East Weber, Hooper, 153 Utah; Taylor, Idaho Submitted by Email to Morgan Daughters of Utah Pioneers by Randy Rounds, April, 2017. Sketch of my Father's Life, Nelson Arave By Elnora Aravi Cox Nelson Arave was born £0 Dec,, 1834 in New York State near the Canadian line. Hi was born op French parents and was left an orphan at the age or four year. Some people by the name of Lampson took my father to raise, they spoke the English LANGUAGE AND MY FATHER BEING SO YOUNG AND MOT UNDERSTAND ING THEIR LANGUAGE EHD NOT REMEMBER HIS PARiNTS NAMES, SOT A$ HE GREW OLDER THESE PEOPLE Tt}L0 HiM THAT Ht S FATHER AND GRANDFATNER WAS DROWNED THE SAME DAY IN THE ST* UURANCE RHER WHILE RAFTING LOGS, AND HE WAS CALLED NELSON ARAVE, HE SPELLED HIS NAME AS IT SOUNDED TO HIM A R AVE. THE LAMPSONS DID NOT KNOW HIS PARENTS W^L ENOUGH TQ. SPELL HIS NAME THE FRENCH WAY, WHtCH WA.I? A R R A V t. So WE THINK THAT WAS WH'#wt WitRE NOT ABLE TO LOCATE ANY OF HIS PEOPLE. WE THINK THE MISSIONARIES OF THE U D. S. CHURCH MUST HAVE CONVERTED THE LAMPSON FAMILY, AS THEY MOVED TO NAUVOO, ILLINOIS WH I'-'E MY FATHER WA S A V.ERY SMALL BOY. THEY LOSATEP Rl 1HT NEAR THE PROPHET Js.aEPH $#l TH; ANO MY FATHER TOLD US MANY TIMES THAT WHEN HE WAS ' SMALL !:H\0Y, ettNG CLOSE NEIGHBORS T0 THE PROPHET:, THAT HE (THE PROPHET) HELD IUM HtS LAP MANY TlMfS* Hr; TOOK A REAL LIKING TO MY FATHER SECUASE HE WAS A J..-ITTLE ORPHAN BOY • WHEN MY ATHER GREW OLDER BROTHER LAMPSON BECAME t" TE: BLIND ANl!l Wit ARE TOLD THAT HE LED HIM TO CHURCH SUNDAY AFTER SUNDAY. So ONE DAY THE PROPHET SAID, "Nelson come dver to my home soon, J want tq aive you a messing". This hi ti AND ONE OF THE MOST THRILLING THINGS HE REMEMBERED MOST OF ALL WAS THAT HE WOULD LIVE TO HAVE A VERY LfiRsE POSTERITY, AND THIS HAS FULLY COME TO PASS, WE: X)0 NOT KNOW JUST WHEN MY FATHER LEFT N.AUVOO, BUT tT WAS AFTER THE PRQPHET*S DEATH I N 1844. THE SAINTS WERE IVEN F IRST ONE PLACE THEN ANOTHER, AND WH ILE AT Council Bluffs the Abraham Day Co* prepared to cross the plains. My father was about 17 years old* HE left with them may 10, 1851 and drove an ox team across the plains for a widow, Mrs. Carey who was a mid-wife and a lady Doctor. 154 They arrived in Salt Lake Valley Sept, 17, 1851, with every member or the company in high spirits. they went to a meet ins next day and BrIGHAM yount expressed his delight that they has had such a pleasant jourwey and serious troubles at all* he told them me would like them to join a company coins to east weber, which they did, leaving salt lake sept* 18, 1851 and arriving in east weber sept, 20, 1851« After settin® to the Valley, my father lived with Abiah Wadsworth and learned the car pewter trade from him as there was so much carpenter work to be dome at this time, he followed this trade the rest of his life* he lived with the wadsworthb for about four years and fell in love with Aroline Wadsworth* They were married in the endowment house in Salt ^ake City on the 8th of Feb, 1855. The following children were born to themj Nelson Abiah, Joseph Warren, William Alma, Freddie, David Eli, Framk, Heber, Elnora, Dora, Lewis, Addje or Ada, and Eugene. When they had five boys my father married a second wife, Mary ann Williams, October 9th, iS65. Their family consisted of Elisa, Harriet, Daniel Willis, Hyrum, Jeamette, Mary Jane, James, Josephine, Parley and Arthur. When my mother (first wife) had seven boys, Father moved his families to Hooper, Utah where they continued to live* At Hooper, Father built a carpenter and black smith shop and people came from far and near with all kinds of work for him to do. since moving to hooper my mother gave 8isth to five more children, three girls and two boys, making twelve in all, so my father worked almost day and night to keep his two families iu shoes and tofcip them in school* my FATHER had a strong testimony of the gospel. hfe bore testimony of brisham Young speaking in the pulpit in the voice of the Prophet Joseph Smith,after which he was thoroughly convinced that brigham young was chosen by god to take the place of the prophet joseph, and he lived to see the wisdom of that choice as 8it}sham proved himself so oom&etant and worthy of the position with great honor until his death in ,1877* -3- 155 My father built a boat and would cross over the Salt Lake to m i&laho called Promatory where mi would cut cedar posts for farmers to ffstf their fields re save their crops from loose animals* He mas always oeius work for others auo 010 a cheat many day* $ work without rece) v i nq a bent for it (for which mi should receive a great rew.aro)« Hev&s a great swimmer, he wools) tie HIS clothes on the back of his heao, swim the ri i/er Am HAVE dry clothes to put cm when he cot to the other side. some of tws mn folk® got to betting who could sw1m with the heaviest b/ei ght tied to their bodies and father outhdip them all when he swam with a so pound anvil the to mtfto WHFN THE PJOHEEES FIRST CAME TO THE VALLEY, THE iKDiANS WERE VERY TREACHEROUS* BUT FATHER ALWAYS TRIES TO MAKE FRIENDS WlTH THEH* Jit LEARNED TO TALK THEIR LANGUAGE QUITE WELL AM® ALWAYS TRIEO TO MAKE FRIENDS WJTK THEM* BRTSHAM YOUNG ALWAYS TOLD HJS PEOPLE THAT tT WAS SETTER TO FEED THEM THIS TO F1SHT THEM* §Mfe TIME A CROUP OF Jhoia«s mm to my Fatherand Mother*s bohe m® 3ato that they hearo Brjsham Yooms was «#two to have them all killed. They fired off eos% shot a hole through their ®#fftt usee) terrible language, cot into the cupboards AUQ bel he 0 themselves, THEM Tit® my FATHER TO a TREE ANS whipped him umt1l blood RAM down hit body* Path©? awo talked to them telling them that he kmew ir wasn't true. Finally he cot them «j,UlgT£s 9vmm amd told them he wculp 60 to salt lake with the(r ©is chief ah© pmm to them that it was not true* so hi malkfo all the way TO salt lakfj which was 40 miles from where hi lived* the chief rode his pohy an® father walked by hss s! de all the way* after they told fig! sham thus troubles, bftloham loaded the insian^s pony down with provisions a m 0 the ihbian wfwt homk happy* ml was always very kind to Father after that* tm«» WENT CM iTE SMOOTHLY AFTER THAT UNTIL ABOUT THE YEAR OF 1886 WHEN THEY STARTED TO PfitSlOWTg THE POL! GAR! STS* St MY FATHER ALONG WITH A 0000 MANY OTHERS HAO TC flR¥E HIS TIME H4 THE PENS I TEM TAP? Y IN SALT LAKE OlTY? AFTER THAT THEY NEVER LjrVSB WiTH MORE THAN ONE WIFE* 156 f% fatmefi movfo his second family to taylor* idaho to ftftvk w qu soke land in about the YEAR 1894# he raw a saw mill OU samo Crcek for a number of years, the solo to #ts 6QN Eli Aravc and moved to Basalt, Ioaho atout the teas 1900 where he lives the remainder of mis li fea working 0n br1b8e8 amo mitlflng uwtjl the oay BEF»«f HE sua. The ©AY #f HIS death (Sunday)* HE WALKED across the floor* fell across 7M si» and was come. he passed peacefully away «m july 8f 1906 leaving a sreat peiTEftiTYl Twenty-three «h turns*» 133 srano oh i lores,, ano a countless NWHttK of SREAT AN© SREAT great grans children. HC had IH children by his first wife ffiom whjoh nIMS mammed am has families, SEVEN mWLEA OUT OF THE «|NC live© torether 50 years ARB out of these unions came 89 «ra«8cmll8®e?t» HE had eleven ohilotsn by his second wife AM© 44 granschildrek* 157 NELSON AND HIS FIRST FAMILY Nelson Arave Susanna Aroline Wadsworth Children of Nelson Arave and Susanna Aroline Wadsworth Back Row: Eugene , Elnora (Cox), Dora (Fowles), and Heber Front row: Frank, William Alma, Joseph Warren, and David Eli