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Show History of Joseph Chatterlev By Ella Thorley, his granddaughter grand-daughter Additions by Zoella Benson, great granddaughter Joseph Chatterly was born April 17, 1807, the second child of John Bourne Chatterly and Ann Nuttal Chatterly in Burry, Lancaster, England. He received a good education and training as a , master wheelwright, blacksmith, and a merchant. He married Nancy Morton in 1833 at Pilkington, England. He built a large manufacturing business and prospered in the business and had a good, comfortable home. He and Nancy had four children, Ann, Morton, Charlotte, John, and an adopted son whose name was James Morton Thorpe. Joseph and Nancy listened to the LDS missionaries, joined the church and decided to emigrate Joseph Chatterly was called to go j to Saint Louis to take a wagon ! and help bring out the Saints to Utah. In the group of Saints he helped to bring was widow Catherine Clark Corlett. He married her as a plural wife February 21, 1852. One child was born to this union. Josephone Catherine Chatterly was born September 10, 1853, just three days after her father died. Josephine (called Jody) married Samuel Wood and theirs was one of the families who moved to San Juan countrv. to Utah. On September 2, 1850 they, with six other families whose transportation he paid, left their homes and on September Sep-tember 4, 1850 sailed on the ship "North Atlantic" into the vast ocean with 500 passengers, 357 of whom were Latter-day Saints. They were on the rolling ocean fifty-eight days and landed at New Orleans November 1, 1850. They spent their first winter in Saint Louis where the men-folk were busy manufacturing wagons. They left Saint Louis in the spring of 1851 for the westward west-ward trip. There were sixty wagons in the company under the leadership of Captain John Brown. They arrived in Salt Lake City in September 1851. On September 4, 1853, when Joseph was getting out of his wagon to open his farm gate, somehow his clothes caught on his gun. The gun discharged shooting him through the upper part of an arm. Blood poisoning set in, and he passed away three days later, September 7th. He ' was the first person to be buried in the cemetery at the present site. Joseph Chatterly was always active and energetic, always guided by high moral principles, ever ready to assist in sound enterprises for the good of the people. His untimely death was very unfortunate. He left his family a good heritage and a challenge. President Brigham Young then called them to go to Iron County, Utah. They arrived in Iron County in November 1851 and settled on the north side of Coal Creek. They called the settlement set-tlement "Little Muddy." Here they spent the winter, but in the spring they moved to a better location southwest of Coal Creek. The new settlement was known as the Old Fort. Joseph, having a knowledge of metals, along with others was eager to build a furnace to develop the iron industry. in-dustry. They erected a furnace and manufactured flat irons, cranes and iron dogs for fireplaces, and many other ar- tides that were badly needed by the people of Utah. They also broke up new land for farming and men, women and children gathered the materials for new homes. Joseph built a four-room adobe house on what is now First East Street and Center Street in Cedar City, Utah. The Indians were often unfriendly un-friendly and even dangerous, so the men carried guns as they went to and from their farms or for wood in the mountains. |