Warren Paddix Brady & Rachel Ann Cox were Pioneers
(Parents of Simeon Henderson Brady, Father of Annie Elizabeth Brady, Mother of Simeon
Woodrow White, Father of Alan J White)
Warren Paddix Brady was born in 1836 in
Kentucky. His parents had been baptized into the LDS church the previous year.
The family moved to Far West, Missouri where they were subjected to much
persecution. They moved again three years later to Nauvoo where Warren attended
school with the children of the Prophet Joseph Smith and other church leaders.
He was nine years old when the family was driven from Nauvoo across the ice of
the Mississippi River on 4 February 1846.
The family lived in the vicinity of
Winter quarters for three years while they prepared for crossing the plains. He
was thirteen when the family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1850.
Rachel was only 12 years old when her family
made the trek from Winter Quarters, Nebraska to Salt Lake City. She was born in
Crawford County, Missouri in 1836. Her family joined the church in 1838, and
moved to Nauvoo, living there through all the persecutions. He moved to Winter
Quarters in 1845. Her oldest brother Henderson Cox, went with the Mormon
Battalion to the Pacific coast. He started to Salt Lake City and was killed by
the Indians in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in July, 1847.
Her father came on to Utah in 1848. Rachel
walked nearly all the way assisting in driving cattle. They lived in Salt Lake
one year, then moving to Union Fort. They lived in Mt. Pleasant until March 17,
1860, when they moved to Fairview (then called North Bend) where they have
since lived.
She
reared a family of 15 children, all lived to maturity, 10 of whom are still
living, also 112 grandchildren, 203 great-grandchildren and 11
great-great-grandchildren, making a total of 341 of their living posterity. [at
the time of her death in 1922]