HISTORY OF DAVID EMANUEL BROWN

David Emanuel Brown (Carpenter Farmer-Rancher)

Born 04 Apr 1851 Place-Atlanta, DeKalb Co., Georgia

Mar. 23(28) 1870 " Carrol Co., Geprgia

Died 1 Jan 1927 " Ontario, Malhur, Co., Oregon

Bur. 6 Jan 1927 " Monroe, Sevier Co., Utah

Father Emanuel Brown

Mother Lucy Caroline Turner

Wife Mary Ann Maranda Hyatt

Born 22 Mar 1852 Place Rockdale Dist., Randolph Co., Alabama

Died 27 Feb., 1919 " Cedarview, Duchesne Co., Utah

Bur. 3 Mar., 1919 " Cedarview, Duchesne, Utah

CHILDREN;

Emily Caroline B 11 May 1872 at Rockdale Cleburn AL D 22 Oct 1943

Mary Elizabeth B 28 Oct 1874 Bowden Dist. GA D 01 Jul 1958

Emanuel Franklin B 10 Jun 1877 Muddy River Cherokee,Ok D 8 Jul 1962

James pleasant B 21 Mar 1879 Monroe, Sevier, Utah D 25 Jul 1879

Joseph Ivy B 6 Mar 1880 Monroe,Sevier, Utah D 25 Jul 1882

Martha Jane B 27 Jun 1883 " " " D 17 Sep 1973

Sarah Delila B 15 Feb 1885 " " " D 5 Jul 1963

Rosella B 26 Dec 1886 " " " D 11 Jan 1887

Lucy Irene B 28 Oct 1887 " " " D 28 Oct 1887

Candace Jeanette B 1 Oct 1888 " " " D 23 Feb 1975

John Henery B 27 Dec 1890 " " "

Lexia Belle B 24 Mar 1893 " " " D 5 Oct 1980

Neta Rossette B 20 Nov 1895 " " "

David Emanuel Brown , son of Emanuel Brown and Lucy Caroline

Turner, was born 4 April 1851 at Carro; County Georgia. His early

childhood days were spent with his parents on a farm, in a 3

room log house on Indian Creek near Bowden, Georgia.

When David was about 8 years old his father moved a few miles, and

opened up a new farm on Indian creek near Little Tallapoosa River,

Carrol County, Georgia, there Emanuel Brown built a permanent home and

for the short period of 2 years lived in peace and love with his

family, then the Civil War Broke out. Emanuel and his eldest son John

were called to arms, Emanuel was killed in the battle at the Kennesaw

Mountain, Kobb Co. Georgia near Marrietta under Captain Potts on the

Confederate side, 22 June 1863. John age 16, was drafted into the war

was taken prisoner into Indiana and kept until the close of the war.

John married soon after the war and lived on his mothers farm 2 or 3

years helping the younger boys , then moved to himself. Mother and

boys remained on the farm until in 1871 when Mormon Elders O. H. Riggs

of Salt Lake City and Jessie Crosby of Panguich converted Mother,

David, and Samuel to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints.

In 1868 David met Mary Ann maranda Hyatt who lived 7 miles away,

they courted 2 years and were married 28 Oct 1870.

Lucy Brown (Davids mother) with 4 boys, James, Samuel, William

Marshall and Charles left Chattanuga, Tenn. by train for Salt Lake City

in 1871, in company with Glenn Morrison and daughter.

Soon after David was married he went to work for a Mr. McDonald at

a sawmill, worked for several months but got no pay, he then moved 0n-

to Billie Lovings farm in Cleburn CO. Alabama and lived there 3 years,

Emily Caroline was born there 11 May 1872. David then went to help his

brother John on his farm at Carrol Co., Georgia, 2 miles from the old

home, Mary Elizabeth was born there 28 Oct 1874. In 1875 he moved to

Hyatt's farm in Alabama, was there 1 summer,in the same fall he

homesteaded a farm, while clearing this farm he worked on Howler's

place cleared 7 acres, planted corn and built a home.

In the Spring of 1876 Wm P. Sargent of Cedar City and Thomas

Murphey of Salina, Mormon Elders, came to our house and converted my

wife to the church, she was baptized and confirmed in July 1876. As

soon as she was baptized her people, especially her mother, disowned

and refused to ever see her again. (They vowed never to see her or

count her as one of them, which vow was almost fulfilled, since the

only one of them she ever saw again was one brother who came to Utah

to see her after a lapse of fifty years. It was fifteen years after

her arrival in Utah that even her mother condescended to write her in

answer to the many letters she had written home and these precious

letters from her mother she kept tied in a bundle and kept safe in her

trunk. From Candace Brown Hunt.)

In his own word " The day of my wife's baptism while visiting some

Mormon friends we heard of a company soon to be formed in Dezark

Arkansas to leave for Utah the next spring. We went home and began

preparing to go with them, sold my right to the farm for axen and

wagon. On the 6 Sep 1876 pulled out from farm with i yoke of oxen and

25 cts. in cash. Joined neighbors Steward, Brady, Alonzo Graft, making

4 wagons in all, worked our way into Dezark, Ark. spent winter here

spliting rails. Left Desark in early spring, traveled several days

until we found work spliting rails in North western part of Ark.

Decided to make our home there and barganed to buy 40 acres of land.

The company formed at Dezark under G. Boils, with John P. Wiminer and

Niels Bebbe captains left Desark in June with 27 wagons enroute for

Arizona. They had kept track of me, and when the company passed within

1/2 mile north od where I lived, stopped and made camp and sent for me

to join the company. I hesitated at first but later decided to join

them. I asked the aged gentleman I was working far, for $40 due me, he

refused to give it to me, but after I bid him good by, telling him I

would go without it, he laughed and said he was only joking gave me the

money but desired me to stay with him. That same night we joined the

company and the following morning started on our journey West.

When the company reached indian Territory later named Oklahoma

Captain Wiminer was taken very sick, company camped 1 week, he did not

improve so was sent by train to Utah leaving Bebbe Captain. While

there Emanuel was born on Sunday June 10 1877. Monday morning we joined

the company as usual, that day a very heavy hail storm came but with no

ill effect with my wife. At this time Sam Noris's wife was confined and

died and was burried by the road side, my wife took her baby in her

care until they reached Arizona. Reaching Savory Valley New Mexico in

Sept the company camped and Captain Bebbe went into Arizona to the

Mormon settlement or camp to counsel with Lot Smith President of the

campm made a list of those chosen to go on into the Arizona camp, I was

among the number chosen. My old neighbors McGraft and Brady were left.

Just before the company reached Sanfee Captain Bebbe reported that

small-pox was very bad in Santafee and decided to take a side road.

Stewart refused and went into santafee contacted the small-pox in his

family. After the chosen number had left Savory Valley and gone into

Arizona Steward returned to the Savory Valley camp giving the remaining

familiew the small-pox. Alonzo McGraff's wife died, she was my wife's

old school mate.

We stayed that winter in Arizona. We arrived in Monroe Sevier C.

Utah in March 1878." Here his account stops and I will finish from a

short story of his life by his daughter Candace Brown Hunt.

At Monroe they bought a full city block, built a house and planted

an orchard, engaging in Carpentry to make a living. He built a work

shop and constructed most of his own tools, constructed many houses and

made and repaired furniture. He liked to entertain people and for this

he made a pond on half of his lot with an island in the center. He

planted trees and flowers around the pond and on the island. He made a

boat to row and put up a high swing. He planted fish in the pond and

our place came to be the recreational and gathering place for most of

the town, especially after he made the Croquet Ground where he and his

friends spent many hours in a tug of war to determin the champion

Croquet player. He made the mallets and wickets and bought the heavy

five-inch balls.

Here, ten more children came to fill the little town housebut four

died in infancy. In 1894 the town place was sold and they moved to a

rented farm in Marysville, Utah. David was not a farmer at heart. He

would much rather be making something with his hands and tools. He de-

signed many clever pieces of furniture and made them at odd times,

aside from his farm laboe. He was a successful wheelwright and did a

lot of blacksmithing, having construced his own paraplhenalia and

tools. In 19898 another move was made from Marysvale, Utah, to Uintah

Co. Utah where they purchased a ranch in the Dry-Fork Canyon six miles

from Vernal, Utah.

In 1906, when the Ute Indian Reservation was opened up for

settlement my father settled on 160 acres of land homesteaded by sister

Martha, my father having used his homestead right in the Southern

States.. He was one of the first pioneers into that section and was

prominent among it's builders. He engineered much of the canal line

and was overseer on much of its construction and was its first ditch

rider. He was first to have an artesian well drilled in the area

bringing the Staley Brothers in to do the work, which was to give that

part of the country the name of Montwells from the many wells near the

mountains. He was active in all comunity activities, being the head

carpenter on the church built at Cedarview, and on the house bought,

moved an d re-built in Montwell, long used for school and social

purpposes.

Among the clever things he built for the home I remember the old

circle table with a hole in the middle into which was placed the

spindle of a smaller table which set up about a foot above the table

proper. This was our dining table and instead of saying,"please pass"

we would turn the little top table until what we wanted got around to

us, the food having been placed on it. ( I,Reita Hunt Hamblin have the

leg construction of this table. It was in the old home we bought from

my mother, it having been used by my famiy. We used it in the home for

years and it was moved into our new home. When we bought a dining room

set I let my daughter Ila Larsen have it and she used it for years be-

for giving it back to me and I have it in my bed room at present. it is

surely strongly constructed with bolts iln each corner.)

Another clever thing was a "Secretart" built on the order of the

dining table except that the top part was a turning cabinet with

shelves, drawers and cubby holes to hold books and writing materials.

This cabinet turned on a spindel and was up off the table and under it

was a kerosene lamp and bright tin reflecters to throw the light onto

our books as we were at our school work around the table. He made a

complete spining wheel and reel for each of his seven daughters remark-

ing that the time might come when we would have to use them. ( I do

rember of mother showing me how to spinnyarn and put it on the reel.)

It is rather sad that to know that all of these works of art and

ingenuity have not been preserved. Besides these, he made a

grandfather clock run by cords with weights attached. At one time he

made a violin which he played for dances in our little comunity

parties. He also designed and made a large tin horn to be attached to

his old Edison phonograph to ampllift the sound before they appeared on

commercial machines.

Becoming discouraged with conditions at Montwel he decided to find

a suitable location in Ontario, Oregon and was there making a deal for

a new home when my mother died. He didn't buy the home but spent his

time visiting around among his children. He was back in ontario,

Oregon, living with his daughter Delilah when he was stricken with the

illness that ended in his death January 1, 1927. He was brought to