Notes for Jacob Flynn HUTCHINSON

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Notes for Jacob Flynn HUTCHINSON

!Death: Source: Family Records of Vivian Hutchinson Carlsen (Dau. of
Orson Hutchinson) in possession of Vern "R" Carlsen, 1457 Sunset Drive,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116; 3rd Gen. Sheet of Lind Hutchinson, Box 66,
Wendover, Utah, g. son of Joseph Hutchinson #1 ch.

Rem'd from Nashua to Salt Lake City, where he died. (Derby, p. 83)

Occupation: Trader. (Derby, p. 83)

Endowment reconfirmed and all former sealings ratified on 18 Oct 1967

Death: Date given as 7 May 1867 in Derby, p. 83.

Burial: Springville City Cemetery, Area 31, Lot 2, Position 3. (Springville
Cemetery Dept., (801) 489-2770).

Jacob and his family crossed the plains in the Edward Hunter Company
(5th Co.), leaving Kanesville, Iowa on 4 July 1850 and arriving in Salt
Lake City on 13 October 1850. There were 261 people in the Company.
(Utah Immigration Card Index [Crossing the Plains Index], LDS Film
#0198441; LDS Journal History, 31 Dec 1850, Supp., p. 10, LDS Film
#1259738)

[Jacob--First Presiding Elder in Gunnison, Utah] GUNNISON WARD,
Gunnison Stake, Sanpete Co., Utah, consists of the Latter-day Saints
residing in the town of Gunnison, which is situated on the Sanpitch
River, near the junction of that stream with the Sevier River, 13 miles
southwest of Manti, the county seat. It consists of a farming district in
which the farmers irrigate their lands principally from Sanpitch River
and from a reservoir which depends upon said river for filling. The saints
in the Gunnison Ward have a substantial ward meeting house and the
town is the headquarters of the Gunnison Stake of Zion. Gunnison, one of
the eight original settlements founded by Latter-day Saints in Sanpete
County, dates back to 1859, when it was settled under the direction of
George Peacock of Manti with the advice of Pres. Brigham Young. It was
at that time a dry barren and forbidding tract of country, which
intimated to the early settlers that they would have a hard struggle to
turn it into fruitful fields. But by determined effort the settlers made a
success of their town, and although as a frontier settlement it suffered
greatly from hostile Indians, yet the settlement survived. For a short
time, during the Black Hawk War, the saints had to vacate their homes in
Gunnison temporarily to seek protection in the stronger settlement of
Manti. Being a frontier town Gunnison was first surveyed in fort style;
hence, the original name of Fort Gunnison, thus named in honor of Lieut.
John W. Gunnison, a U. S. topographical surveyor, who was killed by
Indians near the Sevier Lake in 1853. Gunnison was made a precinct of
Sanpete County June 3, 1861. Jacob Hutchinson was the first presiding
Elder in Gunnison. He was succeeded in 1862 by Hamilton H. Kearns, who
in 1867 was succeeded by Joseph S. Horne, who presided until July,
1877, when the settlements of Gunnison, Mayfield and Fayette, which for
some time had belonged to the Sevier Stake, were transferred to and
made a part of the Sanpete Stake, and Gunnison was organized as a ward
with Christian A. Madsen as Bishop. He presided until 1903, when he was
succeeded by Joseph Christensen, who in 1912 was succeeded by James
Rasmussen, who in 1915 was succeeded by Ernest L. Swalberg, who in
1924 was succeeded by Leslie J. Kidman, who presided Dec. 31, 1930. On
that date the Church membership of the Gunnison Ward was 501,
including 110 children. The total population of the Gunnison Precinct
was 1,396 in 1930, of which number 1,057 resided in the town of
Gunnison. (Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, by Andrew Jenson, Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News
Publishing Co., 1941, the 'G' section--pages not given on Ancestry.com
Web site.)

Appears on the 1850 Salt Lake County, Utah Census, sheet 69, dwelling
3, family 3, as 'Jacob F. Hutchinson, 34, M, Barber, 100 [Value of Real
Estate], New Hampshire [Place of Birth].'

Appears on the 1860 US Census for Moroni, Sanpete County, Utah, Roll #M653_1314, p. 672, living with W.L. Snow, as 'Jacob HUTCHISON, 40, M, W [Color], Clerk, 1000 [Real Estate], 5000 [Personal Estate], N.H. [Birthplace].'

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