Watson, Thora Bergeson

File — Box: 7, Folder: 10

Identifier: VI

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"Ancestors of Thora Bergeson Watson" (bound together in one volume).

Bergeson, Joseph (1840-): Joseph was born in Logan in 1872 to Niels and Olive M. Jensen Bergeson. In 1873 they moved to Lewiston, Utah, where they lived in a dugout. The following year Niels built a two-room log house. At fifteen years of age Joseph worked on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad at Price, Utah. In 1894 he was called on a mission to Scandinavia. In 1901 he married Medora A. Call. He was a farmer all his life. 20 pages.
Bergeson, Medora Adelaide Call (1878-): Medora was born in Sunset, Arizona, in 1878. In 1884 her family returned to Bountiful. In 1901 she married Joseph Bergeson. She was an active church member. 13 pages.
Bergeson, Niels (1840-): Niels was born in Sweden in 1840. He emigrated to Utah in 1870--came with the first immigrants by train to Ogden. He made his home in Logan and later in Lewiston. He worked on the Logan temple, and served a mission in Scan dinavia. 13 pages.
Bergeson, Olive Matilda Jensen (1841-1908): Olive Matilda Jensen Bergeson was born in Denmark in 1841. She came to Utah in 1870 and worked at cleaning and washing to help support the family. In 1890 Neils went to Sweden on a mission and when he returned he brought a young Swedish woman whom he expected to have as a plural wife. Matilda could not live in polygamy, so they were divorced. She worked hard to support her large family. She died in 1908 at sixty-seven years of age. 4 pages.
Call, Israel (1854-): Two sketches--one biographical and one autobiographical. Israel was born July 2, 1854, at Fillmore, Utah, to Anson and Ann Mariah Bowen Call. His parents joined the Mormon church in 1836 and emigrated to Utah in 1848 with the Brigham Young Company. Anson was called from his home in Bountiful to help settle Millard County. When Israel was a baby the family moved to Call's Fort to settle. The next move was to Carson Valley, Nevada, and in 1857 back to Bountiful. Israel began his schooling in Bountiful. In 1868 his father and mother were divorced and his mother remarried. Anson took custody of the children. Israel had a very hard life in his youth but became determined to get an education. These school plans were interrupted after the first year when he was called to go to Arizona in 1875. The company from Bountiful included Wilford Barlow, Parley Willey, Kepler Sessions, Joseph J. Holbrook, Joseph Hyrum Holbrook, Daniel Moss, Peter C. Wood, and George C. Wood. The group secured a place near Sunset Crossing on the Little Colorado and began clearing land and planting crops. The dam they built washed out so they moved down below a dam built by the Jesse O. Ballinger Company. In 1876 Brigham Young sent them a flour mill and a sawmill. The sawmill was located in the mountains about fifty miles from Sunset. The flour mill was at Ballinger's Dam. They built a fort and dug a well. In 1877 Israel set out for Utah to do temple work. He returned in 1878 and worked at a variety of jobs. Israel went to Kanab for provisions, marketed cattle, delivered wood to Albuquerque, and worked on the farm and dairy. Apostle Erastus Snow visited Sunset in 1878 and made Levi M. Savage ward bishop. Jane Lucinda Judd Knight became the polygamous wife of Israel in the St. George Temple in 1880. 36 pages.
Call, Medora White (1855-): Medora was born April 9, 1855, in Farmington, Utah, to John Stout and Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White. (See other biographies of Medora White Call.) 5 pages.
Call, Anson (1810-1890): Anson Call was born in Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont, in 1810. His first marriage was at twenty-three to Mary Flint. Shortly after his marriage he joined the Mormon church. He and his wife started on a trip to Kirtland, Ohio. Several pages are devoted to a description of the persecutions at Far West. In 1842 Anson moved his family to Nauvoo. The history then gives an account of the persecutions, the martyrdom, the exodus from Nauvoo, preparations for and the trip West. The family arrived in Salt Lake City on September 19, 1848. Anson Call settled in Bountiful (North Canyon Ward). Dates of importance in Anson Call's life follow:
1850: Left with George A. Smith to colonize in Iron County. Settled in Parowan.
1851: Married Ann Mariah Bowen. Raised another company of fifty families to colonize Pauvant Valley. Laid out a city and called it Fillmore.
1852: Became the representative to the legislature from Millard County.
1853: Helped bury the remains of Captain Gunnison and party.
1854: Accompanied Brigham Young and company of church officials to visit the southern settlements. Started a large farm in Box Elder County since known as Call's Fort.
1855: Joseph L. Heywood appointed Anson as his deputy.
1856: Anson called on another colonizing mission to Carson Valley.
1857: Sent to relieve handcart companies. Took two more wives. Assisted in building fortifications in Echo Canyon.
1858: Stored four thousand pounds of flour at Pasjsm (?), and moved his family to the shore of Utah Lake.
1861: Married his brother's widow Henrietta Williams Call and reared her six children.
1864: Sent on a mission to establish a colony near the Colorado River. This was to build a landing and a warehouse on the river, with the prospect of navigating the river by steamboat to the highest possible point and storing supplies which would then be freighted by wagon to Utah. 36 pages.
White, John S. (1818-1907): John S. White was born February 15, 1818, in New Jersey. He joined the Mormon church in 1843 and went to Nauvoo in 1845. He joined Colonel Scott's Company of Artillery at Council Bluffs and volunteered for the Mormon Battalion. After being mustered out, he bought a mule and traveled to Sacramento Valley where he made shoes in a factory started by Sutter. When gold was discovered, the factory was deserted and after panning for gold he returned to Utah arriving in September 1848. In Salt Lake City he again began making shoes. This and farming were his occupations during his life. He married Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett in 1849. 8 pages.
White, Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett (1832-): Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White was born in New York City in 1832. Her family moved to Nauvoo and arrived in Salt Lake City July of 1847 in the Jedediah M. Grant Company. She married John White in 1849. They moved to Farmington and her life was spent here rearing her family and attending to her church duties. 10 pages.
Call, Cyril (1785-1873): The first member of the Call family to join the Mormon church, Cyril joined in October of 1831. He and his wife Sally lived in Kirtland where they first heard of Mormonism. They moved to Nauvoo and started west in 1846, remaining in Iowa and Nebraska until 1849. He settled his family in Bountiful where he lived all his life as a farmer. 9 pages.
Call, Sally Tiffany (1790-1856): Sally was born in Vermont, November 27, 1790. She married Cyril Call in 1805. She had thirteen children--eleven came to Utah. They founded Call's Fort in Box Elder County. 2 pages.
Everett, Addison (1805-1885): Addison Everett was born in 1805 in Orange County, New York. He was baptized into the Mormon church in 1837, ordained a high priest in 1841, gathered in Nauvoo in 1844, came to Utah in 1847, filled a mission to southern Utah, and made his home there. 9 pages.

Dates

1857-1986

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.