This page collects information about people with surname "Hamblin" who were known or believed to have lived in Washington County, Utah.
Notable Individuals
- Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886), American pioneer and missionary
Lee-Hamblin family
J. David Lee 1851-1922, a son of John D. Lee, had two wives. His famous descendants all come through his second wife Inez Hamblin, who was a daughter of Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886). Together they have the unique distinction of having four great-grandchildren as U.S. Senators from 4 different U.S. States.
- Washington County, Utah/1860 U.S. Census - lists out many early members of both families and their relationships.
History
In 1854, Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886) was called by Brigham Young (1801-1877) to serve a mission to the southern Paiute and settled at Santa Clara in the vicinity of the modern city of St. George, Utah. The town is among the oldest in the area.
The first settlers built Fort Clara or Fort Santa Clara, in the winter of 1855–1856. In the fall of 1861, Swiss Mormon colonists arrived at the new settlement, but shortly afterward were victims of the large flood in the Clara River that wiped out the fort and most other buildings, its irrigation dams and ditches, in early in 1862. This flood was part of the Great Flood of 1862.[1]
Hamblin's first home there was included in the destruction of this flood. His second wife Rachael saved one of their young children from drowning, but the child soon after died from exposure. Rachael never fully recovered from the exposure she got from the flood. Swearing to avoid the risk of flood, Hamblin built a new home on a hill in Santa Clara. Owned today by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it is operated as a house museum, where Mormon missionaries give daily tours.
19th-century Santa Clara was largely inhabited by Mormon immigrants from Switzerland. Among these was Daniel Bonelli, who after the destruction of the flood went on to be a pioneer colonist of St. Thomas, Nevada in the Moapa Valley, a farmer, later a salt miner and the owner of Bonelli's Ferry, at Rioville, Nevada on the road between southwestern Utah and Arizona on the Colorado River at its confluence with the Virgin River.
Las Vegas Indian Mission
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Las Vegas Mission Fort (1856) still stands today
- Las Vegas Springs Mission (1855-1857)
The Las Vegas Mission was one of the earliest European settlements in the Las Vegas Valley. It was established by missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. In May 1855, at the direction of then Church President Brigham Young (1801-1877), thirty-two missionaries were sent to evangelize among Native Americans and establish a mission outpost in the Las Vegas Valley. The mission was abandoned in December 1857 due to growing socio-political issues.[2]
Notable Landmarks
- Encampment Mall - Created by Roberta Blake
- Tonaquint Veterans Memorial
- St. George City Cemetery
- St. George Utah Church - Directory of local churches.
St. George Utah Temple
The St. George Utah Temple (formerly the St. George Temple) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in St. George, Utah. Completed in 1877, it was the church's third temple completed, but the first in Utah, following the migration west of members from Nauvoo, Illinois, following the death of the church's founder, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). It has been the place for marriages and temple ordinances for many LDS families in the area.
See Also
- Hamblin in Utah
- First Families of St. George, Utah
- Notable people of St. George, Utah
- History of St. George Stake
- ScoutHut St. George Historical Sites
:Note, for the following tables, that there may be more than one county or district of this name and that some contributors may have entered a different (possibly shorter and/or ambiguous) name when this one was meant. Search for similar names to get a more complete result. Common abbreviations are "Co." and "Cty", but there may have been no word for "county" (or equivalent) included, or such a word may have been wrongly included.
Familypedia people with surname Hamblin in Washington County, Utah
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Died in Washington County, Utah
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Buried in Washington County, Utah
- ^ FORT CLARA, (aka FORT SANTA CLARA), from wchsutah.org accessed September 24, 2015
- ^ Schoenwetter, James; Hohmann, John W. (1997). "Landuse Reconstruction at the Founding Settlement of Las Vegas, Nevada". Historical Archaeology. 31 (4): 41–58.