SHERMAN, MOSES H.

Francis M. Mognett
1842-1918

(Go John), born in Pennsylvania, about 1837, of Italian [German] parents but passed his boyhood in New York City crossed the plains to the Nevada silver mines on the Comstock lode, where he made some money; enrolled at age 23 in Virginia City, Nevada territory, October 8 and mustered into service at Camp Union, Sacramento, California, November 14, 1861, to serve 3 years as Private, Company H, 5th California Infantry; occupation when enlisted, Miner; went with the Company by sea to San Diego, California, and was stationed there during February and March, 18621 marched via Camp Wright to Fort Luma
where he served as hospital attendant from May to October, 1862; left with the Company for Tucson in January and reported sick in hospital there in February, 1863 placed under arrest in Tucson, April 29, and marched with the Company to Las Cruces on the Rio Grande and thence to Franklin (EL Paso), Texas, arriving In June deserted from confinement at Franklin, Texas, July 29, 1863, and fled to Mexico where he joined the French and Mexican troops supporting the government of the Emperor Maximilian in Sonora after the defeat of the French invaders his life was saved by General Rafael Argueleo of the Mexican Amy who gave him asylum in his home in, Guymas and whose servants concealed him in a large clothes basket when Mexican soldiers came searching for him.

In Sonora Avers learned to speak the Spanish language fluently; he was married by a priest to an Opata Indian named Regina Trujillo (1843-1902) at .Basarac, in the District of Montezuma; she was a widow with two sons, Rosario and Inocente, and three daughters, Josef A, Ciracie and Crus; they had no other children he came with his family from Sonora to the Salt Valley and is listed there In the U. S. Census of 1870 as a farmer, age 33 in his "Phoenix Manuscript" James M. Barney tells of him as follows:

When the Hancock-Monihon building on the east side of First Avenue, a short distance south of Washington Street, was about completed—and which was to serve as the first real County Court-House—the Board of Supervisors finally decided that it was necessary to construct some kind of a jail for the safe and proper confinement of prisoners.

The plans and specifications for the proposed jail to be erected at the rear of the new adobe building, which was to serve as the County Court-House, were gotten up by Captain William A, Hancock.   The contract for its construction was awarded at the Supervisors meeting of October 11,1871—to John Averach, known by his comrades as "Go-John", who appeared to be the only bidder. His bid was for $1,000.00 which was accepted—with the understanding that the original specifications were to be changed to read as follows: There shall be one chimney, and the lockup and hall shall be plastered and white-washed,  and an additional sum of two hundred dollars shall be paid, making in all twelve hundred dollars—1/3 to be paid in warrants when the walls are completed and the roof on.

Mr. Averach carried out the contract as per agreement and thus became the builder of Maricopa County's a first jail.

By his contemporaries in the Salt River Valley, Averach was known as "Go-John", a title he acquired by virtue of the following incident, as told by the late Martin M. Elders: To the north of Cotten's place—across the alley where the Noble Building now stands—was one of the first buildings put up in Phoenix—a large adobe structure which was turned into the first dance-hall in Phoenix. It was conducted by John Aversch, who was known to everybody as "Go-John"

Aversch's wife was a native of Mexico, of very dark complexion, and spoke the English language rather imperfectly, her vocabulary being quite limited. One evening while Aversch and his spouse were driving in a small buggy along a country road, the former alighted and entered a watermelon patch that was handy, to pick a few watermelons for his own personal use. The wife remained seated in the buggy and seeing, in the distance, someone approaching the melon patch where her husband was busy selecting watermelons that were ripe she started shouting—" Go, John, Go John, "—as a warning of approaching danger;
John told the story of his adventure to his friends and from that day on John Aversch was known, far and near, by the so Briguet of "Go-John"."

At one time he operated the Half-Way House and ranch on the Tempe road; was variously engaged as a miner, freighter, trader, tobacco grower and lastly as a track gardener; died at his home two miles west of Tempe, Maricopa County, October 27, 1904; buried in the old Williams Cemetery, on the Tempe road, near the present site of the Tovrea packing plant,


SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Great Register of Maricopa County, A.T., 1881-98.
Parish, T.E. - History of Arizona, Phoenix, 1918, p. 151.
The adjutant General of the Amy - Military service records.
Orton, R.H, - Records of California Man in the War of the Rebellion, Sacramento, 1890, p. 710.
Barnay, J.M. Phoenix Manuscript
The Arizona Republican. Phoenix, January 3, 1903 and October 29, 1904.
The Tempe News, November 4, 1904


Louis Pinkney Cole or “Pink” as everyone called him, was born on his father’s cattle ranch near Sam Saba, TX. On Dec. 24, 1861, in 1865, the family moved to California, on to Oregon for a time, and back to California again. After a short stay in California, they crossed the desert to Globe, Arizona, in 1881

At Globe “Pink” helped his father in the livery stable and feed business until 1885, when he went to Payson and cowboyed for Houston Brothers. Then in 1889, “Pink” made a deal to run George Gates’ cattle on shares, on the Rye and Deer Creek range.

1893 was an important year in the life of “Pink” Cole, since it was then that he acquired both a wife and a cow outfit. He bought out Gates at Gisela, and established his own Bar T.Bar brand. He then married Dora Stewart of Payson. Since there was no minister in that isolated place, they were married by Justice of the Peace Elmo Pyle on Jan. 10,1893.

For a time, the Coles lived on the ranch at Gisela, but when the children came, they bought a 20 acre ranch in Tempe and moved there.

In the late ‘90’s, a prolonged drought struck Arizona. Everybody lost many cattle, even though they cut cottonwood and willow trees so that the cattle could feed on the leaves. The drought finally broke in the winter of 1904, and as “Pink” expressed it, “the snow fell so deep it came clear up to Bills Colcord’s pockets,” And Bill is a tall man.

In 1915, after 30 years on the Tonto range, “Pink” sold out to Johnny & Charles Chilson, and retired to Tempe. He passed away in that city on July 26,1926.

Surviving Louis Pinkney Cole are his widow, Mrs. Cole, of Tempe;
4 daughters, Mrs. Ney Miles, of Miami, Arizona, Mrs. Kelley Moore of Young, Arizona, Mrs. Joseph Refanes of Phoenix, and Mrs. J.B. Riddle, who lives in Indiana, and 2 sons, William of Tempe, and Ben of Miami.

Source: Pioneers and Well Know Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2


My parents were Hyrum Smith Phelps and Mary Elizabeth Bingham Phelps.   I was born August 26, 1877 at Montpelier, Bear Lake county, Idaho.   I was 16 months old when my family moved to Mesa. The first house that father built was on the corner of second Ave and Hibbert.

Among my first recollections of this place was the first Sunday School I attended.   It was held in the school house, a one room adobe.   Hannah Peterson (Miller) was the teacher.   We recited the alphabet from cards.   We were seated on a low bench in the front of the room.   I attended my first primary with my sister Lucy.   We were very devoted to each other.   Each week we anxiously waited while the secretary read the program for the following week but we never got put on the program.   I never went anywhere without Lucy.

When I was nine years old the school put me on a program and every child in the room was given a part but me„   I felt disgraced and I never even told my mother,   I always remembered the feeling I had and in the sixteen years I presided over the Primary I always favored the backward child and never slighted anyone to my knowledge.

Father built a long room on the back of the house to accommodate the growing family,   Grandmother Bingham lived with us a while before moving into a house where the Sixth Ward now stands, (On the corner of Mesa Drive and University),   We children were staying with her after father was taken to the Yuma penitentiary. The officers were there one night looking for mother, they had a warrant and grandma wouldn't take it so they threw it on the floor, I thought she wasn't very polite.

When I was twelve years old mother gave me an accordion for Christmas,   I soon learned to play it.   A few years later she and Lucy gave me a larger one which I kept until after I was married.

One time Father went to Tempe and bought a bolt of cloth called Zephyr gingham, it was a beautiful plaid.   As I remember five of us girls had a dress alike,   Lucy and I always dressed alike   Most people thought we were twins.

The first MIA class I attended had only one class for everyone,   Priest Charles R Robson told the story of Joseph Smith's first prayer.   That was the first time I had heard it and I have never forgotten how it impressed me.   Soon after this Lucy and I was asked to sing at one of the meetings.   We sang "Write Me a Letter From Home"   After that I think we were asked to sing at every public entertainment held in Mesa until after I was married, Lucy and grandma Phelps bought us an organ which I learned to play by ear.   Father and I played for the dances at Lehi a few times. I earned $2,50 over the Christmas holidays playing out there. I left my organ there during that time so I wouldn't have to carry it back and forth.

Lucy and I joined the choir when I was sixteen and I sang with them twenty years.   I memorized 200 hymns besides the anthems we sang.

I well remember the first dress I made, it was a real pretty blue and I wore a blue ribbon around my waist, that mother's sister Anne LeSueur sent to me because they told her I looked so much like her.   In the summer of about the year 1891 there was a conference held at Pine Top and mother and Aunt Clarinda, in company with quite a large group of saints attended, Brother William took them. It took six weeks to make the round trip, Amy was four years old. While they were gone I made Amy a dress, I made it a plain tight waist with a full skirt that came nearly to her ankles, and so tight I could hardly fasten it.   She had it on when mother came and when she saw her she began to cry, she said Amy looked like we had starved her.

One night at a dance John S. Allen, known as Seymour came into our lives.   He rushed across the floor, came up to me and said, "Come on Caddie let's dance."   Then he saw his mistake and after an apology asked me to dance.   From then on he never failed to dance with me and Lucy.   Later on he began making regular visits to our home but we did not know which one of us he was most interested in.   We had a lot of good times together.   One night he asked if he could take me home.   Up to this time he had never taken us any place.   He had a lady friend and we were just side issues, but after this night we knew which were his favorites.

John S and I kept company for about nine months and were married 2 October I895 in a quiet wedding in our home on the corner of Hibbert and East First Ave.   Only close relatives were invited. The ceremony was performed by Bishop James Mailen Home.   We stood at the head of the table and guests were seated around it ready to partake as soon as the ceremony ended.   Mother and Lucy cooked a very fine dinner.   When we went through the kitchen to be married Mother and Lucy were standing by the stove, Mother was crying and Lucy was looking sad but I couldn't see anything to feel sad about. One week after we were married we started to the St.George temple in company with Eli and Medora Openshaw.   It took six weeks to make the round trip.

When we returned home we started housekeeping in the two roomed house built for Fannie and Warner.   It was here our first child, Ashael was born 31 July 1896& At this time fast meeting was held on Thursday afternoon and he was blessed by Grandpa Allen, Blanche was born 15 Feb 1898,   When she was four months old John S was called on a mission to the Southern states.   He left in June and I milked from eight to ten cows while he was gone and my sister Esther stayed with me to help care for the babies, Mother was very good to me and I wondered how I could get along without 'her. I did all of the sewing for her six daughters, Lucy, Hattie, Amy, Esther, Clara and Gertrude, At this time Lucy was working in Johnson's store and did a lot to help the family. I was blessed all the while John S was gone and we all enjoyed good health.   When it was time for him to be released I went to Utah in company with my parents and Father Allen and his wife Annie. Uncle Perry Bingham met us at Price, Utah and took us to Vernal where I stayed until I heard from John S and then I went to meet him in Cove,

After we returned hone John S and his brother Warner went in partners and purchased eighty acres of land on the base line, Hyrum Loren was born 7 Oct 1901 and Barbara was born 5 Oct 1903 On 26 July 1907 Gove Liahona was born and John S went on another mission,.   Tills time to the Eastern States,   I was left with more responsibilities and work but Ashael was a big help and one of my sisters stayed with me most of the time.

John S came home in 1908 in June and Mary was born 1 Sept 1910 On 27 March 1912 Eldred Phelps was born, but only lived six weeks. This was the first real sorrow to came to use   8 July 1919 Russell Hoopes was born.

On 2 Dec 1915 Ashael left to go on a mission to the Southern States,   Ben Rich was born and 5 Nov 1917 Joseph Seymour was born while Ashael was still on his mission.

When Joe was about eight months old I took a little motherless baby Robert Southern (four months) to raise, I kept him nine months and his aunt Mrs, Ellingbon wanted him so bad J,S. told me I shouldnot be selfish and keep him so I let her have him.

After several years the depression came on and we decided Seymour's half brother Benjamin should live with us for a couple of years.   Jose sent him on a mission.   Also Charley, Seymours oldest brother lived with us quite a bit.

Delia, our youngest was born, 11 Nov 1920, four days after Loren had left for a mission in Louisiana. We struggled along for several years in the depression and decided to rent our ranch as the boys wanted to go to school and it was too much for Seymour to run it alone We bought a home at 48 West Second Street in Mesa and lived there for more than a year.

John S and his brother Jim took a job building a fence along the railroad,   It was at this time when the next great sorrow came when Delia died,   Nov 21, 1925.

We sent Gove on a mission to the Eastern States and in 1935 we sent Russell to the Samoan Islands to fill his mission. Before he returned home we sent Ben to Argentina for a mission. All our family have very fine companions and have been sealed in the temple.   In all our family gatherings they are with us 100?.   We are very proud of our family and their families and always pray for their success in righteousness.

We held our Golden Wedding Anniversary 29 Oct 1945. The first time all of our family had been together for a long time. For the celebration Ashael came from a Spanish American mission, his wife Ida from Los Angeles, Russell from Kirtland, New Mexico and Mary from Vallejo, California.   We had a dinner at the ranch with our ten children, their companions and 27 grandchildren. It was a lovely time.   After this celebration, Ida was called to labor with Ashael on his mission and they took their son George with them.

Our mother was very strict about us attending our duties and being punctual.Because of this the Sunday School superintendent called on me to be a substitute teacher while still quite young. When I was 17 I attended conference.   At this time they reorganized the Stake YLMIA and I was surprised when they sustained me as stake secretary.   I served in this capacity for twelve years and under five presidents:   Ann Eliza Leavitt, Jannett Johnson, Lula McDonald, Fanny Dana and Mary Hibbert.   Soon after I was released I was chosen stake secretary for the Relief Society.   I held that position for about six years and was released to be president of the Mesa First Ward Relief Society.   I was In this position for about a year when we moved to Gilbert.   There was no Gilbert ward then so we were in the Chandler ward.   After this I spent about sixteen years as president of the Primary in Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa.   I was president of the Primary at the same time I was superintendent of Religion Class in the Gilbert Ward.   At this time my son John was attending Gilbert High School and he assisted me in Religion Class.   We rented our ranch and bought a heme in Mesa.   At this time I was president of the Primary in Gilbert and Bishop Haymore Sr. asked me to preside there until my daughter Barbara came.   This I did and at this time I was made president of the Mesa First Ward Primary,   I presided over both primaries for about six weeks.   I have been president the Gilbert Ward Relief Society two different times, second counselor in the Mesa First Ward to Grace Nielson and second counselor to Adelaide Peterson in the stake primary, and held several other positions.   Now at this time, I am a Relief Society district teacher and a Guide teacher to four boys in the primary of the Mesa Ninth Ward.   I am very thankful for the many opportunities I have had to serve.

March 1942 was the Relief Society Centennial year and the General Board requested that pioneer stories be brought before the public as much as possible.   At that time I was president of the Gilbert Ward Relief Society and read several good stories and decided to put them into a pageant.   I had fine cooperation and it turned out to be a success.   We played it in six different wards, I also wrote an Easter and Aaronic Priesthood pageant which was very successful.   In doing this work I received some of the greatest joy in my life.   Another thing I enjoyed was putting on Primary programs with the children.   There was a lot of work doing these things but when it was over there was unspeakable joy that came to us seeing the happiness that came to the children.

The Lord has been good to me for which I am grateful. We have been relieved of pain through prayer and being administered to many times.   My first relief came to me when I was first married, I had an ulcerated tooth and thought I could stand it no longer, John S administered to me and relief came instantly.   Another time I was alone on the ranch with the little children,   I became very sick the pain in my head was so bad, part of the time I was not conscious.   John was nine years old, he went off by himself and prayed for me.   All at once a quivering feeling went through my body and with it the pain,   I couldn't account for it until he told me he had prayed for me.   John had been instantly relieved twice when he had gathered ears.   One time when we had been helping the Chandler Ward pay off their debt on the piano by chopping maize and came home late we found Loren crying with pain.   As he drove the cows around the haystack they loosened the derrick fork and it swung around before he knew it striking him on the leg and puncturing his leg into the bone,   The pain was so severe he could not stand to have us walk across the floor.   He immediately called for his father to administer to him.   The pain left as he took his hands from his head and it never returned.   For all of these and many more blessings too numerous to mention, I am grateful.

Barbara and Seymour filled an Indian mission at San Tan in the year 1948 and 49.   They celebrated their Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary in 1955.   She passed away 31 January 1957 in Mesa, Ariz.


The life of Elizabeth Adelaide Hoopes Allen is a series of faith promoting incidents, which take their place along side those of many other faithful pioneers who lived in the early days of the Church.

She was the daughter of Warner Hoopes and Priscilla Gifford, and was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, September 9, 1847. If not the first, she was one of the first babies born in a humble pioneer wagon, as her parents, in company with other Saints, were driven from their home in Missouri. The early part of her life was spent amid the trials and tribulations experienced by thousands of other faithful saints. Years afterward she related many of her interesting experiences to her children, one of which follows:

"My father was a shoemaker by trade, and my mother was a woman of great faith and energy.   At one time, about the 1855, we moved into Buchanan County, Missouri, near St. Joseph, and worked at burning charcoal.   Here we became quite prosperous.   My mother's health was very poor, and they hoped that this change of climate would hasten her recovery.

"Even in this part of the world we found a strong sentiment against the saints and their religion, and my father had an experience which taught him it was better to take counsel of those called of God.   One night we entertained an Elder McGaw who had stopped at our place on his return trip from a mission to England.   He told father that he felt impressed that he, my father, should remove his family immediately to Florence, Nebraska and there prepare to immigrate to Utah.   He repeated the advice that night and again the next morning.   After he had started away, he returned and advised him to go right away and leave his family to dispose of the property and follow after.   But my father was loathe to leave this prosperous situation and heeded not the counsel.   About a week later a non Mormon family was burned in their house and the Mormons were accused of committing the deed.   Four of the brethren were arrested, but were proven innocent and released.   However, the decision of the court did not satisfy the hellish mob, which then made plans to kill them. The  brethren were warned by a friend, but my father didn't believe any harm would befall him.   The sheriff of Buchanan county called for my father and offered him protection, and yet he refused to accept, for he 'knew of no enemies' he said.   But after a few days when he had reconsidered, he began to feel a little uneasy, and one night he felt that he had better not be found at home. Consequently he left for the woods in back of the house, with the understanding that should friends come, my mother was to call him; if enemies should come she was to blow the dinner horn, signifying that he should hasten farther Into the denseness.

"Some time during the night my mother was awakened by some voices outside.   She listened and recognized the voices of the mob making plans to take my father away.   After they had stationed their guards at the doors and windows with the intention of 'shooting him down' should he attempt to escape, she arose and taking the dinner horn, blew three loud blasts.   The leader of the mob, thinking it a signal for him to return, entered and wrested the horn from her and blew it repeatedly.   Finally my mother told him that the longer and louder he blew the horn, the farther and faster my father was going In the opposite direction.   The mob grew more angry, but she told them that had they come like gentlemen, she would have called him and he would have returned.   Furiously they took to the woods where they hunted all night for father and a Brother Lincoln, but without avail.   The next day they returned and tried to persuade my mother to 'give up that terrible religion', saying that if she would do so, she and her children would be well cared for. My mother's answer was an inspiration to me.   She said, 'My husband and religion mean more to me than money, or anything money can buy'. They cursed her and used vile language as they took their departure. We children scattered hot coals in the yard in hopes that if they returned they would get burned.

"The following night my father and Brother Lincoln returned and were taken to prison by the sheriff for protection from the mob. They remained there for ten months and were then proven innocent and released.   Thus the money my father had accumulated was spent for lawyer fees and we were reduced to a state of poverty, all of which might have been averted had father seen fit to take the counsel of the servant of the Lord.   However, mother was energetic and made willow baskets for us children to sell to help sustain our lives. Our last cow was sold to pay our steamboat fare to Florence, Nebraska, where we waited sometime for my father to Join us."

Elizabeth Adelaide inherited a great deal of energy, and like her mother was ever ready to do things to help.   She was about nine years of age when they left Nebraska to start across the plains to Utah.   They had secured means to emigrate from her Uncle Hyrum Hoopes in Florence.   She helped to care for her mother's children and the baby was her special charge, for her father was ill throughout the exodus and her mother had to drive while the children drove the loose cattle,   A Brother Bovier said to mother one night, Sister Hoopes, if you could tie the calf at night, you would have the milk for your children" but he didn't offer to assist with the chore, so little Elizabeth Adelaide, always up and doing, undertook the task.   She succeeded In getting the rope around the calf's neck, but when it began to run, her strength was insufficient to handle the Job; the calf pulled through the slough and brush and rough road until she had to let go.   But she did her best although help was necessary before she succeeded in tying the calf.

They arrived in Salt Lake City in 1857 and located soon after in Bountiful, where they lived for a short time, then moved to Cache Valley to locate permanently.

Although her mother bore nine children, only four lived to grow to maturity.   She was one of the larger ones and was assigned to be her father's helper.   She herded the sheep and cattle and helped with the outside work in general.

At the age of seventeen she met Charles Hopkins Allen, who so admired her winsome and energetic ways that he desired her for a helpmate.   Although he was seventeen years her senior, she seemed to share his feeling, for she consented to become his wife and they were married the 15th of June In 1864.

Often the Indians would enter the settlement and take liberties and commit depredations which were unwarranted.   On one occasion, while her husband was away getting their winter's supply of wood from the canyon, two Indians strolled into their yard and through the door, ordering Elizabeth to give them something to eat Her nature was not of a nervous type and so, while some women under like circumstances might have been frightened, she displayed no timidity.   She was preparing them a "handout" when she noticed one's gaze riveted on her rifle, which was hanging on the wall. As he took a step toward the gun she discerned his intention and drew the gun herself.   He immediately grabbed a hatchet out of the wall and raised it, as she gave him an unexpected shove.   It was so forceful that it landed him outside the door onto a board with a nail in it where he parted with a bit of his gaudy colored blanket.   As is the nature of the Red Man, his admiration for her bravery recompensed him for the humiliation he had received, and they took themselves off without giving her any more trouble. After a few years of residence in Richmond, Utah they moved three miles north into Cove where they made themselves a very beautiful home.   While living there five other children were born to them—four girls and one boy.

Elizabeth Allen was of a very friendly disposition and her doors were always open to welcome her friends and relatives. The young people in the community felt free to mingle with her and her children, and came and went as if it were their home.   If the number of beds was insufficient to accommodate all the visitors, pallets were made on the floor and none seemed to find them uncomfortable .

She always found pleasure In having the elderly women in her heme and sought to make them comfortable.   She felt that she was repaid by the faith promoting stories they told her children. She promoted the spirit of home entertainment to keep the children under the family roof.   She possessed the spirit of home evening long before the Prophet of the Lord recommended the practice through? it the Church.   "Playing Primary" was a delight for which the children anxiously and conscientiously prepared to make a success. Each member, from the oldest to the youngest, on such occasions, took his part and felt it a dignified opportunity to make others happy.   Should it happen that Grandma Alverston or Grandma Brady or any other visitors were present, they were given a part on the program and felt it an honor to participate.

The ability to "do things", displayed in her youth, did not desert her in later life.   Situations often arose which gave her ample opportunity to use that ability.   On one occasion when her husband and his brother were on a freighting trip, leaving her and her sister-in-law to keep up the home, the women decided that they must have some meat to eat.   Mary said she would knock the pig In the head if Elizabeth would cut its throat.  They agreed, and when the water was hot and everything was ready, Mary took the ax and entered the pig pen.   She raised the ax and let it fall upon the head of the pig, but her strength was not great and she had failed to extinguish the life of the animal, and it ran crazily around the pen squealing.   Elizabeth saw Mary hurriedly climb from the pen and heard her screams, then she came running to the rescue. Carrying with her a butcher knife, she heroically entered the pen and cut the pig's throat, thus ending the animal's life and stopping its suffering.

We women of our modem days cannot seem to understand Just now our mothers and grandmothers played the part of Manufacturer in addition to their everyday household duties, and the rearing and caring for their large families.   Elizabeth Allen was one of the women who were not strangers to the spinning wheel and the loom.   Like many others in those days, the late hours of many a night found her seated at the spinning wheel or loom, busily engaged in preparing raiment for her children, her mate and herself, while the family was peacefully sleeping.

Often she would do two duties at the same time, or as we often say, "kill two birds with one stone."   If she found a few minutes to rest her weary limbs, her fingers were rapidly wielding the knitting needles, shaping the yarn into stockings for the winter's use.   So proficient and dexterous did she become that she made a stocking while enroute to Relief Society and Thursday morning Fast Meetings.

About the year 1882, President Young had been calling saints to dispose of their homes in the north and to emigrate to Arizona and other southern places to start new settlements so as to make room for the increasing population there.   The spirit of going to the new country seemed to grip the minds of many, and because Brother Allen had been suffering with rheumatism, he persuaded his good wife that it would be to their advantage to go to Arizona, the land of sunshine.   He had learned of many of the virtues of that sunny land from his brother Elijah who was a member of the Mormon Battalion, and had passed through there in the late 40's. Therefore, early in October, 1882, with two wagons and four horses to each, a light hack and one team of nice fat horses, they left their home in Cove and began their travels to the land of Arizona.   Although she loved her home very dearly, Elizabeth Allen entered into the project with a loyal acquiescence, for the health of her husband meant much to her and she knew that they could build again as they had done before.   Her services were required to drive the team on the hack as the bigger boys and the father had to handle the other two outfits. During these six weeks of traveling, her knitting needles were ever busy, as she permitted her horses to follow along behind the wagons. On the 13th of November, 1882 they entered what is now Mesa, Arizona.   The first friends to meet and welcome them were the Stewarts, Standages and Pews, all of whom they had previously known in Utah.   They camped for a few days, but soon bargained with Henry J. Horn for a quarter section of land on which there was already built an adobe house with one room.

The following summer, in July, another baby girl was born and she was but a few weeks old when a plague of smallpox increased the trials of the faithful pioneers in Mesa.   The Aliens continued to exhibit their ever ready faith and courage as they went out among the sick, he to administer by the power of the Holy Priesthood, and she to help in the many ways a willing and practical nurse can help in times of sickness.   Although they and three of their children were exposed, none took the dreaded disease.   Often times when she could not be spared from her home, she took into her home duties which would relieve the suffering of responsibility,   When the Stewarts were stricken with smallpox, she took their three small children and cared for them until the parents died.   That summer was a very sad one, for each week found the little colony decreased by two or more of its inhabitants.   No doctors were available and the saints were forced to rely on the help of the Lord and their own experiences. These sad experiences and trials seemed to draw the people nearer together and to unite them In the faith.

The following few years brought three mere children into the Allen home.   When the last, which was the fourteenth, was born, November 13, 1889, Elizabeth Adelaide passed through the valley of the shadow of death into the Great Beyond to rest from the constant struggles of this earthly life, and to await the reward of the faithful.

She had often expressed her desire to visit her old home in Utah, but for some good reason, no doubt, she was denied the realization of this. Her entire life was devoted to the service of others.   Like the Master, Himself, she visited the weak and suffering, the poor and the needy, the widows and the fatherless, to administer to their needs, And in doing this she never neglected her devoted husband and loving children.

She was active in Church affairs.   Being a natural born teacher and disciplinarian, she was ever successful.   She possessed unlimited faith, courage and charity.   She was companionable and cheerful, radiating her good will wherever she went.   She gave up her life to give life to another.   Surely it must be said of her that in as much as she did it unto the least of His, she did it unto Him.   Her influence on her family lives on forever.

The expression of love and esteem which others held for her was manifest by the attendance at her funeral services, Henry Rogers said, "the sick, the needy, and those bowed down in sorrow will miss Sister Allen most." Sixty carriages followed to the cemetery which was the largest funeral procession at that time. Her last conscious request was that tithing be paid on the butter she had sold that she might feel that she was square with the Lord.


J.W. EVANS No man occupies a more responsible position or is intrusted with greater vital interests than a real estate agent, who has the confidence of the community in which he resides. The successful development of any new section of country is largely attributable to the energetic, reliable and conscientious real estate dealer. Mr. J. W. Evans has been residing in this Territory about eighteen years. He is the pioneer in Phoenix in the real estate and loan business, in which he is pre-eminently successful building up for himself an extensive and lucrative business so that he is now considered to be the best authority on real estate matters in Central Arizona. He is an earnest and persistent worker in the development of the resources of his county and enjoys the unbounded confidence and esteem of his fellow men. As a money leaner, he is cautious and conservative. His business is one of the most extensive in the Territory. His office, 20x70, occupies one of the most conspicuous corners in the city, being on the ground floor of the Porter building, southwest corner of Washington and Center streets. Mr. Evans is President of the Grand Canal .Company, the Maricopa Canal Company, the Salt River Valley Canal Company—three of the principal canals in the valley—and is also President of the New England Land Company, a wealthy corporation; and a Director in the Arizona Canal Company, whose canal is one of the largest irrigating canals in the United States. He is also a Director in the Arizona Improvement Company, the wealthiest corporation in Arizona, and President of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, a body whose intelligent and progressive policy has made Maricopa County what it is.
Source: Arizona A Review of its Resources H.C. Stinson and W.N. Carter Compliers 1891



During the greater part of his active and successful life. Colonel Price has made a practical and scientific study of farming, an appreciation of which was instilled into his enthusiastic boyhood days by a father who knew the value and utility of the soil, and had found it a sure compensation for wisely and persistently directed effort. Although not one of the earliest comers to the Salt River valley, having arrived in 1891, he is yet one of the most enthusiastic, as are most who have formerly been dependent upon the changeful conditions of the east.

Of Scotch and English extraction. Colonel Price was born in Huntingdon county. Pa., July 4, 1843, and is a son of Daniel and Sophia (Edwards) Price, also born in Pennsylvania. Fortunate in his educational advantages, Joshua E. studied in public schools, a normal and a select school and qualified as a teacher when already quite young. His first aspirations towards self-support were along educational lines, and previous to the breaking out of the war he taught in the schools of his native county for four terms. The harmony of an otherwise uneventful life terminated in August of 1862, when he enlisted in Company F. One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served in the army of the Potomac for nine months. Company F participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, South Mountain. Antietam, and in the last-named battle he was wounded in the head. In April of 1863 he was discharged from the service, and in January of 1864 re-enlisted in Battery E, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, which also was attached to the army of the Potomac. He was present at the fall of Richmond, and at the battle of Petersburg was wounded in the side and incapacitated for a short time. July 5, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., having been raised during the second enlistment from a private to the rank of second lieutenant in the First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, as a result of meritorious services during the siege of Petersburg.

Following the restoration of peace. Mr. Price went, in January of 1866, to Hamilton county, Ohio, where for a time he again engaged in educational work, and subsequently turned his attention to farming. Beginning with 1873, he lived for a time in Doniphan, Brown and Nemaha counties, Kansas, and became prominently identified with the political and other affairs of Kansas. for nine months he served as quartermaster-general of the department of the Kansas Grand Army of the Republic, under Gen. Ira F. Collins, the department commander. Later he served as adjutant-general for four months, having in both capacities held the rank of colonel. As mayor of the city of Sabetha, Kans., he served for one year, and was for two years a member of the city council.

In Ohio, December 5, 1867, Mr. Price married Alice J. Cosbey, a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, and a daughter of David L. and Hannah (Lyon) Cosbey.  Of this union there have been two children: Eleanor, who is the wife of Dr. Charles H. Jones, of Tempe, Ariz., and Ralph, who is living at home. On his well conducted ranch in the vicinity of Tempe, Colonel Price is carrying on large agricultural interests, and has been gratifyingly successful in his chosen occupation. With the peculiar enterprises which are indigenous to .Arizona and California, as artificially irrigated centers, he has been greatly interested, and helpfully studious, and was for five years president of the southern branch of the Tempe canal, and for one year a director in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company. He is a Republican in politics, and. is a member of the John A. Logan Post No. 7, G. A. R., at Tempe, and has been commander of the post. In the religious world he has wielded an extended influence for good, and is connected with the First Congregational Church of Tempe, in which he was formerly superintendent of the Sunday-school for seven years. Of all the dwellers of the valley none is held in higher esteem than Colonel Price, nor are any more appreciated as friend and large-hearted citizen, and general promoter of the public good.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Arizona Chapman Publishing 1904

A. J. HEAD, pioneer of Hassayampa, and president of Head Lumber Company, has cut more timber in Arizona than any other one man. He is not only a builder by profession but a constructor through force of habit. He was one of the first mill men in Arizona, having come here by stage in 1876. He comes of a line of machinists, brought to Arizona considerable experience as a mill man, and when the great mills were started at Hassayampa was foreman of the Clark and Adams mills for several years. He was born on an Alabama plantation in 1848, and having attended little country district schools, his educational advantages were very limited. His father died at Mobile in the Confederate Army in 1864. He continued to work on the cotton plantation until 1870, when he engaged in saw mill work with his uncle in the southern part of the state, and for six years continued to work in and about saw mills in Alabama and Florida. He left Florida in June, 1876, and arrived in Prescott, August 4th, where his first job was making hay with a hoe near Camp Verde for government post, after which he carried a hod for one week, and moulded brick for one month, when he secured work at his regular occupation, as head sawyer in a saw mill, and has been in that and lumber business since, except from 1886 to 1890, when he was postmaster of Prescott. During this time he bought a 'ranch, improved it, and sold it at a good profit. He built the Prescott postoffice building, as well as many other notable buildings in the city, and is owner of the Head Hotel, a theater and much other valuable property. The Head Hotel, Prescott, which is conducted mainly by Mrs. Head, is one of the most thoroughly comfortable in Arizona. The rooms are large, airy and well kept, and each one has running water both hot and cold. It is conveniently and pleasantly located, and is consequently one of the most popular hotels in the section for permanent or transient trade. Mrs. Head, who prior to her marriage in 1884, was Miss Susie Tigh, is a native of Wisconsin. She was well known as a pioneer of the territory and was known throughout Arizona as one of the first teachers at Ash Fork and one of the best educated women in the territory. She is a graduate of the State Normal School at Platteville, Wisconsin. They have one daughter, Viva, who has been graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and has been in Europe for the past two years studying grand opera.
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JOHN C. PHILLIPS, Judge of the Superior Court of Maricopa County during the first term of statehood, also served as Judge of the last Territorial Probate Court in that county. Judge Phillips has established a reputation for fairness, and has always polled a large vote among the ranchers and cattlemen, having been familiar with all phases of business in the Salt River Valley. Under his jurisdiction many cases have been settled out of court as the result of the diplomacy and mediation of Judge Phillips, whose knowledge of human nature has proven of valuable assistance in the work of meting out justice. He is married and makes his home in Phoenix, where he is well known as a devoted church worker.
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LEON S. JACOBS, Representative from Maricopa County to the First State Legislature, is a native of this State, having been born in Phoenix June 27, 1886. He is the youngest member of the Legislature. Mr. Jacobs was educated in the public schools of Phoenix, graduated from the High School, and afterward from Lamson Business College, after which he was for a time with the Stoddard Incorporating Company. He was Secretary to the Arizona Anti-Joint Statehood League, and was Assistant to the Secretary of the First Annual Arizona Territorial Fair. He has also served as Deputy County Treasurer and Tax Collector, and Assistant Clerk to the Board of Supervisors under three Boards. Mr. Jacobs is a practicing attorney in Phoenix, having been recently admitted to practice in the State and is at present associated professionally with Frank H. Lyman. Although but 25 years old when elected to the Legislature, Mr. Jacobs has proven himself one of the most intense and thorough workers in the House, and in the regular session was active on several of the important committees, in which his keen, analytical mind and comprehensive grasp of things made him a valuable member. In the special session he was a member of the noted "Ax" committee, which thoroughly investigated the matter of public expenditures. He was also member of the following committees: Judiciary, Enrolling and Engrossing, and Code Revision, being Chairman of the latter. Mr. Jacobs is a 2nd degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, and both socially and politically is one of the best known young men, not only in his home city, but through much of the State.
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BENTON DICK, Attorney-at-Law, Phoenix, while a comparative stranger in the legal circles of that city, is well known in other parts of the State, both in legal and general business circles. Previous to his removal to Phoenix he was District Attorney of Pima County almost eight years, having served from 1905 until the coming of statehood, when he refused to again become candidate for the office, as he considered the advantages of a substantial practice in the Capital City decidedly more attractive. Mr. Dick was born in Brownville, New York, in 1873. His father, Henry Dick, was there a pioneer in railroad work, having spent many years as conductor on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg, and later on the New York Central railroad. Before coming to Arizona Benton Dick was employed by the latter road as train dispatcher, and frequently issued orders by which his father's train was conducted. Mr. Dick graduated from the High School, Camden, New York, but by continued study and close application, the advantages of his school course have been greatly enhanced. After his graduation he was employed for a short time in a mercantile house, but preferring to engage in railroad work, he learned telegraphy, and when but eighteen years of age was appointed train dispatcher, in which capacity he served eight years. In 1900 he came to Arizona; and was train dispatcher for the Southern Pacific at Tucson. He first secured a position as dispatcher for the Santa Fe, but having always been a strong union sympathizer, after ten days went out with the union when a strike was ordered. While in Tucson he resumed the study of law, which he had begun in the East, completed the course, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court. Mr. Dick organized the first Order of Railroad Conductors on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad, and was an active member during the telegraphers' strike in 1907, having made a number of addresses in behalf of the strikers. Mr. Dick regards as one of the memorable events in his career as a railroad man the fact that he issued orders for the special train which carried the late President McKinley, the friend of the railroad man, over his division during the President's last trip through Arizona, and he highly regards a copy of the schedule prepared for the train on which the martyred President rode on that journey. He has been particularly active in politics during his residence in Arizona, is a thorough Republican, and he it was who made the speech nominating Ralph Cameron in the last Territorial campaign, when he was elected Delegate to Congress. He also toured the State and made many addresses during that campaign. In 1893 Mr. Dick was married in Oswego, New York, and has four children, Ruth, Herbert, Russell and Virginia, the latter a thoroughbred Arizonan.
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ALBERT S. HAWKINS, attorney at law, a member of the firm of Hawkins & Hawkins, of Phoenix, is best known locally through the excellent record as attorney, District Attorney, Member of the House and Senate, which preceded him from Texas, his former home. Mr. Hawkins was born in Fannin County, that state, in 1868. He is the son of Reverend S. J. Hawkins, deceased, of North Texas, and Mrs. E. M. Hawkins, now of Dallas, Texas, and is a nephew of ex-Governor Alvin Hawkins, of Tennessee. His early education was received in the public schools, and he afterwards attended Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. Having been admitted to the practice of law at Gatesville, he followed this profession for about 23 years at Midland and Abilene, and throughout West Texas is well known as an attorney. In 1893 Mr. Hawkins was elected to the House of Representatives to represent Midland and 29 other counties and during the term was author of the law creating the Live Stock Sanitary Commission of Texas, which has been productive of very good results. He was later District Attorney of the 32nd Judicial District. In 1901 he was again elected member of the House of Representatives, and in the same year became known as the author of the School Land Law, which opened up the western part of the state to settlers, thereby furnishing homes to thousands of families and adding millions of dollars to the tax rolls of the state. Mr. Hawkins' political record is a most unique one in that he has never taken advantage of a political position to secure a further grip on public patronage and has always refused to allow his name to be used as candidate to succeed himself. In 1904 he was elected to the State Senate from the Abilene District, and was the author of the law providing for state and county depositories, which keeps the state funds in circulation and each year yields a revenue more than sufficient to pay the expenses of the Treasury Department. He was thereafter spoken of as The Financier of the Senate. Although Mr. Hawkins became an Arizonan just about a year ago, when he took up his residence in Phoenix, he has already become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the new state. A true Southern Democrat, his interests affiliated with that party here it would seem that his years of experience in legal and legislative work in the State of Texas would prove a boon to Arizona, for he has already, by means of valuable suggestions, been of material aid to her worthy legislators. In 1904, the year in which he was elected Senator, Mr. Hawkins was married to Miss Sallie W. Bell, of Marshall, Texas.
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LYNDSAY D. HAWKINS, Attorney-at-Law and junior member of the firm of Hawkins & Hawkins, Phoenix, is the son of Ella Dickason and William E. Hawkins, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Mr. Hawkins was born in Dallas, Texas, October 24, 1887, attended the public schools and Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, and in June, 1910, was graduated from the latter with the degree B. S. Having completed the law course, he was admitted to practice in Texas in 1911, practiced there but a short time, and came to Arizona in March, 1912. He located in Phoenix and became associated with his uncle, Albert S. Hawkins, one of the well known attorneys of that city. Mr. Hawkins is a member of the Council of the Masonic Order, and President of the Woodrow Wilson Arizona College Men's League. He is also a consistent member of the M. E. Church, South.
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