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Show AUTOBI' (GRAPHY of SAMUEL 1804 - 1884 EGGLESTON I (Samuel Eggleston) was born in the town of Marselles, Onandago County, New York, on the 30th of March 1804 to samuel and Elizabeth Hill Eggleston. I lived in the town of Marselles until I was thirteen years old, then my family moved into the town of Springwater, Livingston County, New York. My brothers and sisters numbered ten in the family. I lived with my father until I was nineteen years old. I then went to live with my brother-in-law to learn the tanner’s trade. I lived with them until I was twenty-three years old. I I then married a was married on girl by the name of Lurania Powers Burgess. the 23rd day of August 1827, in the town of sempronius, Cayuga County, New York, by a Baptist preacher by the name of Gordon. We both belonged to the Baptist Church, then we left that church and joined the Close Communion Baptists. Then we left it and joined the Freewill Baptists of which we liked better, but I lived with them a few years and I got disgusted with their religion. | I left that church ‘and on the ist of June 1841 I and my wife were baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints. There was a branch of the church organized and Thomas Marsh appointed president. On the 18th of July following I was ordained a teacher in the said church assembled at West Niles, Cayuga County, New York, under the hand of Willard Richards, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church on his return from a mission to England. One year after I joined the Church in 1842, I with my family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. When we arrived in Nauvoo the Prophet was away from town for the officers were after them. When I came to Nauvoo, I joined the Teacher’s Quorum and at the October Conference in 1844 I was ordained an Elder in the Quorum of Seventies. I was elected ist Sergeant of the company in the Nauvoo Legion and after that I was Captain of the same company. I helped to work on the temple until it was finished and then I had the privilege of going into it and getting my endowments and having my wife sealed to me. We lived there and were among the saints that were driven out in the spring of 1846, and then we went to Winter Quarters. Then we crossed the Missouri River in 1848. in 18611 woved to Council Bluffs. I was elected Justice of the Peace at the first Election ever held in Pottawatomie County, Iowa. I held that office for ten years. I was Postmaster for five years in that town and two years in Crescent City, Iowa. In the same town I held the office of Notary Public for nine years. then In the year of I was elected 1862 I came to Justice of the Page 1 Utah and settled in Ogden, Peace (which he held up to |
