Show GENEALOGY Nothing could guhl be b moro gratifying to who havo this hilts department ml In iii o than thu Ito Interest which U is of or good 1 theN Iho may lOllY bu ho dona IloilO IH Is due to a It to hells tIm tho people In this tide branch of ot oUt our work of oe and As All u a further evidence of or lie tho wo we 0 append tile thu following loiter letter from tl toni I Joseph A Wo l I will for Cor or Knelt 1811 A W V Salt gull Ju Luke Lake e City Utah Dear I have road reed with morn them than hu hie department ii ft In III I ii the Iho I and a feel that J 1 ought to tn add n 1 my mr ill In itt such In IH the thu ninny many very en Ct alu 11 tout thus thue far fa maiJo At Hie III lie time lImo of ut r tho the death Math of ot my III fath uth father uthel er IH W V Viul III In January 1870 I 1 l ly know with htiu HIP lie ot or my hi grandparents both buth of ot if whom at ut Winter dining tho thic i of ot while hll on n 10 II Ii Salt lok 1 alloy J J hud hinti tie fro 11 heard health hen Ill my ni father of or his bin grunt groat Ial U the tu work tot tor torI I the dond und 1411 lion how hn not being the of ot his hili hum fathers family thin of ot tho of tit tills thIs work rusted rl upon another vr z lila Ids brother Aaron thou then tt n of oC New York und end un n II member of or the tho ruin tu ils Inception I father had hud written him thu to com caine to ii Zion did ami ciso tim thu privileges the tho ro ye of Ut hu jilts hI UH is tIlt I ost t lion on Jut but ills 1111 he lie had r failed O father WOI wont t ib b far tr iu UK IIIi ii to scud and lJ tt th thu s W Uw it II souli fl to M Hint 1111 litH 1111 fly lly II tu III i Utah only to 10 be bl ii again ula uil at nt the lie Jut heeL At thin I my nty NO so I nm am n Id vl I ri was wan in very 01 BO goad I which hi coupled tv I i ilio Iho I le lull I lee nt lit his hili wife doubtless lIs hut tho CAUSe of or hl hI hIs to 10 respond to call Bogn after thIs my an III fa thai died At tilts thu tune uC tt I lila his death d lIh my ny older duet brother wan In on 01 ft II and ho lie told tout me lIe how iw hid hilll him Jn lii Hint 1101 lana a tho thie Very el 01 an lira us pe he lit hi tell that hut Ills his spirit took Ha Its cald tin 11 to him hi Clua I ii it do your r duty 1 That Flint thIs thin Injunction to the lie Work worl lot fur ito tho dead ni M i much tm ite to o any I I thing rIll clue Ii Is I e et hh II 11 by b l the tact met that upon my Iii tar s MOM 0 in lie wem u 1 NOW VorK 11 IrK Ink V will 11 u he his UI up my fly undo Gnu anu n no from Inc tM ola old Mr tue td ngy lit of If my In ana m lilY 81 rH hi ly I mill sube fluently iv proved n 11 i very tory r valuable va ing ig n ii i to I t m III Ii i g tt riu I iii iI I i found my nfl fo PH g changed In III I I u Hint I hit t no lie 11 had hind l I i u nil nfl h ii hii hi a MH ii 11 hud left linn tie Bone go nt no totally total I j blind hUn Ii I I nd in I it A u r lotus fl und In hs un aM i lell id tt t ii 11 cis sic i i upon Ity id III i U r these thele ii la hi ill mo III I I so gin ely II o omy my Ill oiin 11 to luke lake hm hII to Zion ion n ho hn AlmI t I lilt 01 ly j upon the oro ot this thIn work for till HIP dead which hAIl hinti been boin cn 1 iti o 1 lung neglected our un limited list lint utan soon antI we WI ut we WI at se for further Information tion hoi For ft A time the Ihl and uund my III brother sought work upon the raIlroad lil his mil It Weel too tO t thug D I him to give tho mutters murn 1111 attention It IMul t tot took o him beyond lie tho t be iii tt of OC Utah thu Ii and Into Int I ui t tI I wh ro he 11 Ii died II In tho II I I V d im 1111 ii is it I I f a util wins nou of ot my In t iii I Iio 1 J hud bud previously si had hod it l nom him no flO did dill nor n at bItt I UnIt time I nI lIh I Ii that hat I shun I tt ii hIlts insul lit I I ii t always ti ried 1 nil Ihl this bob hoy hol man of ot Oud ho lie asked isis nir n ti III I I sll II 5 1 Iown a tu us as I h ii had hui ii B a for CI me flie C lao 1 did as ai l directed alid hl hI his soul loul w nt sIll out In Ill a II such na sue I 1 have hao 1 ever ICI heard Antons other othel 0 I lieu things hI n ga hn lii told nn un m mIn In su Ull li that lint I I hail had an 1111 a ii Important work to LO do mId and that dint If 1 I would bu be faithful to my ill III COl my lii father would visit I mo turn tell t 11 me 1110 about It t 1111 wont on tHu mid In tui thin the press of or 1 I very cr y life lite I almost ingot those Important words wOld of uC the tho patriarch 11 One On morning after tho tIm slumbers of or ortho tho the night had hod dispelled nil fatigue my m spirit took tool Its rII ht to 1 it point In th the Ihl realms 1 of or hera I T un understood I to moot my father How host Joyous beyond nil all powers of expression sion was urea that lint reunion of f two souls bound together by IJ the lion inn of or holy covenant and by hi h an fill unbounded love such Huch as tin the nobleness and 1111 grand grandeur Out eur of my toy fathers tile life had Inspired In Ina InI ina a I doting son non on In Ih ho mIdst of those heavenly salutations I beheld a 11 little lit Ill way Wn off ofT nn nil Immense concourse of or peo people plo pie looking eagerly toward us liS whom 1 I Instinctively recognized to 10 bo be our kindred and in the ecstacy of oC my In soul Roul 1 I appealed to my ill III father Cather to 10 let Jet them como COUll and partake of ur the heavenly joys jO ot of the tho occasion Immediately lie thu scene acello changed lI and I 1 beheld a beautiful land lund landscape senIle lu lit the th midst of ot which wended a majestic lIc rivet river This river was as spanned nt at Intervals Interval by br seven arches resembling III In somo some respects the Arch of or erected ted III in Paris Pails lo to commemorate the tins victories of Na sit Napoleon Napoleon Soon I 1 found conducting beautiful barges s down this placid stream and ami through those these arches my unIt duet chief care caio being that nona of oC them thieun should i be 0 stopped stolpe in lit the Iho order and und reg mg of oC their triumphal s To 10 Tolie the lie templo worker this hits mystic seven soven may 1011 bo liti easily understood whoa when we 0 contemplate the thu th fact that hint it IL taken just justas justO as an O many mall ordinances to fully full Cull redeem and exalt the dead as IB It does the tho lie living The Thu scene again lu changed Iud I next found myself at ut the thu root Loot of ot a L great groat stairway leading up Into a spacious and magnificent as nit I hini nov nev never novel er or I wua receiving auld and giving directions to a 0 largo lange con coil course courso of or people were werD ascending this stairway in countless numbers Later I 1 entered this mansion and hada had a most happy meeting with my mother who passed away 1111 a L few tow months after aCter my fathers SlIthers death and from erom which be bereavement sho she i co tp i Her hair hall was ait gray gra io to sno hll l sH sHet yet et she sho was wan beautiful beyond ton tion and as ns full Cull of pink pin and bloom as tie a L maiden In lieu her Icons When 1 I awoke I related nil nh to my m wife und antI after recording It In III my jour journal journal journal nal began beJan my lii genealogical research For l or a L time lime the tho elO to trace anti and I was wan almost discouraged when a IL Li lawyer lawer by b the tho name of ot Benedict settled In Ogden and anti look took up tho thu practise iso tise of or law In I 1 had hall caucus to tt consult him upon ono occasion and before leav leaving lug ing hU Juts hl office I incidentally remarked that Benedict was n IL family name namn my lilY grandmother being a I Benedict lIe He re iu replied plied pid pl d We Vo aro are doubtless related I 1 will send solid and got get you OU n a copy cops of or out our family genealogy This ho lie later lator lilt did JIll arid sure enough thieve there was wan tho the name haute of my III grandmother Sally Benedict This Thin man only remained In Ogden u II short time limo Just long enough for tOl God Clod to use uso him ilni as asan asan an In Instrument In ill supplying su this tooth much wole Information By Ii this thin tie lie the tho lie St ift t George templo had hind been toen completed und mold I was ivas privileged od to II he n present at Its Ill dedication having InnIng gone with President Youngs company front from Salt Lake Luko City On my 11 return to II Ogden I got cot the Iho necessary records In Ill shape shapo and sent my 1 In Undo Uncle Aaron Aaion to It toSi I St Si George whelo lu hr hi spent the thu romain log Ing years of lIr his hilts life Ufa working for Cor tim the dead Several efra thousand wore tuero officiated for by ii b him aunt and 1111 1 after his d ath the tho lie good work wurl was continued until I 1 found a n good sister who was uses WI S more inure nearly neaul ro uc r hated to tIm the Benedicts than limn myself m to whom at her hor request I over iver nil all records of oC Ito tho work done which work had hash cost coat hundreds It Ir not mint thousands of or dollars and devoted myself to tn the lie Went Vest c t and work with which families I m am nun moro nearly related relo ted The Tho Lord Lor soon supplied In an dually mys ms mysterious WilY way of ot it the that hut was WI S FO so supplied In an 1111 equally mysterious way wit 11 Information of oC the Vests osta thuit was so no to got be ho before befort fore fort nod also furnished us with whIt n it beautifully bOI printed of ot the tho Hoagland family film 11 y I saw taw furnished front from tho ho manner banner mil In which It Il was wait brought forth A wealthy gentleman nf or New Net NI York City by hy tim the annie nama of or orHO Hoagland HO Spoilt spent much of ut his time and In III collecting from the archives of or if mi his country C and tho the forma Information Iii formatIon tion lion contained in thin hIM work and after Its It Issuance from the Iho press is wild l I tl to tD have ha remarked er pursued this work with Intense Interest antI and ur Mr Nr years spent much in lii col ol or of data and hi In the he preparation and Ind publication uI nC the work worl and now that II it is III what good In Is I I It 7 Were Wore he n Saint ho bo would have readily understood why h he wa thus i inspired anti Ind that what roomed o valueless to tn him blurt was wall of oC inestimable worth to others I J have hu 0 performed or hued hud performed nil all but Jut the nat n t or ot crowning for tOI several hundred of ft my West an ancestry cestr several moral thousands moro morn of ot the Ind Benedicts have havo boon been baptized for Cor through my m instrumentality I 1 have also helped to do n large largo portion ot of the work vork for tor the The Wet West family has been connected husbands to wives and children to par parents enta from OUt our emigrant ancestor who lilac came to 10 America In 1620 a II Sir Francis West Vest brother to In Lord Lard Delaware down downto to my m grandchildren f who are the tenth generation on American soil sell For Foi my fly III ancestry In England l whom I 1 t mee buck back to III 1180 1110 on ou my 11 fathers side miMe ROil indirectly In to 10 David first king of lit Scotland much remains to bo ho done doner I r am trying to o finish the work for tOl tho the family in America first as tut thoy tIle ara aro neat nc neatest est cat of ot kin klui and in this I am re ro reminded minded of oC the this prediction of oC the tho Ba Su Havior vior In that day lIay the lie lust last shall bo be the first tint and the tho first shall be bo tho lie lost last lostIn IIi In permit me to say I Y that while by b marriage my m ancestors herons across the tim ocean nr rotated related to kings l and queens and men of learning autO anti re renown renown renown I 1 havo hao not felt eit that I 1 ought to leave heave that lino IIno of ot ancestral descent d to Which h by hy birth I 1 IlIn urt u a direct descend descendant nut ant t ond n I legal belt hoir he It Pride of lir ances ancestry try u and over zeal real in working for Cor the distinguished among onos kindred red oUt oitt t side of o legitimate lines line has hM led lod to hIm tho of oto a great trtat amount ot or simple work that Is lus worse worm than wasted bo bc cause of oC the tho countless numbers who only await tho the of the thu KOI gos pol to sot ot them theun free to many of or whom such lubell misdirected efforts might aught other otherwise otherwise wise bo ho most applied A Baker City Oregon I cc c 35 1007 MANTI TEM II Following are aro I ro lists of oC names already officiated fur for Jn In part pant at least In the tho Mantl temple J family by b Sirs drs Irs S So L 1 Menden Mende Mendenhall hall hail of or family by b Mr lr F Ferns Fernsworth worth Man Mantl U family camU by Mrs Lucy L r I Tut Tnt Tuttle tIe tle In Lockwood family by b Mrs Julia L I Hales Spanish Fork Lowry family by II John Lowy roV Monti Leavitt family by h Dudley l ailt Aria Ariz Leland family by Jos Jon L of ot LIbby family by b ao A Smith ot or Provo Prove family by b M ll V P of or Lyman family by 11 Johi L I 1 Smith of oft St nt t George G ole and Lemmon by M MF F 11 of oC MantL Lawrence family by I M t it F P Farns Farnsworth worth of oC Mantl Lacey family by Mrs Ann L I Vick Vickers ers eN of ot Nephi Lansing family by hy John C Witbeck of Mantl Mayhew and Mays Maya fay families of New Nea England by b of oC lJ mint Grove Grovo Mayo Moyo family l by 11 y H If 11 M Jolley Jolle of oe Long Valley Morse family by br F IT y 1 Morse Mono of or orSI St SI George Goorge family emIl by II Mm Ir Fanny JInny M lI Kofford ot or III JI City MoWry by l Mr Minerva W V Snow Sno of ot Mon Mantl tI 1 l 1 Murdock MUl by John It H Mum Mur of ot Beaver Murdoch family f of t id eol 0 to lant or 01 Wales alos by John M It Murdock of or Hobor City CIly It Il took thousands of or dollars dol rs for pow powder powder der del and noil tools tool a but the secret crot was IS that the tho people were united and those e who hut had charge made mn e a lL a profit from the tho rail railroad railroad railroad road work and It Il was wan used to construct the tho ditch All tho thu directors director and an laborers for tOl they thoy the were Iero all 11 laborers cast st lots for tor both town lots and land all eli having equal shorn share according to lo labor performed The Mormons built the thc road roa to lo Pryor 1101 mountain to get their house bouso logs hogs lo s and what little lumber they have obtained to 10 a build their cabins There Then hItS hiSs been a great grent cry from Crom some quarter about the Mormons using so much lum lumber lumber ber her from Montana lIon lana The Tho he truth about the matter is In that Clint the country countr has been ell held back because men could not get geta a little lumber to even erect orect tho tim build buildings logs ings necessary to Improve their farms because of oC prejudice In and oth oUr others turn ors who have havo had hasl axes axel to grind for Cor themselves Two or three or four foul men menas menas menas as the case may be have hao had to use tho the same Bame granary and yet the lie timber 1 I J Ito to be bc b held for future generations Thai Tha ThoI I Mormons havo have built nearly miles ot I railroad In the Basin 20 0 miles mUes of the lie government wagon road j Cody Cod 13 Ll miles mUlls of oC canal at Rosebud Rosabud Moot Mont ant anta an ana a tunnel and several mites miles of lit canal tu It have hiate Itc assisted greatly In the thA government canals at lit Garland and Huntley have hll also 1100 built the thu Dome Lake reservoir r tn to tho the Big Dig Horn mona moun mountains attic have havo built meetinghouses and They Thoy Tho have havo been tho the pio plo pioneer pioneer neer fleer beet be raisers of oC tho tue country dora dom demonstrating that the tho sugar b beet et will do dowell dowell well hero They TIle The are now 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