Aurelia Minerva Rose

Father: Arnold Peet 1817-1895 Mother: Minerva Warren 1815-1894

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 2 2017, 12:27:15 UTC

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"Minerva Aurelia Peet By Joyce J. Anderson 15 Mar 2005 Taylorsville, Utah Minerva was born 11 Dec 1815 at Batavia, Genessee, New York. Her parents were Arnold Peet and Minerva Warren Peet. She married 24 year old John Rose in 1832 when she was 16 years old. They were married in Ontario, Canada. The Roses bought some of the land at Mt. Pleasant that was covered with rich river bottom soil. With some crude hand-made implements they started to clear and till the soil and make some log dwellings. They also helped build the first church there, “The Bethseda Chapel”. In the minutes at that chapel were found “A Mormon congregation used this chapel after it’s founder, Joseph Smith, was here in October and November 1833. They were among the first family groups to leave Canada to join the other saints in Illinois. They joined Captain Foote’s Company and traveled to Kirksville in the northern part of Missouri to join the saints there. They went through the hardships of the mobbings, and moving from place to place as they were driven from their homes. They helped build the Nauvoo Temple and records show of the temple work they did there. Minerva and John were blessed with ten children, seven girls and three boys born between 1833 and 1859. Their names in order of birth are: Lydia Marie, Andrew, Lusinda, William Arnold, Mary Ann, Catherine Marie, John Oscar, Minerva Aurelia, Almira, and Rebecca Ann. All of them lived to maturity except Mary Ann who died at age eleven while the family crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. John and Minerva and their children left Nauvoo in the middle of the night in February 1846 in below zero weather. They left their comfortable home and never received any money for it. They crossed over the Missouri River on four feet of ice. They left with their children clinging to their skirts, with all they had or could bring in their wagon. After crossing the river, they had no place to go all that winter. Heaven only knows what they went through that winter. They remained faithful and true to the gospel. They came across the plains in the Reddin Allred Company and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1849. They first settled in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County and later moved to North Ogden, Weber County, Utah. Their last four children were born in Utah. Unfortunately little is known about Minerva’s noble life and experiences. Minerva and John were endowed in the Nauvoo Temple 3 Feb 1846 and were sealed to each other 10 Mar 1858. Minerva died one year before her husband 8 June 1893. Minerva and John are both buried in North Ogden, Utah."
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