Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy

Cyrus Franklin Mangum

Male 1840 - 1896  (56 years)


Personal Information    |    Notes    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name Cyrus Franklin Mangum 
    Born 29 Sep 1840  , Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 Sep 1896  Corinne or Trinidad, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 4 Oct 1896  Nephi City Cemetery, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I459  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William Mangum,   b. 25 Dec 1811, , Maury, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1888, Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Sarah or Sally Ada Adair,   b. 27 Dec 1815, , , Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1852, near Loup River Ford, Platte, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years) 
    Married Abt 1833  of, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F374  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1166, neighbor with John Price:
      William Mangum, 39, AL.
      Sarah, 33, AL.
      Caroline, 15, AL.
      Sarah, 12, AL.
      Cyrus, 10, AL.

      1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Census return:
      Mangum: William 39, Sarah 36, Amelia C. 16, Sarah F. 12, Cyrus F. 10, Marinda 0. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.]

      1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1292 and family #1116 (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):
      Jno. M. Adair, 25, farmer, $150 real estate, $200 personal property, AL.
      Eliza J., 24, MS.
      Emily J., 3, UT.
      Jno., 2, UT.
      Cyrus Mangum, 21, F.Labor, MS.
      S.N. Adair, 21, F.Labor, MS.

      1880 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, National Archives film T9-1336, FHL 1255336, p. 398A:
      Cyrus Mangum, Lumberman, 37, AL Fa:NC Mo:TN
      Sarah, Keeping house, wife F M W 34 Australia Fa:IRE Mo:IRE
      Edwin F., Farming, Son, 18 CA Aus Ire.
      Richard, Farming, Son, 14, UT Aus Ire.
      Sarah F., At home, Dau., 12, UT Aus Ire.
      Adelia, Dau., 10, UT Aus Ire.
      Wallace, Son, 7, UT Aus Ire.
      Loran, son, 1, UT Aus Ire.

      2. Enid Beagley Willardson is of this line. She is prominent on research of our common George King Winner line. Per her own research pedigree and family group sheets, she descends through Cyrus Mangum's marriage with Sarah Allen, b. 30 Sep 1844, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, m. 8 Nov 1861, Washington Co., UT, d. 18 Jun 1934, SLC, UT, bur. Nephi, Juab, UT. The line continues through their daughter Sarah Frances Mangum, b. 1 Jan 1868, Nephi, Juab, UT, m. James Edward Cole, 27 Oct 1884, Nephi, Juab, UT, d. 30 Jun 1939, Nephi, Juab, UT. [James Edward Cole b. 18 Jan 1860, Nephi, Juab, Utah and was the son of William Cole, b. 11 Dec 1828, Bishop's Frome {Cradley, Herefordshire}, England and Emma Jenkins. William's parents were John Cole and Mary James. Mary James parents are John James and Betty ___.] The line continues through James and Sarah's daughter Sarah Thelma Cole, b. 12 May 1895, Nephi, Juab, Utah, d. 28 Mar 1989, San Diego, CA.

      3. "THE Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue Number 56, July 2005: "INDIAN WARS PENSION (Microfilm Records of claims for service at National Archives, Washington, D.C.):
      Cyrus Mangum, Widow Sarah A. Mangum, WA-12293. UT 2 May 1917, served 1866 UT Militia Cavalry, died 29 Sept. 1896, Corrine, UT.
      James M. Mangum, Widow Rebecca F., WA-10852 AZ 8 Oct. 1909, UT Mounted Volunteers.
      John W. Mangum, SA-1577735, UT 19 Apr. 1927, Disc. 1872 UT Militia.
      John William Mangum, widow Eliza Olive, WA-1622552 AZ 18 Aug. 1928, served 1867-8 UT Militia, died 19 March 1926, Colona Juarez, Mexico.
      Joseph Mangum, Widow Mariah L., SA-16782 UT 3 July1919, WA-16298 UT 10 Feb. 1923, served 1866-71, UT Militia Cavalry, died 7 Dec. 1922 Bicknell, UT."

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Copy from National Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers: "The Biography of Cyrus and Sarah Allen Mangum," written by Phillas Mangum Whitehead: "My grandfather Cyrus Mangum was born Sept. 29, 1840, Itawamba Co., Mass. [Mississippi] Son of William Mangum and Sarah Adair, baptized 1848, and endowed Nov. 11, 1872. Sarah Allen Mangum, my grandmother, was born Sept. 30, 1844 in Sydney, Australia. She was the daughter of Richard and Esther Hays Allen. Her father was baptized into the Latter-day Saint Church by Amasa Lyman and she became a member of the same church under the hands of William Hyde. When grandmother was ten years old her father, mother, and their six children sailed for America on a small sailing vessel. The ocean was very rough and took three months to make the journey. The children all had the measles during the trip and were very sick. After about seven weeks on the water, Sarah's mother gave birth to a baby boy and after the third day became very sick and passed away from exposure on the eighth day. She was buried on an island. The baby followed the mother two weeks later. Arriving in America the family settled in San Bernardino, California, where they endured many hardships incident to pioneer life which they were not used to. They spent three years in this district and then moved to Utah. When grandmother was thirteen years of age she met a Bishop Crosby and wife who persuaded her father to let her go and live with them in Santa Clara, Utah. Here she was taught to do house work, spin, and weave. She told of how she had to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and work hard all day. She was never allowed to take her bed until everything was done and all the children were asleep. When she was 16 years old she met Cyrus Mangum. He was a fine looking man and highly respected coming from a very good pioneer family. His grandfather was a general and fought under George Washington and Jefferson. Mrs. Crosby was very opposed to having boys call on grandmother so in order to see Cyrus she would steal out at night and meet him when they thought she was in bed. When Mrs. Crosby finally did find out that she was meeting young Mangum she was very angry and forbid her seeing him again. One moonlight night the young couple eloped on horseback and went to his father's home where they were married. They lived with his people for some time then moved to Nephi where they made their home. He was very active in theatrical work during the early days of Nephi, taking prominent parts in plays produced in the Old Social Hall. While on the way to Nephi a baby boy was born to them. The baby was four days old when they had to cross a wide stream. The ladies of the company brought quilts and blankets which they packed around her and the baby and propped her head as high as possible in order to escape from drowning while crossing. Grandmother held the baby as high as she could to keep him dry while crossing the stream but even then the water came up to her nose but they escaped without injury. They were held up three days at this point for the bedding to dry. Grandmother stated that through faith and her prayers she escaped without even a cold. Their life in Nephi included the pioneer trails [trials] of making a home and a living and raising a family. One day while wandering through the canyons Grandmother found a stream of water coming out of the hillside. It was white and very salty so they piped it out and established the Salt Works which they run for many years. They had nine children born to them, four of whom are still living: Edward Mangum of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Sadie Cole of Los Angeles,Cal.; Mrs. M. T. Lyon and Mrs. Effie Jacobs, both of Salt Lake City. Grandfather married a second wife, Mary Tranter, then they moved south where we have heard little of them until his death, Sept. 29, 1896. The last thirty years of grandmother's life has been spent with her children in Salt Lake City. She died June 18, 1934 at Salt Lake City, she had 52 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren."

      2. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Cyrus Franklin Mangum, born Sept. 29, 1840 Itawamba County, Mississippi. Married Sarah Allen and Mary Tranter. Died Sept. 29, 1896 Corrine, Box Elder Co., Utah."

      3. Mentioned in sister's biography in the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3338, see Sarah for full quote: "Sarah Frances Mangum Richey Cazier White was born 11 Sep 1838 in Pickins County, Alabama, to William Mangum and Sarah Ada Adair... pioneer of 1852 Wagon Train... Sarah Francis was born at Pickins County, Alabama, 1838, into a family of six children. She was eight when her parents arrived in Nauvoo on Jan. 15, 1846. They arrived to find they could not stay. Persecution was forcing every one out of Illinois and Missouri and by weeks end they were following the Saints across the Mississippi River traveling West. They stopped for one month at Mt. Pisgah, and while there Sarah Francis' one year old brother [William Young] died, and was buried in the Mt. Pisgah burial grounds. The family continued to Council Bluff and stayed four and one half years, another short stay at the Bongo River where Marinda Elizabeth, a one year eight month sister died of cholera and a few days later, at Loup Fork, Sarah's mother became so ill from the disease that her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, on July 3rd, 1852. Sarah Francis was near her fourteenth birthday when they reached the Salt Lake Valley. The family spent the winter in Brigham City and in the Spring of 1853, William married Delight Potter, then the Mangums moved to Payson for four years. Sarah, for a while lived with her aunt Lucinda Richey, and for three months was James Richeys's wife also. She did not like that marriage, got a divorce and went, with her brother Cy Mangum, to Nephi..."

      4. Two monuments erected in Washington, Washington, Utah:
      a. "Adair Spring, The Birthplace of Utah's Dixie, Washington City, Utah - Erected by the citizens of Washington City & The Washington City Historical Society, 1996. In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to Southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair [this is a mistake; should be Samuel Jefferson Adair], the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot April 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on March 3. They camped here a short time and then moved down near the Virgin River on what became known as the Sand Plot. Apostle Amasa M. Lyman who was passing through the area recommended they move back to the spring area which they did. Robert Dockery Covington arrived here May 5 or 6, 1857, with 28 more Southern families. They left the Salt Lake area shortly after the LDS Spring Conference held around April 6. On May 6 or 7 a two day meeting was held at this site under the direction of Isaac C. Haight, President of the Parowan Stake. They sang songs, prayed and selected Robert D. Covington to be the President of the LDS branch, and Harrison Pearce and James B. Reagan as assistants. Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough were appointed Justices of the Peace, John Hawley and James Matthews as constables, G.R. Coley as stray pound keeper and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W.Spencer as school trustees. They named their city Washington. It was too late to plant wheat, so they prepared the ground for corn and went right to work making dams and ditches to water their crops. Their homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called 'Dixie'. Those who came in the spring of 1857 were:
      [43 names listed "and others; the following names are those related.] Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Rickey [Richey], James."
      b. "'Utah's Dixie' - Washington City Founded 1857. Erected by the Washington City Historical Society, November 1994. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived in 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for the purpose of grwoing cotton to clothe the Mormon pioneers and to colonize the territory. Those early pioneers named their city on May 5 or 6, 1857 in honor of George Washington and also called the area 'Dixie' in remembrance of their former homes in the South. Living in the arid desert proved extremely difficult. Reocurring challenges such as malaria (ague or chills and fever), the lack of food, poor water, and other diseases disabled and decimated the settlers. The Virgin River, providing water to irrigate fields, was crucial to the settlers. However frequent flash floods, washed out the dams built to divert water from the river to the fields. This resulted in starvation and undue hardship. It took the pioneers thirty-four years to conquer the mighty "Rio Virgin" doing so with the completion of the Washington Fields Dam in 1891. [Pioneer names arranged into three groups; 43 'and others' in 1857, 19 in 1860, and 26 'and others' in 1861-62. The names that follow are only those related.]
      i. 1857: Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Richey, James.
      ii. 1860 US: Adair, Wesley; Mangum, Cyrus; Mangum, Joseph M.
      iii. 1861-62: [none]."

      5. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851:
      Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John.
      Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm.
      Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Siras Mangum, son of Wm.
      William Mangum, bro. of John.
      Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed).
      Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family.
      Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum.
      John Mangum.
      Mary Ann Mangum.
      Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John)

      BIRTH:
      1. FHL film 26401 "Early LDS Church Records of Payson, Utah; Baptisms at Payson": Syrus Franklin Mangum, b. Inawamba co., Miss., 29 Sep 1840, no priesthood quorum, rebapt. by Jos. Curtis and reconf. by J.B. Bracken, J. Curtis, C.B. Hancock on 14 Dec 1855.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Ancestral File v4.19 mentions Sarah Allen, m. 8 Nov 1861 at Santa Clara or St. George, UT and possibly a Mary Tranter. "Utah State Historical Society Burials Database" has Sarah Allen parents: Richard Allen and Esther Haynes, b. 30 Sep 1844 Sydney, Australia, d. 18 Jun 1934, cause listed is old age, buried in Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery. No listing for Cyrus. Same burial database does mention Mary Tranter Mangum, b. 1855, d. 29 Oct 1928, SLC, UT.

      DEATH:
      1. Obituary with picture of wife, Tues., June 19 [no newspaper name nor year]: "Sarah A. Mangum, Pioneer of 1857, Dies at Salt Lake Home. Mrs. Sarah Mangum, 89, widow of Cyrus Mangum, and a resident of Utah for 76 years, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Matthew T. Lyon, 1329 13th East street. Mrs. Mangum was born in Australia, Sept. 30, 1844, and came to Utah with her parents when 13 years old, settling in the pioneer community of St. George. After her marriage she moved to Nephi and has lived there until recent years. She was the mother of nine Childen, four of who survive. They are: Mrs. Lyon, Edwin C. Mangum of Helper, Utah; Mrs. Sarah E. Cole of San Diego, Cal. and Mrs. Effie M. Jacobs of Salt Lake. Surviving are also 35 grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 12:30 pm in the Deseret Mortuary. The body will be taken to Nephi for interment."

      2. Obituary of daughter, 1939, unknown newspaper but probably Salt Lake City: "Sarah F.M. Cole. Nephi - Funeral services will be conducted in Juab LDS stake tabernacle Sunday at 2:30 p.m. for Mrs. Sarah F. Mangum Cole, 71, widow of James C. Cole, who died Friday morning. Internment will be in Nephi City cemetery, directed by Anderson funeral home. Mrs. Cole was born in Nephi on Jan. 1, 1868, a dau. of Cyrus and Sarah Mangum. She had spent most of her life in Nephi, with the exception of the past few years spent in San Diego, Cal. She had been active in the LDS Relief Society, for many years stake secretary, and also a member of the North ward choir. Survivors include six sons and daughters; two sisters; a brother, 21 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren."

      MISC_SOURCES:
      1. Per Paul Price's website <http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/tjadair/descendants. html> 3 Jan 2002.

      2. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File.