ADDENDUM TO

FEBRUARY 2008 ADDENDUM TO:

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WILLIAM “EDWARD” KELLY AND HIS FAMILY

(including 80 endnotes with 5 maps)

HISTORY WRITTEN BY PAULA DIANE STUCKI ANDERSON

William Kelly’s Great-Great-Granddaughter

(30 July 2007)

Since writing A BRIEF HISTORY OF WILLIAM “EDWARD” KELLY AND HIS FAMILY, hereinafter referred to as THE HISTORY, more information has been found that is either an important addition to or a correction of THE HISTORY. The importance of several of these items has required me, Paula Anderson, to write this Addendum. The head numbers below correspond to the endnotes attached to THE HISTORY. The number in parenthesis refers to the page in THE HISTORY. The original endnote is given in black while the correction or addition is given in red and in larger type.

37 (5) Joseph Fielding Diary,” Nauvoo Journal,” BYU Studies 19 (1979), 155-156.

Information from Land and Records Office, Nauvoo, Illinois: William Cottier owned three pieces of property in Nauvoo and property in Appanoose Township, east of Nauvoo. He was born on 1820 in the parish of Patrick, Isle of Man. His parents were William Cottier and Catherine Corkhill. He was called to be a Seventy and received his endowment in the Nauvoo Temple. He received his Patriarchal Blessing on 23 June 1845 from William Smith. While on the Isle of Man, he learned to be a stone mason. He worked on the Nauvoo Temple, cutting stone, and, in 1843, when the Twelve Apostles decided to take down the old wood baptismal Font inside the Nauvoo Temple and put up a new stone one, William Cottier worked on the stone font. William was described as “a steady, faithful, quiet, good workman.” Information concerning the Nauvoo Temple Officers and Laborers comes from the Journal of William Clayton cited in Journal History of the Church, 31 December 1844, pp. 12-15.

Ibid. No Kellys are listed as workers on the Nauvoo Temple.

In THE HISTORY, I stated that “William [Cottier] was eventually excommunicated.” My conclusion was based primarily on Joseph Fielding's Diary. He wrote, ”It was also shown that Joseph had told the Twelve after he had instructed them in all things that on them would rest the responsibility and the care of the Church in case he should be taken away. They invited Rigdon to their council but he did not attend and he soon began to use threatening language against the Twelve, Joseph, etc. to say that he had known for some years that Joseph had not been led by the spirit of God [and gave this] as the reason why he did not attend with him as his counselor, he soon so far committed himself that his license was demanded by the Twelve, but he refused to give it up. He seemed in no haste now to get to Pittsburg, but labored hard to raise a party to himself and succeeded in some degree. Some few cleaved to him, and were in a short time cut off [excommunicated] from the Church along with him. Among the [party] were Samuel Bennett, Leonard Soby, Samuel James, William Cottier, etc.” (Joseph Fielding’s Diary, “Nauvoo Journal,” BYU STUDIES 19: (1979), 155-156.)

In William Clayton's Diary, he wrote, “There is considerable feeling prevailing. Edward Hunter, Leonard Soby, Wm. Cottier, B. Coles are amongst those who have joined Er [Elder] Rigdon, [.] Samuel James is one of his main supports.” (Fillerup, Robert C., compiler, “William Clayton’s Nauvoo Diaries and Personal Writings,” 1840-1846, 4 September 1844.) This excerpt was found on www.code-co.com/rcf/mhistdo/clayton.htm.

For months I tried to find an excommunication date for William Cottier but I was unsuccessful so, on 25 August 2007, I wrote a letter to the Church History Library, located in the Church Office Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, requesting any information concerning a possible excommunication for William Cottier. I attached all the information I had concerning William including the above diary entries.

On 25 October 2007, I received a letter from the Family and Church History Department, Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. The letter stated, “We received your inquiry concerning the possible excommunication of William Cottier. We have searched through our collections and can find no documents for an excommunication of William Cottier. We are enclosing our report.” The letter was signed by Ronald G. Watt, Archivist, Sr. Accompanying the letter was a Research Report, dated 20 September 2007, signed by an Elder Allen who apparently was involved in the actual research. The Research Report Summary is as follows: “The patron has already searched most of the published and many of the unpublished sources. Our search focused on other sources, including stake and mission records and journals. No record of an excommunication of William Cotter was found.” In conclusion, the Research Report stated that, “It is not likely a record could be found of an excommunication for William Cottier if such actually existed. With so much Church activity in the St. Louis area where William Cottier resided, he should show up on the records cited above [in the Research Report]. He seems to have just not been involved. It is interesting to note that none of the three listed by the patron as also being associated with Rigdon (Bennett, Soby and James) were endowed [in the Nauvoo Temple] according to the source cited, although Cottier was.”

It is evident, from the existing diaries quoted above, that William Cottier openly showed interest, for a period, in Sidney Rigdon's claims. But, as a result of this recent research, by me and the Church, it is apparent that William Cottier never followed Rigdon either physically or theologically after Sidney Rigdon's excommunication from the Church 8 September 1844. I am now satisfied that William Cottier was not excommunicated from the LDS Church.

OTHER LDS INFORMATION CONCERNING WILLIAM COTTIER:

Major, Jill C., “Artworks in the Celestial Room of the First Nauvoo Temple,” BYU STUDIES 41:2 (2002), 54, 64, 66. Jill Major wrote, “A painting of William Cottier, a temple stonecutter, was loaned to the temple and hung in the celestial room.” Footnote 23 in this same article states: “Nauvoo Temple Records Ledgers, Book B, October 24, 1844; George D. Smith transcribed the name as William ‘Collier,’ but a search of the original holograph confirmed the name is ‘Cottier.’ Clayton, AN INTIMATE CHRONICLE, 206.” The portrait hung on the west side of the first division of the arch in the Celestial Room of the Nauvoo Temple. The artist is unknown. The whereabouts of the portrait is still unknown.

40 (5) Cemetery records of Tull Cemetery, Pontoosuc Township, Hancock County, Illinois. Photos of Tull Cemetery and some gravestones are in my possession. Although a notation card was found at the Hancock County Historical Society (Carthage, Illinois) indicating that William Cottier was also buried in the Tull Cemetery, there is no record of his burial on the Tull Cemetery Records. No gravestone for William Cottier was found in the Tull Cemetery.

St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project, 1802-1900, Cottier, William, Case No. 12583, Date Filed: 1877, Microfilm Reel C 35567, as found on www.sos.mo.gov/archives/stlprobate. Copies of all 45 pages in this Probate File are in my possession. William Cottier died in St. Louis City, Missouri, on 20 January 1877. William’s three daughters, Clara, Anna Jane and Elizabeth, were the heirs to his estate. No money was left directly to Elizabeth Kelly Cottier, thus reinforcing the idea that William and Elizabeth had separated some years earlier. William’s daughter, Clara, who was living in St. Louis City, was named executrix. After her marriage on 19 April 1877, she officially signed over the responsibility to her husband, John George Baeser. In 1883, William Cottier’s daughters, Elizabeth Cottier Porter and Clara Cottier Baeser, each received $164.00. Since Anna Jane Cottier had died unmarried in 1880, her mother Elizabeth (and former wife of William Cottier), acting as Anna Jane’s executrix, collected $178.00 from William Cottier’s estate. Since William Cottier died in St. Louis City, Missouri, approximately one year before Elizabeth Kelly Cottier married her second husband, William Wallwork, and eight years before Elizabeth died in Pontoosuc Township, Hancock County, Illinois, it is highly unlikely that William Cottier was buried in Tull Cemetery, the same cemetery where Anna Jane Cottier, Elizabeth Kelly Cottier Wallwork and her second husband, William Wallwork, were buried.

46 (6) Nicholes, James W., 50. “It’s unclear which event took place first, his proposal or his plans for enlistment. Family tradition claims that they were married at Mt. Pisgah [Iowa], and marriage dates range from July 14^th to the 19^th. No Church records exist for marriages performed at Mt. Pisgah, but the battalion enlistment records seem to contradict these traditions. The muster role, dated July 16, shows William and Ann at Council Bluffs, as husband and wife. Perhaps the July 14^th marriage date is correct, but they could not have been in Mt. Pisgah on the 14^th, and then in Council Bluffs, about a hundred miles away on the 16^th. The muster roll of course lists them without children, but also without a horse, no cattle, and no other major property. It lists William leaving $7.00 to benefit Ann, and that she was being left in the care of John Taylor. This last point substantiates the possibility that William or Ann or both had left Nauvoo also under his care. William was only 18; Ann was 26.” One can speculate that, since William intended to marry Ann before leaving with the Mormon Battalion, he indicated on the enlistment papers that she was his wife in order to make certain that she received his pay.

Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, THE MORMON BATTALION, U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 16-17. The following quote is from a journal entry: “Sun., July 19, Council Bluffs. In his Sunday sermon Brigham Young and the apostles said again it was right to serve in the battalion. All took courage from their words. Company E was filling up. Abraham Day, who said he wouldn’t sign up, was in Company E. Dimick Huntington arranged for his wife and three children to go with him. William Kelley, assigned to Company A, married his sweetheart, Anna Farragher, in the evening. She did not go on the march.” (Originally quoted in Kate B. Carter, ed., THE MORMON BATTALION, 1846-1848 (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1956), 75.

SELECTED PENSION APPLICATION FILES RELATING TO THE MORMON BATTALION, MEXICAN WAR, 1846-48, UTAH: NARA, REFERENCE NUMBER: 12061: VETERAN SURNAME: KELLY, VETERAN GIVEN NAME: WILLIAM, CLAIMANT SURNAME: KELLY, CLAIMANT GIVEN NAME: CHRISTENA. This information was found on www.footnote.com. Copies of all 119 pages of this file are now in my possession. After the Mexican War Service Pension Act of 29 January 1887, William filed for a pension on 16 August 1887. He stated that he had sprained his ankle February 1870 in American Fork, Utah “by falling off a load of hay and the rheumatism was incurred while so engaged in the battalion.” In the "Mexican War Pension Survivor's Brief," that William filed, he stated, "That the name of my present wife is Christina Petersen." In order to bolster his case, he filed affidavits from Joseph Shipley and Israel Evans. He eventually received a pension of $8.00 a month.

After William died in 1899, Christena [Pedersen] Kelly, William Kelly’s second wife, immediately filed for William‘s pension on 7 September 1899. She stated that she had been disabled since 1 January 1889 by "Rheumatics." Witnesses to her claim were Philemon M. Kelly and Fred Jackson. Since Christena had been a plural wife, she had to prove to the U.S. Government, after Ann Faragher’s divorce and death, that she had been William’s legal spouse at the time of his death and thus entitled to his pension. In her claim, Christena states "that he [William] was not willing to marry her [Christena] again after Ann's divorce [20 June 1877] and said there was no need of it." Christena stated that "according to the Mormon faith she was his wife in polygamy and monogamy, and was recognized as his wife and respected as such in the community." Christena could not afford a lawyer but she was tireless in trying to prove her case and collect the monthly pension. She gathered affidavits from such people as James Gardner, Thomas and Clara [Kelly] Miller, Joseph and Nell [Kelly] Nicholes, Maria Swanson, Thomas and Hellen Barrott and John McNeill. Even Elizabeth Cunningham Kelly, William Kelly's third wife, gave a deposition. Since Christena had applied for William's pension, Elizabeth was not eligible. It took an enormous amount of work but Christena finally proved her case and received the pension. At the time of Christena’s death, she was receiving a pension of $14.00 a month.

In William Kelly’s Pension Application Form, he states, “That I am married; that the maiden name of my wife was Ann Farrager [Faragher], to whom I was married at Council Bluffs, in the State of Iowa, on the 15^th day of July, A. D. 1846.” [Bolding is not in the original.] So we finally have William Kelly's own statement of the marriage date and place. The file also includes the divorce information between Ann and William and the court case that Ann Faragher brought against William Kelly.

The above mentioned MORMON BATTALION PENSION FILE for William Kelly is an amazing document that chronicles much of William Kelly’s adult life and that of his three wives. It is interesting to note that William filled out the forms as William Kelley but signed the forms as William Kelly. No middle name is recorded for William anywhere in this document – more proof that William never had a legal middle name.

54 (7) Nicholes, Eleanor Kelly, “Historical Sketch of Mrs. Christina Kelly,” (date written unknown), 1.

The dates of Kirsten’s journey from Denmark to Utah were given incorrectly in the “Historical Sketch of Mrs. Christina Kelly” by her daughter, Eleanor Kelly Nicholes, p. 1. The correct dates are: Emigrated from Aalborg, Denmark, 31 October 1854, and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah on 7 September 1855.

TRACING SCANDINAVIAN LATTER-DAY SAINTS STEP-BY-STEP (ELECTRONIC BOOK, 711 pages) found on www.xmission.com/%7Enelsonb/reward.pdf. The Table of Contents for this ELECTRONIC BOOK, titled, THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD: TRACING SCANDINAVIAN LATTER-DAY SAINTS FROM THE SCANDINAVIAN MISSION (1852-1881) is found on www.xmillion.com/%7Enelsonb/toc.pdf. Aurelia Clemons extracted LDS Scandinavian Emigration Records for 1853-1881, (LDS Film #025696) and these records are presented in the ELECTRONIC BOOK in the Section, “Emigration from the Scandinavian Mission,” 1853-1881, pages 385-686. Kirsten Pedersen is listed on page 400 as emigrating from the Aalborg, Conference on 31 October 1854. The entry reads: "Kirsten Petersen, 16, Dane, page 16" (refers to page in original emigration records). There is also an alphabetical surname list of all the LDS Scandinavian Emigrants from 1854-1868 found on www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/scan_roster.htm. This list can also be found on LDS Microfilm #025696.

Kirsten sailed on the “Cimbria” from Denmark to Liverpool, England. On 7 Jan 1855, Kirsten was onboard the ship “James Nesmith” when it sailed from Liverpool to America. The “James Nesmith” arrived at the Port of New Orleans on 23 Feb 1855 where most of the emigrants boarded the steam boat “Oceana” to St. Louis, Missouri. Under the leadership of Peter O. Hansen, Kirsten and about 175 other emigrants left St. Louis by the steam boat “Clara” for Atchison, Kansas, but the boat was forced to land at Leavenworth. Towards the end of May, the emigrants moved to Mormon Grove, about 5 miles west of present-day Atchison, Kansas. Kirsten Pedersen joined Captain Jacob F. Secrist’s Company, later known as the Jacob F. Secrist/Noah T. Guymon Company. The Company left Mormon Grove, Kansas on 13 June 1855. The group arrived in Salt Lake City on 7 Sept 1855. (ELECTRONIC BOOK, 97-99). There were 368 individuals and 58 wagons in the Company. Jacob F. Secrist died 2 July 1855 and Noah T. Guymon became the Captain of the Company. Kirsten is listed on the Company Roster as Christine Petersen. Christine (Kirsten) was listed as riding in a wagon with Anne E. Ericksen, age 15, who was traveling with her family. For more information concerning the trip from Mormon Grove to the Salt Lake Valley, see www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch.

Kirsten (or Christena, as she preferred to be called in America) Pedersen’s parents, Peder Christensen and Anne Jensen, left Denmark on 17 May 1866 and sailed to America on the “Kenilworth”. They are listed on p. 519 in the ELECTRONIC BOOK mentioned above. They are listed as "Peder Christensen, 60, Brudal, and Ane Christensen, 54, Hoieslov [Hojslev], Aalborg Conference, Denmark, page 5" (refers to page in original emigration records). For a good description of the voyage, see A FAMILY – A RELIGION by James W. Nicholes, 104-106 or see p. 191-195 in the ELECTRONIC BOOK. Peder and Ane crossed the plains in the Peter Nebeker Company. Ane was listed as Anne Jensen Christensen and Peder was listed as Peter C. Christensen. Both Anne and Peder [Peter] are listed on the Deseret News Roster with the surname of Bendell, probably a corruption of Brudal, the town where they had lived in Denmark before leaving for Aalborg and then America. When Anne died in 1890, she was buried in the American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, under the name Ann C. Brudall. Peder or Peter died in America, not in Denmark. Place of death still unknown at this point. For more information concerning the Peter Nebeker Company, see www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch.

60 (8) http://historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/index.html. “Utah Death Certificates” The Death Certificate for Christena Kelly is Series 81448, Entry 43691. She died of chronic nephritis contributed by “general exhaustion.”

Records of the American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, can be accessed at http://history.utah.gov/apps/burials/execute/searchburials. Then look at the “Cemetery Burials Database.” Kirsten Pedersen Kelly is recorded as Christena Kelly, grave located at F_153_1.

Kirsten Pedersen’s tombstone reads: “Christena P. wife of Wm Kelly, Born Aug 3, 1837, Alsberg, Denmark, Died April 27, 1914. MOTHER, A most Sacred Name.” The word “KELLY” is chiseled at the bottom of the stone. Unfortunately this beautiful tombstone contains a mistake. Kirsten or Christena was NOT born in the County of Aalborg. She was born in the County of Viborg as were her siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. for many generations. The family eventually left the County of Viborg, went to the County of Aalborg and eventually emigrated. So, whenever Kirsten was asked, “Where are you from?” She probably answered, “Aalborg,” since she was living there when she emigrated but she was definitely born and christened in the Parish of Hojslev, District of Fjends, County of Viborg, Denmark. For Kirsten’s birth and christening record, see www.arkivalieronline.dk. Amt (County): Viborg, Herred (District): Fjends, Sogn (Parish): Hojslev, 1813-1839, opslag (page) 81. This website is free but you must register and then the website will send you a password to use.

OTHER LDS INFORMATION CONCERNING WILLIAM KELLY:

TERRITORIAL CASE FILES OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURTS OF UTAH 1870-1896, UTAH, 1888, NARA: CASE NUMBER: 1307, DEFENDANT SURNAME:KELLEY, DEFENDANT GIVEN NAME: WILLIAM, 15 pages, taken from www.footnote.com with copies in possession of Paula Anderson. William Kelley, Offense: Unlawful Cohabitation. The complaint of Unlawful Cohabitation (Between 1 June 1885 and 14 May 1888) and a warrant for William’s arrest was issued 14 May 1888. William was arrested on 16 May 1888 and he posted bail the same day. Bail was set at $600.00 and paid by William G. Dunn and James Dunn. Subpoenas were served on 8 August 1888 to Mrs. William Kelley [Christena] and Elizabeth Kelley, requiring them to appear before a Grand Jury of the First District Court of the Territory of Utah in Provo, Utah. On 27 Sept 1888, an "Indictment for Unlawful Cohabitation" was handed down by the Grand Jury. The case was tried in the First Judicial District Court, held in Provo, on 18 Oct 1888. The following is handwritten on the page entitled "Indictment for Unlawful Cohabitation" – "Oct. 9/88 Defendant _____ _____ not guilty." The blanks indicate two words not decipherable by me. It is possible that some papers are missing from this file because there is no official document of the verdict; however, in the SELECTED PENSION APPLICATION FILES RELATING TO THE MORMON BATTALION, MEXICAN WAR, 1846-48, UTAH: NARA, REFERENCE NUMBER: 12061: VETERAN SURNAME: KELLY, VETERAN GIVEN NAME: WILLIAM, CLAIMANT SURNAME: KELLY, CLAIMANT GIVEN NAME: CHRISTENA (See Endnote 46), it states "that the soldier, William Kelly, was brought into court at Provo, the county-seat, to answer a charge of living in polygamy after the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker Bill, but he was acquitted of that charge and claimant [Christena Kelly] was recognized by the court as his legal widow."