Amanda Armstrong Sanders

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THE LIFE STORY OF MOSES MARTIN SANDERS & AMANDA ARMSTRONG FAUCETT Contributed By elizakaitlynbutikofer1 · 2013-08-04 Amanda Sander's name is on the roll of the 1842 Relief Society in the Nauvoo 7th Ward, with Bishop Newell K Knight. There were 20,000 Saints in Nauvoo at the time. 25 May 1843, Martha was baptized. Amanda had another daughter, Eliza Jane born 4 June 1843. Moses became a Nauvoo Policeman, 29 December 1843, to guard the city night and day against the enemy (DHC Vol 6 p 150) Mobs were giving the Saints a hard time. The 27 of June 1844, the Prophet and Joseph his brother, Hyrum were murdered in cold blood at Carthage Jail. The children never forgot this sad event of their beloved Prophet. Amanda was in attendance in the meeting when the mantel fell on Brigham Young. On the 21 of September 1844, Amanda had a Patriarchal Blessing. She was alone so much of the time, she needed reassurance and protection. She received power to heal her children in the absence of the Elders. Son, Hyrum Smith was born 10 June 1845. Two months later little 6 year old Sidney died and is buried in the old Mormon Cemetery. So many children died of improper nourishment. Many people died of fever in Nauvoo. It came every summer, and hundreds never recovered. Nearly everyone who lived in Nauvoo more than a year, had a friend or loved one succumb to the fever. It came with warm summer weather, and departed with the first fall frost. Many figured the coming of the fever had something to do with the many river bottom swamps. The fever was more dreaded than the mobs, because there was nothing one could do to fight the fever once it got to you or your loved ones. In 1845, the temple was finished enough for services. December 10 1845 attic rooms of the temple were dedicated. 5,595 Saints endowments were preformed. The Saints were preparing to once again move west. Mobbing and persecution were continually mistreating the Saints, and over 100 homes were burned. Richard helped his father in dispersing of the granary. December 25 was a day long remembered by Joseph Sanders. The Mississippi River was frozen over and his father cut a hole in the ice for him to be baptized. 1 January 1846, Moses Martin received his Endowment in the newly finished Nauvoo Temple, and Amanda Armstrong Faucett, 3 January 1846, received her Endowment. They were sealed by Heber C Kimball, 20 January 1846. Many of the Saints received their endowment before going into the wilderness. 27,000 Saints were now living in Nauvoo. 295 of those Saints were endowed 3 February 1846. Brigham Young and others stayed in the Temple day and night to perform these ordinances. Four days later, more on February 7th, more attic rooms were dedicated. Early in the year, 1846 the Saints commenced to leave Nauvoo, fleeing from the mob, which soon took over the city. They were driven from their homes and property. John, 16 years old, helped his mother ready for the move, as his father and brother were attending to church duties. February, the Saints started across the Mississippi River. Sanders must have been among the first to leave. John remembered the mobbing and driving the Saints out of Nauvoo when neither his father nor his elder brother were home. He remembers his mother was sick, and all the younger children in the empty wagon as it clattered along over the rough and broken clods of frozen mud. His only garment, a long hickory shirt, no shoes, no hat, but to keep up the oxen he had to run. The sharp icy clods cut into his already chapped and bleeding feet. He had a hard time to keep from crying, so not to make his mother feel so badly. Spring brought rain, and this was a threat in Iowa as it brought the mud. There was a sea of black, grey, and brown mud. It rained every day during March and most of April. Wet, cold, slippery, and it was on everything; one couldn't get away from it. Many times the mud was waist deep. In February the Saints entered the mud, and in April emerged from it. The mud sucked its people to their knees, making them very humble. While traveling through Iowa, the exiled Saints were called upon to raise 500 men to participate in the war with Mexico. Richard wanted to join. Brigham Young turned him down. Richard was small in statue and had just turned 18 years old. He was told he was needed to help his parents and younger brothers and sisters. But Richard was not discouraged, and put on his father's boots, long coat and tall hat to prepare. Brigham Young said, "Well if you want to go that bad, you may go if you have your father's permission." Richard was placed in the Company "E". The Battalion provided their own clothing. The monies from the government for the clothing allowances provided the funds for supplies and equipment for the poor Saints to travel West. The Saints were also allowed to live on Indian land, cultivate the soil and travel unmolested. They built ferries and forts for those who followed West. On the 16th of May the Mormon Battalion marched away. This was the last look Amanda and Moses had of their son, Richard. He made the longest march in the history of the United States, over 2,000 miles from Kansas to San Diego, California. He fell in love with a beautiful California Spanish girl, named Antonia Ruelas, and they were married 12 January 1850. The Mormon Battalion served the government's and the Church's interest. President Young wrote in the fall of 1848, "If they had not gone we would not have been in the valley now." Little Eliza, Hyrum, and Sidney all died during the movement westward. What heart breaking experiences the Sanders family had with these little ones deaths, from lack of food and shelter. The Sanders were true to the faith during all the hardships, mobbing, trials, and moves. Eliza Jane Sanders died 25 June 1847, twenty one days after her 4th birthday. She was buried at Pigeon Grove, Kanesville, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. 20 January 1848, Moses signed a petition to the US Government for a Post Office in Kanesville (changed later to Council Bluffs) the edge of the wilderness. It was a gigantic undertaking for the brethern to move the Saints on Westward. Wagons and teams must be purchased, food, clothing, and items that the Saints would need in Utah. Under the direction of Orsen Hyde and other Church officials who had been stationed at Kanesville, had been making preparations for the immigration the year of 1850. This was the first year the Church used the Perpetual Emigration fund. 5,000 Saints 500 head of cattle New machinery 800 wagons 4,000 sheep Household goods The Sanders family traveled in an Independent Company, as he is not listed in the Church Chronology History. Jared Porter was over the 10 families where the Sanders traveled. Emma was riding the back of the wagon, watching the activity, when an Indian grabbed her by the hair and she screamed. The men rescued her, but she never rode in the back anymore. 101 days later, as they neared the Utah valley, Amanda's son David came out to meet them. This was the first news they had from the rest of the family since 1848. Mother Amanda was sick with pleurisy in her chest and it grew worse. Hurting so much to be bounced in the wagon, it was decided to send for Moses and a spring board. This would allow Amanda to ride with more ease. Moses had a place 12 miles south of the city of Salt Lake on the Jordan River. Moses went out to meet the company. Amanda settled at Union Fort. (A few miles south of Salt Lake.) At this time, Moses was inclosing a big field, making ditches and cutting poles from the canyon. NOTE: Amanda and her children are listed in the 1850 census in Iowa and in the Utah territory. In 1848, Moses Martin Sanders came into the Great Salt Lake Valley. President Young had left families along the Pioneer Trail to help the Saints that were yet to travel, in raising of and crossing the rivers, building, and etc. He was continually working in the interest of the Saints. Amanda had her last child, a son, Moses Martin Jr., on 21 February 1853, at Jordan, Union Fort. Amanda was 43 years old at this time. Amanda lived at the Fort while Moses went on another "mission" with the family. 7 April 1853, Moses received a Patriarchal Blessing under the hands of Patriarch Smith in Salt Lake City. On this day he was assigned to Captain John Nebeker's company. The family called in the new location the "Narrows" located near Fort Bridger. The first families equipped with farming implements, seeds, and other things necessary for established a new settlement. They arrived at Fort Bridger, 12 November 1853. The 2nd group left 15 November 1853, under the leadership of Captain Isaac Bullock. Colony consisted of 53 men and their families. They, together with the preceding company, settled on Smiths's Fork and called their town Fort Supply. Moses Martin, his four adult children, and his second wife, Jane, and her two adult children, and two grandchildren were part of the original company. More of the family came during the next four years. Some of these went back to Salt Lake. Moses and his second wife, Jane, were in Fillmore, Millard County at the time of the 1856 Census.

She was the fifth of eleven children born to Richard Fausett and Mary McKee. Amanda married Moses Martin Sanders on the 12 Jan 1826 in Maury County, Tennessee.

They had twelve children: William Carroll Sanders, Richard Twiggs Sanders, John Franklin Sanders, Rebecca Ann Sanders, Martha Brown Sanders, David Walker Sanders, Joseph Moroni Sanders, Sidney Rigdon Sanders, Emma Sanders, Eliza Jane Sanders, Hyrum Smith Sanders and Moses Martin Sanders Jr.. They were early members of the L.D.S. Church

Her husband, Moses Sanders, is buried in the St. George Cemetery, St. George, Utah.

Thanks to Rutann Wood for the above updated bio.

His older brother, William Carrol, was born in Bedford County, Tennessee on December 4, 1826. He died a few months later.

Then Richard Twiggs was born May 31, 1928 in Maury County. In 1829, John's father and his uncles, William and David Sanders, and his Aunt Nancy moved to Montgomery County, Illinois where John Franklin (born March 5, 1830) and the next three children were born: Rebecca Ann Sanders, March 5, 1832; Martha Brown Sanders, May 25, 1824; and David Walker Sanders, September 1, 1835.

Mormon missionaries came to their home about this time and Moses Martin was baptized January 28, 1835 by an Elder William Joy. Soon the family felt the urge to join with the body of saints in Missouri, but this was a terrible time in church history. Mobbings and persecutions were taking place daily in Missouri. The family arrived just as the saints were being driven from Clay County. Along with the rest of these driven people, they arrived in Far West, Caldwell County, but the persecutions followed and in two years they were on their way again. Joseph Moroni was born 25 Dec. 1836, the night his family was driven from their home in Far West, Clay, Missouri.

Despite all these troubles which caused so many to lose their faith and apostacize, the Moses Martin Sanders family remained steadfast. When you realize that their prophet Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were in the Liberty Jail most of this time facing a very dim future, you realize how strong their faith must have been. In the hard winter of 1838-39, the saints were again driven from their homes and this time followed along the Missouri River to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois where they located before moving up to Commerce, later to become Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. Moses and Amanda's next child, Sidney Rigdon, was born at Adams County on April 10, 1839.

Around 1840, the family made the move to Nauvoo and built a little home which the 1840 census shows was next to the home of John Smith, who was the prophet's uncle. It was also very near the Joseph Smith Sr. home, the prophet's father. On January 23, 1941, daughter Emma Sanders was born. Eliza Jane Sanders followed on June 4, 1843 and Hyrum Smith Sanders on June 10, 1845. All three of these children were born in Nauvoo. Little six year old Sidney died during this same period, in 1844.

A month before the big exodus of the saints from Nauvoo in February of 1846, his father and mother were able to go to the almost completed temple for their endowments. They were sealed for time and eternity by Heber C. Kimball, January 20, 1846.

When the Sanders family left Nauvoo with the exodus, they settled at Pigeon Grove, near Council Bluffs and here Moses worked in a saw pit during the year of 1847. The saw was run by hand and was a very slow, hard process.

Richard, being the oldest boy, at age 18 joined the Mormon Battalion and marched away on that long trek to California. This was the last sight his mother had of him, as after the Battalion disbanded he remained in California for several years, married a Spanish girl and had a little family. His wife died in 1858 and shortly after, he started for Utah. He was killed on the way, shot in the back with an arrow by Indians. No one has any record of his children.

-from The Sanders Sage newsletter

New Update from Chuck Sanders. Richard Twiggs married Antonio Ruellas and their children are:

John Sanders 20 Aug 1851 Ellen Sanders 18 Aug 1853 Amanda Sanders 28 Feb 1855 Dan Sanders 14 Jun 1857

Richard died in Amador County, California.

Thank you Chuck.

They came to Utah in 1848. As they neared the valley, David Sanders came out to meet them, which was the first news they had had from the rest of the family of Sanders that had come out in 1848. About this time, Amanda took sick with pleurisy in her sides and it grew worse. It hurt so much to even ride in the wagon. When they arrived at the Weber River it was decided to leave David in charge of the wagon and for Henry to ride on horseback to get Moses to take a springboard and go out to meet the company so that Amanda could ride with more ease. Henry engaged a horse in the evening, arose to ride the next morning and fully expected to reach his destination by that night. He was disappointed in the endurance of his horse. When he got between the mountains east of Salt Lake, the horse tired out and he was compelled to make camp for the night. The next morning he arrived at Moses Martin Sander's place twelve miles south of Salt Lake on the Jordan River. Moses Martin Sanders then went out to meet the company.

Moses and Amanda had one more child, Moses Martin Sanders Jr. February 21, 1853 at Jordan, Utah. No children were born to Moses and Mary Jane.

In 1865, Moses and Amanda Sanders and their family were called to the Dixie Cotton Mission. It was found that cotton could be raised quite successfully here, and there had been a factory built at Washington where the cotton could be turned into yard goods, some ready made clothing, and blankets which could be exchanged for other products throughout the state.

Moses Sanders bought the Middleton Ranch and built a house there just east of the bridge, which still stands in good condition. His sons, one of which is Joseph Moroni, obtained land in the Washington fields.

Her husband died November 9, 1878 in St. George, Utah.

Around 1879, Amanda's son, John Franklin, received a call to settle the Tonto Basin in Arizona. Amanda went with them. Before the Saints had been in Salt Lake Valley a year, President Brigham Young started the "Planting of Colonies Program" in Utah, Arizona, California, Idaho and Mexico, which continued some years after his death. The purpose, of course, was to start Mormon settlements where the immigrant converts and others could come and find a place to live in peace.

Each person in the group going to Tonto Basin had a special skill or craft which would ensure the success of each settlement. Another son, Joseph Moroni, was supposed to go with the group but was ill when the call came; after waiting a year for him and he was not better, the company went on without him.

The area was very desolate and lonely. It was given the dainty name of "Gisela" by a school teacher and is still found on the Arizona map, but she resisted all efforts to cultivate her. Skeletal buildings 5 miles from the road are the only evidence of the Sanders family having been there.

Amanda died at Gisela in 1885, and was buried there. About 75 years later, Wesley Jones, a great-grandson, visited her grave. He found it a most desolate, lonely place, a few dried grasses, rocks on which lizards were warming themselves and snakes slithering among them all. It moved him to do something about it, so he bought two very nice stones and set them in cement to mark the resting places of a great pioneer lady and her grandson, Martin Henry.

- From the Sanders Sage Newsletter, July 1978, written by Roselyn Woodward Slade and shared with Rhonda by Marilyn Woodward Thacker.

children: William Carroll Sanders, Richard Twiggs Sanders, John Franklin Sanders, Rebecca Ann Sanders, Martha Brown Sanders, David Walker Sanders, Joseph Moroni Sanders, Sidney Rigdon Sanders, Emma Sanders, Eliza Jane Sanders, Hyrum Smith Sanders and Moses Martin Sanders Jr..

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