Lucretia Davis was born in Massachusetts on 21 May 1809 Hubbardston, Worcester County, Massachusetts to James and Miranda Jones Davis. When she was twenty-one she married Moses Gay, five years older than she on 02 December 1830. Moses was from Hubbardston, Massachusetts, the same town her parents had been from. Their first six children were born in that beautiful area.
Lucretia was a very refined woman and was noted for her honesty, integrity and ambition. She was a mother of eight children. Lucretia and Moses had seven sons and one daughter and in the almost three years between the birth of Mariah Heneritta and Moses Brigham, the family converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had followed their earnest desire to join the Saints at Nauvoo.
Lucretia and Moses lived near the Temple; built at great personal sacrifice and so briefly but majestically used. They were among the first to receive their endowments on 09 December 1846. Lucretia was at the meeting when Brigham Young and the Twelve took charge after the martyrdom of the Prophet and often told how Brigham spoke in the voice of the prophet.
The couple were forced to abandon their home and pack their children into the wagon to flee. She, with her husband and children, came to Utah with the Isacc Mitten, Stewart Company in 1852, after stopping to recruit supplies and improve their health at Winter Quarters. Their first home in Salt Lake City was a sod shanty made from sod taken from the Mill Creek banks and stacked together to form a large room, which was then petitioned off with yard goods that Lucretia made herself. Aaron would be three years old and Joshua two or three months when they make the trek to Utah.
They were later called to Spanish Fork, Utah as missionaries to settle there in 1853. Moses was one of the first men to be a public servant there. She was the first Relief Society President in the 2nd district with Amelia Berry and Lettia Ann Davis as counselors and Ruth Davis as secretary and treasurer. She served for nine years as president and later, April 1870, sustained as counselor to Elizabeth Boyack, serving one year. They held their meeting in a small building where the Thurber school house now stands.
Lucretia was a member of the Spanish Fork Choir, organized 04 July 1856 with William R. Jones as leader. Under his able leadership, the choir attained considerable proficiency in rendering both sacred and secular music, having some of the best soprano voices then in the Territory and affording amusement and refined enjoyment to the citizens of Spanish Fork and the neighboring settlements by giving concerts and social parties. The stirring and animated singing of the Spanish Fork choir attracted the attention of President Brigham Young and on two occasions they visited Salt Lake City by his invitation, the first time to sing at a conference held in the Bowery and afterwards at the opening of the new Tabernacle.
Lucretia had brought with her a spinning wheel as well as herded a number of sheep across the Plains and for many years spun and wove the cloth for all the clothing her family of eight wore. This skill enabled her to provide for her family when, two short years after arriving in Spanish Fork, Moses died of a sudden heart attack. The almost unbearable burden of raising children on the frontier, when what you lived in, ate and wore were supplied almost entirely by your own hands or not at all, were now Lucretia's responsibility. She used her spinning skills to barter for the necessities and cared for her family.
Lucretia contributed to the Emigrating fund, to the Temple fund by carding wool for ten days, then spinning it into cloth for shirts for the brethren working on the temple, and worked four days carding and spinning animal hair for lariats. She also donated one pair of garments, as recorded by Mrs. Evans. The men worked on the temple and the women provided clothes for the men.
Lucretia never remarried, her heart and energy were given to her children, her church and her neighbors. She raised her children to be stalwart and righteous adults; a woman's greatest triumph. She died of pneumonia on 06 March 1886, fifty six years after her husband Moses and was buried in Spanish Fork by his side.
She had the following children: Abner, Albert, James Davis, John Flavel, William Henry, Maria Henrietta, Moses Brigham, Aaron and Joshua
Lucretia was a very refined woman and was noted for her honesty, integrity and ambition. She was a mother of eight children. Lucretia and Moses had seven sons and one daughter and in the almost three years between the birth of Mariah Heneritta and Moses Brigham, the family converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had followed their earnest desire to join the Saints at Nauvoo.
Lucretia and Moses lived near the Temple; built at great personal sacrifice and so briefly but majestically used. They were among the first to receive their endowments on 09 December 1846. Lucretia was at the meeting when Brigham Young and the Twelve took charge after the martyrdom of the Prophet and often told how Brigham spoke in the voice of the prophet.
The couple were forced to abandon their home and pack their children into the wagon to flee. She, with her husband and children, came to Utah with the Isacc Mitten, Stewart Company in 1852, after stopping to recruit supplies and improve their health at Winter Quarters. Their first home in Salt Lake City was a sod shanty made from sod taken from the Mill Creek banks and stacked together to form a large room, which was then petitioned off with yard goods that Lucretia made herself. Aaron would be three years old and Joshua two or three months when they make the trek to Utah.
They were later called to Spanish Fork, Utah as missionaries to settle there in 1853. Moses was one of the first men to be a public servant there. She was the first Relief Society President in the 2nd district with Amelia Berry and Lettia Ann Davis as counselors and Ruth Davis as secretary and treasurer. She served for nine years as president and later, April 1870, sustained as counselor to Elizabeth Boyack, serving one year. They held their meeting in a small building where the Thurber school house now stands.
Lucretia was a member of the Spanish Fork Choir, organized 04 July 1856 with William R. Jones as leader. Under his able leadership, the choir attained considerable proficiency in rendering both sacred and secular music, having some of the best soprano voices then in the Territory and affording amusement and refined enjoyment to the citizens of Spanish Fork and the neighboring settlements by giving concerts and social parties. The stirring and animated singing of the Spanish Fork choir attracted the attention of President Brigham Young and on two occasions they visited Salt Lake City by his invitation, the first time to sing at a conference held in the Bowery and afterwards at the opening of the new Tabernacle.
Lucretia had brought with her a spinning wheel as well as herded a number of sheep across the Plains and for many years spun and wove the cloth for all the clothing her family of eight wore. This skill enabled her to provide for her family when, two short years after arriving in Spanish Fork, Moses died of a sudden heart attack. The almost unbearable burden of raising children on the frontier, when what you lived in, ate and wore were supplied almost entirely by your own hands or not at all, were now Lucretia's responsibility. She used her spinning skills to barter for the necessities and cared for her family.
Lucretia contributed to the Emigrating fund, to the Temple fund by carding wool for ten days, then spinning it into cloth for shirts for the brethren working on the temple, and worked four days carding and spinning animal hair for lariats. She also donated one pair of garments, as recorded by Mrs. Evans. The men worked on the temple and the women provided clothes for the men.
Lucretia never remarried, her heart and energy were given to her children, her church and her neighbors. She raised her children to be stalwart and righteous adults; a woman's greatest triumph. She died of pneumonia on 06 March 1886, fifty six years after her husband Moses and was buried in Spanish Fork by his side.
She had the following children: Abner, Albert, James Davis, John Flavel, William Henry, Maria Henrietta, Moses Brigham, Aaron and Joshua
Lucretia Davis was born in Massachusetts on 21 May 1809 Hubbardston, Worcester County, Massachusetts to James and Miranda Jones Davis. When she was twenty-one she married Moses Gay, five years older than she on 02 December 1830. Moses was from Hubbardston, Massachusetts, the same town her parents had been from. Their first six children were born in that beautiful area.
Lucretia was a very refined woman and was noted for her honesty, integrity and ambition. She was a mother of eight children. Lucretia and Moses had seven sons and one daughter and in the almost three years between the birth of Mariah Heneritta and Moses Brigham, the family converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had followed their earnest desire to join the Saints at Nauvoo.
Lucretia and Moses lived near the Temple; built at great personal sacrifice and so briefly but majestically used. They were among the first to receive their endowments on 09 December 1846. Lucretia was at the meeting when Brigham Young and the Twelve took charge after the martyrdom of the Prophet and often told how Brigham spoke in the voice of the prophet.
The couple were forced to abandon their home and pack their children into the wagon to flee. She, with her husband and children, came to Utah with the Isacc Mitten, Stewart Company in 1852, after stopping to recruit supplies and improve their health at Winter Quarters. Their first home in Salt Lake City was a sod shanty made from sod taken from the Mill Creek banks and stacked together to form a large room, which was then petitioned off with yard goods that Lucretia made herself. Aaron would be three years old and Joshua two or three months when they make the trek to Utah.
They were later called to Spanish Fork, Utah as missionaries to settle there in 1853. Moses was one of the first men to be a public servant there. She was the first Relief Society President in the 2nd district with Amelia Berry and Lettia Ann Davis as counselors and Ruth Davis as secretary and treasurer. She served for nine years as president and later, April 1870, sustained as counselor to Elizabeth Boyack, serving one year. They held their meeting in a small building where the Thurber school house now stands.
Lucretia was a member of the Spanish Fork Choir, organized 04 July 1856 with William R. Jones as leader. Under his able leadership, the choir attained considerable proficiency in rendering both sacred and secular music, having some of the best soprano voices then in the Territory and affording amusement and refined enjoyment to the citizens of Spanish Fork and the neighboring settlements by giving concerts and social parties. The stirring and animated singing of the Spanish Fork choir attracted the attention of President Brigham Young and on two occasions they visited Salt Lake City by his invitation, the first time to sing at a conference held in the Bowery and afterwards at the opening of the new Tabernacle.
Lucretia had brought with her a spinning wheel as well as herded a number of sheep across the Plains and for many years spun and wove the cloth for all the clothing her family of eight wore. This skill enabled her to provide for her family when, two short years after arriving in Spanish Fork, Moses died of a sudden heart attack. The almost unbearable burden of raising children on the frontier, when what you lived in, ate and wore were supplied almost entirely by your own hands or not at all, were now Lucretia's responsibility. She used her spinning skills to barter for the necessities and cared for her family.
Lucretia contributed to the Emigrating fund, to the Temple fund by carding wool for ten days, then spinning it into cloth for shirts for the brethren working on the temple, and worked four days carding and spinning animal hair for lariats. She also donated one pair of garments, as recorded by Mrs. Evans. The men worked on the temple and the women provided clothes for the men.
Lucretia never remarried, her heart and energy were given to her children, her church and her neighbors. She raised her children to be stalwart and righteous adults; a woman's greatest triumph. She died of pneumonia on 06 March 1886, fifty six years after her husband Moses and was buried in Spanish Fork by his side.
She had the following children: Abner, Albert, James Davis, John Flavel, William Henry, Maria Henrietta, Moses Brigham, Aaron and Joshua
Lucretia was a very refined woman and was noted for her honesty, integrity and ambition. She was a mother of eight children. Lucretia and Moses had seven sons and one daughter and in the almost three years between the birth of Mariah Heneritta and Moses Brigham, the family converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had followed their earnest desire to join the Saints at Nauvoo.
Lucretia and Moses lived near the Temple; built at great personal sacrifice and so briefly but majestically used. They were among the first to receive their endowments on 09 December 1846. Lucretia was at the meeting when Brigham Young and the Twelve took charge after the martyrdom of the Prophet and often told how Brigham spoke in the voice of the prophet.
The couple were forced to abandon their home and pack their children into the wagon to flee. She, with her husband and children, came to Utah with the Isacc Mitten, Stewart Company in 1852, after stopping to recruit supplies and improve their health at Winter Quarters. Their first home in Salt Lake City was a sod shanty made from sod taken from the Mill Creek banks and stacked together to form a large room, which was then petitioned off with yard goods that Lucretia made herself. Aaron would be three years old and Joshua two or three months when they make the trek to Utah.
They were later called to Spanish Fork, Utah as missionaries to settle there in 1853. Moses was one of the first men to be a public servant there. She was the first Relief Society President in the 2nd district with Amelia Berry and Lettia Ann Davis as counselors and Ruth Davis as secretary and treasurer. She served for nine years as president and later, April 1870, sustained as counselor to Elizabeth Boyack, serving one year. They held their meeting in a small building where the Thurber school house now stands.
Lucretia was a member of the Spanish Fork Choir, organized 04 July 1856 with William R. Jones as leader. Under his able leadership, the choir attained considerable proficiency in rendering both sacred and secular music, having some of the best soprano voices then in the Territory and affording amusement and refined enjoyment to the citizens of Spanish Fork and the neighboring settlements by giving concerts and social parties. The stirring and animated singing of the Spanish Fork choir attracted the attention of President Brigham Young and on two occasions they visited Salt Lake City by his invitation, the first time to sing at a conference held in the Bowery and afterwards at the opening of the new Tabernacle.
Lucretia had brought with her a spinning wheel as well as herded a number of sheep across the Plains and for many years spun and wove the cloth for all the clothing her family of eight wore. This skill enabled her to provide for her family when, two short years after arriving in Spanish Fork, Moses died of a sudden heart attack. The almost unbearable burden of raising children on the frontier, when what you lived in, ate and wore were supplied almost entirely by your own hands or not at all, were now Lucretia's responsibility. She used her spinning skills to barter for the necessities and cared for her family.
Lucretia contributed to the Emigrating fund, to the Temple fund by carding wool for ten days, then spinning it into cloth for shirts for the brethren working on the temple, and worked four days carding and spinning animal hair for lariats. She also donated one pair of garments, as recorded by Mrs. Evans. The men worked on the temple and the women provided clothes for the men.
Lucretia never remarried, her heart and energy were given to her children, her church and her neighbors. She raised her children to be stalwart and righteous adults; a woman's greatest triumph. She died of pneumonia on 06 March 1886, fifty six years after her husband Moses and was buried in Spanish Fork by his side.
She had the following children: Abner, Albert, James Davis, John Flavel, William Henry, Maria Henrietta, Moses Brigham, Aaron and Joshua
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