15 May 1881 – 3 Aug 1973

Wife of Joseph Elmer Cardon

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Lucinda Hurst Cardon, the oldest of ten children of Phillip Harrison Hurst and Ellen Adelia Wilson was born the 15th of May 1881 in Fairview, San Pete County, Utah.  Her early years were spent in Fairview where he father worked in sawmills, in a flour mill and on the railroad.  Also during this time when Lucinda was a very small girl, he spent two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

In December 1890 the family began the long move to Mexico where the Mormon Church was establishing colonies.  They went by train as far as Deming and from there by team and wagon during the middle of the winter.  They settled and established a home in what became Dublan.  A year or two later her father leased and later purchased a saw mill in the nearby mountains which he operated for many years.  Lucinda spent some time at the saw mill helping cook for the crew and later did all the cooking herself.

On October 6, 1900 she was married to Joseph Elmer Cardon by Stake President Anthony W. Ivins at his home in Colonia Juarez.  They established their home in Dublan where five of their ten children were born.

In 1912 due to the Mexican revolution they had to leave Mexico, she traveling with her children to El Paso, Texas by box car on a freight train.  Although, some of the colonists later returned to their homes, Elmer and Lucinda never returned to Mexico to live.  She wrote of this period, “times were very hard after leaving our home, as we left everything we had there.  I left my parents and relatives, never to live near them again.”

They went from El Paso to the Tucson area, living at Jaynes Station and Binghamton.  From there they went to New Mexico and Colorado where they were engaged in farming.

They moved to Mesa in 1943 where she has since resided.  She has been very active in temple work having served eight years as an ordained worker.  Just a few weeks ago she stated she had done the temple work for three thousand seven hundred names.

Her husband died May 8, 1965 after sixty-four years of marriage.  Also two daughter preceded her in death, Hazel, who died as a girl and Mrs. Lois Chalk.

Surviving are five sons, Joseph of Durango, Colorado, Ernest of Turlock, California, Eugene of Bloomfield, New Mexico, Udell of Ignacio, Colorado and Lloyd of Winslow, Arizona; three daughters, Ella (Mrs. Howard Goodman), Gladys (Mrs. Vernon Jack) of Mesa, and Mildred, (Mrs. Ernest Klienworth) of Winslow; 43 grandchildren, 120 great grandchildren and 4 great, great grandchildren.

Also a brother, Perry and a sister, Vera Cloward of Provo, Utah as well as numerous other relatives and friends.

She passed away August 3, 1973, after a brief illness.

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Back – Lucinda, Joseph Phillip, Joseph Elmer

Front – Ella and Ernest Elmer

Highlights From His Life

Presented by Louis Bellamy Cardon at the 2011 Cardon Reunion

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My assignment is to present some highlights from the life of Louis Philippe
Cardon. The reason for this special attention to this middle child of Philippe
and Marthe Cardon is that this year, 2011, is the one hundredth anniversary
of his death, which took place in the Mormon colony of Dublan in 1911, one
year before the general exodus of the Mormon colonists from that area at the
time of a major revolution. My father, Louis Sanders Cardon, who was born
in Dublan in 1901 – and was therefore 10 years old at the time of the death
of his grandfather, Louis Philippe, used to tell me of his earliest memories of
the old gentleman. For some time it was the fact that Louis Philippe was so
obviously a gentleman, which made my father fearful of even talking with
him. Louis Philippe always wore a suit, and carried a cane, while my father
never wore shoes unless he had to. So he went out of his way to avoid
encountering the old gentleman on the street or in the house. And then one
day, as he was walking, or trotting, on a long path through a wheat field, to
his dismay he saw his grandfather coming towards him in the opposite
direction. There was no way he could avoid meeting him and speaking with
him. When the meeting took place, however, he was pleasantly surprised to
discover that Louis Philippe was actually a gentle and pleasant man, and
very easy to talk with. After that, my father really enjoyed contacts with his
grandfather up to the latter’s death in 1911, when my father was 10 years
old.
While the characteristic of gentleness which this story illustrates, is a
desirable trait, it is not the one I chose to emphasize in this appraisal as a
whole. But before I proceed with my commentary on his principal traits,
perhaps I should comment first on his name. Most of us on our genealogical
charts have the name of Louis Philippe Cardon as the fifth child of Philippe
and Marthe Cardon. We assume that that was the name given him at his
birth. But actually his name was recorded on the parish record as Philippe
Cardon. Evidently it was only after he came to Utah, at the age of 22, that he
began using “Louis Philippe” among his associates (reportedly taking the
name “Louis” from Louis Malan, his godfather, who presented him for
baptism as a newborn infant). He was always called “Philippe” by members
of the family, but by others he was sometimes called Louis Philippe or even
just Louis. In this discussion I will call him Louis Philippe, which seems to
have been the name he preferred.
Perhaps the most salient characteristic of Louis Philippe was his life-long
pattern of pioneering. I am using this term pioneering, or pioneer in a 

simpleand traditional sense. A pioneer is one who leads others by developing 

a new area of activity – perhaps a new area for settlement – and by so doing
performs a major service for those who follow. The Cardon family as a
whole were pioneers in the adoption of the new religion which came into
their lives in 1852, when they were among the first Waldensian converts to
the Mormon faith. Certainly they were pioneers when they responded to
Brigham Young’s call to leave their homes and gather to Zion. In 1854 the
Cardons were in the vanguard of those who disposed of their property and
left the land they had defended for 600 years to begin the difficult voyage to
Utah. Louis Philippe was ordained a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood
before leaving Italy. And then he was ordained a High Priest at the age of
24, two years after his arrival in Utah.
As you might suppose, the trip from the Piedmont to Utah had its trials and
dangers. The voyage to Utah took almost nine months. The first part of the
trip, from the Piedmont to Liverpool, England, involved weeks of travel by
sled, by carriage and by rail. Then came about two months by ship to New
Orleans, which included an encounter with a terrific storm on the way. At
New Orleans, on their arrival, the Cardons found the city under quarantine
for cholera. It was said that this city of 35,000 inhabitants lost 5,000 to the
dread disease in one twelve day period that year, 1854. Pressing on by river
steamer up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the Cardon group reached
Kansas City where they outfitted to cross the plains in a wagon train with ox
teams. That part of the journey took a little over three months – from July
18th to October 28th, 1854.
For Louis Philippe it also included a near-death experience on the trail
across the plains. One night a band of Indians slipped in and drove off all the
wagon train’s oxen and other livestock across a river and into the brush on
the other side. The next morning every man and boy who could swim was
called upon to go over, round up all the livestock they could, and herd them
back across the river. To their great relief they were successful in bringing
back every animal. Then some of the boys and younger men expressed their
exuberant feelings by “horsing around in the water.” Louis Philippe was
considered a fair swimmer, but had the misfortune to step backward into a
deep whirlpool. The others managed to drag him out and with great effort
and prayer, revived him. But the experience had been close to death indeed.
After their arrival in Salt Lake, the Cardons were soon able to demonstrate
how valuable they could be as pioneers. Unlike many of the early settlers,
some of whom had been residents of well-established cities at the time of
their conversion, the Cardons knew how to wrest a living from the most
barren farming conditions. Moreover Philippe and several of his sons,
including Louis Philippe were skilled home builders and stone masons. 

Theywere highly proficient in building homes and barns from crude materials. 

So Louis Philippe and his father and brothers were soon in much demand.
Among those they helped were a number of their Waldensian neighbors,
who followed the Cardons to Utah over the next few years. One such family
was the Stale family, which had walked across the plains in 1856 in the first
handcart company. The father of the family, Jean Pierre Stale, had died on
the way, of exhaustion and starvation – but thanks to his efforts, his wife and
children had reached Salt Lake. The Cardons helped them with shelter and
food, and in early 1857 Louis Philippe married Susette Stale, the oldest
daughter. This was a plural marriage, as shortly before Louis Philippe had
married another young woman from the Piedmont, Sarah Ann Welborn.
While Sarah Ann had no children, her marriage to Louis Philippe appears to
have been a happy one. She was loved by Louis Philippe and by the children
of Susette. Susette bore five children and was exceptionally active and
happy up to the very day of her death in Tucson Arizona in 1923.
Since the arrival of Brigham Young with the first wagon train, in 1847, the
city of Salt Lake, with its broad streets and its homes, and its surrounding
farms, had begun to emerge with remarkable speed. By the time the Cardon
family arrived by wagon train in 1854 – seven years after Brigham Young’s
arrival – much of the work of pioneering had already been accomplished, so
far as Salt Lake was concerned. The establishment of a functioning city in a
desert was well underway.
But don’t forget that it was never Brigham’s intention to build one city in a
wilderness. Right from the beginning, year by year, he sent out families from
Salt Lake to pioneer other communities – Ogden, Provo, Logan – and
eventually communities all the way from Canada in the north to Mexico in
the south. That was the stage of Mormon pioneering which Louis Philippe
and the other Cardons got in on. Builders and pioneers that they were, they
responded time and again to their leaders’ call to help establish new towns –
first north to Ogden, Logan, and southern Idaho – then south to help build a
number of new communities in Arizona, and then on into Mexico to
colonize an undeveloped area there.
Like virtually all the inhabitants of the Piedmont valleys and hills, and like
virtually all the early Mormon settlers in Utah, Louis Philippe was a farmer,
at least part time. But like his father Philippe and his younger brother Paul,
he was first and foremost a mason. He was a builder of stone homes, and
chimneys, and town walls – and, when he had an opportunity, of temples. It
seemed that wherever he went, that capability was in demand, and was
appreciated.The Cardons settled first in the Ogden area, and Louis Philippe’s 

first two children, Joseph and Emanuel, were born there in 1858 and 1859. 

But in 1961, Brigham Young called the Cardons to help settle Cache Valley. Here
their building skills were truly invaluable. Paul, Louis Philippe’s younger
brother, is credited with helping to build the first house in Logan. Later, he
was in charge of the mill that produced lumber for the temple. Philippe and
Louis Philippe, besides building homes, built the fireplaces for a great many
of the homes in Cache Valley, and worked on the temple. Paul was also the
first treasurer of Logan City, and longtime town marshal.
After ten years in Logan, the Cardons were well established. But Logan
itself was becoming a larger town, and was beginning to draw the attention
of the U. S. government’s enforcers of anti-polygamy laws. Danger of arrest
impelled Louis Philippe to move with his two wives and three children to a
more outlying community, Oxford, at the northern extremity of Cache
Valley. Here an additional two children were born.
By 1876 Oxford too was becoming unsafe for polygamous families. Federal
authorities were arresting both husbands and wives for “unlawful
cohabitation.” Consequently a worried Louis Philippe made a trip to Salt
Lake City to seek Brigham Young’s advice. Upon his return home he
reported that in response to his question, “Brigham Young rose from his
chair, smote the palm of one hand with the doubled fist of the other and said
‘Brother Cardon, it is time for the Saints to settle Arizona, as I have been
thinking about. Be here in a week with your wife and belongings. The
company will be ready to leave then.’ ”
As it turned out there were four companies involved in the move to Arizona.
The move was actually a part of Brigham Young’s plan to plant colonies
from Canada to Mexico. Circumstances had again made Louis Philippe a
pioneer. Louis Philippe’s two sons, Joseph (18) and Emanuel (17) were not
originally included in Brigham’s call to build pioneer settlements in Arizona.
So they planned to just help their father move down and then come back to
Oxford. But the apostle Brigham Young, son of President Brigham Young,
quickly changed that plan. He told the two young men that they were to
consider themselves to be “Missionaries,” called to serve in Arizona by
helping their father build settlements there. A young lady accompanied 17
year old Emanuel, and the company stopped long enough in Salt Lake for
the two to be married. Joseph, 18 years old, already had a wife and a child at
the time of the move. He married two more wives a few years later.
In Arizona the Cardons participated in the establishment of several new
settlements. The first one, Obed, was on the Little Colorado River. Louis
Philippe, as a mason, supervised the building of houses and also a nine-foot

stone wall entirely around the town, to guard against Indians. Unfortunately,
the site proved swampy and malarial, and had to be abandoned. Louis
Philippe and his two sons and his son-in-law were subsequently prominent
in the settlement of Woodruff and Taylor. Joseph, Louis Philippe’s oldest
son directed the surveying of the Taylor site, and the four Cardon men
(Louis Philippe, his two sons, and his son-in-law) formed a company which
took a freighting contract, worked on a railroad, and took 3000 sheep on
shares, to earn money to supplement their pioneering farming efforts.
At this point, in 1884, polygamy prosecution again intervened. The
Edmunds anti-polygamy law had been passed and Utah enforcement officers
began making raids in Arizona. Consequently that fall, LDS President
Taylor advised Louis Philippe and Joseph to move to Mexico, where
polygamy was legal.
Later, both Louis Philippe and his sons, Joseph and Emanuel would be
placed on the honor roll of heads of founding families and builders of the
Colony of Juarez. Louis Philippe was prominent there in the erection of
homes, public buildings and the first mill for grinding grain. For himself,
Louis Philippe built a fine two story brick home, where he lived for many
years. In the meantime his youngest son, Louis Paul (my grandfather) after
graduating from Brigham Young College in Logan in 1893, taught school
for four years in Taylor, Arizona, and then was called by President
Woodruff to go to Mexico to help establish an educational system for the
Church there. In Dublan, he served as school principal for fourteen years and
built a large home which still stands. With most of his family now in
Dublan, Louis Philippe gave in to their urging and after 1900 moved from
Juarez to Dublan, where he died in 1911.
The exodus of the Mormon settlers the year after that was permanent for
many, including most of the Cardons. However, others returned to the
colonies later, and nowadays the area is beautiful and productive, and boasts
a really lovely L.D.S. temple. It is just one of a number of communities
which are to some extent memorials to the pioneering labors of Louis
Philippe Cardon and his family. And the Cardon family itself, whether we
recognize it or not, has probably been shaped in part by attributes passed on
by Louis Philippe and his family of pioneers.

by Louis Bellamy Cardon 2008

Son of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

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The fifth of the nine children of Philippe Cardon and Marthe Marie Tourn was born on March 9, 1832, in Prarostino, Italy.  His name was recorded on the parish record as “Philippe Cardon”, not “Louis Philippe”.  Evidently it was after he came to Utah that he began using “Louis Philip” among his associates (reportedly taking the name “Louis” from Louis Malan his godfather, who presented him for baptism as a newborn infant).  He was always called “Philip” by members of the family, but sometimes Louis Philip Cardon, Louis Cardon, Louis P. Cardon, or L.P. Cardon by others (Lucille Cardon Matthews, “A Brief Story of Louis Philip Cardon 1832-1911.”  See Also “CARDONS! Descendants of Philippe Cardon and Marthe Marie Tourn, 1799-1986, “p. 15)

In 1852 he was baptized along with his parents and four siblings into the LDS church.  He was ordained a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood before leaving Italy, and a High Priest at the age of 24, two years after his arrival in Utah (according to the Dublán Ward records quoted by Lucille Matthews).

He immigrated to Utah with his family (except for his oldest sister Anne) in 1854, and settled with his family in Ogden that year, just four years after the founding of that town.

The Cardons helped to settle the Stalé family in Ogden upon their arrival in Salt Lake in 1856, and Louis Philip married Marthe Susanne (Susette) Stalé the next year.  He had previously married Sarah Ann Welborn.  With Susette he had five children, but none with Sarah.  The first two of the five children, Joseph and Emanuel, were born in Ogden in 1858 and 1859.

In 1861, the father Philippe and his sons Louis Philip and Paul were called by Brigham Young to take their families and help to settle Cache Valley.  Paul helped to build the first house in Logan, a log cabin, and was in charge of the mill that produced lumber for the temple.  Philippe and Louis Philip, skilled stone masons, built the fireplaces for many of the homes in Cache Valley, and worked on the temple. Paul was also the first treasurer of Logan City, and long-time town marshal.

After ten years in Logan, the Cardons were well established.  But Logan itself was becoming a larger town, and at this time the U.S. Government’s prosecutions of polygamous families impelled Louis Philip to move with his two wives and three children to a still more outlying community, Oxford Idaho, at the northern extremity of Cache Valley.  Here an additional two children were born.

By 1876 Oxford too was becoming unsafe for polygamous families.  Federal authorities were arresting both husbands and wives for “unlawful cohabitation.” Consequently, a worried Louis Philip made a trip to Salt Lake City to seek Brigham Young’s advice.

Upon his return he reported that “Brigham Young rose from his chair, smote the palm of one hand with the doubled fist of the other and said ‘Brother Cardon, it is time for the Saints to settle Arizona, as I have been thinking about.  Be here in a week with your wife and belongings.  The company will be ready to leave then.”  (Lucille Cardon Matthews, p. 8).

As it turned out, there were four companies involved in the move to Arizona.  The captain of the company which included the Cardons was George Lake, bishop of the Oxford ward, who was moving for the same reason as Louis Philip.  But the move was actually also a part of Brigham Young’s plan to plant colonies from Canada to Mexico.  Circumstances had again made Louis Philip a pioneer.

The apostle Brigham Young (son of President Young), informed Louis Philip’s two older sons, Joseph (18) and Emanuel (17) that they were to consider themselves missionaries “called” to Arizona, and join the move south.  A young lady accompanied Emanuel, and the company stopped long enough in Salt Lake  for the two to be married.  Joseph, who had a wife and one child at the time of the move, married two more a few years later.  Louis Philip was accompanied by his second wife, Susette, while Sarah, the first wife (who was legal in the eyes of the law), remained for the time being in Oxford. (“CARDONS!”, p.9)

In Arizona, the Cardons participated in the establishment of several new settlements.  At the first one, Obed, on the Little Colorado River, Louis Philip, being a stone mason, supervised the building of houses and also a nine-foot stone wall to guard against Indians.  Unfortunately the site proved swampy and malarial, and had to be abandoned.  Louis Philip and his sons and son-in-law were subsequently prominent in the settlement of Woodruff and Taylor.  Joseph at age 20, directed the surveying of the Taylor site, and the four Cardon men (Louis Philip, his sons, and son-in-law) formed a company which took a freighting contract, worked on a railroad, and took 3000 sheep on shares, to earn money to supplement their pioneering farming efforts. (Lucille Mathews, pp. 9-11)

At this point, in 1884, polygamy prosecution again intervened.  The Edmunds anti-polygamy law had been passed and Utah enforcement officers began making raids in Arizona.  Consequently that fall, LDS president Taylor advised Louis Philip and Joseph to move to Mexico, where polygamy was legal.

Later, both Louis Philip and his sons Joseph and Emanuel would be placed on the honor roll of heads of founding families and builders of the Colony of Juarez.  Louis Philip was prominent in the erection of homes, public buildings and the first mill for grinding grain.  For himself, Louis Philip built a fine two story brick home, where he lived for many years.  His youngest son, Louis Paul, after graduating from Brigham Young College in Logan in 1893 with high honors in mathematics and engineering, taught school for four years in Taylor, Arizona and then was called by President Woodruff to go to Mexico to help establish an educational system for the Church there.  In Dublán he served as school principal for fourteen years, during which time the enrollment increased from 125 to 445 and the teaching staff increased from one to nine.  At the same time he did the surveying of the reservoirs and canals for all the colonies, farmed extensively, and built a large house in Dublán.  He married three wives (one before coming to Mexico) and fathered twenty-nine children (Louis Paul Cardon,” pp. 28-29)

The older Cardon children living in Dublán would later remember with great affection and respect their grandparents Philip and Sarah who lived in nearby Juarez until after 1900, as well as their grandmother Susette who lived next to Louis Paul in Dublán.  While they loved their trips to visit their Grandpa Philip and “Grandma Juarez” (whom they loved dearly) they were happy when Philip and Sarah finally moved to Dublán.  Louis Philip passed away on April 9, 1911, just the year before revolutionary disturbances caused a general exodus of the Mormon colonists from Mexico in 1912.

This exodus proved temporary for some and permanent for others.  But in either case it detracts little from the pioneering heritage and the concrete achievements of Louis Philip Cardon and his family.  Numerous places they settled or helped to develop owe something to those foundations.  And a numerous progeny have been shaped in part, whether or not they recognize it, by attributes developed and passed on by these pioneers.

1832 – 1911

Son of Philip Cardon and Martah Marie Tourn

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Louis Philip Cardon(1832-1911)

Extracted from “Cardon Family Saga Eternal Quest For Truth” compiled and edited by Amy Cardon Odell 1991, pages 13-16

Louis Philip Cardon was the fifth child of Philippe Cardon and Marthe Marie Tourn.  Edith and Lucille write(7,8) born 9 Mar 1832, Cardon, Prarostino, Italy in one of three Cottian Alp Valleys, commonly known as Piedmont valleys. After their trip across the plains, Louis Philip married Sarah Ann Wellborn. No children were born to this union. In 1857 at Logan, Utah Louis Philip married a second wife, Susette Stale.

Lucille Cardon Matthews (8) wrote in 1968 about Louis Philip Cardon: “Philip and Susette’s oldest child, Joseph S. was born in 1858, the year that Pres. James Buchanan, Pres. of the U.S. sent Johnson’s Army to suppress or annihilate the Mormons.. . Rather than being trapped in their homes, the first of May, found all the Philip Cardon’s family among the saints from the North Settlements in Great Salt Lake city, prepared for the move of the Mormons in a body, south for Sonora Mexico. They had been instructed to cache most of the three year food supply each was supposed to have stored, and leave enough men in each settlement, to set fire and destroy every building, field and garden if the soldiers were unfriendly. (The army did not come into the town and the Mormons returned to their homes) Susette’s second child was born in Ogden, Utah. . . Philip moved his family to Logan before April 1861. They had hoped that by moving to a frontier village they would avoid the unpleasant incidents caused by the great agitation going over plural families, in the heavier populated towns. It was a short lived peace, the persecutions with more settlers reached Logan. Philip Cardon moved his family to Oxford, Cache valley’s most Northern boundary, considered part of Utah, where the taxes were paid until 1872, when Idaho made her claim to the land ‘stick’ and Oxford Cache Valley Utah became Oxford Oneida (now Franklin) Idaho.. . . Their two youngest children, Louis Paul and Isabelle Susette, were born in what was then Utah.

‘Molested by Indians everyone lived in the Fort, until 1868 before they felt safe to move out to their own lots.. . Philip’s family like all pioneer villagers used every member of the family to plant and harvest the fields, orchards and gardens, to raise chickens, ducks and domestic animals for work, transportation and butchering for food. Philip and his sons raised sheep for revenue. The women made pillows, feather beds and comforters of the duck feathers. Susette spun wool into threads for weaving into cloth, knit socks and blankets . . .They stored a three year supply of food, were well clothed and in homes as comfortable as frontier conditions at the time allowed.

“The persecution against plural marriage became so persistent that Louis Philip traveled to Salt lake City to ask advice from Pres. Brigham Young. Pres. Young arose from his chair, smote the palm of one hand with the fist of the other, and said, “Brother Cardon, it is about time for the Saints to move to Arizona, as I have been thinking about. Be here in a week with your wife and belongings. The Company will be ready to leave.”

“The “Company” with four captains. . . Louis Philip’s family settled at Lake’s Camp, called Obed an the Little Colorado River. . .Philip being a stone mason had supervision of the buildings. The village was entirely surrounded by a stone wall about nine to ten feet high with port holes properly arranged to defend themselves against the Indians. The houses were arranged on the inside of the Fort, some were made of stone and had slate for floors, the roofs were of slabs arranged like shingles. Because it was swampy and due to malaria the camp had to be abandoned and Philip arranged to move to Woodruff.. In all of these settlements the “United Order” was practiced. This called for faith and sacrifice from the Cardons, for they had ample supplies for two years. They also had more cattle than any one else. However, they were willing to share with those less blessed who would have suffered without help. The two year supply was so far gone the Presiding Elder of Woodruff, called Joseph (the oldest child) with selected others to earn provisions for all until a dam across the Little Colorado River could be accomplished. In time, the cows and other stock were returned to their owners.

“The Cardon men felt they must move to a place where they could raise a crop. and they moved to Taylor, Arizona. They took contracts for freighting 6,000 pounds of flour from Showlow to Fort Apache. . In the fall of 1884, they took about 3000 head of sheep an shares. Just after they had taken the sheep, Philip and his son Joseph were advised by Pres. Taylor to move to Mexico.” They left Snowflake, Arizona, 9 Feb. 1885. On their arrival at Luna, New Mexico, on Feb. 15, they were organized into a traveling company with E.A. Noble as Captain. Capt. Noble’s Company of Arizona Exiles arrived at a point of the Cases Grande River near the town of La Ascencion, Chihuahua, Mexico.

“The company divided and Philip and his son Joseph moved on to locate on the Padres Verdes River, to be the founders of Colonia Juarez, 1885.. . By 1897 all of the Cardon family were united in Colonia Dublan, after persuading Philip and Auntie to sell their home in Juarez.

Lucille Cardon Matthews (8) continues: “I remember Grandpa Cardon, his was a quiet disposition. There was something about his dignified bearing that demanded respect wherever he happened to be..  . .  He was between 5’9-11″ tall, medium weight, nice complexion and gentle brown eyes, the right background to set off the white thatch of hair and bushy mustache. I was never sure if his stoop came from naturally walking with his head thrust forward or if he was a little bent with age. I am sure it had nothing to do with his carrying a walking cane, that was the mark of a gentleman. It made me so proud to be allowed to walk with him, if only across the back end of the lot.”

“He was a skilled mason and stonecutter. He did much to erect the homes and public places in town. He helped lay the walls of the first mill for grinding grains raised by the farmers.

“He built the two story brick home surrounded by fruit and shade trees where he lived with “Grandma Juarez” to us children, “Auntie” to our parents, Sarah Ann Welborn.”  Lucille (8) tells of the wonderful well that was a little south of the broad pathway to the front entrance. She said many people came for the good water.

“Philip spoke the dialects, French, Italian, mastered English without an accent. I have heard him talk to Mexican natives, German and Scandinavian converts, each in what must have been his own language. The one I liked best was to the Rumanian Gypsies, as they passed through the Colony of Dublan, picking up anything they could that happened to be lying around loose, bringing great excitement to the town youngsters, with a large black bear they let us look at for nothing, but if we wanted to see him dance, we must pay for it. Every kid emptied his pockets . . . Not until our business transaction, done mostly in sign language, was completed, and the bear forced to his feet did we see just standing was agony to him, his paws were raw sores. We lost interest in the ‘once in a life time chance of seeing a bear dance, and wanted our money back. They no longer understood the sign language. Grandpa Cardon came to our aid, but no amount of talking made them give us a refund, for they would make the bear dance. Grandpa said why not do a good deed, and bargain with them, let them keep the loot, if the bear would not have to dance until his paws we healed. They promised with many smiles and waving of hands.”

“Philip’s health failed and when it did not improve, Aunt Amelia, a nurse, felt she could do more for him in her home. Early one morning a month of so later, Aunt Katie and I were awakened to be told Grandfather was no longer with us. He had answered the “Call” to a home of no more moves 9 April 1911.”

PATRIARCHAL BLESSING, COLONIA DUBLAN, MAY 26, 1906

A Patriarchal blessing upon the head of Lewis Philip Cardon, son of Phillip and Martha Marie Tourin, born Sept. 12, 1832, Nida, St. Shone Co., Italy. Given under the hands of Patriarch Chas. Pulsifer.

Bro. Lewis: In the authority of my holy calling, I place my hands upon your head and confer upon you a patriarchal blessing. Thy lineage is of Joseph who was sold into Egypt, and thou hast come down through the loins of Ephraim, hence thou art entitled to all the blessings of the new and everlasting covenant, for thou hast left thy native land and gathered up unto Zion for the Gospel’s sake. And the Lord is well pleased with the intents of thy heart and although you may wade through much sorrow and difficulty, the Lord will overrule the outcome for thy welfare. For He will bless the honest in heart according to the desires and motives of the act. And the angels of thy presence shall go with you to direct thy footsteps in the paths of Eternal Truth, and you shall have joy in seeing your offsprings serve the Lord and every act of kindness which you bestow upon others shall return unto you abundantly, for the Lord knoweth the sincerity of thy heart and will bless and strengthen you according to your day. That you may yet live upon the earth until you are satisfied with life and help to redeem thy numerous dead relatives who will come up and met you with great joy and satisfaction in time to come. You shall take pleasure in doing the work for them who did not have the opportunity to do for themselves and thus you shall become their Savior. These blessings shall add to thy comfort and be stars in thy crown. For I reconfirm and seal upon your head all former ordinances and blessings and seal you up to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection to enjoy all the blessings the Lord has in store for His faithful children and receive a glorious celestial body where pain and sickness have no power but there shall be a joyous meeting with the saints of God, for I seal these blessings upon your head with the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, by virtue and authority of my Holy Patriarchal calling, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Myrtle Humphrey, Recorder (Patriarchal Blessings, Vol. 97, p 36)

References
7.  Thatcher, Edith Cardon, “Louis Philip Cardon (1832-1911)
8.  Matthews, Lucille Cardon, “A Brief Story of Louis Philip Cardon 1832-1911.”

9 Mar 1832 – 9 Apr 1911

Son of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

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A BRIEF STORY OF LOUIS PHILIP CARDON 1832-1911 

By Lucille Cardon Matthews, 1968 

 While we were living in the State of Chihuahua Mexico the excitement of a trip to Colonia Juarez, to visit Grandpa Cardon, started the night before, when each arranged the clothes she was going to wear, for the race to be first dressed in the early morning dark, since we weren’t allowed to handle the coal oil lamps. 

No one wanted to waste time on breakfast, and maybe miss being along that two mile stretch of road between Dublan, and Nuevo Casas Grandes, where there would be nothing but a telephone line and railroad tracks between us and the horizon to meet “Rosy Dawn of Day” when she came to say “See! The Sun in all his Glory rise right now.”  Such Grandeur!  Such fun, Papa leading the songs of greeting, we added our two cents worth, with Mama reciting proper poetry, a highlight of the trip.  Nowhere is the sunrise more wonderful, etched forever on the memory. 

And I remember Grandpa Cardon, his was a quiet disposition, there was something about his dignified bearing that demanded respect wherever he happened to be.  Related incidents show he could be very firm when occasion called for it.  Between five feet nine and eleven inches tall, medium weight, his nice complexion, alert gentle brown eyes, the right background, to set off the whitest thatch of hair and bushy mustache.  I was never sure if his slight stoop came from naturally walking with his head thrust forward, or if he was a little bent with age. I am sure it had nothing to do with him carrying a walking cane.  Thatwas the mark of a gentleman.  It made me so proud to be allowed to walk with him, if only across the back end of the lot. 

His name is on the Honor Roll as a head of the first founding families and builders of the Colony of Juarez, the same roll also lists as heads of family, Joseph S. and Emanuel P. Cardon, Grandfathers two oldest sons.  So he wasn’t real young when he went there.  A skilled mason and stonecutter, he did much to erect the homes and public places in town, he helped lay the walls of the first mill used for grinding grains raised by the farmers. 

He built the two story brick home surrounded by fruit and shade trees where he lived with “Grandma Juarez” to us children “Auntie” to our parents, nee Sarah Ann Welborn.  Against the north side of the house was a large grape arbor a work and rest area, where Grandma Sarah prepared fruit for canning, cleaned vegetables, did mending and read. She let us bring friends to play there, out of ripe grape season, of course.  It made one feel very privileged.  We loved our Grandma “Juarez”.  She treated us as though we were her natural grandchildren, always so pleasant.  Sixty years of time has dimmed my memory picture of her except as a shadowy figure much larger than our own Grandmother Susette, standing at the range preparing the breakfast treat in an iron skillet an omelet of eggs, canned salmon, and corn, something no one else could do. 

 Their house faced east, a marvel was grandfathers well in front of it, a little south of the broad pathway to the front entrance.  So many people came for the good water, I felt sure the “old Oaken Bucket” must have been written about it, and he located it in that spot, invited folks to use it so they wouldn’t have to dig one of their own, a nice assurance he’d always have someone dropping by.  Many many years later I learned due to an underground hardpan it was the only place a well could be dug.  In fact for the same reason there was but one other well in town so half the town drew water at his well.  I did notice no one used his front walk when coming for water.  It was reserved for neighbors, friends, city fathers, Church dignitaries, and others who came to make social or business calls.  Those same people coming for water used the little gate opening on the south side street. 

At a native place called Cardon, in the village of Prarostino, located in one of Italy’s three Cottian Alp Valleys commonly known as Piedmont Valleys, on March 9, 1832, the fifth child and third son of Philippe and Martha Marie Tourn CARDON, was born, christened LOUIS PHILIP, his family called him PHILIP, called LOUIS, by those who knew him from his signature, LOUIS P. CARDON, at times identified by his initials, L.P. CARDON, all four have been used in a single history.  Yep, it is rather confusing, especially, since the Cardons just do use the same names over and over, or a mixed match combination of them, that make a similar initials or the same signature. I.e., Louis Philip and his son Louis Paul. 

Philippe Cardon was a builder of houses, his sons skilled at the same trade from working on the buildings he erected.  Philippe and Martha Marie were parents of nine children.  They lost two very young. (See family group sheet).  Theirs was the 2nd family to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, when the Gospel was brought to the Alpine Valleys in 1851.  In her history the daughter Mary Magdelaine tells of the meetings being held at her father’s home for two years. 

In 1854 Philippe sold what he could of his property, gave what was left to Ann, his eldest child, her husband just couldn’t see the gospel as true and forbade her to listen to the missionaries.  Philippe had realized enough from what he sold to bring to Utah a family of five souls besides his own wife, four sons, and two daughters.  Leaving their native land, 7 February 1854, as members of the Robert M. Campbell Company, they sailed for America on the ship John M. Wood, landed at New Orleans , 2 May 1854.  The climate, terrain, and language so foreign to anything they had ever experienced, added to the difficulties of natural hardships of emigrants crossing ‘The Plains’ by oxen drawn wagons, accepted with the same grace all Vaudois or Waldenses, met trials, turned against by relatives, friends and townspeople, embittered toward all who embraced the new gospel. 

Mary Magdelaine, relates “Before leaving home the Elders had blessed each one, telling them they would encounter sickness, accidents, and other dangers.  They promised the Cardon family through their faith and trust in God, they would all reach Utah .”  The weather threatened to sink the sailing ship.  Cholera brought death and weakness to many among the latter were Father Philippe and Thomas the youngest son.  No small hindrance was the dependence on unbroken to yoke, almost unmanageable animals at the start of the long trek. 

One night Indians out numbered the herders and drove every ‘critter’ across the river into the brush.  Next morning there came a cry for all swimmers to cross the river, round up the cattle and drive them back to camp, a count found not one missing.  The boys and younger men expressed their joy by ‘horsing around’ in the water.  Although a fair swimmer Philip, stepped backward into a deep whirlpool, and nearly drowned before he could be dragged out, it took quite some effort, and prayer, to save him.  His first muttered words were “Why didn’t you let me sleep, instead of causing me such great agony.  Death is easy to a drowning person, to what the sufferings are to be brought back to life.” Some have wondered what a drowning person felt. 

With faith undaunted every member of Philippe’s family and the family he brought with them, on Sat. 28, October the last company of emigrants for the year 1854, arrived at G.S.L. City . 

The Cardon family went on to Weber County .  It was four years after the first Branch of the Church was organized there. 

Thus ended the first of son Philip’s many moves. 

Ostracism and cruel persecutions for their way of worship was not unknown to the valiant Mormon converts from the Vaudois or Protestant Piedmont Valleys .  Traditionally the people of these Valleys belong to a Church, which is held to be the direct result of the teachings of the Apostles of early Christianity, never having belonged to the Roman Catholic Religion, for centuries they went unnoticed by the Head of that Church, the Pope being occupied subduing kings of more important nations. 

Then came 800 years, in which off and on severe persecutions were hurled against them.  Forced to leave their homes time and again, rather than be exterminated or compelled to accept a religion, which to them had departed from its primitive purity and simplicity, they were exiles and martyrs but not apostates. 

They had enjoyed religious freedom for a time, when Napoleon, conquered Piedmont .  Following his defeat in 1814, they were again cruelly persecuted until 1848 (the youngest child of Philippe Cardon was six years old) when the King of Sardinia granted his Vaudois subjects religious freedom.  The long war between Rome and the mountain Churchwas ended. 

With unmovable faith they had Trusted God, and He, had delivered them. Time and persecutions had pulled a curtain over their origin and language, to quote Mary Madgelaine, “some never had any real language, either French or Italian, but had a dialect among themselves.”  There were several dialects, no schools had been allowed, however most of them had learned enough to read the Bible in French.  Some of the men and boys were sent to Holland for schooling. 

Philip spoke the dialects, French, Italian, and mastered English without an accent.  I have heard him talk to Mexican natives, German and Scandinavian converts, each in what must have been his own language. The one I liked best was to the Romanian Gypsies, as they passed through the Colony of Dublan, picking up anything they could that happened to be lying around loose, bringing great excitement, to the town youngsters, with a large black bear they let us look at for nothing, but if we wanted to see him dance we must pay for it.  Every kid emptied his pockets, or dug the horded two centavo pieces, the Gypsies were willing to accept as tickets, or food sneaked from family kitchens, by those who had no ready cash.  Not until our business transaction, done mostly in sigh language, was completed, and the bear forced to his feet did we see just standing was agony to him, his paws were raw sores.  We lost interest in the once in a lifetime chance of seeing a bear dance, and wanted our money back.   They no longer understood the sign language. Grandpa Cardon came to our aid.  But no amount of talking made them about to give us a refund, for they would make the bear dance.  Grandpa said why not do a good deed, and bargain with them, let them keep the loot, if the bear would not have to dance until his paws were healed.  Oh, they promised with many smiles, bows and much waving of the hands.  A promise I am sure they kept until they reached the next stopping place. 

In the Appendix of George B. Watts, “Waldenses In The New World” we gather before leaving Italy, Louis Philip Cardon, had been ordained a Teacher (2nd step) in the Aaronic Priesthood.  Copied from Part 2 of the Dublan Ward of Juarez Stake, “Records of Ordinations to Holy Priesthood” # 318 CARDON Louis Philip, Year 1856, by Joseph R. Young to Office of High Priest. 

Philip Cardon married (1) Sarah Ann Welborn, born 13 Jan 1830 Muhlenburg Co. Kentucky daughter of James D. Welborn and Malinda Newman.  Sarah had no children.  Around 1900, she hired Jane Gibson Sanders (my maternal grandmother) to do the work for many, many of her people at the Manti Temple . 

In early 1857, Philip married Susette Stale’ who was the Mother of his children, consequently our Grandmother.  She was the daughter of Jean Pierre Stale’ and Jeanne Marie Gaudin-Moise, also Vaudois from the Alpine Valleys, whose family from June to September 1856, walked across “The Plains” in the first Handcart Company.  Jean Pierre’s strength gave out.  He was buried along the way. 

On reaching G.S.L. City , his widow her son and three daughters (see family group sheet) were met and befriended by the Cardons, who had come from Ogden for that purpose.  Later Philippe Cardon married Jeanne Marie Stale’. 

Philip and Susette’s oldest child, Joseph S. was born, 9 January 1858, the year James Buchanan, President of the United States, after listening to false reports, of seditions, treason, and other horrible crimes unrelated to what was later called bigamy, against President Brigham Young, and Mormons as his followers, without questioning the accusations, secretly sent an Army to suppress or annihilate them.  Word they were coming reached Utah before they did. 

Rather than being trapped in their homes, the first of May found all of Philippe Cardon’s family among the Saints from the North Settlements in G.S.L. City, prepared for the move of the Mormons in a body, south for Sonora Mexico,  ‘tis said.  They had been instructed to cache most of the three year food supply each was supposed to have stored, and leave enough men in each settlement, to set fire and destroy every building, field and garden if the soldiers were unfriendly. 

When the new Governor and his wife found G.S.L. City and the other towns vacant, disappointed plunder promised troops were ordered not to stop in the towns.  President Young was contacted, resulting in his return to Salt Lake City , Thursday July 13, 1858.  Not long after all Saints had drifted back to their homes.  Susette’s second child Emanuel was born in Ogden, 29 Jan 1859, after her return.  Four months later Logan, in Cache Valley, was settled, a future home or stop over place of Philippe and Martha Marie Cardon, and most of their children, Philip and his brother Paul’s families moved to Logan before Mary Katherine (our Aunt Katie) was born 9 April 1861.  She told us her parents had hoped by moving to a frontier village they would avoid the unpleasant incidents caused by the great agitation going on over plural families, in the heavier populated towns.  It was a short-lived peace, the persecutions with more settlers reached Logan .  Philip Cardon moved his family to Oxford, Cache Valley’s most Northern boundary, considered part of Utah, where the taxes were paid until 1872, when Idaho made her claim to the land ‘stick’ and Oxford Cache Valley Utah became Oxford Oneida Idaho.  Which explains why Grandma Susette claimed her two youngest children Louis Paul (our Father) 17 March 1868, and Isabelle Susette November 1872, were born in Utah .  They lost her in her second year. 

Molested by Indians everyone lived in the Fort, until 1868 before they felt safe to move out to their own lots.  Oxford was sort of a string town, Philip’s family, like all pioneer villagers or all folks of farm communities, used every member of the family male and female to plant and harvest, fields, orchards, and gardens, to raise chickens, ducks, and domestic animals for, work, transportation, and butchering for food. Philip and his sons raised sheep for revenue, the women made pillows feather beds and comforters of the duck feathers, Susette spun wool into threads, for weaving into cloth, and sock knitting, she knit blankets, Auntie Sarah made quilts and taught Katie how, and to sew.  They may not have greatly prospered, but they did follow advise of Church Leaders, and stored a three year supply of food, were well clothed in homes as comfortable as frontier conditions at the time allowed.

1876 the long arm of the Federal Judge located in Utah, unlawfully reached up into Oxford, arrested both men and women, placing them under exorbitant bonds, many unable to raise the bonds, were fined, incarcerated, or both for what was called “u c” (unlawful cohabitation) not applied to unmarried cohabiters. 

In his biography Uncle Joe words it “They were being persecuted for conscience sake when President Brigham Young saw fit to call them to Arizona .”  Aunt Katie gave this detail, “Father, very concerned made a trip to Salt Lake City to seek advice from President Young.  He reported to his family, President Young rose from his chair, smote the palm of one hand with the doubled fist of the other and said “Brother Cardon, it is time for the Saints to settle Arizona as I have been thinking about.  Be here in a week with your wife and belongings.  The company will be ready to leave then.”  The wife of course meant Grandmother Susette since Auntie Sarah would not be chastised or imprisoned. 

The four companies with four captains, Allen, Ballenger, Lake, and Lot Smith, also the leader, gathered about twenty miles north of the Arizona border.  Captain Lake was George D. Lake , Bishop of Oxford Ward, where he moved the same time as Philip did and for the same reason.  From Uncle Joe we learn to Orderville they traveled together, Uncle Manuel accompanied them, to aid in hauling provisions, farm machinery, and seeds, in wagons drawn by oxen and mules.  Going all the way to Arizona , he left them at Lakes camp called Obed on the Little Colorado River, about twenty miles from the Sunset Crossing, near which the Lot Smith Group settled, and across the river from Allen’s camp (later St. Joseph , now Joseph City ).  Ballenger’s company settled in Brigham City (now Winslow?).  Copied from Louis Paul’s sketch of Obed… “Obid was by far the most comfortably situated of the settlements but unfortunately it was swampy and due to malaria had to be abandoned. Father being mason and stone cuter had supervision of the buildings. The village was entirely surrounded by a stonewall about nine to ten feet high with port holes properly arranged to defend themselves against the Indians. The houses were arranged on the inside of the Fort, some were made of stone and had slate for floors, the roofs were of slabs arranged like shingles, so they were very comfortable.” 

In all of these settlements the “United Order” was practiced, at Obid there were very few women, Grandmother told me she was sick and did not help with the cooking.  Cardon’s better-filled supply wagon helped those less blessed.  She also told this. 

“The Colorado River was crossed at Lee’s Ferry, where everyone, but the driver, got out to walk up the hill famous for its torturous boulder strewn dug way, she drove up the hill.  It may be she was driving one of the ox teams, and could handle them better than Grandfather.  At any rate he did the walking.  He was one of that noble strength and rugged school of men who considered babies and young children some sort of creatures not quite human, supposed to be handled by mothers and female attendants only.  Having never known him to hold his own babies, Grandmother could hardly believe her eyes when she saw him take from its mother’s arms the baby of Sister Lot Smith, whose prairie schooner was just in front of hers, to carry it up the hill.  If getting the wagon up the hill hadn’t taken every ounce of her strength and skill, she might have had time to resent it, as Lot Smith seems to have done.  Perhaps he felt Grandfather should have been free to block the wheels or put a shoulder to them. 

At the top of the hill Lot, stopped for his wife, then answered something she said in a booming voice “I am not responsible for Brother Cardon and his baby” and drove on, leaving Grandfather to climb awkwardly over the wheel of his own prairie schooner with the baby and clumsily hold it until everyone had to unload for the next dug way.  “I never forget to laugh – to myself – about that” chuckled Grandma as she finished telling the incident, one of her most truthful statements. 

The Arizona move belonged to “The Planting of Colonies” missionary program of the L.D.S. Church , all over the west from Canada on the North to Mexico on the South.  Anyone could volunteer to join a “Company” but those “called” to go were missionaries, set apart and released as any missionary or Elder holding an Office in the Church. 

Gleaned from Uncle Joe’s biography: 

When Apostle Brigham Young (son of President Young) informed Joseph he and Emanuel were to consider themselves missionaries “called” to Arizona, they answered the call, (a Cardon habit) settled all business in Idaho and “started 6 October 1876 for Arizona, our outfit consisting of six mules, five yoke of oxen, four heavy wagons, (meaning built for hauling freight) one single team, and a herd of sixty-five head of stock.” Joseph called the journey “quite an undertaking.”  They were accompanied by _____ & family and Amelia Merrick, who Emanuel married in Salt Lake City .  

That must be the understatement of all time.  For Uncle Joe, at the ripe old age of going on nineteen, had with him, his wife and one child, the second to be born in January.  Grandma used to say that was alright “because Joseph, never was a boy”.  He drove the oxen, pulling two of the wagons, and Emanuel, almost eighteen, drove the mules and the other two heavy wagons.  (He must not have wasted time in the ‘Land of Youth ’ for Louis tells in his manuscript, they stopped in Salt Lake City , for Manuel to marry Amelia Merrick.)  The women drove the team with the lighter wagon.  Two or three boys were hired to help eight-year-old Louis drive the stock.  He called the trip long and tedious taking about three months.  Joseph wrote on Christmas Day they pulled into the deserted Fort at Moenkopi (Tuba City) 136 miles north of Obed, the stock were worn out, it was time for Selina’s baby, so with “Auntie” he just camped for the rest of the winter.  Emanuel with the mule teams went on accompanied by his wife, Katie and Louis, to be met by their Father and Mother. 

Encyclopedic History pp. 963 names Louis P. Cardon with three others in December 1876:  …”came from Allen’s Camp, ( Later Joseph City) to select a site for a dam in the Colorado River .  Others came out to work on the dam…”  Again quoting Uncle Joe, “my father and brother came back as far as Moenkopi in March 1877 to meet me and I moved to Camp Obed .  After staying there a few weeks I moved up the river and located Woodruff in connection with Father, Emanuel, and William Walker … we were the first families to locate at Woodruff, and were joined later by Elder Nathan Tenny and others.”  The place was first called Tenny’s Camp.  Louis Paul’s life sketch adds an interesting little side light.  “Soon a Ward organization was formed, and we entered in to the United Order System, as practiced in those early days.  Our folks had brought provisions sufficient to last two years or more.  It with all our other belongings were put into a common fund.  There were others who were not so fortunate, particularly in regard to provisions, so it was not long until we were all eating whole wheat ground on coffee mills and the little beer mills run by Mexicans in St. John …. We all ate at the “Big Table” the cooking being done by groups of women with a man helper, taking turns. One morning my Father said to the man who had charge of the kitchen, “Brother Dean this graham has not been sifted.”  Brother Dean replied “You’ll have to learn to eat what is put before you.”  Father said “No I won’t.”  He immediately arose from the table.  There was some commotion, but no more big table.”  My Papa didn’t like Big Tables.  Any way the two-year supply was so far gone the Presiding Elder of Woodruff also in the Stake Presidency, called Joseph, with selected others to earn provisions for all until a dam across the Little Colorado could be accomplished.  In time, the cows and other stock were returned to whoever owned them. 

The Cardon men Philip, Joseph, Emanuel, and now Katie’s husband Joseph H. Clawson felt they must move to a place where they could raise a crop.  Woodruff was a difficult place.  Joseph H. Richards kept a good diary of activities in Obed.

A dam had been put across Silver Creek, about three miles south of Snowflake, where two men had harvested grain in 1878.  So, December of that year, that was the place where they moved.  Carter’s “Heart Throbs of The West” page 472 quotes Encyclopedic History by Jenson and McClintock’s “Mormon Settlements in Arizona ” for Taylor town site established December 1878, was surveyed by a group of interested residents led by Joseph S. Cardon their chain being a rope.”  The original name was Bagley (one of the harvesters), then changed to Walker , honoring the Walkers who came from Idaho with Joseph.  That name was changed to Taylor in 1881 to have a Post Office, Arizona already had a Walker Post Office.  In 1880, John H. Standford was made Bishop of Taylor Ward. 

Louis Paul’s manuscript has the nicest story of early life in Taylor . Copied:  “The first work we did in the winter and spring was to clear the land and plant it.  We succeeded in getting very good crops the first year, and in putting in a brush and rock dam bringing out the water through a canal made mostly with pick and shovel. 

My father’s family formed a company, consisting of my father, two older brothers, and Joseph Clawson.  I was a chore boy.  They took a contract of freighting 6,000 pounds of flour from Sholow to Fort Apache. Joseph Clawson had the horse and mule teams for that freighting.  The company was working on the railroad and also freighting out toward Albuquerque, New Mexico which enabled the rest of us to do the work necessary for raising crops.  Which we did with the oxen.  There was no fence law.  When the crops were in, the fields had to be fenced and stock must be herded off until this was completed.  We made a pole fence. Emanuel and I got the poles, while Father and Joe put the fence up.  It took three days to get a load of poles.  They would work putting in the fence during the daytime and keep cattle off the green wheat during the nights. 

In the fall of 1884 my father, Joseph, Emanuel, and myself took about 3,000 head of sheep on shares.   Just after the sheep were taken, Father and Joseph were advised by President Taylor to move to Mexico .” 

Edmunds anti-polygamy bill had become a law.  With law on their side, Utah Enforcement Officers, in their zeal to round up all culprits, were making raids on the brethren in Arizona . 

Copied from Church Chronology by Jensen, p. 118, 1885 Mon. February 9:  A number of Saints going into exile because of their family relations left Snowflake Arizona for Mexico .  On their arrival at Luna New Mexico on the 15th they were organized into a traveling company with E.A. Noble as Captain.  The company increased to about 70 souls (mostly men) March Saturday 7.  Captain Noble’s company of Arizona exiles arrived at a point on the Cases Grande River near the town of La Ascencion , Chihuahua , Mexico . 

Ah!  La Ascencion!  La Ascencion!  How could you do it?  

Six decades later yet the memory of it stops me right near the end of writing Grandpa’s history, just like you stopped and arrested that personification of honesty, Uncle Manuel, and his two innocent nieces, near the end of their trip to Diaz, held them with six armed guards, for stealing, because the bawling of the pure breed Jersey bull calf we had sounded to you like the bellowing of Don Corrlettis’ long horned Mexican cows. 

Back to Philip Cardon’s Moves: The Company divided Philip and Joseph moving on to locate on the Peadres Verdes River , to be founders of Colonia Juarez 1885.  Sun. Jan 31, 1886 – meeting was held in the 1st L.D.S. house of worship built on Mexican soil, beyond a doubt Philip Cardon had a big part in erecting it. From the same source Church Chronology p. 139 1886 Sun. Oct 17 – Joseph Cardon is honored as President of the first Latter Day Saints Y.M.M.I.A. in any Mexico Mission. 

While Philip and son Joseph were hunting for a peaceful home site for their families, some of the women seem to have remained in Taylor. Joseph wrote he returned to Arizona for the “rest of my family.”  Louis decided to help move the families down, which included provisions, household furnishings, all livestock, and sundries.  He stayed for several months. 

New life in Juarez may not have come under the heading of “Taming the desert.”  Putting in dams by pick and shovel, breaking in new land with a walking plow, certainly was the order at hand for the next year or so. 

Louis wrote it was necessary to keep an active guard all night or be robbed of livestock, and any other thing.  He felt his father was too old for guard duty, and substituted in his father’s turn.  (Comment by L C M) Youth must have advanced about fifteen years by the time Louis Paul reached fifty-five. For seventy years found him irrigating all night long. 

Grandmother Susette with Louis and the Clawsons continued to make Taylor their home town.  Neither Joseph’s or Louis’ version of the Mexico move mentions when Emanuel took his family to live there.  His family group sheet shows Taylor as the birthplace of a child in 1895, and Dublan for one born April 1897.  Joseph’s family group sheet has 1895 for the first of his children born in Dublan, and December 1897 for the second born there.  Louis Paul answering the “missionary call” to move his family to Dublan set up a school system and help with the Ward music, arrived in time for his second child to have Dublan as a birthplace October 1897. 

Now the mother, sister, and brothers are united in the same town. It took them several years to persuade their father and Auntie to sell their home in Juarez , and be with them in Dublan. 

References

1 –  p-4 1st marriage, I do not use the name ‘Hunt’ for Grandma Sarah.  It is not used in the Dublan Ward Rec.  (M C 3rd u2) 8304 Library No. 8775 Book B. part 1, She was bapt. And confirmed Dec 1845, by Alex Hunt, she may have married him or some other Hunt, but must have been sealed to Philip Cardon, or the Rec. would have called her “Wellborn Hunt.”  

2 – Grandma Sanders Manti Record. 2nd Marriage 1—Word of Susette 2—Family Group Sheet of Pierre Stale’.  

3—Proving Your Pedigree by A.F. Bennett, pp 93—95.  

4—Encyc History of Church p 313, C. Chron. P-57. On p5 – 

1 See Family Group Sheet for Philip and Susette’s family. 

2—Church Chron. Pp-59-60-61-62.  

3—Page 99 History of a Valley (A U H 626)

4—Encyc Hist. Of Church by Jenson, pp 603-618-963.  

5—L.D.S. Biog. Encyc. Joseph S. Cardon, pp 127-128. 

6—As told to us by Grandmother and Aunt Katie. 

From here on out the references are included in the Text. 

Agreed!  Little was gleaned from days of riffling through all available scraps of data burning the midnight oil digging in “Tomes of Time” seeking a man who did not leave many footprints in their “Sands” nor did he leave a name of great renown, if he left any wealth it is untold.  He did leave us a heritage more valuable than either.

Because Louis Philip Cardon, and Susette Stale’ accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church, in a far away land, under adverse conditions migrated to Utah, separately, then together gave us, their children, the blessing of being born in this “Land choice above all others” America!  At a personal sacrifice lived its principles in such a manner, their very lives are their testimony to us of the truthfulness of that Gospel, and treasures in Heaven are to be sought above the Riches of this World.

My Father, My Pop

by Russell Cardon

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You are my family, and closest friends. I desire to remember this moment, for what to me is of great importance, this for our family is a sacred occasion, the passing of our father, our patriarch.  I’m very grateful for your attendance, you honor my father. 
John 1:  

1  In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was  God. 
2 The same was in the beginning with God. 

We know this scripture is in reference to our Savior Jesus Christ.  I would ask, is it speaking just of his physical body, or of his teachings his beliefs or in his words which he received from his father? 

You all know Ken Cardon some as a brother others as a friend a neighbor an uncle or an in-law.  To me he was my father, my Pop.  In this role he shared his words with me.  I would like to share with you some of the words I remember from my father, growing up as a child in upper Lehi on five acres of land.  

My father owned horses, cows, sheep, and pigs.  I remember my father coming home saying I work my fingers to the bone, and somewhere in the end of this lecture he would say and you don’t appreciate it.  One day my father put all the names of the animals in a hat, and we four boys drew out the name of an animal, which then became our responsibility to care for that animal.  I was unfortunate so I thought at the time in drawing out the name of the sheep.  They were the least manly of the animals.  They are in a kind word the most unintelligent animal on this earth; a more correct word they are the stupidest animal.  If you have never had the opportunity to herd sheep, it’s almost impossible; they dart between you and refuse to go were you could provide safety.  They will not listen, and have no sense of reason.  After a time of my caring for the sheep, the ewe’s or mother sheep had lambs.  One of the ewes’ died, leaving behind an orphaned lamb.  My responsibility was to feed and care for my lamb every morning and evening.  I would go down to the pasture with a bottle and feed and play with my lamb.  Over a period of time we became friends.  I would call out and my lamb would burst through the herd and come to me.  I no longer would herd my lamb I would lead and he would follow.  I could lead my lamb, wherever I desired, he was right by my side.  I have pondered of this experience over and over.  Bringing to life in a very personal way  the words of our Shepherd. 
Psalm 23  

1 The Lord  is my  shepherd; I shall not  want. 
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he  leadeth me beside the still waters. 
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his  name’s sake. 

Isaiah 40 

1 He shall feed his  flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom,  and shall gently lead those that are with young.

In speaking of himself our Savior says 
John 10 

11 I am the good shepherd: the good  shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 

14 I am the good shepherd, and  know my sheep, and am known of mine. 

Some of the most tender images in the scriptures are those of a sheep and a shepherd.  I learned from my father in a living experience. The words of Isaiah “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way” (Isaiah 53:6). 

I learned of the value and responsibility of the shepherd.  We have a shepherd in Jesus Christ for he said. 
“As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day” (Ezekiel 34:12). 
The words and deeds of my father taught me a most valuable lesson,  Teaching me of our Savior our shepherd I carry this experience with me always. 

I remember the words of my father. 
“This is going to hurt you a lot more than it will hurt me” 
  (Pause — Checking to see if you’re awake.) 
That’s the words I heard.  The words he said were 
“This is going to hurt me a lot more than it will hurt you” 
I did not really understand or feel the meaning of those words until I had children of my own.  

My father loved his children, always  trying to teach by his words.  Let me read to you his 
“Rules of Family Conduct” 
Remember there were 4 boys and a daughter.  We were rowdy and rambunctious. 

1.1-There will be no eating in the living room 
    a.a.  If you eat in the living room sit in one place.
    b.b.  If you do move have a napkin

2.1-There will be no watching of scary T.V. programs.
    a.a.  If you watch scary T.V. program you cannot sleep with mom and dad
    b.b If you sleep with mom and dad you may not bring your dog with you.

My father, in his way, teaching discipline to his children.  Although he was not perfect he was always trying.

I remember his words which went something like this.
Golf is like the Gospel  or another version Golf is like life:  He proceeded with sand traps, fairways, sinking a putt, and the allusive hole in one I never heard a life and spiritual lecture from anyone besides my father.  He loved golf and his golf buddies for Pop it was a spiritual experience.

 His words taught in the family setting became the most valuable.  Although he was never perfect, fraught with inconsistencies, four boys and a daughter who would rather be playing hear comes the crump, than listening to a boring lecture.  I cannot tell you how many times I have heard those words
 I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father
My father could have taught us many different theologies, or beliefs.  He choose to teach his family of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  As in the Book of Mormon my father choose to take his family away from Jerusalem or the world.  Leaving behind the cares or things of the world.  As Nephi and his brothers went back to get the brass plates in order to read the words of God, we also were taught to read and love the scriptures.  We traveled in the wilderness guided by my father.  where upon at the age of eight years arriving in the land Bountiful my father Baptized each one of us.  Then came the dangerous, journey across the ocean we call teenage years.  

My father desired to teach us by his words, to lead us to the promised land.  He was not perfect, we saw and felt some of his weaknesses.  But  I look at each one of my brothers and my sister.  Each one of us has a love for our Savior Jesus Christ.  Each one of us has a love for the gospel.  Yes we all have our own weaknesses and faults — that’s life.  My father gave us the foundation the beginning, of that life long love.  I choose to recognize and pay tribute and thank my father for his words that he taught me.  For it is a life long love.  I do not have the words to express my gratitude.

Our Father in Heaven has designated the husband or father as the head of the household—he is the patriarch of the family. The title father is sacred and eternal. 

I feel It is significant of all the names given to Deity, he has asked us to address him as Father” 
President Spencer W. Kimball said: “The Lord organized [His children] in the beginning with a father who procreates, provides, and loves and directs, and a mother who conceives and bears and nurtures and feeds and trains[, and children who] come to love, honor, and appreciate each other. The family is the great plan of life as conceived and organized by our Father in heaven” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1973, 151; or Ensign,July 1973, 15).
My father was born and died.  He lived for 76 years.  What will he be remembered for?  What legacy will he leave behind?  Material possessions will rust and fade.  Awards will be broken, someone else will sink the next putt.  He leaves behind a legacy a foundation beginning with his words of a love for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Of a family that will remember his name that will remember his words, and deeds.  And teach those same words to others.  It is an eternal round.
D&C 107:

53  Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, who were all high priests, with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing.
54  And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel.
55  And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him: I have set thee to be at the head; a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a prince over them forever.
56  And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation; and, notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation.

A Gospel, a Savior, words given by our Heavenly Father, of a far reaching magnitude, taught to me and my family by our earthly father.  To him I pay tribute, and honor and Love for there is no end. 

I Love you Pop.

I say this in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

by Arnie Cardon

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Kenneth J. Cardon was born August 11, 1934 in Hinckley Utah, to Jesse Leo Cardon and Allie A. Anderson.  His brothers and sister are Arnie Cardon, Colleen Cardon Smith, Jesse Cardon, Donna Mae Cardon Jones, Margo Cardon Andersen, Lois Cardon and Gary Cardon.   His sister Delores Cardon Andersen preceded him in death

Ken’s life started in Hinckley, Utah.  He and his family lived there until about 1940 when they moved to Tremonton Utah and there our father worked for IFA.  Ken took most of his time looking out for the younger children.   He accidently put Arnie’s arm through the wringer washing machine one time and he also shot the neighbor boy in the butt with a B.B. gun.  Most of the time he made certain we were well given good care so nothing serious would happen to us.  

Our father then took a job in Lehi Utah and we moved there living in a frame home in the south part of Lehi.  Neighbors there were the Petersons to the South, Owen Johnson to the West, Dwayne Woffinden, to the North and Greenwoods to the East.

Ken made a lot of friends there and he went to church every Sunday.  We were there about 2 years and the family moved to a frame house on Center Street and 2nd North.  This is where Ken started his sports.  He had a lot of good friends and they played football without pads on at the old Lehi High Football field.  They played basketball most of time at the Haws’ residence.  Every Sunday right after church there was a game.  Mrs. Haws would come out every Sunday and tell us that we should not be playing basketball on Sunday.   Hugh Haws would say don’t worry about it until my dad comes out.

Mother would make sure that all of us children would go to church.  Elwood Hunt was the scout master at the time.  Kenneth loved scouting and attended all his meetings faithfully.

We lived at this house for about 3 years and then we moved to the house in the fourth ward by Whimpey’s and the Clarks.

Kenneth and I were playing high school sports at this time.  Kenneth played football, basketball, baseball and he ran track.  He was good in all sports.  He ran the mile in track and his biggest competitor was Pres. Boyd Stewart.  He also played the trombone in the band and we loved hearing him play tunes.

Ken and his younger brothers and sisters worked every summer for Vern Hollandrake in the fields at the bottoms of American Fork by the Utah Lake.  We planted celery, onions and sugar beets.  We worked hard at this but we also had a lot of fun because we were all together.  We really never had any big fights with one another.  We just had fun.

Ken would go to Oak City Utah or Delta part of some of the summers to be with Grandpa and Grandma Anderson who lived in Oak City.   He would help on the farm there hauling hay, picking fruit, and trying to make the work horses jump ditches and fences.  When he went to Delta we went to Uncle Lloyd Peterson’s to have fun with our cousins, Wayne and Rayola.  Ken would help milk the cows and work in the hay fields.  We would walk to the show house and back on Saturday nights which was about 5 miles.

Ken and I went deer hunting to West canyon when he was 16 and I was 14 years old.  Our father took us up there and dropped us off.  We had a small tent to camp overnight in.  We got up the next morning and were gone about 20 minutes from our tent and then I saw a deer.  Ken said is it a buck.  I said yes it has horns and he shot it.  Our deer hunt was over.

When Ken graduated from Lehi High School he worked for Holly Auto in American Fork, until he was called on his mission to San Diego, California.  Ken served an honorable mission.  He loved serving the Lord.  The last day of his mission he called and asked me if I would be able to drive down and pick him up from his mission.  I went down and picked him up.  I said to Ken, I’ve heard a lot about Tijuana, Mexico and so since we were so close I asked him if he would like to go there.  He agreed.  We left the car on the border and walked in which was not very far and then decided it was not where we should be so we turned around and walked right back out to the car and drove home.  Ken went right to work when he got home from his mission.

He soon was introduced to the love of his life, Marilyn Larsen by his sister Colleen and they were married November 22, 1957.  Ken then went to work for Farmers Insurance for 42 years.  They were blessed with five children:  Kevin, Larry, Russell, Wade and Anita whom he loved very much.  Ken also loved his son-in-law and daughters-in-law very much and was grateful for the loving tender care which they all gave to him.  He adored his grand children and was so happy when they were all around him. Many of them served him in a more personal way and this was a blessing which enhanced his life greatly

Easter for Ken & Marilyn and the kids was a big event.  We would all get together and mostly go out West to have a picnic, hide eggs, climb the mountainside and play games.  All of the kids really looked forward to this as did our mother.

Ken and Marilyn loved BYU games and attended most all of them.  They enjoyed traveling out of state to the games with his sister Colleen and brother in-law Glen.

Ken and Marilyn talked often about the Cardon trip to Italy when most of the brothers and sisters were able to go.  It was a high light in his life to see the country where our Cardon ancestors originated from in Italy  

He and Marilyn also enjoyed the trip with several families of Cardon’s who went to  the Mexican Mormon Colonies , inJuarez, Mexico.  While we were there they held a special session just for Cardon’s in the Colonia Juarez Temple  and a session was held with all Cardon’s in attendance.  We felt the spirit strong at that time.  Kenneth during the trip suffered a bloody nose that would not stop.  He had faith though that if he could have a priesthood blessing he would be able to continue on.  He asked me to assist with the blessing which was a great privilege.    Because of his strong faith he was able to continue the trip which was very enjoyable.

Ken along with Marilyn enjoyed a lot of fun times and travel with their many good friends and family.

Ken enjoyed very much playing golf with his good friends, Don Palmer, Mel Kirkham and Gary Evans.  They were so good to him, he dearly loved being in their presence.

Ken was a faithful church member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and had many callings His favorite was being Scout Master where he served for over 20 years, earning the Silver Beaver Award.

Ken and our mother would make sure we always had a family Christmas party which everyone looked forward to each year.  Well it got bigger and bigger and when it grew to be over 100 we started having it catered.  We went from having a yearly Christmas party to a summer party at the park where the kids could run around more.   He also enjoyed later in years meeting almost monthly with his brothers and sisters and their spouses for lunch.  We laugh, talked and ate and it was done with the hope we could all become closer together and stay together as a family.

After Marilyn died, approx. 18 months ago, Ken was very lonely.   He missed her so very much.  He invited his sister Lois to move in with him.  This helped Ken a lot and it also helped Lois too.

Ken loved the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was a great example of service.  He loved and adored his wife and kids.  He loved all of his brothers and sisters and their spouses and was always in the middle of trying to help all of them out.  He was the first one to come forward and do what had to be done to get any of us out of a jam.  His main goal was to serve in what ever way he could to help others.

Ken died on December 26, 2010, surrounded by his loving family……………..

A Brief Life History

Great-grandson of Philp Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

Grandson of Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé

Son of Joseph Samuel Cardon and Selenia Walker

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Joseph Elmer Cardon, oldest son of Joseph Samuel Cardon and Salina N. Walker was born the 24th day of December, 1877 at Woodruff, Arizona, being one of the first of the Latter Day Saint children born in that locality.  He was born in a wagon box shortly after the arrival of his pioneer parents into that country.

 When he was eight years of age, his father and grandfather were among the first of the Mormons to move to Mexico.  On this journey Elmer was detailed to drive the cattle and extra horses belonging to his father and grandfather.  He grew to manhood in old Mexico and there married Lucinda Hurst.  A study of his history indicates that while in Mexico he was engaged in building railroads, dams and canals, in freighting and at farming and ranching.

 At the time of the Mexican revolution in 1912, he, along with the rest of the Mormon colonists, was forced to leave the country.  He sent his family to El Paso in box cars on a freight train, while he with the other men stayed behind to try to protect their property.  They, too, were finally forced to flee.  On just a few minutes notice, Elmer hitched two of his mares to a borrowed buggy and took with him several elderly men who were not able to ride so far horseback.  He was told how they were able to take with them only a sack of flour for provisions.  They prepared this flour by pouring a little water in the top of the sack, stirring  it around and then cooking it on a stick over the fire.

 Although he returned a short time later to remove what livestock and tools he was able to save, he never returned to that country to live.

 He lived in Binghampton, now a part of Tucson, for a time and later lived in New Mexico and Colorado where he was a farmer.

 He came to Mesa from Colorado in 1943 and has resided here since that time.  Until his health would no longer permit, he was very active as a temple worker and served as an ordained ordinance worker for eight years.  During much of this time he was employed as a caretaker on the temple grounds.

 One daughter, Hazel, preceded him in death.  Surviving him are his wife, Lucinda of Mesa, five sons, Joseph of Durango, Colorado, Ernest of Turlock, California, Eugene of Farmington, New Mexico, Udell of Ignacio, Colorado and Lloyd of Winslow, Arizona; four daughters, Ella, Mrs. Howard Goodman, of Farmington, New Mexico, Mildred, Mrs. Ernest Kleinworth of Winslow, Arizona, Gladys, Mrs. Vernon Jack of Lukachuia, Arizona and Lois, Mrs. James Chalk of Manteca, California, forty-three grandchildren and sixty-five living great grandchildren.

 

Also three brothers, Lester, William and Harold, all of El Paso and three sisters, Mrs. Eva Farnsworth of Mesa, Mrs. Ethel Farnsworth of El Paso and Mrs. Mabel Webb of Farmington, New Mexico as well as his father’s second wife, Aunt Rhoda as we of the family affectionately call her.

 He passed away at Mesa, Arizona on May 8th, 1965.