Caleb Haight and Keturah Horton GGGG Grandparents through Devaun Dix

Caleb Haight Click here for Family Search link
Birth:28 August 1778 Amenia, Dutchess, New York, United States 
Baptism: June 7, 1842.
Death:6 June 1851 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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Keturah Horton: Click here for Family Search link
Birth:28 May 1777 Amenia, Dutchess, New York
Baptism: June 7, 1842.
Death:18 November 1843 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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Conversion Story:
Isaac Chauncy, did not have very good health as a boy, so he was well educated and received special training for the ministry in the Baptist Church. He never officiated as a minister, but became a school teacher instead, and he was teaching when he joined the church in 1838. The other children were well educated as they were all blessed with worldly goods and good positions in the business world. Caleb was practicing as a lawyer in Monrovia, Cayuga County, New York, where they had moved in 1836. It was here that he and his family first heard the Gospel from Mormon Missionaries. It came as a startling and surprising message that Christ’s own church was again established upon the earth, and that a true living prophet was at it’s head. This was in 1838, just 8 years after the church was organized. Caleb and Keturah did not accept the new religion when they first heard it. Their son Isaac Chauncy and his wife Eliza Ann Snyder accepted it first. They were baptized in 1839, and Isaac Chauncy, his wife and baby daughter, Caroline moved to Nauvoo, Illinois to make their home with the Saints. Caleb and the rest of the family remained in Monrovia, the four older children were married and were raising their families. Caleb practiced law whenever his neighbors needed help in settling their legal difficulties. There was a small branch of the church in Monrovia, but its members were persecuted so badly that it had a difficult time to exist. In 1841, Caleb’s son, Isaac Chauncy, arrived in Monrovia where he had been called by his church to serve as a missionary. His first interest was his father’s family, so he worked with them; one brother, David had joined when he had been baptized, but there were others that he must bring into God’s Kingdom here on Earth. There were many converted to the church during this time of Isaac Chauncy Haight’s ministry in the town of Monrovia. Caleb, his wife, Keturah, his brother Hector Caleb, two sisters, Julia Ann Van Orden, and Catherine Adelia Curtiss and their families, a cousin, and many others were baptized in the little creek that ran through Monrovia, June 7, 1842.