Name: John Lowe Butler II
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1844
Birth Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Parents: John Lowe and Caroline Skeen Butler
Death Date: 30 Dec 1898
Death Place: Richfield, Sevier, Utah
Arrival: 1852, Eli B. Kelsey
Spouse: Nancy Francetta Smith
Marriage Date: 23 Jun 1873
Marriage Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
10 children from this union.
Married 2nd: Sarah Sariah Johnson
Date: 10 Apr 1882 , Salt Lake City, Utah

John Lowe was the eighth of 12 children and just a small child when his parents started west.
After finally joining the Eli Kelsey Company, they made their way west and finally arrived in the Valley.
John was eight years by the time they arrived. He helped herd cattle and sheep as they crossed the plains. They settled in Palmyra (Spanish Fork) . He was a husky young man and worked at farming, hauling timber, caring for cattle, horses and sheep. By the time his father died, he became the head of the house.
The older children were married. At the age of 19, he moved the family to Paragonah , near Parowan, Utah .
A year later they moved on to Panguitch , becoming the first settlers there. The land was good but there was trouble with the Indians, which resulted in the Black Hawk War. The family left during the war but returned after. John participated in an exploration mission. Butler Wash was named for him.
At a dance one night he was hit on the head, which necessitated an operation to remove part of his skull to relieve the pressure. He recovered. He moved his family to Joseph , then Jerico, Elsinore , and finally Richfield . He spent six months in prison because of his polygamous marriage.
He was a good man and tried to help those around him.

Children of 1st wife:
John III, Md. Bertha Thurber.
Zettie , Md. John Christensen .
Sadie , Md. Gomer Morgan Richards .
Caroline , Md. Isaac Erin Thurber .
Horace Calvin , Md. Ida Gould .
Olive , Md. Jesse Loren Smith .
Jane , Md. Elmer Walter Nielson .
Kenion Taylor , Md. Thelma Neoma Peterson .
Eva , Bailey Allen Dixon .
Leland Thomas , Md. Helen Camille (Carter) Phelps .

Children of 2nd wife:
Six children three of whom lived to maturity. Denison "Den." Mary . Ann . Ross Butler

Name: Matthew Caldwell
Birth Date: 11 Jun 1822
Birth Place: Mt Vernon, Jefferson, Illinois
Parents: Curtis and Nancy Hood Caldwell
Death Date: 15 Mar 1912
Death Place: Dry Fork, Uintah, Utah
Arrival: 8 Sep 1850, Aaron Johnson Co.
Spouse: Barzilla Guymon
Marriage Date: 17 Oct 1843
Marriage Place: Carthage, Hancock, Illinois
Spouse's Birth Date: 31 Dec 1823
Spouse's Birth Place: Jackson County, Tennessee
Spouse's Death Date: 07 Nov 1869 Spouse's
Death Place: Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah
Married 2nd: Synthelia Guymon -No children
Date: 30 May 1852 , Salt Lake City, Utah
Born: 15 Feb 1837 , Mount Paris, Edgar, Illinois
Died: 27 Mar 1871 , Parowan, Iron, Utah
Married 3rd: Nancy Butler
Date: 8 May 1854 , Salt Lake City, Utah
Born: 14 Mar 1830 , Calhoun Co., Illinois
Died: 8 Dec 1895 , Heber, Wasatch, Utah
Married 4th: Amanda Jane Moore Ivie
Date: 20 Dec 1961 , Salt Lake City, Utah
Born: 12 May 1824 , Georgetown, Brown, Ohio
Died: 18 May 1863 , Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah
Married 5th: Nancy Mariah Lane
Date: 20 Nov 1865 , Salt Lake City, Utah
Born: 14 Feb 1838 , Bowling Green, Clay, Indiana
Died: 9 Nov 1920 , Vernal, Uintah, Utah

Matthew was an early settler of Adams and Hancock Counties in Illinois . He assisted Brigham Young in purchasing lands and later cattle and horses in Hancock County, Illinois . He joined the Mormon Battalion
as a private. He assisted in the burial of members of the Donner Party.
He came to the Valley with a wife and two children in 1850 and was captain of the second division of fifty.
He survived cholera on the plains and lived to build the first cabin in American Fork, Utah in 1850-51 .
He was the first mayor of Spanish Fork, Utah . He was one of the presidents of the 50th Quorum
of Seventies, captain in Walker and Black Hawk Indian Wars, colonizer in Nephi, Fountain Green, and Dry Fork, Utah . He was the Deseret agricultural agent at Fountain Green in 1862 , and delegate to Utah Legislature. He remained active in the church.

Children:
Thomas Jefferson , b. 17 Jul 1844 , Green Plains, Hancock, Illinois . Md. 17 Oct 1864 , Mary Ann Peterson . D. 19 Dec 1929 .
Almira Rachel , b. 7 Dec 1846 , Council Bluffs, Iowa , Md. George Washington Horace . D. 14 Jan 1919 . Curtis Washington , b. 14 Jan 1849 , Council Bluffs, Iowa . Md. 10 Sep 1869 , Almira Chase . D. 14 Feb 1926 , Emery, Utah .
Melissa Jane , b. 7 Apr 1851 , Spanish Fork, Utah . Md. 22 Mar 1869 , William Henry Adams , Jr. D. 12 Mar 1939 , American Fork, Utah
Matthew , b. 9 Mar 1853 , Springville, Utah . D. 28 Aug 1854 , Springville, Utah .
William Guymon , b. 25 Jun 1855 , Springville, Utah . Md. Eleanor Emerett Gillespie . D. 13 Nov 1943 , Salt Lake City, Utah .
Sarah Elizabeth , b. 5 Oct 1857 , Spanish Fork, Utah . Md. 19 Dec 1882 , Stephen Nathan Daniels . D. 6 May 1934 , Menan, Idaho
John Edgar , b. 31 Jul 1860 , Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah . Md. Mary Margaret King . D. 13 Jan 1941 .
Barzilla , b. 28 Mar 1863 , Fountain Green, Utah . D. 1 Jun 1863 , Fountain Green, Utah .
James Martin , b. 19 Nov 1864 , Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah . Md. Mary Anna Montana Abercrombie . D. 13 Dec 1911 , Parowan, Utah .

Children of 3rd wife:
Nancy Jane , b. 14 Dec 1855 , Spanish Fork, Utah . Md. 29 Jun 1879 , James Monroe Gardner Pyper . D. 7 Jul 1929 , Heber City, Utah
Harriet Rebecca , b. 5 Dec 1857 , Spanish Fork, Utah . Md. 23 July 1885 , Allen Cox . D. 18 Mar 1844 , Cornelius, Washington, Oregon .
Julia Ann , b. 16 Mar 1860 , Fountain Green, Utah . Md. 16 Nov 1871 , George Albert Chase . D. 19 Mar 1935 , Idaho Falls, Idaho .
Charles Butler , b. 26 Apr 1865 , Fountain Green, Utah . Md. 1885 , Lydia Ann Stevens . D. 19 Apr 1929 , Caldwell, Idaho .

Children of 4th wife:
Amanda Veturia , b. 13 May 1863 , Fountain Green, Utah . Md. 14 Dec 1882 , Thomas Henry Wilson . D. 26 Sep 1936 , Payson, Utah .

Children of 5th wife:
Matthew Lane , b. 11 Sep 1866 , Nephi, Juab, Utah . D. 10 Dec 1939 .
Noah Ellis , b. 19 Feb 1869 , Chicken Creek, Juab, Utah . Md. 25 Jun 1892 , Ida Louisa Bradley . D. 17 May 1949 , Maeser, Uintah, Utah .
David Clarance , b. 27 Oct 1872 , Fountain Green, Utah . Md. 23 Mar 1892 , Salley Viola Hall . D. 6 Aug 1939 , Salt Lake City, Utah .
George Wilding , b. 25 Jan 1875 , Fountain Green, Utah . Md. 25 Sep 1896 , Mary Olive Searle . D. 14 Jul 1963 , Salt Lake City, Utah .
Ernest Marcellous , b. 2 Mar 1878 , Fountain Green, Utah . D. 14 Aug 1889 , near Dry Fork, Uintah, Utah . Burton Lee , b. 20 Sep 1880 , Fountain Green, Utah . Md. 14 Feb 1900 , Unknown. D. 2 Mar 1953 , Vernal, Utah .
Maud Pack

Name: Hyrum Chapman
Birth Date: 03 Oct 1841
Birth Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Parents: Welcome and Susan Amelia Risley Chapman
Death Date: 22 Jan 1928
Death Place: Bluewatere, Valencia, New Mexico
Arrival: 23 Sep 1848, Heber C. Kimball
Spouse: Rhoda Ann Fullmer
Marriage Date: 10 Apr 1871
Marriage Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
Spouse's Birth Date: 15 Mar 1847
Spouse's Birth Place: Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa
Spouse's Death Date: 28 Jan 1917
Spouse's Death Place: Bluewater, Valencia, New Mexico

Hyrum 's parents joined the Church in New York and followed the church migration west to Nauvoo .
He immigrated to the Valley with his parents in 1848 . Within a year they moved to Manti , where they
lived for the next 13 years. Hyrum learned the stone cutter's trade and worked on the Salt Lake Temple
for several years, along with his father and brothers. He followed that trade most of his life.
He built a rock home after his family moved to New Mexico .
He was a veteran of the Black Hawk and Walker Indian Wars.
In 1871 , after his marriage to Rhoda , they lived in Salt Lake for a short time and then moved to Parley's Park. They moved to St. John's, Arizona , in 1884 where they lived for 11 years until their house burned down. Apparently after this, they moved to Bluewater, New Mexico , in 1895 , becoming one of the first LDS families to settle that area.
The last few winters of his life were spent at the Old Soldiers Home in Los Angeles, California . In the summer he came back to Utah with his children. He was a temple worker and active in the church all his life.

 Children:

Rhoda Susan , b. 27 Jan 1872 , Parley's Park, Utah . D. 24 Jan 1944 .
Hyrum David , b. 12 Nov 1874 , Salt Lake City, Utah . D. 5 Dec 1937 .
Welcome Octavis , b. 7 Feb 1876 , Parley's Park, Utah . D. 22 May 1945 .
Troop Eugene , b. 24 Mar 1878 , Parley's Park, Utah . D. 26 Sep 1930 .
Zera Marvin , b. 29 Nov 1881 , Salt Lake City, Utah . D. 22 Jun 1942 .
Winnie Belle , b. 30 Jul 1885 , St. Johns, Arizona . D. 22 Aug 1885 .
Minnie , b. 27 Feb 1887 , St. Johns, Arizona . D. 16 May 1963 .
Don Archibald , b. 18 Apr 1891 , St. Johns, Arizona . D. 14 Feb 1920 .
Elaine Schofield

Name: John Alan Compton
Birth Date: 23 Jan 1843
Birth Place: Johnson Co., Illinois
Parents: Allen and Mary Bettis Compton
Death Date: 16 Jun 1912
Death Place: Thatcher, Box Elder, Utah
Arrival: Bef. 1865
Spouse: Mary Elmira Miller
Marriage Date: 09 Dec 1865
Marriage Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
Spouse's Parents: Henry William and Elmira Pond Miller
Spouse's Birth Date: 10 Sep 1843
Spouse's Birth Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Spouse's Death Date: 02 Jan 1882
Spouse's Death Place: Beaver, Beaver, Utah
Married 2nd: Matilda Isabell Neibaur

John was baptized in 1861 and remained active in the church all his life. He and his first wife were married in the Endowment House. Their first child was born while they lived in Beaver . From there they moved to Farmington, Utah and then to Fillmore and then Deseret, Minersville and back to Beaver .
John was a good man who contributed much to the community and church as well as his family.

Children of 1st wife:
William Allen , b. 8 Apr 1868 , Beaver Dam, Utah . Md. 17 Nov 1894 , Esther Johnson .
John Franklin , b. 23 Aug 1869 , Farmington, Utah . Md. 24 Feb 1892 , Lucy Mae Bodily . D. 10 Mar 1947 , Los Angeles, California .
Mary Elizabeth , b. 2 Oct 1871 , Fillmore, Utah . Md. 27 Dec 1888 , John Thomas Fisher . D. 21 Jan 1949 , St. Anthony, Idaho .
James Arnold , b. 6 Jul 1873 , Fillmore, Utah .
Burton Oliver , b. 17 Apr 1876 , Deseret, Utah . Md. 28 Oct 1902 , Emma Erickson . D. 25 Oct 1950 , Salt Lake City, Utah .
Sarah Ann , b. 23 Dec 1877 , Minersville, Utah . Md. Frank Hess .
Idalucinda , b. 18 Dec 1879 , Horse Shoe Bend, Beaver, Utah .
George Henry , b. 2 Nov 1881 , Beaver, Utah . D. 7 Sep 1882 . Child. Submitted by: Mary Elmira Miller & Jay Whitmore

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