Marcor Hansen Peterson

Marcor Hansen Peterson (12, 13) (KWNV-J3H)

In the fort Marcor found space in two about 13 x 15 rooms for his wife and three girls. Two boys were later born in Brigham City. They were located in the room marked Marker's shoe shop, and probably the room next to there marked order tanned leather next to the gate.   Seven people, a shoe-shop and tanned leather would have been crowded. In February 1876, President Brigham Young had called some members of the LDS Church to settle in Arizona.  Marcor and  others including Ove Overson and Isaac Isaacson went to  colonize Arizona near present day Winslow at Brigham City. They were to live the United Order. They arrived at Brigham City in the Spring and went back in the Fall after their families. 

For more information on Marcor first sign into: http://familysearch.org then  click https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/KWNV-J3H

After previously posting a drawing of the fort and the maps of those who lived there, my first post  of a person is Marcor Hansen Peterson, my great grandfather.  I want to dedicate this blog to him and his family.

Other individuals on the 1878-1879 maps as well as some who lived in the fort between 1876 and 1881 when most settlers had moved elsewhere will be posted later.

Map of Brigham City by Number

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You may also find your ancestor by number.  These numbers are also used in the posts

to help find where your ancestors lived in the fort.

On this map North is on the bottom side.

Map of Brigham City by Name 1878-1879

The map of Brigham City (1878-1879) drawn by S. C. Richardson (6 ?). Click on the map for a better view. Can you find your ancestor (s) on here? They may have also been here before or after this time period. Feel free to post in this group about your Brigham City ancestors.

Richardson said: "I was trying to re-construct the old fort, for I felt that every man who helped build it, should be remembered." It is my hope that the posts in this group will help us remember those early settlers as well.

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You should be able to enlarge the map however your device allows.

 On this map North is on the right side.

The Brigham City Fort

A DESCRIPTION of the Brigham City fort by L. J, Nuttall, correspondent for the Deseret News wrote:

"The fort is 200 feet square, a drive way on north and south sides and narrow entrance on east and west. The walls are seven feet high of rock; there are 36 dwelling houses 13 x 15 feet around the inside of the fort, also on the north side, a dining hall 20 x 80 feet.....Adjoining the dining hall (on the outside) is a kitchen 20 x 25 feet, also a bakehouse and oven. There are also six dwelling houses adjoining the west side and six partly built on the south side of the fort, a good cellar 18 x 18 feet, and a storehouse built there on; also a good well 25 feet deep, furnishing sufficient water for family and culinary purposes. In side the fort also, another well 24 feet deep near the kitchen. Good corrals and stockyards south of the fort."

Sullivan Calvin Christensen ( 6 ? ), the map maker, who may have lived with his brother in the bachelors quarters (6 ?) said "a couple of hundred yards south of the fort, towards the stone-quarry hills, stood the log black-smith shop. In front of it (south) ran one fork of the water ditch used to irrigate the western part of the fields, north, mostly northeast of the fort. East of the shop, and about a quarter of a mile south-east of the fort, on the bank of the river stood the grist mill. Christensen also gave a description of the rooms. "The homes were built of cottonwoods against the wall, with a fire-place in each, in a narrow, flaring loop-hole looking threateningly out.... I never remember of those hard clay dirt roofs leaking; and a door and window facing the center of the fort made each room a home for a family."  For more description go to his autobiography in memories of FamilySearch.org (KWZ8-GC5)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/KWZ8-GC5

Christensen said "That fort was the desert home of a band of determined pioneers; and long after it had ceased to be the center of present attractions, it was to be associated with pleasant, tender recollections and memories."  Some of those recollections and memories of S. C. Christensen will be included in future postings.

Note: Although there may be some descrepancies between the map and this description (possibly due to the time being shortly different between the map and the description) the two together give a good idea of the fort.

As a person is posted in this blog this drawing is put on their memory page in familySearch.org. Click on the drawing the by scrolling over their name, you can find about where they lived in the fort. The number to the right of their name on the post corresponds to the map listed with house numbers. Their ID in FamilySearch,org is also included when a post is made of that person. Working with the blog and FamilySearch will help in understanding the Brigham City experience better. In some posts a link to FamilySearch,org has been included.

Note: On this drawing of the fort North is on the top side