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Elmina Drucilla Mangum

Female 1848 - 1897  (48 years)


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  • Name Elmina Drucilla Mangum 
    Born 11 Nov 1848  , Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 28 Apr 1897  Viola, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Riverview Cemetery, Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3535  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Joseph Eastland Mangum,   b. Abt 1822, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1848, , , Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 26 years) 
    Mother Arta Emeline Hannah,   b. 14 Apr 1826, West Springville, Saint Clair, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1909, Linwood Precinct, Uintah, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 27 Mar 1843  , Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F937  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Reviewed 27 Apr 2003 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect.

      2. The 1860 census has Elmina, age 11, born in Mississippi, which strongly links at least the mother Arta to Mississippi. LDS Ancestral File has Elmina Druzella Mangum marrying Joshua Twitchell on 20 Aug 1865. It also gives the following: birth as 11 Nov 1848 in Ittwomba[sic] County, Mississippi; death 29 Apr 1897 in Viola [or alternately La Barge], [Lincoln], Wyoming. Her husband: b. 20 May 1842 at Springcreek, McDonough, IL; d. 25 Apr 1931 at Green River, Sweetwater, WY. No parents are listed for her. There are as 27 of Apr 2003: 39 ordinance index entries, 3 Pedigree Resource files, and one Ancestral File for Elmina Drucilla/Druzilla Mangum; only one in 2000 lists parents as noted per sealing to parents below. The dates and places given in Ordinance Index and Ancestral File are consistently birth 11 Nov 1848 at Itawamba County, Mississippi, marriage 20 Aug 1865 at Beaver, Beaver, Utah, and death 28 Apr 1897 at Viola, Wyoming. The most revealing Ordinance Index entry is when the endowment which took place at the time of the marriage and is under the name Elmina Drucilla Twitchel, b. 11 Nov 1848 at Itawamba Co., Mississippi, baptized 1865, endowed 26 Jul 1869 EHOUS with parents listed as Joseph Eastland Mangum and Arta Emiline Hannah. Also the places of death for Joshua and Elmina are in or near Sweetwater Co., Wyoming where her stepfather and mother also died.

      3. One problem to solve is sequencing of dates: the daughter Elmina's birth of 11 Nov 1848 is problematic since it would put Arta and child in Mississippi in late 1848 when she should have been in Iowa since a son I ascribe to them, Beely Franklin Mangum (see his notes) dies and is buried in Winter Quarters, Nebraska across the river from western Iowa in Oct 1847. The rest of the Mangums and Adairs are generally in Mt. Pisgah halfway back across Iowa; however, James Richey, in his autobiography does place Joseph Mangum in Winter Quarters per this quote: "When we arrived at Winter Quarters it was late in season. We built a log cabin and then my brother-in-law and myself went to Missouri for supplies. We got a load of corn meal and pork. I was taken sick and had to be hauled home. After we got home Joseph Mangum took the cattle to the mouth of the Soldier to winter on the rushes. Sometime afterwards I went there on a visit and while there, there came a heavy snow and I started for home the next morning on foot and was two days and one night on the road. When I got home, my feet were badly frozen so that I was laid up in bed for quite awhile. While I was in this situation, my mother in law, (Rebecca Canida Knowles [Mangum]) who was living with us was taken sick and died from exposure in travelling so long a journey. She was buried in the graveyard at Winter Quarters." Her death was Feb 1847 which would help date Richey's statement. So again the question of when and who were in Winter Quarters, NE or Mississippi in the 1846 to 1849 period needs further research. Could the family have been partially split with Joseph having gone ahead of Arta and one of the relatives caring for Beely who went with his father with Arta following later with Elmina? I think the family was probably together in Iowa and that the reported birth entries for Elmina in Mississippi are not correct even though Elmina seems to consistenly report is as such.

      4. Censuses:
      1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1190, neighbor with John Mangum:
      Emaline Mangum, 26, AL.
      Almira, 2, MS. [Elmina]

      1860 US: Tonaquint [Santa Clara post office], Washington, Utah, p. 1045, household 1305, family 1124:
      Michall Stephens, 30, farm laborer, $300 real estate, $650 personal property, b. TN.
      Arta A., 34, AL.
      Elmina, 11, Miss.
      Michall M., 8, Iowa
      Mary E., 5, UT.
      Wm. A., 3, UT.
      Geo. M., 1, UT.

      1870 US: Beaver, Beaver, Utah, p. 9b, family 73, household 81 and 82 [lives with George Washington Adair, bro. of Samuel Jefferson Adair, and next door to George Washington Adair, son of Samuel Jefferson Adair, who is family 74 and household 73]:
      Family
      Joshua Twitchell, 28, lumberman, $200 real estate, $100 personal property, IL.
      Elmina, 22, keeps house, Mississippi.
      Philetus P., 4, M, UT
      George W. Adair, 54, shepherd, $1200 real estate, $200 personal property, Mississippi.
      Miriam, 41, keeps house, TN.
      Emaline R., 23, IA
      Elijah, 13, UT.
      Jedediah, 11, UT.
      Wm. W., 9, UT.
      Edw. R., 5, UT.
      Ruha??, ?/12, UT. [Unclear]

      1880 US: Can't find. Couldn't find her stepfather nor mother either. Maybe they were living close to each other in a location in which a census wasn't taken.

      1900 US: Election District 13, Uinta, Wyoming, p. 194a, household and family 74 [note family just before is Philetus P. Twichel, b. Aug 1866, UT IL MS, with wife and two children; there is also another Twichel male with first name unreadable in the next household, Jan 1871, 29, UT IL MS]:
      Joshua Twichel, May 1842, 58, W, IL VT VT.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851:
      Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John.
      Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm.
      Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Siras Mangum, son of Wm.
      William Mangum, bro. of John.
      Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed).
      Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family.
      Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum.
      John Mangum.
      Mary Ann Mangum.
      Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John)

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File.