Moses Martin Sanders, I

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THE LIFE STORY OF MOSES MARTIN SANDERS & AMANDA ARMSTRONG FAUCETT Contributed By elizakaitlynbutikofer1 · 2013-08-04 Amanda Sander's name is on the roll of the 1842 Relief Society in the Nauvoo 7th Ward, with Bishop Newell K Knight. There were 20,000 Saints in Nauvoo at the time. 25 May 1843, Martha was baptized. Amanda had another daughter, Eliza Jane born 4 June 1843. Moses became a Nauvoo Policeman, 29 December 1843, to guard the city night and day against the enemy (DHC Vol 6 p 150) Mobs were giving the Saints a hard time. The 27 of June 1844, the Prophet and Joseph his brother, Hyrum were murdered in cold blood at Carthage Jail. The children never forgot this sad event of their beloved Prophet. Amanda was in attendance in the meeting when the mantel fell on Brigham Young. On the 21 of September 1844, Amanda had a Patriarchal Blessing. She was alone so much of the time, she needed reassurance and protection. She received power to heal her children in the absence of the Elders. Son, Hyrum Smith was born 10 June 1845. Two months later little 6 year old Sidney died and is buried in the old Mormon Cemetery. So many children died of improper nourishment. Many people died of fever in Nauvoo. It came every summer, and hundreds never recovered. Nearly everyone who lived in Nauvoo more than a year, had a friend or loved one succumb to the fever. It came with warm summer weather, and departed with the first fall frost. Many figured the coming of the fever had something to do with the many river bottom swamps. The fever was more dreaded than the mobs, because there was nothing one could do to fight the fever once it got to you or your loved ones. In 1845, the temple was finished enough for services. December 10 1845 attic rooms of the temple were dedicated. 5,595 Saints endowments were preformed. The Saints were preparing to once again move west. Mobbing and persecution were continually mistreating the Saints, and over 100 homes were burned. Richard helped his father in dispersing of the granary. December 25 was a day long remembered by Joseph Sanders. The Mississippi River was frozen over and his father cut a hole in the ice for him to be baptized. 1 January 1846, Moses Martin received his Endowment in the newly finished Nauvoo Temple, and Amanda Armstrong Faucett, 3 January 1846, received her Endowment. They were sealed by Heber C Kimball, 20 January 1846. Many of the Saints received their endowment before going into the wilderness. 27,000 Saints were now living in Nauvoo. 295 of those Saints were endowed 3 February 1846. Brigham Young and others stayed in the Temple day and night to perform these ordinances. Four days later, more on February 7th, more attic rooms were dedicated. Early in the year, 1846 the Saints commenced to leave Nauvoo, fleeing from the mob, which soon took over the city. They were driven from their homes and property. John, 16 years old, helped his mother ready for the move, as his father and brother were attending to church duties. February, the Saints started across the Mississippi River. Sanders must have been among the first to leave. John remembered the mobbing and driving the Saints out of Nauvoo when neither his father nor his elder brother were home. He remembers his mother was sick, and all the younger children in the empty wagon as it clattered along over the rough and broken clods of frozen mud. His only garment, a long hickory shirt, no shoes, no hat, but to keep up the oxen he had to run. The sharp icy clods cut into his already chapped and bleeding feet. He had a hard time to keep from crying, so not to make his mother feel so badly. Spring brought rain, and this was a threat in Iowa as it brought the mud. There was a sea of black, grey, and brown mud. It rained every day during March and most of April. Wet, cold, slippery, and it was on everything; one couldn't get away from it. Many times the mud was waist deep. In February the Saints entered the mud, and in April emerged from it. The mud sucked its people to their knees, making them very humble. While traveling through Iowa, the exiled Saints were called upon to raise 500 men to participate in the war with Mexico. Richard wanted to join. Brigham Young turned him down. Richard was small in statue and had just turned 18 years old. He was told he was needed to help his parents and younger brothers and sisters. But Richard was not discouraged, and put on his father's boots, long coat and tall hat to prepare. Brigham Young said, "Well if you want to go that bad, you may go if you have your father's permission." Richard was placed in the Company "E". The Battalion provided their own clothing. The monies from the government for the clothing allowances provided the funds for supplies and equipment for the poor Saints to travel West. The Saints were also allowed to live on Indian land, cultivate the soil and travel unmolested. They built ferries and forts for those who followed West. On the 16th of May the Mormon Battalion marched away. This was the last look Amanda and Moses had of their son, Richard. He made the longest march in the history of the United States, over 2,000 miles from Kansas to San Diego, California. He fell in love with a beautiful California Spanish girl, named Antonia Ruelas, and they were married 12 January 1850. The Mormon Battalion served the government's and the Church's interest. President Young wrote in the fall of 1848, "If they had not gone we would not have been in the valley now." Little Eliza, Hyrum, and Sidney all died during the movement westward. What heart breaking experiences the Sanders family had with these little ones deaths, from lack of food and shelter. The Sanders were true to the faith during all the hardships, mobbing, trials, and moves. Eliza Jane Sanders died 25 June 1847, twenty one days after her 4th birthday. She was buried at Pigeon Grove, Kanesville, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. 20 January 1848, Moses signed a petition to the US Government for a Post Office in Kanesville (changed later to Council Bluffs) the edge of the wilderness. It was a gigantic undertaking for the brethern to move the Saints on Westward. Wagons and teams must be purchased, food, clothing, and items that the Saints would need in Utah. Under the direction of Orsen Hyde and other Church officials who had been stationed at Kanesville, had been making preparations for the immigration the year of 1850. This was the first year the Church used the Perpetual Emigration fund. 5,000 Saints 500 head of cattle New machinery 800 wagons 4,000 sheep Household goods The Sanders family traveled in an Independent Company, as he is not listed in the Church Chronology History. Jared Porter was over the 10 families where the Sanders traveled. Emma was riding the back of the wagon, watching the activity, when an Indian grabbed her by the hair and she screamed. The men rescued her, but she never rode in the back anymore. 101 days later, as they neared the Utah valley, Amanda's son David came out to meet them. This was the first news they had from the rest of the family since 1848. Mother Amanda was sick with pleurisy in her chest and it grew worse. Hurting so much to be bounced in the wagon, it was decided to send for Moses and a spring board. This would allow Amanda to ride with more ease. Moses had a place 12 miles south of the city of Salt Lake on the Jordan River. Moses went out to meet the company. Amanda settled at Union Fort. (A few miles south of Salt Lake.) At this time, Moses was inclosing a big field, making ditches and cutting poles from the canyon. NOTE: Amanda and her children are listed in the 1850 census in Iowa and in the Utah territory. In 1848, Moses Martin Sanders came into the Great Salt Lake Valley. President Young had left families along the Pioneer Trail to help the Saints that were yet to travel, in raising of and crossing the rivers, building, and etc. He was continually working in the interest of the Saints. Amanda had her last child, a son, Moses Martin Jr., on 21 February 1853, at Jordan, Union Fort. Amanda was 43 years old at this time. Amanda lived at the Fort while Moses went on another "mission" with the family. 7 April 1853, Moses received a Patriarchal Blessing under the hands of Patriarch Smith in Salt Lake City. On this day he was assigned to Captain John Nebeker's company. The family called in the new location the "Narrows" located near Fort Bridger. The first families equipped with farming implements, seeds, and other things necessary for established a new settlement. They arrived at Fort Bridger, 12 November 1853. The 2nd group left 15 November 1853, under the leadership of Captain Isaac Bullock. Colony consisted of 53 men and their families. They, together with the preceding company, settled on Smiths's Fork and called their town Fort Supply. Moses Martin, his four adult children, and his second wife, Jane, and her two adult children, and two grandchildren were part of the original company. More of the family came during the next four years. Some of these went back to Salt Lake. Moses and his second wife, Jane, were in Fillmore, Millard County at the time of the 1856 Census.* Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 17 2016, 19:26:27 UTC

Brother of William Hamilton Sanders and David James Sanders Husband of Mary Jane (Sparks) Sanderson — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Husband of Amanda Armstrong Armstrong (Faucett) Fausett — married January 12, 1826 in Maury County, Tennessee, USAmap Father of William Carroll Sanders, Richard Twiggs Sanders, John Franklin Sanders Sr., Rebecca Ann (Sanders) Sanderson, Martha Brown Sanders, David Walker Sanders Sr., Joseph Moroni Sanders, Sydney Rigdon Sanders, Emma Sanders, Eliza Jane Sanders, Hyrum Smith Sanders and Moses Martin Sanders Jr.

He married Amanda Armstrong Fausett January 12, 1826 in Maury County, Tennessee. They had twelve children: William Carroll Sanders, Richard Twiggs Sanders, John Franklin Sanders, Rebecca Ann Sanders, Martha Brown Sanders, David Walker Sanders, Joseph Moroni Sanders, Sidney Rigdon Sanders, Emma Sanders, Eliza Jane Sanders, Hyrum Smith Sanders and Moses Martin Sanders Jr.

Moses Martin recognized the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was baptized on 28 Jan 1835. He and his wife, Amanda Armstrong Fausett, gathered with the Latter-Day Saints at Farr West (1836), Quincy (1839), and Nauvoo, Illinois. Before Moses Martin left Nauvoo for Winter Quarters, he was blessed to lead prayers held in the Nauvoo Temple on 14 Mar 1846, 29 Mar 1846, and 31 Mar 1846. (Journal of History of the Church).

Moses Martin Sanders was a member of the Nauvoo Third Ward, and endowed at the Nauvoo Temple on Jan. 3, 1846.

Moses owned property near the home of the Prophet Joseph Smith on Partridge, Water, and Lumber Streets.

Moses came to Utah in 1848.

His family then removed to Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs, West Jordan (1850), Fairview (1858/9), and eventually St. George, Utah (1865) where Moses Martin helped build the first temple in the West dedicated to the Lord in this dispensation. Mary Allred, the mother of Moses Martin, was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the St. George Temple on the 21 Feb. 1877, and her endowments were performed on the 22 Feb. 1877.

Moses' son, Joseph Moroni, was born 25 Dec. 1836, the night his family was driven from their home in Farr West, Clay, Missouri. This same boy was baptized on his birthday, 25 Dec. 1844 in a hole cut out of the ice of the frozen Mississippi River just out of Nauvoo. Joseph Moroni married Hulda Charlotte Zabriskie, the daughter of Lewis Curtis Zabriskie, on 20 Aug. 1860 at Fairview, Sanpete, Utah. Lewis Curtis Zabriskie and his wife, Mary Higbee, came to Utah with the Garden Grove Company in 1851, and eventually settled in Spring City, Utah, which was originally called The Allred Settlement.

Moses married widow Mary Jane Sparks (Sanderson). She was the widow of James Sanderson and brought with her three children: Henry Weeks Sanderson, Mary Jane Sanderson and Maria Louise Sanderson.

In 1865, Moses Martin Sanders, and his family were called to the Dixie Cotton Mission. It was found that cotton could be raised quite successfully here, and there had been a factory built at Washington where the cotton could be turned into yard goods, some ready made clothing, and blankets which could be exchanged for other products throughout the state.

Moses Sanders bought the Middleton Ranch and built a house there just east of the bridge, which still stands in good condition.

Moses married widow Mary Jane Sparks (Sanderson). She was the widow of James Sanderson and brought with her

Step-children from his wife Mary Jane Sparks: Henry Weeks Sanderson, Mary Jane Sanderson and Maria Louise Sanderson.

Note: Birth place of Moses Martin Sanders was in Franklin, Georgia not in Illinois. This information comes from Elden G. Hurt. He did extensive research on Moses and Amanda and put all of his research in to a book called "Ancestry of Moses Martin Sanders and Amanda Armstrong Fausett" which is available on micro fiche through the Family history Library in Salt Lake, Utah. Could you please change the birth place to Franklin County Georgia. His Memorial# 25530356. Thank You Ruthann Grundie Wood

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