The Narrimore Family

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1 The Ship Brooklyn Story - Volume 2 by Richard H. Bullock The Narrimore Family The Narrimore family consists of Mercy Murray Day Hooker Narrimore and her son Edwin Henry Hooker. Mercy Day Narrimore had been born 23 November 1801 at Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts to Joel Day and Martha Murray Day. Little is known about her early life in Massachusetts as a young girl, but she apparently had some schooling and education in sewing and embroidery. She met and married a man name Henry Hooker. They made their home in South Carolina where a son they named Edward Henry Hooker had been born 7 May 1836 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. Apparently there were still Indian wars going on in the area and Henry Hooker fell victim in one of these battles, leaving Mercy Murray Hooker a widow with her young son Edwin. She moved back to her family in Massachusetts and started a small shop dealing with ladies hats and notions. She had been making a living in this manner and raising her boy, giving him a basic education, when she had been contacted by the missionaries at one of their religious meetings. She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and immediately her family disavowed her. She became forced to move to New York City and opened a small shop there. She met with other members of the Church whenever she could and when she heard Orson Pratt s message in the fall of 1845 to leave the United States she determined to make the journey. Thinking of her welfare at the end of the voyage she bought as much material and stock as she could and had it ready to go aboard the Brooklyn. She is shown on the Hawaii passenger list as being 45 years of age and her son Edwin age 10. Arriving at Yerba Buena Mercy immediately sought out employment in the small dusty town and found John H. Brown, owner of the Portsmouth House hotel getting ready to open for business. She felt fortunate to be hired as a housekeeper and her son also got a job running errands. She worked hard everyday taking care of the guest rooms and laundry and little by little she gained enough money to open a little store for selling the cloth and notions she had brought from New York. She and her son worked hard in moving the goods from the shore where they had been stored under canvas and setting up the shop. Her business slowly improved and she found she had to sail to Hawaii on the Don Quixote to make arrangements for a steady supply of 1 goods for her shop. Returning in two months she greeted her son, who had stayed with Brooklyn friends, and had him help her with more supplies that needed to be moved from the beach to the shop. She purchased a lot in 1847 and built herself a larger shop on the property. It is here that her next husband entered her life, a man by the name of Elijah Thomas. He had just reached San Francisco, along with many of his friends, from Los Angeles. He looked a bedraggled and dusty man at best. He had just been mustered out of the Mormon Battalion in Los Angeles in July 1847 and became part of the group that were making their way to Salt Lake 1 Bancroft, H. H., California Pioneer Register and Index , V546,

2 City. He walked into her shop and his eyes lit up as he saw all the wonderful things she had for sale. Between himself and his fellow travelers the shop soon emptied of everything but the bolts of cloth. Now she was helping with the Lord s work because the men who had been serving in the Mormon Battalion were in need of food and clothing as soon as they were released from the Army. Elijah Thomas was the first man from that group to come to the store. He said You are a blessing to us, we wondered what we would do for food when the Army released us. The shelves were soon bare again when that group came for supplies. Now she could see Heaven s help for these men. The cargo was so heavy she wondered if she could sell it, now she wondered how to keep the store full. Elijah Thomas was back to see her regularly and after a time came to help stocking shelves and carrying heavy boxes when needed.2 This continued for some time and finally Elijah Thomas could stand it no more, he asked for Mercy s hand in marriage. Mercy considered his offer, talked to her young son about how he felt and gave Elijah an answer of yes. They were married early in 1848 in San Francisco and started making plans to move to Salt Lake City and join others who were planning to leave. Elijah Thomas - Mormon Battalion Veteran Image courtesy of International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Contact DUP photo department, for permission to use DUP images. He had one embarrassing problem in that he had no suitable clothing for the event, so the widow, refused to stand on ceremony, produced for him a wardrobe of her deceased mate. Apparently these clothes were adequate in terms of size and style and the wedding proceeded 2 Kirkbride, Linda H., Life Story of Mercy Murray Day, MS 9528, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints History Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2

3 with no further complications. 3 He worked a boat by day and helped her in the evenings. They walked back and forth so many trips to and from the dock carrying goods, they were weary by 10 o clock. Mercy kept goods for them to use when they were ready to make the trip to Salt Lake City. He worked in the gold mines and she gave Indians yard goods to work for her there. Edwin always helped at the store teasing for candy and nuts and she encouraged him to eat the fresh fruit, oranges and bananas, which are better. Her parents had taught her good nutrition from her youth, and fresh fruit was plentiful in California. They carried both with them as they traveled and other food and clothing, blankets, linens etc. 4 Mercy and Elijah Thomas went to the gold fields and then on to Salt Lake City with the nd Ebenezer Brown Company in Elijah had been elected 2 Captain on the train, which reached Salt Lake City on 10 October Elijah Thomas had been born 22 January 1815 at Rockingham, Richmond, North Carolina, the son of Henry J. Thomas and Esther Thomas. He had been the fourth of fourteen children, having eight brothers and five sisters, not all of whom grew to adulthood and several who were killed in the Civil War. His parents ancestors had lived in the Maryland area and North Carolina for several generations. Settling first along the Pee Dee River, their children began to spread throughout the Carolinas and Virginia where in modern times many descendants are still to be found. In the meantime some of the family members became affiliated with the Baptist faith, prevalent in the area, and a few even became preachers. Daniel Thomas was one of the latter and, with many of his kinsmen, fought in the War of Independence. Sometime after 1815, the year that Elijah Thomas, Sr., was born, Henry Thomas left Rockingham, North Carolina, where his father Daniel resided and established a plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. It is not known for certain if any other children were with Henry when he moved to Mississippi. The Thomas family was caught up in the Southern agricultural economy of that day and were slave owners although they seem to have been uneasy about this -- a feeling which might have had its roots in their Quaker background. The slaves were often freed at the owner s death, but one finds the next generation having to procure additional slaves to work their crops. In 1840 a man by the name of Benjamin L. Clapp came through Mississippi and stayed at their home. He told the family of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ through a modern day prophet, Joseph Smith. Being a religious people and considering themselves good Christians, they must have been startled by this news. Elder Clapp, as he called himself, was nonetheless permitted to continue his message. Henry Thomas was certainly aware of the animosity toward Mormons across the nation and in their own locale, yet he and his family were moved to accept the teachings of Joseph Smith and were baptized by the visiting missionary. Elijah Thomas, Sr., was then twenty-five years of age and unmarried. He obviously had considerable promise for a future as a plantation owner in the rich Mississippi River valleys. Nevertheless, he accompanied his family when they moved to Illinois three years later. They left their plantation to their now freed slaves (and one can imagine what happened to both the 3 Palmer, Arvin Ph.D., Elijah Was a Valiant Man, Annals of the Thomas Family of Pinedale Arizona , Palmer Publications, Taylor, Arizona 85939, 1981, page Supplied by Lorna Owens, Show Low, AZ 85901, January Kirkbride, Linda H., Life Story of Mercy Murray Day, MS 9528, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints History Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. 3

4 plantation and the slaves) and journeyed to Nauvoo in 1843, arriving in the midst of increasingly prevalent anti-mormon agitation and disturbance. When Joseph and Hyrum Smith suffered martyrdom they were among the bereaved. Soon after, the family joined the Mormon exodus to the Rocky Mountain under Brigham Young. At a camp along the western trail, called Mount Pisgah, Captain Jesse Allen of the United States Army met with Brigham Young and together they recruited five hundred volunteers, which became known as the Mormon Battalion. Lige Thomas, as Elijah was called, was now thirty-one years of age and still unmarried, making him an ideal recruit. He therefore parted from his family and friends and marched with Captain Allen to Fort Leavenworth where the unit was outfitted. The United States was in a conflict with Mexico and had few troops available in the West. This accounts for the interest the government was now showing the heretofore persecuted Mormons. The Battalion members, on the other hand, needed supplies and money for their families. They were also promised that they could keep the equipment assigned to each man after they had served one year. At Fort Leavenworth, Lige received various items of military equipment and a musket with detachable bayonet -- which he would long prize. The gun, originally a flintlock, had been converted to a.69 caliber cap and ball ammunition and bore the inscription, Harpers Ferry, He carried virtually all of his worldly possessions with him as he set off on the long march down the Santa Fe Trail... Part of the command had become too ill to continue the difficult journey and were dispatched from Santa Fe to Pueblo, Colorado to await the Saints. The remainder were now commanded by Lt. Col. P. St. George Cook. Famous mountain men Antone LeRoux and Pauline Weaver were serving as guides. Their travel thereafter was in largely uncharted territory, but the route they carved would be used to great extent by the Southern Pacific Railroad decades later At a point near Sacramento the group with whom Lige was traveling encountered Captain James A. Brown of the Pueblo detachment on his way to Los Angeles to collect the pay for his men. He carried a message from Brigham Young advising that those who were able should seek work in California during the winter. Their families would need all the wages they could get. Lige also met Sam Brannan, returning from his famous meeting with Young, and was persuaded to go to San Francisco (then Yerba Buena) where earning opportunities were considered to be more lucrative Elijah Thomas - Mormon Battalion Veteran 5 Palmer, Arvin Ph.D., Elijah Was a Valiant Man, Annals of the Thomas Family of Pinedale Arizona , Palmer Publications, Taylor, Arizona 85939, 1981, page Supplied by Lorna Owens, Show Low, AZ 85901, January Ibid 4

5 When gold had been discovered on 24 January 1848 word seemed slow in getting to San Francisco until Brannan had been ready. He had stocked up on supplies for miners and opened two trading posts in Sacramento and Sutter s Fort. He then made the bold announcement on 10 May 1848 in central San Francisco of Gold! GOLD! GOLD! from the American River! He told all the Mormon s who had traveled with him from the east to go to the American River and make their fortunes. Elijah and Mercy heard this famous announcement and hurried their preparations to travel to Salt Lake City by way of the gold mines. Elijah and Edwin worked in the gold mines, panning all day long and Mercy hired out Indians to work for her by trading them bits of cloth. One biography says they sold all their supplies for a fifty pound sack of gold, because it would be easier to carry. I think they acquired the fifty pounds of gold, but not by selling what they needed to make the journey to Salt Lake City, rather, they did well in the mines and the Indians helped them accumulate a fortune. After arriving in Salt Lake City on 10 October 1848 Elijah located his family and held a grand reunion and introduced his wife and step-son. There were surely tears of thanks and joy shed when Lige was reunited with his family and introduced his new bride. However, the gold had little commercial value since bartering was then the medium of exchange of that frontier economy. Consequently Lige left soon after for St. Louis where he purchased several wagon loads of merchandise and freighted them back to Salt Lake. He started [one of] the first commercial dry goods store in the city and was soon on his way to becoming a man of means. Over the years he began to invest in local property only to be chastised by Brigham Young for speculating. He then sold his lots on Main Street in Salt Lake at a loss. 7 The census record of 1850 shows Elijah, age 36, Mercy M., age 49, Edwin Thomas, age 14, and Martha E. Thomas age 2. Apparently Edwin and Mercy had a daughter they named Martha soon after they married. They also had two others living with them that may have been servants or workers in their store. I mention this to show it had not been uncommon for them to have guests living with them On 3 April 1851 Elijah took Mercy Narrimore to the Endowment House and they were sealed, he also married Anna Haywood Hayward on the same day. Anna had arrived in the Salt Lake Valley from England with her daughter Harriett, and Elijah and Mercy took them into their home. Anna is the daughter of Joseph Heyward and Mary White of England. The genealogy of the family of Elijah and Anna Thomas is very confusing and I think contains the children born to Anna from her previous marriage that were later sealed to Elijah. I attribute the first child of this marriage to be Elijah Murray Thomas, born 27 April 1852, followed by Joseph Henry Thomas on 11 August 1854 and Emeline or Emaline Thomas in Elijah had been called on a mission to the West Indies in early 1853 and the mission proved to be a short one. Elder Aaron F. Farr, Jesse Turpin, Alfred B. Lambson, James Brown, and Elijah Thomas sailed from Jamaica. They landed in New York February and reported themselves to Elder Orson Pratt. On the voyage from Jamaica to New York the brethren encountered the yellow fever which was on board the vessel in which they embarked. Following is a brief account of the unsuccessful mission to the West Indies as given by Elder Aaron F. Farr: Elders Aaron F. Farr, Darwin Richardson, Jesse Turpin and Alfred B. Lambson, 7 Ibid 5

6 th missionaries to the West Indies, landed in Kingston, Jamaica, January 10. Desirous of moving comfortable to the laws and regulations of the island they consulted an American lawyer, who informed them that there was free toleration to all sects and parties, but in consequence of some excitement which at present existed in relation to the landing of some Mormon missionaries, they had better see the Attorney General. Elders Farr and Richardson waited upon Attorney General Riley, who asked them of what denomination they were ministers, and upon being informed he opened the door and said, he would be under the necessity of bidding them Good Morning. The American consol Mr. Harrison, cousin to the late President Harrison, from whom they sought counsel, advised them to procure a hall and announce... [missing text]... inhabitants they returned to Kingston and found Elders Turpin and Lambson, also Bro. James Brown and Elijah Thomas who [illegible] had shipped for the Barbados, but when the English harbor agent found that they were going to some of the English Isles he ordered them and their baggage put on shore, which was done, the Captain paying them their passage money back.. The harbor agent declared that no such men would be permitted to go to any English island. When the American Consol was informed of this outrage he felt indignant and said he should write to Washington and lay the matter before his government, but the Elder had determined on returning to America, because from the Governor to the Captain of the Police none had seen fit to interpose their authority to prevent mob violence and because they did not consider their mission was to the Canaanite s, of which blood were nine-tenths of the inhabitants. The American consol and agent informed the elders they could sail on the first American ship, whether they had money or not, and they agreed to do so, after counseling Elder Richardson to remain and ordain the two young men baptized, which he did, and baptized another person in Kingston. 8 Arriving back in Salt Lake City about August 1853 Elijah continued building his business in Salt Lake City, and in 1855 Elijah Thomas and Edmund Pugh entered into partnership, bought out Judge Kinney, and opened a store in the house formerly occupied by Holladay and Warner. 9 On about July 1857 Elijah took a third wife by the name of Harriett Rhonda Johnson. She had been born 24 December 1841 in Chalford, Gloucestershire, England to George Phillip Johnson and Mary Haywood. She and Elijah had their first child on 1 April 1858 that they named Mary Ester Thomas. This child had been the first of six born to the couple; William Henry Thomas, 4 December 1861; Jane Thomas, 9 February 1863; Daniel Thomas, 27 January 1865; Sarah Elener Thomas, 6 September 1869 and James Monroe Thomas, 20 July All but the first three children were born in St. George, Washington, Utah. Jane, William and Mary were born in Salt Lake City. It was a pleasant day in Great Salt Lake City. Another company of emigrants arrived in Great Salt Lake City. Bro. George A. Smith entered into partnership with Seth M. Blair and Elijah Thomas in putting up a temporary chisel saw mill at the mouth of Bingham Canyon. 10 The sawmill business did very well and had been supplying lumber to the miners in the canyon and for cabins they were building. During the Utah War, Johnston s Army marched th through Salt Lake City and camped on the West side of the Jordan River on the 25 of June th Elijah filed an affidavit to the effect that on the 7 of July 1858 the troops under Johnston s command were marching south to set up Camp Floyd when they passed the mill Journal History, 11 February 1853 Ibid, 20 June 1855 Ibid, 27 July

7 owned by Elijah Thomas and did damage to the mill to the extent that he suffered severe financial loss. 11 Elijah received a call from Brigham Young to serve as a missionary to the Southern States in the Fall of 1860 and he performed his duty as assigned, returning in August of 1861 because of building strife between the North and South. Brigham Young recorded in his journals: Elder Elijah Thomas, who returned in David Cannon s Company called the Historian s Office and reported himself, having lately returned from a mission to Alabama and Tennessee, whence he went last fall, partly on business. He related the distress that occurred in St. Louis and other populous cities, incident upon the crisis between the North and the South. He labored in St. Louis last February and March, when the crisis was felt sensibly there, and saw the hundreds of poor who lived from hand to mouth agree to enlist or migrate or beg for help from the richer inhabitants. The Saints had to help one another, or many of them would have suffered. 12 Elijah felt ready to settle down to a less troubled and busy life with his wives but Brigham Young seems to have had other plans for him. In 1866 he called Elijah, sometimes called Lige, to go to the Southern part of Utah and start up an operation to develop castor oil. Because of the moderate climate and similarities in agriculture production the southern part of the territory had been dubbed as Utah s Dixie and many of the Southern converts familiar with agriculture were called to settle there. Brigham Young was seeking to make Mormons selfsufficient as possible, hoping thereby to reduce the heretofore necessary contact with and reliance on the gentiles, as non-mormons were called. Contact often led to friction whereas selfsufficiency would lead to community strength. For this reason the cotton mission, the iron mission and other missions were created using the approach of calling the devout to undertake special assignments both as colonists and proselytes. The castor bean project did not succeed despite the efforts of Lige, Jacob Hamblin, Seth Blair and others. The equipment for pressing the oil from the beans was erected and crops were sown, but for some reason the effort was terminated. In responding to this call Lige had sold his property and business in Salt Lake, probably at a loss as was frequently the case, and invested in teams, wagons and other colonizing equipment. He had little left when the project ended, but with his meager means he purchased a parcel of land at Leeds about fifteen miles north of St. George. There, with help from his sons, he cleared two and one-half acres of land and built a small home. To this modest dwelling he brought the Ann Haywood Thomas family from Salt Lake. En route to Leeds Lige would stop for a visit in every town in which a former Battalion member resided. 13 He and Mercy would travel to Salt Lake City to deliver oil on occasion and they would visit their son Edwin Hooker and his wife, who were operating a grocery business in the city. Mercy always felt grateful for these visits. When Edwin took his family to settle Clifton, Oneida, Idaho his adopted father Elijah and Mercy would come and help clear the land for a few days every chance they had. This went on for a few years and then while Mercy had stayed in Clifton on an extended visit she died sometime in 1873 at Clifton. She is now buried in the Clifton, Oneida, Idaho Cemetery which sits atop a small hill on the West edge of town. As of this writing Ibid, 26 September 1860 Ibid, 26 August Palmer, Arvin Ph.D., Elijah Was a Valiant Man, Annals of the Thomas Family of Pinedale Arizona , Palmer Publications, Taylor, Arizona 85939, 1981, page Supplied by Lorna Owens, Show Low, AZ 85901, January

8 there is no marker on her grave. Elijah stopped coming to see Edwin after Mercy died and spent the rest of his life in Southern Utah. He brought his third wife Harriett, after Mercy passed away, to Leeds, Utah and they planted a large garden and set up an orchard. By being frugal and industrious the family continued to grow. Elijah even delivered the mail for a time. There is a tradition in the family history that Elijah had discovered the Leeds Silver deposits. Elijah Sr., was a spiritual man who, in early 1875, had been prompted on a certain occasion that he was standing over a place containing great wealth. With friends he dug out sample that contained high grade silver ore, but having no money with which to develop the claim he agreed to let a mining concern take over the operation. The mine management immediately usurped control and Mr. Thomas, still short of funds, was unable to pursue legal remedies (the agreement had not been put to paper) through the courts. Legal efforts may not have helped anyway given contemporary court attitudes toward the Mormons. The Silver Reef made many men very wealthy and the Thomas share was the wages they could earn working in the mine, hauling the ore and selling fruit and vegetable produce to the miners. 14 Elijah lived for a number of years in Leeds until his wife Anne died in 1904, and then retired to St. George where he spent the remainder of his life, passing away on 18 October His obituary reads: St. George Elijah Thomas is Dead Honored Pioneer and M ormon Battalion Veteran Goes to His Rest St. George, Washington Co., Oct. 18 Last Monday Elijah Thomas died in St. George. Deceased was born in Richmond county, North Carolina, Jan. 23, He was baptized in Feb and moved at once to Nauvoo, Ill. He was called on a mission by the Prophet Joseph Smith the same year. He was a member of the Mormon Battalion and arrived in Utah in In 1852 he was called on a mission to South America and on another to the southern states in In 1866 he was called to the Dixie mission. Six children and his third wife survive him. He was a high priest at the time of his death. The funeral was held in the stake tabernacle, Oct. 16. At the meeting were present four fellow members of the Battalion Rufus C. Allen, Samuel Miles and Samuel Lewis of St. George, and Zodak K. Judd of Kanab. These four with Prest. George F. Whitehead, Bishop Jas. Andrus and John E. Pace of the West ward were the speakers. 15 His remaining wife Harriett survived in St. George until 1918 when she too passed away. She is buried at her husband s side in the St. George City Cemetery. Edwin Henry Hooker Edwin Henry Hooker had been born to Henry Hooker and Mercy Murray Day Hooker on 7 May 1836 at Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. Soon after his birth his father Henry Hooker had been killed in Indian Wars in South Carolina and he and his mother Mercy became part of a family named Narrimore. The author couldn t locate a marriage record for this event but it is likely that she had married to support her new son. Circumstances do not tell us how she became separated from Mr. Narrimore and joined the ship Brooklyn but she had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and made her way with young Edwin to California. Some writers have said that her husband had joined the voyage but had died at sea, the author couldn t find any evidence for this fact Ibid Deseret News, Saturday, 20 October 1906, page 3 8

9 Edwin had reached the age of ten when he boarded the Brooklyn and found the voyage exciting and fulfilling for his sense of adventure. As he grew up in San Francisco he loved the excitement of going to the beach and later the piers to get goods that his mother had purchased for her store. He always seemed amazed at how well she read what people wanted and everything she ordered had been sold. After reaching Great Salt Lake City he felt good that his mother had married Elijah Thomas, and young Edwin Hooker grew to love the man as his own father, but felt it his duty to retain his natural fathers last name. When Elijah opened stores in Salt Lake City, Edwin loved working in them and selling goods to the customers. As he grew older he opened his own grocery and dry goods store with a little help from Elijah. On 26 January 1867 Edwin Henry Hooker married a young lady of twenty-one by the named of Mary Coltrin, in the Endowment House. Mary Coltrin had been born 1 July 1846 at Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa to Zebedee Coltrin and Mary Mott. She had an older brother named John Graham Coltrin that had been born in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1843, and she ended up being the second of eleven children. Several of her siblings died in childhood because of the rigors of travel on the Plains and the harsh winters. After her family settled in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah all the remaining births survived. This is not untypical of many families that made the westward migration to be with the church in the Rocky Mountains. Edwin and Mary had their first child born to them on 6 November 1867 and he received the name of Henry Edwin Hooker. Their second child arrived 4 November 1869 and she received the name of Julia Mary Hooker, both of these children were born in Salt Lake City, and they are on the 1879 census as living in Spanish Fork, Utah. Apparently Edwin had sold his store in Salt Lake City and felt like trying his hand as a farmer in Spanish Fork, near his father-in-law Zebedee Coltrin and his family. Edwin just felt comfortable when he received a calling from the Church to help settle new lands in Southern Idaho in He sold his farmlands and packed up his family for an area that became Clifton, Oneida, Idaho. They staked out a large plot of land and began the arduous work of clearing it for cultivation. He felt grateful when Elijah Thomas and his mother would come to visit and help with the clearing. Elijah also enjoyed visiting with the Howells who were in Clifton as well, as they had been his friends in the Mormon Battalion. Mercy also enjoyed visiting with some of the ship Brooklyn passengers who were in Clifton, Dayton, and Franklin, Idaho. Edwin and Mary then had several children in rapid succession. Zebedee Hooker on 24 November 1871, at Clifton, Oneida, Idaho, followed by Simon Sidney Hooker on 3 October 1873 and a twin that died the same day; and a child named June Hooker that was born in The strain of pioneer life and losing two children, as Zebedee Hooker had died in 1875, proved to be too much for Mary and her health started to fail. She apparently had gone to visit or had been staying with friends in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho when she suddenly died sometime prior to 11 June She is buried in the Clifton Cemetery. The 11 June 1880 census shows Edwin Hooker and his children Henry, Julia, Simon and June. June died after the census had been taken and before her eighth birthday. Edwin Henry Hooker truly loved his wife Mary Coltrin as he decided never to marry again. He worked the farm and raised his children to adults in Clifton, passing on the farmlands 9

10 to his children when he died on 11 January The only children to survive him is Julia, who died in 1913, and Simon Sidney Hooker who lived until Edwin Henry Hooker is buried in the Clifton, Oneida, Idaho Cemetery in the southeastern corner of the cemetery where there is also a line of the markers for his children that passed before him. Liberty, Idaho As viewed from Cemetery Photo by Author 10