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Show I Council makes new appointments , BY SUE ELLEN SIMS Beacon Editor New appointments for North Ogden City were made Tuesday night at the City Council meeting. is The new city administrator Dennis Shupe. Shupe is presently BEN LOMOND Neighborhood Girl Scouts will be presenting a Food and Crafts Fair. Shown are Colette Code, N. Ogden, Troop 276; Christina Hansen, Ogden, Troop 77; Jody Reader, Ogden, Troop 77, Michelle Sweeten, Ogden, Troop 77 and Jami Foote, N. Ogden, Troop 276. Scouts have food, crafts fair Do ou ever crave truly exotic not just pilafs or curries, but something totally out of this world, for instance "Jupiter Jumble, Moon Hocks, or Saturn on a Stick? The Ben Lomond Neighborhood of the Utah Girl Scout Council is presenting a Far Out Food and t Tafts Fair With Out of Sight Entertainment, Saturday from 4 to 8 at the First Presbyterian p m loods- - Church's Education and Activities Bldg , 880 28th St., to gratify the most of ap exotic and discriminating Watch for petites. All invited. friends of scouting are designer book-plate- s to ceramics to , macrame Entertainment, too, will take a wide from fiddles and guitars to range s. The Ben Lomond Neighborhood is irom Ogdens 24th Street to Plain City and from Huntsville to Pleasant View. The neighborhood is part of the Utah Girl Scout Council. Sue Foote is the neighborhood chairman and the purpose of the Food and Crafts Fair is for sustained membership enrollment. In addition to the buffet, a wide handicrafts will variety of scout-mad- e lie available for sale, ranging from , standup comedians. The Food and Crafts Fair was planned with two prime concerns: developing a variety of creative skills in the girls, and providing an enjoyable forum for scouts, their families and all friends of scouting. Since this is the year of Star Wars, why not have a Close Enof the Girl Scout Kind? counter , serving as Public Works Director. Cleo Christensen was reappointed city recorder and Barbara Thomas was named city treasurer. The new public works director is Dale Chatelain. Earl Carroll was reappointed Police Chief and Terrel Call was reappointed Fire Chief. Arthur Campbell was named mosquito abatement representative to the Weber County Board. The vacating of the walkway in the Scottish Highland Subdivision was also discussed. Members opposing the removal of the walkway and those that feel it should stay, were represented at the meeting. C'itizeas that felt that the walkway should be removed said that there were a lot of disadvantages in having a walkway maintanence, vandehsm, vehicle passage and garbage pickup. Other citizens that thought that the plans for the walkway should be built, were said that these disadvantages not real issues. The Planning Commission approved the vacating of the walkway and the North Ogden City Council approved the Planning Commissions New location has been in business for five years. a small room next to gas station that was about 15 by 15 feet. Then after six months there we moved to the North Ogden Plaza. After a time that location was changed to the new Family Center at Five Points. We now have a spacious new shop filled with exciting and unique gifts for every occasion with shelves and tables filled with home accessories for every home. THE GIFT GALLERY It opened in decision. in next Washingtons Birthday Special Edition ajjjyiW'ttjiw nw y j weeks Beacon uwyp w BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID OGDEN, UTAH 8440 PERMIT NO. 278 Vol. 3 No. 2 I m m 150 North Ogden, Utah Thursday, February 9, 1978 JWr'fuW-tfrr1uM rsAi M Fi By Helen Norton jjjrirnftr irr tmiruT ancestor recalled history by Ogden years after he passed from this life, I am attempting to construct a word picture of Benjamin n Cazier, Sr. from the little bits of his journal, historical, public and church records and the recollections of those who knew him. Small details vary between the numerous information sources but they are consistent enough to furnish very definite proof that he was a stalwart of whom his numerous descendants can be proud. His brother, James and John, and his sister, Maranda, had been bom at Elizabethtown, Wood Co., West Virginia where his parents, William and Pleasant Drake Cazier, owned forty acres of land on the Kenawha River. In 1821 they decided to migrate to Brownsboro, Oldham, Co., Kentucky, a little farming community just outside of Louisville to the North East. Benjamin was born there 4 January, 1824, the first of the seven more children bom to the couple there. The others were William (who died at a young age), Elizabeth, Samuel, David, Charles Drake and Rosannah. Their mother had named her youngest son Charles Drake after her ancestor who was the brother of Sir Francis Drake. The Caziers were members of the Baptist Church. In 1832 their pastor, Benjamin Allen, became a follower of Alexander Campbell, taking most of his congregation of 209 members with him. Evidently the Caziers were among the group who followed. Along about 1841 the family decided to move on to Illinois where land was cheaper and plentiful. Accordingly they settled at Lovington, Moultrie Co., where they ran the Black Horse Inn for John Kellar. At the same lime they were developing their land on the prairie. In the spring of 1844 missionaries for the LDS Church came through their area. Most of the family was baptized in August of that year. The records show that Benjamins baptismal date was December 1844, performed by George Best. Ben- jamin's mother, Pleasant Drake Cazier, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in November of 1846 from the hardships the Saints who took refuge there had to undergo. The marriage of Benjamin and Olive Lucy Shaw, daughter of John and Polly Maria Fox Shaw, took place on 7 March, 1848. Both families had resided at LeHarpe, Illinois. He states in his journal that on May 19, 1848, in company with Ezra Chase, John Shaw, C.H. Bryan and Mertillo Shaw they started from Highland Grove, Iowa. They were in the Lorenzo Snow Company. His obituary In the Deseret News says, He built near Salt Lake City at first but in 1849 moved to Weber County, first settling on the Ogden River at what is now known as Farrs Fort. Their first child, Frederick, was bom January 3, 1850 in a one room log cabin just west of the present site of the Old Mill near the mouth of Ogden Canyon. A group of Saints in 1851 decided to a settlement at try to North Ogden, three miles north of Ogden City. It had previously been necessary to abandon the one started by the Campbell brothers because of Indian troubles. Benjamin's second wife, Isabel, often told her family that he and his first wife, Olive Lucy, were one of the first three families to arrive at the scene. The date of March 4th is always celebrated by North Ogden as its founding date. Credited with being there by 1852 were Thomas Dunn, Lemuel Mallory, John Riddle, Benjamin Cazier, Newton D. Hall, Newman Blodgett, Enoch Bums, Solomon Campbell, David Gamer, Gideon Alvord, Amos Andrus and Bailey Lake. The Cazier history parallels that of the North Ogden community. The North Ogden history in the Church Historian's office tells that a common school was started in 1852 with a widow by the name of Gheem as the school teacher. Good crops were gathered that year. In 1854, the history continues, the Indians became so bad that a fort was constructed. Benjamin and Lucy's land, about 27 acres, was in the heart of the settlement, a narrow strip from the present 260C Street to 2100 Street with the eastern border being about 575 BENJAMIN CAZIER, SR., was O'w of the founders of North Ogden City. r n erwwjii Eighty-seve- 41 i East. Accordingly several families built their homes cm the Cazier property Inside the southwest comer of the fort. The old Cazier borne was located on the east side of what became known as Pioneer Street. It was back of the southeast comer of the present garage at the present address 2568 North 550 East Their first two large rooms were of adobe. Later a brick addition of two more large rooms were added. Olive Lucy's parents originally located on the east side of Washington Blvd. Canyon Road was their south boundry line and the center of Mill Creek the north line and east eighty rods. Their sons, Myrtillo and William located there also. Ambrose located on the west side of Washington in that same area. Later John and Polly built by Benjamin and Olive Lucys flowing well across the street from their home, at the present address of 2557 North 550 East. Quoting again from the North Ogden history, peace was established with the Indians that year but close vatch was kept until the snow got ieep enough for protection. Warm weather in the spring of 1855 hatched ut hordes of grasshoppers. The jettlers tried vainly but not enough rain was saved to provide seed and ,'ood. People lost nearly all their cattle because they had nothing to feed them. The winter ahead was unusually severe and the snow covered the ground until rearly the end of April. People, with hardly any exceptions, divided what they had. They dug sego roots. None died of starvation. In the spring they ate the early weednd vegetation. The year 1859 was a prosperous one for North . tember 1861 Olive Lucy died in childbirth. The baby Pleasant Polly lived 13 days, until 27 September. They were buried in her parents lot in Ogden City Cemetery. A Mrs. Mallory took Benjamin, Jr. into her home. The Shaw family took care of Celestia and Permeia. cont. on page 2 ( j , , Ogden. An account in the Deseret News in 1864 states that Independence Day was celebrated with considerable enthusiasm in North Ogden that year. There was artillery firing' at dawn, national flag ceremony and martial music at sunrise. Then followed the procession, reading of the Declaration of Independence, oration by Henry Holmes, speeches by Major Benjamin Cazier of die Utah Militia, George Rose and Major Jefferson Hunt. Afterward there was a sumptuous dinner served beneath the bowery. Three veterans of the Revolutionary War were present but their names were not given. The militia used to drill down on the barrens west of Pleasant View near the Hot Springs. The Joseph Cazier family has placed the coat Major Benjamin wore In the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum at Salt Lake City. Benjamin, Jr.s family was given the sword as a keepsake and William' family the hat. It was Benjamin's privilege to keep the flag at his home. His fourth son, Joseph, could hardly sleep the night before progress made up for it. Benjamin and Olive Lucy had seven children Frederick, Olive Ann, Viola, Celestia, PermeUa, Benjamin, Jr. and Pleasant Polly. On 14 Sep , any Important occasion because he was afraid he might oversleep and miss the glorious experience of going with his father to runm up the beloved flag at sunrise. Like many other North Ogdenites, Benjamin took a contract to work with his teams and equipment on the railroad which culminated in the Golden Spike connection I st Promontory Point. When the work was completed it was found the railroad did not have enough money to, pay In full. Inasmuch as the railroad was a great boon to the future of Utah, Brigham Young advised the people to accept the settlement offer of twenty-fiv- e cents on the dollar. They surely could have wed that ethar seventy five cents cash but the eventual - .f s , BENJAMIN CAZIER. JR., In his coot his Militia kthortonjomin V i f If j y' 4 ty " t.rf P C f J C-- v v t 9ds -- ' a Vf i ., - $ Ch |