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John Cazier

Male 1821 - 1890  (69 years)


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  • Name John Cazier 
    Born 14 Mar 1821  Elizabethtown, Wood, West Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 14 Nov 1890  Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 16 Nov 1890  Vine Bluff Cemetery, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3599  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family 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 21 Jul 1853  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Divorced Yes, date unknown 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1792  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Notes received from Norma Entrekin 5 Jan 2006 concerning various references to the Cazier family, into whom Mary Ann Adair and Sarah Frances Mangum married: A. Idaho.gov: Cassia County - Established February 20, 1879 with its county seat at Albion. The county boundaries were later reduced in 1913 by the creation of Twin Falls and Power counties. The county seat was changed to Burley on November 5, 1918. Named for Cassia Creek, which was named for one of two words: cajeaux, peasant French for raft; or James John Cazier, member of the LDS Church and of the Mormon Battalion, later a colorful captain of an emigrant train, whose name was corrupted to Cassia. Locally it is believed that the name is derived from the name of a plant." B. A Comprehensive History of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By B.H. Roberts- Vol 5 page 585: "Wyoming Settlements and Stakes of Zion.- Settlements were also begun in Wyoming in this period on Salt river, Uintah county; this under the supervision of Elders Brigham Young -- son of the late President Brigham Young - Moses Thatcher, both of the council of the apostles.. They dedicated the valley as a gathering place for the saints on the 29th of August 1878, when the name "Salt River valley," was changed to "Star Valley." The chief settlement was named Afton, and was organized as a ward in 1887, with Charles D Cazier as bishop..." (Footnote about this last line -- says it is from Jensen's Church Chronology, 1887, p 152) C. Cousin John T. Palmer's "The Mangums of Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Utah and Adjoining States." 1992 Page 16: "...Sarah Frances Mangum b 11 Sept 1838 Pickens Co, Al, m. David Crockett Cazier d 11 Nov 1889, Nephi, Juab Co. UT Issue: a. David William Cazier b 14 May 1858, Nephi Juab, UT m Euella Marie (Nellie) Christison b 1858 b. Adelbert Cazier b 4 Apr 1860, Nephi, Juab, UT m Elizabeth Grace Mc Cune b 21 May 1864 Nephi, Juab, UT c. Orson Cazier b 19 Jul 1863, Nephi, Juab, UT..." D. Bagley and Bigler's Army of Israel (that I mentioned above) tells of some of the Mormon Battalion members being very angry with Captain James Brown, one of their own, whom they thought misunderstood Celestial Marriage, was getting too power hungry, also too big for his britches and using unrighteous dominion. (Brown had trouble with many; including Sam Brannan, Porter Dowdle, Joel Terrell, William Tubbs, Thomas Burns, George D Wilson, George Rosecrans, and Robert Clift, to name a few, according to Bagley, Bigler and Norma B Ricketts.) "Army of Israel" page 316: ... Nothing better illustrates the leadership crisis at Pueblo than the episode that began when a poem lampooning "a graceless Captains heart" spread throughout the command: Old Blaso he would quickly be A-s wiper in eternity And many a spiritual wife of course Be ceiled for better or for worse O blessed church maid with you I part To cheer our graceless heroes heart "It all means me," James Brown protested, and both Higgins and Willis pointed to parts of the poem and said, "That means me." The Author - - George Deliverance Wilson - - was correctly "suspected with others of writing it." Wilson believed the insulted parties secretly resolved "he shall die whoever wrote it." On 4 March 1847 the officers secured the camp and ordered their men to form a hollow square. The officers tried to "scare (the) men to see if they could find who wrote" the poem. Claiming they were looking for stolen property, they searched the camp for Wilson's journal, which, he noted, "I took care of. I expected there would be a very bad time of it from the spirit shown by curses oath and other threats so I called in the Lord to give me a strong spirit & calm mind." Nelson Higgins named Wilson as the versifier and denounced his poetry as " the worst in the world trash of no account." With an unstated but sinister threat, Higgins noted the poem was "of the same spirit that murdered the prophets." If the women wanted to ride such a man "up and down the streets all day" he would not stop them. "Damnable" said another officer, "over and over." Lieutenant Willis called the poem "the grandest piece of composition he ever seen," and its "disaffected mutinous spirit entirely unjustifiable." Brown climaxed the spectacle by saying he "had a sneaking spirit ever since he (had) some d-md rascal disappointed in love. Continuous damning" followed, and Brown again leveled a deadly charge: the poem showed "The spirit that killed the prophets, Joseph &c" The officers said there were now two parties at Pueblo - -Brown's and Wilson's. "We'll give them h-ll in Purbelow," WIllis sputtered, and if the officers did not give them h-ll it would be because powder wood would not burn." Willis offered five dollars to anyone who would turn in the poet, but no one betrayed the author. Wilson and William Tubbs decided to leave their "quarters on account of persecution," and on 6 March Wilson was "alone in one of the holes of the mountains writing." Two days later he and Tubbs had apparently returned to camp and were "alone in our quarter." Sgt Thomas Burns "case was had over in private counsel" on 15 March, but "there was some difficulty on which clause of the Celestial Law he would put out of the way." Captain wanted the "tares rooted up immediately." Wilson, Burns, Tubbs, John Cazier "and others" decided that "if things are pushed to go to Bents Fort and claim protection under the US law" due to "the lousy condition of the camp." which showed "the entire indifference" of the officers. The officers retreated to a contrite position and on 17 March called the men together and said "many fine things" in "soft soap speeches." Brown left for Sante fe the next day and Willis went to pick up wagons and supplies at Bent's Fort. A temporary peace returned to the camp while its officers were gone...."
      E. Cazier: "On the Mormon Frontier -- The Diary of Hosea Stout," vol. one 1844-1848, edited by Juanita Brooks, 1964:
      Page 503: "January 1, 1854 to June 1857 -- Part 3 -- This part of the diary covers the period from January 1, 1854 to June 1857. During these years Hosea Stout served a short term mission as an officer of the newly created Green River County in present-day Wyoming. He returned to take up the practice of law..." Page 565: Friday 9 Nov 1855. Hence to Salt Creek where we arrived safe and sound before dark putting up with Patriarch William Cazier. Here we met with Deputy Marshall W.M. Wall with a posse in search of some Indians, who had been heretofore indicted for malicious mischief &c. He had been in search of them for some days but found them not, so he concluded to accompany us to Fillmore..." Page 633: "July 1, 1857 to December 25, 1859. This part of the diary covers the period from July 1, 1857, to December 25, 1859, with five short entries in 1860 and four in 1861. It begins as Stout prepared for a celebration commemorating the arrival of the Saints in Utah. At the celebration in Big Cottonwood Canyon, it was announced that a federal army was marching to Utah. Through the next turbulent year and the ones following, Stout was active as an officer in the military and also as a lawyer defending Mormon interests in court, his account being one of the best available." Page 690: "Monday 14 March 1859 Court met at 10:00 a.m. and after nutralizing a few foreigners adjourned till 4 p.m. Petition came in to the judge from Spanish Fork to the Judge, to have the troops removed from the court. Court met at 4 p.m. and the grand jury came in and presented an indictment against John Cazier for running off deserters..." Page 691: "Monday 21 March 1859. Court met at nine a.m. and called in the Grand Jury before they were all assembled and delivered to them an abusive and slanderous harangue in which he accused them and the whole community of conspiring to not only commit crime but seeking to evade the law. He again took occasion to revert to the church and Territorial authorities in the most abusive manner and notwithstanding the jury informed him that they had business before them on which they were nearly ready to report they were discharged. The case of U.S. against John Cazier was then called up. S.M. Blair & myself his attorneys This case occupied the rest of the day and about dark the jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty" and were discharged..."

      2. Note that John's brother James was also in the Mormon Battalion. Also John's brother quoted below was married to Sarah Frances Mangum, daughter of William Mangum and Sarah Ann Adair. Sarah Frances was also married for a short time to James Richey before marrying David Crocker Cazier. See Sarah Frances Mangum's notes in this database for more detail on David Cazier. Their story is romantic and sad due to the polygamy of Utah at that time.
      Both James and John Cazier were members of the Willis Sick Detachment at Pueblo and would have known David Frederick and Ebenezer and Jane Hanks.
      From 31 Dec 2005 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database "ldshistorical": "Cazier, David, a High Councilor in the Juab Stake of Zion and a resident of Nephi, Juab Co., Utah, is a son of William Cazier and Pleasant Drake, and was born May 1, 1834, in Oldham county, Kentucky. The family moved to Moltry County, Ill., in 1840. Elder Cazier writes: "My father and mother joined the Church in 1845 and moved with their family to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1846, where they shared with the Saints in the general hardships of that time. My brothers James and John enlisted in the Mormon Battalion; my mother died in the fall of 1846 in a hay shed and was buried in a coffin made of a hollowed-out log; there were no flowers in evidence at her funeral. My father went into Missouri to split rails, thereby earning corn and pork wherewith to feed his family. We resided in Iowa for four years and when we departed from that territory to migrate to Utah, we left a good house. We settled in Nephi in 1851, being among the first settlers of that place. I was baptized in 1852 and took an active part in the Walker and Black hawk wars. Together with my brothers John and Samuel, I also participated in the Echo canyon campaign during the winter of 1857–58." "Nephi --The first election in Nephi was conducted on the first Monday in May, 1852, according to the Deseret News of December 11, 1852. Officers elected were Josiah Miller, Mayor; Timothy B. Foote, Charles H. Bryan, John Carter and Isaac Grace, Aldermen; Amos Gustin, John Cazier, David Webb, James Crabb, Cleon Elmer, Levi Gifford, Ichabod Gifford, Thomas Tranter and Miles Miller, Councilors; Zimri H. Baxter, Assessor and Collector; William Cazier, Treasurer; Israel Hoyt, Marshal; and Charles Sperry, Supervisor of Streets."

      BIRTH:
      1. FHL film 1033729 "The Nephi Book," a complilation of Nephi, Utah, ward records, pp. 81-86 concern the extensive family of "John Cazier Family"; however, I only copy the information for John specifically as well as his reported father and wives:
      -"Old Church Records, 1821: John born 14 Mar. 1821 in Wood Co., Va., son of William and Pleasant Drake Cazier, bp. July 1846 by Andrew Love, conf. July 1846 by B. Young (member 34th Quorum), rebp. 24 Oct. 1877 by Samuel Linton (of Seventies), reconf. 24 Oct. 1877 by George Teasdale; hus. of Frances E. LaMaster and Angeline Halliwell. No. 143 Torn pages, also No. 1184 pg. 50."
      -"Old Church Records, 1826: Frances Elizabeth LaMaster born 10 Feb. 1826 near Nashville, Tenn., dau. of Lemuel LaMaster and Fances Hooper, bp. Oct 1845 by James Best, conf. same time by George Best. No. 144 Torn pages, also No. 1185 pg. 50."
      -"Old Church Records, 1841 2nd wife: Angeline C. Halliwell born 24 June 1841 in Fleetwood, Lanc., Eng., dau. of John Halliwell and Ann Jackson, bp. Jan. 1852 by James Wilson, conf. __, rebp. 15 Sept. 1877 by John Andrews, reconf. (no opposite sheet) No. 152 Torn pages."
      -"Burial Records, 1821: John born 14 Mar. 1821 in Wood Co., Va., died 14 Nov. 1890, Vine Bluff Cemetery."
      -"Burial Records, 1841: Angeline born 24 June 1841 in Eng. dau. of John Halliwell, died 19 Mar. 1902. Vine Bluff Cemetery, pg. 15."
      -"City Cemetery, 1794: William born 21 Jan. 1794, died 28 Feb 1872. Gr.S."
      -"Vine Bluff Cemetery, 1821: John born 14 Mar. 1821 died 14 Nov. 1890, W.S. of stone."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Other spouses per LDS Ancestral File and Ordinance Index are:
      Frances Elizabeth Le Master, m. Feb 1843 at Lovington, Moultrie, IL.
      Angeline Halliwell, m. 26 Oct 1856 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT.
      Sarah Jane Scriggins/Scuggins, m. 5 Apr 1857 at Salt Lake City.

      DEATH:
      1. See birth notes.

      BURIAL:
      1. See birth notes.