This Memorial is of my 3rd great-grandparents Randolph & Myzra Nix Alexander - A little story
as follows . on April 12,1842, Randolph attended a meeting of the lodge.the twelve Apostles were there,and it was voted that Randolph would go on a Mission to the South to preach the Gospel. Randolph became a convert to the church through the laborers of Wilford Wooddruff.Randolph was a member of the Nauvoo 1ST ward. Randolph moved his family after 1836 to Missouri to be with the saints,there he lived 2 miles south of Far West,Missouri, then to Nauvoo,Then to Winter quarters,then to Utah with one mule and a milk cow to pull the Family belongings, The family Arrived in the Salt Lake Valley Sept.28.1847 , Settling in Parles Canyon. , one of His Daughters name Adeline Alexander. Adeline was nine years old when the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed and she saw the the bodies of Hyrum and Joseph after the were prepared for Burial. She remembered sitting on joseph knee and talking to him many times. She and her family were at the meeting when the saints voted to substain Bringham Young as the head of the Church. at age of 15 ,she married Milo Adrus,he was 21 years older and had other wifes and children, she was not in love with him, but her father convinced her that the marriage was right , she lived in a little house in Bringham Canyon, but she did not see her husband very often, she did however bear him 5 children, milo visted shortly before randolph was born , but due to other buisness left again , when adeline gave birth to the baby m she lay hemoraragin for three days untill a neigbor noticed no smoke from the chimley, adeline went to bringham young and told him of her hardships , he allowed her a divorice on june 6,1864 . adeline later married andrew sproul and bore him 7 children , on sept.26,1911.andrew & adeline were returng home from the st.george temple when the horses became frighten and ran away , adeline was thrown out and killed instanly .
