No Closed Gate
Month: June 2020
ALLEN, Elihu Moroni
About 1863 the Allen family settled in Huntsville, Weber, Utah where the last 7 children were born. Their first home in Huntsville was a two-story lo…
WARNICK, Anders Peter: Stalked by Cholera in 1866
From 1863 to 1875 cholera swept through Europe. The Austro-Prussian War in 1866 accelerated its spread. That fateful year 250 thousand people died fr…
WEAVER, Paul Kenneth
Paul Kenneth Weaver, 74, a member of the Cotton Mission Chapter, passed away peacefully June 25, 2020, due to Parkinson’s disease. He was born Nov.…
VAN ROSENDAAL, Keith
It breaks my heart to announce the passing of our dear past president, Keith Van Rosendaal on Thursday, June 25th of congestive heart failure while…
June 24, 2020 Message from the SUP National Executive Committee
On June 10th the Nominating committee completed interviews of prospective candidates for President-elect of the National Society of Sons of Utah Pioneers. The two candidates…
LOVELAND, Chester
This pioneer story originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 1980 issue of Pioneer Magazine Colonel Chester Loveland was raised on a farm in Ohio, and his…
ALLEN, Elijah
After he was discharged from the Battalion, he worked at the San Gabriel Mission in California. He went gold hunting on the way to Utah with other ba…
CHAMBERLAIN, Solomon
One of the first missionaries of the Restoration The earliest missionary of the Church to publicly teach about the Book of Mormon may very well…
ADAMS, Arza Madsen
A muggy evening added to Arza’s discomfort with the chills and fever. Malaria had driven him to bed for several days, even though he had much work …
June 17, 2020 Message from the National Executive Committee
On Wednesday 10 June the Nominating Committee met under the direction of the committee chairman, Tony Tidwell, to interview candidates for President-elect. Members are to…
COX, Amos: Brief life story
One day she said “If you will have Amos Cox administer to me I think I will get well.” Father was only 17 years old at the time and had never adm…
BARNEY, Lewis
He discovered that the Mormons were a religious people, however, at that time he cared nothing for religion. “The Methodists and the Presbyterians …
PARKER, John Jr.
John Parker Jr., was born February 14, 1812 in Chaigley, Lancashire, England, the sixth of ten children. As members of the Anglican Church, the Parker…
June 10, 2020 Message from the SUP National Executive Committee
SUP is a non-partisan society. Our goal is to live our lives so as to emulate the best traits of our faithful pioneer ancestors. President…
HIBBERT, Mary; Wife of William Smith
(As reported by Mary’s Daughters Mary-Ann McNeil, Alice Gatliff, and Rose Rasmussen,) Submitted by DeLoy F. Johnson About 4 July 1857, William took his four…
