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Show HISTORY OF SANrETE COUNTY. 177 employ of the Government shipped on board tlie Senator in charge of 200 mules. lie started in the spring of 1863 with the California volunteers for Texas, but his sympathies bein^ with the South, he was discharged at Fort Yuma aud returned to Utah, lie married August 20, 1808, Johanne, daughter of Rasmus and Magdalene Hougaard. Their children are Johanne J., Sarah B., Julia P., Nellie L-, Jenny L., Willina, William, John B., Benjamin and Margaret A., Mary M. and Emily deceased. Mr. Richey is a highly respected citizen, Democrat, member of Board of Supervisors and county jailer. tht* I^iDDLE. ISAAC, woolgrower, son |T beth Steward, was born in Boone of John ami Kliza- County, Kentucky, V March 22, 1830. His father was a county physician and for many years was a Baptist minister. The family removed to West Tennessee when Isaac was a small boy, remained there for three years, then went to Hickman county, Kentucky, where his father had an extensive medical practice. His father joined the Mormon church in 1843 and in the spring of 1811 the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and were there when the prophet was In August, 1811, the family removed to lowa and killed. spent two ami a half years among the Indians in South Dakota, finally removing to Omaha, from which point they came AYest with Brigham Younu's eoinpny. They stopped at Pawnee for a time, then at Winter Quarters, and in 1817 returned to northwestern Missouri, remaining there three years. The father went to Kentucky on a two years' mission, leaving Isaac to take ca.re of mother and seven children. He more than doubled the family possessions while his father was absent, and in the spring of 1850 they were ready to start for Utah with four yoke of oxen and two wagons. They reached Utah in October, 1850, and located in North O.udeu. Isaac was married in North Ogden March 0, 1853, to Mary A., daughter of Frederick and Julia A. Levie. They had six children: Isaac J., a business man in Escalante, Garfield county, and Joselina M., residing uear Panquitch and engaged in farming and stocki*aising, are the |
