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Persoonlijke gegevens Alexander Beckstead Hunsaker 

• Hij is geboren op 19 mei 1852 in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA.Bronnen 2, 3, 5
• Hij is gedoopt in het jaar 1862.
• Geëmigreerd op 26 september 1857.
• Geïmmigreerd op 1 november 1857 vanuit Utah, United States.
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1910: Alma, Maricopa, Arizona Territory, United States.
• Box Elder, United States.
• Box Elder, Utah, United States.
• (Mission) in het jaar 1875 in England.
• (AFN) : 2KJJ-2F.
• (FamilySearch ID) : KWNP-TL7.
• (LifeSketch) : Alexander was married when Wilford Woodruff called him on a mission to England. At the time, he was a 70..
• Hij is overleden op 10 juni 1910 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America, hij was toen 58 jaar oud.Bronnen 3, 5
• Hij is begraven juni 1910 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America.Bron 3
• Een kind van Abraham Hunsaker en Harriet Vernisha Beckstead

Gezin van Alexander Beckstead Hunsaker

Hij is getrouwd met Melissa Caroline Johnson.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 29 november 1869 te Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, hij was toen 17 jaar oud.Bronnen 2, 5

Kind(eren):

1. Oral Hugh Hunsaker  1898-1932 

Notities over Alexander Beckstead Hunsaker

Alexander Beckstead HunsakerFirst born of Abraham and Harriet Hunsaker Alexander Beckstead Hunsaker was born 19 May 1852 at Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah where two brothers and a sister were born. In 1856 he moved with his parents to Carson, Nevada when they answered the call of Brigham Young to colonize that country. Due to problems with United States government over polygamy and the fact that Johnson’s army was moving against the people of Utah, Brigham Young called all Mormons back to Utah. They returned to Brigham City where he lived to manhood. Alexander went to many places with his father to help with the cattle and to answer the needs of the church in central and northern Utah. This prepared him for his adult life of which he was always eager and ready to do.
He met and married very pretty Melissa Carolin Johnson on 29 Nov 1869 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They were a very handsome couple and popular in all circles of friendships. They resided in Honeyville when they were first married, where Melissa was the first school teacher. 11 Oct 1875 they answered a mission call to the Shoshone Indians in Washakie, Utah. They labored there until 1883 when they returned to Honeyville doing much good amongst those people in that area.
Calls to serve the Lord came often to this faithful family and so it was in 1884 they answered the call to colonize Arizona Territory along with three other brothers, Hyrum, and Cyrus who were both married and Gordon a young teenager full of eagerness to settle the country with his brothers. Hyrum and Alexander along with Gordon left Honeyville along mid 1884 travelling through southern Utah to pick up Cyrus and Ann who were living down there on a farm with her parents. The trip was long and rough especially slow as they were taking a herd of cattle along. When they reached Northern Arizona they stopped at a small two-room cabin which had been abandoned so they could rest themselves and the cattle for a few days. One morning while Melissa was cooking breakfast, a band of Indians rode into camp and demanded food. The men were away. As Melissa was preparing the food for them they ransacked the contents of every wagon looking for ammunition. Then they came into the cabin and sat in a circle and were fed. After eating they went outside and held a Pow Wow. Finally they got on their horses and rode off to the next ranch where they killed all five members of a family.
When they were rested they continued on where they settled first in Snowflake, Arizona, Navajo County. During the part of the year that they stayed in Snowflake a daughter Hester Lila was born. In 1885 they moved to Safford, Graham, Arizona living there almost a year then moving in 1887 to Mesa settling in Alma Ward.
Not long after they arrived in the Salt River Valley, Alexander purchased a stage line in Mesa running from Mesa to Maricopa, Mesa to Phoenix, Mesa to Goldfield, and Mesa to Fort McDowell. Many of his family worked for him driving stage. He also had several contracts to hall the mail between these points for over 10 years.
In 1895 he went into the Hardware and Mercantile business in Mesa soon after taking his son-in-law O.S. Stapley who married his daughter Polly May in to his business with him. In June of 1900 Alexander made the business into two divisions with O.S. Stapley running the Hardware and himself running the Mercantile end of the business and during this time had mail contracts to haul the mail in that part of the Valley. Alexander had all his children as share holders in his company in 1910. After his death one by one the children sold off their shares to O.S. Stapley not before most of them at one time or another worked in the store.
Alexander Beckstead Hunsaker was called in 1891 to be the Bishop of the newly reorganized Alma Ward and was set apart by John Henry Smith, Joseph F Smith and John Windor. He held this position for 18 years before resigning due to poor health and extensive business affairs. His son Edgar was then called to fill his position as Bishop. This same year he was called to be a member of the High Council of the Maricopa Stake. He was also elected Supervisor of the Maricopa County in 1902 a very prestigious position which he served successfully until 1908 two years before he died.
While he was in business he was very generous with the poor, he always kept what he called the “Widow’s Mite” so when anyone who came into the store with insufficient funds to purchase what was needed, never left without it, because of the help from the “Widow’s Mite”.
He leased a cattle range in Sunflower area and the two older boys, Alexander and Edgar along with Alexander’s brother Gordon Hunsaker took care of the cattle.
“Pap” Hunsaker, as he was known by many of his friends was loved and admired for his ideal life…for his honesty, integrity, cleanliness and simplicity, not only in his private life but in his public and political life.
He passed away 10 Jun 1910 at the home he built after arriving in Mesa from a heart condition which was the cause of his retirement at the age of 58 years. His funeral was held in what was then the tabernacle, but is now known as the third ward chapel, with President JT LeSueur presiding. Speakers were J.T. LeSueur, Isaac Dana (brother to his son-in-law Hugh Dana and long time bishop) AH Fulton, Superintendant of the Schools; Don C. Babbitt, County Treasurer; and Carl Hayden Sheriff Maricopa County who later became Senator of Arizona. Few men were ever given greater tribute than was bestowed upon Alexander Beckstead Hunsaker who’s private, business, and political careers were above reproach.
He was laid to rest in the Mesa City Cemetery where his beloved wife Melissa Caroline joined him in 1921.

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