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Levi Ward Hancock

Male 1803 - 1882  (79 years)


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  • Name Levi Ward Hancock 
    Born 7 Apr 1803  Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 10 Jun 1882  Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 12 Jun 1882  Old Washington City Cemetery, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I597  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Emily Melissa Richey,   b. 12 Mar 1830, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Apr 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years) 
    Married 24 Feb 1849  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F488  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Per website <http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/tjadair/descndants.html> 3 Jan 2002.

      2. From Carolyn Smith, Autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair, Luna, New Mexico, Sept. 15, 1919: "...Council Bluffs where we remained until 1852. Then in the summer with a company of Latter Day Saints we crossed the plains with the 10th company with Gardner as our captain. We encountered many hardships. We left our homes, crossed the trackless plains and were traveling in regions inhabited by only Red Men and wild animals. But with the thought that we were going to a place where we could worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience we pressed forward and reached Payson, Utah that same summer. In the summer of that same year I went home with Levi W. Hancock, one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventies, and remained the rest of the summer. During that summer the Walker War broke out in Utah and a large number of towns were deserted and destroyed, including Payson. During this time I stood guard and answered the roll call all summer..."

      3. Those "called" and listed in the Deseret News of Nov. 16, 1850 of Salt Lake City: "Names of Company and their outfit for Little Salt Lake. Presidents of the Mission: George A. Smith and Ezra T. Benson. Members: [117 listed including] Joseph Adair, Levi W. Hancock, Joseph Horne. Little Salt Lake was the Iron Mission at Parowan and Cedar City. Name appears in same context in the book "A Trial Furnace, Southern Utah's Iron Mission" by Morris A. Shirts, p. 432, where a list of all participants from various sources is given for the original colony for the time period Dec. 1850 - June 1851. The book cites 5 sources but only the first has Levi Hancock's name: (1) the call list noted above; (2) names of persons over 14 years of age, on 21 Dec 1850, gone to Iron county, led by Elder George A. Smith, who were already underway for the Iron Mission per the Deseret News, 11 Jan 1851; (3) "Names of Pioneers who came to Parowan under the leadership of Apostle George A. smith...," listed in Henry Lunt's diary, giving male members of the company by name, with the number of women and children summarized; (4) "Elder's Quorum List," a hand-written list of names dated 9 Feb 1851, listing many of the male members of the Iron Mission, their current ages and priesthood callings [LDS Church Archives]; (5) 1851 Utah Census begun 12 may 1851 [FHL film 25540].

      4. Ordinance Index reports parents as Thomas Hancock and Amy Ward.

      5. Picture of this individual is at the gallery portion of the website .

      6. Censuses:
      1850 US: Utah County, Utah, 49/49:
      Levi W. Hancock, 47, MA, cabinet maker.
      Emily M., 21, AL.
      Cordelia, 2, Deseret.
      Emily M., 6/12, Deseret.

      1880 US: 1st to 10th Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL film 1255337, NA film T9-1337, p. 14C:
      Jno. T. Matthews, painter, M, 38, Eng, Ire, Ire.
      Cordelia, keeping house, wife, M, 30, UT, MA, AL.
      Thos., son, 9, UT, Eng, UT.
      Orson, son, 7, UT, Eng, UT.
      Wm., son, 3, UT, Eng, UT.
      Levi Hancock, father-in-law, M, 77, MA, CT, - .

      7. FHL film 1035515, item 16, p. 32: "A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion'a Camp":
      a. "Levi Ward Hancock, b. 7 Apr 1803 at Springfield, Hampden, Mass., m. 29 Mar 1833 at Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, d. 10 Jun 1882 at Washington, Washington, UT. Parents are Thomas Hancock and Amy Ward. Spouse: Clarissa Reed b. 18 Dec 1814 at Acworth, Cheshire, NH, d. 17 Jan 1860 at Salt Lake City, parents are John Reed and Rebecca Bearce." [Note: Both sets of parents are also listed as well as a brother Joseph.]
      b. Copy of a broadside printed in Kirtland in 1836 identifying priesthood bodies. Listed is Israel Barlow under te First Quorum of Seventy Elders. He is listed elsewhere as being in Zion's March.
      c. P. 143 lists four lots he owned for a total of 12 acres; T-sec is 1-033.

      8. William Mangum and Sarah Delight Potter's daughter, Emily Almira Mangum, b. 20 Mar 1866 in Washington, Washington, Utah, married 17 Oct 1879 Levison Hancock, the son of Levi Hancock. Levi had five wives, one of which was a Richey who were associated with the Mangum family.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. FHL film 0480137: "Selected Pension Application Files For Members of the Morman [sic] Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-1848" from the the National Archives and Records Service, Washington, DC," file no. 3243:
      a. Invalid Application Affidavit, 23 Feb 1852. He was a fifer in Co. E. He volunteered at Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory 16 Jul 1846 and was discharged at Peublo Los Angelos, California on 16 Jul 1847. While crossing the Cordillary Mountains [later statement in 1877 from witnesses also describe location as between the Colorado River and San Diego] on or about 8 Dec 1846, by the sudden transitions from heat to cold of that climate, he was seized with a fit of sickness followed by a paralytic stroke which destroyed the use of his right arm from which he has never recovered and that his right hand from the effects of said paralytic stroke is nearly useless and is in a withering condition and that he is utterly incapable of getting his living by his daily labor. Also stated in attached doctor's statement that he was a chair maker by trade and that by reason of the injury he was not able to perform his duty as fifer. [A disability raises the pension amount.] Apparently he was turned down because there is further application with stronger pleas in 1878 at which time he is living in Payson, Utah.
      b. Application of widow for service pension, 30 Apr 1887. Filed by Mary (Morganson) Hancock of Leamington, Millard, Utah, age 67. States that he born in MA and was 5'-10," blue eyes, and light brown hair. She married him in Salt Lake City about 15 Aug 1867 [in later deposition this date changes to 1868] by Brigham Young. He had been married before to one Clarissa Reed who died. She also states that shortly after his return from service she had been previously married to Ova Peterson. She states that since married to Levi that they have lived in Washington, Washington, Utah until his death at which time she has been residing in Millard Co, Utah. She was born in Denmark on 8 Sep 1819. Special examiner in a letter rejects claim because she married him when he still had a wife living and was therefore polygamous; also appears that Mary was no. 4 and that no. 1 Clarissa Reed died while he was in the service and no. 2 Emily Richie also died by 1868 before he married no. 3 Ann Thew in about 1856 who was still living when Levi died but died before no. 4 Mary filed the application. Mary also when deposed states that she married Ova in Denmark in 1840 but he died in in 1849 and that she came to this country as a widow in 1862. A witness later says she married Lars Petersen in May 1853 but they were divorced about 1865 and that Lars died in Utah. It is stated that Levi died about 1882 in Washington, Utah.
      c. Letter from Commissioner of Pensions to Senator William H. King, 15 May 1923. States that Mary Hancock's application was rejected in 1888 on the ground that she was not the soldier's widow, as he had a former wife, Ann Thew, who survived him but did die before the filing of Mary Hancock's claim. Levi alleged to have died in 1884. His daughter, Emily M. Hancock of 12 Havemeyer Place, Greenwich, Conn. was the one that had the Senator write the letter in her behalf. Her claim was also rejected.

      2. The book "Utah's 'Dixie' Birthplace," by Harold P. Cahoon and Priscilla Cahoon, pp. 272-276, has a map and lists landowners as of the resurvey of 1873. Names are spelled as recorded. Relations included are:
      John M. Adair, blk. 15, lot 3. [SE corner of Main and 1st S.]
      John Price, blk. 34, lot 8. [SW corner of 2nd N and 1st E.]
      Wesley Adair, blk. 34, lot 10. [ 4th lot N on W side of 1st E halfway between 1st and 2nd N.]
      Samuel [J.] Adair, blk. 35, lots 1,11,12. [NW corner of 1st N and 2nd E.]
      Samuel N. Adair, blk. 35, lots 3,4. [2nd and 3rd lot N on E side of 1st E between 1st N and 2nd N.]
      Levi W. Hancock, blk. 41, lots 1,2,3,6. [Southern 2/3 of block between 1st and 2nd W and 2nd and 3rd N.]
      James Richey, blk. 34, lot 2. [NE corner of Main and 1st N.]

      3. For transcript of lengthy journal, see website <http://www.math.byu.edu/~smithw/Lds/LDS/Early-Saints/LHancock.html>

      4. From 30 Nov 2002 website , which is the autobiography of Joseph Holbrook, mentions Levi's participation in Zion's Camp and the reunion in Utah about 30 years after.

      5. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures is Levi W. Hancock.

      6. Biography of his wife Clarissa with many notes about himself: The book "Five Hundred Wagons Stood Still - Mormon Battalion Wives, by Shirley N. Maynes, 1999, p. 227: "Clarissa Reed was born on Dec. 18, 1814 at Acworth, Cheshire County, New Hampshire to John Reed and Rebecca Bearce. Levi Ward Hancock met Clarissa when she was working in the home of the Prophet Joseph Smith. They were married on March 29, 1833 in Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio. Soon after their marriage, Levi moved with his father and family to Kirtland. Clarissa and Levi lived with his father's family for a period of time and Levi became one of the workers on the Kirland Temple. He related: 'He was one of the men assigned to guard the Temple walls for some men had threatened to tear them down and at times the conditions grew tense.' Levi was called and ordained as one of the seven presidents of the First Quorum of the Seventy when it was organized on Feb. 28, 1835 at Kirtland. Levi and Zebedee Coltrin left as missionaries to serve in the Indian mission. They met with great success baptizing over one hundrde converts. In one of Levi's sermons, he related: 'His father had fought in the Revolutionary War and that his relative, John Hancock, was the first signer of the Declaraton of Independence.' After the meeting was over, Levi and Zebedee 'went to the water and baptized seventeen out of the crowd who the day before were going to mob them.' The two Elders then went on to Missouri where Joseph Smith and his company of Saints were living. After completing his mission and on his way home, Levi bought himself a pony and arrived at his father's house in Nov. of 1835. Levi was happy to see Clarissa and his son again. Clarissa gave birth to three children in Kirtland: Mosiah Lyman born on April 9, 1834, Sariah born June 5, 1835, and who died the next day, and Amy Elizabeth born May 14, 1836. Clarissa was a good manager and saw to it that she and Levi stayed out of debt. Levi recorded in his journal: 'My wife managed to get along with the baby without running me in to debt. Some men have to pay many dollars for their wives debts. I feel thankful for this and loved her dearly.' At Kirtland they moved to a place in the woods that was owned by Levi. Later, they bought a city lot in Kirtland and Levi built a frame house for his family, but they lived there for only a short time. The son of Levi and Clarissa, Mosiah Lyman Hancock, wrote in his journal: 'Our house was on a hill in Kirtland; it had two rooms. The room on the east was used as a kitchen. It was about 20 by 12 feet. The front room had a cone roof about one-fourth pitch. It had a door that opened to the south, and often my mother would tell me to look and see if the sun shone vertical in the door and if so, it was time to set Father's dinner. Mother used the front room as a parlor, and a room to quilt and spin in. Often Grandmother Reed would be there, also mother's sisters, Rebecca and Laura. What joyful times they had carding and spinning.' By Aug. of 1836, Levi and Clarissa sold their house, made a wagon of wood and started with their two children for Missouri. While traveling, the Hancocks visited with Clarissa's father and mother. The Hancocks also stopped in Illinois for two weeks and laid a floor for a man in order to obtain additonal money for their journey. Their next stop was in Caldwell County, Missouri. Here, Levi built a house of logs sixteen feet square. He also constructed a small shop nearby for his carpentry and cabinet making business. He immediately fenced in four acres and planted corn. Levi also purchased ten acres of land in the city of Far West. He partly paid for a city lot near the Temple block site at Far West. With the careful management by Clarissa, they soon had sixty acres of land besides their city lot. They had cows, hogs, horses, sheep and hens. They were happy in their home. Their farm provided them with a surplus of food. Levi said that when he got weary, he would take his baby and little boy on his lap and sing to them. This was his original song:

      'Here far in the realm of Missouri
      I'll sit and sing and tell a story
      How many trials I have passed over
      Before I found this dwelling in peace.
      O' here, here beside the fire
      I have my sweet babe and little Mosiah
      And here is mother: I'll set me down beside her
      And sing I've found a dwelling of peace.'

      The verses go on, but they told a story of a happy family living together, in a snug, warm home with plenty to eat, surrounded in an environment of peace and contentment. The Hancock family attended the Fouth of July celebration at the Far West Temple site. The Prophet Joseph Smith had asked Levi to compose a song. He worked on it much in the night and had it ready for the occasion. Solomon Hancock, a brother to Levi, helped Levi sing the song. It was entitled 'Song of Freedom.' The two performed on the southeast cornerstone of the site of the Far West Temple. Levi, Clarissa and family lived for three years near Far West, Missouri. On April 16, 1838, Clarissa gave birth to a boy whom she named Francis Marion. Their time of contentment soon came to an end. Governor Boggs and his militia were determined to drive the Mormons from their state. Their efforts proved successful and in 1839, the Saints left Missouri when Bogg's 'extermination order' went into effect. Mosiah Lyman related in his journal: 'The night before the surrender, mother had run 250 bullets for Father's musket. Father and his brothers and few others did not give up their weapons. There were sixteen guns that were not surrendered. The owners, taking their sixteen guns into the thicket, caused more consternation against the mob than all the mobbers' guns caused against the Saints. It is a fact which should be remembered; the Hancock brothers, Levi, Joseph, and Solomon, with their guns, guarded and fed 600 men, women,and children while camped in the woods after they had been driven from their homes. They were waiting for an opportunity to get away. I saw the Prophet marched away, and I say, oh, the scenes I witnessed. I do not think people would believe me, so I will forbear.' One day about twenty women met in the home of the mother of Prophet Joseph Smith. One of the women asked: 'Now that the mob has taken our guns, what shall we do?' Clarissa spoke up and replied: 'We can do as the Carthage women did when the Romans tood the arms off their husbands, we can pull the hair out of our heads so the men folks can make bowstrings.' The Hancocks were part of the great exodus of Saints to leave. Mosiah Lyman recorded in his journal: 'One day a deputation of men came to our place and 'generously' gave father three days to get away, which pleased us very much, for we certainly had no desire to stay.' Levi soon had a cart rigged up that he filled with corn and the family left Missouri. Mosiah Lyman's journal again related: 'The snow was deep enough to take me to the middle of the thigh, and I was barefooted and in my shirt tail. Mother had made me two shirts in Kirtland, and the shirt I had on stuck to me, or rather, I stuck to the shirt. We had old Tom hitched to the cart, and Father drove the horse and carried the rifle on his shoulder. Mother followed the cart carrying my little brother Francis Marion in her arms. I tried to follow in her tracks. We finally stopped to rest and get something to eat, but Mother said she could not stand it much langer. She cried, and Father said: 'Cheer up, Clarissa, for I prophesy in the name of the lord Jesus Christ you shall have a pair of shoes delivered to you before long, in a remarkable manner.' After we had made our fire and eaten of our roasted corn on the cob, Mother reached down on the side to get her old shoes and held up a new pair. Father answered, 'Clarissa, did I not tell you that God would provide you a pair in a remakable manner?' That night they made their bed on the ground covered with leaves and a blanket over the leaves. They used whatever clothing they had available to place over them. The family gathered elmbark to eat with their corn on the cob. Elmbark and buds helped the Hancocks survive until they came to the Mississippi River. They camped that night by the Mississippi River because they didn't know how they would cross it. The found some herbs growing on strings, which turned out to be wild potatoes. They were good roasted or raw. The next morning the river was frozen over with ice. It was slick and clear. That morning the Hancocks crossed over to Quincy, Illinois. The family did not stay in Quincy, for there were so many poor Mormons there. Clarissa said she wanted to get where she could have a home of her own, even if they had to camp under a tree for awhile.' They left Quincy on Feb. 9, 1839 and arrived at Commerce on the 11th. Levi was able to purchase thirty acres of timberland and forty acres of farming land. The timberland was about two miles below Nauvoo, on the bank of the river; the farm and meadowland was four miles from Nauvoo, a little south of the road to Carthage. Their city lot was two blocks from the Prophet Joseph's home, and they camped under cherry and hickory trees on the lot. They always had fruit and nuts from the trees while they lived in Nauvoo. Levi went back to his old farm in Missouri and brought back some peach and plum trees and planted them on his lot. The family had plenty of fruit until they left Nauvoo. Before leaving Nauvoo, Levi traded his dry wood on his ten acres of land for a nice yoke of two-year old steers. Another man traded his yoke of oxen and covered wagon for the right to farm Levi's land. Levi was determined to return to his property with an army sufficient to protect him and his rights. The mob burned their home and everything in it. Clarissa was trying to get out her featherbed, but was unable to. A friend of the family gave them corn, frying pans and bake kettles. They ground up twenty pounds of corn for their journey to Iowa. Before leaving, the family said goodbye to their friends in Nauvoo, Levi and Clarissa received their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple on Dec. l2, 1845, and they were sealed to each other Jan. 16, 1846. They had two more children while living in Nauvoo: John Reed was born April 1841 and Levison born June 9, 1845. Levison died in 1848, at the age of three. Mosiah Lyman was twelve years old when he wrote about their travels. He related: 'We went back to Sugar Creek, where my father, George Myers, Andrew Little and myself were detained to make wagons for the poor. So it was quite late when we left. Besides we had rain every day while there. Oh, the storms. When we did get ready to start, father would take us on one day's travel; then the next day he would go back and get Grandmother Reed and Uncle Levi and Uncle Ira. And father would bring them all up so we would all be together at night. Thus, father traveled, and kept the two families along by traveling the road over three times until we caught up with the Pioneers at Counsel Point. We got there just in time for Presidents Young, Kimball, and Richards, to come and choose father to go and spiritually preside over the Mormon Battalion. [Kerry's note: Levi was the only General Authority in the Battalion.] Levi also became a Fifer in Company 'E' under the command of Captain Daniel Davis. Levi felt that 'his experience in the Mromon Battlaion caused him joy, sadness, many hardships, difficulties with some of his brethren, and much valuable training for his future life.' On Aug. 10, 1846, Clarissa and children moved to Indian Mills, Iowa. Indian Mills was a short distance from Garden Grove, Iowa. The family was able to acquire some rooms on the bank of the big Mosquito Creek. They were close to water, timber and an abundance of fish in the stream. In the fall, Clarissa bought ten tons of hay by sewing for a 'half-breed' by the name of Alex Miller. They also had berries and gathered many nuts. Her children attended church meetings and school. Dishonest men cheated Clarissa out of her steers and tools. One time, she had to send Mosiah Lyman to retrieve their stolen cow. On Feb. 28, 1847, Clarissa gave birth to a son whom she named Levi. During Levi's Mormon Battalion enlistment, he kept a journal. At one time, Levi wrote Clarissa a letter telling her that he was sending his journal back with Howard Egan and John D. Lee. He instructed her to keep this journal in a safe place until he could return to her.' After his discharge in July of 1847, Levi Hancock, the presiding Church Elder in the area, led a large group of the ex-battalion back to Salt Lake Valley. The two captains of hundreds were Andrew Lyttle and James Pace. On Oct. 16 and 18, 1847, the two companies arrived in the Valley. The James Pace Company came in first. Levi remained in Salt Lake until the next spring. He obtained a room at the fort for his family and pruchased some land in Warm Springs, just north of the fort. He received word that Clarissa would be leaving for the Valley in the spring of 1848. During the winter of 1847-48, Clarissa sent Mosiah Lyman to Winter Quarters to call on Brigham Young to find out if she and the children could go to the Salt Lake Valley. President told her she could go and provided her with two teams. Clarissa and children left Iowa with twenty-seven bushels of cornmeal, fourteen pounds of flour, two pigs, a dog and a cat. Levi and Ira Reed, her brothers, went with her. Levi and Ira drove one team and Mosiah Lyman drove the other one. When Mosiah Lyman went out hunting for food, Clarissa would drive the team. The family all walked because their wagons were heavily loaded. They left Indian Mills on May 14, 1848, and traveled to Winter Quarters where they left on May 18th. They journeyed to the Elk Horn river and their wagons joined the Zera Pulsipher's company of fifty. Along the way the men killed antelope and buffalo. It took seven yoke of oxen to bring their slaughterd buffalo to camp. The men also caught catfish. When the company reached Cache Cave, they met Levi and Brother David Pettigrew. Levi returned with Clarissa and family to the Valley. While they were going down East Canyon Creek, Clarissa's foot got caught in between the box and wagon tongue. As a result she broke one of her toes at the upper joint. The skin was not broken, so Levi anointed her foot and administered to her and the toe healed quite soon. They continued on to the mouth of Emigration Canyon, when one of their wagon wheels broke. Levi repaired it with some of his carpenter tools. When they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on Aug. 3, 1848, the family drove into the old fort and stayed in a small room on the westside of the north gate. They turned their teams out near the Warm Springs. They began to make adobes for a house at Spring Creek. They soon made a dam and had a pond where they put up a wheel; then attached some machinery and ran a turning lathe so they could make bedsteads, chairs, tables, upboards and other funiture. The children had very little to eat because Levi was constantly feeding his ex-battalion comrades. Their bushels of cornmeal soon diminished and by Christmas of 1848, the children were given two spoonfuls of mush at each meal. Mosiah Lyman and Francis Mariaon planted about five bushell of wheat on their property. When the harvest time came, Clarissa decided to help her sons harvest the wheat. Mosiah Lyman said: 'Mother if you come into the field, I will not stay.' He felt that his mother shoud not have to work in the field. Clarissa: 'Mosiah, can't I stay and cook for you?' Mosiah replied that she could. But when a procession of workesr was being formed, there was his mother and young brother John ready with a rake. Because the family worked together, they were able to stack their wheat at their home berfore the snow fell. The family had many suppers of boiled wheat and milk. On Sept. 24, 1849, Clarissa gave birth to a boy she named Joseph Smith. Five years later, she obtained a divorce from Levi and married Thomas Jones White on April 11, 1854. Levi had married another woman and was called to go to Sanpete County to help in settling the area. Clarissa did not go with him. The Whites remained in Salt Lake and Clarissa gave birth to three children. Not long after the birth of her third Child, Clarissa Reed Hancock White died Jan. 17, 1860, in Salt Lake and is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake County, Utah. Levi Ward Hancock, Sr., a son of Thomas Hancock and Amy Ward, was born April 7, 1803 in Old Springfield, Massachusetts. Levi died on June 10, 1882 and is buried in the the Washington City Cemetery, Washington County, Utah. Thomas Jones White was born Jan. 17, 1823 in Dorstone, Herefordshire, England. His parents were Christopher White and Catherine Jones. Thomas died on July 17, 1885 and is buried in Plano Cemetery, Madison County, Idaho. [Kerry's note: A list of children with birthdates and places are in the article but omitted by me in this transcription.] Information obtained from:
      1. The Levi Ward Hancock Journal - compiled by Clara E. H. Lloyd, great granddaughter - Special Collections, Utah State University, Merrill Library, Logan, Utah.
      2. Levi Ward Hancock's journal is on file with he LDS Church Historical Department, SLC, Utah, no. MS1395, and microfilm copy.
      3. Church History in the Fullness of Time, Religion 3341, 343, prepared by the Church Educational System, p. 105, pp. 104-105.
      4. Chronicles of Courage by Kate Carter, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, vol. 6, pp. 185-238 - Journal of Mosiah Lyman Hancock, compiled by Naomi Melville Cottam.
      5. Pioneer Soldier - Political and Religious Leader of Early Utah by Dennis Clegg - Found at the LDS Church Historical Dept., SLC, Utah.
      6. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalionin the Mexican War, 1846-48, by Sft. Daniel Tyler.
      7. Family Group Sheets, LDS Family History Library, SLC, Utah."

      7. Synopsis of copy in my possession of "Mormon Battalion Iowa Vols. Mexican War" service records per FHL film 0471517 for Levi Hancock:
      p. 1: Index of 7 card numbers listed by number with note that no personal papers are herein.
      p. 2: Poor copy of muster-in roll not entirely readable but showing Levi Hancock, fifer, enlisting and mustering 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs for one year. Company and rank unreadable.
      p. 3: Poor copy of Company Muster Roll for July/Aug 1846 not entirely readable but appearing to show Levi Hancock, fifer, Company E, enlisting 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs with presence or absence not stated (even though not stated, the existence of the muster roll for this individual is considered being present).
      p. 4: Poor copy of Company Muster Roll for Nov/Dec 1846 not entirely readable but appearing to show Levi Hancock, fifer, Company E, enlisting 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs with presence or absence not stated (even though not stated, the existence of the muster roll for this individual is considered being present).
      p. 5: Poor copy of Company Muster Roll for Jan/Feb 1847 not entirely readable but appearing to show Levi Hancock, fifer, Company E, enlisting 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs with presence or absence not stated (even though not stated, the existence of the muster roll for this individual is considered being present).
      p. 6: Poor copy of Company Muster Roll for Mar/Apr 1847 not entirely readable but appearing to show Levi Hancock, fifer, Company E, enlisting 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs with presence or absence not stated (even though not stated, the existence of the muster roll for this individual is considered being present).
      p. 7: Poor copy of Company Muster Roll for May/Jun 1847 not entirely readable but appearing to show Levi Hancock, fifer, Company E, enlisting 16 Jul 1846 at Council Bluffs with presence or absence not stated (even though not stated, the existence of the muster roll for this individual is considered being present).
      p. 8: Muster-out Roll for Levi W. Hancock, fifer, 16 Jul 1847 at Los Angeles, Cal. Notes last pay was 28 Feb 1847. Rank and Company unreadable.

      8. Levi is mentioned in the following biography of Samuel Newton Adair:
      "Incidents in the Life of Grandfather Adair.
      Grandfather Samuel Newton Adair was born December 11, 1839 in Itawomby County Mississippi. This was just a new settled county so there was no town. Grandfather's parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1845 in the state of Mississippi. They left Mississippi in 1846. We came to Nauvoo in time to be drove out with the rest of the Saints from that place. Grandfather was baptized in 1847 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. Samuel Newton Adair left Iowa in 1852 to come to Utah. There was eight in the family and they came across the plains 1,033 miles with one wagon, one yoke of oxen, and one yoke of cows.
      He spent the first winter at Provo with his parents. The next spring moved to Payson. In the year 1853 what is known as the Indian war, or Walker war started in Utah. They, the Indians, killed one of our brethren (Alexander Friel) and the day he was killed, Grandfather left Payson with Levi W. Hancock to go to Manti. He came very near being killed by the Indians before he reached Manti. He camped at what was then called Uinta Springs, now called Fountain Green. He lived with L.W. Hancock all that summer. He stood guard and helped to herd the cattle in the daytime to keep the Indians from driving them away. Grandfather drove a team from Manti to Spring City in the night to help bring the people from that place to Manti to keep the Indians from killing them. He returned to Payson that fall. He helped to build the old Mud Wall around Payson and Nephi while he lived at Nephi.
      President Brigham Young came to Nephi and wanted to have a peace talk with Chief Walker. At the time Walker was then camped at Chicken Creek about 16 miles south of Nephi. Walker just laughed and made fun of him (Brigham Young). President Young told him he would wither and die. Grandfather can truthfully say that Walker did die a walking skeleton in less than a year.
      Grandfather went from Payson in the year 1858 down to Dixie in Southern Utah. A few days after he had been there he was called to go on what was called the White Mountain Mission. He was one of the sixty that was called. The object of this mission was to find a place for the Mormons to move to as the government of the United States had an army on the way to Utah to destroy the Mormons. While he was gone on this trip the Government sent Col. Kane to Utah. That good man who had always defended our people and the trouble was settled without blood being shed. Grandfather was called home. His father had some unsettled business in Payson and they went back to see about it. While he was on this trip one of his brothers was accidentally shot and killed.
      In the winter of 1862 and 63 he with others were called to go with Jacob Hamblin on a mission to the Moqui Indians. He filled this mission and returned home on the tenth of January 1863. On this trip is when he would of gave one of his horses for three biscuits. When they got to Pahreah some of the company had shot a crow. There were 23 of them in the company and he and Masiah L. Hancock were behind with some give out horses and when they got to where the rest of the party were the gizzard of the crow was all that was left and they divided it between them.
      In the summer of 1866 he was called with others to go out near the mouth of the Green River to see if they could find Black Hawk the Indian Chief that was making so much trouble for our people, but they did not find him. This was the trip that Elijah Averett was killed. He was killed on the 26th of August 1866. He helped bury Elijah Averett. James Andrus the captain of the company.
      In 1868 he was called to go on a Mission to the Southern States. He went as far as Salt Lake City and reported to President Brigham Young. He said he did not approve of calling men from the Dixie County as he could not keep men enough in that County that it was all right to pitch right in and do all the good I could at home. One of the President Larenzo Snows sons was out here (Luna, New Mexico) on a mission. He stopped with grandfather for several days, Grandfather was telling him about it, he said Brother Adair you have a Mission recorded in Heaven.
      Grandfather was in the Nauvoo Temple from top to bottom, also in the Carthage Jail where the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Patriarch were killed. He and Grandmother were present at the Salt Lake Tabernacle when Martin Harris made his confession, when he returned to the Church.
      He was called to go to Arizona in 1879. He was a home missionary in the Stake of Zion for a number of years. Grandfather lived the rest of his life in New Mexico. He was a good worker. He died May 16, 1925 at the age of 86.
      From: "Treasures of Truth" complied by June Clark 1932-35, Cannonville, Utah."

      9. Selected excerpts from FHL book 921.273-H191L, FHL film 6100585 "Levison Hancock, Emily Hancock and their Descendants":
      Levi Ward Hancock was a distant cousin of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence through their common immigrant ancestor, Nathaniel Hancock.
      "He was chosen one of the First Presidents of Seventies, which position he occupied with honor and faithfulness for 47 years, until the day of his death. In common with the rest of the Saints, he suffered persecutions and hardships and became an exile for conscience in 1846. He enlisted in the famous military body to California, being the only man of the general authorities of the Church who thus enlisted. He acted as chaplain of the Battalion, and did his best to influence the men to live as their religion taught. He was later one of the pioneer settlers of Manti, from whence he was sent thrice s a representative to the Utah Legislature."
      "Levi had joined the church in Kirtland. He was baptized by Parley P. Pratt about seven months after the Church was organized, and was ordained an Elder by Oliver Cowdery. Almost immediately, the new elder began serving as a missionary, a work that was to occupy much of the remainder of his life. Levi Ward Hancock labored on the Kirtland Temple, was a member of Zion's Camp, suffered persecutions in Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois. In Nauvoo, he labored as a police officer. He also served brief missions in Vermont and Indiana. In 1835, he was ordained a Seventy and in 1841, by revelation (D & C 124:138) he was called as one of the first seven presidents of the First Council of Seventy. At the call for the Mormon Battalion in 1846, Levi enlisted… (He came to Utah in 1847 with Contingent Mormon Battalion Company E.) The remaining years of his life were divided between colonizing and missionary work. He helped found Manti, from where he was elected three times to the Utah Legislature, and joined in settling communities of Payson, Harrisburg, Leeds and Washington in Utah. About 10 years before his death, Levi Ward Hancock was ordained a patriarch and gave blessings to thousands of members of the Church. He died at his home in Washington, Washington County, on Saturday, June 10, 1882. He had been a seventy for 47 years, and a president of the First Council of Seventy for 41 years. - Taken from 'Men in Modern Scripture'."
      "Levi Ward Hancock was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on April 7, 1803. He was the son of Thomas and Amy Ward Hancock. In his youth he moved with his parents to Ohio. They located in the town of Chagrin and it was there, in 1830, that Levi heard the message of the gospel, brought to him by the Lamanite Missionaries, Parley P. Pratt and Oliver Cowdery. He was baptized by Parley P. Pratt at Kirtland on November 16, 1830, and soon thereafter was ordained an Elder by Oliver Cowdery. Levi became a diligent missionary for the Church and, in June 1831, he was called by revelation to journey to Missouri, 'preaching the word by the way.' His companion on this journey was Zebedee Coltrin, a faithful and devout member of the Church… Levi W. Hancock died at Washington on June 19 [should be 10], 1882. He was 79 years of age. At his funeral held on June 12th, 'President John D.T. McAllister of the St. George Stake spoke of his humility and integrity to the cause of God. He had been tried severely by hardships and poverty but had stood firm to the end. - Written by Preston Nibley 'Stalwarts of Mormonism."
      "The Patriarchal Blessing of Levi W. Hancock, son of Thomas and Amy Hancock. Born in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, the 7th day of April 1803. 'Brother Levi, I place my hands upon your head in the name of Jesus, to bestow upon you a blessing which is according to the Priesthood, even the fullness, and to which you are ordained, which fullness shall be made known unto you, the same that you shall receive in your day and generation, even all that is pertaining to the Salvation of Man relative to his Duty or calling wherewith he is called and also you shall be blessed in things pertaining to your lineage, wherein you have a claim upon the promises made by your Fathers which ye have entered into even into their Labours, for it was by their faith that the Spirit rested upon you when the Gospel was preached unto you and you believed, by the same you have received the Priesthood and a seat in the councils and presidency in the kingdom of God, and a promise of a Celestial Glory, which I seal upon your head, all this by the faith of your Fathers back unto Abraham, for this is your lineage a descendant of Jacob and the Tribe of Manassah, in which you are to have your Inheritance and your posterity after you and your Father's House, but some shall be scourged but they shall be saved, and as to your Priesthood it shall pass down through the lineage of your posterity from under your hands and their hearts shall be inspired and speak honorable of your name and perpetuate it to the latest generation and as to things temporal you shall have neither riches nor poverty like unto some, that have embraced the Covenants, but you shall prosper until you are made comfortable all your days, and if you will hearken unto Council, you shall be rich in Faith, an heir to God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ, and your years shall be many. Glory and Honor shall crown your head in the morning of the resurrection. These are the things that I seal upon you. Ever so. Amen. Given by Hyrum Smith at Nauvoo, Illinois, December 1st, 1841. - James Sloane, Clerk."
      "In memoriam - St. George, June 12, 1882. On the above date, at Washington, the last respects were paid to the venerable President Levi W. Hancock, by his friends and relatives. He died Sunday morning the 10th last, after being confined to his bed for upwards of six months. He passed away quietly and peacefully, having suffered but little - a literal wearing out of his body, rendered only unfit as a habitation of the spirit by age, he being 79 years old last April. For the last fifty years he has been an ardent laborer in the Kingdom of God, forty-seven years of which he has been a member of the Quorum of the First Presidency of the Seventies. He was one of that valiant band who in 1836 went up to drive the alien from the inheritance of Israel, to redeem Zion; one of those who being led by the Prophet of God, had the courage to face the forces of a whole State, one who felt that he could 'run through a troop and lean over a wall,' one who felt that nothing could stay him short of the consummation of the Command that God had given. In 1846 he responded to his country's call and marched with his comrades against Mexico. He was chaplain of the Battalion. The funeral services were held in Washington meeting house. President J.D.T. McAllister made some interesting remarks in relation to the life and labors of the deceased, spoke of his humility and integrity to the cause of God. Said that although he had been tried severely by hardships and poverty, he had stood firm to the end. He read a short account of the organization of the Seventies, and referred to the fact of Brother Levi being one of those who was called by the direct command of God. President Henry Harriman stated that Brother Hancock was the last of those first chosen to fill the quorum of the First Presidency of the Seventies. His labors were known throughout Israel, and his works praised him. He thanked God that he knew that his body would come forth in the first resurrection. Brother James Pace, a companion in arms in the Mexican War gave many reminiscences of his (Bro. Hancock's) life while in the Battalion, related a circumstance that happened, showing the susceptibility of the man to the spirit of inspiration. A stranger, by the consent of the Battalion, joined the company and soon after requested baptism. Brother Hancock, in company with others of the brethren, took him down to the Missouri and performed the ceremony. On raising him from the watery grave, he said as if wrought upon by the spirit, 'If I have baptized a murderer, it will do him no good.' His words had such an effect upon the stranger that he soon made a confession that he was a murderer having killed his brother. Brothers Edson Barney, C.C. McArthur, and Solon Foster made some very interesting remarks, speaking of the faithfulness of the deceased. They were certain that he had made his election sure. President Jacob Gates had been acquainted with Brother Hancock for nearly half a century and for the last twenty years of that time had been co-laborer with him in the quorum of the First Presidency of the Seventies. Brother Levi, like many others had desired to live and to see the yoke of bondage broken from the necks of the Saints but his hopes hand not been realized. He knew, however, that he was a man of God, and would inherit the blessings in store for the faithful. Brother Funk made a few closing remarks after which the remains were exhibited to those present. Thus ends the earthly career of another valiant man, who has spent his all for the spread and maintenance of the Gospel. May he rest in peace."
      "Church Leader Joins Mormon Battalion - Arnold Irvine… When war came in 1812, he heard the booming of cannons as the British and Americans battled on Lake Ontario. He watched his father march off with the militia, playing his fife. After the war, the Hancocks pushed westward to Ohio. Here in November, 1830, Levi heard of the Book of Mormon. His brother, Alvah, brought the news of the four young men who were preaching about the new book… Levi was curious, deciding to ride over to Mayfield with the rest of the family to hear the missionaries… When Parley P. Pratt stood up at the end of the meeting and invited those who wished to be baptized to come forward, Levi's father and sister Clarissa were ready. Levi, a bit more cautious, decided to wait. The next morning, his mind made up. He would go immediately and asked for baptism. When he arrived, all of the elders were gone. Still determined, he followed them to Kirtland, where he found Elder Pratt conveniently at the river performing baptisms. With a few moments, Levi was a Mormon…"
      "The Mormon Battalion in its march from Santa Fe to San Diego, had rations reduced until the meat issued to the troops was the flesh of such animals as were unable to proceed further:
      While here beneath a sultry sky,
      Our famished mules and cattle die;
      Scarce ought but skin and bones remain,
      To feed poor soldiers on the plain.
      How hard to starve and wear us out
      Upon this sandy desert route.
      We sometimes now for lack of bread,
      Are less than quarter rations fed;
      And soon expect, for all of meat,
      Naught else than broke-down mules to eat.
      Now half-starved oxen, over-drilled,
      Too weak to draw, for beef are killed;
      And knowing hunger prompting men,
      To eat small entrails and the skin.
      Song by: Levi W. Hancock, Company E, Mormon Battalion. Above song thought to be written in October or November, 1846"

      10. Story from FHL book 921.273-H191L, FHL film 6100585 "Levison Hancock, Emily Hancock and their Descendants":
      "The Blind Horse. (This story is retold from an incident related by James A Little, in his book, 'From Kirtland to Salt Lake City.") By Preston Nibley.
      In the fall of 1838, Levi Hancock, his wife and three small children were living on forty acres of prairie land located on Plumb Creek near Far West, Missouri. Levi had been on the land only a few months, but he had been diligent in his work. He had built a one-room log cabin, with a dirt roof; he had filled the cracks between the logs with wet clay; he had made his little pioneer home comfortable for his wife and Children, he was sure they could go through the winter without suffering from the cold. Some day, he hoped, when his farm began to produce, he would be able to build a better home.
      Levi was handicapped somewhat by having only a horse and a cow to help him do his farm work. He had to hitch them together to do plowing. The horse was good, willing animal; gentle, faithful and kind. He seemed almost like a member of the Hancock family. Levi had owned him a number of years, but during the long journey from Kirtland, some kind of infection had developed in his eyes, and he became totally blind. In all the work on the farm, he had to be led.
      One day while Levi was chopping his winter wood, a man on horseback rode into his farm, and told him some disquieting news. He said that the Missourians had determined to drive the Mormons out of the state, and that Governor Boggs had issued an order to the militia, stating that the Mormons must be driven out or exterminated. Levi went to Far West and talked with some of the leading brethren and found out that the news was true. A mob had already taken the Prophet Joseph and some of the Church leaders to Independence for trial.
      One afternoon a few day later, while his cow was grazing peacefully in the pasture of the farm, three Missourians rode by on their horses. One of them raised his rifle and shot the cow through the heart. Then they rode away with a wild, exulting yell. Levi now had only his blind horse to assist him and his family in fleeing out of the state. He had traded his wagon for provisions when he first came to Caldwell County. What could he do for some kind of vehicle to transport his family and his meager belongings? As a true pioneer, he went to work and constructed a crude cart. Over the cart he place bows he attached to a large quilt to keep his children out of the stormy weather.
      It was a cold day, with several inches of snow on the ground, when Levi and his family left their little home on Plumb Creek and began their weary trek towards Illinois. The three children, all of them under five years of age, were placed in the cart. Levi's wife walked beside the cart, while he led the blind horse. It was a strange sight to see them plodding along the road, expelled from their home for no other reason than they were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
      Levi had a fairly good pair of boots, but his wife's shoes were so badly worn that the cold muddy water oozed through them in a dozen places. Finally, Mrs. Hancock broke down in tears and declared she could go no farther. Her husband, always trusting in a kind of providence, predicted that a pair of shoes would be provided for her in some miraculous manner.
      That night they camped by the side of the road. Levi gathered brush and branches from dead trees and soon had a warm fire burning. The good wife and mother removed her wet shoes and stockings and placed them near the fire to dry. She and her children slept in the cart, while Levi wrapped himself in a quilt and laid down near the fire. Other travelers passed them during the night and in the morning when Levi and his wife awoke, they were astonished to see a new pair of shoes near the old ones, which Mrs. Hancock had left to dry. Who had placed them there? They never did learn the name or the whereabouts of the kind friend who had left the shoes for the woman.
      Day after day, the faithful, blind horse pulled the cart, with Levi guiding him through the snow and mud. In three weeks they reached the Mississippi River. It was completely frozen over and they crossed the ice to the Illinois side. Here they were among friends, and far away from their Missouri persecutors.
      In the town of Quincy, Levi found shelter for his homeless family. But all the land was covered with deep snow, and he could not find any pasture for his poor blind horse. Hay and corn could be purchased for money. Levi had long since spent his last dollar. Neighbors suggested that he should turn the horse loose on the prairie, but he knew that it could not take care of itself without its eyesight and that it would only perish in the cold. Levi pondered for a long time on what he could do with the faithful animal, which had rescued his family from their cruel persecutors.
      One day, after the ice on the Mississippi River had began to break, the neighbors saw Levi leading his blind horse towards the bank of the great stream. Arriving at the edge of the ice, he left the horse and went in search of dry grass that lay beneath the snow along the bank. He pulled and gathered the dry grass until he had an arm full; then he went back to the horse and led the trembling animal onto the ice. He led him out several hundred feet from the shore where great blocks of ice were breaking away and floating down the stream.
      He put the hay down on the ice, and the blind animal began to eat. Then Levi took his axe, which he had brought with him, and cut away the block of ice on which the horse stood, contentedly eating. The block of ice floated down the stream with the horse on it. Levi stood and watched the berating animal until he disappeared from sight, around a great bend in the river."

      11. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812.

      BIRTH:
      1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database, 8 Jan 2002: 2 Apr 1803 in Mass.

      2. FHL film 0183374 "Sealings and Adoptions of the Living; Index 1846-1857," p. 729: Levi Hancock b. 7 Apr 1803 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Clarissa Reed: Ordinance Index FHL film M514231 has extracted marriage records for Cuyahoga County, Ohio showing Levi W. Hancock and Clarissa Reed married 29 Mar 1833.

      2. According to FHL book 921.273-H191L, FHL film 6100585 "Levison Hancock, Emily Hancock and their Descendants," Levi Hancock and and Clarissa Reed were later divorced and the sealing canceled.

      DEATH:
      1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002.

      BURIAL:
      1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002.

      2. Per website ; "Cemetery/Death Indexes (1852-1996) in Washington County, Utah," compiled by Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D: "Levi Ward Hancock, b. 2 Apr 1803, d. 10 Jun 1882, Wash. City Old."

      3. Tombstone in Washington Town Cemetery with photo on file: "Sacred to the memory of Levi W. Hancock. For forty seven years, one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born April 7, 1803 in Massachusetts, died June 10, 1882 in Washington, Utah." Gravesite also includes a pioneer trek attached memorial and a Mormon Battalion bronze memorial.

      OBITUARY:
      1. "In Memoriam. St. George, June 12, 1882. On the above date, at Washington, the last respects were paid to the venerable President Levi W. Hancock, by his friends and relatives. He died on Sunday morning the 19th inst., after being confined to his bed for upwards of six months. He passed away quietly and peacefully, having suffered but little - a literal wearing out of the body, rendered only unfit as a habitation of the spirit by age, he being 79 years old last April. For the last fifty years he has been an ardent laborer in the Kingdom of God, forty-seven years of which he has been a member of the Quorum of the First Presidency of the Seventies. He was one of that valiant band who in 1834 went up to drive the alien from the inheritance of Israel, to redeem Zion; one of those who being led by the Prophet of God, had the courage to face the forces of a whole State, one who felt that he could 'run through a troop and leap over a wall,' one who felt that nothing could stay him short of the consummation of the command that God had given. In 1846 he responded to his country's call and marched with his comrades against Mexico. He was chaplain of the Battalion. The funeral services were held in Washington meeting house. President J.D.T. McAllister and council, Presidents Henry Harriman and Jacob Gates, and others being present on the stand. Pres. J.D.T. McAllister made some interesting remarks in relation to the life and labors of the deceased, spoke of his humility and integrity to the cause of God. Said, that although he had been tried severely by hardships and poverty, he had stood firm to the end. He read a short account of the organization of the Seventies, and referred to the fact of Brother Levi being one of those who was called by the direct command of God [in the Doctrine and Covenants]. Pres. Henry Harriman stated that Brother Hancock was the last of those first chosen to fill the quorum of the First Presidency of the Seventies. His labors were known throughout Israel, and his work praised him. He thanked God that he knew that his body would come forth in the first resurrection. Bro. James Pace, a companion in arms in the Mexican war, gave many reminiscences of his (Bro. Hancock's) life while in the Battalion, related a circumstance that happened showing the susceptibility of the man to the spirit of inspiration. A stranger, by the consent of the Battalion, joined the company and soon after requested baptism. Brother Hancock, in company with others of the brethren, took him down to the Missouri and performed the ceremony. On raising him from his watery grave, he said, as if wrought upon by the spirit, 'If I have baptized a murderer it will do him no good.' His words had such an effect upon the stranger that he soon made a confession that he was a murderer having killed his brother. Bros. Edson Barney, D.D. McArthur, and Solon Foster made some very interesting remarks, speaking of the faithfulness of the deceased. They were certain that he had made his election sure. President Jacob Gates had been acquainted with Brother Hancock for nearly half a century, and for the last twenty years of that time had been a co-laborer with him in the quorum of the first presidency of the Seventies. Brother Levi, like many others, had desired to live to see the yoke of bondage broken from the necks of the Saints but his hopes had not been realized. He knew, however, that he was a man of God, and would inherit the blessing in store for the faithful. Brother Funk made a few closing remarks, after which the remains were exhibited to those present. Thus ends the earthly career of another valiant man, who a\has spent his all for the spread and maintenance of the Gospel. May he rest in peace." Deseret News Weekly, vol. 31, p. 368, 28 Jun 1882.