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Residents of the Hyde Park Settlement, Pottawattamie County

Residents

From the Pottawattamie High Council Minutes of 1846-1853, the following residents were added to the resident list (1).
 
Orson Hyde
Marinda Nancy Johnson (wife)
Nathan Hyde
Laura Marinda Hyde
Emily Matilda Hyde
Orson Washington Hyde
Frank Henry Hyde
Alonzo Eugene Hyde
Delia Ann Hyde
 
Mary Ann Price (wife)
Urania Hyde (died 1846)
 
Martha Rebecca Browett (wife)
Adella Marie Hyde
 
Luke Johnson
Susan Arminda Poteet (wife) (died 1846)
Mary Elsa Johnson (married Charles Price)
Emily Susan Johnson (died 1835)
James Olmstead Johnson
Eliza Virginia Johnson
Fanny Catherine Johnson
Vashtia Emily Johnson
Solomon Luke Johnson
Susan Johnson (died 1845)
 
America Morgan Clark (wife)
Susan Marinda Johnson
Orson Albert Johnson
Mark Anthony Johnson
 
William Price (died 1840)
Mary Ann Price (wife) (died 1846)
John Price (died 1836)
William Price
Mary Ann Price (married to Orson Hyde)
Elizabeth Price (married Richard Bentley)
 
William Price” resided in Hyde Park, Iowa; journeyed to the Salt Lake Valley in the Henry W. Miller Company in 1852; bishop of the Goshen Ward (2).”
 
Charles Price
Mary Elsa Johnson (wife)
Laura Price
Mary Alice Price
 
The 1850 U. S. Census of Pottawattamie County was enumerated by Luke Johnson.  At that time, Johnson was a resident of Hyde Park settlement.  The enumeration began on August 30, 1850.  It appears that Johnson began his work with the settlement just on the ridge above his residence—Bullock’s Grove. 
 
Johnson enumerated his own settlement next—Hyde Park.  Following are the names listed, beginning with dwelling number 10:
 
#10.  William Price (age 31)
Mary Ann  (age 33) (sister)
 
William Mason (age 19)
Joined the Henry W. Miller Company that departed from Kanesville on July 8, 1852.  He died of cholera on August 8 and was buried on the trail west.
 
Fanny Johnson (age 9) (Fanny Catherine Johnson)
Daughter of Luke Samuel and Susan Arminda Poteet Johnson
 
#11.  Charles Price (age 20)
Elsa (age 16) (wife)
Laura (age 1)
 
John Mason (age 17)
 
#12.  Luke Johnson (age 43)
Susan Arminda Poteet (wife) (died 1846)
Mary Elsa Johnson (married to Charles Price)
Emily Susan Johnson (died 1835)
James C. (age 13) (James Olmstead Johnson)
Eliza (age 11) (Eliza Virginia Johnson)
Fanny Catherine Johnson (living with William Price family)
Vashti (age 8)
Solomon (age 6)
 
America (age 26) (wife)
Susan (age 2)
Orson (age 6/12)
 
Other residents:
 
Richard Bentley (helped to build the Hyde cabin)
Elizabeth Price (wife)
 
Richard Bentley “manager of the Kanesville Assemblies; raised wheat in Hyde Park, Iowa; attended a meeting at Beebee's Hall in Kanesville on 24 April 1851; made arrangements for entertaining delegates and officers from Utah Territory; clerk; schoolteacher; bishop in the Carson Valley Stake in Nevada (3).”
 
From the Pottawattamie County Marriages, the following individuals were listed as coming from Hyde Park (4).
 
William Bradbury (married Oct 3, 1849)
Jane Dunsden (Jane Dunsdon) (wife)
William Dunsdon Bradbury
Henry James Bradbury
Maria Golding Bradbury (mother)
 
The following residents all traveled west in the Henry W. Miller Company in 1852 (5).
 
Richard Bentley and family
 
Orson Hyde and family
 
John Mason
 
William Mason
 
Charles Price
 
William Price
 
Bibliography
 
  1. Pottawattamie High Council minutes, 1846-1852; 1850 December-1851 March; Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/dff41a9e-b768-40b7-bde1-98b2c19f8c90/0/0 (accessed: December 14, 2021)
  2. Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Orson Hyde: The Olive Branch of Israel (Salt Lake City, Utah: Agreka Books 2000), 206-207.
  3. Hyde. Orson Hyde: The Olive Branch of Israel, 497.
  4. “Pottawattamie County Marriage Records,” Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society, 2000.
  5. Overland Trail Companies. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/companies/206/henry-w-miller-company-1852.  (accessed December 14, 2021).