Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting Held March 22, 2008

A meeting of the Board of Directors was held March 22, 2008, at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Click the link below to read the minutes of the meeting.

Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting – March 22, 2008.pdf

Timeline of Milo Andrus’ Life (with Major Events in LDS Church History)

	Events in Milo Andrus’ Life	Events in LDS Church History
1805		Joseph Smith Jr. born in Sharon, Vermont.
1814	Born March 6, in Jay Township (now Wilmington), Essex County, New York.
1816		The Smith family moved from Vermont to the Palmyra, New York, area.
1816-24	Moved with family to Dunkirk, New York; Henrietta, Ohio; and East Norwalk, Ohio.
1820		The First Vision: God and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith.
1823		The angel Moroni first appeared to Joseph Smith and told him of the gold plates that would eventually be translated into the Book of Mormon.
1827		Moroni gave the gold plates to Joseph Smith.
1829		Priesthood restored. Translation of the Book of Mormon completed by Joseph Smith.
1830	Moved to Florence, Ohio.	First edition of the Book of Mormon published. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially organized in Fayette, New York.
1831		Joseph Smith moved to Kirtland, Ohio.
1832	Mother Azuba Smith died.	The School of the Prophets began in Kirtland, Ohio. Recent converts Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball arrived in Kirtland, Ohio, to meet Joseph Smith.
1833	Married Abigail Jane Daley. Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ordained an Elder. Served two short missions in Ohio.	Construction began on the Kirtland Temple.
1834	Marched to Missouri and back as a member of Zion’s Camp.	Zion’s Camp marched to Missouri.
1835	Ordained a member of the Quorum of the Seventy. Served mission to New York.	The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the Quorum of the Seventy organized. The Doctrine and Covenants is accepted as part of the scriptural canon of the Church.
1836	Helped build the Kirtland temple and was present at the dedication. Called as president of Florence, Ohio branch.	Kirtland Temple dedicated. Saints began to settle in Far West, Missouri.
1837		Missionaries arrive in the British Isles. This is the first Latter-day Saint mission outside of North America.
1836-37	Led Florence branch to Caldwell County, Missouri. Settled just south of Far West.
1838	Due to mob persecution, moved from Missouri to Adams County, Illinois (southeast of Nauvoo).	Due to mob persecution, Joseph Smith forced to flee Kirtland, Ohio. He and his family settled in Far West, Missouri.
1839		Joseph Smith imprisoned in Liberty jail.
1838-40	Served 3rd mission to Ohio.
1841		The First Presidency issued a proclamation urging all Saints to gather to Nauvoo, Illinois. Construction began on the Nauvoo Temple.
1842	Moved to Nauvoo, Illinois.	Relief Society organized. Articles of Faith published.
1844	Called as bishop of Nauvoo 5th ward. Served 4th mission to Ohio. Activities included campaigning for the presidential candidacy of Joseph Smith. Helped build Nauvoo temple.	Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum are murdered while imprisoned in a jail in Carthage, Illinois. Both men had been arrested under false charges.
1845	Received endowment in the Nauvoo temple and served as an ordinance worker. Called as president of one of the Quorums of Seventy.	Portions of the Nauvoo Temple dedicated.
1846	Due to mob persecution in Nauvoo, moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and then to Winter Quarters, Nebraska.	Due to persecution, the first groups of Saints left Nauvoo for the West. The Mormon Battalion began march to California. Winter Quarters established.
1847	Remained in Winter Quarters to grow crops for Saints going west.	First Pioneer Company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Brigham Young sustained as second Church President.
1847-57		The Saints established about 100 colonies in the American West.
1848	Married 2nd wife Sarah Miles.
1848-50	Served 1st mission to England. Served as president of the Liverpool conference.
1849	Father Ruluf Andrus died.	The Perpetual Emigration Fund was established to assist Saints traveling to the Salt Lake Valley.
1850	Led his 1st wagon company of 51 wagons and 206 people across the plains to Salt Lake City.	Utah became a territory of the United States.
1851	Divorced by 1st wife Abigail Daley. Married 3rd wife Lucy Loomis . 2nd wife Sarah Miles died.	The Book of Mormon is published in Danish, the first foreign-language edition.
1852	Married 4th wife Adeline Alexander. Married 5th wife Mary Webster.
1854	Sent from Salt Lake City to be president of the St. Louis stake.
1855	Led his 2nd wagon company of 461 people across the plains to Salt Lake City. Married 6th wife Elizabeth Brooks. Married 7th wife Ann Brooks. Married 8th wife Jane Munday.
1856		Severe snowstorms trapped the Willie and Martin handcart companies in Wyoming. Many were saved by rescuers from the Salt Lake Valley.
1857	Married 9th wife Margaret Boyce. Served as a Major in the Utah Militia during the Utah War.
1858	Served as bishop of Big Cottonwood ward. Married 10th wife Emma Covert.
1859-61	Served 2nd mission to England. Served as president of the Birmingham district.
1860	Andrus halfway house built by 3rd wife Lucy Loomis at Dry Creek (now Sandy), Utah. (The halfway house was moved to Utah’s This is the Place State Park in 1981.)
1861	Led company of 600 Saints from England to New York on the ship Underwriter. Lead company of 900 Saints to Florence, Nebraska by train. Lead his 3rd wagon company of 38 wagons and 620 people to Salt Lake City.
1862	Married 11th wife Francenia Tuttle.
1864	Divorced from 4th wife Adeline Alexander.
1869		The forerunner to the current Young Women organization was established.
1869-70	Called to mission in the eastern states.
1873	Sent to St. George, Utah to organize and serve as chairman of the United Order. Helped build the St. George temple.
1874-81	Served on the high council of the St. George stake.
1875		The forerunner to the current Young Men organization was founded. Brigham Young Academy is established, Provo, Utah. (In 1903, the name was changed to Brigham Young University.)
1877		The St. George Utah Temple was dedicated. Brigham Young dies.
1878		The first meeting of the Primary was held.
1880		John Taylor sustained as third President of the Church. The Pearl of Great Price is accepted as part of the scriptural canon.
1881	Sent to colonize Blake City (now Green River), Utah.
1882	Moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Appointed chaplain of the council of the Utah Legislature.
1884	Moved to Oxford, Idaho. Called as stake patriarch.	Logan Utah Temple dedicated.
1886	Remarried 1st wife Abigail Jane Daley.
1888		Manti Utah Temple dedicated.
1889		Wilford Woodruff sustained as fourth President of the Church.
1890		The “Manifesto” is sustained in general conference, ending the practice of plural marriage (found in Doctrine and Covenants, Official Declaration 1).
1893	Died at Oxford, Idaho, June 19.	The Salt Lake Temple is dedicated after 40 years of construction.
1896		Utah becomes a state.

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Timeline of Milo Andrus’ Life

Timeline of Milo Andrus’ Life (including the births of all 57 chidlren)

The Anderson Report: August 2007 Research Trip

For this trip we had three main goals!

1. Separating out the Andrus (Andrews, Andress, Andros…) lines in Vermont.
This I did by calling all of the living Andrus families in Vermont in the hopes of doing DNA testing with them.

One group, the Andrus name came from their mother. This line does not qualify for DNA.
One group descended with the farm in Danby. We got a DNA sample on this line.
One group lived in Stowe. His wife was familiar with DNA so he gave a sample.
One knew they descended from Bildad and they were not in our area.
One group from Rutland City left the state and went to Huron County, Ohio. We will need to track them if we do not locate a match from the tests now in progress.

We are starting to separate out the lines. The results are back on the gentleman from Stowe (so are Ray and Merrill Andrus’s Jane Munday line). They were not a match so that eliminates that line.
We are still waiting on "Family Tree DNA" for the rest of the results to come in.

2. Put Ruluf’s land in Essex County on the map.
Ruluf was Milo’s father. We found the land that Ruluf had once owned with the help of the Essex County assessor’s office. The land was located in Jay, NY. Jay was later divided off in the 1820’s and named Wilmington. Ruluf owned land in current-day Wilmington across from Fox Farm Road to the east. It consisted of 100 acres on the south side of “Lot 27”—part of a piece of land originally granted to a Nathan Mallory. Ruluf mortgaged this land in 1808 and lost it in 1809. John Smith (father of Ruluf’s future wife, Azuba), owned land across the street from Ruluf’s.

If you enter "Indian Rock Rd., Wilmington, New York, United States" on Google Maps this is what you will see:

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Half way down the Indian Rock Rd. loop (off highway 12) is where Ruluf’s land was located. If you go across highway 12, to the north of Fox Farm Road that is where John Smith, Azuba’s father, had his land. (Azuba was Ruluf’s wife and Milo’s mother.)

[This photo is taken from Ruluf’s land, looking west. The mountain in the picture is Whiteface Mountain. Whiteface Mountain is just north of Lake Placid.]

3. Get as much information as possible into our digital library so research can be done at home.
We gleaned information from:

Vermont Historical Society in Barre town and County: histories, old maps, box of original documents on Ezra Andrus family (Danby farm) containing 420 original documents—three days’ work by three people.
Vermont State Archives in Middlesex: all Andrus and variant spelling names—one day, three people.
Burlington Historical Society in Burlington Vermont: Andrus and Dutcher names—one day.
Tinmouth City offices: Andrus and Smith names, especially Joseph son of Isaac of Shaftsbury.
Poultney Historical Society: all associated names: genealogies, grave sites, tax records—especially Roswell and Isaac son of Isaac of Shaftsbury.
Pawlet City offices: all Andrus and Dennison’s land, birth, marriage, and death records.
Pawlet Cemetery: descendants of Ezra Andrus and other Andrus persons
Shaftsbury Cemetery: descendants of Isaac Andrus of Shaftsbury

The Trip

As for the actual trip, this trip did not go as planned!