MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS
2014 John Hamilton Morgan Journal now on-line here
1867 dream, Serepta Heywood
1869 Pioneer College of the Rocky Mountains
15 - Helen Melvina "Mellie" Groesbeck Morgan (1852-1930)
Part 1, Helen Melvina “Mellie” Groesbeck Morgan biography
Part 2, Mellie’s piano, student and teacher at Morgan school, 1869 letter from her mother
Part 3, 1868 courtship, marriage, family group sheet, 1875 mission call, beginning journal entries
John Morgan and Joseph Standing--Missionaries
He Being Dead Yet Speaketh
Waiting for Joseph Standing's Arrival
1876 Missionary Companions
1876 March
1876 April
1876 April 4-8
1876 April 9-13
1876 April 14-18
1876 April 19-23
1876 Aug 24-28
1878 March, Rome, Georgia
An Index to the Southern States Mission at The Ancestor Files
Important John Morgan Posts at The Ancestor Files
JHM 1st year in the Southern States Mission July 4, 1876-July 5, 1877
1878, Aug 10-12 Southern States Relief Society Presidency
Part 4, 1877 Nov 21-Jan 1 1878, traveling west from mission with 80 emigrant converts, home for Christmas
Part 5, 1878 Mar 4-Apr 5, new baby, new home, picture
Part 6, 1879 Apr 6-14, return from mission field, new slc home
1880 experiences with Matthias F. Cowley in Virginia, part 2, part 3
1881 passing of baby John
1882, Aug 7-8, Robert Edge (the mysterious preacher)
1882, Oct 23-Nov 21, JHM visits Greenburg, Indiana cousins
1883, Mar 1-2 visit to David Whitmer
Part 7, 1883 Oct 17-26 JHM and Mellie travel East
Part 8, 1883 Oct 22-31,
Part 9, 1883 Nov 1-8, trip east Mellie meets John’s family
Part 10, 1883 Nov 9-12, trip east with Mellie and reflections on 1876 Feb-May 25
Part 11, 1883 Nov 13-20 trip East with Mellie concluded
Part 12, Dec 26 1882 – Jan 31 1883, Springville visit
Part 13, 1883 April 1 – Dec 30, Spring in Colorado, December passing of Elizabeth Thompson Groesbeck, links to parts 7, 8, 9, 10.
1884, Sept 1-19, John and Mellie travel to San Juan in 3 parts
One, Two, Three
1884 John Morgan’s work
Part 14, 1884 Jan 9-April 8, John marries Annie Mildred Smith
Part 15, 1884 April 9-Jun 3
Part 16, 1884 Jun 15-Aug 12, death of Nicholas Groesbeck
Part 17 1884 Sept 24-Oct 24, 16th wedding anniversary of John and Mellie
Part 18 1884 Oct 25-Dec 2
1884 Nov 17-19, Tennessee emigrant in Salt Lake City
1884 John Morgan in Salt Lake
Part 19, 1884 Dec 14 – 1885 Jan 11
1885, Jan 30-Feb 6, JHM, Groesbecks visit Florida, and Cobb cousins
1885--2013 descendants parallel trip to St. Augustine, Florida.
1885 Feb 14-April 13 JHM, Annie in Manassa, travel to Salt Lake at death of baby Flora
1885 May 14-22 SS missionary jailed
1885 Aug 14-Oct 12 JHM clears CF Christensen for $5
1885 Apr 21-Jun 21 JHM travels with Annie and Annie Ray to mission field, Annie departs for England
1885 Sept 19-Nov 27 JHM travels with Mellie to Colorado, Arizona settlements
1886, part 1, Dec 15-Jan 20, 1886, JHM, daughter Mellie, travel on mission business
1886, part 2, JHM, daughter Mellie, travel on mission business
1886, part 3, Jan 28-Mar 18
1886 part 4, Feb 19-Mar 25, mission trip concluded. Mellie's 1952 obituary
1886, Nov 25-Dec 28 JHM in Manassa with Annie
1889, Jan 26-30, JHM sealed to Mary C. Kilgore
Part 20, 1886, Oct 29-Nov 11, Mellie joins John in Kansas City
Part 21, 1886, Nov 12-17, JHM traveling with Mellie
Part 22, 1886, Nov 18-24, JHM traveling with Mellie
1887 July 21-31 death of Pres Taylor, Uncle G. M. Hamilton visiting from Indiana
1887 Aug 1-7 Jennie Whipple baptism, declaration by Wilford Woodruff
1887 Aug 8-14 Johns 45th birthday
1887 Oct 13-18 Virginia Conference missionaries, picture
1887 Mobocracy
1889 July 12-16 Manti temple trip with Mary Ann and Mellie
1890 Jun 27-Jul 4, Manti temple trip
Part 23, 1890, Oct 29-Nov 3, JHM journal, Mellie’s letter to brother Joseph Smith Groesbeck on the death of his son
1890, Mellie was a prolific letter writer, pt 1
1890, Mellie said, I am a poor one to write, pt 2
1890, Jul 5–Aug 17, Manassa family picture, passing of Myrtle, children ill
1890 Aug 7-17, Manassa family fishing trip, visit from 1st Presidency
2014 John Hamilton Morgan Collection NOW ONLINE AT Mountain West Digital Library.
Morgan Commercial College
2012 DUP History
Building tenement row
Part 1, Jun 26-Aug 5, 1889
Part 2, Aug 6-Sept 19, 1889
Part 3, Sept 20-Oct 20, 1889
Part 4, Oct 21-Nov 12, 1889
Building the Morgan Hotel
Part 1, 1890
Part 2, 1890, (son Linton's birth, September 21, 1890)
Part 3, 1890
Part 4, 1891, April 30
1891, Jan 10-Mar 30, birth and early biography of daughter, Bessie
1891, Nov 20-23, JHM reading Darkest Africa, picture of JMH chair
1892, Sept 1-21, G.A.R. Parade Washington DC, Uncle D.W. Hamilton
Helen Melvina's funeral
Part 1, 1930, BH Roberts speaks
Part 2, 1930, concluded
John and Mellie’s children
1938 Christmas letter from Helen Melvina Morgan Burt Austin, daughter
History of Eliza Ann Morgan Smith part 1
History of Eliza Ann Morgan Smith Robinson concluded
John and Annie’s children
Joseph Smith Morgan 1893-1948
Military Service
1862 civil war letter from JHM and 1918 WWI letter from son John Hamilton Morgan
1914-1919 World War I Mellie's Red Cross Service
John Morgan’s death
1894, Aug 9, Brothers Blessings
1894 death obituary
1894 Aug 16, SL Herald
Mellie, following John's death
Move from 1st west to Armstrong
1894-1897 following John's death
1895 children search for Sego bulbs
Tower House and Morgan furniture
1897 July 24th Pioneer Parade
Mellies home on Bryan Avenue
Mellies Hair Collection
1894 Mary Ann Linton Morgan’s cure for baby John
2011 meeting with Mellie’s granddaughters, living with her in 1930 census
2011 granddaughters’ memory of Mellie
Mellie's counsel to children and grandchildren
Gravestones and gatherings
Jennie Whipple, first convert, buried near John Morgan
2009 Oct JHM descendants gather at slc cemetery
2010 Oct JHM cemetery plot
2010 Sep 9, new gravestones for JHM descendants
1985 memories of Grandma Mellie
2012 Oct Gravestone update completed
2012, Sept 15, New John Hamilton and Helen Melvina Groesbeck Morgan gravestone
John’s siblings
William Harrison Morgan, brother, death certificate, military record
William Harrison Morgan, brother, invalid pension records
Part 1, James Morgan, brother
Part 2, James Morgan
Leonidas Morgan, brother─Leon Morgan, nephew
2012 trip to Manassa, Colorado
2012 Manassa, Colorado revisited
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
2014 trip to Georgia Tennessee
Lookout Mountain
Chickamauga Battlefield
Morgan Family History
2009 July links to John Morgan history on other blogs
Morgan Family genealogy Notes from Mary Ann Linton Morgan
Friends and Associates
1918 BH Roberts Thanksgiving Psalm, 1889 friendship
Presidents of the Southern States Mission
An explanation of Mormon History from rural Tennessee
2014 trip to Tennessee and Georgia
