IRA NEWTON SPAULDING ANN ELIZA DRAKE SPAULDING Spaulding Families in Mountain Green, 1859 The Spaulding name was a familiar one in Mountain Green, Morgan County, long before the turn of the century. A polygamist, two of Ira Newton Spaulding's famil¬ies, and the families of Eli David, Ira Stephen and Lucinda Evaline Spaulding Cor¬ey, spent more than a decade in the little settlement. Ira Newton Spaulding was born, 16 April 1809, in Crown Point, Essex, New York, a little community near Lake Champlain, in the northeast section of the New York State. His parents were Stephen Greeley and Phebe Lawrence Spaulding. He married Eliza Ann Drake, daughter of David and Sally Bigelow Drake, in September of 1834. She was born, 2 September 1817, in Crown Point. The young couple were married and their first child was born and died at Crown Point. Ira and Eliza joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842, took their three-year-old son, Eli David, and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. Lucinda Evaline was born in Nauvoo the Beautiful, 27 September 1844. The Spauldings were among the Vanguard of Saints who crossed the mighty Miss¬issippi River to escape the killings and persecutions of the mobbers. The date of their departure was 4 February 1846, and nine babies were born in camp that bitter cold night. Upon reaching Winter Quarters, Iowa, the Spauldings located on the Elkhorn River. On 29 May 1848, they left for the Great Salt Lake Valley in the Company captained by Heber C. Kimball. Eli David, nine years old, rode a pony and helped drive the loose stock across 128