Thornock Pioneers Salt Lake Valley Colonizers, Bear Lake Valley

This history is written for the benefit of the posterity of John and Ann Bott Thornock. It is an account of many of the most significant events in the lives of this couple and their nine children, six of them born in England and three in Utah. The primary role they played in America had two distinct periods. First was 17 years in the Salt Lake Valley where they joined an on-going program in pioneering activities. This family emigrated from England to Utah in 1854, seven years after the first Mormons started to establish Salt Lake City as the headquarters of the Church.

1982, 245 pp

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter                      Page
1. INTRODUCTION                                            1
2. THE ORIGIN OF THE THORNOCK FAMILY             3
A New Name
Their Family Roots
Will of William Bott
War and Poverty
The Battle of Waterloo
Victory but Abject Poverty
3. CONVERTS TO THE "MORMON" CHURCH IN ENGLAND                  10
Martyrdom of the Prophet
The Perpetual Emigration Fund
Help to the Saints on the Plains
Help to the European Saints
4. THORNOCK FAMILY EMIGRATES TO AMERICA                   14
Years of Preparation
Mode of Conducting the Emigration
Instructions to Emigrants
The Ship Goldconda
Golconda Sailed February 4, 1854
5. CROSSING THE PLAINS IN THE JOB SMITH COMPANY                31
Mary Ann Thornock Died June 12, 1854
Job Smith's Diary
1854 Route
Indians and Buffalo
1854 Indian Problems in Utah
Frederick PLercyfs Diary
Frederick Piercy's Advice to Future Emigrants
6. FIRST YEARS IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY                                64
Temporary Home in Salt Lake City
William Died in Salt Lake City October 12, 1854
Work on the Temple
Corner Stone of Temple Laid - 1853
The Endowment House
Sarah Ann Born in Salt Lake City
Their Home in Farming ton
The Utah War
Two more Children born in Farming ton
7. BEAR LAKE VALLEY BEFORE SETTLEMENT                              79
The Geography
Home of the American Indian
The Coming of the White Man
The First Oregon Trail
Why Colonization of the Valley was Delayed

Why the Valley was Settled in 1863

An Agreement with Washakie
First Winter in Paris
8. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP COLONIZE THE BEAR                          87
LAKE VALLEY
John Bott Thornock Picked with His Good Saddle Horse to
help Brigham Young and Party to Bear Lake Valley, May 1864 Brig ham Young Instructs the Settlers John Helps survey the Townsite of Blooraington —1864 Canyon Roads and Irrigation Ditches John Assists many families arriving in 1864
9. JOHN RETURNS TO FARMINGTON                                                    98
John married Emma Ward in 1865
10. JOHN AND EMMA BUILD THEIR FIRST HOME IN BLOOMINGTON 102 How the Town lots and Farmland were assigned at first Their first cabin, barns and corrals
11. JOHN AND ANN BOTT THORNOCK AND FAMILY MOVED TO                     105
BLOOMINGTON
Where their homes and ranches were located. Natural Resources of the Bear Lake Valley
12. COLONIZERS AND THE INDIANS                                        109
No Battles in Bear Lake Valley
The Battle that aided Bear Lake
Brigham Young's Indian Mission
13. INTRODUCTION TO BEAR LAKE FROSTS, BLIZZARDS,                         115
LONG HARD WINTERS
Care of Livestock during Bear Lake Winters
Bear Lake Blizzards
Corrals, Sheds, Barns and Stables
The Wood Pile
14. MAJOR PROJECTS FOR THE SETTLERS                                      121
Roads
Telegraph and Telephone lines Sawmills and Gristmills
15. LIVESTOCK AND FARM ANIMALS                                           129
Horses
Cattle
Hogs
Sheep
Poultry
Dogs and Cats
16. BEAR LAKE INDUSTRY UNDER THE UNITED ORDER                         134
Variety in the "Order"
The System is Installed
The Paris Cooperative Institute
The Blooming ton Cooperative
The Old Co-op Store
Freighting for the Co-Op Store
Butchering and Selling Beef to the Co-op Store The Valley's Cooperatives Decline
17. POLYGAMY AND POLITICAL FRANCHISE                                    144
Strife Begins
Idaho's Policiticans Fight the L.D.S. Church The Polygynists are Hunted Polygyny Abolished in the Latter-day Saint Church
18. HOW THE COMING OF THE RAILROAD AFFECTED THE THORNOCK FAMILY                 155
General Information and History of the Union Pacific; Authority for Building the Union Pacific Receivership and Reorganization of the Union Pacific The Oregon Short Line
19. JOHN AND ANN IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS                                162
Their Years in Blooming ton
Many Grandchildren
Sarah Ann helps Colonize Safford, Arizona Our Trip to Arizona
Bloomington Company Leadership in Layton Ward School of Many Names
John Eller and Sarah Ann T. Welker move to Idaho Deaths in the Family
20. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE THORNOCK WOMEN                               174
By Luella Thornock Peterson
21. EDUCATIONAL AND CHURCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE
THORNOCK FAMILY                                                          183
By George Lorton Thornock
22. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE THORNOCK FAMILY IN ATHLETICS,
RECREATION, MUSIC AND DRAMA                                      194
By William Lamont Thornock
PART II
23. THE BRANCH OF JOHN BOTT                                     202
By Clarence S. Thornock
24. THE BRANCH OF MATTHEW                                               209
By Vera King Nate
25. THE BRANCH OF MARY ANN                                  213
26. THE BRANCH OF WILLIAM                                               214
27. THE BRANCH OF JOSEPH                                             215
By Arvilla Mm son Thornock
28. THE BRANCH OF HANNAH                                              220
By Clara Mae Hess and Buelah Hess
29. THE BRANCH OF SARAH ANN                                  224
By Thelma Jane Hathaway Collett and Dora May Hathaway Hardy
30. THE BRANCH OF GEORGE HENRY                                      230
By Eva Thornock Burrows
31. THE BRANCH OF HYRUM JAMES                                     235
By Beth Thornock Orr and Lavear B. Thornock
32. APPENDIX                                                            241