The following is a brief history of him.  Moroni Blood was born on 5 January 1840, in Lima, Adams, Illinois, United States, his father, Roswell Blood, was 36 and his mother, Eleanor Miller, was 26. He married Mary Utah Wood in August 1858, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Rush Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 8 May 1919, in Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Midway City Cemetery, Midway, Wasatch, Utah, United States.

Moroni Blood’s family were victims of mob violence.  According to a story found in Family Search is the following.   “Elinor Miller Blood while living in the Morely settlement which was spelled backwards as Yelrom, was giving birth to her third child. The family was living in a small hut with a thatched roof. The mobs came into town and were chasing out all the “Mormons”. Roswell tried to convince the men not to disturb them as his wife had just given birth. They just laughed at him and proceeded to pull down the roof on top of the family. Over 100 houses were burned down in the fall of 1845. An account in the newspaper of the day states the following: They estimated that between 70 &100 houses had been burned, including those at the “Morley Settlement.” He added 20 to 30 ruins may be seen” there. “In many cases the loss has not been as great as the deprivation imposed on the unhappy residents, it has been heavy.” An article “The Triumph of Mobocracy in Hancock County 1844-1845” was a statement by Annette P. Hampshire Stating: It is notable that the Latter-day Saints in Hancock County, who vastly outnumbered the non-LDS residents, did not retaliate for the burning of the Morley settlement. In the face of what one Illinois historian called, “the triumph of democracy, the Saints basically turned the other cheek.”

Roswell, Moroni’s father escaped with his two little boys. Elinor died as well as a baby girl, later their son Daniel drowned in a ditch, leaving only one son, Moroni.

Roswell Blood and his son Moroni emigrated to Utah in 1853 on the Daniel A. Miller and John W. Cooley train. (Journal History of the Church 9 Septe 1853 pp2-21).  They left Pottawatomie Co. Iowa for Salt Lake City on June 8, 1853. Upon arriving in Utah His father Roswell’s name is found on the Willow Creek Records which is Draper today.  He then went to the Sessions Settlement which is known as Bountiful today. Written beside his name are the words moved to Provo in 1857.  

Moroni Blood married Mary Utah Wood on 1 August 1858 in the Sessions Settlement, Davis, Utah. What follows is a brief history of Mary Wood as found in Family Search.  “Mary Wood was either a Ute Indian or of another tribe located here in Utah. Her story starts with the edict issued by Brigham Young dealing with the native tribes. The Mormon settlers were to adopt or take into their families as many of the orphaned Indian children as possible, send them to school and teach them the gospel.

Daniel Wood of Woods Cross (then North Kanyon) was sent to Sanpete County during the Walker war, where he came into possession of three children, two girls and a boy. They were obtained by the trading of three ponies with the Ute Tribe.

One of Daniel Wood’s wives was Peninah Shropshire Cotton, an Eastern Indian he had married in Nauvoo, Ill. She was principal mother to Mary. Mary went to school, as did the other two children, worked for the Woods and was baptized into the church.

While working in a residence near the Wood home, Mary met another laborer, Moroni Blood. She married him when she was around 17. Moroni and His wife Mary Utah Wood had three children, Martha Blood who was born on 23 January 1859 in Provo, Utah and died the same day, Mary Jane Blood LR6J-6PJ Martha’s twin born the same day, and Sarah Ellen Blood LQ5D-9YZ born 15 September 1861 in Heber City.  Their Mother Mary Utah Wood died on February 2, 1862, in Wood Cross, Davis, Utah.  Mary contracted one of the diseases of the white man, thought to be diphtheria, and died when she was around 20.

The two little baby girls, Mary Jane and Sarah Ellen were adopted into separate families in the southern part of Utah. Mary Jane called herself Jennie and was adopted by a Mormon convert from Scotland, Andrew Watson. She took on the Watson name, later marrying a man named John Harvey Allen. Her sister Sarah was adopted into a family named Peterson and married a man by the name of Madsen or Madison. Jennie Watson Allen said her father, “Moroni was a poor cooper who made wheels, buckets and barrels, and could not afford to keep us.”

Following the death of his first wife, Moroni married Hannah Melissa Lance KWJ8-45L in January 1863 in Midway, Utah. The name of Moroni Blood is shown on the Midway Fort diagram on the west side between John Huber and Washington Clift. 

Based on ‘the above information. It is believed that M. Blood listed in the Heber Fort diagram is Moroni Blood.  It appears that sometime between 23 January 1859, and his wife Mary’s death on February 2, 1862, he lived in the Heber Fort where Sarah Ellen Blood was born on 1861.  In the Book How Beautiful Upon the Mountains page 640 is the following “about 1863, Moroni moved to Midway.  In Midway he married Hannah Melissa Lance.  They bought some land and built a home about three blocks west of what is now known as the Homestead.  In 1873 he built the home which Mrs. Bonnie Blood now occupies. Across the street from that home, he built a planning mill.   It was at this mill that he made a living for himself and his family.  He made furniture and coffins and repaired almost everything for people from Heber, Charleston, Wallsburg, and Midway.”

“In 1885 his wife (Hannah Melissa Lance) died.  Shortly after that he built a sawmill six miles north of Kamas, with his family he moved to Kamas where they lived for about two years.  In the spring of 1887, they returned to Midway, and he Later married Louise Murri.  In 1893 he built a sawmill at the same location as the planning mill.  This sawmill was made from parts of an old threshing machine and he bought only the saw.  Then he could saw and plane lumber as well as making furniture and continuing his other work.  He worked at this mill as long as he lived.”