Issac Newton Dalton

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF CHARLES WAKEMAN DALTON - By his great, great, grandson, Rodney Garth Dalton.

Charles Wakeman Dalton was a Farmer, Rancher, Sheriff, Constable, owned a store and a freight company. At the end of his life he was a butcher in Beaver City. He was also a polygamist. Charles Wakeman Dalton was born July 10th 1826 in Wysox, Bradford Co. Penn. On a little farm called Dalton Hollow. He was the first son of Simon Cooker Dalton & Anna Wakeman. In about 1835, the entire Dalton clan sold out, lock stock and barrel, packed up and moved to Washtenaw, County Michigan.

Charles W. Dalton was the first to join the Saints on April 27th 1843. Charles followed his family from Michigan, to Nauvoo. Charles married wife number 1, Juliaetta E. Bowen on Jan. 13th 1847 in New York State. ( see complete story of Juliaette Bowen in her history section) They then crossed the plains to the Utah Territory sometime in 1849 and settled near the other Dalton's. in Salt lake City. While living in S.L.C. Charles W. Dalton married wife number 2, Elizabeth Heskett Allred on Nov. 2nd 1850. Charles W. Dalton owned Lot # 7, on block 40 in Salt Lake City.

In 1848, with the arrival of the last wagon train of the season, there were now approximately 5,000

saints in the Valley.There were at least three forts built at this point. Each of these forts was about half a mile long and 40 rods wide. Within these forts, the Territory of Deseret was organized. The first legislature met here and the first shool was taught. For safety purposes these forts is where all the Dalton's would spent their first winter in the Valley. In Feb. of 1849 the residents of the Territory organized a temporary government which they called the "State of Deseret". After much debate, in Sept. of 1850, an act of Congress created the "Territory of Utah." Congress did not make it a State because too many Southern States did not want another Anti-slavery State added to the union. Brigham Young was appointed Governor of the Territory.

On Jan. 14th, 1849, Salt Lake City was divided into 17 Church Wards, each containing nine city blocks. The Dalton's chose land a few blocks east and south of the old fort. It was here the 10th Ward was organized on Feb. 22nd, 1848. For protection, a fence was built around the Ward boundaries. 10th Ward records show: 'John Dalton, Edward Dalton, Charles Dalton, Henry Dalton donated, self and teams for two days work"

The Census of Salt Lake County in 1851 shows:

House No. Head of houshold, Occupation, age, sex and State or Country Born

     46        Charles W. Dolton  ( Blacksmith)          24        M Penn.

Juliet 22 F N.Y.
Charles A. 1 M Deseret
Merritt Bowen (bro. of Juliet) 18 M N.Y.
The southern part of Utah was colonized in the fall of 1849. It was ordered by the Presidency of the Church that Parley P. Pratt with a company of 50 men, should explore

this area, which they called Dixie. Among these men were the following:

Charles W. Dalton, age 23, John Dalton Jr., age 49., Edward Dalton, age 22, (son of John Jr.) and John D. Lee, age 39. On Jan. 13th 1851, this company of 50 men reached a spot near the present town of Parowan, on what was called Center Creek. On Jan 17th 1851 a election was held and the following town officials were elected: CHARLES W. DALTON as a Constable, John D. Lee as a Magistrate among others. William H. Dane, Edward Dalton and others laid out the town site, and then began surveying a location for a Fort. George A Smith officially named the new Fort, Louisa, in honor of Louisa Beaman, the first documented women to marry into Polygamy amoung the Latter-Day Saints. Later that summer, Brigham Young and a large company arrived at the little Fort on the first annual tour of the Southern settlements. He renamed the new town site at Center Creek, Parawon. The Church Ward or Branch in Parowan at first was under the direction of the American Fork Stake. (Note: Taken from a registry of names of persons residing in the various Wards as to Bishop's reports. G.S.L. City Dec. 28th, 1852 to 1853.)

Charles W. Dalton married wife number 3, Sarah Jane Lee in Parowan on Dec. 31st 1852. Charles was in Salt Lake City when he married wife number 4, Sarah Lucinda Lee on Oct. 3rd 1868. Charles also married his last wife, number 5, Emma Roberta Lee in S.L.C. on Oct. 9th 1871. Sarah Jane Lee was the daughter of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre fame and Sarah Lucinda Lee & Emma Roberta Lee were daughters of John P. Lee.

In the spring of 1853 Brigham Young recognized the need of the Pioneers for clothing, food and iron ore for tools. Exploration in the early 1850's confirmed the Southern half of Utah had the potently to grow cotton, grapes, figs, flax, hemp, rice, sugarcane, tobacco and produce iron ore. In May of 1854 Brighan Young sent a group of missionaries under the leadership of Rufus C. Allen to the South. This company arrived in Pine Valley, about 35 miles Northeast of St. George, Utah on the headwaters of the Santa Clara Creek in early spring. Charles W. Dalton and family was in this company.

Note: Newspaper article in the Deseret News, May 31st. 1853.

( this article tells about William M. Walls Military inspection to the southern settlements in Utah.)

" Provo, May 31st 1853. At Harmony we received a hearty welcome from bros. John D. Lee and

Charles Dalton, E. H. Grove and Solomom Chamberlain, and made to understand that we were at

home, and had every attention paid to us that could be acceptable to a weary soldier. Our animals

being weary, we though best to tarry a day and rest. There were a dozen or more Piute Indians

around. They appeared to be perfectly under control of Major Lee. They seemed honest, industrious

and anxious to conform to the manners and customs of the whites. They excel all other Indians in these particulars, that i have ever met with in the mountains. I saw the son of the old Chief Toquar from the Rio Virgin, he seems well desposed and which to have the Mormans settle there and learn them to work; says they did know how to work once, but thier father's got to warring and become lazy and lost the art; said they were afraid of Chief Walker, and that he would kill their men and take their squaws and children prisoners. Fort Harmony is well situated on a commanding eminence on the north bluff of Ash Creek, and though small and few in numbers, it is secure and well stockaded and the farm nearly all picketed in with ten foot pickets. There is considerable timber, consisting of Pine, Ceder, Ash and Cottenwood. Here they made supper and had a dance in the evening in honor of our visit. The company were willing to do their duties, and we had prayers, morning and evening.

Next we find Charles W. Dalton:

On Jan. 4th 1856, the citizens of this large area sent a petition signed by thirty two

men, the total male population, asking the Court for a County Government to be set up,

with the county seat to be at Fort Harmony. The petition was granted and the Government was setup on Feb. 7th 1856, with John D. Lee as Probate Judge, Clerk and Assessor. The first order of business of the court was to try a case against Enos the Indian. The sheriff, CHARLES W. DALTON ( sheriff from April 1856 to April 1857) was ordered to take Enos into custody and to summon 12 residents of the County to serve as jurors. Also some of the records of the Washington County Court held on Sept. 1856 tells of a application by Charles W. Dalton and others for the control of the timber in Pine Valley Canyons for milling of lumber. The Court was presided over by Judge John D. Lee and Lee made the following Grant. "Where as the control of water, timber and grass of Pine Valley is hereby granded to Charles W. Dalton. Loronzo W. Roundy, John Blackburn and Robert Richy for the purpose specitied and the privilage of so much said water as will be necessary to irrigate two acres of land for gardens; also the control of the springs in Grass Valley for irrigation.

Sometime during the year 1860, the Dalton's recieved a letter from their sisters in Michigan

annoucing the death of their mother, Betsy Cooker Dalton. She was well into her 90's at this time.

Next we find Charles W Dalton on June 26th 1865 as a settler of Chicken Creek, which

was located about one and one half miles from the present site of Levan Utah.

The Deseret News reports; "The following settlers of Chicken Creek petitioned the Church authorities for a branch government,. These people were: Martin Rollins , Edsol Elmer, George Ellison, William Morgan, Robert Rollins, Seth Ollorton, Antomima Tidwell, Nancy Sly, Norman Wilson Hartley, Frederick Green, Jimer Palmer, James Kettleman and CHARLES W. DALTON. These people and others built homes, planted gardens, orchards and fields of wheat. As years went by however, they come to the conclusion that this was not a very good site to have their Community. So after 6 to 8 years they decided to find another home site.

In the winter of 1856 George A Smith found a area that could potentially provide good pasturage for cattle and farming. Near by canyons also had abundant timber for lumber and available water for a mill. This place was named Beaver, for the many Beaver Dams

that were abundant in the streams. In 1858 Beavers population received a boost from Mormons leaving San Bernardino, California at the on set of the Utah War.

Note: In 1865-1868 the inhabitants of Circleville Utah abandoned their community because of the Black Hawk War and made their way to Beaver before returning to Circleville after the War was over.

The Black Hawk War of 1865 to 1867:

The Black Hawk Indian War was the longest and most destructive conflict between pioneer immigrants and Native Americans in Utah History. The traditional date of the war's commencement is 9 April 1865 but tensions had been mounting for years. On that date bad feelings were transformed into violence when a handful of Utes and Mormon frontiersmen met in Manti, Sanpete County, to settle a dispute over some cattle killed and consumed by starving Indians. An irritated (and apparently inebriated) Mormon lost his temper and violently jerked a young chieftain from his horse. The insulted Indian delegation, which included a dynamic young Ute named Black Hawk, abruptly left, promising retaliation. The threats were not idle - for over the course of the next few days Black Hawk and other Utes killed five Mormons and escaped to the mountains with hundreds of stolen cattle. Naturally, scores of hungry warriors and their families flocked to eat "Mormon beef" and to support Black Hawk, who was suddenly hailed as a war chief. Encouraged by his success and increasing power, Black Hawk continued his forays, stealing more than two thousand head of stock and killing approximately twenty-five more whites that year. The young Ute by no means had the support of all of the Indians of Utah, but he succeeded in uniting factions of the Ute, Paiute, and Navajo tribes into a very loose confederacy bent on plundering Mormons throughout the territory. Cattle were the main objectives of Black Hawk's offensives but travelers, herdsmen, and settlers were massacred when it was convenient. Contemporary estimates indicate that as many as seventy whites were killed during the conflict.

The years 1865 to 1867 were by far the most intense of the conflict. Latter-day Saints considered themselves in a state of open warfare. They built scores of forts and deserted dozens of settlements while hundreds of Mormon militiamen chased their illusive adversaries through the wilderness with little success. Requests for federal troops went unheeded for eight years. Unable to distinguish "guilty" from "friendly" tribesmen, frustrated Mormons at times indiscriminately killed Indians, including women and children.

In the fall of 1867 Black Hawk made peace with the Mormons. Without his leadership the Indian forces, which never operated as a combined front, fragmented even further. The war's intensity decreased and a treaty of peace was signed in 1868. Intermittent raiding and killing, however, continued until 1872 when 200 federal troops were finally ordered to step in.

The Black Hawk War erupted as a result of the pressures white expansion brought to Native American populations. White settlement of Utah altered crucial ecosystems and helped destroy Indian subsistence patterns which caused starvation. Those who did not starve often succumbed to European diseases. Contemporary sources indicate that Indian populations in Utah in the 1860s were plummeting at frightening rates. White efforts to establish reservations contributed additional pressures. These conditions were almost universal among western Indians during the period, and in this sense the war can be viewed as an expression of the general Indian unrest and warfare that dominated the trans-Mississippi West during the 1860s. Similar conflicts also occurred during the decade between Indians and non-Mormon settlers in each of Utah's neighboring territories. These confrontations, however, were quickly (and brutally) put down by federal troops; however, the mounting crusade against polygamy and lingering "Utah War" mentalities made the situation different in Utah. The Black Hawk War was unique among the era's western Indian wars in that the antipathy that existed between the United States government and the LDS Church provided Utah's natives with the opportunity to pursue their hostile activities for an extended period of time without incurring the swift and destructive military reprisals suffered by other groups. Not surprisingly, the war ended almost without incident when federal troops were finally ordered to engage the Indians in 1872.

See: Peter Gottfredson, Indian Depredations in Utah; Carlton Culmsee, Utah's Black Hawk War:

Source: John A. Peterson; Taken off the internet.

Although the Black Hawk War of 1865-68 had been settled, citizens of southern Utah were still concerned about Indian Hostilities. The Federal Government ordered a Militery Fort Built just east of Beaver. It was located on the north side of the Beaver River, about one mile from the mouth of the canyon. This Fort only had a life span of eleven years. The new Fort was named after Colonal Cameron of the 79th Highlanders, who was killed at the Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War. Contracts were signed by men to build the new fort, and the rocks were hauled by men who had large teams & wagons. Charles W Dalton had some of these wagons.

The following stories are from the Diaries of John D. Lee showing his many dealings with Charles W Dalton.

  Sunday, June 1st 1867 -

" Was camped out at Chicken Creek, met Charles W. Dalton with a drove of beef cattle enroute to the city (S.L.C.) The bridge had been washed out by high water hence the crossing was muddy. In crossing, Dalton's waggon upset in the creek & wet all their bedding, clothing and supplies. Also $130 in green backs"

  Wednesday, June 4th 1867 -

" Left a mare with Julia Dalton (Charles 1st wife) at Fillmore by request of Charles W Dalton."

  Sunday, June 8th 1867 Beaver Utah.

" This morning I eat breakfast with Betsey Dalton ( Charles 2nd wife) and I promised to dine with Sarah and her family. The dinner was tasty. Sarah presented me with a photograph of herself and Charles. Also one of Betsy, all of which I put in my album."

  Wednesday , Oct. 16th 1867

" At Beaver City I left my son Samuel P. Lee to stay with his sister Sarah Jane to go to school. we spent the day with Charles W Dalton and family."

   Tuesday, Nov. 28th 1867.

" The roads were almost impassable on account of the mud an it was still rainning at Chickin Creek. We met Charles W. Dalton, my son-in- law, of the firm of Dalton & Clayton on their way to the city (S.L.C.) with a drove of cattle of several hundred head.

They had their barrage waggon upset in the creek and everything had got soaked. They encamped to dry things out".

   Wednesday, Dec. 4th 1867.

" We reached Beaver and stayed over night with my daughter Sarah Jane. we were kindly received by her husband Charles and family".

  Tuesday, Jan. 30th 1868.

" At 3 o-clock PM we arrived in Beaver at Charles Dalton's place and delivered up the pork he had ordered. We took dinner with Julia & Betsey Dalton and had breakfast with them the next morning. Also dinned with my daughter Sarah on Weds".

   Sunday, June 1st 1873.

" This morning we held a public meeting. After the meeting we responded to the River's edge, where Elder James Grover baptized HEBER DALTON, the son of Charles W. Dalton & my daughter Sarah Jane".

The following article is taken from Books on the Mountain Meadows Massacre in which John D. Lee was involved. As we known, John D. Lee was the father-in-law of Charles W Dalton who had married his daughter Sarah Jane Lee. Charles W. Dalton had many dealings with Lee over the years in the southern Utah.

Note: The personal history of Sarah Jane Lee:

Sarah Jane LEE was born 3 Mar 1838 in Vandalia, Fayette, Illinois. Sarah died 27 Mar 1915 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, and was buried 29 Mar 1915 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah.

From her childhood, Sarah Jane had a vivid memory of the occasion when the Prophet Joseph and his brother, Hyrum, were killed, as she lived near the Smiths. When their bodies were brought home from Carthage Jail, she cried bitterly. One day the Prophet's mother took her into a room of the Smith home, which had an unused fireplace with a curtain around it and showed her the Egyptian mummies Joseph had received.

She crossed the plains with her father's company at the age of nine or ten years, walking most of the way with her aged grandmother, Abigail Shaffer, who died on the trail soon after they crossed the Missouri River. The company eventually arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1848. She lived around with her folks, as circumstances would permit, until she was fifteen years old, and then was persuaded to marry a polygamist, as the third wife of CHARLES DALTON The ceremony was performed by George A. Smith. She had three children before she was twenty. She was in love with a young man when she married Dalton, so was not very happy with him. Dalton married three other women after he married Sarah Jane, one of whom was Lucinda Lee.

Sarah Jane wanted her children to attend school. In order to pay for their tuition, she cleaned Lucinda's home, as well as doing the washing, ironing, and other various jobs for her. Sarah Jane always had to work very hard to educate and support her growing family since her husband provided very poorly for them. After many years of marriage to Dalton, and bearing almost every privation, she decided to leave him and make a go of it on her own. A bishop's trial was held and she was granted a divorce. He was present at the proceedings and gave his consent for the separation. He gave her a small one-room house, which she sold for $150.00, and applied the money on a $600.00 home. She found a job at Minersville, Utah as proprietress of a hotel and finished making the payments on the home. Dalton gave her boys a small piece of land, a team of horses, and a few cows, which they turned over to the United Order, and came out of it with nothing. This experience embittered them to the extent that they did very little for or in the church thereafter. They worked very hard, however, to help their mother until they married and made homes for themselves.

When her ninth child was about seven years old, she met and married George McCook Underwood, who had come to Beaver when the army was stationed at Fort Cameron, just outside the town. He was a blacksmith and worked for the soldiers at the fort. On June 29, 1869 she had her tenth child, whom she named Lucy. She still had to work hard helping to provide for her family. After George left the service of the army, they moved to Marysvale, Utah, to work in the mines, which were booming at that time. She divorced him while living there, because of his heavy drinking, and moved to Beaver. Underwood went to Panguitch and put up a blacksmith shop, the only one in the vicinity for many years. He was an expert in this line, and could have made money but he continued drinking. Not many years before his death, he quit drinking and threw away his tobacco, tea, and coffee.

Sarah Jane spent several summers on the Prince Ranch at Panguitch Lake, making butter and cheese, which she sold for tax money and provisions. Later she re-married Underwood and lived with him until his death. Her worldly possessions were limited. They lived in a small frame house first, and then in a two-room house across the street from the church. The third home they bought was a small house one block west of the church where they lived until both had passed away.

The history of Sarah Lucinda Lee. Charles Wakeman Dalton's 4th wife:

Sarah Lucinda Lee was the daughter of John Perciaval Lee and Elisa Foscue, born in Coosa County, Alabama, Feb. 9th 1847. She was the second child born in the family of eight children. Her father John P. Lee took the family to DeWitt County, Texas before 1849, where they joined a group of Mormans going to Utah Her family started across the plains with the company of Thomas Johnson but they finished the journey in the company of Shadrack Roundy and arrived in Utah in 1850. John P. Lee was one of a group of families sent on the San Bernardino mission, but they returned to Utah during the Utah War in 1857-58 Shortly after the settlement of towns in Southern Utah, the Lee family moved to Beaver, Utah where Lucinda married Charles W. Dalton, and became the mother of a large family. the greater part of her life was spent in the school room as a teacher. "Aunt Lue", as she was affectionately known, by her friends and pupils, was one of the outstanding educators of the period. She was the mother of a large family, which always included a baby. Note: Sarah's Father, John Percival Lee was one of the best remembered teachers in early Beaver days. He began teaching in his own home. It was a 2 room log house. His family lived in one room and he held school in the other.

Sarah Lucinda Dalton was living in Circleville, Utah in 1876 when she wrote a autobiogrphy letter

to Mrs. E. B. Wells discussing her problem of being educated, librated woman in a world dominated

by men. She was a sincere and energetic worker, and at all times brought out the best efforts of her pupils, and encouraged them to seek a higher and better education. Her students speak of her with love, and remember her untiring interest in their behalf. In the crude and rough buildings and with little of none of the equipment belonging to a school room, she carried on, and kept the spirit of learning alive and active.

From the Book, The Mountain Meadows Massacre: by Juanita Brooks:

"Not only did George A. Smith carry significant orders to both the military and the Indains, but his preaching to the people in general was of such an inflammatory nature that it roused them to a high emotional pitch. Because of this, the fatal relationship between this visit and the massacre which followed scarcely a month later can hardly be overemphasized. George A Smith stayed with his family in Parowan until Sat. Aug. 15th 1857, when he started in company with William H. Dame, Colonel Commanding, Captains C. C. Pendleton, Jesse N. Smith, Ellis Silas Smith, CHARLES W. DALTON, D.Cluff Jr. and others to visit the settlements in the south and complete the military organization in each."

The events of Sept. 6th to 11th 1857 at Mountain Meadows are shrouded in secrecy and conflicting testimony. It is generally thought that the first Indian attact on the Fancher-Baker wagon train, which consisted of 135 men, women and children from Arkansas (also called the Missouri Wild Cats) going to southern California, accrued because the Indians claimed that the men of the wagon had earlier given them poisoned beef and a few Indians had died because of this bad meat. John D Lee was soon called on to managed these Indians. Lee traveled south with a hundred more Indians an quite a number of militia men from the southern communities of the district, mainly Cedar City, Johnson's Fort, Harmony, Washington and Santa Clara.

(Note: An extension of the famed Nauvoo Legion was formed at Cedar Fort in Dec.31st 1852. John D. Lee was a Major of the 4th Battalion. Many of the men involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre had been closely associated with Joseph Smith and some had been his guards. These same men had close contact with Brigham Young and respected him) On Thursday about noon they were joined by several men from Cedar City and that evening John M. Higbee and Phillip Klingonsmith with a large force arrived from the same place. The Indians could not be stopped , and so the fate of the emigrants was decided on Friday, 11th of Sept. 1857; Under a flag of truce, John D. Lee entered the emigrant camp and convinced them to lay down their arms by promising safe conduct back to Cedar City. The disarmed men and women marched to the spot where they were killed by both Indians and Militia men acting under military orders. The Militia men who refused to kill were told they could shoot into the air and then let the Indians finish the savage work! Records show that quite a few young children were not killed. Almost allof these children were much later returned to Arkansas. A couple of these children were taken into Morman Familys and raised as there own.

Note: from the book; The Mountain meadows Massacre, by Juanita Brooks:

Through it all, messengers hurried back and forth between Isaac C. Haight at Cedar City, and his superior military officer, William H. Dane at Parowan, and between Lee at the Meadows. Every account mentions these express riders without naming then, but Jesse N Smith identifies himself as one:

"Tuesday, Sept. 8th 1857. Was harvesting at Paragoonah when a boy brought me word that Col. Dane wished to see me. Went home at once and Col. Dane informed me that he had word by an Indian boy that the Indians had attacked the Emigrant Company at Mountain Meadows, and he wished me to proceed to Cedar City and ascertain the truth about the matter. EDWARD DALTON accompanied me. On Weds. 9th Sept. Dalton and myself rode on to Pinto, where hearing the word unmistakable confirmed, we rode back to Cedar to report."

Afterward no one wanted to accept responsibility for this tragedy. The men swore not to tell what happened. Both the days immediately after the tragedy and over the next 140 years a variety of conflicting explanations of the participation of Southern Utah men. The Federal Government spent 2 decades trying to apprehend and punish the participants, but it's efforts failed as the tight knit Mormon society closed ranks and protected it's members. In Nov. 1874 however, John D. Lee was arrested. He stood trial twice in the district court at Beaver, where his daughter Sarah and Charles W. Dalton lived. The first jury failed to agree on his guilt. In a second trial Lee was convicted and eventually convicted. After a few years in prison John D. Lee was taken to the very spot of the Mountain Meadows killings and was executed in March of 1877. Other's involved lived hunted and haunted and bore the remorse of their involvement . These men were considered leaders in their communities and churches. Did our ancestor CHARLES W. DALTON have anything to do with this Mormon tragedy? Remember he had a constant contact with John D. Lee and was an official of the town of Harmony. Was he a member of the Iron County Militia? He must have been only a few miles away when the call came to go help his father- in- law John D. Lee. We can only assume he and the Dalton's in Southern Utah at this time were either there or not. We hope not! Because of the shadow cast by the killings many Iron County families moved to other settlements including CHARLES W. DALTON and family's move to the Beaver area and then to Circleville.

Charles W. Dalton moved some of his family across the mountain to Circleville in 1874. Charles had probably heard about "Circle Valley" from the Circleville residents that had lived in Beaver during their exile, because of the Black Hawk War. He was the first Mormon to resettle in the Valley. There were only four other families living there. He was followed by some of his sons and their families in 1875.

He built up a large ranch Northeast of town.

From the Southern Utonian - 7-22-1882 newspaper:

CITY MEAT MARKET

C. W. DALTON,

   Begs leave to announce to the residents of 

Beaver and vicinty, that he is now prepared to

supply them with the choicest cuts of best grass-fed

    BEEF Veal and MUTTON

in the market, at the lowest orices.

CASH PAID FOR BEEF STOCK ON DELIVERY.

SHOP: Three doors south of Co-op. store.

Charles Wakeman Dalton probably was living with one of his sons in Beaver, Utah when he died on June,18th 1883. He was a true pioneer, very enterprizing and was involved in many of the events of the settling of Southern Utah.

Charles Wakeman Dalton was a Utah pioneer and early Latter-day Saint that helped to settle some of the small towns in Southern Utah in the early 1850's. He married five wive's and had as many as 36

children. In 1880 Charles Wakeman Dalton was living in St. George with one of his wives, Lucinda Lee Dalton and three of thier children; Belle, Guy and Ernest -- ages 9, 4, and 1.

Drowned. - A few days ago an aged man named Charles W. Dalton of Beaver fell into an irrigation canal near his residence being enfeebled at the time of the accident from having been effected with chills, he was unable to get got out of the water. When found, life was so nearly extinct that all efforts at resuscitation failed and he expired shortly afterwards. The particulars are given in the Beaver County record.

Source: Deseret News - 7-18-1883.

Source information:

" I was called to Dixie, the Virgin River basin" by Andrew Karl Larson;

" The pioneers of the Southwest by Joseph Fish;

" Morman Chronical" by John D. Lee;

" A history of Washington County" by Douglas D. Alder & Karl F. Brooks;

" John D. Lee' by Juanita Brooks

Charles Wakeman Dalton was the son of Simon Cooker Dalton and his wife 1) Anna Wakeman.

DALTON siblings: 4 full-siblings plus 20 1/2 siblings.

37 DALTON children.

Charles married 1) Julia Ette Bowen on 1/13/1847 in Farmington, VanBuren, Iowa.

9 DALTON children: Charles Albert Dalton, Marvin Burke Dalton, Francis Anna Dalton, Juliaetta Dalton, Erastus Dalton, Myron Roundy Dalton, Mary Rosetta Dalton, Sarah Louise Dalton, Morgan Pedon Dalton.

Charles married 2) Elizabeth Heskett Allred (1833-1916) on 11/2/1850 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

10 DALTON children: Orson Allred Dalton, Brigham Wakeman Dalton, George Franklin Dalton, Ann Elizabeth Dalton, Monetta Dalton, Landon Dalton, Elvira Dalton, Martin Carrell Dalton, Harriett Dalton, Effie Pearl Dalton.

Charles married 3) Sarah Jane Lee on 12/31/1852 in Parowan, Iron, Utah.

10 DALTON children: Heber Joseph Dalton, William Dalton, Henrietta Dalton, John Doyle Dalton, Agatha Ann Dalton, Mary Rosebell Dalton, Sarah Vilate Dalton, Charles Wakeman Dalton, Sadie Luella Dalton, Thaddeus Walter Dalton.

Charles married 4) Sarah Lucinda Lee on 10/3/1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

8 DALTON children: Charles W. Dalton, Rosetta Dalton, Arthur Lee Dalton, Belle Dalton, Guy Annable Dalton, Ida Foscue Dalton, Ernest Raymond Shurlock Dalton, Clifford Wakefield Dalton

Charles married 5) Emma Roberta Lee on 10/9/1871 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. No children. __________ Research: Mary E. Warner, 2013.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 14 2016, 20:33:20 UTC

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Charles Wakeman Dalton was the son of Simon Cooker Dalton and his wife 1) Anna Wakeman.

DALTON siblings: 4 full-siblings plus 20 1/2 siblings.

37 DALTON children.

Charles married 1) Julia Ette Bowen on 1/13/1847 in Farmington, VanBuren, Iowa.

9 DALTON children: Charles Albert Dalton, Marvin Burke Dalton, Francis Anna Dalton, Juliaetta Dalton, Erastus Dalton, Myron Roundy Dalton, Mary Rosetta Dalton, Sarah Louise Dalton, Morgan Pedon Dalton.

Charles married 2) Elizabeth Heskett Allred (1833-1916) on 11/2/1850 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

10 DALTON children: Orson Allred Dalton, Brigham Wakeman Dalton, George Franklin Dalton, Ann Elizabeth Dalton, Monetta Dalton, Landon Dalton, Elvira Dalton, Martin Carrell Dalton, Harriett Dalton, Effie Pearl Dalton.

Charles married 3) Sarah Jane Lee on 12/31/1852 in Parowan, Iron, Utah.

10 DALTON children: Heber Joseph Dalton, William Dalton, Henrietta Dalton, John Doyle Dalton, Agatha Ann Dalton, Mary Rosebell Dalton, Sarah Vilate Dalton, Charles Wakeman Dalton, Sadie Luella Dalton, Thaddeus Walter Dalton.

Charles married 4) Sarah Lucinda Lee on 10/3/1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

8 DALTON children: Charles W. Dalton, Rosetta Dalton, Arthur Lee Dalton, Belle Dalton, Guy Annable Dalton, Ida Foscue Dalton, Ernest Raymond Shurlock Dalton, Clifford Wakefield Dalton

Charles married 5) Emma Roberta Lee on 10/9/1871 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. No children. __________ Research: Mary E. Warner, 2013.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via Emma Roberta Sutherland (born Lee) by SmartCopy: Sep 25 2015, 1:52:56 UTC