LIFE HISTORY OF MARY MOSIER CAREY DRAPER
By Kaye Durfee Warnke
February 2016
Mary Mosier was born in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada 14 August 1785. Second Town was renamed Ernestown in 1784, as the former name referred to the fact Kingston was surveyed first and Second Town was surveyed next. One of eight children, Mary was the daughter of John Mosier (Mosher), b. 1762-1836, and Elizabeth Haight, b. abt 1766-1857.
Mary’s mother, Elizabeth, was a Native American from the Northern Nation of Canada Tribe, and her father, John, was a French Canadian. Mary Mosier's first husband was William Carey, Sr. who married her about 1802 at the age of 17. They had a son, named William Carey, Jr., born 4 May 1803 in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada. What happened to William Carey, Sr. is unknown.
Meanwhile in New York, Thomas Draper IV was married to a Miss Brown (first name unknown) and they had a son, Charles. She left her son and Thomas, which must have been difficult for both of them. Thomas moved to Canada and Thomas' parents took Charles into their home; loved and raised him as their own.
Most of the Drapers were leaving New York and moving to Canada by 1795, except William Jr. and Elizabeth Staker. They remained in Rome, Oneida, New York. William Jr. moved his family to Canada later, when William’s mother, Lydia Lathrope, was ill and dying.
Two years after William Carey, Jr.’s, birth in August 1805, Mary at age 20, married Thomas Draper IV in Ernestown, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. The couple had 10 children, together along with William Carey Jr., who appears in the February 1819 Loughborough Census, as a Draper. The census reveals the following information:
From the Michael Sloote’s Land Claim, the following Drapers are listed:
Males from 60 to 16 years: Thomas Draper. (This would be Thomas IV, b. 1769).
Males Under 16: Wm. Draper, Thos. D. (William Draper, is actually William Carey, Thomas’ step-son) and Thomas would be Reuben.)
Names of Females: Hanna Draper, Viny D., Mary D., Ruth D., and Anne D. (Hanna is Mary Mosier, Viny is Lavina, and Anne is Hanna).
The first Mormon missionaries came to Loughborough, Ontario, Canada in 1832, following by Brigham Young and his brother Joseph trudging through the snow in January 1833. They preached with great success converting 45 souls to the Church. Among the many, were members of the Draper family. Thomas and Mary Mosier Draper joined that year; records show Thomas’ sister, Phoebe (Draper Palmer Brown) joined on 17 Feb 1833. Three years later, William Draper, Jr., while on his Canadian mission from Ohio, baptized Mary’s first son, William Carey Jr. in 1835.
The field was white, ready to harvest. A Church branch was organized in Loughborougth as the area was eager to hear and accept the gospel with missionaries visiting the area many times.
By late 1834 or 1835, Thomas and Mary Mosier Carey Draper, along with Thomas’s brother, William Sr. and Lydia Lathrop Draper, and other family members left Canada and moved to Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio. The Drapers were partakers of the Kirtland Temple dedication, the first temple built by Latter-day Saints and visited by the Savior, the ancient prophets, Elijah, and others.
Serious trouble began brewing in Kirtland. The call came from the Prophet Joseph Smith to leave and come to Zion, especially Far West, Caldwell, Missouri. The Drapers, along with William Carey, Jr. are listed with the Kirtland Camp of Saints traveling to Missouri.
William Carey Jr. and his wife Nancy Ann Boice had a log cabin and were living in Far West in 1838. They opened their doors to three Draper families in October, namely Phoebe Draper Palmer, a widow and her 17-year-old son, Zemira, William Draper Jr. and Elizabeth Staker’s family and Ebenezer and Ann Brown’s family. Seeking safety from the mob, these families were living in outlying settlements and needed a place to park their wagons, water to drink, a kitchen to cook in and warm hospitality. Phoebe later marries Ebenezer Brown, when his wife Ann dies.
William Carey, Jr., Mary's son, was taken prisoner by the mob and taken to the army camp, and without any provocation had his brains dashed out of his skull with his own rifle. He was laid in a wagon, and there he remained for the space of 24 hours, during which time no one was permitted to administer to him comfort or consolation.
Among the prisoners in the army camp were four brethren who had been poisoned. They were allowed to come to the city and transport Brother Carey on a board to his home. Brother Carey died the next day. An innocent, harmless man and giving no offense, but for his religion, died a martyr. He was buried in the Far West Burial Ground along with the apostle David Patton, Gideon Carter and the other 200. The cemetery was destroyed years later.
In Parley P. Pratt’s autobiography it states that one of the mobster said to Joseph Smith, who was bound in chains:
"Come, there is one of your brethren here in camp, whom we took prisoner yesterday in his own house and knocked his brains out with his own rifle, which we found hanging over the fireplace. He lays speechless and dying, speak the word and heal him, and then we will all believe."
Oh, what a tangled web we weave in trying to write the history of our ancestors at times. Even in the volume, History of the Church, p. 182, appears a statement that is incorrect and it appears in other places as well. It doesn't give the name of William Carey's wife. It just says, “widow Carey”, and many genealogists have assumed “the widow Carey”, after William Carey Jr.’s death was Mary Mosier. Therefore the mistake has been perpetuated. Actually, William Carey, Jr. was married to Nancy Ann Boice (Boyce) and they had no children.
Nancy, the widow Carey, had a team of horses that had not been taken by mob. She was able to help the Drapers move out of Missouri in the Spring of 1839. William Draper, Jr. told her that he would take her with his family when they moved, which must have given her some comfort. On 21 May 1841 Nancy Boice Carey married Truman Gilbert in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
In June 1840 Thomas and Mary Mosier were living in Pleasantville, Pike, Illinois along with other Drapers. It was in Ross, Pike, Illinois where Thomas Draper IV died at the age 68. Now Mary was a widow.
Due to the many hardship of the Saints, William Draper Sr.’s wife, Lydia Lathrop, died on the banks of Mississippi River, where she is buried in a brown dress and a calico apron.
William Draper, Sr., was ordained as the Patriarch of the Branches of the church in the Pottawattamie Lands of Iowa by Elder George A. Smith. There were three patriarchs at the time: John Smith was the Patriarch for the entire Church, Isaac Morley was patriarch for Far West and William. William was the patriarch who remained in Council Bluffs giving blessings to those before they started their trek cross the plains.
Mary Mosier and William Draper, Sr. were married in Council Bluffs in 1848. Marrying her husband’s brother was comforting to Mary, for both of them knew each other well. Leaning on a companion you know well was important at their age as they crossed the plains in the Robert Wimmer 1852 Company. He was 78 and she was 67 by the time they reached the valley.
Before leaving Council Bluffs, William Sr. also married widow Marie Louise Allard Lance, born on 29 Sep 1796 in Terrebonne, Terrebonne, Quebec, the child of Simon Allard (1768-1819) and Marie Louise Vailancourt. She married Samuel Lance on November 20, 1815, in Quebec City, Quebec. They had 10 children in 24 years. She died in 1875 in American Fork, Utah, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried there.
Being a church patriarch, William gave about 250 patriarchal blessings after arriving in Utah. Remaining active, they settled in Draperville were he worked for another 2 years before his death on December 24, 1854 at age 80. He is buried in the Draper cemetery.
Mary Mosier Carey Draper gave all her heart and soul to serving the Lord. After William Sr. died she went to live with her daughter in Springville, Utah and passed away in 1855 and is buried in the Springville City Cemetery.
By Kaye Durfee Warnke
February 2016
Mary Mosier was born in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada 14 August 1785. Second Town was renamed Ernestown in 1784, as the former name referred to the fact Kingston was surveyed first and Second Town was surveyed next. One of eight children, Mary was the daughter of John Mosier (Mosher), b. 1762-1836, and Elizabeth Haight, b. abt 1766-1857.
Mary’s mother, Elizabeth, was a Native American from the Northern Nation of Canada Tribe, and her father, John, was a French Canadian. Mary Mosier's first husband was William Carey, Sr. who married her about 1802 at the age of 17. They had a son, named William Carey, Jr., born 4 May 1803 in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada. What happened to William Carey, Sr. is unknown.
Meanwhile in New York, Thomas Draper IV was married to a Miss Brown (first name unknown) and they had a son, Charles. She left her son and Thomas, which must have been difficult for both of them. Thomas moved to Canada and Thomas' parents took Charles into their home; loved and raised him as their own.
Most of the Drapers were leaving New York and moving to Canada by 1795, except William Jr. and Elizabeth Staker. They remained in Rome, Oneida, New York. William Jr. moved his family to Canada later, when William’s mother, Lydia Lathrope, was ill and dying.
Two years after William Carey, Jr.’s, birth in August 1805, Mary at age 20, married Thomas Draper IV in Ernestown, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. The couple had 10 children, together along with William Carey Jr., who appears in the February 1819 Loughborough Census, as a Draper. The census reveals the following information:
From the Michael Sloote’s Land Claim, the following Drapers are listed:
Males from 60 to 16 years: Thomas Draper. (This would be Thomas IV, b. 1769).
Males Under 16: Wm. Draper, Thos. D. (William Draper, is actually William Carey, Thomas’ step-son) and Thomas would be Reuben.)
Names of Females: Hanna Draper, Viny D., Mary D., Ruth D., and Anne D. (Hanna is Mary Mosier, Viny is Lavina, and Anne is Hanna).
The first Mormon missionaries came to Loughborough, Ontario, Canada in 1832, following by Brigham Young and his brother Joseph trudging through the snow in January 1833. They preached with great success converting 45 souls to the Church. Among the many, were members of the Draper family. Thomas and Mary Mosier Draper joined that year; records show Thomas’ sister, Phoebe (Draper Palmer Brown) joined on 17 Feb 1833. Three years later, William Draper, Jr., while on his Canadian mission from Ohio, baptized Mary’s first son, William Carey Jr. in 1835.
The field was white, ready to harvest. A Church branch was organized in Loughborougth as the area was eager to hear and accept the gospel with missionaries visiting the area many times.
By late 1834 or 1835, Thomas and Mary Mosier Carey Draper, along with Thomas’s brother, William Sr. and Lydia Lathrop Draper, and other family members left Canada and moved to Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio. The Drapers were partakers of the Kirtland Temple dedication, the first temple built by Latter-day Saints and visited by the Savior, the ancient prophets, Elijah, and others.
Serious trouble began brewing in Kirtland. The call came from the Prophet Joseph Smith to leave and come to Zion, especially Far West, Caldwell, Missouri. The Drapers, along with William Carey, Jr. are listed with the Kirtland Camp of Saints traveling to Missouri.
William Carey Jr. and his wife Nancy Ann Boice had a log cabin and were living in Far West in 1838. They opened their doors to three Draper families in October, namely Phoebe Draper Palmer, a widow and her 17-year-old son, Zemira, William Draper Jr. and Elizabeth Staker’s family and Ebenezer and Ann Brown’s family. Seeking safety from the mob, these families were living in outlying settlements and needed a place to park their wagons, water to drink, a kitchen to cook in and warm hospitality. Phoebe later marries Ebenezer Brown, when his wife Ann dies.
William Carey, Jr., Mary's son, was taken prisoner by the mob and taken to the army camp, and without any provocation had his brains dashed out of his skull with his own rifle. He was laid in a wagon, and there he remained for the space of 24 hours, during which time no one was permitted to administer to him comfort or consolation.
Among the prisoners in the army camp were four brethren who had been poisoned. They were allowed to come to the city and transport Brother Carey on a board to his home. Brother Carey died the next day. An innocent, harmless man and giving no offense, but for his religion, died a martyr. He was buried in the Far West Burial Ground along with the apostle David Patton, Gideon Carter and the other 200. The cemetery was destroyed years later.
In Parley P. Pratt’s autobiography it states that one of the mobster said to Joseph Smith, who was bound in chains:
"Come, there is one of your brethren here in camp, whom we took prisoner yesterday in his own house and knocked his brains out with his own rifle, which we found hanging over the fireplace. He lays speechless and dying, speak the word and heal him, and then we will all believe."
Oh, what a tangled web we weave in trying to write the history of our ancestors at times. Even in the volume, History of the Church, p. 182, appears a statement that is incorrect and it appears in other places as well. It doesn't give the name of William Carey's wife. It just says, “widow Carey”, and many genealogists have assumed “the widow Carey”, after William Carey Jr.’s death was Mary Mosier. Therefore the mistake has been perpetuated. Actually, William Carey, Jr. was married to Nancy Ann Boice (Boyce) and they had no children.
Nancy, the widow Carey, had a team of horses that had not been taken by mob. She was able to help the Drapers move out of Missouri in the Spring of 1839. William Draper, Jr. told her that he would take her with his family when they moved, which must have given her some comfort. On 21 May 1841 Nancy Boice Carey married Truman Gilbert in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
In June 1840 Thomas and Mary Mosier were living in Pleasantville, Pike, Illinois along with other Drapers. It was in Ross, Pike, Illinois where Thomas Draper IV died at the age 68. Now Mary was a widow.
Due to the many hardship of the Saints, William Draper Sr.’s wife, Lydia Lathrop, died on the banks of Mississippi River, where she is buried in a brown dress and a calico apron.
William Draper, Sr., was ordained as the Patriarch of the Branches of the church in the Pottawattamie Lands of Iowa by Elder George A. Smith. There were three patriarchs at the time: John Smith was the Patriarch for the entire Church, Isaac Morley was patriarch for Far West and William. William was the patriarch who remained in Council Bluffs giving blessings to those before they started their trek cross the plains.
Mary Mosier and William Draper, Sr. were married in Council Bluffs in 1848. Marrying her husband’s brother was comforting to Mary, for both of them knew each other well. Leaning on a companion you know well was important at their age as they crossed the plains in the Robert Wimmer 1852 Company. He was 78 and she was 67 by the time they reached the valley.
Before leaving Council Bluffs, William Sr. also married widow Marie Louise Allard Lance, born on 29 Sep 1796 in Terrebonne, Terrebonne, Quebec, the child of Simon Allard (1768-1819) and Marie Louise Vailancourt. She married Samuel Lance on November 20, 1815, in Quebec City, Quebec. They had 10 children in 24 years. She died in 1875 in American Fork, Utah, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried there.
Being a church patriarch, William gave about 250 patriarchal blessings after arriving in Utah. Remaining active, they settled in Draperville were he worked for another 2 years before his death on December 24, 1854 at age 80. He is buried in the Draper cemetery.
Mary Mosier Carey Draper gave all her heart and soul to serving the Lord. After William Sr. died she went to live with her daughter in Springville, Utah and passed away in 1855 and is buried in the Springville City Cemetery.
LIFE HISTORY OF MARY MOSIER CAREY DRAPER
By Kaye Durfee Warnke
February 2016
Mary Mosier was born in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada 14 August 1785. Second Town was renamed Ernestown in 1784, as the former name referred to the fact Kingston was surveyed first and Second Town was surveyed next. One of eight children, Mary was the daughter of John Mosier (Mosher), b. 1762-1836, and Elizabeth Haight, b. abt 1766-1857.
Mary’s mother, Elizabeth, was a Native American from the Northern Nation of Canada Tribe, and her father, John, was a French Canadian. Mary Mosier's first husband was William Carey, Sr. who married her about 1802 at the age of 17. They had a son, named William Carey, Jr., born 4 May 1803 in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada. What happened to William Carey, Sr. is unknown.
Meanwhile in New York, Thomas Draper IV was married to a Miss Brown (first name unknown) and they had a son, Charles. She left her son and Thomas, which must have been difficult for both of them. Thomas moved to Canada and Thomas' parents took Charles into their home; loved and raised him as their own.
Most of the Drapers were leaving New York and moving to Canada by 1795, except William Jr. and Elizabeth Staker. They remained in Rome, Oneida, New York. William Jr. moved his family to Canada later, when William’s mother, Lydia Lathrope, was ill and dying.
Two years after William Carey, Jr.’s, birth in August 1805, Mary at age 20, married Thomas Draper IV in Ernestown, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. The couple had 10 children, together along with William Carey Jr., who appears in the February 1819 Loughborough Census, as a Draper. The census reveals the following information:
From the Michael Sloote’s Land Claim, the following Drapers are listed:
Males from 60 to 16 years: Thomas Draper. (This would be Thomas IV, b. 1769).
Males Under 16: Wm. Draper, Thos. D. (William Draper, is actually William Carey, Thomas’ step-son) and Thomas would be Reuben.)
Names of Females: Hanna Draper, Viny D., Mary D., Ruth D., and Anne D. (Hanna is Mary Mosier, Viny is Lavina, and Anne is Hanna).
The first Mormon missionaries came to Loughborough, Ontario, Canada in 1832, following by Brigham Young and his brother Joseph trudging through the snow in January 1833. They preached with great success converting 45 souls to the Church. Among the many, were members of the Draper family. Thomas and Mary Mosier Draper joined that year; records show Thomas’ sister, Phoebe (Draper Palmer Brown) joined on 17 Feb 1833. Three years later, William Draper, Jr., while on his Canadian mission from Ohio, baptized Mary’s first son, William Carey Jr. in 1835.
The field was white, ready to harvest. A Church branch was organized in Loughborougth as the area was eager to hear and accept the gospel with missionaries visiting the area many times.
By late 1834 or 1835, Thomas and Mary Mosier Carey Draper, along with Thomas’s brother, William Sr. and Lydia Lathrop Draper, and other family members left Canada and moved to Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio. The Drapers were partakers of the Kirtland Temple dedication, the first temple built by Latter-day Saints and visited by the Savior, the ancient prophets, Elijah, and others.
Serious trouble began brewing in Kirtland. The call came from the Prophet Joseph Smith to leave and come to Zion, especially Far West, Caldwell, Missouri. The Drapers, along with William Carey, Jr. are listed with the Kirtland Camp of Saints traveling to Missouri.
William Carey Jr. and his wife Nancy Ann Boice had a log cabin and were living in Far West in 1838. They opened their doors to three Draper families in October, namely Phoebe Draper Palmer, a widow and her 17-year-old son, Zemira, William Draper Jr. and Elizabeth Staker’s family and Ebenezer and Ann Brown’s family. Seeking safety from the mob, these families were living in outlying settlements and needed a place to park their wagons, water to drink, a kitchen to cook in and warm hospitality. Phoebe later marries Ebenezer Brown, when his wife Ann dies.
William Carey, Jr., Mary's son, was taken prisoner by the mob and taken to the army camp, and without any provocation had his brains dashed out of his skull with his own rifle. He was laid in a wagon, and there he remained for the space of 24 hours, during which time no one was permitted to administer to him comfort or consolation.
Among the prisoners in the army camp were four brethren who had been poisoned. They were allowed to come to the city and transport Brother Carey on a board to his home. Brother Carey died the next day. An innocent, harmless man and giving no offense, but for his religion, died a martyr. He was buried in the Far West Burial Ground along with the apostle David Patton, Gideon Carter and the other 200. The cemetery was destroyed years later.
In Parley P. Pratt’s autobiography it states that one of the mobster said to Joseph Smith, who was bound in chains:
"Come, there is one of your brethren here in camp, whom we took prisoner yesterday in his own house and knocked his brains out with his own rifle, which we found hanging over the fireplace. He lays speechless and dying, speak the word and heal him, and then we will all believe."
Oh, what a tangled web we weave in trying to write the history of our ancestors at times. Even in the volume, History of the Church, p. 182, appears a statement that is incorrect and it appears in other places as well. It doesn't give the name of William Carey's wife. It just says, “widow Carey”, and many genealogists have assumed “the widow Carey”, after William Carey Jr.’s death was Mary Mosier. Therefore the mistake has been perpetuated. Actually, William Carey, Jr. was married to Nancy Ann Boice (Boyce) and they had no children.
Nancy, the widow Carey, had a team of horses that had not been taken by mob. She was able to help the Drapers move out of Missouri in the Spring of 1839. William Draper, Jr. told her that he would take her with his family when they moved, which must have given her some comfort. On 21 May 1841 Nancy Boice Carey married Truman Gilbert in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
In June 1840 Thomas and Mary Mosier were living in Pleasantville, Pike, Illinois along with other Drapers. It was in Ross, Pike, Illinois where Thomas Draper IV died at the age 68. Now Mary was a widow.
Due to the many hardship of the Saints, William Draper Sr.’s wife, Lydia Lathrop, died on the banks of Mississippi River, where she is buried in a brown dress and a calico apron.
William Draper, Sr., was ordained as the Patriarch of the Branches of the church in the Pottawattamie Lands of Iowa by Elder George A. Smith. There were three patriarchs at the time: John Smith was the Patriarch for the entire Church, Isaac Morley was patriarch for Far West and William. William was the patriarch who remained in Council Bluffs giving blessings to those before they started their trek cross the plains.
Mary Mosier and William Draper, Sr. were married in Council Bluffs in 1848. Marrying her husband’s brother was comforting to Mary, for both of them knew each other well. Leaning on a companion you know well was important at their age as they crossed the plains in the Robert Wimmer 1852 Company. He was 78 and she was 67 by the time they reached the valley.
Before leaving Council Bluffs, William Sr. also married widow Marie Louise Allard Lance, born on 29 Sep 1796 in Terrebonne, Terrebonne, Quebec, the child of Simon Allard (1768-1819) and Marie Louise Vailancourt. She married Samuel Lance on November 20, 1815, in Quebec City, Quebec. They had 10 children in 24 years. She died in 1875 in American Fork, Utah, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried there.
Being a church patriarch, William gave about 250 patriarchal blessings after arriving in Utah. Remaining active, they settled in Draperville were he worked for another 2 years before his death on December 24, 1854 at age 80. He is buried in the Draper cemetery.
Mary Mosier Carey Draper gave all her heart and soul to serving the Lord. After William Sr. died she went to live with her daughter in Springville, Utah and passed away in 1855 and is buried in the Springville City Cemetery.
By Kaye Durfee Warnke
February 2016
Mary Mosier was born in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada 14 August 1785. Second Town was renamed Ernestown in 1784, as the former name referred to the fact Kingston was surveyed first and Second Town was surveyed next. One of eight children, Mary was the daughter of John Mosier (Mosher), b. 1762-1836, and Elizabeth Haight, b. abt 1766-1857.
Mary’s mother, Elizabeth, was a Native American from the Northern Nation of Canada Tribe, and her father, John, was a French Canadian. Mary Mosier's first husband was William Carey, Sr. who married her about 1802 at the age of 17. They had a son, named William Carey, Jr., born 4 May 1803 in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada. What happened to William Carey, Sr. is unknown.
Meanwhile in New York, Thomas Draper IV was married to a Miss Brown (first name unknown) and they had a son, Charles. She left her son and Thomas, which must have been difficult for both of them. Thomas moved to Canada and Thomas' parents took Charles into their home; loved and raised him as their own.
Most of the Drapers were leaving New York and moving to Canada by 1795, except William Jr. and Elizabeth Staker. They remained in Rome, Oneida, New York. William Jr. moved his family to Canada later, when William’s mother, Lydia Lathrope, was ill and dying.
Two years after William Carey, Jr.’s, birth in August 1805, Mary at age 20, married Thomas Draper IV in Ernestown, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. The couple had 10 children, together along with William Carey Jr., who appears in the February 1819 Loughborough Census, as a Draper. The census reveals the following information:
From the Michael Sloote’s Land Claim, the following Drapers are listed:
Males from 60 to 16 years: Thomas Draper. (This would be Thomas IV, b. 1769).
Males Under 16: Wm. Draper, Thos. D. (William Draper, is actually William Carey, Thomas’ step-son) and Thomas would be Reuben.)
Names of Females: Hanna Draper, Viny D., Mary D., Ruth D., and Anne D. (Hanna is Mary Mosier, Viny is Lavina, and Anne is Hanna).
The first Mormon missionaries came to Loughborough, Ontario, Canada in 1832, following by Brigham Young and his brother Joseph trudging through the snow in January 1833. They preached with great success converting 45 souls to the Church. Among the many, were members of the Draper family. Thomas and Mary Mosier Draper joined that year; records show Thomas’ sister, Phoebe (Draper Palmer Brown) joined on 17 Feb 1833. Three years later, William Draper, Jr., while on his Canadian mission from Ohio, baptized Mary’s first son, William Carey Jr. in 1835.
The field was white, ready to harvest. A Church branch was organized in Loughborougth as the area was eager to hear and accept the gospel with missionaries visiting the area many times.
By late 1834 or 1835, Thomas and Mary Mosier Carey Draper, along with Thomas’s brother, William Sr. and Lydia Lathrop Draper, and other family members left Canada and moved to Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio. The Drapers were partakers of the Kirtland Temple dedication, the first temple built by Latter-day Saints and visited by the Savior, the ancient prophets, Elijah, and others.
Serious trouble began brewing in Kirtland. The call came from the Prophet Joseph Smith to leave and come to Zion, especially Far West, Caldwell, Missouri. The Drapers, along with William Carey, Jr. are listed with the Kirtland Camp of Saints traveling to Missouri.
William Carey Jr. and his wife Nancy Ann Boice had a log cabin and were living in Far West in 1838. They opened their doors to three Draper families in October, namely Phoebe Draper Palmer, a widow and her 17-year-old son, Zemira, William Draper Jr. and Elizabeth Staker’s family and Ebenezer and Ann Brown’s family. Seeking safety from the mob, these families were living in outlying settlements and needed a place to park their wagons, water to drink, a kitchen to cook in and warm hospitality. Phoebe later marries Ebenezer Brown, when his wife Ann dies.
William Carey, Jr., Mary's son, was taken prisoner by the mob and taken to the army camp, and without any provocation had his brains dashed out of his skull with his own rifle. He was laid in a wagon, and there he remained for the space of 24 hours, during which time no one was permitted to administer to him comfort or consolation.
Among the prisoners in the army camp were four brethren who had been poisoned. They were allowed to come to the city and transport Brother Carey on a board to his home. Brother Carey died the next day. An innocent, harmless man and giving no offense, but for his religion, died a martyr. He was buried in the Far West Burial Ground along with the apostle David Patton, Gideon Carter and the other 200. The cemetery was destroyed years later.
In Parley P. Pratt’s autobiography it states that one of the mobster said to Joseph Smith, who was bound in chains:
"Come, there is one of your brethren here in camp, whom we took prisoner yesterday in his own house and knocked his brains out with his own rifle, which we found hanging over the fireplace. He lays speechless and dying, speak the word and heal him, and then we will all believe."
Oh, what a tangled web we weave in trying to write the history of our ancestors at times. Even in the volume, History of the Church, p. 182, appears a statement that is incorrect and it appears in other places as well. It doesn't give the name of William Carey's wife. It just says, “widow Carey”, and many genealogists have assumed “the widow Carey”, after William Carey Jr.’s death was Mary Mosier. Therefore the mistake has been perpetuated. Actually, William Carey, Jr. was married to Nancy Ann Boice (Boyce) and they had no children.
Nancy, the widow Carey, had a team of horses that had not been taken by mob. She was able to help the Drapers move out of Missouri in the Spring of 1839. William Draper, Jr. told her that he would take her with his family when they moved, which must have given her some comfort. On 21 May 1841 Nancy Boice Carey married Truman Gilbert in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
In June 1840 Thomas and Mary Mosier were living in Pleasantville, Pike, Illinois along with other Drapers. It was in Ross, Pike, Illinois where Thomas Draper IV died at the age 68. Now Mary was a widow.
Due to the many hardship of the Saints, William Draper Sr.’s wife, Lydia Lathrop, died on the banks of Mississippi River, where she is buried in a brown dress and a calico apron.
William Draper, Sr., was ordained as the Patriarch of the Branches of the church in the Pottawattamie Lands of Iowa by Elder George A. Smith. There were three patriarchs at the time: John Smith was the Patriarch for the entire Church, Isaac Morley was patriarch for Far West and William. William was the patriarch who remained in Council Bluffs giving blessings to those before they started their trek cross the plains.
Mary Mosier and William Draper, Sr. were married in Council Bluffs in 1848. Marrying her husband’s brother was comforting to Mary, for both of them knew each other well. Leaning on a companion you know well was important at their age as they crossed the plains in the Robert Wimmer 1852 Company. He was 78 and she was 67 by the time they reached the valley.
Before leaving Council Bluffs, William Sr. also married widow Marie Louise Allard Lance, born on 29 Sep 1796 in Terrebonne, Terrebonne, Quebec, the child of Simon Allard (1768-1819) and Marie Louise Vailancourt. She married Samuel Lance on November 20, 1815, in Quebec City, Quebec. They had 10 children in 24 years. She died in 1875 in American Fork, Utah, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried there.
Being a church patriarch, William gave about 250 patriarchal blessings after arriving in Utah. Remaining active, they settled in Draperville were he worked for another 2 years before his death on December 24, 1854 at age 80. He is buried in the Draper cemetery.
Mary Mosier Carey Draper gave all her heart and soul to serving the Lord. After William Sr. died she went to live with her daughter in Springville, Utah and passed away in 1855 and is buried in the Springville City Cemetery.
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