Edmund CRAGUN

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LIFE SKETCH OF EDMUND CRAGUN I, Edmund Cragun, was born 19 March 1882, at twelve noon in Pleasant View, Weber, County, Utah. I am the son of Wilford Elisha and Mary Ann Ellis Cragun. I was the 7th in a family of thirteen children. My brothers and sisters names were Mary Ann, Sarah Susan, Wilford Simeon,Julia Amelia, May Mahalia, Mormon, Wiley Moroni, Rachel Eliza, Pearl, James Hyrum, Violet Grace, and Eva Lillian. I was born in a rock house with two stories that was built by my father. When I was two and one-half months old, I was blessed and given a name by Ames Maycock. This was the 1st of June 1882. I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints the 2nd of April 1890, by Charles Reese. My Father and Mother were very busy making a living for our family. They raised some cattle, horses, and chickens. As soon as the children were old enough to help, they were given things to do on the farm. My Father taught me how to do the farm work. We had a sixty acre farm and another farm up Alder Creek. We spent a great deal of time digging drains and securing water for the farm, which was on a hillside. There was a time when a Mr. Slater tried to take the canyon water from us that we had toiled so hard to get. We were forced to go to court about it. Although Mr. Slater spent a great deal of money trying to convince the jury, the decision was given in my father’s favor. We were very thankful that the much needed water was not taken away from us. Because I was named after my Grandfather, Edmund Ellis, my Grandfather made a big fuss over me. He would take me to his farm with him. He was very witty and was always telling me jokes and funny stories. Grandmother Ellis would say, “we’ve heard enough of that.” I used to drive Grandmother Ellis to Ogden to do the shopping. When we would get a short ways from the railroad tracks, Grandmotherwould call, “watch out for the trains, Edmund.” I went to school in an old meeting house, where all the grades were taught in one room. My Uncle Wiley Cragun was my school teacher. He would always have me write on the board if there was visitors because I was the best writer. I went to Sunday School, primary, and sacrament meeting. My Father and Mother always went with us. We were very religious in our home. We always had prayer before supper and before breakfast in the morning. We took our turns in saying them. I was ordained a Deacon on the seventh of February 1897. I was very happy to be a Deacon and did all that was required of me. When I was only thirteen years old my Father was called to go on a mission to Indiana. I had to stay at home and work on the farm as there wasten unmarried children at home. I received a letter from my father while he was in Indiana. He told me to look after the place in his stead. This I did. It was a lot of work for such a young boy, butI worked hard and with the help of my Mother and brothers and sisters, we were able to make a living while my Father was gone. In those days, the people of the East thought the Mormons were an undesirable people and so one day when my Father and a companion sat down to a meal prepared by a person they thought was their friend, they were poisoned. My Father was dreadfully ill for many days, and finally contracted Malaria Fever and was sent home. My father was only home a month until he died on the eighth of August 1896. We were all very sad that he should die in such a way, but we were happy that he had died in the service of the Lord. I continued to help on the farm. I was ordained an Elder by Scott Campbell on the 18th of December 1900. I received my call to go on a mission to Australia in 1902. Even though there was much to do on the farm. I knew that I should go where the Lord called me to go. I took a missionary course at the Weber Academy. David O. McKay was president of the academy at this time. I was ordained a seventy by Apostle J. Golden Kimball, on the 3rd of April 1902, and left the same month for my mission. We stopped at the Hawaiian Islands, the Samoan Islands, and New Zealand on the way to Australia. We were on the ocean nearly 4 weeks. Many of the passengers were seasick because of the rough seas. We arrived at Australia and were met by President Duckworth and Elder Collins. Then I had to leave and go to Melbourne, Australia. We were instructed to grow mustaches to make us look older. I did not have any trouble and in no time had a mustache that was long enough to curl and draw under my chin. This did indeed make us look older and more mature. We had very few Saints, but many investigators. We would hold street meetings and carry long torches to draw thecrowds. There was strong opposition from some Josephites. As soon as we would close out meetings they would oppose us. One day as we were meeting, one of the Josephites began to oppose us. I was inspired to quote from the Bible. St. Luke 13:28, “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and youyourselves thrust out.” I compared it like unto them because they opposed polygamy and said the Lord never sanctioned it. I told them all these prophets were polygamists, which they knew. WhenI asked them, they said they believed in the New Jerusalem and that there would be twelve gatekeepers that would be Jacob’ sons, who were born in polygamy. By the time I was through talking withthem, the crowd was all on our side. The Josephites left and never bothered us again. On another occasion, there was a noted lawyer, who was continually saying things against the Church, especially polygamy. I found out his first wife had died and he had married again. I went to his home one day and explained our beliefs about the hereafter which enthused him so much that he became very interested in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In the fall of 1904, Elder Archie Bowman came in the field of missionary labor in Australia. He had been very sick all the way across the ocean. He couldn’t sleep at night and he just couldn’t get any better, so I was released to return home with Elder Bowman. I had been in Australia for two and one half years. I arrived home on the 14th of October 1904. They gave me a wonderful welcome home party. I again helped Mother on the farm. In the early winter, I went to Fairview to the Mower reunion where I met Ella Mower. We kept company and became very good friends. When I went to Ogden, I corresponded with her for nearly a year. We became engaged and were married on the 22nd of November, 1905, in the Salt Lake Temple. I bought a home in Pleasant View that my brother Mormon, had built on the farm and planted a cherry orchard around the place. While living here, our first son, Edmund, was born on the 27th of August, 1906. My wife became very sickwith milk leg poisoning, but was healed through the power of God. Our 2nd son, Oscar Mahlon, was born on the 27th of January 1910. While we lived at Pleasant View, we were both very active in the church. On the 27th of October 1910, we moved to Lindon Ward on the Orem Bench, where I had bought a large farm. We had a dry farm and a large fruit orchard and other good land for raising tomatoes and other vegetables. There was a hundred acres. I still had my home in Ogden, and when my sister Julia’s husband was killed, and she became very ill from the shock, and I gave her my home there. In Lindon, we were active in many capacities in the Church. On the 19th of June, 1915, our third son, Wilford Rumel, was born. In this same year, the Lindon Ward was divided, and I was selected 2nd Councilor to Charles G. Johnson, bishop of the new Windsor Ward. I was set apart as a High Priest in September 1915, by Apostle Orson F. Whitney. Although in dire circumstances, we at once asked church authorities to let us build a chapel. There was at this time only a few active members in the ward, but we were soon building the church house. I spent upwards of $1,000 besides helping with the labor. Ilabored diligently in the ward until I was called on a short term mission to Canada. When I arrived, I met with President Quinney and Conference President Elder Ririe. They asked me to work with ElderWatkins as a companion, which I did. Elder Watkins was a very peculiar man and easily disturbed. I had to look after him at all times. When he found out that he was to be sent home, the Power of theEvil One overcame him the middle of the night. He claimed to receive a revelation to guide the church. He held me fast and told me it would be death if I didn't deliver a message to the President of the Church, President Heber J. Grant. I finally got out from under his grip after receiving a bad shock. I had to watch him closely all night. He told me neither he or I would go home alive unless therevelation was delivered to the President. He would not let me telephone, so I spent all the next day getting him up to the mission headquarters. I turned him over to President Quinney of the Missionand some of the Elders, but they could do nothing for him. He was finally confined and died in confinement. President Quinney and myself accompanied the body home on the 28th of January 1926. We helda beautiful funeral for him in the Ogden Tabernacle. Apostle Stephen L. Richards, was there representing the church officials and he gave a grand talk. President Quinney spoke, as did myself. Soon after I returned home, my Mother, who had been in poor health for some time, passed away on the 19th of March, 1927. This was on my birthday. We buried her beside her husband in the North Ogden Cemetery.When I had been home but a short time, Charles G. Johnson was released from being bishop, and A.H. Lowe took his place. James W. Gillman was put in as first councilor, and I was set apart as second councilor. After laboring for some time and bringing our ward to the attention of the Stake Authorities, the Alpine Stake was divided into three stakes and President Wilford W. Warnick, Joseph Olpin, and myself, were chosen as councilors of the Timpanogos Stake. Not long after Joseph Olpin moved to Heber, and I was chosen first councilor and Martin S. Christiansen was chosen second councilor. My wife, Ella, was chosen as President of the Stake Relief Society. We all labored very diligently in the Timpanogos Stake, and brought it right to the front. In our home we entertained many of the ChurchAuthorities. Some of them were: President Heber J. Grant, Apostles- George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, James E. Talmage, John A. Widsoe, Joseph Fielding Smith, Richard R. Lyman, Stephen L. Richard, Melvin J. Ballard, Joseph Merrill, J. Golden Kimball, Antone Ivans, Reed Smoot, Orson F. Whitney, Rudger Clawson, Hyrum G. Smith, Clifford E. Young, etc.. We went to Salt Lake City to get a girl by the name of Madaline Gardener to look after and the Children’s Service Society persuaded us to take a ten year old girl Marie Brenam also. We did this, and Madaline stayed with us for years until she got work elsewhere. We adopted Marie, and raised her as our own until she was a young lady and went away and married Reuben Garbett of Park City. On the 29th of August 1923, our son Edmund M.married Jane Mower and moved into a home next to ours. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Our son, Oscar, was also married in the Salt Lake Temple on the 1st of February 1928. They built a home next door to our home. Edmund and Jane had three children. Darwin, who died of blood poisoning when he was two years old, Henry Dorlynn, and Nyla. Oscar had three children, Patsy, Connie, and Rosalie. Our son, Rumel, was called on a mission to Canada. It was the same field of labor that I had been in. He left for his mission on the 15th of November 1934. While he was in Canada, Ella’s father who was staying with us passed away, and Jane, Edmund’s wife became very ill, so we took Nyla who was only a tiny girl, until her mother got feeling better. A baby was born prematurely to Jane and she and the baby died on the 17th of August 1936. Nyla stayed with us and we raised her as our own. Later on, Dorlynn wanted to come and live with us, and so with the permission of his father, we took him and raised him. Edmund married again to Geneive Skinner, a girl who was staying at our home. On the 25th of January, Rumel returned from his mission, having done good work in this capacity.On the 16th of December 1937, Rumel married Ezma M. Williamson, in the Salt Lake Temple. They moved up near our home. It was during the time of the depression and our circumstances were dire becauseof the drought that we were compelled to give up our home in Lindon. They gave us a nice farewell party in the Timpanogos Tabernacle and presented me with a very nice occasional chair and my wife a large wall mirror. We were given a lot of praise for the fine work we had done. We moved in 1939 to the Mower home in Springville. This was Ella’s father’s home and we made it modern in every way possible. I spent the first winter hauling slag from the Steel plant in Ironton. I filled in ditches in front of the place so that we could get in and out. The ground was very soft. On account of my age, I was unable to find employment in Springville, so the next spring I started selling fruit from a small fruit stand in front of the house. I also raised corn and vegetables on our place. I rented additional land from Ella’s brother where I raised tomatoes and other crops. These I sold from this stand. We found it was very slow building up a fruit business, but as time went on, business grew. Ella helped me all she could. We then put in groceries. In 1945, Ella had a heart attack and was unable to help me more, and I had to look after her, so Rumel came into the business with me. We worked hard and still built up the market more until we had a nice market with a lot of groceries, fruit, vegetables and meat. After receiving loving care, Ella improved and was able to get about. Dorlynn was married in 1949 to Alta. In 1950, Ella was taken seriously ill and was taken to a doctor who told us to take her to the Utah Valley Hospital, which I did. She then improved and we brought her home, but she had to go back again to the hospital. We then brought her home. All that loving hands could do for her was done and on the 28th of February, 1950, she passed peacefully away. I wasvery lonesome. Nyla was here with me, and did the housework and went to school. In the middle of the summer, I met Sarah Bigler, and we became engaged and we were married in the Salt Lake Temple in November 1950. Sarah had a home in Murray, Utah. She had nine married children: Douglas, Glen, Max, Lloyd, Art, Lois, Pauline, Leth, and Flora. These children treated me with respect and were very kindto me during our married life. We moved to Springville, and went back and forth to Murray to keep up her home there. In 1952, Nyla was married to Floyd Sundquist. She continued to make her home withus as her husband was in the service. We were up to Sarah’s home in Murray entertaining her family and meeting her friends in the winter of 1953 when she became very ill and died very suddenly on the 16th of February 1953. She had a complication of diseases. Her family was with her when she passed away. I was very sorry to lose two very dear companions in my life. In the first part of June,I met Mary Bell Snow Lowry at her sister’s home in Sterling, Sampete County, Utah, and we became very dear friends and began keeping company. I would go to Magna on the weekend and see her at her daughter’s home, Louise Bradley, and she had another daughter, Lawain Odell, who lived in Salt Lake City. Our friendship ripened into love, and we were married on the 28th of August 1953, in the Salt Lake Temple. We have had many nice times together. We went to the St. George Temple the first part of January 1954, and stayed for three months doing temple work for the dead. We did 100 nameseach. We returned home and I continued working at the market. Each year we go to St. George and do temple work for three months. I do work at the veil. We stand as witnesses and help with any work weare called up to do. We have been to the Salt Lake, Manti, Logan, Arizona, Los Angeles, Idaho Falls, and St. George temples doing temple work for our kindred dead and others. In the fall of 1955, wemoved into a new home in the 4th ward of Springville Stake. Rumel moved into our home on North Main Street. We were welcomed into the ward, and I was set apart as chairman in the Genealogical Committee, and my wife, Mary, was set apart as my assistant. We are very happy in this work. This was given orally by Edmund Cragun on the 14th of September 1957, and was written by his daughter-in-law, EzmaCragun.

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