Haight Family in Nauvoo

 Caleb Haight and his wife Keturah Horton Haight joined the church and came to Nauvoo. He owned land, received his Endowments, baptised his ancestors in the font and Keturah passed away and is buried in Nauvoo.  Here is a story of Keturah Horton blessed with sight from the prophet Joseph Smith: "She would put her hands over my face to feel how I looked. Yet she knew us children apart by our voices. She was very anxious to go to Nauvoo and see the Prophet, as she believed if he would administer to her she would receive her sight.

 A few days after they arrived in Nauvoo, Brother Joseph came and administered to her, and she received the desired blessing of her sight restored, which lasted as long as she lived and was a great comfort to her. She had desired that she might see her children once more, her grandchildren and the Prophet before she passed away. She lived only a few weeks or a month --- I do not remember which, but the rest of us arrived in Nauvoo and had the pleasure of witnessing her great joy in the blessing bestowed upon her by the Lord. When I first saw her after her sight was restored she said: “Mary, I don’t have to feel your face now to know you, I can see you.”

Caleb's son Issac Chauncey owned land, was a member of the 70 part of the Nauvoo Legion

The Young Family in Nauvoo

 Records indicate that David Young and his wife Elizabeth Vance lived in Nauvoo.  They would have been elderly at the time and ended up dying in their old age in Nebraska attempting to cross the plains to SLC.  Mary Vance Young married John D Lee and lived in Nauvoo as well.  It appears they all wen through the temple on Feb 3 1846.

Pace Family in Nauvoo

 

They were contacted by the missionaries of the Mormon Church. They wanted to be near the Prophet Joseph Smith and the main body of saints so they sold their property, their servants and many acres of land and headed to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. They resided there from 1839 to 1846. There they secured land a built a beautiful nine room home.They received their endowment on 20 December 1845 when he was 39.

  When the persecutions began, William and his brother James were policemen to guard as uphold the law that was set up under the Nauvoo Charter. They were sealed on 20 January 1846 in the Nauvoo Temple. This was just about three weeks before the saints were driven from Nauvoo.

William and his family desired to join the body of the Saints in the Nauvoo and accordingly sold their plantation, home and slaves. They brought some former slaves with them to Nauvoo and later to the West. The story is told that these former slaves begged to be allowed to come with the family they had served for many years, and they later remained in the Utah area and were buried near their former owners. William and Margaret bought land in the Nauvoo area and built a beautiful nine-room home. The family was apparently active in the affairs and events happening in Nauvoo at the time. William (as a 4th Corporal) and James Pace, along with John D. Lee and Isaac C. Haight, are listed as being called as special policemen in Nauvoo in December 1843 as recorded in History of the Church, 6:149-50. They were to guard the city and es¬pe¬cially Brother Joseph in that time of unrest. The guard was dismissed in the spring of 1844 as Joseph decided he could guard himself. In the meantime, another son was born to William and Margaret in 1844 in Lee County, Iowa. According to our family group sheets, William and Margaret Pace received their endowment in the Nauvoo temple on January 20, 1846. However, in Saints in Exile, also by David R. Crockett, both James and William and their wives are listed as receiv¬ing their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple on Saturday, December 20, 1845. Either way, they were blessed to be able to have this blessing in the chaotic days of persecu¬tion and trial as the Saints prepared to leave Nauvoo. The Paces were involved in the exodus from Nauvoo in February 1846. A quote from William Pace (probably James Pace’s son who kept a diary) in Saints in Exile for February 21, 1846, described their camp at Sugar Creek. “Our camp was made in snow about 8 inches deep and was a rather uncomfortable introduction into camp life with¬out tent or any shelter save it be a wagon cover made from common sheeting. Here we stayed for some time waiting the arrival of all those who could possibly supply them¬selves with teams.” The Paces were in one of the first companies that helped build the road for others across Iowa and were involved in establishing the base encampments of Garden Grove, Mt. Pisgah and Council Bluffs in Iowa. These encampments were some of the places where crops were grown, where sick could be cared for and where poor and crippled oxen and horses could be exchanged for fresh ones.

Burkett Family in Nauvoo

 The 1840 census says George had two houses and lots in Nauvoo. His three older daughters lived in one and he and his family lived in the other. The tax lists also confirm this. George worked every working day helping build the Nauvoo Temple. All they had to eat was what they grew in their garden and the flour in a flour barrel. Every day Sarah went and got enough flour for the day. The barrel would be empty by the end of the day, but the next day there would be just enough flour in it for that day.

 While living in Nauvoo, they were baptized for their kindred dead in the Mississippi River in June 1841. Sarah received her Patriarchal Blessing under the hands of Hyrum Smith on November 7, 1841, and was one of the first women to be accepted into the Nauvoo Relief Society in June 1842. George and Sarah -4- received their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple on December 22, 1845, and in 1846 George was ordained a high priest by George A. Smith and George Miller. The deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith did not stop the persecution of the Saints from the anti-Mormon mobs. They again were forced to leave their homes and head west. The Saints began leaving Nauvoo in February 1846 to make their trek across Iowa. In August 1846 Sarah died in Augusta, Des Moines County, Iowa and was buried in the Augusta Cemetery. George wrote the following about Sarah in his history: “My first wife died in Augusta, Iowa, with whom I had lived happily and who had been a great comfort to me and help and a faithful member of the church.” Some of the poor Saints were not able to leave Nauvoo as quickly. Brigham Young asked two companies of Saints to return to Nauvoo to help the poor leave. The anti-Mormon mobs became impatient and fighting began in Nauvoo. George was in the Battle of Nauvoo from September 10-16, 1846. The next day in Iowa, across the river from Nauvoo, he married Elizabeth Powell Evans the widow of Thomas Evans. They traveled with the rest of the Saints going west.