Hiram Theron SPENCER *SEB*-44053. 4May 2009 . a oe Page 1 Event Date(s) Place Description - = Bom 18Nov 1835 West Srockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA Christened Died 26 Mar 1931 Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Buried 29Mar 1931 _ Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Baptized Endowed SeaPar _ Nickname AKA: Soc M Ib: Last Changed: 4 May 2009 __ — Parents MRIN Father Mother Mary SPENCER *FGR'-23: 5398_Hiram SPENCER “FILE ee ____ Marriages - oe MRIN Spouse Marriage Date/Place Sealed Date/Place 15479 _Mary Barr YOUNG *SEB*-44052 31 Mar 1857 __Little Cottonwood, SL Utah, USA Notes Family Group Records by Nauvoo Land and Records NAUVOO RECORDS: Members LDS, 1830-1848, Susan Easton Black, Vol 40 pp 882-885 HISTORIES: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jensen, Vol 2 pp 443-444 An Enduring Legacy, DUP, 1985, Vol 3 pp 296-309 OTHER SOURCES: Intemet Research: lds.org: Church History: Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 11 pgs. rootsweb.com: WorldConnect, I pageFamily Group Record Husband Hiram SPENCER *FILE* f= “30 Nov 1798, Di at OS ennes eee Tense] 12 Aug 1846 l 12 Aug 1846 {piace Mt. Pisgah, Harrison, lowe, USA [varies 20 Dec 1820 |Pisce West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA | seas Hustande later Daniel SPENCER Sr *FILE* Husbands mate Chloe WILSON *NOR? wife Mary SPENCER *FGR* ro ‘5 Nov 1797 | Puce West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusells. USA [tema] [bes ‘5 Dec 1840 _| pace West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA. 5 isco West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts. USA wiser - a [Cchitdren__List each cild in order of bith LDS etoanoe aus Tempe 1[F |Jane Amanda SPENCER *FILE* Bonn 11 Oct 1822 [Pox West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Tone 2B Feb 1872 | ieee Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Eniowee 24 Dec 1845 | NAUVO- — Sealer Daniel Stiles CAHOON “FILE — — Mand Jul 1843 |Pisos Nauvoo, Hancock ling, Tr Seats 2/ = [Mary SPENCER *FILE* Bote “2 Apt 1824 |riess West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusels, USA] Banial | Des ‘Aug 1848 [pice Enloma 13 Dae 1645 | NAUVO. Spanie Daniel SPENCER Jr *FILE™ z - anid 1846 [Puce Nauvoo, Hancock, IL 3|& [Marie Antonette SPENCER *FILE* ‘bon____22.Jan 1826 | ocs West Stockbridge, Borkshiro, use [eset [Ded 11 Mar 1850 | Place Eniowes 20 Dee 1848 | NAUVO. Claudius Victor SPENCER *FILE* a Maso Jan 1847 [pice Salt Lake, City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ui [seaisp 4|u [Charles Henry SPENCER *FILE* —1 Dec 1827 | race West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusels, USA | apizos 10 Nov 1643] LIVE 30 Jul 1916 | Pos rook, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Eoin |Spovse — Margaret Ann MILLER *FGR®™ - {itarie 18 Mar 1857 [pice Salt Lake City, Sali Lake, Utah, USA 5 F [Anna SPENCER *FILE* Bove "7 Jan 1830 |riass West Stockbridge, Bark Des ‘5 Jan 1897 | tase ire, Massachusetts, USA FILE —> °|M [Hiram Theron SPENCER *SEB* Bom 835 [Puce West Srockbiidge, Barkshire, MA, USA 8 [aco Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, USA fas 29 Mar 1931 [Pass Sal Lake Gy, Se Lako, Utah, U [Spouse Mary Barr YOUNG “SEB™ alavied 31 Mar 1857 [Paco Little Cottonwood, Sali Lake, Utah, USA. 7/_ [Martha Ellen SPENCER *HIST* Bon__ 14 Nov 1832 | aco West Stockbridge, Borkshire, Massachusels, USA pices - | [bie 12 Jan 1905" | sce Deseret, Millard, Utah, USA. Yeon ~~ | [usa "15 Jan 1905 [piece Cemetery Oasis, Millard, Utah, USA, SeatPa, Spouse _ Daniel Sflles CAHOON *FILE* — = Monied 16 Jan 1846 |P.ece Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, lowa, USA. seaisp. 4 May 2009© Spencer, Hiram Theron (Thead) |s0 Spencer, Hiram Theron (Thead) Male Group Sheet-Self Fanily Group Sheet-Father Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. Roster of Pioneers of 1847 Utah Federal Census; Year: 1870 v, 46 Page 882 Print-Date: 8-; Mormons and Their Neighbors. Wiggins, Marvin Biographical Record of Salt Lake City & Vicinity, p. 246 ‘IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Utah: The Storied Domain Volume: 2 Page: 403 South Cottonwood Ward Records Pleasant Green Ward Records Isl —-Birth-Data Birth-Date: Novenber 13, 1835 Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Birth-Place: West Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA Reference: Fanily Group Sheet-Self IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. Birth-Date-Variant: Noverber 38, 1835 Reference: Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. |s2Parents-pata Father's-Name: Spencer, Hiram (Hyrum) Reference: Family Group Sheet~Self Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Mother's-Name: Spencer, Mary Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self DS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 2 ‘volume: Page: 443-444 Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. [33 Marriage-Number: 1 Spouse's-Name: Young, Mary Barr Reference: Fanily Group Sheet~Self Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 4 Page: 443-444 Marviage-Date: March 31, 1857 Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self rrSpencer, Hiram Theron _(Thead) Vol fo page 283 Is6 \s7 Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Marviage-Place: South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, UT, USA Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self Family-Reference for Children: Family Group Sheet-Self Children's-Data: Child-Number: 1 Spencer, Janet Alice Birth-Date: March 28, 1860 Birth-Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA child-tumber: 2 Spencer, Mary Ema Birth-Date: May 15, 1862 Birth-Place: Salt Lake County, UT, USA Child-Number: 3 Spencer, Hiram Theron Birth-Date: August 19, 1866 Birth-Place: South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, UT, USA Child-Number: 4 Spencer, Jane Edith Birth-Date: August 9, 1869 Birth-Place: Salt Lake County, UT, USA Child-tumber: 5 Spencer, Grace Maud Birth-Date: January 16, 1873 Birth-Place: Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, UT), USA Death-Data: Death-Date: March 26, 1931 Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self Pioneers of 1847. Easton, S. Death-Place: Magna, Salt Lake, UT, USA Reference: Fanily Group Sheet-Self Burial-Date: March 29, 1931 ference: Family Group Sheet-Self Burial-Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self Church-Ordinance-Data: Baptism Baptism-Date/Place: May 9, 1844Spencer, Hiram Theron (Thead) Page 884 138 Iso Isl [siz Reference: Fanily Group Sheet-Self Baptism Baptisn-Date/Place: February 5, 1844 Reference: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Elder Elder-Date/Place: February 9, 1858 Officiator: Heber C, Kimball Reference: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenscn, Volime: 2 Page: 443-444 Seventy Seventy-Date/Place: May 1, 1866 Officiator: Joseph Young Reference: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrey, 1951 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 Bishop Bishop-Date/Place: July 23, 1892 Officiator: Joseph F. Smith Reference: IDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1952 Volume: 2 Page: 443-444 ‘Temple-ordinance-Data: Endowment ‘Temple: Endowment House, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Date: February 9, 1858 Reference: Family Group Sheet-self Seal ing-to-Spouse ‘Temple: Endownent House, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Date: February 9, 1858 Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self Seal ing-to-Parents ‘Temple: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA Date: November 15, 1956 Reference: Family Group Sheet-Father Residency-Data: Brighton, Salt Lake, UT, USA; 1870 Reference: Utah Federal Census; Year: 1870 Vocation-Data: Famer; 1870 Reference: Utah Federal Census; Year: 1870 Comments: #1 1. In 1870, Hiram had a household of 6, a real wealth of $500, and a personal wealth of $200. Reference: Utah Federal Census; Year: 1870uM Spencer, Hiram Theron_(Thead) Vol.42 page 85 S13 coments: #2 1. Hiram was Bishop of the Pleasant Green Ward, Utah. He came to Utah in 1947 crossing the plains in the company led by Daniel Spencer. His father and sister died in the camps of the saints while joumeying from Nauvoo to Council Bluffs; both were buried at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. In crossing the plains, Hiram and other boys Grove the loose stock and the Bishop relates interesting incidents when the buffaloes were so plentiful on the plains that it was difficult for the trains to pass through them. ‘The company with which Hiram traveled arrived in Salt Lake on September 23, 1847, ‘The family Lived in the fort for two winters. in the fall of 1843, while Hiram was hauling com fodder from the farm to the city, he was throm from his wagon into a ditch and mn over by one of wagon wheels which crushed his head, He was taken to the fort anda doctor sumoned, who, after exanining the hoy, said it would be impossible for hin to live until morning, and he consequently refused to dress the wound saying that such an act would only add more misery to the boy whose jaw was broken in five places, his eyes crushed out of their sockets, and the skull crushed. A short tine later, President Brigham Young came into the house and ordered the rat doctor to dress the wounds, saying that the boy should live and not die. Brigham Young, Chas.'C. Rich, and Daniel Spencer administered to Hiram and President Young said the boy should live to a good old age and do a great work on the earth~-a prophesy which surely was fulfilled. Whenever Ero. Spencer and the doctor met after that, the Physician would always renark that Bro. Spencer was a living miracle. After residing temporarily in the 13th Nard, Salt lake City, and on the Little Cottonwood Creek, Bro. Spencer moved to the Foint of the Mountain and settled in Plessant Green. Early in 1857, Bro. Spencer went to the Devil's Gate to bring in some goods that had been left there the previous fall by the harvicart companies. In 1859 and 1860 he made two trips to the States after freight. In 1857 he went cut into Echo canyon to meet the Johnston Amy, and he watched the amy until it arrived at Ft. Bridger. He was also one of the seven men who stampeded the horses and mules of the enemy. In 1858 he acconpanied General Burton on an Indian expedition. He filled a mission to Great Britain from 1866 to 1868 laboring principally in Scotland. He was set apart as first counselor to Bishop Lehi N, Hardman in the Pleasant Green bishopric. He acted as a school trustee for 12 years and was president of the Utah and Salt Lake Canal Company for four years and a director for 15 years. Reference: LDS Bicgraphical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volime: 2 Page: 443-444rn LATTERDAY SAINT wer Bro, met atter Ward, Salt Lake Little ‘Cottonw Bro has wool trustee twelve years, president of the Utah and Salt Lake Canal Company four years and been a director in the same company SPENCER, Mary Barr Young, wite hop Hiram 'T. Spencer, was May 19, 1841, in Glasgow, Scot ‘h ter of Young and Janet Carruth. She was blessed William Gibson; emi h sailed fron 4 arrived at Ne 19,1848, She crossed p's wite she has had opportunity sr hospitality to thousands BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA He emigrated to America i nd JACOBS, Mary Hains ‘Aug. 15, 1827 \a want. The atl the hari296 ANENDURING LEGACY Elder Pihinui to strike for mo, we went to the scene of the trouble and in two days had it removed. With the assistance of eight native brethren, I also contructed a breakwater at the mouth of the canal—a little further up the gorge where the freshet washed away the gate and played havoc with the abutments. This occupied our time for about two weeks and was labor that I was used to and I really enjoyed it. I found that the native brethren, as a rule, were willing to work with careful and judicious manage- ment, but woe to the man who will attempt to drive them. While I was engaged in these and similar pursuits on the Plantation, Sister Burt was not idle by any means. She super- intended the papering and did most of the work herself on the new Mission House at Laie, consisting of fifteen rooms. Being a good and a very handy nurse, she was often employed in that direction, both in the Church and out of it. She healed up festering sores with which some of the natives were greatly afflicted, without money and without price; and otherwise provided remedies for them in sickness, thus gaining and securing for herself their everlasting gratitude and affection. She was for six months at the bedside of Sister Noall during her last sickness in Honolulu. Her labors were duly appreciated by President and Sister Noall, whose benediction, together with that of the native Saints, she values and appreciates more than silver and gold. Without entering into minute details, suffice it to say that we continued to labor in this manner, both myself and Sister Burt, and also Wallace, who milked twelve cows every night and morn- ing, and made himself in other directions very useful. After returning home early in 1896 and finding my wife, Elizabeth Patterson Burt, in very poor health, we decided to go to Salt Lake City and take out our second endowments just as soon as her health improved. On April 7, 1896, we attended to this matter and just nine days later she passed away, April 16, 1896. ‘Then I engaged myself in various pursuits; in civic affairs and Church assignments. On November 26, 1900, Apostle George Teasdale ordained me a patriarch in the Box Elder Stake. [John Davidson Burt died on May 6, 1906, at Brigham Cit Utah.] —DUP Fi 3& HIRAM THERON SPENCER T was born in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass- achusetts, November 13, 1835. My mother died when I was three years old and soon after Father sold out and moved his family of eight children to Nauvoo. There was Mary, Jane, Charles, ‘Martha, Antonette, Ann, myself and Mandy Father bought a place near the public square of Nauvoo, and here he built a house and some barns. Then he bought a farm. . Vas EMIGRANT PIONEERS 297 During the summer we stayed at the farm. In the winter we came back into the city. Father worked on the Nauvoo Temple while we lived in Nauvoo. He was in charge of the rock hauling. I was well acquainted with Joseph Smith, the Prophet, because he visited at our home quite often, and whenever there were parades or any public entertainments on the square, he used to sit on our porch and watch while they were performing. In 1839, Father married Emily Thompson at Nauvoo and they had two children, Ed and Francis. We lived in Nauvoo until the spring of 1846, when we were driven out by the mob. We had to leave all of our possessions except what we could put in our wagon. It was early spring or in February when we left Nauvoo and we had to cross the Mississippi on ice. Father had two wagons for his family and children and Uncle Daniel Spencer with his wife and three children had two wagons. But Uncle Orson Spencer, who was away on a mission to England, had a family of six and they only had one light wagon and only one horse. There was Uncle Orson’s wife, Aunt Catherine Curtis, and her children and Aunt Catherine was so sick she had to be carried from her bed in the house and placed in the wagon. The horse that was hitched to this wagon was balky and refused to go unless someone rode him. They didn't have a boy old enough, so I had to ride him every day, keeping right behind my father’s wagon. The road through the country then was very bad and the wagon would get stuck and we would have to stop and put two or three teamson a wagon to pull it out. This was in February, 1846. It was snowing most of the time during February and March and also raining, and some days we moved camp only a mile or a mile and one-half. We would put two or three teams on one wagon and haul it up to the camp and then go back after another one. The women and sometimes the children had to walk through the mud and water that was up to their knees, following the wagon, and they would have to stop now and then to rest. In this way the Saints advanced over the unbroken country. When we made camp at night the men would cut limbs from the trees and lay them down on the ground to hold the beds up out ofthe mud and water. Some of them slept in the wagons, but many oftthem had to sleep on the ground. My Uncle Orson’s wife died after we had traveled for about, three weeks and my father and my cousin, Cladina B. Spencer, took her body back to bury her in Nauvoo. While they were in Nauvoo they got some supplies and Father bought some more cattle and then took the ones we had left298 AN ENDURING LEGACY before—he had about fifty head altogether—and started back to join the Saints. The cattle he brought was pay he received for some of the land he had sold. ‘Word was received that the mob was following to get their cattle. The ice over the river was broken now, and they were afraid if they tried to cross by ferry they would meet the mob, so they went up the river about fifteen miles and there they could cross on another ferry. ‘They had to travel day and night to keep away from the mob and this was very tiring, and because of the cold weather and being in the open so much, Father caught a severe cold and diedon the trail, just after his companions had taken him down from his horse and laid him at the side of the road. His body was brought to Mount Pisgah or Garden Grove, Illinois, and buried, and the rest journeyed on to join the Saints. We had only been on our way about one month when my uncle Daniel Spencer’s wife, Mary, died. During her illness she had a bed of limbs off the trees. This helped to keep her out of the mud and water, and during this time, because of a severe rain- storm, we had to hold two umbrellas over her to shelter her from the rain. She was thirty years old at the time of her death. ‘That season we had to lay over a week at atime while the men worked for the farmers, cutting rails and cordwood to earn provi- sions to live on, as we had very little with us. Every week or two we made these stops, earning flour, cornmeal and bacon. We spent that season in 1846 going from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters on the Missouri River. In the fall of 1846, while living at Winter Quarters, Uncle Daniel Spencer married my stepmother, Emily Thompson Spencer. We built log houses to live in during the winter. Part of the men went back to Missouri to work, splitting rails and earning ions for the people in the fort. It was such a hard winter that many of the cattle and horses died because of the lack of food. ‘The next spring when the people could get cattle and horses enough to pull their wagons they started westward. A great many could not go because they did not have the means to buy cattle, so they had to lay over at Winter Quarters that season, My uncle and his family and also our family were able tostart west. President Brigham Young and some of the Saints had gone on ahead of the rest of us. Some other boys and myself had to drive loose cattle, walking most of the time behind the train of wagons. When we got up on the Platte River about fifty miles from Winter Quarters, the buffalo were so thick that it was necessary EMIGRANT PIONEERS 299 to drive the teams three and four abreast between the river and the bluffs where it was wide enough, so the train would not be scattered out so far that the buffalo could run through or stampede the horses and cattle. We traveled westward all of that summer and arrived here in the Salt Lake Valley about September 20, 1847. Daniel Spencer was captain of the hundred and Horace Eldredge was captain of the fifty in the company we were traveling with. There were between seventy-five and one hundred families altogether. When we reached the valley the men set to work building more houses in the fort. Each man had a part of the work allotted to him. Some of them were sent to the canyons to cut logs, others, had to haul them out and still others had to build the houses; in this way the fort was built which was located where Pioneer Park isnow. The houses in the fort were all built so they opened into the center of the block, with no doors on the outer side. This afforded a place where the Saints could go when the Indians attacked them. ‘There were gates in two sides of the fort through which everyone had to pass when entering or leaving the fort. ‘That fall they killed the fattest of the cattle that could be spared and the hides were put up on poles to help shelter the other cattle. ‘They took an estimate of the flour and other provisions they had after it had all been gathered in and they found there was only about one and a half pounds allotted to each person each day. These provisions ran short before more could be secured in the spring and all of the hides that had been put up to shelter the cattle were taken down and scraped off and cooked and eaten before the next spring. In the spring when the vegetation began to grow, all of us young folks had to dig roots and get greens to live on. We hardly ever tasted bread all during the summer. Early in 1848, men went south of the present penitentiary site [Twenty-first South and Thirteenth East] to what is now known as Mill Creek to do their farming, using the water from the creek to irrigate the land. They went out there so they would not have to build fences to protect their crops from the cattle and horses. When the grain got up about six or eight inches the crickets came from the mountains and went about to take it all. The men, women and children turned out and with willows and brushes drove the insects into the creek and into the brush and burned them and in this way got rid of them, and were able to save about two-thirds of the grain.