SILVER, Clarence Watson^{[1, 2, 3]}

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• Name	SILVER, Clarence Watson
  Birth	3 May 1895	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
  Christening	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  WAC	15 Dec 1915	SLAKE
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Burial	Nov 1962	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Death	11 Nov 1962	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I44313	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	RICHARDS, Mamie ,   b. 8 Jun 1895, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United Statesd. 4 Nov 1992, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 97 years)
  Children	1 son and 1 daughter
  + 1. SILVER, Clarence Richards ,   b. 8 May 1917, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 25 Apr 1996, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 78 years) + 2. SILVER, Marjorie ,   b. 15 Dec 1918, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 19 Oct 2004, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F8545	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  According to family information, Mary Eleanor Watson was born on January 14, 1856, in Seaton Burn, near Newcastle on the River Tyne, Northumberland, England. She was the oldest child of James and Mary Gibbison Watson. When Eleanor was just eight months old, a Mormon elder called at her home and invited her father to attend a meeting of the Latter-day Saints. At the meeting, James was touched by the Spirit and began to investigate the doctrines of the church. James and Mary became convinced of the truthfulness of the gospel and were baptized. In 1863, when Eleanor was seven years old, the Watson family began their journey to Utah. First, in Liverpool, they boarded the sailing ship Cynosure . The Cynosure was a 1258 ton Yankee square-rigger built in 1853 in Bath, Maine. Aboard ship, a group of 754 Latter-Day Saints were under the direction of David M. Stuart. The following information about travel aboard the Cynosure was found on the Internet at ****************************************** : With all the problems the emigrants faced, it was essential that they be well organized. The ship's president, appointed by the presiding Church authority in England and sustained by the emigrants, would select his counselors, a clerk to keep a record of the voyage, a sergeant-at-arms to keep order, and occasionally cooks. The president would also divide the steerage into smaller units, usually called wards, each with its own priesthood leader to conduct morning and evening prayers and to help keep order. The number of wards varied from four to nineteen with approximately ten berths or forty persons per ward. There were six wards on the Cynosure . Because of their discipline, the Mormons usually fared better than other emigrants. Lord Houghton reported to the House of Commons, "But the Mormon ship is a Family under strong and accepted discipline, with every provision for comfort, decorum, and internal peace. On his arrival in the New World the wanderer is received into a cofraternity which speeds him onwards with as little hardship and anxiety as the circumstances permit, and he is passed on from friend to friend, till he reaches the promised home." (Edinburgh Review, Jan 1862. pp. 198-9.) Emigrants were given specific instructions by church leaders...They were told to "procure some of the best tools of [their] trade and useful books....all unnecessary things, especially weighty ones, should be left behind. Substantial clothing, linen, flannels, cottons, tapes, thread, needles, pins, worsted, hooks and eyes, buttons of all descriptions, thimbles, combs, writing paper, pens and pencils, are very useful articles to take...It is well to take good firearms, especially rifles. A general assortment of choice seeds of the hardier sorts should be taken. The space allowed on ship-board for luggage is ten cubic feet, but it is better for the passengers to have as much as possible put in the hold, which will give them more room around their berths." A typical day on board ship began at 5:30 or 6:00 A.M. with a wake-up call from a bell or a trumpet. Cleaning was followed by prayers at 7:00 or 7:30 A.M. and then breakfast. The emigrants would pray again at 7:00 P.M. and retire at 9:00 or 10:00 P.M. The rest of the day's activities were as diverse as dawdling in boredom or admiring a splendid sunset to singing, dancing, and giving concerts. Several of the ships had formal, organized bands. Many spent their spare time practicing their instruments. Tea parties and other celebrations were common. Many of the adults would make canvas tents and wagon covers for the overland journey that lay ahead. Schools might then be used to keep the children out of the way. Some of the men signed on as sailors to earn extra money. The ladies were involved with sewing and knitting. In good weather, the children ran, hopped, skipped, jumped rope, and enjoyed other outdoor games on deck. When the weather was bad, though, everyone had to stay below in very close quarters, and morale suffered. For religious services, sometimes all of the passengers would meet together. At other times, they would meet as individual wards. Meetings were often held Tuesday and Thursday evenings and two or three times each Sunday. There was usually preaching and, on Sundays, the sacrament and sometimes testimonies. Diets usually consisted of 3 quarts water daily, bread or biscuit, flour, oatmeal, potatoes, rice, sugar, tea and salt. "The first part of a sea voyage has often as astringent effect upon the bowels, and emigrants would do well to provide themselves with aperient medicines, if any. By regulating their diet and partaking, as far as possible, of such food as tends to relaxation instead of constipation, emigrants would very much escape sea-sickness and its attendant irregularities." Berths were six feet in length, and eighteen inches in width. ( Instructions to Emigrants, in Route From Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley ) Eleanor and her family spent a little over seven weeks en route and arrived in New York Harbor on July 19, 1863. Unfortunately, during the voyage, an epidemic of measles broke out. Eleanor and her two sisters fell victim to the disease. While Eleanor recovered, her sister Francis, would later die from the effects of the disease. Eventually, Eleanor and her family arrived in Florence, Nebraska. There, her family formed part of the Rosel Hyde Company that left Florence on August 11, 1863. Unlike many children, who walked in the morning and rode in the afternoon, Eleanor walked most of the distance across the plains behind the family wagon. Her family’s wagon did not have room for passengers. This was because her father, a former Branch President in England, was sharing his wagon with eight members of his Branch. The Watson Family arrived in Salt Lake City on October 13, 1863. They settled in Salt Lake City, in what was the Nineteenth Ward. The first school Eleanor attended was a private school at the home of Mrs. Watmough, who was also the teacher. From there she went to school at the Social Hall and later she attended the University of Deseret. On March 18, 1880, she married Joseph Askie Silver and together they had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, James (1881), Mary Francis (1883), Gertrude (1885), Ellen Leona (1887), Joseph (1889), John Watson (1893), Clarence Watson (1895), Watson Askie (1898), Moralee Watson (1902), Ralph Watson (1904). Two sons (William and Ralph) and a daughter (Gertrude) died in infancy. This is where I run out of information. I would like to know what happened to her. The only other bit of information I have was written by her daughter Leona. She wrote: “She was always a faithful member of the Church, holding positions in the church as Sunday School teacher in the Nineteenth Ward, before her marriage, second counselor for seventeen years in the Relief Society of the Cannon Ward, a ward teacher in the LeGrande Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers since its organization, being present at the first meeting.” My father, Roy Richards Silver, remembered the following: "My grandmother lived on 11th East just about to the corner of 9th South. Across the street, lived her daughter Leona and her husband, Ted Capener. My brother, Lynn and I used to go up and mow her lawn because she was old and frail. She was also very short. I remember that one time she invited me to go up to her house and spend the night. She thought that she was doing me a great favor by letting me sleep on her feather bed. It had feathers below you as a mattress and feathers above you in a quilt. I can remember that I have never been so hot in all my life. I also remember that she had a what I called a pop eye. I think that I inherited my lazy eye from her, and in her later years, her lazy eye became swollen and looked like it was going to pop out of her head. Grandma loved to play checkers. She always wanted to play. There was just one problem. She had to win. You had to let her win. Once, Grandma told me of her journey to America. She told me that her father had been the branch President in England. He had wanted his whole Branch to come to Zion. He helped many people financially. He even let families with young children and mothers with babies ride in his wagon. So, Grandma walked almost the whole way to the Salt Lake Valley. She also told me that her sister died and was buried in a pauper's grave in New York.

  
  

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  [S101] GEDCOM file imported on 18 Oct 2001. [S103] GEDCOM file imported on 23 Sep 2002. [S46] GEDCOM File : Alice Ann Kimball Smith 2003.ged, 30 Jun 2003.