JONATHAN PUGMIRE JR.
(transcribed from his original handwritten copy)
	I was born on the 7th day of December, 1823, to Jonathan Pugmire Sr. and Elizabeth Barnes in the city of Cumberland, England.  At an early age I moved with my father and his family to Liverpool.  At about 14 years of age, I went to serve my apprenticeship at blacksmithing in the establishment owned by the Grand Junction Railway Company, Crown Street, Edge Hill, Liverpool, my father being foreman of the shop.  I worked until the company moved their establishment to Crew Cheshire.  On the 14th day of November, 1841, my father and I were baptized in the River Mercy into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Elder John James and confirmed by Elder George L. Adams, and became a member of the Liverpool Branch of the church.  
	On the 11th day of February, 1844, we sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans, USA, on board the ship Isaac Allerton.  Amongst the passengers, I became acquainted with one Elizabeth Mackay of Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a daughter of Donald Mackay and Mary McLean.  After a passage of forty-five days we landed at New Orleans, and from there we sailed by steamboat up the Mississippi River and landed at Nauvoo on the fifth of April 1844.  On the following day, it being the first day of conference, I first saw the Prophet Joseph Smith.  On the thirtieth day of April, 1844, I was married to Elizabeth Mackay by Thomas Dunvet, a High Priest.  Directly after landing at Nauvoo I commenced working at blacksmithing on the Temple, and at other times as a guard.
	The people in the various parts of the state (Illinois) were very hostile to us as a people and on the 27th of June 1844, the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum were cruelly murdered by a ruthless mob, although under solemn pledge of protection from the Governor of the state, Thomas, Ford, and also under the flag that offered protection to the down-trodden of all nations.  Owing to the frequent mobs in and around Nauvoo, a great deal of poverty existed.
	My wife and sister went to St Louis to try and do something to help to sustain my father and his family.  In the fall of the year, I went to St. Louis to bring my wife and sister back.  But previous to my going after my wife, my father and his family had moved into Iowa and there purchased a farm.
	At October conference of 1844, I was ordained a member of the 22nd Quorum of Seventies under the hands of the First President of said Quorum.
	In the spring of 1845, myself and wife moved to St. Louis for the purpose of making an outfit preparatory to our starting west.  In the fall of the same year we returned to Nauvoo.  Then I was called to go over the river to a place in Montrose to do blacksmithing and help to fit out the companies going west. 
	In the beginning of March, 1846, myself and wife were called upon to go to the temple in Nauvoo where we received our endowments.
	On March 31st, 1846 we had a son born in Montrose,  Lee County, Iowa, whom we named George Mackay.  About the 21st of April, we left Montrose for what was then known as Winter Quarters but now known as Florence.  We arrived at Winter Quarters on Monday evening, and on the following morning I left with what is known as the Mormon Battalion.  A call having been made by the President of the USA on President Brigham Young for 500 of his best men to go to Mexico and fight the battles of a country who had refused to sustain us in our rights, and who winked at the murder of our Prophet and Patriarch, but  President Brigham Young said that it would be the salvation of the church and the kingdom of God for 500 of the Elders to volunteer their service to the USA.  At the counsel of God's servants, I and my brethren volunteered out services to a nation that had treated us as worse than serfs.  During my absence with the Battalion my mother died.  (I was gone about sixteen months).  I returned and arrived at Florence on the 3rd of August, 1847, where I found my wife and son George M. well and pleased to see me returned in safety.  During the remaining portion of this year, and the winter and spring of 1848, I was busy engaged in making preparation in Florence to move my family to Salt Lake Valley.  So anxious were we to leave that we started with a wagon not ironed as they  usually are, (the iron not being in the region around.)  The only iron about the wagon at the time of starting was the king bolt, draw bolt, and the lynch pins.
	In the latter part of May , we left Florence for Elk Horn, where on our arrival, we were organized into President Kimball's party of a hundred people and Captain Heriman's company of fifty.  While in camp at Elk Horn our second son was born on the fourth day of June, 1848, whom we named Jonathan MacKay.  While we lay in camp at Elk Horn, a band of the Omaha Indians attempted to drive off our cattle, in which our temporal salvation to a very great extent lay.  In connection with the brethren of the company I was engaged in repelling the attack thus made upon us, and we recovered our stock, but Howard Egan and Thomas Ricks were wounded and two horses belonging to H.C. (Heber C.) Kimball were also wounded.  Thomas Ricks was severely wounded in the back and lay not far from the Indian Camp.  Many of the brethren felt a little afraid to trying to rescue T. Ricks.  I was riding an old horse belonging to Dr. Bernkisel and feeling somewhat vexed at the brethren being so slow to go to the rescue of T. Ricks and the slowness of the old horse that I was riding, that I jumped off the old horse and made better headway on foot to the wounded man.  
	We brought him safe to camp and with good nursing he recovered.  During the excitement my wife got out of her bed still being weak, but feeling anxious for my safety, she ventured beyond her strength, which gave her a heavy setback, and she did not fully recover  strength until she arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.  On account of the late attack made by the Omaha's we left Elk Horn at little sooner that we intended and moved westward.  As we were traveling, one of H.C. Kimball's  wagons broke down, which circumstances enabled me to get a couple of wagon tires, which I put on two of my wheels, this enabled me to dispense with two of my hickory tires.  A short time after that I got two more iron tires and arrived in safely in the Salt Lake Valley in the month of September, 1848.
	Early in 1849, I was in connection with Thomas Tanner called by President Brigham Young to work on the Public Works at blacksmithing.  At the time we were called, Brother Tanner was appointed foreman, which position he held until his death in 1865.  At his death, I was appointed foreman and held that position until I left the employ in 1869.  During the time of the move in 1858, I acted a short time (in the absence of D. M. Wells) as Superintendent of Public Works.  While at Provo, during the move, I assisted in erecting a Public Blacksmith Shop, at which several of the old hands were employed.  On the return of the people to Salt Lake City, President Brigham Young had a blacksmith shop erected.  The building planned and superintended as to inspection, 42 feet by 60 feet of which I was foreman and about 20 hands were employed at the shop.
	Immediately  after entering the Salt Lake Valley, I was enrolled as a private in Company A 2nd Regiment, First division, Nauvoo Legion and step by step I gained promotion from 1st Corporal with its various grades, after which I was promoted to Sergeant, and filling the various grades of that office, I was promoted the be a Lieutenant and I filled the four grades of the office.  I was next promoted to be Captain of Co. A, 2nd Regiment.  In the fall of 1856, The Nauvoo Legion was reorganized into tens, fifties, and hundreds.   I was elected Major of the first Battalion of the 2nd Brigade.
	In the summer of 1857, James Buchanan, President of the USA ordered an army of 5000 men to Utah.  The purpose for which the army was sent was to repeat the deeds done at Carthage and drive us from our homes.  Myself and the Battalion, of which I  was in command, were ordered by Governor Brigham Young to Echo Canyon with others to resist the entrance of said army into Salt Lake City.  I remained with my Battalion for three months in Echo when we were ordered home and others sent to release us.  In 1860, I was promoted to be Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of Infantry which office I held until I moved to St. Charles, Bear Lake Valley.  I received the commissions from the different governors of Utah who were acting during the various periods of my promotions.
	On the __ day of 185_, I was ordained to be one of the Presidents of the 22nd Quorum of Seventies, ordained under the hands of  W. C. Clough, Alex McRay, Alex Wright, and Brother Elliot, which position I held until the fall of 1858 when I was called to be second counselor to Bishop Willey of the Seventh ward of Salt Lake City, and the following year was made first counselor to the above named bishop.
	When Bishop Willey left for Cache Valley, I became acting Bishop, in which position I acted until early in 1861.  I was ordained a Bishop of the Seventh Ward of Salt Lake City, under the hands of Bishop Edward Hunter and L. W. Hardy, which position I acted in until I was called to go to Bear Lake Valley, then in Utah.  Then I resigned my office Bishop of the Seventh Ward, and the office of Colonel of 2nd Reg. of Infantry.
	Early in the spring of 1864, myself and family moved from Salt Lake City to Bear Lake Valley, settled in St. Charles, took up a farm, fenced it and broke up the land.  Built for myself and family a home where we might be comfortable.  I was the second one to drive my ox team through what is  now known as Swan  Creek.  We made a corral of our wagons that night and pitched a large tent.  The next morning my team of oxen along with Mr. Arnell's  oxen turned the first furrow of dirt in St. Charles, that day plowing the spot for the community garden.  After the ground was thoroughly worked and our garden was planted, we surveyed and set out the town of St. Charles.
	We then spend several days in the canyon getting logs to build our homes.  My first home consisted of one room dug in the ground, and the logs were laid upon the basement to build an upstairs room.  It was in this two story dirt roof house that my second daughter Ellen Ann was born.  At the time of her birth there were no doors or windows in the house.  Quilts took their place.  She (Ellen) was the first white girl born in St. Charles.(1865)
	Soon after entering Bear Lake Valley, it then belonged to Utah, the valley was organized into a military District and I was at the same time chosen Major of a Battalion and commissioned by the Governor of Utah.
	As the years went by, I built a more comfortable home.  In the spring of 1865, my son Jonathan M. went with my cattle across the plains to Florence in the state Nebraska for the purpose of assisting to bring the Saints from the various nations to the Lord's gathering place in the mountains.  He re-crossed the plains that same season,  getting home in  the fall.  One month from the time he got back, he died.  I was away at Salt Lake City at the time of his death and did not learn the news of the sad event until I was nearly home.  
	In the summer of 1868, I was unexpectedly called by President G. A. (George Albert) Smith to go and get my second anointing, but while I was there I named to Pres. Smith that I would like for my father to have the same privilege, which was granted, and I notified my father to that effect, and on the same day and at the same time I was notified to bring my wife Elizabeth to get her second anointing, which I did at the October conference in 1867, and immediately after the morning of the first day of conference,  Pres. D. H. Wells, Joseph F. Smith and I and T. McCatholin went to the Endowment House and gave my wife her second anointing.
	On the 28th of October, 1852, Patriarch John Smith (Uncle to the Prophet Joseph) came to our house by invitation, with his secretary, and gave me and my wife our Patriarchal Blessings which blessing confirmed ones previously given by other Patriarchs.  He also blessed my son George M. and at the same time ordained him at the age of six a High Priest and pronounced him a literal descendant of Aaron, and entitled to all the blessings of that Priesthood.  He also blessed my son Jonathan M. with many great blessings of the Priesthood and blessed my son Vincent M. and ordained him a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator.  At the age of two years he was thus ordained, and at the same time he blessed my son James M. with many blessings at the age of four months.  Patriarch Smith was led by the Spirit of the Lord to thus ordain my two sons and requested me to baptize my son George M. at the age of 8 years.  He was confirmed by F.D. (Franklin D.) Richards (one of the twelve) who confirmed all former blessings and ordination.  I then presented him to the High Priests Quorum , (according to previous council from the Patriarch) who received him at the age of eight years as a member of their quorum.
	In the year 1869, myself and several of the brethren in St. Charles entered into a Mercantile Co-Operative Establishment to be know by name and title of the St. Charles Co-Operative Institute.  I was selected salesman of said institute which position I still retain.
	On 18th day of January, 1875, I was commissioned by the Governor of Idaho as one of the County Commissioners (this part of Utah in a recent survey by the government was added to Idaho) to locate precinct boundaries, school districts and county roads of which board I was chairman, St. Charles being in Bear Lake County, Idaho.  I filled the above office during the term prescribed by law.
	In the month of July, 1876, I received a telegram from Bro. Henry Dinwoody of Salt Lake City stating that my father was sick and that he requested me there.  I immediately started for Salt Lake City and my arrival found my father as stated in the telegram.  I stayed with my father and did all I could to make him comfortable seldom leaving his bedside until his death, which took place about 9 o'clock on the evening of the 9th of August 1876.  Sometime before my father's death, Pres. Brigham Young  sent for him to come to his office and ordained him to the office of Patriarch.  My father departed this life without a  struggle.  He frequently said to those who called to see him that he would depart this life, and not recover.
	Great praise is due to the brethren and sisters of the Seventh Ward for their many acts of kindness shown to him during his sickness.  Words fail to convey my feelings of gratitude to the brethren and sisters of the above named ward.  No expense was spared to make my father's burial one of the most complete in Salt Lake City.  Great credit is due Bro. Henry Dinwoody for the manner in which the ward meeting house was decorated for the occasion.  It being the first funeral service ever held in the house (of which I was the means of starting) and for the manner in which the funeral throughout was conducted.  Immediately after the funeral, the Judge of the probate of wills informed me that my father's will would be read in ten days; consequently I remained that length of time in Salt Lake City.  After the reading of the will, all parties concerned seemed satisfied, at least no objections were made.  Wherein the will of my father appointed Samuel Bennion, and Henry Dinwoody his administrators.  I also received a copy of the will.  After the reading of the will I returned home accompanied by Samuel Bennion , and a part of his family on a visit and to transact business relative to the distribution of property willed to my children, who were all satisfied with that which was bequeathed to them by their grandfather.
	On 22nd day of November, 1876, my son Thomas S. Pugmire was ordained an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Elder Thomas McCann while he lay on his sick bed.
	From the organization of the Co-op Store in St. Charles in 1860 up to July 1877, I furnished store and fixtures with fuel free of expense.  My object in this action was to try and make the Institution  a success, which I think thus far has been.
	In the spring of 1877, I commenced a frame building for a new store of the following dimensions:  35 feet long, 24 feet wide, and height from floor to ceiling being 16 feet.  The building was substantial.  It was furnished and dedicated on the 20th of July by Elder C. C. (Charles C.) Rich of the Quorum of the Twelve.  The following named persons were present at the dedication of the store:  Jonathan Pugmire, Jr. President; James Pugmire, Robert M. Pugmire, Vincent M. Pugmire, Elizabeth Pugmire, Caroline Pugmire Mary Pugmire, Lizzie M. Rich, Nancy E. Pugmire, and  Vincent R. Pugmire.  
	On the 24th I opened to the public.  The interior of the building was fitted up in first class style with many conveniences not to be found in many institutions of much higher pretentions.  The store was well stocked with a general assortment of goods and sold at reasonable rates.  It was well conducted, which made it a success.  My individual interest in the Mercantile Department of the Institution is $1300.00 with a good interest in the buildings.  Many of the older children now being old enough to assume responsibility,  I gave the task of dusting the store before opening, packing eggs, building fires, etc., to my daughters Ellen and Annie.  We would receive daily visits to our store from the Indians who were camped near the lake shore, and almost every day they would pack several articles away from the store.
	On 26th of August 1877, we had a visit from Bro. and Sister Galloway from Toole, Utah.  They are old friends of ours, having formed an acquaintance with them in Salt Lake City immediately after their arrival in 1856.  Having crossed the plains with the first handcart company, Bro Galloway had just returned from a mission to England of two years and two months.  They were now on a visit and renewing old friendships.  
		Following Jonathan's death, the boys got out the timber and built the large 13 roomed house, where the three wives and their families lived together until most of their children had married and Aunt Elizabeth had passed away and they no longer needed the large home.
	After the death Jonathan in September 1880, his first wife, Elizabeth assumed the management of the store.  At the time of her death, the store was sold to her youngest son, Edward M. Pugmire.  He also bought or exchanged the home with my grandmother, Mary Pugmire, who took his home two blocks farther south.  Aunt Caroline got the home at the northeast corner of the block where she lived until her death.  
	Jonathan Pugmire, Jr., was the father of 21 children.  He had three wives, namely:  Elizabeth Mackay, his list wife and mother of nine children; Caroline Nelson, his 2nd wife and mother of seven children; and Mary Staniforth, his 3rd wife , who was the mother of five children.
	This bit of extra information was given by Vincent R. Pugmire:  Vincent, the grandson of Jonathon Pugmire, had the privilege of going to England on a mission.  Vincent visited the Carlyle Castle in Cumberland County, England and saw the iron fence built around the top of the wall at the castle that was made by his grandfather Jonathan Pugmire Jr. and his father Jonathan Pugmire Sr.  The fence was five feet high made of square pickets with an iron rail top and bottom.   All of which work was done on the anvil by Jonathan Jr. and his father Jonathan Sr.
	Grandfather Jonathan Pugmire also did the blacksmith work on the Nauvoo Temple and was called by President Brigham Young to be the blacksmith on the Salt Lake Temple.