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Philippe
Cardon and Marthe Marie Tourn Family (24
May 1799) Marthe Marie Tourn is born in Rorà. (2
October 1801) Philippe Cardon is born in Roccapiatta. (1
February 1821) Philippe Cardon marries Marthe Marie Tourn in the Rorà temple. (1838)
Philippe Cardon purchases a home in Roccapiatta. (6 October 1849) At General
Conference Brigham Young calls Lorenzo Snow and Joseph Toronto as missionaries
to Italy “and wherever the spirit may direct.” John Taylor is called to
France; and Erastus Snow to Scandinavia. A committee is established to raise
money for a Perpetual Emigrating Fund to assist poor converts to immigrate to
Utah. The initial committee is made up of Willard Snow, John S. Fullmer,
Lorenzo Snow, John D. Lee, and Franklin D. Richards. (19 October 1849) Snow and
Toronto leave Salt Lake City for England. (19 April 1850) Snow and
Toronto arrive in England. They remain in England for almost two months before
traveling to Italy. Snow visits church conferences in Manchester, Birmingham,
Cheltenham, London, and Southampton. Snow begins making plans for the Italian
Mission. While visiting these conferences he calls two British converts as
missionaries to Italy. These converts are Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse who is
the President of the Southampton Conference; and Jabez Woodard who is the President
of the Kent Road Branch and had taken a few Italian lessons from a
“persevering linguist of Winchester.” [MS 15:585-6] Snow decides to
commence his mission in the Waldensian valleys after reading a pamphlet
entitled The Waldenses which was
published in 1846 by the Religious Tract Society. (15 June 1850) Snow,
Stenhouse and Toronto leave Southampton aboard the steamship “Wonder.”
They stop in Havre, France where they continue by coach to Paris, Lyons, and
finally Marseille. From Marseille they sail to Antibes and from there they
travel by coach to Nice and finally Genoa. (25 June 1850) Snow,
Stenhouse, and Toronto arrive in Genoa. (1 July 1850) Stenhouse and
Toronto leave Genoa for Torino and the Waldensian valleys. (23 July 1850) Snow leaves
Genoa for Torino and the Waldensian valleys. Snow takes lodgings at Pension de
l’Ours in Torre Pellice [a/k/a La Tour]. He places portraits of Joseph and
Hyrum Smith on the wall of his room. Soon after his arrival Snows writes The
Voice of Joseph. The pamphlet describes Great Salt Lake City and the
Perpetual Emigrating Company. “After fruitless endeavors to find a proper
person to translate this work, I found it necessary to send it to England:
where, through the kindness of Elder Orson Pratt, it was translated by a
professor from the University of Paris. Snow also plans to translate a
pamphlet entitled Ancient Gospel
Restored, which he had written almost ten years earlier while he was a
missionary in England.
[IM, 13-4] (August 1850) Snow grants
Toronto permission to travel to Palermo, Sicily to do missionary work. (Summer/Fall 1850) Snow
meets Charles Beckwith, Waldensian pastors and Catholic priests in the
valleys. The Waldensian ministers he encountered include Henri Peyrot of Torre
Pellice, Jean Pierre Bonjour of Saint-Jean, and Pierre Monastier of Angrogna.
The Catholic priests he encountered include Giovanni Battista Costa, the
parish priest in Angrogna, who invited the missionaries to spend the night in
the Church of San Lorenzo and presented Snow with a book of grammar. During
this period Mormon missionaries are allowed to preach to Waldensian
congregations. According to Snow “This has produced some little stir among
the officials.” (September 1850) Snow
requests Jabez Woodard to leave England and travel to Torre Pellice. Woodard
procured a French passport for travel in Europe. He traveled from London to
Boulogne, Paris, Tonnorre, Lyon, Chambery, and Torino, before arriving in
Torre Pellice. (6-8 September 1850) Snow
reports the blessing and healing of a three year old boy named Joseph Gay at
the Pension de l’Ours. The boy recovers following the blessing. The mother
is very grateful. Gay’s parents, Jean Pierre Gay and Concourde Henriette
Gay, are the managers of Pension de l’Ours. The pension is owned by Jean
Jacques Peyrot who was the father-in-law of Joseph Malan. Malan was elected in
1848 as the first Waldensian representative in the parliament of the Kingdom
of Sardinia. He and his wife, Carolyn, were the godparents of the sick boy. (18 September 1850) Jabez
Woodard arrives in Torre Pellice. His family (wife and two children) remain in
London with church members. (19 September 1850) Snow,
Stenhouse, and Woodard ascend the summit of Monte Casteluzzo (which they
rename the “Rock of Prophecy”) where they dedicate Italy to missionary
work. They renamed an adjoining peak (Monte Vandelino) Mount Brigham. (27 October 1850) Snow and
his companions are invited by Waldensian pastors to answer questions
concerning their mission. The first Waldensian convert, Jean Antoine Bose, is
baptized by Lorenzo Snow. (IM,
19) (24 November 1850) Snow,
Woodard and Stenhouse hike to the summit of Monte Casteluzzo. Snow ordains
Jabez Woodard a high priest and sets him apart as his successor mission
president; he also ordains Stenhouse a high priest and sets him apart to begin
missionary work in Switzerland. (26 December 1850)
Stenhouse leaves Torre Pellice for Geneva. (2 December 1850) Snow
writes that he will soon circulate the French translation of The
Voice of Joseph in the Waldensian valleys and in the cantons of
Switzerland. He also noted that his pamphlet Ancient
Gospel Restored—which he wrote ten years earlier as a missionary in
England—was being “translated through the politeness of the French
mission.” [IM, 20] (January 1851) Snow’s
pamphlets Exposition des premiers
principes de la doctrine de l’Eglise de Jesus Christ des Saints des Derniers
Jours and La voix de Joseph
(“with a woodcut of a Catholic nun, anchor, lamp [monstrance] and cross on
the first page, and on the last, Noah’s ark, the dove and the olive.”) are
published in Torino. [IM, 25] (25 January 1851) Snow
ordains Antoine Bose an Elder. He leaves Torre Pellice and returns to England
to supervise the translation of the Book
of Mormon into Italian. He notes that “Here Protestantism is not the
offspring of boasted modern reformation, but may fairly dispute with Rome as
to which is the oldest in apostasy.” [SA,14] (January 1851) Jabez
Woodard encounters Jean Daniel Malan in Torre Pellice at the home of Malan’s
son-in-law and daughter (Marie). Malan invites Woodard to visit his family and
neighbors in Angrogna. [Stephen Malan history] (24 February 1851) Jabez
Woodard meets the family of Jean Daniel Malan and approximately twenty-five
neighbors in Angrogna. That evening he baptizes two converts in the ice cold
Angrogna River. One of the new converts is Jean Daniel Malan, Jr. (25 February 1851) Jabez
Woodard baptizes the remaining members of the Jean Daniel Malan’s family and
a few relatives. Francis Combe of Angrogna is baptized the same day. In his
report Woodard notes that Malan, a “firm believer in the Voice of Joseph,
“was requested [five months earlier] to take the office of Elder in the
Waldensian Church. This he refused.” (17 March 1851) Barthélémy
Pons of Angrogna is baptized by Jabez Woodard. (25
March 1851) Philippe Cardon obtains a loan for 400 lire from the Congregazione
di Carità di San Bartolomeo (a Catholic charity in San Bartolomeo). The notes
provided for repayment in 15 years with an interest rate of 5%. A mortgage was
placed on the Cardon residence. (17 April 1851) Daniel
Justet, of Inverso Pinasca, is baptized by Jabez Woodard. His wife and family
are baptized a year later. (24 July 1851) Barthélémy
Pons baptizes his wife and two children. (14 August) Michael Beus
(40), his wife Marie (40), of Pramollo, and one of his three children
(Jacques) are baptized by Jabez Woodard and J.D. Malan. The remaining children
(John, Michael, and Paul are baptized on 26 August 1855 prior to the
family’s departure for Utah. (2
January 1852) Philippe Cardon (50) and his wife Marie (56), of Prarostino, are
baptized by Jean Daniel Malan, Sr. They have four sons (Jean, Louis Philippe,
Paul, and Thomas B.) and two daughters (Marie Madelaine and Catherine) who
also join the church. (3
October 1852) Jean Paul Cardon (28) is baptized by Barthelemy Pons. (24
November 1852) Catherine (21), Philippe (20), and Marie Madelaine (17) are
baptized by Jean Daniel Malan, Sr. (22 December 1852) Barthélémy
Pons sold a house and pasture in
Angrogna (Borgata Pons) for 7000 lire. (8 August 1853) Jean
Bertoch (60), a farmer who lived in San Germano Chisone, and four of his five
children (Jean (26), Daniel (18), Jacques (14), and Antoinette (24)) are
baptized by Jabez Woodard. The fifth child, Marguerite (20) is baptized on 1
February 1854, a week before the children immigrate to Utah. (13
September 1853) Philippe Cardon sells home and property in Prarostino for 5000
lire. (20
December 1853) Jean Bertoch sold home and property in Borgata Godini for 2,200
lire. The home was in the name of his deceased wife Marguerite Bounous. 200
lire from the sale were escrowed if his son Daniel Bertoch was absent when
called into military service (by lottery number) and in such event would be
used to purchase a military deferment. (January 1854) Jean
Bertoch sold pasture land in Pomaretto for 300 lire. (7
February 1854) First group of Mormon converts (Bertoch, Pons, Cardon) leave
Waldensian valleys for Utah. Jabez
Woodard departed earlier and will accompany this group from Liverpool to New
Orleans. T. B. H. Stenhouse joins the group somewhere on the continent
(probably in Geneva or Paris) and accompanies them to Liverpool. Following
Woodard’s departure Stenhouse becomes the president of the Italian Swiss
Mission. Persons
in this first group of Italian converts (3 families) (18 members): Cardon:
Louis Philippe (father); Marie Tourne (mother); Jean, Louis Philippe, Paul,
Thomas B., Marie Madeleine, Catherine (family of 8) (Prarostino/ Val Chisone);
Pons: Barthélemy
(father), Marie (wife); David, Lydia, Marie (family of 5) Angrogana/Val
Pellice); Bertoch: Jean,
Daniel, Jacques, Antoinette, Marguerite (5 children) (San Germano, Val Chisone).
(12 March 1854) The
ship John M. Wood departs from
Liverpool. Church leaders: Robert Campbell. Jabez Woodard in charge of Italian
converts. (2 May 1854) John M.
Wood arrives in New Orleans. From New Orleans the group travels by Steamboat
to St. Louis (where they are placed in quarantine), and from St. Louis they
travel by steamboat to West Port (where the group remained for two months in
camp getting ready for the trek west). (14 May 1854)
Antoinette Bertoch dies on Arsenal Island near St. Louis (May-June 1854)
Barthelemy Pons dies at Westport. (21 August 1854) Jean
Bertoch dies near Fort Kearney. (28 October 1854)
First group of Waldensian converts arrive in Salt Lake City. They are greeted
by Joseph Toronto. The Bertoch children spend the first several days at the
Toronto home (“A” Street and
First Avenue). They are sent to Dairy Springs on Church Island [a/k/a Antelope
Island] under the patronage of Toronto. The
Cardon and Pons families settle at Mound Fort in Ogden. Most Waldensian
converts who immigrate to Utah in subsequent groups settle in Ogden. (5 November 1854)
Catherine Cardon marries Moses Byrne) (19 February 1855)
Marie Madelaine Cardon marries Charles Guild. (16 June 1856) Samuel
Francis reports to Franklin D. Richards that Philippe Cardon’s daughter
[Annette], who was not a church member, received a letter from her father
which “seems to restrain the prejudices of the people for awhile.” [MS 18:
490-91] (15 March 1857) Jean Paul
Cardon marries Susanne Gaudin. (1857) Louis Philippe
Cardon marries Suzette Stalle. (1860) Philippe
Cardon is one of the earliest settlers in Logan. (21 March 1863)
Philippe Cardon marries Jeanne Marie Gaudin Stalle. (19 December 1870)
Jean Paul Cardon marries Madelaine Beus. |