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Valentine Carson

Male 1831 - 1898  (66 years)


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  • Name Valentine Carson 
    Born 8 Nov 1831  , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 Sep 1898  Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 27 Sep 1898  Parowan City Cemetery, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3512  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Samuel Carson,   b. 22 Nov 1805, , , South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1836, of Carrollton, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years) 
    Mother Eliza Jane Adair,   b. 11 Nov 1811, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Aug 1892, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married Abt 1829  of Carrollton, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F901  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Ann Adair,   b. 13 Jun 1837, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Apr 1861, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years) 
    Married 24 Jul 1855  of Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1791  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Hannah Waggle or Wiggle,   b. 10 Dec 1841, , Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Apr 1929, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Married 1862/3  Nephi, Juab, Utah Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Jemima Ann Adair,   b. 27 Mar 1863, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jan 1919, Junction, Piute, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)  [Adopted]
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F129  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Unverified info 1 Mar 2002 from Rootsweb World Connect website from several databases. Ancestral File confirms same dates and places.

      2. Censuses:
      1850 US: Pottawattamie Co, Iowa [Note: first two children are from Samuel Carson, third is from Moses Pearson, and last two are from John Price:
      John Price, 34, farmer, TN
      Eliza, 40, TN
      Valentine, 18, AL
      Elizabeth, 16, AL
      Margaret, 11, AL
      Rebecca, 5, MS
      George, 2, MS

      1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, p. 1036, household 1268, family 1102 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors):
      Valentine Carson, 28, farmer, $200 real estate, $275 personal property, AL.
      Mary, 23, AL.
      Sam'l V., 3, UT.
      Wm. W. Freeman, 23, farm laborer, $250 personal property. [I believe this individual later became a bishop in Washington.]
      Sarah A., 17, MS.
      John A., 3/12, UT.

      1870 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enum. 6 Jul 1870, Roll 1613 Book 1, p. 411a, household 19, family 29 (related neighbors out of a total of 108 homes include the following heads of households: John Wesley Adair, Charles Searles, John Milton Adair, Valentine Carson, William Mangum, Jeremiah Stayner, and Samuel J. Adair):
      Valentine Carson, 38, farmer, $700 real estate, $300 personal property, AL.
      Hannah, 24 (or 29?), keeping house, IL.
      Samuel, 13, UT.
      Jeremiah 7, UT.
      Mary E., 4, UT.
      Elizabeth, 2, UT.
      William F., 6/12, UT.

      1880 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, FHL film 1255336, NA film T9-1336, p. 361A (appears four older children possibly are not from Hannah; also they are in Parowan at same time as Jane Hanks, Charles and Jemima Hales, and Martha Frederick Shoemaker):
      Voluntine Carson, 49, farmer, AL SC SC.
      Hannah, wife, 35, keeping house, IL - - .
      E. Mary, dau., 15, UT AL SC.
      J. Elizabeth, dau., 12, UT AL SC.
      F. William, son, 10, UT AL SC.
      A. Alty, dau., 8, UT AL SC.
      A. Rebecca, dau., 6, UT AL IL.
      J. Eliza, dau., 4, UT AL IL.
      E. Rachel, dau., 2, UT AL IL.

      3. Valentine's son, John Thomas Carson, has a daughter, Lucille Carson, who marries Jemima Ann Adair's grandson, William Loren Hales. Jemima's adoptive parents were Valentine Carson and Hannah Waggle.

      4. Checked Nauvoo Endowment records for "Carson" entries. There is one entry only for a William Carson and Corilla Eggbert from Pennsylvania and Indiana respectively; they do not appear to be related whatsoever.

      5. Reference to Valentine in Elizabeth Carson's biography per the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 2060, no photo in article: "Elizabeth Carson Lewis Lewis Mortensen, born 10 Aug 1833 in Carrelltown, Pickens, Alabama; died 23 Jun 1901 at Parowan, Iron, Utah; parents Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair Carson Pearson Price; pioneer of 1851; spouses (1) David Lewis married 4 Aug 1852 at Salt Lake Endowment House (he died 2 Sep 1855 at Parowan, Iron, UT), (2) Tarleton Lewis married 1856 in Parowan (he died 22 Nov 1890 at Teasdale, Wayne, Utah), and (3) Niels Otto Mortensen married 1862 in Parowan (he died 7 Apr 1912); had two children with first husband, none with second husband, and five with last husband [see book for names and birthdates]... Elizabeth was converted to the LDS Church as a young woman in Mississippi. She left Mississippi in November of 1845 with her mother; step-father, John Price; her brother, Valentine Carson; and two half sisters. They arrived in Nauvoo on March 6, 1846 and moved on to Winter Quarters where they put in crops and worked at various jobs to get some means to travel to the Salt Lake Valley. They were finally able to start for the valley in the spring of 1851 and arrived in late summer of that same year. Elizabeth married David Lewis in the Salt Lake Endowment House on August 4, 1852 and they had two children before she was left a widow at the age of 22 with two small daughters. They had also purchased two Indian boys to save them from slavery. Elizabeth learned to understand and speak the Indian language and raised these boys to adulthood. She married her brother-in-law with the idea that he would take care of her. He was called to establish and supervise other settlements and left her in Parowan. They had two sons together, but she needed to go to work to support her family which now consisted of six children. One of her employers was Neils O. Mortensen. She was providing care for his invalid wife. After his wife died in early 1862, the church sanctioned her marriage to Neils. They made their home on a farm west of Parowan. She was known as a welcoming hostess to the young people of the area, often having musical evenings and dancing parties in her home. She was an excellent cook."

      6. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 510, photo in article: "Hannah Waggle Carson, b. 10 Dec 1842 at Hancock Co., IL; d. 1 Apr 1929 at Parowan, Iron, UT; parents are Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil; pioneer of 1851/1852 in the Harrison Wagon Train; m. Valentine Carson in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, UT; Valentine died 25 Sep 1898 at Parowan, Iron, UT. Children:
      Mariah, 1 Nov 1862 (stillborn)
      Hannah Marie, 14 May 1863 (died in infancy)
      Mary Ellen, 29 Jan 1865
      Elizabeth Jane, 28 Dec 1868
      William Franklin, 18 Dec 1870
      Alta Armedia, 9 Jun 1872
      Rebecca Ann, 26 Apr 1874
      Eliza Jane, 16 Mar 1876
      Rachel Emma, 11 Dec 1877
      John Thomas, 15 Nov 1880
      Senetha Chelia, 5 Mar 1882 (died at age 1)
      Sintha Cathia, 9 Mar 1883 (died in infancy)
      Hannah's father died when she was two years old. Her mother married Thomas Adair. In the year of 1852, Hannah was nine years old when she came with her family across the Plains. They were in Captain Harrison's Wagon Company and passed through many hardships on the journey westward. When they reached the Salt Lake Valley, they settled at Salt Creek which is now Nephi. Then her family was called to Washington County to settle the country and this was where she met Valentine Carson. They went back to Nephi to be married and she became his second wife. Hannah's husband made his second trip across the Plains to bring Saints to the Valley which took him seven months, returning to Washington County where they lived through many hardships together. Later, when the St. George Temple was being built, Valentine and Hannah moved to St. George. Valentine did a great deal to help in building the temple. Hannah helped by cooking for the men who worked in the temple. When the temple was completed, they did work for their dead. In the year 1877, they moved with their family to Kanarra. In 1879, they moved to Parowan where they lived for several years, then they moved onto a homestead in the west part of Parowan Valley. When the World War was on, the younger women were sewing for the Red Cross and the older ladies were knitting socks. Hannah knit 36 pair of socks for the soldiers. Besides raising eleven children of her own, she helped to raise her husband's son by a first wife and also a little girl of George Adair's which she nursed and cared for as her own."

      7. Deseret News, Vol. 10, No. 34, 24 Oct 1860: "Report of the Committee on Cotton and Tobacco. The list of premiums awarded at the Firth Annual Exhibition of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, published in our last issue, was incomplete, as the report of the awarding committee on cotton and tobacco had not then been received. The President of the society, Hon. Edward Hunter, has since furnished us with the following report of said committee, which we take pleasure in publishing, assuring our readers that it was not the fualt of the officers of the society that it was so long in coming to hand. The awards were made in Washington, some three hundred miles south of Great Salt Lake City, between which and this part of the Territory there is a only a semi-monthly mail. [Many names and awards listed including...]
      Best 1-2 acre Cotton: John D. Lee
      Fifth 1-2 acre Cotton: Volentine [sic] Carson
      Best Patch Tobacco: James Richey
      Second Patch Tobacco: John M. Adair"

      8. Per 25 Feb 2003 email from Harold Cahoon, local Washington, Utah, historian :
      a. "There is a Valentine Carson that lived in Washington and owned property. Block 45 lots 1 and 2. He is only mentioned in "The Red Hills of November" when he helped to control a rascal by the name of Kirby. This had to have taken place between 1869 and 1877 since one that helped to subdue Kirby was a counselor to Bishop John W. Freeman who served during that time. There is no other reference of him."
      b. From a two page biography of Mary Ellen Carson Tait printed as "Custom Made History Sheet" prepared by Bill and Elaine Rogers, 215 West 21st Street, Long Beach, CA 90906, 213-596-8213, which includes photos of Valentine, his wife Hannah, and children Mary Ellen, Eliza Jane (Ida), Rachel Emma, Alta Armedia, William Franklin, and Elizabeth Jane (noting John Thomas and Sintha Cathia are not pictured). Copies of this can be found in the Washington City Historical Society library and Dixie State College in southern Utah. [There are no references to Jemima Ann Adair.] The text with some [comments by me]: "Mary Ellen Carson Tait, eldest child living of Valentine Carson and Hannah Wygle [Waggle] Carson, was born in Washington, Washington County, Utah, Jan. 29, 1865, in a little white adobe two-roomed house which was built by her father. He was a mason who made adobes and built many of the houses in Washington. He also helped to build the white adobe school house that stood on the public square. Mary Ellen was 4 years old when her oldest brother, William was born. She remembers how proud she was to have a brother. Her father's mother, Eliza Jane [Adair] Price was the mid-wife in Washington at that time and for many years. Mary Ellen started school in the little old schoolhouse when six or seven years old. Her first teacher was Joseph Crawford (his wife's name was Lilly), her equipment for an education was the little blue-backed speller and a slate and pencil. She remembers being at the head of her class in spelling. She was very studious and wanted to go to school. When seven years old, Mary Ellen began working in the fields with her father. He raised lucerne and molassses cane, broom corn, cotton, melons and grapes in the Washington field and at the Grape Vine Pass farm. Mary Ellen helped to cut the cane. Her father stripped it before it was cut. As he was a tall man, 6 ft., 10 in., it must have grown very tall. They hauled the cane to the big vats where it was ground, boiled and skimmed and made into molasses. It was then put into large, wooden barrels, which they had made. Each farmer made his own molasses. Mary Ellen picked cotton and grapes and helped with the hay. She remembers many happy days spent in Washington. Valentine Carson worked on the temple when it was being built in St. George, doing mason work. When the baptismal font, with the twelve iron or bronze oxen was brought to St. George, it was houled by teams and wagons and relayed from one town to the next, each town furnishing its share of horses for the long trek. Mary Ellen remembered the exciting event, as all the school children were out to see this interesting train pass through Washington. She remembers attending Conference in the old tebernacle in St. George and hearing Elisa R. Snow talk in tongues, with Zina D. H. Young as interpreter. She remembers some of President Young's visits to St. George and hearing him speak many times, always giving timely instructions to the people. He taught the Saints there to be humble and trust in the Lord, keeping His Commandments. He told them to be industrious and to take care of everyting they had. She remembered him as saying that 'willful waste brings woeful want.' In May, 1874, when Mary Ellen was in her ninth year, her parents moved to a Birch Farm 1 1/2 miles west of Kanarah. Here they lived in a long, log house with five rooms in a row. There was a well in the yard with a large wooden bucket attached to a rope, with a windlass to turn the bucket up and down. This supplied the family and animals with water. There was a nice cool cellar dug into a gravel hill which stood in front of the house They milked five or six cows, had chickens, raised good crops of hay, grain, corn and potatoes. In his garden her father raised beans, cabbage, turnips, and onions, etc. He hauled produce to the Silver Reef mine, which was northwest of Leeds in Washington County. Valentine Carson was extremely industrious, and always made good use of his time. When he wasn't working, he was reading the scriptures and other good books. Mary Ellen followed her father's good example and always found useful work to do. When her father was hauling his winter's wood to town in Kanarah, he contracted rheumatism in his right shoulder from being exposed to the cold in an early snow storm, and wasn't able to work for months. His shoulder gathered and broke, so he could do no more hard farm work. In the spring of 1878, Valentine Carson moved his family to Parowan to take a job of running the sheep for the Parowan Co-op. He rented the old Hadden home for a while, then they moved up in Parowan Canyon where he was working. Later in the fall, he bought a home with three rooms and a porch in Parowan. This is where their family grew up. Some of their descendants still live there. In the summer of 1880, Mary Ellen hired out and helped in the Adams Dairy, Parowan, where she and Mrs. Adams milked 30 cows every day and carried the milk to the big cellar, where it was strained and preapred to me made into cheese. Some of the cheese weighed 50 pounds. The following winter she stayed at home and attended a night school, where writing was taught by a Mr. Freeman, who came from up north. The next summer, 1881, she went to Cedar City to work on the Tait Ranch in Cedar Canyon. Thomas Tait, the third boy in the family, was a handsome, young man of 21 and must have presented a striking appearance in his cowboy boots, chaps, red bandannas, wide brimmed hat, etc. He could sing and play the Jews Harp, a strange, little instrument held in the mouth and played by the fingers. He always rode an attractive horse. When Mary Ellen Carson and Thomas Tait met, they fell in love. Their courtship was not a long one, for they were marred at Christmas, 1881, at the Tait home in Cedar City. Their families and many friends attended the wedding. The ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace, Lewis R. Chaffin. The wedding cake was made by an expert, Mrs. Emma Wilden, and was elaborately decorated for those times. The wedding dress was made of white, dotted muslin, borrowed from Ellen MaGreagor, who was Queen of the May the previous spring and had this lovely white dress. Thomas wore a fine, dark suit and white shirt; one made by his mother. [Photo accompanies showing Mary Ellen, baby Mary, Mabel, Thomas Bernard, William, and Valentine [a son].] Three weeks after they were married, they rented a little house across the street form the Tait home on 1st East, near 1st South Street. This house had two rooms in it. They lived here until Nov. 2, 1882, when Mabel, their first Child, was 12 days old. Then, they moved into their own home across the street and just south of the home of his father, William Tait. Thomas Tait had hauled the lumber for his home, and had it built during the summer. This house had two rooms at first, then later two more were added. The lot on which this house was built was given to them as a wedding present from Father and Mother Tait. It was a large lot and it had 20 young apple trees, and some others, Martha Washington plums, clingstone peaches, and red or Pottawatomie plums. Each spring they planted corn and potatoes in the lot. Then, they moved up in Cedar Canyon, where the Tait boys had a ranch. Here they lived and ran a dairy for 16 summers; moving up there in June of each year, except when a new baby was coming, or because of illness. They raised a good garden here: lettuce, radishes, new potatoes, etc. They rented cows to milk, paying butter and cheese for the use of them. They milked from 10 to 15 cows every summer. Some of the cheese and butter was sold in Cedar to buy shoes and clothing for the family, but most of it was taken to the Silver Reef Mine in Washington County and to the mining camp in Nevada, where Thomas Tait hauled produce for many years along with other men from Cedar City. They ran a freight line by team and wagon to most of the mining camps in Nevada to earn a living for their families. The names of some of these gold and silver mining camps were Pioche, Nevada, Caliente, Nevada, Las Vegas in Southern Nevada, and even Death Valley, California. Then, they traveled north to Goldfield and Tonapah, and others. This is where Thomas Tait was traveling when his third daughter was born, Nov. 29, 1895. In one of these places he heard the name, Mahala, and when he returned home he gave this name to his young daughter. This much was from Mother's own lips, two weeks before she died. Mother had a wonderful memory; her mind was very alert to the end of her life. My older brothers and sister have told some interesting stories about their early lives when they lived in Cedar Canyon and at the North Fork Ranch. Now, my eight dear brothers have all passed on and I failed to write down their stories. Mahala T. Sorensen, July 1, 1974. (A short sketch of our mother's life as told in her words to Mary and Mahala in June 1942, just two weeks before she passed away on July 10, 1942.)"

      9. One of the twelve jurors who convicted John D. Lee at his second trial was Valentine Carson. Valentine is doubly related by four connections to the Adair family. Valentine was born 8 Nov 1831 in Pickens County, Alabama, to Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair. They were neighbors in Pickens County when the Adairs and Mangums were also there. Eliza Jane Adair was the sister to Samuel Jefferson Adair. It was Samuel's son, George Washington Adair, who was accused of participation in the MMM. This would make Samuel and Eliza uncle and aunt to George. Samuel died in 1836 in Pickens Co., and Eliza later married Moses Pearson who died in abt 1839 and then remarried a third time to John Buren Price. Eliza was better known in Utah in Eliza Adair Price. The second way Valentine is related is that he married Mary Ann Adair on 24 Jul 1855 in Utah. She was b. 13 Jun 1837 in Pickens Co., AL and died young in 1861 in Washington, Utah. She is the daughter to Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. and Francis Rogers. By all reckoning, Valentine would be first cousin by birth and first cousin by law to George Washington Adair. The third connection was that George's Child, Jemima, from his first marriage, was adopted in 1863 at the death of his first wife. Also, Valentines granddaughter, Lucille Carson, married Jemima's grandson William Loren Hales. The jury results of the second trial in 1876 (20 years after the actual massacre), by many accounts, was predetermined. Perhaps directly or indirectly, Valentine was able to save his cousin's life.
      The book "John Doyle Lee, Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat," by Juanita Brooks, pages 359-364 concerning the second trial of John Lee for the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Valentine Carson was included on the jury that convicted him for death: "The jury consisted of 12 men all in good standing in the Mormon Church. A conviction by a jury of his peers would be more effective in that it would declare to the world the fact that the church did not uphold Lee nor approve his action. That the conviction was predecided, that every man had pledged himself to bring in a verdict of 'guilty,' cannot be proved, though from many sources came statements to the fact that of the total listed jurors to be considered, 12 names were checked as being men who would convict Lee. They were William Greenwood, John E. Pace, A. M. Farnsworth, Stephen S. Barton, Valentine Carson, Alfred J. Randall, James S. Montague, A. S. Goodwin, Ira B. Elmer, Andrew S. Corey, Charles Adams, and Walter Granger. Judge Boreman again presided. The courtroom was packed. People stood along the walls and sat in the windows and crowded the stairs. Only seven witnesses were called by the prosecution, some of whom testified very briefly. They were members of the church, everyone now willing to speak out regarding John D. Lee but unwilling to mention the names of others except Philip Klingensmith, who had turned state's evidence, Isaac C. Haight, John M. Higbee, and men who were now dead... So carefully had the questions been placed; so patient and delicate had the lawyers been with the witnesses, that the combined sins of all the 50 men who were present were laid on the shoulders of John D. Lee. By the time the arguments were finished he had been made responsible for planning and executing the murder, in defiance of his superior officers and contrary to their orders. Through it all Lee sat facing the court in silence. He called no witnesses; made no defense. After an hour's consultation the jury brought in a verdict: 'Guilty of murder in the first-degree.'"

      10. From Sherril Clegg, 11 Aug 2003, who indicates she received it from a lady at the Kanab, Utah museum related to Valentine Carson; "Sketch written by Valentine Carson: Valentine Carson was born in Pickens Co., State of Alabama, Nov. 8, 1831.
      My father Samuel Carson died when I was six years old leaving my mother with a family of three children, my self being the oldest, another son William and a girl Elizabeth. My mother lived a widow about two years and married a man by the name of Pearson. She had one daughter by him, Jane, and he was killed by being thrown form a mule. And my mother was once again left a widow. She remained single for six years and married again to John Price who is still living in Washington Co., Utah. My mother had six children by Price: Rebecca Ann, George Thomas, John Wesley, Hyrum, Jacob Smith, and Elizabeth Price. Making eleven children in all.
      After her marriage to Price he moved to Mississippi there we lived one or two years and moved two miles west of the Tombigbe river and made a new farm remaining till the fall of 1843. While there the Elders two in number, came from Nauvoo preaching the gospel. My mother and stepfather Price together with most of our kindred embraced the gospel with full purpose of heart.
      That same fall the people of the neighborhood became excited and raised in mobs and compelled us to leave our homes and we crossed back to the east side of the river where there was a small branch of the church. Here we remained until the fall of 1845. I was baptized at this branch of the church by Daniel Thomas preforming the ordinance. I was about 14 years of age at this time.
      My parents commenced to move from that country about the first of November 1845. The family consisted of my mother, my stepfather, myself, my sister Elizabeth, my brother William, my two half sister[s] Margaret Pearson and Rebecca Ann Price. We traveled and at times stopped to work on the road. We arrived at Nauvoo the sixth day of March 1846. The saints were then on the move. The first Presidency and others had crossed the river and moving on. With his family, my stepfather would sometime move one family on a day travel and then go back and move the other families and so we journeyed on.
      It being the time of year to put in crops my stepfather consented to stop and put in a crop which he did. It was about 25 miles west of the river where we stopped. On the old mason route. I worked with my stepfather and helped him all that I could and we raised a crop and made some means which enabled us to move on. We started for the valley in the spring of 1851 and landed in Salt Lake City early in 1851. After helping my stepfather fix out for the valley I hired my self out and drove an ox team across the plaines. My wages was three dollars a month and board. I was freighting goods as well as moving Livingstons family.
      After arriving in Salt Lake Valley my Parents moved to Provo which at that time was only a small settlement. After living in Provo for two years my stepfather desired to go back to Salt Lake and go in the lumber business which he did in the Mill Creek canyon. I remained in Provo, rented a farm and raised a crop and at times went to Salt Lake and worked at the saw mill chopping logs for the saw mill. After I chopped timber for President Young in Mill Creek Canyon this was about the time of the building of the Lyon [Lion] House in Salt Lake City.
      I married in the summer of 1856 to Mary Ann Adair. The next spring we were called with the rest of the other people to move to the southern part of Utah on the Virgin River and help develop the resources of that country. We settled in Washington, Utah in 1863. I went back to the Missouri river and drove an Ox team to gather up the saints. I drove four yoak oxen there and back twenty seven hundred miles in a little over seven months, and did not loose [lose] an ox out of the team. And all came back looking better than when they started. I resided in Washington seventeen years working hard building dams and ditches and exposing myself in many ways. I became afflicted with rheumatism and fever and chills. I came out to Kanarra and farmed three years, I had a sever sick spell and lost the use of my right arm. In the spring of 1879 through persuasion of my brother in law I moved to Parowan and undertook to herd the Parowan sheep. But finding the exposure I was subjected to was too much for my health, I quit that and settled in Parowan and have remained. I am living on a homestead of 160 acres of land and finding my health still failing I was prompted to write this sketch of my life and that of my parents. My mother and stepfather are still living in Washington, Utah. I have done work for my father and quite a number of my kindred in the St. George Temple, and if the Lord still spair my life I would do much more work for the dead. My disease is of such a nature that I am liable to pass away at any moment or hour. I wish to have this account published for the benefit of my many friends. I am the father of 14 children which are still living in Iron co. I have 14 Grandchildren. I am in my sixty first year now. I wish to bear my testimony to the truth of the gospel revealed to the inhabitants of the earth. I they will be true and faithful and all that will obey him with true and honesty of heart and live up to the principles of the gospel shall gain their reward. I will now close hoping this sketch will be published in the Deseret News, I remain yours truly Valentine Carson."

      11. From the book "History of Piute County" by Linda King Newell, pp. 208-213, has the following sad story about Emma Carson, daughter of Valentine Carson. Valentine was the son of Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair (daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown). Ann Hales in the story is Jemima Ann Adair, daughter of George Washington Adair and his first wife Ann Chestnut who was adopted by Valentine and his wife when Ann Chestnut Adair died in childbirth. Jemima Ann Adair had married Charles Henry Hales. Valentine Carson first married Mary Ann Adair who died in 1861 and who George's first cousin from his uncle Thomas. Valentine's second wife was then Hannah Waggle who is mentioned in the story:
      "Tragedy at Blue Springs. In 1908 the Utah Dept. of Fish and Game hired John 'Jack' D. Morrill of Junction to operate the fish hatchery at Blue Springs in Garfield County. The hatchery would help restock the fished-out waters in Piute and Garfield Counties with rainbow and eastern brook trout... One contemporary described him as 'a very intelligent man and a very religious man (who) was kind to everyone... same with his wife, Emma.' Born in Kanarraville and raised in Parowan, Emma Carson met Jack Morrill in Junction, where she had gone as a teenager to work for her adopted sister, Ann Hales, who ran a hotel. She was 18 and he 22 when they married in 1893... In 1908 Jack and Emma Morrill moved their four children to the Blue Springs fish hatchery... Although the family was often isolated by deep snows throughout much of the winter, they did have a phone that hooked them to Parowan and also to the Sevy Ranch on the Panguitch side of the mountain... Emma's widowed mother, Hannah Waggle Carson, spent seven summers at Blue Springs with the family, helping her daughter with children and meals. In those beautiful summer months they entertained visitors with a crank freezer full of homemade ice cream and 'lots of fresh fish.' The two women fed 'people by the dozen.' Emma would remember her eight years there as some of her happiest... The winter of 1915-16 turned particularly nasty and the Morrill family was snowed in at Blue Springs for most of December and January. According to one account, 14' snowdrifts piled 'almost to the eves of their porch.' By 26 Jan. the weather lifted. Eager to have news from family and friends, Jack called his brother Jim in Panguitch and asked him to bring their mail up to the Sevy Ranch the next day and he would meet him there. That night Emma wrote several letters for him to give to Jim to post, including one to her sister Rebecca, in which she expressed her uneasiness with her husband's venture. Emma watched Jack leave on horseback in a light snow at 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. It was eleven miles to the Sevy Ranch, so he agreed to call her from the William Prince ranch house - vacant during the winter - at the south end of Panguitch Lake where there was a telephone. The call came at around 6:00 a.m. - it had taken him two hours to go three miles. The horse was exhausted from fighting the deep snow, so he told Emma he would leave it in the barn there. He proceeded on snowshoes down the mountain, leaving his warm outer coats strapped to his saddle. At about noon Jack reached the Sevy Ranch tired and hungry. Jim and the Sevy family greeted him warmly. They had been worried when the storm began to intensify and he had not arrived. He called Emma to tell her he had arrived safely and he would be starting back soon. At Blue Springs the storm had turned to a raging blizzard with high winds. Emma begged him to stay there until it passed. He assured her he would be alright after he had eaten and rested and that the storm wouldn't last long. He said he would call her again when he got to the Prince ranch where his horse was. As he shouldered 25 pounds of Christmas mail and packages in two packs the Sevys tried to persuade him to wait it out. Worried about his own family, and certain he would be alright, he disappeared into the tempest. This storm proved so furious that it blew out a number of large windows in Panguitch. In the mountains, four feet of new snow fell on drifts already ten to twelve feet high. An anxious Emma fought the snow and wind to the barn where she did evening chores, milking their two cows, feeding the horses and bringing in more firewood. For two days and two nights they watched and waited as the storm raged, plunging temperatures 23 degrees below zero. Emma and twelve-year-old Belle took turns around the clock cranking the telephone to try to get a message over the storm-damaged lines to someone in Parowan or at Sevy's Ranch to tell them Jack had not returned. At one point Emma turned to Belle and said, 'If you will stay with the children I believe I can put on those snowshoes and go out and find Daddy.' The youngsters 'cried and begged her not to go,' so she didn't. Finally, at Parowan, on 27 January Clara Matheson Benson at the telephone switchboard noticed a faint signal and received the news from Emma Morrill. Clara's husband, Philip Benson, began organizing a search party. At a mass meeting that evening the opinion was expressed that the storm was too dangerous to send anyone out into it; however, Fred Bruhn, John Dalton, and John C. Gould volunteered to join Benson. The searchers left at five o'clock the next morning. With the telephone lines to Panguitch down, Clara Benson and her father decided to send a telegram there for help. It had to go from Parowan to Cedar City, then through a number of other stations to San Francisco and back through Salt Lake City to Panguitch. It cost $14.75 - a hefty sum in those days. The telegram read: 'Regardless of cost of distance and rush, John Morrill missing from Blue Springs Hatchery. Must have help. 4 Parowan men already gone. - Simon A. Matheson, Clara M. Benson.' When the message arrived in Panguitch, men there also organized a search party. Finally the blizzard abated. Emma ventured outside again. Snow had drifted over the house. She and Melvin cleared a path to the barn and with an ax chopped the ice from the door. She fed the animals and milked the cows. Returning to the house, she again talked on the phone with Clara. By late afternoon the men from Parowan reached the ridge above Panguitch Lake. They could see two men carrying something toward William Prince's cabin on the west side of the lake. Frank Worthen and Ruby Syrett had found John Morrill's frozen body. He had fallen face first into the snow, just 75 feet from the Prince ranch house. The Parowan men reached the cabin a short time later as did John Gould from Panguitch. They loaded the body onto a makeshift toboggan made from a 'cheese board.' Worthen and several men from both groups took the body to Sevy's Ranch. Benson, Syrett, and another Panguitch man went on to Blue Springs, reaching the Morrill family at about 11:00 p.m. The grieving Emma welcomed them with great relief. The men prepared their supper that night an insisted that Emma and the children eat as well. When they told her they wanted to take the family out to Panguitch, she asked them to leave them there, 'she couldn't stand to think of the suffering they would have to go through to take her out,' Clara Benson wrote. The men fixed breakfast the next morning while Emma packed a few things and got the children ready to go. They found the large metal vat that had been used to prepare fish food and used it as a sleigh. It was about five-by-eight feet, with eight-inch sides. The men piled hay in the bottom, helped the grief-stricken widow and the five children climb in, and placed heated rocks in the blankets tucked around them. At first they pulled the sleigh themselves until Panguitch men with horses met them. Quantities of food sent by the people of Panguitch awaited them at the Sevy Ranch. They stayed the night, and the next morning a bobsled took them on to Panguitch, where they spent the next night. The following day, someone with an automobile, one of the few in the country, took the family on to Junction. John L. Morrill's funeral was the largest anyone could remember. People came from all over the county and from Panguitch and Parowan as well. He was buried In Junction, where Emma and the children continued to live. Morrill had sold their house and land the year before, but his father persuaded the buyers to sell it back to Emma. By the time she had regained the property and taken care of debts and bills, there was little left. Emma's mother came from Parowan to help with household chores and the children so Emma could take a job. She became the janitor for the courthouse, the school, and the church. The job included starting the fires each morning and carrying out the ashes... Belle Morrill went to work for the telephone company as an operator when she turned 15. A year later, in 1918, the telephone company rented Emma Morrill's front room for the switchboard office. Belle became head operator, and Emma and Melvin assisted her when she needed help... On 21 Jan. 1920 Emma Morrill married a widower 20 years her senior, George Davies... Davies helped raise Emma's five children, and the marriage produced two more Children... In the 1930's the couple sold their home and bought the Junction hotel on Main Street [presumably the Hales' Junction Hotel of Charles Henry and Jemima Ann Adair Hales?]... Emma ran the hotel until George died in June 1951 - just four days before his ninetieth birthday. Emma's sons took the hotel sign down after George's funeral and told their seventy-year-old mother it was time for her to stop working so hard. Emma Carson Morrill Davies lived 20 more years. She died in a Richfield rest home on 19 Feb. 1967 at age 90 and is buried in the Junction cemetery beside John Morrill and their sons LaBaron and Joe Elwood."

      11. This was recently found in Aug. 2003 by Sherril Clegg who was given the following typed story from a volunteer at the Kanab, Utah City Museum who is related to Valentine Carson. It is anonymous yet clearly knowledgeable as to two related events that were not known to most of us until only very recently. It appears to have been written by a grandchild of Eliza Jane Adair (Grandmother Price) who first married Samuel Carson in Alabama then later John Price after Samuel died. Eliza was the daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown. She had a son from a first marriage, Valentine, who lost in 1861 his first wife, Mary Ann Adair, who was his first cousin by being a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr., a brother to Eliza Jane Adair. Valentine remarried Hannah Waggle, a step-sister, to his first wife. Valentine and Hannah's first child was stillborn and this tells of the May 1863 birth of their evidently premature baby who died at birth. Valentine had another first cousin, George Washington Adair, who was the son of Samuel Jefferson Adair, brother to both Eliza and Thomas J. Adair, Jr. During childbirth of the second child of George and his first wife Ann Chestnut, Ann died but evidently his Aunt Eliza, the midwife was able to save the baby who was named Jemima Ann. Apparently Eliza was able to arrange for Valentine's family to raise Jemima Ann. It should be noted that even though the essence of the story is correct, the timing is off a bit since George loses his wife late March 1863 whereas Hannah loses her child in mid-May of the same year. Both lived near Washington, Utah. Apparently "Grandmother Price" had a guiding influence in both family's lives.[Kerry's note: Jemima became my ancestor thru her later marriage to Charles Henry Hales. If it had been differently, I wouldn't be here to keep sending your pesky emails.] The story:
      "A Joy Realized. The scent of simmering greens floated out to Valentine Carson as he completed his evening's chores after a long hard day's labor on the new canal. As he neared the house, he was sure that something unusual was astir, as he could see his mother, Grandmother Price, bustling about. In those days of early pioneering in Dixie land, a good faithful soul like Grandmother Price was a godsend to expectant mothers. She was throughout all the Dixie County and as far out as Pioche, Nevada for her helpfulness to those in need of medical assistance. And, so now as Valentine greeted her, his worries began afresh for he knew his child to be should not arrive for at least two more months. 'Step quietly, my son,' said his mother as he came into the crudely built house. 'Hannah must rest as much as possible or she may have to meet the same disappointment as she did a year ago. I do hope she will not lose this baby as you know how she has planned for and yearns for one.' Their scant meal was eaten in silence with a prayer in their humble hearts for the little mother to be. No word was spoken, yet each knew the other's thoughts. Both knew that the angels of life and death were near. Hannah awakened suddenly calling first for her husband, then for her mother-in-law, Grandmother Price. All night they watched while the brave little woman went down into the valley of the shadows, coming back with no reward for her suffering. Death had scored another victory. Disappointed and grief stricken, she lay at times dozing to dream of the little form cuddled in her arms, awakening to find them empty, dozing again to see myriads of baby angels reaching out their tiny arms to greet yearning mothers, awakening to grasp the empty space. Oh! The longing of that mother's heart, the yearning during her waking hours for that tiny bundle nestling on her breast made hot and painful by its absence. Days dragged by and Grandmother Price received another summons. George Adair, cousin of Valentine Carson, rode over saying that his wife was very critically ill and needed the faithful mid-wife. Grandmother Price hurried away to keep watch while another little mother went down into the same valley to find another little child. But alas! This dear mother, while on her journey, battled with death who was the victor. Grandmother Price, though saddened by the death of her nephew's wife, had a song in her heart as she wrapped a tiny infant for a short journey to a new home. The ride To Washington was not far from the Adair's place, especially when she thought of the joy Hannah Carson would feel to nurse a hungry little child. The next morning a new strange light shown in Hannah's eyes as the dear old nurse made her comfortable for a new day. The longing for the joy of motherhood was partially realized at last."

      12. I visited Washington, Utah and in looking at the old land ownership, I found lots for the following related individuals. The streets are located on a typical Mormon grid with Main St. being the starting street north/south and Telegraph being the same east west:
      -Samuel Adair owned the three adjacent southern lots of the six lots on the west side of 2nd E. from 1st N. to 2nd N. This was directly across the street from the Adair Springs. The blocks here are with 12 lots with the dividing line between the six back to back running north south.
      -Wesley Adair, owned the next lot directly north of Samuel Adair's (leaving 2 from his lot to the corner of 2nd N and 2nd E.
      -Samuel N. Adair owned two lots directly behind Samuel Adair. They were the second and third lots going north from 1st N. and 1st E. on the east side of 1st E.
      -James R. Richey owned the first lot of six going north from Main and 1st N. on the east side of Main.
      -Valentine Carson owned a lot on the same side of the same street as James Richey except it was the sixth or last lot north whereas Richey's was the first.
      -John Price owned the lot directly behind Valentine Carson's on the southwest corner lot of 2nd N. and 1st E.
      -John M. Adair owned the southeast corner of Main and 1st S. That particular block is divided into quarters, so he has one quarter of the block. The other blocks described above for his relations were divided into twelve with six back to back (alley between the six and six runs north/south).

      PHOTOS:
      1. I have photos of Valentine Carson and his wife Hannah Waggle together and also a separate photo of Mary Ann Adair.

      BIRTH:
      1. Ordinance Index entry for sealing to Hannah Waggle in 1868 notes his birth as 8 Nov 1831 in Pickens County, Alabama.

      2. Obituary states "...66 years, 11 months and 17 days..." before death date of 25 Sep 1898. This calculates to 8 Oct 1831.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Two wives per Ancestral File: Mary Ann Adair and Hannah Waggle. Valentine and Mary Ann were first cousins - her father was Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. and his mother was Eliza Jane Adair. Some databases and even an Ancestral File entry erroneously confuse this Mary Ann Adair with her aunt Mary Ann Adair who was the sister of Thomas and Eliza and married to John Mangum III. Date of marriage given in these same databases is 24 Jul 1855 with no place mentioned.

      2. Hannah Waggle. Ancestral File gives birth 10 Dec 1842 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois to Jacob John Waggle and Mary Vance (Vancel). She dies 1 Apr 1929 and is buried 3 Apr 1929 both at Parowan, Iron, Utah. She married Valentine in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, Utah. She appears to have previously been married to William Lewis Penrod 28 Apr 1857 at the Endowment House. Hannah is somewhat related to the other wife Mary Ann; Mary Ann's father was Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. who had two wives: Francis Rogers and Mary Vance. Mary Ann's mother is Francis and Hannah's mother is Mary Vance but her father is Jacob Waggle to whom Mary Vance was married before Thomas Adair. Jacob died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa in 1845. Utah State Historical Society's online Burials Database shows: Hannah Carson, birth unknown, death 1 Apr 1929 due to cerebral hemorhage, bur. Parowan cemetery plot 04-15-02 with parents noted as Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil.

      3. DUP biography quoted for Hannah Waggle above gives 1862 in Nephi for Valentine and Hannah. Birth of first child was 1 Nov 1862, but the child was stillborn.

      DEATH:
      1. Utah State Historical Society's online Burials Database shows: Valentine Carson, birth unknown, death 25 Sep 1898 due to cancer, bur. Parowan cemetery plot 04-15-01 with parents noted as Samuel Carson and Eliza J. Adair. Appears by plot number to be next to his wife Hannah Waggle.

      2. Per obituary.

      3. Email from Richard Adair dated 22 Apr 2010 concerning Valentine's death:
      "In June 1992... I saw in the County Recorder's Office in Holbrook a letter related to Thomas Jefferson Adair's will. The letter was from an heir, Samuel Valentine Carson, son of Mary Ann Adair Carson and grandson of Thomas Jefferson Adair. He wrote it from Kershaw, Lincoln Co., Nevada, dated Dec. 27, 1900. In it, besides mentioning his family and where he is living, he mentions the death of his father Valentine Carson, from "cansor" three years earlier..."

      BURIAL:
      1. See death citation above.

      OBITUARY:
      1. Deseret News, Monday, 19 Dec 1898: "Valentine Carson. At Parowan, Iron county, Utah, September 25, 1898, Valentine Carson, aged 66 years, 11 months and 17 days. He had been afflicted with asthma for many years and during the last two or three years of his life was also the victim of a huge cancer. He embraced the Gospel when about 13 years of age and remained a consistent member of the Church until his death, and left a wife and a number of grown up sons and daughters and many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. (Com.)"

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. The following private manuscript is not found at the FHL library or on the Internet as of 23 Sep 2012: "The Descendants of John Brown, Sr." Compiler address: 8106 Shoreridge Terr, Indianapolis, IN 46236. Some entries on the Internet make reference to it, but I believe it to be mainly a private compilation; however, I did find an online recapitulation of the manuscript prepared in 2001 by Richard M. Leland III (from a copy he received directly from Mr. Volnoggle in 2000) at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lelandva/jbrow004.htm#id5421 and entitled appropriately as "The Descendants of John Brown Sr." accessed 23 Sep 2012. The data purports John Brown Sr. to be the father of Roger Brown who was in turn the father of Rebecca Brown who married Thomas Adair. There is a passing reference to Valentine Carson in the downline that briefly provides the following well-known information: "Mary Ann 5 Adair; born 13 Jun 1837 at Pickens Co., AL; married Valentine Carson, son of Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair, 24 Jul 1855; died 27 Apr 1861 at Washington, Washington Co., UT, at age 23." Mr. Leland provides Mr. Volnoggle as the source for this particular statement.