Residents of Old Agency Settlement
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
ResidentsIn February 1848, Brigham Young asked for a list of families, wagons, stock, and provisions for companies of 10 organized at Old Agency Branch (1). Henry Ettleman acted as Captain. The names are listed as written. Corrections to the spelling of names are in parentheses and bold type. William Burt (age 40)
Asenath Burt (age 38) (wife) (Asenath Child Burt)
Printis Burt (age 8) (Prentis Burt)
Daniel Burt (age 6) (Daniel William Burt) Other family members not listed
Mormon Burt not listed (died 1845)
Asenath Lovina Burt (born 1850) Traveled west with an unknown company in 1851 Christian Clapper (age 42) (The Frontier Guardian representative starting in 1850 and continuing until at least July 1851 (2))
Catharine (age 48) (wife) (Catharine Miller Clapper)
Henry (age 17) (Henry Christian Clapper)
Joseph (age 15)
Maryann (age 13) (Mary Ann Clapper)
Elizabeth (age 10)
Susann (age 6) Other family member not listed:
Mathias Clapper Ransford Coleby (age 27) (Jacob Ransford Colby)
Hannah (age 22) (wife) (Hannah Child Colby) Other family member not listed
Hannah Colby (born November 6, 1847) Henry Ettleman (age 49)
Christina (age 44) (wife) (Christina Clapper Ettleman)
Mary Ann (age 16)
Mareni (age 9) (Moroni Hiram Ettleman) Other family members not listed
Eli Ettleman
Samuel Ettleman
Catherine Ettleman
Henry Jacob Ettleman (died 1846) Margaret Ettleman (age 46) (widow) (Margaret Smith Ettleman)
Sarahan (age 15) (Sara Ann Ettleman)
George E. (age 14)
Susan (age 11)
Mary Elin (age 8) (Mary Ellen Ettleman) Jacob Frederick Ettleman died near the Nishnobotna valley in 1846 as the family crossed Iowa Samuel Ettleman (age 21)
Susan (age 21) (wife) (Susan Forney Ettleman) Claryan Forney (age 28) (wife of soldier) (Clara Ann Ettleman Forney)
John (age 8)
Philip (age 6) Family member not listed
Fredrick Forney (Private in Company E Mormon Battalion) Elijah Haws (age 43)
Catherine (age 40) (wife) (Catherine Floyd Pease Haws)
Jason (age 17)
Nathaniel (age 16) (Nathaniel Pease Haws)
Lydia (age 13) (Lydia Catherine Haws)
Mary (age 10) (Mary Eliza Haws)
Lucy Ann (age 9)
Louis (age 6) (Lois Patten Haws)
Elizabeth (age 5) (Elizabeth Clark Haws)
Joseph (age 3) (Joseph Smith Haws)
Wm W. (age 5/12) (William Wesley Haws) Other family member not listed
Olive Haws (died 1834) Came west with the Joel Edmunds Company in 1852 John Huston (age 31)
Christina Huston (age 25) (wife) (Christena Ettleman Huston)
Catherine Huston (age 6)
Mary Huston (age 4) Other family member not listed
Lucy Ann Huston (died 1846) R. C. Petty (age 35) (Robert Cowan Petty)
Margaret Petty (age 40) (wife) (Margaret Jefferson Wells Petty)
Mary P. Petty (age 15) (Mary Priannah Petty)
Keziah A. Petty (age 13) (Keziah Albine Petty)
Jane C. Petty (age 13) (Jane Caroline Petty)
Martha N. Petty (age 11) (Martha Narcissa Petty)
Louisa Petty (age 8) (Louisa Minerva Petty)
Thomas Petty (age 5) (Robert Thomas Petty)
Lewis J. Petty (age 2) (Lewis James Petty) Other family members not listed
George Albert Petty (born 1844)
Sarah Abigail Petty (born 1847)
Margaret Jefferson Petty (born 1849)
John Petty (born 1849 and died July 18, 1850 on the plains) Came west with the Wilford Woodruff Company in 1850 William B. Simons (age 47) (William Bert Simmons)
Amandy Simons (age 42) (wife) (Amanda Chipman Simmons)
Floryan Simons (age 15) (Flora Ann Simmons)
Lile Simons (age 13) (Celia Lenora Simmons)
Amanda Simons (age 10) (Amanda A. Simmons)
Harlan E. Simons (age 7) (Harlon Edward Simmons)
Ruthe E. Simons (age 3) (Ruth Elizabeth Simmons) Other family members not listed
William Alpheus Simmons (born 1826)
Martha Simmons (born 1828)
Sarah Ann Simmons (died 1830)
Hyrum Barton Simmons (born 1848) Came west with the George A. Smith/Dan Jones Company in 1849 Margaret Spidle (age 21) (wife of soldier) (Margaret Smith Spidell)
Henry Spidle (age 4) (Henry Franklin Spidell)
John Spidle (age 1) (John William Spidell) Other family members not listed
John William Spidell (Private in Company E Mormon Battalion)
George Washington Spidell (born 1847 and died 1849)
William Aaron Spidell (born 1850)
David Hyrum Spidell (born 1851) Came west with the Joel Edmund Company in 1852 Martha Wilcox (age 20) (wife of soldier) (Martha Simmons Wilcox)
Clarisaan Wilcox (age 9) (Clarissa Ann Wilcox) (daughter of Henry Wilcox and Clarissa Redfield)
Sirena Wilcox (age 1) (Elmira Charlotte Wilcox) Other family member not listed
Henry Wilcox (Private in Company B Mormon Battalion)
Henry Wilcox, Jr. (died 1849) Came west with the James Pace Company in 1850 On September 20, 1850, it appeared that Luke Johnson started enumerating residents of Old Agency for the 1850 U. S. Census. Dwelling #400
Elijah Haws (age 46) (farmer)
Catherine (age 43)
Jason (age 20) (farmer)
Nathaniel (age 18) (farmer)
Lydia (age 15)
Mary (age 13)
Lucy (age 11)
Louis (age 9)
Elizabeth (age 7)
William (age 3) See previous entry of this family above Dwelling #401
Willis Smith (age 40) (farmer)
Polly (age 34) (wife) (Polly Downs Smith)
James (age 13) (Emma Jane Smith)
Samuel (age 5) (Samuel Willis Smith) Other family members not listed on the 1850 U. S. Census
Edna Ann Smith (died 1842)
Polly Smith (died 1847)
Betsy Smith (died 1849) The family came west with an unknown company in 1851 Dwelling #402
Sjudle, John (age 31) (laborer) (John Spidell)
Margaret (age 24) (wife) (Margaret Smith Spidell)
Henry (age 7) (Henry Franklin Spidell) See previous entry of this family above Isaac Wakeman (age 30) Dwelling #403
C. A. Crolly (age 48) (saddler) (Cade A. Crawley)
Rebecca (age 49)
Martha (age 19) (Martha Ann Crawley) (Married Charles Edwards from England)
Edmund (age 16) (Edward F. Crawley)
David (age 14) (David P. Crawley)
Mary (age 10) (Mary J. Crawley)
Albert (age 7) (Albert Crawley) Other family members not listed on the 1850 U. S. Census
Don Carlos Crawley (born 1844) Cade and Rebecca appeared in the Iowa State 1854 Census. However, by the 1856 Iowa State Census, the children were living with Charles and Martha Ann Crawley Edwards. Presumably Cade and Rebeca had died. Dwelling #404
Christian Clapper (age 45) (laborer)
Margaret (age 50) (wife) (Margaret Smith Ettleman Clapper)
Joseph (age 18) (laborer) (son of Catherine Miller and Christian Clapper)
Mary (age 15) (Mary Ann Clapper) (daughter of Catherine Miller and Christian Clapper)
Elizabeth (age 13) (daughter of Catherine Miller and Christian Clapper)
Susannah (age 9) (Susann Clapper) (daughter of Catherine Miller and Christian Clapper) Other family members not listed on the 1850 U. S. Census
Catherine Miller Clapper (wife) (died 1848)
Mathias Clapper
Henry Christian Clapper Christian left for the Salt Lake valley with the Moses Clawson Company is 1853. He bought a farm in Box Elder County, Utah. Sometime between April 1859 and 1860 they moved back to Fremont County, Iowa, and joined the Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints. Dwelling #405
George Ettlemon (age 17) (George Ettleman) (son of Jacob Frederick Ettleman and Margaret Smith)
Susannah (age 14) (Susan Ettleman) (daughter of Jacob Frederick Ettleman and Margaret Smith)
Mary (age 10) (Mary Ellen Ettleman) (daughter of Jacob Frederick Ettleman and Margaret Smith) Dwelling #406
Henry Clapper (age 20) (laborer) (son of Christian Clapper and Catherine Miller)
Sarah (age 18) (wife) (Sarah Ann Ettleman Clapper) Other family members not listed on the 1850 U. S. Census
Lucy Ann Clapper (born 1850)
Mary Ellen Clapper (born 1852) Came west with the Henry Ettleman Company in 1853 Dwelling #407
John Crompton (age 21) (laborer) (son of Thomas Crompton and Elizabeth Greenhalgh) Other family members not listed on the 1850 U. S. Census
Hannah Hardy (wife) (married 1851)
Hannah Elizabeth Crompton (born 1851 died 1852))
Margaret Crompton (age 14) (daughter of Thomas Crompton and Elizabeth Greenhalgh)
Robert Crompton (age 12) (son of Thomas Crompton and Elizabeth Greenhalgh) Came west with the Henry Ettleman Company in 1853 Hannah Eckersley (age 35) (Hannah Hardy Eckersley)
Ann (age 16) (Annetta Eckersley)
Mary (age 13) (Mary Eckersley)
Daisy (age 11) (Fannie Eckersley)
Sarah (age 6) (Sarah Eckersley) Other family members not listed on the 1850 U. S. Census
William Eckersley (husband) (died 1846) Came west with the Henry Ettleman Company in 1853 Harrison Oliver was the Bishop of the Old Agency Branch and a member of the Pottawattamie High Council (3). Harrison Oliver
Dorothy (wife) (Dorothy Martin Oliver) (died 1831)
Samuel F. Oliver (died 1845)
Martin Oliver (died 1829)
William Oliver (died 1829)
Sarah Oliver (died 1831) Hannah (wife) (Hannah Martin Oliver) (sister of Dorothy Martin)
William Temple Oliver
Edward McClelland Oliver
Lamira Jane Oliver
Arabella Oliver
Nancy Ann Oliver (died 1842)
Polly Oliver (died 1847)
Emily Frances Oliver
Dorothy W. Oliver Came west with the James Pace Company in 1850 The Frontier Guardian newspaper advertisements identify residents. GREAT BARGAIN
TWO STRAY COWS
…The above reward will be given to any person who will deliver said cows to R.C. PETTY, Old Agency, or to HENRY W. MILLER, of Kanesville
Kanesville, May 25th, 1850 (4)
ESTRAY NOTICE
Taken up by Andrew J. Stewart at the Old Agency in Pottawattamie county, nearly opposite the mouth of the Platte river, a STEER, described as follows, viz: Said steer is white in the face, with red around the eyes and cheeks, and his body red and white spotted. There is the appearance of a brand on the left hip, and he is about four years old: prized at sixteen dollars.
T. BURDICK, Clerk, Board of County, Kanesville, Jan. 2, 1850 (5)
Andrew J. Stewart (Andrew Jackson Stewart)
Eunice Pease Quimby (Eunice Pease Quimby Stewart)
Sarah Catherine Stewart
Andrew Jackson Stewart, Jr.
Samuel Silvester Stewart
Silva Caroline Stewart Came west with the Justus Morse Company in 1850 The following were listed as High Priests from the Old Agency Branch in the Pottawattamie High Priests Quorum minutes (6): Henry Ettleman
Horace Olive (name may have been Harrison Oliver, instead)
Charles Butler
Jacob Ettleman, deceased about 1846 Charles Franklin Butler
Lovisa Jane Herring Butler
Charles Butler (died 1821)
Elizabeth Butler
Thomas Butler
Major Herring Butler (died 1828)
Rachel Rebecca Butler
Nancy Butler
Sarah B. Butler
George Green Butler (died 1844)
Julia Ann Butler
Louisa Jane Butler Charles Franklin Butler came west with the James Pace Company in 1850. The rest of the family came with the Henry Bryant Manning Jolley Company in 1852. Lovisa and her family was living in Dwellings #985 and #986 with David Miller when the 1850 U. S. Census, Pottawattamie County, Iowa was taken. A journal entry by Daniel M. Burbank verifies that he stayed in Old Agency the winter of 1847.
“I started west again until I cam to a place called Old Agency. We wintered here, then on to the Bluffs (7). Daniel Mark Burbank (age 35) (labourer)
Abigail Blodgett Burbank (age 39) (wife)
Joseph Smith Burbank (age 6) (died 1848)
Mary Lydia Burbank (age 5)
Daniel Mark Burbank (age 4)
Abigail Burbank (age 2)
Laura Burbank (age 6/12) The 1850 U. S. Census lists the family living in Dwelling #586 Came west with the John B. Walker Company in 1852. Abigail died of cholera on July 20, 1852. Possible Births
| Name | Father’s Name | Mother’s Name | Birth Date |
| George Washington Spidell | John William Spidell | Margaret Smith | 1847 |
| Henry Wilcox, Jr. | Henry Wilcox | Martha Simmons | 1847 |
| Hannah Colby | Ransford Colby | Hannah Child | 6 Nov 1847 |
| John Petty | Robert Cowan Petty | Margaret Jefferson Wells | 20 Mar 1848 |
| Abigail Burbank | Daniel Mark Burbank | Abigail Blodgett | 19 Aug 1848 |
| Margaret Jefferson Petty | Robert Cowan Petty | Margaret Jefferson Wells | 13 Sep 1849 |
| Asenath Lovina Burt | William Burt | Asenath Child | 5 Aug 1850 |
| William Aaron Spidell | John William Spidell | Margaret Smith | 18 Sep 1850 |
| Lucy Ann Clapper | Henry Clapper | Sarah Ann Ettleman | 11 Oct 1850 |
| David Hyrum Spidell | John William Spidell | Margaret Smith | 1851 |
| Hannah Colby | Ransford Colby | Hannah Child | 1851 |
| Mary Ellen Clapper | Henry Clapper | Sarah Ann Ettleman | 12 Sep 1852 |
| Groom | Bride | Date |
| John Crompton | Hannah Hardy | 1 Mar 1851 |
- Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849; Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division; Companies of 10, schedules, 1848 February; Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/5a99a91d-de22-4ebc-8ee4-9387c01ad7ea/0/0 (accessed: November 2, 2022)
- Hyde, Orson, Editor. Frontier Guardian [Kanesville, Iowa], October 2, 1850.
- Ward, Maurine C. and Fred E. Woods, “The Tabernacle Post Office Petition for the Saints of Kanesville, Iowa.” Mormon Historical Studies 5 No. 1, 2004, 149-193.
- Hyde, Orson, Editor. “Two Stray Cows” Frontier Guardian [Kanesville, Iowa], May 25, 1850.
- Hyde, Orson, Editor. “Estray Notice” Frontier Guardian [Kanesville, Iowa], January 9- February 6, 1850.
- Pottawattamie High Priests Quorum. Pottawattamie High Priests Quorum minutes, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/166b5a84-3e69-40f5-9774-1049977096a9/0/104 p. 105 (accessed: November 4, 2022)
- Burbank, Daniel M. Autobiography, 1863, pp 47-48.