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| 1776 Dominguez Escalante Expedition | ||
| June 26, 1827 | Born in Grafton, Ohio. Son of Weeden Vander Hakes and Aliza Amanda Beebe (sixth of seven children, two boys and five girls.) |
1830 Church Restored
1831 Church moves to Ohio 1838 Exodus Ohio 1838 Haun's Mill |
| 1839 | Family converted to LDS Church in Grafton, Ohio | 1839 Baseball rules created |
| Spring 1840 | Weeden Vander sold home in Grafton, bought yoke of oxen and a red cow and moved to Nauvoo. | |
| Early 1841 | Arrived in Nauvoo. Moved with family to Macedonia, Illinois | 1841 Command to build Nauvoo temple |
| May 9, 1842 | Sister Harriet Janette was born | 1842 May First temple endowment |
| June 26, 1844 | Collins Rowe turns 7 |
1844 Joseph & Hyrum martyred
1845 Nauvoo Temple dedicated |
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Jan. 24, 1846
1846 |
Parents receive endowments in Nauvoo temple
Moves to Winter Quarters with family Sister Patty Clinda was one of about 600 that died of "Black Leg" in Winter Quarters |
1846-1848 Mexican War
1846 Summer Mormon Battalion organized |
| Spring 1847 | Left Winter Quarters for Salt Lake Valley with the Amasa Lyman Company. Collins Roe and Amasa Lyman's son, Francis M. Lyman who was three years younger than Collins, developed a friendship that lasted the balance of their lives. | |
| Oct. 19, 1847 | Arrived in Salt Lake Valley. The same yoke of oxen and red cow they had purchased 8 years earlier made the trek. | 1847 July Pioneers enter Salt Lake City |
| 1847 - 1850 | Lived in Cottonwood and witnessed the seagulls saving the crops. |
1848 Jan Gold discovered in California
1850 Parowan settled 1850 Utah population 11,380 |
| 1851 | The Hakes family joined the Amasa Lyman Company for San Bernardino. Their route was south to Parowan which had been recently settled in January 1850. From this point, they headed along old trails to Meadow Mountain and rested for several days before making the long hot trip to Las Vegas Springs. There was no water source the last 55 miles. While at Las Vegas Springs (Las Vegas Mormon Fort was not built until the spring of 1855.) They lowered a 25 pound weight 60 feet and did not reach the bottom of the spring. They rested there for two weeks. Before reaching The Mohave River, they lost 150 head of their work cattle and had to replace them with their cows. They traveled 100 miles suffering thirst, hunger and fatigue which will never be forgotten. They entered San Bernardino on his 14th birthday and felt they had been transferred from Hades to Paradise. The trip took more than 3 months. (The general route they followed was one that had been used by the Indians trading with and raiding Spanish settlements in Southern California. It was also part of the Old Spanish Trail and the Forty-Niner Trail. It was later called the Mormon Corridor, the Arrow Head Highway and then US 91. Today I-15 traverses this same corridor.) | |
| June 26, 1851 | The company enters San Bernardino Valley. After seeing mostly desert for 10 years, they felt that they had been transfered from Hades to Paradise. |
1851 Singer Sewing machine manufactured
1856 96 settlements in Deseret |
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Mar. 29, 1857
Dec. 1857 |
Collins marries Mabel Ann Morse. She had been in the Amasa Lyman Company crossing the plains and also from Salt Lake to San Bernardino.
Left San Bernardino | 1857-1858 Utah war |
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Feb. 15, 1858
Feb 23, 1858 |
Ann Eliza Hakes, born in Santa Clara, Washington, UT, enroute to Parowan
Arrived in Parowan | 1859 Dinosaur bones found in Utah |
| June 7, 1860 | Avis Caroline Hakes, born in Parowan, UT. |
1860 Pony express started (lasted 18 months)
1860 Transcontinental telegraph completed 1861 -1865 Civil War |
| Sep 25, 1862 | Sarah Melissa Hakes born in Parowan, UT | 1863 Bear River massacre |
| Sept 19, 1864 | Hellen Lothata Hakes born in Parowan, UT | 1865-1872 Utah Blackhawk war |
| Nov. 17, 1866 | Lottie Mable Hakes born in Parowan, UT | |
| Mid 1860's | Participated in the Utah Blackhawk War | |
| Jan 1867 | Deputy Sheriff of Iron County | 1867 Kanosh settled |
| 1868 |
Commissioned adjutant with rank of First Lieutenant in Utah militia.
Moved to Kanosh | |
| June 9, 1969 | Harriet Jane Hakes born in Kanosh, UT |
1869 Transcontinental railroad completed
1869 Telegraph completed to Beaver 1869 ZCMI organized |
| Dec. 5, 1871 | Effin Elizabeth Hakes born in Kanosh, UT | |
| June 24, 1874 | Patty Celinda Hakes born in Kanosh, UT | |
| Kanosh ? | Operated a sawmill and shinglemill, ran a dairy, had a ranch he called "Porcupine Ranch" | |
| Kanosh ? | Brigham Young and visiting authorities dined in their home. | |
| 1874 | Lived the United order "spent a very happy year in that organization" Co-op store was in his home for a while. Along with his father, was board member of the Co-op, counselor in Kanosh first bishopric. | 1874 First United Order organized |
| Nov. 24, 1875 | Collins Riley Hakes born in Kanosh, UT |
1875 BYU organized
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1877 Brigham Young dies |
| Aug. 1, 1878 | Nettie Luella Hakes born in Kanosh, UT | 1880 Railroad completed to Beaver |
| Nov. 17, 1881 | Daniel Edgar Hakes born in Kanosh, UT | |
| Spring 1883 | Moves to Mesa, Arizona | |
| July 12, 1886 | Ruby Amanda Hakes born in Mesa, AZ | |
| Oct. 26, 1887 | Eliza Amanda Beebe Hakes (wife of Weeden Vander died in Parowan where she was buried.) |
1890 Manifesto
1890's Mormon settlements in the West totaled 250 1890 Utah population 210,779 |
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1893
Oct. 5, 1893 |
Discovered gold near Superstition Mountain, later known as Goldfield.
Visited World's Fair in Chicago and attended the national Hakes Reunion while there. |
1893 Henry Ford builds his first car
1893 Hershey bar developed |
| May 1894 | Maricopa Stake President 1894 - 1905 | 1896 Utah became a state |
| 1897 | Served as a legislator in Arizona's Nineteenth legislature. Was said to be a "firm friend of the taxpayer." | |
| Nov. 1905 | Moved to Bluewater, New Mexico. Was ordained Stake Patriarch | |
| Jan. 19, 1909 | Wife Mabel Ann Morse died in Mesa, AZ | |
| Aug. 27, 1916 | Collins Rowe Hakes died in Mesa, AZ | 1917 United States enters World War I |
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Collins Rowe Hakes April Conference 1903 | ||