![]() ![]() Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database & digital images, General Land Office Records ( : accessed 4 September 2014) entry for Joseph Rich, Springfield, Illinois, Document #: 4105, Accession #': IL0520_.012. Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848. ![]() LDS Pioneer and Handcart Companies, 1847-1856. Joseph Rich died at age 80, on July 23, 1866.Ī. Sometime in the spring or summer of 1865 Joseph and his family moved to Paris, Idaho. The 1860 Census record shows that Joseph is living with both Elizabeth and Maria in Centerville, Utah along with Maria's sons Joseph Linford and Amasa Linford. Her father, Asa Colton Earl asked his wife's parents to raise his daughter since he felt he was not able to at the time. Little Minerva is Joseph's granddaughter, her mother was Minerva Rich Earl who died a few weeks after Minerva was born. ![]() I believe that this Elizabeth is possibly Joseph's second wife, Elizabeth Howard (1792-1870) and that Thomas Miles could be a relation of hers but so far I have not been able to prove this. Living with Joseph are a Elizabeth Rich age 60, Minerva Rich age 10 and a Thomas Miles age 21. Joseph and Maria were not sealed because she was already sealed in marriage to her first husband, John.Īt the time of the 1850 US Census, Joseph is living in Davis, Utah Territory. He would wed again on Jto Maria Bentley Christian Linford (widow of John Linford). She died not long after she and Joseph were sealed. Harriet came from overseas and between the voyage to America as well as the perilous journey to Utah she was very ill by the time she arrived. He was then sealed in marriage to Harriet Edwards on March 29, 1857. Joseph Rich was sealed in marriage to Elizabeth Howard (widow of both William Standage and William Thackham) on January 18, 1853. About three months after Joseph and Nancy arrived in Utah, Nancy died on Octoin Salt Lake City, Utah. They would have experienced all kinds of weather, hunger, diseases, birth's and death's. The family would have had traveled by wagon, the men may have ridden horses and/or walked during this journey. This was a perilous journey across difficult terrain and over the Rocky Mountains. According to the LDS Pioneer and Handcart Companies, 1847-1856, Joseph and his family traveled in their son Charles's company known as First Ten of Charles C. Once the initiation was completed they would be tested on their instructions.ĭuring the year of 1846, Joseph and Nancy along with their son Charles and their daughters Jane and Namcy and their respective families began their journey to Utah. The instruction consisted of the endowed's understanding of what was required of him or her by the Church such as rituals, prayers, gestures and symbols. In the second phase the endowed would be instructed and then would move into a testing phase. These garments were to be worn at all times especially when entering their temple. The first phase was initiation, which consisted of washing and anointing the endowed after which they were dressed in temple undergarments. The purpose of the Sealing of a spouse and/or family members is so that they are bound together in this life and for all of eternity.ĭuring the 1840's when members were endowed at the Nauvoo Temple it consisted of two phases. On JanuJoseph and Nancy had followed the custom of the Sealing ordinance. The family would likely have had a journey with rough traveling conditions, facing a hostile environment with large forests, heavy underbrush, wild animals and Indians who were dissatisfied with the government for occupying their lands and the dangerous waters of the Ohio River.īy JanuJoseph and Nancy went through the ritual of Endowment in their Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois. They likely traveled by river in these early migrations of Joseph's family. Joseph migrated with his parents Thomas and Ann Rich from Pennsylvania to Ohio around 1794. Then the family moved again to the counties of Boone and Campbell in Kentucky. I am not sure what the circumstances were that lead him to join The Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints. Nancy is the daughter of Charles James O'Neal (1750-1814) and Jane Shaw (1750-Unknown) Joseph was raised in the Quaker faith. Joseph married Nancy O'Neal on Jin Boone County, Kentucky. Joseph was born Apin Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania to Thomas Rich (1763-1818) and Ann Pool (1761-1836). Today I would like to introduce you to my first cousin seven times removed, Joseph Rich.
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