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Mary Vance or Vancel or Vancil

Female 1820 - 1918  (97 years)


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  • Name Mary Vance or Vancel or Vancil 
    Born 27 Sep 1820  , Saint Clair, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 16 Jun 1918  Pine, Gila, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Pine Cemetery, Pine, Gila, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1306  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family 1 Jacob Seavers Waggle or Wiggle,   b. 18 Dec 1815, , Union, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jan 1844, of, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years) 
    Married 31 Mar 1837  , Perry, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Hannah Waggle or Wiggle,   b. 10 Dec 1841, , Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Apr 1929, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F878  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Thomas Jefferson Adair,   b. 31 May 1814, , , Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1890, Show Low, Apache, Arizona, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married Abt 1847  Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F879  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1840 US: Union Co., Illinois, p. 47 of 62, two doors away is Young I. Vancil, a brother of Mary Vancil - Jacob's wife:
      Jacob Wigle, males under 5:1, 20-30:1; females under 5:1, 20-30:1.

      1850 US: Madison Co., Iowa, 7 Oct 1850, family 881:
      Thomas Adiar, 34, farmer, OH. [Misspelled Adair.]
      Mary, wife, 28, IL. [Mary Vancel his second wife.]
      Cyntha, 12, AL. [Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle; birthplace most likely in error.]
      Maryann, 12, AL. [Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.]
      Thomas, 2, IA. [Son of Thomas and Mary Vancel.]
      James, 8, Mississippi. [Son of first marriage to Frances Rogers.]
      John, 7, IL. [Son of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.]
      Hannah, 6, IL. [Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.]
      Emma, 5, Mississippi. [Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.]
      Jonathan Davis, 22, laborer, Upper Canada.
      Alexander Davis, 20, laborer, Upper Canada.

      1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Cynthia, John and Hannah are all children of the first marriage of Mary Vancel to Jacob Waggle. Mary A., James, and Emma are children of Thomas' first marriage with Frances Rogers. Thomas and Aaron are children of Thomas and Mary Vancel. Census return:
      Adair: Thomas 36, Mary 37, Mary A. 14, Cynthia 14, John 11, James 10, Hannah 9, Emma 6, Thomas 2, Aaron L. 0. [Note next door neighbors are the William/Sarah Mangum and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.]

      The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Payson City, p. 9:
      Thomas Adair
      Maria "
      Mary Ann "
      James "
      Hannah "
      Emma "
      Thomas "
      Aaron Adair
      Frances "
      Moroni "
      Samuel J. "
      Alma "
      Sarah "
      Adam "
      Frances "
      John "

      1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 26 Jul 1860, p. 1036, household 1260, family 1099 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors):
      Tho's Adair, 46, farmer, $350 real estate, $300 personal property, Indiana.
      Mary, 40, IL.
      James, 19, MS.
      Emma, 15, MS
      Tho's, 12, IA.
      Aaron, 9, IA.
      Frances, f., 7, UT.
      Moroni, 4, UT.
      Mary, 2, UT.

      1870 US: Harrisburg, Washington, Utah, 8 Jul 1870, house and family 2:
      Thomas Adair, 56, farmer, $500, $100, IN.
      Mary, 44, keeping house, IL.
      Aaron, 20, working farm, Iowa.
      Frances, 17, UT.
      Moroni, 14, UT.
      Mary, 11, UT.
      Jacob, 9, UT.

      1880 US: Show Low Creek, Apache, Arizona, FHL film 1254036 (National Archives Film T9-0036), p. 19D (note: Brother Samuel J. Adair and family listed as a neighbors):
      Thomas Adair, farmer, 66, AL AL AL.
      Mary Adair, 60, IL VA PA.
      Moroni, single, 25, UT AL VA.
      George, 11, UT AL VA.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. From the website 22 Feb 2002: http://members.aol.com/Cballd/adair__tm.html: "Sketch of the Lives of Thomas J. Adair (1816-1890) and his Wife Mary Vance Adair(1820-1918) written by his daughter, Mary E. Adair Adams (With endnotes by his granddaughter, Ann Adams Watts and his third great-granddaughter, Cynthia B. Alldredge): ...Mary Vance Waggle Adair was born in Illinois Oct 27, 1820 to Adam and Catherine Penrod Vance (or Vancil.) Mary was a widow of Jacob Waggle. She married Jacob Waggle, had five children then he died. She lived a widow life at Garden Grove had a hard time to support her five children, having no help she did any kind of work she could get to help support her children. She married Thomas J. Adair and went with him to Mt. Pisgah. Thomas J. and Mary V. Adair suffered many hardships while there. They crossed the plains the summer of 1852 in Jersey Stuart's company. They started across with 10 bushel of corn meal and one bushel of salt. They worked 2 cows in their ox teams all the way which gave them plenty of milk for supper and the mornings milk was put in a churn hauled all day and was churned by night so they had butter all the way. The Lord blessed them in many ways. Thomas J. was chosen hunter of the company and provided plenty of meat. They settled at Payson, Utah and at Nephi. They were general pioneers. He understood where water could be taken out of streams the easiest for irrigation purposes. They with their families were called by Brigham Young to settle in Dixie country and moved in April 1858 in this place where they met many hardships found it very hard to first year. On April 15, 1858 their daughter, Mary Elizabeth was born, the first white child born at Washington, Utah. The main crop was cotton. Mary V. corded and spun and weaved cloth enough to make a new suit of clothes each for a family of eleven before Christmas. She spun many a chip or spool of sewing thread for her neighbors. They were next called to Kanab then to help settle Arizona. They both spent their entire life in the pioneering of new country. They both served the Lord to the best of their ability, she had eleven children. Thomas J. Adair Jr. died September 19, 1890 at the age of 76 years, 10 months old. Mary Vance Waggle Adair died June 16 1918 at the age of 97 years 10 months. They both died at Apache Co. Arizona having lived a life of service for the most.
      Note 1: added by Ann A. Watts: Thomas and Mary Vancel Adair's next to youngest Child, Mary Elizabeth, was the first white child born in Washington, Washington County, Utah April 15, 1858. Mary Vance Adair was a nurse or midwife set apart by Brigham Young to nurse the sick back to health..."
      Email questions sent 23 Feb 2002 to author of above [no responses as of Jul 2002]:
      1. What do you have on his marriage dates and places?
      2. I have Mary Vance's death at Strawberry, Gila, Arizona?

      2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by the daughters of Utah Pioneers: Mary Vanciel Waggle Adair, b. 27 Sep 1820 at Union Co., Illinois, d. 16 Jun 1917 at Pine, Gila Co., Arizona; photo included; parents Adam Vancil and Catherine Penrod; pioneer of Fall 1852 of the Jesse Stewarts Co. Wagon Train. Spouse #1: Jacob Waggle, d. 3 Mar 1845 at Mt Pisgah, Iowa. Children:
      Cynthia, 19 Aug 1837
      Alma, 15 Aug 1839
      John, 18 Apr 1841
      Hanna, 10 Dec 1842
      Sarah, 17 Dec 1844
      Spouse #2: Thomas Jefferson Adair, d. Mar 1891 at Apache Co., Arizona. Children:
      Thomas Jefferson, 23 Dec 1848
      Aaron Porter, 2 Jan 1850
      Francis Myrah, 6 Mar 1853
      Maroni Rone, 31 Oct 1855
      Mary Elizabeth, 15 Apr 1858
      Jacob Franklin, 16 Mar 1860 (died as Child)
      Mary grew up among three brothers and two sisters in Union County, Illinois, an area settled between Missouri and Kentucky, very near the Shawnee National Forest and the Trail of Tears. She met Jacob Waggle and they were married when she was a young girl of 16 and he was 22. Five children were born to this couple. They accepted the message of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and joined the Mormons in Iowa. When Mary was 25 and their youngest child was one year old, Jacob and two children died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, leaving Mary and the other children in that traumatic time and place. The Prophet Joseph had been assassinated not seven months before and the mobs were again persecuting the Saints. She lived as a widow at Garden Grove and had a very difficult time of it. While there she met and married a widower, Thomas Jefferson Adair, and moved with him to Mt. Pisgah. He had been married to Francis Rogers, who had borne him five children then passed away, February, 1847. They remained in Iowa about five years, helping plant and raise crops for those emigrants needing supplies to travel the 1,300 miles to Utah. They left Mt. Pisgah in the Spring of 1852 with the Jesse Stewarts Company for a three month journey across the Plains to join the Saints in Salt Lake City. Thomas and Mary had ten bushels of corn, one bushel of salt and two cows which gave them plenty of milk and put the morning milk in the churn for butter that night. Thomas was chosen hunter for the camp and provided all the meat they needed. In Utah, they settled in Payson a few years, were called to Nephi for a short time then were called by Brigham Young to help settle the Dixie county in April of 1857. The conditions there were almost impossible, but they did persevere and did all they were asked. Their fifth Child, Mary Elizabeth, was the first white girl born in Washington, Utah. They were called to move again and settle the Kanab area, then go to Arizona. The lived in Adair, Navajo, Arizona, for many years (now part of Showlow, Arizona). When Mary was too old to care for herself, Frances, her daughter, came and took her home with her. Mary died, June 16, 1917, at Strawberry, Gila County, Arizona, and was buried at Pine, Arizona. She was 97 years of age."

      3. Received from Don and Carolyn Smith, 2003:
      "A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Jefferson Adair.
      Editor's note: this history was obtained in draft form from Mrs. Thomas Ira (Aunt Thora) Adair. No effort has been made to correct the spelling or punctuation in the process of converting it to the computer word processor.
      'I Thomas Adair son of Thomas and Rebecca Adair was born in the State of Indiana in May 31, 1814. My father moved from there to Tennessie and from there Alabama, Tuscalousa County. I lived in Tuscalousa and Pickens and Green Countys Alabama until I was 23 years old. At the age of 17 years old my father left my mother. I then had the charge of the family. I entered me a piece of land three and a half miles from the county cite on Pickens County, Alabama. I remained on that farm 6 years and cleared 50 acres of heavy timbered land during that six years I volunteered to go to Florida to fight the Semanole Indians, February 1835 and was gone 3 months. I returned home the 17 day of May 1835. The Captain I served under in that campaign was by the name of Joseph.' (This is an exact copy from a page of Thomas J. Adair's journal - we only have one page. Hyrum L. Adams has the original, it also states:) 'They moved back and fourth never living more than two years in one place till he left my mother which was in the year 1931. We never had a correct account of him till 1856 he was in the State of Mississippi, he was then crazy.'
      While in the army his thought turned to religion and soon after leaving the army, he joined the Methidist, where he was soon placed as leader of singing. This position he fulfilled well until he heard the Mormon missionarys. He and his family were soon converted to Mormonism and were baptized members of the L.D.S. Church.
      In the mean time he had married Francis Rogers and were having their family of five children: Mary Ann born in 1837, James B. 1839, Emma B. 1841. They were all born in Pickins County Alabama.
      His joining the Latter Day Saint Church made the Methodist leaders very angery. They tried to persuade him to come back to their church and when he refused they came with tare and feathers as was a common practice in those days. He got his old youger and double barreled shot gun and told them to come on. He was a very good shot and they knew it. The mob stayed day but did not come and get him. He soon left that place and he and his family joined the main body of the Mormon Church and moved to Navue Illinois. They were in the company of Saints that was fed by guails. He with his family went to Mt. Pisga and were there when the auful sickness came to them. He lost his wife and 2 children, also his mother lost her life there and many of the families were left in the cemitary at that place.
      Mary speaking: 'My mother Mary Vancil Wagle Adair was born in Illinois, St. Clair Co., Oct. 27, 1820. She married Jacob Waggle and five children were born to them. Waggle died she also lost 2 of her children and was a widow at Garden Grove. She had a very hard time having no support except her own labor to support her children. She married Thomas J. Adair and went with him to Mt. Pisgah. They suffered much hardships while there. They crossed the Plains in the summer of 1852 in Jessey Stuarts Co. They started across the Planes with 10 bushel of corn meal and 1 bushal of salt. They worked 2 cows all the way. They had plenty of milk all of the way also all the butter they wanted. They ate the nights milk and would put the mornings in the churin so had butter at night. The Lord blessed them in many ways. My father was chosen hunter for the Co. They had plenty of fresh meat.'
      They settled in Payson, Utah where four children were born to them. Thomas Jefferson Adair who later married Lizzie Alexander, Aaron Porter Adair who married Fanny Crosby, Frances Marian md. Alford P. Peach, Maroni (Rone) Adair md. Emiline Whipple. The family also lived in Nephi.
      Mary speaking: 'My father was a genuine pioneer he understood where water could be (taken) out of streams for irrigation purposes. He with his family were called by Brigham Young to settle the Dixie countries and farm that lands. This was in April 1857. That was also a very hard place to build up. The first year they (tried to) grow cotton. My mother corded, spun and wove cloth enough to make a new suit of clothes for a family of eleven before Christmas. She spun many ___.
      Mary Elizabeth Adair was born to them here on 15 April (she is the one that originally wrote this life history and I have copyied much of it in her own words). She married John Smith Page Adams. I have always heard tat she was the first white child born in Washington, Washington Co., Utah.
      Another son was born to Thomas Adair and Mary Vance here: Jacob Franklin Adair b. 1861, he died while young. 'They were next called to Kanab, then on to settle Arizona. They both served the Lord to the best of there ability. My mother mother had eleven children. Father died at the age of 76 years. Mother was 97 years and 10 months at her death. Both died in Apache Co., Arizona, having done a good work.' Thomas Jefferson Adair died 17 Sep 1890 at Adairville, Navajo Co., Arizona. Mary Vance Waggle Adair died June 1917 at Strawberry, Gila Co., Arizona.
      (This history sketch was written by Lola Watts Larsen, granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth Adair Adams Nov 1957. To my knowledge it is true. Most of it is taken from a history grandmother wrote in Sep. 2, 1925 for the daughters of Pioneers. Also the first part from a loose page out of the journal of Thomas Adair. Also from my mother Ann Adams Watts geneology records. You will find a little conflict in spelling of names, as yet we don't know which is correct. There is also a little conflict about some places, which are right, I do not know. The are probly neighboring cominitys. Lola W. Larsen.)
      P.S. The children of Mary Vance and Jacob Waggle are: Cynthia md. Reubin J. Dauns; Alma F. 1839; John b. 1841; Hannah b. 1842 md. Valentine Carson; Sarah b. 1844; Cynthia b. 19 Aug 1837."

      4. From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie: Mary Vance was born 27 Sep 1820 in St. Clair, Illinois to Adam Vance (1790) and Catherine Penrod (1794). Mary was the 3rd of 6 children born to her parents. Her brothers and sisters were Nancy (1814), Young John (1817), Aaron (1822), Moriah (1826), and Cynthia (1828). Mary's first husband, Jacob Waggle, was born 1814 of Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. He died 3 Jan 1845 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa at the age of 31. Mary and Jacob had 5 children:
      Cynthia Waggle was born 19 Aug 1837 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. She was 8 years old when her father died. She was 15 years old in 1852 when she married George Washington Bradley. They were later divorced. She was 24 years old when she married Reuben John Dove, in Salt Lake, Utah. She died at the age of 67 on 16 Jan 1904.
      Alma Waggle was born 15 April 1839 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.
      John Waggle was born 18 Apr 1841 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.
      Hannah Waggle was born 10 Dec 1842 at Pike Co., Illinois. Hannah was 3 years old when her father died. She married William Lewis Penrod. I think he died and she the married Valentine Carson in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, Utah at the age of 20. She was 87 when she died at Parowan, Iron, Utah on 1 Mar 1929.
      Sarah Waggle was born 17 Dec 1844 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois."

      BIRTH:
      1. One Ordinance Index entry reports date may be 29 Sep 1820 at St. Clair Twp., St. Clair, Illinois. All sources agree on Illinois but the county seems to vary between St. Clair or Union counties. I arbitrarily use St. Clair. Death certificate reports birth as 27 Sep 1820 in Virginia. Temple marriage in 1880 reporst Union Co.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Per Family Search image of original record.

      2. Apparently Thomas and Mary wanted their marriage consecrated in the LDS temple. I found the following entries in FHL film 170579 for St. George Temple where he and his brother George were both sealed "for time" only during the same week:
      -24 Dec 1880: Thomas Adair, b. 31 May 1814 in Ind. and Mary Vancil Wiggle, b. 27 Sep 1820 in Union Co., Ill.
      -29 Dec 1880 [note the page is folded such that the 2 of 29 is hard to read, but it is there and the record is sequential]: Geo. Washington Adair, b. 18 Nov 1818 in Gibbons Co., Tenn., and Johanna Freestone Bennett, b. 1849 in Erie Co., Ohio.

      DEATH:
      1. Per online image of death certificate at website http://genealogy.az.gov/azdeath/018/10180126.pdf: Arizona death certificate no. 117, Mary Adair, d. 16 Jun 1918 at Pine, Gila, AZ, white, widow, b. 27 Sep 1820, age 97 y 8 m 19 d, died of old age, father was John Vancel and mother Mary Penrod, b. in Virginia, was housewife and mother, lived for 3 years at place of death, place of burial or removal was Pine, AZ

      BURIAL:
      1. See death certificate.