Son of Jonathan Crosby and Esther Osgood
Married Caroline Barnes, 25 Oct 1834, Kirkland, Geauga, Ohio
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 1, p. 267
Jonathan Crosby was born in the town of Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts, on the 20th day of July, 1807. On December 2, 1833 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The following October he traveled to Canada and there he married Caroline Barnes, who was born in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, January 5, 1807. A year after their marriage she also became a member of the Church and in his journal he tells frequently of how they rejoiced when they became united in the same faith.
Mrs. Crosby was the sister of Louisa Barnes Pratt, the first woman missionary to the South Sea Islands whose diary is published in Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8.
Jonathan Crosby performed three missions during his life in the Church. The first was in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1838, when the Prophet called missionaries to go into the surrounding states to take the Gospel message. He, in company with Warren Smith, who later was one of the victims of Hauns Mill massacre, left in early winter for a mission to the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Although he had been working on the Kirtland Temple, without pay, until its completion, he left his family in Kirtland and traveled without purse or scrip, enduring many threats by mobs. They were driven from many towns, yet a number of conversions were made and baptisms performed. On this mission he contracted chills and fever but he continued preaching until he was called back to Kirtland.
After the Saints moved to Nauvoo, volunteers were again called to do missionary work. He filled a one-year mission to eastern Canada and the northern states leaving Illinois in the fall of 1842. While there he converted and baptized the parents of his wife, her two sisters and a brother. Jonathan then went to Massachusetts, the place of [p.268] his birth, and while there baptized his father and stepmother, his only brother and two sisters. They returned to Nauvoo with him. During her husband's absence Caroline earned a living for herself and family by braiding and making straw hats which she sold for fifty cents apiece. She also taught school during the winter months.
The Crosby family came to Utah in 1848 and two years later, he, in company with Addison Pratt, was called to go on a three-year mission to the South Sea Islands. He sold his home and carpenter shop to Brigham Young and with his family started by team for San Francisco. While crossing the California mountains Jonathan stopped for awhile to prospect for gold. One nugget, which he sold to an assayer, brought him $40.00 and this helped them on their way to San Francisco. From there, being without further means, they relied entirely on the promises made to them by President Young when he said "if they would obey the call, the Lord would provide." They were given passage free to their destination when the captain learned they were missionaries, providing they would help load fuel on the return trip of the ship William O. Alden to Maine.
On board the ship was a group of French people who had a chest filled with many fine carpenter tools. En route sailers had gathered many pieces of driftwood and learning that Mr. Crosby was a skilled worker with wood, they offered him their find to make up into anything he wished. The Frenchmen sold him their tools and also bolts of velvet and silk cloth. He soon set to work making beautiful chests, many of them hand carved and with pearls set in the lids. These he lined with the velvet. He gave the captain of the ship one of these chests and also a lady's writing desk for his kindness to himself and family. He also made and sold walking canes with pearl-like handles and many other articles for which he received enough money to keep his family while they were on the islands. While laboring as a missionary Jonathan made many converts. Mrs. Crosby brought two small native boys to Utah with her and they lived in the Crosby home until they were grown.
Jonathan Crosby died June 23, 1892 and Caroline died February 16, 1884. Both are buried in Beaver, Utah.
— Jane Crosby Munford
Married Caroline Barnes, 25 Oct 1834, Kirkland, Geauga, Ohio
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 1, p. 267
Jonathan Crosby was born in the town of Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts, on the 20th day of July, 1807. On December 2, 1833 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The following October he traveled to Canada and there he married Caroline Barnes, who was born in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, January 5, 1807. A year after their marriage she also became a member of the Church and in his journal he tells frequently of how they rejoiced when they became united in the same faith.
Mrs. Crosby was the sister of Louisa Barnes Pratt, the first woman missionary to the South Sea Islands whose diary is published in Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8.
Jonathan Crosby performed three missions during his life in the Church. The first was in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1838, when the Prophet called missionaries to go into the surrounding states to take the Gospel message. He, in company with Warren Smith, who later was one of the victims of Hauns Mill massacre, left in early winter for a mission to the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Although he had been working on the Kirtland Temple, without pay, until its completion, he left his family in Kirtland and traveled without purse or scrip, enduring many threats by mobs. They were driven from many towns, yet a number of conversions were made and baptisms performed. On this mission he contracted chills and fever but he continued preaching until he was called back to Kirtland.
After the Saints moved to Nauvoo, volunteers were again called to do missionary work. He filled a one-year mission to eastern Canada and the northern states leaving Illinois in the fall of 1842. While there he converted and baptized the parents of his wife, her two sisters and a brother. Jonathan then went to Massachusetts, the place of [p.268] his birth, and while there baptized his father and stepmother, his only brother and two sisters. They returned to Nauvoo with him. During her husband's absence Caroline earned a living for herself and family by braiding and making straw hats which she sold for fifty cents apiece. She also taught school during the winter months.
The Crosby family came to Utah in 1848 and two years later, he, in company with Addison Pratt, was called to go on a three-year mission to the South Sea Islands. He sold his home and carpenter shop to Brigham Young and with his family started by team for San Francisco. While crossing the California mountains Jonathan stopped for awhile to prospect for gold. One nugget, which he sold to an assayer, brought him $40.00 and this helped them on their way to San Francisco. From there, being without further means, they relied entirely on the promises made to them by President Young when he said "if they would obey the call, the Lord would provide." They were given passage free to their destination when the captain learned they were missionaries, providing they would help load fuel on the return trip of the ship William O. Alden to Maine.
On board the ship was a group of French people who had a chest filled with many fine carpenter tools. En route sailers had gathered many pieces of driftwood and learning that Mr. Crosby was a skilled worker with wood, they offered him their find to make up into anything he wished. The Frenchmen sold him their tools and also bolts of velvet and silk cloth. He soon set to work making beautiful chests, many of them hand carved and with pearls set in the lids. These he lined with the velvet. He gave the captain of the ship one of these chests and also a lady's writing desk for his kindness to himself and family. He also made and sold walking canes with pearl-like handles and many other articles for which he received enough money to keep his family while they were on the islands. While laboring as a missionary Jonathan made many converts. Mrs. Crosby brought two small native boys to Utah with her and they lived in the Crosby home until they were grown.
Jonathan Crosby died June 23, 1892 and Caroline died February 16, 1884. Both are buried in Beaver, Utah.
— Jane Crosby Munford
Son of Jonathan Crosby and Esther Osgood
Married Caroline Barnes, 25 Oct 1834, Kirkland, Geauga, Ohio
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 1, p. 267
Jonathan Crosby was born in the town of Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts, on the 20th day of July, 1807. On December 2, 1833 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The following October he traveled to Canada and there he married Caroline Barnes, who was born in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, January 5, 1807. A year after their marriage she also became a member of the Church and in his journal he tells frequently of how they rejoiced when they became united in the same faith.
Mrs. Crosby was the sister of Louisa Barnes Pratt, the first woman missionary to the South Sea Islands whose diary is published in Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8.
Jonathan Crosby performed three missions during his life in the Church. The first was in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1838, when the Prophet called missionaries to go into the surrounding states to take the Gospel message. He, in company with Warren Smith, who later was one of the victims of Hauns Mill massacre, left in early winter for a mission to the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Although he had been working on the Kirtland Temple, without pay, until its completion, he left his family in Kirtland and traveled without purse or scrip, enduring many threats by mobs. They were driven from many towns, yet a number of conversions were made and baptisms performed. On this mission he contracted chills and fever but he continued preaching until he was called back to Kirtland.
After the Saints moved to Nauvoo, volunteers were again called to do missionary work. He filled a one-year mission to eastern Canada and the northern states leaving Illinois in the fall of 1842. While there he converted and baptized the parents of his wife, her two sisters and a brother. Jonathan then went to Massachusetts, the place of [p.268] his birth, and while there baptized his father and stepmother, his only brother and two sisters. They returned to Nauvoo with him. During her husband's absence Caroline earned a living for herself and family by braiding and making straw hats which she sold for fifty cents apiece. She also taught school during the winter months.
The Crosby family came to Utah in 1848 and two years later, he, in company with Addison Pratt, was called to go on a three-year mission to the South Sea Islands. He sold his home and carpenter shop to Brigham Young and with his family started by team for San Francisco. While crossing the California mountains Jonathan stopped for awhile to prospect for gold. One nugget, which he sold to an assayer, brought him $40.00 and this helped them on their way to San Francisco. From there, being without further means, they relied entirely on the promises made to them by President Young when he said "if they would obey the call, the Lord would provide." They were given passage free to their destination when the captain learned they were missionaries, providing they would help load fuel on the return trip of the ship William O. Alden to Maine.
On board the ship was a group of French people who had a chest filled with many fine carpenter tools. En route sailers had gathered many pieces of driftwood and learning that Mr. Crosby was a skilled worker with wood, they offered him their find to make up into anything he wished. The Frenchmen sold him their tools and also bolts of velvet and silk cloth. He soon set to work making beautiful chests, many of them hand carved and with pearls set in the lids. These he lined with the velvet. He gave the captain of the ship one of these chests and also a lady's writing desk for his kindness to himself and family. He also made and sold walking canes with pearl-like handles and many other articles for which he received enough money to keep his family while they were on the islands. While laboring as a missionary Jonathan made many converts. Mrs. Crosby brought two small native boys to Utah with her and they lived in the Crosby home until they were grown.
Jonathan Crosby died June 23, 1892 and Caroline died February 16, 1884. Both are buried in Beaver, Utah.
— Jane Crosby Munford
Married Caroline Barnes, 25 Oct 1834, Kirkland, Geauga, Ohio
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 1, p. 267
Jonathan Crosby was born in the town of Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts, on the 20th day of July, 1807. On December 2, 1833 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The following October he traveled to Canada and there he married Caroline Barnes, who was born in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, January 5, 1807. A year after their marriage she also became a member of the Church and in his journal he tells frequently of how they rejoiced when they became united in the same faith.
Mrs. Crosby was the sister of Louisa Barnes Pratt, the first woman missionary to the South Sea Islands whose diary is published in Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8.
Jonathan Crosby performed three missions during his life in the Church. The first was in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1838, when the Prophet called missionaries to go into the surrounding states to take the Gospel message. He, in company with Warren Smith, who later was one of the victims of Hauns Mill massacre, left in early winter for a mission to the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Although he had been working on the Kirtland Temple, without pay, until its completion, he left his family in Kirtland and traveled without purse or scrip, enduring many threats by mobs. They were driven from many towns, yet a number of conversions were made and baptisms performed. On this mission he contracted chills and fever but he continued preaching until he was called back to Kirtland.
After the Saints moved to Nauvoo, volunteers were again called to do missionary work. He filled a one-year mission to eastern Canada and the northern states leaving Illinois in the fall of 1842. While there he converted and baptized the parents of his wife, her two sisters and a brother. Jonathan then went to Massachusetts, the place of [p.268] his birth, and while there baptized his father and stepmother, his only brother and two sisters. They returned to Nauvoo with him. During her husband's absence Caroline earned a living for herself and family by braiding and making straw hats which she sold for fifty cents apiece. She also taught school during the winter months.
The Crosby family came to Utah in 1848 and two years later, he, in company with Addison Pratt, was called to go on a three-year mission to the South Sea Islands. He sold his home and carpenter shop to Brigham Young and with his family started by team for San Francisco. While crossing the California mountains Jonathan stopped for awhile to prospect for gold. One nugget, which he sold to an assayer, brought him $40.00 and this helped them on their way to San Francisco. From there, being without further means, they relied entirely on the promises made to them by President Young when he said "if they would obey the call, the Lord would provide." They were given passage free to their destination when the captain learned they were missionaries, providing they would help load fuel on the return trip of the ship William O. Alden to Maine.
On board the ship was a group of French people who had a chest filled with many fine carpenter tools. En route sailers had gathered many pieces of driftwood and learning that Mr. Crosby was a skilled worker with wood, they offered him their find to make up into anything he wished. The Frenchmen sold him their tools and also bolts of velvet and silk cloth. He soon set to work making beautiful chests, many of them hand carved and with pearls set in the lids. These he lined with the velvet. He gave the captain of the ship one of these chests and also a lady's writing desk for his kindness to himself and family. He also made and sold walking canes with pearl-like handles and many other articles for which he received enough money to keep his family while they were on the islands. While laboring as a missionary Jonathan made many converts. Mrs. Crosby brought two small native boys to Utah with her and they lived in the Crosby home until they were grown.
Jonathan Crosby died June 23, 1892 and Caroline died February 16, 1884. Both are buried in Beaver, Utah.
— Jane Crosby Munford
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