Spouse: Mrs. Mary ROBERTS.

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History of Job Smith. Job Smith was born at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire England December 2nd 1828. My Fathers and Mother's names were Thomas and Ann Smith. Thomas Smith was the second son of William Smith who was the son of Job Smith. My mother was the daughter of John and Ann Taylor of Cropphorne Worcestershire in England.
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In the beginning of 1843 my uncle and aunt made arrangments for emigrating to Nauvoo, and by some assistance rendered by the Saints where my father was labouring myself and sister were sent along. (49)
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During the following summer we resided in the city of Nauvoo, and now for the first time did I undertake to labor, insasmuch as my health was always so delicate. In company with my uncle I went to wall bricks for Francis Pullin. I always attended meetings at the stand on sundays and was on one occasion introduced to the Prophet Joseph Smith. I enrolled my name in the teacher's Quorum, under the president of that quorum Elisha Everett. (50) and always attended their meetings when occassion permitted. The following winter we resided at Mr Newman's about four miles east from Nauvoo. Saw considerable hard times for want of the necessaries of life. During the fall I went and lived with Daniel Browett who lived close by. Done their chores for my board. In the spring of 1844 my uncle purchased by our labour a small piece of land, and built a small house thereon, and was enabled to finish it in the early part of the summer into which from lodgings we entered without any floors or doors. However it was not long before these things were supplied by an industrious attention which always characterised my uncle's character. It was not long ere the land was well cultivated, cow sheds and stables built with inmates in them to make life more agreeable.
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As we expected to have to leave, and as we intended at all hazards to make an attempt so to do with the church, it behoved us to get a team to remove with as, as yet we had only been able to purchase a cow. We had neither oxen nor horse nor wagon nor any other thing that could be (p 56 14) depended upon for moving us the first mile. We had been blessed the previous year with good crops upon one small piece of ground, so that we, for the first time since our arrival in Illinois could say we had plenty of bread stuff to last us a year - but our prospects for removing into the wilderness an indefinite distance were very poor. As I said we wanted a team. We tried to sell our place, but found that our title was of no value. The man of whom we had bought the land had never paid for it and it had consequently been resold at the land office at Quincy. The new owner came to claim it. Gave my uncle a vest pattern for his improvements - which were worth several hundred dollars. X My uncle set out into the country to learn if he could purchase cattle with labor, which opportunity he found early in the Spring. Myself and he went 20 miles over the Mississipi River to where these cattle were to be brought, and wrought (57) making double ditch fence at 30 cents per rod and our board. We hired a brother named Harris to help us that we might get them in time to leave when the bulk of the people went form the city of Nauvoo. We had 100 rods of double ditch fence to make for a pair of young steers.

After procuring the team we were then destitute of a wagon, which by Providence seemed to be wonderfully supplied. Being unable to buy a wagon we knew not what to do. We had some little iron by us bought for the purpose of ironing a new wagon, but we had not got the wood work although we had spent considerable labor to obtain one. We did not know what to do, but finally heard of an old wagon that had no iron upon it that was for sale. We immediately repaired to the owner, who we learned if he could not dispose of it was about to tear it to pieces for fire wood, considering it too far worn up to be of any service. He informed us that he would sell it for three dollars, which we paid him in the iron we saved to iron a new wagon, and also some other simple articles to make up the amount. (58)

We took it home and repaired it. Put bows and cover upon it and made a start therein a journey which proved to be of fourteen hundred miles, though at that time we knew not the direction nor distance that we were about to travel. Thus I realise that the hand of the Lord was with us to help us away, for I may say that three weeks before we made a start we had neither ox, horse, wagon or any other necessary of conveyance, nor the knowledge in the slightest degree of where or how to obtain them. May 15th 1846 we bade farewell to our home. Wheat that had been sowed the fall previous was looking delightfull; this we afterwards learned was never harvested, all our household furniture and most of our farming implements we had to leave behind. We crossed the Mississipi River to Fort Madison and went to the place where we had worked for our oxen and staid there a few days to finish them the payment for them. After this we trundled along in our wagon without any tire or iron upon it as far as Bonaparte, a small (59) town on the Des Moines river. Near that town we stopped a week or two to work to earn some necessaries, flour &c. We were in company with several English brethren - namely Robert Harris, Thomas Bloxam, and some others. At Mount Pisgah - a place where the pioneers had made a farm to raise sustenance for those who should follow - we fell in with a considerable number of English brethren, with whom we travelled to Council Bluffs. Distance from Nauvoo about 330 miles. Here we received a requisition from the United States for five hundred men to volunteer to go to California to fight in the Mexican War. This was one of the most barbarous and cruel requisitions that could have been made upon any people under the circumstances. The notion had gone out amongst them that the Mormons had gone out to join the Indians against the Government. This requisition was got up as it was said to test our loyalty-and with a scheme laid, that if this call was not attended to an army should come and reenact the Missouri scenes; only to destroy entirely the Mormons as a people. (60)

However, the men were forthcoming, which took the flower of the camp. The young, stout and robust men thus left their families shelterless and many of them without food to travel on foot a journey of several thousand miles across deserts and plains almost impracticable to cross. Why I mention this is because some were obliged to be responsible for those families who were thus bereaved in such an unfavorable time. There were no houses for shelter, no neighbours but Indians, and nothing save the open uncultivated prairie to live upon, the summer was now nearly spent (we arrived at the Bluffs July 15th) and every thing to be done, inasmuch as circumstances rendered it impracticable to travel further that season.

(battalion wives that stayed in Winter Quarters, mentioned here; Elizabeth Harris-Mrs Daniel Browett and one child who dies; Eliza Roberts-Mrs John Cox and 4 children; Harriet Ann Efford-Mrs Levi Roberts and 4 children; Hannah Maria Eagles-Mrs Robert Harris and 6 children; Ann Corbridge-Mrs Richard Slater and 6 children; Elizabeth Cooper-Mrs Robert Pixton 3 children and pregnant. ~Vern Taylor.)

My Uncle and myself took charge of the cattle, and agreed to exercise a general providing watchcare over 6 families; Namely, D. Browett's, John Cox, Levi Roberts, Robert Harris, Richard Slater and Robt. Pixton's. I cannot now understand what ideas could have been entertained by us to think we could perform such a task or by them to have thought (61) that we could do it. To provide shelter, wood, (and until pay could be sent back by the men) provisions and other necessaries, for 6 families consisting of some 40 persons more or less, when houses are already built, and most of the necesaries of life prepared is no small matter, but under those circumstances was a task incomprehensible to be done by us! Yet in our willing zeal we undertook it. I was very small of my age- quite unhealthy and somewhat young, or unquestionably I should have been one of the volunteers. Thus started the celebrated "Mormon Battalion."

My uncle and myself being now so constantly and arduously engaged with the cattle &c of the families, left in our care, we soon fell sick. We crossed the Missouri River about the Last of August, and from the day we crossed that river we were both taken sick, and here commences one of the darkest periods that I ever hope to pass through. We had also in our care, to whom we had rendered assistance all the way from Nauvoo a widow named Mosley. Our anxiety was incessant. (p20)

excerpt transcribed by Vern Taylor Sep 2004
Journal of Job Smith p. 20 1846
Crossing the Missouri River at Sarphy's point we traveled to a place called Cutler's Park, where the great camp had located themselves to take care of their stock, and cut hay for to winter them. Distance about 20 miles. My uncle and myself were both sick with ague and fever and frequently delirious. Our disease seemed very distressing, and we had none of the comforts of life to help ourselves with. Here we remained until some time in October, when the camp removed down to a spot on the Missouri River, called by us Winter Quarters, the site of the present city of Florence. Here those who were able built them houses, but the sick had to remain exposed, contentedly or not, as they could compose themselves until cots could be provided. We remained in our wooden wagon in the open air until some time in December. It was very cold -- my aunt was compelled to take our oxen and go to the woods and fetch to the wagon wood to make a fire to keep us warm. And we used to keep the wagon (p21) warm by placing a quantity of live coals into the bake-kettle, and placing it in the wagon, around which by placing our feet we endured the inclemency of the weather.
Bro. Chauncey Warner Porter, put up a small split log building -- 10 ft square -- for sister Cox (probably Eliza Roberts, Mrs John Cox), who had remained with us. The other sisters whose husbands were in the battalion had scattered round into other parts of the camp saying that we were unable to do anything for them or for ourselves. Sister Cox gave us the privilege to go in with her and her four children into her new cot -- for which in our circumstances we were extremely thankful.
We were now destitute of provisions -- inasmuch as we had not team to haul it from Nauvoo. We sold abundance of corn at Nauvoo for ten cents per bushel the year previous, and now we could not get it for money if we had had money to have bought it with. Brethren who were in health, went down to Missouri and either worked for provisions, or traded for it by selling their clothing (p22) or what they could spare to obtain it with. We not having any means to send to exchange for provisions, were now rendered entirely destitute and compelled in our sick situation to ask our brethren for assistance. Daniel Carn was appointed bishop over that part of the settlement were we lived, and it was to him we had to seek. He was somewhat a cold-hearted man towards the poor, though a very efficient business man, and able defender of the faith. But in these times no one had anything to spare, and it was an exceeding hard matter for even a bishop to obtain anything for the poor. Hence many times we had not enough to eat, and that we did have was frequently very rough., Parched corn meal and bran were both poor food which we sometimes were glad to eat in order to sustain life and keep from returning to our mother earth, as we were very low from ague and fever, which never relaxed, until upon both of us a new and worse disease attacked us -- the effects of which were permanent in our systems. (p23)
I mean the Black scurvy. This disease is somewhat similar to that experienced by persons on lengthy voyages at sea. Sister Cox and her four children were also attacked by it. One of her children died. The disease was so prevalent that hundreds became victims thereto. The road to the burying ground led by our cabin and we could see every day numbers being carried thither. In our small place there were only two out of the nine inmates that were in health. These were my aunt Bundy and my sister Ann. They were employed day and night waiting upon us that lay sick. This I believe seemed to be the longest winter that I ever saw. My uncle's limbs were all discolored. I was afflicted chiefly in my stomach. It was not expected that I should live. I recollect hearing my uncle express his doubts concerning my life in an undertone to his wife. But I had great hopes because of the promises contained in my patriarchal blessing. But at one stage of my disease -- sometime in February 1847 -- I became convinced that I must (p24) die unless I could obtain immediate relief.
I called for my blessing, and read it, and sent for Father John Smith (b.1781 4th Patriarch of the Church, uncle of the Prophet Joseph Smith) to come and administer to me. I spoke to him of my blessing that he had given me two years previous and he read it. I believe from the way he replied to my inquiries that he thought I could not live, notwithstanding the promises in my blessing. But he prayed for me, and I told him if it was the will of God I desired to live to fulfill it in the flesh. He then blessed me and prophesied that I should recover. He asked me if I would become his son, and I believe I promised him in my distress that I would. He was very kind to me during all my sickness, and I felt under a deep obligation to him.
After he left me the enemy seized upon me and it did seem for a time as though I should die for certain. I sent for Father Smith again in my distress, and he brought with him C.P. Lott, and Abel Butterfield -- they prayed for me -- rebuked the destroyer -- and said I should live. From that time (p25) I began to amend.*(footnote: The following evening Johnathan C. Wright and George Bradley washed and anointed me that I might recover.) I felt the power of God to operate upon me, and I can bear testimony that I was healed by the power of God. But my limbs were affected for several weeks so that I had to use crutches to go about with.
As I recovered and got abroad, during the early part of spring, I feel to record the kindness of several of the brethren to me, who gave me food and administered to my temporal wants. Namely L.E. Harring, D. Russell, besides Father Smith the patriarch at whose house I was always made welcome. And as we had no provisions at home I was glad to accept their kindness and feel indebted to them in a measure for the preservation of my life; as when I went out on my crutches and stopped in their houses they always fed me and administered to my temporal wants. My uncle still lay sick -- crippled with the disease unable to get out of the house, but as warm weather returned most of those who had survived through the winter began to amend. Hence numbers might be seen walking about upon their crutches.

About his time -- as soon as I was able to do anything I went and learned to make fancy baskets (p26) of sister John Young and thus employed myself until I was able to go and help break up Prairie for the purpose of putting in a crop. In March the pioneers started to find a location for the Saints; and in June following a large portion of the people --all those who were prepared with provisions to last them 18 months -- started west in the trail of the pioneers. My sister Ann went with President John Young's family.

In May we were obliged to move out of the house that Br. Porter built, and went into a small log cabin that was vacated by Wm Corbit who had gone to make a farm for W. Clayton. We lived in that room until the following autumn, when I bought the log cabin that Br. Porter built that we lived in last winter, and removed into it. It had been removed close to Br. Porters own house. During the summer of 1847 I labored hard and succeeded in raising sufficiet buckwheat and corn to last us the winter, and chiefly what we had with which to undertake our further journey.~excerpt transcribed by Vern Taylor Sep 2004 from online journal of Job Smith in BYU Overland Trails Diaries available at Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, BYU, Provo, Utah MSS 881.1v.(231 p.)

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During the winter of 47-8 I made a quantity of baskets, which in the spring I (p27) sold at Kanesville (Bluff City) and other places for necessaries. I also went down with Br John Gailey to Missouri with baskets, and a feather bed, to trade for clothing and groceries, with which to continue our further westward journey. My uncle still continued crippled and unable to do anything. It was now over a year since he was first attacked, since which time he had not been able to do a hand's turn out of the house, nor get about the least whatever except with crutches. The pioneers returned sometime in November 47 after having explored the country westward and found the location of Great Salt Lake City - which they laid out - put in crops - made the roads &c.
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Recorded in the Seventies General Record page 274 no 14 - March 31st 1848." As the spring advanced we made further preparations for removing west-tried to get another wagon to remove with - but could not, having no means wherewith to purchase one. Consequently we concluded to fix up our wooden wagon again in which to cross the plains. It had lain by ever since we came to Winter Quarters, and we now got it repaired and put our provisions and what little clothing we had into it and made ready for a journey to Great Salt Lake Valley. However, that more provisions might be caried I engaged to drive a team for B.W. G. Perkins, for the carriage of 450 lbs of breadstuff and my board to the Valley. I drove team for Br Perkin (31) 120 miles, -- at which time some of President Brigham Young 's teamsters went back, and he called upon Bro Perkins for to spare a teamster if he could, -- after which I drove one of the President's teams about 100 miles, and was then sent to drive one of Thomas Bullock 's teams, which I continued to do until I arrived in the Valley. Bullocks team consisted of 4 yoke of poor wornout; slow, broken down cattle - 6 oxen and 3 cows. With these cattle I had a most disagreeable task. They gave out before I got to the Valley, many times having to change cattle or relieve them from the yoke by yoking a loose cow-day after day. I also received much abuse from Thomas Bullock after doing the very best I could. I suppose of course he thought me to blame, and if I was it was for not knowing how to do better. I sometimes saw my uncle and aunt with their wooden wagon on the way, but on the latter part of the journey they went ahead and arrived in the Valley on the 4th of September, I arrived on the 25th. (32) It was considered almost miraculous that a wagon of the description above mentioned should endure such a long rough journey. But it arrived safe a little damaged in the last Kanyon, but serving without any hindrance to carry them to the spot where the city was designed.

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Parents: .

Spouse: John COX , U.S. Mormon Battalion. Eliza ROBERTS , Battalion wife non marching and John COX , U.S. Mormon Battalion were married on 1 March 1836 in Deerhurst, Gloucester, England. Children were: Elizabeth COX, Ann COX, John COX, Mary Ann COX, Anna Mariah COX, Sarah COX, Comfort Ann COX, Eliza COX, Margaret Ellen COX, Martha Marinda COX, Comfort Ann COX, Jennet Adelia COX.

Spouse: Gervis HENLEY.

Spouse: Alexander CULPEPER. Elizabeth ROBERTS and Alexander CULPEPER were married on 27 September 1602 in Cranbrook,Kent, England.

Spouse: Alexander CULPPER.

Spouse: Benjamin HEARD.

Spouse: William WEBSTER. Elizabeth ROBERTS and William WEBSTER were married about 1701 in ,Craven, North Carolina. Children were: Joseph WEBSTER, James WEBSTER, John WEBSTER, Rachel WEBSTER, Hannah WEBSTER.

Spouse: Mr. NOBLE. Children were: Samuel NOBLE.

Spouse: Isaac Vauter BANTA. Elizabeth ROBERTS and Isaac Vauter BANTA were married on 21 November 1831 in ,Switzerland,Indiana.

Spouse: William MANNING.

Spouse: Jackson C PLUMLEE.

Spouse: Samson MUNGER.

Spouse: Wiley P MILLER.

Spouse: Richard Artimus STEGALL. Elizabeth Ann ROBERTS and Richard Artimus STEGALL were married in 1843 in ,Roane,Tennessee. Children were: Micha Sellers STEGALL, Richard Artemus STEGALL, William Green STEGALL, Sidney Roberts STEGALL, Charles Elyeas STEGALL.

Spouse: James KENDALL.

Spouse: John Stephen LEA.

Besides the information provided below, it is interesting to know thatElsie was a member of the Rebekah Lodge #80 in Bickleton for 54 years.

Submitted by Don in 1998: Elsie Iris Roberts was the seventh of eightchildren born to Lou and Cora Roberts. She was born at home (which wasthe family homestead in eastern Klickitat county) on October 11, 1906.Elsie attended the Lone Star grade school (District #75) but was neverable to attend high school because the distance was too great to travel.
At about the age of eight or nine, Elsie was playing with her brothers,Barney and Ned, one day when Ned accidently fell over a small bluff. Thisfrightened her so badly that she jumped off right after him. Instead oflanding on her feet, though, she lit flat on her bottom. Ned was unhurt,but Elsie was pretty sore for a few days. Elsie also spent a year in bedas the results of rheumatoid arthritis. She always claimed these twoincidences contributed to the problems she had in her hips later on inher life.
On February 15, 1928, she married Laurence Dyer (Toppy) Naught inYakima, Washington. Milton Halloway and Ruth Naught were witnesses at thewedding and were themselves later married. Their first home is what isknown as the Anderson Place, and is the present home of Stephen and JudyNaught. The old ranch house has been replaced by a brick home. Whileliving there, Elsie gave birth to their first son, Laurence Donald, onDecember 17, 1928. From this place they moved to the Jacott Place in theGlade. It was just south of the old, red Mace barn which still standseast of Glenn Williams home on Glade Road. While living there a secondson, Frank Elwood, was born on April 1, 1932. Not long after Frank'sbirth, they moved to the Sander Place southeast of Bluelight. It is nowowned and farmed by Sherman Jensen.
The Sanders Place had not been lived in for some time and the first yearhere they killed almost a hundred rattlesnakes around the buildings andfoundation of the house. Elsie has told of a time when she and DollyMcBride (the mother of Clarence McBride) were going down the walk fromthe house and they noticed a large snake under the walk. Knowing it wouldcrawl away if the started tearing off boards, Elsie went back into thehouse, got a large butcher knife and jabbed it down between the boards,through the snake and into the ground. They then proceeded to tear someboards off the walk and kill the snake. She said she really boiled thatknife a long, long time afterwards!!
Hard times hit and in 1934 they moved to the Frand Naught Place (Toppy'sdad) which is the present home of Milton Halloway and Jerry and BarbaraDavis. While living there, Don started school at the Donoho School, whichwas on Ridge Road. This school building has since been moved to theGlade, and has been remodeled to serve as the teacher's house for theDorothy School when it was in session.
After a couple of years farming the Naught Place, Toppy and boys movedto Bluelight where they farmed for six years before buying and moving tothe Hosfelt Place in 1943, six miles southwest of Bickleton. This ranchis now the home of Don and Dorothy Naught.
Don married Dorothy Kreutzkamp on May 3, 1947 in Olympia. To this unionwere born six children: Cathrine (Kitt) Naught, Clinton, Edna Read,Thomas, Fred and Margaret (Peggy) Woodward.
Frand married Anita Joy Branderberg of Sunnyside on December 24, 1955.They had three children: Patsy Nygaard, Ben E and Cindy Burbridge.Jackueline (Jacki) Skaggs, daughter of Joy, was two years old at the timeof their marriage. Frank died in October of 1972.
Toppy died in January of 1977, and Elsie died in March of 1991. Eventhough Elsie was seldom without paid in her later years, one never heardher complain. She was a very gutsy, strong-minded woman. Parents: Louis Elwood ROBERTS and Cora Edna MILLER.

Spouse: Laurence Dyer "Toppy" NAUGHT. Elsie Iris ROBERTS and Laurence Dyer "Toppy" NAUGHT were married on 15 February 1928 in Yakima, Washington. Children were: Laurence Donald NAUGHT, Frank Elwood NAUGHT.

Spouse: Dorothy HENDRICK. Dorothy HENDRICK and Ephraim ROBERTS were married on 28 August 1684 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Children were: Hannah ROBERTS (ROBERDS), Jonathan ROBERTS, Samuel ROBERTS, Ephraim ROBERTS, Mehitable ROBERTS, David ROBERTS, Jonathan ROBERTS, Daniel ROBERTS, Ephraim ROBERTS.

Estes drowned during a picnic on Flat Rock River. Although he
was reputed to be a strong swimmer, he apparently had an attack of the cramps which did him in. His body was brought home on a wagon. He is buried in the Lewis Creek Cemetery, next to his mother and father.

Facts about this person:

Occupation
Farmer

Source: World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Pub. Facts: Release date: February 9, 1996
Medium: Family Archive CD
Comments: Customer pedigree.
Pages(s): Tree #4434
Date of Import: Mar 2, 2002
Parents: Henry ROBERTS and Theresa Antoinette OAKLEY.

Spouse: Ralph Edward MAINS. Ethel Marie ROBERTS and Ralph Edward MAINS were married on 14 June 1937 in Pasco, Washington. Children were: Living MAINS, Living MAINS, Theodore James MAINS, Max MAINS, Living MAINS, Living MAINS.

Spouse: John HOOPER. Frances ROBERTS and John HOOPER were married on 27 May 1607 in Cranbrook, England.

Spouse: Henry CRISPE.

Spouse: John HOOPER. Frances ROBERTS and John HOOPER were married in 1632 in ,Kent, England.