Rossman - Cheney - James McBride

Person Chart

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Olive Mehitable Cheney	15 MAY 1817

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	09 MAY 1818	New Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio
Marriage	07 MAR 1844	Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois
Death	06 JAN 1881	Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah

Kinship Report

Name	Type	Place of Birth	Date of Birth	Place of Death	Date of Death
Partner
Olive Mehitable Cheney	Wife	Bloomfield, Cattaraugus Co., New York	15 MAY 1817	Fred Gorringe Home, Oakley, Oassia Co., Idaho	04 APR 1907
Parents-In-Law
Mehitable Wells	Mother-in-law	Amenia, Dutchess Co., New York	31 JAN 1787	Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah	30 NOV 1869
Aaron Cheney	Father-in-law	Berwick, York Co., Maine	14 JUL 1787	Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah Green River Prect.	18 SEP 1862
Brothers- & Sisters-In-Law
Selar Cheney	Sister-in-law	Marshfield, Washington Co., Vermont	ABT 1808
Amasa F. Cheney	Brother-in-law	Marshfield, Washington Co., Vermont	29 DEC 1809	Millersburg, Iowa Co., Iowa	01 NOV 1870
Infant Cheney	Brother-in-law	Marshfield, Washington, VT.	ABT 1811
Infant Cheney	Sister-in-law	Marshfield, Washington, VT.	ABT 1813
Orren Cheney	Brother-in-law	Fredonia, Cattaraugus Co., New York	10 AUG 1813	Berrien Springs or Hamilton, Michigan	10 MAY 1867
Sealar Cheney	Brother-in-law	Freedom, Cattaraugus, N.Y.	ABT 1815
Infant Cheney	Sister-in-law	Freedom, Cattaraugus, N.Y.	ABT 1819
Infant Cheney	Brother-in-law	Freedom, Cattaraugus, N.Y.	ABT 1820
Aaron Cheney	Brother-in-law	Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York	05 MAR 1822	Mt. Pleasant, Iowa	23 JUN 1889
Elam Cheney	Brother-in-law	Freedonia, Cattaraugus Co., New York	16 MAY 1825	Pinedale, Navajo Co., Arizona	22 MAR 1912
Ezekiel Wells Cheney	Brother-in-law	Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York	13 JUN 1828	Oakley, Oassia Co., Idaho	13 AUG 1886
Infant Cheney	Sister-in-law	Freedom Cattaraugus, New York	ABT 1832
Nephews & Nieces
Racheal Rebecca Cheney	Niece-in-law
Amanda Matilda Cheney	Niece-in-law		24 OCT 1836
Alvira Maria Cheney	Niece-in-law		30 SEP 1838
Orren Miron Cheney	Nephew-in-law		15 JUN 1840
David Maroni Cheney	Nephew-in-law	Kirkland, Lake Co. Ohio	06 JUL 1842	Berrien Springs, Michigan	21 FEB 1927
Aaron Daniel Cheney	Nephew-in-law	Kirkland, Lake Co., Ohio	25 JUL 1844	Loxley, Baldwin Co., Alabama	23 OCT 1925
Infant Cheney	Nephew-in-law		14 JUL 1845
Alvin James Cheney	Nephew-in-law		18 AUG 1850
Winfred Scott Cheney	Nephew-in-law		24 SEP 1852
Chariotte Mehetable Cheney	Niece-in-law		23 SEP 1853
Grandnephews & Grandnieces
L.D. Cheney	Grandnephew-in-law
Grandparents-in-law
Eunice Hubbard	Grandmother-in-law	Wells, York Co., Maine	13 MAY 1757	Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Benjamin Cheney	Grandfather-in-law	Wells, York Co., Maine	18 MAY 1763	Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Great grandparents-in-law
Joseph Cheney	Great grandfather-in-law	Wells, York Co., Maine	07 FEB 1726	Wells, York Co., Maine	ABT 1803
Dorcas Stewart	Great grandmother-in-law	Wells, York Co., Maine	02 JUN 1735	Wells, York Co., Maine	06 JAN 1817
Second great grandparents-in-law
Sarah Littlefield	Second great grandmother-in-law	Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts	04 DEC 1695	Wells, York Co., Maine
Daniel Cheney	Second great grandfather-in-law	Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts	16 JUL 1699	Wells, York Co., Maine
Third great grandparents-in-law
Daniel Cheney	Third great grandfather-in-law	Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts	31 DEC 1670	Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts	03 NOV 1755
Hannah Dustin	Third great grandmother-in-law	Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts	22 AUG 1678	Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts	AFT 1755
Fourth great grandparents-in-law
Daniel Cheney	Fourth great grandfather-in-law	Roxbourgh, Scotland	1633	Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts	10 SEP 1694
Sarah Bayley	Fourth great grandmother-in-law	Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts	17 AUG 1644	Ipswitch, Essex Co., Massachusetts	26 OCT 1714
Thomas Dustin	Fourth great grandfather-in-law	Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire	ABT 1652	Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts	1732

Notes


FROM THE BOOK: Grantsville City by Virginia Alsop, Chapter: GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT The first permanent settlers of Grantsville were two men who were brothers-in-law, James McBride and Harrison Herman Severe. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They had known severe suffering and privation in the years since their marriages. Twice they abandoned prosperous farms to the mobs. Mrs. Severe's father, Thomas McBride, has died at the Haun's Mill Massacre; her brother had died from abuse of a mob. James' baby son had died of exposure and hardship, as had two baby cousins, near the Des Moines River. They had arrived in Salt Lake City on the fourth of October. They heard of opportunity for farms and possible employment in Tooele. The two families reached Tooele October ninth, where they found a few families living along the Settlement Canyon stream. The valley was dry and golden in the morning sun of October tenth. On the hillsides they saw the glory of autumn leaves and crimson maple in the mouth of the canyon. The elders had sent a report to Brigham Young that there was water enough to support ten families. Across the valley to the west they saw a pattern of green at the mouth of South Willow Canyon. James McBride says, "Harrison Severe and myself concluded to move to the more favorable appearing place, twelve miles to the north and west from Tooele." The afternoon of October 10, 1850, the two families made camp in a grove of willows. The McBride family consisted of James, his wife Olive Mahetable Cheeney McBride and their two sons, Thomas Aaron, and Amos. The Severe family also had two children, Ann Jannette, who was six, and her baby sister Arminta At the north was the Great Salt Lake and on the west the Stansbury Range of mountains lifted their snow clad summits to the sky. The lake, which in ancient times had covered the whole valley, had left long fingers of alkali soil running up into the fertile soil washed down from the mountains. The two large creeks from North and South Willow canyons watered these pretty meadows among the willows. p. 216 It is said that the first homes were made of willows. They stuck the ends into the ground and wove them together and coated them with mud. This made a warm weather tight shelter. Soon after, two log homes, sixteen by sixteen feet, were built. there was no door the first winter, but a blanket was hung over the opening and a piece of furniture pushed up against it at night. The two families thought, at first, they were the only inhabitants. However, they soon met two men who were living in a wagon box and herding cattle. Their names were Thomas Ricks and Ira Willis. They too built a log house, but it was of a temporary type. The first winter was a hard one. Their food mostly was the wild game 'such as deer, antelope, rabbits, wild fowls' along with fish from North and South Willow streams. They named the place Willow Creek. To earn a living, the men burned charcoal from cedar wood in pits, then hauled it to Salt Lake City, some thirty seven miles away. This was a trip two days long in each direction and a lonely and anxious time for the wives left alone at home. They received cloth and other commodities in payment. They fenced in a small field and plowed it for a garden; then looked forward to spring, but on awakening on March 20, 1851, they found that Indians had stolen the cattle. "Only two were to be found of Harrison Severe's. Mine were all gone but one." This is how James McBride tells of his loss in his autobiography. They secured the aid of Willis and Ricks and four other men who were camping to gather logs, and followed the Indians westward into the barren valley now called Skull Valley, then onward to the Cedar mountains sixty miles to the west of their home. Here they found several of the cattle killed and the Indians gone. They took what meat they could carry, and with four biscuits apiece, started the long walk home. Without the animals to plow with, they decided to go east to a settlement called Pine Canyon. Here men were engaged in getting out logs for Ezra Taft Benson's sawmill, located on what is now known as the Mill Pond, ten miles northeast of Grantsville. This summer they worked hard, planted a garden and raised some potatoes, beets and twenty bushels of wheat. They paid ten dollars a hundred for flour, and other foods were equally high in price. Still they saved two hundred and eighty dollars to buy oxen. The first week in December they went back to Grantsville; other families joined them. Some of those who came to Grantsville that winter were: Benjamin Baker, his wife and family, the families of Thomas Watson, William Davenport, Samuel Steele, Wilford Hudson, James Wrathall, James Davenport, Perry Durfree and Mr. Davis Benjamin Baker, president of the Willow Creek Branch, wrote to President Brigham Young on August 30, 1852. His letter stated that there were only eight white men with their families and forty five Indians. He asked that a dozen more families might be sent there to strengthen the settlement. This would add sufficient children to make a good school possible. His request was granted at the next October Conference 1853, when Elders Ezra T. Benson and Wilford Woodruff were called gather up fifty families to enlarge the settlement of Tooele Valley. More than twenty families settled at Willow Creek. The most important happening in 1852 was the birth of the first child in the settlement. Hyrum Severe was born 6 February 1852, the son of Dorcus McBride Severe and Harrison Severe. Willow Creek became a political entity that summer. The county court divided the county into two precincts, July 3, 1852. In August an election was upheld; Benjamin Baker became magistrate, James McBride pound keeper, Harrison Severe selectman. The referees were Wilford Hudson, Samuel Steele, Benjamin Baker, and James McBride. The fence viewers were James Davenport and Benjamin Crosland. The school trustees were Perry Durfee, Harrison Severe and Benjamin Baker. FROM THE BOOK: Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hauns Mill Thomas McBride, an old gray-haired veteran of the American Revolution, was met by a number of the mob in front of Brother Hauns house. The old man, trembling with age rather than with fear, surrendered his gun, saying, "Spare my life; I am a Revolutionary soldier." But the inhuman murderers to whom he made this pathetic appeal shot the veteran down with his own gun, and then a Mr. Rogers of Daviess County fell upon him and hacked him to pieces with an old corn cutter, leaving the veteran soldier of the Revolution covered with a score of unsightly wounds, either of which alone would have been fatal his brains oozing from his cracked skull and his white hair sprinkled with gore. A Miss Rebecca Judd was an eye-witness to this terrible butchery. Austin Hammer was mortally wounded, seven balls were shot into his body, breaking both thigh bones. After the firing had ceased, he was found among the dead by the surviving brethren and carried into Hauns house, where he died about 12 oclock the following night. Issac Laney was wounded by five bullets, which passed through different parts of his body, but strange to say it never crippled him for life, although he suffered the most excruciating pains afterward. During the first few days after he was wounded he lay entirely helpless and could neither open his eyes, nor mouth, nor move a limb. Upon examining his clothing, 23 bullet holes were found in his underwear. Jacob Foutz, one of the brethren who ran into the blacksmith shop, was shot in the thigh. William Yokum was shot in the leg, which was subsequently amputated. Altogether, seventeen men and boys were killed outright, or were fatally wounded in this inhuman butchery, and about fifteen were wounded, more or less severely. Following are the names of the killed or mortally wounded Thomas McBride, Levi N. Merrick, Elias Benner, Joseph Fuller, Benjamin Lewis, Alexander Campbell, Warren Smith, George S. Richards, William Napier, Austin Hammer, Simon Cox, Hyrum Abbott, John York, John Lee, John Byers, Sardius Smith and Charles Merrick. Among the wounded who recovered were Issac Laney, Nathan K. Knight, William Yokum, Jacob Myers, George Myers, Tarlton Lewis, Jacob Haun (founder and owner of the mill), Jacob Foutz, Jacob Ports, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma L. Smith, Miss Mary Stedwall and two others. FROM THE BOOK: Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 3 Biographies McGregor, Joseph Franklin McBride, Thomas, one of the martyrs of the Church (a victim of the Haun's Mill massacre), was born March 12, 1776, in Bartley, Logan county, Virginia, the son of James McBride. About the year 1810 he removed to the town of Fairfield and thence to Wayne county. Here he served as justice of the peace for a number of years, and being converted to "Mormonism" he was baptized about the year 1831 by Elder Harvey Green, but was never ordained to any office in the Church. On the 10th day of June, 1834, he crossed the Mississippi river into Missouri, where he lived two years in Bowling Green, Pike county, and after residing for a time in Ray county, he moved to Caldwell county, Missouri, in 1836 (Sept. 19th), locating about a mile from Haun's Mill, where he was killed Oct. 30, 1838. At the time of his death he was the acting justice of the peace for Grand River Township, Caldwell county, Missouri. As he was retreating from the blacksmith shop, which was being attacked by the mob, Jake Rogers, a mobber, overtook him and demanded his gun, which he delivered up. Mr. Rogers then immediately commenced hewing at him with a corn cutter and continued till he fell to the ground. Rogers then started to cross the creek, but as Bro. McBride raised up a little, Rogers returned and swore he would give him some more, for "he was a damned old Mormon anyhow" and struck him repeatedly over the head, which killed him. In warding off the blows of the corn cutter, all the fingers of his left hand were cut off, a large gash made in his thumb and one of his ears was severed. A large wound was also found in his left breast, supposed to be caused by a bullet. This tragedy occurred on Shoal Creek, about seventy-five yards below Haun's Mill. Bro. McBride was buried in a well, about a hundred yards northwest from the mill, together with fourteen others, who were murdered by the mob on the same day. FROM THE BOOK: Treasures of Pioneer History Vol 6 The Story of UtahS Canyons Stansbury Mountain CanyonGrantsville Division The first men who came to Grantsville to make homes were Harrison Severe and James McBride. They had crossed the plains in 1850, camped a short time near the Warm Springs; however, they were so greatly out-numbered by the Indians that they decided to take their families to Pine Canyon where several families had settled. Later, learning that there was a creek of fresh water and plenty of green feed on the west side of the valley, they again settled on what is now North Willow Creek; this was in October, 1850. The two men constructed a shelter of willows and mud. The willows were cut from the bank of the creek and stuck in the ground big end down in a circle with the brush end up. The willows were then tied together at the top, wigwam style and plastered with thick mud. In two or three days the mud was dry and they moved into this temporary shelter while they were making trails, dragging logs and building log cabins. FROM THE BOOK: An Enduring Legacy Volume Ten Early Pioneer Forts Grantsville Fort On June 3, 1850, Harrison Severe and James McBride crossed the Missouri River, and four months and seven days later arrived at what is now Grantsville. In March of 1851, they were forced by Indians to leave, but returned the following December with five additional families. In 1853 thirty families who were living in Grantsville, presided over by Thomas Henry Clark, began erecting a fort in which they could live and protect themselves from hostile Indians. When completed, the fort was thirty rods square. The north and west sides and half of the south side were built of tamped dirt thrown up from the outside, five feet wide at the base, eighteen inches at the top and twelve feet high. The east side and half of the south side were built of adobes on a rock foundation three feet thick at the base and twelve feet high FROM THE BOOK: Our Pioneer Heritage Volume 1 They Came in 1857 President Young Visits Lemhi In September Elder Parry was sent to Utah in company with Elder Belnap taking with them the mail and carrying home reports of the success of the mission. They arrived in Utah during the latter part of the month and found the people very much excited over the news of the approach of Johnston's Army. Notwithstanding the impending danger to the Latter-day Saints in the territory, President Brigham Young, true to his promise, sent the following brethren and sisters to the Salmon mission, J. L. Dalton, James Wilcox, Eliza Jane Hadlock, Oliver Robinson, James Miller, Charles F. Middleton, Henry Smith and wife; Jesse Smith and wife, William Smith and wife; William Marler, Frederick A. Miller, Reuben Collett, Fountain Welsh, Orson Rose, Andrew Quigley, William Parry and wife; William Taylor, Levi Taylor, James Allred, Martin H. Harris, Jonathan Bowen and wife; Joseph Bowen, Stephen Ghean and wife; Henry Harmon and wife and James McBride. This company started for the north in October, 1857, and after crossing the Bear River the company was organized for the trip. Fort Hall was reached on the 13th of the month. On the 16th they crossed the Snake River and at this point President Smith and two other brethren left the party to go ahead and apprise the mission of the coming of the new force. Fort Limhi was reached on the 27th of October after a twenty-five day journey.

FROM THE BOOK: Grantsville City by Virginia Alsop, Chapter: GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT

The first permanent settlers of Grantsville were two men who were brothers-in-law, James McBride and Harrison Herman Severe. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They had known severe suffering and privation in the years since their marriages. Twice they abandoned prosperous farms to the mobs. Mrs. Severe's father, Thomas McBride, has died at the Haun's Mill Massacre; her brother had died from abuse of a mob. James' baby son had died of exposure and hardship, as had two baby cousins, near the Des Moines River. They had arrived in Salt Lake City on the fourth of October. They heard of opportunity for farms and possible employment in Tooele. The two families reached Tooele October ninth, where they found a few families living along the Settlement Canyon stream. The valley was dry and golden in the morning sun of October tenth. On the hillsides they saw the glory of autumn leaves and crimson maple in the mouth of the canyon. The elders had sent a report to Brigham Young that there was water enough to support ten families. Across the valley to the west they saw a pattern of green at the mouth of South Willow Canyon. James McBride says, "Harrison Severe and myself concluded to move to the more favorable appearing place, twelve miles to the north and west from Tooele." The afternoon of October 10, 1850, the two families made camp in a grove of willows. The McBride family consisted of James, his wife Olive Mahetable Cheeney McBride and their two sons, Thomas Aaron, and Amos. The Severe family also had two children, Ann Jannette, who was six, and her baby sister Arminta At the north was the Great Salt Lake and on the west the Stansbury Range of mountains lifted their snow clad summits to the sky. The lake, which in ancient times had covered the whole valley, had left long fingers of alkali soil running up into the fertile soil washed down from the mountains. The two large creeks from North and South Willow canyons watered these pretty meadows among the willows. p. 216 It is said that the first homes were made of willows. They stuck the ends into the ground and wove them together and coated them with mud. This made a warm weather tight shelter. Soon after, two log homes, sixteen by sixteen feet, were built. there was no door the first winter, but a blanket was hung over the opening and a piece of furniture pushed up against it at night. The two families thought, at first, they were the only inhabitants. However, they soon met two men who were living in a wagon box and herding cattle. Their names were Thomas Ricks and Ira Willis. They too built a log house, but it was of a temporary type. The first winter was a hard one. Their food mostly was the wild game 'such as deer, antelope, rabbits, wild fowls' along with fish from North and South Willow streams. They named the place Willow Creek. To earn a living, the men burned charcoal from cedar wood in pits, then hauled it to Salt Lake City, some thirty seven miles away. This was a trip two days long in each direction and a lonely and anxious time for the wives left alone at home. They received cloth and other commodities in payment. They fenced in a small field and plowed it for a garden; then looked forward to spring, but on awakening on March 20, 1851, they found that Indians had stolen the cattle. "Only two were to be found of Harrison Severe's. Mine were all gone but one." This is how James McBride tells of his loss in his autobiography. They secured the aid of Willis and Ricks and four other men who were camping to gather logs, and followed the Indians westward into the barren valley now called Skull Valley, then onward to the Cedar mountains sixty miles to the west of their home. Here they found several of the cattle killed and the Indians gone. They took what meat they could carry, and with four biscuits apiece, started the long walk home. Without the animals to plow with, they decided to go east to a settlement called Pine Canyon. Here men were engaged in getting out logs for Ezra Taft Benson's sawmill, located on what is now known as the Mill Pond, ten miles northeast of Grantsville. This summer they worked hard, planted a garden and raised some potatoes, beets and twenty bushels of wheat. They paid ten dollars a hundred for flour, and other foods were equally high in price. Still they saved two hundred and eighty dollars to buy oxen. The first week in December they went back to Grantsville; other families joined them. Some of those who came to Grantsville that winter were: Benjamin Baker, his wife and family, the families of Thomas Watson, William Davenport, Samuel Steele, Wilford Hudson, James Wrathall, James Davenport, Perry Durfree and Mr. Davis Benjamin Baker, president of the Willow Creek Branch, wrote to President Brigham Young on August 30, 1852. His letter stated that there were only eight white men with their families and forty five Indians. He asked that a dozen more families might be sent there to strengthen the settlement. This would add sufficient children to make a good school possible. His request was granted at the next October Conference 1853, when Elders Ezra T. Benson and Wilford Woodruff were called gather up fifty families to enlarge the settlement of Tooele Valley. More than twenty families settled at Willow Creek. The most important happening in 1852 was the birth of the first child in the settlement. Hyrum Severe was born 6 February 1852, the son of Dorcus McBride Severe and Harrison Severe. Willow Creek became a political entity that summer. The county court divided the county into two precincts, July 3, 1852. In August an election was upheld; Benjamin Baker became magistrate, James McBride pound keeper, Harrison Severe selectman. The referees were Wilford Hudson, Samuel Steele, Benjamin Baker, and James McBride. The fence viewers were James Davenport and Benjamin Crosland. The school trustees were Perry Durfee, Harrison Severe and Benjamin Baker.

FROM THE BOOK: Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Hauns Mill

Thomas McBride, an old gray-haired veteran of the American Revolution, was met by a number of the mob in front of Brother Hauns house. The old man, trembling with age rather than with fear, surrendered his gun, saying, "Spare my life; I am a Revolutionary soldier." But the inhuman murderers to whom he made this pathetic appeal shot the veteran down with his own gun, and then a Mr. Rogers of Daviess County fell upon him and hacked him to pieces with an old corn cutter, leaving the veteran soldier of the Revolution covered with a score of unsightly wounds, either of which alone would have been fatal his brains oozing from his cracked skull and his white hair sprinkled with gore. A Miss Rebecca Judd was an eye-witness to this terrible butchery. Austin Hammer was mortally wounded, seven balls were shot into his body, breaking both thigh bones. After the firing had ceased, he was found among the dead by the surviving brethren and carried into Hauns house, where he died about 12 oclock the following night. Issac Laney was wounded by five bullets, which passed through different parts of his body, but strange to say it never crippled him for life, although he suffered the most excruciating pains afterward. During the first few days after he was wounded he lay entirely helpless and could neither open his eyes, nor mouth, nor move a limb. Upon examining his clothing, 23 bullet holes were found in his underwear. Jacob Foutz, one of the brethren who ran into the blacksmith shop, was shot in the thigh. William Yokum was shot in the leg, which was subsequently amputated. Altogether, seventeen men and boys were killed outright, or were fatally wounded in this inhuman butchery, and about fifteen were wounded, more or less severely.

Following are the names of the killed or mortally wounded Thomas McBride, Levi N. Merrick, Elias Benner, Joseph Fuller, Benjamin Lewis, Alexander Campbell, Warren Smith, George S. Richards, William Napier, Austin Hammer, Simon Cox, Hyrum Abbott, John York, John Lee, John Byers, Sardius Smith and Charles Merrick. Among the wounded who recovered were Issac Laney, Nathan K. Knight, William Yokum, Jacob Myers, George Myers, Tarlton Lewis, Jacob Haun (founder and owner of the mill), Jacob Foutz, Jacob Ports, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma L. Smith, Miss Mary Stedwall and two others.

FROM THE BOOK: Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia

Volume 3 Biographies McGregor, Joseph Franklin

McBride, Thomas, one of the martyrs of the Church (a victim of the Haun's Mill massacre), was born March 12, 1776, in Bartley, Logan county, Virginia, the son of James McBride. About the year 1810 he removed to the town of Fairfield and thence to Wayne county. Here he served as justice of the peace for a number of years, and being converted to "Mormonism" he was baptized about the year 1831 by Elder Harvey Green, but was never ordained to any office in the Church. On the 10th day of June, 1834, he crossed the Mississippi river into Missouri, where he lived two years in Bowling Green, Pike county, and after residing for a time in Ray county, he moved to Caldwell county, Missouri, in 1836 (Sept. 19th), locating about a mile from Haun's Mill, where he was killed Oct. 30, 1838. At the time of his death he was the acting justice of the peace for Grand River Township, Caldwell county, Missouri. As he was retreating from the blacksmith shop, which was being attacked by the mob, Jake Rogers, a mobber, overtook him and demanded his gun, which he delivered up. Mr. Rogers then immediately commenced hewing at him with a corn cutter and continued till he fell to the ground. Rogers then started to cross the creek, but as Bro. McBride raised up a little, Rogers returned and swore he would give him some more, for "he was a damned old Mormon anyhow" and struck him repeatedly over the head, which killed him. In warding off the blows of the corn cutter, all the fingers of his left hand were cut off, a large gash made in his thumb and one of his ears was severed. A large wound was also found in his left breast, supposed to be caused by a bullet. This tragedy occurred on Shoal Creek, about seventy-five yards below Haun's Mill. Bro. McBride was buried in a well, about a hundred yards northwest from the mill, together with fourteen others, who were murdered by the mob on the same day.

FROM THE BOOK: Treasures of Pioneer History Vol 6 The Story of UtahS Canyons

Stansbury Mountain CanyonGrantsville Division

The first men who came to Grantsville to make homes were Harrison Severe and James McBride. They had crossed the plains in 1850, camped a short time near the Warm Springs; however, they were so greatly out-numbered by the Indians that they decided to take their families to Pine Canyon where several families had settled. Later, learning that there was a creek of fresh water and plenty of green feed on the west side of the valley, they again settled on what is now North Willow Creek; this was in October, 1850. The two men constructed a shelter of willows and mud. The willows were cut from the bank of the creek and stuck in the ground big end down in a circle with the brush end up. The willows were then tied together at the top, wigwam style and plastered with thick mud. In two or three days the mud was dry and they moved into this temporary shelter while they were making trails, dragging logs and building log cabins.

FROM THE BOOK: An Enduring Legacy Volume Ten Early Pioneer Forts Grantsville Fort

On June 3, 1850, Harrison Severe and James McBride crossed the Missouri River, and four months and seven days later arrived at what is now Grantsville. In March of 1851, they were forced by Indians to leave, but returned the following December with five additional families. In 1853 thirty families who were living in Grantsville, presided over by Thomas Henry Clark, began erecting a fort in which they could live and protect themselves from hostile Indians. When completed, the fort was thirty rods square. The north and west sides and half of the south side were built of tamped dirt thrown up from the outside, five feet wide at the base, eighteen inches at the top and twelve feet high. The east side and half of the south side were built of adobes on a rock foundation three feet thick at the base and twelve feet high

FROM THE BOOK: Our Pioneer Heritage Volume 1 They Came in 1857 President Young Visits Lemhi

In September Elder Parry was sent to Utah in company with Elder Belnap taking with them the mail and carrying home reports of the success of the mission. They arrived in Utah during the latter part of the month and found the people very much excited over the news of the approach of Johnston's Army. Notwithstanding the impending danger to the Latter-day Saints in the territory, President Brigham Young, true to his promise, sent the following brethren and sisters to the Salmon mission, J. L. Dalton, James Wilcox, Eliza Jane Hadlock, Oliver Robinson, James Miller, Charles F. Middleton, Henry Smith and wife; Jesse Smith and wife, William Smith and wife; William Marler, Frederick A. Miller, Reuben Collett, Fountain Welsh, Orson Rose, Andrew Quigley, William Parry and wife; William Taylor, Levi Taylor, James Allred, Martin H. Harris, Jonathan Bowen and wife; Joseph Bowen, Stephen Ghean and wife; Henry Harmon and wife and James McBride. This company started for the north in October, 1857, and after crossing the Bear River the company was organized for the trip. Fort Hall was reached on the 13th of the month. On the 16th they crossed the Snake River and at this point President Smith and two other brethren left the party to go ahead and apprise the mission of the coming of the new force. Fort Limhi was reached on the 27th of October after a twenty-five day journey.

Sources

Description
Book - Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, 2 vols, Esshom, Frank, (Salt Lake City: 1913), , p 1054
Dr. Levi Cheney letter to Olive Mehitable Cheney McBride, 1880's
LDS - Seventies: Early Seventies, Black, Harvey Bischoff, Compiler and Editor, , p 481
The Biography of James McBride, by James McBride

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12 Feb 1809 - 15 Apr 1865	(-9.2) - 47.0	Life of Abraham Lincoln	Personalities
12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882	(-9.2) - 64.0	Life of Charles Robert Darwin	Personalities
7 Feb 1812 - 9 Jun 1870	(-6.3) - 52.1	Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens	Personalities
16 Mar 1815 - 7 Oct 1840	(-3.2) - 22.4	King of the Netherlands: Willem I	Netherlands
8 Jun 1815 - 24 Aug 1866	(-2.9) - 48.3	German Confederation	Germany
13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892	(-1.4) - 74.6	Life of Werner von Siemens	Personalities
4 Mar 1817 - 4 Mar 1825	(-1.2) - 6.8	President of the United States of America: James Monroe	USA - Presidents
1818	0.1	First blood transfusion	Medicine
30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890	1.6 - 72.4	Life of Theodor Fontane	Personalities
22 Sep 1823	5.4	Finding of the Golden Plates (Book of Mormon)	Mormon History
2 Dec 1823	5.6	'Monroe Doctrine'	USA
4 Mar 1825 - 4 Mar 1829	6.8 - 10.8	President of the United States of America: John Quincy Adams	USA - Presidents
4 Mar 1829 - 4 Mar 1837	10.8 - 18.8	President of the United States of America: Andrew Jackson	USA - Presidents
6 Apr 1830	11.9	Founding of the Church of Christ	Mormon History
6 Apr 1830 - 27 Jun 1844	11.9 - 26.2	President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Smith	Mormon History
27 May 1832 - 30 May 1832	14.1	'Hambacher Fest'	Germany
15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923	14.6 - 105.7	Life of Gustave Eiffel	Personalities
1833	15.2	Establishment of Shell	Companies
17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900	15.9 - 81.9	Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler	Personalities
4 Mar 1837 - 4 Mar 1841	18.8 - 22.8	President of the United States of America: Martin Van Buren	USA - Presidents
20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901	19.1 - 82.8	Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria	Great Britain
1837	19.2	Establishment of the Colt's Manufacturing Company	Companies
1837	19.2	Establishment of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)	Companies
31 Oct 1837	19.5	Establishment of Procter & Gamble	Companies
8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917	20.2 - 98.9	Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin	Personalities
1839 - 1842	21.2 - 24.2	First Anglo-Afghan War	Wars & Military Conflicts
7 Oct 1840 - 17 Mar 1849	22.4 - 30.9	King of the Netherlands: Willem II	Netherlands
4 Mar 1841 - 4 Apr 1841	22.8 - 22.9	President of the United States of America: William Henry Harrison	USA - Presidents
4 Apr 1841 - 4 Mar 1845	22.9 - 26.8	President of the United States of America: John Tyler	USA - Presidents
11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910	25.6 - 92.1	Life of Robert Koch	Personalities
25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929	26.6 - 111.0	Life of Carl Benz	Personalities
4 Mar 1845 - 4 Mar 1849	26.8 - 30.8	President of the United States of America: James K. Polk	USA - Presidents
1846	28.2	Establishment of Carl Zeiss AG	Companies
1846	28.2	Establishment of the Associated Press	Companies
11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931	28.8 - 113.5	Life of Thomas Alva Edison	Personalities
3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922	28.8 - 104.3	Life of Alexander Graham Bell	Personalities
1847	29.2	Establishment of Cartier	Companies
1847	29.2	Establishment of Siemens	Companies
27 Dec 1847 - 29 Aug 1877	29.7 - 59.3	President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young	Mormon History
1 Mar 1848 - 30 Sep 1849	29.8 - 31.4	Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation	Germany
31 Mar 1848 - 3 Apr 1849	29.9 - 30.9	The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt	Germany
1 Dec 1848	30.6	Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic	France
4 Mar 1849 - 9 Jul 1850	30.8 - 32.2	President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor	USA - Presidents
17 Mar 1849 - 23 Nov 1890	30.9 - 72.6	King of the Netherlands: Willem III	Netherlands
1849	31.2	Establishment of Pfizer	Companies
1850	32.2	Establishment of the American Express Company	Companies
9 Jul 1850 - 4 Mar 1853	32.2 - 34.8	President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore	USA - Presidents
1851	33.2	Western Union established	Companies
1851	33.2	Establishment of Reuters	Companies
1851	33.2	Establishment of The New York Times	Companies
2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870	34.6 - 52.4	Emperor of France: Napoleon III	France
4 Mar 1853 - 4 Mar 1857	34.8 - 38.8	President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce	USA - Presidents
1853	35.2	Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co	Companies
6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939	38.0 - 121.5	Life of Sigmund Freud	Personalities
4 Mar 1857 - 4 Mar 1861	38.8 - 42.8	President of the United States of America: James Buchanan	USA - Presidents
28 May 1857 - 12 Apr 1858	39.1 - 40.0	Utah War	Mormon History
1859	41.2	Construction period of Big Ben	Monuments
4 Mar 1861 - 15 Apr 1865	42.8 - 47.0	President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln	USA - Presidents
17 Mar 1861	42.9	Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy	Italy
12 Apr 1861 - 9 Apr 1865	43.0 - 47.0	American Civil War	USA
23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942	43.4 - 123.9	Life of Robert Bosch	Personalities
30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947	45.3 - 129.0	Life of Henry Ford	Personalities
16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937	45.5 - 118.9	Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain	Personalities
15 Apr 1865 - 4 Mar 1869	47.0 - 50.9	President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson	USA - Presidents
9 Jun 1866 - 26 Jul 1866	48.1 - 48.2	Austro-Prussian War ('German War')	Germany
10 Mar 1867	48.9	First telephone voice transmission	Technology
1868 - 1878	50.2 - 60.2	Ten Years' War ('Great War')	Wars & Military Conflicts
4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877	50.9 - 58.9	President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant	USA - Presidents
5 Sep 1869 - 1884	51.4 - 66.2	Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle	Monuments
22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924	52.0 - 105.8	Life of Vladimir Lenin	Personalities
1870	52.2	Start of the 3rd French Republic	France
19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871	52.2 - 53.0	Franco-Prussian War	Germany
18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888	52.7 - 69.9	German Emperor: Wilhelm I	Germany
4 May 1871 - 20 Mar 1890	53.0 - 71.9	Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck	Germany
9 Nov 1871	53.5	Founding of the German Empire	Germany
30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965	56.6 - 146.8	Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill	Personalities
5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967	57.7 - 149.0	Life of Konrad Adenauer	Personalities
4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881	58.9 - 62.9	President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes	USA - Presidents
1878	60.2	Establishment of Bell Telephone Company	Companies
1878 - 1881	60.2 - 63.2	Second Anglo-Afghan War	Wars & Military Conflicts
31 Dec 1878	60.7	First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine	Automobile History
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955	60.9 - 137.0	Life of Albert Einstein	Personalities
1879	61.2	Discovery of cholera vaccine	Medicine
1879	61.2	Discovery of plague vaccine	Medicine
1879	61.2	Anglo-Zulu War	Wars & Military Conflicts
10 Oct 1880 - 25 Jul 1887	62.5 - 69.3	President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor	Mormon History
20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881	62.7 - 62.9	First Boer War ('First South African War')	Wars & Military Conflicts