The Minor Family of Somerset

Index Card info on various members of the Hakes family:
Nauvoo temple recordsBook D Page 107.
Jonathan Adams-name in full
Instance of Weeden P. Hakes, relation, grand son
Baptized 3 August 1844
Weeden V. Hakes
Born April 5, 1800
Where-Renselier County, New York
Father-James
Mother-Martha
Date of blessing-April 5, 1800
Lineage-Levi
Patriarch-John Smith
Recorded Histories Office, Patriarchal Blessings, Vol. 10
The Life Of Collins R. Hakes
an autobiography written by himself
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The Life Of Collins R.Hakes an autobiography written by himsel
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Collins R. Hakes was bornin Grafton, Loraine County, Ohio, June 26
, 1837. In the summer of 1839 I was taken down with a violent f
ever and was attended by three eminent doctors fornear three mo
nths and my parents were told by the doctors that I could not li
ve but a few hours. For some time prior to this there had bee
n three Mormon Elders preaching the Mormon doctrine in the neigh
borHood. By name they were Zebadia Coltrin, Thomas Keer and Tho
mas Drier. My parents had been converted to the faith of thes
e Elders and sent for them. They came and mother toldthe docto
rs that she had a remedy to try when they had done all they coul
dand wanted them to tell her in time to try it before I passe
d away; and theytold her to be quick as I could not breathe hal
f an hour longer. She motioned to the Elders and they came an
d anointed my Head with oil and Zebadee Coltrin confirmed the an
ointing, and as soon as they took their hands off I raised up i
n her lap well, only a skeleton, but I sat on the floor next da
y andplayed with my toys.
The room was filled with relatives and friends at the time of th
e administration, some of whom ridiculed and said it was of th
e devil and were boisterous and unkind. The doctors rebuked the
m and said, "we know nothing about these men nor their religion
, but we do know it was more thanthe Power of Man that saved th
e life of the boy."
During the winter of 1839the relatives and friends of my parent
s were so distant and unkind that in the spring of 1840 my fathe
r sold the home, got one yoke of oxen and one cow and with his k
it of shoemaking tools and a family of five children started wes
t to join the body of the Mormon people. We passed through Chic
ago, then atown of less than 5,000 inhabitants, reached Nauvo
o in 1841.
We stayed in Nauvoo about three months, where I first saw the Pr
ophet Joseph Smith, and asyoung as I was I sHall never forget t
he impression made on my young mind as Isaw that noble Son of G
od and was told by my father who he was. We moved about 25 mile
s to the town of Macedonia, where we lived until 1845, during wh
ich time we suffered from the persecution of the mobs.
My father went to Nauvoo as soon as he heard of the martyrdom o
f Joseph and Hyrum on 27 June, 1844,at Carthage jail. In 184
6 the oxen were hitched to the wagon and another start made West
ward. A stop was made at Winter Quarters on the Missouri river
, not far from where the city of Omaha now stands, but which ha
d not been even planned at that time.
There a disease called the black leg broke out in ourcamp fro
m which about six hundred persons died. My next to the younges
t sister, Patty Celinda being one of the victims. Here the peop
le suffered muchfrom common necessities of life, besides consid
erable annoyance from the Indians.
In the spring of 1848 the oxen and cow were brought into play an
d theirhorns pointed again to the West and in the company of Ap
ostle Amasa M. Lymanwe started for the Great Salt Lake, where h
e arrived on October 24th, 1848,having made the entire journe
y from Ohio to Salt Lake Valley during eight years with the sam
e one yoke of oxen and the same red cow.
We located on the Cotton Wood, 12 miles from the site of the pre
sent city of Salt Lake; here we lived until March, 1851. In th
e spring of '49 w