Joseph Webber and Hannah Moore
Information comes from the History of Bear Lake Pioneers and Jessie Crane
Joseph Webber Moore was born 1 June 1833 in Pamfrit New York to Ethan Allen Moore and Sarah Webber. When the family was converted to gospel they sold their farm and gathered with the Saints in Kirtland Ohio. Eventually they traveled west with them and when Joseph was seven years old, his father died of pneumonia at Springfield Illinois. Joseph's older brother Calvin enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and left his mother and children in Nauvoo. When the Saints were driven from Nauvoo, Sarah and her children procured a handcart and reached Winter Quarters where they spent the winter. There Sarah met and married George Washington Braffett.
Joseph was a Utah pioneer of 1847 coming with the second company to enter the valley. On 19 Feb 1857 Joseph married Hannah Seeley Young in the Endowment House. She was born 10 May 1842 at Madison Iowa to James Young and Elizabeth Seeley.
Children of Joseph Webber Moore and Hannah Seeley Young
1. Joseph Webber Moore b-30 Oct 1857 in
Pleasant Grove Utah; d-31 Jan 1858 in Pleasant Grove
2. Calvin Heber Moore b-4 Nov 1858 in Pleasant Grove; d-4 June 1859 in Pleasant
Grove
3. Anna Almira Moore b-26 June 1860 in Pleasant Grove; d-1 Nov 1927 in Hazelton
Idaho
4. Ethan Ellen Moore b-20 Mar 1862 in Pleasant Grove; d-20 Dec 1862 in Pleasant
Grove
5. Mary Emeline Moore b-24 July 1864 in Pleasant Grove; d-11 Apr 1937 in
Tremonton Utah
6. Sarah Elizabeth Moore b-6 Oct 1866 in Fish Haven; d-26 Oct 1867 in Fish Haven
7. Mehettable Maria Moore b-28 July 1868 in Fish Haven; d-25 Dec 1882
8. Joseph Webber Moore b-6 Oct 1870 in Fish Haven; d-19 Dec 1886 in Fish Haven
9. James William Moore b-1 Nov 1872 in Bennington; d-16 Jan 1945
10. Amy Ellen Moore b-26 Apr 1877 in Bennington; d-22 Oct 1948 in Moab
11. Malona May Moore b-21 May 1875 in Bennington; d-22 July 1951 in Moab
12. Ephraim Young Moore b-21 June 1879 in Bennington; d-9 May 1950
Brigham Young called Joseph to help settle Bear Lake and without hesitation their family accepted the call and traveled by ox team and wagon to Fish Haven starting again from scratch. Friends caring for their place at Pleasant Grove sold it and sent them the money. Joseph was a presiding elder at Fish Haven 1866-1872. He presided until the Bennington Branch was organized as a ward 26 Aug 1877 when he was called as the bishop. He served as bishop until 1881 when he moved to Castle Valley Utah. In 1887 the family moved to Moab Utah to again build up the church purchasing a ranch in the Chinle foothills. For 26 years they lived on this ranch until Hannah died 2 Mar 1909 and Joseph died 24 July 1913 and both were buried in the Old Moab Cemetery.