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Uriah joined a “splinter”church and was listed as a “high priest”. Uriah and others opposed what they called the “mysteries” practiced by the LDS Church in the late Nauvoo period. Later, Uriah joined the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He moved to Iowa, and most of his children raised their families in southern and western Iowa. In 1848 Uriah and his family were residing in Highland Grove, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. From the official History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the following information is found: At a June 1860 RLDS conference held at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Uriah is listed as one of the priesthood holders who volunteered to serve a local area mission. At a RLDS semi-annual conference held in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, on October 6, 1863, Uriah was ordained a “high priest”. No other mention of any Roundy is listed in the indices of this multi-volume history. Uriah’s second wife, Rena, died in Galland’s Grove, Shelby County, Iowa. It is possible that Uriah married another women also named Polly (Polly Bristol?). There are large age gaps between some of his children.

Mary, born May 23, 1798, in Rockingham, Vermont. Mary married Baxter Lyon in Spafford, N. Y. Mary and Baxter were the parents of six children who were named; Mary Jane, Henry, Josephine, Dolly, Chester, and George.

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Almira, born April 20, 1800, in Rockingham, Vermont. Almira died April 8, 1883. In 1822 she married Warren Sabin. They had four children named; Mary, Hannah, Franklin, and Frederic. In 1842 Almira married Morgan Williams.

Matilda, born October 22, 1803, in Rockingham, Vermont. Married George Humphry. George and Matilda had a daughter named Matilda Thankful. According to Rockingham town records Matilda was born October 4, 1803.

Family, Folklore, and Faith Promoting Stories about Shadrach

This first story is taken from the chapter titled Mormon Folklore, found in Our Pioneer Heritage, compiled by Kate B. Carter, for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers:

“WHISPERINGS OF THE SPIRIT"

Shadrach Roundy, a pioneer of 1847, settled in the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, where he presided as bishop from 1849 to 1856. Lorenzo Roundy, his son, who lived in Centerville was in the barn loft getting hay for the horses when he slipped and fell to the floor, breaking several bones in his hip and back. A surgeon from a surveying crew working in the area, helped to carry him to the house and said Lorenzo could not possibly live until morning.

At this very hour a voice told Bishop Roundy to go to Centerville. He asked his sons to hitch the team to the buggy and take him there, but they complained, saying it was too cold to travel. He insisted but they continued to demure, asking him why he was so anxious and in such a hurry. He replied, “I do not know, but I must go.

When they arrived and saw Lorenzo’s condition, he turned to his sons and said, ‘now you see why,’ whereupon he administered to the injured man. The next morning the surgeon from the camp called at the house while the family was having breakfast. In full sympathy he inquired if the man had “managed to pull through the night.” Lorenzo who was at the table eating with others, answered, “I guess I’m the man and I’m all right this morning.” The surgeon went back to his camp and said to his comrades, “ You can kill one of these d--- Mormons at night and the next morning he will be up eating breakfast."

-- Annie C. Kimball

Jesse Lenard Warner, in his The Roundy Family, gives another version of this story on page 101, attributed to Samuel “H” Roundy, one of Lorenzo Wesley’s sons:

“Samuel H. Roundy tells the story that when he was old enough to remember and understand, ‘Mother told this accident that happened to Father in Centerville, while building a barn. He was nailing sheeting on the roof, when he slipped and fell on the sleepers in the bottom. They carried him across the road into the house. Just at this time, a string of Emigrants were passing by on their way to the California gold strike. It happened that a Doctor was with them and saw them as he was passing and followed them into the house. He then examined Father and said every bone in his body is broken. That he could do nothing for him and would come in the morning to help prepare him for burial. Grandfather, (Shadrach Roundy) felt something was wrong out to the farm. He said Betsey, I am going out to the farm. She said, it is so late, Father, you had better wait until morning. He sat down for a few minutes, then arose and said, I am going to the farm, I don’t know what for but don’t stop me.

When he opened the door and saw his son lying on the floor in such agony he said, I know now why I came. He immediately administered to him. My Father got up and sat in a chair. The next morning when the Doctor came to prepare him for burial, he was sitting at the table eating breakfast. The Doctor stared at him then said, Well, no human power has saved you’.”

The following story is based on oral history as related by the author's brother Garry Don Pollock, who claims it was told to him by our mother Zora Bell (Roundy) Pollock. A second version is found in Vilate McAllister’s, 1963 reunion speech titled Monologue of Betsey Quimby Roundy. Firstly, Garry Don’s story about Shadrach is here paraphrased:

Shadrach, possibly in his Kirtland years, but probably during his Salt Lake City years, was invited to join the School of the Prophets. Some years before Shadrach had been bothered by a chronic stomach problem. A well meaning friend told him that using tobacco would probably cure him or at least alleviate his symptoms. Shadrach begin using tobacco and acquired this difficult to break habit. Since the School discouraged breaking the Word of Wisdom by its membership, Shadrach refused to attend the School until he had managed to give up using tobacco.

Secondly, Vilate McAllister’s version verbatim: “....they sent a committee to wait on Pa in Salt Lake to see why we weren’t attending the school of the prophets. He listened to them, then he said he would think about it, and he showed them to the door. Next day he got dressed up and went down to Brigham’s office. He told Brigham he had come to tell him why he didn’t go to the Prophet’s School. Pa had picked up the habit of chewing tobacco, and he told Brigham about it and said he didn’t go because he did not feel worthy to be there. Brigham said he should not let that deter him, as he knew others who used tobacco who came. But Pa thought if he couldn’t live the principles he oughtn’t to have the blessings. He came home and told me what he had done. And I told him he should quit his filthy tobacco chewing. He said he couldn’t. But I told him he could if he would just make up his mind to do it. I had seen him do harder things. I thought he ought to try. Well, it took him two years, but finally he had the habit licked. He went down to the office again and said he wanted to know what time the Prophet School started. Brigham told him, and Pa said “you may expect me there tonight”.

The Kirtland School of the Prophets, besides being a teaching school, was concerned with the spiritual and supernatural. The School of the Prophets, as organized in the church wards in 1867, dealt mainly with the secular. Shadrach would have been 78 years old in 1867. The School adopted a literal observance of the Word of Wisdom as a rule of the organization, at a time when many church members, in good fellowship, paid minimal heed to the Word of Wisdom.

The authors aunt, Elva (Roundy) Wilson, was queried about this tobacco story. Elva said she did not recall any such story associated with her twice great grandfather Shadrach. She did relate that her Grandfather, Byron Donalvin Roundy, Sr., developed stomach problems and was advised to use tobacco as a remedy. He started smoking and continued this habit into his final years. Elva distinctly remembers visiting as a small girl and rolling cigarettes that she called “twisties” and putting them in a small jar for her grandfather’s convenience. Elva was born January 12, 1909. Byron Donalvin, Sr. died December 1, 1912. Neither the author, Herman Gail Pollock, nor his other three brothers or his sister, Olene, remember hearing any similar story from their mother. Likely, the similarities of Shadrach and Byron’s experiences as related here are a coincidence.

This next family story about Shadrach defending the Prophet Joseph Smith from a mob led by William Law comes in many flavors. Law would probably have been a member of the First Presidency or an apostate depending on the dating of the alleged incident. No mention of this incident is found in Joseph Smith’s diaries or journals, but there are versions found in the History of the Church. The author has seen eleven published versions of this incident. Only one is dated and that to June of 1842. If the story is true, the author thinks it would date to the first half of 1844. In 1842 Joseph Smith and William Law seemed to be on good terms, and Law was being given important assignments and praise. The relationship between the Prophet and Law had deteriorated by the end of 1843. In January of 1844 Law complained that the Nauvoo police had taken an oath to kill him, administered to them by the Mayor, Joseph Smith. The June 13, 1844, entry in the History of the Church, relates a dream of the Prophet Joseph Smith in which William Law and his brother, Wilson, cast Joseph into a deep pit. Joseph is immediately avenged when one of the Law brothers is caught up in the coils of a poisonous serpent and the other in the clutches of a fierce beast. The brothers call for help but Joseph, trapped in the pit, can not aid them. Joseph is later rescued by friends. It is possible that the narratives of the Huntington brothers William and Oliver, as given above, are additional versions of this story. I will here give four versions of this story. The first from an “official” biography of Shadrach is quite similar to the way the author remembers the story told by his mother, Zora Bell (Roundy) Pollock.

First from LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, edited by Andrew Jenson:

“ On one occasion, when the Prophet had been forewarned that he was in danger, he sent for Bro. Roundy and told him to pick a trusty man to be on guard with him at his house, as a party was coming that night by water to kidnap him. Bro. Roundy selected Josiah Arnold and placed him on guard at the gate, with orders to admit no one, while he himself took his beat by the river, but on hearing a noise he hastily repaired to the gate and found William Law inside the gate and others in the act of entering. Brother Roundy, who had a hickory walking cane in his hand, quickly took hold of it at each end, and pressing it against the men force them back outside, and then fastened the gate. William Law endeavored to explain that the men who were with him were gentlemen merchants, who wanted to see the mummies. Bro. Roundy replied that if they were gentlemen they should come at gentlemen’s hours. William Law insisted that Brother Joseph would admit them, as they would pay $10 in pocket money, there being about forty of them; the admission fee was 25 cents for each. On their agreeing not to try to enter while he was gone, Bro. Roundy went to Joseph’s room. The Prophet, who had overheard the conversation, told Elder Roundy to go back and tell the strangers as a message from him what he (Roundy) had already told them himself. Thus was the Prophet’s life and property preserved by the courage and fidelity of Elder Roundy and his associates.”

Second, from History of the Church, Vol VI:

“Mayor (Joseph Smith) said, at the time Governor Carlin was pursuing him with his writs, William Law came to his house with a band of Missourians for the purpose of betraying him. Came to his gate, and was prevented by Daniel Carn, who was set to watch. Law came within his gate and called “Mayor” and the Mayor reproved Law for coming at that time of night with a company of strangers.

Daniel Carn sworn. Said that about ten o’clock at night a boat came up the river with about a dozen men. William Law came to the gate with them. Witness on guard, stopped them. Law called Joseph to the door, and wanted an interview. Joseph said, ‘Brother Law, you know better than to come here at this hour of the night,’ and Law retired. Next morning Law wrote to apologize, which witness heard read, which was written apparently to screen himself from the censure of conspiracy; and the letter betrayed a conspiracy on the face of it.” Carlin, as Governor, would date incident prior to 1844. Carn also spelled “Carns” and “Garn” elsewhere.

Third, from Nauvoo the Beautiful, by E. Cecil McGavin, Stevens and Wallis, Inc., Salt Lake City, 1946, page 100:

“A fortnight before the Carthage tragedy, the Prophet dispatched a messenger to Shadrach Roundy, Chief of Police, asking for a guard to be stationed about Joseph’s residence, as he had been warned that William Law was conducting a party of the mob to his home for the purpose of kidnaping him and taking him to Missouri. Their arrival was expected near midnight; their excuse for the nocturnal visit was to see the mummies which were kept in his house. The guard arrived but Mr. Law and his lawless band failed to make an appearance.” Dates to 1844, at this time Shadrach and other police held the title of Captain, Jonathan Dunham was the High Policemen.

Finally, from the Rise and Fall of Nauvoo: An Account of the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith, by President John Taylor:

“William Law, although counselor to Joseph, was found to be his most bitter foe and malinger, and to hold intercourse, contrary to all law, in his own house, with a young lady resident with him; and it was afterward proven that he had conspired with some Missourians to take Joseph Smith’s life, and was only saved by Josiah Arnold and Daniel Garn, who, being on guard at his home prevented the assassins from seeing him. Yet, although having murder in his heart, his manners were generally courteous and mild, and he was well calculated to deceive.” Except that the word “alleged” was inserted after the word intercourse this statement is also found in History of the Church 7:57.

The various dates, assigned guards, reasons, number of “mob” or “strangers”, end results, etc., make it difficult to evaluate this long ago incident. The early Church often vilified apostates, and expunged prior written praise.

This next traditional family story about Shadrach was told to the author on 9 September 2000, by Elva (Roundy) Wilson. Elva the daughter of Byron Donalvin and Julia I. Roundy could not provide dates, names or particulars. The following brief story is reconstructed from the author's notes:

“Shadrach was an officer or policemen. In this capacity he was once asked to bring a ‘fugitive’ in to justice. He learned that the man he was after was hiding in a little cabin in a clearing. Shadrach found this cabin but could not coax the ‘fugitive’ outside or cajole him into given himself up. Shadrach finally resorted to setting the cabin on fire. When the ‘fugitive’ was forced to come out Shadrach arrested him and brought him in to face charges.” Shadrach may have gotten the notion to set the cabin on fire from his older brother Asahel who earlier had captured a fugitive by making him think he had set his home on fire, see The Roundy Family in America, page 188.

After hearing this story, the author asked if it had happened during Shadrach’s Nauvoo years when he served as a policemen, legion officer, and body guard to Joseph Smith. Elva thought this was right but was not certain.

The next two stories about Shadrach were related in a telephone conversation to the author by Marilyn Jackson of Escalante, Ut. A cleaner, less handled, versions of these stories might be obtain by directly contacting Marilyn. These stories were typed up immediately after the phone conversation with Marilyn and were reconstructed from terse notes and memory:

Marilyn Jackson’s first Shadrach Story

Shadrach in his last years, as an old man, did not sleep well. He would have dreams about past events he had experienced while in the service of his church. Sometimes he would wake in the middle of a dream and assume responsibilities he had years earlier. Perhaps reliving persecutions and mobbings he had witnessed, or that he was still a policeman or one of Joseph Smith’s bodyguards. Believing he was needed posthaste he would jump out of bed and rush outside in his garments, ready to assume his duties on a picket line, safeguarding the Prophet, or ride to aid or warn others, or whatever was required of him.

Marilyn Jackson’s second Shadrach Story

Shadrach, because of present or earlier duties as a policeman, guard or stalwart who could be called upon in emergencies always kept a horse nearby and ready. So that he could quickly ride to where duty called him. Marilyn didn’t think Shadrach kept a horse bridled and saddled at all times. More likely, he kept one of his better horses and tack nearby so he could quickly ride and respond to any urgent assignment.

This family story involves Lauren Hotckiss Roundy’s two oldest children, Byron Donalvin, Sr., and his brother William Heber, and their relationships with parents and grandparents. Byron and William’s mother, Johanna (Carter) Roundy, died at Winter Quarters on 5 February 1847, William’s first birthday, and when Byron was barely three years old. The motherless boys apparently lived for some time, or perhaps of and on, in Salt Lake City, with their grandparents Shadrach and Betsey. Their father, Lauren Hotchkiss, soon after arriving in the Great Basin married Jane Ann Koyle as his second wife. Lauren and Jane started a family which eventually numbered eight children. In 1852 or 1853 Lauren and Jane moved to Springville, Utah. It was during the Springville years that Byron and William, as older boys, begin to run away from their Springville home back to their grandparents home in Salt Lake City. There are at least two versions of this story, taken together they would seem to show that Shadrach and Betsey were kind, loving and comforting grandparents. But caution here, not all boys are perfect.

First Version

As told the author by his mother, Zorabell (Roundy) Pollock, and her older sister, Elva (Roundy) Wilson and paraphrased here: Byron and William’s father, Lauren Hotchkiss, was stern and remote and rather a disciplinarian. The boy’s preferred to be with their Roundy grandparents, and when they could manage, they would run away to Salt Lake City to be with them. Lauren would, when work and time allowed, go to Salt Lake City and fetch his boys home to Springville. This pattern continued until once when Lauren was coming up the walk of Shadrach and Betsey’s home to again retrieve his two boys, young Byron while standing on his grandparents front porch screamed at his father that he “would rather die than go back to Springville with him”. The father with out a word turned and left and never again tried to bring them back home.

Second Version

This version is from The Life History of William Heber Roundy, written by William’s son Otho Roundy, and so is a generation closer. Otho blames second wife, Jane Ann Koyle, for the boys discontent. Quoting some of Otho’s text: “Lauren .... married Jane Ann Koyle in April of 1855 .... It appears that the two boys had lived with their grandparents until this time and their father took them to live with him and his new wife in Springville .... This new wife of Lauren’s soon had children of her own and it appears that she resented very much having the two boys to care for. She wouldn’t let them eat at the same table with her own children, but would set them a table outside in warm weather and in winter at a table by themselves in the house. It seems she treated them like two little slaves. They were now old enough to help their father on the farm. But it seems they could never forget the kind treatment they enjoyed at their grandparents, Shadrach and Betsey’s home. The father would send them to the field to hoe weeds. When they got tired they would lay their **** down and walk out to the road and thumb a ride to Salt Lake to the home of their grandparents. Shadrach would keep them a few days and when he got time he would hitch up the team and bring them back home and in a few weeks the same thing would happen again. It seem that their father never did go after them. But the grandparents would keep them a few days and then bring them back. This seems to have kept up for several years .... I Just can’t understand why the boy’s father let that woman treat the boys like she did; but it appears that she ran her husband and the boys and the whole roost.”

Notes: Lauren married Jane Ann Koyle prior to 1855. Otho credits his older brother, John, for part of his account. Otho was born in 1892, William Heber, his father, died in 1899, his grandfather, Lauren Hotchkiss Roundy, died in 1900. The author thanks Guy Roundy of Monteview, Idaho, for providing a copy of Otho’s history of William Heber.

This next Shadrach Roundy family story is taken from a brief history of Betsey Quimby Roundy, authored and read at a 1963 family reunion by Vilate Roundy McAllister. This six page sketch is titled Monologue of Betsey Quimby Roundy. It is not known how historically rigorous Vilate intended her Monologue to be, but it is reproduced here because this author has seen other references to the following story about Lucy Mack Smith and her butter and mummies in the writings of the descendants of Shadrach and Betsey’s daughters, Samantha and Almeda Sophia. The excerpt from aunt Vilate’s Monologue:

“We had some of the best cows in Nauvoo, and we used to take butter over to Joseph’s mother every morning for her breakfast. Emma was sometimes there eating breakfast with Lucy. One day Samantha took over a little smaller pat than usual and Lucy cut of a little bit for Emma and put it on her plate, and a little bit for herself, then she put the rest away, Emma said, ‘Don’t the children get any?’ Lucy said, ‘I have enough for me and enough for you but not enough for the children’. Emma said, ‘Then I will not have any’. And she left it on her plate without touching it. That made us think a lot more of Emma, because she wanted her children to have as good as she had. When the Prophet was martyred - the night before, we knew something was up and we left the cows to milk until after midnight by morning the cream had not raised. We had to take Lucy’s butter to her later in the day. She remarked that she had to eat her bread without butter. We took butter to Emma too, after we found out how kind she was to her children.

Sophia used to help Grandma Lucy. You know, she had the mummies in her front room, and Joseph asked Sophia to come over each day and show them to visitors. They charged fifty cents for adults to see them and children were free. That’s all Grandma Smith had to live on.”

And a Second version, from the writings of Sophia Parker Stapley, a granddaughter of John D. Parker and Almeda Sophia Roundy reads:

“.... The Roundy’s and Lucy Mack Smith lived close to each other and were close neighbors, they taking her butter each morning for her bread. The Roundy girls were the ones that helped Sister Smith as she displayed the Mummies while they were in Nauvoo.”

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Appendix II

Some unanswered questions about Shadrach Roundy and his family:

1) Was Shadrach a member or subscriber (stockholder) in the Kirtland Safety Society? Was he financially diminished by the failure of the Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company?

2) Why did neither Shadrach or 19 year old Lauren Hotchkiss participate in the Zions Camp relief effort of 1834?

3) Shadrach was a Nauvoo Policeman, an officer in the Nauvoo Legion, and an Aid and Life Guard of General Joseph Smith, the Mayor of Nauvoo. The destruction of the Expositor was accomplished by the Marshal of Nauvoo, John P. Greene, and elements of the Legion, on orders from the Mayor. Marshal John P. Green is said in the histories of the church to have used “the police”, “assistants” and a “posse” to destroy the offending press. Did Shadrach take part as a policemen, soldier, or member of General Smith’s staff? (Shadrach name does not appear on the writ F. M. Higbee brought against 19 men for destroying the Expositor. The named do include some Nauvoo policemen, see History of the Church 6:554).

4) Why did not one of Shadrach’s three, age eligible, sons volunteer and become members of the Mormon Battalion of 1846? The Battalion was made up of both married and single men. Shadrach was probably exempt because of his age and duties as a Company Captain.

5) Why in oral and written histories and several biographies is Shadrach said to have been a member of the first legislature of the Territory of Utah?

A) He did serve in the Territorial Legislature, a fact undiscovered by the author.

B) Provisional Deseret and Territory of Utah Equated.

C) As a member of the Council of 50 he served in the “ghost government” of the Territory.

6) Serving as High Councillor, Bishop, etc., why did Shadrach never take a plural wife? Elderly men entered in to plural marriages.

7) Why weren’t Vinson Knight, Samuel H. Smith, and Shadrach, after being called by revelation, ever sustained, ordained, and set apart as the first Presiding Bishopric. Knights Death? The several reasons advanced by D. Michael Quinn or other reasons?

8) Apparently Shadrach never served a proselyting mission, this at a time when many married and middle aged men served missions. Why?

9) Why did neither Shadrach, his wife Betsey, nor his older children prepare affidavits or sign the “Scroll” or other petitions for redress of Missouri losses? The family must have had financial losses and possibly punitive claims based on their expulsion.

10) Was Shadrach ever adopted into the family of a church authority/leader, via the now abandoned “Law of Adoption”?

A prize possession of the Roundy Family was a copy of the Book of Mormon that Joseph Smith gave to Shadrach Roundy – a copy of the Book of Mormon of the original printing.

DEATH OF A GREAT HUMANITARIAN

Shadrach died of old age (83) after spending some time working in his garden. His obituary reads:

“On July 4, 1872, this great humanitarian, pioneer, and ecclesiastic bade farewell to this world to join his many friends awaiting him on the other side, among when there must have been great rejoicing as there was sorrow at his departure from his countless beneficiaries in mortality. Shadrach Roundy, whose portrait appears with this issue, was probably the oldest of the 143 original pioneers of Utah. He was born in Windham County, Vermont on New Year’s day 1789 and died in Salt Lake City July 4, 1872. Although 58 years of age when the band made its march across the plains, yet he was always to the front of all the undertakings and adventures of the pioneers. In the military organization of the band he was major of the staff of Lieutenant General Brigham Young. Mr. Roundy was also a captain of one of the companies of fifty.

Nathaniel Thomas Brown was shot at Council Bluffs, Iowa in February 1848, just as he was preparing to travel across the plains again to Utah. He is among those of the original pioneers of Utah whose picture cannot be obtained.

Jacob D. Burnham, another member of the band, died in California in 1850, Carlos Murray was killed by the Indians on the Humboldt in 1853, and George Mills died in Salt Lake in 1858. They were prominently identified with all the doing of the pioneer men on the march to Utah.”

Shadrach Roundy died in Salt Lake City July 4, 1872. Elizabeth J. D. Roundy of 422 West First North, Salt Lake City, Utah states, “I have a sword and musket that he (Shadrach) brought with him; also have a bake kettle and two chairs that were used crossing the plains in 1847 which I will lend the committee for Jubilee if they wish. All I ask is that they be taken care of and returned to me at the close of the Jubilee.

July 4, 1872 p 1 Deseret News. Elder Shadrach Roundy who had been acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio, died in Salt Lake City. The following obituary notice appeared in the Desert Evening News of July 5th. Of old age, at 7 o’clock yesterday (Fourth of July) at his residence in this city, Shadrach Roundy, aged 83 years, 6 months and 4 days. The life of the deceased, since joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been an eventful one. He resided in the State of New York when the church was organized. Hearing of the work, and learning that the Prophet Joseph Smith had moved to Kirtland, Ohio, he visited that place, made the acquaintance of the Prophet, became convinced that the doctrines were of God and was baptized by him. He then returned to his home and emigrated with his family to Kirtland [Ohio]. From Ohio he moved with the Saints to Caldwell County, Missouri, shared in the mobbings and drivings to which the people of the Church were subjected, and when they were expelled from the Sate, he was appointed one of a committee, Brother Heber C. Kimball being one also, whose duty it was to look after the poor and see that all were moved out. With the bulk of the people he remained at Quincy, Illinois until Nauvoo was selected as the new point at which the Saints would gather, when he removed thither. At Nauvoo he was one of the Prophet Joseph’s guards. Was with him whenever danger threatened, and was trusted and honored by him with mars of great confidence, which confidence was never weakened by any act of the deceased. For some years he acted as Nauvoo as Captain of the City Police. In the exodus from that place he was with the leading company; and afterwards, when the Pioneers left Winter Quarters, under the leadership of the Prophet Brigham, early in 1847, to find a home for the people at some point in the great wilderness embosomed in the Rocky Mountains, he was an active member of the Company and was the first man to break the sod of the Great Salt Lake Valley with that great emblem, the plow. When the pioneers returned, he accompanied them until they met the companies which were traveling on the trail of the Pioneers, guided by the stakes which the latter had carefully marked and driven every ten miles of the road between the Missouri River and the place where this city now stands. In one of these companies he found his family, and journeyed with them to this valley. In 1849 he took a mission with President Jedediah M. Grant to the States, to assist in gathering up the poor Saints, and returned here the next year. When the city was divided into wards he was appointed Bishop of the 16th Ward, which position he filled until failing health required relief from its duties. For some years his health has been feeble; but, though weak in body, he was always strong and cheerful in Spirit. He never appeared in better health than about ten days ago, and thinking himself stronger than he was, exerted himself in his garden, caught cold and was prostrated. His passage from the world was like the falling asleep of a child. He has gone to meet the reward for which he is so diligently and steadfastly labored, and stands in need of no eulogium from the living. (Desert News 21:340 – Documentary History of the Church 1938.)

BURIAL Salt Lake City Cemetery 4 July 1872.

References:

Journal Histories, 1845, 1847, and 1849;

Deseret News, July 4, 1872, February 11, 1884, March 29, 1880,

History of the 16th Ward

Biographical Encyclopedia vol. 1:642, vol. 4:717

History of the Church, vol. 2:205-5 vol. 3:251-256 vol. 4:296, 365, 549 Vol. 6:149, 405-412, 502.

From the Gospel in Action by Thomas C. Romney 1949.

April 2, 1897. Deseret News Shadrach Roundy, The part played by him in the early days of Utah’s History. Spencer Clawson, Chairman Semi-Centennial Committee.

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PATRIARCHAL BLESSING

[Note: The actual blessing was deleted 3 July 2015 in order to comply with the request of the author, Marilyn 'Mari' S. Jackson, to comply with policy of the LDS Church to not publish Patriarchal Blessings.]

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Shadrach Roundy and Betsy Quimby received their second anointing in Room number 2 of the Nauvoo Temple 22 Jan 1846 at 7:30 p.m. by Isaac Morley (F. Utah. Sla) Betsy Quimby was sealed to Shadrach Roundy 22 Jan 1846 at 5:55 p.m. in Nauvoo by Heber C. Kimball. (F. Utah Sla)

Shadrach and Betsey had 10 children and helped raise 10 other children.

Additional information:

Lydia is an unwed sister of Betsey QUIMBY. She was sealed to Shadrach after his and Betsey’s death. Lydia was a sister of Betsey that had not married in this life. Shadrach was also been sealed to two of Betsey's other sisters, Mary and Roxane but they both have husbands that they should be sealed to.

MOTTOS:

Shadrach had several mottos that he repeated often, “Always leave a place better than you found it, “ and “Put your trust in the Lord, He will guide you through.”

GOALS:

1) Gather and Organize the Ancestor, Descendants and some Relatives of Shadrach & Betsey Q. ROUNDY

(2) See that the LDS Temple Ordinances are completed for Shadrach & Betsey's Ancestors and their Family.

(3) See that a History with a Picture(s) is written for Shadrach & Betsey's Family.

(4) Share collected records with other Family Members

(5) See that a Marker/headstone is installed for identified members without one.

SHADRACH ROUNDY by Courlin Reasor (with help from Lark Wood Reasor)

Born: 1 Jan 1789 - Place: Rockingham, Windham, VT

Married: 22 Jun 1814 - Place: Rockingham, Windham, VT - Spouse: Betsey QUIMBY

*** Pioneer: 22 July 1847, First Pioneer Company with Brigham Young;

East - President Missionary Company 1849; West - Shadrach Roundy Company 1850; and other pioneer trips. Died: [2] 4 July 1872 - Place: Salt Lake City, UT

My name is Shadrach Roundy. My forefathers on both my Mother and my Fathers sides had been in America for seven generations before I was born on July 1, 1789. [My father and grandfather served in the American Revolutionary War.] I was born in Rockingham, Windham Co., Vermont to Uriah and Lucretia Needham Roundy. When I was 25 I married Betsey Quimby. My wife Betsey and I moved to Spafford, New York. There we learned of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which had been founded April 6 1830 by Joseph Smith Jr. I road by horseback to talk with the Prophet Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York. We joined the Church and by 1833 my family had followed the Saints to Kirtland, Ohio. In Kirtland I helped the Saints build a temple to the Lord. To make it a beautiful place the women donated their fine china and it was crushed and mixed in the stucco so the building would shine in the sunlight. Many people found fault with the Prophet Joseph Smith and trouble soon drove us to Missouri.

In Missouri we tried to live our religion in peace but our neighbors became worried they would be out numbered because thousands of Mormons moving in. The earlier settlers in Missouri didn’t know our beliefs and didn’t want to be our neighbors. They began attacking our people and burning our homes and crops. On Oct 27, 1838 Governor Lilburn Boggs passed an order to exterminate or drive all the Mormons from the state. Three days latter at Haun’s Mill a small Mormon community, 200 men attacked with guns and 17 Mormon men and boys were killed and 15 were wounded. I signed a pledge to help the poor Saints move to Illinois. Most people had only the clothes they were wearing and it was winter, many were sick and dying.

The citizens in Illinois tried to help and we soon found a place to build again. It was a swampy area along the Mississippi River. After the swamp was drained we began to build and Nauvoo became our beautiful home in 1840. In the early 1840’s Nauvoo became the biggest city in Illinois.

In Nauvoo I had a lot to do. I supported my family by working as a merchant [a wood working shop]. I was called into the Presiding Bishopric of the Church with Vinson Knight and the Prophet's brother Samuel H. Smith. I was a member of the Nauvoo Legion. (In those days the cities had legions for protecting the citizens kind of like the National Guard today.) I was a lieutenant and then a captain of the Nauvoo Police Force. I helped build the Temple in Nauvoo. I also acted as a bodyguard for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

One night Joseph knew he was in danger. He asked me to pick a trusted friend to guard the house because he was told there would be a party coming by water to kidnap him. My friend Josiah Arnold guarded the house while I walked along the Mississippi River bank not far from the house. I heard a noise and ran to the house. A group of men were pushing their way through the gate. I had my hickory walking cane and held it with one hand on each end and pushed the group back out of the yard. William Law insisted I admit them. He said they were gentlemen merchants and I told them “if they where gentlemen they should come at gentlemen’s hours.”

The hate for my religion began to increase in Illinois. On June 27, 1844 in Carthage, Illinois the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot to death. A mob of about 200 men with their faces painted black attacked them. We started to make plans to leave the United States and find a place in the Rocky Mountains were we could live in peace.

Because of the persecution on Feb 4, 1846 the first group of our wagons crossed the river into Iowa. An ox kicked a hole in a boat and the boat sank. People held onto feather beds and wagons while the cows and oxen swam to shore. Two weeks latter the river froze and wagons crossed on the ice.

I was a captain over 100 people on the trip across Iowa. It was a hard trip. The first night 9 babies where born. When the ice and snow melted the wagons got stuck in the mud. We only traveled 2 or 3 miles a day. It took us 131 days to go 310 miles across Iowa. We learned a lot about traveling and we helped each other. Brigham Young had groups stop and plant crops and build some homes along the way so we could help those who would follow us later. We built small homes in a place we called Winter Quarters, it was near Omaha, Nebraska. Some of my ten children had families of their own, those that lived with Betsey and I spent that year at Winter Quarters. I was Bishop of the Winter Quarters 5th Ward. (A Ward is a unit of the LDS Church.)

By spring of 1847 I had been asked by Brigham Young (Young was the second leader of the church) to be part of the first pioneer group to travel across the Great Plains. I was a leader over 50. We were chosen because of our skills in clearing roads and find the best way to cross the rivers and the mountains. And our ability to build and plant in our new home. We were to find the place in the Rocky Mountains where our people could live in peace. I was one of the oldest men to go. I turned 59 before the trip was over.

This first pioneer group was made up of 143 men 3 women and 2 children. We had a boat and a cannon, 70 wagons and carriages, 93 horses, 52 mules, 66 oxen, 19 cows, 17 dogs and some chickens. We began the journey Wednesday, April 14, 1847, the last wagon left Winter Quarters at 2 p.m., and we traveled 19 miles that day. William Clayton tied a red cloth to a spoke of the wagon wheel. As it turned he counted and figured out how many miles we traveled. By May he had invented and built the first odometer. He called it the roadometer and it counted the miles by its self.

I bought buffalo meat from Indians on April 18. On the 21st we gave tobacco, salt, powder, and lead, same flour and other small articles to the Indians. On Monday the 26th at 3 o’clock in the morning an alarm was sounded. We were ready for action. Three of the guards heard something moving in the grass and the horses near the spot were snorting, and we found some Indians crawling up to the wagons. We fired in their direction and six Indians ran off. We loaded the cannon but didn’t use it.

Breakfast on the 29th was wild goose and moldy bread. May 5th the whole prairie was on fire and sparks and cinders flew in every direction. On the 6th and 7th of May there were 1,000’s of buffalo all around us. We didn’t do any hunting because we didn’t need any meat.

June 7th at the Platte River we met many parties going to Oregon. Some forded the river some paid to use our ferries other built ferries. We needed grasses and foliage for our animals to eat some times there wasn’t any.

June 25th we crossed the continental divide. (The continental divide is the place in the Rocky Mountains where the water runs west to the Pacific Ocean and East to the Atlantic Ocean.)

June 26th we had traveled 61 days and gone 819 miles and were at a mountain pass 7,085 feet above sea level. On the 27th we met a group of Oregonians going East and gave them letters to take to our families in Winter Quarters. We got up between 4 and 5:30 in the morning had our breakfast, cooked our noon meal, and started traveling by 8. Some weeks we only traveled 21 miles and other we traveled 100 miles.

June 28th we met Jim Bridger traveling East. Jim Bridger was the fur trapper who had found the Great Salt Lake and thought it was the Pacific Ocean when he drank its salty water. It took us the next three days to get all our wagons across the Green River. On Sunday July 4th we didn’t celebrate but we ate ice cream George A. Smith made it out of sugar and snow. On the 5th we had our first glimpse of what is now Utah, “rising dimly out of the mist, far to the southwest.” We only past two permanent places on the trail they were Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger. July 11th the night was cold and there was 1/4 inch of ice on the water in the buckets in the morning.

July 12th some were very sick with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. A few stayed with the sick the rest of us moved on. We needed to arrive in time to plant crops. July 13th word came from Brigham Young he was one of the very sick. Orson Pratt and I along with a few others were to form an advance party and keep traveling. By the 15th of July we were 23 and 1/4 miles ahead of the main camp. The sick had joined them. The main camp repaired broken wagons. This was the worst road we had come to because of the boulders and the narrow passages down the mountain. The cattle were uneasy because of the echo in the canyon. “The wagons sounded like carpenters hammering away for dear life inside the mountain.”

By July 23 nine of us had reached the valley by horseback. The main camp was building a road for the wagons to pass down Emigration Canyon. In the valley two others and me plowed the ground to plant potatoes, corn and beans. We were the first white men to plow the ground in the Great Salt Lake Valley. The ground was so hard several plows broke.

When Brigham Young our leader saw the valley on July 24th he raised up from his sick bed and said “This is the right place.” It took us 110 days to travel 1,000 miles.

The first few seasons we ate crows, thistle tops, bark, roots and sego lily bulbs. I helped build the Salt Lake Fort. I was called to the first High Council in the Salt Lake Stake (a Stake is a large unit in the LDS Church. It is made up of several Wards.) I was called as the bishop of the 16th Ward (1849-1856).

In 1849 I was appointed captain over the wagon train that was to leave the Great Salt Lake Valley with the first missionaries from there to serve in all parts of the world. Erastus Snow was to serve in Denmark, Elder John Taylor was appointed to France, Lorenzo Snow to Italy, Franklin D. Richards to England, and several Elders accompanying each of these Apostles. Jedediah M. grant was appointed captain of the guard and Bishop Edward Hunter was with us. We left on the 19th of October with 12 wagons, 42 horses and mules, 1 carriage and 35 men. This included a couple merchants, going to St. Louis after goods, and a number of brethren who went east on business. While we stopped at noon along the Plate River on the 12th of November we were charged upon by 200 Cheyenne warriors. Erastus Snow wrote “ they were on the lookout for a war party of Crows and thought to gobble up our little party for pastime, but we did not quite relish the sport, and having about one hundred and thirty shots with us, in about one minute’s time we formed a line of battle, ... in front of our wagons, with our animals behind them on the river’s bank, and when every man’s finger was upon his piece ready to fire, the savage horsemen were brought to a sudden standstill. A parley commenced, which resulted in their giving us the road, and they with drawing to their camps ....

We reached the Missouri river, on December 7th in a blinding snow storm which lasted about fourteen hours. The snow was three feet deep when we reached the old barracks (Old Fort Kearney) on the west side of the river .... finding there cabins to shelter ourselves and shelter for our animals ... we gave God thanks for our successful journey.

I was elected to the first Legislature. I worked as a farmer and a merchant. In 1868 I helped organize the first department store in the country. It is called ZCMI. I was Captain in the Silver Greys, which was a unit of older citizens organized to protect the Valley.

I crossed the plains five times to help others on their journey. 60,000 Mormon pioneers crossed the Great Plains to Utah. Most of them walked carrying their belongings in ox or horse drawn covered wagons or handcarts. The Railroad was completed in 1869. That ended the pioneer era.

The day after I died my obituary in the Great Salt Lake City, Deseret Evening News read “he died of old age, at 7:00 yesterday (July 4, 1872) at his residence in the city.”

Sources:

1. The Roundy Family in America, Everett Ellsworth Roundy, 1942, published by author at Dedham, MA

2. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol 1, Collectors Library, 1990-1998 Infobases, Inc., A Bookcraft Company.

3. Who’s Who in the Doctrine and Covenants, by Susan Easton Black, 1990-1998, Infobases, Inc., A Bookcraft Company.

4. Deseret Evening News, Salt Lake City, Utah July 1897.

5. Our Heritage, 1996, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, USA.

6. Brigham Young - American Moses, Leonard J. Arrington, 1985, Alfred A. Knoph, New York.

7. Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, The Pioneer Heritage CD-ROM, 996 Infobases, Inc. Provo, UT.

8. Treasures of Pioneer History, Vol. 2, Daughter of the Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Heritage Library in the LDS Family History Suite, 1996 Infobases, Inc. Provo, Utah.

9. Church History in the Fullness of Times, Church Education System, 1993, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

10. Erastus Snow, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jepson, Vol. 1, p. 103

11. Doctrine and Covenants 124: 141

(Some changes & corrections by GBH)

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[Note: The actual blessing was deleted 3 July 2015 in order to comply with the request of the author, Marilyn 'Mari' S. Jackson, to comply with policy of the LDS Church to not publish Patriarchal Blessings.]

A Patriarchal Blessing given upon the head of Shadrach Roundy

by John Smith, Patriarch. Given at Nauvoo, Ill. July 29, 1844.

Shadrach Roundy, who was the son of Uriah Roundy and Lucretia Needham Roundy, born January 1, 1788/9 in Rockingham, Windham Co., Vermont.

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SHADRACH ROUNDY

The Part Played by Him in the Early Days of Utah’s History.

Spencer Clawson, Chairman Centennial Commission: Shadrach Roundy born of Uriah and Lucretta Roundy, was born in Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont, January 1,1789; he embraced the Gospel in the fall of 1830, and assisted in the pioneer work from Pennsylvania through all the changing scenes the people passed; helped with his means and labor in building both the Kirtland and Nauvoo Temples. He was Captain of the police years and one of the most trusted of the Prophet Joseph’s life [body] guard was also Senior warden in the Mason Lodge at Nauvoo; and was chosen Aid-de-camp to Lieutenant General Joseph Smith.

Shadrach Roundy was selected to ¬come with the Pioneers and appointed captain of fifty, also major of the second division in crossing [plains] desert, and helped to make a highway for the people to follow. He was also selected to came with Orson Pratt’s advance guard, and came into the valley with them July 23, 1847 he was one of the first three that ploughed the first furrows done by white men in the valley of, as it was then called, the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. The ploughing was done where East Temple street now is, somewhere near Godbe & Pitt’s drug store new stands. He was chosen president of the second division after arriving here and was elected a member of the first legislative body of the Territory or Utah and a member of the first high Council; served also as captain of a company of Silver Greys, and Bishop of the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City.

A portion of his family also came in 1847. One of his grandsons, Myron S. Roundy, whose residence is at Kanarra in Iron County, came in with them - an infant at that time. Shadrach Roundy crossed the plains five times helping to gather the poor and bring them to this, our home in the mountains.

Shadrach Roundy died in Salt Lake City July 4 [buried], 1872.

I have a sword [now part of the DUP collection] and musket that he brought with him; also have bake kettle and two armchairs that was used crossing the plains In 1847 which I will lend the committee for Jubilee if they wish. All I ask is that they be taken care of and returned to me at the close of the Jubilee.

ELIZABETH J. D. ROUNDY, 422 West First North, Salt Lake City.

(This article was found in the Deseret News , April 2, 1897, Jubilee Tribute [50 year])

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The ROUNDY FAMILY by Jesse Lenard Warner Written 1990

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY - 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84150

Shadrach Roundy 1788/9 - 1872

Shadrach Roundy, (Uriah, John, Robert, John, Robert) Was b. Jan. 1, 1788/9 in Rockingham, Windham Co., Vermont, the son of Uriah and Lucretia Needham Roundy. He and his brothers were large men, six feet or more tall, and by nature fearless, yet gentle and just.

His brother Asahel Roundy moved to Spafford, New York and was soon followed by several other members of the’ family. He had married Betsey Quimby, according to the Bellows Falls records, in Walpole, New Hampshire, on Feb. 27, 1515. This date is a registration of the date and not the actual date. It is possible that it could have been reported to have taken place old style Feb. 27, 1814, which is more logical, and confused for the new style 1815. But that does not answer the problem entirely as the old style would read Feb. 27, 1313/14.

While living in Spafford, Onondaga Co., N.Y., he was active in the local church and was on the board of trustees, with three other men. This Free Will Baptist Church was visited by the LDS missionaries and so many of the members joined the church, including the minister, Elder John Gould, that the church stood empty for ten years. Shadrach Roundy did not join the church immediately but rode on horseback to Fayette, New York, to see the Prophet Joseph Smith and after talking with the Prophet he was baptized Jan. 23, 1831. His whole family joined the church. and soon after this moved to Pennsylvania and later followed the Prophet to Ohio. Shadrach’s farmi1y were baptized after they reached Ohio. His brother Uriah Roundy also joined the church but was never as active as Shadrach. [later stayed in Iowa and joined the RLDS Church]

From the day Shadrach met the Prophet Joseph Smith, he never wavered in his loyalty to him. He was 17 years older than the Prophet, but sought his counsel on many occasions. After Shadrach moved to Willoughby the Prophet visited him many times.

The Church was less than a year old when the Prophet honored Shadrach by baptizing him himself and then on March 16, 1832 he was ordained an elder under the hands of Orson Hyde and Samuel H. Smith.

In April 1836, the family moved to Kirtland, the head¬quarters of the Church at that time, and here Shadrach spent much of his time in assisting in the construction of the first Temple of this dispensation. Because of his great devotion to the cause, he with a few others, was given a special blessing by the Prophet of the Lord.

He was not to remain long in Kirtland as his help was needed in Missouri; and thither he went with his family and took up his abode in the city of Far West, Caldwell County. Soon after his arrival, mobocrats began to gather and the storm clouds gathered over the righteous, as it had in Jackson County. The mobbings became so intense that finally the Saints were all ordered from the entire State of Missouri.

The city of Far West was built exclusively by the Latter-day Saints in the westerly part of Caldwell County, Missouri, approximately six miles due west of Kingston, the present county seat of the county, and six miles south of Highway 36.

After the Saints had been driven from Jackson County and crossed the Missouri River into Clay County, they were received kindly and treated well by the citizens of Clay County, until the mob spirit spread from Independence to that section of the country. The citizens of Clay County then began to persecute them. At the height of this persecution, while a meeting was in progress for the purpose of determining what they would do with the Mormons, a certain Baptist minister whose name was Ripley, declared that the Mormons had lived in Clay County long enough and they must either clear out or be cleared out. At this juncture a later and a General in the army, General A. W. Doniphan, expressed himself in favor of protecting the Saints. Soon after this the meeting broke up in chaos when it was announced that two men were having a knife fight outside. Joseph said they all rushed out, some saying that a Mormon had been killed; but, as it turned out, one Missourian had knifed another Missourian.

General Doniphan took it upon himself to make a trip to Jefferson City for the purpose of having a county created in North Missouri especially for the saints. The result was that Caldwell County came into being. The Saints started. Settling there and founded the city of Far West. Far West became a city of from fourteen to sixteen thousand souls. There a site was dedicated for a temple. The cornerstones were laid and today this site and the excavation, together with the corner stones is all the physical evidence remaining of the city of Far West. Concerning the new county of Caldwell, Joseph Smith said, “The county grew like Jonah’s gourd.” The charter was granted for the organization of Caldwell County in December1836.

It was sometime later that Joseph brought his family to Far West from Kirtland to make their home and it was from Far West that Joseph was taken into captivity and spent six months in the jail at Liberty, Missouri. While Joseph was in Liberty Jail, the Saints were severely persecuted by the same old mobs. After many of the Saints had been killed and all their property stolen or destroyed by the mob, they were led by Brigham Young to the State of Illinois.

When Joseph Smith was released from the Liberty Jail he went to Illinois and joined the Saints. There he purchased the town of Commerce, which was situated in a bend of the Missouri [Mississippi] River, immediately across the river from the town of Montrose, Iowa. Here the Saints gathered once more. (From a paper on Far West source unknown)

Shadrach received a license to preach the gospel on April 16, 1638 in Kirtland, Ohio, before he left for Missouri.

The Prophet wrote in his diary under date of October 31, 1836, after dinner I rode out in company with my wife and children, Brother Don Carlos and others. We visited Brother Roundy and family, who live near Willoughby. We had an interesting visit.. .“

December 9, 1835, the Prophet records: “A few days since Elder Shadrach Roundy brought me a quarter of beef. And may all the blessings named above be poured upon their heads for their kindness to me.”

Since the Prophet Joseph and a few of the leading brethren were sweltering in Liberty Jail, the responsibility of conducting the Saints to a place of safety fell chiefly upon the shoulders of Brigham Young, as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve. On the 29th of Jan. 1839, a memorable meeting was held in Far West at the call of Brigham Young, and on a motion of President Brigham Young, it was resolved that we this day enter into a covenant to stand by and assist each other to the utter most of our abilities in removing from this state, and that we will never desert the poor who are worthy till they shall be out of reach of the exterminating order of General Clark, acting for and in the name of the State.

After an expression of sentiment by several who addressed the meeting on the propriety of taking efficient measures to remove the poor from the state, it was resolved, that a committee of seven be appointed to superintend the business of our removal, and to provide for those who have not the means of removing, till the work shall be completed. The following were then appointed, viz. . . William Huntington, Charles Bird, Alanson Ripley, Theodore Turley, Daniel Shearer, Shadrach Roundy and Jonathon H. Hale. Men who subscribed to the foregoing: 1. Brigham Young ... 7. Shadrach Roundy. “ This proposal was signed by 380 men, who faithfully finished the task they set out to do.

On April 26, 1839 . . . ”Early in the morning, soon after midnight, Brigham Young and the Brethren with him arrived at Far West. and proceeded to transact the business of their mission according to the following minutes: " ... business taken care of . .. “The Twelve then offered up vocal prayer in the following order: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and George A. Smith. After which we sang Adam-ondi-Ahman, and then the Twelve took their leave of the following Saints agreeable to the revelations, viz., Alpheus Cutler, Elias Smith, Norman Shearer, William Burton, Stephen Markham, Shadrach Roundy ....

This gathering was for the purpose of laying the corner stone of the Far West Temple, which was done at this time, with Shadrach Roundy participating. Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith were ordained Apostles and took their place in the Quorum at this time.

According to a call recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 124, dated Jan. 19, 1841 Shadrach Roundy was called to be in the first Presiding Bishopric according to Orson Pratt and John Taylor called them Presidents over the Bishops. Section 121 reads: “And again, I say unto you, I give unto you Vinson Knight, Samuel H. Smith and Shadrach Roundy, if he will receive it, to preside over the bishopric; a knowledge of said bishopric is given unto you in the book of Doctrine and Covenants.” This Bishopric is not listed as Presiding Bishopric in the Church order of officers, but it will be interesting to note what Orson Pratt and John Taylor had to say about it. "Vinson Knight was appointed to the Presidency over the Bishopric, with Samuel H. Smith and Shadrach Roundy as his counselors." (President John Taylor, Aug. 8, 1880. JD 21:362.)

“In December 1831, the Lord saw proper again to give another Bishop his name was Newell K. Whitney. Was he merely a Bishop of a Ward, whose jurisdiction was limited to a little spot of ground that might be termed a place for the residence of a Ward Bishop? No, he was another general Bishop. Bishop Partridge having general Jurisdiction in Jackson County, and in the regions round about; while the duties of Newel K. Whitney extended to the State of Ohio and the States of Pennsylvania and New York, and throughout all the Eastern counties, wherever the Church of God was organized.

There were two Bishops, then, one having jurisdiction in the West, a thousand miles from the other; the other having jurisdiction in the East. There were duties pointed out, but neither of them was a Presiding Bishop. But what were they’? As was clearly shown by President Taylor at the Priesthood meeting on last evening, they were general Bishops. By and by, after the Church of God was driven from the State of Missouri, it became necessary to have a presiding Bishop; and the Lord gave a revelation saying: “Let my servant Knight, and my servant Shadrach Roundy and my servant Samuel H. Smith, be appointed as Presidents over the Bishopric of my Church.”

Here then is the first intimation that we have of a Presiding Bishop. Neither Bishop Partridge nor Newel K. Whitney at that time was a presiding Bishop but each one held distinct jurisdiction, presiding in a distinct locality, neither presiding over the other. But when Vinson Knight, in years afterwards, was called, it was his duty to preside over all of the Bishops that were then appointed. By and by, in the process of time, as the Church increased and multiplied upon the earth, it became necessary that there should be local Bishops, hence arose Bishops over this town and over that town, not general Bishops, but Ward Bishop, the same as you have throughout your respective Stakes.” (Elder Orson Pratt, Oct. 10, 1850. JD 22:3L.)

Some men are saying that Vinson Knight was taken by the Lord because he presumed to overstep his bounds and begin to function in his office as Presiding Bishop. So that he actually never functioned. This sounds peculiar. Since when did the Lord set up offices on paper and then become angry when they began to function in their office and calling? Vinson Knight was called on January 19, 1841 according to the heading of Sect. 124, but this part of the section must be based on earlier action as the Times and Seasons Jan. 15, l841 Vol 2 No. 6. 287 has the following: “Those of the lesser priesthood, in the City of Nauvoo, are requested to meet at my house, on the 24th instance at 6 o’clock P.M. for the purpose of organizing that quorum. A general attendance is requested.” s/V. Knight, Bp.

Again Times and Seasons reveals:

PROCLAMATION:

“To the Saints who are coming to the Conference -- Forget not your tithes, and your offerings, for we have in this place the blind, the halt, the widow and the orphan, and we desire that they all may have a blessing. Forget not those whom God has placed at your head to instruct and teach you, for they have to eat and drink and be clothed. I will say that if the poor can eat, and the needy have their wants supplied, the Saints will get a blessing worthy of their proffession; I say it by the authority of my office, and in the name of Jesus Christ.

s/V. Knight Bishop Nauvoo March 1st 1841

(Times and Seasons. Vol. 2 No. 9 p. 341.)

Vinson Knight was ill and did not serve long in his capacity as Presiding Bishop. When he died, Shadrach Roundy was automatically released too. “Died. - In this city, on Sunday the 31st day of July last, (1842) Vinson Knight, aged 38 years. Brother Knight was one of the Bishops of this church, and a man favored of God, and respected by all good men. He had been long in the church and had always adorned his life, works and profession, with the decorum virtue and humility, which ever characterizes the true followers of our blessed Jesus.

Warring the great warfare of a saint, he waded through the midst of persecution, over the blood stained prairies of Missouri, in the chilling blasts of winter, comforting the fleeing saints, and administering to the wants of his own family; yea, through great tribulations, heart and hand with his brethren; he was ever ready to give a reasonable answer for his hope in things to come; and showed by his actions as well as words that he meant to live godly in Christ Jesus, although he suffered persecution. Though he has been removed, as it were in the midst of life, yet in the assurance of a glorious resurrection, he has died the death of the righteous; henceforth there is laid up for his a crown that fadeth not away. ‘Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.”

(Times and Seasons. 1842. Vol. 3 No. 20. p.894.)

Shadrach lived in Warsaw( I have not found a record of where Shadrack and/or family lived in Warsaw - GBH) for a time after moving to Illinois, but soon moved Nauvoo in 1840. From this time on Shadrach was a close and trusted friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Shadrach was one of the men who was associated with the Prophet in almost every activity. He was a policeman, was one of the Prophet’s bodyguards, and served as an assistant Aide-de-Camp to Joseph, who was Lieutenant General of the Nauvoo Legion.

He was with the Prophet when he was arrested and taken from Nauvoo to Monmouth. The Prophet was treated inhumanely and they were compelled to travel very late and “camped about midnight in the road." This journey was 75 miles long and the Prophet conducted some business along the way.

The Prophet’s journal notes that on December 27, 1842, “At nine in the morning, started in custody of Wilson Law for Springfield in company with Hyrum Smith, Willard Richards, John Taylor, William Marks, Levi Moffitt, Peter Haws, and Loin Walker. On our way to Carthage we met William Clayton, and Henry G. Sherwood, who had obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the Master in chancery, as no writ could be issued. The Clerk of Court having been elected to the Senate. There was considerable snow and traveling heavy, but we arrived at my Brother Samuel’s in Plymouth, a little after sunset, and we were soon joined by Edward Hunter, Theodore Turley, Dr. Tate and Shadrach Roundy.

January 6, 1843. “A group of men signed a writ telling that the Prophet was with the Nauvoo Legion all day and up till nine of the night of the 6th of May and 7th of May 1842.” Shadrach Roundy was number 4 on the list.

January 11, 1843 “Under this date Joseph the Prophet journalizes as follows: ‘I rode out with Emma this morning, designing to go to Brother Isaac Russell’s and apologize for breaking his carriage on our return from Springfield, but broke a sleigh shoe, and returned home, where I received a visit from a company of gentlemen and ladies from Farmington, on the Des Moines River, who left at 2½ in the evening.

I directed letters of invitation to be written from myself and Lady for a dinner party at my house on Wednesday next, at 10 in the morning to be directed to Brothers Wilson Law, William Law, Hyrum Smith, Samuel Bennett, John Taylor, William Marks, Peter Haws, Orson Hyde, Henry G. Sherwood, William Clayton, Jabez Durphy, H. Tate, Edward Hunter, Theodore Turley, Shadrach Roundy, Willard Richards, Arthur Milliakin, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Alpheus Cutler, Reynolds Cahoon, and Ladies, also Mr. Levi Moffitt and Carlos Granger and Ladies, my mother Lucy Smith, and Sisters Eliza R. Snow, and Hannah Ellis

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July 8, 1843: “The Nauvoo Municipal Court sat, and approved of the ... evidence heard on the habeas corpus, and revised it for the press. In the afternoon Shadrach Roundy started with the affidavits of Hyrum. Smith, Parley P. Pratt, Brigham Young, Lyman Wright and George W. Pitkin to carry to the Governor. “

July 9, 1842: “In the evening Shadrach Roundy started from Nauvoo to Springfield to carry further affidavits and to see Governor Ford.”

Friday July 13, 1843. “Shadrach Roundy returned from Springfield, and reported that the Governor was gone to Rock River, and he therefore left the affidavits in the care of Judge Adams (having started with an old decrepit animal and rode him all the way there and back again). He also reported that General Moses Wilson of Missouri had started from Jacksonville for Washington City.”

“For those who doubt that the full endowment antedates the building of modern temples erected for that purpose, the following bit of evidence may tend to dissipate their doubts and confirm the faith of the believers in this historical reality: ‘I can testify that on the third day of May, 1842, Joseph Smith, the Prophet, called upon five of us, Shadrach Roundy, Noah Rogers, Dimick B. Huntington, Daniel Cairns, and myself to meet with him (the Prophet) in his business office, the upper part of his brick store. He told us that the object he had was for us to go to work and fix up that room preparatory to giving endowments to a few Elders that he might give unto them the keys of power pertaining to the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthood’s.

“We therefore went to work making the necessary preparations, and everything was arranged representing the interior of a temple as much as the circumstances would permit, he being with us dictating everything . . . I know of a surety that room was fitted up by his order which we finished in the forenoon of the said 4th of May 1842.

S/Lucius N. Scovil

Another example of the confidence the Prophet had in Shadrach. Shadrach was a practical man and religion was “common sense," and functioned seven days a week and in every activity. The Prophet had taught him well, and he was an eager pupil. He not only learned the lessons, but he never once betrayed a trust, either by being late to an assignment or failing to fulfill it. His religion found expression in every walk of life. In building a home, a farm or a community. He was unselfish and shared his means with the Prophet, and if the truth were known, with others who needed help.

He could not have done the things he did without the complete and loyal cooperation of his family. His wife, Betsey, kept his clothing clean and ready for him at a minutes notice so his time was always ready and at the disposal of the Prophet.

His farming must have been done by his sons. He was a policeman, with his first assignment on the Police Force as third Lieutenant, and later he was promoted to the position of Captain of Police.

“Commerce- - renamed Nauvoo-- was beautifully located on the eastern side of the Mississippi River, but the land was swampy and many of the settlers contracted malaria while draining and developing it. However, it soon became a thriving city. Through the wise planning, thrift, and hard work of the followers of Joseph they wrought such a transformation upon the little town of Commerce that, within three years after their arrival, they had made of it ‘not only the most pretentious city of the State but one of the best of the entire West - a city thrice the size of Chicago of that day.’ It became “Nauvoo the Beautiful - the city of the Saints,” having a population numbering twenty thousand.

Shadrach Roundy took a leading role in the building of Nauvoo and in the Prophet’s administration of affairs. Many times he was the one to take an urgent dispatch on what could very well be a dangerous mission, and was most certainly a hard tiring one. His trips to Springfield were 135 miles each way and oftentimes without change of mounts and on as Joseph’s diary shows “Having started on an old decrepit animal and rode him all the way there and back again.’ This journey of 270 miles was from the evening of the 9th of July to the 13th of July when he returned. If he spent three hours in Springfield delivering the papers to Judge Adams, as Governor Ford was out of town, he averaged approximately three miles per hour, which is excellent time on a decrepit horse. And if he had to spend more time in Springfield, his speed would have to increase accordingly. His horse needed time to eat and drink, and with the time taken for that necessary kindness to an old horse, he had no time to sleep or to take any comfort for himself and the time decreased, making it closer to four miles per hour. In ones mind’s eye, he can be seen galloping for a mile and walking for a mile and stopping for half an hour every three hours to rest his horse, and let him feed a little. Shadrach was a large man, over six foot and must have weighed 180 lbs. or more, and it can be said with surety that he was a superb horseman. He went the 270 miles and returned in a minimum of time on the same horse, and it a “decrepit animal.” Add to Shadrach’s weight the weight of a brace of pistols and a rifle, the saddle, a slicker to protect against the ever present rains, and one sees just how superb he was as a horseman.

The Prophet’ s journal records: “was engaged in making hay on the farm. Elder Richards wrote the following to Pres. Brigham Young . . . “Sunday 8 July 1843, this eve Shadrach Roundy started for Springfield with affidavits.” This item was under Tuesday July 18th in the Journal History entries. Friday December 29, 1843. “At 4 P. M. I met with the City Council having selected 40 men to act as city policemen, they met with the council, and were sworn into office, to support the Constitution of the United States, and the State of Illinois, and obey the ordinances of the City and the in¬structions of the Mayor, according to the best of their ability. Names of the Police called by Captain Jonathon Dunham, as follows: Jonathon Dunham, High Policeman; Charles C. Rich, 1st Lt., Hosea Stout, 2nd Lt.; Shadrach Roundy, 3rd Lt.”.

Monday May 27th, l844, “About 8 A.M. I started on horseback with a few friends, went by the Temple, and pursued my course towards Carthage thinking it best for me to meet my enemies before the Circuit Court, and have the indictments against me investigated.

After I had passed my farm on the prairie, most of the following brethren joined my company, and the remainder till soon after my arrival in Carthage, Viz. .13. Shadrach Roundy.” Tuesday June 18, 1844. “Shadrach Roundy, a policeman, reported at ten P.M. after I had retired, that a man by the name of Horton had threatened to shoot me, an examination was immediate¬ly had, but no proof found.

Friday June 28, 184h. “Joseph’s Bodyguard, Shadrach Roundy says that Vinson Knight was one of Joseph Smith‘s first body guard; so also was Albert P. Rockwood, Alpheus Cutler was Captain, but not Captain of the guard. Each of the guards was a Captain. William Marks was nominated as one of Joseph’s Guards, but did act accept the nomination, and never was qualified, so states Shadrach Roundy, who was nominated by Joseph in Mark’ s stead and who was qualified. (R.L.C.) Albert P. Rockwood and Colonel of heavy dragoons, commander of the guard and consolidated staff and drill master of the Nauvoo Legion, so he says himself.” The above was copied from lead pencil notes on the margin of the Deseret News of Dec. 9, l857)

Tuesday October 8, 1844 “President Brigham Young then appeared and proceeded to select from the High Priest’s Quorum to go abroad to all Congressional Districts of the United States, to preside over the branches of the Church as follows: No. 60 Shadrach Roundy.”

Friday January 31, l845. “A meeting was held in the Seventies Hall, Nauvoo for the purpose of forming a mercantile and mechanical association, Elder John Taylor acted as chairman, Twelve trustees were elected to control the association. Viz.: Daniel Germ, Samuel Bent, Shadrach Roundy, Charles C. Rich, John D. Lee, Lucius N. Scovil, Joseph Worthen, Joseph Horne, Hosea Stout, Edward Hunter, Gustavus Williams and Charles A. Davis.” This is the origin of the Zion’s Cooperative and Mercantile Association that was organized soon after the arrival of the Saints in the Great Salt Lake Valley.

Wednesday Sep. 24, 1845, p. 3 “The setting for this day was the Carthage Jail. ‘The Court not being ready for trial, the company proceeded to the jail where Joseph and Hyrum were martyred. The blood of Hyrum still stained the floor where he fell and breathed his last; the walls were marked with bullet holes. Elders John Taylor and Willard Richards showed the other brethren the position in which the brethren stood to defend themselves at the time of the martyrdom.”

After the trials of the brethren and their innocence established, a committee was selected to move families. Names of committee selected by the council to move families, goods, etc., into Nauvoo, Sept. 25, l845. Parley P. Pratt, Orson Spencer, Charles C. Rich, Benjamin F. Johnson, Lucian Woodworth, George Miller, Erastus Snow, Peter Haws, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Amasa M. Lyman, Willard Richards, George A. Smith, John Taylor, Joseph Young, Newel K. Whitney, Almon W. Babbitt, Theodore Turley, George P. *****, William Clayton, John D. Lee, Hosea Stout, John Scott, Isaac Morley, John D. Parker, Shadrach Roundy, Solomon Hancock, Levi U. Hancock, (six other men) Jesse P. Harmon, (13 men) Stephen 4arkham, (9 other men.)” Brigham Young, President, Willard Richards, Clerk

The beloved Prophet has sealed his testimony with his blood as a witness to the world that what he stood for was from the Lord and was the truth. In his last speach to the Nauvoo Legion as he was preparing o go to Nauvoo, he said, “I call for the four winds of heaven, the thunderings, earthquakes, whirlwinds, the hailstorms, pestilence, and the raging seas to come forth out of their hiding places and bear testimony of the truth of those things which I have taught to the inhabitants of the earth as is promised in the revelations that have been given.”

During the latter years in Nauvoo when Joseph’s life was threatened, Shadrach acted as his bodyguard. No wiser choice could have been made. Shadrach was fearless and full of integrity and large enough that his presence carried authority. So intense was his love for the Prophet that he would rather have died than fail in his duty. On several occasions he was on duty without intermission and without any appreciable amount sleep or rest for days and nights in a row. On at least one occasion he is credited with saving the Prophet’s life: Reports had reached the Prophet Joseph that some of his enemies ware planning on taking his life, where upon he placed Shadrach Roundy and Josiah Arnold on guard duty. He placed Shadrach in the place of greatest danger, down by the river, a short distance from the Prophet’s house. During the night Shadrach heard voices of a mob approaching in his direction. He immediately placed himself in the gateway of the path that led toward Joseph’s house. There, he faced William Law and 39 of his evil companions who had come to the Smith house with evil intent. Shadrach Roundy stood fully six feet in height, raw-boned and muscular, weighing slightly less than 200 pounds. William Law knew from past experience that Shadrach would die rather than fail in his duty as bodyguard, so he hesitated. Shadrach was armed with nothing more than his hickory walking stick and the power of right. He gripped the walking stick on each end and held it across the gateway in front of the intruders and reasoned with them. William Law said they had come to view the mummies and they were gentlemen and would pay $.5o cents apiece. Shadrach said if they were gentlemen they would come in the daytime’ and not in the middle of the night and would come by way of’ the front gate. He and Josiah Arnold, who had come to aid Shadrach, cooled off the tempers of the mob and they dispersed. In the words of Andrew Jensen, “Thus was the Prophet’s life and property preserved by the courage and fidelity of Elder Roundy and his associates."

Shadrach’ s position in the bodyguard placed him in very close association with the Prophet, and he accompanied the Prophet nearly everywhere he went. It seemed that no task was ever too disagreeable to discourage Shadrach, and his faithful wife gave him a free hand to go and come at the pleasure of the Prophet.

He did not hold the highest of Church positions, but was it not so he could be available to come at the beck and call of the Prophet when needed? He was nearly always included in the socials when the Twelve and other high Church leaders were invited.

Two days before leaving Nauvoo on May 25, l844, the Prophet wrote in his journal: “I had a long talk with Edward Hunter, my brother Hyrum, Dr. Richards, William Marks, Almon W. Babbitt, Shadrach Roundy, Edward Romney and others, and concluded not to keep out of the way of the officers any longer.”

The Prophet had a dream before he was martyred in which he saw the high Church officials who would be in the mob, took him and tied his hands and tried to shove him in a pit full of poison snakes. As they ran at him to push him into the pit, they missed him and fell in themselves. They called upto him to save them. He told them, “I cannot, you have tied my hands.”

He was betrayed by high officials. William Law, Counselor in the Presidency of the Church, Robert Foster, one of the Seven Presidents of Seventy, Wilson Law, General in the Nauvoo Legion, William Marks, who had been nominated to be one of his bodyguards and who was President of the Stake. And others.

How differently Shadrach conducted himself. He stood quietly by the Prophet in readiness to defend him to the death at all times and never wavered, when the Prophet Joseph was martyred, he did not waver even then as some others did, but immediately made himself available to the new Prophet Brigham Young.

Saturday October 11, 1845, “The Council met at Elder John Taylor’s in Nauvoo. The Brethren joined in prayer, and wrote a circular for the agents to take abroad with them. In the afternoon President Brigham Young remained at home, being worn down with fatigue. At 7 P. M. President Brigham Young met for council and prayers. After prayer the brethren ‘finished an extract from the conference minutes for the circulars. Also appointed additional captains of hundreds making twenty-five companies, as follows: 1st, the Twelve; 2nd Samuel Bent, 3rd Alpheus Cutler; 4th Isaac Morley; 5th Shadrach Roundy ..”

On Friday October 3rd, 1845, Hosea Stout wrote in his journal: “Came home about Sun rise and nothing particular transpired till 3 o’clock I then took my horse and went to Warthen’s and there saw Br Roundy who informed me that he had orders from President B. Young to raise and fit out a company of one hundred for emegrating to Calaforna and that he was allowed to take the old Police, from thence I went further on and met Capt. Hunter and informed him what Roundy had said and asked him what he thought of it he said he did not know what to think, we then went to the Temple from thence to see Br. J. D. Lee who was present when the orders were given to Roundy. His opinion was that President Young was dissatisfied with the old police and that was the cause of his new arrangement with them. ‘We then went to Hunters quarters at the Masonic Hall, from thence to the Temple and came home about dark.

The order referred to appeared to require company of only one hundred men to emigrate to California. On the day before, October 2nd, the Church leaders had received a letter from General Hardin, Major W. B. Warren, Stephen A. Douglas, and J. A. McDougal containing information they had discussed with delegates from nine counties who said they would agree to restrain and with-hold further violence, and that the Mormons may be permitted to depart in peace next spring” (Hosea Stout Journal p.80.)

On Saturday Oct. 4th 1845 Hosea Stout returned a horse to Ripley and then went to S. Roundy’ s and one of Shadrach’ s sons gave him a ride home in a buggy.

On Sunday October 5th, 1845 Elder Taylor talked at length on our present prospects and the satisfaction of going to Calafornia and being redeemed from oppression and legal mobocracy which was very interesting. Came home about 2 and after dinner went back and heard the arraingements about the ten Companies organized for Calafornia & gave Roundy a list of the old police and others for his Company as aforesaid, then met the police had a talk with Hunter & McArthur about the Seal of the Covenant.“ (Hosea Stout Journal.)

The men were organized, some to build wagons, and some to be blacksmiths. On Monday Feb. 23rd l846 it was determined to start 50 wagons on to the next camp. Some men were sent to purchase provisions and others to make ready to start.

An incident occurred that was unfortunate. A man named Stewart picked up a pistol and aimed it at another man and although he was told not to fire it as it was loaded, he did and the man was wounded in the thigh. Stewart was reprimanded and run out of camp. Hoses Stout called everyone together and read them “The riot act.” This was an unfortunate incident because it was learned that Stewart belonged to Capt. Shadrach Roundy’s company, but he was not present as he had been sent to Nauvoo.

Wednesday February 18, 1846. “The Company and camps organized, all of the instructions for the camp given. Elder Parley P. Pratt called out the companies of the Twelve. Captain William Pitt called out the Musicians, Captain George Miller. Shadrach Roundy, Charles C. Rich, Charles Shumway, Peter Haws, Samuel Bent and Daniel Spencer called out their respective companies. Those not organized were instructed to join the pioneers and all to organize into companies of tens. I told the brethren they were the best set of fellows in the world, still there was a great chance for improvement; I blessed them in the name of the Lord.” Brigham Young.

Monday March 9, 1846. “Capt. Samuel Bent, Peter Haws, Shadrach Roundy arrived in camp in the afternoon with their companies . . . Captain Shadrach Roundy encamped three and a half miles ahead. The weather had been extremely pleasant and the sky clear for some days. Richardson’s Point, Camp of Israel. 55 miles from Nauvoo.

Friday March 20, l846, Hosea Stout wrote “At 12 we cane to Fox River and found a good bridge across it built by the inhabitants. We crossed over and found a good camping place, and waited here until Capt. Averett went on to look for another as he said there was one three miles ahead. He sent word for us to come on. We started but found the roads almost impassable. About half way to the camping place we struck the old Mormon trail. This was the trail which we made when in company with 27 others fled from Far West, Mo. into the wilderness to escape the vengeance of the mob under executive authority of Gov. Boggs in 1838 when the Saints were excelled from that state. It was with peculiar feeling that I saw this old trail. It was yet to be saw although a public road now occupied the same ground but was not much traveled.”

Saturday April 2, 1846 “Orrin P. Rockwell left the camp for Nauvoo, with a mail of about 20 letters, in company with Shadrach Roundy and Charles Decker, President Young rode forward to the next encampment and found the reads bad. Owing to the number of teams that were absent after grain and for other purposes. The first company was unable to roll cut according to the decision of the council . . . .“

Sunday April 26, 1846, “Shadrach Roundy arrived in camp, three and a half days out from Nauvoo, bringing a mail of twenty-eight letters, among them one from Elder Orson Hyde, informing President Young that a wealthy Catholic Bachelor wished to purchase the Temple and thereby immortalize his name; he would probably give two hundred thousand dollars for it. If he bought the Temple he would also buy other properties, but not otherwise. Brother Hyde offered to lease it to him, but he would not lease. Brother Hyde was afraid the Temple would fall into the hands of enemies, as borrowed means were being called for, and numerous obligations were rolling in upon the trustees without means to liquidate them. Elder Hyde asked, if it would not be better to sell the Temple at Nauvoo and also the Temple and Church Property at Kirtland, Ohio, and with the proceeds assist the Saints to emigrate westward . . . .”

Elder S. Roundy stated that Joseph Young had sold his house and lot for six hundred and fifty dollars, and that anti-Mormons of Nauvoo had secretly held a meeting in oppo¬sition to mobocracy, but had not closed their business when he left.

President Young received a letter from Elders George A. Smith and Amasa Lyman, announcing that thirteen wagons were encamped at Point Pleasant, unable to come up at present. They felt willing that the Temple should be sold to assist the poor, if the council thought it best.”

Thursday April 30, 18h6. “The day was rainy. The camp was nearly destitute of breadstuff; the creeks were so high that teams could not cross nor mills grind.

Shadrach Roundy left the camp for Nauvoo. He carried a mail of 59 letters, one to the Saints coming westward telling them what they needed for an outfit and where they could best obtain it. He also carried a lengthy communication to Elders Orson Hyde and Wilford Woodruff concerning the circumstances of the camp. The letter written in reply to Elder Hyde’s letter requested him (Hyde) to forward some of the means brought by Elder Woodruff from England, or the avails of the Temple, if sold, Elder Hyde was congratulated on the opportunity he enjoyed of bearing some of the responsibilities and burdens which for years had been borne by President Brigham Young and his immediate associates.

The Temple at Nauvoo was dedicated this evening . . . an evidence of the willingness of His people, to fulfill His commandments, and build His Holy House, even at the risk of their lives, and the sacrifice of’ their earthly goods. . .

Brigham Young was a truly great man, one of the greatest of any generation of this earth. He did many things that are not generally known. The Pioneer Company were like children when it came to having the knowledge and ability to go across the vast continent as they did, and he took them into part of the wilderness where he could school them, and whip off some of the rough corners. They had little or no food. Very little clothing, and new wagons they had made which needed seasoning, or wagons that were old and worn out. The animals they had were the dregs of the animal world in many instances as the mob had stolen the best stock the Mormons had. Brigham placed the burden on men whom he could trust to take the lead. They were sent to the hostile settlements to work and earn food, they were called together in council and talked over the things they would need on the journey, they were cajoled and pleaded with and ordered and pushed and pulled until they began to be the leaders they were capable of being. Men, who could travel all day, plant a plot of ground to leave for those who followed. Build a bridge, a road, plan a way over the best terrain. They began to think in benefit of hundreds and not for “me and my family alone.”

At the same time, he was conducting the church business and gathering a wagonload of records, books for schools and a university. He was planning an empire, where music, art, architects, horticulture, husbandry, in short all the necessary and gracious pursuits of man would be found for the benefit of the growth of the body and mind of man. At the same time never losing sight of the eternal purpose of our existence. When the final truth is known about Brigham Young, he will be found to be a worthy successor to the Prophet Joseph Smith and all the Prophets who went before.

As has been said about the Prophet Joseph Smith, his memory will remain untarnished long after those who disparage and cast calumny will lie in the dust forgotten in their infamy, and so the same with the name of Brigham Young.

On March 13, 1847, “The Pioneers assembled at the rear of Brigham Young’s wagon and. were addressed by George A. Smith, Heber C - Kimball, Newell K. Whitney and President Brigham Young. They were formed in a circle around President Young and counted; there were 143 men. The camp was organized, with Captains of fifties - Addison Everett, Tarlton Lewis, James Cass, John Pack, Shadrach Roundy. Captains of tens . . . . The organization thus far being completed the Pioneers broke camp at 2 o’clock P.M. and started on the eventful journey for the Rocky Mountains. They traveled that afternoon about four miles and camped in a line a few hundreds from timber, on the riverbank where there were plenty of cottonwoods and rushes.

Saturday April 17, 1847. “The weather was extremely cold with a strong wind. The Pioneers started at 9 o’clock and traveled until nearly noon the distance being about eight miles. They camped close to a cottonwood grove and the men felled hundreds of the trees to feed the teams that the corn might by this means be saved.

At five o’clock P.M. the people of the camp were called together and organized in military order as follows: Brigham Young was elected Lt. General; Stephen Markham, Colonel; John Pack and Shadrach Roundy, Majors, . .

On May 10, 1847 Orson Pratt calculated how they could make a device to measure distance. William Clayton had been trying to get Pres. Young to consider doing this for some time. He had been measuring distance by watching a wheel that measured the correct circumference that it would turn an equal number of times to equal one mile. They tied a handkerchief to one of the spokes and counted the revolutions made so as to know for certain the correct mileage. (If anyone wants to read how this was figured, read The Orson Pratt Journals compiled and arranged by Elden J. Watson l975. pps. 391, 392.)

Sunday May 30, 1847. “At 3 o’clock A.M. the thermometer stood at 64 degrees Fahrenheit in the Pioneer Camp. The morning was calm and the clouds breaking away. The deep blue sky was seen in places. This day the Pioneers appointed a day of fasting and prayer; the Saints met in prayer meeting in the fore¬noon and in the afternoon there was some preaching and ex¬hortation. The sacrament was also administered. In the course of the day, the Twelve, with some others, made two excursions among the bluffs, where all called upon the Lord.”

“One of these meeting is described by William Clayton as follows: ‘Soon after the Sacrament Meeting, we (Brigham Young. Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, Wilford Woodruff, Amasa M. Lyman, Ezra T. Benson, Phinehas H. Young, John Pack, Charles Shumway, Shadrach Roundy, A. P. Rockwood, Erastus Snow, William Clayton, Albert Carrington, and 0. P. Rockwell were present . . .

Shadrach Roundy and others were called to go ahead of the main wagon train to search out the road and fill in the washes and dig down the high spots.

The Donner Party had passed on their way [to] Utah in 1846 and Brigham Young had made an agreement with then that they would set up a peeled pole at intervals to mark the trail for the Mormon Pioneers to follow. This was the road the group Pioneers sent ahead were to find and improve.

Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow came in view of the valley on the 22nd and Shadrach said he was one of’ those who viewed the valley on that first day too.

Tuesday July 13, 1847. “Following are the names of those who went ahead in Elder Pratt’s Company to look out and make a road: Orson Pratt commanding, Stephen Markham, Aid. Shadrach Roundy number 34.”

Brigham Young assigned one man to be in charge of plowing, Stephen Markham to irrigate the crops and Shadrach to be in charge of planting. Because they could not plant until the ground had been plowed, many of the men pitched in and helped with the plowing.

Friday July 23, 1847. “Shadrach Roundy, Seth Taft, Stephen Markham, Robert Crow and Albert Carrington were appointed a committee to look for a place for planting potatoes, corn, beans, etc. .. Thomas Bullock writes that at 12 o’clock the first furrow was turned by Capt. Taft’s Company, but adds that Taft’s plow broke. He however does not mention any other name. From other sources, we learn that William Carter, George W. Brown, and Shadrach Roundy took part in plowing the first furrows ever made by white men in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. This plowing was done where the Center Theatre now stands. (The soil was dry and several plows were broken but the plowing was continued. At 2 P. M. some of the men who had been appointed for that purpose commenced to build a dam across City Creek in order to convert water on to the land which was being plowed. After soaking the land the plowing became easy.”

Sunday August 15, l847. “A wagon train was to return to Grand Island and there wait for the other company. (The horse teams would start a few days later). Shadrach Roundy and Tunis Rapplye were voted in as Captains of the Company.

Great Salt Lake City

Great Basin, North America

August 16, l847

To Shadrach Roundy and Tunis Rappleye

Beloved Brethren: As you have been delegated as the leaders of the Company who are returning from this city to Winter Quarters with teams to bring up the families the coming spring, and also in company with a detachment of the United States Troops who are leaving this place for the States, we think it necessary to write a few lines of instructions to you.

In regard to the teams under your charge, it is our wish that the men ‘who accompany them will use all the care and diligence that they can to preserve them and keep then in good condition, that you will not give way to an over anxious spirit, so that your spirits arrive at Winter Quarters before the time that your bodies can possibly arrive there; but whenever you arrive at a good place to feed, let your cattle rest and fill themselves, that they may be prepared to go over the barren portion of the country and use your best endeavors to provide meat at all times and places, that you may not be delayed on the other portions of your route.

You will therefore use all necessary caution and prudence, that you may be enabled to pursue your journey in peace and safety, not losing any of the property intrusted to your charge, and you shall be blessed by day and by night. Be of good cheer, and we will soon be with you and return with you to your homes.”

Tuesday August 17, 18h7. “Elder Howard Egan’s Journal “this company is intrusted to the commands of Shadrach Roundy and Tunis Rappleye. The list of men and teams composing same is as follows: 50 men, 32 wagons, 14 mules, 16 horses, and 92 yoke of oxen”

“After camping (in the evening of Aug 17) the brethren were called together by Captain Roundy for the purpose of organizing. The Captain briefly stated the manner of organization of the camp when we left Winter Quarters and it was unanimously voted to organize this camp after the same pattern. Which was done as follows: Second Division: Shadrach Roundy Captain first ten.

Tuesday August 31, 1847. Patty Session writes, “We traveled 11 miles up hills and over rocky roads the worst we have found. After camping for the night we met more pioneers. Among them were Shadrach Roundy, Chauncey Loveland, and John L. Gleason. They brought us good news from the Valley.”

As they were traveling east they met the family of Shadrach and Lorenzo, whose wife had died in Nauvoo during the terrible times they had there, and the day after her baby had been born, talked it over with his father, and they decided that Lorenzo would return east in the place of his father and Shadrach would return to the valley with his family.

Tuesday September 9, 1847. “High Council chosen to act to pass such Laws and ordinances as shall be necessary for the peace and prosperity of the city for the time being, if such there need to be, etc. Shadrach Roundy number 9.

Sunday October 3, 1847. “A Stake of Zion was organized and sustained. Shadrach was chosen number 9 on the High Council of the Stake.”

Monday October 4, 1847. “The High Council met for the first time. Shadrach Roundy, present.

Sunday October 17, 1847. “Henry G. Sherwood, Shadrach Roundy and Albert Carrington were appointed as a committee to hear and adjust claims in the old Fort.”

Tuesday October 19, 1847. “It was decided that Shadrach Roundy should see that the water on the eastside of the Fort was kept in its channel. The council then adjourned till tomorrow evening at candlelight.

Wednesday October 20, 1847. “The High Council of Great Salt Lake City met according to adjournment in Amasa M. Lyman’ a house. John Young, Thomas Grover, Edson Whipple, Shadrach Roundy and Abraham O. Smoot were absent and the vacancies were filled from the bystanders.”

Sunday November 14, 1847. “Shadrach Roundy spoke for the plaintiff and Lewis Abbott for the defendant.”

Tuesday November 16, 1847. “The President and Council of the Stake in Great Salt Lake and the High Council wrote a letter to the California Saints. Shadrach Roundy signed as High Councilman.”

Sunday October 8, 1848. “Charles C. Rich then rose and stated that there was a vacancy of one in the High Council and presented the remaining eleven. Shadrach Roundy number 5. (Thomas Grover not mentioned.”

September 24, 1848. “Friday July 21st 1848 in Orson Pratt Journal. “Sent out several pioneers to see the chance for feed and wood to make coal, among the rest, Shadrach Roundy, C. P. Lott. They returned in the evening reporting feed poor and that President Young’s Company had crossed the river about 10 miles from this place and was camped on the south side of the river having poor feed. Today Shadrach Roundy was appointed Captain of the 10 that Brother Heber C. Kimball travelled with in place of Brother Joseph Hovey, who was unwell and not able to act.”

Sunday December 24, 1848. “War of extermination to be held against Raven’s, hawk, owl or eagle, etc. Shadrach Roundy in the second Company headed by John Pack.”

Emigration of 1848, December 31 Supplement 1848. “Third Company John Pack, Captain of Hundred, Shadrach Roundy Captain of ten.

February 16, 1849, Friday. “High Council organized. Shadrach Roundy number 5.”

Monday February 19, 1849, “High Council set apart. Shadrach Roundy 8th one set apart.”

Monday April 9, 1849. “The High Council consists of Isaac Morley, Phineas Richards, Shadrach Roundy, etc. . .

Isaac Higbee was ordained as first Bishop of the 16th Ward in Salt Lake City, but he served less than two months when he was called to go to Provo.

Saturday April 14, 1849. “Shadrach Roundy was ordained Bishop of the 16th Ward of Great Salt Lake City by Erastus Snow and Franklin B. Richards at Heber C. Kimball’s home.”

Sunday May 13, 1849. “Shadrach Roundy gave a lecture on farming.”

Saturday May 26, 1849. “Organization of the Nauvoo Legion. Jesse P. Harmon Captain of the first Company of said Battalion. Shadrach first Lt. (This company of men consists of men who are called Silver Grays, men over fifty years of age.)

Tuesday December 11, 1849. “Shadrach Roundy leaving on Church business.” “Two days journey on the other side of Laramie, while we were baiting our horses at noon, on the banks of the Platte we spied a large body of Indians, who came sweeping down a gentle sloping hill east of us. When they first appeared they were about three quarters of a mile from us and they were mounted upon excellent chargers, they came with the rapidity of an arrow. It gave us little time enough to gather our horses and prepare ourselves to meet our belligerant visitors. Captain Roundy ordered the horses to be gathered and securely tied to the wagons. General Grant acted with great promptness and decision, immediately forming us into a line, leaving two of our number to tie up the horses. They then showed great intrepidity, every man standing at his post undaunted. The efforts of the Indians were to either break our line or turn our flanks but being repulsed at all points, they were brought to a dead halt, about a rod and a half in front of us. During this and for sometime after they were shaking out the priming from their firearms and priming them anew. Many placed their arrows to their bowstrings the lances in rest and were wetting the ends of their arrows with their mouths that they night not slip too quick from the finger and thumb. After they found they could not intimidate the party they accepted a gift of food and left.” (Elder William Burton’s Journal.)

Shadrach Roundy went east in l850. He kept a journal of this trip. The first entry was dated June 27th. Coming West.

“Passed 7 graves Roads Good plenty of feed but no wood or water fit to drink plenty of slough-water for cattle.”

28th. “Heavy Rain Roads Bad Met two Teams from Valley passed one Grave. No wood or water another Death a Daughter of Mrs. Camp.

29th. “Roads Bad More Rain Met Kearney Mail Lost 6 head of horses belonging to Motts. Camped at a slue Water bad and no wood “

30. “Drove to Fairview in Sight of the Platte and Laid up. The Valley mai1 came in Camp at Noon and stopt untill next day. here we found good water Plenty of Wood and find feed for our Cattle after leaving Weeping Water untill we struck this creek we found no Water fit for drinking but aboundance of slough water in almost every ravine and plenty good feed but no wood.”

July 1st. l850. “Roads Bad several wet swamps to cross, passed one Grave. Bad water no Wood. 2 Carrells this night the Mott Crowd in by themselves.”

2nd. “Passed a Number of Bad Sloughs. Broke axletree of Beck’s Waggon passed 6 Graves drove on to Cotton Wood Point on Platte and camped found plenty of fuel Water and feed and saw 3 Graves here.”

3. “Roads good camped at River no Wood passed Graves 11. “Crossed Bluffs. Fight between Cap and his driver drove about 23 miles. The weather being very warm some of the ox Teams failed in getting to camp, stopt some 5 miles in the rear. 4 Graves this day camped near River no wood.

4 “Laid up untill Balance of Train arrived then drove about l5 miles to a Number of Bad Sloughs. (skipped from 5th to 15th)

July 15th. “Met Government Train of 40 waggons, passed 13 graves saw Fields of Buffalos camped on Bluff near lower crossing of South Fork. Motts lost fine Horse by running Buffalos and found a man 3 miles off the road in a Starving condition.”

16th. “Detained account of Cattle Straying Saw Thousands of Buffalo passed 10 Graves camped at River no Wood a good Spring 100 to the left of Road.”

17. “ Passed 17 Graves the Mail from Council Bluffs nooned with us. Roads First rate camped 1 mile from Road near River.”

18. “Drove to Upper Crossing of the South Fork, difficulty in crossing on account of quick sand. Passed 14 Graves. Feed good.”

July 19, 1850. “Crossed the River and Camp on the other side also Walls 50.”

20. “Drove to Ash Hollow Roads Hilly one Very Steep desend near the Hollow. Plenty of good springs here. Wood but no feed. 11 Graves.”

21. “Drove 2 miles to feed & laid up passed 5 Graves.”

22. “Passed 12 Graves. The Roads Sandy and very heavy. Camped at River no wood feed good.”

23. “Heavy Sand all day Passed 19 Graves Camped on River No Wood.”

24. “Camped 3/4 mile from road near River & in sight of Chimney Rock, and opposite Ancient Ruin Bluffs. Good Spring here and a number along the road passed l4 Graves.”

25. “Passed l4 Graves camped at River near Chimney Rock.”

26. Nooned at Chimney Rock then drove to foot of Scott’s Bluff passed 12 Graves camped near Bennets 50.

27.“Rained laid over.”

28.“Drove to Trading Point passed 6 Graves. Feed scarce. Bennets 50 Walls 50 Oregon Packers 8 Horse Teams for the Mines all Camped here. No feed or Water for Stock.”

29. “ Drove 2 Miles Round Bluff to good camp ground 6 Graves .”

30. “Drive 20 miles Camped near River good Feed passed 6 Graves only 8 Teams Balance of Train withdrew and went ahead.”

31. “Passed 17 Graves camped within 10 miles of Fort Laramie. Met a Return Government Train. Feed Good Plenty of Wood.”

August 1st 1850. “Crossed Larimie Fork at Noon passed 15 Graves. Also Bennets 50 and Balance of our Train. Camp 3 miles ahead of them beyond the steep desend of hill. One more Team left this day. The Widow.”

2. “Crossed Some Steep Hills passed 3 Graves. Camped at Dead Timber Creek in Company with Sessions 50.”

3. “Drove to Horse Creek Road Heavy. Good Spring here, feed Tolerable.”

4. “Laid up 3/4 of the day on acct of Beck’s Cow Straying. By running back drove 5 miles over Big Hill and Camped at 1st Creek feed good and Some Water. Passed 5 Graves.”

5. “Drove to LaBonte Passed 3 Graves and camped 2½ miles up Creek in Co. with Stewards Train of 5 Waggons & Col. Reese.”

6th. “Drove to A La Prele. Passed Littles Train. Broke Waggon of Griffiths on Red Sand. Plenty of Wood & Water feed scarce.”

7. “Drove 8 Miles to Fourch Bois passed 4 Graves Wood Water & Grass plenty.”

8. “Drove 3 miles beyond Deer Creek passed 3 Graves plenty of feed. Lamoreaux left ox this day.”

9. “Drove 12 miles good feed and plenty of Wood and water near deep gulch.”

10. “Laid up ox died for Lamoreaux.”

11. “Came on to Upper Platte feary crossed river and canned on opposite side 3 Graves feed Scarce destruction of Property here by Gold Diggers tremendous.”

August 12th 1850. “Drove 12 Miles on New Road and Camped on Platte River for the last time Roads Hilly and very sandy feed fine.”

13. “Camped at Willow Springs 1 Grave here no feed Met Government men Fort Hall.”

14. “Drove to Greacewood. Met express from Valley passed 3 Graves feed good & plenty of sage.”

15. “Camped at Independence Rock. Roads Sandy and very heavy feed Tolerable no Wood, quite a number of dead Cattle on the road.”

16. “Drove 3 miles beyond Devil’ s Gate passed 6 Graves feed excellent.”

17. “Drove 1 3/4 miles beyond Sage Creeks passed 4 Graves Boys left Beck Wood and Water no grass of any acct Road heavy and very Sandy crossed Sweet Water twice this day.”

18th. “Laid up. Cold Rain Storm.”

19th. “Still Storming.”’

20. “Drove to Rocky Ridges passed 2 Graves. Roads very bad feed tolerable good.”

21. “Killed 2 Buffalos Laid up and dried meat.”

22. “same.”

23. “Drove to Ford No 4 Lamb part of Johnsons Co Joined in Feed good Met Cattle from Valley for Littles Train.”

24. “Camped at Ford No 5 passed Number of Dead Cattle ice Spring & 1 Grave feed poor.”

25. “Drove 10 Miles to Where road leaves River passed 1 Grave feed scarce.”

26. “Crossed Rocky Ridges Road after that good, camped on Willow Creek passed 2 Graves feed good.”

27. “Drove to Pacific Springs passed 7 Graves feed good.”

Augt 28th 1850. “Drove 10 Miles on New Road to Avoid to Sandy found feed good & water plenty.”

29. “Drove 8 Miles by noon to 3rd Creek from here no more water for 24 miles when you strike big Sandy River good drove 6 miles further & Camped.”

30. “Started at 1 o’clock and drove to Big Sandy by 9 Laid by untill 3 and came on 1 Mile beyond the Bend.”

31. “Drove to Green River by Noon feed here excellent Difficult Crossing Water very high came on to where Road leaves River and Camped in Company with Thomas Johnson 50. Plenty of Timber and Water but feed scarce. 3 Graves.”

September 1st 1850. “Drove on to Hams Fork and found excellent feed one Grave.“

2. “Camped 1 Mile beyond 4 Crossing of Blacks Fork feed fine.”

3. “Drove to Fort Bridger Stewards Train here feed good 2 Graves.”

4. “Drive to Soda Springs Met Help for Lamoreaux feed good. Met Capt. Stansbury this day. Passed 4 Graves.”

5. “Met J[ared]. Roundy near Summit of High Ridge drove to Bear River found feed good.”

6. “Drove to Deep Rivine feed good.”

7. “Camped near Red fork of Weber 4 Graves feed pretty good.”

8. “Kanyon Creek Roads bad but plenty of Feed.

9. “Summit of 2nd Mountain no feed.”

10. “Mooned between the 2 mountains and Camped in the City of the Great Salt Lake.”

James Pace advises that on Sunday June 30, 1850, “We started early and passed the Justis Moss Company of 13 Wagons, a part of Elder Woodruff’ a Company, and also came up with Shadrach Roundy’s Company of 26 wagons and camped with them that night. Four of the company had died, the rest were tolerably well. Sister Buss was in the Company. James Pace Captain. Richard Sessions Captain of First Fifty, David Bennett Captain of Second Fifty. In the second fifty were John Hardison Redd, Mary Hardison and family.” (This is the Bennett that Shadrach Roundy mentions a number of times in his 1850 journal.)

While Bishop Roundy served in the 16th Ward the first building was erected which served as a combined church and school building. At a special meeting held June 10, 1854, a Relief Society was organized by Bishop Roundy and Counselors, known as a “Benevolent Society” to make clothes for the Indians.

While at Winter Quarters, Elder Roundy and four other brethren addressed a letter jointly to the Frontier Guardian as follows:

“Dec. 24, 1849, Mr. Editor: Messrs Shadrach Roundy, Jedediah H. Grant, John S. Fullmer, Abraham 0. Smoot, George D. Grant and Russell Homer, wish through the columns of your highly esteemed paper to inform the public generally, and more especially those who are desirous of going to or sending goods or packages, to the Great Basin or the valley of the Sacramento, that they are and will be prepared to accomodate passengers who may be disposed to visit the gold region the ensuing season, or merchandise who wish to send merchandise to the Great Salt Lake City. Our Passenger and freight teams will both leave as early in the spring as there will be sufficient grass on the plains to sustain animals. Light wagons will be used and so arranged as to accomodate three passengers and the driver, including one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage to a person the point chosen to start from is on the Missouri, eighteen miles from Kanesville . . . Those who cast in their lot with us may expect the proprietors to use every exertion to render them as comfortable as the nature of the journey’ will admit of. Yet we do not wish anyone to think that it is a play spell to cross the mountains, neither do we desire to hold out any inducements but which are substantially true, as we are desirous of proving ourselves worthy of the confidence reposed in us by the highest authorities of the State of Deseret, under whose direction we organized and from whom (in connection with all our friends) we look for strength, influence and support to aid us in our arduous undertaking.

Prices for hauling goods to Great Salt Lake, twelve dollars and fifty cents per one hundred pounds, or two hundred and fifty dollars for a ton.

Those wishing a through ticket will do well to secure it by the first of April as the company wish to make up their trains as early as possible in the spring.”

Four times Brother Roundy brought companies of poor emigrants to the Salt Lake Valley, and after their arrival he did all within his power to make them feel comfortable and happy in their new environment.

Shadrach and Betsey Quimby Roundy raised ten children of their own and took in ten who were orphaned. Some of them were their own grandchildren.

July 4, 1872 - From the Deseret News. “Elder Shadrach Roundy who had been acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio, died in Salt Lake City. The following obituary notice appeared in the Deseret Evening News of July 4th: "Of old age, at 7 o’clock yesterday (Fourth of July) at his residence in this city, Shadrach Roundy aged 83 years, 6 months and 4 days.

The life of the deceased, since joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been an eventful one. He resided in the State of New York when the Church was organized. Hearing of the work, and learning that the Prophet Joseph Smith had moved to Kirtland, Ohio, he visited that place, made the acquaintance of the Prophet, became convinced that the doctrines were of God and was baptized by him. He then returned to his home and emigrated with his family to Kirtland, from Ohio, he moved with the Saints to Caldwell County, Missouri, shared in the mobbings and drivings to which the people of the Church were subjected, and when they were expelled from the State, he was appointed one of a committee, Brother Heber C. Kimball being one also, whose duty it was to look after the poor and see that all were moved out. With the bulk of the people he remained at Quincy, Illinois until Nauvoo was selected as the new point at which the Saints should gather, when he removed thither. At Nauvoo he was one of the Prophet Joseph’s Guards, was with him whenever danger threatened, and was trusted and honored by him with marks of great confidence, which confidence was never weakened by any act of the deceased. For some years he acted at Nauvoo as Captain of the City Police. In the exodus from that place he was with the leading company; and afterwards, when the Pioneers left Winter Quarters, under the leadership of the Prophet Brigham, early in 1847, to find a home for the people at some point in the great wilderness embosomed in the Rocky Mountains, he was an active member of the Company and was the first man to break the sod of Great Salt Valley with that great emblem, the plow. When the pioneers returned he accompanied them until they met the companies which were traveling on the trail of the pioneers, guided by the stakes which the latter had carefully marked and driven every ten miles of the road between the Missouri River and the place where this city now stands. In one of these companies he found his family and journeyed with them to this valley. In 1849 he took a mission with President Jedediah N. Grant to the States, to assist in gathering up the poor Saints, and returned here the next year. When the city was divided into wards he was appoint¬ed Bishop of the Sixteenth Ward, which position he filled until failing health required relief from its duties. For some years his health has been feeble; but, though weak in body, he was always strong and cheerful in Spirit. He never appeared in better health than about ten days ago, and thinking himself stronger than he was exerted himself in his garden, caught cold and was prostrated. His passage from the world was like the falling asleep of a child. He has gone to meet the reward for which he so diligently and steadfastly labored, and stands in need of no eulogium from the living. (Deseret News 21:340- Documentary History of the Church 1938.)

So passed from this sphere of activity, this great man, who helped to build the Kirtland, Nauvoo and if not by actual work with means, the Salt Lake Temple.

His home was situated on First South, on the North side of the street about a quarter of the block down from the old 3rd West, the new 4th West; about where the Union Pacific tracks come through from the passenger depot. The Passenger depot covers part of his farm.

Shadrach and Betsey Quimby Roundy were the parents of ten children, the first eight born in Spafford, Onondaga Co., New York, the ninth at Willoughby, Geauga County, Ohio and the tenth in Caldwell County, Missouri, probably at Far West.

References:1. Note: During the Centennial the family loaned the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers the sword presented to Shadrach Roundy by the Prophet Joseph Smith. They failed to keep it tagged and it lost its identity and it is lost in a bunch of swords in the same unidentified condition in the museum, although it was to be returned, it has never been returned.

2. Journal History of the Church.

3.Sunday School Lesson Manual, Gospel in Action.

4. Journal Histories, 1814

5, 18147, 18149

6. Deseret News July 5, 1872; Feb II, l~814; Mar. 29, 1880. History of the 6th Ward;

7. Biographical Encyclopedia, vol 1:6142; vol 14:717.

8. History of the Church, 2:205-7; 3:251-256; 14:296,365, 559; 5:500-5ll; 6:1149, 1405-1412, 502.

9. Hosea Stout Journal, p.30, 126, 114.0, 158, 231, 3149,

10. Vermont State Records.

11. Family Records.

12. Shadrach Roundy 1850 Journal, Church Historians Office.

13. Bellows Fall, Vermont, Town Clerks Office Records Book 6 p.79.

14. Roundy Family in America: Everett Ellsworth Roundy.

15. George K. Collins ms.

16. William Clayton Journal.

17. Orson Pratt Journal: Watson.

18. Elizabeth J. D. Roundy said she had the Shadrach Roundy’s sword, musket, bake kettle and two chairs. (Shadrach’s sword is in the DUP collection.)