John Egbert (1779-1873) &

Susannah Hahn Egbert (1786-1857) John Egbert

Birth 12 July 1779 Staten Island, Richmond, NewYork

Death 19 December 1873 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Susannah Hahn Birth 10 August 1786 Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland

Death 1857 South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah

MARRIAGE: 1802 Nelson County, Kentucky

History - As a boy John Egbert had been apprenticed out to a devout Catholic Cobbler that he might

learn the harness making and shoemaking trade, as was the custom of the times. He eventually found his

way to Western New York and later landed in Buffalo where he secured employment with a harness

maker. A number of years later he owned a shop of his own.

Somewhere along the Ohio River in Kentucky John fell in love with Susannah Hahn. Her parents were of

sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Their acquaintance ripened into an engagement and John decided to

go back to Buffalo and get his tools and supplies, promising to return.

After gathering his belongings and transporting them to navigable water, he built a raft on which to float

them down the river. After he had shoved out into deep water the raft started to sink with too much

weight, and it went down with everything he had, and he barely escaped with his life. It was a

heartbreaking loss and almost irreplaceable.

Sorrowfully he made his way back to Susannah and told her he released her from all obligations to

marry him as he was penniless. Her reply was that she had fallen in love with him and not what he might

have accumulated and assured him that with the cooperation of working together they need not change

their plans.

They settled in Breckenridge, Harrison County, Kentucky, which lies about 60 miles south of Cincinnati,

Ohio, and here four children were born to them. And here they had their first great sorrow, for in 1812

they lost their oldest child, Grant.

CHILDREN Grant Egbert, birth: 1803 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky death: 1820 Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana

John Egbert, birth: March 1815 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky - death: 1842 , , Illinois

Mary Polly Egbert, birth: 1811 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky

marriage: about 1832 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky spouse: Enoch SEXTON

William Egbert, birth: 26 March 1812 Breckinridge, Harrison, Kentucky

Samuel Egbert, birth: 24 March 1814 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky

Joseph Teasdale Egbert, birth: 10 March 1818 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Corilla Egbert, birth: 10 June 1820 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Robert birth: 10 June 1820 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Cowden Egbert, birth: 12 May 1821 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Elvira Egbert, 10 September 1822 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Andrew Jackson Egbert, birth: 1825 / 1826 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana-death: 1837 Missouri, Illinois

Elizabeth Egbert, birth: 22 March 1824 Sullivan, Indiana

Hannah Egbert birth: 27 May 1829 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Annie Egbert birth: 1831 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

In 1816 they moved over the Ohio River to the north and west in the state of Indiana. While on their way,

their son John was born. They settled in Carlisle, Sullivan County, Indiana which was about 175 miles

west and north of Breckinridge, their first home, but like it, they were favored with water transportation,

it being only five miles east of the Wabash River, which empties into the Ohio, and kept them in touch

with the doing of the day. In the sixteen years they lived here, they had eight more children born to them.

In 1831 and 32 this whole frontier country was electrified by the news that a young man had found a

golden book hidden in a hill in Western New York State, that the book had been given him by an angel,

and that he had even seen God, himself, who had instructed him to form a new church.

The Egbert’s had heard that there were missionaries in the Eastern part of Indiana and in Ohio, who had

a book that had been translated from these golden plates.

While John Egbert, from the experiences of his boyhood, was disgusted with religion, he felt that this

might be something different, so he walked several hundred miles over the eastern part of the state and

secured a book of Mormon. He read it eagerly, and believed its message. One comment he made has come

down was that it had made plain many passages in the Bible that he could not previously understand.

Soon after, an Elder of the Mormon Church by the name of Allred, came to their home and explained

this new religion. The father and the mother with some of the older members of the family, were

baptized. Their life was now to be associated intimately with the new faith. Little did they dream of the

heartaches and trials they were to pass through in their next few years in following a leader who claimed

to have communed with God and angels.

Like all who accepted the leadership of this new church, they got the spirit of wanting to be among the

main body of saints, and as Jackson County, Missouri had been designated as the gathering place for the

New Zion, they accordingly, in 1833, set out for a new home with the eleven of their twelve children. The

going was hard and the trip was slow and especially trying with this large family. After several days

travel through mud, they began to wonder if their move was ill advised, and naturally they thought of

turning back. It became a serious matter with them, as the family was divided as to what to do.

Two of the older boys were determined to go on whether the family went or not, so the parents decided to

make a camp along the creek nearby, and reach the final decision the next morning. During the night

there was a hurricane with a drenching rain, the tents were blown down, and wagon covers torn off. By

morning there was not a dry rag in camp, they were all drenched to the skin. The boys who wanted to go

on the night before, were determined as ever but Father Egbert made the final decision. He said the

storm was a chastisement to them forever thinking of turning back, and they would all go on together. A few more weeks they settled just outside of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, but they were not

permitted to enjoy their new home long, as the mobocrats were soon busy. They had destroyed the

printing press that had published the Evening and Morning Star, the first paper published by the

Church.

Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps, John Whitmer, Algernon Sidney Gilbert, Bishop Partridge, and his two

councilors had been sent from Kirtland, Ohio to preside and take charge of the work there. Every move

by the Saints to establish themselves had been resented by the old Settlers. Bishop Partridge and Charles

Allen had been stripped, tarred, and feathered on the public square, and there was trouble in the air.

The home of the Egberts being on the outskirts of the settlement was one of the first to be raided. The

family, on being appraised of the approach of the mob, hurriedly cut a bolt of homespun cloth, then being

woven on the family loom, hid it in the loft of their dwelling. The home was ransacked, everything of

value was taken. The barn was raided, and one of their most valuable horses was stolen. Later the leader

of the mob was seen riding him.

During the raid, Father, John Egbert, asked one of the mob for some tobacco, the robber replied he

would rather give him a hot piece of lead, where upon Grandfather opened his shirt, barred his breast,

and told him to shoot. This display of nerve evidently cowed the bravado of the mobber.

They were forced to leave their crops, nearly ready to harvest, and they left for Clay County, Missouri

just across the Missouri River to the north, where they had been invited to come and live by the kindly

people. And for about five years they were permitted to go about peaceably growing and helping to build

up the church. Wards and stakes were organized, and here we have information that Elvira and Robert

were baptized by Apostle David W. Patten.

John Egbert was now approaching sixty years of age, and the worry of making new homes, providing for

a large family, the common chills and fever or malaria that troubled so many at that time was preying on

his constitution and he fell sick. His boys he depended on to help with the Spring farm work had not

returned from an extended hunt in the woods where they had gone to hunt for gee trees and honey.

Spring time meant that their crops should be planted. Elvira, now in her sixteenth year, hitched up the

oxen and plowed and planted twelve acres of corn. Corn was a very important part of the diet of those

times and this incident was common to the children of the saints, who felt they were responsible with

their parents to plant, and to weed and harvest the crops.

The harvest in converts by the Church Missionary system was being felt in Clay County. From all over

the United States, Canada, and Europe they came and many settled there. Their once kind friends, the

old settlers became alarmed as they could see they were fast being outnumbered. The conditions were

aggravated by the old enemies in Jackson County, and by the preachers of the Christian Churches there.

The Latter-day Saints were friendly with the Indians and their enemies used this as an excuse to accuse

them of coalition with the Indians to drive out the old settlers and take over political control of the whole

state.

The main part of the Clay County people didn't want to resort to violence, so they reminded the

Mormons of their previous kindness to them and asked them to move to avoid possible hostilities. The

Saints had built for permanency and it was a real sacrifice that they were forced to give up their homes

again but it was the advice of their leaders that they do this, and most of them got out of Clay County the

best they could.

The City of Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. (Approx 60 miles north of Independence, MO) had

just been laid out to be a city of Zion, and Caldwell County, Missouri was recently being surveyed and

opened for settlement, and it looked like there was a chance to plant and make their homes in peace,

there almost in a body. Hyrum Smith lead a large group on from Kirtland and it wasn't long before there

were as many as 15,000 saints in the neighborhood.

This infuriated the Missourians, and together with some apostates, the expulsion of the saints was openly

advocated, and the old spirit returned with increasing violence. The saints had settled in several of the

adjoining counties, and were buying up the rights of the old settlers in the sparsely settled frontier. An

election was to be held at Galletin, Davies, County Aug. 6, 1839 where hostilities broke out. The saints

had been advised by a Judge Morin [sic] a candidate for the state senate, that there was going to be an

attempt to prevent them from voting. On that day when a few of the brethren went to the polls, a Co.

Wm. P. Penniston, who had previously led a mob against the saints in Clay County, Missouri mounted a

platform and told about 100 of the old timers that if they allowed the Mormons to vote they would soon

lose their suffrage. He accused the Mormons of the most ridiculous outrages, stealing cattle and horses,

also scheming to get hold of the offices of county and state; and he made light of the saints' sacred right to

worship God and their belief in prophets and in healing the sick. There were only 11 or 12 brethren there

but they were determined to vote, and when prevented, fights followed and noses were broken. One of the

Mormons by the name of John D. Buhler filled with patriotic American indignation seized a club and

knocked down men right and left. The crowd disbursed and the brethren went home, hid their families in

the brush, and stood guard over their homes that night.

About that time two of the Egbert girls, Corilla and Elvira, were to meet two young men who were to

influence the rest of their lives. They were William Carson and John Carson; perhaps they had met

before as the two families had landed in Jackson County about the same time. But now these young

people were to be drawn together seriously in a most unusual way.

The road leading to the towns occupied by the saints were being guarded and the two boys were

called on to do this duty. At night the young ladies made good company and at times they

shouldered the muskets and did the duty themselves so the boys could get some rest. William was

twenty-one and Corilla was 19 and soon they were married. John and Elvira were to remain

sweethearts for a few months more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crooked_River

The battle of Crooked River had been fought in which the beloved Apostle David W. Patten had been

killed. Several of the Saints had been killed at Hahns Mill and governor Boggs had issued his infamous

extermination order wherein all the Mormons must leave the state or die. They were not without friends,

however. The story of the inhuman treatment had been heralded in the adjoining states, and there were

kind hearted people who extended sympathy in the State of Illinois, also in Iowa.

The Prophet Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt and others were in chains

in prison. The plans of the leaders had been frustrated, the Zion of the dreams of the Saints had

vanished; several of the leaders had turned traitor. Where could they go for hope?

The Prophet advised them to go East and settle some place between Far West and their old home in

Kirtland. Who was to lead them? Thomas B. Marsh, the President of the Twelve had turned traitor.

There remained a majority of the Twelve and Brigham Young was next in line. He had been busy doing

the things that came to his notice that needed doing. We now hear him pleading with his brethren to help

him get the poor out of the reaches of the mob among friends where they could get food and a chance to

make a living. Friends were raised up in Illinois; collections were taken up to help them. John Egbert and

family did their share of moving and helping others. They located in Adams County near Quincy, Illinois.

In the meantime, the Prophet Joseph Smith had been released from Liberty Jail and had purchased for

the Church a large tract of land about 40 miles to the north of Quincy at Commerce, Hancock County,

Illinois (Rename Nauvoo, Illinois). He had been able to do this by giving his notes to new friends he had

made. Some of the Egbert family moved to Hancock County. Here we have a record of Elvira being

married to John Carson Jan 31, 1841. And of returning to Adams county and [word unreadable] two

years. They later moved to La Harpe, Illinois twenty miles east of Nauvoo.

In late 1839, arriving Mormons bought the small

town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was

renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith, who led the

Latter Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape religious

persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is

derived from the traditional Hebrew language

with an anglicized spelling. The word comes from

Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the

mountains...” It is notable that “by 1844 Nauvoo's

population had swollen to 12,000, rivaling the size

of Chicago” at the time.[

Engraving of Nauvoo, ca. 1855

While here, a day never to be forgotten is remembered. The Prophet Joseph Smith had been arrested and

taken to Carthage, the Hancock County seat, for trial. While in jail under the supposed protection of

Gov. Ford, the jail was mobbed, and Joseph and his brother Hyrum were killed, and John Taylor their

friend, and now one of the Twelve apostle was painfully wounded.

In 1844 Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum Smith

were murdered by a mob while in custody in the city

of Carthage, Illinois. In 1846, religious tensions

reached their peak, and in 1848 mobs burned the

Latter-day Saint temple in Nauvoo.

Carthage Jail,

Hancock Co., Ill.,

June 27, 1844 C. C. A. Christensen (1831–1912) Oil on canvas, between 1882–1884

The body of Joseph Smith, dressed in white, lies in the center of the picture. From a second floor window

Willard Richards looks down at the martyred prophet. After the murder, the mob fled, fearing the

arrival of a Mormon posse that never came.

During 1846, Brigham Young abandoned

Nauvoo and began leading 1,600 Mormons west

across the frozen Mississippi in subzero

temperatures to a temporary refuge at Sugar

Grove, Iowa. (East of Des Moines, Iowa)

Young planned to make the westward trek in

stages, and he determined the first major

stopping point would be along the Missouri

River opposite Council Bluffs. (western Iowa

across Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska)

He sent out a reconnaissance team to plan the

route across Iowa, dig wells at camping spots,

and in some cases, plant corn to provide food

for the hungry emigrants. The mass of

Mormons made the journey to the Missouri

River, and by the fall of 1846, the Winter Quarters were home to 12,000 Mormons

Spending most of two years (1846-47) at Council Bluffs, in mid year 1848 LDS members, lead by

Brigham Young, stared west to find permanent residence at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Brigham Young Company - 1848 Brigham Young Company (1848) 1220 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Winter

Quarters, Nebraska

Company Roster

Name Age Birth Date Death Date

Egbert, John 69 11 July 1779 19 December 1872

Egbert, Susannah Hahn 61 10 August 1786 1857

DAUGHTERS

Egbert, Hannah 18 27 May 1829 9 April 1898

Egbert, Ann 18 1830 April 1851

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CHILDREN - DID NOT CROSS PLAINS TO UTAH Grant Egbert, birth: 1803 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky death: 1820 Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana

John Egbert, birth: March 1815 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky - death: 1842 , , Illinois

Mary Polly Egbert, birth: 1811 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky

marriage: about 1832 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky spouse: Enoch SEXTON

Assumed to have stayed in Kentucky

William Egbert, birth: 26 March 1812 Breckinridge, Harrison, Kentucky

Marriage 30 January 1834 Clay County, Mo Spouse: Elizabeth Lemmon; Mary Ann Lake

Died: 16 March 1892 Linden, Atchison, Mo

Andrew Jackson Egbert, birth: 1825 / 1826 Carlisle, Sullivan, IN - death: 1837 Missouri, Illinois

CHILDREN WHO CROSSED PLAINS WITH PIONEER COMPANIES TO UTAH

Samuel Egbert, birth: 24 March 1814 Breckenridge, Harrison, Kentucky

Allen Taylor Company (1849)

Joseph Teasdale Egbert, birth: 10 March 1818 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Brigham Young Pioneer Company (1847) & Willard Richards Company (1848)

& Allen Taylor Company (1849) with his family

1847 Member the original 1847 Brigham Young Company – Returned to Winter Quarter with Brigham Young

1848 Accompanied sister-in-law Seviah Cunningham Egbert with Willard Richards Company

1849 Brought his wife and children to Utah

Corilla Egbert, birth: 10 June 1820 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Corilla Egbert Carson Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company (1851)

Cowden Robert Egbert, birth: 12 May 1821 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana (Mormon Battalion)

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

Joined Mormon Batalliom at Council Bluff - Later meet up with Willard Richards Company

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Spouse Egbert, Seviah Cunningham Willard Richards Company (1848)

Elvira Egbert, 10 September 1822 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Elvira Egbert Carson Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company (1851), Age 28

Elizabeth Egbert, birth: 22 March 1824 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Hammond, Elizabeth Egbert 24 Brigham Young Company (1848)

Hannah Egbert birth: 27 May 1829 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Brigham Young Company (1848) Traveling with Parents Annie Egbert birth: 1831 Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana

Brigham Young Company (1848) Traveling with Parents

Salt Lake City, Utah – 1850

Salt Lake City, Utah – 1870s

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John Egbert

Death 19 December 1873 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Kaysville City Cemetery Kaysville, Davis Co., Utah

Plot: 19-2-A-12W

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Susan Hahn Egbert

Death:1857 South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah

Union Cemetery Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah

< Sarah E. Egbert (1862-1864)

Daughter of Joseph Egbert 1818-1898

Grand Daughter of John Egbert

Prepared by J.E. Anderson for Aunt Polly Ruth Wardle 1904-1989

Great Grand Daughter of: John Egbert 1879-1873 & Susannah Hahn 1786-1857