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Show 270 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. his heirs, thus getting a fine tract of seventy-four acres, which he cultivates. In company with two brothers. John ami Stuart, he owns and operates the Seely sawWas two years engaged in temple work aud permill. formed a mission of two years to Kentucky. His first wife was Sarah EL, daughter of Samuel and Harriet Allen, born in Alt. Pleasant September 5, 1864; married She died March 4, 1S87, leaving one child, in Logan. Sarah H., born February 15, 1887. Second wife was Adella E., daughter of Nils and Caroline 01 sen, born in Moroni December 24, 1869. They were married in Manti October 25, 1893, and have three children: Joseph F., born September 6, 1894; Justus O., November 28, 1895, and Adella C, April 14, 1897. 5EELY, JUSTUS W., deceased, son of Justus A. and Mehetable Bennett, was born in Pickering, Home District, Upper Canada, January 30, 1815; died in Mt. Pleasant April 24, 1894. He learned the cooper's trade from his father in Upper Canada. Joined the Mormon church in 1837 and went to Caldwell county Mo., August, 1838; came in an ox-train to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City September 30, 1817. On March 13, 1851, he left by ox team for San Bernardino, Cal., where he resided till December, 1857, when he returned to Pleasant Grove, and in 1859 located in Mt. Pleasant, assisting in erecting the fort. In I860 he built the home where his wife now resides. He assisted in putting in the first steam sawmill in the canyon and was in that business many years. The first mowing machine, horse rake, twine binder, thresher and fanning mill purchased in the city were his. He served as bishop's counsellor seventeen years; was Justice of the Peace twenty years; member of the City Council twenty years and Marshal for several years. He was surgeon and dentist for the town for many years, pulling teeth and setting fractured bones. His wife, whom he married at Galland, Iowa, March 10, 1812, was Clarissa Jane, daughter of Hassard and Sarah Seely Wilcox, born in Carmi, White county, 111., October They had three children born in Iowa: Orange, 1, 1821. Sarah and Don Carlos, who, with their mother, were |
