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Show • • • I l I L E P J.. G E PIONEER NAME ALFRED RANDALL BIRTH DATE AND PLACE --J:une 13. 1911, Bridgewater, New York I ' PEATH DATE AND PLACE FATHER MOTHER Jason Randall Martha Thompson WJIO MARRIED AND DATE --=M=s.r:...c'r:t=,a:..r::.=e~t R::.:::a:.r.::=. le.:1;.wv•t.....1.::.8=4..:..:8::..._._ __________- --J YEAR ARRIVED IN ,UTAH --=18"'-=1- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ NN1E OF COMPANY Heber C, K.irnba.111 s Company WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE WHO SUBMITTED HI STORY AND DATE __.G...l.. , ..e .n...n. a..-.._R.... .. ..P...o .. u.rt.-Wliil.er...__ _________ ADDRESS 398 W Young Morgan, Utah 84050 ________________T ELEPHONE NO. 8_2_9 _-6_.J_6_ 2_ _- -1 C COAMUNPTYNAMENAME ~outh Morgan .I _ _. ...t.;·.=~o=r=ga=n.:..-___________ ___________- --J CAMP HISTORIAN Lucille ·o. Wi l liams I ADDRESS ·- : . . - - - - - - - ' - - - - , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ COUNTY HISTORIAN Barbara C. Por(8ter ADDRESS JPEG -Bk13 I • - JPEG-81<13 (! LIFE OF ALFRED RANDALL Alfred Randall, son of Jnao:1 nnd Martha Thompson R.at!dall, was born June 13, 1811 at Bridgewater, New York. When he was seven y~ars old, with his parents, he moved to Kirkland, Ohio, later they moved to Munson, Ohio in the year 1830 . While living at Kirtland, he helped to clear timber from the land where the Kirtland Te111ple was afteivards built. In 1831 he went to Mentor, Geange County, Ohio, to work for himself. In 1832 he waa present at Joseph Smith 's first appointment to hold a meeting in Kirtland. Some time later he purch.ased n farm in Muqson, Ohio , He m3rried Emmerette Davis in 1834, oh~ ~ao a Latter Day Saint or Mormon, and he soon bec.ame conv~rtcd nnd emhr aced the et.me belief. She became the mother of n:!.ne children. In 1838 he sold his farm and moved to Chardon, Geange ~ounty, Ohio, and in 1839 he sold out again nnd moved to Quincy, lll. llerc he worked ns a cnrpen-tcr. lie wao baptized into t!,c Ch•trch of: Je:>11s Chri.i,t of L.it.:er-Da::, Saints Hay 12 , 1840 by Orcon llyde, who was then on his wl.\y to Palestine, occorn:,anied by Jo!•.n E. Pnge. Later l:e was orc!oi:icd a U.?acon by Ja,;o!> Crouse. In the year 1841, he and his family movcC: into the City of Nauvoo, where he worked helpir.g to e:-ect the Nauvoo Temple. While here he was ordnined an Elder by Preoident F . &'. Williama , 1 We went back to Ohio in 18'•2 on a visit, but :-eturned to Nauvoo in 1843, While in Ohio, he received a Pt>.triarchal Bless1.ue under the hands of Father John Smith. He nccompa:iicd the Prophet JoEeph Smith to the Monmouth trial on the Mis11ouri . Writ, He was closely associated with the Prophet Joseph and his brothe~ ilyrum, he accompanied them to Ce.rthage Jail, June 26, but wns forced to leave Carthage at the point of a bayonet in t b? hands of the mob. Quoting Grandfo!:h'!r, he eaid "I heard Govenor Ford info1·med of the p' '.'\ to kill JoMir,h and Hyrum Smith, Govcnor Ford replied, "hold your tongue if you know any s•1ch a thini;." In 1837 they moved to Winter Qunrteri,, a ehort time later he was eent one business trip back to Ohio by President Heber C, Kicr.1.:>all. While living at winler quarters he was very sick with fever and ague . I n 1845 he was ordained n Seventy in th~ 15th Quorum of Seventies. He married Margaret llnrley ee.rly 1.n the y~ar 18/18, later leaving wint.c::- 11.•.artElrc for the ·trip across the plains arriving in Salt Lcke Valley in Sept , 1848, in Heber C. Kimballs Company . They located in Mill Creek east of Bountiful, where they spent the win':er bt!il<.11.nr; a saw m:i.ll for Heber C, Ki.mball. He moved to Salt Le.kc CHy r.nd build a hom2 in ::!~e 17th ward in 1851. In 1862 he assisted in buildir~ A. A. Garr.-.:?r:J Grist Mil.l on the Jerdon. In 1853 he built another home in Selt L"ke City, he also built an adobe ::icr.ool houae in the 17th werd , and in 1854 build an addition to it, 3lx24 ft. At the April Conference .in 1855, he was appointed to take a mission to the White Hountai.ns, here he baptized 10 indians. lie married Elsie Anderson April 9, lCSS. ln 1857 he took up n piece of land in Weber County. In the year 1860 hio enti:re cropa were destroyed by grasshoppers . He married Hildred E. Johnson March J, 1863, and in Hay 1865 he married Hannah Severn. In 1865 he went to the Sandwich Islands as a missionary, while here he also acted as Superintendent of a Sugal· Factory. His wife, Mildred , was with him in the islands, and while there she taught school . Upon returning home he left her in the islands teaching school. In 1872 he returned to the islands and brought his wife home with him. He also built a home in Centerville for his wlfe, Margaret, where she lived the remainder of her life and rained her family . Hio wives Hannah and Elsa lived i n ~den, where their families still reDi<fo . During the latter part of his life , he made his home at Nor th Ogden where he still owned considerable property, I He was a wagon maker and cv.rpented by trade. lie was the father of twenty-seven children, and leaves ~etween 300 and 400 descendants. Copied in 1973 I • I l I L E PIONEER NAME MARGARE!' HARIEY RANDALL DIRTH DATE AND PLAC~ __J_ a_nu_ar-=y-_1~3~, _1_8_2~3~,_C_h_e_st_er_.:..C~ou_n:.t;~y~,_P~e~n=n:s:y~l~v~a~n=ia=-:..•_ __ _. QEATH DATE AND PLACE FATHER ~--~B~e=n,~jaJJrl.:·::=;n~H~a~r~l~ey.,___ _____~ ------------------~-~~~-- MOTHER Elizabeth Harle WJIO MARRIED AND DATE YEAR ARRIVED IN •U TAH 1848 NAME OF COMPANY HeberC, Kin~s Company WHO WROTE HI STORY AND DATE E; i ; Randall Richards - f941 WHO SUBMITTED HISTORY AND DATE _G_len_na_ R .;... _.P_..:o..;;r;._t;e;...r.;. .;~--------------- }\DDRESS 398 W Young Morgan. Utah 840 50 ----------------TELEPHONE NO. CI\.MP NAME South Morgan I COUNTY NAME ~-·~M~or ~g=a=n;..._~------------------------------J· CAMP HISTORIAN L ucille· O. Williams I ADDRESS ·~=--------~-.-:-----------------------~ COUNTY HISTORIAN __B_ a_r_b_ar_a_ _o. .;.._P_o_r_t_e_r_ _________________ ADDRESS JPEG-Bk13 . ' • • - • JPEG-Bk13 ,·. MARGARET l!ARLEY !'./1.NDALL ~largaret Harley, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Harley, was born Jan 13, 1823, in Chester County, Pe1'lnsylvania . 1:,; r mother died when Margaret was eleven years of age. She was always a delicate cl:ild, and it was said of her that she would not live to be twenty years of age. 1-:owever, she lived to the ripe age of ninP.ty-six, dying April 5, 1919. The century in w~ich Margaret lived s ~w the most wonderful advancement in the history of the world--the perfection and bringing into use of the steam boat, rail-road, &nd telegreph, ancl the invention of the telephone and automobile and the im-provement of the postal system. In their Pennsylvania home Nargaret and her brother Edwin, ·four years her senior, wer.e converted to the gospel of tl:e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Records are not available to show when and by whom they were baptized. Their father was a kind and loving man, but not being converted himself, felt sad to have his son and daughter join so unpopular a religion. Naturally, he would do nothing to help them join the Sainte. However, he told Margaret to come back ~ when she found out her mistake. Margaret and her sister had been kind to a lonely old man who lived near, and when he died he left one hundred dollars to each of the girls. Margaret used her portion to tal<e her to Nauvoo to join her chosen people, but did not arrive in ' that city until after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. She talked vary little about her life and thus not much is known of the particulars of her travels and early experiences. At Nauvoo Margaret Harley hired out to work for Alfred Randall and his wife Emeretta Davis. She 'was very anxious to r,o with the pioneers to Utah, but beinr, all a~one she had no way to go. 1'hc Randalls wanted to help her, but Alfred said the only way he could take her was to marry her. Margaret knew he was a good lllAn E.ad decided that this was the best th.ing to do, so at Winter Quarters, a temporary ~cttlement on the west bank of the Missouri River, she was united in marriage to Alfred Randall by Pres. Brigham Young on January 29, 184C . She thus embraced the primciple of plurality of wives, being the second wife to Alfred Randall. Her husband later married three other wives. Mer garet was true, kind, and benevolent in all her family relations . . There was not one of her husband's wives or children who did not like to visit 11Aunt Margaret" and they all did so whenever convenient and often stayed several days at a time. The family arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in September 1848, having been delayed a year by a broken lef. of the husband. They lived for some years in the Seventeenth Ward of Salt Lake City, just wes t of the West Temple St. on First North. They were in the historic ''move11 of 1858, going as far south as Prove and returning when the danner was passed . Margaret was also taken by her husband and lived for a short time in the following places--what was then called "Over Jordan", l3ountiful, and West Weber. During these years times were hard and food scarce. One year the crops were almost an entire failure. They dug roo ~s and whatever they could find to cook. At one time they were without any flour f.n the house for three weeks. Marp,aret said the .boys would not play at this time, but would 11<! on the floor most of the time. She wondered why, not realizinc they were too weak to play. tfuen they had bre'ad again to eat she said the boys would play again. One day during this period l'!argaret became so exhausted while doing the -f amily washine that she could not . go on. Then she ,found one , and only one eag, which she ate to give her strenr,th to Hnish the washing. The boyo were aslee·p, but it hurt her so to eat that ege withou't having some for the children t hat she could never forget it, but would sometimes tell about it and say, "That was the only time in my life that I ever ate anything when the children could not have some too." No doubt there were plenty of times when the children ate and she could not ~ but these times were never mentioned • Her husband Alfred went on three missions and on trips east to help immigrants into the valley. He was also working on such projects as helping to build Camp Floyd, building saw mills, woolen mills, etc, so that much of the time she "ms alone with her family. In 1862 Alfred bought a farm and home in Centerville, Utah, and•moved Margaret there. While living here she had to make shoes for her sons eut of jeans (a heavy cloth). She said the boys would go outside to work as lone as they could stand it, then come in and warm their feet before soing cul: again. Clothing was very scarce. •• ( • • • JPEG-Bk13 At one time Margaret procured some canvas of which she made a coat for Orr~n. One cold stormy day he was in the canyon getting out wood. His mother worried about him. Melvin, the other brother, said, "Why do you wot'ry about Orrin? He wouldn' t get cold with that coat on." Mat'garet remained in Centerville the t'eot of her life except the last two years when she was taken by her daughter, Alice Clark, to Georgetown, Idaho to be cared for until she died. She lived in the same house in Centerville until sometime in theNineties when her house becnme so old that her son Orrin had her live in his house as he and his family were living in Morgan at that time. While living in Orrin's house her eyes began to fail. One day while cleaning her pantry she found a paper containing what she thought was some old useless onion seeds. She threw the papor into the stove. , The ":;eeds" proved to be r,un powder which exploded burn-ing off her cycbrowo and ccorchinc hct' hair. l!cr son, Melvin, o aid "Thnt io enough I You are coming to live with us." This she did until tsken to Idaho in 1917. She never wanted to leave the "farm" which her husband had owned and left in the care of his sons for the maintenance of the family. She was very independent and when her daughters tried to get her to live with them·she would always say, "No, the farm has to keep me." From 1871 to 1901 Margat'et was president of the Ward Relief Society. Sister s from Salt Lake City, Elitg R. Snow, Zina·n. Young, Precinda Kimball, Emeline B. Wells and many others often visited her home. If anyone in the community was sick, "Sister Randall" was called in, and was always there either day or.ntght helping, often staying dayo nt a time with pet'nons sick with nny kind of disease. It WM1 said of her that ohc was truly n ministering angel. Dcsidcs caring for the nick and preparit1g the dead for burial she wns often taking food and needed articles to those in need, but never, never mentioning it. She would quietly slip it out of the house. If her daughters happened to see her doing it she would say, "If we give it to them maybe we won't need it.11 She truly followed the admonition, "Do not let your left hand know what your right har..:l doocth." She aloo went to Salt Lake City and studied obstetrics and practiced in that capacity for a number of years, off1cia ting at sixty births. However, she did not care for that work as she felt that it was too much responsibility. I On her sixtieth birthday the Ward Relief Society gave her a surprise party with a big·dinncr and lovely presents. Margaret was a small woman with dark eyes and hair, very active and energetic. She was truly a wonderful woman with unusual good sense in managing her home and in helping others. Much of the food for the family w:11; produced at home. From the farm came wheat, potatoes, corn, squash and hay for the cows; from the garden, all kinds of :vegetables for both summer and winter use; from the orchard all kinds of fruit then raised in Utah. There was also milk, cream, butter, chickens and eggs. Meat was not so plentiful but sometimes there would be a: ecf or veal or pork. Money was scarce. dozen eggs or 11 pound of butter would buy a Httle our,ar and other staples. In later years many a grend meal waA made with all-home-grown foods except sugar, salt and spices. Even the vinegar was made on the farm and honey obtained from a few hives of bees. Margaret was an excellent cook and loved to give small dinner parties to her friends, of whom there were many. The married sons and daughters who lived in Centerville often came with their families, expecially on Sundays. Margaret wot'ked in her garden, dried fruit, tended her cows and chickens and did everything there was to do in a pioneer home such as carding wool, spinning and dyeing cloth, making quilts and carpets, sewing clothing, etc. Her sewing was all done by hand as she never owned a sewing machine. She was also engaged in raising silk worms for the silk industry of Utah. She rejoiced in her knowledge of the gospel, and never found it to be the '~is-take" her father thought it would be. Sh~ bore her testimony to the truthfulness of the gospel to the end of her life. She was loyal to the Priesthood and all ~ ~ siding officers and always paid her tithing and donations. How she ~id love and obey every word of President Brigham Young.' She was the mother of seven children, two sons, Ot'rin 11 and Melvin H, and five daughters, M~ry Elizabeth, 1-!argnret Ellen, Thurzn Amelia, Alice and Emily. As the - ., r • • - • JPEG·Bk13 latter part of her husband ' s life was spent montly in North Ogilen, she depended upon and took comfort ln her two sons. Her life was happy in the main because of her faith and fortitude, and because of her love for her family and friends and religion. Her time was spent ln the ser-vice of her family and the poor and sick in her community. I The latter years of her life were spent in blindness, at first partial and then total blindness, caused fromaitarocts. To one who all her life had been a busy work-er and who loved to read, especiallythe scriptures and the Deseret News, this was naturally a great trial. Yet she never complained but said, "Some folks can't hear. I can go to meeting and hear what is said and can talk with my friends," The last few years her memory failed her also. The children and posterity of Margaret Harley Randall have reason to rejoice in the heritage that is theirs through thio true, loyal and faithful woman. Written by Emily Randall Richards - 1941 Copied 1974 >37 |