Lee and other Mormon settlers and their Paiute allies. For instance, in 1857 General Albert Sidney Johnson brought the might of the United States Army to put down the “Mormon rebellion.” Then, in the Fall of 1857, some 120 Missouri emigrants, enroute to California, were killed at nearby Mountain Meadows by John D.
Shortly, they returned to Spanish Fork where they had their first son, which they also named Lemuel.īut not all went smoothly. In June they were called on a “mission” to Las Vegas, Nevada. In January 1856, young Lemuel, now 19 years of age, married Keziah Jane Butler. The Redds were converted and moved west in 1851 settling in Spanish Fork. Lee, did missionary work for the new Mormon religion. In 1843, a bunch of Mormon missionaries, including the notorious John D. Lemuel, his son, was born in 1836 at Sneads Ferry, North Carolina. So let’s follow John Hardison Redd, Charlie’s great grandfather, an old sea captain and mariner who had settled in Virginia and then North Carolina. And Richard Elzinga, who taught me to better appreciate bugs and butterflies, became a top scientist in his insect world. And Bob Waite, to become a college history professor and the maker and defender of national parks (some that Congressman Jim Hanson would now dismantle) was the master trip planner.
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And photographer Jim Dean who had been on a Bert Loper/Moki Mac Ellingson river trip through Glen Canyon extolled the virtues of Glen Canyon and the Hole-in-the-Rock. And Blaine Busenbark, the nephew of old riverman Bert Loper, filled me in on the Colorado River. He told me of the influential Redd family as we toured the graveled and dirt roads (few paved roads then.) Redd, he said, was one of the largest stockmen in Utah.
Neldon Christensen of Monticello himself, provided local interest and history. That motley travel group was made up of a mixture of talent. When I was on a trip south with a bunch of college kids from the University of Utah back in 1951, roaming the southern part of the state, I was fatefully led to the canyon country of my ancestors and relatives.
So I’ll interject an account of these with that of the Redd family-a kind of a personal review of history. The book was published under the appropriate name, Charlie Redd, and as I read it, my thoughts continually turned toward my own experiences and that of my ancestors who also settled this region. Arrington was to write a biography of Hardy’s father, the legendary Charlie Redd, I was quite thrilled. Years ago, when Hardy Redd, my neighbor friend across the mountain, told me that the Mormon historian Leonard J.