David Canfield

History of David Canfield

David Canfield, the 6th child of James Canfield and Susannah Blake Canfield, was born 9 May 1812, in Gorham, Ontario, New York, which is twelve miles from the Hill Cumorah.

David left home when he was twelve years old and went to Canada and lived with his uncle who was an ax maker and ships carpenter. He worked on the Great Lake District much of his early life, following his trade of ships, carpenter and blacksmith. He also worked on the Erie Canal as a bridge builder.

While in Canada, he fell in love and married a young Irish girl named Sally Mathison. They had two girls, Jane born about 1834 and Susannah about 1836.

It was at this time that he met the Mormon Missionaries and learned of the restored Gospel and he was baptized by Parley P. Pratt in Jun 1836.

In 1837, the United States and the English in Canada were having problems and a war broke out. The English found out that David was born in the States and was there working. They called him a rebel and his Canadian friends warned him they were after him. From this time on, he had no peace or rest and was always running and hiding from the English. He enlisted with a group of "Rebels" as they were known, and was Prescribed, which possibly means he was a leader of the group and gave orders or directions, fighting with the States against the English. Things got pretty hot for him and he decided he had better leave Canada. His wife was pregnant so he made arrangements to leave his family with his wifes grandmother Mathison. With the help of his Canadian friends, they put him in a large barrel that was used to haul molasses and put him on a wagon and surrounded him with barrels full of molasses and took him across the border into the States. For years, the Queens soldiers were looking for him and all other men of his company. He had received from the States a Commission as an Officer of an Insurgent Corporal.

After the war was over, he went back to Canada to get his wife and children. His friends there told him what had happened... his wife had died shortly after giving birth to a baby boy and the baby died also. They took him to the grave where they had buried them both together. The grandmother Mathison had then taken the two little girls and gone back to Ireland without leaving any means of contacting her. (The girls remained in Canada with their Uncle?)

After losing everything, he had only his church and his work to begin again.

He went to work as a carpenter around the Great Lakes and finally drifted into Chicago and then into Ohio. During this time, he met and married Elizabeth Story Depew, age 19 on 1 Oct 1843 in Bryan, Williams Co., Ohio. She was a daughter of John Horace Depew and Lucy Lonsberre. (I have found Depew spelled more times Depuy). Needless to say, the Depew family being French Huegenots, were most unhappy about this marriage of Elizabeth to David Canfield, a Mormon.

Sometime after their marriage, David and Elizabeth moved to Defiance, Ohio where their first child, David Jr. was born. They then moved to Chicago for work. They eventually moved to Nauvoo, Illinois to join the saints and David worked on the Nauvoo Temple. They were very destitute of material things and, with the persecution the saints were receiving, it was hard for the family. Just prior to the saints being driven out of Nauvoo, Brigham Young told David to return to Chicago and earn enough means with which to get a team and wagon. This, David and his family did, and it was there in Chicago.

The fall of 1849 found them at Winter Quarters. During the summer of 1850, they crossed the plains with an ox team and wagon in the Aaron Johnson Company. Also in the company was Jacob Hamblin, Dan Tyler, Edison Barney and William Cameron. After reaching Salt Lake, Presdient Young sent David and his family to help settle Provo. They arrived in Provo just in time for James, their fourth child, to be born in a wagon box on 9 Oct 1850. He was the first white baby born in Provo. At this time a great loss came to them when their twelve year old boy, David Jr., died on 14 Jun 1856. Just seven months later on 17 Jan 1857, their second child Ellen Elizabeth, eleven years old, died and she was buring where Brigham Young University is now.

While living in Provo, David worked as City Alderman during 1851-1852 and as Councilor in 1853-1854. While living here in Provo, their next five children were born. Harriet Elma born 5 Apr 1859 died 12 Dec 1859 and is buring in the Provo City Cemetery.

During the October General Conference in 1861, Brigham Young called 360 families to go and settle the Dixie Mission. David and Elizabeth and their family received the call and they made ready for the trip. Clara was just two days old when they started the trip on the 14 Nov 1861. It was necessary for them to go at that time so they would have company to travel with. They had a fairly good team of oxen and figured they could make the trip. Rough roads and a heavy load...gave the oxen out between Conn Creek and Cove Fort. They made it as far as Beaver and stayed a week at the home of Daniel Tyler, who had crossed the plains with them. They then stopped a day or two at Parowan and again at the home of Father Corry at Cedar City.

Moroni, who was thirteen years old, was driving an outfit for James Holliday who settled in Grafton, Utah and as soon as they could unload he sent Moroni back with an outfit to help his father. Only through the kindness of Mr. Holliday were they able to make the last of the journey to Dixie. Coming into Washington, they stopped at the home of John Price for a day or two and then went onto St. George. They located at the spring above the Pace farm east of St. George. They were there for the first Christmas held in St. George.

It rained very heavy that first winter and was very difficult to keep things dry and keep fires going. The ground was so boggy where the city now stands, that it was hard to get around. They had to keep on the beaten trails and they often had to lift the animals out of the mud. The grass grew tall on the black hills around St. George and at times you couldn't see the black rocks for the grass. Oxen and cattle were wintered there. When the grass was gone on the east black ridge, the livestock was moved over to the west side of St. George on the black hill where the "D" is.

David was a good friend of Jacob Hamblin and he knew of Davids ability as a carpenter, so he asked David to build him a home on the Santa Clara Creek.

The Canfield family moved over there and settled around what was called "Hunts Place" and the "Foster Ranch". While living on the Santa Clara creek, they experienced a great flood. It rained and rained. Elizabeth became so uneasy about it that as the family were having their prayer before going to bed, she asked for protection from the Lord. After going to sleep, Elizabeth awoke suddenly and shook David saying, "Wake up, Wake up David, I have been warned to take the family to higher ground. Hurry wake the children and warn the neighbors, then you and the boys climb the mountain. I will go ahead with the rest of the family." David and the boys alerted the neighbors, some laughed and went back to sleep while others took the warning and went to safe ground. After it was all over with, they helped gather up the bodies. Some they could never find. James never forgot the experience of trying to unwrap the arms of a youngster from around a tree, or the look on his mother Elizabeth's face as she cleaned and cared for the bodies of young and the old as they were brought in.

While living in Santa Clara, David Canfield and his boys build the old Jacob Hamblin home. They cut and hauled timber from Pine Valley Mountain and it was difficult work. The boys gathered and lifted rock, but laughed and had a good time. David became a little angry when Jacob could not pay them as promised for their labors and so David, in disgust, moved his family into the home and lived there for two or three years.

They then moved to Pine Vally. From there they moved a few more miles to the north, to the Meadows or Hamblin as it was called. They lived in a wagon box and what shelter they could fix up around it to keep the hot sun and weather out. They longed for a home of their own and so they worked and saved to get enough to build a home but it was hard in such a wilderness area. It was here the Jacob Hamblin finally paid David for building his home in Santa Clara. David and his boys now built a nice home of their own in Hamblin. Things seemed a little easier for awhile. Their little cow and sheep herd grew and they made cheese and butter to sell or trade. Travelers going and coming from Pioche, Nevada to St. George and other places would stop at the Canfield home for meals or to pick up supplies of cheese, butter, vegetables and etc.

David did carpenter work and blacksmith work for a living. One day as he was working on a roof, a sudden, heavy rain storm came up and he was caught in it. He developed a bad cold and never recovered. He died on 8 May 1897, at age 85, and was buried next to his son Moroni who had died the 28 Jun 1893 at age 45 and was buried in the Hamblin cemetery.

 

Copied from the Deseret News May 29, 1897

David Canfield

David Canfield - Died at Hamblin May 8, 1897. He was born May 9, 1812 in Gorham, Ontario County, New York. He joined the church in Toronto, Canada, and was baptized in 1843 by Parley P. Pratt. Went to Nauvoo in 1845 and helped to finish up the temple as far as it was completed. Came to Utah in 1850. Settled in Provo. Was in the Indian War there. Then was called to the Dixie Mission in 1861 and first settled at St. George, Utah. He was a willing worker and a true Latter-day Saint. He was the father of ten children. Had forty-two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His last illness of four weeks was severe, but he bore his suffering patiently and has gone to rest leaving a record of a man who never failed to respond to the call of God, and who was ever to the trust reposed in him. May his children do as well.

!Ollie Jones shows sources as: Index Bureau SLC, UT, St. George Temple Records, Cemetary Records

Sealings in Jordan River Temple 3-19-93

Proxy Individual

Preston Hunt------------------- David Canfield, husband

Darlene Hunt------------------- Sally Mathewson, wife

Candace Fackrell--------------- Jane Canfield, child

Allyson Wood------------------- Susanna Canfield, child

Dean Wood---------------------- baby Canfield, child

Farnsworth History of Canfields #1697672-7

(Raymond B. Farnsworth)

David Canfield, father of Clara Canfield, was a Utah pioneer of 1850. He was born at Gorham, Ontario County, New York, 9 May 1812. He died at Hamblin (Mountain Meadows) Washington County, Utah 8 May 1897.

His first wife, Sarah Mattison, died while he was in the Patriotic Service in Canada. He married Elizabeth Storey Depuy 1 October 1843 in Bryan, William County, Ohio. They were the parents of 10 children. Elizabeth died 5 June 1908 in Cedar City, Iron County, Utah.

In 1850 they crossed the plains with wagon and ox team. Soon after their arrival in Salt Lake City, they were sent to help lay out the City of Provo, east of Fort Utah on the Provo River.

Their fourth child, James, was born at Provo 9 Oct. 1850. Clara, the ninth child, born 12 November 1861 was only two days old when they started on their wagon journey to help settle St. George in answer to a call from Briham Young.

During the October conference of the Church, 6 October 1861, President Brigham Young issued a call for 309 families to go southward immediately to settle what is now called "Utah's Dixie". "These 309 families were joined with 30 Swiss families, just newly arrived in the valley." All of these families arrived at the site of St. George uring November and December of 1861. This was to be th city that had been named by President Brigham Young in honor of George A. Smith. These families had been called to this area for that express purpose and to participate in "the Cotton and Tobacco Mission".

The 30 Swiss families were given the area of "the Big Bend", which is now Santa Clara.

The last child (10th) of David and Elizabeth was Alice Lillian, the only child born to them in St. George. She was born 28 October 1864.

The next spring he and his family moved northward about 30 miles from Dixie to Hamblin -- The Mountain Meadows, to become a part of that settlement.

In 1856 Jacob Hamblin had established a ranch at the Mountian Meadows and had built a house.

The Mountain Meadows are situated on a plateau about 30 miles north of St. George and about 10 miles southeast of Enterprise (which was settled in 1896). The eadows form a segment of the rim of the Great Basin, the watershed on which some streams form and flow southward to the Colorado River. Other streams flow northward down the canyon (Holt's Canyon) to the semi-arid Escalante desert. It was in the lower part of this canyon where James Holt settled and utilized this stream to water his farm lands established on the edge of the Escalante valley.

The Meadows are a narrow valley or mountain plateau surrounded by mountains. The area is about 5 or 6 miles long and one to three miles in width. The valley narrows to only a few rods in width at the southern end. It was through this valley that the Old Spanish Trail led emigrants to California.

In was at the southern end of the valley in this narrow gap where the Mountain Meadow Massacre occured 9-12 September 1857.

M F Farnsworth crossed the plains

  Being curious about Moses Franklin Farnsworth's trip across the plains, we found the following excerpt on the Church History site which some of the rest of you might find interesting:  (again by Wynn)

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868

Source of Trail Excerpt:

Farnsworth, Moses Franklin, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 43:44.

Read Trail Excerpt:

I determined on going west and made arrangements with Elijah Mayhew (husband of my sister Lydia) to go with them and help what I could on that long tedious journey of 1700 miles. He fitted up two wagons and teams and we, being comfortably supplied, bid adieu to our many friends and relatives and stared from Indianapolis, Indiana, Marcy 15, 1853, on our pilgrimage. Our company consisted of Elijah Mayhew and wife, Lydia, his children, Otto L., Austin S., Caroline A., Walter F., and myself. I had left Edinburgh, March 8th, so as to help fit up the wagons, and when we started for good we were rather a raw set of teamsters, for Otto and I herded the oxteams through the streets of Indianapolis, attracting considerable attention, as we were so green with our nervous "Gee, Haw, Buck and Berry." That our cattle knew more than we did is evident from the fact that we struck the center post on the bridge over Pognes, run in the heart of the city, but soon extricating our wagons we were successful in getting through town onto the turnpike on our way towards Terre Haute. We made ten miles the first day and stopped for the night at a wayside Inn kept by Zimmerman. The next day we started early and at noon arrived at the terminus of the plank road. Then our experiences commenced in earnest-mud, slush, and snow gave us all we could desire. We necessarily had to travel slowly and the journey seemed more serious the farther west we went. The prairies of Western Indiana and over into Illinois were almost a sea of mud and slush, and as grass had not started to grow we had to buy corn and hay for the animals. They soon showed the effects of travel. So with patience and toil until we were almost worn out we finally reached Kanesville, Iowa on the 6th day of May. This was a joyful time for us for we remained in this vicinity until the 7th day of June. On the 8th we crossed the Missouri River by ferry and started on the overland journey across the great plains. Our company had 46 wagons. John W. Cooley was captain, Daniel Mellor [Miller] assistant. We had the usual monotonous travel from day to day, resting, shoeing oxen, setting wagon tires, etc., when necessary. This routine was only enlivened by the sudden appearance of Indians who would come into camp to beg or steal as opportunity presented. We had to keep strict watch by day and guard by night so as to prevent a stampede of the animals and we had all the experiences of tiresome travel that anyone could desire. Though the hardships of overland travel may have been overestimated by some, yet we had enough and plenty to satisfy the most ambitious.

In the beginning and following the wake of the pioneers, it was a necessity for the Mormon people that had been exiled and driven, they had no homes wherein they could dwell in peace among their christian friends, and they had to try the realities of life beyond the pale of civilization. To me this journey caused much serious reflection. I had left a good home, pleasant surroundings, a good position, and a bright outlook for future success, but having decided to cast my lot among this people no such word as regreat [sic] entered my mind and heart, but to push ahead, taking things as they come, and no matter what it cost. I was determined to stay with it. Day by day we continued our journey until finally on the ninth of Sept., 1853, we reached Salt Lake City.

John Lothropp A legacy of Conviction and Faith

Wynn Farnsworth found this piece.     This came from the series on Great Britain on GEMS.   Notice who some of our illustrious relatives are.   At the end I've added a short chart showing exactly which Great... he is.                 *           *           *           * Worldwide Saints would like to thank Peter Fagg of the Preston area for providing the content for this part in our series. Part 10 : John Lothropp--A Legacy of Conviction and Faith If you stand on the northern end of London Bridge and look from the city of London across the River Thames, you see a wide vista of Victorian warehouses, modern offices, red double-decker buses, black taxi cabs, office workers, and tourists all competing for space. This area is called Southwark and has been at the heart of London’s history for more than 2,000 years, producing such notables as William Shakespeare, Florence Nightingale, and John Harvard (Harvard University). Few of Southwark’s current occupants are aware that another notable individual named John Lothropp lived here in the 1600s and is tied to significant figures in Church history. John Lothropp was born on 20 December 1584 at Etton, Yorkshire. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and was appointed as minister over the parish of St. James in Egerton, Kent. He could have lived a comfortable life, but he felt uneasy about the moral state of the Church of England. At the age of 39, he was prompted by his conscience to abandon the security and status of his ecclesiastical position. He moved with his family to Southwark, where he became pastor of an independent congregation that had to meet secretly since their meetings were considered illegal. All clergy were legally bound to conform to the Prayer Book in their services and had to accept the monarch as the head of the church. If caught worshiping in any other way, they could be submitted to fines, imprisonment, or exile. Despite these threats, thousands were more willing to follow their conscience and worship illegally than conform to the rules of an oppressive government. For eight years, John’s faithful congregation met undetected, but then came the fateful day when they were discovered. William Laud was the bishop of London at the time, and he actively tried to silence the dissenting religious voices of England. William was a firm believer in uniformity, and his aim was to have these "Puritan" ideals "harried out of the land." He was aware that illegal meetings were going on around London and tried his utmost to repress them. On 22 April 1632, he found where John was conducting his services, burst into the building with his men, and arrested 42 members of the congregation. Over the next few years, John and his followers were held captive in a number of prisons, including the Clink, Newgate, and Gatehouse--the condition of which were filthy and disease ridden. A few sections of the old Clink prison are still visible along one of Southwark's darker streets. While in prison, John’s wife became sick. John was granted a visit to her, and while he prayed over her she died. With the death of his wife, John’s many children, ages twenty to eight, were orphaned. The children approached Bishop Laud and plead with him to release their father. Miraculously, in 1634, Laud’s heart was softened and he released John on the conditions that he paid bond and would appear before the court in the next term. After his release, John saw to some final matters of his congregation and then set sail for America. Needless to say, he did not appear for his next court date. Fleeing to America for religious freedom was a common theme during this period in history. Between 1628 and 1640, around 20,000 people fled to America to escape Laud’s persecution. When in New England, John Lothropp became a prominent community and church leader. He stood as a great example of someone who prized standing for truth and freedom even in the face of intense opposition.   His legacy has had a great impact on history. John’s notable descendents in American history include Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bush, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. More importantly, he was the sixth great grandfather of Joseph Smith. His other Latter-day Saint descendants include four more modern prophets: Joseph F. Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, Wilford Woodruff and Harold B. Lee, as well as Frederick Williams, Oliver Cowdrey, Orson Pratt, and Parley P. Pratt. Orson Pratt in a letter to his brother Parley remarked, "You will recollect that Joseph [Smith] had a vision and saw that our families and his all sprang from the same man [John Lothropp] a few generations ago. Truly the Lord had his eye upon him, and upon his father, and upon their progenitors . . ." In 1840, more than two hundred years after John Lothropp’s escape to America, Wilford Woodruff, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith crossed London Bridge into the High Street of Southwark and found lodgings on what was then called King Street. It was a noisy, vibrant place, and Wilford remarked, "It is with difficulty that I could sleep at night." Wilford had earlier declared, "We are the first Elders of the Church of Latter day Saint [sic] that have ever walked the Streets of London. O London, as I walk thy street and behold the mass of human beings passing through thee and view thy mighty palaces, thy splendid mansions, the costly merchandise wherewith thou art adorned even as the capital of great Babylon, I am ready to ask myself, what am I and my brethren here for?" Wilford was probably unaware that his very own ancestor John Lothropp had walked the very same streets of London and had probably asked himself a similar question: "what am I and my brethren here for?" John Lothropp’s convictions freed the way for thousands to look for more truth. He left a great heritage of faith to many, including the great men and women the Lord rose up to move the work of the Church forward. Perhaps fitting John’s legacy is the statement by Sir Isaac Newton, "If I can see further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." Peter Fagg is the bishop of the Chorley Second Ward, situated on the Preston Temple site. He is a partner in two "Latter-day Book Stores" in England and is a registered Blue Badge tour guide. Bishop Fagg is currently working on a history of the Church in England, titled "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants." He and his wife, Nicola, are the proud parents of two girls. He can be contacted at peterf@btconnect.com (Copyright 2001 Peter Fagg) Source of Orson Pratt quote: "John Lothropp, Forebear of Prophets, Presidents, and Others" by Keith W. Perkins, in "Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History." Edited by Donald Q. Cannon. Published by Department of Church History and Doctrine Brigham Young University, 1990.               *           *           *           * Here's the list decending from John Lathropp John Lathropp Samuel Lathrop Martha Lathrop Samuel Moss Esther Moss Benjamin Canfield James Canfield David Canfield Clara Canfield Bartlett Canfield Farnsworth Erwin H. Farnsworth I think you all know how you are related to Grandp Farnsworth.

William Thomas Truman and the Mountain Lion

 This was Jacob Micah's son William Thomas Truman.  He was LeRoy Staheli's father-in-law, grandfather to Genevieve Farnsworth

  From the Jan 18, 1912 (some 97 years ago) edition of the Washington County News - right off from page one.

[As was customary in those days, many articles were reprinted from other newspapers, and this one was a reprint from the Herald Republican (Salt Lake City)]

"CAPTURED LION ALIVE"

" William Trueman[sic], a cowboy of Enterprise, Utah, exhibited a fine contempt for weapons Thursday afternoon when he captured a full-grown mountain lion, measuring ten feet from tip to tip, with his lariat rope.   His excuse for not shooting the animal was that he wanted to get it alive.   The story of the capture is related by John Cleghorn, 417 Seventh Avenue, who has just returned from a prospecting trip in the vicinity of Enterprise.   'Trueman[sic],'said Mr. Cleghorn, 'met the animal in the hills south of Enterprise.   Although fully armed he decided to take the animal alive, and pressed his rope into service.   With the first throw he lassoed the lion about the neck.   Another quick hitch muzzled the animal.   As it lunged in the air Trueman[sic] passed another loop binding the two front feet together.   Trueman[sic] then secured a rope carried by his son and devoted his attention to the hind quarters of the animal.   Within a few minutes he had the mountain lion helplessly bound and muzzled.   He then loaded it onto his saddle and carried it to Enterprise, where he endeavored to sell it.   The animal when placed on the saddle dragged on the snow on both sides of the horse.   Cougars are numerous in this part of the state, often killing full-grown horses and cattle.   This is the first time, however, and of the residents has capatured one of the animals in this manner."

A link to James Holt biographical sketch

I came across this biographical sketch of James Holt that I found interesting.   For those of you who were at the reunion and went out to Holt's ranch, this is especially interesting, since he was the one who settled the ranch, and the one of the gold mine fame - though that is not mentioned here.
(Wynn)

      http://www.lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/washington/history/jholt.h
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M F Farnsworth Submitted by Wynn

When Bro L. Tom Perry was talking about the construction of the Manti temple, I thought that even though we didn't have any family who were directly involved in the construction of the temple, Moses Franklin Farnsworth was the first recorder of the Manti temple.

You may remember that he became a recorder in the St. George temple in 1877.   He wasn't the first recorder there, they had had several, but none really caught the vision of how the recorder should work.   He redesigned the forms they used, and implemented other forms, and got things going right.   He wasn't there at the time the signers of the Declaration of Independence appeared to Wilford Woodruff, that was before he got there.

During the time that he was in St. George, the "crusade" as they called the prosecution of those who practicing polygamy was rampant, and many of the leading brethren, including M F Farnsworth were in hiding to avoid arrest.   I quote the following from his history:

"In order to have a little more peace it was finally decided to leave St. George, and with a view of my probably going to New Zealand [sic] to assist in putting the manuscript copy of the Book of Mormon in the Maori language through the press.

"I was sent for at Pine Valley where I was staying with Father Bracken, and arrived at St. George about 11:00 P.M., May 1, 1885, and went where I had an interview with President Woodruff at the home of President McAllister.   We talked the matters over.   He told me what I thought was best.   I accepted the counsel and at 12 o'clock that night he gave me a blessing and ordained me a High Priest, and certificate of which is as follows:
    'This certifies that M.F. Farnsworth was ordained a High Priest and set apart for a mission to New Zealand under the hands of Wilford Woodruff, J.D.T. McAllister, and William Thompson, pronounced by Wilford Woodruff, St. George, Utah, May 1 1885.
      Signed, Wilford Woodruff'

"I should state that previous to this, as my wives Lovina J. and Clara C. [Bartlett's mother, he was born in 1881, so he was 4 at this time] had to go into exile, I took them to the Temple and President Woodruff gave them each a blessing.   He was full of the spirit of prophecy and blessing, and he gave them most precious promises which at that time could not be written.   He told them to be careful and prayerful, to listen to the promptings of the spirit, and to counsel of their husband, and they should not be brought before the courts.   They will tell you that all these promises er fulfilled.

"I left St. George that night as soon as I got the appointment and started for Salt Lake City.   I went by team to Milford where I took train and arrived in the city on the 7th.   The crusade was in full blast then.   I had an interview with Apostles Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards.   They had my message conveyed to President John Taylor.   Matters were talked over and President Taylor said, 'Tell Brother Farnsworth that if it is necessary for him to leave Utah, to go somewhere close by, where we can get him when we want him.   Let younger men take those hard laboring mission.' "

He then departed for Logan, where he had letters of introduction from both Elder Snow & Elder Richards.   Mariner W. Merrill, also a member of the twelve, was president of the Logan temple, and Elder Richards suggested that M.F. Farnsworth could help out with the recording the the Logan temple.   However, Pres Merrill thought that if he stayed there any length of time their enemies might track him down and raid the temple, which they were trying to avoid at all costs.   He went back to SLC and stayed in hiding about 4 months then returned to St. George.

One excerpt from his stay in SLC: "...wrote a number of articles for the Evening News, which aroused the wrath of some curt officials and others, but as all the past is buried now, so 'Chronicles and Marcus' 'died'"

He returned to St. George and worked in the temple until called to Manti when the temple was dedicated in 1887.   J D T McAllister was called to be the new temple president in Manti and M F Farnsworth was called as the chief recorder.   They attended the private dedication ceremony which was held May 17, where Wilford Woodruff dedicated it.   Then a public dedication was held May 21, 22, & 23, 1887.

He remained the chief recorder there until his death on 25 Feb 1906.   He is buried in the Manti cemetery, at the foot of the Manti Temple.   One of his interesting neighbors is Isaac Morley, known as Father Morley in the Nauvoo period, and is mentioned more than once in the Doctrine & Covenants.

He felt his great contribution was his publication of The Farnsworth Memorial, but I think this following paragraph which closes his history demonstrates a better memorial

"Pour over the records in St. George and Manti [temples] from 1877 until now [1905] and you can witness my works.   Without egotism, I might say, the beating heart and busy brain assisted in arranging, developing, bringing into more perfection those crude records, so that my monument and labors are imperishably written in the minds and hearts of thousands who have been assisted in this great labor of love through my untiring efforts.   I ask not for name and fame among men, men's works live and close, and though I have weaknesses and faults, yet let the mantle of charity cover them while you look on the brighter side, and never let the clouds of error or folly overshadow the bright sunshine of truth, and then your pathway will grow brighter and brighter until the perfect day."

Janell's History of Erwin H Farnsworth

    Grandpa was born on September 13, 1922 to Bartlett Canfield Farnsworth and Lillie Parthenia Holt.   He is the fourth of five children, having two sisters and two brothers.   Erwin was raised in the small farming community of Enterprise, Utah, but was born in a hospital in St. George, Utah about 40 miles away from Enterprise.   I guess they didn't go to hospitals very often, but Grandpa’s reasoning for being born in a hospital was: “Don’t know why, maybe mom had problems with something.”
      The home Grandpa grew up in didn’t have any electric lights while he was growing up and he remembers using coal lamps for light.   The layout of the house consisted of a living room, dining room, kitchen, one small bedroom and one big bedroom that went the whole length of the house.   Mom and dad slept in the small bedroom, and in the big bedroom there was one bed in one end where all the boys slept and one bed at the other end of the room where all the girls slept.   Because they didn’t have any “heater” to help keep the house warm in the winter, they would place a hot water bag at the bottom of the bed to help them keep warm, but Grandpa recalled “When we’d get up in the morning, it would be frozen solid.”
Any water that they used would have to come from a well on their property.   On Saturday nights, to have a bath, they would have to put a tea kettle on the stove and warm up water to fill up the #3 tub to fill it up for a bath.   “We had to use a lot of tea kettles!”   T
      They didn’t have a refrigerator, freezer, or washing machine in their home growing up.   To keep their food cold, they would wrap meat and other foods in burlap sacks and stick them up in the North Corner of the house, and this was considered their “deep freeze.”   They did get a second hand refrigerator in the late 1930s and Grandpa also recalled what an amazing thing it was to get a Maytag washing machine as opposed to their scrubbing board and soap.  
TV’s didn’t exist in those days, so a lot of quality time was spent listening to the radio in their home.   Grandpa recalls listening to episodes of “The Great American Boy” that was sponsored by Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions.   He also remembered one ad he used to hear on the radio a lot of the time that was an advertisement for soap: “Use Lifewise soap, and you won’t have B.O.!”
      Granpda Farnsworth (Barlett), was on the school board in Enterprise for 30 years and always encouraged his children to get an education.   Grandpa always had an interest in radio, movies, and movie projectors and throughout high school would run the shows at the local movie theater earning fifty cents a night.   After graduation from high school, he went to Chicago where he attended Electric Radio School.
      When Grandpa returned from school in Chicago, he remembers World War II had just begun.   As he was visiting his sister in Salt Lake City on December 7, 1941, he remembers listening to the radio and hearing about the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor.   It was a strange thing to listening to as you were just sitting and visiting.
      Grandpa then went on to Burbank, California where he went to school to learn about Air Craft Construction.   After completing his education, he had a desire to get a job in air craft construction, but after a physical examination, it was discovered he had very high blood pressure, so he was not allowed to pursue that form of work.   He still had a high interest in radio and aircraft at the time though, and begin to seek other areas of work that would allow him to continue his interests.  
      Grandpa had gone to elementary, junior high school, and high school with most of the same people, and had always been friends with Grandma.   After he got home from Chicago and radio school, they began dating and were married on August 7, 1942 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple.  
After they got married, Grandpa got a job at the Remington Arm Plant in Salt Lake City making 87 cents an hour.   This equaled to be about $32 a week and about $1660 dollars a year.   In 1943, he got drafted to the Air Force where he worked at an air base in the United States at an air base and became an Air Craft Dispatcher.   He served 33 months there dispatching, doing weather reports, reporting to and briefing pilots.   He was discharged in 1946.
        Due to the high number of women quitting work as World War II ended, the airport in Enterprise, UT was hiring, and Grandpa decided to apply for a job that would let him pursue his interests in aviation.   He was given a job there, but first he and Grandma had to move to Salt Lake in 1947 so Erwin could complete his FAA training to become an air traffic controller.   When he began working, in his own words, “that paid pretty good money, about $2600 a year.”   After training, he worked in St. George, UT from 1949-1955, Delta, UT from 1955-1971, then in Salt Lake City, UT from 1971 to the time he retired in 1978.
      Grandpa was just a child when the Great Depression hit, but doesn’t seem to remember being negatively affected by the economy.   When he described the depression, his words were, “We talked about hard times, but you lived in a small farming community and everybody had their own cows, chickens, crops. We all had plenty to eat and we didn’t go hungry.   Everyone had a garden and raised their own potatoes, squash, watermelons, cantelopes, corn.   You raised your own beef, pork.”   He had always been raised in a home where he learned the values of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where he knew that everyone in the community was a member of the church and knew and helped each other out in times of need.  
He never remembers having a lot of money while growing up, so he didn’t have luxury items, but as he pointed out before, they always had plenty to eat and never went hungry.   Something both he and grandma mentioned was “we didn’t have a lot of money to spend, but we didn’t know we needed to spend it, so we never noticed a difference.”   For clothing, they would order clothes from the catalogs that came from Salt Lake City, but once you had a pair of paints, a shirt, or a dress, they lived by the fact that when you got a tear or a hole in your clothes, you patched it, and you just kept patchin’ it until you couldn’t patch it anymore.   Since this is the way he was raised, I’ve noticed that he and grandma have always had modest nice things, but I’ve never known them to buy luxury items or have excess just because their means allowed it.   They only have what they need.
      Grandpa mentioned that his father was a self-taught doctor that could set broken-bones easily, which helped because when someone in town needed a bone set, they could call Bartlett Farnsworth rather than wait for a doctor to travel the 20-30 miles from St. George or Cedar City.  
    Before World War II and during Grandpa’s early lifetime, cars were something new that not many people had, so he never had a car growing up.   After the war, Grandpa mentioned that sources were still scarce throughout the country, so a car was a luxury that they didn’t have.   In 1949, first car Grandpa and Grandma purchased was a used “Grand Old One,” and in 1951, they purchased a brand new Pontiac for $1800.  
      Grandpa’s job as an Air Traffic Controller helped him and grandma to raise eight children and teach them to work hard for their dreams and to get an education.   Between my mother and her seven siblings, they all at least have an associate degree, and some have bachelors and masters degrees.
      Grandpa and Grandma bought their first home in 1950, which was eight years after they were married.   It was a simple 3 bedroom home that they felt was something extravagant because it had running water for a bath.   When they bought a home, they planned to stay in the neighborhood for a while, and their communities were strong, because people took the evenings to spend time together.
Advice from Granpda Farnsworth  
• “Stay out of Debt. Live within your income”
• “Don’t buy as fancy of things as you think you need to.”