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Show ELIZA DANIEL HARRIET HYRUM JAMES JEANETTE JOSEPHINE PARLEY GILBERT A. LEROY Fearing the enraged Chief would set fire to the homes, Nelson grabbed his horse and held on, despite a severe beating with a rawhide whip. But Nelson con¬tinued to hang on. Admiring Nelson's courage the Chief finally agreed to talk to President Brigham Young, and the two set out for Salt Lake City. The Chief rode his pony and Nelson trudged along on foot. Brother Brigham solved the problem for all concerned. In October of 1855 Nelson married his second wife, Mary Ann illiams and they also established a home in Mountain Green. When Indian trouble broke out Nelson moved his families to Morgan for the duration. They later moved to Hooper. Around 1887 the government began to prosecute polygamists and Nelson served six months in prison. Upon his release he moved his second family to Basalt, Idaho. Here he operated a sawmill, built homes and other structures and continued in the carpentry trade until the time of his death on Sunday, 8 July 1906. Not feeling well he asked a grandchild to request that a prayer be said for him at Church. He died that same day and was buried in Basalt. Mary Ann died 18 December 1912, in Ogden and was also buried in Basalt. She was the mother of 11 children: Eliza Marier, Daniel Willis, Harriet Elizabeth, Hyrum, James Thomas, Janette, Mary Jane, Josephine, Nelson, Parley Gilbert, and Arthur Leroy. Aroline, the bride of his youth, spent her remaining years in Hooper. She became blind and her children cared for until her death 15 May 1917. She is bur¬ied in Hooper. The Arave Family, Hooper 137 |