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Henry Alanson Cleveland was born in Durham, Greene Co. New York on January 4, 1809. He was the third son of Searing Cleveland and Martha Matilda Wright.
In about 1830 he married a widow, Mrs. Anna Slade Rogers, daughter of Aaron Slade and Mary Knight of Marlboro, Windom Co., Vermont. (Mary Knight's brother was Joseph Knight.) They moved to Kirtland Ohio where they joined the church being among the first 150 members.
They were among the early disciples gathering to Jackson County, Missouri. It was here on November 4, 1833 in the battle at Blue River where Henry was wounded. Like his neighbor, Philo Dibble, he survived and carried the bullet to his grave.
Henry and Anna moved from Jackson to Clay County, Missouri, in 1833. Their first child Henry Rogers Cleveland was born Liberty, Missouri, on October 8, 1834. By 1837 the family was living in Caldwell County. William George Cleveland was born in Far West, Missouri, on May 20, 1837, They family was among the saints expelled from the state in 1838. The couple's third child, Antoinette Cleveland, was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.
[http://www.sedgwickresearch.com/cleveland/henrycleveland.htm]
 Henry Alanson Cleveland in later years
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In Nauvoo the Cleveland's were neighbors to Joseph Smith. His son, Henry Roger, carried milk and butter to the Prophet's home. Henry Alanson, acted as the Prophet's bodyguard.
After the expulsion from Nauvoo, in 1846, the Clevelands traveled across Iowa and crossed the river to Council Bluffs, there went on another thirty miles. Here Henry purchased a farm. Within six years from this time he began preparations for the journey west with the remainder of the Saints who were being driven from their homes. In exchange for his farm he received the running gear of a wagon, which, together with another wagon, he equipped for the long trek across the plains, one to be drawn by oxen, the other by cows. At Willow Creek, they joined Captain Werner's ox train and started for Utah. Lot Smith, later famous in western history, was in charge of their company. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on October 3, 1852. Here the family remained for a couple of weeks to attend the General Conference of the Church. Then they journeyed north twelve miles to the small village of Centerville, Davis County. Here he purchased ten acres of land from Lyman Porter for the sum of two hundred dollars. Henry later served a short mission on the Salmon River. Eventually, they located in Centerville, Utah. He dragged logs from the nearby canyons and hewed them by hand so that by April 1855 their tiny log cabin was completed. He and his two sons helped make, by hand, adobes from the bottom land clay and laid them as their contribution to the constuction of the defensive "Old Fort Wall," a measure of safety against marauding Indians. Henry died in October 1867. [http://www.xmission.com/~hunter/henry.html]
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