Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Charles Coulson Rich
1809 - 1883 (74 years)
Generation: 1
1. Charles Coulson Rich was born on 21 Aug 1809 in Big Bone, Campbell, Kentucky; died on 17 Nov 1883 in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho. Notes:
A major early Mormon, appointed in 1849 to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Organizer of multiple settlements in Utah, Idaho, and California. Subject of two books, Leonard J. Arrington, Charles C. Rich: Mormon General and Western Frontiersman (1974) by Leonard J. Arrington, the pre-eminent modern historian of Mormonism, and Charles Coulson Rich: Pioneer Builder of the West (1936) by John Henry Evans.
Charles married Mary Ann Phelps on 6 Jan 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Morris Charles Phelps and Laura Clark Baldwin) was born on 6 Aug 1829 in Peoria, Tazewell, Illinois; died on 17 Apr 1912 in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]