Seeking information on deceased person not in my family line

In my 2nd great grandfather's personal account of the most important events of his life. He refers to a man by the name of Charles Crick. I would like to know who he was and why he was so important that he would include the comment about him. I contacted the church history department and they weren't able to help me. This tells me that either the person there did not know how to find the information or that he or his actions were not a prominent thing in church history. I think knowing who Charles Crick was might give some insight into this ancestor. Moses Thatcher was a apostle and church leader and that there might be a notation in his writings about the man. My ancestor wrote: "I was well acquainted with Charles Crick; heard Moses Thatcher preach his funeral sermon and see his remains placed in the earth." It appears this may have occured between 1862 and 1867. It may have been in the Logan area or Bloomington, Bear Lake County, ID.
My question is how do I find the Charles Crick mentioned and learn about who is was? Why was he so important that my ancestor would make mention of him. The personal writing was less than two pages long and so this must have been significant to him.
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If this person was significant in Mormon history, it wasn't under this name, because there's no sign in Family Tree of anyone who died in North America in the 1860s named Charles Crick.
I suppose it's also possible that he died without issue, i.e., nobody's related to him, but I don't think that would stop people from creating a profile for a notable person.
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I did a little digging and although didn't find Charles Crick at that time or place, learned that Moses Thatcher hadn't yet served his 2nd mission, (Britain and France) and wasn't an apostle yet. He must have already been of known and good reputation by the mid 1860s, even as a young man in his mid-20s.
As to Charles Crick, having died in the mid 1860s, I take it that he was probably born between the 1800s and 1830s (maaaaybe 1840s). Being in the U.S. West at that time, there aren't simply holes in the recordkeeping of that period, there are entire canyons.
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