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| Uncle (2G) Julian Moses |
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In March, 1845, he had married Barbara M. Neff1, daughter of
John and
Mary Barr Neff2, with whom he crossed the plains in Jedediah M. Grant's hundred and Joseph B. Noble’s fifty in the summer and fall of 1847. He arrived in Salt Lake Valley on the 2nd of October.
He spent the following winter in the Old Fort, where he taught school, thus becaming the first male school teacher in Utah; the first female teacher being Miss Mary Jane Dilworth, who became Mrs. F. A. Hammond. From the Fort Mr. Moses moved to the east side of the Tenth Ward Square, where he is said to have raised, in 1848, the heaviest crop of corn in Utah, averaging fifty bushels to the acre.
In 1849 or 1850 he was called on a mission to the Society Islands. There he labored for over three years. He was among the first to visit Tahiti, where he was very successful, so much so that the French government sent a man of war to take him and his companion away. On his return home he stayed in California a long while, working for Captain Sutter, the same who owned the mill-race in which gold was first discovered in that land. Mr. Moses brought home quite a large sum in gold as the fruits of his industry while there. He had been absent five years. He now took up his abode at Mill Creek, where his father-in-law had erected a gristmill and a few settlers had broken land. He secured a farm of about one hundred and twenty acres, which he cultivated with skill and success. He had few equals in this line of industry. Year after year during times of scarcity, caused by the ravages of crickets and grasshoppers, he furnished seed grain to his less successsful neighbors for miles around. He made it a rule to have at least a two years supply of grain on hand. |
| Julian Moses was a wide-awake, intelligent Latter-day Saint. He was one of the presidents of the sixty-second quorum of Seventy. At one time he presided over the branch now known as East Mill Creek Ward, and for many years was justice of the peace for that precinct. By his first wife he had no children;3 by his second wife, Ruth Ridge, whom he married in 1856, he had four, three of whom, all daughters, are still living. His eldest born, a son named Julian N., died at the age of eighteen. The date of the father’s death was April 12, 1892. |
 Julian Moses, Julian N Moses, Barbara Matilda Neff Moses |
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