| Born |
April
25, 1841 in East Rochester, Columbiana, Ohio |
| Died |
December
3, 1928 in Salt Lake City |
| Father |
Nathan
Davis (1814–1894) |
| Mother |
Sarah
Woolley (1815–1895) |
| Families |
Melissa
Jane Lambson (1846–1937) md. November 25, 1865 |
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Albert
John (1866–1939) |
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Melissa
Elvira (1868–1946) |
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Edna
May (1871–1919) |
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Nettie
Maria (1873–1957) |
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Westley
Lambson (1875–1957) |
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George
A. (1877–1939) |
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Sarah
Woolley (1880–1971) |
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Helen
(1883–1960) |
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Ethel
(1888–1937) |
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Anne
Lois Bacon (ca. 1843–1928) md. February 24, 1884 |
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Anne
(1888–1888) |
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Lois
(1890–1964) |
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Joseph
A. (1893–1893) |
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Olive
(1895–1987) |
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Wilford
Alvin (1903–1966) |
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Albert's parents joined the Church in 1851 and emigrated with
their children to Utah that year. |
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In 1861he drove a wagon east in Joseph W. Young's
company to pick up poor immigrants at the Missouri river, returning in Ansel
P. Harmon's company. In 1862 he joined Lot Smith's company guarding the
mail lines, but returned to the Missouri the following year to pick up another
company of immigrants (John M. Woolley's company). |
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In 1864 accompanied a group of missionaries to Omaha, and
returned with Miner G. Atwood's wagon train loaded with freight. Twenty
miles west of Fort Laramie, they were attacked by Indians who wounded several
men and carried off one woman. |
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In 1866 Albert joined an expedition sent to guard
settlements in Sanpete county. |
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In 1868 he was called to establish West Point on the Muddy
(now in Nevada). When the effort was abandoned two years later he and his
family returned to Salt Lake. |
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Melissa's
account |
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On June 29, 1877 he was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as second counselor to Bishop John Henry Smith in the 17th
Ward. When John Tingey became bishop in 1880, Albert became first counselor. |
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Albert moved his family to the west side of the Jordan River
in March 1884. |
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On January 28, 1885 he left on a mission to accompany Joseph
F. Smith to Hawaii, remaining until March 27, 1887. |
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While on Oahu, Albert and others" witnessed a miraculous
healing in the case of a little girl, a daughter of Elder Geo. A. Wilcox,
who had accidentally taken a quantity of strychnine. The accident was not
discovered until the child was in a dying condition. The Elders administered
to her and she was instantly healed." |
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LDS
Biographical Encyclopedia, 411 |
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When the Brighton and North Point wards were divided in 1891,
Albert was ordained bishop and set apart by his brother-in-law, Joseph F.
Smith. Albert built a frame structure on Redwood Road and 7th North for
the ward to use until a brick chapel could be built on Redwood between 4th
and 5th North in 1915. (Albert was released as bishop and ordained a patriarch
by Joseph F. in 1905.) |
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"Center
Ward," 125. |
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Melissa
Jane Lambson |