Edward Watkins Clark (1820 - 1909) Profile

Edward Watkins Clark Sr. (1820 - 1909)

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Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, April 11, 1875, Vol. 1, Page 37, Line 1172.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, April 11, 1875, Vol. 2, Page 31, Line 1172.

Missionary reports, 1831-1900

Missionary reports, 1831-1900.

[page 1] To General Church Recorder Orsan Pratt sen Dear Bro I arrived in this City Oct 3rd/76 from England. where I have been Labouring in the ministry one year &amp; 5 month in the Leeds Conference. Thare Enjoyd My Mission and Rejoiced in the Privilidge off being worthy to be intrusted with such a high &amp; holy Calling. the Lord had Blesd me &amp; acknowlegd my Labours &amp; Blesd me with the Privilidge of Returning to my Family &amp; friends acording to the Promise of his Servants when set a Part for that missian &amp; I feel to apreciate the Gospel and my mountain home more then Ever these are my feelings on my Return home. Your Bro in the Gospel Covenent E. W. Clark [page 2] 3rd Oct. 1846 E. W. Clarke Mission Report

Transcript for Missionary reports, 1831-1900, MS 6104, Church History Library

Clark, Edwin Watkin, [Autobiography], in Edna J. Gregerson, comp., The Mellors Through the Years [1963], 660-61

Clark, Edwin Watkin, [Autobiography], in Edna J. Gregerson, comp., The Mellors Through the Years [1963], 660-61.

I was organized in a company of ten under R. Chaffin with Henry W. Miller Captain over a whole company of 50. Besides myself and wife, there were four children, one wagon, one yoke of cows. Daniel MacKintosh was secretary of our company. We started 3 July 1852. Orson Hyde was the captain over 100. 
The emigration of LDS across the plains in 1852 was larger than in any preceding years, owing to the fact that the Saints who had made themselves temporary homes in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, had been counseled by President Young to immigrate to the valleys of the mountains. As the mapority of the Saints complied with the counsel given, all the branches in Pottawattamie County (between 30 and 40 in number) were discontinued and the membership of the branches constituted an important part of the emigrants of that year. The emigration from Great Britain was also a large one that year, or season, and even a number of the Saints who had spent a year or more in St. Louis crossed the plains in 1852, making their way to the valley of the mountains. Some of the Saints, who for various reasons, could not get ready for the crossing in 1852, went the following year or later on, but few who refused to comply with the counsel of the authorities of the church made themselves permanent homes there, and some of themsubsequently became identified with the apostate organization, and sidetracked Mormonism altogether. 
I drove my team of oxen up and down through mud and streams and on 6 September, my oldest daughter, Sarah, was run over while she was getting out of the wagon and died the next day on Sweetwater River, at the age of seven. We still pressed on, though it was a trial to leave her buried there.

Transcript for Clark, Edwin Watkin, [Autobiography], in Edna J. Gregerson, comp., The Mellors Through the Years [1963], 660-61

Deseret News

20th Company

"20th Company", Deseret News, September 18, 1852, Page 2.

20th Company, H. W. Miller, Capt.. and 13 persons; L[ewis] R[ice] Chaflin [Chaffin] and 10 persons; Orson Hyde and 9 persons; Daniel McIntosh and 5 persons; Lewis Robins and 3 persons; E[dward] W[atkins] Clark and 5 persons; Jonathan Browning and 16 persons; John Galliher and 4 persons; Bingham Bement and 4 persons; Luther Reed and 2 persons; Wm. Daley and 2 persons; D[aniel] R[andall] Williams and 2 persons; wm. Price; [John] Lovell and 3 persons; wm. Beam [Bean] and 6 persons; [William] Mason and 1 person; G[eorge] Mason and 2 persons; w[illiam] Mason; [John] Carlin[g] and 3 persons; [Isaac] Carlin[g], jun.; [Alexander] Melvin [Melville] and 2 persons; R[ichard] Bentley and 4 persons; C[harles] Price and 3 persons; w. Chapman and 3 persons; [Edwin] Bryant and 2 persons; Nathan Staker and 10 persons; N[icholas] V[ance] Sheffer and 3 person[s]; E. Frost and 5 persons; Jacob Lance and 3 persons; E[benezer] wiggins and 9 persons; John Staker and 3 persons; wm. Staker and 4 persons; Enoch Cowell and 1 person; Frederick Cook[e] and 5 persons; John worthin [Worthen] and 5 persons; wm. Manhard and 6 persons; [William] H[enry] Manhard and 5 persons; R[oyal] Durfee and 3 persons; Geo. A[ugustus] Neal and 3 persons; O[liver] C. [Boardman] Huntington and 3 persons; Richard Maim [Mann] and 3 persons; O[wen] M. Cole and 9 persons.

Transcript for "20th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2

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Pattingham, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

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