Justina Martin Haigh Cosgrove

Mrs. Cosgrove, Lifelong Local Resident, Dies at 98

 Mrs. Zoe Margarete Cosgrove, lifelong Fort Madison resident, died at 7 p.m. Friday in Sacred Heart Hospital. She was 98. She had been ill six months. Mrs. Cosgrove was born August 12, 1869 in Fort Madison. In 1904, she was married to Thomas Cosgrove, who preceded her in death.

Mrs. Cosgrove was a member of the Union Presbyterian church, the King's Daughters Union, the White Shrine, the Royal Neighbors of America and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
 She was a 50-year member of Diamond Chapter No. 37 Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors Surviving here are a son, Marvin Cosgrove, Marshall, Mo; one daughter, Mrs. Karl (Elsie) Dryer, Fulton, N.Y.; a brother, Roy W. Martin, Keokuk; one sister, Mrs. Fred Jackson, Fort Madison; and 13 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son and a daughter. Her parents were Charles T. and Justina M. Dellenbaugh Martin.

The body is at the Barr Memorial Chapel where final rites will be a 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. John Lewis will officiate. Burial will be in Appanoose cemetery near Niota. The family will meet friends at the Barr chapel between 7 and 9 p.m. Monday.

 (This was in the Democrat on 7 Oct. 1967.)

Newspaper articles from Three Forks, Montana

My cousin, Sandee Diffenbacher, came across some old newspaper articles from the paper in Three Forks, Montana where some of our Haigh relatives were featured:

Three Forks News
Three Forks, Montana

Thursday, March 23, 1915, Volume V Number 16, Page 4(?)

News of the Three Valleys
Happenings’ of the Week in the Jefferson, Madison and Boulder Valleys

Neighborhood Items Gathered by our Special Correspondents
Valley View
The Valley View boys started baseball practice at the school house Sunday.

Among the Saturday visitors to the city were...
Gail Haigh and wife.

Also in this issue:
Three Forks Hospital Receives its First Patients This Week



Thursday, December 7, 1916, Volume VII, Number 1, Page 9, Column 2

Three Forks Local and Personal
Happenings” of Interest in and Around the City
Mr. and Mrs. Gail Haigh are rejoicing over the arrival of a bright baby girl born Saturday, December 2.

Note: This would be Evelyn Marjorie, born 2 December 1916.

Also in this issue; a full page advertisement, (with a drawing of Sacajawea):
Attention:
Sacajawea Flour
Three Forks Milling Co.
Is offered for sale in any quantity at $5.00 for 98lb sack



Three Forks News
Three Forks, Montana


Thursday, March 13, 1930
Volume XX, Number Eleven, Page 1, Column 2

Weekly News Letter Three Forks School
Third Grade Notes

Arlene Haigh, Bobbie Kelly and Newell Price from the second grade are trying to do third grade work. They did very well in tests and we hope they can do our work.


Thursday, March 20, 1930, Volume XX, Number Twelve, Page 1

Weekly News Letter, Three Forks School
Eight Grade News
Maurice Haigh was excused from school Tuesday morning on account of the mumps.
Fifth and Sixth Grade Notes
The following were neither absent nor tardy the sixth month of school: Jesse Haigh...



Thursday, April 6, 1933, Volume Twenty Three, Number Thirteen, Page 7

Three Forks Personal and Local News
Parents of New Son
A bright baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gail Haigh, Tuesday night at their home on the west side.
Note: This would be Donald Lee Haigh, born 4 April.




Three Forks News
Three Forks, Montana


Thursday, March 15, 1934, Volume Twenty Four, Number 11

Jessie and Evelyn Haigh motored to Manhatten Sunday.



December 20, 1934, Volume 24 Number 50, Page 10

The Social Whirl
Christmas shopping and motoring occupied high school students during the
week end.
Evelyn Haigh, Jessie Haigh, Mary Shadduck, Faye Torginson and Mildred Schraff motored to Bozeman Saturday and spent the day shopping.

Advertisement in this issue:
New York Globe Trotters Basketball Game, Monday, December 24, 8pm
All Star Team from Three Forks, Manhatten and Townsend
Adults 40 cents, Children 23 cents



Thursday, February 28, 1935
Volume Twenty-five, Number Nine, Page Seven, Column 1

Three Forks School News
Mildred Townsly Makes Highest Score In Typing One
Mildred Townsly typed 39 words a minute and Russell Pogreba 32 words a minute in a speed test given in the Commercial room Thursday, February 21.
In second year typing, Rolla Weiser made 56 words per minute and Evelyn Haigh 45 words.



Three Forks News
Three Forks, Montana


Thursday, November 12, 1936,
Volume Twenty Six, Number Forty-Six, Page 1

Secured Three Elk

A group of hunters, Gail Haigh, Ed Chryst, Bob Gordon and Mr. Bunt (?) returned Tuesday night after a few days hunting trip up the Gallatin Canyon and brought back three fine elk. We trust that the editors table will be graced, etc.



Three Forks News
Three Forks, Montana

Thursday, May 18, 1939
Volume Twenty-Nine, Number Nineteen, Page 1

Three Forks School Preparing For the Closing Day With Graduations
Commencement will be conducted on Wednesday, May 24 at 8 o’clock in the gym auditorium...
Graduating exercises will be held on Tuesday, May 23 at 8 o’clock in the gym for the eighth grades. The traditional graduating program will be given. Those who expect to be graduates are: Rex Burns, Madaline Doore, James Fraser, June Haigh, Eileen Lamb, Mary K. Lane, Hazel Matthis, Jean Maudline, Jack Parr, Leora Price, Janet Stentz, Alice Van Dolan and Billy Aldrich.
The 7th and 8th grade pupils and Instructor George Dinsley will spend Wednesday, May 24 at Bozeman Hot Springs, the event being the annual class picnic.
Every pupil is eagerly looking forward to the day.
Senior Class Day
A street scene will be the theme of the seniors Class Day, Monday May 22 in the high school gym.
The public is invited to come and hear the history of the seniors, to hear their will, prophesy, poem and their class song.
Plans for the class day are well under way and it is expected to be very interesting.
Queen of the Prom
As the last strands of the grand march died away the couples formed a line down the center of the beautifully decorated gym, Miss Arlene Haigh stepped from behind the curtains and walked to her throne, where she was crowned Queen of the Prom by Bob Burkett junior class president. She was followed by princesses Harriet Price, Veda Spoonmore, Carol Gilbert, Ruth deVries, Mary Gail Fiske and Enogine Gilbert.
The flower girls were Barbara Bergen, Marjorie Swaab, Violet Belloch and Marjorie Lane. Little Jerry Lane carried the queens’ crown.
A large crowd was in attendance and everyone reported having a “lovely time”.

Eliza Greenwood French Little

Birth: 2 Sep 1818 Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire

Marriage: 28 SEP 1839 Peterboro, Hillsboro, New Hampshire

Death: 23 Oct 1899 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah


Link to rootsweb information


Link to Deseret News Obituary

Infomation on various Tiffany and Deveraux ancestors

As I Knew My Forefathers
By: Roy Deveraux

Grandparents are usually remembered as swell folks. As I remember my Grandfather, Ira Patching Tiffany, he was a very humble man. He was tall, around six feet and of slender build, a hard worker, very pleasant disposition, never cross. I asked my Mother and her sister Eliza, her husband, Uncle Alton Tanner and my Father if they had ever seen Grandfather mad. They said if he had any temper, he kept it to himself.
He came to Utah in 1852 as a driver for the Church. He made many trips across the plains hauling freight, as well as to the other parts of the west. After the railroad came, he settled in Salem, Utah as a farmer.
He had three brothers, George, Loyal and Nelson Tiffany. I knew all but Uncle George, who was a colonizer for Brigham Young. He led pioneers to several new towns in the south part of the state.
Loyal was a farmer around Provo. Nelson made brick for many homes in around Provo. His sister, Aunt Almira Tiffany Holden lived in Provo, a very sweet old lady.
My Grandmother, Mary Ann Davis Tiffany, I never knew. I did know her father and mother Davis. I lived with them one summer helping them with garden work. He was a gardener and nursery man. Both of them were very humble and sweet dispositioned. They were short, stocky people. Their two sons, William and Frank were big men over six feet, wonderful people. At Uncle Frank’s funeral the church was filled. The bishop said he didn’t think there was a person in Salem, able to be out, that wasn’t at the funeral.
Aunt Elizabeth was a big woman, very likeable. My Mother’s brothers, Ira, Zean, George and Albert Deveraux were all big men over six feet. Aunt Elizabeth was average, six for a woman.
My Grandfather Deveraux and his father I hardly remember. Great Grandfather John Deveraux was short, slender build; came to Utah with a handcart company in 1856. His wife, Ester Cockshed was buried at sea and he buried a daughter on the plains. He was a stone- cutter, worked on the Salt Lake Temple. He moved to Pleasant Grove and lived with his sister, Harriet Richins, where he died.
Grandfather Joseph Deveraux was a stationary steam-engineer. He ran steam engines for saw mills in American Fork Canyon, Provo Canyon and Spanish Fork Canyon. As I remember, he was tall and slender, liked to have fun. I was too young to remember much about him. I remember Grandmother Jane Lewis Deveraux well. She was short, stocky and husky build. I have heard Father and Mother say she could carry a large wooden tub full of water on her head. She always carried heavy things like a sack of grain and flour on her head. She was a typical Welsh woman. She could roll up her sleeves and fight like a man, but was very pleasant when things went smooth. I don’t know of any of her folks coming to Utah.
My father, William Deveraux, was a soldier in the British Army, before coming to America where he followed the timber business. He hued ties for the railway in Spanish Fork Canyon when he first came to Utah.

Jesse C. Little

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 4

Little, Jesse Carter, one of the original pioneers of Utah, was born Sept. 26, 1815, in Belmont, Waldo Co., Maine, a son of Thomas and Relief Little.

He joined the Church in the Eastern States and was ordained a High Priest April 17, 1845, by Parley P. Pratt. In 1846 Elder Little acted as president of the Eastern States Mission.

Hearing that President Polk was contemplating sending a company of militia to the seat of the war in California, he suggested that, since the Latter-day Saints were expecting to locate in the near future in Upper California, this company should be drawn from the ranks of the "Mormons" encamped on the banks of the Missouri River. This led to the Call of the famous "Mormon Battalion" in 1846.

After completing his mission in the East, Elder Little was called to be one of the original pioneer company in 1847. After his return to Winter Quarters with Pres. Brigham Young in the fall of 1847, Elder Little was again called to resume his presidency of the saints in the Eastern States and did not return to Great Salt Lake Valley again until 1852.

For many years Bro. Little was prominent in ecclesiastical, civil and military affairs in the Territory and acted as a counselor to Presiding Bishop Edward Hunter from 1856 to 1874. He died in Salt Lake City Dec. 26, 1893, being survived by several children.

(See Bio. Ency., Vol. 1, p. 242, and Vol. 3, p. 151.) This information is from the rootsweb website:
Rootsweb biographical information

Info from the Find a Grave site

Wikipedia information

Ira Patching Tiffany

Ira Patching Tiffany

Ira Tiffany is buried in the Salem Cemetery in Salem, Utah. His grave is located at Block 28, lot 2.

His headstone reads:
In Memory of
Ira P.
Tiffany
Died
Mar. 21, 1905
Age 70 yrs.

A precious soul from
Us has gone,
A voice we loved
Is stilled.
A place is vacant
In our home
Which never can be filled.

On the four-sided headstone it also reads:
1st side:
Mary A.
Tiffany
Died
July 21, 1985
Age 42 years


2nd side:
Almira
Tiffany
Died
Sept. 22, 1887

Franklin B.
Tiffany
Died
Oct. 4, 1877
Age 20 months


3rd side:
Mary E.
Tiffany
Died
Nov. 5, 1887
Age 16 yrs.


Ray
Tiffany
Died
Oct. 6, 1885
Age 11 weeks

Paul (Poul) Hansen

HISTORY OF PEDER AND PAUL HANSEN FAMILIES

Peder was Paul’s father.

Peder Hansen- Born March 25, 1815 at Naesby, Stilling County, Denmark
Wife- Rise Sophia Poulsen, born September 10, 1842 at Kirke, Denmark

Arrived in Utah with John Murdock Company on September 27, 1862.

History written by Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Lillian Harry Pribble (grand-daughter) and presented to members of the Joseph Smith Camp of Cache County May 6, 1968. THIS MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED FOR MONETARY GAIN.

According to the history of our Scandinavian mission during the year 1861, 1,954 Persons were added to the church in this mission by baptism. Almost everywhere our elders were successful in their labors and many new fields were opened to them. I am so thankful to these elders, for at this time my great grandfather, Peder Hansen, born 25 March 1815 at Naesby, Stilling County, Denmark and his wife, Rise Sophia Poulson, born in Kirke, Denmark 10 Feb. 1842, along with their family of eight children, including a pair of twins, became converts to the Mormon church and at once, made plans to come to America and Utah. This large emigration of Saints from the Scandinavian countries crossed the Atlantic ocean in 4 ships.
Paul Hansen, the oldest child of the Hansen family, was then about 20 years of age. Christian Poulson and brother, James, who were brothers of my great-grandmother and their families joined the Peder Hansen family and the three families along with other converts went together to Copenhagen 10 April 1862. They stayed there two weeks and then sailed from Althonia 22 June 1862 on the boat Athenia carrying 486 persons aboard. The trip was a hard one. Several storms were encountered and the crossing slow because of lack of wind. Food was poor and the water on the boat became stale and contaminated so that cholera was spread among the passengers. James Poulsen and his family became very ill with the disease and his wife and three children passed away and were buried at sea. His brother, Christian Poulsen, having had some experience, boiled the water and saved his brother James’ life as well as the lives of many others. When the boat was within 24 hours out from New York City, Kristine Hansen, one of the twins of the Peder Hansen family took suddenly ill and passed away. According to navigation rules or laws at that time, a person dying at sea was buried at sea, but Great- grandfather Peder Hansen did not wish this kind of burial for his daughter and so held her in his arms as if she were ill until they reached shore and she was buried at Ellis Island.

From New York City they traveled by train to Florence, Nebraska, arriving there on 19 June. Once again, death visited the Hansen family taking from them their daughter, Lina, who had become very ill while traveling and passed away. She was buried at Omaha, Nebraska. Upon arriving at Florence, Grandfather Poul Hansen and his oldest sister, Marie, were asked to accompany their Aunt and Uncle Christian Poulson to Utah while the rest of the family waited at Florence until the church wagon could arrive and bring them to Utah. They later arrived in Salt Lake City with the Capt. John R. Murdock Company, including 384 saints who left Florence July 24th and arrived in Salt Lake City, 17 Sept. Those crossing the plains with the church teams report generally having fair camp grounds and only occasionally did they camp where they could not obtain water. As a rule, there was an abundance of grass for the oxen and at times also sufficient fuel to be found but a great part of the way, the sisters had to content themselves with cooking over fires made from sunflower stems and buffalo chips. Nearly all able-bodied men and women had to walk most of the way. Some of the women rode in the wagons only across the larger rivers, while they could wade across the smaller streams like the men. Everyone did exactly what the leaders thold them to do and, consequently, everything went well with them. On this journey from Florence, Nebraska to Salt Lake City, 14 persons died, 2 couples were born, and 2 children were born. Great- grandmother Rise Sophia Poulsen, who had never had good health, passed away after 6 weeks of journey by wagon and was buried three miles from Laramie, Wyoming along the old trail of the railroad. Her great desire in life to see and live in Zion was thus never fulfilled.

Great grandfather Peder Hansen and his remaining three sons joined his son Poul and daughter Marie, and with other early settlers helped lay the foundation for today’s Providence. They helped dig ditches, cultivated the virgin soil, planted shade and fruit trees, built homes, schools, and meeting houses. They tended their flocks and herds and through work, with much exposure, provided for their growing families. Their homes were humble for few of them brought with them much of this world’s goods, but what they lacked in material wealth, they more than made up for in industry, frugality, determination, energy and a great faith in the gospel.

Great-grandfather Peder Hansen never remarried after losing his wife on the plains, but spent his remaining years with his children as both mother and dad live alone some twenty years before his death which came to him in his 80th year at Providence, 24 Jan. 1895. His son, Poul Hansen, my grandfather, married Andrea Maria Larsen, daughter of Mary Jensen Larsen and Anders Larsen of Logan 18 June 1868 in the Salt Lake Endowment house. From this marriage, 8 children were born. My mother, Resse Maria, was the oldest daughter, and after the death of her mother on 9 April 1885, took over duties of housewife, cooking the meals and caring for her younger brothers and sisters, though only 13 years of age. She did this until her marriage to my father, John William Harry 12 Dec. 1889. Grandfather (Poul) later married as his second wife, Anna Christine Larsen Jensen, a widow and sister of his first wife and again 3 children, who were Mrs. Jensen’s from a previous marriage, were joined to the family. As the years passed, another six children were born to this couple, making Grandfather Hansen father of 14 children. As the children grew older he helped them to get cattle and homestead land in Idaho. Alfred and Ezra, the older of the brothers of my mother, were first to go and settled in Teton Valley. One brother after another followed as well as the sisters until the entire family made their homes in this valley locating in and around what has been the Clawson ward over which both Alfred and his younger brother, William, have presided as bishops for many years. All have been highly successful in their farming activities and cattle-raising there.

Grandfather (Poul) Hansen died at Providence, Utah 9 March 1907, from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 65. Some years later, Grandma joined her children in Tetonia, Idaho living with her son, William. She passed away at his home 30 Nov. 1923. Both she and her husband were buried at Providence, Utah. 395 acres of the choice land along the hillsides where the River Heights wards are located now was the source of the family’s income.


Grandfather always wore wooden shoes—a custom acquired in his native Denmark. They were always taken off as he entered the house and left on the doorstep. Heavy and awkward as they seemed to us , they never stopped him from entering the races and playing with us children. After the death of our mothers, we often walked to Providence with Aunt Mary to visit on Sundays. It was fun to see the large barns filled with hay, to watch them milk the cows, gather the eggs, and most of all, to go with either Grandma or Grandpa to pull out a huge smoked ham from out of wheat bins where they had been placed to preserve them. NO ham has since been quite so delicious as the large juicy slicres cooked by Grandma, topped with her special white ham sauce. At Easter, we were always sure to receive a pan full of brown-colored eggs cooked in dry onion peelings.
The old two-story rock house in Providence on South 1st West Street is still being occupied. It’s face has been somewhat lifted by the addition of window shutters, paint and what-not, but as I reminisce the thick stone walls seem to part and I again see the home-made carpet, straw ticks, and feather beds with trundle beds for the children. There’s an old black, four-legged stove, a bucket of water and long-handled dipper, a long table covered with oil-cloth with a bare floor beautifully clean and white due to the frequent scrubbing with home-made soap.

This home I remember from my childhood days;
Is a home that was magic in so many ways.
Built and sustained by a family’s love;
As lasting and warm as the sun up above.
Furnished by sympathy, kindness and more
With friendship that welcomes each guest at the door.
Surrounded by meadows of laughter and joy
With a garden of memories that time can’t destroy.
I know too that the magic that fills every room
Came straight from the hearts and hands of a devoted and kind Grandfather and Grandmother.

Written and read 16 May 1968 to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (Joseph Smith Camp) by Lillian Harry Pribble