This week in 7:00 prayer meeting we all did "relative finder" on our Family Search app. Dee has several cousins descended through the Cluff line serving in FM with us. David had 12 children, only one girl. So that's why there are so many Cluff descendants. David Cluff owned a nice piece of land in the northeast part of Nauvoo. On one of our runs Cousin Sister Christensen showed me the marker. She and Dee are third cousins. They come through David's son Benjamin. . It is Benjamin's son, Benjamin Jr., who was the first president of BYU. Dee descends from a sister who married Alma Hobson.
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| Marker for gggg Grandpa Cluff |
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| The Cluff land |
I have one through the Crowell line. Several go through the Griffith line, but too far back to be sure. George has been connected to several mothers and I don't see documentation for any of them. So I dismiss these 11th and 12th cousins for now. Dee is one of them.
After work on Friday, before we went grocery shopping, Dee indulged my curiosity by driving us up the Mississippi road to Montrose. The Hobsons and the Barrows settled here across from Nauvoo. Before the dams the river was much narrower, so we suppose their homes are now covered with water. Look closely and you can see the temple across the river. This is the place the Saints crossed to when leaving Nauvoo, and looked back to see the temple they had labored so hard to build. It would not survive for long. Fire destroyed most of it in 1848, and a tornado finished the destruction in 1850. In 1999 reconstruction of the temple was started.The temple was completed 2002.
The sign wasn't in good condition but the history that we could read was interesting.
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