e e TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) BIRTH (date and place) DEA TH (date and place) PARENTS . MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arrived with) HISTORY (who wrote) (date written) . (who submitted) (address) · · Charles Dean 11 March 1829 - Audley, Staffordshire, Eng. 19 Septe.m ber 1896 - Woodruff, Rich, Utah . • Tho~s Dean Betty Darlington Mary Cope ,. About 1872 · May Dean Brown (granddaught_er} May 1983 Hazel Sims Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP le COUNTY.SUBMITTING _M_t_._J..;...ov...,..----------Camp _M_o_r..,.g_a_n ___________ County . (Camp Historian .le address)_......,._ _C_ h_l_o_e_H_._ H_e_in_e.;..r __________ 1440 Old Hwy Road, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian It address )._ __v_ e_lo-'y'--T_o_n_k_s_D_i_c_k_s_o_n_ ________ P. 0. Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF- INFORMATION~ PAGE NUMBERS: CHARI.IS IIWl (2>.arles Dean waa born March 11, 1829 at Audle1, staffo:rdshire, Kngland, the son of 'fllaaaa Dean and Betty Darlington. His father died when he was Ye?:y young, leaving his widow and seven S1R&ll children, Elisa, Martha, John, Matthew, Charles, Geozge and Hannah. At the age of seven, he went to '*<>rk in the coal llines. I reae11ber when I was a child, I asked aother what the black spots were 1n Grandfather's face. She said be had been a coal a1ner and had been hurt 'and the coal was embedded in the skin and never removed. 'lhe akin had healed over, leaving the black spots. We know ..e -ry 11t tle of his childhood, only that he shouldered his re~pon-si b111 ty early. He •ust have played, cried as other children do. It is sure he must have sung aany songs, for I reull)ber so well the wonderful songs he used to aing. He loved to llingle and associate with young people, because it was a characteristic of his later life. He also loved to dance. When he waa fourteen yea.re old, he heard the Momon elders preach and 11as convinced that theJ had scaething better than he had known and aoon becaae con-verted and va.a baptised and became a ••ber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da1 Saints. !here was no branch near, so he waa unable to advance in the Priesthood. After the elders left, he never ce&aed. to long for aore knowledge of the tzuth. Little is known about his courtship and aarrtage. He aarrted Mary Cope, daughter of John Cope and Hannah Stathaa in Bogland. In the year 1860, wben he •aa thirty-one yea.rs of age, the gospel came into bis life again. Three elders cue and held a aeeting near his hOlle. 'lhey were Benjaain Cook of Iron County, Utah, Bdwa.rd Cluff of Provo, Utah and ~arles i. Penrose of London, Kngland., Gran.father waa thrilled at hearing the gospel again. When be returned. bcae, he told Crandaother the glad tidings that he had again heard the elders preach and waa aa thrilled as before. ~e was not deeply illpreased aa ehe waa a Vealeyian Methodist. 'lbe Vesley1ans were very strict obaerYera of the Sabbath &Dd when Grandfather had the elders caae to his hoae on the Sabbath, they brolllbt their guitara and pl.a.red. &Dd aug. Ste wa.a unhappy, but she 800ll lea.med Ulat gooct a1181c wu a part of her huban4'a religion and ao hia enthuiaa helped her to ... u he 41t. OR ..Juae 2, 1860, the1 were 'baptincl into the LDS Church. Be and hia Wife and taiq caae across the ocean on the ah1p "Undexwri ter" &rr1 nag in Aaerica about June 1, 1861. A baby waa born and buried at eea. It •aa giftll the naae of Undexwrl.ter. 'Ibey caae to Woodmtf, Utah 1D 1872. Be and his boys made the dobbies and build the tront pa.rt of the house 1D which they lived and which is still standing. He and his aona contributed auch tovaxd the erection of the dobbie hoaes in Wooclnltt and 1D Svanston, Wyoai.Dg. He bad pleasant experiences •1th the Indiana and because of his honesty and preaoh1ag, aany of th• were converted to the gospel. He waa a Su.nda.y School superintendent tor llaD,f yea.rs. He vaa called. on by aany tor the ada1n1ater1.ng of the sick. Be alvqs earc1ea a great deal of f&1 th and aany were healed •hen he administered to them. He was blessed with the gift of healing. He started the genealogy and temple woJ:k for hiskindred dead and his woJ:k is now carried on by the Dean Ol.'ganigationo He "was taken ill in March 1892 and the decline was sure and steady until the end. He was perfectly resigned to his death, and met 1 t W1 thout fear. He was truthful and honest and among his last requests he desired to owe no man, even the f'uneral expenses were to be set aside before he was laid 1n the graTe. He passed &WBJ September 19, 1896 at his bane 1n W~:ruff, Utah, surrounded by his large family. '!be funeral serrtces were held in the Woodruff Wa m Chapel and he w~ buried in the Woodruff Cemetery. BY, Ma_y Dean Brown, Granddaughter