John SHARP

                   BIRTH:  F.H.L. Film #104,150, Clackmannan Branch Records.
MARRIAGE: By Proclamation, ************
DEATH: F.H.L. Film #002,6930, Death Records of Salt Lake City.

BAPTIZED: F.H.L. Film #104,150 Clackmannon Branch Scotland Records.
ENDOWED: F.H.L. Film #183,404 EHOUS, p.33, #6.
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #14104.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: Internet IGI Ordinance Index.

                                                                       ADAM FIFE
                                    (Son of John and Margaret Fife of Sauchie, Scotland).
Born July 4, 1806, at Sauchie. Came to Utah September 1851, David Wilkie Company.
     Married Helen Sharp at Sauchie, Scotland (daughter of John Sharp, later of Salt Lake City, pioneer 1850). She was born Nov. 10, 1808. Their children: Mary b. June 8, 1827, m. Alexander Patterson; Margaret b. July 25, 1829, m David Miller; John b. May 10, 1831, m. Sarah Lewis; James b. May 5, 1833, m. Jennette Triaddle; Andrew b. July 3, 1835, and Robert b. April 21, 1837, died. Adam S. b. July 24, 1838, m. Comfort Jelly; Cecelia b. Oct. 6, 1840, died; Joseph b. Sep 9, 1842, m. Martha Ann Bingham; Ellen b. Sept. 25, 1844, died; Agnes b. May 14, 1846, m. Sanford Bingham; Catherine b. Aug 13, 1848, m. Francis Russell; Janet b. March 1, 1851, m. William Child; Jane b. May 7, 1853, m. Charles Densel; Sarah b. Dec. 26, 1855. Family home Riverdale, Utah.
     Quarried stone in Red Butte canyon for wall around temple grounds at Salt Lake City. Died January 1864.

     . . . the father [Adam Fife (born 1805) ]located located first in Saint Louis, where he became identified with the branch Church, and remained there until 1851, when he went to Winter Quarters and joined an emigrant train which made the trip across the plains under the command of L.A. Shurtliff. The family remained in Salt Lake City until 853, and then moved to Cedar City, in Iron County, where they lived for the next three years, and in the spring of 1856 came to Weber County, the father byuing a claim in what is now Riverdale Ward. Here he spent the balance of his life in farming. He was presiding teacher of his district for a numbmer of years and active in local Church work. He died december 29, 1863, at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife survived (Helen Sharp Fife) survived him and lived until 1866, leaving a family of eleven children, of whom ten are  now living, all but one in Utah. This one lives in Minnesota.
                  

                   BIRTH: F.H.L. Film #102,092, Clackmannan Branch, Scotland Parish Records.
MARRIAGE: By Proclamation 24 May 1828.
DEATH:

BAPTIZED & ENDOWED: INTERNET IGI
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #13105.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film #184,590 SLAKE, p.320, #5638.
                  

                   NAME:
    Catherine (Katie) SHARP



BIRTH: F.H.L. Film #184,664, L.D.S. Special Collections, Salt Lake Temple.
MARRIAGE:
DEATH:

BAPTIZED: F.H.L. Film #183,410 L.D.S. Special collections, Salt Lake Temple. Catherine was listed as a widow at the time of her baptism. She died prior to 1869.
ENDOWED: F.H.L. Film #252`8, pt 1, Baptisms for the Dead, Salt Lake Temple
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #14106.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: Internet IGI Ordinance Index
                  

                   BIRTH: F.H.L Film #104,150, Clackmannon Branch Records
MARRIAGE: **********
DEATH: F.H.L.Film #6498 pt.3, p.42, #1718 Salt Lake City Death Records.

BAPTIZED: F.H.L. Film #104,150, Clackmannon Branch Records
ENDOWED: F.H.L. Film #183,393 EHOUS, p.62, #1696. 33 Quroum 70's.
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #13107.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film # 0,183,393, p.117, #1443.

   Patriarchal Blessing, G. S. L. City, April 10, 1850

#1072	A Blessing by John Smith Patriarch upon the head of John Sharp, Son of John & Russell Cashan (Ceceila) Russell, born Sterling, Scotland Oct 15, 1785.
	Brother John, in the name of Jesus Christ I lay my hands upon thy head and confer upon you a Fathers Blessing even the Blessings of the New and Everlasting covenant. The Lord is well pleased with the integrity of thine heart for you have seen many afflictions, through many sorrows and hast born them patiently, have obeyed the gospel in thine old age with an honest heart. Your name is werittin in the Lambs book of life and shall not be blotted out. The Lord hath given his angels charge over you. They have watched you from your earliest infancy. They  have delivered you from danger and death many time. The Eye of the Lord is upon thee for good. You shall be comforted in your old age and blessed according to the desire of your heart. You shall find friends where your lot is cast, shall never know want. Your Posterity shall become numerous, be mighty in the priesthood & Savior on Mount Zion. You shall be a counselor in Zion & preside over one of her stakes cities. You are of the blood of Ephraim and an heir to the everlasting Priesthood which shall be conferred on you in due time. You shall live until you are satisfied with life, have past in the first Resurrection with you former companion and children with you father house, evan so, amen.
						John L. Smith, Recorder.

In the 20th Ward of this city, of whooping cough, March 29th, Sophia Louise, daughter of John and sophia Sharp, aged 3 years and 4 months. Deseret News 1878-04-03.

Another Little One. - It will be see, by obituary notice, in another column, that another child of Bishop John Sharp departed this life this norning, making two deaths within a week. the bereaved parents have the sympathy of many friends. Deseret News 1878-04--3

May 18      from Wednesday Daily Newspaper (Deseret News).
   --ron company. - The meeting of the Central Board of Trade, yesterday afternoon, resulted in the appintment of the fllowing named gentlemen as a committee with full power and authority to organize and incorporate a company for the promotion and manufacture of iron: Chairman, W m. Jennings; W. H. Hooper, John Sharp and thomas Talor, of this city; A. O. Smoot of Provo; Henry Lunt, of Cedar City; W. B. Preston, of Logan. Afater some discussion on the subjects of silk and sugar, the meeting adjourning till thursday at 10 a.m.

DEATH OF BISHOP JOHN SHARP

	The host of friends of Bishop John Sharp will be pained to learn that he died at his residence in the twentieth ward, this city, at twenty minutes past 4 this morning. the cause of death was intestinal trouble. His demise removes from the community a man of mark, who was possessor of unusual will power and great force of character, traits which were exhibited throughout his long and useful career.
	John Sharp was born in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, November 9th, 1820 and was consequently in his seventy-second year at the time of  his death. On the last anniversary of his birthday  he was in unusually good spirits, and said to members of his family that he had felt splendidly during the last previous six months. He remarked; "The Lord has given me one year over the allotted span, and has started to give me a second. I shall be thankful for as many more as He may be pleased to give, and when He signifies it is enough  I shall be grateful for that also."
	His parents moved in a humble sphere, and at an early age he began to sustain himself by working in the coal mines. In 1845, being then twenty-four years old, he first heard the Gospel, as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith. He received it gladly, being inducted into the Church by baptism and confirmation, under the administration of Elder William Gibson, who was noted as an earnest and eloquent preacher of the gospel of the latter-day message. Soon after his baptism Brother Sharp was ordained an Elder and was appointed to preside over the branch of Saints then existing in his native town. But he was soon embued with the idea of gathering with the main body of the community with which he had identified himself. While he remained in his native land however, he showed great devotion and zeal for his religion, and was the means of convincing quite a number of people of  its truth.
	Not being able to accumulate sufficient means to enable him and his family to reach Utah at that time they came as far as the States in 1848, and located near St. Louis where he worked in what are known as the Gravoy coal mines. He there continued his labors as an Elder, and presided over a branch of the Church organized in that locality. He was at St. Louis while the cholera plague made fearful ravages in that city. Many of the members of the Church were stricken with the dreadful malady and at that thime Brother Sharp exhibited a religious faith and personal courage that produced remarkable effects. He, with other brethren, went among the cholera patients, administering to therm, and the cases of miraculous healing, by the power of God  that occurred under his personal administration were marvlous. His experence at that time were in after years a frequent subject of conversation with him.
	So soon as Brother Sharp accumulated enough money for the purpose, he and his family came on to this city, where they arrived in September,  1850. Almost immediately after he reached here he was taken hold of by President Brigham Young,-whose confidence he enjoyed to an almost unlimited extendt-by whom he was engaged in the labor off quarrying and haauling rock for the building of the Temple and other public structures. He was in those early times also made superintendent of Church public works, a position he held for many years. In the time of what is designated as the "move," when the population of Northn Utah, on the approach of Buchanan's army proceeded southward, the subject of this sketch had charage of the removal of all the church effects, and when a pacific settlement of the questions existing at that time was reached, brought them back again to the places from which they were conveyed. This was a task of no small proportions at that time, but being a man of not only great vigor and energy, but of wide mental resources of a practical nature, he accomplished it to the satisfaction of all concerned. In 1855 he was ordained a Bishop, and, in that capacity, presided over the Twentienth ward which position he occupied for thirty years.
	He was a natural engineer, and a man whose judgment on any practical subject was of great value. He was sub-contractor under Brigham Young in the construction of the most difficult part of the Union Pacific railway, being that portion of the line that runs through the canyon gorges which form the entrance into Salt Lake Valley. He also did contract work of the same nature on the Central Pacific road at the Promontory. From that time he had been connected with the former company, and nearly the whole of the period until his death a director of it. He was, in an official capacity, associated with the old Utah Central line from the time it was completed, also with the old Utah Southern, and finally was president of the consolidation formed by a combination of the two companies, being in  that position at the time the latter was merged into the U.P. system.
	The deceased was a director of Z.C.M.I. almost from the initial organization of that mammoth establishment, and was active in supporting it in its earlier struggles when financial times were perilous on account of the scarcity of money. He held that position at the time of his death. He was one of the original incorporators of the Deseret national Bank, of which was one of the most useful, far-seeing and sagacious directors. The solidity of that institution is doubtless owing in no small proportionate degree, to his influence, financial standing and sturdy support.
	John Sharp was, in the late fifties and early sixties, chief of police of Salt Lake City, a position he filled with ability and courage. He was for many years Major of the Third Regiment of Infantry, of the Nauvoo Legion and subsequently its Colonel.
   	In 1872, when the question of the advisability of organizing a Mutual Improvement Association in his ward was being agitated by residents in the locality, he gave the movement his hearty support and encouragement. He directed its organization, which was given the title of the Twentieth Ward Institute, early in January of the year named, and he was unanimously elected its honorary president. This association had a great influence upon the inauguration of the system subsequently established throughout the Church.
	Bishop Sharp and his family lived under a species of communism on an small scale. He and his two eldest sons, John, Jun. And James, formed a copartnership, with their families interest, and virtually they had all things in common.  James has been the agent of the association, which has worked with the greatest harmony. As a matter of course the death of the senior member of the firm dissolves it. The union of his family was leading consideration with Brother Sharp. They have lost by his death a kind, loving and indulgent husband and parent, and the community sympathizes with them in their bereavement.
	Brother Sharp was a man of splendid physique, being about six feet in height, compactly built and erect as an arrow. In his younger days he was noted for his great physical strength, while his power of endurance was remarkable. He was noticed everywhere, in his associations with all classes , as a person possessing mental powers of no common character.
	Arrangements as to exact time and place of the funeral have not yet been finally concluded upon. We understand, however, that the burial will not take place till Sunday next, December 27th.
Deseret News, 23 December 1891

BISHOP SHARPS FUNERAL
Held from His Late Residence in the Twentieth Ward Yesterday.
GLOWING TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY
Resolutions of Respect Adopted by the Chamber of Commerce and Union Pacific Railway Employees

	Funeral services over the remains of Bishop John Sharp were held at his late residence in the Twentieth Ward yesterday.
	From 9 till 11 oclock a.m. the body lay in state and was viewed by hundreds of people who knew and respected the deceased during his lifetime. The services, which commenced at 11:;30, were largely attended by relatives and friends from all parts of the Territory. Prominent citizens, without retard to their religious or political belief, honored the memory of the deceased by their presence. Every apartment of the spacious residence was filled overflowing and many people were compelled to remain without upon the lawn and sidewalk, during the services. Upon and around the casket in which the body law were natural flowers in profusion. The designs were numerous. Several pieces were exquisitely beautiful.
	Bishop Romney conducted the services. The musical exercises were delightfully rendered by the Cambrian glee club. Prayer was offered by Apostle Heber J. Grant.
	Elder W. C. Dunbar was the first speaker. He said he had been acquainted with the deceased since 1852 and for many years had worked under and according to his counsels, which were always of the best. Some one had said that an honest man is the noblest work of God. That saying could be applied to the deceased with all its import. In addition to being an hones man he had ever been a kind-hearted and generous one. His purse was always open to the poor and his counsels were cheerfully given to those in distress.
	Elder Henry Pusey said that he had been personally acquainted with bishop Sharp for twenty-two years, ten years of which times he had been his counselor in the Twentieth ward bishopric. During that period he had learned to look upon him as a man of sterling qualities and one whose judgment was generally sound. A prominent characteristic of the deceased was his sociability and his defense of those in less fortunate financial circumstances than his own. He always weighed a  man by his character-the true standard of worth. The man who earned his livelihood by the sweat of his brow was as much respected by Bishop Sharp as those who were possessors of wealth.
	Apostle John Henry Smith said, in substance: I cannot remember when I did not know Bishop John Sharp. He is associated with the earliest recollections of my childhood. In my opinion he was a great man-a benefactor to his fellow-men. Words can add nothing to his good deeds, or the esteem in which he was held by those who knew him best. Starting as a boy with limited opportunities, from the lower round in the ladder, he successfully ascended to that plane which he occupied at the time of his demise. He has fought the fight, kept the faith, and gone to his reward. His name is written in the Lambs Book of Life.
	He was richly endowed by nature. Physically he was a man of splendid proportions. His intellect was broad and his judgement good. He was always generous and kind. Were we today to enter the homes of many of those who were once poor in this city and Territory and ask them who, above all others, gave them aid when they were in sore distress, the response would be Bishop John Sharp. He always found work for his brethren whenever he could do so. Were we to enter the homes of many who are in good financial circumstances and inquire who gave them good advice on certain business propositions, the answer would be the same. Not in this city and Territory alone was he looked upon as a man of worth, but throughout all this broad land where ever his name has been heralded. He was ever a friend of man. I remember well when I returned from a foreign mission in poverty, my family being practically without clothing and other necessary comforts of life, how I, in common with others appealed to him for work and how he secured us positions. For this and other noble traits of character I loved him and I trust that he loved me. Oftentimes, with profit, have I lilstened to words of counsel as they fell from his lips. He will receive the reward of a just man. We are about to bear his body hence from the home he has so long occupied, but we will be separated only for a little season. We will meet him again if we are faithful. To his latest breath he wished to have those at his side with whom he had fought the battle of life.
	In the system that has  been revealed to the Latter-day Saints we are taught that free agency has been given us and that we can exercise it for good or evil, as we choose. This system which we have espoused holds out this idea, that the plan of life and salvation is sufficiently broad to guarantee glory, immortality and eternal life to all, whether dead or living. It teaches us that God is our Father and that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world. We should reflect upon the seriousness of life and the possibilities which lie before us. Sometime we will be judged, like our departed brother, by our love of God by our good deeds to His children. Such love has been a prominent characteristic in the life of Bishop Sharp. There are hundreds of men today who would be pleased to assemble in this house and take a last look at the mortal remains of the man who gave them work whereby they could earn bread for themselves and families. May God bless all who emulate his worthy deeds.
	There are hundreds of men today who would be pleased to assemble in this house and take a last look at the mortal remains of the man who gave them work whereby they could earn bread for themselves and familis. May God bless all who emulate his worthy deeds.
	The choir sang He softly sleeps in peaceful slumber, after which the benediction was pronounced by Bishop Preston.
	Although the 
                  

                   BIRTH:  F.H.L. Film #104,150, Clackmannan Branch Records.
MARRIAGE: **********
DEATH: Obituaries, Deseret News, Oct. 15, 1902.

BAPTIZED: F.H.L. Film #104,150 Clackmannan Branch Records.
ENDOWED: F.H.L. Film #183,393 EHOUS, p.        #        .***************
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #13108.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film #1,239,617, p.423, #14108.
OBITUARY:                               DEATH OF "AUNT NANCY"
                             Mrs. Robert Patterson, Sister of bishop John Sharp, at rest.
     When under the pressure of advanced years, and weight of an industrious life, Mrs, Agnes sharp Patterson, wife of the late Robert Patterson and sister of the late Bishop John Sharp, this morning closed her eyes in her last mortal slumber, therefell to sleep a woman of most sterling qualities and goodly deeds.
     Mrs. Patterson, or "Aunt Nancy" as she was called, was a native of Scotland and came to Utah in 1850. Two years later she  moved to 757 East First South Street, and there she lived without change of residence for 50 years. During that period she has watched this city grow froma village to the metropolis of the entire mountain region that it now is. And she loved Salt Lake City and its people as she loved all of the people of Utah and humanity at large, for she was a humanitarian in all that the term implies. As an illustration of this a gentleman who has known her all her lifesaid to the writer this afternoon: "A few days ago I was reading the diary of my father, long since dead. I came across an entry that interested me very much. It read, 'We have been without bread for 30 days but Sister Patterson, who has to pounds in her house came in and divided with us.'"
     And that is just the kind of work this noble woman did through all of the dark days of Utah when povery and suffering laid heavily upon the people who came into the desert wilds and laid the foundations of this city. It is the kind of work she has done ever since. Whatever she did was calculated and inteended to benefit some one. She was, in all respects, a sturdy character, just the sor of woman that many of th Pioneer women were. She was 80 years of age and the last days of her life, like the many preceded it were happy and peaceful except that she gradually fell into her great and final sleep which se did without the slightest suffering. Her funeral will be held from the Eleventh ward meeting house on Friaday at 11:a.m.  Deseret News, Oct. 15, 1902.

Agnes Sharp Patterson, sister of the late Bishop Sharpl died, age 80 years. Improvement "Era, Nov. 1902.

ALL ORDINANCE INFORMATION FOR CHILDREN 1S FROM THE INTERNET IGI.
                  

                   OCCUPATION:
    1880 - Farmer
    Freighter

BIRTH: F.H.L. Film #104,150, p.116, #65. Clackmannon,Scotland Branch Records.
MARRIAGE: F.H.L. Film #1,040,355, Item 4, p.89, Clackmannon Branch, Clackmannon, Scotland
        Parochial Register   1820 - 1854, Marriages and Deaths, Vol. 7.
        Aug 5. 1848.  Adam Sharp and Janet Cook, both in this parish, recorded their names for proclamation of banns, and were lawfully married on the 28th of same month [Aug.].
DEATH: Deseret News Obituaries, 10 Mar 1890, p.3.

BAPTIZED: F.H.L. Film #104,150 Item 4, p.116, #65.
       Adam SharpS  18 Oct 1827, Clackmannon, Scotland, Baptized 9 Nov 1847 and confirmed.
       Immersed by Elder Thos. Watson, confirmed by Elder Jo Watson          Removed
ENDOWED: F.H.L  Film # 183,393 EHOUS, p.62, #1697. Ordained Elder.
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #13109.
SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film #183,393,  p.117, #1444.
Journal History            FROM THE CHURCH IMMIGRATION OF 1850

       Roundy, Shadrack, Captain of freight train.
      Sharp, Adam
                   Elizabeth Cook, wife.
                   John A. born June 27, 1850 on bank of South Plate, son.
      Sharp, John (his own independent company)
                   Jane Patterson, wife
                   John, jun. son
                   James, son
      Sharp, Joseph (John's Sharp's independent company)
                   Janet Condie, wife
                   John C. infant son

Journal History
31 Aug 1855
	. . .Times are very lively, buildings and all kinds of improvement moving on. Public works are moving on lively. The Temple foundation is complete, and they have commenced laying [      ] rock for the basement. The works have rather stopped as we have no means of getting rock, as the feed failed: the teams were all driven to Cache Valley. Brother Sharp has left the quarry with his hands, and they have gone to forward the making of the canal to bring granite, which we hope we shall have in operation next season. We have got two good saw mills now inspiration in the Big Cottonwood canyon. I suppose there is now 500,000 feet of lumber sawed out and waiting to be hauled to the Temple. . .


Great Salt Lake Ciy                          Adam Sharp
April 7, 1859
Married 28 Aug 1848
Died 8 Mar 1890, Utah

	A blessing by John Smith, Patriarch, upon the head of Adam Sharp, son of John and Sarah, born Clackmannanshire, Scotland, Oct. 18, 1827.
	I place my hands upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ and confer upon you all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for thou art a lawful heir to the Everlasting Priesthood which shall be sealed upon you in the temple, that is now commenced and continue to increase upon you and yours for many generations.
	Thou are the blood and lineage of Manassah and lawful heir to the Everlasting Priesthood. You shall be blessed with health, raise up many children that shall be great in the priesthood, have wisdom to accomplish eery purpose of your heart in the best possible way.
	You shall preach the gospel to many people in the western islands of the sea, cause kings to submit themselves to your teaching, shall lead thousands to Zion and establish them in a land of peace. You shall live to see Israel gathered from the four quarters of the earth, see the waters roll back from the north country, Mt. Zion and Jerusalem joined together, and not a dog to move his tongue against the Saints. You shall stand on the Earth with your Redeemer and reign with him a thousand years, and inherit all the blessings of His kingdom forever, amen
							John Smith, Recorder

The Founding Fathers	ADAM SHARP	Twentieth Ward History 1856-1979

	Adam Sharp, the middle of the three Sharp brothers, also the son of John and Mary Hunter Sharp, was born October 18, 128 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. He married Elizabeth [Janet] Cook], daughter of David Cook and Mary Pattersen, both of Scotland. He embraced the Gospel along with his brothers and emigrated to Utah with them.
With his brothers, he engaged in quarrying and hauling the stones from the quarries in Red Butte and Cottonwood Canyons for Church construction. When the overland telegraph lines were being installed, no one could be found who was willing to freight the poles across the desert from Rush Valley to Deep Creek, near Nevada, nearly 200 miles away. At the request of Brigham Young, the Sharp brothers took the contract, and under the direction of Adam, the nearly 8,000 poles were deli­vered in spite of almost insurmountable hazards.
During the very severe winter of 1857-58, at the time of the Johnston*s Army invasion of Utah, Brigham Young decided that he must send a message to the U.S. Army Commander camped near the burned Fort Bridger. He met Joseph and Adam Sharp on the street and told them he wanted someone to take the message. They inquired, How soon do you want us to leave? He replied, As soon as you can get ready. How about tomorrow morning. They told him they would be ready in one hour. Ready they were and picked up the letter at the office of the First Presidency.
The Sharps headed east up the Old Mormon Trail, through deep snow and sub-zero weather. At each settlement, they got fresh horses. When they reached the army encampment, it was late afternoon. The soldiers had tents with warm fires and they had a hot meal ready to be served. But the soldiers did not invite the two Mormons to come in out of the wintry blasts or to eat any food. The two Sharp brothers were left to care for themselves as best they could. They jumped up and down and waved their arms to restore circulation and to keep from freezing. Some of the soldiers gathered around them and poured out many vile names expressing themselves concerning the character of the Mormons. As soon as they received the written answer to Brigham Young*s message, they jumped onto their horses and galloped away, returning to Salt Lake City safely.
Adam Sharp later moved to Vernon, Utah in Tooele County, where he raised sheep until his death March 4, 1890 at the age of 62 years.

Deed Transfer from Joseph Sharp to Adam Sharp for Property on East South Temple.
Be it known by these Presents: That I Joseph Sharp of Great Salt Lake City in the County of Great Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, am the rightful claimant and owner of possession of the South Half of Lot 4 in Block 42 containing Fifty square rods as plotted in the Plot B, G.S.L. City surveys, and do, for the sum of six Dollars, paid by Adam Sharp of Great Salt Lake City, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, sell, release, quit claim and transfer, all my right of claim, interest, and possession of and to the aforesaid premises, together with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto blonging, to the said Adam Sharp his heirs or assigns.-
      Dated this fourth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven-
Thos. C. Armstron)
Geo. D. Watt.       )  Witnesses                                       Joseph Sharp
County of Great Salt Lake,) I, Leo Hawkins, Recorder in and for said County, certify that the signer of the above transfer, personally known to me, appeared this fourth day of March A.D. 1857 and acknowledged that he of his own choice, executed the foregoing transfer.
Recorded March 7, 1857                                                                        Leo Hawkins

Adams trip to the Army

Governors Office, Great Salt Lake City,  Oct, 28th 1857

		Col. E.B Alexander, 10th Inf. U.S.A., Camp Hams Fork:-
	Sir: Having learned that Mrs. Mego, with her infant child, wishes to join her husband in your camp, also, that Mr. Jesse Jones, who has been in this city a few weeks, was anxious to see Mr. Roup, it has afforded me pleasure to cause the necessary arrangements to be made for their comfortable and safe conveyance to your care, under the conduct and protection of Messrs. John Harvey, Joseph Sharp, Adam Sharp and Thomas J. Hickman, the bearers of this communication.
	Mrs. Mego and her infant are conveyed to y our camp in accordance with my previously often expressed readiness to forward to you such as might wish to go, and is the only resident of that description in Utah, as far as I am informed. Her husband made his first appearance here in the capacity of a teamster for Capt. W. H. Hooper. He was then in very destitute circumstances, has since been in the employ of the late U.S. Surveyor General of Utah, and I am not aware that he has any property or tie of any description in this territory, except the wife and child now conveyed to him in your camp.
	Should Col. Canby and lady wish to partake of the hospitality proffered by Mr. Heywood and family, and should Capt. R. B. Marcy desire to favor me with a visit, as I infer from his letter of introduction forwarded and in my possession, or should you or any other officers in your command wish to indulge in a trip to this city, you will kindly welcomed and hospitably entertained, and the vehicle and escort now sent to your camp are tendered for the conveyance of such as may receive your permission to avail themselves of this cordial invitation.
	It is also presumed that your humane feelings will prompt you, in case there are any persons who wish to peacefully leave your camp for this city, to permit them to avail themselves of the protection and guklance of the escort now sent.
	Trusting that this communication will meet your entire approval and hearty co-operation, I have the honor, Sir, to be your obt servt,
									 BRIGHAM YOUNG

Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. [Salt Lake Cit 380.)

The PONY EXPRESS STATIONS .
By James P. Sharp

ROCKWELL'S WELL
INTRODUCTION
	Some might ask, "How, when, where, and from whom did you get information to write about such a subject?" I'll explain.
	When I was a very small lad, there used to be many more ward gatherings than we have today, and what times we used to have Everyone wentMormon, Gentileold and young, big and littleto those free ward feastsand what feasts they were Usually after those old timers had a real "fullup" they would gather outside and begin to whittle while the youngsters danced. Those old timers again loved to live over the highlights of the past and liked to tell about them. I liked to listen.
	At some of those gatherings there would be such men as "Uncle" Adam Sharp, who strung the telegraph poles across the desert to Deep Creek: Pete Neece, who was station keeper for the Express at Willow Springs; D.E. (Pegleg) Davis, who stood the first trick at Simpson Springs when the Overland Telegraph line was completed; Louis (Louie) Strasburg, who was a bugler in Johnston's Army when it came west in 1858and not forgetting "Uncle" Horace Rockwell, David P. Cook, George Wright, and many others who did their bit in taming the West; and, last but not least, my father, John C. Sharp, who, as a boy, went along with Uncle Adam, hauling the poles for the telegraph company.
	In the fall of 1888, he and I went along the Pony Express route, with a team and wagon from Salt Lake City to Rush Valley. We did not follow the route from Rockwell to Dugout, for the Express riders rode over the Point of the Mountain, while we crossed the Jordan and went along the old stage route. This was a two-day trip, and he told stories of interest most of the time during the seventy-mile drive. A few years later we went from Rush Valley to Burnt Station (or Burned Station) a three-day trip of one hundred ten miles, and on both of those trips told a brief history of events which had happened at the different stations along the route and showed me where the stations had been.
	In 1932-33 I was appraising land for a land bank and was sent to western Utah and eastern Nevada, and so I picked up the route at Deep Creek and followed it nearly to Egan Canyon, about sixty miles, and visited all of the stations between, but could find out very little about those stations, for the people seemed to know very little of the past, less of the present, and all they cared to know about the future was, when they could expect their loan check.
	According to Whitney's "Brief History of Utah," one Ben Holladay owned and operated a stage line from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, and had a station en route at Salt Lake City, which was in 1859.
	Russell, Majors, and Waddell of Leavenworth, Kansas, owned the Pony Express which started in 1860, while someone else owned the Overland Telegraph Line which went through in 1861.
	Now the watering places west from Salt Lake City were few and far between, so of necessity the three companies must have had duplicate stations at many of these watering places or else maintained a sort of cooperative station. Therefore, in writing stories of the Pony Express Stations, they must overlap those of the two other companies. That is the reason for writing stories about the Pony Express Stations and not writing Pony Express Stories.

PART I

	THE Salt Lake Pony Express Station was situated on the east side of Main Street between First and Second South. Little need be said of this one, except that it was a home station, where riders changed.

	Traveller's Rest is nine miles south. Why the name was selected I have never heard. It is close to home and little ever seemed to have happened there, so will say only, it was a way station, where horses were changed.
	Rockwell's is the next one, twelve miles farther south and is situated near the hot springs, southwest from Draper. This station was named after Porter Rockwell and some said he kept this station, which I doubt, because at that time he was special agent for the Overland Stage Company and soon took over the duties of special agent for the Pony Express people, in addition to being a sort of personal bodyguard for Brigham Young.
	Port was one of the best-known men of his time, and many are the stories told about him. Let me slip in a couple of short ones:
	Reports had it that he killed a great number of men both in his official capacity as well as a private citizen. How true that was I cannot say, but he once is reported to have said:
	"I never killed a man who did not need killing," and if one-half the stories those old timers told are true then my comment would be, "He never killed a tithing of what he should have killed."
	One day I asked a very old man if he had known Port. His answer was: "Did I know Port? Say I knowed him when he was the only law between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean."
	From here the route continued up Pony Express Canyon, a sort of dry ravine, to the Point of the Mountain, where it entered Utah Valley, then down the other side and crossed the Jordan River at the Old Indian Ford and took a southwesterly direction to the next station called Dugout, ten miles from Rockwell. This station was so named, for there one Joseph Dorton (nicknamed "Dugout" and known locally by this name, Joe Dugout) attempted to dig a well to furnish water for the emigrants. It was situated almost on the top of a low hill dividing Utah and Cedar valleys. Some said the well was ninety feet deep, while others said it was any distance between that figure and three hundred feet. However, it was a dry well, and the station here was maintained for only a few trips.
	South, ten miles from here, is what has been known as Fairfield, Fort Crittenden and Camp Floyd. This station is situatted out in Cedar Valley just below a large spring and is where Johnston's Army stopped after marching through Salt Lake City in 1858. The army stayed here until 1861 and then moved away.
	From here we go southwest to Five Mile Pass and cross from Cedar to either East Valley or Rush Valley and turn west another five miles and come to a way-station sometimes called "The Pass," "East Rush," or "East Valley," all depending on who mentions the story. This was not kept up long, and the rider then rode from Fairfield (take your pick of the names) to Rush Valley later called Faust Station, eleven miles from The Pass Station (again take your pick of names).
	The name Rush Valley came from the fact that in the early days there was a lake called Rush Lake, later c
                  

                   BIRTH: F.H.L.Film #102,097 Sterling Parish Records, Scotland.
MARRIAGE: **********
DEATH: Deseret News, 7 Sep 1864.

BAPTIZED: F.H.L. Film #104,150, Clackmannan Branch Records, Scotland.
ENDOWED: F.H.L. Film #183,393 EHOUS, p.62, #1598.  Ordained to Elder.
SEALED TO PARENTS: F.H.L.Film #1,239,617 SLAKE, p.423, #14110
SEALED TO SPOUSE:

Journal History
Joseph Sharp. Friday, October 16, 1857. Major Joseph Taylor and William R. R. Stowell of the Utah Militia were taken prisoners by the U.S. troops near Fort Bridger.
	Friday, November 6, 1857. Five hundred animals perished from cold and starvation around U.S. army camp on Blacks Fork.
	Monday, 16th. Two miles from the site of Fort Bridger and 115 miles from G. S. L. City. - Church Chronology.
	Three facts have been established. Bridger was about 115 miles from Salt Lake, Mormon prisoners were there, and it was cold.
	When Brigham Young heard of the capture of those two officers he wanted to send some word to Major Alexander who was in charge of Johnstons army at the time. What it was I do not know. His trusty scout, Port Rockwell, was away so he had to get someone else. Early one morning he sent for two men to come to his place. When they arrived he explained the nature of their trip. Told them of the cold, deep snow, possibilities of being held captives, and wanted to know what they thought of the whole affair.
	They said they would be ready in one hours time. They rode up and Brigham gave them two letters, one for Major Alexander, the other to General Daniel H. Wells in charge of the Utah Militia in Echo Canyon. Up Emigration Canyon they rode and then over Little Mountain, up Big Mountain where the snow was deep and it was bitter cold and the wind was blowing. It was dark when they reached Weber Canyon and about 9pm when they reached the camp of the Mormon Militia.
	General Wells took them to his tent and had supper prepared for them and then ordered beds made in his tent for the two men but they told him they had to go on, for Brigham had said the message was important. Two fresh horses were saddled and the men were preparing to mount when the General walked up to them, shook their hand and said, God protect any man who rides up Echo Canyon a night like this.
	The bugler was blowing the mess call for dinner as they neared Fort Bridger. A white handkerchief was waved and they rode in to the sentry who called a guard to escort the men into camp. The letter was given to some orderly who took it to the Major while they sat out there in the cold, too proud to ask for even a bowl of bean soup. The answer was given them and they headed back, arriving at Echo camp about 2am. The General was up and had a hot meal ready for them. Again he insisted on their remaining, but they insisted and were soon on their own horses headed for home. The sun was low in the west when two tired horses and two very tired men entered Salt Lake Valley. Straight to Brighams place they went. Seeing them he said, Well, what excuse? Too cold or two much snow? With fingers benumbed by the cold, one of the men undid his buckskin coat and brought forth the answer from Major Alexander.
	What about those being rugged men of the West and men of great courage? How would you like to spend 56 hours in the saddle with only two meals and a journey of about 230 miles horseback in the dead of winter? How do I know this story is true? Well, one of those two men was my grandfather, Joseph Sharp; the other, his brother, Adam. (James P. Sharp)


Journal History
7 Sep 1864

	The weather continued warm and pleasant in G.S.L. City.
	The President (Brigham Young) and party held another meeting in Fillmore, at which Elders Orson Hyde and Brigham Young preached.
	Capt. Jos. Sharp who was returning to G.S.L. City from the East died at Willow Springs. The Deseret News notes the sad event as follows:

	SUDDEN DEATH ON THE PLAINS: - by telegraphic dispatch received on Wednesday evening Bishop Sharp (John) got the mournful intelligence of the sudden death of his brother, Joseph, who departed this life at 7 a.m. of that instant at Willow Springs, abut 364 miles east of this city. Deceased was in charge of a freight train containing goods for Ransohoff & Co., and having lost between 30 and 40 head of oxen and being a very had working man, the probability is that he over-exerted himself in the management of the train and thereby brought on an internal disease for which there was no remedy at hand. Brother Sharp was born on the 8th of July 1830 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in the month of June, 1847. He journeyed with his brothers John and Adam, from his native land to this Territory in 1850. Brother Sharp has left a family of nine to mourn his loss.
	Immediately on learning the sorrowful news, Bishop John Sharp had a metalic [sic] coffin made, and on Friday morning at 4 oclock Mr. Patrick Lynch and the Whitesmith who made the coffin went east by the stage to bring in the remains, which after being brought westward some 62 miles, have been temporarily interred at the Three crossing of Sweet Water river.

Journal History	21 Sept 1864
	21 Sept 1864 - Returned - Brother Patrick Lynch, who went east for the body of Joseph Sharp reached his home in this city, about 4 oclock on Sunday morning, having seen the remains of Bro. Sharp securely encased in a zinc coffin, and deposited them in the train of which the deceased had been the Captain.    		Deseret News
Joseph Sharp
	Joseph Sharp, the youngest of the three Sharp brothers, was born July 8, 1830, in Clackmannanshire, Scotland of John and Mary Hunter Sharp. He joined the Church, emigrating to Utah. In 1849, while still in St. Louis, Mo. he married Janet Condie. Later, when she passed away, he married her sister Margaret Condie.
Along with his two brothers, Joseph engaged in the quar­rying and freighting business. He was an extremely strong and powerful man. It is said he could hold a fifty pound weight at arms length for one minute and could shoulder 150 pounds of wheat with his feet together.
As a freighter, he journeyed many times back and forth across the plains, going East with gold, purchasing oxen and wagons and the supplies to fill them, and then heading West to sell the merchandise in the Salt Lake area. He also freighted into Montana and Nevada.
In 1864, as Joseph Sharp was preparing to go East, he was asked by Brigham Young to take only a skeleton crew with him, and to let some of the newly arrived emigrants go with him as drivers, and return with their families. Against his better judgment, he agreed.
With the inexperienced help, the train moved slowly, with many wanderings and strayings. At Willow Springs in Wyoming, one of the new drivers allowed his wagon to get off the trail and the rear wheel sank into a mud hole. After five men couldn*t budge it, Joseph brushed them aside, placed his shoulders against the wheel, grasped two of the spokes and lifted the wheel clear of the hole and the oxen then pulled the wagon ahead. He died the next morning of a ruptured blood vessel, September 7, 1864 at the age of 34 years.
The body was taken westward some 62 miles and temporar­ily interred at the Three Crossings of the Sweet Water River.
Upon receiving the sorrowful news of his youngest brother*s death, Bishop John Sharp had a coffin made and Patrick Lynch and the Whitesmith who made the coffin, went East by the stage to bring the body of Joseph Sharp back to Salt Lake. The funeral services were held in the 20th Ward Chapel.  	Twentieth Ward History, p.47-49.

Sharp, Joseph

Sharp, Joseph, a veteran Elder in the Church, was born July 8, 1830, at Alvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son of John Sharp and Mary Hunter. He married Janet Condie at St. Louis, Mo., in 1849; she was the daughter of Thos. Condie and Nellie Sharp and was born Aug. 4, 1831, at Clochmanan, Scotland. Joseph Sharp and his wife came to Utah in 1850 and he died Sept. 15, 1864, while crossing the plains as a freighter at a place called Willow Springs, now in Wyoming. His wife died Jan. 19, 1859, in Salt Lake City
(Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. [Salt Lake Cit 479.

Stevenson, Eliza Maria Smith
Stevenson, Eliza Maria Smith, wife of George V. Stevenson, was born Feb. 5, 1850, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of John Sivol Smith and Jane Wadley. She was born while her parents were en route from England to Salt Lake City in Wm. Snow's company. The company arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 3, 1850, and the family, after wintering in the city, moved to Draper, Salt Lake county, in the spring of 1851. In 1856 they moved to Kaysville, where Sister Eliza's father purchased a farm of Bishop Kay. Sister Eliza was baptized Oct. 13, 1861, by Joseph Sharp and was married to Bro. Stevenson March 21, 1867; she became the mother of ten children, six of whom are still living. In 1893 she was chosen as president of the branch Primary Association and held that position for twelve years; since 1905 she has been a member of the Stake Primary Board.
(Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. [Salt Lake Cit 252.)