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Eunice was the first child of Moses Clawson and Cornelia Brown. She was born 14 May 1822 in Dryden, Tompkins County, New York.

The family moved west to Steuben County, New York where her brother Ebenezer was born in October 1823. Four more brothers and a sister were born while living in Steuben County. In March 1835 (Eunice was 13) her parents joined the 'Mormons"". Her grandmother and stepgrandfather Lola and Josiah Richardson were also members as was her uncle, David Foote.

Story published in the July 1999 Friend Magazine, written by Julia Oldroyd

Ebenezer’s Miracle

By Julia Oldroyd

(Based on a true incident)

And the elders of the church, two or more, shall be called, and shall pray for and lay their hands upon them in my name; and if they die they shall die unto me, and if they live they shall live unto me (D&C 42:44).

CORNELIA BROWN CLAWSON 1803-1853

Born 22 Oct. 1803 in Salisbury, Herkimer Co., New York to William Brown and Hannah Sweet, the 4th daughter and 6th child in a growing family of 9 children. William Brown was Scottish and came to America as a drummer boy with at least one brother in 1778 with the British. He was captured by the Americans and stayed after the war. Hannah Sweet was born in Rhode Island and descends from John Sweet of England. The Brown family moved to Dryden, New York by 1808. William Brown died in 1819, when Cornelia was 16 years old. The oldest 3 children were married by that time.

Fort Laramie, August 7,1853.

President Brigham Young:

Dear Brother: I now have the pleasure of forwarding you herein e enclosed a statement of the persons and teams composing the St. Louis Company, over which I was appointed Captain at Keokuk, by Brother Eldridge and Brother Haight. The company Left Keokuk for Kanesville in small companies, as they got ready and I started in company with 20 wagons on the 16th of May, and arrived at Kanesville on the 11th of June.

This speech was first delivered at the Charles Moses Clawson Jr. family reunion in Sierra Vista, Arizona on July 5, 1997. It was given by proxy by Rodney E. Clawson, a great great grandson, and repeated at the Moses Clawson reunion in Shelley, Idaho on August 2, 1997. The speech is a summary of some major events of Moses Clawson's life.