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Note for:   John Conrad Naegle,   14 SEP 1825 - 10 SEP 1899

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Mormon Batalian - PPM of Utah page 43 - listed as Conrad Naile.

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OUR PIONEER HERITAGE - Pioneer Midwives pg 494
  John Conrad and his half-brother Conrad Kleinman heard the gospel and was
  baptized in Indiana. They went to Nauvoo, only to find the Saints in deep
  mourning over the martyrdom of the prophet. This was in June of 1844. The
  brothers soon found work on the temple by day and often acted as body-guards at
  night. When the Mormon Battalion was required of the government, John Conrad
  was amont the first to volunteer, and his brother Conrad would gladly have
  joined him but he was appointed a scout for the vanguard company to the Rocky
  Mountains.
       John had made a considerable amount of money in the gold fields of California
  and added to it from the products of a large Spanish grant of land he had
  purchased in San Jose. He used this means wherever he could to help build up
  the Church or care for her people. He was especially interested in German
  emigrants who had no one to cre for them. They were brought to the Naegle home
  where food and shelter were provided until they found employment and began
  their own home-building.
       Regula and Anna Benz were brought to this home where they found looms and
  work a plenty for their skilled hands.
       In 1864 or 65 John Naegle and Conrad Kleinman were called to move to
  Toquerville. John had amassed an immense holding in cattle and horses which he
  now moved to the Kaibab forest, on government reserves, in the Buckskin
  mountains. The wives took turns in the summer months caring for the Naegle boys
  and hired men on the ranch. To instruct the people in the skills of wine-making, the authorities called
  John C. Naegle (Naile) to go to Toquerville during the 1860's . Naegle was
  born in the wine-producing area of Germany, so he knew how to make good wine.
       The big rock house - built by Naegle to house his polygmous family - stands
  empty by the busy highway now, a silent reminder of an industry which promised
  so much and came to so little. (I WAS CALLED TO DIXIE by Andrew Karl Larsen
  1961) John C. Naegle was a member of the Mormon Battalion.-UNDER DIXIE SUN
  John's half-brother Conrad Kleinman, who had learned the business in Germany
  assisted him in the wine making until Conrad and part of his family went to
  Mesa, Arizona. John was noted as the best wine maker in Southern Utah, and his
  product was known as "Nails Best".
       In the summers of 1917 and 1918 the wine basement was converted into a
  cannery for the purpose of preserving figs. Electric stoves were installed and
  running water put in. Later it was used to house a grading and defuzzing plant
  for peaches. It is owned by the Spilsbury Land and Livestock Co. and is used
  to store grains and bailed hay, machinery etc.
  NOTE:John Americanized the name Naile to Naegle and in 1873 it was leagalized.
  John sealed to Conrad Kleinman. (Anita Kleinman says Naegle is German for
  Nail ??) SKETCH OF ANNA BENZ KLEINMAN - PG 2: John Conrad Naegle had amassed
  considerable wealth and at one time was the highest tithe payer in the Church.
  He went on two missions to his native land, after going to Indiana and bringing
  with him, his parents and his boyhood sweetheart, Mary Louise Koppel, and
  seeing them comfortably settled in Zion.

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Note for:   Regula Benz,   1 JUL 1839 - 20 OCT 1920

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(UNDER DIXIE SUN by Washington County Chapter D.U.P)
       The first silk spun in Toquerville was spun by Regelia Naegle.
  Family group sheet '4 generation films' by Mrs Lyle Millett , Mesa and Beverly
  Cooper, 1755 N. Forest, Mesa.
  OUR PIONEER HERITAGE - Pioneer Midwives pgs 498-499 Regula and Anna Benz
  learned to weave silk by their mother in Zurich.
       In the late 1880's Mr. Naegle moved part of his family and livestock to
  Mexico and settled at Pacheco. Regula was with him there but after his death
  in 1899, Regula returned to Utah and spent the rest of her life working in the
  St. George Temple, the last years as an ordined temple worker.

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Note for:   Johan Heinrich Benz,   20 NOV 1833 -

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We have no record on Johan, He joined the Prussian Army - never emigrated to
  America.

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Note for:   Lauraette Rappleye,   23 MAR 1840 - 12 DEC 1916

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Records of Alveretta Enger, child #10, in possession of her daughter Louise
  Partridge - California.

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