PIONEER NAME James Colegrove Owen BIRTH DATE AND PLACE Oct. 11 1825 Sunderville Potter C. Pennsylvania DEATH DATE AND PLACE FATHER Nathaniel Moore Owen MOTHER Pamela Colegrove WHO MARRIED AND DATE Sariah Rawson YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH 1850 NAME OF COMPANY Wilford Woodruff WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE Lois owen Chapman WHO SUBMITTED HISTORY AND DATE sarah Oles Owen Smith Nov. 9, 1987 ADDRESS 298 E 300 N. State, Morgan, Utah TELEPHONE 8293423 CAMP NAME Mt. Joy Camp COUNTY NAME Morgan, Utah CAMP HISTORIA Edna Carter ADDRESSED 208 N 250 E. Morgan Utah COUNTY HISTORIAN Dena C. Rich ADDRESS 1266 N. Morgan Vly Dr. Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND PAGE NUMBERS: I herby give this history to the National Society Daughter of Utah Pioneers with the understanding that: 1. The Daughter of Utah Pioneers has the right to edit and publish it. 2. If the publication is not indicated, it shall become part of the archives to perfect the record of the Utah pioneers. 3. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers has the right to reproduce this history for the benefit of its members, and descendants of the pioneer. Sarah Owen Smith Signature of author or owner of this history Revised 1986 James Owen James Owen was born Oct. 11, 1825 in Sunderland, Polter C. Pennsylvania, son of Nathanial Moore Owen and Pamela Colegrove owen. He grew up on his father's farm. At the age of eighteen, he married Mary Whipple and a child was born to them, sex unknown. At about 19 years of age, he joined the Mormon Church. They left Pennsylvania and went on to Nauvoo with the rest of the Saints. It was here that he responded, as one of the volunteers to the call of the United States Government to fight against Mexico. Leaving his wife and child there, he was assigned to Company "D" and with this company, marched on foot across the desert to San Diego, California. They pioneered wagon roads, a railroad route, and dug wells. Tehy helped in erecting Fort Moore in Los Angeles, effected an economic revolution in San Diego, and participated in the discovery of gold near Sacramento. They helped to remove prejudice against their people by their exemplary conduct and loyalty to their country. They reached the goal for which they had been marching for over 6 months Jan. 28, 1847. James was discharged at the end of his year of service. He stayed that winter in California, working for Captain Sutter on his Mill Roll, where the first gold was discovered, i. In the spring of 1848, he left there and came to Salt Lake Valley, returning soon afterward to St. Louis , Missouri and remaining there until the spring of 1850, then across the plains again in the company of Wilford Woodruff, leaving his wife and child, since she had left the church and gone back to her family. James settled in Ogden, where he met and married Sariah Rawson, June 1, 1851. James settled on a farm near the union depot and followed farming for a few years. During this time he built the old City Holtel on Grant Avenue and ran this for many years, until the time that he was appointed Chief of Police. It was at this time that the railroad was built through Utah. This was during one of the roughest periods the state of Utah has 2 ever known. The country was infested by rough characters who followed the railroad construction and by bandits and other-lawless characters. James and Sariah were the parents of eight children, six boys and two girls. Horace Nathaniel, Daniel Warren, Joseph Henry, William Franklin, James Albert, and Charles Hanford, Sariah Emily and Mary Elizabeth. Sariah was the daugher of pioneer parents, Horace Strong Rawson and his wife Elizabeth, and was about 12 yuears of age when she crossed the plains. Ka, es tppl am actove 1/2art om political life for a few years. He was also active in the religious activities of the ward and stake, a member of the Weber Stake Council and a t4eCHER IN THE Sunday School. There is a limited amount of information on grandfather. We kn We knew his as a kindly but stern man, never a person to talk of himself. When material was being gathered for the book "pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah", he turned the ageny who came to hs door for a story away, and refused to talk about it. Only the little Grandmother could give of his childhood was published at a lateer date. He was a religeous man. He always said "pile the tenth load high boys, this is the Lord's load." Abouy 1888, he rented his property in Ogden and moved to Far West, Weber County and lived there until 1902 when he built a home on Cross Street and retired from active life. His daughter Saraih Emily moved next door so she could look after them. When 88 years of age, he had a stroke and was compleletly paralyzed. He lived about a month and died January 26, 1914. His wife Sariah passed awaY ELEVEN MONTHS AND FIFTEEN DAYS LATER. Both deaths accured on Cross Street in Ogden. Dec. 13, 1914 was Sariahs death date. James was the last survivor of the Mormon Battalion.